Rust - Chapter 100

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RUST -100

The rats were scurrying around the front of the floor, hungry, unable to come near because of the tear gas-covered clothes. They couldn’t run towards them, tears welling up in their eyes. They were watching them go by, wiping their runny noses with their front legs.

Tuqwakakakakak-

Maru, who had cut down 7-8 birds with a single stroke, wiped the blood off the floor and examined the blade. I don’t know what it was made of, but the blade didn’t come out even though it scraped the cement floor.

“The whole world is full of rats.”

“······.”

As Maru and Kim Yang moved away, rats gathered from somewhere and quickly decomposed the corpse.

“There are no doors, just a hallway going round and round? Can you tell if it’s a lab or a control room?”

“Strangely, there is no guide.”

Normally, there would be an emergency sign posted somewhere, like in the corner of a hallway, but there was nothing. The first door we came to, Maru turned the doorknob.

Clank- clank-

It was locked.

“Check with the key. It’s the master key that runs the elevator.”

I thought the key would go into the keyhole and open like a master key, but it wouldn’t turn. If that’s the case, then don’t call it a master key.

“No.”

While poking the door with the tip of a knife and thinking, “Will it work? It looks like it’s made of solid metal?”, Kim Yang took out a bunch of keys from her bag and handed them to Maru, who was getting an estimate.

“This? Was there this above too?”

At Maru’s exclamation, Ms. Kim shrugged her shoulders and said, “Why are you making such a fuss?” before slipping back into her optical concealment robe.

“Wow, Miss Kim. Amazing. To take care of this.”

Maru found the right key in his key ring and opened the door.

Kkiei-

I opened the door slightly and focused on the sound coming from inside, but there was no response. If there were any infected or survivors, there must have been something bothering them…

A shadow swaying through the crack of the half-open door at Maru’s signal entered. Kim Yang, who was leaning on her optical cloak, lowered her posture and looked inside.

Click-

When I turned on the switch, the room became bright. It was the duty room where the security guards were waiting. A large space that could easily accommodate about 20 people was revealed. Judging from the empty weapon storage next to it, it seemed that they were all fully armed and dispatched.

“There is no one.”

“This way too.”

“The armory is empty.”

“This side too. Looks like something happened here too. Let’s spread out and look for anything that can be used as information.”

“Okay.”

Did they all go out because of the rats? It would have been difficult to stop the rats without a flamethrower or tear gas, but first, I had to find something that could be used as information.

There was nothing particularly special in the security guards’ lockers. There was one locker with figures lined up in a row, so I looked through it to see if they were hidden there, but that was it.

“here!”

I think Miss Kim found something.

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Since it was a place where security guards were, naturally there was a place directly connected to the control room.

“CCTV and communication equipment. The CCTV is gone, but the communication equipment is still alive.”

“Are you able to contact the central control room?”

“···I haven’t tried it yet. Just click here and do it.”

All that could be seen was the rippling figure of the robe wrapped around him. Maru licked his lips and tried to communicate.

“Ah- ah- is someone there?”

[Chisik- chijijik–]

There was only noise.

“Is anyone there? Control room. Is anyone there?”

[Chijijik-beep–]

The noise grew louder and a woman’s voice came out.

[Kkii- identity···beep. reveal···chiik]

It was the bodyguard’s voice.

“A bodyguard? Are you a bodyguard? Is the boss okay?”

While Maru communicated with the bodyguard, Ms. Kim found the schematics of the underground laboratory.

‘If this is the security duty room, then when you go outside and go straight, there are labs on the left side where the path splits into two, and on the right side are the equipment room, the dining hall, the duty room, the break room, and the central control room. There are four emergency exits.’

Kim Yang, who had studied the structural diagram, looked around. There were no cracks caused by the earthquake. Could it be that it was built more solidly than the Takaichi Pharmaceutical secret laboratory? Then where did those big rats come from?

Looking at the structural diagram, it was a completely sealed space. Even if a few rats had entered by chance, there were no holes through which thousands of rats could enter.

As soon as Miss Kim returned, Maru looked exactly where Miss Kim was and spoke. Even though she was wearing a stealth robe, she seemed to recognize her right away. Miss Kim was wondering what was going on.

“Hey- the president, the bodyguard, and the helicopter pilot are all alive. There are also some researchers and security personnel here.”

It felt like there was a certain emphasis on the helicopter pilot.

“Found the control room. Here.”

Kim Yang took out her arm from her robe and handed over the structure diagram. Maru glanced at it and then stood up abruptly.

“Let’s go. It sounds like some fucking idiots are talking nonsense.”

“······.”

It is said that almost all the people under the hotel president in Japan betrayed him. The same goes for the people who were stuck in Yamazuki Pharmaceutical. When the president entered through a secret passage that they did not know about, there were people who joined the hotel president again.

One side tried to kill or capture the hotel president as the head office said, and the other side, since the hotel president came in person, sided with the president and tried to escape to Japan.

The two of them fought each other, causing casualties, and a swarm of rats that smelled blood swarmed the scene. The president and a few others barely managed to escape to the central control room, but they were surrounded by a swarm of rats.

“Then I just have to catch mice?”

“Is it even necessary to catch them? Just set off a tear gas canister.”

“There’s only one tear gas canister, will that be okay?”

“Oh, right. You said there were three grenades left, right? Let’s save the tear gas and open one grenade. The grenades are loud, so the rats will probably run away.”

The corridor leading to the central control room. It was an empty corridor, but rats started to appear here and there, and when I turned the left corner, there was a swarm of rats that filled the corridor to the end, so much so that I couldn’t see the floor.

A natural swearing appearance. ‘Still, it’s better than a wheel. Better than a wheel.’ Maru muttered and sent a hand signal, and a moment later, a grenade flew out of the undulating space.

bang-!

The sound of the explosion was loud, perhaps because it was a closed corridor. Rats squeaked and scattered in all directions. A group of rats passed by where Maru and Kim were, making a rustling noise. Perhaps because the smell of tear gas lingered, the group of rats ran away, slightly away from the two people.

Even in that brief moment of running away, it was evident that it was not a normal rat as it ate the corpse that had exploded in the grenade explosion.

Maru, standing in front of the central control room door, whispered to where Ms. Kim was.

“Don’t let your guard down. When the door opens, go in first, take up position, and be ready to shoot. Think of everyone except the boss, the bodyguard, and the helicopter pilot as enemies.”

“······.”

I was curious as to why, but if that’s the case, then so be it. Kim Yang nodded from inside her robe of secrecy.

“Do you have C4 and cable ties? Please give me those.”

Knock- knock-

Maru knocked while looking at the CCTV attached to the ceiling.

“Here we go. Open the door.”

The rats that had been startled by the explosion and fled began to appear one by one at the other end of the hallway.

Boom- Boom-

“Won’t you open it? I’ll break the door down?”

Maru waved the C4 towards the CCTV. Only then did the door open. When he kicked the slightly open door open with his foot, the researcher holding the doorknob was thrown backwards with a whoosh!

“Close the door!”

“There’s a rat behind you! There’s a rat behind you!”

“A rat is coming in!”

The people inside screamed in shock.

Maru slowly closed the door after confirming that the rippling of the hidden robe had entered. A dozen or so rats entered through the short gap. Rats that ran towards people without fear.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Tadadang!

“Die! Dieeeeeeeee!”

“Ouch, I got bitten! Take it off!”

“Kill him quickly!”

“Shoot! It’s over there. Over there.”

Four people were armed with guns. Three with pistols, one with a machine gun. Five people were cheering without guns. Three people were holding makeshift spears. Two people were holding fire axes. Among the nine people gathered in front of the door, there was no president or his party.

‘also.’

Maru nodded.

I felt that way from the moment the bodyguard started talking about the situation in detail. In the first place, wasn’t it the case that the bodyguard received the call? Why wouldn’t someone of high rank, like the CEO or the head of the lab, receive it? Was it a call from someone outside?

It was clear that he had told the bodyguard to take it when someone recognized his voice, whether it was the bodyguard or the president. So let’s first get rid of the guys with guns. Maru waved his hand.

There was an immediate response to the signal.

First, the bullets hit the arm and leg of the man who was shooting the submachine gun. When the bullet hit the arm holding the submachine gun, Papa-pak! His arm fell to the floor while pulling the trigger. Almost at the same time, the bullet hit his knee, causing his balance to fall to the side, and the gun barrel that was pointing at the floor turned to the side.

Ugh!

Aaah!

The man holding the fire axe was hit in the stomach and chest with bullets. The men holding the pistols were so preoccupied with catching rats that it was a mess all around.

Cluck! Cluck!

A low, suppressed gunshot punctured both arms of the man who was changing the magazine. The man who dropped the magazine and pistol and shouted, “Huh? Huh!” had his ankles broken by bullets.

There are now two people with guns. The two people are shooting at the rat without noticing that the person behind them is struggling after being shot by Kim Yang.

Maru, who had quietly drawn his sword, walked towards the two men who were firing their pistols side by side.

With the sound of gunshots, shells fell to the floor. A man crying while looking at his two arms that were shot on the floor where the shells fell. A man gasping for breath while trying to stop the bleeding from his abdomen. A woman stabbing a rat with a clumsy spear and screaming as she couldn’t do anything about the rat that was flailing around. A man yelling at the rat that was stuck to his back and telling him to get off.

In the meantime, Maru was walking quietly. As if he was walking alone in a space without sound. It was a strange sight where no one was paying attention to Maru.

The blade swung silently. A red line was drawn on the arms of the two people who were shooting side by side. The screams of the two people erupted only after the forearms holding the guns were cut off and fell to the ground.

Aaaah

Time, which had stopped, seemed to break as the two people screamed and struggled.

Kim Yang watched the scene from inside her robe. She felt goosebumps rising on her arms. As expected from Baekjeong. Haa- Her heart was pounding.

Tuck. Tuck.

Kim Yang, who had lightly knocked away the heads of the rats that had rushed at the people crawling on the floor, quietly moved away.

Maru swung his blade, wiping away the blood, then stepped aside, holding the cable tie. The sounds of groans from all directions filled the floor.

‘Oh my.’

He was holding his severed right arm with his left hand while holding a pistol, and was trying to search his pockets with his severed right arm, then he put his right arm down and searched his right pocket with his left arm. A pink ampoule was visible in his left hand.

puck-

Maru kicked the guy who was trying to open the ampoule and snatched the rapid healing medicine. The guy who was shooting the machine gun also had the rapid healing medicine, as he was struggling to take the ampoule out of his pocket.

‘The boss got robbed.’

So are these two the only ones? No, I don’t think so.

Maru looked around and nodded. It was a good harvest.

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Inside the central control room, there was a door leading to the server room. It had a similar structure to the Takaichi Pharmaceutical secret laboratory. Kim Yang carefully grabbed the doorknob and turned it. Squeak- The handle turned.

It’s not locked?

Ms. Kim crouched low and opened the door wide.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bullets passing through the air. Behind the president’s group with their limbs tied up, there were two people holding guns. They shot at the wide open door, but when there was no one, the man and woman aimed their guns at the president’s group and glared at the open door.

“Who are you!”

“Come here!”

“If you don’t come out, I’ll kill you bitches!”

“······.”

The moment the gun aimed at the president and his party turned towards the door, Ms. Kim’s gun fired.

Tuck. Tuck.

After firing a bullet between each of their foreheads and completing the kill, Yang Kim approached the tied-up president and his party. The bodyguard and helicopter pilot were fine, but the president’s condition did not look good.