Chapter 44 This road is blocked

Ming Fei...

Lu Mingfei put Liu Miaomiao's words on his lips and chewed them carefully to make sure that he did not hear the word "Lu" just now.

"What did you call me just now?" Lu Mingfei wanted to confirm.

"Just call you by your name! What else can I call you?" Liu Miaomiao pouted with swollen eyes.

"No, what's his name?"

"Don't you know your name?" Liu Miaomiao resolutely avoided the question.

Lu Mingfei scratched his head, wondering why this little girl was being so arrogant.

As if to change the subject, Liu Miaomiao looked around the platform.

"Lu Mingfei, take a look, this platform seems different from the previous ones."

Lu Mingfei also looked at the platform.

The green tiles and cement floor had badly peeling putty and there were cobwebs everywhere in the corners. It looked like the building had been there for a long time. I had no idea how many years it was built.

There are many graffiti left by students of the subway technical school on the wall, and there are signatures everywhere, such as "XX major 19XX class XXX visited here". At the entrance of the platform, there is a warning sign that says "This station is not an operating area, non-staff members are prohibited from entering", but it has long been rusted.

There was an incandescent lamp hanging from the ceiling, and the light was brighter than the previous platforms. The four characters "Fushouling Station" were painted on the wall in a shocking red.

"Fushouling Station?"

Liu Miaomiao suddenly took out a small booklet from the pocket of his shorts. It was a travel guide to the imperial capital, which contained a map of the imperial capital and a subway map.

"Strange, there is obviously no such platform on Line 1..." Liu Miaomiao muttered.

They entered the subway station from Wangfujing Street and just passed the "Fuxingmen Station", the transfer station for Line 1 and Line 2. Logically speaking, this should be Line 1.

But she couldn't find this station on the subway map of Line 1.

Just like in the campus horror legend, the stairs that originally had only twelve steps suddenly became thirteen steps at midnight.

But she soon realized that everything in this subway station could not be judged according to common sense.

He had just seen so many strange things, including the ghostly men in black who were chasing them, and the strange birds with huge mouse-like claws.

Compared with these, the sudden appearance of a platform on Line 1 that no one has heard of seems acceptable.

and……

She turned her head to glance at Lu Mingfei, as if as long as he was by her side, the feeling of panic and fear lingering in her heart would disappear.

Of course, Lu Mingfei didn’t know about Liu Miaomiao’s “girlish feelings” at the moment. The moment he saw the words “Fushouling Station”, Lu Mingfei knew that they had arrived at the terminal.

"You won't find this station on the map."

Lu Mingfei pressed the booklet in Liu Miaomiao's hand.

"This was the terminal station set up when Line 1969 was first designed. It was built in , but it has never been open to the public."

“That’s it.” Liu Miaomiao nodded and obediently put away the booklet without asking Lu Mingfei why he knew so much.

Lu Mingfei had already given her too many surprises today, so she subconsciously thought that it was normal for Lu Mingfei to know these things.

"Let's go and find the subway manager."

"Is the subway controller here?"

"should be."

Lu Mingfei patted his trouser legs and was about to stand up when he suddenly remembered that Liu Miaomiao seemed to have sprained her ankle.

Turning his head, his eyes followed Liu Miaomiao's well-proportioned and straight long legs all the way down, to her slender, snow-white feet, but her ankles were slightly red and swollen, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding fair skin.

"Is your foot okay? Can you still walk?"

"It should work."

Lu Mingfei held Liu Miaomiao's hand and tried to help her stand up. Just as she took a step, Liu Miaomiao groaned in pain and leaned on Lu Mingfei.

"No, it seems to be sprained very badly." Lu Mingfei frowned as he looked at Liu Miaomiao's red and swollen ankle, which couldn't even walk.

If it's just a normal sprain, it's fine, but I don't know if it's a subluxation of the ankle.

If it is really a subluxation of the ankle, then it will be troublesome.

No matter what, emergency measures must be taken immediately.

"Do you mind if I help you take a look?" Lu Mingfei looked up and asked Liu Miaomiao.

Liu Miaomiao hesitated for a moment, nodded slightly, and sat down on the ground with the help of Lu Mingfei. She raised her sprained ankle and slowly put it into Lu Mingfei's arms.

Lu Mingfei reached out and touched Liu Miaomiao's heel. The moment the sandal laces were hooked by his fingers, Liu Miaomiao suddenly trembled, then immediately covered her mouth with the back of her hand, and uttered a few cute moans, but she couldn't stop smiling in the corners of her eyes.

"Well, try not to touch the soles of my feet, okay?" Liu Miaomiao looked at Lu Mingfei timidly with misty eyes, "I'm a little ticklish."

Lu Mingfei looked at Liu Miaomiao's shy expression and suddenly remembered the scene in "Water Margin" where Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian were having dinner.

Wang Po gave Ximen Qing an idea, asking him to deliberately throw the chopsticks on the ground, and then take the opportunity to touch Pan Jinlian's feet. If Pan Jinlian did not dodge violently, it would mean that the matter was done. Because the foot is a relatively private and ambiguous part, if Pan Jinlian did not dodge, it means that she accepted Ximen Qing's frivolousness and temptation.

At that time and moment, just like this moment?
How can they be so similar?

“I try not to touch it.”

Lu Mingfei held Liu Miaomiao's heel with one hand and nervously held Liu Miaomiao's ankle with the other hand.

Liu Miaomiao's feet were softer and lighter than Lu Mingfei had imagined, like a fallen leaf placed in his palm, yet with a bit of the warmth of a young girl.

Lu Mingfei massaged it carefully and did not feel any dislocation of the bones or joints. Fortunately, it was not a subluxation of the ankle.

Lu Mingfei sighed, tore off a strip from his clothes, and simply fixed the ankle. When his fingers accidentally brushed the slightly sunken tender sole of the foot, Liu Miaomiao twitched again as if she had been electrocuted. Lu Mingfei was also itchy at the suddenness.

"I checked it for you. It shouldn't be a big problem, but you still can't bear any force for a short period of time."

Lu Mingfei put on sandals for Liu Miaomiao and looked away from her feet. "I've dealt with it briefly for you. I'll carry you on my back later."

Liu Miaomiao just responded lightly: "Yeah."

Lu Mingfei helped Liu Miaomiao stand up, then squatted in front of her.

Feeling Liu Miaomiao's body gently pressing against his back, with her hands hooked in front of him, Lu Mingfei then lifted up Liu Miaomiao's legs and stood up.

"Where is the subway manager?" Liu Miaomiao asked softly in Lu Mingfei's ear, resting her head on the side of Lu Mingfei's shoulder.

"It should be nearby." Lu Mingfei replied.

As I recall, the dealer dressed in dark brown linen should have been sitting under the incandescent light on the platform of Fushouling Station, with a simple table and seat in front of him.

But now there is nothing under the incandescent light, it is empty.

"Let's go a little further and take a look."

"Ah."

In fact, if Lu Mingfei remembered correctly, "Fushouling Station" was already the terminus of Metro Line 1 of the Imperial Capital. Going further inside was the lair of the little stupid dragon Fenrir.

If there really is no dealer in Nibelungen, how should he send Liu Miaomiao out?

Lu Mingfei and his friends quickly circled the narrow platform without seeing any trace of the dealer.

Is it possible that there is no dealer at this point in time?
This thought popped up in Lu Mingfei’s mind, but he immediately rejected it.

Since Lu Mingze specifically gave me the "show hand" cheat code, it means that I can definitely use it.

I just don’t know what went wrong that caused the dealer to not appear where it was supposed to be.

"Let's go a little further along the tunnel."

"Yeah." No matter what Lu Mingfei said, Liu Miaomiao just nodded obediently.

They jumped down the tunnel again and groped their way forward over the railroad ties on the track.

Further into the tunnel, there were no more searchlights on the rock walls. Lu Mingfei could only rely on his lit golden eyes to vaguely make out the shapes of things in front of him in the darkness.

The last time he passed through this tunnel, he was exhausted and out of breath. But this time, even with Liu Miaomiao on his back, he was still able to do it with ease.

The artificially excavated rock walls are full of gullies left by the shield machine operations, and the "da da da" sound of footsteps echoes in the empty tunnel.

If they go further, they will reach a shuttle-shaped concrete platform, which is the real end of the tunnel. The train tracks extend and merge in front of the platform, and the subway will turn around here and return.

It seems like I really have to go find that stupid little dragon, Lu Mingfei thought.

I continued forward, and perhaps because I was getting closer to the rock wall at the end of the tunnel, the footsteps in the tunnel suddenly became more frequent.

The original rhythm was "da, da, da", but now it has become "da da, da da, da da", with light rhythm at the beginning and heavy rhythm at the end.

It seemed that the footsteps hit the rock wall and bounced off, forming a secondary echo.

Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped.

The footsteps continued, changing from "da da" to "da, da".

It wasn't a second echo at all! There was another person in the tunnel!

Because that person's steps were closely following Lu Mingfei's, maintaining a highly consistent rhythm, Lu Mingfei mistakenly believed that the repetitive sound was the secondary rebound of his own footsteps hitting the rock wall.

Suddenly, a vague human figure appeared in front of the tunnel. The person was small and his face could not be seen. He could not even confirm whether he was a human or not.

Lu Mingfei suddenly tensed all the muscles in his body and looked ahead vigilantly.

The other person stopped about ten meters away from Lu Mingfei. He still couldn't see her face clearly. He could only see her high ponytail swinging left and right behind her head.

A voice came lightly: "You have come to the wrong place, brothers and sisters."

It was a girl's voice, sweet as a bell, strange yet familiar, like a dusty photo suddenly turned out from a dusty corner of memory.

Before Lu Mingfei had time to wipe the dust off the photo, the voice spoke again in a low voice:
"This road is blocked. Please go back the way you came."

(End of this chapter)