Rust - Chapter 1046



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RUST [RUST]-1046

What appeared to be Indonesian special forces were sniping Maru. The team, consisting of as few as five and as many as seven, was starting to get on his nerves.

‘What are these kids?’

Even though they had wiped out several teams, they continued to attack endlessly.

Charrick-

The spreading vine leaves neutralized the bullets. The throbbing heartbeat meant that what they were doing was disgusting.

‘They’re the guys who blow up buildings even when there are allies. Are they the ones who get on my nerves like this?’

Maru, who had experienced everything from mountaineering to aerial combat, figured out that what the Indonesian special forces were doing was mostly a decoy.

‘Did you think I’d come after you if you killed and snipe civilians?’

I saw the Indonesians making jungles out of carnivorous plants, and there was no profit to go along with that nonsense. Maru fired the signal flare right away.

pop-

A sleek private airship, as if made of white marble, descended onto the decked rooftop.

As if an opportunity had come, 12.7mm armor-piercing bullets, 25mm anti-aircraft guns, and RPGs poured in from all directions. Even the infantry surface-to-air missiles that had been hidden all this time were aimed at Maru’s airship, but it was no use.

Woof-

The new shield neutralized all attacks, and the airship carrying Maru rose into the sky.

“He’s gone.”

“He just left?”

why?

You’ve been causing such a mess up until now, so why are you doing this all of a sudden?

“Lure failed.”

“Did you really go?”

“Yes. I went on an airship. It had a shield or something, so I couldn’t shoot it down.”

“A shield? That’s ridiculous. Report to the commander immediately. The current firepower cannot continue the operation.”

A white pillar of light poured down as if to bid farewell to the Indonesian special forces, who had been chasing a chicken but now looked up at the roof.

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A railgun fired from a Black Drake-class airship shines a light on the building where the Indonesian special forces are ambushing the building.

A building reduced to rags in an instant. When an overwhelming impact sweeps through the building, all that remains are ruins and corpses.

The railgun barrage did not stop. The light pillars were sprayed toward the meat-eating forest, which gradually expanded in range. The moment the bullets flying at high speeds hit the forest, they disappeared like white dots on the dark green.

The jungle shook with the impact that hit its deep roots, but there was nothing they could do about the airship floating in the sky.

After the railgun barrage ended, napalm bombing began, and then more railgun barrage. It took more than half of the firepower loaded onto the Black Drake-class airship before 80% of the flesh-eating jungle spreading along the road was cleared.

[Carnivorous plants would act as a breakwater for the sinkhole monster, but aren’t they erasing too much?]

“Its roots remain, so as long as it has food, it will recover quickly. And if it gets injured and starves, it will eat the sinkhole monster.”

When you’re full, would you eat a sinkhole monster like junk food? You have to be sick, miserable, and hungry to move without thinking about what’s ahead or what’s behind.

If the carnivorous plants start actively attacking the sinkhole monster, the solidarity between the sinkhole monster and the carnivorous plants will disappear as it is now.

“If they become a colony, they can communicate with each other, right? If one side starts eating the sinkhole monster, the other side will try to eat it too if they get the chance.”

[If you become strong by eating humans, wouldn’t it be dangerous if you mutate again after eating a sinkhole monster?]

Or maybe plants could be uprooted and wander around, or maybe plants could develop the ability to infest and erode like sinkhole monsters.

The simulation results showed that the aftereffects of the unidentified sinkhole monster were varied. No matter what changed, you just had to say, ‘That’s how it is.’

“The mutation of plants has begun and we must move towards minimizing carnivorous plants.”

[Are you going to continue attacking the Indonesian military?]

It was a natural thing.

“The Indonesian military is spreading carnivorous plants.”

Whether to control sinkhole monsters or defend their territories, the Indonesian military has spread carnivorous plants across Singapore for whatever reason.

If they spread carnivorous plants to Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand, they will spread to the Indochina Peninsula.

We couldn’t just leave these carnivorous plants, which should have been confined to a single Indonesian island, spreading across the continent.

Just watch them do something dangerous to the planet to survive? Maru had no intention of doing that.

‘I was just struggling to survive.’

The end times. The Holy Kingdom was the same. Each of them was in different situations, but they were just struggling to survive. So it was meaningless to say that Indonesia was doing it to survive.

The only thing that matters is that Indonesia attacked Maru, and that it threatened the safety and survival of the future Holy Kingdom.

so.

“Prevent Indonesian landing ships from crossing the Malay Strait.”

[······.]

If you knew that carnivorous plants eat humans, you could just live happily together on an island with the carnivorous plants. Don’t crawl out.

Maru sent a Black Drake-class airship into the Malay Strait.

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The Indonesian commander received reports that the defensive line he had built in Singapore was almost collapsed.

[The Holy Kingdom’s airship fires a railgun.]

“The King of the Holy Kingdom? Couldn’t he be lured to where his roots are?”

[The lure failed. The special forces mobilized for the operation were annihilated.]

“······.”

It seemed like they had succeeded in luring him, but then he suddenly took off on a blimp. They had prepared heavy weapons, anti-aircraft guns, and surface-to-air missiles in anticipation of his escape on a special blimp, but reports continued that it was useless because of the defensive shield.

Deep wrinkles formed around the commander’s eyes.

‘A barrier?’

A shield on a blimp? This side can’t launch fighter jets or anything because of the mutant birds and volcanic ash?

It was ridiculous that large airships had railguns and shields, but now even small airships have shields.

‘It feels like fighting aliens.’

I had an inkling that the Holy Kingdom’s military prowess was extraordinary since the Italian frigate sank so easily, but this was beyond my imagination.

[The jungle that formed the defensive line has been destroyed.]

Although they were almost completely wiped out, reports continued that they had recovered by about half thanks to the regenerative powers unique to carnivorous plants.

Half of it was dangerous. At least 80% had to be maintained so that they could advance toward Malaysia without worrying about the rear.

Half of the special forces’ strength was used to lure Vladimir Kalin, so if we took any more, we would have to give up future special warfare.

“How did the landing operation go?”

[Contact with the 2nd Corps has been lost. It appears to be due to the aftereffects of the volcanic ash.]

“Isn’t it also connected to the psychic wave?”

[I will check it right away.]

In order to survive, they even allowed cannibals to enlist. During the war, there were plenty of people for cannibals to eat. By incorporating cannibals into the unit, they were able to escape the chronic communication problems.

Above all, it was good that it did not use the wireless communication networks of the Holy Kingdom and the Empire, so there was no risk of wiretapping or hacking.

[2nd Corps. Landing operation started as planned.]

“Is that so?”

The 1st Corps Commander’s eyes wavered. There was a variable in the Singapore operation, so he tried to delay the operation a little.

The 1st and 2nd Corps were in a competitive relationship. Even if the 1st Corps had wanted to delay the operation, it would have been difficult to mediate since they had lost contact with the new government.

“We will also advance. Leave two companies behind to make sacrifices to hold the Singapore defense line.”

It was the commander who ordered two companies to leave behind and throw the sacrifices into the meat forest. And then, a moment later, an urgent report came to mind.

[2nd Corps landing ship under attack!]

[The Holy Kingdom is attacking the 2nd Legion’s landing craft!]

A landing craft moving through volcanic ash and dust? How?

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Kaaaak- (Do you have any spare toilet?)

Kaaaak— (I can go one more time.)

Okay, let’s go one more time.

A crow bombardment, clutching nuclear grenades and markers, pierced through the hazy ash and dust. A landing craft was dimly visible across the dim space with visibility of less than 50 meters.

Kaaaak- (starts with bombing)

Caw— (bombing!)

The landing ship, whose upper deck was destroyed by the first bombing by the crows, slowly slowed down. It was a landing ship that withstood the destructive force of nuclear grenades without sinking, as if Indonesia had also acquired armor plate technology using the byproducts of mutant monsters.

So the second wave that followed was not a bombing raid. The crows got close to the landing craft, which had its air defense systems disabled, and placed markers on it.

Beep-beep-beep-

As the blinking markers attached themselves to the landing craft and sent out a signal, the signal, amplified by repeaters, cut through the ash and dust to reveal the location of the landing craft.

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And then one of the landing ships sank in the railgun fire that followed. There was no way to hide in the volcanic ash and dust.

The 2nd Corps increased the speed of their landing ships in an attempt to reach the Malaysian coast as quickly as possible, but they were unable to shake off attacks from the Crow Bombers and Black Drake-class airships.

The landing craft, which was carrying cannibals, sinkhole monsters, and even a flesh-eating plant incubator, was sunk without even making it to Malaysia.

Kaaaak- (There might be a cannibal living there!)

Kaaaak- (If there’s something, bomb it!)

The crows scoured the sea and dropped bombs despite the blurry visibility. The 2nd Corps was annihilated by their persistent and relentless attacks.

The Crow Unit and the Black Drake-class airship that annihilated the 2nd Corps headed towards the Indonesian 1st Corps.

[The 2nd Corps was annihilated!]

[The crows and large airships that attacked the 2nd Corps are coming this way.]

“Set up a defensive line here.”

Deploying a defensive line meant creating a meat-eating jungle.

“Pull them all out.”

“Please save me!”

Malaysia was suddenly attacked by the Indonesian army and was helpless.

“Fuck- Shut your mouth!”

“Please! At least a child!”

“You idiot! Just shoot him! Shoot him and drag him out!”

“Don’t look at me. If you look at me, you won’t be able to sleep.”

After several Indonesian soldiers committed suicide during an operation to sacrifice unarmed civilians, combat stimulants were used again.

The scene of slaughter unfolded like that.

To survive.

People became fertilizer for the sake of saving the Indonesian people. Fertilizer for carnivorous plants to take root.

[The Indonesian military is creating a meat-eating jungle.]

The auxiliary AI of the Maru Airship reported the operations of the Indonesian 1st Corps. The flesh-eating forests continued to appear here and there. The forests were long and stretched out like mold.

The fact that they spread carnivorous plants simultaneously means that they killed a lot of people. The Indonesian 1st Corps acted as if there was no follow-up.

[Indonesian forces have started a war of destruction and slaughter in Singapore. It is the size of two companies.]

“What is Singapore’s response?”

[The destruction unit is attacking through the meat-eating jungle and is unable to suppress it.]

The story is that the carnivorous jungle knows how to distinguish between the Indonesian and Singaporean troops. When the new government was taken over by plants, it seemed like they were unilaterally defeated by the carnivorous plants, but looking at the current situation, it wasn’t unilaterally defeated.

[Singapore’s meat-eating jungle is expanding again as a result of the destruction operation.]

[We need supplies of crow units and airships.]

While resupplying at a supply depot in Taiwan, the Indonesian 1st Army managed to establish a defensive line.

And then the migration began. The Indonesian army, which controlled the area between Malaysia and Singapore, brought people from the mainland.

When the Holy Kingdom’s crow troops and large airships returned from resupply, it was already the Indonesian 1st Corps that brought over 100,000 civilians.

[The Indonesian 1st Corps Commander reportedly succeeded in negotiating a ceasefire with Malaysia.]

[It is said that they have also entered into ceasefire negotiations with Singapore.]

Malaysia was unable to attack the Indonesian army through the carnivorous jungle. The forces were divided several times between the carnivorous plants and the Indonesian army’s defenses.

It was difficult to tell whether they were carnivorous or not, and they could not defeat the Indonesian army that freely roamed the carnivorous jungle.

The Indonesian 1st Army threatened to turn the Malaysian capital into a meat-eating jungle if a ceasefire agreement was not reached.

Malaysia was forced to choose a ceasefire under the threat of an attack on its capital city. The same was true for Singapore. Public opinion for a ceasefire was growing in Singapore as well, under the threat of further expansion of the meat forest.

[He warned that if the Holy Kingdom intervenes despite the ceasefire agreement between the parties, there will be massive casualties in Malaysia and Singapore.]

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What kind of kids are these?

So what you’re saying now is that you’re threatening to spread carnivorous plants to Malaysia and Singapore if the Holy Kingdom attacks?

We were already trying to control the Indochina Peninsula by releasing carnivorous plants, and now you’re threatening us with that? So, if you don’t want to create innocent victims, just stay still?

[The Malaysian and Singaporean governments have officially requested restraint in their response.]

“How long do you think Indonesia will stay still? Once they settle in, they will try to expand their territory by using carnivorous plants.”

[It’s something the parties decided. If we intervene, there’s a high chance that things will go back to the way they were the first time.]

“Nothing will ever be the same as it was the first time.”

Because I’ll block you from leaving the island.

“Gather all the Naruzu and U+, including the ability units. We will immediately wipe out the Indonesian military and the meat-eating jungle.”

To the roots.

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It was a floor where threats and compromises did not work.