I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods-Chapter 415 - 73: Explosion

Mokaka didn't understand what Tian En meant by "fulfilling the duty of a servant," naturally, she didn't have the mind to think about it too much.

All she needed was a promise, and that was enough.

"Let's go, Xiao En, call up the mercenaries I brought from home and head to the supply warehouse. There's a lead-lined explosion-proof door there. If the nuclear bomb really explodes over our heads, we indeed have to prepare for long-term radiation protection." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

She jumped down from the stage, signaling Tian En to follow.

Tian En silently nodded and followed, but never raised her head again.

Her expression seemed to contain a hint of disappointment...or perhaps helplessness...

But none of this mattered anymore because no one cared about her thoughts, not even the "closest" Mokaka.

...

Twenty seconds before the explosion, the majority of Floating Island residents had reacted, beginning to seek shelter on the spot.

In the urban pipeline, a remote radiation monitoring dashboard suddenly froze. Yuanbao, observing the data within the display, tapped the Geiger counter with a wrench and saw mercury droplets seep like sweat inside the glass, indicating the dashboard's malfunction.

The instruments Yuanbao had pre-installed around Corpse Lake had been completely perforated by radiation particles, losing their monitoring functionality.

Ten seconds before the explosion, the once-boiling Corpse Lake inexplicably fell into deathly silence for the first time, like a blood-red mirror. Its water level, due to excessive evaporation, retreated to its lowest historical point in thirty years, exposing a mass of deformed bones soaked in fermenting blood.

Some War Gang members who accidentally approached Corpse Lake, took out long-stored high-proof vodka from their pockets and poured it into the water, drunkenly smiling at the suddenly glowing lake — their brains were pounded full of cavities by radiation instantly, and the glowing lake was the radioactive material's final flourish.

Five seconds before the explosion, all the underground bunkers of every camp had their explosion-proof doors automatically locked. Some people who hadn't managed to enter the shelters seemed to realize something and frantically pounded on the tempered doors, wailing but unable to utter a sound.

They quickly discovered that their clothing was melting into a tar-like substance, countless bloody remnants appeared on their retinas, and their ears filled with a buzzing noise.

Three seconds before the explosion...

Near Corpse Lake in Lake Town, the former mayor Chen Nuo stared blankly upwards, only to find the sky above him had inexplicably brightened.

No, strictly speaking, it wasn't daylight.

But a sun, a "star" emitting dazzling light, appearing not far away.

It instantly scorched the corneas of anyone daring to gaze at it while releasing exaggerated energy.

"The explosion is about to start."

In the urban underground pipeline, Yuanbao, barely able to glimpse the sun through remote monitoring, swallowed and murmured, "No idea where the nuclear bomb will strike, will it fall directly on Mokaka and them?"

"From the previous situation, it should fall urban area, right."

Yun You crossed her arms and said solemnly, "Possibly due to my arrival, the crystal embedded in the nuclear bomb couldn't reach 'saturation state' in time, causing it to prematurely detonate. Therefore, the nuclear bomb's firepower should be equivalent to roughly 40,000 tons of TNT."

"Although it's several times stronger than the previous 10,000 tons, it... at least won't be strong enough to flatten the urban area."

"Hope the situation isn't too terrible."

Saying this, Yun You suddenly noticed Yuanbao, who was boasting just a moment ago, had gone silent, staring blankly at the monitor screen.

Yun You was also stunned.

She instinctively looked at the screen and saw something she couldn't have predicted.

The nuclear bomb didn't detonate over Mokaka's head as expected, crossing the wasteland and steel urban forest with the help of bottom propulsion systems.

It silently flew into the sky and then exploded right above Corpse Lake...

At the moment of the alloy sphere's detonation, the nearest Lake Town was first reduced to dust under the high-temperature fireball.

The residents of Lake Town, including former mayor Chen Nuo, hadn't taken much protection.

Because they believed the nuclear bomb couldn't possibly fall on them — previously Casablanca and the Celestial King had assured them the bomb would definitely detonate in the urban area, a place more than ten kilometers from Lake Town, where there'd be no major issue even without shelter.

But they never considered the nuclear explosion could be so close by.

Of course, at such a distance of less than a hundred meters, even escaping into the town's underground refuge was meaningless...

Bang—!

It wasn't until people witnessed Lake Town shatter like an over-baked cookie that the roar of the nuclear explosion gradually emerged, along with a huge shock wave visible to the naked eye, sweeping along the lake surface, hurling decades-worth of accumulated corpses and industrial waste into the sky.

Tons of phenol crystals and radioactive sludge mixed in the air, forming a grayish-purple cloud wall blocking the sky. As light passed through the cloud wall, it refracted a halo reminiscent of melted lead ingots. Lake surface oil swiftly contracted under overpressure, revealing submerged corpses that have soaked for centuries.

These yet-to-decay... and rapidly mutating biological remnants due to radiation were now emitting high-frequency tremors, as if countless invisible files were grinding their phosphorescent bones into new radioactive sources.

For reasons unclear, as the nuclear fireball spread and grease evaporated, the lake water of Corpse Lake exhibited bizarre phase changes. Initially, an emerald gel arose from the lake's heart region, resembling a jelly-like substance in the sky, solidifying fleeing humans into semi-transparent specimens...

Next was the West Shore Forest's pinewoods, those once resilient under bandits' ravages, now visibly carbonizing, their bark bursting per segment under high-energy particle penetration, resin splattering with high temperature to become amber-colored fiery rain, recklessly splattering all around, incinerating anyone it splashed into charcoal.

The nuclear explosion's destructive range was even more exaggerated than Yun You imagined.

It spread indiscriminately from Corpse Lake, engulfing everything within a kilometer radius, incinerating all visible structures, leaving no vegetation within three kilometers, even those hiding in basements, squeezed and crushed by the shock wave's overpressure damage, dying in agony.

Five kilometers marked the edge of the nuclear fireball's spread, also where Yun You and Yuanbao were located.

Hiding in underground protective facilities here offered a chance to survive.

However, this was only a chance...

The high temperature breached the underground pipeline's isolation walls, rampaging within, turning parts of the underground pipeline into an oven filled with hot steam.

Nearly thirty percent of War Gang thugs were roasted alive in the tunnels.

Yuanbao and Yun You were slightly affected, but fortunately the Apprentice Death God's body was tough, so nothing major happened...