When I turned around, I was surprised to find Lieutenant Seryosha, who I had long forgotten, standing in the doorway, with his hands folded on his chest, leaning against the marble wall, probing his head and looking at us.

Seeing this expression on his face, I was really angry and funny. What angered him was that the lives of eight or nine hundred people were in danger at the moment, and he, as a privileged officer, was still watching the excitement from the sidelines as if nothing had happened.

I walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a wink, motioning for him to come with me. When we got to the desk, I whispered to him: "Seryosha, I ask you for something, can you promise me?" ”

"Please, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" He readily agreed: "As long as it is within my ability, I will definitely promise you." ”

"That's the case...... I hesitated, but I still said what was in my heart, "You see these eight or nine hundred people in the subway station, all of whom are of unknown origin. And Second Lieutenant Dolnikov, who has the authority to dispose of them, is too young and has no experience, and I am afraid that there will be some deviations in his handling of problems, which will lead to undesirable consequences. See if you can call Colonel Bezikov and ask him to come here in person. With his experience and qualifications to deal with such things, he is much better than Ensign Dornikov. ”

Seryosha hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll call the colonel." As he spoke, he picked up the phone, and after shaking it out, he said into the microphone: "Operator, I am Lieutenant Seryosha of the Central Guard Regiment, and I will be picked up from the Kremlin duty room immediately, and the phone number is ......."

When I returned to the crowd, I saw that the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of guarding the guards did not put down their light machine guns, and continued to monitor people's every move. Finding that her situation was not good, some timid women were so frightened that they secretly cried, and at first only a few people cried, but soon infected the people around them, and then the crying became a loud voice.

"Da Da Da!" A crisp burst of gunfire rang out, instantly suppressing the cries of the crowd. I turned my head and saw that it was the soldier who had just shot the policeman. The machine gun in his hand was pointed diagonally at the roof, and his mouth shouted loudly: "Quiet! Be quiet! Shut up for me, and whoever speaks up again will be shot on the spot. ”

"What's going on?" Hearing the gunshots, Second Lieutenant Dolnikov rushed out of the platform and asked loudly: "What, what?" What happened? ”

"It's fine." I sneered and replied to the soldier before he could speak, "There were people in the crowd crying just now, and your subordinates shot to deter them in order to prevent the riot." ”

The soldier came over and ignored me, but asked Second Lieutenant Dolnikov directly: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what should we do with these people?" ”

"Needless to say, these are German spies, don't be polite to them, shoot them all!" Dolnikov looked at the crowd in front of him and said viciously: "Hurry up and prepare." ”

"Yes!" The soldier agreed, turned around and tried to convey the second lieutenant's order.

"Wait a minute." I stopped the fighters who wanted to go away, and then said to Second Lieutenant Dolnikov in a stern tone: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, please see clearly, these hundreds of people standing in front of you are our comrades. You have the right to decide their fate, but you can't make a death sentence so hastily. ”

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Dolnikov was dissatisfied with my attitude, and his voice immediately rose an octave, "how to do things in our Ministry of Internal Affairs does not need to be taught by others. Also, I ask you to pay attention to your position and not to stand against us, otherwise it is very dangerous! ”

Hearing the second lieutenant say this, although I was very unconvinced, I didn't dare to refute him anymore, after all, he represented the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not to mention that I was a lieutenant colonel, even a lieutenant colonel, and I had to give him three points.

The conversation between me and the ensign, which the people close to us could hear clearly, saw that I did not refute again, their eyes showed a look of despair, no one shouted, and in the face of the muzzle of the gun pointed at them, they just silently stepped back, and a large clearing appeared in front of us.

Seeing that the second lieutenant's hand was already raised high, as soon as it fell, more than two dozen light machine guns in the hall would shoot death at the people. Unable to turn my back, I twisted my body and walked out with my head down, tears rolling down my cheeks.

"Wait a minute," at this critical moment, the voice of Lieutenant Seryosha came from the side: "Comrade Ensign, order your fighters to put down their guns. Here, Division Commander Oshanina is the supreme commander, and everything is up to her. ”

Hearing Seryosha say so surely, I was stunned at first, and then relieved, he had just called Colonel Bezikov, and everything he said must have been approved by the other party.

"For what?" Second Lieutenant Dolnikov asked unconvinced, and then once again raised his identity to press Seryosha, "Comrade lieutenant, don't bother with the affairs of our NKVD!" ”

Seryosha didn't buy his account, walked straight up to him, put his hand behind his back, and said with a big grin: "I am from the Central Guard Regiment, I got an order just now, everything here is decided by Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina, and the rest of the things will be talked about after my superiors come." After saying that, he walked to the middle of the clearing, then turned around and shouted at the soldiers with guns: "All of them, listen to my command: stand up!" ~"The soldiers all looked at Ensign Dolnikov in unison, and when they saw that the ensign hung his hands weakly, they all put their guns away.

Seryosha looked at the dejected Second Lieutenant Dolnikov, smiled contemptuously, and said in a sarcastic tone: "What's so great about the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we are the guards responsible for the defense of Comrade Stalin. As soon as he said this, the soldiers who were still a little unconvinced couldn't help but gasp and began to whisper to each other.

Dolnikov raised his head and said unwillingly: "I will ask my superiors about this." ”

Seryosha made a gesture of invitation to him and said, "Go and call your superiors, it is better to have him present in person." ”

When Dolnikov passed by me to make a call, I stepped forward and shouted at the fighters of the battalion who were standing a little farther away: "Comrades, what are you still standing there stupidly for?" Didn't you see the women, the elderly, and the children in front of you were freezing enough? Get some blankets or clothes for them to keep them warm. ”

As the fighters ran back to their tents to get blankets and extra clothes, I turned around and went to the platform to see what was going on with the bomb.

In the time of the delay just now, the sappers have already arrived. There weren't many people coming, only a sergeant and an ordinary fighter, so we didn't notice it at all when we came. When they defused the bomb, Ramis and a few other stupid daredevils were still crouching on the platform and not hiding.

I saw the old man who had just given the lecture standing in the doorway, bent over with his cane in both hands, nervously looking at the sappers who were defusing bombs inside. I looked to see that there was no one on the left and right, so I stepped forward and tapped him on the back of the shoulder. The old man was startled, turned his head and saw that it was me, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Comrade commander, is there anything wrong with you?" ”

I stretched out my index finger and put it to my lips, making a silent motion, and when I saw that the old man immediately understood, I whispered to him: "Old man, when you hear what I say later, no matter how unbelievable, I hope you can stay calm, can you do it?" ”

Although the old man was still full of doubts, he still nodded, and then I continued: "Based on what I just observed, you and the entire train are from Moscow in 1975, right? If so, you nod. The old man nodded, indicating that I was right.

"Although you are from 1975, I don't know what incredible things happened to the subway train in the process of driving, which led to your collective arrival in our time. That means you have now left 1975 and entered a new era. I say that, do you understand? After hearing my words, the old man was almost stunned, and muttered to himself: "How is this possible, how is this possible?" ”

"Anything is possible." I said in my heart that if I hadn't crossed over, I wouldn't have believed that there would have been such a thing as a crossover, but I couldn't tell the truth, so I could only vaguely remind him: "You must remember that the era you have come to is 1941, which is exactly the time when the German army is under the city of Moscow." You are a person from the future, and of course you know everything that is happening now, but at the same time, you should also know what kind of era this is. If you want to live, you have to think differently and think of yourself as someone who has always grown up in this era. You have to learn to pretend to be confused in order to live a long time, and only in this way can I be sure that you will all live, understand? ”

After listening to my words, the old man was stunned for a long time before he said slowly: "Although I don't understand what you said, I know what to do." ”

"It's good to understand." Hearing him say this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to chat with the old man: "Excuse me, what do I call you?" ”

"My name is Floning, I am a senior engineer at the XX Arsenal, and I am now retired at home." He introduced himself last night and asked rhetorically, "I don't know what to call you?" ”

"Leda! Lida Mushdakova Oshanina, now the commander of the 8th Guards Division. ”

"Leda Mushdakova Oshanina?" He repeated my name and said to himself, "This name sounds familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere." ”

I smiled wryly, can I not be familiar? The book "The Dawn Is Quiet Here" was a bestseller in the Soviet Union in the 70s, and even if the character of Lida is not a household name, it is estimated that few people do not know the name of Lu Dao. But I thought that if I didn't say it, the old man didn't know how long Lu Dao would be talking there, so I reminded him vaguely: "Maybe I've seen it in that novel, there are more people with the same name and surname." ”

"Ahh Hearing my reminder, the old man slapped his thigh and said, "I remember, there is a female soldier in the best-selling novel "The Dawn Is Quiet Here" with the same name as you. But she didn't sacrifice the last, and you are still alive, and you have received such a high rank? ”

"A novel is a novel, it's only the characters created by the writer who are dead, and the real me is still alive!"