Sun Crystal

Fifteen years after the Collapse, a curse called "Valkyrie Particles" engulfed the world. Blue crystals grow wildly on the ruins, turning living people into monsters called "crystal skeletons", while humans are still killing each other for the last clean soil. In a Khrushchev building with no heating in Novosibirsk, electronic engineer Seryosha Netsov counted the rust spots on the radiator for his seriously ill son. When the food stamps ran out, the milk was mixed with water, and the life-devouring blue frost condensed outside the window, this man who had never even touched a gun put his grandfather's medal in his pocket and walked into the snow. From the new training camp to the Caucasus Red Zone, from the tank cemetery on the Polish plains to the "Kataxis" underground in Warsaw, he survived side by side with a group of ordinary people crushed by the times. And the wife he thought he had lost, Katya, is using another identity under a white protective suit to guard the last purification tower of mankind in the deepest part of the contaminated area. When the purple dirty bomb illuminated the night sky of Warsaw, and when the exoskeleton and flesh merged in the nerve connection, Seryosha finally understood that he was not fighting for the flag, but just to fulfill a promise: "Count to one hundred and I'll be back." There are only ninety-nine rust spots. But love is the hundredth.