What is "The Depths of The World" ?

 

This is a Sci-fi story about the doom of human kind.After a catastrophic event that scorched the surface of the planet, leaving it unhabitable (also know as “The Impact” or “The Big Hitter” in the story), the last humans settle in an underground bunker, 12.000 meters below the surface, called simply “The Underground” ruled by it’s three overlords that make up “The Underground Society (TUS)”, a closed off section of The Underground where only the worlds richest people reside. The protagonist, Frey, a scientist working for TUS as a surface habitability analyser discovers the plans of TUS to keep the people of The Underground under their rule forever to ensure that they can live out the rest of their lives in luxury. Filled with rage fueled by the thought of what her mother had to go through to get into this “safe” place, she sets out on an adventure to take down TUS and free the people.

Frey’s mother was part of the Survivor’s War. A battle that took place at the entrance of The Underground, up on the surface after The Big Hitter. People fought with all their might to get into The Underground, turning into their survival instincts, animalistic rage flowing through their decaying bodies. Their brains filled with the thought that they only have a few minutes left to live, trampling over the unfortune enough, creating mountains of still alive, but for not much longer, humans. With their bare hands, mauling each other to death only to get closer to the soon to be sealed off door, only a few meters away. Frey was there in her mother’s belly, fighting from her mother’s womb together, making it in at the last moment, seeing the mountain of corpse to be for the last time as they descend all the way down into the ground where they are met with a massive gathering of people with barely any space left to breathe.

They were eventually separated into groups after eating and sleeping on the floor of the elevator level for what seemed to be weeks. Each group was made up of people with the same range of skill potential, each one getting better living conditions based on how much they could do for The Underground. But the people who were way too old and of no use were all separated into the same group and taken into a room separated from the elevator hall, followed by the reverberating sounds of bullet shells hitting the cold now stained marble floor.

Along the way she meets the rebels, a group of individuals who live in the sewers of The Underground, and with their help she takes down TUS.But her plans don’t go as expected. While she’s on this advenutre, Frey is driven crazy by the extreme situations she had to go through and now, after what she’s done, she’s seen by the people of The Underground as a crazed cold blooded killer that just doomed human kind.She is now forced to escape The Underground and head up to the surface, uncertain if she can survive or not.