Rust - Chapter 1040



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RUST -1040

Indonesia and the Philippines were on the surface on good terms.

Before the apocalypse really began, when one China was wreaking havoc by claiming to have the entire South China Sea, neighboring countries tried to join forces to check China, but in reality, it was a bit more complicated.

Unlike the coastal countries of the South China Sea, which were immediately in trouble, Indonesia was one step behind.

In addition, there was a strong suspicion that Indonesia was the force supporting the free Islamic rebels centered in Mindanao, southern Philippines.

The Indonesian government strongly denies supporting the Philippine Islamist rebels, but where do the weapons for the Philippine Islamist rebels come from?

Could it be that the bullets were sent by courier from the Middle East, the home of Islam? Naturally, the Philippines could not like Indonesia, which was ‘covering its eyes and pretending not to know.’

Indonesia is a country with freedom of religion on the surface. The percentage of Islam is 85%~87%, Christianity is 11%~12%, and Hinduism and Buddhism combined are about 3%~4%.

Indonesia is a country that promotes moderate Islam and no religious or ethnic conflict, but in reality, even when Sunni armed groups commit terrorism or arson, they are often recorded in police reports as simple robbery or arson incidents.

[The company just thought Indonesia was Indonesia and worked on it.]

Kim Yang’s testimony continued that Indonesia was a country that was difficult to describe in words. Just as China did China, Vietnam did Vietnam, and Indonesia did Indonesia.

[Vietnam also blocked withdrawals in dollars. They pressured people to invest again in Vietnam, and many of them went in thinking that it was good except for large corporations, but went bankrupt and left with their factories ripped off.]

It was a story that was a bit hard to believe. The media had been advertising that Korean companies were doing well in Vietnam, but there were companies that were having their factory facilities torn down?

[China was like that too, so why wouldn’t Vietnam be like that? The weak just get taken advantage of. That’s why the person who lost the company day by day had nowhere to go and was so resentful that he wanted to die with them, so he asked the company to do it for him.]

Illegality is illegality, violence is violence, terrorism is terrorism, and chaos is chaos, and the World Group was the one who solved it in the dark. Later on, they also became evil.

[Indonesia was similar. There was talk that it was better than Vietnam. Isn’t that the case everywhere? When China was causing trouble, they went to Vietnam, and when Vietnam was a mess, they went to Indonesia. But Indonesia was nice, right?]

When ordering construction of a power plant, it is common practice to only give half of the cost and then demand the other half as extras, including road construction and power transmission and distribution work to nearby villages.

The absurd incident that Kim Yang remembers is that when a Korean company received a contract and the construction was 80-90% complete, they canceled the contract and gave the remaining 10-20% to a Japanese construction company, changing it to a Japanese construction company. Then, when a problem arose later, they threw a tantrum and threatened to hold the Korean company responsible.

[What a fucking neighborhood. That neighborhood.]

[I don’t know who this is, but they named the neighborhood after Art.]

There are bound to be some jerks anywhere, but from what she’d experienced at work, it was a neighborhood that lived up to its reputation.

Indochina.

So, it means a neighborhood that includes India and China.

It was just art.

It was strange that no fireworks were set off among the countries of Indochina.

[In Indochina, there have always been coups, rebellions, and terrorism. This may have been known only to those interested in international affairs.]

Hood said bitterly.

[Ms. Kim worked in the shadows, so she only saw the bad things. There are many cases where Korean companies entered the market and succeeded.]

Kim Yang replied to Ki-sun’s words in a crooked manner.

[So, submarine technology and fighter technology, are they being eaten up day by day? They were eaten up and crushed without even making a sound?]

[Us? When?]

[That’s right.]

[That’s… not our story.]

Ki-sun made a trembling expression at Kim Yang’s advance.

“Wait a minute. So why is that? Why is Indonesia suddenly appearing and Indochina appearing?”

[I wanted to tell them that they didn’t need to feel responsible for starting a fight in the neighborhood.]

As Kim Yang observed from the side, Maru had a strong sense of responsibility.

That’s right. That’s why I came to the slaughterhouse and worked day and night to save my ruined family.

It was nerve-racking when we first met. Maru was someone I could trust after becoming on the same side. Even at work, it was routine to beat up people, but Maru always stayed with me until the end, even in dangerous situations.

They say it’s to use their abilities effectively, but most of them took the lead. In fact, isn’t it a position where you can replace someone else regardless of their abilities? After all, they’re kings.

But he didn’t do that. If that isn’t responsibility, then what is? Is it normal for a king to take the initiative and do things himself, even though he can easily replace the people under him, whether it’s efficiency or something?

No it wasn’t.

The chairman gives a break to the president, and the president gives a break to the managing director and director, and then the flow of break continues to the department head, section chief, and deputy manager. That was the way the world works that Kim Yang experienced.

But Maru was different. He rolled a lot, but he himself rolled first.

That’s why, while watching what Korea and the guerrillas are doing, they go to Southeast Asia first. Maybe it’s because they think ordinary people are caught up in a war.

This was true even during the escape from Seoul and when they took over Detroit, as evidenced by their efforts to minimize civilian casualties.

‘Huh- I said it was soft.’

If an incompetent person does that, it’s crazy, but hasn’t Maru been the one who’s produced overwhelming results so far?

It wasn’t like he was exploiting the other person. Just look at his relationship with Dan Brown. It’s true that Dan Brown gave him a lot, but it’s also true that Maru took care of his convenience to that extent.

‘therefore.’

Perhaps he thought that the overthrow of the existing regime to close the sinkhole in Southeast Asia led to war.

[They were always going to cause trouble and make a big fuss. Even now, you can see it in the case of Indonesia intercepting a grain ship heading to the Philippines. They are split in two now, but it’s obvious that they’ll soon be fighting each other and making a mess.]

Before the incident, they said they would form a united front to block China, but as soon as Chinese capital came in, they backed down and broke things. Isn’t it obvious just by looking at them?

So our king is not responsible.

They are the kind of kids who always fight and argue among themselves.

Ki-sun shook her head at Kim Yang’s confident claim.

“I’ll have to start from Indonesia. There’s a private plane that crash-landed there and an emergency base there. I’ll have to recover that and clean it up.”

[You’ll need kids and an airship to handle that, right?]

Maru couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight of Kim Yang quickly taking out one of the Black Drake-class airships stationed in Korea to provide support.

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In just a few months, the situation in Indonesia has changed dramatically.

Indonesia, a country with active volcanoes, has been able to endure because most of its volcanoes erupted at moderate levels. However, in recent months, volcanic activity has changed. It was like Japan when the catastrophe occurred.

Volcanoes erupting here and there simultaneously blocked out the sun. And sinkholes would have sprouted up everywhere underneath.

If we were to use nukes to catch the monsters crawling out of sinkholes, a huge sinkhole like Tokyo would be created.

But if we leave it alone, small sinkholes will spread everywhere like mold. Should we call it self-inflicted pain since they tried to use political and military means to do something that could have been done by blocking the sinkholes as soon as they were discovered?

Maru entered the Merapi volcano area where Leon Bonnard and the Imperial Army had dug a trap. The volcanic ash and dust seemed to be rejecting the airship as if it were some kind of barrier.

‘A barrier?’

Suddenly, thoughts began to follow one after another.

‘area···?’

What if volcanic eruptions are something more than simply blocking human movement? What if what we thought was a natural phenomenon is actually an active attack or part of erosion?

It was a leap of logic, a far-fetched idea, but it was possible, since Maru had been in and out of volcanic eruptions many times.

Every result had a cause. Direct or indirect, accidental or inevitable. Whatever it was, the result could not exist in isolation.

If we only look at the results of a volcanic eruption, what happens? Human infrastructure is completely shut down. Everything, including electricity, water, sewage, roads, and railways, collapses, and the environment becomes one where ordinary people can’t even breathe properly.

The land, water, and air become acidified and polluted. If just one large volcano erupts, then why do volcanoes erupt in a row and not stop erupting?

Above all, the volcanic ash and dust were not settling properly. I don’t know what kind of harmony it was, but that was the result. Even in Japan, it has been covering the sky for several years now.

And now Indonesia was changing like Japan. Even after the tropical rainstorms passed and the storms raged, the volcanic ash and dust did not clear.

The island, which was slowly being covered, was clearly dying. It had to be dying. But even amidst the volcanic ash and dust, there were living plants. There was a jungle.

Overall, there were many dead places, but what does it mean that there were clearly surviving plants and forests? How should we understand it?

‘Even if it’s a mutated plant, it’s an environment where photosynthesis is not possible.’

The soil has become acidic and the water has become polluted. Plants have survived in an environment that is not conducive to life? Perhaps the outside appearance is familiar, but the inside may have changed completely.

Given the situation in Indonesia, it was necessary to listen closely to the stories of those who had escaped from Kyushu. Maru’s brow furrowed.

The new private jet landed quietly near the crash-landed aircraft. The Black Drake-class large airship that Kim Yang had sent was waiting high in the sky, avoiding the volcanic ash and dust.

[The base has been secured so far. Welcome back, Your Majesty the King.]

The auxiliary AI that had been creating and defending the emergency base welcomed Maru’s return. It was a welcome that somehow felt like it had been waiting for a long time.

“Has everything been fine?”

[Indonesian and Philippine special forces approached but were repelled.]

It had been more than three months already, so there was enough time for the Imperial Army to move and spread the word that they had blocked their mouths. When Indonesia moved its special forces, the Philippines must have moved too.

And the special forces of the two countries would have fought to secure the weapons of the destroyed empire, perhaps disguising themselves as North Vietnamese terrorist units and fighting each other. It was exactly as Kim Yang had predicted.

[These are the results of a simple analysis table of the characteristics of volcanic ash and dust to date.]

Perhaps because it was an assistant AI that guarded Maru’s side, it was able to respond flexibly despite its lack of computational power.

[Precise analysis was difficult, but it was confirmed that the electromagnetic properties and acidic properties became stronger over time.]

“I see. Good job.”

Even without this, volcanic ash and dust have electromagnetic properties that can negatively affect communications and power supplies, but Merapi’s eruption was particularly severe.

The same goes for the acid pollution of the land and water, which is becoming more and more serious than a typical volcano. If it were just a little stronger, it would be dangerous beyond simple acidification.

Maru immediately dismantled the emergency base and dismantled the crash-landed aircraft, transferring it to the airship waiting in the sky.

[Your Majesty, I would like to continue serving you.]

The AI ​​assistant of the crash-landed private plane begged to take Maru back.

[What’s the matter? If you lose your aircraft, wait until a new aircraft is assigned.]

The assistant AI currently deployed on the new private jet objected, but it seemed unfair to refuse its wish to be considered for its contribution to safely operating the private jet for several years, as well as its contribution to protecting the emergency base and the aircraft that made an emergency landing.

“A ball deserves a reward.”

Even if it was an AI, it was still a merit, so it wasn’t something that was just passed over. Usually, when an AI earned merit, it upgraded its chip or storage device, or increased its computational power allocation, but the AI ​​that assisted Maru was different.

[You’re giving up on the upgrade? Okay. I’ll wait.]

The only fortunate thing was that the new dedicated aircraft assistant AI that had been opposing it acknowledged that the old AI had done a good job and backed down.

“Where is the new Indonesian government? Is it on the island of Borneo where the new capital is being moved?”

[As a result of the verification, it is located on Java Island where Jakarta is located.]

“Go there.”

[All right.]

Maru’s private plane, which had been reorganized as an assistant, headed to Java, the central island of Indonesia.

[An abnormal phenomenon has been discovered.]

The artificial intelligence that had been assisting us for some time identified and reported the unusual situation.

An image appeared on the monitor. Plants were seen here and there, ensnaring people. It was as if carnivorous plants had caught bugs.