Codename 105: Under the Deep Well

2258. The moment the cryo chamber of the old era opened, Alan Kraus faced a world that was already rotten. In the Enlidu Well, three thousand meters underground, the lamp tubes were cracked and the air was filled with rust. He put on a three-and-a-half-meter-tall PMP mecha and fought his way to the ground - there was no city, no sky, just endless plains covered in ashes. He thought the biggest threat was the shell-like creatures in the gray realm. Until the armed forces of the management committee blocked him in the corridor. At the same time, Shen Wei woke up in Pangu's shell, holding the technological legacy of the old era's Ark project in his hands. The Alliance Republic sent 1,200 people and two law enforcement PMPs to "recover" him. Not an arrest. It's clear. They each escaped from death and passed through deep cities one after another. There's a war going on in every well - but the guns are pointed not at monsters, but at each other. The Scientific Progressive Party wants to eliminate the inefficient population. The Cherub Church wants to package fear into a miracle. If you kneel down, you will be safe. If you don't, you will die. Someone figured out the optimal solution—and then forgot why they wanted to win. None of them are bad people. You can't even fault their logic. Allen speaks with guns, and Shen Wei speaks with calculations. They separated at a fork in the road and came back. In the end, you don't need to identify with the other person, you just need to know that the other person is there. But it's not them who really hold up the world - it's a maintenance worker who welded one more spot, a commander who put down his gun in front of the "optimal solution", and a mother who ran back to pick up a stuffed toy. There are no unnecessary actions, and no changes in the situation of the battle. There are only surviving humans who are not fully optimized.