COD: The First One's Story

Chapter 9: Kino Der Toten & Ascension

Shi No Numa Radio 2

Tank

Eh, where are we?

Nikolai

A better question is-

Richtofen

When are we?

Nikolai

No! Where the hell is my vodka?

Richtofen

Yes, of course. The DG-2 must have overloaded the teleporter, ripping space-time, back-tracing us to the future! How wonderful!

Nikolai

[Knocks bottle] There's my vodka. Thank you, Takeo.

Tank

Come on, Tak. Suck it up and walk it off.

Kino der Toten Opening

Richtofen

Entry 741021! Perhaps this station will hold the key to the real goals of Group 935. I still do not trust my unconventional allies, but they are of great use to me. But, I digress. Who would've thought the MDT was capable of time travel? How many stations does this Group have? Where did that little girl disappear to? Only time will tell what new questions await us in this theater of the damned!

Richtofen experienced a bit of delusion immediately after the teleport. Kino der Toten had long been abandoned, and what exactly happened in those twenty years was unknown to most. Somehow a Thundergun Mark II ended up there. The First One continued to assist in certain battles, but it began to go a step further by introducing small bits of information in the forms of manipulation of notes and radios. It displaced the radio that detailed the group's arrival into the future, into the past. Strangely enough, the four also found a recording revolving around the Great Leap Forward movement in China.

Kino der Toten Wii Recording

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Hey now.

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[Singing in Chinese] Tens of thousands of people,

Are taming the Taihang Mountains

Armed with Chairman Mao's thoughts,

We will change the course of mountains and rivers

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These villagers were portrayed in propaganda films as happy and highly motivated, although in fact they were soon to suffer a terrible, horrible, physical collapse. Tens of thousands of people died as a result of industrial accidents in the hazardous conditions they were made to work in. The Communist Party came up with a crude calculation; that every worker will build one meter of canal and the project will end in three months, yet it actually took more than 10 years to finish the canal. During the "Great Leap Forward", factory workers' hours were doubled and machines began to work non-stop. They were not even allowed to stop for maintenance and repairs, and so, soon began to fall apart. Factories were ruined. At the same time, Mao announced another target for the "Great Leap Forward". Steel production was to be doubled within one year. That production [static] only from heavy industry complexes, but also from small furnaces in villages. As a result of Communist ideology, Mao believed that workers' power held a magical force. With that decision, tens of millions of Chinese set out to produce steel by amateur methods. Everything made of iron they could find, from doorknobs to saucepans, was melted down in primitive furnaces in an effort to produce steel. Women cut off their hair and mixed it with the clay in the furnaces. [Repeats]