Rust - Chapter 112



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RUST-112

Ki-sun’s cheeks are gradually becoming redder

“Hey- stop scratching.”

“Huh? What?”

Scratch scratch.

The red line began to tear. Droplets of blood began to form, hanging on the ball.

“Hey! Kim Ki-soon! Stop touching me. Stop scratching!”

“Huh? What?”

North-North-

Gurruk- A drop of blood ran down the cheek. Something rough rose up in real time between the torn cheek.

When Kim Yang saw that, he jumped up like a dragon and pulled out his gun.

Crunch-.

The nurse grabbed Ms. Kim’s leg and said, “Eeeeeee?”

“Are you crazy?”

Grabbing her leg in an emergency situation. Miss Kim, whose leg was grabbed, frowned and shook her leg.

Bam-

The nurse, who was as dirty as dirt stuck to her pants, flinched over to the other side and desperately crawled towards Ms. Kim’s legs.

With the gun pointed at Ki-sun, Ms. Kim quickly moved towards the floor. The nurse was crawling towards Ms. Kim, looking only at her legs.

“Put the gun down!”

At Maru’s words, Kim Yang forcibly lowered the gun. It looked like she would raise it again at any moment.

“Kim Ki-soon!”

“uh?”

good.

I’m still conscious.

What is that on your face?

The rest of the body was fine, but only the cheeks on both sides were like that. Not even the entire cheek, just a small area the size of a finger. It wasn’t covered by the scuba diving gear. Maru, who was quietly looking at Ki-sun, spoke softly.

“Close your eyes!!!”

“why?”

“Hands down! Don’t move!!!”

As soon as Ki-sun closed her eyes, Maru pulled out his sword and rushed at her. With a small sound, the sound of flesh being cut, the flesh on both sides of her cheeks fell off.

Ugh!

As Ki-soon, who had no idea what was happening, screamed and tried to put her hand on her face, Maru kicked Ki-soon’s leg. Ki-soon, who was lifted into the air and fell upside down, stretched out like a frog.

Bam!

Maru, who had stepped on Gi-sun’s arm, cut off her fingernails and fingertips after stretching her fingers. After cutting off ten fingers in an instant, he treated the wounds with a rapid healing agent. The nurse, who had seen this ignorant sight, froze like ice in a crawling position.

“Both of you, get down. Don’t touch anywhere else. If you have any itching on your arms or legs, tell me right away.”

“······.”

“······.”

If I tell you? To cut it out? The nurse said with her eyes, looking at Ms. Kim. Ms. Kim answered. Wouldn’t you? Can’t you see it?

“Don’t scratch. If you see a bumpy spot, don’t touch it and just tell me. Got it?”

At Maru’s voice that was as lively as it was stimulating, the two nodded their heads fiercely.

“Go down. Take a quick shower.”

After Ms. Kim and the nurse left, Maru put the cut cheeks and fingertips into a bucket. The things that were attached to the cheeks had grown a little more. Something small was starting to grow from the tips of the cut fingernails.

“crazy···.”

Maru packed up the scuba diving gear that Gi-sun was wearing, sealed it, and started cleaning the deck. After spraying detergent and cleaning, spraying and cleaning, and repeating this process, Gi-sun came to her senses.

“Ugh- Wh- My head···.”

“Are you okay?”

“Oh- water-”

When I handed him the water, Ki-sun just started pouring it down his throat. Ki-sun suddenly came to his senses and caressed his cheek.

“Wow. What the fuck- is this real? Is it real that you sliced ​​my balls off?”

“Shut up. Is there anything weird going on? Is it itchy or something?”

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

“No. Nothing. Not at all. Nothing itchy. Nothing weird.”

“really?”

“It’s true. It’s okay. It’s true.”

Ki-sun, who had been caressing the ball, stretched out her fingers and answered while examining her fingertips. Maru quietly watched Ki-sun’s actions.

“If something seems even a little strange, tell me. You know? It’s better to hide it than to get screwed. If you tell me in advance, you can avoid the worst.”

“Don’t say such unlucky things. What’s the worst… If something is strange, I’ll tell you, so stop.”

Ki-soon grumbled as he checked to see if his fingers were attached properly.

“Tell me, what do you think of the cicada?”

“Hey, shit. Is that something you say to a crazy person right now?”

Ki-sun jumped when Maru showed suspicion with his cold eyes, asking, ‘Maybe your brain was eaten by a snail?’

“That’s not it, stop. Let go of that handle. Stop! That’s not it!”

“What isn’t it?”

“I told you I’m fine!”

“Prove it.”

At Maru’s words, Ki-sun patted her chest.

“Ah. Shh- Can I cry? Huh? Can I prove it by crying?”

“It looks like your brain is still intact, judging by the way you’re acting up.”

“Not yet… Don’t keep acting so unlucky. I’m telling you, I’m really fine.”

“Really? If you’re of sound mind, tell me. What is that barnacle?”

Maru motioned for Gisun to look at the bucket. When Gisun looked inside the bucket, her face turned pale.

“Ugh- What the hell! What is this?”

“What are those maggots growing on your cheekbones and the tips of your fingers?”

Ki-soon shivered at Maru’s calm words. It was clear that this kid had cut it down without even blinking.

“Don’t be over-exaggerated. Is that what a barnacle is?”

“What’s right? Oh. Do you like it when I use my ball?”

“Don’t joke around. While you were unconscious, I was wiping down the deck and it wasn’t a big deal. If you missed anything, tell me quickly.”

“···I think I’ll have to throw away all the scuba diving gear I wore.”

The barnacles were ones that grew by attaching themselves to ships. If the larvae had attached themselves to the equipment, it was impossible to know when they would emerge.

“It’s sealed in plastic.”

“You said you cleaned the deck too? Good job. For now, I think it would be better for me to stay here instead of going down.”

“Really? And?”

“It was a good thing I cut off the tip of my finger. If I scratched my contaminated cheek, the stuff on my cheek could have spread under my fingernails and continued to spread to other areas.”

Maru chuckled at Gisun’s story.

“It’s not like my brain was eaten.”

“Hey, I said no!”

Ki-soon, unable to erase her uneasy expression, sighed deeply and spoke while looking at the bucket.

“What should I do with this bucket?”

“What are you going to do? Just burn the whole bucket.”

Once it’s warm, just burn it. The floor was simple.

“What’s the point of burning it? Is it better to just burn it whenever possible?”

“Then what should we do?”

“Shouldn’t we take it and hand it over to them for countermeasure research? It was caught in the sea near Fukushima, Japan, but do you think the barnacles will only be there? They’ll probably spread everywhere.”

“··· Should I take that and hand it over?”

Maru looked at Gi-sun subtly. Gi-sun glared back at him with a look that said, “What’s wrong?” Looking at him like this, it seems like his brain wasn’t eaten.

“Why? What’s the problem? If there are victims, won’t it spread like wildfire? If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know, but now that you know, you should let people know so they can prepare.”

Ki-soon’s words weren’t wrong. But it was true that, thinking back on what had happened in Tokyo, it was a bit unsettling.

It was even more so when I thought of cockroaches or rats. Did they change naturally? Wasn’t it because they were touched by humans or failed to manage that they got into trouble?

“What if I take the barnacles that have grown on your cheeks? They are an example of barnacles growing on human flesh.”

“······.”

Ki-soon quietly listens to what Maru is saying.

“You said there was a case where a barnacle dug into a wound on a person’s hand and grew inside? That happened over the course of several days. The cut on your face happened in just a few hours. It’s on a different level.”

“······.”

“I went into a pharmaceutical company’s secret laboratory and saw that they were doing all sorts of things. But are you saying we should hand this over to the US?”

“······.”

Should we think of countermeasures first? Or should we research whether it can be made into a biological weapon? Maru was against leaving it behind as a sample.

“Maru, what you said is not wrong. But it is right to pass on this sample.”

“No? Why? If you watch something like a movie, you’ll get screwed if you leave a sample.”

“It’s a movie. If you think about it calmly, it’s right to hand it over even if there are kids who weaponize it.”

“Explain it so I can understand. Or I’ll burn you.”

Maru was tough. If it had been burned properly, there wouldn’t have been any problems with the cockroaches and the black monsters. Didn’t the World Group turn off the incinerator and make a fuss, and the black monsters and the cockroaches came with it? If it had been burned cleanly, there wouldn’t have been any trouble. But you want to give this crazy barnacle as a sample?

“What do you need to weaponize poison gas? You need an antidote, right? If you want to weaponize an infectious disease, you need a vaccine or a treatment, or something to weaponize it. So if you want to use barnacles as a weapon, you have to make something to prepare the barnacles before using them. In other words, whether you weaponize them or not, you have to prepare countermeasures.”

“······”

“And even if we don’t hand it over, someone will eventually hand it over or take it from the United States. In that case, it would be better for us to give it over.”

“······”

Wouldn’t it be better if the research was conducted quickly to weaponize it? So Ki-soon said that the samples should be handed over to Canada and the United States.

“I brought this along as a courtesy and officially started using my new status in Japan.”

“So you’re saying that if you hand this over using your new identity, you’ll be officially recognized as such and asked to be granted permanent residency or citizenship?”

“Yeah. Whether it’s Canada or the US, I’ll give you some.”

Handing over a crazy snail and demanding citizenship or permanent residency? That might be possible, I guess. It’s a bit unsettling, but if you hand it over, there’s no responsibility.

“Well then. What.”

“Then you agreed? You agreed?”

“Yes. If I can be recognized as a citizen and become a citizen.”

“It’s possible. The rice cakes look good and taste good, so bring some samples and glass bottles to store them in.”

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Choaaaah

The catamaran rode over the waves. The hull, which was over 30 meters long, rose slightly into the air. The sails, pulled taut by the wind, looked precarious. The catamaran was running at over its maximum speed, even turning on its water jet engine.

Crash!!!

“Gisun-ah! Wait a minute, is it okay to run like this?”

Although Maru was the type of person who wouldn’t budge for anything, it was a bit difficult to endure on a ship that flew for over an hour as if it had thrown away its top speed.

“Okay. This much is not enough. If you run like this and take a lot of water resistance and get hit by the waves, any remaining barnacle larvae on the bottom will fall off.”

“······.”

“No, I’m telling you the truth. Why do dolphins and whales jump into the ocean and throw themselves into the ocean? They do it to get the barnacles off their backs and bellies.”

“Whew- How long is this going to last? I’ll let that go, but Miss Kim and the nurse are going to die.”

Miss Kim and the nurse, who could no longer bear the motion sickness, were lying limp like water-soaked laundry.

“I said I won’t die. I said I won’t die. Since I’m already running, I should run a little further. Wouldn’t it be better to get rid of it all at once rather than doing it half-heartedly?”

Ki-soon spoke jokingly. Her expression seemed to relieve some of the stress.

“We’ll stop by Vancouver, Canada, and then head straight down to Seattle.”

“Okay. If you’re feeling modest, slow down a bit. I told you, Miss Kim is staring at you.”

Ki -Soon was looking at her eyes.

“Let’s run for one more hour. Ugh-”

Where are you looking?