Rust - Chapter 1048



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RUST – 1049

The operation was as simple as possible.

As Maru wipes out the Indonesian military, it carpet bombs the meat-eating jungles of Malaysia and Singapore.

After clearing the forests on the surface, we will send Naruj’s center to Malaysia, and Kim Yang, his bodyguard, Hee-yeon, and the U+ unit to Singapore to start rooting.

The main force, armed with exosuits and core armor, was to surround the attack area and check if any of the young ones escaped carrying carnivorous plants.

Even if the surface was wiped out by carpet bombing with napalm and nuclear grenades, the problem was that the biological EMP field effect from the underground roots made it impossible to use exosuits or core armor.

“The electronic equipment is not working. We will go into operation right after the virtual reality response training, so prepare.”

Of course, there was a communication failure and the personnel were prepared for that. The Naruz were able to communicate with each other through telepathy.

The U+ unit was able to relay the situation centered around Heeyeon through the link. So, Malaysia had Naruz, Singapore had Kim Yang and the Royal Guards provide firepower, and the U+ unit was dispersed among the Royal Guards and took charge of communications.

In the virtual reality response training, Naruz showed overwhelming results. Perhaps because Naruz had already established merits and harbored dark intentions(?) to go play with Maru, the Naruz network was somehow running smoothly.

[Let’s go!]

[Gooooooooo!]

Of course, it was a shout that omitted Saipan and Bali. While Naruzu finished the simulation with overwhelming power, Kim Yang and Hee Yeon were squeaking.

[Hey, you little brat, aren’t you going to close your eyes?]

Heeeeeeling-

Miss Kim, who didn’t want to walk on a sled, tried to get back the black horse she had lent her, but the black horse, which was paired with Hee-yeon, rejected Miss Kim.

[I said I don’t like it.]

[Salty- Did the words get shorter?]

Are you talking informally to me because I’m a big fan of fake stuff?

You lent me a pair of horses and now you’re throwing a tantrum?

[You little brat. Do you want to get kicked out? Don’t you dare open your eyes?]

Heeheeeeeeing-

Kim Yang’s hand reached for the holster. At the same time, Hee Yeon’s hand also reached for the holster.

[Do you both want to get hit?]

Maru’s voice, who was observing the training, shook the virtual reality. Kim Yang and Hee-yeon took their hands off their holsters as the pixels broke and cracked in the sky.

[If you’re not going to do it properly, tell me now.]

Kim Yang said, looking up at the torn sky.

[I’ve been thinking that I should fight with Jjap at some point. Since it’s come to this, I hope we can start off with a clean finish.]

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Hee-yeon kept her mouth shut, agreeing with the statement that she wanted to see the match. If she had gone into the operation without any adaptation training and this mess had happened in the actual battle, what would have happened?

[Okay. Let’s decide the outcome here. Let’s end it cleanly.]

It’s better to set the stage in a virtual reality than to have an accident in reality. If you take what’s decided here to actual combat, you won’t just let it be.

Both Kim Yang and Hee Yeon agreed with Maru’s warning.

[Okay.]

[yes.]

[Where is it?]

[Seoul. Gangnam. Centered around Teheran-ro. Limited to a 2km radius. Time. 6:00 PM.]

Kim Yang set the conditions without hesitation. Hee Yeon nodded quietly, as if she had no complaints. At the same time, the space distorted and the streets of Gangnam began to reappear.

The long, stretched-out Tehran-ro was created, with buildings rising on both sides. Then, traffic jams began to appear as rush hour approaches, and sidewalks crowded with office workers leaving work began to appear.

Starting with the sound of gunfire that shook the peaceful commute home, the battle ended in Kim Yang’s victory after 30 minutes of bloody fighting.

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Kim Yang was still upset even after winning. She had thought she would win by an overwhelming margin, but Hee Yeon was no pushover.

Was it not salty enough?

Or maybe I’ve become numb?

Virtual reality using artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and quantum computers was a reality. If it had actually been held in Gangnam, Seoul, the results would have been similar.

After a victory that was nothing but scars.

The ending is getting caught by the police or military.

It’s because I couldn’t catch it cleanly that this result came out.

Salty is also a complaint.

Such complaints did not help the operation much.

Kim Yang said this while looking at Hee-yeon, who was full of resentment.

[Hey- Is it salty? If not, do it again next time.]

[···That’s right.]

Anyway, the result of ‘Last Man Standing’ was Kim Yang’s victory. It’s true that she was in a bad mood, but Kim Yang, who had cleared her mind a bit, looked at the black horse.

[And you brat. You’re out of the operation.]

Heeeeeeeeeing!

[I was going to ride it, but come to think of it, it wasn’t you.]

Heeheeeeeeek!

As the black horse swung roughly, Kim Yang looked at him with a pout.

[If you come out of a narrow space, should I throw you food to the carnivorous plants and leave? If you don’t want to get eaten, keep your mouth shut.]

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It was Ms. Kim who organized the traffic neatly.

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‘Miss Kim, you’ve grown up a lot.’

Anyway, if he had openly pressed on the issue, saying he had won, it would have been natural for him to feel internally opposed. It was such a small difference.

But by saying, ‘Let’s fight again next time,’ she solidified her victory and eliminated any noise that might arise during the operation while controlling traffic.

Whether it was something she did instinctively after thinking about it, it was something she did because she was a well-grown Kim.

And it was the same for Hee-yeon. Hee-yeon, who had stopped growing rapidly in the middle and had a body of a 4 or 5 year old for quite a long time.

Afterwards, he grew rapidly again to a middle school level body, but using that body to fight was a separate matter.

He could have said something regretful, but perhaps it was because of his pride that he clenched his teeth and accepted the result. And he even took the next opportunity that Kim Yang presented.

‘I guess there won’t be a problem.’

The fact that it has reached a precarious situation against the awakened Kim Yang means that its potential growth rate is high.

Maru thought that it was a good change that he was growing differently from the original Director Yu. Unlike Director Yu, who specialized in interpersonal combat, he had a rough side, perhaps because he had hunted a lot of mutant monsters and cannibals, but it wasn’t bad.

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During the virtual reality training, the Indonesian military continued to bring Indonesian civilians into the space created between Malaysia and Singapore.

[The population is increasing rapidly. If it continues like this, it will likely exceed 1 million in a week.]

According to Ki-sun’s analysis, the number had already exceeded 200,000 and reached 250,000 in an instant.

[It appears that they were planning a large-scale migration from the beginning. Analysis of encrypted data has revealed that they were planning to expand their forces through conscription after a large-scale migration operation and push northward through Malaysia.]

A hint of anger appeared on the half-and-half face of the man who was reporting.

[The military is separating the elderly and the weak while controlling supplies.]

As they were being relocated, the military confiscated all the refugees’ belongings. Since the military took control of all the refugees’ assets, they had no choice but to be drafted in order to survive.

Once they migrated, they had no choice but to follow the military. Where could they run to avoid conscription? The road to Malaysia and the road to Singapore were all blocked by carnivorous jungles.

[It was confirmed that they were growing carnivorous plants by offering up people with chronic illnesses among the elderly as sacrifices.]

As the population grew, so did the number of people who were sacrificed to the carnivorous jungle. This was because in order to maintain a strong defensive line, it was necessary to sacrifice as much to the jungle.

“Where is the Indonesian military?”

[Located near the jungle on the Malaysian side.]

The Indonesian military headquarters was located just 100 meters away from the jungle. If you were to say 100 meters away, you could practically say they were right next to each other.

“It’s too close to the jungle?”

[I guess that’s because they are in a mutually beneficial relationship.]

I tried to use the Ripper suit’s stealth to wipe them out, but it wasn’t easy.

“I can’t waste any more time.”

Even if they stalled for time, they would only bring in more people from Indonesia, increasing the number of troops and growing the meat-eating jungle.

“It starts tomorrow morning.”

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4:30 in the morning.

It is the time when those who wake up early are just waking up from bed, and it is the time when those who go to bed late are in the middle of a deep sleep. And it is the time when the guards are most alert.

The rippling movement silently headed towards the Indonesian 1st Corps headquarters building. Dada-dak- Maru, who had been running on the bare road, jumped up.

Maru, who had risen to the sky almost flying with his physical abilities stronger than those of an average person with physical abilities, landed on the roof of the command building.

Kujik-

Cheeeeeeeing-

The Ripper suit’s stealth module was released, and the rippling space was shattered.

‘The EMP field is too strong?’

Even though it was near the meat-eating jungle, the EMP field was much stronger than expected.

The Ripper suit’s stealth was broken, so the plan had to change. The original plan was to use stealth as much as possible to deal with it quietly, but that went awry.

Tsk-

As we broke through the roof, we came to an attic space. Maru, who had arrived just above the operation control room along the empty space, fired a signal flare through the roof from the inside out.

As the high-altitude signal flare burst into a powerful flame, the airships waiting far away began to fire railguns and missiles at the positions where the 1st Corps was gathered.

The emergency bell rang, and the sleeping command woke up. The 1st Corps command gathered in the operation control room suddenly stood up, and the commander came inside.

“What’s the situation?”

“As expected, there were air strikes and missile attacks.”

If the Holy Kingdom were to launch a preemptive strike, it would most certainly be an aerial bombardment and bombing using large airships, so we were prepared.

“What about the damage?”

“There are no casualties yet.”

The apparent garrison was just a decoy. The real troops were in underground bunkers dug out with the help of carnivorous plants.

Even if the garrison was a bait, it was inside the biological EMP field emitted by the Carnivore Jungle, so the Holy Kingdom could not confirm it through drone reconnaissance or crow reconnaissance.

“Have you located the enemy airship?”

“2km above at 4 o’clock.”

I wish the airship had come down further. At 2km, it’s barely a distance that would allow the bio-EMP field to expand.

This was because the scale of the meat forest was small. If more sacrifices had been made, the EMP field would have covered a much larger area.

“Prepare as many sacrifices as possible. They will definitely want to check the garrison directly. When the main force comes down, reinforce the bio-EMP field to neutralize it.”

As soon as the commander’s order ended, the floor on the ceiling jumped down.

Clink clink clink-

As the vines of death stretched out in the air, as if they had been waiting, green vines shot up from under the flower pots and tables in the operation control room.

As the Death Vine and the Flesh Vine began a tense struggle in the air, the Commander’s eyes lit up.

“You came! Vladimir Kalin!”

With that scream, the plasterboard wall collapsed, and various carnivorous plants poured out.

“I knew you’d come alone!”

Oh, really?

The sound of the death vine crushing the flesh vine.

Kushik- Ppuddeuk-

The glint in the commander’s eyes began to fade.

Surely… it wasn’t tense?

Even in Singapore, the vines of death clearly weren’t this strong?

Kkwaddeuk- Ujijik-

A carnivorous plant breaking through a wall and being eaten by death vines and shadow rats. It was just a one-sided scene.

“What? What?”

The commander took a step back without realizing it.

A black solid line was drawn at the same time that the guards who stepped forward pulled the triggers of their machine guns toward the floor.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬—

When he arrived, Maru, who had reached right in front of the guards, put the Nucleus he had raised back into its scabbard. His arms, upper body, and submachine gun were all cut off and fell to the floor.

The commander’s eyes widened.

It was a distance where the blade could not reach.

Obviously.

But the guards were cut down.

how?

In a split second, as short as the blink of an eye, the guards turned into guards. Even though all the guards had physical abilities, it was useless.

Not being able to block or avoid a single swing of the sword.

“Uh… crazy.”

Even in that gruesome situation, the officers who had become cannibals and the officers with awakened abilities attacked Maru at the same time.

“Now is the time!”

It was an attack that took advantage of the entanglement of the vines of death and flesh. As if they had prepared in advance, the fire and wind elements joined forces, and water and electricity attacks continued along the ground.

And then, people with physical abilities, wrapped in special materials, rushed from all directions, wielding hammers, saws, swords, and spears.

“asleep!”

“You only need to stab me once!”

“Just hurt me!”

Even as the attacks poured down from the surrounding semicircle, Maru lowered his head and looked at his feet, feeling his heart pounding.

Even as the fan-like vines blocked the attacks of the cannibals and the ability users and then turned into black particles and disappeared, Maru stabbed Nuclipse into the ground.

(Keeeeeeeeee—)

A carnivorous plant that spread out in all directions, breaking through the ground. A huge clump of plants rose up. And the Garden of Death spread out as if wrapping it up like a blanket.

The numerous cannibals and Awakened ones surrounding them in a semicircle, and even the carnivores hiding on the ground, had frozen in place.

“Oh my god.”

Substitute.

This is··· .

What was reflected in the eyes of the Indonesian 1st Corps commander was the garden of death that was beginning to swallow up the entire area and a black line that was cutting everything off.

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Kwakwakwakwak–

The entire meat-producing jungle, pounded by carpet bombing, began to burn.

[Protest from Singapore.]

[It is said that Indonesian special forces started the terrorist attack.]

[So what do you want me to do? If you don’t want to get hurt, just stay in your room.]

Kim Yang ignored the Singapore government’s protest. If you had been warned that there would be a terrorist attack, you should have prepared accordingly. What are you going to do if you get dragged away?

‘You fucking idiots.’

[Pour more. Burn it completely.]

[yes.]

One corner of Singapore has turned into a sea of ​​fire.