Journey to another world in the subway

Chapter 6
The person who was alone in the back felt very uncomfortable and timidly looked back behind him again and again.

Su Mengfan stood in the car facing the man. He was sure that there was nothing scary behind him, but he himself seemed to be infected and unconsciously turned his shoulder to take a glance.

This fear had always followed him, and not only him, but every solitary traveler was familiar with it.They even had a name for it, "tunnel phobia."

It means that when you are walking alone in a tunnel, especially if your flashlight is not working, you feel that the danger is behind you.

Sometimes it feels so real, like someone is staring straight at the back of your neck - or more than just staring... you just feel like there's someone or something looking at you from behind you...

Sometimes it becomes so unbearable that you immediately turn the flashlight and shine the light into the darkness - finding no one...silence...emptiness...everything is peaceful.

And as soon as you turned your head again, facing the darkness like a blind man, that chill crawled up your spine again.

Is there someone behind you? Is someone sneaking up on you while you are looking away? Over and over again...

The most important thing at this time is not to lose control, don't give in to fear, tell yourself that everything is rubbish and there is nothing to be afraid of, so that you can overcome the illusion...

But it's hard to control yourself—especially when you're walking alone.

People lose their minds, and even when they get to a manned base they can't calm down.

It takes a while for them to come back to their senses, but they won't be able to force themselves to go into the tunnel again - or rather they'll be overwhelmed by the sense of vigilance that is so familiar to Metro-dwellers, and it might shift For a malignant delusional disorder.

"Don't be afraid - I'm watching!" Su Mengfan shouted to the person behind him.The man nodded, but after a few minutes, he couldn't help but look back.dont see?This is so difficult...

"I know a guy at Seroji station, he's almost like him, he's a bit crazy," Zhenya said quietly, knowing what Su Mengfan was talking about.

"Honestly, he had a serious problem. He wanted to go through the tunnel at Sukhalev Station - remember what I told you? To go somewhere he shouldn't be alone.

Well, this guy is still alive.Do you know why he is still alive? "Zhenya smiled triumphantly.

"Because he didn't have the guts to walk 100 meters. He was brave and decisive when he set off.

Huh...he was back in 20 minutes—eyes staring, hair bristling, unable to speak a word.

They couldn't ask anything either—he's been talking incoherently since then, often grunting like an animal.Refuse to set foot in the tunnel—just stay at Sukharev station.

He is now a country idiot.This story is very educational, right? "

"Yes..." Su Mengfan said vaguely.

As the group moved silently, he noticed some strange noises coming from the tunnel ahead of them.

The sound is almost inaudible at first, somewhere between audible and ultrasonic, and builds up slowly and subtly, so you can't tell when you start hearing it.

It made him think of whistles - mysterious and seemingly inhuman.

Su Mengfan quickly glanced at the others, they were all moving silently and rhythmically.

The commander had stopped talking to Cage. Zhenya was thinking about something. The man at the back of the car looked ahead calmly and stopped looking nervously.

They heard nothing, no!
Su Mengfan began to get scared.

The silence of the procession made the sound more pronounced, and it grew louder—incomprehensible and terrifying.

Su Mengfan stopped working and stood up.

Zhenya looked at him in surprise, and there was no fear in Zhenya's eyes that Su Mengfan was worried about.

"What are you doing?" Zhenya asked angrily.

"Are you tired or something? You should have said it first, why did you stop suddenly?"

"Didn't you hear anything?" Su Mengfan asked in confusion, his tone made Zhenya's expression change immediately.

Zhenya listened more carefully and did not stop shaking the handle.

However, the car moved slower and slower, because Su Mengfan still stood with a puzzled look on his face, catching the mysterious sound.

The commander noticed and turned around and said, "What's wrong with you? There's something wrong with you!"

"Didn't you hear anything?" Su Mengfan asked him.

The commander signaled everyone to stop so that the squeaking of the wheels and the sound of footsteps would not interfere.

His hand touched the barrel of the gun quietly, and he stood motionless, vigilantly, with one ear turned to listen for the movement in the tunnel.

The strange sound is there.

Su Mengfan could hear it clearly, the clearer the voice was, the more Su Mengfan paid attention to the commander's face, trying to confirm whether he also heard that voice.

However, as the commander's face gradually relaxed, Su Mengfan felt a kind of shame.

After all, he stalled the group's progress for no apparent reason and terrified everyone.

Zhenya obviously couldn't hear any sound, even though he tried hard.

So he began to mock Su Mengfan maliciously, looked him straight in the eyes and asked, "An illusion?"

"Get lost!" Su Mengfan roared unexpectedly.

"Are you deaf or something?"

"Illusion!" Zhenya concluded.

"Shh, be quiet. Nothing. You just thought you heard it.

Don't worry, it's all right, Alcorn, come on, get on with the work, let's go. "The commander said softly, eased the situation, and took the lead by himself.

Su Mengfan had no choice but to return to his post.He tried seriously to convince himself that the whisper was just his imagination and just nervous.

He tried to relax, not to think about anything, hoping to get the voice out of his mind, along with his restless thoughts.

He tried to stop thinking, but the voice grew louder and clearer in his empty head.

It gave him strength to think that every step they took was heading south, when the strange sound grew so loud that it seemed to fill the entire subway.

Su Mengfan suddenly noticed that Zhenya was working with only one hand, and before he knew it, he was rubbing his ear with the other hand.

"What are you doing?" Su Mengfan asked him quietly.

"I don't know...they seem to be blocked...itchy..." Zhenya muttered.

"What didn't you hear?" Su Mengfan asked.

The strange sound reached its peak, and now Su Mengfan understood where the sound came from.It comes from a pipe that runs along the tunnel wall.

It was once a communications route.

The pipe burst, and there was this strange sound from the black blast hole, which came from the depths of the pipe.

Su Mengfan tried to figure out why there was no metal wire inside, just empty black.

The commander stopped suddenly, and slowly uttered a few words, "Guys, we...here... let's take a break. I don't feel well. There's something in my head."

He staggered to the front of the car, trying to sit on the side to rest, but suddenly fell to the ground like a sandbag.

Zhenya looked at him in bewilderment, and rubbed his hands over his ears without moving.

Cage continued walking as if driven by something, as if nothing had happened, indifferent to the shouts of his companions.

The last man sat down on the rails and cried like a baby.The light of the flashlight illuminates the zenith from bottom to top, and the scene looks even more terrifying.

Su Mengfan panicked.Apparently he was the only one whose mind wasn't clouded by the strange noise, but it became so unbearable that it made it impossible to think normally.

Su Mengfan covered his ears in despair, and it did work.

Then, he tried his best to slap Zhenya, who was rubbing his ears stupidly, and tried to shout to him over the noise, forgetting that he was the only one who could hear:
"Hel up the commander! Get him into the car! We can't stay here, no! We have to get out of here!" He picked up the flashlight that fell to the ground and chased Cage, who was like a sleepwalker in the dark. Moving forward.

Fortunately, Cage walked slowly.

After a while, Su Mengfan managed to catch up with him and patted him on the shoulder.But Cage kept walking, and they got further and further away from the others.

Su Mengfan simply stood in front of him, opened his eyelids, and shone the light of the flashlight directly into Cage's eyes.

Cage started screaming, blinking, shaking his head, and within a second he regained consciousness, opened his eyes, and looked at Su Mengfan in confusion.

Dazzled by the light of the flashlight, he could hardly see anything, and Su Mengfan had to pull him back to the car.

The commander was lying unconscious in the car, and Zhenya was still sitting next to him with a stupid look on his face.

After putting Cage in the car, Su Mengfan went around to the back to find the crying guy sitting on the track.

Su Mengfan saw a tormented expression, the feeling was so sharp, he couldn't help backing away in fear, thinking that he himself might cry in front of such a miserable face.

"They were all killed...it's too painful!" Su Mengfan recognized his words from the sobs.

Su Mengfan tried to help the man up, but he broke free and roared unexpectedly.

"Stupid pigs! Bad guys! I'm not going anywhere with you, I'm staying here!

They are so lonely and in so much pain, and you still want to take me away from here?it was all your fault!I'm not going anywhere!Let me go, you hear me? "

At first, Su Mengfan wanted to slap him to wake him up - but he was afraid that the agitated guy would retaliate.

So, Su Mengfan bent down and squatted in front of this man, and said softly, "Now, you still want to help them, right? You want to help them end their pain, right?"

The man looked at Su Mengfan with tears streaming down his face, and whispered with a frightened smile: "Of course... of course, I want to help them."

"Then you must help. They want you to help me first. Get in the car and stand by the controls. You must help me to the base."

"Did they tell you to do this?" The man looked at Su Mengfan suspiciously.

"Yes." Su Mengfan answered affirmatively.

"Then, will you let me go back to them?"

"I promise you, if you want to come back to accompany them, I will let you come back." Su Mengfan immediately affirmed, without giving him more time to think, and pulled him into the car.

He left the man in the car, obeying Zhenya mechanically, and he and Cage took control of the joystick, with the comatose commander lying in the middle.

At the same time, Su Mengfan occupied the front, pointed the machine gun at the darkness ahead, and moved forward quickly.

He was surprised that he could hear the car following him.

Su Mengfan felt that he was taking a risk because the rear was completely defenseless, but he understood that the most important thing now was to get out of this hellish place as quickly as possible.

With three people now controlling the joystick, the group was moving faster than ever.Su Mengfan was relieved to find that the evil voice was subduing, and his sense of crisis had also been reduced by half.

He shouted at his companions to keep up, when suddenly he heard Zhenya's sober and surprised voice behind him.

"What, are you the commander now?"

Su Mengfan signaled to stop, knowing that they had escaped from the danger zone, and returned to the group, leaning on the car and slumped on the ground.

The others also gradually regained consciousness.The man behind also stopped sobbing, wiped his face with his hands, and looked around in confusion.

The commander also started to move, and got up with a dull groan, complaining of a headache.

After half an hour, we can finally continue to set off.Except for Su Mengfan, no one remembers what happened.

"You know, there's something that just pulls me down, and my head goes crazy -- all of a sudden I'm unconscious.

I encountered this situation once, it was a gas explosion.

But if it's poisonous gas, it shouldn't have this effect-everyone can't be spared... Did you really hear that sound?Yeah, that's weird..." the commander thought.

"Nikita is yelling... Hey, Nikita, who the hell are you shouting at?" he asked the defender.

"Ghost knows... I don't remember. I seem to remember the first minute, but now it's all flying out of my head... It's like a dream:
You remember everything when you first wake up, but after a few minutes when you wake up slightly, all those images are gone.Just remember some fragments... they are all the same.

I remember being very, very sorry to someone...but to whom, why - no memory at all. "

"You want to stay in the tunnel forever. With them. I promise you I'll let you go back if you want," Su Mengfan said.

He glanced sideways at Nikita and said, "Well, you're at your place, it's time for me to let you go back!" He smiled jokingly.

"No thanks," Nikita muttered unhappily, "I'm going to reconsider..."

"Okay, guys, we've stayed long enough. There's nothing to stay in the tunnel. Let's get to our destination first and then have a good chat. We still have to go home..."

Why plan to leave on this day - it's God's will.

"Go!" ordered the commander.

"Listen, Alcorn, come and walk with me. You are our hero today," he added unexpectedly, and looked at Su Mengfan with a strange light in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)