"Kuaishou, you're cheating again, you want me to take your dick down and stew in soup?"

The young man lazily threw the dice in his hand, "You can suck, but if you want to use it to stew soup, you don't have to, I can be of great use." "The reason why young people who like to gamble are called fast hands is simply because others have seen the speed of his masturbation, which is so fast that it makes people's scalps tingle.

I saw Kuaishou twist his head to look at his companion on the other side, "Lu Ben, I can't wait for you to take me to the beauty house of Hanting at such a time." ”

"The maid won't run away, you are still worried about your money bag, I'm afraid it won't be enough for you to go once." He's right, Kuaishou is a very lucky person, and unless he cheats, it is generally difficult for him to win money.

"Evan, are you here too?"

Evan was a younger recruit who hadn't grown a few beards on his face and had recently joined the ranks of the guards. Of course, he hadn't gotten acquainted with the veterans yet, and he wasn't quite comfortable with the environment, so he shook his head stiffly and continued to be loyal to his duties.

A few veterans laughed at him a few words, and then continued to open his own gambler's business, and the newcomers were always like this, timid, and looked very dutiful. Forget it, time will change him, so the veteran doesn't force it.

Suddenly, a wave of footsteps came from a distance.

"Who?"

Young Evan. Iron stood up vigilantly, he aimed the cold spear in his hand at the darkness in the distance, and the older soldiers behind him clutched the handle of the gun, years of experience told them that most of the people who came from this direction were their own people, but sometimes not their own people would come from this direction.

The tunnels are winding and buried deep underground, so this is a world covered in darkness.

Even if they lit a bonfire, the faint light and heat could not dispel the darkness five meters away, and Ivan could only faintly see an even darker shadow walking through each other in the ghostly tunnel.

Is it of the same kind? He wasn't sure, and he tried to think as best as he could about the meaning of the shadow a few meters away, but his father had taught him to stand guard in the dark depths of the tunnel, and if he kept lucky, sooner or later, the tunnel would eat him.

"Name me," he said, keeping his voice as low as he could, and in a warning response, he pulled the bolt of his gun and raised the muzzle of his gun to the shadow, "One step further and I'll shoot." ”

Kuaishou tugged at his hand, "It's Miss Verna, Evan, put down the gun." ”

The shadows drew closer, blurred lines outlining an inconspicuous petite figure in the darkness.

"Evan, today is your third night sentry, right?"

Verna. Venser is a sixteen-year-old young girl in the ruins of this subway, her age is already a parent, but she has chosen a different path, taking over from her father, Löven. Venser's baton, managing the Grey River underground station.

The 16-year-old took office last year, and at the beginning of her tenure, she kicked the deputy station chief's family out of the station.

People thought that this girl was messing around, she didn't understand anything at all, and even drove Sifu, who was in charge of other subway stations, especially the Hanting trade route, out of Gray River Station, isn't this cutting off the trade route, you must know that Gray River Station has a lot of materials that need to be transported from other stations, and if there is no Sifu to take the lead, it will be difficult for them to transport cheaper goods from other places.

But the truth is very different from what people think. After the people at Grey River Station discovered that the goods they had come in seemed cheaper without Sifu, the girl, who was only fifteen years old last year, transferred all of the family's profits from trade to the public treasury of Grayriver Station, and used a large part of it to improve the station's lighting system and strengthen tunnel patrols.

This move made the underground tunnels of the entire Gray River Station more attractive to the attention of merchants.

Since what happened to Sifu, no one dared to underestimate the girl in front of her, even if she didn't look tall or strong.

For Miss Verna's light inquiring tone, Evan only felt that his heart jumped a few times, Verna is a famous beauty in the station, as far as the military station, you can hear the legend of her beauty in Red Square, she is the head of the station, how can such a person not be loved by young people.

The entire ruined subway system is said to be the most beautiful pearl of Vilna, and it is now an indisputable fact.

So Ivan's tone in response to Werna became soft, and his face was covered with a deep flush, but it was obscured by an even more reddish flame.

"Today is the first week of the five-hundred-meter patrol," Verna's delicate jade face wore the usual faint smile, "you must be careful, there has been some bad news about the depths of the tunnel lately. ”

Kuaishou let out a low howl, "May the tunnel bless, I just want to bake the fire in peace." ”

"Don't worry, Station Master," a middle-aged man on the other side responded with a leaning body, "The site of the accident at the aquarium is three kilometers away from here, and there is a Dawan station in between, and I have been patrolling for ten years, and I haven't seen anything that can scare me." ”

Verna frowned slightly, the middle-aged man in front of him, who was almost fifty years old, always spoke in a tone that was a little yin and yang, he was underestimating himself.

Also, this old man has been at Gray River Station for decades, and even in the old days, when humans still occupied the sky, the earth, the sea, and the old days, he also witnessed the legendary catastrophe, the day when countless nuclear bombs flew by, the day when clouds of smoke and dust covered the world.

Of course, not only that, but this person also has a deep relationship with Sifu.

Sifu, who had been driven out a year ago, had a deep relationship with the old man of the patrol, and he could get tobacco and tea from Sifu, and even specialties from other underground stations, but from himself, he was rewarded with a patrol in shifts in this inaccessible cold abyss five hundred meters away.

The aftermath of Sifu has always haunted her, and Vilna knows deep down that the difficulties she has faced have always been there.

"It's always right to be careful, I think, there are also veterans of 20 years of patrol in the aquarium, and Kim also disappeared in that accident, what do you think he will be scared of?"

Kim is an old soldier of the aquarium, and he can also be considered an old hero of that place.

He's a 10-year stalker and still alive.

It is clear to everyone what it means to be a stalker. They were the heroes of their time, like the astronauts who first took to the skies in the old days, or the demigod heroes of the mythological age, they were all groundbreaking figures.

These stalkers, while sleeping on the ground "Sun Star" (the translation of the name of the stars of their own galaxy in the ruins), enter the surface, enter the toxic world of radiation fallout, and search for things from the old days, such as guns, ammunition, mechanical tools, books that carry knowledge, or fuel, engines, etc.

These people are rangers, they are the connection between the humans living underground and the civilization of the old times, but because of this, they must face the monsters that have been exposed to radiation and mutation, and in the face of the highly toxic energy emitted by radioactive materials, they will become old, weak, and physically deformed, and even a full suit of radiation protection cannot stop them from kissing death closely.

Kim is one such person.

He lived for a long, long time, and there were very few of all the Stalkers who survived to complete the ten years of this profession, and each of them was undoubtedly an epic hero, and if anyone wrote the legend of the Stalker, Kim would be among them.

So they can't make a strong rebuttal to Verna, and even Kim has disappeared during the kilometers of patrolling the aquarium and the head of the Great Bay Station, so what right do they have to be self-righteous here.

The middle-aged man snorted coldly and fell silent.

Verna raised her head to look at the deeper darkness in the distance, she stared at it for two minutes, and then sighed softly, "It's an eventful time now, the conflict between the Red Square station and the ordnance station is getting worse, I don't want you to lose anything when you are on guard, without you, who can protect our station." ”

Her sentimentality stirred up the emotions of the young guard, and even the other older soldiers were depressed.

Now it is indeed an eventful season, first of all, the matter of the aquarium, a whole team of patrol soldiers disappeared in that three kilometers between the two stations, Red Square and the military station, the underground can almost be said to be the two largest organizations, their disputes are also becoming more and more intense, everyone is discussing when the war will start, and they have to think for themselves.

In the event of a war between these two powers, what can this small neutral station between them do to protect itself? Either join Red Square or join the military station.

If they want a third option, they will not join the Hanting Alliance, the most powerful neutral organization of all.

But the Hanting Alliance, they don't think that the merchants who dominate the Hanting Alliance are vegetarian lambs, they show hospitality to the outside world and are willing to accept everything, but they have always been the masters who eat people and don't spit out bones.

In the middle of the three forces, they had no choice but to let the coming tide of the situation sweep the mottled boat of Greyriver Station into an unknown future.

Verna turned, "Keep your guard and stay safe," she symbolically instructed, and turned to walk into the dimly lit tunnel,

The underground tunnel was cold and damp, and the bubbling air flowed between her legs like whips on her trembling legs.

She had to go on, and she understood that others were watching her. On this tour, she visited all the inspection points within 500 meters of the three forks in the Greywater Station, just to make sure that she was staying true to the rules she had set for a weekly night inspection.

There is no day and darkness underground, but people do, they make their own time, they are unified with each other, or some of them have been to the surface and brought back time.

Anyway, it's late at night, and Vilna understands that this is the time to sleep, and it's also the most dangerous time for this subway.

She was followed by seventeen soldiers to ensure her safety, and since Sifu left the station, she had increased the number of guards to seventeen to ensure her safety, but seventeen soldiers were not enough to ensure her safety, she knew this very well.

The murder of the former leader of Red Square was shot dead in front of the eyes of thousands of people, ending the life of a leader who intended to end the conflict between Red Square and the military, and also breaking the deadline for reconciliation in the war.

She didn't want to be a cold corpse because of something like that, she was young.

Verna thought, exhaling softly for hot air, and in the darkness they hurried back with torches held aloft.

The patrol limit of 500 meters is already the outermost level, and if this number continues to rise, you may encounter some monsters that come out at night to feed. Now is not the time to provoke a war between humans and monsters, so they choose to back down.

Verna walked over the railroad tracks and stepped on the scattered gravel paths. The railroad tracks, which should have been intact, have long been torn apart.

So she sometimes stepped into the air, but as a stationmaster, she had to maintain her image at all times, and for this, she had to be careful to maintain her balance even if she accidentally stepped on some prominent places.

She knew that if she behaved like a little girl in front of others, the majesty she had so hard built up would only be consumed more quickly.

She would rather people be in awe of her power than her little girlish manners, so that people will remember who she really is.

By the time she got back to her own place, it was already late at night.

Underground, people call it the time of ghosts, and now is the time when ghosts run rampant, and the most dangerous species under the ground begin to hunt, at this time, if a creature like a human walks alone in the tunnel, it must be a journey of a lifetime, fortunately she is accompanied by seventeen living people.

Soon, she walked into her own residence, which was half of the carriage located on the subway platform, of course, this carriage has been transformed to be extremely suitable for living, the curtain cloth used to shield the peep outside the carriage is the best goods from the Hanting Alliance, and there is a sturdy security door, a single bed, the single cloth on this bed is found from the outside, this residence has its own independent bathroom.

It used to be my father's residence, but my father moved back to my grandmother's place, and now it's his own territory.

Verna looked tenderly at her sister, Verri. Venser was asleep, lying on her side on the bed that took up the entire aisle of the carriage, fourteen-year-old Verley hugging a sheet and breathing in the murky air underneath.

My sister is also tired today, she is probably going to play around again, or rather adventurous, this sister is eager to conquer all the forbidden places in the underworld, which is a headache hobby.

on the other side. She saw a shelf of plywood, with thirty books, mostly from the old days, on top of which were some thirty books.

Books are a rarity in the underworld, and people would rather use them to keep warm than to read the words in the dark in the dim light.

Stalkers don't want to bring back these useless big guys, it's too cost-effective, it's heavy, it's mostly useless, too, who would be interested in the unseen?

Are you interested in the dynastic history of the Terbium people? Are you interested in the history of the automotive industry, which was impassable in tunnels? Are you interested in a bunch of complex formulas? Are you interested in the boring imagination of the future? The answer is mostly no.

Even so, Verna collected more than thirty books, some of which were written in languages from other places, such as the Sennadian "Light Language", the Terbium "Dynasty", and the Red Bloods' "Ancient Chieftains".

There weren't enough people in the underground to make people recognise words, but there were always exceptions for the wealthy, and this was the case with the Venser family.

Her father had brought her and her sister a scholar who was said to be from the old days, but the scholar was now in his fifties, and the rickets he had suffered from living underground for many years had made him dying, and not long ago he had contracted some minor ailments that had almost burned out his brain.

The old scholar couldn't remember much, and of course, Werna didn't choose to dismiss him, after all, the old scholar had taught for Grey River Station for thirty years.

Seven years had passed since his trembling words had been with her since she was nine years old. He is always expounding the myths of the old days.

He said that the people of that era had everything on earth, mountains, islands, ponds, wild forests, even the unreachable top of the world or the great fissures deep into the seabed, there were traces of people in the old days.

But thermonuclear war has destroyed everything, it is a weapon that destroys the world, it only takes a small one to destroy a city, and this weapon will leave a highly toxic energy to eat away at the humans who dare to challenge it for a long time to come.

The culprit of the thermonuclear war has not yet been determined, but it has been speculated that it was a war of destruction waged by two neighboring world nations on the ground, the predecessor of Red Square and the military station. The people in Red Square accused the military of destroying the planet, and the military station would turn the basin back in a blink of an eye, so that until now people do not know who launched the nuclear bomb first, and scholars will always talk about this most ridiculous mystery in human history for ten days and ten nights.

She had heard the old scholar talk about many other things, she had heard him talk about the blue of the sea, she had heard him talk about the splendor of the sun and the stars, she had heard him talk about the order and civilization of the earth, and the customs of each country, and the sparkle of the stars.

The starry sky is the most beautiful thing in the world, and people thought so in that industrial age, and the reason why people had such an idea was because the satellites launched by the two world powers at that time discovered another planet in the same orbit, and according to the continuous observation of the two world powers, they found that there was life on that planet.

The news that there was a habitable planet opposite the star called the Sun Star was even more shocking than the explosion of a nuclear bomb, and then the discovery that would go down in history led to a thermonuclear war, and many countries simultaneously claimed to own and develop the planet.

But that's all in the past, and now, even if you claim ownership of every piece of land here, it's okay if you dare to go up.

Verna looked at the books on her desk, one of which had been spread out and placed on the floor, the pages on which were crumpled as if it would fall apart with a single rub.

The books were probably older than she and her sister had combined, and it wasn't bad that they had survived to this point, and Vilna had been trying to find the books and re-copy them, but she didn't have enough time.

This book, which bears the memories of the previous era, will one day dissipate in this dark underground ruins.

If the future continues, these human beings will follow the pace of books into the grave of history, and all the history they have experienced will be recorded in a few words and belong to them.

Verna's face became a little sad, she looked at the page that was opened, it was the Milky Way, she was still full of amazement when she saw this painting five years ago, she dreamed of seeing such a sky one day.

This is true of every child who has grown up underground, they don't want to look up every day to see the narrow cement slabs overhead, rotten wires and criss-crossing pipes, they don't want to wander in a dim and almost dull world every day, to survive in damp and cold tunnels, freedom is a luxury in any era, but in the age of ruins, it is more precious than you can imagine.

Hey, now that she's sixteen, her dreams should be put in the back of her mind, she has already understood last year that she has to face a station that needs to be rectified, it is everyone who lives in the station, not an impossible dream, and probably only children want to chase such an illusory thing, just like her sister.

The night was deep, and the underground was even more silent, except for the occasional whisper of men and women from both sides of the tunnel, and the slight gasp.

Most of the people in the subway don't have much privacy, so they have to spend the night in tents fished out of the ground, and of course, some people will build their own shelter out of the metal pieces they get, and some will build a hard fortress out of the dug stones.

But many more live day in and day out in tents and wooden tents, struggling to survive.

Werner looked out through the gap in the car window, the miserable white light bulbs were old and old, some of them had been extinguished for several years, although she imported some of the lighting bulbs from the Hanting Alliance, but most of those brand new things were used in the very important sentry posts, the light here was as faint as ever, like the faintest candlelight, which appeared and disappeared, and even Verna could easily predict that one day, these lights would be completely extinguished.

......