The moment Dondon stepped into the airlock, the door behind him shut tight. Before he left, we had prepared a tool bag for him. Inside, Dondon opened the bag to perform a final check on the tools. After confirming that nothing was missing, he opened the door leading into the reactor.

The recorder he had on him was streaming his point of view, allowing everyone to see what he was facing through our visors. The same scene was also being played on Spacetime. Through the stream, we saw that it was dry inside the nuclear reactor. The reactor had stopped operating a long time ago, and the heavy water had dried up, leaving the radiation the only trace of what this place used to be.

"Looks like this reactor had stopped completely. Oddly, the life-support equipment is still running. What energy source is it relying on?" asked Zhang Bao'er doubtfully.

"I suspect it is relying on the backup electrical power," said Old Du.

"What kind of backup power can last 20 years?" asked Baron Sisse.

We all sank into silence. That was beyond our area of expertise....