UNDERGROUND

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One of them, the one with the mustache, finally broke down and said:

- This is the end.

And seeing that no one was responding to his words, he repeated:

- Final.

“Listen, you bastard! Is someone asking you? Kharitonov barked at him.

The frightened "scientist" hurried to hide behind the door, and the train, having defended the allotted minute, moved further along the tunnel.

- Starts to turn - jump! Victor said.

It was not difficult to do this - the speed of the train was low, and the trailers had no doors. Soon he drove into a small hall and began to turn in a long arc. Pustovalov saw the closed gate with a vertical rise.

- Here! Victor jumped off and everyone followed suit.

The place was like a subway, in that part of it that they had spent many hours in - dim lights, bare walls, tangles of technical cables and numerous sensors on the walls.

Victor pointed his finger at a barely visible sensor above the gate, Pustovalov aimed the remote control there and pressed the "9" button. The g