Rust - Chapter 104



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RUST -104

There was a cockroach the size of a palm, a rat with a body the size of an arm, and now a Japanese monkey the size of an elementary school student?

Japanese macaques are usually small, weighing about 10-12kg. I couldn’t be sure because it was far away, but compared to places like Newtube, they looked 2-3 times bigger. They felt like they were about the same size as an orangutan or chimpanzee, or a little smaller.

Kkekekekekeke

Ugh ugh

The Japanese monkeys, who had begun to increase in number and noise, began to approach little by little. As the helicopter pilot started the engine of the doctor helicopter, the helicopter’s wings rotated and ash was scattered in all directions.

The Japanese macaques that had approached the sound and the smoky ash swirling around in all directions backed away. Judging from the reddened facial area, they seemed to be in heat? They seemed to be in a state of excitement.

“Sir, as soon as we take off, we have to increase our altitude. We have to increase our altitude as quickly as possible. Got it?”

[It is dangerous to suddenly raise it.]

“Get as high as you can without risking anything. You’re going crazy with wheels and rats, and if a flock of crazy birds comes flying at you, you’re screwed. Just get as high as you can…”

Ting-

Doctor, something hit the helicopter window. The glass shattered. Something flew in again. There was a bang, a metal-clanking sound.

A rock?

The Japanese macaques, who had already closed the distance, began throwing stones one by one. The stones the monkeys threw at the bottom of the helicopter as it rose up rained down like hail.

“hurry!”

[Go up! Grab the handle!]

The helicopter lifted its head with a high-pitched sound. My chest was pressed by the sudden acceleration. Whoosh- Maru let out a small breath and tightly gripped the handle of his sword with one hand.

Sigh-

With a startled gasp, Kim Yang’s head popped out from the swaying shadows. An anxious look in her eyes. ‘Isn’t that a sudden stabbing of the helicopter?’ Maru slowly took his hand off the knife at her eyes.

What? What should I do? Should I stab a helicopter in the air like a crazy person? Maru’s eyes, which were thinking that he would do well, were shaking left and right.

Kookjik!!!

There was no sign, no sound. At that moment, I said, ‘Huh?’ and the blade came out of its sheath and stabbed the side of the rippling space.

Jaw-

Kim Yang, who was startled, made a cat-like sound without realizing it. The reflexive movement of the silenced Glock 17 was moving toward the forehead of the floor. Her finger twitched from the trigger. Kim Yang screamed with a face covered in cold sweat.

“Why! Why?”

“Why are you suddenly pulling out a knife? What the hell!” Maru nodded to Kim Yang, who was clutching her chest in surprise. When Kim Yang looked back, she saw the tentacles waving in all directions.

‘wheel?’

The wheel pierced by the sword was stuck in the helicopter and was struggling. A thumb-sized egg that had fallen to the ground rolled around. But even so, when I glared at him, saying, “What if I suddenly pull out the sword and stab you?”, Maru shrugged his shoulders and turned his gaze outside the helicopter.

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Theft Hospital 3rd floor ward

Ki-soon looked at his tingling limbs. There were clear marks of scratches, nicks, and bullet wounds. Moments of life and death flashed through his mind.

“The disinfection is complete. Your wound is healing quickly. I’ll bandage it for you, so please don’t touch the wound. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Thank you for your effort.”

After sending the doctor up the elevator, Ki-sun collapsed on the bed. Ki-sun, who had been struggling on the bed for a while, turned on the laptop next to him. When he opened the folder in the corner of the screen, various forms were spread out.

HMR/ 0.3mg/ no response

HMR/ 0.3mg/ no response

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HMR / 0.4mg / no response

HMR / 0.4mg / no response

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HMR / 0.8mg / no response

HMR / 0.8mg / no response

There was a long, incomprehensible form with no meaning.

Is it a medication reaction? I took HMR and there was no reaction. What does that mean? I think it says something about putting something in HMR (Home Meal Replacement) and there was no reaction. It’s unclear what was put in it, what kind of diet it was, and who it was put in.

“Ah- Seriously- What kind of information is this?”

Ki-sun closed the form that was full of incomprehensible diagrams and graphs. Two hours had passed in a flash, even though she had only briefly looked through it. Ki-sun, who had been stretching for a while and had been playing some soft jazz, began to doze off.

Knock- knock-

At the loud knock, Ki-soon answers in a calm voice as if he wasn’t asleep.

“Come in.”

“Excuse me.”

The bodyguard who was being treated along with Ki-sun came in. He was a bodyguard who had overcome all the dangerous situations and only needed to have his stitches removed in a few days.

“I guess it’s okay for you to move now.”

It was amazing that Maru had used the rapid cure to recover so quickly in just two days. If the amount had been larger, wouldn’t it mean that he would have recovered immediately?

“Yes, as you can see.”

The number one cause of death among gunshot wound patients in war was excessive bleeding. It was said that if there was only a rapid treatment drug, it could be saved, and that it could even regenerate some of the small pieces of human tissue that had been lost, so it was almost a crazy drug. Ki-sun was determined not to touch the recipe.

“What’s going on?”

“I was wondering if I could get in touch with the people in Tokyo.”

Ki-soon was tight-lipped about the bodyguard’s story. Didn’t I tell you so? To consider no news as good news, and not to contact him unless it was really dangerous.

How absurd would it be if the radio started ringing in the middle of a fight? If you turn off the radio, you’ll be a cripple if a real emergency arises, whether you’re on this side or the other side. So I decided not to contact them unless it’s a real emergency.

“Is there something urgent that requires you to contact me?”

The bodyguard looked momentarily embarrassed at Ki-sun’s question.

“I’ve been having nightmares since yesterday.”

“I guess you had a nightmare. Since Maru and Kim Yang went together, I don’t think you have to worry. You know how good they are.”

Above all, Maru guy has been really inhuman lately. Seeing him cut up a yacht, I wondered if he could dismantle a building by himself if he had the right equipment. Seriously, really.

“Yes. Even so, I would like to contact Busan.”

The bodyguard spoke while looking at the satellite communicator placed next to Ki-sun’s bed. Ki-sun adjusted her glasses that were slightly slipping down. The reflected backlight hid the narrowing of Ki-sun’s eyes inside the lenses.

“Are you at a hotel?”

“yes.”

Ki-soon nodded coolly and handed the satellite communicator to the bodyguard.

“You can just use it and return it. Will it take a long time?”

“No, five minutes will be enough.”

The bodyguard who received the communicator nodded slightly and went out. Ki-sun looked out the door and exhaled. Contacting Busan? That must mean contacting the hotel. To her lover? No way.

‘Everyone’s lives are complicated.’

He said that 5 minutes would be enough, but he shook his head as he took it and watched it take forever. It was on the 3rd floor, but the large windows made it nice to enjoy the sunset.

In the distance, a small helicopter was flying toward the hospital.

“You little brat. You said it would take a few days.”

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Helipad.

Ki-soon, the uncles, and Bodyguard 1 were waiting for the helicopter. The helicopter, with its windows broken and its exterior dented here and there, landed on the landing pad as if something had happened.

The door opened and Maru and Kim Yang got out. Bodyguard 1’s eyes were fixed on the optical cloaking equipment that Kim Yang was wearing, then turned back to the helicopter. The bodyguard was confused that no one was following them even after some time had passed since Maru and Kim Yang got out.

“Hey, bro, how was your trip?”

“What the hell. Let me get down there and check the wound.”

Maru waved his hand with an expression of bewilderment at Gisun’s playful greeting.

“Why? Is Tokyo such a mess?”

“It’s a mess and I’m getting really sick of it. I’m really getting sick of it. Let me go down and eat something and I’ll tell you. Stop asking. I’m getting tired.”

The bodyguard approached the helicopter pilot who was just getting off the helicopter. Maru saw this and called out to the helicopter pilot.

“Sir, don’t just stay there. Come here. Let’s go down and have some food and talk. The security guard there must have a lot of questions, too. Let’s go down together.”

Maru grabbed the helicopter pilot and headed to the elevator.

Crunch crunch

Slurp slurp

Ki-sun held back her words and waited. She thought she would eat slowly and talk, but Maru and Kim just kept eating like they had starved for days.

“Have you been starving all day?”

“I was practically starving.”

“Now, whenever you open your mouth, you’re joking. I saw you taking emergency food supplies. Are you starving?”

“Once I ate it, it was gone.”

Well, I guess I can admit it now that I see you eating. The bodyguard who had been listening to the conversation between the two of them interrupted as if he couldn’t stand it any longer.

“What happened to the boss?”

Maru answered immediately after picking up the water bottle next to him and gulping down the water.

“He died.”

“yes?”

Maru spoke again to the bodyguard’s incredulous face.

“He was dead. When I got there, it was already too late.”

“······ Miyako··· My younger sister···.”

They looked exactly the same so I couldn’t tell who was who, but were they siblings or not? I remembered the last time I left them. The sight of them sobbing and hugging the dismembered corpse.

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

The bodyguard’s wavering gaze gradually grew colder. The bodyguard glanced at the optical concealment robe that Kim Yang was wearing. Maru spoke calmly.

“Well. I know you’re not feeling well… but don’t forget that what we agreed to do was to take you to Tokyo.”

“Okay. Then what is that? Why does that woman have the equipment that my brother took? Is my brother dead too?”

“No. The last time I saw you, you were alive. That was what I got for saving my life.”

“My little brother would hand that over to me. There’s no way that would happen.”

When the bodyguard showed signs of lashing out, Maru cut him off with a tired look on his face.

“Regardless of whether it could be true or not, I know it because it happened that way.”

“What? You mean like that? Is that what you’re talking about now? No way···.”

Maru ignored the bodyguard’s reaction and spoke to Ki-sun.

“Hey. Tell the medical staff and researchers to come down. Tell me at once when everyone is there.”

“I get it.”

“Miss Kim, please upload that.”

As Kim Yang placed the plastic bag she had placed on the floor on the table, the black plastic bag rustled and moved. Maru opened his mouth after confirming that the hospital staff and researchers had come down and surrounded the table.

“This is a cockroach discovered in the Tokyo Takaichi Pharmaceutical Secret Laboratory. Please take a look first.”

When I opened the black plastic bag, a cockroach with its body cut in half was revealed. It was a huge cockroach, easily over 20cm in length. Its long antennae were waving in all directions like tentacles.

“I don’t know what they ate to become like this, but there were a bunch of these cockroaches in the Takaichi Pharmaceutical Laboratory. There were no survivors and no corpses. Judging from the fact that cockroaches attack people, it seems like the survivors and the corpses ended up like this.”

Maru continued talking to the crowd of people who were murmuring.

“It’s not just the wheels that are the problem. At the Yamazaki Pharmaceutical Laboratory, there were rats bigger than my forearm, gnawing on the cement walls. And the Japanese macaques were two to three times larger than they were known to be, and they were running around in packs.”

“Weren’t there any survivors in the Yamazuki New Testament?”

“There were survivors, but we couldn’t bring them back.”

“Do you happen to have any research data from Yamatsuki Pharmaceutical or Takaichi Pharmaceutical?”

“I didn’t bring anything, and both companies activated their emergency incinerators and burned everything.”

“No. What do you mean!”

“What right do you have to burn research materials!”

“You’re saying you destroyed the research results that were created through hard work and sweat?”

bang!

Maru slammed his sword into the floor. People who can control their anger in an instant.

“Did you see that wheel just now? I burned it to death, but I don’t know when or how it came out, but it was still attached to the helicopter. There’s also a cockroach brood inside, so you can check it out later. Do you think that kind of sound comes out when you think that those kinds of cockroaches breed outside of a lab? Do you think that research data is important when you think that a bunch of rats that eat cement and think of people as food breed?”

“Well, it could be important. You probably want to continue your research. For now, I’ll pack up the cockroaches and their eggs, so you can do whatever you want. As promised, we’ll be leaving. I’m sorry if you were inconvenienced until today, and if we ever see each other again, I hope to see you again with a good face.”

The bodyguards, the Busan Charlotte uncles, the hospital staff, the researchers, and even Ki-soon all became quiet for a moment.

“Hey, you’re going right now? Without taking a day off?”

“Oh. You’ll get your wound treated and come out right away.”

“Why? What’s the rush?”

“Hey. I didn’t see a single person outside while I was coming and going on the helicopter. Is that normal?”

“No···.”

Even if it was a disaster, there had to be survivors or refugees. But it was strange that I couldn’t see any civilian survivors or refugees while I was coming and going on the helicopter.

“The helicopter is the same. What if something happens overnight? It might bother you. Let’s go straight ahead as planned.”

“okay.”

Ki-sun also agreed.