Chapter 62: Conscience
"What, you feel it too?" Khan exclaimed, "Not good! It's close! ”
"We have to go faster," Su Mengfan ran as he gasped. "Before it's too late."
Khan quickened his pace, and now he ran in stride, without saying anything, and did not answer Su Mengfan's question again.
Even the traces of exhaustion that Su Mengfan had seen on him disappeared, and something about the beast reappeared on his body.
Su Mengfan was already running after the Khan, but just as they were about to get rid of the thing that was chasing them, Ace tripped on a crossbar and fell to the ground in a daze, his face and hands covered in blood.
Out of inertia, they ran a dozen more steps before they realized Ace had fallen.
Su Mengfan really didn't want to stop, go back to that guy - he wanted to leave that short-legged sycophant guy with his amazing instincts to the darkness, and wanted to keep moving forward before that thing caught up with them.
It was an offensive thought, but Su Mengfan was controlled by this thought of wanting to flee and leave the man who fell, and his conscience was silent.
Therefore, when the khan hurriedly retreated and pulled the bearded man up, Su Mengfan felt a little disappointed.
Su Mengfan originally hoped that Khan, with the same contemptuous attitude as him, would not hesitate to forget about the man, throw him in the tunnel like a burden, and continue to move forward.
But Khan ordered Su Mengfan to hold one of Ace's injured arms, and he held the other, and the three of them held hands together, which made their steps even more difficult.
Ace groaned. Moaning, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, he moved forward step by step, but Su Mengfan was not only getting more and more angry with him.
Feeling no sympathy, the long and heavy machine gun hit Su Mengfan's leg, and he couldn't free up a hand to hold it.
Death is already close - if they stop and wait for half a minute, the ominous vortex will catch up with them, whipping and tearing them to the smallest pieces.
For a second, they will no longer be able to breathe the air of this universe, and they will burst into a howl of death in an instant......
These thoughts did not paralyze Su Mengfan, but instead mixed with malice and anger, giving him more strength, as if he would gain more strength with every step he ran.
Suddenly, that ominous black vortex vanished, completely vanished.
The sense of crisis disappeared so suddenly, leaving everyone's consciousness unusually empty in place, like the feeling of emptiness after a tooth has been removed, and they are now using the tip of their tongue to feel the pit left by the tooth that has just been extracted.
There was nothing behind them, just tunnels – clean, dry, and safe.
All the fears and fantasies of running away, all the special feelings and cognitions, now seemed so funny, stupid and absurd to Su Mengfan that he laughed out loud.
Ace, too, stopped with him, and at first looked at him in amazement, then burst out laughing.
Khan looked at them angrily and scolded, "Hmph, what's so funny? It feels good now, right? So quiet, so clean, isn't it? He walked alone.
At this time, Su Mengfan realized that they were only fifty steps away from the station in front of them, and they could already see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Khan stopped at the entrance of the station, he stood on the iron staircase, and now he had time to smoke a cigarette from his hometown, and they laughed, completely relaxed, and leisurely walked forward their fifty steps.
For the use of laughter instead of moaning. With a limp of Yin, Su Mengfan suddenly felt a sense of sympathy and pity.
He was ashamed to remember the thought that came to his mind when Ace fell, but he quickly adjusted his emotions.
When he saw Khan's tired, emaciated face and his hesitant look on his scrutiny of them, Su Mengfan felt a little uneasy again.
"Thank you!" With the sound of his boots clattering on the stairs, Ace climbed up the platform and said to the Khan.
"If you hadn't saved me...... Well, it's all over. You...... Didn't leave me there. Thank you! I will always remember it! ”
"Don't worry." Khan's answer was not sentimental.
"Why did you come back to save me?"
"I'm interested in you, I want to talk to you." Khan threw the cigarette butt on the ground and shrugged, "That's all." ”
With that, he climbed the stairs.
Su Mengfan glanced at Ace, didn't say anything, and followed Khan up the stairs.
When I went up the stairs, I found that {Peace Avenue Station} was completely different from the last time I came with the commander and others.
This time, guardrails were added, and fires marking the border were seen, and barricades were placed along the way.
And I didn't hear any sound from the platform in the distance, everything was so quiet.
Su Mengfan found that the {Peace Avenue Station} here was different from the dilapidated {Setayehu Station}, and it was more like the mysterious disappearance of hundreds of people like {Polezaev Station}.
Khan's boots clicked on the iron staircase, and after a few steps, the tunnel turned to the left, and when he turned around, it suddenly became clear that they were already in the subway station.
A white light shone on their faces, and they couldn't see through the dark tunnel.
At the source of the lamp, a small table was placed, and next to it sat a man in a strange and outdated old black vest uniform, wearing a dark gray Kuban hat and a face mask.
To the right and left of the men stood a heavy cavalryman, dressed in dark green armor and holding flamethrowers in their hands.
"Welcome." He said hello to Su Mengfan and the others, and removed the flashlight, "Are you from {All Russia Exhibition Center Station}?" ”。
The Khan shook his head and said, "We are from {Gomes City Station}. After speaking, he took out his papers.
After reading it, the man said casually, "Since you are not from {All-Russian Exhibition Hall Station}, you have to disinfect it after you go in." Maybe you can carry the virus on your body, too. ”
"What's going on there?" When Su Mengfan heard the man opposite mention {All Russia Exhibition Center Station} just now, the atmosphere was very tense.
"There? You're talking about {All-Russian Exhibition Complex Station}. I don't know why there was a plague there recently, and many people died.
It is said that which bastard brought the virus in the ground. The man's voice came from the anti-epidemic mask, looking muffled.
The strap behind the epidemic prevention mask was tightly pressed against the man's cheek, and the shaking of the breathing valve was so rapid under the illumination of the light.
After registering, the three of them walked in from the platform.
After walking a few steps, I saw a tent. After Su Mengfan and the others paid the money, they walked in.
"Drop your shoes and all your clothes and put them in that box. Someone will wash and disinfect it, and they'll check your rucksack. On the table over there are pants and coats, put them on. The man at the entrance said.
When I stepped out of the tent, I saw that the scene here was completely different from before.
Gone is the clamour, replaced by a quiet silence.
Even though there is a light shining here that is connected by a metal wire that runs through the entire subway station, Su Mengfan still doesn't feel at ease.
I felt a soft yellow light emanating from the arch, but this time the strange image did not appear in front of me again.
Su Mengfan looked at the scene inside the station:
Under the soft yellow light, tents are randomly placed in the east corner of the station.
Most of the people walking around had sad looks on their faces, and even the children on the side were watched closely by adults.
Hansa cavalrymen in multifunctional vests and spiked guards on their arms patrolled the subway.
And their heads are different from the anti-epidemic masks that I saw the man at the door just now, they are wearing pullover masks and windproof glasses.
There is a breathing valve on the left and right of the mouth, and a long pipe is connected to the oxygen tank on the back. And there is also a walkie-talkie in the position of the chest.
When Su Mengfan saw this scene, he inevitably felt a little sad in his heart.
The outbreak of nuclear war has caused more than 70 or 80 percent of people to die as a result.
Only those who hid in the Moscow metro stations escaped the catastrophe.
However, due to the large area covered by radioactive fallout, it leads to the breeding of dark creatures.
More human beings have lost their lives as a result, and now the outbreak of the plague has put this subway station, which has finally settled down, once again in a desperate situation.
Seeing this, I suddenly thought of {All-Russian Exhibition Center Station}.
I wonder if Artyom is still there? I don't know how he's doing now?
Su Mengfan began to worry about his younger brother, who had not seen him for more than ten years.
And he was very curious about what he looked like now, and his phenomena were only in that photograph and the illusion of the library.
Remember, he had blue eyes just like himself, as beautiful as the sky.
But I wonder if Artyom still remembers the world before the war, and thinks that the next time he encounters those pre-war postcards, he will collect them.
Thinking of this, Su Mengfan couldn't help but hold the bullet shell necklace on his chest, where he had the only beautiful memory of this world.
"Alcohen, come. We're going to talk about something. Just when Su Mengfan was still immersed in the nostalgia for beauty, the khan on the side pulled Su Mengfan's sleeve and said.
and motioned to Ace to find a place to eat.