>>13713990
To add on to this anon's point, you will need to shut down the brain scorcher to get to Pripyat, which is crawling with Monolith foot soldiers. Once you deactivate it, you will be ambushed by their remaining forces that you will have to massacre to in order to escape, only to run into a military expedition engaging the monolith as well.
in short, dehumainize yourself and face to bloodshed.