Chapter 177 Next Stop, Doomsday
The subway system of the United Federation is very old. In 1863, Ingra built the world's first subway in his capital, Rotown. In the following forty years, this mode of transportation became popular all over the world.
The subway in Opportunity City was built in 1920. At first, there were only four lines. It underwent three large-scale renovations, and the last four lines were added during the renovation.
Building a subway in this world is not a simple matter.
Because in 1914, the Dunwich Drilling Company of the United Federation discovered a large void door enclosed in the rock layer 2,000 meters underground during an oil well drilling project.
The drill bit fell directly into it, and the spirit-like monster came to the ground along the borehole, causing more than 200 workers to be injured or killed. This is also the first time that the United Federation Administration has faced the Great Void shortly after its establishment.
If you don't dig it up and take a look, no one knows how many doors have not been discovered under your feet, so the Psychic Administration and the Research Institute are involved in the "digging down" project in this world.
At noon, the subway was not crowded, empty, with only four or five people in a carriage, which was completely different from the situation in China that Chen Ke was familiar with.
No matter when, if you take public transportation in first- and second-tier cities in China, don't expect to get a seat unless you are in a particularly remote place.
This may be because the population density in the Western world is small. The population of Opportunity City, including permanent and mobile residents, is just over 4 million, and for China, it can only be regarded as a small city.
The subway ticket purchasing system in Opportunity City supports coin and card payment, and because he did not carry a gun, he passed the security check safely even with the holy diamond.
However, he always felt that there must be equipment for scanning holy objects in some larger places such as airports. After all, even postmen have handheld devices specifically for scanning spinal cord psychic energy.
There are many people with psychic power in this world. Although they are all public officials, they are also potential threats to other countries.
For example, the Scarlet Phoenix Republic directly blocked the psychic industry, and private individuals could not do it. If they did, it would be illegal. Then, they must be doubly wary of psychics from other countries.
Chen Ke and Diana sat in the seats near the door. Since Chen Ke was a perpetual motion machine, he had no intention of closing his eyes and resting his mind. He could only stare blankly at the electronic station sign.
Diana, who was standing by, picked up the caviar in the bag and looked at it carefully. Chen Ke didn't know what she was studying. Maybe she was just bored.
A glowing billboard flashed from time to time in the dark tunnel outside the window. Most of them were advertisements for various psychic products, focusing on beauty, skin care and health products.
One station was not long. After sitting in silence for seven or eight minutes, the subway finally arrived at the station.
The white platform lights were not as bright as those in the carriage, so it felt a little darker outside. The construction time span of each station of the Opportunity City Metro was very long, so some stations did not even have electronic station announcements.
Chen Ke also studied the starting and ending points of Line 7. There are 16 stations in total, and 3 stations can transfer to Lines 2, 4 and 6. The starting point is located in the deep anchor area of Opportunity City, and the end point is on the outskirts of Lafite Road.
Diana had to get off the train in two stops. She put the caviar in a bag, took out her phone, and checked Facebook. Hmm... it turned out to be a red Nokia 5800.
A few more people came into the carriage, then closed the door and continued to move forward.
"Do you like caviar? That stuff is not cheap." Chen Ke suddenly asked.
"My father likes it very much. In fact, I rarely eat fish. I don't like anything related to fish. Why do you ask this?" Diana turned her eyes away from her phone and replied.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm just too bored..." Chen Ke scratched his head.
"What's your Facebook account? Let's add a friend." Diana said with a smile.
"I don't use Facebook..." Chen Ke said embarrassedly. He couldn't use it when he was in China, and it's impossible to use it now.
"Oh, I understand. You are the kind of person who refuses to socialize online." Diana expressed her understanding.
"I guess so. I don't like to put too much information about myself on the Internet." Chen Ke said.
"Nothing, everyone has their own concerns, but to be honest, even if you leave no trace on the Internet, it is very easy to find you." Diana smiled mysteriously.
"You sound like a county police officer." Chen Ke replied.
"Hehe... I know that there are some places where no one can find you as long as you hide in them, or they don't want to find you." Diana laughed.
"Oh? So powerful?" Chen Ke raised his head slightly.
"You know the black boxes that are all over the city, as long as you dare to hide in them, basically no one knows where you are, unless you send a signal yourself." Diana laughed.
"No one can find you if you hide in there?" Chen Ke asked in confusion.
How is it possible? Chen Ke has been in there before, but it is monitored by the Administration Bureau throughout the whole process, and it is strictly controlled. It seems that civilians, such as Diana, still have a shallow understanding of the black box space.
"As long as you hide in it, your landlord, creditor, boyfriend or girlfriend, and salesman will not dare to bother you again... It seems that this joke is not funny." Diana said, and saw that Chen Ke's expression did not change at all, and she was a little embarrassed.
"Hahaha." Chen Ke laughed politely four times.
As he was speaking, there was a sudden piercing sound of metal rubbing against each other at high speed. The people in the car were shocked by the sound and their facial features were squeezed together.
Chen Ke and Diana also looked crazy, but fortunately the sound only lasted for two seconds and then stopped. Maybe it happened to be at a curve just now. Subways and light rails always make this tortured sound when they go around corners.
Diana didn't say anything, but took out her phone and continued to browse Facebook. But she frowned and found that there was no internet.
Chen Ke leaned on his seat and tried to close his eyes to recover, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he always felt like a corpse.
Because normal people can hear their heartbeat or some echoes in their body in a quiet environment after closing their eyes. After Chen Ke closed his eyes, there was deathly silence.
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In the upper right corner of the dark field of vision, lines of prompts popped up quickly at a rate of more than a dozen per second.
A large group of strong murderous aura was absorbed by Chen Ke, and it only added 5 minutes every second, which meant that the attackers were very weak, but judging from this frequency, the number of attackers could be extremely large.
Chen Ke opened his eyes suddenly and looked around nervously. There were still a few passengers in the subway car. They were all sitting in their seats with their eyes closed and concentrating.
There was no red outline on these passengers, proving that they were not the source of the murderous aura. Diana started looking at the ingredients and production dates of various foods, and it was not her either.
what happened? He simply stood up, came to the car window and looked into the dark tunnel.
"Chen Ke? What's wrong?" Chen Ke's strange behavior attracted Diana's attention.
Chen Ke did not answer Diana because his eyes were attracted by a large red outline in the darkness. The silhouettes looked like a large group of people, and they were at the next platform.
Chen Ke subconsciously touched the holster and found it was empty...
"Chen Ke, you are very nervous. Did something happen?" Diana asked.
"Diana...I wonder if we should go back a little bit..." Chen Ke said.
We still don’t know what those red outlines are, but they shouldn’t be killers sent by the consortium, because they couldn’t possibly send Zhan Wuzhao to kill him.
Judging from their location, they were gathered together. If you could move to the back compartment, you might be able to escape.
Diana didn't understand what Chen Ke meant, and that cool questioning expression appeared on her face again.
Chen Ke didn't know how to explain it. For a moment, he wanted to leave Diana and walk away alone.
But the speed of the subway didn't give him time to think. He had already arrived at the station.
The platform outside the door was flashing with red lights. It looked completely different from the previous platform structure. The subway was still entering the station, but everyone in the car had already noticed something strange.
There is a large group of red human-shaped objects standing on the platform. They are like clay figures that are about to melt. They are staggering and pressing their bodies against the platform separation wall.
Chen Ke felt the light source behind him change, and the white lights in the car suddenly went out.
Among the other passengers in the carriage, a woman was so frightened that she screamed. This scream brought the sanity of others to the edge of collapse.
The car stopped slowly, and the clay figures outside the window had already noticed the living people in the car. They were lying on the transparent separation wall, scratching out red blood marks.
Chen Ke just wanted to turn around, but Diana suddenly grabbed his shoulder with her right arm and said to him seriously: "Chen Ke, don't look back, don't look."
Chen Ke saw a kind of courage in Diana's eyes. It was the kind of courage only those who face and fight monsters have.
"Don't look, sit down slowly and close your eyes." Diana comforted. She slowly stood up and took out a large-caliber revolver from under her jacket.
Chen Ke was stunned.
"Don't panic, everyone! I'm the Psychic Administration, CPA agent, Diana Prince! Everyone, close your eyes, stay calm, and think about the most pleasant things in your life." Diana shouted into the car.
"Fuck..." Only then did Chen Ke realize that Diana was actually an agent of the Administration.
"Don't panic, everyone, gather together and stay away from the car door!" Diana said as she walked towards the front of the car with her gun raised.
At this time, I heard a clang and the door of the carriage opened.