Chapter 12: Hayabusa
Although Su Mengfan had heard the creepy story from the businessman in the subway station a long time ago, he still wanted to hear it again, just like a child who couldn't hold back his curiosity and had to listen to those horror stories about mutant monsters without brains and kidnapping children {dark clan}.
"Do you mean the catastrophe that happened {Polezaev station}? Haven't you heard of it? It was very weird, weird, and terrible.
First, their scouts disappeared one by one. They went into the tunnel, went in and never came back—but they were rookies, and they couldn't compare to us.
Then, their subway station became smaller and smaller, and the number of people who used to live there continued to decrease, and the reconnaissance team disappeared. A detachment was sent out, never to return, and vanished like a human vapor.
At first, they thought: Are they all arrested and locked up in some part of the tunnel......" Su Mengfan shuddered when he heard this, and felt uncomfortable for a while.
"But neither the patrols nor the people who live in the subway station see anything unusual, no matter how many lights they use and how brightly they shine.
They waited and waited, half an hour, an hour, and then two hours passed, and still no one showed up. They really couldn't understand where the patrolmen who had only walked 1,000 meters inside had gone, after all, they weren't stupid.
Later, they didn't allow their people to go any further—the story is long, let's put it simply—and then, when they couldn't wait any longer, they sent reinforcements to search and rescue, search, search, shout, and shout, but in the end there was no news at all. The scouts are gone, and the patrols are gone.
The most terrible thing is that not only did people not see what had destroyed these people, but they didn't even hear any movement.
What the hell is going on, the people of {Polezaev station} disappeared. ”
Su Mengfan began to regret letting Zhenya retell the matter. While Zhenya neither knows more than he nor adds to the story, he does mention details that businessmen who are passionate about and good at storytelling can't even dream of.
These details made Su Mengfan feel goosebumps, and there was a chill behind him, making him feel uncomfortable even if he sat by the fire.
At this time, any movement in the tunnel, even from far away, made him think wildly.
"Well, now you know, the people at the [Polezaev station} didn't hear the gunshots, so they think:
Those scouts have escaped as deserters, and maybe they want to live easily and fool around like those scoundrels, so let them go to hell.
Maybe the people at [Polezaev Station} would feel better and more relaxed thinking like this.
However, a week later, another reconnaissance team was gone. This time, they patrolled only at a distance of 500 meters, and like last time, these people were as if they had evaporated from the air, without any sound and without any trace.
The people of the [Polezaev station} began to worry, and they had a difficult problem - within a week, two reconnaissance teams had already disappeared.
They had to do something. So, they set up a cordon 300 meters from the tunnel. Trenches were erected with sandbags, machine guns were erected, and searchlights were installed.
Then, they sent a messenger to {Racetrack} - both {Racetrack} and {1905 Main Street} were allied with them.
At first, {October Plains Station} was also a member of the alliance, but then I don't know what happened, there was no one to live there, no one knew what was going on, and the alliance collapsed. ”
"In any case, the {Polezaev station} sent a messenger to the {horse racing station} and told the people in the {horse racing station} that something was wrong and that they had to ask for help.
While the first messenger was still waiting for a reply from {racetrack}, the second messenger arrived.
The messenger was sweating profusely, saying that their reinforced cordon had been breached before a single shot could be fired, and that he was now the only one left there, and that everyone else had been killed.
It's horrible!
It's like they're dying in their sleep, but the problem is that they don't sleep at all, not to mention that the military order is like a mountain and doesn't allow sleep, even if they are allowed to sleep, they won't dare to sleep!
At this moment, the people of {Raceport} suddenly reacted that if they did not do anything, the same tragedy would have happened to them.
As a result, {Racetrack} was equipped with a commando team of about 100 experienced veterans, each armed with a machine gun and a grenade. Bullet launcher.
It took some time to prepare, maybe a day and a half.
As soon as they were ready, they sent this stormtrooper to support {Polezaev station}.
When the team arrived at the [Polezaev station], there was not a single living wound left, and they did not find a single body except for a single piece of blood.
Hmph, who knows which bastards did it!
At least I don't believe humans are capable of this. ”
"What happened to the stormtroopers who went to the [Polezaev station}?" Su Mengfan couldn't help but change his tone nervously, it didn't sound like him anymore.
"They're fine. These people were smart, they blew up the tunnel to {Polezaev station}.
I heard that about 40 meters long tunnels have collapsed, and if there is no special mechanical equipment, this tunnel will not be able to be opened again, and even if there is such equipment, no one will go there, let alone where to find equipment, like our machines are all old goods from fifty years ago......" After speaking, Zhenya fell into silence, staring at the flames silently.
Most people gasped after hearing this story. Who would have imagined that hundreds of big living people in a subway station would disappear inexplicably.
After a moment of silence, Thatch broke the scene.
"I suddenly remembered the story of the three-legged man on the No. 4 - Phillip County line.
There are several subway stations that have been tunneled too shallow and too close to the ground, and the people who live there are equivalent to being exposed to the radiation without any protection.
It was full of monsters with three legs or two heads, and other messy stuff crawling around on the subway. ”
Cage took a puff of his cigarette and said to his companions, "Guys, why don't you sit here for a while?" If the three-legged monster does come, we'll help them. Hey, Zhenya! Is there a kettle? Get me some water to drink. ”
Zhenya stood up, poured some water from the jar into a shiny kettle, and set it on the fire.
After a few minutes, the water boiled and the whistle of the kettle sounded.
This familiar and warm voice made Su Mengfan feel warmer and calmer.
He looked around at the people sitting around the fire—all of them sturdy and reliable men, who had been hardened as steel by the hard life here.
You can trust them, you can trust and rely on them.
Their subway station is different from other subway stations on the whole line, and it is all thanks to these men who sit here, and other people who are as strong and strong as them.
There is a warm brotherly bond between them, and they are tightly united. Su Mengfan was only about 23 years old (in this life) when he came to this underground world, and there were still people living on the ground at that time.
He is not emaciated and pale like many people born in subway tunnels, afraid to go to the surface for fear of radiation and scorching sunlight (which is devastating for these underground residents).
However, even Su Mengfan, he had been here underground for a long time, and he had only been to the surface once, and only stayed on it for a short time - the radiation of the universe was too serious, and anyone who stayed on it for a long time out of curiosity might not have time to take a walk or look at the strange world on the surface, and they would be burned to ashes.
Afterwards, everyone chatted for a long time.
Su Mengfan, who had already eaten, followed Thatch to walk around {Hayabusa Station}.
Under Thatch's introduction, Su Mengfan learned that this {Hayabusa Station} is called a "plantation" together with {Airport Station} and {Dynamo Station} in the south.
This is different from the "botanical garden" of {Botanical Garden Station}. Also, there is no {Dark Clan} here. It's just a pure "plantation".
There are also fewer merchants here, and more places are large tents, where all kinds of plants are grown, and that is where the most food can be produced. So the people who live here are either related or lucky.
The plants produced are again derived from secondary products, such as bread, beer, and so on.
So here, it is the paradise of the homeless who are frozen outside.
Because the place of output is particularly important, the armed forces here are far more than any subway station that Su Mengfan has walked. You can also compete with that Hansa Alliance.
This made Su Mengfan even more curious about what the background of his group was.
I thought it was the Lufthansa Alliance, but I found that the attitude of my teammates towards the Lufthansa Alliance was not that of respect or fear, but of contempt.
Among the many forces of the Moscow metro line, the Lufthansa Alliance can be called the status of "big brother".
Could it be that the goal of this mission is {Invisible Watcher}?
But there is no evidence, so it can only be slowly put out of other people's mouths. I've talked to Cage before, and people as arrogant as him have denied {Invisible Watcher}.
Could it be that the force behind his current identity is an organization that is at odds with or more powerful than the Invisible Watchers?
All of this can only be found out from the mouth of the commander to know the answer he wants, because the commander's behavior is very suspicious.
According to Cage, the commander was about 15 years older than himself.
Previously, he was a scout; Later, he became a commander on the forward cordon; Now, his superiors have placed him in this position to train new people, and he has been equipped with excellent equipment.
But he still wanted to go deeper into the tunnel, closer to the darkness, closer to the secret. He loves tunnels and knows all the forks and paths here.
He felt uncomfortable in the subway station, between farmers, workers, businessmen and the authorities, and he felt that people didn't need him.
He hates hoeing and growing mushrooms, and he can't stand feeding mushrooms to the fat pigs in the subway station, and he feels uncomfortable standing between the fertilizers.
He couldn't be a businessman either—he couldn't stand a businessman from the day he was born.
He was a military man, and he always believed that only being a soldier was a profession for a man to realize his value.
He was proud of the fact that he had spent his life defending the stinking peasants, the crooked merchants, the businessmen, the women and the children.
The women were attracted by his arrogant attitude, deep introspection, and calmness in dealing with people and things (because he had always been able to handle the people and things around him with ease).
The women promised him love, and they promised him to live comfortably, but he could not feel comfortable without walking 50 meters away from the subway station.
There were no subway lights, and the women wouldn't go there with him.