It turns out that the cage does not extend all the way to the end of the hall, and the middle part is divided, where there is an elevator to the lower level.

A torch seemed to burn in the depths of the position, and the crimson light reflected on the ceiling gave an ominous feeling, and from below came a cry of pain.

Su Mengfan suddenly thought of hell, and when they took him past the elevator, he suddenly felt relaxed.

In the last cage, someone shouted to him: "Goodbye, my friend!" But Su Mengfan didn't care, he could only see a glass of water flickering in front of his eyes.

On the opposite wall was a guard's lookout, a roughly patchwork of nailed tables and two chairs, and a sign saying that blacks were not allowed to be inside.

He didn't see the gallows along the way, and Su Mengfan had been fanatically hoping that they were just trying to scare him, rather than really taking him to the hanging.

Just to take him to the end of the station, and then let him go so that no one else can see it.

The bearded man in the black uniform walked ahead, and he turned at the last archway and walked towards the passage, just as Su Mengfan began to believe more firmly that he had been rescued.

The track has a small platform with pulleys underneath, arranged so that the floor is level with the floor of the station.

A stocky guy in a spotted uniform was checking a loop of rope that hung from a tightened hook on the ceiling, and the only difference between the executing guy and the others was that he rolled up his sleeves to reveal his strong forearms.

The man in the black uniform asked, "Are you all ready?" ”

The executioner nodded to him and said, "I don't like this structure. ”

He slammed his fist into the palm of his other hand: "Why can't we use that solid stool?" That would be - bang! Rip off his neck!

But this thing ...... He's suffocated, but he'll squirm like a hooked worm for a long time, and I'll have to clean up so much after they're suffocated! For example, there are ...... offal everywhere."

The man in the black uniform said, "Enough! He called the executioner aside and roared at him angrily.

As soon as their commander left, the two soldiers dragging Su Mengfan quickly returned to their interrupted conversation.

The one on the left impatiently asked the one on the right, "What about later?" ”

The one on the right whispered into his ear: "Then I pushed her against the cylinder and scratched under her skirt, and she said to me very gently......"

Since his commander had returned, he had not been able to finish.

The Naganomiya encouraged the executioner: "Don't care he's Russian – he's breaking the law...... Traitors, traitors, degenerates, traitors deserve to be punished severely! ”

They untied the ropes around his wrists and took off his coat, and now Su Mengfan was standing there wearing only his own low-necked shirt.

Then, they ripped off the bullet casing around Su Mengfan's neck, which he used to store photos.

The executioner asked, "Amulet?" I'll put it in your pocket and you can find it wherever you go. ”

His voice was not evil at all, and it had an inexplicable soothing effect.

Then, they pulled Su Mengfan's hands behind his back and pushed him onto the gallows. The soldiers were still standing on the platform, and they didn't need their help.

He couldn't break free, because it took strength, and when the executioner put the noose on his head, Su Mengfan could only stand there, to stand, not to fall, not to make a sound, and to drink something was all he could think of - water! Water!

He moaned hoarsely. Moaning: "Water ......"

The executioner reluctantly spread his hands and said, "Water? Now where am I going to get you water? Honey, it's impossible, we've lost time now - just be patient now, it's not long......" He jumped heavily onto the passage and clapped his hands in front of the rope tied to the gallows.

The soldiers lined up, and their commander had a solemn, even somewhat solemn expression.

He began to say: "As an enemy army. Spy, you have sinfully betrayed your own people. ”

Su Mengfan's mind was beating with fragments of thoughts, which told him that it was too early to stop, and that he had not finished what he had to do.

Then the commander's stern face appeared before his eyes, and immediately disappeared into the crimson glimmer of the station.

Then Mom's gentle gaze flashed for a moment, and then faded.

Mikhail Polfilevich ...... "You have to die" ...... Dim stuff...... They can't...... Wait a minute!

All of this interrupted his memory, the voices of others speaking and his requests were scattered haphazardly in the dull haze, and the huge desire suppressed Su Mengfan—what could be drunk......

The chief's voice continued, "...... depraved, discrediting their own country......"

Suddenly, there were shouts in the tunnel, tongues of fire from machine guns, and then a loud bang, and everything fell silent again.

The soldiers clutched their machine guns.

Their black-clad commander was frightened and hurriedly said, "Execution." Begin! He gave the order.

The executioner muttered, tugged at the rope, and put his foot on the sleeper.

Despite Su Mengfan's efforts to press down, the board slipped from under his feet, so that he could only stand on the gallows.

But they moved the gallows outward again, Su Mengfan felt that it was getting harder and harder to stand, and the rope dragged him backwards, dragging him to death, and he didn't want to die like this......

Then the floor slid out from underneath him, and the noose tightened under his weight, slamming into his neck and cutting into his trachea, rattling down his throat.

His vision blurred, and everything distorted in his body.

Now his body was begging for air, but he couldn't inhale no matter how hard he tried, his body began to curl up as if it were spasming, and his abdomen had a terrible feeling of being clutched.

The station was now filled with noxious yellow smoke, and the sound of gunfire was in his ears, and he lost consciousness.

…………

Someone was slapping him on the cheek, trying to wake him up: "Hey, hangman!" Wake up, wake up, don't play dead, we already feel your pulse, you can't fool us. ”

Another said, "I'm not going to give you any more artificial respiration!" ”

At this time, Su Mengfan came back to life in the last seconds before he died completely.

He was sure it wasn't a dream, and death passed him.

Needless to say, just as the floor was pulled from under his feet, death grabbed him by the neck and he was hung above the tracks.

The first voice insisted: "It's still a short time, you'll be fine!" We took you off the noose, you were saved, and now you're rolling face to the floor! ”

Someone was shaking him vigorously, Su Mengfan timidly opened one eye, and then closed it again, thinking that now he might have completed the process of death, and the afterlife had already begun.

A thing approached him, looking a bit like a human, but with a strange appearance, which reminded Su Mengfan of the vision rumored in the mouth of the subway residents, who would hesitate where to go in the short term.

The thing's skin was yellow and not smooth, and you could see him by the bright light of a nearby lantern.

He had no eyes, only two thin incisions in the area of the eyes, like the face of a statue that the sculptor was about to finish, but he only made the outline of the eye, and forgot to cut out the eye.

In this way, it can see the outside world, the cheekbones on the round face are very high, and Su Mengfan has never seen anything like it.

Someone said in a firm tone above: "No, it doesn't work." They sprayed some water in his face.

Su Mengfan swallowed twitchingly, and reached out to reach for the bottle.

At first, he just grabbed the bottleneck, then leaned out and looked around for the mouth of the bottle and the water inside.

His eyes searched around quickly, and finally landed on the nearly two-meter-long rail car he was in.

There was a faint smell of burning in the air, and Su Mengfan was surprised to think that it might be burning gasoline.

In addition to himself, there were four other people sitting on this rail car, and next to him was a brown dog whose black fluff had not yet faded, and one of them was the one who slapped Su Mengfan's cheek.

There was also a bearded man with a hat with a red star sewn on his ear guards, and a red star on his padded jacket.

He carried a long machine gun on his back, just like the old machine gun that Su Mengfan used before, but this person had a bayonet fixed with screws on the barrel.

The third person was a big man, Su Mengfan didn't see his face at first, but when he saw it, he was so frightened that he almost jumped out of the car, his skin was very dark.

Su Mengfan looked at it carefully for a while before calming down, his skin was a little darker, and the tone was different from theirs.

His normal face has slightly turned lips and a flat boxer-esque nose.

The last man looked relatively normal, with a handsome, tight-skinned face and a strong jaw — something that reminded Su of a poster he had seen at {Pushkin}.

The guy was dressed in a beautiful leather coat with a wide belt with two rows of holes and an officer's sword belt, on which hung a huge pistol holster.

In the rear of the rail car there was a Jackkinlov machine gun and a fluttering flag.

When the light of the lantern happened to shine on the flag, Su Mengfan saw that it was not a flag, but a tattered thing, on which was painted the red and black face of a bearded man.

All this looks more like a kind of terrifying delusion than the commander's rescue of him - the commander in the dream coldly jumped off the railroad tracks, left him and ran away.