2th Subway Stations and the Beasts
In the panicking crowds, Lin Yi Ning clenched his fist.
Obviously, the barrier that the clown refers to is the transparent glass.
He tried to keep himself from panicking, observing everything around him carefully.
Its a good choice for him to be with others– and of course, other people feel the same way, so the passengers started to break into small groups of people, each one going into different directions. Everyone knows that its not a really good idea to stay in the area with a group of really murderous beast.
Lin Yi Ning also doesn’t want to follow the crowd. A cattle and a sheep in the same group, although can reduce the probability of death, they are not real companions. Each of them is a key for the other side to live. I am afraid that a little carelessness will lead the group in disorder.
He followed the crowd, trying to find a suitable place to hide. Before leaving, he checked if there are any suitable weapon for self defense but he did not find anything. When his line of sight come across a dry powder fire extinguisher, he felt a little regretful. If that thing was not so heavy, it would have been fine.
He did not notice that the dry fire extinguisher disappeared in place after he shifted his sight.
The elevator and the stairs appeared again after the clown has spoken and the group of people ran up the stairs.
The old, overcrowded elevator was abandoned at the moment,its steep slope making it unfavorable for running. At that time when their life is in danger, they are surprisingly fast.
Chenxi Subway Station is one of the largest subway station in the whole city and there are four subways stops to transfer from. The entire subway stations have three floors and is very huge, giving them enough room to chase.
Lin Yi Ning’s group is on the subway line 4 which was on the third floor basement of the station. It was not unexpected that five minutes later, they were only in the second floor.
后面响起了一阵兽类的脚步声。
There was a sound of footsteps of the beast in the back.
“Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah—”
When blood was spilled on top of their head, everyone can’t help but be anxious.
Its the vulture, the fastest animal in the group, rushing to grab a person and skipping the heads of everyone. In the piercing cry of help, its inevitable that people will produce a feeling of grief.
No one will try to save him, because no one can save him at all.
Lin Yi Ning heard a faint sound on the side as someone cried as they run.
“Ah!” Someone tripped.
The huge wolf passed over the railing and head straight towards the unfortunate person.
“Help me! Please help me!” Lin Yi Ning can’t help but look back before rushing up the stairs to the ground floor.
It was a young girl with childish face, perhaps still in high school. One of her legs was bitten by the wolf, dragging her towards the distance. She tried to hold the brick seams on the floor with her nails, leaving a bloody trace on the ground.
“Mom, help me!”
This is what Lin Yi Ning finally heard her say.
When they reached the last level of stair on the ground floor, the roaring and screaming was no longer heard. The group of people faintly produce the feeling of finally escaping from death.
But they also knew that some people used their lives to stall the five beast. This is only temporary, after the five animals finished playing with the five unlucky one, they will continue to hunt. Who can guarantee that the next unlucky one will not be from their group?
Four times. So far in the last 10 minutes, died four people. They witnessed the death of four people.
In the beginning, the people who ran out of the third floor basement were washed away, and only 20 people gathered together on the ground floor. Fortunately, they found the way, followed the signs and reached the front of the exit.
However, a thing that can be easily foreseen emerged. In past, the waist high exit gate that they can easily overcome with a jump became an insurmountable obstacle. A light curtain acting like a wall replaced the original position of the exit gate. That thing is familiar to them, that is, the same one that covers them.
The atmosphere was stagnant, and suddenly a man rushed up and punched the wall with his fist.
“Let me out! I want to go home!”
It was a simple and honest middle age man. Just like that, Lin Yin Ning never knew that the sound of fist hitting an object could be so heartbreaking.
Bang, bang.
His hands was already covered in blood along with the light wall, flowing to the ground and making a small puddle.
Finally, some people can’t take it anymore and a young man stood forward and pulled him away.
“That’s enough.”
“My son is still at home waiting for me. He is less than three years old. His mother is dead and if I don’t come back, who will care for him?” The middle age man finally stopped his senseless behavior, kneeling on the ground in tears.
“If you want to go home, then you must work harder to kill the beast. Its more useful than just crying here.” The young man said.
But after the words was spoken, it did not bring comfort to anyone.
They are a man-eating monster. How are they gonna kill them?
For a moment, the atmosphere in the crowd sank.
“Run!” Suddenly, somebody shouted. Going by instinct, they turned towards where the sound is coming from. There, they saw a huge crocodile, crawling towards them slowly.
What is more frightening is that they at the exit of a small protruding small area, a dead end. That is to say, if they want to leave here, they must get past the crocodile.
Where will they go? Who will run fast, who will get passed the crocodile, who will be the unlucky ones that will die.
Someone cannot help but cry out, legs trembling and cannot stay upright. The man standing in front of Lin Yi Ning pushed back hard, sticking to the light wall.
Lin Yi Ning’s hand is full of sweat. How will he escape?
The aisle is quite wide. It’s not necessarily impossible to run from the side of the crocodile that is farther away. Maybe the crocodile will not be fast.
This is probably the only way out.
No way. Lin Yining rejected the idea fiercely.
The crocodile slowly crawled over, not at all worried about the food of the mouth will slip away. One step, two steps, three steps …
The oppressing feeling of danger coming towards them is beyond fear itself, and finally someone can’t hold it anymore and run out. But the crocodile did not give him the chance to change his mind and at a completely unreasonable speed, he sprang to the man’s leg.
Crunch.
There was a faint sound, and the man’s feet were bitten off. This cold-blooded reptile’s eye has a cunning cold light, moving its mouth slowly, chewing the stump. The slow appearance even appearing somewhat elegant.
The victim tried his best to climb up and crawl away, the crocodile did not pay him any attention, and continued chewing what’s in its mouth.
Lin Yi Ning suddenly felt that the creature knew what he was doing, and he was eating it for them to see.
The crocodile moved his head, as if to take a good look at the rest of them. The beast pondered for a moment, and finally decided to drag the hapless man back and take a bite.
In the moment when the crocodile turned back, many people felt that the opportunity had come and wanted to escape.
Lin Yi Ning didn’t move, he thought things would not be so simple.
Altogether in the group of more than 20 people, more than half ran. When the first person fled the crocodile attack range, everybody was relieved and thought the hope is in the front, but this is often not the case.
The crocodile was disturbed by the people like an ants around him, and suddenly moved again. He attacked a couple this time.
Then, in the blink of an crocodile’s attack, the man pushed his girlfriend out.
“Ah ah ah–” The crocodile accurately caught the food delivered to the mouth, the blood sprayed, splashing the latter’s one leg.
The girl didn’t know what was going on until she died.
Lin Yi Ning only felt chills in his spine.
The last thing he wanted to see happened. A more terrible thing than the beast, was a man’s heart.
He tried to ignore the girl’s desperate eyes and fled the place while the crocodile’s attention was drawn.
Despair, struggle, killing, betrayal.
What he didn’t know was that this was just the beginning. In the years that followed, he would become a person adjacent to these words.
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