Chapter 9: Survival
After Su Mengfan got the machine gun back, he saw Zhenya and the others sitting on a stone bench for a while, and the tunnel on the south side was dark.
The Commander also walked out at the same time, before leaving. Su Mengfan saw through the side of Cage's body that the administrator of the Peace Avenue Station handed over an object that looked like an envelope to the commander, and the commander directly stuffed it into the inner clip of his upper body without looking at it.
"Let's go, we're on a mission this time. We'll head back to base later. Let's enjoy it when the time comes. However, it is time to grieve you a little more. The commander held a few strips of black cloth in his hand and said to Su Mengfan and the others with a smile.
Then the whole team moved on, but there were a few more soldiers from the Peace Avenue station next to them. And in front of the soldier stood an administrator.
The man had short hair and a scruffy beard, and a soft waistcoat could be seen underneath his rough fur coat.
Su Mengfan couldn't see anything suspicious about him, he looked like an ordinary businessman. The kind that can be found everywhere at Riga Station is not unusual at all.
Under the command of the administrator, the soldiers at the Peace Avenue Station blindfolded Su Mengfan and the others with black strips of cloth.
The moment the black cloth covered it, the ear's hearing ability was magnified. A small voice rushed to his mind.
However, neither party took the initiative to speak, and they both moved forward in silence.
It's scary.
As they walked from the All-Russian Exhibition Station to the Riga Station, Su Mengfan knew that anything could happen, but at least the tunnels were filled with people coming and going every day, and he also knew that they were about to go to a subway station with residents.
Leaving a bright, warm, quiet and peaceful place is always unpleasant for anyone.
Even on their way from Riga Station to Avenue of Peace, despite his doubts, he comforted himself by saying that the Lufthansa Union metro station was ahead, and that it was a place where he could go and relax safely.
But the sight here is terrifying.
The tunnel that appeared in front of them, invisible to the fingers, was completely enveloped in an unusual absolute darkness - the darkness was so powerful that you could almost reach it.
The darkness greedily devoured the light from the flashlight in their hands like a porous sponge, not even enough to illuminate a foot ahead.
Su Mengfan tried to break the limitations of his hearing, trying to discern the smallest of the strange, unpleasant noises, but he found himself in vain.
The sound was probably as weak as the glimmer of a flashlight, powerless to penetrate the darkness.
Even the heavy sound of the boots sounded so weak and distant in this tunnel.
A gap suddenly appeared in the wall on the right - the light of the flashlight sank into a dark speck, which was just a branch corridor, an exit from the main tunnel.
The caretaker of the Avenue of Peace Station gestured to the soldiers and pushed them aside.
Su Mengfan heard the sound of a boulder pushing and a key opening the door.
When the sound stopped, it felt like someone was pushing behind me again.
It didn't take long for the strips of cloth on his face to be untied, and only the scattered lights hanging on the pipes came into his eyes, and the faint light made Su Mengfan feel peace of mind that he had never felt before.
Turning his head, he saw that a pile of stones had buried the entire passage, and if he hadn't heard the sound just now, he wouldn't have believed that there was a passage in the middle of the rocks.
This would allow the train to go directly to the Circle Line 5 without changing tracks through other metro stations, so that the Lufthansa Alliance would have better control over its sphere of influence. And that passage must have been left by the high-ranking personnel of the Hansa Alliance in order to escape.
After all, now is different from the past, in addition to man-made disasters and the threat of monsters, one more escape channel is one more guarantee.
However, this place also made Su Mengfan pay attention, and he may use it in the future.
Once the group had settled, the commander told them to move on. As for the previous handcart, it had to be abandoned because of the narrow passage, so it was first kept by the Lufthansa Alliance.
Then everyone followed the No. 5 ring line, and simply rested for a while at Xincun Station, and there was also the blindfolded scene just now, even if he was already experienced, Su Mengfan still couldn't adapt to it.
It's like a blind man, who can't see anything but the endless darkness.
Black?
Yes, all the time. It's black everywhere.
It was as if he had come to a great world of darkness, which covered the whole world, and the darkness swallowed up the light, and it would reign for eternity.
After Sinchon Station, you have to slowly advance to Belarus Station.
The endless darkness has been scratching Su Mengfan's heart.
During this period, everyone did not speak, even if the current environment does not use the protective shield, but it is also to save energy.
After all, I have been busy for dozens of hours, and if I didn't get to my destination soon, I wouldn't have been able to stand it a long time ago.
Now Su Mengfan seems to be lying comfortably on the bed, longing for the soft quilt. Blow the air conditioner and eat cool watermelon.
But now the air sucked in by the mouth opening and closing once again took away the not very rich moisture in the mouth, and the throat was so tight that the sound of friction could be heard when breathing, and the chapped lips were wrinkled together, for fear that any sound would tear them apart, and I could see the reddened blood.
And that cruel reality made Su Mengfan come from his fantasy anyway.
Yes! Different worlds have different experiences.
In that silent atmosphere, everyone was vigilant, with guns in their hands and fingers on the trigger at all times. No one could have predicted whether there would be a swarm of lurkers or watchers attacking the next moment.
There used to be the creaking of a handcart, but now there is only the heavy sound of boots on the ground. But even the strongest fighters could not endure such torture.
And Su Mengfan is in a relatively safe position. There are two people in front, one next to each other, and the commander is at the rear.
The flashlight in Cage's hand in front of him only emitted a faint light. The time is not bright, which makes Su Mengfan's thoughts shake even more.
I couldn't help but think of the strength of the Hansa Alliance at the Peace Avenue Station before, because the current Hansa Alliance is the most powerful of all the forces that Su Mengfan has ever seen, and this feeling is far from being something that can be experienced by playing games across the screen in the previous life.
However, I had heard from the commander that after the outbreak of nuclear war, people took refuge in subway stations. Most of the current managers of subway stations were train conductors or assistants before the outbreak of nuclear war.
As a result, they are more familiar with the lines of the Moscow metro station than anyone else. It is said that when there were trains, it would take at most one hour to get from one end to the other, regardless of the line.
Unlike now, just a kilometer from the Botanical Garden station to the All-Russian Exhibition Center takes an hour, if not more.
There was once an authority – many years ago, he was an assistant to the commander of a tram. At that time, there were very few such talents left, so he was still quite an important figure.
Because people know that only these authorities know how the subway tunnel should go. Even when they leave the comfort and safety of the tram car and are in the dark tunnels of the Moscow Metro, beneath the metropolis, they have no fear.
After the federal system of government was divided, many assistant conductors became the leaders of the subway station, and the subway also changed from a complex civilian defense system and a huge shelter to a small kingdom with an independent government, with its own ideology and regime, its own leaders and troops.
Some rose overnight, while others fell overnight, overthrown by their former friends or slaves, and reduced to colonial powers.
There is a chaotic anarchy everywhere, where there are frequent wars between them, and small kingdoms form brief alliances against a common threat, and just after getting rid of a threat together, recovering a little, they start fighting each other again, fighting to the death.
The reason for the war was a frenzied scramble for everything: living space, high-protein plants, mushrooms that could grow without any sunlight, and chicken coops and pigsties, filled with pale underground pigs and emaciated chickens fed with colorless underground mushrooms.
They also compete for water and filters. The barbarians did not know how to repair the paralyzed filtration system due to misuse, and drank the poisonous water contaminated by the rays, and were on the verge of death.
They vent their furious fury like wild beasts on people who have civilized lives, on subway stations with generators and small water and electrical equipment.
In these metro stations, the filters are serviced and cleaned regularly; There were women who paved the damp earth with their industrious and gentle hands in small white meadows; There were also some well-fed pigs, humming happily in the pen.
How jealous and angry the barbarians are all this!
People are forced to move forward, for the instinct of survival and partition - this revolution. The eternal rules of life, fighting endlessly and desperately.
Successful metro station guards are often battle-ready teams organized by professionally trained military personnel who bravely face all enemy invasions until the last drop of blood is shed.
They are constantly fighting back, winning back every inch of their land through war.
Each subway station is trying to amass military strength, and once it is no longer able to maintain a state of peace and non-aggression, send troops to crusade against all the invaders, and keep their savage neighbors out of the land on which they depend;
Also be prepared to fend off disgusting monsters that could crawl out of any crevice in the tunnel—strange, strange, and dangerous beings that might make Darwin despair because of their obvious violation of evolution.
These monsters are so different from the usual conception of animals: perhaps, they mutated from the devastating rays of sunlight, and suddenly became the devils of hell from the most unaggressive of urban animals; Perhaps, they have always lived in the depths of the earth, but now they are disturbed by humans.
They are clearly part of life on Earth, and despite their ugly appearance and distorted appearance, they are still life on this Earth, and they are still inseparable from the proverbial primitive impulse on this planet - to survive!
Any cost will be spared in order to survive!