Rust - Chapter 1056



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Rust [RUST] – Episode 1056

Kim Yang and his bodyguard, who had entrusted Heeyeon and U+ with the task of organizing Singapore, immediately confirmed that those entering Indonesia were the ones who had been sent there.

[Check semi-submersible at 12 o’clock.]

[There is also a submarine at 3 o’clock.]

Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed.

Is it Yangdong?

[It seems like semi-submersibles and submarines are different groups.]

[Should we attack now?]

Semi-submersibles and submarines patrolling each other along a coastline that is ideal for landing.

[wait.]

Huh-

A small boat emerged from the submarine and headed toward the shore, and the same thing happened with the submarine. I thought they would engage in a war of nerves or engage in combat if they were different, but they were not.

Both sides were holding back from provoking the other side, fearing that an armed conflict might break out. The two sides arrived at the coast and moved in opposite directions. When they got farther apart, they entered a forest covered in volcanic ash and dust like fog.

[Shall we chase?]

Why?

Wouldn’t it be easier to wait until it comes out and then catch it?

[Suppress submarines and semi-submersibles.]

[ancient.]

A large drone carrying a war machine headed towards a submarine and a semi-submersible. The submarine attempted to make an emergency dive, so the drone that had dropped the war machine blew itself up, causing the side to burst and prevent it from diving.

The same goes for the submarine. It performed high-speed evasive maneuvers to avoid the drone, but it was unable to shake off the pursuit of the new drone of the Holy Kingdom.

A war machine landed on a semi-submersible with its rear engine blown off. The war machine, which looked like an artificial intelligence dog, quickly took control of the semi-submersible’s deck, then used a laser cutter to cut through the bottom and enter.

“Eww- what is this!”

“Stop it!”

“Close the hatch!”

In places without EMP, the robots were nothing more than killing machines. The only thing they could fire from the cabin of the semi-submersible was a submachine gun. That level of firepower was not enough to stop the war machine coated in new composite armor.

It took only about 10 minutes for the submarine with its side blown off and the semi-submersible with its propulsion system blown off to be captured.

[No friendly losses.]

[The salvage begins.]

Kim Yang leisurely patrolled and blocked the holes through which the men who had entered could return.

[What about the psychic explorer?]

[There was no response from those who entered.]

You didn’t take your psychic abilities with you when you entered a space filled with communication failures due to volcanic ash, dust, and a bio-EMP field created by carnivorous plants?

Did you really think that just because it seemed like it was easy to get around in the Holy Kingdom, it was like that?

[Place automatic turrets on the outside. They will die on their own even if you don’t let them crawl out.]

[ancient.]

If you get stuck in a bush full of ash and dust, that’s the end of it. The purification canisters aren’t infinite.

There was also a way to just get in and collect them, but Kim Yang chose to do it this way. It was good if there was anyone with useful abilities, and it was also easier to extract information with the information extractor.

‘This is better than searching the bottom of the ocean and finding waterlogged corpses. Yeah.’

It was Miss Kim who watched as children from various neighborhoods entered the jungle on their own feet.

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Hee-yeon and Heuk-ma continued to subdue the cannibals in Singapore along with the U+ unit and some of the Royal Guard.

‘There are more cannibals than you think.’

In the early days of the cannibal crisis, when breeding became easy, the upper class had no aversion to becoming cannibals. This was because a neutralizer (treatment) was available that could control the desire to eat meat, which was a disadvantage.

Now that there was a way to control the side effects, there were quite a few families who chose to become cannibals. Hee-yeon felt heavy-hearted when she had to subjugate such families.

“Is it wrong to choose the new human race in order to survive?”

“What right do you have to kill us!”

Most of them are wealthy enough to have a generous supply of the original neutralizer made by the Ojin Group.

“The child. Our child did nothing wrong.”

“You fucking hypocrites!”

“Was it wrong to say that I would survive the end?”

“Just tell them that you’re killing them because they’re an obstacle to your rise to power!”

The fact that he stopped using the neutralizer and developed his unique cannibalistic abilities despite having a neutralizer means that he started to systematically prey on ordinary people.

And in the Holy Kingdom, the trait of eating people to become stronger was a problem in itself. But the real danger was that the existence of cannibals would cause the social structure and values ​​to collapse.

As cannibals and vampires became stronger, their dominance and psychic powers became stronger in proportion. I think dominance is the ranking between cannibals and vampires, but psychic power was a different matter.

The ability to slowly enslave ordinary people without their knowledge. Humans were easily seduced and became their followers.

That’s what happened in the big cities of the Confederacy. People didn’t hesitate to sacrifice their families and kill their neighbors in order to become cannibals and vampires.

There was a reason why the Holy Kingdom had no qualms about attacking the major cities of the Southern Alliance. The upper class of Singapore, who knew the story, sneered. Those who had become cannibals.

“So? Are you gods?”

“Judgment? Verdict? Who makes the decision?”

“Those who follow the Divine Kingdom are right, and those who follow the New Humanity are wrong?”

“Is it right for you guys to kill us?”

“The Holy Kingdom is killing the new humans just for the sake of the Holy Kingdom’s power.”

“What we are doing now is exactly the same as eating people. It’s the same!”

It was confusing because Hee-yeon had received memories of several experts based on Director Yoo’s memories.

[What the hell is that? That cannibalistic bastard is innocent?]

Kim Yang’s story of how many people have been eaten by a brat who claims to be innocent?

[And if you think about it, where is there a human being without sin? Who judges? Why are you even asking about that? Is it okay for cannibalistic bastards to eat people because it’s the law of the jungle?]

“······.”

[The Holy Kingdom is struggling to survive, right? That’s right. So? What do you want me to do?]

“······.”

[They’re funny kids. Isn’t that right? If they prosper, they’ll try to eat us. Then, is it moral and right to let cannibals prosper and eat us?]

“······.”

Kim Yang said coldly.

[Salty- Come to your senses.]

In order to prove that she was different from the original crazy bitch, she would find excuses, ask for reasons, and show empathy, but then she would become a crazy bitch in another sense.

Kim Yang pinpointed exactly where Hee-yeon was shaking. It was also at that point that Green Soon-yi became slightly addicted.

Unlike Hee-yeon, who wanted to prove that she was different from the original, Ki-soon had an obsession with having to be the same as the original. Aren’t they both tied to the original?

[I kill them because they deserve to be killed. I kill them because killing them is better than leaving them alone. I kill them because killing those bastards saves more people. There’s nothing else to it.]

“······.”

Those bastards eat people for their own pleasure, but they say it’s wrong for us to kill them? Where is that kind of idiotic logic?

[It’s different from the original crazy bitch, so there’s no need to be so crazy.]

“······.”

Heeyeon felt somehow comforted.

[In my opinion···. Huh- you’re already a great crazy bitch.]

“Fuck···.”

Hee-yeon swore without realizing it.

As expected… Ms. Kim was a bitch.

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Kim Yang and Hee-yeon’s story naturally reached Maru’s ears. It could be seen as a private conversation, but it was reported by the artificial intelligence Diana because it used a military reply.

“what do you think about it?”

Maru told Ki-sun about the conversation between the two women.

[It’s tied to the original… That’s not wrong.]

Ki-soon also had some concerns, so he admitted it calmly.

If you were to become a clone, wouldn’t that be the case for everyone? Because a clone who thinks they are the original would try to prove to themselves that they are the original.

Could it be the same when you didn’t know you were a clone and when you knew?

‘does not exist.’

The reason why Ki-soon insisted on selecting many clones and putting them into administration was because of that.

‘It doesn’t make sense.’

Human life was unique and finite, and therefore meaningful. If there were people who could never die, what would be the meaning of death, and what would be the meaning of relationships?

The reason why the death penalty was the highest punishment was the same. The death penalty was essentially an irreversible punishment.

The argument of death penalty abolitionists that the death penalty should be abolished because it is irreversible once carried out became meaningless the moment cloning was permitted.

If you create a clone of a death row inmate, is he punished?

Can a clone who is like the original death row inmate be free to roam the world now that the original has been executed?

Are clones with the same memories, experiences, and emotions as the originals sinless?

So the relationship between the clone and the original cannot be interpreted scientifically. Rather, it is a sociological, psychological, and economic relationship.

Let’s imagine that we mass-produce clones of a genius artist and mass-produce his works of art. But would all of those clones be equally genius artists? Would all of those works be considered works of art?

Maru spoke calmly to Gi-sun’s story.

“That’s why we decided not to mass produce it.”

Neither the Naruzu nor the U+ units, which had vacancies one by one, were producing additional units.

If so, why are we mass-producing artificial intelligence that recognizes some individual personalities?

In the Holy Kingdom, artificial intelligence combined with robots and drones were being mass-produced and consumed. It was the same with setting the level of artificial intelligence, and only allowing artificial intelligence above a certain level to have the right to self-preservation.

The stages are set from the time of production, and only artificial intelligence above a certain stage has personal rights. If there is a reason for deciding so.

Now that biotechnology has advanced, why would it be a problem if we gave special rights to humans above a certain level by setting stages from conception?

Crows are smarter than most people, why should wolves have different rights than humans?

How should we treat the rats, who have developed their own production capabilities and have begun to develop their own civilization since they developed thumbs?

What about the worker ants who are now hard workers and engaged in jobs that are difficult for humans and machines to do?

The Holy Kingdom was a country full of problems and contradictions.

A country that would have been in a state without a floor, and the part where all of those contradictions and dangers were most evident was its relationship with other powers.

Let’s say that Singapore, a small country, is capable of eradicating cannibals. But will other countries be able to do the same? How long will they have to and will they be able to do so?

[Eventually, we ran out of troops, so we had no choice but to mass produce.]

If the Holy Kingdom were to control the world at will and ensure its survival and stability, it would eventually have to make active use of various animal armies, including clone troopers, android soldiers, robots, and drones.

And in the process, the cannibalistic vampires will be wiped out, but many more capable people and ordinary people will die.

It was inevitable. That was the reason why I tried to minimize intervention. I said I would not intervene because there was an equal amount of reaction to the action.

But in order to control carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters, they had to intervene in the politics of each country. And the more they intervened, the more intense the intervention became, and in fact, it became even stronger.

As a result, Ki-sun thought that the plan to gather resources and energy and advance into space had become impossible due to this incident.

It was a world of abilities and mutations. If Maru became a symbol of death and fear instead of a savior, someone would take the title of savior that Maru had lost.

Likewise, if Maru is solidified as a being of death and fear, a being that symbolizes life and peace will emerge.

“So? Even so, we can’t just let carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters spread.”

[I’m not saying we should just leave it alone. At the very least, I’m saying we should prevent it from solidifying into nothing but death and fear.]

“······.”

[To do that…. That means you have to mobilize troops rather than moving them yourself. More than you do now.]

If notoriety was building and he was becoming the target of hatred, it would be right for the Holy Kingdom’s military to share it. Maru should not be the only one to receive all that hatred and curses.

[I like using clone soldiers, android soldiers, and animal troops. It’s right to gather opinions on them and expand the troops.]

It would be good to agree on what to do about clones, AI androids, and animal units, and to resolve any conflicting issues as quickly as possible.

[Singapore is small, so that’s why, but it’s also important to know what to do with Indonesia, which has over 200 million people. If we leave it like this, most Indonesians will die.]

“······.”

The number 200 million was not a small number.

[Just as faith accumulates and becomes divine and exerts physical power, if people’s curses and resentment accumulate, they may exert some kind of supernatural power. So I think we definitely need to be careful about that part.]

“······.”

So, Kisun’s argument was that even if the new Indonesian government and military did crazy things, the Indonesian people should be saved.

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The area of ​​volcanic ash and dust was gradually expanding.

[Check for enemies approaching the beach.]

[There are 5 people.]

Looking at the weapons, they were the guys who came in on the semi-submersible earlier.

‘It’s decreased a lot.’

Of the 17 people who went in, only 5 came out.

[There’s one on the other side too.]

[Signal from the motion detection sensor. 7 people.]

The number of people who came by submarine was also reduced by more than half.

[Automatic turret in operation.]

[Attack begins.]

There was no warning.