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The scene starts with a nuclear explosion across the world, all politicians of each countries are dictators now. Sense of democracy was lost as each country suspended democracy and opposition as they wanted to concentrate on winning the war.

There was no objective of war left, the countries with fuel, while on the brink of their destruction, destroyed all their resources. The countries with nuclear weapons were ganged up by smaller countries. The losing country who had nuclear weapons would go as far as nuking themselves so enemy won’t be able to conquer their land due to radiation.

Everyone’s goal was to avoid conquer over some sadistic pride. Almost 70% of the world have become like Chernobyl. Humans are much less in population, I might go as far as to say, it was for the best. Total world population have shrunk from 10 billion to 10 million.

Remaining population got angry, internal coup d’etats occurred everywhere. Angry Citizens joined forces with soldiers who were fed up with being played as pawns, destroyed all politicians. Political families, crumbled.

People who had lived their whole lives in luxury where today shaking with fear. Turned out the politicians of enemy nations were rather on friendlier terms in person. As they helped each other with providing asylums during the global revolt.

With this, people gave up on the idea of leadership. It was finally the moment, Anarchy was established in the whole world. Everyone thought they were right and could do as they pleased.

It was all chaos, no order. No government or authority to control the confusion. Everyone was left all by themselves.

If anyone would try and take control of the situation, they would be killed immediately as mob hated leadership now. People refrained from coining ideas.

Those who had no one, were fearless, dominating, and powerful. Those with families were now the weak ones as they had to be on guard. Always.

With years, things slowly settled down. People slowly started to cooperate. There were no currency but there was still trade. Many still preferred to loot and there was only mob versus mob as the justice. With no one around to tell anyone what to do, it was still impressive, humans achieved this much in such a short time.

However, after diseases caused by the aftermath, hunger was the second most reason for death now. Despite all the chaos, violence was not even on top ten list.

Maybe down inside, everyone had seen enough blood. People were trying to desperately build a new leaderless system. Luckily there were people from all sorts of knowledge still alive to expand the knowledge and improve the lifestyle.

The situation was so desperate, everyone was learning everything. Farming was number one job now as hunger was top second reason to die and medical education was as scary as ever. It was not the will issue here, doctors were in real demand today and barely ever had to worry about food.

Food was their fees after all. Despite all this, few people still stuck with their native culture and religions. They believed believing in god and sticking with their pre-war culture will be helpful, well yes. To some extent, the sense of charity remained so, thanks to religion.

When everyone was on their own, the churches, temples, mosques and other religious buildings were giving shelter to those who couldn’t defend themselves. Mainly children and women were considered weak but few men and women claimed gender equality while seeking shelter. They were kicked out though.

“Sucks to be them” said one pastor while digging his nose.

Despite all the good sides of these culture and religion, there were still discrimination and people despised, blamed each other for the mess the world was into.

Hence the mob versus mob would sometimes turn into riots and there will be no one stopping it. You might think I just wrote a plot hole here. Just when people were done with violence, why’d they riot? Well yeah, we can never generalize the feeling on everyone. So very human isn’t it?

Yes, this is what happens to earth after the dooms day. This is your ordinary post-apocalyptic world where there are no lone survivors, or zombies, or monsters. Or are there any? That is something we need to find out.

Its morning, birds are singing, few of them are sitting on the balcony. Some can be seen having tumors on their heads, unable to fly, just sitting at some corner, quietly. Are they hoping to be eaten by their prey? Possibly the tumor is so painful, they’d prefer death.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

Botu is seen sleeping carelessly in a self-made hut. His friend, Alex is also sleeping on a nearby sofa.

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Someone kicks the door so hard it goes flying and collapses on Botu, who wakes up freaked out. Alex, who was sleeping peacefully is right now terrified while looking at the katana.

“Why the fuck are you still sleeping you fucking pieces of shits” A girl holding the katana sword, aiming at Botu’s face is barking.

“Tone it down, flat chest” Botu shouts back.

She throws her katana and it gets stuck on the wall, right near Botu’s balls. Cold sweat was coming out of Botu’s forehead.

“What the hell is wrong with you bitch, I could have been sterilized just now” He yelled.

“You are a waste of sperm already, the whole species is a waste of sperm, and it doesn’t matter if you lose your balls” she barked back.

“The fuck are you doing here anyways so early Sarutobi” Alex finally yelled, all pissed.

“You wack job, you smell like pig” she yelled at Alex

“Get a shower first” She added while squeezing her nose.

“You’re always exaggerating” Botu said with a poker face.

“As if you’d know anything this wasted sperm” She replied back in a funny tone.

“It’s been a week since our last job, my stocks are over and we need a new job” She said in a serious tone now.

“Ah, with world collapsed and all scarcity of food, why can’t girls consider dieting anymore?” Said Botu while getting smashed by a brick on his poor face.

They are seen walking to a small torn apart building. There are people who look strong, everywhere. “Grouping up as a team, we will have a higher chance of our successful hunt” Said Chihiro to the rest two.

“So what are we hunting today?” asked Alex while walking inside the building.

“Depends on the demand, let’s check the hunting job board” she responds.

As soon as they read the board, Cold wind fills the room, they are all blue, eyeballs darkened, not a single sign of happiness. The board is empty. A huge number of people turned out to be useless when it came to medicine or farming.

They were usually mobs and thugs and overtime, despite giving up on violence, they had no other talents. Botu and his friends, were strong, Botu and Alex were soldiers and Chihiro was a martial artist. Naturally, hunting was an ideal job for them where they could use their skills.

Hunting was ideal because, there were restaurants who would take the raw meat and cook them meat and of course keep the remaining meat for themselves.

Hunters didn’t need to rely on the new trade system much, if you know how to cook food, you can just hunt and eat. The preservation of food was a big challenge and so hunters would always get fresh food to eat.

That was a major profit and so, it was hard to find any hunting jobs. You would ask why they needed to rely on hunting jobs. Well hunters still needed equipment, gears, vehicles, etc. People would give them for the right items.

It wasn’t just food that was tradable. Everything was tradable. They just skipped currency because you needed an established system for that to work.

With the board being empty, they had no clue what to do and what to hunt.

Due to war, the atmospheric balance was disturbed, with most of sea water electrocuted as an aftermath of war, Oxygen and Hydrogen was more in quantity as compared to Nitrogen and even Carbon.

With Humans losing their territories, plants and animal kingdoms started to recapture those territories. Since Oxygen was so much in quantity, newer born animals and insects were 50 times larger now.

Hydrogen because of its light weight flew to the top of atmosphere, creating a thick cloud, sky was always gloomy. This is why Botu despite sleeping till so late, still thought it was early morning.

One would wonder if he still lives in that past and if he is the only one.

“Please leave, you know this is not an old world anymore, there is no help if you have no trade” a huge guy is telling to an old lady.

The old lady with gray hair is very sad, she looks very poor and sick.

“Please sir, my son went to the nearby spider forest to retrieve spider webs and silk raw materials. It’s been a week and he have not returned.” The lady pleader again with all her hopes.

“Spider forest you said? Jeez, who in their right mind would go there? Giant spiders lives there, those creepy fucks. Who even cares about silk today? We humans struggle to survive over necessities, your son went for someone’s luxury? Just what the fuck!” The man replied.

The old lady collapses on ground weeping like a lost child. Botu and his friends, who were standing there frozen went over.

“Oye, hag!” Botu said in a serious tone.

“Dear Sir, please help me out” She saw a new light of hope as she heard the sound, until she saw them.

“Oh you guys” She lost all interest as she saw them, three skinny people with normal clothes, who look like they have been starving since weeks. A girl with a sword, a big man with only two revolvers and then in the middle was the weakest looking person.

Mix gray and black hair, depression in both cheeks and torn clothes. No armor, no advance weapons, no vehicle. Just three people who walked over, were offering her help.

“Oh my, your conditions look even worse than me, are you sure you can help?” the lady asked in curiosity.

“Well you want help or not, it’s not as if I don’t have anything else to do, so we decided to help you out.” Alex said.

“How very generous of you. If you can save my son, I will cook you delicious food, but you will have to bring materials.” Offered the lady.

“Sure, if you know how to cook, that will be so helpful” Said Botu innocently.

It’s a scene from Hell’s Kitchen, there are many old women as participants, and this old woman is one of them. Botu is seen as a Master Chef Judge. “The one who makes the tastiest food, will get my protection” Botu declares

Television broadcasts the message and everyone are looking forward to it. Huge crowd is seen outside the studio.

“Hmmm! Chicken Korma, Biryani, Stew, Curry, Noodles, Ham Burger, all sorts of meals are presented”

Botu goes to each stall and smells with utmost pleasure. Suddenly a punch hits Botu’s head and he falls to the floor. “What kind of adult suddenly starts day dreaming you good for nothing middle aged dumbass?” protests Chihiro

The old lady is surprised but then smiles. “Don’t worry miss, we are going to try our best to bring back your son” declares Alex.

“The world and humanity might have died, but I want to stick to my ideals like those religious and cultural freaks over there.” He added.

“Hey who the fuck you calling a freak you white fuck?” Someone questioned back from a mosque

They all ignored.

“See ya then hag” Botu said while leaving the area.