Kurt crossroads

The world of genes and the world where the dome is located are very different.
In the World of Genes, everything is calm and normal: people, trees, houses.
But the world where the dome is almost the same as Gena's, but as if it were 100 years in the future. Everything is destroyed, there are no people, and all sorts of creatures, scalapendras, and mutants hunt at night. There's a large, complex cloud funnel in the sky, making it very overcast. And in the main square, in the middle of the street, there's a large dome containing portals, one of which leads to Kurt's office, to the ghostly train.
Gena also has his own service apartment, which is located in the world where the dome is located, but this apartment is safe; another conductor, who was an alcoholic, used to live there. Now it's cozy and peaceful.

A forest where a ghostly electric train travels. This forest is dangerous due to its extremely low temperatures and the mutants living there. It's always night and cold in this forest. If you get off the train and remain in the forest, there's a high chance the mutants will tear you to pieces and eat you, in the most painful way possible. Or you'll escape the cold or hunger. Almost like a nuclear winter.

Being a conductor is considered almost a job; at least, a conductor comes with an apartment, a car, and a sizable salary. But you risk your life working there, and Gena became a conductor by accident. When his mother was pregnant with him, she and Gena's father ended up in a world where Kurt lived. His parents were searching for a second conductor on behalf of an elderly woman who was a conductor, after which Gena gave up her position.

Kurt is a truly insane collector, as evidenced by one of his exhibits—a brachnoid head nailed to the wall of a train car. Brachnoids are rhinoceros-sized ant-crabs. They are extremely dangerous creatures that live in the depths of the moon. They immur their victims in the walls to impregnate their queen.

There are very important and even dangerous artifacts.
Two candlesticks, an artifact from Gennady's world, allow you to create a portal from a mirror. Otherwise, you can't pass through. In other worlds, these candlesticks allow you to be invisible.
The Conductor's Two Eyes: an artifact from Kurt's world, a paired artifact like the candlesticks, a very important artifact obtained from the conductor in the first car, which is why he has no eyes. In other worlds, they allow one to read the thoughts of one's interlocutor.
A watch that was long lost but accidentally found allows you to travel through time with the help of a special mirror. When the watch stops, everything and everyone (except the conductors) within a kilometer radius freezes.
Mirror: also a rather dangerous artifact, one of the ways of using it is teleportation in time, but only with the help of a watch.
All artifacts are strictly kept by Kurt

There's a ghost train where the very first car contains an eyeless conductor. He has incredibly strong hearing and eats anyone he encounters without a ticket. Kurt lives in car number zero, but he has three luxury cars at his disposal. Outside the train windows, the taiga is always dark and cold. Kurt has cardboard cards—tickets for his train—which have an unusual property. This ticket can admit you not only to the train but also to anywhere. (A rather valuable item.) This world is the result of a glitch in the space-time continuum. In fact, it's an alternate timeline from your world. Once upon a time, a terrible tragedy occurred on a train in your world. An escaped maniac slashed the floor of a car full of passengers. One man, whose girlfriend died in that car, decided to correct the past with the help of two super-objects. These are a watch complete with a mirror.

A watch with a mirror can manipulate time. But this fool didn't understand how events worked. He went back in time and killed the maniac right on the train. Even before he started slaughtering people.

And then this hero encountered himself on a commuter train, triggering a chronoparadox, and an alternate branch of reality separated from yours. However, as a result of the chronoparadox, everything here became so distorted that the very laws of physics were violated.

Everything in this reality has turned upside down and mutants, an endless train, eternal night and frost have appeared... which you can enter, but ordinary people can no longer leave.

Genna and Kurt have a mutual friend named Zu-Grin. You could call him "Dr. Zu" or "Professor." He's a guide just like them, only he spends most of his time on the moon, or more precisely, in its depths. He has his own laboratory there. You can access him through a mirror portal.
just like Kurt calls Genna Zheka.

Kurt and his friend Zu-Grin. They adore tea and value it as if they had their own cult into which Gena was "accidentally" drawn.
Kurt loves strong black tea, but doesn't like any additives like lemon, sugar, or milk, considering it a perversion.
Kurt collects tea from different worlds, sorts it, and, naturally, drinks it. Zu-grin and Kurt sometimes visit each other simply to drink tea.

Kurt and Genna don't have any tasks yet. They found the conductor's second eye, a watch, and a mirror. There are no other objectives yet.

The Kurd is quite kind, fair, and ambitious. He is passionate and achieves his goals. He is ready to pay a fair price or even more for a goal. He is proud but not arrogant. His voice is a bit croaky and he is short. But this doesn't spoil him, as his shortness almost suits him. He calls Gena Zheka (a diminutive form of the name).
Kurt is about 30.

His appearance. A muscular body, well-balanced for his height. A shaved head, a scar on his face, and a thick chain around his neck. He would have looked very brutal if not for one thing. His height. He was a dwarf. He was wearing a white T-shirt, sweatpants, and white sneakers.
Kurt is half as tall as Genna.