Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 30 Found it!
Sitting in the car, Jiang Yang quickly regained his composure.

Just like the previous cycle, Jiang Yang immediately contacted Gu Changshan, demanding that an intelligence analysis team and a scientific verification team be formed immediately, and that an online meeting be organized as quickly as possible.

By the time the convoy arrived at the familiar base, the online meeting had already been organized.

Following the same process as the previous life, the story begins with an accurate prediction of a small earthquake, followed by a slow recounting of the events experienced in the previous cycles.

Every cycle begins with this process, which leaves Jiang Yang feeling somewhat helpless.

But there's no other way; otherwise, we can't gain the trust of the state.

Just like last time, many attendees looked incredulous upon hearing his words, and asked numerous detailed questions, making it impossible for Jiang Yang to speak quickly.

He knew that these detailed Q&A sessions were not only to resolve the doubts in the attendees' minds, but also an essential process for them to gradually accept the end of the world psychologically.

It wasn't until the small earthquake occurred precisely as Jiang Yang predicted, coupled with the extensive groundwork laid beforehand and the backing of national power, that Jiang Yang knew the attendees had largely accepted the situation rationally.

"So, Comrade Jiang Yang, what information have you obtained this time?"

Professor Lu Zhaoming looked at Jiang Yang with great eagerness and expectation, his voice trembling slightly.

Countless gazes converged on Jiang Yang, including those of Sun Changhe.

Jiang Yang reached into his pocket and took out the somewhat crumpled piece of paper.

At this moment, it is just a piece of paper, but in people's eyes it seems to weigh a ton.

With the nation's resources mobilized, hundreds of millions of people were deployed, over ten thousand particle accelerators were requisitioned, and tens of thousands of test sites were set up. Furthermore, tens of thousands of people used themselves as test materials to create an intelligence network. But is the information it collected merely information?

No, that was the hope for the continuation of the nation and the continuation of civilization. It was a sliver of hope that was bought at the cost of the destruction of the entire civilization and the tragic deaths of countless people!
At that moment, the air felt so heavy it seemed to freeze.

Jiang Yang displayed the paper he had drawn by hand in front of the camera, and it was transformed into a high-definition scan in a moment and presented to each participant.

Professor Lu Zhaoming glanced at it only once before suddenly raising his head, his face filled with disbelief and shock.

Among the dozens of windows displayed on the large screen, Jiang Yang saw that all the participants with scientific backgrounds were now disregarding meeting discipline and were haphazardly expressing their opinions into the microphones.

"how could this be?"

"That's impossible! There are so many experimental bases, and the environments are all different."

What exactly is affecting our bodies?

"quiet!"

Jiang Yang gave a low shout, immediately muting everyone's microphones. Once the people's faces, still showing shock but finally quieting down, Jiang Yang looked at Lu Zhaoming and granted him speaking privileges: "Professor Lu, what exactly does this data mean?"

“The radiation source… we’ve found it.” He murmured, trying his best to keep his tone steady: “The radiation source isn’t outside, it’s inside our bodies. Our bodies are the source of the radiation.”

Jiang Yang frowned slightly.

During this period, through continuous study, he had acquired a certain level of knowledge. But precisely because of this, he was even more puzzled.

Is the human body the source of radiation?

"We detected about 22 microsieverts per hour of radiation in the background environment, no matter how deep underground, on the seabed, or at the bottom of a lake."

Normally, neither heavy nuclear radiation nor photon radiation could penetrate hundreds or thousands of meters deep into rock layers and seawater. Now we know the correct answer.

Professor Lu Zhaoming raised his head, his gray hair trembling: "This radiation doesn't come from the outside at all; it's emitted from inside the human body."

We were wrong from the very beginning in our previous life. It wasn't these radiations that killed the human body, and there is no such thing as a 'formula' that can cause acute radiation sickness with low-intensity radiation. We got the cause and effect wrong.

Molecular-level radiation tracing revealed that this radiation originated from within the human body. Its extremely high intensity within the body directly caused death from acute radiation sickness.

At the same time, the human body becomes a shielding material. As these radiations penetrate the human body, their intensity is greatly reduced, resulting in low-intensity radiation of only 22 microsieverts per hour in the environment... This, this is what happened..."

At this moment, even Jiang Yang was shocked.

He had considered many possibilities, but this was the only one he hadn't thought of.

Why can the human body become a source of radiation? How can the human body become a source of radiation?

Jiang Yang had heard that when a person inhales air or dust contaminated by nuclear radiation, or directly swallows nuclear materials, these radioactive substances accumulate in the body and continuously release radiation, killing the body from the inside.

This mechanism is similar to what Lu Zhaoming is saying now.

However, I can guarantee that I was not exposed to any radiation source before I died. Not only was I not exposed, but neither were the tens of thousands of other participants in this experiment!
Such a basic mistake is impossible for a doomsday experiment organized with state power.

Lu Zhaoming murmured, "Fundamentally speaking, our human body is also composed of various elements."

Among them are 11 macroelements, which are present in relatively high amounts, such as oxygen, which is found in water, protein, carbohydrates, fats and other components.
Nitrogen is a key component of proteins, DNA, and RNA;
Potassium is an important electrolyte, chlorine is a core component of gastric acid, and there are 20 other trace elements that play important roles, as well as about 30 other elements that do not play a biological role or play a harmful role, but are also present in the human body in very small amounts, such as gold, silver, and lead.

Radiation, in essence, is a subatomic particle, such as electrons, protons, neutrons that make up atoms, or photons released when particles are excited, or atomic nuclei—hydrogen nuclei, carbon nuclei, iron nuclei, etc., which belong to heavy nuclear radiation.

Molecular-level radiation tracing equipment indicates that at the moment of the apocalypse, a significant portion of the atoms of the many elements that make up our bodies received a large amount of energy and were torn apart. The atomic nuclei and the electrons orbiting them were forcibly separated and began to rampage through the human body.

The atomic nucleus produced heavy nuclear radiation, electrons produced beta radiation, and even the atomic nucleus itself was torn apart. Neutrons in the atomic nucleus produced neutron radiation, and protons produced proton radiation…

(End of this chapter)