Section 40 Subway Waiting Hall
It turned out that the light in the tunnel was dim, people were deprived of oxygen, their minds were groggy, and the speed of movement was too fast, and their eyesight deteriorated rapidly, and their eyesight could only reach a few meters. Xuanxuan didn't expect the road ahead to suddenly break off, forming a high hurdle more than one meter high. Luckily, she reacted quickly and struggled to keep her balance and landed on her feet, but she was also frightened.
I jumped off the hill and was standing as high as the railroad tracks. Xuanxuan squatted on the ground, holding her right ankle, and couldn't stop moaning. I leaned over and saw some redness and swelling on her ankle, knowing that it had been sprained by the sudden impact.
"How? Can you hold on? I asked eagerly. We cannot afford to delay.
She squeezed her ankles with both hands, looked at me with a sad face, and shook her head.
"The train is coming?" I looked deeper into the tunnel.
"I can't move!" She said apologetically.
I saw a high platform thirty meters ahead, and I had to climb up to it to continue walking. If I hold her, I won't be able to walk fast, and I may not even be able to go up to that high platform. Only when the pain in her foot subsided could we continue our journey towards the Xunlimen platform. I turned my head and saw a pitch black mass under the broken roadbed behind me, large enough to accommodate the bodies of two people.
Woo –
Time flew by, and after a little delay, more than a minute later, a train roared from the deep hole on the right, the rumbling of iron wheels became louder and louder, and two pillars of bright light turned a corner from the dark tunnel and shot towards the place where we were crouching. I quickly inserted my hands under Xuanxuan's armpits and lifted her. Take a step and duck into a black hole under the roadbed.
The entire tunnel was filled with the sound of the train's iron wheels clashing with the rails, and the sound of the collision back and forth in the circular tunnel. It caused a huge echo and shook people's scalps. Cleft ears in the eye. I quickly stretched out my hands and put them on Xuan Xuan's ears. Xuan Xuan also covered my ears with both hands. Even so, the train passed in front of us, and it still made us feel terrified.
The train was long, with eight carriages, close to our hiding place, within easy reach, and the noise was so loud that the whirlwind that blew up almost turned our clothes completely upside down.
The lights in the train were bright. Flickering light and darkness are cast on our faces. We can clearly see the back of the head of the passenger sitting on the benches on either side of the carriage, and we can also see the upper body of the passenger standing lazily with the armrest on the top of the carriage.
One of the passengers stared at us intently, causing me to shrink back.
Xuan Xuan shook her head at me, signaling that the passengers in the carriage could not see us. It dawned on me that the car was bright, but we were in a dark place, and the people in the car couldn't see us.
However, the moment the front of the train passed the black hole under the roadbed, the light of the headlight post swept past us. I saw the train driver casually glance at where we were hiding, and a look of surprise suddenly flashed across his face. The moment he drove out of my sight with the joystick in his hand, I could vaguely see his hand move, as if he was picking up the walkie-talkie on the console.
The green light ahead turned red again. A puff of white smoke puffed from the rear of the train and disappeared into the tunnel.
"Can I go now?" I bent down and asked Xuanxuan anxiously. Red light flashes in the depths of the tunnel. Like the eyes of an underground monster.
She squatted with her hands on her waist. He walked out of the hole crookedly, twisting the corners of his mouth and said. "You can go, but you can't run that fast, what should I do?" I knew she meant that it couldn't be as fast as the school 100-meter sprint.
"You wait here a little longer. I'll go to the front first, the station exit should not be far away. ”
She listened to me and sat down again in the black hole under the roadbed.
I calculated, the nearest subway has just passed more than ten seconds, and there are still more than two minutes before the next subway arrives, which is enough for me to run four or five hundred meters, and it should not be more than two hundred meters from here to Xunlimen Station, which is enough time for me to run back and forth.
I thought to myself, but I was already running fast under my feet, and after taking one or twenty steps, I jumped onto the high platform of the roadbed, which was only about thirty centimeters wide. Running along the trail, running through two corners, my back began to ooze hot sweat. The air in the tunnel is not flowing, stagnant and dull, and the beads of sweat on the body evaporate very slowly, clinging to the skin, sticky, and very uncomfortable. But I didn't care about it, but I still ran forward, and the road under my feet suddenly broke off again, and there were a few steps faintly in the unsightly place. I jumped down and jumped up, ran about ten steps, and saw a platform in front of me, with a two-meter-high glass door blocking the way.
I quickly ran to the glass door and crouched down to reduce my target.
There were a lot of passengers waiting for the bus standing on the other side of the door. They didn't look in my direction.
I leaned sideways against the wall and nudged the glass pane forward with my palm. The door didn't move.
I pressed a little harder, and the glass pane creaked twice, but it still wouldn't open.
I retracted my hand and looked closely at the people inside the door, and saw at least five or six young women in subway company overalls with the yellow ribbon of the guide standing in the waiting hall. If Xuanxuan was standing by the glass door, the young women would be able to see her, and they could ask the tunnel manager to open the glass door and rescue her.
With my mind in mind, I got up and ran along the base of the wall. I jumped off the platform and hid beside Xuan Xuan when a train approached. We clenched our ears again. As soon as the train was speeding by, I helped her out of the black hole, climbed up the platform, and moved quickly towards the platform.
At first, she was on tiptoe, limping, and moving a little slowly. I was almost worried that she would stop halfway through, but after the first turn, her steps became bigger and bigger, and when she got there, she was so fast that she was very much more than I expected.
We came one after the other behind the glass door. She held on to the door with one hand and crossed the other on her waist, gasped for breath and began to knock on the door with her hands. I flashed into the dark corner between the wall and the glass door frame. There was a finger-wide slit in the door frame from which I could see what was going on in the waiting hall.
Bang Bang Bang.
There is an LCD TV hanging in the waiting hall, and street comedy shows are being played inside. People waiting for the bus are watching TV. Otherwise, you will pay attention to your phone, and no one will notice that there is a knock on the door. The girls who were the guides were talking about something. Didn't look this way either.
Bang Bang Bang.
Xuanxuan knocked on the glass door four or five more times, and a little girl holding a balloon saw her first. Grinning embarrassedly.
Xuanxuan looked at the little girl and pointed to the lock on the door. The girl pulled her little hand out of the young mother's hand and hopped towards the glass door. The young mother called her from behind, looked up and saw Xuanxuan behind the glass door, ran behind the little girl, picked her up, walked to the female guide, said a few words, and pointed to the glass door.
Those few female guides. Three people ran to the glass door, looked at Xuan Xuan in horror, and opened their mouths wide to tell her. Two others turned to the elevator and went upstairs, presumably to find the tunnel manager to open the door.
After five or six minutes, the two female guides stood on the escalator and slowly slid down, staring intently at the glass door, with horror on their faces.
Almost at the same time, a vertical elevator in the middle of the hall descends into the waiting hall. Five men came out of the car, all dressed in the clothes of a subway company employee, with an M logo printed on the left breast pocket, and one of them was in his forties and fifties. He is already middle-aged, his waist is significantly fatter than others, and he wears old-fashioned black leather shoes on his feet. Everyone else is young and strong. They walk lightly, and some put their hands in their trouser pockets. Some put their hands behind their backs, while others clasp their hands around their chests. The palms of both hands are hidden under the armpits, and some of them have a cynical look on their faces and whistle easily, and they are wearing sneakers on their feet, which is not very coordinated with the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man was sandwiched between the young men, holding a large set of keys in his hand, and walked towards the glass door with hesitant eyes.
I thought to myself that if these people were just employees of the subway company, I could take a risk and go from here to the surface, because there was no drinking water or food in the tunnel, and it was not a place to live for a long time.
The young men got closer and closer. The people in the waiting hall looked at them with a look of horror on their faces. The young mother looked panicked, took the little girl in her arms, and walked briskly up the escalator to the upper floor. The little girl looked back at Xuan Xuan with a smile on her mother's shoulder, and pointed to the young men.
The hands of the young men remained in their previous position, and their faces were extremely relaxed. But I could clearly feel that they were secretly clenching their teeth. I thought I was so frightened by the police that I was so nervous that I thought everyone was a policeman.
While I was pondering, the five men had already walked out of the glass door. Since I was hiding in a dark corner, I happened to be standing on the side of the five men, and I could clearly see what was going on behind them. Oh my God, each of them had a swarthy pistol in their hands.
The burly man thumped his fingers and inserted the key into the keyhole, twisting it so hard that the lock clicked and opened.
I didn't have time to greet Xuanxuan, jumped off the high platform, my feet just stepped on the smooth rails, my body stumbled, slid down to the sleepers between the two tracks, and my knees hit the hard rails, and there was a muffled bang. Ignoring the pain in my knees, I rushed to the depths of the tunnel.
The young men jumped off the platform and shouted to stop as they chased after me.
"I'm not a criminal! I was wronged. I ran around and shouted as I turned around. The moment I turned around, I saw the man in the front holding a black hole muzzle aimed at me. I instinctively jumped to the side. After a thud, a bullet whizzed past me and slammed into the concrete wall far from the tunnel with a sharp metallic sound, followed by the thud of a bullet casing popping out of the chamber and smashing against the rails, then jumping off the concrete floor.
"Stop!"
"Don't run!"
"Stop!"
……
The plainclothes men shouted behind me.
I couldn't listen to any words, and I ran forward with all my might.
Bang –
Bang bang –
Phew-
Woohoo –
Woooo
The bolt of the gun cracked, opening and closing, and the bullets kept grazing my body, crashing against the tunnel walls, rails, sleepers, and concrete floors.
As I ran, my left arm was close to my shoulder, and my waist was numb, and my feet became much softer, and my steps became smaller and my pace slowed down a lot.
The men stopped firing and rushed towards me like prey in an ambush circle, walking briskly and in a good mood.
I looked back and saw that the man was only about ten paces away from me, so I ran forward with all my might.
Woo –
Grunt grunt –
A subway train roared behind him with railroad tracks. (To be continued......)