red moscow

Chapter 2685

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

Perhaps to avoid causing unnecessary panic, she was not wearing a police uniform today but casual clothes.

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

Unexpectedly, Victoria just smiled faintly and said, "Thank you, I'm not buying clothes, I'm here to see Misha."

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

"Yes, it's me."

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

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

"Yes, let's go now."

After hearing this, Lena, who was standing next to him, asked curiously, "Misha, where are you going?"

"I have to go 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 go back and forth, so before leaving, he had to explain everything to Lena clearly: "I don't know when I can be back. Anyway, if you see the end of get off work time and I haven't come back yet, just close the door and leave."

"Ok."

Sokov and Victoria arrived at 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 the car along the route Victoria told him. Victoria, who was sitting in the passenger seat, might have stayed up late a lot recently. After getting in the car and telling him the direction of travel, she closed her eyes and rested.

When you go out at this time, there are fewer cars on the road, so you can speed up. In just over ten minutes, the car leaves the big loop and heads towards the suburbs.

As he was driving forward, Sokov suddenly saw the oncoming vehicles flashing their headlights at him. This is a code used by Russian drivers to indicate that there is a traffic police checking cars ahead, and to remind the passing vehicles to pay attention and not to exceed the speed limit.

In response to the drivers' friendly reminders, Sokov honked his horn twice to express his gratitude to them.

The horn woke up Victoria, who was resting with her eyes closed. She sat up straight and asked nervously, "Misha, why are you honking? 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 police checking cars ahead, so I should be more alert. I honked the horn to express my gratitude to them!"

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

Although Sokov had only been to the suburbs a few times, he understood what Victoria was saying. He even felt that it was a good thing that when driving in Russia, you had to turn on the headlights as long as the car was started, otherwise the oncoming drivers would not be able to remind them even if they knew that there were traffic police checking cars on the way.

After driving forward for about a kilometer, we saw a temporary checkpoint.

A traffic policeman wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a gray band, holding a black and white baton, stood in the middle of the road. He saw Sokov's car coming from a distance, so he raised the baton in his hand, pointed at his car, and then pointed to the side of the road, 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 tucked his baton under his armpit, walked over slowly, saluted nonchalantly, 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 license, glanced at it perfunctorily, walked around the front of the car, and came back to Sokov. Then he said, "Your car is too dirty and affects the city appearance. I'll fine you 200 rubles." As he said that, he took out a notebook and prepared to give Sokov a ticket.

Although the car Sokov was driving was washed half a month ago, it was not dirty at all because it was always driven in the city. The traffic police said the car was too dirty, which was nothing more than an excuse to fine him. Sokov cursed in his heart and prepared to spend money to avoid disaster.

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

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

"Get his driver's license back."

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

As Sokov drove away, the traffic police stood on the side of the road and saluted.

"Thank you, Vika." Sokov said to Victoria with his head tilted sideways: "If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have no choice but to give the money to the traffic police."

"Misha, people like traffic police are a minority after all." Victoria said somewhat embarrassedly: "In fact, most police officers in Moscow are good."

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

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

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

When they set out, Victoria only told them the general direction. Fortunately, there was only one road in this direction, and if they drove along the road, they would definitely not get lost. When she heard Sokov asking about the specific location, Victoria said, "We probably need to drive about 50 kilometers forward." "Another 50 kilometers?" Sokov said in surprise, "Then we'll basically leave Moscow Oblast and enter Kalinin Oblast."

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

"Why?" Sokov asked puzzledly.

"During the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, everyone was worried that a nuclear war could break out at any time, so most citizens built their villas far away from the city. In this way, even if Moscow was attacked by a nuclear bomb, their homes far away in the suburbs would not be greatly affected."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Sokov said casually, "If the apocalypse comes and zombies run rampant, those villas can also be converted into shelters."

Victoria couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "Misha, do you watch American TV series? I remember that there were quite a few American TV series that mentioned zombies roaming everywhere, and the survivors could only find camps to avoid the zombies' attacks."

"The movie Resident Evil is all about zombies," Sokov said casually. "When I first watched the movie, I was really worried that a zombie virus would appear one day and turn normal people into zombies. If we want to survive, we can only hide far away from the city. Moscow is a city built in the forest. Even if there is a zombie outbreak, the survivors can choose to set up camps in the surrounding forests to resist the zombies' attack."

Victoria looked out the window and said casually, "Misha, you may not know that in the forest outside the city, there are actually many underground bases that are connected to the city subway lines. If a situation like the zombie siege you mentioned really happens, important people can escape the city through the underground passages."

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

The Moscow Subway Disappearance Case refers to an incredible disappearance case that occurred in the Moscow subway on April 1975, 4. At 1:21 that night, a subway train drove from Belorussky Station to Krasnoyarsk Station. It only took 16 minutes for the train to reach the next station, but after leaving Belorussky Station, the subway train with all the passengers disappeared without a trace.

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

"Is not it?"

"Of course it's fake," Victoria said. "Look, it happened on April 4st, which is April Fools' Day. It was originally an April Fools' joke, but it was spread by word of mouth and became as real as it could be. I saw some information that even said the subway company sent someone to search, but in the end they only found an empty subway, and the passengers were nowhere to be found. I also thought it was true at first, but after reading more information, I realized it was nonsense and just a topic of conversation after dinner."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Sokov glanced at Victoria quickly and said cautiously, "After hearing that all the passengers on the subway disappeared, I even suspected that they encountered a wormhole and traveled to another time and space."

Victoria laughed again. "Misha, time travel has no scientific basis and is impossible to happen. The time travel in books is nothing more than something imagined by a group of authors. You can read it, but don't take it seriously."

Sokov's mouth twitched a few times. He wanted to tell Victoria that he had traveled back to the Great Patriotic War and became a participant in that war, and even became a general. But he knew very well that if he really told Victoria, she would definitely not believe it. If she believed it, she might send him to the Academy of Sciences for a biopsy to see how he was 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 in surprise, "Did one of these two scientists say something so philosophical?"

"Yes, someone did say that."

Looking at the forests passing by on both sides, Sokov thought to himself that Asiya's villa was probably nearby. Unfortunately, after several decades, he didn't know whether her villa still existed.

Victoria took out her cell phone, took a look at it, then turned to Sokov and asked, "Misha, do you have a signal?"

Sokov took out his cell phone from his trouser pocket and took a look. "There is a signal, and it's full." He knew that many cell phones would lose signal once they left the city, so he said to Victoria, "If you want to make a call, use my phone."

"I remembered something and need to call the bureau immediately." After Sokov handed her the unlocked phone, she pressed a number in her phone's address book.

Soon, the call was connected: "This is Major Victoria. How is the matter I told you to do going?... Yes, yes, yes, I understand... I'm in the suburbs now, and my original cell phone has no signal. If there is anything urgent, please call this number."

When handing the phone back to Sokov, Victoria explained, "I remembered that my superiors assigned me a task that I need to follow up on at any time, so I used your phone to make the call. If there is anything later, they will call your phone."

"You can take the phone first," Sokov turned to Victoria and said, "this way, if there is a call, you can answer it immediately."

"Okay then." Victoria felt that what Sokov said made sense. If the phone was with the other person and a call came in, it would be inconvenient for the other person to check the phone while driving: "Then I'll keep your 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, and when he reached the intersection, he turned into the forest and drove along the bumpy forest path.

"The road conditions here are really bad," Sokov complained. "Luckily it's sunny now. If it rains, my car will get stuck in the mud before I can get very far."

"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 all. Fortunately, I know the conditions of this forest trail, so every time I come here, I choose a sunny day, so I don't have to worry about the muddy road."

"Vika," Sokov asked Victoria as he drove carefully, "How long has it been since Lida came here?"

“Do you know Kalashnikov?”

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

"Kolesnikov was a friend of my great-grandmother," Victoria said unexpectedly. "He died on December 2013, 12. A year before his death, he went to Moscow to participate in the Victory Day activities and laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. My great-grandmother met him at that time and even invited him to visit her villa in the suburbs. Unfortunately, the old general's physical condition did not allow it, so the trip did not take place in the end."

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

"Misha, do you see the small wooden house in front?" Victoria suddenly pointed ahead and said, "That's my great-grandmother's country house."