Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 66 Shadow
Not long after, Su Mengfan walked to {Abudul Kader Station} marked on the navigation map.

I decided to rest here for the night before heading out.

Seeing that the passages on both sides of the platform are now closed, the door is not an ordinary door, but a solid iron door.

The same is true on the second floor, but there is still a door that is still half open. A solid welded grid can be seen behind the door, just like the window casements of Hayabusa Station, but the grid here has been heavily reinforced.

Through the grid, there was a table behind it, faintly illuminated by a small lamp, and beside the table sat an exhausted soldier in gray and blue.

The soldier asked him to show his pass and said sharply, "No passage after 8 o'clock, the gates will not open until 6 o'clock in the morning." Then he turned his face away, indicating that the conversation was over.

Su Mengfan was shocked. Why did life at this station end as soon as 8 o'clock in the evening?

What is he going to do now?
The wanderers who crawled back into the cardboard box also looked very cold. Su Mengfan didn't want to get close to them.

So he decided to try his luck at the fire, which was glowing faintly at the other end of the hall.

Even from afar, one could see that the people standing by the fire were not homeless people, but border soldiers or similar guards.

From the outlines of the fire, they were all strong men, and it was obvious that they were carrying automatic weapons.

But when he got closer, Su Mengfan noticed something else: a clear white light flashed from behind the fire. It seemed that the light was going upwards, but the range of the beam was too short, as if it was cut off just after it was emitted.

The white light did not shine on the ceiling and disappeared after traveling only a few meters, which violated the normal laws of physics.

The searchlights are rarely used, and they only turn on after a long time interval, which is probably the reason why Su Mengfan didn't pay attention to it before.

What the hell is this?
He walked toward the fire, said hello politely, and explained that he was passing by and didn't understand when the gate closed, so he missed it.

He asked the patrol if he could join them here for a break.

"Take a break?" the man closest to him asked sarcastically.

He was a man with shaggy black hair and a big plump nose. He was not tall, but he looked very strong.

"This is no place for resting, kid. It would be nice if you could stay here until the next morning."

As for why sitting next to the fire in the middle of the platform is so dangerous, the man didn't give a single word of explanation, but turned around and nodded in the direction where the searchlights were turned on.

The others were busy talking and ignored Su Mengfan at all.

So Su Mengfan decided to find out the truth. He walked towards the searchlight - the scene there surprised him, but it also gave him answers to many questions.

There's a small control room at the end of the hall, like the ones you occasionally see near the escalators, and it's in charge of sending stuff to the other lines.

A large number of sandbags were piled around the control room, and then reinforced everywhere with a large number of iron plates.

One patrolman was removing the cover from what appeared to be a very powerful weapon, while another sat in the control room.

It is the searchlight that shines upwards that is installed above the control room.

There are no baffles, no barriers, not even a rope going up, the first step of the escalator is just behind the control room, and it leads all the way to the ground.

That's where the searchlight fell, and the beam kept turning from wall to wall, as if trying to find someone submerged in the darkness of night.

But that light could only reveal the shape of some kind of brown lamp, and there were large patches of damp ceiling from which large pieces of plaster had fallen off.

Look further... look further and you won't see anything.

Suddenly everything had an answer.

For some reason, the baffles that normally separate the station from the world above are missing: both the platform and the baffle above it are gone.

{Abdul Kader} is directly exposed to the outside world, and those who live here find themselves under constant threat of attack.

They breathe polluted air and drink polluted water - which is probably why the water smells so weird...

That's why the number of mutations among the young people here is relatively more than other stations such as the All-Russian Exhibition Hall station.

This also explains why adults look so listless: their skulls are completely exposed to radiation, their bodies are exhausted and weakened day by day, these people are being eroded by radiation day after day.

But apparently more than that.

How to explain the dead silence of the whole station after 8pm?
And how to explain that the black-haired man on duty next to the fire said that it was not easy to survive the morning?

Su Mengfan walked towards the man sitting in the control room tremblingly.

The man greeted, "Good evening."

He was in his fifties, but fairly bald, with the rest of his white hair matted on the sides of his head and the back of his neck.

His dark eyes looked at Su Mengfan curiously, and his plain body armor with a belt concealed his unprotruding stomach.

He wore a pair of binoculars and a whistle on his chest.

Pointing to the nearest sandbag, he said to Su Mengfan: "Please sit down. Those guys over there only care about having fun, and let me wait here alone to die. Let's chat."

The two of them just opened up the chatterbox.

"As you can see, we can't even do anything decent." The duty officer explained sadly, pointing to the huge gap leading to the escalator.

"We needed cement instead of iron. We tried iron to mend it, but it didn't work well. In autumn, the rain washed all the filth down.

It was just repaired, and then it was washed away... This was repeated several times, but many people still persisted.

We've lived like this since then.It's just that the life here is not as stable as other stations.

Our nerves are always on edge: those bastards sneak in at night, out of nowhere.

They don't bother us during the day because they're either asleep or hanging out on the ground.But things got really hopeless after dark.

So, of course we have to adapt to this place. After 8 o'clock, everyone hides in the passage, which is our living area. The people who stay here are basically people on guard duty.

Wait a minute..." He stopped suddenly while talking, and flicked on a switch on the console, and the searchlight suddenly became brighter.

After the white light swept across the three escalators one by one along the ceiling and walls, and finally went out, the conversation continued.

The attendant lowered his voice, pointed to the ceiling and said, "Up there, is the Abdul Kader Railway Station. It used to stand there, a wretched place.

I don't even know where its orbit leads, only that something terrible is going on there right now.

Sometimes you can hear strange noises that frighten you.And then when they climbed down..." He paused, then continued a few minutes later.

"We call them new things, and these creatures climb down from there. They're not so scary when they climb out of the train station.

Well, sometimes, though, the stronger ones of them get over the cordon, and you see our train over there, the one forced off the track.

That's the closest they've ever been to us, and we won't let them crawl down there, where women and children live.

If they crawl under, our men know what to do, rush into the train, and start a fight there, destroying some of the new gadgets that want to invade.

But as for themselves... out of ten, only two can survive at most.

One of the most recent monsters crawled to {Abu Dul Kader Station}, as he left a thick layer of slime in his path.

Some had hoped to track it down in the morning, but it had crawled into a branch tunnel and we dared not pursue it, we had suffered too much. "

Su Mengfan remembered: "I heard that no one has attacked {Abu Dul Kader Station}, is this true?"

The duty officer replied; "Of course, who will bother us? If we don't build fortifications here, the monsters will crawl out along the line from here and invade other subway stations.

No, no one will say no to us.

The Hansa gave us almost all the teleports to the end of their bunkers, and they gave us weapons so we could protect them.

Let me tell you, they really love having someone else do the dirty work for them!By the way, what's your name?My name is Mark. "

Su Mengfan told him his name.

Mark continued: "Alcorn, hold it, there seems to be something moving in there." As he spoke, he quickly turned on the searchlight again.

A minute later, he said uncertainly: "No, I probably heard something."

Su Mengfan was engulfed bit by bit by the sense of imminent danger.

He looked up intently like Mark, but there was only the shadow of a broken lamp.

Su Mengfan thought that he had discovered an evil and weird shadow, hiding motionless in the dazzling light.

At first he thought imagination had tricked him, but a strange silhouette moved as the beam swept across it.

He said nervously: "Wait, look at that corner, there is a big crack there, hurry up..."

Somewhere beyond the middle of the escalator, in a place that seemed very far away, there was a huge and bony thing, as if nailed there by a beam of light, it stood still for a while and then suddenly moved.

Mark grabbed the whistle that almost jumped out of his palm and blew it with all his might.

Soon, those who sat around the fire rushed over quickly and hastily.

There was another searchlight there.

This monster looks a little weaker, but it is very smart, and it carries a heavy machine gun like no other.

Su Mengfan has never seen such a weapon: it has a long barrel with a socket at the end of the barrel, the leader is shaped like a net, and the bullets move in a shiny belt filled with oil.

"Over there, about 10 meters away!"

The lean, wiry man who had previously sat next to Mark searched for the new monster with a searchlight and said, "Give me the binoculars...Reka! Ten meters away, to the right!"

"There. Let's all stay here, honey, and sit quietly," the gunner muttered, aiming his weapon at the hidden black shadow. "I've got him!"

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