Rust - Chapter 144



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RUST -144

A heavy backpack sat down next to the dead man, his neck broken and his head sunken in.

Conversations that continue in Kim Yang’s head.

It didn’t roll, did it?

Yeah, it definitely didn’t roll.

It didn’t just fly in and crack open my head, and then roll around lightly. It just went thud.

It’s heavy, right?

huh.

Dog – Looks heavy.

In my head, Ms. Kim 1 and Ms. Kim 2 finished their conversation with each other.

Above all, there was a smell. A heavy smell.

A lump of iron?

no.

It wasn’t the smell of rusty iron.

So this smell······.

Maru felt a little creeped out when he saw that sight.

What is it? Ann?

It was scary that his eyes had grown wide open, but then he muttered something to himself with a soulless face as he trudged towards his backpack and sniffed around.

‘No, I’m not even opening it, why are you smelling it?’

Miss Kim glanced around the veranda. She was grinning with her eerie, sparkling eyes.

“Hey. Are you sick?”

“Okay. Haa-”

Maru shut his mouth at the sound of Kim Yang’s voice, which seemed to be somewhat heated.

What are you believing in that you haven’t even opened it? Can you really tell just by smelling it? That was strange in its own way.

Maru ignored Ms. Kim, who was sitting next to her backpack and repeating “pat, pat, pat,” and looked around. He could hear gunshots and bombs exploding here and there in the distance. It was a mess.

As expected, I thought the gangs and cartels and the rest would run away as quietly as possible, but that wasn’t the case. They were causing trouble everywhere.

‘but···.’

They’ll do whatever it takes to break the blockade.

Perhaps because the sniper support had stopped, requests for sniper support poured in from Kim Yang’s communicator.

[Request sniper support!]

[They are troublemakers!]

[Sniper! Sniper!]

[What are you doing···]

Miss Kim was stuck to her backpack like a piece of gum, in a ‘I can’t hear you. I can’t hear you’ mode, and showed no sign of helping.

“Miss Kim.”

Still, when Maru called, Ms. Kim turned around briefly.

“What are you going to do if they cause trouble later?”

“I don’t care.”

The sniper point has come up to the weaklings, but they didn’t even warn them. What’s so pretty about those bastards? Didn’t they do enough? Now, it’s time to go back and find out. How much will this cost? Maru’s head hurt when Kim Yang lightly ignored them.

“If you want to take care of that properly, you have to keep them from saying anything else. If they say anything else, they’ll get tired.”

“···Okay, I understand.”

Kim Yang, who was stuck on top of her backpack like sashimi on top of sushi rice, quietly took the bullet. She took her position with heavy steps and started pulling the trigger. If you think about Kim Yang’s usual rapid fire, it felt like she was either slow or slow.

Wing- Low motor noise. The drone’s sound was heard. It seemed to have come to check on what happened to Kim Yang after the sniping stopped. A medium-sized military drone circled the point where Kim Yang had originally sniped and came close. Maru quickly hid himself.

The medium-sized drone checked the surroundings after confirming that Ms. Kim was sniping from a corner, and then flew to another place.

‘I thought I could move around comfortably since all the CCTVs were out due to the EMP, but there was a drone.’

Tsk-

There were several drones flying around.

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A van full of electronic equipment.

The man with the hood down shouted.

“Oh, really!”

Even the voice changer couldn’t change the annoyance. It was crazy to delete the videos uploaded to Newtube in real time. It was frustrating to do things alone that could be done as a team, and there were also a lot of things to order around.

“Samantha. Let’s just blockade Newtube for now.”

[Newtube area blockade. Code adjustments are in progress.]

“We are also turning the YouTube channel into a regional blockade”

[YouTalk area blocked. Code adjustment in progress.]

There were so many that it was impossible to delete them one by one. It would have been more feasible to blockade and blockade the data movement in this area. Even that would have been impossible without the AI ​​supporting the hacking.

“Do you have any footage from the drone? Please categorize it and upload it.”

[Video taken from 23 drones.]

[Engagement Video]

[Search video]

[Support Video]

[······]

Videos played at 4x speed simultaneously on multiple monitors, and the eyes of the person wearing a hood pulled down deep shook rapidly. The pupils of the eyes that moved up, down, left, and right dilated slightly.

“!”

“Video number 15. Stop.”

[Video pauses 15 times.]

Tadadak

As my fingers lightly tapped the keyboard, the location captured by drone number 15 came to mind. The rooftop of a tall building. A long solid line was visible next to the building’s emergency exit. It was as if something had been cut out.

There was no way a blast or gunfire could have created such a crack. Beneath the cleanly drawn marks lay dismembered corpses.

Tadadak

‘The one who piloted drone number 15···’

The command center sent it to you. So you were trying to track down whatever left that trail? I played the audio file recording the situation room.

[···The sniping has stopped.]

[Check the situation···.]

The sniper stopped and sent out Drone 15 to check the situation. Hood quickly checked the other drones. There were five snipers in total. All five were silent. Traces of the raid left where the snipers were.

All other snipers were confirmed dead. Four out of five were killed. Information surfaced that one unidentified person had started providing sniping support again. A sniper who had not been seen in the area confirmed by Drone 15.

The footage taken by Drone 15 continued to roll. Drone 15 was moving around the surrounding buildings behind the strange traces left at the sniping point. And the sniper was captured. It was a female sniper. She was wearing civilian clothes, not a military uniform.

Hood’s fingers paused on the keyboard.

‘mercenary?’

Would you use mercenaries for this kind of operation? If they were skilled mercenaries, they would use them, but most of the time, they would use active-duty snipers. Above all, the strange traces at the sniping point. No matter how you look at it, the dismembered corpses and the snipers did not match.

Tadadadadak

My fingers, which had paused for a moment, began typing on the keyboard again.

Beep!

“uh?”

Block. What the heck, you bitch? What the heck is the lock on?

Tadadadadak

Beep!

No. Seriously, what is this? Are you a Virginia employee? Are you double-locked? But I can’t help but be curious. Isn’t that why you started it?

Beep! Beep! Beep!

‘What the fuck.’

I thought I walked in Virginia, but the Department of Homeland Security was also walking. This was a first. I wondered if I would get screwed if I touched this, but curiosity killed the cat, and Hood’s fingers did not stop.

The final data that came out after going through several dummy pieces of information was nothing.

Information that clearly shows your newly created identity, as if it had suddenly fallen from nowhere.

What is this? Why did you go to such lengths?

Hood turned his head and looked at the monitor.

The still image was filled with the image of a female sniper shooting with a Barrett.

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With his wrist cut off, his struggling arm hung limply.

Kwoooooooo

Blood began to mix with the drooling saliva. A look of murderous intent, filled with the desire to kill rather than the will to live.

“Whew- This is dirty.”

Twist the blade, crack! With the sound of flesh and bone splitting, the medicine man fell to his knees. Maru pulled out the blade that had been stuck in the wall, piercing through the medicine man’s torso.

I felt dirty. I can understand why those drug addicts lost their minds, but the ones who mixed it in here and there made me feel dirty.

They’re not completely out of their minds, but they’re not in their right minds either. As time went by, the number of these guys, who weren’t just drug addicts, was increasing.

So, whether it was gangs or cartels, they started to distribute different drugs to their members than the ones they usually distributed to the poor, the homeless, and the refugees. The guys who just came up here were the same.

Swish – As he swung the sword, the drops of blood and dregs on the blade left a red mark on the floor.

‘The blade is fine.’

Maru looked out of the stairwell leading to the rooftop. A drone was filming Ms. Kim, who was sniping back and forth. It was no good being filmed for no reason.

Kkudangtang!

Wow. Wow.

Wow! Wow!

The sound of someone coming up the stairs. Maru shrugged his shoulders, stretched, and kicked the corpse lying on the floor. The corpse that had floated up slammed into one side of the stairs, creating a low barricade.

A moment later, a group of red-eyed men came up the stairs, foaming at the mouth.

Kwaaaaah!

The man stretched his arms and neck forward, looking at the floor as if to climb over the barricade.

You’ve stretched out in a really nice posture.

Squeak!

Maru, who had lightly shaken off the bastard’s neck and both arms, swung his sword at the things that were coming up in a tangled manner.

“Come in order. In order. I won’t go anywhere.”

Kwaaaaah!

Woohoo!

The barricade made of corpses grew larger and larger.

Ms. Kim felt relieved at the sound coming from the stairs. It felt warm and peaceful.

Kkieeeeeek!

Sometimes, someone who took too little medicine or someone whose medicine went in the wrong way would scream and get on my nerves, but most of the time, things were resolved smoothly. How desirable is this situation?

So, would you say it’s a feeling of being protected?

Kim Yang took his eyes off the scope for a moment and looked at his backpack. Just looking at it made him feel emotional. He could hear the sound of the stairs leading up to the rooftop. A peaceful rooftop······

Wheeeeeeing-

Aaaaaaaaaa-

A drone was circling in the air a little way away.

Clang- tada dang!

Sparks flew from the Glock that had been pulled out.

‘It’s annoying. The atmosphere was good.’

Tut- Kim Yang, who had spat, looked at Baek Baek again. Her hurt feelings were beginning to heal.

[Resistance is strong in the buildings west of East Row.]

[Towards 6th Street! Stop the fleeing vehicle!]

The radio was noisy. What the hell were the other snipers doing?

Kim Yang, who had been slightly sullen, looked at the backpack and the open door of the stairwell with warm eyes and took up her sniping stance again. After a while, the leisurely yet mechanical sound of gunfire began to continue.

The sky, which had been so dark, began to gradually brighten.

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[The gang’s resistance is over.]

[Cartel members trying to escape the encirclement are no longer visible.]

[Search begins.]

[···Area. Clear]

[Advance along the main defense road.]

[Commencement of combat zone cleanup.]

There was an atmosphere of celebration that the operation was a success, but the commander who had been stripped of his command remained tight-lipped.

The strike force that engaged the gang was said to have lost more than half of its members. All snipers were killed except for one gunman. The strike force that entered the sewer to attack the cartel’s stronghold has been lost.

Even the National Guard, which had been encircling and defending, suffered many casualties. Despite all this bloodshed, the cartel leader was still lost.

Fortunately, perhaps it was fortunate? The gang leader was successfully killed. Most of the members of the gang or cartel were gone, so the real threat was gone.

“The gang has disintegrated.”

“The cartels have also been uprooted.”

“Now I just need to clean it up properly.”

“The damage near the operation area is too extensive.”

“The economic damage was devastating, but there were too many casualties.”

“But what are you going to do if there are civilian casualties?”

Everyone, including the governor and the mayor, looked at the commander.

The commander opened his mouth with an old look on his face.

“It’s all my fault.”

The conference room came to life as people nodded.