第一章：世界末日（3）

(阿尔乔姆听得大气都不敢喘一下，看到老滑头彼得对待此事都如此害怕，他更加深信有一股不可预测的力量和黑幕正从未知的角落蔓延开来。)
“那贝戈瓦亚后来发生什么了？”阿尔乔姆说话的声音都开始不对劲了。
'And what happened to Begovaya?' Artyom's voice sounded unusual, unlike him.
“他们倒没有发生什么。在见证了这一切之后，贝方决定爆破，炸断了通往波列扎耶夫的隧道。我听说有四十多米的隧道因此倒塌；不用特殊机械挖掘的话是不可能再次打通的，就算有机会能用得上，我打赌你也坚持不下去。再说了，这种机器你上哪儿找去？我们车站的那一台十五年前就已经锈得不成样子了。”
'Nothing happened to them. They saw what the deal was, and exploded the tunnel that led to Polezhaevskaya. I hear forty metres' worth of tunnel is collapsed; there's no digging through it without spcial machinery, and even with machinery, I bet you wouldn't get very far...And where are you going to find tht kind of machinery, anyway? Our machinery rotted away fifteen years ago already...'