Three Explosions

When the first explosion happened, Lou Xiaoning and the other researchers were not far from the break off line. They were in heavy protective gear but they were still blown several metres away from the blast wave. When they came to, all of them stood up and ran. However, they experienced from first hand the explosion did not contain any flames or dark energy. It was like the air itself had exploded. The best analogy was that of an expanding balloon. It reached its maximum size and thus had no other option but to pop. 

After the explosion, the size of the mutated area reached 30000 cubic metres, it had expanded about 100 times. The bolometer recorded a value of 13.7Gy/h, the radiation had increased by 1000 times. Counting from the time Tian Fuhou reported the incident, only 4 hours had passed.