"Artyom, are you awake?" An old man with gray beard and hair knocked on the door and looked at the young man who was napping on the bed.
The young man woke up immediately after hearing the middle-aged man's voice, sat up and looked at him.
"You finally woke up," the old man in a black fur coat looked at the young man and teased. He waved his hand and asked the young man to follow him. "Hunter is coming here. He should have brought some news from other stations.
, let’s go.”
"I'll clean it up, I'll be ready soon." The young man began to put away some clutter on the bed. He looked at the postcards with famous buildings from various countries on the wall and silently turned off the lights.
…
The young man is Artem twenty years later, also known as Xie Yuan.
This was originally the conductor's duty room. Later, a telescopic train door was removed and pressed here, and it became Xie Yuan's bedroom and study room.
Twenty years ago, the old man who had just come to inform him, Alexei Sukhoi, the station director at that time, took Xie Yuan from his mother and adopted him.
He was a little reluctant at first, but soon the loud noise and the expectation that her last words "live well" were like commands to him made him accept the reality.
No matter what, in this world, at least in the eyes of current people... they are the only remaining human beings in the world.
The first year of subway survival has been difficult. Belly problems and medical problems were two of the biggest problems in the world, and now it became a matter of life and death.
But I have to admit that human beings really have a kind of solidarity in the face of great dangers. Many volunteers wore gas masks and chemical protective clothing from the past, braving the radiation damage from the outside, and spontaneously walked from the surface of the earth.
We brought back a large amount of survival supplies.
Although they soon died outside due to radiation sickness, it was thanks to this spirit of fearlessness in the past few years that mankind finally survived the initial panic and pain.
And these sites are beginning to be able to support themselves:
Some sites have begun to focus on agriculture, using excrement as fertilizer to promote the growth of mushrooms and other edible fungi, and then using the fungi to feed pigs and rabbits rescued from above for breeding.
If there is a bumper harvest of mushrooms this year, the excess mushrooms may even be used to make wine, such as vodka, which is already in the category of just-in-demand luxury goods.
Some are mainly economic, using the directions of the stations extending in all directions to serve as a turnover place for the transportation of goods.
Some are full-military bases used to protect these economically and agriculturally important places, and some sites even have surviving pre-war scientists and cultural intellectuals.
However, each site must have a "workshop" for producing weapons. Here, the military and civilian weapons, equipment and ammunition collected by the pioneers who went out are collected from outside. Those who are capable will also make their own homemade weapons and bullets.
Different from home-made bullets, military bullets produced before the war have become the "unified currency" unanimously recognized by all stations in Moscow.
With everyone's unremitting efforts, a subway civilization has taken shape.
To be honest, if everyone can maintain this enterprising construction mentality and spirit of unity, it may not take long. As soon as the radiation value above is reduced, this subway civilization can immediately rush to the surface and rebuild humanity on the ground.
civilization.
But...human beings are also creatures that easily divide into factions. After eating and drinking enough, humans begin to divide into factions, and begin to have conceptual and ideological differences.
For this kind of differences in thoughts, concepts, regions, and interests, different factions choose to use physical means to eliminate this traditional, ancient, cruel, but effective method.
Then the stations on each line of the entire subway began to slowly unite and form forces. The most powerful and deep-rooted force in the entire subway is of course the "Hanseatic League" force that occupies the ring line of Metro Line 5.
This force is characterized by a complete oligarchy. They use trade to occupy the right to speak. This organization monopolizes trade in the entire subway world.
On the other side, forces under the banner of "inheriting the Red Army" and the so-called "new communists" are fighting again.
One has no theoretical basis for communism, but likes to imitate the political style of Comrade Steel's period; while the other advocates the theory of "pure race people first", but in fact, except for the residents of his own site, everyone else
It is an enemy that must be eliminated!
The former formed the "Red Line" organization, occupying most of the stations and tunnel sections of the Metro Red Line (Line 1); the latter formed the "Fourth Reich" organization, occupying the transfer area of Lines 2/7/9 (Tver
-Pushkin-Chekhov).
The daily quarrel between the two sides was just like the Soviet-German battle between 1941 and 1945, but in the eyes of Xie Yuan, who actually participated in the Great Patriotic War, this was very ridiculous and sad.
Because before entering the subway, 99% of Moscow, a city with extremely strict controls, are white Slavs!
The last huge force, which is also a relatively harmless force among all underground underground forces in the subway, is an organization called "City State".
They occupied a 4-line transfer station called "Metropolis", and their members came from some neutral people, trying to preserve the knowledge and memory of the world in front of the station. The organization also formed a special force "Spartan" for
Protect your own safety.
The "Spartan" Rangers originated from the garrison that guarded Red Square. They are now also the security forces of Polis. They are well-equipped and powerful in combat. They are a strong force in maintaining the overall peace of the subway.
In addition, there are some independent or semi-independent station complexes in other places. For example, they are on Line 6 and the National Economic Achievement Exhibition Station.
This site includes people from two sites. The other one is the guy from the Botanical Garden site, that is, Xie Yuan.
The joint leader of the two stations is old Alexey, so if we follow the feudal theory of the past, Artyom is still a prince of a small country!
It's just that such a young leader is also a doorstep profession. The current military mobilization capabilities, equipment, and combat effectiveness of the escort team of the VDNH are far inferior to those of the "Hanseatic" ones.
Therefore, even if they can produce their own food, weapons and ammunition, and even a small amount of equipment, they still have to accept the Hanseatic pricing power, which is their exploitation.
However, the VDNH Exhibition Center may be small, but it has all the internal organs. There are still many places to masturbate and be proud of.
For example, in the first one, the location of the VDNH Exhibition Station is relatively remote, so the troubles of the "Soviet-German Battle" will not affect it here.
Secondly, Xie Yuan developed a specific food output-protein block for his home through his consideration of the subway underground environment.
Although the raw material looks disgusting, it is food made from "cockroaches" that Xie Yuan cultivated through the corpses of mutated monsters.
However, there is still a gap in the production of mushroom farms. At the same time, after many years of breeding, protein blocks are produced more, which can also be regarded as a good supplement to edible mushrooms.
Moreover, this stuff can be stored for a long time after being processed. Although... people in the station never eat this stuff, when the Hanseatic League knew that this stuff wouldn't kill anyone, they would take away a large amount of the stuff from here every time.
And the military capability of their station is far superior to that of other independent federations. At least through protein blocks, the VDNH station has made a lot of money.
Most of Alexey's money was used to expand armaments - to prevent pinkeyes from other stations from going crazy and desperate to grab the protein block business, production lines and recipes.
But this advantage is slowly disappearing, and the root cause lies in the attacks of mutant creatures. It can be said that the mutant creatures are becoming more and more violent, and they should have become better after Alexei expanded his armaments.
But new threats are coming quietly.
…
After Xie Yuan tidied up the room, he walked out of the room and followed his adoptive father.
Geng's adoptive father walked together in the passage of the subway station. Residents along the way greeted Xie Yuan very cordially when they saw him:
"Hello, Artem."
Xie Yuan returned the favor politely.
"You already have a qualified leadership foundation," the old man looked at his adopted son with admiration. "Perhaps this station will have to rely on you to maintain order in the future."
"It's still very early! Alexei" Xie Yuan has never been interested in being a leader, especially for a prodigal like himself. It is impossible for him to stick to one place.
"Well, you should learn to keep your temper, Artyom." Alexei sighed, "There will no longer be any good places outside. We are the only ones left in the world. This is a fact."
"There are nuclear-proof projects of the same level as those of the Moscow subway all over the country and around the world. We can survive, so how can we not survive in those low-priority places?" Xie Yuan has always believed that there are people outside, but this reason is why he is unwilling.
An excuse to take over as webmaster.
"Alas." Alexey could only sigh again. In order to promote the position of webmaster, Xie Yuan even popularized knowledge to many children and peers, selflessly passing on and sharing the knowledge he could learn.
Except for him, the current station manager, Artyom has the highest status in the entire station, but he just refuses to take over!
As soon as he turned a corner, he met Nikolai, his adoptive father's assistant. He stopped Alexei angrily: "Alexei!"
The adoptive father, who was stopped by Nikolai, could only stop and ask kindly: What's the matter? Nikolai?
"If we don't stop the attack of mutant creatures, our station won't be able to hold on for long. We have to take action." Nikolai reported the report worriedly. After he finished speaking, he glanced at Xie Yuan.
The adoptive father's expression was also very helpless: "What else can we do? Well, Hunter is coming, let's listen to what the hunter has to say first."
Xie Yuan also went up to talk to Nicholas: "After receiving Hunter later, I will go out and help them clean up."
Nikolay shook his head: "I believe that as soon as you go out, the mutant creatures will stop for a while. After all, our station is one of the few stations in the Moscow Metro Circle that dares to use mutant creatures as fertilizer. Thank you for your knife.
But you should be more ruthless and don’t have a crush on the Dark Ones just because they saved you when you were a child. The Dark Ones will kill us all!”
When talking about the Dark One, Nikolai deliberately lowered his voice, but after he finished speaking, he glared at Xie Yuan viciously, stamped his feet, and turned around to leave.
Xie Yuan, who was left with a wry smile on his face, silently followed his adoptive father's footsteps.