Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 155 Homer
In the past years, people were still living their days in full swing in the steel forest-like city on the ground.

The city is rapidly expanding like a monster of modern industrial civilization. At that time, the subway was just a cold means of transportation used by busy city residents.

At that time, the young Homer, still known only as "Korea", was already patrolling the subway tunnels with a flashlight and a tool box.

For ordinary people, there are strict regulations on the places they can contact, and all they are allocated are 150 clean and shiny marble halls and crowded carriages covered with colorful advertising paper.

Every day they spend two or three hours in the carriage, the train clanging and shaking from side to side.

Thousands of people never realize that what they are allowed to see is only one-tenth of the unbelievably vast subterranean kingdom that spreads all over the world.

In order to prevent these ordinary people from being curious about the true scale of this underground kingdom, there are various unnoticeable doors, iron bunkers, dim side tunnels and tunnels that are always closed under the guise of decoration. aisle.

Ordinary people's eyes are always attracted by those gaudy pictures. Silly slogans and advertising slogans read in cold voices are all over the subway, even on the escalators, which makes people quiet.

That's how Homer felt when he began to wander into the secret world of one underground station after another.

The rainbow-bright Moscow subway map hangs in the carriage like that, as if it was asked to convince those curious people that the subway system they see before their eyes is an absolutely civilian facility.

But these colorful subway lines are also entwined with transparent spurs of secret tunnels, where there are strings of military and government bunkers.

The area between the stations is connected with clusters of elongated caves, which were dug underground in the city during the polytheistic period.

In Kolya's youth, competition with other countries in national power and prestige made his country extremely poor - the Cold War, and the Judges seemed so far away at the time, and the bunkers and bunkers built for the Day of Judgment were all covered in dust.

As the economy develops, along with the banknotes comes glory, and of course enemies.

Tons of rusted iron gates were opened, food and medicine stocks replenished, air purifiers and water filters brought into service.

Their unintentional act came in handy.

For a man like him, who came from the provinces and was impoverished, the subway job was like a ticket into the Freemasonry.

He went from being an marginalized homeless man to becoming a member of this powerful social institution.

The subway system pays him generously for what he can do, and promises to show him a side of the world he hasn't seen.

Kolya remembers seeing job postings for the subway and finding the job attractive with a paycheck and few qualifications for would-be road inspectors.

Of course, he didn't immediately figure out why the subway system relied on such high salaries and subsidies for high-risk work to attract employees. He realized it only after hesitant explanations from his colleagues around him.

Not because of the high workload, not because of the dark working environment, neither, but because the work here has a completely unexpected danger.

There are endless eerie monster sounds here.

Being a human being, always skeptical, he couldn't believe that his best friend never came back after patrolling a short stretch of dark tunnel.

Everyone didn't even look for him, Hunter on duty just waved his hand in despair.

He disappeared without a trace, along with all his papers, material about his work here.

Kolya, young and naive at the time, was the only one who couldn't come to terms with the matter, believing his friend had been betrayed.

Finally, after looking around, an older man quietly told him that his friend had been "taken" away.

Therefore, the subway staff, including Homer, knew long before Armageddon happened, before the metropolis of Moscow became a no-man's land, what terrible things had happened underground in this city .

Kolya, who lost his friend and touched this taboo topic in the subway system, could have run away after being frightened and looked for another job, but he found that the relationship between him and the subway was originally maintained by money interests. Gradually, the relationship changed.

After getting tired of patrolling the tunnels day after day, the subway system held a "mature ceremony" for him, and he and he were officially promoted to assistant drivers, occupying a more stable position in the complicated subway hierarchy.

As his acquaintance with this marvel deepened, he was deeply moved by its homage to the Greco-Roman labyrinth and other ancient city-states without successors. Reprint.

He fell in love with it deeply and ecstatically, a feeling that grew stronger and stronger as time went on.

This city built by humans with bare hands is completely worthy of Homer's praise. This underground kingdom built by Muscovites with bare hands is larger and more spectacular than the flying island kingdom described by Swift...

But in reality, only Kolya acts as the city's infatuated admirer and the praiser of mediocrity.

Nikolayev Nikolai Ivanovich, how ridiculous.

It is better not to love a person or a thing more than a house or a bird.

This mutual love between Kolya and the Moscow Metro has reached the point of envy.

This love cost Kolya his marriage and family, but it saved his life.

Homer was immersed in the memories of the past and couldn't extricate himself, at this moment Hunter stopped suddenly.

Homer was advancing at full speed, unable to stop himself in time, so he threw himself on Hunter's back.

Hunter said nothing, pushed Homer away from him, and settled there again.

He lowered his head and swung his deformed ears in the direction of the tunnel, capturing the sound waves that only he could hear over and over again.

Su Mengfan, who was standing next to Sasha, took out the Reaper Rifle from behind, released the safety catch, and looked forward eagerly.

The ability to "listen" to the tunnel was brought into full play at this moment.

The huge power on the opposite side is constantly provoking Su Mengfan's nerves, making the hairs on his body tense.

An inexplicable danger is a reminder of the danger that is about to come.

(End of this chapter)