The carriage was empty by this time, and only the two of them sat quietly in it, trembling with fear.
In the dark, people were moving around next to the car and those who hurt them were prowling. But who it was, Blanca and Galina still did not understand.
They sat huddled together and were afraid to even move.
Suddenly there was a slight shuffling sound, someone was heading towards them.
– Diman, look, there’s a completely empty car here, come here and tie your leg, – said the young guy, he was a little stooped because of his tall stature.
– Yeah, let’s go here, – said a smaller, sturdy young man.
– Listen, I was wrong, the car is not completely empty, – said the lanky guy.
– Why are you girls all alone here? Were you scared? I agree the freelance situation is unsettling. Come with us?
Galya and Blanca exchanged glances with each other:
– Great! – said Blanca and waved her friend to go to the guys.
«Boys, what are those things out there?» Galina asked.
– We don’t really know anything ourselves. Dimka broke his leg here, he was in the hospital for several months, and now he needs to keep an eye on her, the cast was removed not long ago.
The fat guy was sitting on an empty seat now and bandaged his leg, sticking it out heavily in front of him.
Suddenly, there was a loud rustling and crunching next to the car. The tall guy looked out and shouted.
– Where are you going, man?
But apparently this someone did not pay attention to the words said to him.
– Man, why are you deaf? – the tall guy said again and went back into the car as if he wanted to hide from a strange, unexpected guest.
– His eyes are looking nowhere, it feels like there are absolutely no pupils, his gait is strange and he waves his hand strangely somehow, – said the tall guy.
«We should run,» Galya said softly and squeezed her friend’s hand tightly.
– T-s-s girls shut up, he’s already here, go to the very end of the car, and I’ll try to detain him, – said the tall guy and took a hefty metal piece of iron, which he found somewhere nearby.
Heavy footsteps were already clearly heard, and a healthy man entered the first door, which was next to the guys.
Instead of greetings, this strange guest did not make a single sound, but only stretched out his arms and attacked the tall guy.
– What do you want? – he exclaimed and fell to the floor, – Help Dima!
A friend came up and hit the man on the head with a metal stick, which the friend dropped from his hands, but he didn’t care about it, and he wasn’t going to leave his prey.
Blanca and Galya stood very quietly holding their breath at the end of the car, they looked at the unequal fight of the guys and the big guy.
– Oh, bitch, it hurts. Dima, help me! – shouted the long one, writhing under a healthy man, – A-a-a-a help, help.
Dima again hit the big man on the head and back with all his might, but he did not leave his friend’s side.
A red puddle formed around the tall guy, a hefty man hovered over him in the abdominal area.
And soon the screams began to gradually fall silent, the friend went limp, probably lost consciousness, or maybe even died.
– Oh, you stinking nit, I won’t let you eat my friend alive, – Dima shouted and again began to beat the man on the back, he suddenly got up and went at him.
The young man was backing backwards, apparently he did not expect such a situation.
The big guy waited for the right moment and put all his weight on the guy.
The girls did not wait for the final and rushed to run. When they ran a couple of meters away, Blanca whispered to her friend:
«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