- What? - conversation in Russian.
- What? - conversation in Japanese.
- "What?" - thought.
- What!? - the scream.
2025... the year of Nuclear war, which almost destroyed humanity.
How the war began. The war started because of Kosovo, which officially became part of Serbia. Albania did not turn a blind eye to this and announced an ultimatum: give Kosovo to the Albanians or war. Serbia chose the second option and the Second conflict in Kosovo began. Albania was supported by part of the EU and NATO, and Serbia was supported by the Russian Federation, which was able to end its own in its favor, Ukraine, China, Belarus, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Cuba and other countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The clear advantage was in the direction of Serbia, so NATO launched Operation Allied Force 2.0, which was an invasion of Serbia. Both Serbs and those who support them found out about this move, so they gathered UN membership, which banned NATO from acting against Serbia and that Kosovo is officially part of Serbia.
This situation infuriated the Albanians and they, under the ban of the UN, began to attack the positions of the Serbs with redoubled force. The last straw was that Albania used chemical weapons against the Serbs, which caused enormous losses of the Serbs, both among the military and among civilians.
The countries that supported Serbia imposed tough sanctions on Albania, but this did not stop the Albanians, from which the Russian Federation and China began their own on the territory of Albania, which NATO did not like. A day later, after the start of the operation of the Russian Federation and China, NATO crossed the borders of the Russian Federation in the north, through Norway and Finland, which meant the beginning of the Third World War.
The brave Soldiers of Russia quickly knocked out the Finns and Norwegians from their territory and immediately went on the offensive. For 3 months, the Russian Federation, together with Belarus, China and the DPRK, took control of the Scandinavian Peninsula and the Eastern part of Europe, as well as South Korea and Japan, as on July 12, 2025, NATO decided to take a desperate step and this is not peace talks, no, this is the launch of Nuclear missiles.
The missiles flew towards Russia, Japan, China, North Korea, Mexico, Iran, South Africa, Cuba and other countries that supported Russia with China and other countries. These same countries launched their own Nuclear Missiles towards the United States and the West.
About the countries that launched missiles at each other, they were able to shoot down some of the missiles, but not all of them, and therefore a total nuclear explosion occurred. Many countries ceased to exist, and the survivors either went down to the subway, or they were not hurt, or went into the forest.
Among these survivors was our main character – Nikolai Romanov. Kolya was born in an unremarkable village in the Volgograd region on October 11, 2018. My parents were rich people, but you can't tell, my mother is the head of the Lenin Collective Farm, and my father is the head of the village.
Nikolai was a pride for the family, because what Kolya did not undertake – everything worked out or studied. For example, after reading Muma a couple of times, he could retell it without hesitation or anything else. He was also a good assistant and engineer, and this despite the fact that he was 6 years old at the time.
A week before the "X" day, my aunt and uncle on my father's side take Nikolai to their place, beyond the Urals, so that he could stay in a children's camp and breathe the fresh Siberian air. Two days before the fatal event, Nikolai came to a children's camp, which was in the Omsk region, and found many new friends there, both among children of his age and among teachers.
As soon as the rockets fell, the camp was not hit by an explosion or radiation, which was good. The bad thing was that no one came for the children and, perhaps, no one will come. The teachers decided that it was necessary to prepare children for a "new life in a new world", so they began to teach children how to survive and how to defend themselves. Among these students was Nikolai, who, to the surprise of everyone, quickly mastered everything, so he was sent to a master teacher who sews and creates all sorts of trinkets that can be useful in everyday life and in defense. There he also showed miracles, so much so that at the age of 14 he was given the call sign "Blacksmith", although they wanted to give him "Tsar", but because of his skills in engineering, sewing and manufacturing, they still called him that.
As soon as the students turned 15-16 years old, they went for the first time on a sortie into the forest and villages, and when they came back to their camp, then ... no one was alive. Many guys were just shot and stabbed, but there were no corpses of girls. Master Teachers were also slaughtered in the same way. All this meant only one thing – bandits attacked the camp. One group began to bury their comrades, but the second disappeared and came only in the evening, covered in blood and with missing girls, which meant only one thing – they came to the bandits' camp and killed everyone there.
The teachers began to get rowdy about the fact that the second group went to kill, but they couldn't do anything. And they went into the forest, where they disappeared. After that, the camp was divided into 2 groups: Pirates and Pioneers. Nikolai chose more than one side, he left. He went to look for his parents.
A year has passed since Nikolai left the camp. He has been in various situations many times: betrayal, death, robbery and others. Even in spite of all this, Nikolai still continued to go and help various settlements. He walked a thousand kilometers at such a pace and found a lot of interesting things.
Now Nikolai is 17 years old and now, he has finally reached his native village. Now he stands on a hill and looks at his native village. How did he know this was what he was looking for? So no one canceled the signs, there is a pillar behind it with the inscription "Buddy" (this is a fictional village).
- Hi… Native home. – said Nikolai and took off his helmet 6B7-1 in the coloring "Flora" and lowered the camouflage mask. – I've missed you so much.
Nikolai looked like a guy about 17-19 years old, with brown hair and blue eyes. The height was approximately somewhere between 175-178cm. He was dressed in a VSR-98 "Flora" suit, a 6B23 bulletproof vest, 6B92 unloading, military berets, black tactical gloves without fingers, a 6B7-1 helmet with protective glasses and a camouflage mask. Here are the last two he took off. Behind his back was a backpack, to which a CP-3M with a removable silencer was attached. This weapon was chambered for 5.45 because of the huge amount of such ammunition in the post-nuclear world. Nikolai also had a holster with a PB pistol on his belt.
- I missed you ... - whispered Nikolai and putting on his helmet, as well as adjusting his backpack and taking out the CP-3M, he headed to the village.
Passing by the gas station, Nikolai noticed a large cluster of abandoned cars. According to memories, there should not be such a huge number of cars, although ... perhaps people were looking for a safe place for themselves, and as soon as the gasoline ran out, they abandoned the car and walk.
Having measured the radiation background, Nikolai went on, because everything was fine with the background. Here he is walking along the road and looking around, remembering what happened in the past. Where there was a shop, where there was a Collective farm, where there was just a Hospital, where there was an ordinary house of grandma Luda and more. Nikolai was only nervous about one thing – where are all the people? Died? Gone? Or here?
- Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ... - someone howled in the distance.
- Fuck! - Nikolai whispered and immediately hid behind a foreign model car, because he heard a howl and not a simple one, but…
- The call was heard again, and immediately a mutant, similar to a dog, jumped on a Gazelle that was a little further away from Nikolai's location. This mutant is called the Guardian. Mutants travel alone or in packs, but they seem to be a pack today, that's by the way. In front of Nikolai, fortunately he was not noticed, 30-40 individuals ran so, and these creatures are eating cartridges, that be healthy.
Nikolai followed the flock with his eyes, and then came out of hiding and exhaled, went on to his house. Here he is.
Nikolai's house was no different from other houses, except that the roof was not made of Slate, but of metal, and the fence was also metal.
- "I'm... at home..." - Nikolai whispered and smiled. After that, he went to the gate and opened it. The creaking was very loud, which seemed to attract the Guards, so Nikolai quickly closed the gate and quickly ran to the porch, where he opened the door to his house and immediately closed it, and then moved the closet so that the Guards could not enter the house.
Nikolai was now standing in the corridor of his native house, where he, like his family, lived and made a lot of money until the day "X" happened. Nikolai was immediately flooded with memories of the location of his library, where he read and gained knowledge. He decided to go there and get a couple of books to read on the way.
After walking down the corridor and entering the first door, Nikolai found himself in the library, where some of the knowledge from the past world was stored. Passing between two bookshelves and looking down, Nikolai came across his favorite childhood book: "Weapons and equipment of the Second World War", which he wiped to holes.
- How long ago it was... - said Nikolai and picked up the book from the floor, then opened it and ... to his surprise, he found a bookmark on which it says:
- You are destined to save the world ... - Nikolai read and looked around, then read it again. – I didn't get it. Should I say "Hocus Pocus"? – after these words, the wind rose in the library, which confused Nikolai, and then a rift opened behind him, which attracted the guy's attention. – What the fuck?! – Nikolai managed to say how his book took off, flew around the guy, stopped behind his back and how it would push Nikolai into the rift and that was it. The rift closed and the library became quiet. There was only the scratching of the Guards on the street and the roar of the wind.
The world of Highschool of the Dead. A month before the main event.
Saeko Busujima is a student at Fujimi High School. She looked like a girl of 17-18 years old. Saeko has straight and shiny purple thigh-length hair, with triangular bangs in front that barely touches the tip of her nose. She has blue eyes and is quite tall for a Japanese girl. She was wearing a school uniform now, and in her hands she had a Boken.
Now Saeko was walking along the night beach, not afraid of anyone, because the rapist will get in the balls from her Boyfriend. She looked at the full moon, and then continued on her way.
- How nice it is to walk on the beach at night ... there is no one ... silence ... - Saeko said to herself, as a crack appeared in the air in front of her eyes and a man in a military uniform fell out, and then the crack disappeared.
Saeko stood for a couple more seconds and did not understand what had happened, as she immediately rushed to the man in military uniform. Busujima went over to him and checked his pulse:
- There is a pulse, there is breathing… Hey! Hey! Can you hear me? Saeko said to the man, but the man just lay there and didn't move. – What should I do with you? After these words, Saeko somehow picked up the man and, groaning, carried the man into her house.
