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«We wouldn’t have been able to help him anyway.
– Don’t make excuses, my friend, I understood everything right away. And now we need to get out of the subway outside.
«How?» asked Blanca.
– I don’t know that yet, let’s go through the tunnel to the next station.
The iron curtain
The girls walked very quietly and quickly through the dark and gloomy tunnel, they understood that it was definitely impossible to stop here, but it was also not desirable to lose vigilance to run. Soon they reached the Sokolniki station itself. Strangely, it was just as quiet here.
– Where did everyone go? Blanca asked her worried friend.
«God only knows,» Galya replied, shrugging her thin shoulders.
Blanca walked to the very edge of the platform.
– The main thing is not to try to climb onto the platform, leaning your foot on the contact rail, you will definitely be electrocuted! – said Galya.
But it was too late, Blanca grabbed the edge of the platform, but, to their mutual surprise, nothing of the kind happened.
– Apparently, someone took care and turned off the electricity. But who could have done it? – Blanca exhaled with relief and helped her friend to climb up, then she climbed with her help.
– I don’t know who. Suspicious here, quiet. «It shouldn’t be like this,» Blanca whispered.
– Let’s see what happened and where everything is, and it would be nice to get out on the street, – Galina answered and took her hand.
The escalator stood lifelessly in one place. The girls ran up the stairs.
– Where are the subway workers? – Galina said.
«I don’t know what to think,» her friend replied.
When they went upstairs, the exact same picture was waiting for them.
There was not a single soul.
Galya went to the front door and exclaimed in horror of what she saw. The doors were closed, and on the back side were closed with an iron curtain.
– We were closed for dead… do you understand? Blanca said in horror.
– We will go through the tunnel again to the next station and look for a way out! – Galina said confidently – Don’t stand, let’s go!
Dangerous tunnel
The Moscow underground tunnel now looked gloomy and not at all cozy. The walls themselves were smeared with some incomprehensible dirt, there was also a smell of a decomposing corpse and mold.
– Probably the rat died somewhere here. «What else could stink like that?» Galina asked her friend.
«Maybe it’s not a rat, maybe it’s a man,» Blanca replied.
– Even if it is, we will still have to go forward. We should look for a way out and think less about the horror of what is happening,» Galya replied.
The girls were slowly moving forward, to another station called Preobrazhenskaya Square. Suddenly, there was a rustle and an echo like someone shouting from the depths of the tunnel already passed, it was growing, as if someone was approaching them.
«Look, Blanca, there’s an opening in the wall over there.
The girls came closer and saw a small passage, and there was a door with a sign «Service room». They already felt safe here and were happy to go there, the door was not locked.
It was a small, service room, most likely a subway attendant, the furniture was a sofa, a table and a chair.
Meanwhile, the noise in the tunnel was increasing with increasing force and soon it was possible to make out that there was far more than one object moving there.
– Do you hear? Blanca said.
– T-s-s-s, stay here, and I’ll look out and then tell you what’s there,» the friend said quietly and came out of their hiding place.
What she saw now plunged her into a small stupor. There was a huge crowd rushing down the tunnel far away.
She moved quickly and purposefully. But who was it? Terrible creatures or a group of survivors?
But so far Galina just didn’t understand it. First she saw the rats running mad and running at her. «It’s terrible, because rats will not run away if they are not in danger»
She peered into the distance, the crowd was getting closer by the minute, and the girl realized from the way they were behaving that they could not be people.
That was what killed the guys in the car. Galya quietly tiptoed back to where her friend was waiting for her and closed the door on the latch.
The door was not intended to serve as a defense. It was an ordinary service door.
– Well, what is it? Blanca asked her.
«It’s not as good as I thought,» Galina whispered and looked sadly at her friend.
«Those monsters again?» – she asked, understanding the horror of what was happening in Gali’s eyes.
– Yes, and there are a lot of them there. They will be with us soon.
«I’m terribly scared,» Blanca said in a frightened voice.
«Hold on, honey, we have to survive at any cost,» Galya said and hugged her.
– You forgive me if something was wrong between us. I’ve been rude to you sometimes, but it’s not out of spite. I just have a bad temper.
– Nothing bad! – Galina answered.
– Well, don’t argue with me, I know what I’m saying! Here you see me again…
And then shuffling footsteps were heard outside the door. There was a feeling that a huge crowd was now rushing very close, that these monsters were already very close.
Blanca backed up to the wall and leaned on it while accidentally turning off the light.
– Blanca, did you do this? Galya asked in a whisper.
– Maybe, but now I can’t find it,» her friend replied in frustration.
– Now I’ll try, – said Galya and went to the Form, but on the way she touched something metal with her foot and it rolled with a crash on the floor.
Galina went up to her friend and groped for the switch on the wall. The room was bright again.
Now they were definitely heard and someone began to pull the door and try to enter.
– Can we open it? – Blanca said softly, – What if there’s a man behind her?
– No, I’m sure it’s not a person,» Galya replied in a whisper. The door continued to be pulled. It turned out that the latch was holding weakly and could come off at any minute.
– We’ll keep you going,» Galya whispered.
