Chapter 1: The Werewolf of Chernobyl
No one is strong forever!
This was the third decade after the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the glory of being a superpower had long since vanished, and the romantic ideal of emancipating all mankind had been extinguished in a gloomy and bleak reality.
Bright red flags fell from the land, Paul. The glorious dreams for which Kochagin fought have been extinguished, and the richness and prosperity that the "conscientious intellectuals" once promised have not come.
After more than a decade of turmoil and collapse, Russia has barely crawled out of the ruins of the collapse of the Soviet Union, whether it is a downfall or a "deindustrialization" that has become an exporter of resources, but it has nevertheless restored stability β even if it declines steadily.
Having extinguished the ambitions of the leader, the Russians were finally able to huddle in a corner of the shijie stage wrapped in shabby fur coats and vodka in Siberian oil and gas, lazily watching their former rivals and younger brothers put on a spectacular show. Occasionally, you can muster up the courage to pick out a few weapons that have not been scrapped from the ruins of the Soviet era, and jump to the center of the stage to show off your muscles and brush your presence.
And Ukraine, the earliest origin of Russian civilization, another important part of the once "unbreakable alliance", has not been so lucky, and still can only shiver in the cold wind of the Eastern European Plain, struggling in the ruins of the Red Empire.
What is even more tragic is that this relatively "small" country does not have as many resources as Russia. As a result, the Russian Federation, which has long ceased to be brothers, was cut off from gas for three days because of lack of money to pay, leaving poor Ukrainians with arms shivering in the cold wind.
Aircraft carriers were sold, frigates were sold, missiles were sold, machine tools were bought, tanks and fighters were sold. The magnificent factory painted with the red star is in rusty ruins, and the old capital of the Soviet era is almost eaten up. Ukraine again does not have the resources of Siberia...... The Orange Revolution after Orange Revolution has only yielded Ukrainians a resounding reputation as an "exporter of golden cat prostitutes", plus the second-to-last GDP per capita in Europe - not as good as the countries of the old Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania after the civil war!
This vast black land in the whole Shijie, once the granary of Europe, has now been reduced to the point that it can't even feed itself.
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A cold autumn breeze blew through the houses, carrying the cold air from the Arctic Circle, making the trees and dead leaves rattle together. The yellowed leaves leave the branches. Flying up and down, sometimes rising into the air, sometimes diving into the ground, and finally whirling. Slowly falling.
Autumn in Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, is always so short and "cool", only slightly better than the cold winter.
Although for Russians in the north, the black soil of Ukraine can already be considered a "warm south". However, in the eyes of the vast majority of people from other countries on Shijie. The latitude of this land is still too high, and the intersection of continental and oceanic climates makes the weather in Ukraine change drastically and is extremely difficult. Add to that the fact that the weather was abnormal this year. As a result, the autumn wind in Ukraine in September is already blowing strongly, and the cold is very strong.
Somewhat cool in the autumn breeze. A tall blonde girl, wrapped in a slightly shabby military coat. Dragging a heavy trolley suitcase, he walked alone through the bleak streets of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, the "mother of Russian cities".
Like the last time the girl was in Kyiv, the fifteen-century-old city is still shivering in the cold of the latest wave of the shijie economic crisis β skinheads shouting Nazi slogans in parks, girls striptease in corner bars, alleys filled with idle drunks and unemployed, nine out of ten holding vodka and marijuana, numbing their souls with drugs and alcohol. The rest can't even afford vodka, so they can only look at passers-by with bad intentions, looking for someone who looks easy to rob. β¦,
-- As a fighting people who can survive as long as they have vodka and black leba (Russian bread), even if they are in a similar situation, the decadent Maozi will not lie quietly in a hut made of waste cardboard boxes and read comics, or huddle in the tram during the rush hour to play crazy games - The drunken Maozi squinted their eyes and said: The tail thief or something is weak, poured two mouthfuls of vodka into his mouth, and then grabbed a random woman and took off her pants and snapped on the street. It is the right path of our fighting nation that advocates violence!
Along the way, the blonde girl witnessed countless violent crimes, such as robbery and extortion, gang fighting, murder, group assault, and rape of women......
Where are the police?
Oh, and the cops are sitting leisurely under the umbrellas on the street corner, drinking coffee! If any of the nosy guys came up to them to alert them that a crime was going on, these respectable police gentlemen would point to the plastic sign erected next to them: "Pay the fee first, then call the police, and don't accept bargaining."
-- As a major initiative to "cope with the economic crisis and bring into line with Western civilization," the Ukrainian parliament recently learned from the experience of the British and just passed a bill this year to privatize the police department. Police stations across the country have since become private security companies, largely only for the wealthy who have paid for security in advance, and for overtime pay if they are out of office hours and on days off......
As for the poor who have no money to pay, please be stabbed to death by gangsters in the alleys!
Alas, is this the so-called "land of the free"?
Looking at this situation, it seems that Russia in the north is not as good as Russia under the rule of the "new tsar"!
At the very least, Russia's oligarchs want to run their country and use some of the oil revenues to reassure the people.
And the rich people on the Ukrainian side regard their motherland as a colony, and they only know how to get money in their pockets as soon as possible, and then quickly find a way to emigrate.
The blonde girl sighed helplessly and kicked over a drunk who wanted to do something to her. Then he gave a little thug with a knife and tried to extort him, and then he opened a safe passage through this dangerous street for ordinary people.
At the end of this street is a comprehensive trade market run by Chinese. It is also the goal of the girl's shopping trip.
Although there are many strange brands of goods in this place, the quality is generally not very good, and the counterfeit and shoddy things are even more grasped, but the advantage is that the variety is rich and varied, and the prices are affordable and cheap. And the four tower-like retired special forces bodyguards at the door also make customers feel more secure.
ββ¦β¦ First there are two cases of the most haode red vodka, then bread, potatoes, cabbage, steak, sausage, sugar, tea, cheese...... Well? There is also caviar and watermelon?!! Oh my God, it's such extravagance?! β
The blonde girl looked down at the shopping list. While muttering to himself, "...... Is there such a generous amount of money for the organization? When did the old man get so much money? Just last month, he couldn't even afford to smoke cigarettes, so he could only roll leaves with old newspapers! β
Although I was puzzled about the source of the old man's funds. But the girl didn't take it to heartβin any case, in this age of soaring prices, it's always good to have moneyβshe bought all the things on her shopping list, and with the little change she had left, she carefully selected a small bag of apples that she liked to eat. Then he hugged the two big watermelons, and left proudly in the envious eyes of the many grocery shopping aunts.
-- In Ukraine in the cold season, you need to buy some rare fruits. You can't weigh it like the Chinese, but you have to count it by grams! So. It's rare to see a Ukrainian carrying a big watermelon home - it's all sold like a luxury! β¦,
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Contented, she walked out of the trade complex with a large pile of things, but the blonde girl found herself blocked by the procession.
Since the onset of the economic crisis. Demonstrations are already the most common sight in Kyiv, and they are almost repeated several times a day. It would be unusual if there was no one marching in the city on any given day β such as a snowstorm or freezing weather of -40 degrees Celsius.
No way, the current situation of the country is really worrying - or rather, it has not been a few years since the collapse of the Soviet Union that has been comfortable!
Poverty, depression, unemployment, prices that can rise several times a month, the economy is on the verge of collapse, prostitution is legalized, democracy, freedom, and human rights are all empty talk, and politicians who come to power with the slogan of freedom and equality are still poor and extravagant.
Angry and desperate people took to the streets, shouting all sorts of demands: jobs, handouts, tax cuts, cheaper gas, higher pensions...... There are also ...... who advocate for women's rights and oppose the legalization of prostitution
-- A blonde girl in a shabby military coat, with a rather subtle look, looks at two naked redheads, wearing only thongs and high boots, holding a banner that reads, "Ukrainian girls are not being sold!" β
This is the most iconic street culture in contemporary Ukraine, in addition to the color revolution, which is most popular among the people of Shijie - the beauty!
Behind the two redheads, there are a large number of foreign tourists taking pictures with their mobile phones, as well as more professionally equipped journalists.
I believe that in a few hours, the high-definition nudes of these two redheads will be hung on the pages of many websites, and together with the appearance of the aiqing action movie actresses in a certain island country in the East, they will be discussed and talked about by netizens all over Shijie.
-- Opposing the legalization of prostitution and protesting against the president's sale of Ukrainian girls as commodities is indeed a serious matter in line with traditional morality. But the beauties of these teams themselves, why aren't they selling their bodies to attract the audience's attention?
As far as the teenage girls know, they have made nude parades their main activity since the establishment of their teams. Whether it is Ukraine's internal affairs or international events, they will be invited. Protest against the legalization of prostitution in Ukraine, hold nude demonstrations, condemn the inappropriate rhetoric of political dignitaries, and also conduct nude demonstrations, and treat the laws that discriminate against women in Islamic countries, as well as nude demonstrations; Even if they expressed their support for the Japanese who suffered from the tsunami and nuclear crisis in previous years, they had to live a stripping addiction.
In recent years. In the city of Kyiv, there are already several poor and crazy tour companies, which have begun to sell the beauty team as a "Ukrainian specialty" tour to tourists all over Shijie...... In order to raise funds from the tour company, the team also had to engage in open-air nudity activities according to the relevant tourist routes and times. Even in order to take care of certain large tourist groups that pay particularly generously. They actually stripped naked on the street in the winter of minus 25 degrees Celsius - even strippers don't have such a horrible working environment!
It's hard to say whether Ukrainian girls can be sold, but it is an absolute fact to say that they are cold and frost-resistant and good at outdoor activities.
Although this does attract a lot of attention, in the eyes of the audience, they don't care what kind of slogan they are playing. It's just a nude show.
In fact, the last time the blonde girl was in Kyiv, she had seen an even more ridiculous demonstration of nudity β naked girls holding signs with bare butts protesting against some people hunting wild animals for skin, while wearing high-end boots of deerskin and mink on their own feet. β¦,
ββ¦β¦ Alas. Today's Ukraine is like a big brothel, every girl sells meat, the difference is only whether it can be sold for a price......"
Blonde girls in old Soviet-era military uniforms muttered to themselves as they navigated the crowd while opening the hands of thieves reaching for their shopping bags...... Occasionally, daggers and! But none of these thieves are the match of the maiden. In the end, they either fled in panic or rolled on the ground with a pale face clutching their broken arms. And theirs and daggers naturally became trophies for blonde girls.
In the LCD TV set in the street window, today's domestic news is playing. Blonde teen through glass. A few glances inside revealed the first thing the new government had done when it came to power. Sure enough, instead of stabilizing prices and solving employment, a large number of Japanese, European and American cartoons were put on the blacklist. He claimed that these films were "illegal narcotics that undermine traditional morality and poison the minds of young people".
It is said that in order to debate whether to ban these films, the honorable parliamentarians also fought so loudly in the meeting that their heads were bleeding.
In response, the blonde girl had no choice but to continue to roll her eyes, laughing at the hypocrisy and ridiculousness of these parliamentarians.
- Please, the people on the street who are busy drinking, smoking marijuana, and abusing all day. The little guy who made it, can he still use these cartoons to poison his mind?
To put it bluntly, isn't it because you don't have the ability to solve social and economic problems that you use these inexplicable things to brush up your sense of existence?
Although she had never had any faith in these politicians, the girl could not help but feel sad and funny about their absurdity.
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Struggling to squeeze through the crowd of marchers, the blonde girl spent about half an hour finally reaching the parking lot and finding her car.
It was a "Lada" car with a terrified appearance, and it seemed that it should have been in the garbage heap.
-- Without the wipers, the hood was missing, and one light was missing from the front, and the other was taped with scotch tape. Only one of the four doors remained, and the rear window glass was shattered...... No matter how you look at it, it looks like it has just been dragged out of the scene of a car accident.
But whether it's a blonde girl, or a janitor in a parking lot, or a passer-by, it's all taken for granted - there is no vehicle scrapping system in Ukraine, which means that as long as your car can still breathe, you can get on the road, even if you don't have a wheel or a door.
The blonde girl tossed her shopping bag and trolley case into the back seat and pulled out a cable and tied it firmly to prevent it from being thrown out. Two more wires were pulled out from under the steering wheel - the car keys had long been lost - and the copper wires at the tip were used to make a "zizi" spark and start the tattered Lada.
Then the car hit the road, and met more strange people of the same kind - the streets of Kiev were full of strange cars: the steering wheel was on the left and on the right; The doors are chained, and there are no doors at all, only holes; Some of the engine covers are missing, and some are nailed with a piece of canvas; The cars themselves were also indiscriminately modified with agricultural tractors, and there were also former Soviet infantry fighting vehicles with the batteries dismantled......
Some cars only have four wheels, a floor and an engine, the body is not even a piece of iron, and even the driver's seat is a beach chair that has been moved from nowhere, but they still walk like a fly on the road, domineering like a crab that has drunk wine. Fortunately, Ukraine has a small population and does not need to sell tickets like Indians, so outside the carriage, it is finally not full of passengers and bears returning to the nest......
As the "Lada" slowly drove out of the city, the traffic on the nearby roads became more and more sparse, and soon disappeared completely, and the scenery on both sides of the road quickly became desolate - even in the relatively developed part of Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union were sparsely populated, and the vast majority of the population was concentrated in the major cities, and outside the cities were uninhabited empty spaces. β¦,
As the car continued to move north, the concrete road under the wheels gradually turned into an asphalt road, and the asphalt road turned into a dirt road again, and Zuihou didn't even have a dirt road. There are no crops or farms to be seen, only the wild Eastern European wilderness.
Clumps of weeds, rusty road signs, collapsed power poles, crumbling concrete buildings...... The once thriving town has been completely abandoned by the evacuation of all its inhabitants, and everything is so dilapidated that it looks like both a forgotten Mayan ancient city and a nightmare after a nuclear war.
However, even in this forbidden area of life, which was abandoned by the whole Shijie, there are still human beings who have survived tenaciously.
However, at this time, whether they can still be regarded as "humans" is probably a big question mark......
The blonde girl drove her battered "Lada" into a dusty concrete building, carrying shopping bags and trolley suitcases. Next, she took off her military coat, revealing her fair skin, and stretched comfortably at the same time.
ββ¦β¦ Whew"
The next moment, the blonde girl suddenly jumped into the air, her slender body suddenly swelled around, her fair skin turned into silver-gray thick hair, her slender little hands turned into sharp wolf claws wrapped in white hair, her two triangular ears rose from her hair and went straight into the sky, and a long silver tail appeared behind her buttocks, and the canine teeth on her face also protruded outward, as if she was hungry and wanted to tear everything.
ββ¦β¦ Whew"
The werewolf girl who had completed her transformation continued to howl towards the sky a few times, until the same wolf howl was faintly heard in the distance, and then she turned around and picked up the military coat, shopping bag and trolley box that she had dropped before her transformation, hung it crookedly on herself, and then used all four legs to run wildly forward.
On the horizon in front of her, a huge concrete coffin, a symbol of death, stood majestically in the gray mist.
Behind her, on a mottled and dilapidated street sign, in vague Russian letters, reads: "Welcome to Chernobyl!"