Rust - Chapter 1060



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Rust [RUST] – Episode 1060

Ki-soon closed his eyes to the chain of disasters that occurred simultaneously.

‘Why… Why does it become like this?’

It was better to avoid a mass extermination of humans, not just for ethical or moral reasons, but also for practical reasons.

Because if you don’t clean up after yourself, there are mutated animals that eat people and become stronger, cannibals, vampires, and now even carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters.

Naruz also knew this, which is why he focused on neutralizing rather than annihilating the Malaysian army when pushing them back.

If he had ordered the rats to kill him, he would have killed them quickly by spraying them with a paralytic and stabbing their carotid artery, but instead, he attacked them in a way that left them permanently disabled, for the same reason.

It was also a way to weaken Malaysia’s fighting power, rather than kill them.

70,000 blind soldiers with severed Achilles tendons will demoralize the Malaysian army and will be a burden to the Malaysian army as it expands in size.

Naruzu’s judgment was cool and accurate, but there was something he overlooked: the process of awakening one’s abilities.

‘Death crisis. The rate of awakening increases when pushed to an extreme situation.’

From as little as 3%~4% to as much as 9%~10%. It wasn’t true that everyone who experienced the brink of death multiple times would awaken, but it was true that there were those who would awaken their abilities.

The Holy Kingdom’s attack was a way to stimulate the Malaysian military’s survival instinct to the extreme, even if it was not intentional.

Comrades who died meaninglessly in the face of the Holy Kingdom’s overwhelming air support firepower.

The screams of a unit member who was scattered and wandering through the jungle, then fell into an ankle trap.

A soldier with a serious leg injury falls prey to a cannibal.

And then suddenly invisible eyes.

A scream that the Achilles tendon has been cut.

And the soldiers who abandon them and leave.

The threat to life, the will to survive, and the anger combined to create those who awakened their abilities. In an instant, thousands of new abilities were created.

From those who have awakened the ability to perceive objects through sound waves instead of their blind eyes, to those who have awakened the ability to manipulate telekinesis, gravity, and weight in order to move their bodies freely after their Achilles tendons have been cut.

Among the 70,000 people, nearly 10% had awakened their abilities. The Malaysian military belatedly tried to persuade them, but it was not easy.

“Let me get revenge.”

“To Indonesia and the Holy Kingdom.”

“And to those who abandoned you and ran away.”

The Malaysian military proposed an operation to vent their anger, and most of them joined in. The attempt to reduce the number of deaths ended up causing more deaths.

Indonesia was also experiencing an unexpected situation.

[Religious terrorism is worsening in Indonesia.]

[Even in areas where Islam is practiced, ethnic conflicts are severe.]

Ki-soon was able to face the reality of what happens when public power is lost in a multi-ethnic country. He also learned why Indonesia tried to advance into Cambodia, Singapore, and Malaysia at the same time.

[Violence broke out over water supply and food distribution issues.]

[The revenge began in the attacked village.]

When public power was alive and public order was maintained, these were crimes that could be simply counted as robbery, rape, and murder, but after public power and public order collapsed, they could no longer be counted as simple crimes.

At the village level, there were at least tens to hundreds of casualties at once, and when it was narrowed down to a specific race or ethnicity, it became a disaster in an instant.

This was not limited to existing cities and towns. The same thing happened in Kalimantan, where the Holy Kingdom led the migration.

[Violence and deaths are on the rise among those who migrated to Kalimantan.]

[Deporting refugees from Malaysia.]

Malaysia was strongly protesting that it could not accept Indonesian refugees, saying, “Even the Holy Kingdom does not accept refugees and expels them.”

Here, it was argued that the border of Borneo, which Indonesia calls Kalimantan, should be redefined. A situation where a war between Malaysia and Indonesia could break out in Kalimantan.

Malaysia, which had lost 100,000 troops to Indonesia and the Holy Kingdom, attempted to appease the angry public by expanding its territory and tried to replenish its troops under the pretext of revenge.

“Punish Indonesia!”

“Revenge on Indonesia!”

Those who became sacrificial victims for the expansion of Malaysian territory were the Indonesians who had been relocated by the Holy Kingdom.

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Do good intentions always lead to good results?

What if the person who saved you out of good intentions turned out to be a psychopathic serial killer?

What if one act of good will cost dozens of innocent lives?

Even acts of good intentions can be complicated by their consequences, and the Holy Kingdom’s attack on the Indonesian military invading Singapore and Malaysia was not simply a case of good intentions.

To prevent the spread of carnivorous plants.

To prevent war from being waged using sinkhole monsters.

For whom?

For the future of the Holy Kingdom, at least.

In a large sense, for the survival and safety of humanity.

But the result of the Holy Kingdom’s intervention was another kind of massacre and chaos.

Humans were intelligent beings.

Thinking human being. That’s Homo sapiens.

That’s why Ki-sun couldn’t help but feel mixed emotions.

The ruthlessness that ran through his blood was a madness that he inherited as an illegitimate child of a conglomerate, and the other was an acquired belief that he had to prevent his friend from deviating from humanity.

Ki-sun believed that establishing and maintaining one’s beliefs was the way to protect one’s friends and oneself.

The reason Maru wanted to advise Ki-soon not to go to extremes was also to prevent Ki-soon from going to extremes herself.

What would happen if Maru, known as the God of Death, abandoned his human emotions?

Even now, from Maru’s perspective, rats, crows, ants, and humans might seem no different.

‘Maybe I’ve been thinking that way all along…’

Since Maru declared that he would grant rights even to artificial intelligence, which is not even a living thing, it can be seen that the idea of ​​giving special priority or preferential treatment to humans is disappearing.

Although Ki-soon and PD emphasized the importance of human faith and divinity and the necessity of humans, in the current situation, there were signs that the negative aspects would outweigh the positive aspects.

“It doesn’t seem like only cannibals are being cursed.”

There was a look of irritation on Maru’s face.

[Are you the ones who have newly awakened abilities?]

“I don’t know about that. It’s annoying.”

It had to be that way. The thousands of newly awakened beings in Malaysia were disabled and had their abilities awakened by the attacks of the Holy Kingdom rat hordes.

Moreover, the Indonesians whose country collapsed were the same. They would think that the government and military collapsed because of the Holy Kingdom and that the situation was chaotic.

But if you think about it, the Holy Kingdom has done enough. It has saved over 100 million people by relocating them to Kalimantan. And the number continues to increase.

As a result of moving back and forth 24 hours a day for a month, what the people who migrated to Kalimantan got was drinking water and air to breathe. In other words, it was a chance to survive.

Likewise, what awaited them were those who moved in a few days earlier and demanded rent, crazy rising prices, bad guys who normally wouldn’t have encountered each other because their residential areas were far apart, and the Malaysian military who were determined to get revenge.

They weren’t forced to migrate, and they weren’t exploited by purifiers, but life was still the same. And the danger was still there.

Elections were held for those who had migrated to Kalimantan, and the elections did not end well. Starting with violence between the original residents of Kalimantan and the new immigrants, the failure to form a government led to discontent with the Holy Kingdom turning into hatred and curses.

“Divinity and curse feel similar.”

There seems to have been a bit more curses and hatred lately. Ki-sun tried to calm down her rising coldness at Maru’s story.

[I don’t know what effect being cursed or hated would have, but if faith and divinity can affect phenomena, then curses and hatred must have the same effect.]

“So? Should we spread it?”

Ki-soon shook her head at Maru’s words.

[No. I’m not saying to give it away. If you don’t give it back, they’ll hate you and curse you even more.]

“Then what should we do?”

Rather than being cursed and hated like this, it seemed better to just let go. Why did the US let go of Iraq and Afghanistan in the past?

The governments of each Southeast Asian country, which was in the midst of a great war, were summoning the Holy Kingdom to divert the discontent of their people.

‘Why did the Southeast Asian War break out? It was because the Holy Kingdom ignored the sovereignty of each country and used force to close the sinkhole.’

‘Look at Indonesia. The tragedy that occurred when a country was destroyed.’

‘If they truly cared about humanity and wanted to save the world, they would have helped resettle Indonesian refugees to North America.’

‘The Holy Kingdom is not the savior. It is they who seek to destroy the world with fire and sword.’

‘The King of the Holy Kingdom is a bringer of death. Look! Wherever he goes, isn’t there war and death?’

The cannibalistic government protected them from carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters. Without the Holy Kingdom, the Indonesian attack would have been successful and Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines would have been destroyed.

Even if you think about it a little, you can see that it was true, but the public who wanted to hold someone responsible began to hate and curse the Holy Kingdom and Maru.

So what to do?

Maru had only one question.

In the silence of Ki-sun and PD, artificial intelligence Diana and Samantha carefully uploaded the simulation results.

[The simulation results show that if the Holy Kingdom actively intervenes in the Southeast Asian situation, the space expansion plan will be delayed by at least 10 years and at most 20 years.]

[The Holy Kingdom intervenes in the Southeast Asian War. Even if the war is brought to an end, the possibility of another war breaking out has been confirmed to be over 89.52%.]

[It is estimated that more than 20 million AI android police units and drones will be needed to quell large-scale violence in Kalimantan, Indonesia.]

[The best way to resolve the conflict between Malaysia and Indonesia was to have Malaysia and Indonesia directly ruled by the Holy Kingdom.]

[If Malaysia and Indonesia were to be ruled directly, the resources needed to build and maintain infrastructure would be used to delay space exploration by at least 20 years.]

[It has been shown that if space advancement is delayed, the probability of conflict with countries around the world increases rapidly.]

From the AI’s perspective, it was natural for humans to kill humans, because that was human history.

The same was true of human oppression of human beings and the concentration of power in the hands of a small number of people.

democracy?

Do all humans have rights?

Why?

Among the people of a country, some risk their lives going to war, while others party in the rear. Do they both have the same rights?

why?

Rights and responsibilities.

AI also could not understand duties and authority.

That is why the proposition that humans are equal was a difficult proposition for artificial intelligence to compute.

Humans were like that.

When a new graphics card comes out, it’s common to replace the old one.

But why don’t we get rid of people who earn a lot of money but are inefficient and replace them with people who earn less money but are more efficient?

How can you say that a person with an IQ below 90 who can’t even do simple labor is equal to someone with an IQ above 140 who is engaged in a professional career and has a degree?

Why should the salary of a person who works 8 hours and earns 100 be the same as the salary of a person who works 8 hours and earns 70?

Why should the Holy Kingdom use its resources to support the people of Southeast Asia? The more I calculated, the less I could come up with an answer.

Human faith is the most effective. If we were investing in Southeast Asia to secure faith, there was no reason to pour resources into Southeast Asia, which was now in such disarray.

It would have been more effective to target India, which has a larger population, or China, which was split into seven parts.

[It is predicted that if we invested only half of the resources to be invested in Southeast Asia, we would gain faith in more than 300 million people.]

[It was predicted that if missionaries were sent to seven Chinese countries and distribution support was provided in return for receiving the faith, the faith could be secured stably.]

If efficient faith generation is the top priority, it is better to invest in India and China rather than the Southeast Asian countries that produce and induce curses and hatred, according to AI Diana and Samantha.

No decision has been made, but looking at the overall calculation results, it seems like we should just give up. Maru frowned at the AI’s report.

There was no mistake.

It wasn’t a particularly unpleasant analysis.

But if there is any responsibility for the mess that Southeast Asia has become, it is not an evasion of responsibility.

Hatred? Curses? Those were just annoying, not the problem.

The real problem was that we took for granted that we were not responsible for our decisions and actions, and that we did so under the pretext of efficiency, economy, and human rights.

Maru didn’t think so.

“End the conflict between Malaysia and Indonesia. End the chaos and violence in Kalimantan.”

and.

“The war in Southeast Asia will also end.”

There’s an 89% chance of starting another war? That’s their choice and it has to end now.

Maru decided.

Since you guys are making a fuss about the war being caused by the Holy Kingdom, I guess I’ll just end the war myself.

[directly?]

“Yes. Directly.”

You’re saying that you’re bringing death?

You’ll understand if I show you what it is.

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Gunshots and screams. A village of immigrants, once filled with burning buildings and black smoke, suddenly fell into silence.