Rust - Chapter 157



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RUST -157

An overwhelming, almost amazing image unfolding on the monitor.

Kim Yang stared blankly at the monitor as if she had forgotten to breathe. Hood was out of breath and didn’t know what to do. His fingertips trembled.

Hood, who was barely able to type on the keyboard with his weak fingers, lowered his head. The sound of Hood, who had used the keyboard as a pillow, struggling and muttering to himself.

“Whoa- Samantha?”

‘What the hell do I do? I think I’ve lost my mind. Samantha.’

In a word, it’s crazy. Just thinking about it makes me breathless and makes the nerve bundles in my spinal cord feel like they’re tap dancing. If that’s not crazy, then what is?

Kim Yang, who was quietly staring at the back of the hooded man’s head, spoke with narrowed eyes.

“What are you doing? Not working?”

“······.”

“What the hell are you talking about? Stop talking nonsense and get back to work!” Hood started tapping away at the keyboard again at Kim Yang’s urging.

The back of the hood, reacting somewhat hesitantly. Kim Yang’s whole body was trembling as she tried to hold back the urge to shoot. After hearing Maru tell her not to shoot, she started to feel a subtle sense of opening up?

As long as you don’t kill him, it’ll be okay, right? If you put a bullet in his knee, he’ll probably make a squeaking sound like a gopher’s throat.

It would be perfect if it were a real knee. If your legs become crippled, you won’t be able to run away. As long as your fingers are fine, that’s fine, right?

As Kim Yang’s thoughts began to lean towards ‘The story of raising good hacker slaves by making them crippled,’ Hood began to worry about whether he could send Kim Yang, who was harassing him, far away.

I pretended to be okay and that I was fine, but whenever I thought about Ms. Kim shooting herself in the head, I felt like I was going crazy.

If you listen to the story, it could be a side effect of the coronavirus in Japan, but if that were the case, it would have been on the news a long time ago.

No matter what excuses you make, you keep making excuses like that. Is Corona an intermittent explosive disorder? It’s not even funny.

What kind of anger management disorder would threaten to kill someone at the drop of a hat? He gives off the vibe that he’d pull out a gun if he got the chance and pull out a gun if he got bored, so I felt like I’d dry up to death from anxiety if I was around him.

Tadadadadak

The sound of typing on the keyboard was accompanied by various results appearing on the monitor.

‘All the action cam footage that the gang had turned on to broadcast has been processed.’

There was a gang that was filming their colleagues being killed.

I don’t know if it’s weird that there’s such a guy, or if it’s weird that there’s only one, but in any case, he succeeded in intercepting the uploaded video midway. He even hacked the cell phone used for filming, so it was only a matter of time before the related video was organized.

“Huh. Clumsy.”

The sound of Kim Yang muttering softly while looking at the monitor.

What’s so awkward?

Hood followed Kim Yang’s gaze to the monitor. There, he saw Maru taking off his hiding robe and returning.

“You’re coming in fine?” Kim Yang said, as if answering Hood’s question.

“Aftercare.”

Since I fought wearing a concealment robe, there were no witnesses, and since I cut with a sword, there wouldn’t be any evidence, but what if there were any survivors?

I saw earlier that one of the ones that was split into upper and lower parts was still alive. Since it was cut in half, it’ll probably die from excessive bleeding soon, but what if it doesn’t die and is still alive and shaking its beak?

That’s right. There was a PD too. A broadcasting station PD who had just finished his first grilling and was about to become a conglomerate grill. What would you do if he were alive and saying strange things?

‘Something in the dark killed the gangsters.’, ‘Something was definitely there, invisible to the eye.’

If you keep talking nonsense like this, won’t you be tired of your future activities? It’s not like you’ve already disposed of all the bodies. In the past, you would have gathered the bodies, dug a hole, and pushed them in, or poured gasoline on them and set them on fire…

‘Huh?’

I thought he was coming back, but the CCTV footage showed Maru returning to the scene after buying a can of oil. Hood was busy editing out the parts where Maru was captured in real time.

Afterwards, the scene was captured on screen as they cleaned up the scene. The footage showed the bodies being pushed to one side, the black boxes of parked cars being ripped off and thrown away, and gasoline being drawn from the car and poured on the pile of bodies, setting them on fire, ending the cleanup.

Ms. Kim looked at the monitor with a sullen expression. She was dissatisfied. As Ms. Kim’s dissatisfaction grew, Maru came back.

“There was an action cam at the scene. Did you organize the footage? Did you process all the nearby CCTV footage as well?”

“Yes. I cleaned it up neatly.”

The machine’s sound was strangely jarring. Looking at the floor, Hood was fidgeting and restless, and Kim Yang was feeling uneasy for no reason. So she let out her frustration that she had been holding back.

“What about PD?”

Why did you spare that dirty broadcasting station PD? Is it because he’s not a gangster?

“PD? Huh? That guy who got burned. Why him?”

“Not killing?”

Maru looked at Kim Yang’s eyes full of complaints. It’s not that he didn’t think about it, but even so, why did he open his eyes like that because he was complaining? Where did he come from?

“Hey. What does it say over there?”

Maru gestured to one wall with his chin. There was a sign on the wall.

[Think and shoot.]

[Let’s do well and be kind.]

“······”

“But why didn’t you kill me? You still have a long way to go before you come to your senses.”

“······”

Srrrrrrrr-

Ms. Kim, who had once felt dissatisfied, regretted it.

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The story about PD, the sole survivor, ended with a few lines in the article.

The incident that took place in an abandoned lot on the outskirts of Detroit. The incident in which 37 gang members were killed was clearly a big deal, but even bigger incidents were happening one after another.

Rumors were circulating that a rescue team sent to rescue Americans trapped in Japan after the disaster had suffered heavy damage.

After two additional deployments, an exclusive article broke out that the rescue operation had ended in failure, and all media outlets began to air special broadcasts and articles about the situation in Japan.

[···Including the soldiers who were dispatched for the second time, are there more than 3,000 soldiers trapped in Japan?]

[Yes. Japan is currently completely isolated. Not only are aircraft unable to use the area due to the aftermath of volcanic ash and dust, but the massive amount of floating rocks from the underwater volcano eruption have also made ship navigation impossible.]

[···There was talk that communication was cut off. What happened? Is it impossible to use satellite communication directly through satellites?]

[Unfortunately, it turned out to be true.]

[The Ministry of Defense is currently preparing a large-scale operation to rescue the rescue team trapped in Japan… It is expected to be the largest military operation since the Iraq War.]

[···We plan to carry out the operation based on geographically close Korea··· and in close cooperation with the Korean government···]

A large-scale operation began. Military reporters followed along and broadcasted live. Although it started off with such confidence, the operation ran into trouble from the start.

The sunlight was blocked by the aftermath of the volcanic eruption. As a result, the temperature in the Kanto region, including the area surrounding Tokyo, the main operational area, dropped below -15 degrees Celsius. The temperature is 15 to 20 degrees lower than the average temperature.

The sea temperature in northeastern Japan suddenly became similar to that of the Bering Sea, and in severe areas the sea froze over. As if that wasn’t enough, snow began to fall in unimaginable amounts.

The heavy snowfall that continued for three days resulted in a cumulative snowfall of over 220-250cm. Even in a situation where administrative power was maintained, it would be difficult to handle 220-250cm of snowfall for three days, but the current situation in Japan was a state of anarchy. Due to the cold wave and heavy snow, it was predicted that it would be difficult for civilians in the Kanto region to survive.

What was more serious was that this cold wave and heavy snowfall was just beginning.

The plan to land in northwestern Japan using helicopters and transport ships from Busan, South Korea and rescue them by land suddenly turned into a plan for death in the bitter cold.

It was dangerous to walk through 220-250cm of snow in temperatures of minus 15-20 degrees Celsius, and it was difficult to predict how low the temperature would drop or how much more snow would fall.

But waiting until spring was impossible. The power was out. Even if they had an emergency generator running, it was clear that they would run out of fuel quickly in this bitter cold.

How long can you last without the heating? Winter is just beginning.

The unexpected situation left the US government, including the Department of Defense, in a state of panic. Suddenly, the lives of more than 3,000 soldiers were in danger.

Considering the 3,000 rescue workers and the Americans living in the Japanese capital, that means over 35,000 people froze to death.

[Currently, a rescue team departing from Busan, Korea is desperately trying to clear the way···]

[···With another large-scale snowfall expected at the end of December···, the accumulated snowfall in December is expected to exceed 400cm.]

[···It has happened in the past that volcanic ash and smoke blocked sunlight and lowered the average temperature by 1~2 degrees. However, this time, Mt. Fuji’s massive eruption was not an eruption of Mt. Fuji alone···]

[While the volcanic zone in Kyushu erupted in the fall and lowered the temperature, the volcanoes on the Japanese mainland erupted in late fall and winter, further lowering the temperature. In addition, the massive amount of floating rocks created by the eruption of submarine volcanoes floated to the sea surface, blocking sunlight and lowering the water temperature. These combined synergistic effects caused unpredictable temperature changes···]

Large-scale rescue operations became virtually impossible.

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A researcher who examined the atmospheric measuring equipment said.

“At this point, I think we could use a helicopter.”

The heavy snowfall reduced the concentration of volcanic ash and dust, making helicopter operations possible. The ROK and US forces in Korea mobilized all of their operating Chinooks and sent them to Japan.

“Even now, Mt. Fuji and other volcanoes are erupting. We will only be able to fly helicopters for a short while. While we can use helicopters, it would be better to rescue at least some people first.”

“The last information the rescue team sent was directly related to national security. In the worst case scenario, we must retrieve that information.”

It was impossible to rescue everyone. If we wanted to save even a tenth of the people, we couldn’t miss this opportunity. So ten Chinook helicopters, loaded with fuel and cold-weather gear, headed to Donan Hospital, the base for the rescue team.

“It’s scary.”

“I agree.”

Below, all I could see was white snow. The roads and buildings were completely buried, and nothing could be seen. It was hard to believe that this place, which had become a white grave, was once the powerful economic powerhouse of Japan.

[5 minutes later, we arrive at the stolen hospital.]

“Get everything ready.”

Soldiers jumped out of the helicopter, ready to drop snow removal equipment. They were greeted by nearly 4 meters of snow.

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Theft Hospital.

The hospital, which was crowded with nearly 5,000 people including rescue workers and refugees, was dreary.

Droplets of blood were splattered here and there on the hallway and walls, and long strips of flesh were strewn across the floor. The soldiers shivering from the cold on the other side of the barricade desperately blocking the red marks began to murmur.

Doo doo doo doo doo

The sound of a helicopter in the distance. Commander Gilbert Brown could not believe his ears. A soldier opened the door and came in, shouting.

“Commander, it’s a Chinook! A Chinook is coming!”

“Cough. Cough. It’s late. It’s too late. Radio. Do you have a working radio?”

We had to die here. Everyone. Gilbert Brown hid his feelings and bit the radio.

“······.”

“···If they attack the rescue team that doesn’t know anything, it’s all over. If you have a working radio, bring it to me.”

“All of our radios are broken. Our emergency radio is also dead and unusable.”

“Light a smoke grenade to warn others. Enemy present. Danger of ambush. Do not approach.”

“Commander!”

“Aren’t you going to warn me?”

After clearing nearly 4 meters of snow to make room for the Chinook to land, the soldiers began digging a tunnel through the snow.

The straight-line distance from the temporary landing pad to the stolen hospital was about 1.5km, but there were obstacles here and there that had to be cleared. It was virtually impossible to open a passage in a short period of time.

“At the stolen hospital? Still not connected?”

“The military frequency is unavailable.

“Turn it to a public frequency. It’s this close…”

“Emergency signal. Smoke signal from the stolen hospital. Code black. Signal that there are enemies nearby.”

“Signal. Ambush. Danger. Do not approach! I repeat. Signal. Ambush. Danger. Do not approach!”

“Stop! Arm all hands. Retreat to the temporary landing pad. Now.”

In the piled up snow, I heard something over there.

Krrrrrr