Red Moscow

The next morning, Victoria showed up at Sokov's store.

Perhaps to prevent unnecessary panic, she did not wear a police uniform today, but wore casual clothes.

When Victoria walked to the door, Lena thought she was a customer and actively greeted her: "Girl, please come to the store and have a look. There must be clothes you like here."

Unexpectedly, Victoria just smiled lightly and said, "Thank you, I don't want to buy clothes, I'm here to see Misha."

"Looking for Misha?" Liena looked at Victoria and immediately recognized her: "Oh, are you the female police officer who came two days ago?"

"Yes, it's me."

After confirming Victoria's identity, Lena shouted into the back room: "Misha, Misha, someone is looking for you."

Sokov came out of the house, saw clearly that it was Victoria, and asked, "Are you leaving now?"

"Yes, leave now."

After hearing this, Liena asked curiously: "Misha, where are you going?"

"I'm going to the suburbs to do something." Sokov didn't know where Lida's villa in the suburbs was and how long it would take to get back and forth, so before going out, he had to explain clearly to Lena what he needed to explain. : "I don't know when I can come back. Anyway, you saw the off-duty time and I haven't come back yet. You can just close the door and leave."

"OK."

Sokov and Victoria came to the parking lot and asked, "Vika, where is your car?"

"My car is at the police station." Victoria said, "I will take your car to the suburbs today."

Sokov drove according to the route Victoria said, and Victoria, who was sitting in the passenger seat, may have stayed up late recently. After getting in the car and telling the direction of driving, she began to close her eyes and meditate.

Going out at this point, there were relatively few cars on the road, so the speed could be increased. In just ten minutes, the car left the Grand Ring Road and headed towards the suburbs.

As he was driving forward, Sokov suddenly saw oncoming vehicles flashing their headlights at him. This is a code word commonly used by Russian drivers, indicating that there is a traffic policeman checking the car ahead, and asking the passing vehicles to pay attention and not to speed.

Faced with the friendly reminders from the drivers, Sokov pressed the horn twice to express his gratitude to them.

The sound of the horn woke up Victoria, who was concentrating with her eyes closed. She sat upright suddenly and asked nervously: "Misha, why are you pressing the horn? What happened?"

"It's okay." Sokov quickly explained: "The driver coming from the opposite direction flashed his headlights at me, reminding me that there was a traffic policeman checking the car in front of me, and asking me to be more vigilant. I pressed the horn to express my gratitude to them!"

"Oh, that's what happened." After figuring out what was going on, Victoria said, "I heard that some traffic policemen in the suburbs are very bad. They stop cars at will to find trouble, just to blackmail the driver."

Although Sokov said his visits to the suburbs were limited, he understood the situation Victoria was talking about. He even sighed in his heart. Fortunately, when driving in Russia, you must turn on your headlights as long as the vehicle is started. Otherwise, oncoming drivers would not be able to warn the oncoming drivers even if they knew that there were traffic police checking the car on the way.

After driving forward for almost a kilometer, I saw a temporary checkpoint.

A traffic policeman with a gray hat ring on his big-brimmed hat, holding a black and white baton in his hand, stood in the middle of the road. Seeing the vehicle driven by Sokov approaching from a distance, he raised his baton and pointed towards his car, then pointed to the roadside, signaling Sokov to pull over and accept his inspection.

Seeing this, Sokov smiled bitterly and could only follow the other party's instructions and park the car on the side of the road.

The traffic policeman put his baton under his arm, walked over slowly, saluted casually, and then said: "Please show me your driver's license."

Sokov took out his driver's license from his pocket and handed it over. The traffic policeman took the driver's license, glanced at it perfunctorily, walked half a circle around the front of the car, returned to Sokov, and then said: "Your The car is too dirty and affects the appearance of the city. The fine is 200 rubles." As he said this, he took out his notebook and prepared to issue a ticket to Sokov.

Although the car driven by Sokov was washed half a month ago, since it was driven in the city, the car was not dirty at all. The traffic police said the car was too dirty and they were just looking for an excuse to fine them. Sokov cursed secretly in his mind and prepared to spend money to eliminate the disaster.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Victoria, who was sitting in the passenger seat, leaned over. She held up a red document, tilted her head and said to the traffic police outside: "I am Major Victoria, and we are performing a secret mission." ”

The traffic policeman who was about to issue a ticket was startled when he saw Victoria's ID. He hurriedly took a step back, raised his hand in salute, and said with fear: "I'm sorry, Major, I didn't know you were on duty. Please forgive me." My recklessness."

"Get his driver's license back."

The traffic police did not dare to neglect and quickly returned the driver's license to Sokov.

As Sokov drove away, the traffic police stood on the roadside and saluted.

"Vika, thank you." Sokov said to Victoria with a side face: "If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have to give the money to the traffic police."

"Misha, there are only a few people like the traffic police after all." Victoria said with some embarrassment: "Actually, most of the police in Moscow are good."

"That's right." In front of Victoria, even if Sokov was dissatisfied with the police, he couldn't say anything bad about them, otherwise he would be scolding the thief in front of a monk: "I think you are a very good policeman. ”

"Actually, I deliberately didn't drive here today just to prevent this kind of thing from happening." Victoria continued: "I'm in the same car as you. If anything happens, I can help you deal with it in time."

"Vika, where is your great-grandmother's villa?"

When setting off, Victoria only gave a general direction. Fortunately, there was only one road in this direction. If you drive along the road, you will definitely not get lost. At this moment, when Sokov asked about the specific location, Victoria said: "We still need to drive about fifty kilometers forward."

"We still have to drive fifty kilometers?" Sokov said with some surprise: "Then we will basically leave Moscow State and enter the territory of Kalinin State."

"Yes, my great-grandmother's villa is indeed a bit far from the city, but there is nothing we can do about it."

"Why?" Sokov asked puzzled.

“During the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, everyone was worried that a nuclear war would break out at any time, so most citizens built their villas far away from the city. This way, even if Moscow was attacked by a nuclear bomb, their residences in the suburbs would not be affected. How much is it affected?”

"Oh, that's it." Sokov said casually: "If the doomsday comes and zombies are rampant, those villas can be converted into shelters."

After hearing this, Victoria couldn't help but laugh: "Misha, do you usually watch American TV series? I remember that there seemed to be quite a few American TV series that mentioned zombies running rampant everywhere, and survivors could only find camps to avoid zombie attacks."

"The movie "Resident Evil" is just about zombies." Sokov said casually: "When I watched this movie for the first time, I was really worried that one day a zombie virus would appear and turn normal people into Zombies, if they want to survive, they will have to hide away from the city. Moscow is a city built in the forest. Even if there is an outbreak of zombies, the survivors can choose to build camps in the surrounding forests. Resist the zombie attack."

Victoria looked out the window and said seemingly casually: "Misha, you may not know that in the suburban forest, there are actually many underground bases connected to the city subway lines. If what you are doing really happens, In the case of a zombie siege, important people can escape from the city through underground passages.”

Sokov suddenly remembered something and asked tentatively: "Vika, can you tell me, is the disappearance case in the Moscow subway true or false?"

The Moscow Subway Disappearance Case refers to an incredible disappearance that occurred in the Moscow subway on April 1, 1975. At 21:16 that night, a subway train drove from Belarus Station to the red Bresno Station. It only takes 14 minutes for the train to reach the next station. Unexpectedly, after the subway car left Belarus Station, it disappeared without a trace with a full load of passengers.

Victoria laughed after hearing this: "Misha, do you really think this is true?"

"Isn't it?"

"Of course it's fake." Victoria said, "Look, it happened on April 1st. Isn't this April Fool's Day? It was originally an April Fool's Day joke, but it ended up being passed around like it was true. I I saw some information and even said that the subway company sent special personnel to search, and in the end they only found an empty subway, but the passengers were nowhere to be found. I initially thought this was true, but after reading more information, I became confused. I know this is nonsense, but it is just something to talk about after dinner.”

"Oh, that's it." Sokov quickly glanced at Victoria and said cautiously: "After hearing that all the passengers on the subway disappeared, I even wondered whether they encountered a wormhole and then traveled to other places. time and space.”

Victoria laughed again: "Misha, there is no scientific basis for time travel, and it is impossible to happen. Those time travels in the book are nothing more than the imagination of a group of authors. Take a look, but don't take it seriously."

The corner of Sokov's mouth twitched a few times, and he wanted to tell Victoria that he had traveled back in time to the Great Patriotic War, became one of the participants in that war, and even became a general. But he also knew very well that if he really said it, Victoria would definitely not believe it. If you believe it, you might send yourself to the Academy of Sciences for slice studies to see how you are different from ordinary people.

Sokov took two deep breaths, and then said slowly: "I can't remember whether it was Newton or Einstein who said: The end of science is metaphysics! Some things that cannot be explained by science can be explained by metaphysics."

"Really?" Victoria asked with some surprise: "Did one of these two scientists say something so philosophical?"

"Yes, someone said that."

Looking at the forest passing by on both sides, Sokov secretly thought that Asiya's villa was probably nearby. Unfortunately, decades later, I don’t know if her villa still exists today.

Victoria took out her cell phone, took a look at it, and then turned to ask Sokov: "Misha, does your phone have a signal?"

Sokov took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket and took a look: "There is a signal, but it is still full." He knew that as long as he left the city, many mobile phone numbers would lose signal, so he said to Victoria: "If you want to call For phone calls, just use my cell phone.”

"I remembered something and I need to call the bureau immediately." After Sokov handed over the unlocked phone, she punched in a set of numbers in her phone's address book.

Soon, the call was connected: "I'm Major Victoria, how's the thing I ordered you going on?...Yeah, yeah, I understand...I'm in the suburbs now, and my original mobile phone has no signal. If there is If it’s an emergency, just call this.”

When handing the phone back to Sokov, Victoria specially explained: "I remembered that my superior had assigned me a job and I needed to follow up at any time, so I made a call using your mobile phone. What can I do later? , they will call your cell phone."

"Just hold the phone first," Sokov turned to Victoria and said, "That way when a call comes in, you can answer it as soon as possible."

"Okay." Victoria felt that what Sokov said made sense. If the phone was on the other party's possession and there was a call coming in and the other party was driving, it would be very inconvenient to check the phone: "Then I will keep the phone for you first. ”

After the car drove forward for more than 20 minutes, Victoria suddenly pointed to the right side of the road and said: "There is a forest path in the forest on the right. You can drive in from there."

Sokov slowed down the car, reached the intersection, turned and drove into the forest, driving forward along the uneven forest path.

"The road conditions here are really bad," Sokov complained: "Fortunately, it's sunny now. If it rains, I won't be able to drive very far, and my car will get stuck in the mud."

"No way." Victoria shrugged her shoulders, spread her hands, and said helplessly: "There are too many forest trails like this, and it's impossible to repair them. Fortunately, I know the condition of this forest trail, so every time Come here on a sunny day so you don’t have to worry about muddy roads.”

"Vika," Sokov asked Victoria while driving cautiously, "How long has it been since Lida came here?"

"Do you know Kalashnikov?"

"I know." After hearing Victoria's question, Sokov asked in confusion: "When did Lida come here, and what does it have to do with Kalashnikov?"

"Kolesnikov and my great-grandmother were friends." Victoria said unexpectedly: "He passed away on December 23, 2013. A year before his death, he went to Moscow to participate in the Victory Festival and returned gifts A wreath was laid at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. My great-grandmother met him at that time and even invited him to a villa in the suburbs. Unfortunately, the trip was not possible because of the old general’s physical condition.”

"Lida is actually still friends with Kalashnikov." Sokov said with some surprise: "This is really beyond my expectation."

"Misha, have you seen the cabin in front?" Victoria suddenly pointed to the front and said, "That's my great-grandmother's country house."