Rust - Chapter 1055



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Rust [RUST] – Episode 1055

Although the announcement of the Holy Kingdom was targeted at Southeast Asian countries, the video was viewed by most countries around the world.

“So you’re saying there are carnivorous plants?”

“It’s a jungle that grows by eating sacrifices. Is it okay to use that?”

“Was Japan completely ruined because of the sinkhole monster?”

“That’s right. Even though there was a volcanic eruption and an earthquake there, there were quite a few survivors thanks to the ability users.”

“That’s right. Is it a defensive ability? A barrier ability? There were people with those abilities.”

“I heard that there were people who survived in villages or cities because they had the ability to purify polluted air, drinking water, and land.”

They were even more greedy when they thought that the sinkhole monster was the reason for the destruction of the Japanese mainland and Kyushu.

“A sinkhole monster would be a powerful enough force.”

“Is that why the Holy Kingdom wants to monopolize the sinkhole?”

A monster that even the powerful abilities of those who survived the great disaster in Japan could not stop. The sinkhole monster was meant to be that strong of a monster.

“Why doesn’t a sinkhole form here?”

“They say it happens in places where volcanoes and earthquakes occur frequently.”

“That’s why there are so many of them in Indonesia and the Philippines.”

“Let’s go to the Philippines, as the Holy Kingdom of Indonesia will keep a close eye on us.”

Some countries were divided into many spheres, and some had no government at all, but the desire was the same: more power and stronger force.

In the end times, strength meant power, and power meant impotence. A carnivorous plant that can communicate and an immortal monster. How can you tolerate that?

“What on earth are those Holy Kingdom guys thinking?”

“It wasn’t broadcasted openly, but if you had a brain, you would know that sinkholes and carnivorous plants are powerful.”

“If you saw the broadcast, everyone will flock there.”

I’m going to Indonesia and the Philippines. Will the Holy Kingdom see that?

There was no way. If it were them, they would kill those who gathered like that. Kill them when they entered and when they left? No, it would have been enough to not kill them and just induce them to fight each other.

“Is it a trap?”

“Maybe so.”

Both the new humans and the awakened ones needed strength. And the new humans or survivors who could travel the world in the end times would have to belong to a fairly large force.

If we could lure them all out and get rid of them, we could be one step ahead of the future absolute power. Maybe that was the intention behind releasing the information.

[-I think so.]

Ki-soon combined information floating around from various places with her own inferences to tell her story.

“It doesn’t matter.”

[If they come, will you kill them?]

“I warned you that if you try to make weapons out of carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters, I’ll kill you. If you don’t understand what I’m warning you, you die.”

That wasn’t killing. It was just suicides killing themselves.

Why do people jaywalk when they are warned that they will die if they get hit by a car? They must be confident that they won’t get hit by a car, or they must be confident that they will survive if they get hit.

Then it’s something you just have to try. Whether you can avoid it or not, whether you’ll live or die if you get hit. What can you do if you want to experience it yourself? Maru was calm.

[Are you planning to start a war against the whole world? Haven’t you been trying not to?]

“In many countries in Southeast Asia, we closed sinkholes and overthrew cannibal regimes. So what was the result? A great war broke out. It was a mistake from the beginning. It wasn’t something that could be solved by not fighting.”

What if we had first destroyed Thailand with all our might, with the royal family controlled by elephants and cannibals? Instead of trying to minimize casualties, we should have spared ourselves the trouble.

From the beginning, we’ll mobilize all our forces to beat them up, close all the sinkholes, and if they start making a fuss about the sinkhole cannibals, we’ll just destroy them all. What if we went that blatantly?

Would all of Southeast Asia have banded together to form a coalition and fought back? Even if we had hit their command center with high-altitude bombing using stratospheric airships?

Even if you fired unlimited railgun fire from a Black Drake-class airship? Would the cannibal regime still be able to mess with the sinkhole?

Would the Indonesian government and military have thought to use carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters when the results were clear?

Maru, who experienced the chaos of Southeast Asia, realized that if the Holy Kingdom wanted to do something, it had to show a clear gap in power.

No matter what you do, it won’t work. You have to make them realize it with force, not logic. That’s the way to make the least number of innocent victims.

Ki-sun sighed deeply at the plain story.

[So you just fired a hypersonic missile at the guys who brought the carnivorous plants to the Singapore shelter? Don’t even think about taking refugees as hostages. You want to show them that if they do anything stupid like taking hostages, you’ll blow them up whole?]

“If there was only one innocent hostage situation, I could have gone. I could have sent Kim Yang or someone else. But what if there are people trying to sacrifice hostages in multiple places at the same time like now? That’s what I have to do to prevent something like that from happening where everyone can’t be saved.”

Meanwhile, the Holy Kingdom refrained from projecting firepower.

Sinkhole monsters. Mutant monsters. When we were hunting the cannibals, we used limited firepower, not like we are now pouring it on Singapore and Indonesia. Maru’s thoughts seemed to have changed during this incident.

Ki-sun couldn’t help but swallow a sigh.

This was because the story was that current civilian casualties would be ignored in order to minimize future civilian casualties.

What is the most effective way to subdue an enemy? It is to show an overwhelming gap. To show that you have completely annihilated the enemy.

That’s why the operation name ‘Shock and Awe’ appeared. What was the result of that operation? As the name of the operation, Shock and Awe, suggests, the short war ended, but was it possible to eliminate the enemy? Did the enemy decrease?

No it wasn’t.

History has always been like that.

No matter how overwhelming the difference in power was, once the chain of hatred was entangled, it was not easily broken. Ki-sun thought that the Holy Kingdom should not be entangled in such a chain of hatred.

‘Already involved with Singapore and Indonesia.’

But it wasn’t completely too late.

[That hateful psychic. He might not be a cannibal, but a person with powers. I also awakened a psychic, so it’s hard to say that there aren’t cases like mine.]

“So I guess I’ll have to check.”

If you send Hee-yeon and Heuk-ma, you should be able to catch the cannibal. But what if it’s not a cannibal but a person with powers?

[It would be possible to track a cannibal since there is a warlock, but if it were just a person with abilities, there would be no way to track it, right?]

“I’m making a mind-wave explorer. Once it’s done, I should have no trouble tracking it.”

When Joseph Meyer’s dregs of brain and Gisoon communicated with each other through mental waves, it was a technique that was possible because sufficient data was secured.

[So what are you going to do when you find someone you hate?]

“I have to finish it.”

Maru seemed to know why the Yankees slaughtered the Indians. And why the Spanish slaughtered the natives.

I would rather be an object of fear than an object of hatred.

I would rather eliminate someone who seeks revenge than become the target of revenge.

This is what Indonesia tried to do to Singapore and Malaysia, and this is what the Holy Kingdom did to the Indonesian military and Singapore.

‘so?’

What path should the Holy Kingdom take? To survive. To eliminate the enemy. If that’s what they decided to do, then that’s what they should do.

[Are you saying you’re going to kill them all?]

“If necessary.”

If that’s the case, then so be it.

[What if the people who believed in you and believed in you as their savior turn their backs on you because your decisions are cruel?]

“If death is the only way to break the chain of hatred, then so be it. There is no time to continue floundering in the same place.”

The same goes for sinkhole monsters, carnivorous plants, and even those who try to use them as biological weapons.

I didn’t know if I would just spend my time dawdling and then it would start spreading in all directions and I would have to fight endlessly.

[Even the powerful United States was eventually endlessly entangled.]

“Would it have been the same if the United States had hunted down its enemies as it did the Indians of old?”

Even if we caught them like Indians, whether they were Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Afghan, or Iraqi, would there have been a problem? Maru’s determination to talk like that could not be changed.

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“······.”

Ki-sun was genuinely worried. The end of a tyrant usually meant self-destruction.

[U+ Unit surrounds Singapore’s cannibal horde.]

The assistant AI uploaded a video of the siege to the monitor. There was an excited black horse, Hee-yeon comforting the black horse, and cannibals waving white towels like flags in the surrounded building, threatening to surrender.

[Waiting for orders on what to do.]

“No prisoners will be taken.”

With Maru’s decision, the black horse jumped in. Gunshots, screams, and explosions followed, filling the screen.

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The technology of the Holy Kingdom had surpassed the singularity. However, the reason why the production of equipment utilizing the singularity was weak was not because there was no technology, but because there was no infrastructure to make singularity technology a reality.

[I created a psychic detector.]

[We are conducting a verification experiment by searching around major cities.]

The floating city of the Holy Kingdom was a futuristic city built with such infrastructure in mind. The fact that the prototype of the psychic detector could be produced quickly was also due to the floating city’s advanced production infrastructure.

[Field verification results. Proven effective for detection and tracking.]

[It takes 10 hours for the prototype to arrive and 15 days for the mass production facility to be completed.]

The AI ​​Diana and the assistant AI took turns reporting the progress.

Black Horse and Hee-yeon, along with the U+ Unit and Kim Yang’s personal guard, subjugated the cannibals in Singapore. Most of them were family members and relatives of the cannibals who had carried out the coup and the carnivorous plant terrorism.

‘We did not stage a coup.’

‘The children are innocent.’

Maru ordered that they be wiped out without leaving a single one behind. Even though they were the family of a cannibal, there was no reason to let them live as they were cannibals.

And as soon as they were caught, they were swept away, and Maru felt that the cursed voices that had been whining in his head had diminished.

‘It was definitely the right thing to do to end it.’

After the psychic detector arrived, Hee-yeon, Heuk-ma, Kim Yang, and the guards split up and started searching. They found the cannibals and were able to find the people with psychic abilities one by one.

[I found some weird kids here. They have poor physical abilities to be considered as power users, but they show up clearly on the psychic detector.]

Kim Yang said, showing the detector screen.

In general, when you awaken your abilities, your physical abilities will also improve. Although not as much as someone with awakened physical abilities, it is common for you to become as strong as two adult males.

However, the people that Kim Yang and the guards were looking for were physically normal people, but the light coming from the psychic probe was quite strong.

[Then let’s try praying.]

[Pray? Okay. There. I won’t kill you, so don’t cry and pray.]

A family in a state of panic fell to their knees and began to pray as heavily armed troops with exosuits and core armor rushed in.

And a wave of thought passes through Maru’s mind.

(help.)

(help.)

Maru frowned and spoke while looking at the screen.

“Stop being scared and come out.”

[I didn’t scare you?]

“Okay, come out now. I can hear those people’s voices.”

[Ah- Did you hear that? Got it.]

The PD’s face brightened at the story of finding such people.

[We can make our religious organization more solid around them.]

The ability to communicate directly with the Savior was something that would surely strengthen one’s faith.

[What does that mean? If you have the ability to communicate with others through psychic communication, you should use it in the military.]

Isn’t that obvious?

If it’s a psychic ability, it’s best used as a communications soldier. If it’s an ability to communicate without being affected by biological EMP or EMP fields, it’s even better.

[Prayer and its visible answer will be a miracle. Miracles will return to faith and divinity will be built.]

[No. If you have psychic abilities, what if you think of them as fake telepathy? It’s not a miracle or anything, it’s just an ability. Are you saying that we should package it as a miracle?]

[It’s not a package. It’s the truth. The truth that if you truly believe and pray, you will receive an answer. That in itself is a miracle. It’s a miracle.]

Maru said, calming down the slightly excited PD.

“Keep searching with the psychic detector. If you find it, recommend that it emigrate to the Holy Kingdom.”

[Ah- Okay, I see.]

The problem that had been quietly ringing in Maru’s head was thus solved.

[An unidentified boat has been confirmed to be moving towards the Indonesian island of Sumatra.]

[Submarine spotted off Java Island.]

[Bulk carrier discovered heading to Mindanao Island, Philippines. Appears to be disguised as Chinese Southern Forces.]

[A fleet of eight ships has been discovered, believed to be heading from southern India to Malaysia.]

Even though it was clearly said that if they came they would die, many forces got involved.

[Was it really a trap?]

“It was more of a warning than a trap. I told you. Those bastards who crawl in for the biological weapon will die. If they came anyway, didn’t they come to die?”

Maru’s cold gaze settled coldly.

“No need for further warning. If they come in, attack.”

[Okay.]

Miss Kim answered brightly.