FOREWORD

30 years have passed since the moment of the collision of the Earth with a giant asteroid. Having survived hard times, when only brute force decided everything, and everyone was for himself, mankind gradually began to restore civilization. Until a new threat appeared on the horizon - monsters infected with an unknown virus called troglodytes. These were deadly creatures with pale skin and a complete lack of vegetation on the body. Unlike their predecessors, the more primitive ghouls, the troglodytes were very agile and cunning monsters who hunt people in large flocks. The ability to regenerate made the monsters even more dangerous, because even taking on a line from a machine gun, the dead troglodyte very quickly returned to life, and rushed into battle with a new force. Stop them could only burning and dismemberment. Destroying entire settlements, and bringing death to all living things, a wave of monsters almost turned the whole continent into one huge cemetery.

Against the background of a global threat, many groups of the Wastes, previously engaged exclusively in looting and murder, formed an alliance with their sworn enemies - the military. At the cost of large losses, yesterday's opponents reduced the number of monsters by a dozen times, and saved the continent from extinction. Monsters who were lucky enough to survive the slaughter, have repeatedly made themselves felt, but they were only local clashes. Soon the military alliance with the united gangs broke off. Sensing their strength, the bandits struck a traitorous stab in the back to their allies, forced the surviving army to retreat, and imposed a humiliating peace treaty on them. According to this agreement, half of the central region of the Wastes, as well as the entire west, became the property of gangs, which cynically called their new possessions "Free Lands". Reluctantly, the military accepted humiliating conditions, leaving the east behind. The following years were relatively peaceful.

The strongest gangs took control of the cities rebuilt from scratch, introduced their own rules there, and began to hunt those who disagree with these orders. CSKA licked wounds after a humiliating defeat could find a common language with the winners, although relations between both sides could hardly be called friendly. However, soon there was a common enemy on both sides - the sect of religious fanatics, calling themselves the Brotherhood of the Doomsday.

Part 1.

City Faryl. Capital of the Western Region

After reading the prayer, the adept of the Brotherhood of the Doomsday Rupert Cross began to expect the arrival of the guest. All adherents, regardless of age and gender, proudly wore crosses on their foreheads, which were carved personally by the leader of the Brotherhood, but Rupert was an exception, because the cross would immediately betray his membership in the Brotherhood. Being a native of the East, Rupert, who was going to become a volunteer, and join the ranks of the army team, accidentally caught a strange wave on the radio. Having heard the speeches of the Brotherhood preachers about faith and the mission of the people, Cross easily abandoned his house and family, joined the sect, and almost immediately received a responsible task. According to a legend invented, Cross was a trader from the East who lost all his goods and left empty-handed. The new leader of the Brotherhood, Jonathan's father, instructed the adept to make Faryl a little cleaner. And cleaner, Fareel should have done the destruction of the main brothel along with all of its inhabitants and customers, but Rupert lost explosives, putting an end to the plans of his spiritual leader.

Instead of returning to his brethren, Cross stayed in the city, and began to carry out the task in his own way. During the day spent in the city, Cross finished off two prostitutes, and was just about to send a third to that world. It was her arrival that Cross was waiting for, and the girl did not take long to wait. About his new victim, Rupert knew only that her name was Rose, and that she was one of the most popular prostitutes in Faril, and therefore deserves death more than others. Hearing a knock, Rupert crossed himself and went to open the door. After the murder of the second prostitute, Cross decided to play it safe, and changed the housing, moving from the apartment for the ragged to a local bar, the owner of which equipped a storage room for the living room. Opening the door, Rupert saw a girl in a short skirt and a white T-shirt on the threshold of his room. On the right shoulder of the girl hung a leather handbag.

Rupert had only one glance to determine the substitution. He never saw Rose in person, but he heard that she was a pretty, curvaceous blonde who smiled a stupid smile 24 hours a day. He was visited by a short-haired brunette with a cold look, flat as a board.

“You are not Rose,” Rupert said incredulously.

“No,” the girl who came in did not deny it. - My name is Faith. Rose is very busy right now, so you will fuck with me today.

The words spoken by the guest, and especially the tone in which they were spoken, didn’t like Cross. Despite this, Rupert stepped aside, letting the guest into his modest apartment. Going inside, Faith first of all looked around the room with a quick glance.

- How much did you pay for living in this gaddy? - Suddenly she asked.

In the first years after the disaster, money had no value. In the course was exclusively barter. After making peace between gangs and the military, poker chips became the most common currency in the Wastes, freely accepted both in the West and in the East.

- What do you care? Rupert asked irritably, already starting to regret not closing the door in front of the intruder's nose.

“I just want to be sure that you can afford my services.” Show the chips, ”Faith demanded.

- Not. I already burned it once. You will get your chips just before you leave, ”Cross put in his condition.

After killing the second girl, and getting rid of her body, Cross turned out to be a brothel, and told a sentimental story about how a prostitute put him to sleep, robbed her, and ran away. It was quite logical that he adhered to this version even with the next victim, despite the fact that the guest was not destined to leave this room alive.

“Well, as you say,” Faith did not insist, putting her bag on the nightstand in front of the mirror.

Unbuttoning a zipper on her purse, Faith offered Rupert a little play, and pulled out a pair of handcuffs. Cross already shuddered from such a proposal. Calling a prostitute to his house, Cross was not going to fuck her, and even if he were going, he would do it on his own terms. Permeated by the ideas of the religious Brotherhood, Cross became very conservative in terms of sex, so he perceived all these toys as a dirty, godless perversion. On the other hand, Faith confirmed with her proposal that she deserved death no less than her lustful predecessors.

- Remove this abomination and immediately take off your clothes! Rupert ordered in a stern voice.

Instead of following his order, the girl began to rummage around in her purse again.

- I said stop! No toys! - raised his voice Cross, and moved the girl to meet, wanting to wrest from her hands the ill-fated purse.

Faith was just that. As soon as Rupert approached her, the girl snatched a gas spray from her bag, and gave her cross to her face.

- Oh, you bitch! - swore Rupert clutched at his eyes.

“And don't say,” Faith replied, and slammed her knee into Cross with her knee.

Rupert immediately caught his breath.Clutching at the bruised place, Cross tried to catch his breath, but Faith did not allow him. Pushing Cross to the side so that the man collapsed on the bed, she deftly chained his right hand to the darling of the bed. While attempting to chain his left hand, Rupert contrived himself, and was able to grab the girl by the face, but Faith immediately seized his teeth in his wrist, biting him to the blood. Cross screamed in pain immediately removed his hand from Faith's face, and the girl hastily ...