Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 95 Collapse
Oleg, who Olmedo had given him the shell casings, had already eaten half of his share and put the rest on the side of the plate.

Then he asked, "Dad, can I go with you on duty?"

Anton frowned and replied: "Oleg, no."

The woman said sadly: "Oleg! What kind of duty is this? What are you thinking? They don't have little boys on duty there!" She held the child's hand.

Oleg said: "Mom, what do you mean, I'm a little boy?" He looked at the guest uneasily and tried to speak in a low voice.

Mother's voice became louder: "Don't even think about it! Do you want to drive me crazy? What if there is an accident then?"

The child muttered: "Then, all right."

When the woman went to get something from the other end of the tent, he tugged on his father's sleeve and whispered loudly: "You took me there last time."

Anton said sternly: "This is the end of the conversation!"

Oleg held his breath and muttered to himself: "It's okay..." The next words were inaudible.

Anton finished his meal, got up from the table, opened the metal box on the floor, and took out an old military AK-47 from it.

And said: "Let's go, the shift is short today, and I will be back in six hours." He promised his wife.

Both Olmedo and Su Mengfan stood up immediately. Little Oleg looked at his father in despair, and sat restlessly on his seat. He decided not to speak.

At the entrance of the dark tunnel, a pair of guards sat on the edge of the platform, their legs pulled down, blocking the passage. They stared at the pattern on the wall, where it was written: "Welcome to the Arbat Station Alliance!"

Half of the lettering has been wiped off, and it can be seen that it has not been repainted for a long time.

The guards were talking in low voices, and when one of them suddenly raised his voice, the other tried to dissuade him.

In addition to Olmedo and Su Mengfan, two other locals followed Anton.

Both of them are very depressed, don't like to talk, and they are not very friendly to the guests.Su Mengfan still doesn't know their names.

After they spoke a few brief words with the person protecting the entrance of the tunnel, they walked to the passage below and walked slowly forward.

The circular arches of the tunnel are here of a completely traditional type, and neither the floor nor the walls have suffered the appearance of age.

Regarding the unpleasant feeling that the vendors mentioned, it started to appear when Su Mengfan just took a few steps.

A dark, unexplainable fear slowly crawled out of the depths and assailed him.

But the road was quiet, and some voices could be heard in the distance: most likely there was a patrol there too.

It was the strangest set of sentries that Su Mengfan had ever seen.

A few people sat around the sandbags, a pig iron stove stood in the middle, and further away was an iron barrel of fuel.

Only the flames piercing the cracks in the furnace and the flickering wicks of the oil lamps hanging from the ceiling illuminated the faces of the patrolmen.

The lights flickered a bit in the dead tunnel air, and one could tell that the people sitting quietly were going about their lives.

The vigilantes were sitting with their backs to the tunnel, the air hurting their eyes.

The vigilantes, shielding their eyes from the glare of the shift crew's flashlights with their hands, gathered to go home.

Anton asked them: "Hey, how are you?" He scooped out a spoonful of fuel.

"What's going on here?" said the senior changeman, grinning gloomily. He cut and straightened the wick and started walking toward the station.

The station was empty and quiet as usual... as the men were moving their bags closer to the stove to sit down.

Olmedo turned to Anton and said, "Hey, let's go ahead and see what's there."

Anton turned his head and pointed in the direction of Victory Park and said, "There's nothing to see there. The road is blocked. I've seen it a hundred times. If you want to see it, it's about 15 meters away from here." .”

The tunnel was half destroyed before it clogged.The door was covered with stone and debris, the ceiling was dented in places, and the walls were falling away.

The warped opening of the entrance to the unfamiliar office facility on the side had blackened, and the rusted track at the end of this annexe ran into a pipe clad in blocks of concrete with pebbles and dirt in it.

At the same time, metal utility lines running along the walls are incorporated into this earthenware layer.

Olmedo shined his flashlight through the collapsed tunnel, but couldn't find any secret traps, and shrugged and turned to the door that was askew on one side.

He shone the beam in and looked there, but didn't cross the threshold.

Then he turned to the stove and asked Anton: "Is there no change to the second line?"

The latter replied: "It was the same ten years ago and it is now."

They were silent for a while, then the flashlight was turned off, and the light once again only came from the tiny flame behind the black glass of the stove and oil lamp through the loose lid, and the surroundings became darker.

All the vigilantes got as close to the stove as possible, the yellow beams blocked the darkness and the cold.

Here, a person can breathe more easily.

Su Mengfan tried his best to control himself, but the need to at least hear some kind of voice forced him to overcome his shyness.

He coughed and said to Anton, "I've never been to your station before, I just don't understand why you guys are still on duty here if there's nothing there? You don't even monitor that direction!"

Anton explained: "That's the order of things, they say, that's why there's nothing here, because we're here on duty."

"How about out there? Beyond the blockage?"

Anton paused for a while and then said: "Most people definitely think it's a tunnel until..." He turned around and looked at the impasse, thought for a moment and said again: "All the way to Victory Park."

"Does anyone live there?"

Anton didn't answer, just shook his head absently.

He was silent for a while, then asked with interest: "So, in general, you don't know anything about Victory Park?"

Before Su Mengfan could answer, he started his own question and answer:
"God alone knows what else is there now? Previously it was a large twin station, one of the last to be built. Those who were older and then... still... know... been there people.

Anyway, they say it's luxuriously built, and the station is deep, unlike other new builds.The average person must think that people there live a good life, but the good life doesn't last long.Later the tunnel collapsed. "

Su Mengfan asked, "How did it collapse?"

　Just got off work, finished washing.

　　Sorry, I forgot the time during the day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)