Confidence
Zhang Heng and the others spent the entire afternoon investigating the pilot, but unfortunately, they still failed to trigger any prompt for the main quest.
By nightfall, Pripyat had fallen completely silent.
It was hard to imagine that only a few hours earlier, tens of thousands of people had still been living here. Now, the city was utterly empty. Aside from the Expert Group and militia responsible for disaster relief, no one else remained. All shops and public facilities had essentially closed, and even the water pipes had stopped supplying water.
Before they began their afternoon operation, Zhang Heng had also found Bessonova a militia uniform. The five of them were now dressed in uniform and riding in a military vehicle. At least at first glance, they looked no different from the other militia members in the city.
As the military vehicle passed in front of an apartment building, the five heard gunshots coming from inside.
Zhang Heng knew that the militia were shooting the pets their owners had left behind in the town.
It sounded cruel, but those pets had absorbed plenty of radioactive particles just like humans had. Radioactive dust had settled in their fur, and as they moved around, they became mobile sources of radiation. If left alone, they might carry the radiation even farther away. The radiation could also drive them mad, just like Coconut had become agitated earlier.
But Coconut was human, and she was also a player who had gone through quite a few instances, so her self-control was still strong. In comparison, irradiated cats and dogs would become far more uncontrollable. That was why, after the town's residents had evacuated, the militia began clearing out these potential hazards.
With each gunshot, the cats and dogs that had been lively moments earlier fell