Chapter 30: Found It!
Sitting in the car, Jiang Yang quickly regained his composure.
Just like in the previous cycle, Jiang Yang immediately connected with Gu Changshan, requesting the immediate formation of an intelligence analysis team and a scientific verification team, and organizing an online meeting at the fastest speed.
By the time the convoy arrived at that familiar base, the online meeting had already been organized.
Still following the process from the previous life, he first used a precise small earthquake forecast as the opening, then slowly began recounting the events experienced in the previous cycles.
Every cycle, at the beginning, he had to go through this process, which made Jiang Yang somewhat helpless.
But there was no other way; without doing so, he couldn’t win the trust of national power.
Just like last time, after hearing his words, the faces of the numerous participants were full of disbelief, with many detailed questions among them, making it impossible for Jiang Yang to speak faster.
He knew that this kind of detailed questioning not only resolved the doubts in the participants’ minds but was also a process for them to gradually accept the apocalypse psychologically, which was indispensable.
Until that small earthquake occurred precisely as Jiang Yang had prophesied, combined with the previous extensive detailed groundwork and the endorsement of national power, Jiang Yang knew that these participants had basically accepted the matter rationally.
“So, Comrade Jiang Yang, what information have you obtained this time?”
Professor Lu Zhaoming looked at Jiang Yang with full urgency and anticipation, his voice trembling slightly.
Countless gazes converged on Jiang Yang, including Sun Changhe’s.
Jiang Yang reached into his pocket and took out that somewhat crumpled piece of paper.
At this moment, it was merely a piece of paper, yet in people’s eyes, it seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
With the power of the entire nation, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people, conscripting over ten thousand particle accelerators, setting up tens of thousands of test points, and with over ten thousand people using their own bodies as experimental material to forge an intelligence network—what it collected was merely information?
No, that was the hope for the nation’s continuation, the hope for civilization’s continuation, obtained at the cost of the entire civilization’s destruction and countless people dying in agony!
At this moment, the air was so heavy it seemed about to solidify.
Jiang Yang held up the paper he had personally sketched in front of the camera, and moments later, it turned into a high-definition scan, presented to every participant.
Professor Lu Zhaoming glanced at it once and abruptly raised his head, his face full of disbelief and shock.
In the dozens of windows on the large screen, Jiang Yang saw all the participants with scientific backgrounds disregarding meeting discipline at this moment, chaotically voicing their opinions into the microphones.
“How could it be like this?”
“This is impossible! So many experimental bases, with different environments.”
“What exactly influenced our bodies?”
“Quiet!”
Jiang Yang gave a low shout and directly muted everyone’s microphones. When people, still wearing shocked expressions on their faces, finally quieted down, Jiang Yang looked at Lu Zhaoming and granted him speaking permission: “Professor Lu, what exactly do these data mean?”
“Radi… radiation source, found.”
He murmured, striving to keep his tone steady: “The radiation source is not outside; it’s inside our bodies. Our bodies are the radiation sources.”
Jiang Yang’s brows furrowed slightly.
During this time, through continuous study, he had acquired a certain level of knowledge. But precisely because of this, he was even more puzzled.
The human body is the radiation source?
“We detected about 22 microsieverts per hour of radiation in the background environment, the same whether in deep underground, or at the seabed or lake bottom.
Normally, neither heavy ion radiation nor photon radiation could penetrate hundreds or thousands of meters of rock layer and seawater. Now, we know the correct answer.”
Professor Lu Zhaoming raised his head, his gray hair trembling: “This radiation didn’t come from outside at all; it was emitted from within the human body.
We were wrong from the very beginning in the previous life. It wasn’t these radiations that killed the human body, and there is no so-called ‘formula’ that causes acute radiation sickness with low-intensity radiation. We got the cause and effect backward.
Molecular-level radiation tracing shows that these radiations erupted from inside the human body. They had extremely high intensity inside the human body, directly causing death from acute radiation sickness.
At the same time, the human body became shielding material; when these radiations penetrated the human body, their intensity greatly decreased, manifesting in the environment as low-intensity radiation of only 22 microsieverts per hour… This is the process…”
At this moment, even Jiang Yang felt shocked.
He had considered many possibilities, but never this one.
Why did the human body become a radiation source? How could the human body become a radiation source?
Jiang Yang had heard that if the human body inhales air or dust contaminated by nuclear radiation, or directly ingests nuclear raw materials, these radioactive substances deposit in the body and continuously release radiation, damaging it from the inside.
This mechanism was somewhat similar to what Lu Zhaoming was saying now.
But he could guarantee that before dying, he had not contacted any radiation source. Not only he, but the over ten thousand test subjects in this experiment had not either!
This apocalypse experiment, organized on the foundation of national power, could not commit such a low-level error.
Lu Zhaoming murmured: “Fundamentally speaking, our human bodies are also composed of various elements.
Among them, there are 11 constant elements with higher content, such as oxygen, present in water, proteins, carbohydrates, fat, and other components;
Nitrogen is a key component of proteins, DNA, and RNA;
Potassium is an important electrolyte, chlorine is the core component of stomach acid, plus 20 trace elements that play important roles, and about 30 other elements that either have no biological function or are harmful but exist in extremely small amounts in the human body, such as gold, silver, lead, etc.
And so-called radiation is fundamentally subatomic particles, such as electrons, protons, neutrons that compose atoms, or photons released when particles are excited, or atomic nuclei—hydrogen atomic nucleus, carbon atomic nucleus, iron atomic nucleus, etc., which belong to heavy ion radiation.
The molecular-level radiation tracing equipment shows that at the moment the apocalypse arrived, a considerable portion of the atoms of the many elements composing our human bodies acquired massive energy and were torn apart, with atomic nuclei and the electrons orbiting them forcibly separated, beginning to rampage inside the human body.
The atomic nuclei formed heavy ion radiation, the electrons formed β radiation, and even the atomic nuclei themselves were torn apart, with neutrons from the atomic nuclei forming neutron radiation, protons forming proton radiation…”
