Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 5 Story
Here is the Code of Criminal Code, according to which the VDNKh stands for fast-track trials of criminals.

And the penal code is always changing as the situation changes, and new regulations are established accordingly.

Any violation of strategic objectives will be punished with the most severe penalties.

If smoking on the platform causes a fire, or if a weapon is mishandled and causes an explosion, you will be expelled from the base immediately, and your personal property will be confiscated.

The reason these laws are so strict is that several bases have been burned.The fire quickly swept through the small tent city, devouring everything.

Nearby bases recalled months later the screams of burnt men in excruciating pain.

Carbonized bodies stuck in molten plastic and canvas, rows of teeth cracked from the heat of the flames, fell into lanterns carried by a group of businessmen who stumbled through this "traveler's hell", startling them stunned.

In order to prevent such a tragedy from being repeated at other bases, the act of inadvertently lighting a fire has evolved into a serious criminal offense.

If you commit crimes such as theft, vandalism and willful evasion of labor, you will also be deported.

But because everyone is almost always within sight of each other, and there are only about 200 people on the base, such crimes are rare and usually committed by alien strangers.

So with the previous lesson, the old man specifically warned Su Mengfan.

It didn't take long for the commander to walk out from the interior of the All-Russian Exhibition Hall station, and there was a neatly dressed non-commissioned officer beside the commander.

They chatted for a few words and then parted ways.And Su Mengfan returned to the team with the commander.

The men in the line put their supplies under their feet and held their rifles in their hands.As before, it was Cage who first started shaking the handcart.

Su Mengfan sat beside the commander.

Since it is a relatively safe route from the All-Russian Exhibition Hall Station to the Alekseyevsk Station, speeches can be made without being as serious as the 1000-meter distance between the Botanical Garden Station and the All-Russian Exhibition Hall Station.

Coupled with the relaxation just now, the whole team is not so serious and tense.

The commander looked at Zhenya on the opposite side and said, "Young nanny, don't be so nervous. Stand up, stand up, let me tell you a fun little story."

"We can still tell you a dozen short stories!" Zhenya said boldly.

"Yeah, I know all your stories. About the dark ones, about the mutants... about your little mushrooms, of course.

But there are some stories you have never heard.Yes, absolutely, and probably no one has ever said it - because no one can verify it... Some people have tried to verify these stories, but they can't tell us the result with certainty. "

For Su Mengfan, a few short words filled him up in an instant.

Any information beyond the subway station meant a lot to him now, and he wanted to hear the story of the Invisible Watcher even more now.

He quickly stood up from the rails, moved the machine gun from his back to his chest, and stood on the post.

"I'm very interested, what does your generation know about the subway?" said the commander.

"You tell each other similar stories. Who got where, who built what. The first tells the next what's wrong, and the second whispers to the third, and the third tells the fourth over a cup of tea. One listened, and the latter took the whole story as his own adventure.

This is the main problem with the subway: there is no reliable way for news to travel quickly from one end to the other.

There are places you can't get past, there's always some crap you can't explain, and it changes every day... Do you think this subway system is really that big?
In fact, it takes only an hour to travel from one end to the other by train.

Even this simple task now takes weeks.

And you never know what awaits you next.

Here, we're headed to the Peace Avenue station for the handover... The thing is, no one—including me and the watchman—can guarantee that we won't be violently attacked when we arrive.

Or, we'll be faced with an empty, charred station.Or maybe the Heping Avenue Station has already been occupied by the forces of the red line, then we will have nowhere to go.

No definite information... We got some information the other day - but it expired a few days ago, and if you count on it the next day, it's tantamount to crossing a quicksand with a map from 100 years ago.

It takes a long time for a messenger to deliver a message, and by the time it arrives the message may be stale or unreliable.

The truth has been distorted.

People have never lived in such conditions...there is no fuel left for future generations, it is scary to think about it, and there is no electricity anymore.

Have you read The Time Machine?They have these Morlocks there too..."

But Su Mengfan didn't want to hear this, so he planned to lead the story to what he wanted to hear.

"Well, what does your generation know about the subway.

Hmmm... talk about tunnel doom... about Metro [-] and the Invisible Warden?
I won't talk about those.But I can tell you anecdotes about the people who lived there.

For example, do you know where the Pushkin station used to be - there are two other walks to Chekov and Tverskaya - now occupied by Farsis? "

"What—what Fasis?" Zhenya asked suspiciously.

"The real Farsis. Before, when we were still living there," the commander pointed upward.

"There were fassies. There were guys with crew cuts who said they were RNEs and all kinds of other anti-immigration guys because that was the trend at the time.

Only a fool would want to know what those abbreviations mean, now nobody remembers, probably none of their own.

It's as if they've all disappeared and you can't hear or see anything about them.

Suddenly, after a while, they pop up out of nowhere again. 'The metro belongs to the Russian people! 'Have you heard it?

And they said: 'Do something good - clean up the subway! ’ and throw all the non-Russians out of Pushkin station, and then throw them out of Chekov and Tverskaya stations.

Eventually, they become biting like rabies.Now they have a little Germany there, or a fourth or fifth or something.

They haven't expanded further. Fortunately, our generation still remembers the twentieth century and knows what fascists are...

The mutants on the Filevskaya metro line are basically real... What are they, the things in our darkness here?
And sects, Satanists... It's a warehouse full of freaks.That's it. "
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Not long after Su Mengfan and others left, the old man at the entrance of the All-Russian Exhibition Hall felt that Su Mengfan just now seemed to be alone, and his name was very familiar.

Suddenly, with a slap on the forehead, I remembered something.

He greeted the soldiers on the side a few times, and hurried to the station by himself.

I ran directly to Sukhoi's house and found that there was no one in the tent.He immediately turned his head to the barracks where the maintenance personnel used to hang out, but now belonged to the base government.

Sukhoi was there, sitting opposite the base duty officer, who was also the leader elected by the people at the All-Russian Exhibition Hall station, and the two were chatting enthusiastically.

The old man knocked on the door frame and coughed lightly.

"Hello, Mr. Alexander Nikolaevich, may I have a chat with Mr. Sukhoi?"

"Of course, Mr. Sam, come in. Do you want some tea?" The duty officer greeted warmly and cordially.

"Mr. Sam, what do you want from me?" Sukhoi said while moving the chair away from the table.

"I want to know, do you have any impression of the name Alcorn Seanrich?" The old man directly asked a question.

Sukhoi pondered for a while, "This name is so familiar, I should have heard it somewhere. Where did you know this name?"

The old man explained Su Mengfan's arrival today and Su Mengfan's appearance to Su Khoi.And think Su Mengfan looks very similar to Artyom.

"As I recall, Artyom's full name is Artyom Schoenrich.

19 years ago, there was a plague of rats at the Timilazev station, and I rescued the Artyom brothers from a frenzy of giant rats. "Sukhoi said.

"Where is Alcorn now?

When they were young, the Dark Race invaded without knowing why. In that accident, Alcorn disappeared. At that time, we thought he was dead. After all, he was so young at that time and had no ability to resist. "

"He's gone now, he's gone with the people from the Lufthansa Union, maybe he's from there now."

"Alright then, Artyom went to Riga Station with the tour group, and if there are no accidents, he will be back tomorrow night.

I will tell Artyom about it in due time, this is good news, Artyom will be very happy. "
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After Su Mengfan listened to the story told by the commander, he didn't hear what he wanted, so he didn't raise much interest.

To him, those Fascists who wanted to establish the Fourth Reich were nothing more than fanatics.

Under this intricate network of Moscow subway lines, there will always be some extremists who want to use their fanatical ideas to force others to accept them.

Chatting and chatting.A few people passed through Alexeyevsk Station.

The next step is to go to Riga station, and now it starts to be dangerous.

And Su Mengfan and Zhenya took over Cage's task.

(End of this chapter)