"But why should I go there alone?" Su Mengfan still couldn't believe his ears, and thought that the two of them walking together was the right way, so he asked again.

"Don't be afraid, you just have to go straight ahead all the way until you get to the exit and continue along it, where there is not a single turn.

Don't expose yourself on the road, stick to the house, which is full of their people, and keep going until you reach the place that intersects with the second avenue, which is the Garden Loop.

Then, turn left and walk straight to an apartment building made of white stone. It used to be a fashion house......

You'll soon notice that just across the Garden Loop, there's a half-ruined high-rise building on the opposite side, the Trade Center.

There is a yellow arch at the back of the boutique that says 'Smolensx Metro Station'.

Turn inside and you'll see a small square inside the courtyard where the metro station is. ”

"They, who are they? Are those dark creatures? Su Mengfan interrupted the commander's words.

"Yes, those monsters, but if you follow the route I just said, you won't encounter them.

If all is okay, go down. One door was closed, and there were guards. These guards guard them, passing only through the stalkers on their own side.

Knock like this: three quick taps, two slow taps, three more quick taps, and they'll open the door. Tell them that number 3 sent you so they will shoot you like an enemy.

There's no way I'm going to go on like this, I'm going to drag you down. If we encounter {mutants}, none of us will be able to escape.

This is for you, here is my ID. With that, when you get to {Smolenks}, they won't embarrass you.

Now, let me rest here alone.

Let me look at the ground again, so that I miss the blue sky of the past.

We don't know what's going to happen next.

But there's also a metro station, much closer, and you know it on the map...... {Arbat Station}" he remembered the name.

"There's such a base, you shouldn't go near it, you don't want to approach it at all, you just ignore it, stay on the other side of the street, and move fast, but don't run. That's all. Don't waste a second! The commander finally said.

Then let Su Mengfan walk towards the exit of the front hall.

Su Mengfan saw the will to die in the commander's eyes, and knew that he couldn't argue with him anymore, so he carried one machine gun to his shoulder and held the other.

Walking out into the street, he quickly retreated to the monument and covered his eyes with his right hand, so that he would not accidentally see the alluring glint of the Kremlin's stars.

Before encountering the old stone figure on the easy chair, Su Mengfan turned left and crossed the corner by the steps of the large library.

After passing, he glanced at the majestic building and felt a shiver down his spine from top to bottom, Su Mengfan still remembered the terrible inhabitants of this place.

Now the Great Library was once again immersed in a dull silence.

The silent {librarians} may well have scattered in the dark corners, licking their wounds after the rude assault and preparing to return the blood to the intruders.

Thatch's pale and tired face appeared in front of his eyes, and Su Mengfan felt that Thatch was frightened by these monsters for no reason, and even refused to talk about them.

Could it be that he foresaw his own death in a nightmare?

His body would lie in the stacks forever, holding the {librarian} who killed him.

Of course, if these monsters decompose into carrion...... Su Mengfan avoided it, not daring to think about it.

Can he forget the death of his companion, a companion who had become his friend in two days?

It seemed to him that Thatch would often appear in his dreams for a long time, trying to speak to himself again and again, and could speak intermittently with blood-stained lips.

Su Mengfan went out and came to the wide street, and he hurriedly thought of the instructions given to him by the commander.

Go straight to the intersection of Kalinin Tower and Garden Ring Road, don't turn around...... Try to guess again if that street is the Garden Loop.

Don't be in the middle of the road, don't stick to the walls of your houses, and get to {Smolens" station before the sun rises.

The famous Kalinin Tower appeared high, and Su Mengfan knew from the yellowed postcard with Moscow sights that it was about half a kilometer away from where he was now standing.

Now, sparse houses line the streets, which bend to the left to the new Arbat.

The outline of the building closed completely, blurring as he walked away, and then they blended into a shimmer.

The moon hides behind low clouds.

The faint milky light did not penetrate them, and only as the fog cleared, the terrible outline of the home took shape again for a moment.

But even in this light, in the alleys that divide the streets by a hundred meters, the silhouette of the ancient cathedral can be seen on the left side is imposing.

The shadow of the huge wings hovers again over the upper part of the cross-covered dome.

Perhaps for this reason, Su Mengfan stopped and looked at the towering beasts in the air that he noticed.

It's hard to tell in the glimmer if your imagination is painting strange images, dead in the depths of the alley, and merging with the partially destroyed walls of the house.

It wasn't until he looked further that he noticed that the pitch black had moved slightly, and that it had its own free will.

It's hard to pinpoint the structure and size of the monster from this distance, but it can be seen that it has two legs.

Su Mengfan decided to act according to the method told him by the stealth hero.

He turned on the flashlight and shone it into the alley and shook it three times.

There was no response.

Su Mengfan waited there for a minute, and then he realized that it would be dangerous to stay in the same place.

But before he left, he took a picture of the things in the alley again. This time he was taken aback, and immediately turned off the flashlight and walked through the alley as quickly as possible.

He is not human, its outline has become clearer in the light, no less than two meters and five, he has no shoulders and no neck, and his big round head grows directly on his strong body.

The monster hid and waited for its moment.

Although it was obviously hesitant, it still shocked him.

It took less than a minute to walk a hundred and fifty meters to the last alley.

If you look closely, this is not an alley, but an opening that has been blown open by some kind of weapon leading to a residential area.

They either blew up the place, or simply toppled a whole row of buildings with heavy military equipment.

Su Mengfan looked curiously at the half-destroyed home that had disappeared into the distance. At that time, his attention was focused on the vague and still shadows.

It's enough to shine the beam of a flashlight on it to clear all doubts: it's the same monster or its companion. It stood right in the middle of the same block and didn't try to hide.

Su Mengfan thought to himself that if the monster was the one he had seen behind him in the block earlier, it meant that it had followed the street parallel to the one he was walking on.

This proves that it is twice as fast as him: because when he reaches the next junction, it is already there waiting for him.

But there was something worse, this time he saw a similar image in the alley on the right side of the street, just like the first one, it stood there motionless, like a statue.

After a while, Su Mengfan thought that maybe they weren't monsters, but just someone had put them here to be scary or as a warning sign......

He had reached the third junction, stopped beside the last and farthest house, and looked carefully at the corner of the alley to make sure that the mysterious follower had overtaken him again.

There are already several large outlines, and now they are easier to see, and the clouds that cover the moon are a little thinner.

Just like before, the monster stood still, as if waiting for him to appear in the open area behind the house.

Aren't all of this deceiving yourself, taking rocks or cement blocks of a collapsed structure to deal with monsters?

His keen senses can make him have a good errand down there, in the subway.

Above is the world of deception that he knows nothing about, and here everything is different and life follows different rules.

Relying on his own feelings and instincts was no longer reasonable for him.

After trying to rush through a new alley as quickly and quietly as possible, Su Mengfan stuck himself on the wall of the house, waited for a minute and looked around the corner.

He gasped—the silhouettes were moving, and the movements were unexpected.

One of them stretched even higher, raising its head as if to sniff the air, and it unexpectedly fell to its knees around the corners of a long border, and the rest followed it a few seconds later.

Su Mengfan moved back, hidden, and sat on the ground to rest.

There was no more confusion - they were following him.

It looked like the monsters were leading him along parallel streets, all waiting for their moment before he crossed a new intersection.

They would appear in an alley to make sure he hadn't strayed from his course, and they continued to obscure him.

Why?

Want to choose the right moment to attack?

Or is it just out of curiosity?

So why didn't they decide to come out on the streets, preferring to hide in the dark shadows?

Remembering the words of the commander again, he forbade him to turn from the straight.

Is it because they are lying there waiting for him, and the commander knows about the danger?

In order to calm down, Su Mengfan changed the magazine, pulled back the bolt, and tried the laser sight.

He's armed, and it's easier to defend himself here than the library, where he can shoot without danger.

Taking a deep breath, he stood up.

The monster didn't allow him to stop wasting time, he had to act quickly.

It seems that here, on the ground, a person always has to hurry.