Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 28 The Secret Code
Taking advantage of their confusion, Su Mengfan rushed into an archway, no longer hoping to escape the catastrophe, but just instinctively trying to delay her own death.

He hadn't the slightest chance of dealing with them in the alley, but the way back to the Garden Ring was cut off.

He stopped in the middle of an empty square, next to the walls of the houses, and arches and passages could be seen.

The same dark castle that impressed Su Mengfan on the garden ring road rose into the sky behind the building, which was in front of him.

Su Mengfan finally let go of staring at it, and saw something written on the wall opposite the building: "Moscow Sixth Metro".

And the "Smolensk Station" further down, the tall oak doors are ajar.

It was hard to say how he could escape them.

Su Mengfan had a premonition of danger, the light air current gave him the feeling that a carnivore was approaching him.

The beast moved half a meter closer to him.

He swayed to the sidewalk, suddenly ran, and rushed to the entrance of the subway with all his strength.

Su Mengfan's home is there, it is his world, and he will become the master of the situation underground.

The vestibule of Smolensk Station looked just as Su Mengfan expected: dim, dark and empty.

It was immediately clear to him that people at this station often come to the surface: the ticket windows and office facilities are open, looted, and everything useful has been moved underground many years ago.

Gone are the turnstiles and the staff's control room - their concrete foundations simply reflect what it used to be.

The tunnel arch was missing somewhere in the middle of the front, and Su Mengfan wasn't sure there was really an entrance there.

But he couldn't stop: the beasts had already entered the vestibule.

Su Mengfan knew the situation because he heard the door creaking.

In a few seconds they would reach the escalator, at which point Su Mengfan's now slim chance would be gone.

Su Mengfan awkwardly stepped on the swaying grooved steps and began to walk down.

He tried to jump a few steps, but his feet caught the wet covering, and he fell, hitting his head on the corner.

With his helmet on, he bumped his tiny back about ten steps before he managed to stop.

Su Mengfan searched the road behind him with a flashlight, and found what he was looking for but was afraid to find:

Still dark image.As is their custom, they stand low and still before attacking, studying the situation or conferring silently.

Su Mengfan turned around and tried to jump over two steps again.

Things were better for him this time, and he held the flashlight in his left hand, slid his right hand along the rubber sleeve of the handrail, and ran for another 20 seconds before he fell again.

He heard heavy trampling behind him.

The monsters were determined.

Su Mengfan fully expected that the old steps would collapse due to being unable to bear the weight of the monster, and the steps unfortunately creaked under his lighter weight.

But the clicking sound from the shadows proved that the elevator could handle that load just fine.

A brick wall with a gate in the middle appeared in the beam of his flashlight.

Now there are only about 20 meters of brick wall left, no longer.

Su Mengfan stood up with difficulty and walked the last distance in 15 seconds.

Seems like an eternity.

The door was steel and resonated like a bell under the blow of his fist.

Su Mengfan hit it hard with all his strength.

The shadows that he saw vaguely in the semi-darkness were approaching, irritating him.

It took him a few seconds to realize that a chill had taken hold of him, that he had just made a terrible mistake:

He didn't knock on the door according to the pre-agreed signal, but only alarmed the guards.

The most likely scenario now is that the door will never open anyway.

Whoever is trying to get in.

And with the sun already up, the door is even less likely to open.

Just what was the pre-agreed secret code?Is it three "fast", three "slow" and three "quick"?
Absolutely not, that was a SOS radio signal.

There was indeed a "three" at the beginning and a "three" at the end, but he could no longer recall whether it was "fast" or "slow".

If he was going to try now, he could give up all hope of getting in.

Best to use the SOS radio signal...

At least that way the guard would know someone was on the other side of the door.

Su Mengfan slammed on the steel plate again, took off the submachine gun from his shoulder, and changed the magazine for it with trembling hands.

Then he shone the light on the barrel and watched nervously at the silhouette of the upwardly extending arch.

Long shadows from the surviving lamps shadowed each other in the flickering beams of the flashlights, and it was impossible to ensure that dark silhouettes weren't lurking among them...

As before, there was complete silence on the other side of the iron gate.

Su Mengfan thought to himself, God, this is really not Smolensk Station.

Perhaps the entrance was blocked decades ago and no one has used it since?

He came here completely by accident and did not follow the commander's instructions at all.

Maybe he made a mistake!

The steps creaked and were very close to him, about 15 meters away.

Su Mengfan couldn't take it anymore, he fired a machine gun in the direction of the sound.

The reverberation made Su Mengfan's ears hurt.

But there was no sound like the roar of a wounded beast.

Bullets are wasted.

Su Mengfan didn't have the courage to look elsewhere, he leaned against the door and began to hit the iron door with his fist again:
Three "fast", three "slow" and three "fast".

He thought he heard heavy metal rubbing against the door.

But at that moment, the silhouette of a carnivore flew out of the shadows at an astonishing speed.

Su Mengfan picked up the submachine gun held in his right hand, and at the moment when he instinctively stepped back, he pulled the trigger almost by accident.

The bullet swept onto the body of the monster in the air, and instead of grabbing Su Mengfan's throat, it fell down on the last few steps of the escalator before flying two meters.

But it stood up after a while, and walked forward regardless of the blood gushing from the wound.

Then, it wobbled and jumped forward again, throwing Su Mengfan down on the cold iron plate of the door.

It couldn't attack anymore: the last bullet hit its head, and the beast was dead after leaping.

But the inertia of its body is enough to crush Su Mengfan's skull, and he is not wearing a helmet now...

The door opened, and a beam of white light came in.

There was a terrible roar from the escalator: judging by the sound, there were more beasts than the five there now.

Someone's strong hand grabbed him by the collar and pulled him inside, and the metal changed again.

They closed the door and the door stopped it.

Someone close to him asked, "Are you hurt?"

The other man replied: "He doesn't know! Did you see who he had with him? We didn't scare them away last time, even though we only used gas then."

A familiar person said: "Leave him alone. He is someone I know. Alcorn! Hey, Alcorn! Wake up!" Su Mengfan opened his eyes with difficulty.

Three men leaned over him.

Two of them looked like doormen. They were wearing black and gray coats, knitted hats, and both were wearing bulletproof vests.

Su Mengfan was relieved, he recognized the third person as the employee who asked him to sign the contract.

One of the guards asked slightly disappointed: "Is this him, or what? Then take him, but don't forget to isolate and decontaminate him."

The employee grinned and said, "Is there anything else to say?"

He said, "Alcorn, you stand up. It's been a long time," and held out his hand to him.

Su Mengfan tried to stand up, but his legs didn't cooperate.He wobbled and started to feel nauseous and dizzy.

The employee ordered: "We have to take him to the hospital. You come help me, and you, close the pressure door."

……

While the doctor was examining him, Su Mengfan looked at the white tiles in the operating room.

It was clean and bright, with a strong smell of bleach in the air, and a few fluorescent lights fixed to the ceiling just below.

There were also operating tables and a box of ready-to-use utensils, which hung side by side.

The condition of this small hospital is very good, but Su Mengfan doesn't know why the peaceful Smolensk station needs it.

The doctor said: "It's not broken, it's just swollen. There are also a few scratches. We have disinfected them." The doctor wiped his hands with a clean towel.

The employee asked the doctor, "Can we be alone for a while? I want to talk to him alone."

The doctor nodded knowingly and left.

The employee sat on the edge of the couch where Su Mengfan was lying and asked about the details of what happened.

Su Mengfan deduced that he would show up at Smolensk Station two hours earlier.

The employee heard the end of the story about the hunt, but with no particular interest, he called the flying monster a "pterodactyl" using a dictionary word.

But only the story of how Su Mengfan hid herself at the front door really impressed him.

The employee frowned when he learned that there was a monster crawling along the steps while Su Mengfan was sitting discreetly in the apartment.

He shook his head. "Are you sure you didn't step on the slime on the steps? I hope God didn't let you bring that shit into the station."

The employee stood up and walked to the entrance, where Su Mengfan's boots were left, and he checked each one meticulously.

He found nothing suspicious and put them back.

"So how is your companion?" Su Mengfan told him the whole story from beginning to end.

This time it was a candid account of exactly how Sage died.

Employees are intimidated.He said, "It's best that only you know. Frankly, I prefer the first version. The second version will cause a lot of problems for Brahmins.

At this time, a soldier came over and whispered a few words in the employee's ear.

After the employee finished listening, he said to Su Mengfan, "Those Brahmins are here, they are really smelly flies, the news will be so timely.

I warn you, if they ask later, you better blame the librarian monsters for your thatch pal's death.

If you say the wrong thing, you don't want to know the information you want. After finishing speaking, he followed the soldiers and left.

(End of this chapter)