Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 34 Communication
Su Mengfan sighed enviously, and followed Mikhail Porfilevich, but his eyes had not left the train.

There was joyful laughter and conversation in the carriage.

They passed by a place and saw a man sitting at the door. After a day's work, he looked very tired. He was smoking with his neighbors and talking about what happened today.

The old ladies gathered around the table and then drank tea by the light of a small lamp attached to a wire.Children are running around.

Compared with what I have encountered during this period, this station has too much joy.

"What do they live on here?" Su Mengfan caught up with the old man and couldn't help asking him.

"What? You don't know?" Mikhail Porfilevich said politely, but in surprise. "This is Smogli Station!
Here are the best subway technicians, who are the prominent owners of this subway system.

They brought all kinds of equipment to be installed from the Moscow metro line 1 and even from the ring line of the 5 metro.

The careers of these people are thriving and thriving, and what a blessing it is to live here! "

He sighed imaginatively, "But they also have very strict requirements on the qualifications to live here..."

Su Mengfan imagined that they could sleep on the bed in the carriage.

In the middle of the hall there was a row of big tents, the kind he had been staying in at the All-Russian Exhibition Hall. The first tent had the word "Hotel" painted on it, and a long line of fleeing people stood beside the hotel.

But Mikhail Porfilevich called one of the organizers aside, gave some money, said something mysterious in a low voice, and the problem was solved.

"We're going in." He made an inviting gesture, and Vaniechka happily followed him in.

They also got some tea without paying extra. The cushions on the floor were very soft, and they didn't want to get up after lying down. Su Mengfan was lying half-lying, blowing the tea leaves floating in the water cup, and listening carefully to the old man's words.

The old man had long forgotten his tea, and told Su Mengfan excitedly: "This whole place is the sphere of influence of the Red Army. No one will tell you this, and the Red Army will never admit it. The sphere of influence of the red subway line extends to the Stadium Station." .

Su Mengfan drank a small cup of tea and felt that his body was so sweet that it froze. He expected some strange and unusual things to happen here, something that happened on the Southwest Red Subway Line.

Vaniechka was nibbling at his nails, pausing now and then to look with satisfaction at the fruits of his labor, and then going on.

Su Mengfan looked at him sympathetically, thankful that the boy was so quiet.

"At Balikanaya station we have a little circle of our own," Mikhail Porfilevich smiled sheepishly, "and we meet in the evenings.

Sometimes people come and join us from Ulitasha 1905 station, now they all follow people who think differently, and Stafford moved to our station...  

Of course it's not very meaningful, just a simple meeting, but we also talk about other things sometimes... In Balikanaya Station, people don't like educated people too much.

So, we discuss it privately, but Yevhen Stafford said that the Moscow University station didn't disappear, it's just that they managed to seal the tunnel and there are still people in it now.

Not just ordinary people, there is the former site of Moscow University, which is why it is called Moscow University Station.

A number of professors and students were allegedly rescued at Moscow University station.

There are some air-raid shelters under the university, which were built in the past. I think these holes may be connected by special tunnels and subways.

There is still an intellectual center there now, but that may just be a rumour, and the educated have power there too.

Learning doesn't stop there, as there are students, graduate students and faculty there.

Culture doesn't disappear like here, those people can write and do experiments...

Antorovich even said that an engineer friend of his secretly told him that they had found a way to get back to the surface.

They invented a protective suit, and sometimes their scouts are sent into the subway...

It all sounds incredible to you! "

Mikhail Porfilevitch added half-certainly, half-questioningly.

He looked into Su Mengfan's eyes, but Su Mengfan found the sadness and a timid and tired hope in his eyes, Su Mengfan coughed.

Answer him as confidently as possible: "How incredible? It sounds completely possible! Let's take the Metropolitan Station as an example. I've heard the same story..."

"It's no easier to get there than to get to the Emerald City...we all jokingly call the University and the stations around it that way...you have to cross the red line or the Lufthansa, but you can't go there, you understand. It's not much better there either, but I was there when I was young."

Su Mengfan asked why it was difficult to get around, and the old man replied helplessly: "There is a row of burned cars in the middle of the tunnel.

I haven't been there in years so don't know what it is like now, back then you could see charred human bodies sitting on the seats, it was horrible.

I don't know what happened there, I asked a few friends, but no one knew for sure.

It was very difficult to get over the car because the tunnel had started to collapse and dirt was all over the car.

In the car, I mean in the car, all kinds of bad things will happen, and it's hard to say exactly what happened.

I'm an atheist and I don't believe in the mystical...now I don't believe in anything. "

These words made Su Mengfan think of the mysterious noises in those tunnels, and he couldn't help telling the old man what happened to his friend during the journey some time ago.

"What? What are you talking about? Nonsense!" interrupted Mikhail Porfilevitch, frowning gravely.

"I've heard such things before. You remember Mr. Yevhen Stafford whom I mentioned?

He's a physicist, and he told me that this psychological phenomenon happens when people are disturbed by low sound waves.

These sounds are basically inaudible, if I remember correctly the frequency is around [-] Hz... and the bass may be due to some natural cause, for example, due to structural changes or something.

I didn't pay attention when he said it... But something about the souls of the dead?A ghost in a sewer pipe?please..."

This old man is very interesting, Su Mengfan has never heard anyone else say what he said.

This old man sees the subway from a different angle, an old-fashioned and interesting one.

Apparently, all things can pull his soul back to the surface of the earth.He's clearly uncomfortable here, as if it's his first day living underground.

Su Mengfan thought of the argument between the commander and Tyne, and asked, "I want to ask your point of view... Can we, I mean human beings, return to the earth? Can we go back alive?"

Immediately he regretted asking the question, as it seemed to cut into the old man's veins, and immediately softened, and murmured lifelessly, "I don't think I can, I can't."

"But after all there are other metro systems, in St. Petersburg, in Minsk, and in Novgorod."

Su Mengfan listed the names he remembered, even though they were just empty and meaningless words to him.

"Ah! what a beautiful city—St. Petersburg!" Mikhail Porfilevitch made no reply, but sighed sadly.

"You know, Isaac, the Admiralty, and the church steeple, how beautiful, how beautiful!
And Nevsky Prospekt at night - loud bustling people laughing and kids eating ice cream and pretty girls...and music...especially in summer...there's not much good weather in summer there .

But if there was...the sun was shining gold, the sky was clear and blue...you know, you'd feel like it was easy to breathe..."

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　　 PS: 1. "Metropolis Station" is not a subway station, but the abbreviation of the faction of Bosley Metropolitan Station.So it is not marked with square brackets.

　　2. Today's two chapters are just a transition, so that the protagonist's body and the overall plot can be relieved.Tomorrow will enter a small climax again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)