Rust - Chapter 155



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RUST -155

The PD bit his lip as he watched Kim Yang walk away at a brisk pace.

Yes, I told the boss. I thought it was overstepping the line, abusing the contract. Overstepping the line? Isn’t that the same for you? Want to see the contract?

What is the contract that she saw in the president’s office? How shameless is that woman who says she signed a contract but then pretends she never signed it.

“Fuck!”

Could the CEO have forged the contract? No matter how money-hungry the CEO was, he wouldn’t have done that. What if? Did he ask to see the contract on purpose? Then how did he know that the original contract was lost? No way?

‘You filed a lawsuit knowing there was no contract?’

It was impossible. He left the president’s office, and Bella went into the president’s office. The door was locked, the blinds were drawn. And then, after an hour? The DEA, the police, and 911 came rushing in.

‘for a moment.’

The PD felt something strange.

If one of the employees had reported it, 911 would have come first, then the police. And the DEA would have come last. But they all came at once? That means they reported it at the same time.

‘who?’

The PD decided to return to the broadcasting station and look for the person who reported it.

As the day grew darker, the lights on the broadcasting station signs came on. The What’s Up TV blinked old-fashionedly.

Detroit was a thriving city. With its prosperous steel and automobile industries, it was nicknamed the City of the Blast Furnace, the City of Steel, and the City of Automobiles.

Now, it has become a city that symbolizes a place where you die and a place of ruin. A city where slum-like housing areas are unsold and landlords just abandon them. A city where people celebrate by firing guns into the air at the end of the year and during the New Year.

PD gripped the car steering wheel tightly.

Why didn’t I leave this city? Why did I keep going, even though I had a letter of resignation in my heart? Because of money? If money was everything, I would have quit long ago. Then why?

As the economy collapsed, the What’s Up TV programs also fell into the abyss. In order to increase viewership, advertisements were added, so more provocative and more ridiculous programs began to appear. Now, they were churning out so much ridiculousness that it was hard to call it a program.

The station he had devoted his youth to, the station he had loved as representing the region, was rotting away. Yes. Now he had to admit it. It was because of his foolishness.

The PD, who had a cigarette in his mouth, looked for a lighter. Where did he put it? Instead of a cell phone cigarette jack, the car cigarette jack had a cell phone charger attached to it. The PD chewed the end of the cigarette in his mouth and spat it out.

Phew-

The cigarette was thrown away and trampled on without ever having a chance to burn.

“Fuck.”

When the PD entered the broadcasting station, the atmosphere was strange. There was no information desk staff. There should have been at least 15 people there because there was work at night, but there were no staff to be seen.

I tried to find out who first reported it···.

A man suddenly popped out of the conference room and smiled at the PD.

“Hey, man.”

An armed gang greeted the PD.

“You know- you know the answer-”

“Where is she- who is she-”

“You who don’t answer.”

“You who are silent.”

“Then you’re the one who’s going to die.”

The man with the gold front teeth muttered with his eyes wide open.

“Where is that girl?”

Hee? Smiling gold teeth, red, bloodshot eyes arched.

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There were stories that South American drug cartels demanded murder as a test of their membership. North America didn’t go that far. Still, there were cases where they asked people to commit armed robberies or do things like bullying the police, under the pretext of testing their courage.

And the armed robbers that Kim Yang caught were also like that. They weren’t real gangsters, but they were guys who were trying to commit armed robbery as a test to get into a gang, and one of the gang members who was there as a test supervisor was completely robbed.

If the CCTV footage had been released and it had been briefly mentioned in the news, it could have been passed over as ‘those guys who got caught are idiots’. However, it wasn’t a special broadcast. They made the gang into a laughing stock by saying things like ‘Burger Queen’s hero’. Naturally, I couldn’t just sit still.

When I tried to find Hero Year, the video was deleted. The broadcasting station took it down, and Newtube also deleted all of the videos. What difference does that make? What difference does it make if you throw shit in someone’s face and then tell them to wash it clean?

Gangs that took drugs originally had a reputation for doing crazy things, especially the Detroit drug gangs.

[Yesterday, a fire broke out on the first and second floors of the What’s Up broadcasting station. It is reported that 17 employees died in the fire···]

[Due to a major disaster, the What’s Up broadcasting station has temporarily suspended all operations···]

[They say there is a significant amount of fire insurance money at stake for this fire?]

[Yes, the public’s attention is focused on the fire incident that was revealed to have astronomical insurance claims.]

Maru, who was watching TV, received a phone call.

“hello.”

[Attorney Mac Golden here. Did you hear about the fire at the What’s Up broadcast station?]

“Yes. I was just watching.”

[We were lucky. If WattsUp goes in the direction of folding the broadcasting station, we might be able to get a large portion of the insurance money.]

“I see. If I continue working at the broadcasting station, will things change?”

[In that case, if you have already received the insurance money, it seems that you will be able to receive a sufficient amount of settlement money.]

“Good.”

[However, there are some bad rumors going around here.]

“What is the rumor?”

[There are rumors that this fire was set by a gang. Please be careful just in case.]

After talking to the lawyer, Maru became lost in thought.

‘Gang.’

Maru said to Hood, who was playing with Samantha across the street.

“Can you get the CCTV footage from around the What’s Up broadcasting station? If there’s anything strange, document it all. In particular, check if there are any people around who are suspected of being gang members, and trace where they came from.”

“A gang?”

“Yeah. If the gang set fire and killed people, it would be easy to find traces.”

“···Yes. But would you have said that openly?”

“If the gang did it, they would have done it openly. They would have ignored the CCTV and left traces here and there. That way, it would be known that they killed someone, and if they spread rumors that they took revenge, they would think they saved face.”

“Then the police won’t just leave it alone.”

“Do you think those who are afraid of the police would have killed more than 15 people and set fire to something like that?”

The question is, will those who burned down the broadcasting station end up with just one broadcasting station? Or will they come this far? They burned down the broadcasting station that broadcasted strange programs. Then, should we just leave ‘Burger Queen’s Hero’ as it is, thinking it was a trick by the broadcasting station?

“If you find any traces of the gang, try to trace them back. If you find a place like their hideout or a gathering place where they often gather, let me know.”

“yes.”

The Hood activated Samantha and began searching the CCTV footage to sort through it.

Moments later, the CCTV footage that Hood had sorted out revealed the gang’s criminal activities. As Maru had expected, the scenes of them hanging people and running as if to show everyone, and burning their limbs, were all clearly recorded.

“···That one. It looks like the PD who came yesterday.”

When Kim Yang came next to me, she looked at the monitor and said. The screen showed a close-up of the PD’s face screaming with his limbs on fire. One side of his face was distorted by the burns.

It was a PD who desperately repeated the same words over and over again.

“Can you tell what I’m talking about?”

“wait a minute.”

The hood manipulated something through Samantha, and the shape of her mouth was analyzed.

[*H*O*T*E*L*]

“Is this a hotel?”

“hotel?”

While Hood and Kim Yang were looking at the monitor and wondering where, where?, Maru spoke calmly.

“Where is it? This is a hotel.”

It was not good when something happened in a hotel near a downtown area. No matter how connected you were with the Department of Homeland Security, if you received help unilaterally, you would end up in a superior-subordinate relationship. So.

“Check the CCTV footage quickly. Their hideout, their gathering place. If you find it, send it to me right away.”

It would have been much better to clean it up before they got here. If we could handle it without causing any civilian casualties, there would be no need to worry about Homeland Security.

Maru had a sword tucked into his side and was wearing a black coat. When Kim Yang saw that, she thought, “Me? I want to go too.” But it was no use.

“Optical cloak. Bring it.”

There was a slightly broken part, and if you look closely, one side was slightly protruding, but it was no problem at all when using it in the dark of the night. Kim Yang brought the optical cloaking robe with an expression that said, ‘That’s mine.’

“Protect the kids. Don’t show off, and focus on defense. Hold out. Got it?”

Kim Yang made a glum expression, but nodded at Maru’s serious face.

“Okay.”

“I’m telling you not to go on TV or do anything that will make you look good. I told you to trust me, didn’t I? If you tell me to trust you and you do it again this time, you really know that, right?”

“Okay.”

‘This person. Please trust me.’ This is Ms. Kim of faith.

Maru left the hotel, leaving Kim Yang behind. A moment later, the gang’s location information was sent to Maru’s phone.

As Maru, wrapped in an optical cloak, activated his stealth mode, the space shook with a whoosh, and Maru’s new form disappeared into the darkness.

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An empty lot filled with loud hip-hop music. About a dozen cars were parked tightly in the overgrown yard.

“When are you going to kill that broadcasting station kid?”

“They said they were going to burn it on live broadcast later.”

“I think they said they were going to burn it alive.”

“Oh, that kid? But didn’t you burn all his limbs? And burn them again?”

“Anyway, burning it alive secretly gets a lot of views.”

“개새끼들 지랄하는 새끼들은 싹 죽여야 해.”

“But doesn’t it get cut off as soon as it’s uploaded?”

“Even if it’s cut, it’s faster to spread than to be erased.”

The gang laughed as they showed off their white teeth and yellow gold teeth to each other.

“The salty guys must be really nervous after watching the CCTV, right?”

“All those kids are like that.”

A massive gunfight in Detroit? That would be welcome. Would the National Guard come? Here? Come? Unless there’s a real massacre of civilians or a riot, I’d be quiet. There has to be something to protect and do to come and take a shit.

One guy put a crystal in. As the clear liquid started flowing through his veins, the world turned upside down.

“Whew- This is driving me crazy.”

I felt like I would turn around if I said, “Oh no.” The man, who had lost his strength from enduring the shock that hit his blood vessels, spoke slowly. It was definitely different from the others. The ending was different.

Kkuk- I clenched my fist. I felt a strong force. My grip had definitely gotten stronger. I took out a coin and tried bending it.

“Hehehe – look at this. I bent a 50 cent coin.”

“Oh- Really?”

“Is this true?”

“Hey- It’s a little bent?”

It wasn’t an illusion of strength. I actually became stronger. My reflexes improved, I became really fast. I felt confident that I could do anything.

It was like going back to the days when I was in high spirits. As effective as it was, the side effects were also obvious. If you overdo it even a little bit, you lose your sense of reason and it is highly addictive.

Losing your mind? When were you ever sane? It’s so addictive. Can’t you just keep eating it? If you eat it wrong, you’ll foam at the mouth and die. Side effects? It was meaningless to the gangs.

“Those kids have this too?”

“That’s right. The Chinese were spreading it.”

Thump- thump-

The gangs that had been noisy with the sound of drums clanking became quiet.

One of them stepped forward. The one in the fur coat shrugged and opened his mouth.

“오늘. 개새끼 하나를 태우려고.”

“That bastard from the broadcasting station PD who shit on our faces, let’s burn him cleanly.”

“Burn them, and kill those fucking bastards who looked down on us and those bastards who had Bonhaed at once···”

A black blade protruded from the chest of a man wearing a luxurious fur coat and swaggling his hands. The blade protruded from his chest through his back and moved up and down a few times before disappearing.

“······.”

“······.”

Slap- The fur coat fell to the floor, but the surroundings were quiet. The sound of drum fires crackling here and there. The sound of hip-hop blasting loudly.

What did you just see? A sword just appeared out of thin air and killed a man.

What did I do wrong? I kept the capacity.

Boom!

With a strange sound, the two heads behind them suddenly rose into the air.

Knock- knock-

The head falls to the ground and rolls

Pusuk- Pusuk-

The sight of blood spurting from a headless torso.

“What The···.”

“HOOOOOL···.”

The gangsters around the two drew their guns. Beyond the flickering flames, in the darkness, there was nothing. It was cold winter. Only half-dried weeds and unkempt bushes swayed in the wind.

“Did those Chinese bastards sell you that fucking dog? I was fucking seeing things!”

“Did you see it just now? Did you see it?”

“What are you looking at, kid?”

“Did you just see that? Over there!”

A person running towards a car is cut diagonally.

All that was visible was empty space.

But then, in the darkness, people suddenly split into diagonal lines.

The appearance of being cut diagonally and falling down with a thud

Someone screamed.

Euaaaahhhhhh!

Gangs shooting into the empty darkness.

Valid!

Tada dadadang!

A remote ruin.

A roaring bonfire.

A rising flame.

The sound of gunfire disappeared into the fleeting winter night.