Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 23 Sunrise
Su Mengfan walked towards the librarian and used his flashlight to illuminate the strange creature.

It felt that its blood was slowly getting colder, and the palm of its hand began to bend and harden.

The librarian's bullet-ridden head hung over Thatch's shoulder, shyly hiding behind him, if dead.

Su Mengfan then unhurriedly poked it with the toe of his boot, and it fell backwards with a bang.

Needless to say, it died.

Su Mengfan tried hard not to look at Sa Qi's bloody face, and began to slowly unzip the zipper of his protective suit.

The clothes had long been soaked in thick, dark blood. Transparent water vapor rose from the clothes and spread into the cool air of the document room.

Su Mengfan was so smoked by the smell that he couldn't help retching, and then touched Daniel's breast pocket with his hands...

Fingers in protective gloves fumbled to unbutton him.

Su Mengfan suddenly thought that maybe it was such gloves that delayed Sa Qi's self-rescue.

There was a distinct rustling sound from a distance, followed by the light footsteps of bare feet on the ground in the hallway.

Su Mengfan turned his head in fear, and cast the beam of the flashlight on the passage.

After confirming that he was alone for the time being, he continued to struggle to untie the button, and the button was finally undone.

Su Mengfan's hard fingers managed to remove a thin gray envelope from the depths of the pocket. The envelope was hidden in a polyethylene bag with a bullet hole in it.

In addition, Su Mengfan also found a blood-stained square card in his pocket, which was obviously the card that Saqi took from the card catalog drawer in the front hall.

The card reads: "Shnukov, NE, agricultural irrigation and exploration in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Dushanbe, 1965."

The brisk footsteps and the indistinct thud were now at a very close distance, and there was no time.

Su Mengfan picked up Saqi's submachine gun and flashlight (after the librarian was killed, the flashlight also rolled out of its claws).

He started to run back at full speed in the direction he had come from, barely seeing anything as he ran past the endless bookshelves.

Su Mengfan really couldn't confirm whether he was being chased or not, because the boots on his feet made a loud sound, and the blood hit the eardrum, so he couldn't hear the sound behind him at all.

Su Mengfan realized when he jumped straight into the stairwell and started rolling down the hard stone steps.

I don't even know which floor the entrance they used to enter the document room is on.

So Su Mengfan had to go straight down to the first floor, hit the glass of the stairwell, and jump into the patio.

Su Mengfan waited there for a while, observing the outside.

Right in the middle of the patio, several spiky-faced gray creatures stood motionless, staring at the window, seemingly looking directly at him.

Su Mengfan leaned against one side of the wall with heartbroken heart, and continued to move gently and slowly.

The boots on the feet no longer pound on the stairs, so the light footsteps of bare feet on the ground can be clearly heard.

The sound got louder and louder.

Then, completely out of control, he sprinted downstairs again.

Su Mengfan jumped to another floor so that he could search for the familiar door from time to time.

Finding none, he dashed forward.

When it seemed that he could hear footsteps nearby, he stopped, hid in a dark corner, and looked around desperately for a passage and narrow passages ahead.

Su Mengfan walked into the stairs again and went down one floor or two floors up. Maybe he overlooked something?
So Su Mengfan was desperately trying to find the exit from this maze. The demonic noise would attract every giant resident in the library, but it would not help him calm down.

Su Mengfan searched for the exit again and again in vain like a headless chicken.

That is, until he could make out the familiar half-curved silhouette of the window against the background of the broken window, before re-entering the original stairwell.

Su Mengfan walked back, jumped into the first passage in front of him, leaned his back against the wall, pointed his submachine gun at the entrance where the librarian was expected to appear, held his breath...there was silence.

These cruel beasts decided not to chase Su Mengfan alone, they stood there quietly, waiting for Su Mengfan to expose himself carelessly.

But he didn't need to take the beaten path, the passage stretched forward.

Su Mengfan quickly stepped back towards the open place, keeping her eyes fixed on it.

The hallway turned to one side, but just at the turn, a black hole appeared in the wall.

It was strewn with fragments of brick and a small amount of lime.

Su Mengfan followed the instinctive call and walked through the black hole, entering a room full of dilapidated furniture.

Rolls of film and films were strewn across the floor.A slightly opened door was in front, and a small wedge of pale moonlight shone on the floor from behind the door.

Su Mengfan stepped on the creaking parquet floor carefully and walked to the door.

I know this room, although it is only at the other end of it now, but I can see the magnificent reading room, the soaring ceiling and giant windows, the passage leading to the entrance of the strange wooden door, and the messy arrangement on the side. reading table.

There is no doubt that Su Mengfan is in the main reading room.

He stood on top of the enclosed wooden railings of the narrow corridor, which were four meters high and ran around the walls.

It was down this corridor that the librarian came down and discovered them.

He didn't know how he got here from the document room, let alone detour around the route he and Thatch had taken before, to the other side of here.

But he didn't have time to think about that, the librarian was probably hot on his heels.

Su Mengfan looks at one of the two symmetrical staircases that lead to the base of the monument.

He ran suddenly for the door, and not far from the carved wooden arch of the exit, the hideous bodies of several librarians lay sprawled across the floor.

When passing by the place where the previous battle took place, Su Mengfan was trapped in a pool of thickened blood and almost fell down.

After barely opening the heavy wooden door, a bright white light immediately blinded his eyes.

Su Mengfan recalled the commander's instructions, held the flashlight in his right hand tightly, and quickly drew three circles, which meant that he came with no malice.

The blinding beams of lights swerved to one side.

Su Mengfan put the machine gun on his back and moved forward slowly, arriving at a round house with many columns and a couch.

He still doesn't know who will come to see him.

A light machine gun was erected on the floor, and the commander was standing near the sofa with his eyes closed, groaning shortly from time to time, and twisting his right leg unnaturally.

Su Mengfan realized when he saw him. His leg was broken at the knee and bent backward instead of forward.

He couldn't imagine how this was done, what kind of thing had such a great force that it could shatter the legs that had grown firmly on the commander's body.

"Where's your companion?" The commander glanced at Su Mengfan, and then asked Su Mengfan this question.

"The librarians in the library...they launched an attack." Su Mengfan tried to explain.Subconsciously, he didn't want to say that he had brutally killed Thatch with his own hands.

"Please help me up... no, pick up my backpack.

Come see what my legs have become...they nearly ripped his legs off.

Now, I have to be carried by others. "The commander said in a low tone.

Su Mengfan put away all the equipment: two backpacks, two machine guns and a light machine gun. These items weighed about 30 kilograms in total and were not easy to pick up.

But what is even more difficult is that they have to carry their companions' weak and weak bodies on their shoulders. Even the short steps of going downstairs to the exit will take them several minutes.

So I had to discard a backpack and a light machine gun.Only two machine guns remained.

On the way to the gate, they didn't meet a single librarian again.

But when Su Mengfan opened the heavy wooden door with force and allowed the groaning commander to pass, a rattling roar erupted from the deepest part of the building, the sound full of resentment and pain.

The bone-crushing feeling of shock once again filled Su Mengfan's body, and he quickly closed the door.

The task now is to get to the subway station as quickly as possible.

"Drop your eyes!" the commander ordered when they were in the street.

"The stars should be right in front of you now, don't even think about looking over the roof..."

Su Mengfan reluctantly moved her stiffened legs, obediently staring at the floor, just hoping to ignore the 200-meter distance from the library to the descent to Bolovite Station, those things that spread unbelievably.

However, the commander did not allow Su Mengfan to enter the subway station.

"It's impossible to report now. You haven't got the book, which means you've lost their guidance."

The commander gasped heavily, and while talking, asked Su Mengfan to put him down.

Su Mengfan threw the things directly on the ground, and then gently put the commander on the ground.

"Those Brahmins will not like this result, the most important thing is that it shows that you are not the right one, they entrusted the secret to you.

If you go back to the subway station, you disappear without a trace.

They have experts on it, both intellectual and non-intelligent.

Not even I can protect you.

Now, all you can do is leave, you'd better go to Smolingk Station and go straight, there are a few houses there, and you don't have to go into any alleys.

If you go before sunrise, you can get there in no time. "

"What sunrise?" Su Mengfan asked puzzledly.He would have to rush to another subway station alone on the surface. To him, this would be like a slap in the face.

From the map, the subway station is two kilometers away from here.

"The sun, people are nocturnal animals. It is best not to appear on the ground during the day, but there are also people who climb from the ruins to the ground to bask in the sun. If you disturb them, you will regret it for life.

I'm not just talking about sunlight, it only takes two seconds to go blind, and sunglasses won't save you. "

(End of this chapter)