Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 48 Talking Hearts
“Their weapon is fear. People rarely stay in one place, they sleep with their machine guns — Uzis — and those things come close to us unarmed.

Everyone knew that these monsters were more numerous and more powerful every time they approached, so almost all of them ran away, running away from that horrible thing like crazy.

Some people are even really crazy, and that's all I say to you, Hunter, it's not just fear! "Su Mengfan lowered his voice.

"I don't know how to explain it to you...every time they are stronger than the last time.

Sometimes it's like they're going to get inside our heads...in my opinion, they do it on purpose.

From a distance, you could feel them, and the feeling was getting stronger and stronger, and the feeling was so terrible that your legs trembled.

But you still can't see anything, you can't hear anything.

Still, you feel them getting closer, closer...and then there's a horrible howl, and you just want to run away...but they're getting closer.

You start shaking, and after a while, you can see their dark eyes walking into the searchlight light..."

"Those bastard reptiles are damaging our minds!" Su Mengfan continued.

"You know, it's like they've tuned themselves into your band, and the next time they come, you feel their approach more intensely, and you're more scared. And it's not just a sense of fear."

Su Mengfan was silent.

Hunter sat motionless, watching him carefully, apparently brooding over what he had heard.

Then, he took a sip of hot tea and said slowly and quietly, "This is a threat to everyone, a threat to the entire subway system."

Su Mengfan fell into silence again, as if unwilling to answer.

But he suddenly said: "Do you think it is the entire subway system? No, not just the subway. This is a threat to the progress of the entire human race. It is a trouble that human beings have caused themselves while developing.

It's time to pay it back!Hunter, it's a war of species!The battle of species!
These dark people are not evil things, and they are not ghosts.

They were a new kind of Homo sapiens—the next stage of human evolution is like that, and they were better adapted to the environment than we are.

The future belongs to them, Hunter!
Maybe we old Homo sapiens will still rot for the next few decades, and spend the next 50 years in these dens we dug for ourselves.

At that time, a large number of people could not adapt to life on the ground, and poor us had to be driven underground during the day.

We shall be as pale and feeble as Dr. Moreau in Wells.

remember them?Those underground monsters that came from the future through a time machine.They used to be Homo sapiens too.

Yeah, we're optimistic - we don't want to die!

But the world above is no longer our home.It's not our place anymore, Hunter...

That world is no longer our world. "

Su Mengfan was silent again, he watched the steam in the cup rise slowly and condense in the dim light of the tent.

Hunter studied his nails carefully while listening to these words, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Su Mengfan, and said seriously: "You are really different from your brother Artyom.

Artyom faced my task without fear.A true Spartan Ranger warrior who will not back down even when faced with difficulties.

And you, the Homo sapiens who surrendered, would shrink back and compromise in the face of death? "

"Yeah, Hunter, I'm probably only right about a thing or two. I feel like you can understand a little bit, but maybe you'll never accept it:
We are the dinosaurs of the end, now we are in our last days...maybe ten years, 100 years of life, but it's all the same..."

"It's useless to resist, right?" Hunter responded meaningfully.

"Then what are you fighting for? So what have you been doing for the past half month?"

Su Mengfan was silent, his eyes looked at the ground.

Apparently this was something he had to struggle with mentally before saying it.

He has never admitted to anyone that he has a vulnerable side, and he has never said such a thing to anyone.

"Bullshit!" Hunter said slowly, standing up. "New species? Evolution? Inevitable extinction? Manure? Pigs? Vitamins? I'm not afraid of that, understand?
I will never raise my hand in surrender, the instinct of self-defense?You can say that.

Yes, I will live seriously.Fuck you evolution.Let other species wait first.I'm not a lamb to be slaughtered.

If you think they are perfect and better evolved species than us, surrender yourself and give them their due historical status!
If you feel like you've fought to the best of your ability then go ahead and I won't judge you.

But don't you try to scare me.Don't even try to confuse me, follow you into the slaughterhouse obediently.Why are you telling me this?

Don't you think that as long as you're not a deserter yourself, as long as someone else is doing it with you, you're not too ashamed?

Or did the enemy promise a bowl of hot porridge to every captive you brought?
My fight is hopeless?
You say we've reached the edge of the abyss?
I pooh you abyss!

If you think you're at the bottom of an abyss, take a deep breath and keep marching.

However, I will not join your team.

If sane, educated, civilized people choose to surrender - I'd rather be a brute than join them.

And, I'm going to bite life like a wild beast, bite off other people's throats in order to survive.

I can survive.Understand?I will survive! "

He sat down and calmly refilled his cup of tea.

Su Mengfan stood up and poured himself a glass of water. He looked melancholy and quiet.

Hunter was silent for a while, and then continued: "What on earth are you thinking? Like an outdated dinosaur, fend for itself? Resign yourself to fate?
Have you heard the story about the frog in the cream?

Two frogs fell into a bucket of cream, and one frog was very rational. He immediately understood that there was no need to resist, and you couldn't change your fate.

Maybe there will be a next life-then why bother jumping around for hopeless things.It crossed its legs and sank to the bottom of the barrel.

And the other frog, silly and probably an atheist.It jumps around.It looked as if it was certain death, and jumping was useless.

But it kept jumping and jumping... At the same time, the thick cream turned into hard butter, so it crawled out and was saved.

We should praise the second frog, who didn't think about anything, only knew to rush forward, and finally survived. "

"Who are you?" Su Mengfan finally tried to speak.

"Who am I? Don't you already know? I am Hunter the Hunter."

"But what does that mean--a hunter? What do you do? What do you hunt?"

"How can I explain it to you? Do you know how the human body is made up?

It's made up of thousands of tiny cells—some that emit signals, others that store information, and others that absorb nutrients and transport oxygen.

But all these, not the most important of them all.

If it weren't for the cells that perform immune functions, they would all die in less than a day, and the entire function would fail and die.

These immune cells are called macrophages.They work as methodically and meticulously as a clock, like a metronome.

When an infectious disease enters the body, macrophages find it, track it down, wherever it hides, and sooner or later, they enter the virus and..."

He made a gesture to break someone's neck, and there was an uncomfortable crunching sound from his mouth.

"Destroy it!"

"But what does that have to do with your work?" Su Mengfan asked after breaking the casserole.

"Think of the whole subway system as a human body. I'm that macrophage -- that hunter, and that's my job.

Anything that threatens the whole organism, I have to eliminate it, and that's my job. "

After Su Mengfan finished listening, he didn't ask any more questions.

It's been a long time.

Hunter drank the tea in the cup and said, "Do you know why I stayed in this subway station for so long?
It's not without reason, and I didn't run away from my own mission.

The danger has to be cleared, and that's what I'm here for.

The first time I see you everywhere, I think you are a compassionate person.

Later I found out that you are Artyom's elder brother, plus we got along with each other in the past half month.

Although I don't know what you are driven by, I still believe that you are a responsible and responsible person who dares to take risks.

And now you're scared, and you're slowly turning into a tool for those damn things.

Not only do you not resist them now, but you also want me to join your ranks.

As for what you told me about the Botanical Garden Station, he also told me about it when I met Artyom.

In addition to your words, the dark people entered our territory for the first time after your expedition, so the information that they came in from the Botanical Garden Station is even more true.

That's where the dark forces start to grow.

I'm already planning to go.But I don't know if I will come back. "

After Hunter finished speaking, he took out an iron piece from his pocket.He said, "You said that you admired the Spartan Rangers, and I believed it.

Although your previous remarks prove that you are contrary to the beliefs of the Spartan Rangers.

But I believe you will find your way back to the right path.

Take this piece of iron, and when you get to the Metropolitan Station, go to Melnik, and they will arrange for you.

Hope, you think about it, don't let me down! "

After Hunter finished speaking, he carried the packed things on his back, turned and left.

Only Su Mengfan was left holding the card and quietly lost in thought.

　I don't want to know how others deal with the psychological changes before and after time travel.

　　In my opinion, Su Mengfan is just an ordinary person, nothing special.

　　Weakness is not terrible, what is terrible is cowardice!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)