Below The Surface
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When the earth's surface can no longer support what's left of humanity, the last of the survivors are forced to restart a life beneath the dirt, and to establish a new home, SubCity.
As centuries go by, the city begins to overpopulate forcing society into two distinct classes, the Privileged and the Commoners.
Governed by a tyrannical office of Privileged men whose main goal is to crush the lower class, delinquent Commoners are given the option of death or a journey to the surface to collect needed resources.
As a Privileged and the grandson of one of the famous leaders in office, Arlo Blake had everything he could possibly want and more. But, when he's the last to find out that he's also part Commoner by taking the blame for one of them, he's forced like the others to make a decision that can both result in his own death.
As he spend more time on the surface, he meets a girl that helps him discover the dangerous secrets that his grandfather has taken years to hide. With the knowledge of a world restoration, the two are the last hope for humanity to ever live.
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