Rust - Chapter 128



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RUST -128

As Ms. Kim stepped hard on the accelerator, the SUV jumped forward.

“How many are chasing after me?”

Maru asked Ms. Kim while looking at the side mirror. It was unclear how many cars were following them because they were only visible in passing.

“3rd generation. New Toyota van.”

Toyota? Don’t gangs and cartels drive Fords or Dodges? They follow you in a car that looks like a home? Maru radioed his staff to confirm.

“We are being followed. Is it you?”

[-Chi-jik- You’re being followed? Please wait a moment.]

The trailer truck slowed down. Then, the cars following it became clear. Three red vans overtook the trailer truck and chased after the SUV carrying Maru and his party.

[···This is tailing. -Beep- This is not a company or government agency.]

It wasn’t the company, it wasn’t the Department of Homeland Security, it wasn’t the FBI or the DEA, so it wasn’t them either.

“is it so?”

Maru pulled out his Glock-19, loaded with .45 caliber armor-piercing bullets.

Clank-

The employee quickly added, perhaps sensing an ominous feeling.

[By any chance… you’re not planning on shooting first, are you? If you attack first, it’s not self-defense.]

You said you were going to act in self-defense? Then you wouldn’t suddenly launch a preemptive strike, right? The employee was anxious because he would have to deal with the aftermath if an accident occurred.

Maru tilted his head slightly left and right and held the Glock-19 in both hands. A story he had heard before came to mind. What was it called? Was it called Preemptive War?

So, right now, in an emergency situation, it’s an inevitable, preemptive self-defense. Should I just wait until someone strikes first?

Miss Kim, who read Maru’s gaze, opened both windows and spoke to the nurse in the back seat.

“Sleep tight.”

Squeak!

The SUV slowed down with a squeal of brakes. The vans that had been following along excitedly split up to avoid colliding with the SUV, which suddenly slowed down.

As the van turned right and passed the passenger window, Maru’s twin pistols opened fire. Starting from the left front wheel, holes began to be made diagonally upward. The trail of .45 caliber armor-piercing bullets continued past the driver’s seat and into the back seat.

Almost simultaneously, as the van swerved to the left and tried to pass by, Ms. Kim stepped on the accelerator and slightly turned the steering wheel.

As I pushed the rear bumper of the van I was trying to overtake, the van suddenly changed direction and lost its balance and rolled. With a loud noise, the car rolled several times before being thrown off the road, kicking up a cloud of dust.

[Holly S···]

I told you it wasn’t self-defense! The employee screamed inwardly as he stepped on the accelerator. There was no way this could have happened. The last van, which had stopped by stepping on the brakes, was pushed from behind by a trailer truck.

■■■■!

There was a loud noise and the car, crumpled like an aluminum can, hit the road and sparks flew. Kkeugagak- the long sound gradually became quieter.

[You said you were only acting in self-defense. But you said it wasn’t self-defense now!!]

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The road, which had become a mess, was full of terrible traces. It was fortunate that there were no chain of accidents because we were on a road with almost no traffic.

The employee jumped out of the trailer truck and started screaming.

“I’m crazy······.”

Kim Yang was approaching the trailer truck, holding a custom Glock with a silencer. The employee also cautiously lowered his hand.

“What’s going on?”

Kim Yang stared at the employee for a moment, then silently walked toward the crumpled van. The vehicle, which had been turned into scrap metal after being pushed over by a large trailer truck, was covered in blood.

‘I’m not black.’

Dark brown skin, looks like South American. Cartel? How did the cartel kids follow me?

Kim Yang looked at the employee with a suspicious eye. The drug market in the United States was so large that it was difficult to properly count. It was so widespread that there were now states that only allowed marijuana.

That means that the number of people who took money from drug dealers has increased. In cases other than manufacturing, supply, and distribution, even if caught on the spot, there are increasing cases where they are only punished with a minor crime.

What can I say when there are songs that openly say “drugs” in their titles and music videos show people taking drugs?

In Kim Yang’s eyes, this employee was a rookie. Wouldn’t it be a piece of cake for the cartel to trick a rookie into extracting information? What if this rookie did that? Kim Yang’s eyes became cloudy.

“Why do you see it that way?”

The employee spoke in a stern voice. Maru was crazy, but the gunman was not in his right mind. However, if he had to choose between the two, the employee preferred Maru. He had never had a good experience with such women.

“Who knows the route?”

“··· Are you suspicious of the company now?”

Then who do you suspect? Ms. Kim looks at her staff with a suspicious look.

“If they knew the route they were moving, why didn’t they ambush us? Why did they follow us so inefficiently?”

“······.”

“If the information had leaked from somewhere, I wouldn’t have approached it so clumsily.”

“······.”

Of course, if the information that 17 people were instantly cleared out at the rest stop had leaked out, they wouldn’t have just let a few people go. Still, Ms. Kim looked at the employee again with eyes that said she would watch over him.

“······.”

“······.”

Then, Ms. Kim put her hand inside the crumpled car and started to rummage through it. The employee was shocked at her appearance. Are you rummaging through it right now? You’re rummaging through it while there’s a body, right? Are you rummaging through it in this situation?

bang-!

bang!!!

Suddenly, gunshots rang out one after another.

The staff member immediately crouched down and drew his gun, but Ms. Kim continued what she was doing. Since Baekjeong had gone, it would soon be quiet.

‘Don’t push too hard. You’re making a mess like this. It’s annoying.’

There was something catching in the debris.

Ah- there it is.

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Maru put down the empty Glock and picked up the knife.

‘also···.’

When I held the gun, my heart stopped beating. It was like my previously sensitive senses had become dull. Even if I held a butter knife or a bread knife, the blade would be sharp, but when I held the gun, it was as quiet as if it had never been like that.

I didn’t particularly dislike guns, but they were definitely bland. If I think about the future, I should become more familiar with guns.

Phew-

It was Maru who approached the overturned car. Two Hispanic men were tangled together. Their faces were a mess, probably because they had rolled over several times without wearing seat belts.

The cartel member sitting in the passenger seat had his neck and arms broken. The person in the driver’s seat seemed to have held on to the steering wheel the moment the car overturned, so there were no broken parts.

Ugh

A member of the organization, with one eye half-closed, groaned and stared at the floor. A thick drop of blood flowed from his head, down his eye, and down to his chin. The blood was sticky and cloudy.

“Why were you following us?”

“%^&···.”

He was saying something with a slurred speech, but I couldn’t understand him. Even his pronunciation in Spanish was a mess.

As Maru fiddled with his phone to turn on the translation app, the bastard pulled out a gun and pulled the trigger.

bang-!

bang!!!

Maru jumped lightly and climbed onto the crumpled roof of the car, thrusting the knife straight into it. As he twisted the blade that had pierced the roof, the metal roof tore and the arm holding the gun below was torn off as well.

The sound of a pistol hitting the floor was heard, and a feeble, creaking sound rose through the crumpled roof.

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Broken cars were pushed across the road.

Miss Kim, who was smiling brightly, was excited.

Somehow today was a good day. If it weren’t for the van that got hit by the trailer truck, it would have ended cleanly, but even without that, the other two were easy to farm.

Even though the door was completely crushed and damaged from rolling around several times, I didn’t have to worry. Since it was a new model car, the door was designed to fall off in the event of an accident, so the door would fall off with a snap when the floor applied enough force.

As he swept through the cars like a fish in water, a thick wad of cash appeared in Kim Yang’s hands.

Oh- yes-

The drug dealers had a lot of money. I don’t know why they carry around so much cash or why they wear gold jewelry on their person, but I think the total of cash and gold must have been over $100,000.

Yesterday, the money came in, and today it was the same. It was a good decision to go out with Baekjeong.

While Kim Yang was happily collecting cash and gold, Maru was interrogating the surviving cartel members with his staff. As expected of a Virginia regular, he was fluent in Spanish, so he was able to interrogate them.

“What are you saying?”

The employee answered with an uneasy expression.

“They say you are all dead.”

“Why do you keep saying that for so long?”

The employee who was hesitating whether to say this or not ended up doing the interpretation.

“···I’ll cut open your stomach and hang you with your intestines··· Do you think you can touch it and live··· Even your dog is a dead man···.”

Maru nodded. Was it because he still had some of his strength left? He hadn’t made any progress.

“So what’s the name of the organization this guy belongs to?”

“They are called Peace Panic in the surrounding area.”

“What strange names. Are these guys famous?”

“It’s a cartel that’s been gaining notoriety in California and Nevada recently. There are also rumors that it’s directly affiliated with a large cartel in Mexico.”

Maru looked at the organization members quietly and said.

“Are these the guys we met at the rest stop?”

“Yes? Ah- that’s right.”

“I cleaned up the mess, so how did they know and follow me? Please find out.”

“···Yes, that’s right.”

Maru watched the staff interrogate him, lost in thought.

The follow-up team came and sorted it out, but how did they know and follow along? Did someone leak the information? Why? It was too sloppy to think they knew the information. It was even more so when you think about the connection with the World Group.

The staff, who had repeatedly tried to coax and persuade him, began to interrogate him more and more violently. They continued to torture him by beating him and poking his wounds, but it had no effect.

Hehehehe

A cartel member laughed with blood flowing from his mouth. The angry employee punched him in the face, but the laughter did not subside.

Kim Yang, who had come running with both hands full of cash, blinked when she saw the cartel member with a bloodshot face.

A cartel employee saw Ms. Kim, who was feeling good and blushing innocently, stick out her tongue and lick her lips while making a slurping sound.

Slurp slurp- slurp-slurp

Pussi–

Kim Yang, who saw that, tilted her head and asked Maru.

“torture?”

“Yeah. Maybe it’s because the medicine doesn’t wear off. They say the torture isn’t working.”

“······.”

“We need to find out how they followed us and if any information was leaked. Our staff interrogated and tortured them, but this is what they looked like.”

Kim Yang tilted her head at Maru’s explanation and looked at the staff.

“As expected, you’re a beginner.”

“No. I told you I’m not a real beginner.”

When Ms. Kim said that as if she was a beginner, the employee quickly denied it.

“Just grill it.”

“what?”

“yes?”

Maru and the staff asked what Kim Yang meant.

Kim Yang slowly handed over the wads of cash and gold coins she was holding in both hands to Maru and spoke.

“Slowly over low heat···.”

“······.”

“······.”

“Just grill it.”

Is that what you mean by grilling? That can’t be true, right?

A little later.

A desperate scream, as if the wasteland was being torn apart, echoed along with the smell of grilling meat.

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Even though the smell of the cartel members’ excrement and urine was terrible, Ms. Kim didn’t even blink an eye. The cartel members, whose toes and fingertips were blackened, desperately avoided Ms. Kim’s eyes.

“Location tracker?”

“That’s what they say.”

The staff immediately began interpreting.

“where?”

“What are you talking about gold and guns?”

Miss Kim tilted her head. It was as if a question mark had appeared above her head, and then after a moment it seemed to change into an exclamation mark.

“?”

“!”

Mr. Kim ran straight to the SUV and took out a gold-plated AK-type rifle. He took apart the baseless gold-plated gun that looked like an AK, but there was nothing special about it.

Woojik – As I tore off the gold-inlaid wooden buttplate, I found what appeared to be a location tracking chipset inside.

Kwajik-

It was Kim Yang who was destroying the chipset. He was sick of the chase. The cartel member who saw this shrugged his shoulders and muttered something.

“What did you say?”

When Ms. Kim asked, the employee answered with a serious expression.

“You said it was already too late?”