Rust - Chapter 1066



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Rust [RUST] – Episode 1066

Even if you managed to escape from the ant army’s tactical vehicle disablement, the rat army’s underground ambush, and the crow bombing squad’s aerial attack, there was a Naruj armed with advanced equipment waiting on the outskirts of the operation area.

[They’re tenacious, as expected from those who survived until now.]

[Tired?]

[He held on even though his cervical vertebrae would have broken and a normal person would have died from shock.]

[That’s dangerous.]

[That’s why I said we have to deal with it quickly.]

[It’s dangerous to let your guard down when your heart bursts.]

[If you’re not trying to extract information, blowing your head off is the safest option.]

[You all know what’s scary about kids these days?]

[So – So now it’s vacation with Oraburning?]

[Is that so?]

[These are still left. These guys’ main base.]

[Really? Then let’s quickly extract some information.]

[Right. Let’s extract the information and go to the main camp.]

[I think you’ll like it if we clear these guys out together with the kids.]

[Let’s go—]

[Let’s get rid of it!]

[Burning! Burning! Burning!]

[Come! Come! Come!]

Armed with a Ripper suit and an exosuit, and a special core armor, Naruj heads to Palmerston City, the stronghold of the criminal forces.

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The sound of eerie footsteps subsided in the silence.

Jeokbuk-

Jeokbuk-

Everyone, including the commander of the defense line and those who tried to stop the monster crocodile, were unable to stop Maru’s footsteps.

‘Vladimir Kalin···.’

With every step he took, a surreal space seemed to move with him. It was an area that only had a radius of about 10 meters, but it felt like death could materialize at any moment.

The vines swayed and swayed. The grass swayed. It was a garden that looked like a black and white TV, but everyone knew it.

“G. What should I do now?”

“Should I run away?”

They weren’t plants that had lost their color, they were just something that had grown that way. They had the form of plants, but they weren’t plants.

“Don’t provoke me. I killed the monster crocodile.”

“Didn’t you say that if you target carnivorous plants, they’ll all be killed!”

Beyond the concepts of animals and plants···.

Could it be that death was locked away in such a form?

“Everyone, keep your mouths shut. Don’t provoke anyone and stay where you are.”

At the end of the stage, which was fully decorated with death, the head of a giant monster crocodile was neatly cut off. Even though its neck was cut off, it was a bizarre scene where its heavy eyelids kept moving.

The knife wound that had made a hole the size of a forearm in his skull had healed and filled in. If he hadn’t been able to cut off the thick neck that must have been over 3 meters in diameter with a single stroke, the fight would have been boring.

But what’s the result?

The neck of that fearsome monster crocodile was cut off with a single stroke.

“Why? Why don’t you stop and come closer?”

“Shouldn’t I tell them to stop?”

People were very nervous at the sight of Maru trying to enter the breached defense line without stopping.

“Choi. Choi. At least you should turn that off!”

The radio was out, so loud voices could be heard all around.

“I told you to keep your mouth shut!”

Having seen the surreal force with his own eyes, the commander of the force department’s mouth seemed to have gone dry. Still, the person who shouted was not wrong.

Bringing in a garden teeming with death was dangerous, no matter how you looked at it. If the footage of Vladimir Kalin is any indication, it was terribly dangerous.

The commander took a deep breath and raised his voice.

“Please stop for a moment.”

Maru stopped walking and turned his head in the direction where the voice came from.

“Are you His Highness Prince Vladimir Kalin?”

Instead of answering, he nodded slightly. The chief of the military began to speak, as if the tension had eased a little.

“Thank you for your help. I am in charge of defense operations for an international survival group that controls the Darwin area…”

The commander of the force began his story by thanking them for catching the monster crocodile, but his words were cut off midway.

[I must have warned you clearly. They said that touching the carnivorous plants and sinkholes would kill you.]

“······.”

The commander’s mind seemed to go blank at Maru’s cold response.

[If you do something with the determination to die, you will have to face the consequences.]

Are you saying that you’re going to kill me? Are you saying that you didn’t help me?

“Boss!!!”

A sudden cry

“Shoot!”

“Eww!!!”

Tududadadak!

At the same time, gunshots and screams were heard.

‘You crazy kids! Cease fire! Cease fire!’

I screamed, but no sound came out.

uh?

My arms and legs didn’t move.

why?

The view is slowly getting darker.

Heavy eyelids.

And then the gunshots and screams suddenly stopped.

The consciousness of the commander of the military corps sank to the end with a sensation similar to that of hearing something coming up from above.

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[Pugururururuk—-]

The sound of bubbles rising from the information extractor.

The image that appeared on the monitor was a story from several years ago.

(This world is rushing towards its inevitable end.)

(There is no government for the people, and the national administrative power works only for a small number of capitalists and those in power.)

(Mutant virus incident? Wasn’t it proven in the US Congress hearing? That it was all created for the sake of the new order.)

(The powers that be in the US, Japan, China, and Europe tried to use the mutant virus incident to create a new order.)

[Pogurrrrrrrrrr-]

About Vladimir Kalin, those who wanted to establish a new order said so.

‘One who may become the center of a new order.’

or

‘A being that will destroy the new order and turn everything into chaos.’

Amid polar opposite assessments, the leadership and the chief of staff decided to conduct an operation to secure samples of the carnivorous plant and sinkhole monster.

Even for the technologically advanced Holy Kingdom, it was physically impossible to block the entire Indonesian coast where volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis were occurring.

Even a simple volcanic eruption can cut off electricity and communications, but the volcano eruption in Indonesia was even worse.

Electronic devices are disabled by volcanic ash and dust, and the air is so polluted that it is impossible to breathe. Most of the weapons that the Holy Kingdom boasts are useless in this environment.

The other forces are not fools either, so they will probably infiltrate by targeting carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters. I judged that if I could take advantage of the complex gaps, I would have a good chance of winning.

A warning from the Holy Kingdom? Isn’t it just a threat since you can’t stop everything?

Even if they do, they’ll send all the nearby forces. How will they know who sent it?

It was an idea that could be made because I didn’t know that the Holy Kingdom had a brain information extraction device, but the command and the chief of the military department decided so.

Maru frowned as he looked at the information extracted from the brain of the Chief of Staff.

“What about the others?”

[It seems that the upper class Southeast Asian kids who have settled in Darwin also have connections with kids who are looking for the New World.]

Even before the apocalypse broke out, there was a force in Southeast Asia that sought a new order, salvation for humanity, a new era, and a new humanity.

[I knew there were more than one such force, but I didn’t know there were this many and that they had been around for this long.]

I knew the general situation when I made the agreement with the Japanese strongholds, but the information I now have is even more impressive.

Because the apocalypse was half human-made, as in the case of the massive wildfires that were set to create public opinion about stopping climate change.

This was an incident in which all groups involved, including those warning about climate change, those seeking to profit from climate change through agricultural product prices, and those investing in eco-friendly businesses under the pretext of climate change.

Environmental groups blowing up glaciers to warn that they are melting. The media also tried to use the scene to get a scoop.

Similar to people setting fire to forests to raise awareness of the destruction of forests by humans, or terrorizing museum exhibits to raise awareness of the importance of the environment.

The logic of action goes so far as to produce a highly lethal virus in order to inform people that man-made viruses are dangerous.

“You’re crazy.”

[That’s true, but it definitely seems like they’re targeting mutant viruses.]

It has been confirmed that humans infected with the mutant virus will have mutant genes, and that the vaccine will be used to induce population reduction. All of this is the foundation for becoming a sacrifice for something else.

[It also seems certain that the fact that mutant monsters become smarter and stronger when they eat humans is also due to the effects of mutation.]

“It must be the same mechanism that makes cannibals and vampires stronger by eating humans.”

[If you look at the general situation, it seems similar.]

“It’s strange.”

[what?]

“So it’s similar to the process of concentrating heavy metals.”

Suddenly, Maru started talking about heavy metal concentration.

[Concentration?]

“okay.”

Ki-sun’s squinted eyes narrowed even further. It was a single word that was a logical leap, but Ki-sun was able to understand what Maru was trying to say.

‘Sacrifice.’

and

‘concentration.’

Using a mutant virus, humans are turned into cultures that produce unknown biosynthetic substances. The aftermath creates cannibals, vampires, and people with powers.

It’s not like they were trying to create cannibals or vampires, but with human intervention, the concentration begins. If we assume that the fact that they become stronger the more they eat humans is something that happens when something is concentrated?

Even mutant monsters that eat humans will accelerate their mutation. If a human eats the mutated monster, the human will also become stronger.

‘The same goes for bear meat, bear jerky, bear bones, and bear intestine soup.’

It is clear that ordinary people have become stronger and those with abilities have improved their physical abilities. The same goes for the meat of the divine elephant.

If eating and becoming stronger means being concentrated, as Maru said? What will be at the end of that concentration?

Ki-soon’s head was spinning.

‘altar.’

Information about an unidentified altar and a black slime-like monster followed. The moment I thought about that, a stabbing headache struck me.

Ki-sun’s changed abilities. The ability to read emotions and convey them to others with a mental wave of emotions was shaken. Ki-sun’s eyes furrowed at the sudden headache.

Ki-sun pressed her temples and took a painkiller right away. The painkiller that Na Ju-yeon made relieved the stabbing headache in just a few minutes.

“What kind of medicine is it all of a sudden?”

[Headache medicine. I suddenly have a headache. For now, I’ll look into the ‘concentration’ side and the ‘sacrifice’ side.]

“Hey.”

[And the information we picked this time matches the information we found before.]

Information that the US, China, Japan, and Europe were all involved, and that attempts were made to mutate humans using mutant viruses.

The story that there are forces that are trying to reduce the population using diseases and vaccines is not fake information, but true.

[It seems that there are not just a single force, but rather forces that compete with each other and, beyond competition, there are also forces that are hostile.]

The reason why these different, competing and conflicting forces were able to join forces was because they had the goal of opening a new era.

“I don’t understand. What does the new era mean?”

‘What on earth do you want?’ Maru wondered.

Not only the random ‘concentration’ and ‘sacrifice’, but what on earth is this new world?

Is it okay to just add ‘new’ or ‘new’ in front without putting honey on it?

[Based on the memories of the Minister of National Defense, it would be a class society.]

“Class society?”

So, you’re saying that the new order is to create a world of nobles and commoners, aristocrats and serfs, rulers and ruled?

[Based on the information I’ve found so far… it seems like they decided that democracy was a failed system and wanted to get rid of it.]

“······.”

[And the Holy Kingdom, although it has elections and citizenship, is returning to a vertical chain of command.]

“so?”

[To them, we will appear as a nation experimenting with a new order. Not all of them will see it that way, though.]

Ki-sun seemed to understand why the men did not join forces and focus their attacks on the Sacred Kingdom and Maru.

This is because they see the Holy Kingdom as a transitional state heading towards a new order they envision. They also have the intention of consolidating their power and securing technology until the complicated situation calms down.

Maru raised the corners of his mouth as he listened to Gi-sun’s explanation.

“So, they are looking at the Holy Kingdom as a test bed to first check out the problems that will arise in the new world they are establishing.”

[maybe···.]

What broke the brief silence was Naruz’s report.

[The conquest of the criminal power base is complete!]

[There are some strange equipment here.]

[There are also traces of feeding the monster!]

It wasn’t just food, it was evidence of feeding people.