Rust - Chapter 173



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RUST -173

The empty lot was covered with scratch marks from 20mm Vulcan rounds.

Ensign Roy Stern gritted his teeth as he dismounted from his crimson armored vehicle.

“Did Rose betray you?”

When he was about to be promoted to major, it was Roger Lung who told him that his wife was having an affair. Roy rushed to the scene of the affair and, unable to control his anger, beat up the man who had been having an affair. He also beat up his wife who tried to stop him. The result was a divorce and a demotion by one rank.

Later, when a hacker was needed to lift the restriction on armored personnel carrier output, she was the one who connected the bridge. Later, she was caught and demoted by one rank again for illegal modification.

From a captain on the verge of promotion to major, I was demoted two ranks to second lieutenant in an instant. But now that I think about it, it was all connected to Roger Long.

‘It seems like something’s wrong. Let’s go to the PMC together later. What do you think?’

‘If an Air Force fighter pilot is an ace, they’ll try to recruit him, so wouldn’t they come with a wad of cash if they’re an armored ace?’

Now that I think about it, those were just words to show off or to try to win me over.

‘Are you toying with me? You fucking bitch.’

“Ensign Roy Stern! Are you okay?”

Soldiers jumped out of the armored car and scattered.

“What happened to those who ran away?”

“We missed them. They ran into the snow and we couldn’t track them.”

I had no choice but to run in the direction where the monsters were swarming.

“I should have caught a long-nosed girl.”

It was Ensign Stern who muttered while looking at Long’s body, which had been pounded with a hammer.

The surroundings were a mess. Just before they were about to corner Long Nian and finish him off, the guys in white camouflage attacked Roy’s armored personnel carriers with anti-tank missiles.

Those who were lying down, probably those associated with World PMC Judain, would not have survived if they had not detonated this smoke bomb and caused a large explosion.

“So. Are there any survivors down there on the world side?”

“There are no survivors over there.”

“Fuck. At least take care of the body. I’m alive because of those people.”

They were the benefactors who saved his life. At least his body had to be recovered.

‘What’s that woman?’

I heard that a Jewish person became the director of World PMC. 10 years ago, Director Yoo was in his 40s. Even though I can’t tell the age of Asians, she looked like she was in her 20s or 30s. She looked exactly like Director Yoo.

‘Ah- shit-‘

If it really was Director Yoo’s daughter, it would be a real headache. I couldn’t imagine what that crazy bitch would do when she heard that her daughter was dead.

“Sir, it’s an order from above.”

“okay.”

“I’m talking about the World PMC guys. The order has been given to capture or kill them all.”

“What?! Say it again. What did you say?”

Lieutenant Stern couldn’t believe his ears.

“Capture all mercenaries including Director Yoo belonging to World PMC. If capturing them alive is difficult, kill them and recover their bodies. That’s all.”

“You crazy bastard. Did you hear me correctly? Who gave that order? And why! Huh?”

The face of Ensign Stern, who grabbed the soldier by the collar, distorted like a vicious slaughter. What kind of idiot is this? Even though they were not in the same unit, he was a comrade who fought together. And now you are telling me to capture or kill him all of a sudden?

“Ugh- Sir. This is an order from above.”

“I’m telling you everything. What’s the reason? There has to be some fucking reason.”

“Spy… I’m being accused of being a spy.”

“Hey. This. What the fuck- That’s what I mean···.”

The number of people who are angry is wrong. What does he know? Lieutenant Stern released the hold on his collar and ground his teeth. It must have been done by some punk.

Spy accusations? Who the hell do you think is a retard? Have you ever seen a spy blow himself up while fighting another spy? You have to make sense.

“World Mercenaries Found in Area C!”

“All aboard! Going to Zone C.”

The scattered soldiers all headed towards the armored vehicle.

“Sir, this is an order.”

The lieutenant held out his blue-tinged arm.

“Fuck it. I said I was injured.”

“The Colonel told me to tell you, ‘Shouldn’t we avoid killing?’”

“···Fuck.”

It wasn’t an order from Colonel Greenfield. He wasn’t the kind of guy to do that, but when he said that we should avoid being shot, it had to be seen as an order from above.

‘If Alex Palmer had given such an order, Colonel Greenfield would have taken it upon himself.’

If so, then it’s even higher than that. Is that possible? If it’s even higher, then it means that the order came from the home country? It’s a level where close-range communication is barely possible. An order like this was given?

“I told them I was going to see the engineers recover the wrecked aircraft.”

“All right.”

The situation was such that even monsters were overflowing in the mutants. However, since they were all gathered to catch the World mercenaries, the engineers were left without any security. The soldier understood the lieutenant’s words and saluted before leaving.

“Ah- I’m going to turn back.”

Capture? Is that possible? If they’re World PMCs and they’re related to Director Yoo, then the casualties will be enormous.

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Beep beep ——————-

Beep-beep-beep-beep-

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-

Beep-beep-beep-beep-

Beep beep ——————-

The motion sensor was going crazy.

Kim Yang searched the surroundings diligently from the tree, but there was nothing. Not even a red dot appeared.

‘?’

The thermal imaging camera said nothing was captured.

‘Is this broken?’

The temperature was between -3 and -5 degrees Celsius, but the wind chill made it feel like -8 degrees Celsius. As if that weren’t enough, as gray snow began to fall, the steps of the refugees heading to the forward base became even slower.

Even if it goes around in circles, it’s a distance that can be easily covered in a unit of time, but it was strange that it went around in circles for over 40 minutes.

‘Have the leaders lost their sense of direction?’

Beep beep beep———

Oh, really?

I could see one side of the white plain, covered in ashen gray, shaking. Shaking. Two tentacles sticking out of the Zurilik?

‘tentacle?’

Where did you see that?

‘uh?!’

That was a feeler. A giant cockroach feeler that I saw in the basement of a pharmaceutical company. So is that all there is to it?

Beep-beep-beep-beep-

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-

Churik- Churik-

The antennae began to protrude through the snow.

[Flamethrower. Flamethrower! Flamethrower ready!]

At Kim Yang’s shouts, refugees and soldiers took their places.

“What? What’s going on?”

[Wheel. It’s a monster wheel!]

A deep brown that broke through the white fields, dyed the ground beneath the gray snow. With a shiny chitinous shell.

Thud-thud-thud-thud-

As Kim Yang’s chain gun fired, cockroaches swarmed the refugees.

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The cockroaches were horrible.

The cockroaches I saw in Takaichi Pharmaceutical’s secret laboratory were at most 20 to 30 cm long. Most of them were as big as the palm of my hand, and even the ones that were considered very large were only one or two that were over 30 cm long. However, all the cockroaches I saw now were large.

Puhwaaaaaaaah!

Hot flames were sprayed. A smell similar to the smell of fried shrimp rose. People were optimistic. At best, it was a bug, and at most, it was a bug.

But they weren’t just any bugs. They were cockroaches that had been around for 340 million years.

Apart from the flames, they didn’t do much damage to the guys. The wheels, which were almost 70-80cm long, were not easily affected by bullets.

It was the same even if you pierced their torsos with an armor-piercing bullet. Even if their heads were blown off, the rest of their body still lived and moved.

The refugees who were running away from the horrible insects suddenly disappeared as if they were sucked into the snow. A long scream followed.

Kkaaaaaaah

Aaaah …

One by one, the people who were running away disappeared under the snow, either digging holes or setting traps.

“These kids are pushing us to one side.”

The wheels were clever. They were pushing people to one side, like fish being pushed into a net. Wheels that were burning and had their bodies destroyed, but still clung to people.

“Just shoot. It’s wrong anyway. Just shoot!”

Flames poured down on the man who was stuck to the wheel. A tearing scream filled the snowfield.

The smell of shrimp, the smell of meat, and a long, long scream. It was like advertising to the nearby monsters that this was a famous restaurant.

“Damn it- no response from the forward base?”

“There is so much noise that I can’t reach you.”

The Asian soldier answered.

“What happened to the scout? What did he do when he was lying in ambush like this!”

“······.”

“Fuck. First priority is Colonel Gilbert Brown. Gather the kids. Break through the bug net and head to the forward base.”

“What will you do with the refugees?”

The captain was silent for a moment at the soldier’s question, then opened his mouth heavily.

“I’m taking mercenaries, wounded soldiers, and volunteers. Hold on here.”

“All right.”

Puhwaaaaaaaah

A wall of flame blocked the oncoming wave of wheels. The wheels, blocked by the flames, moved through the squares of snow and under the flames.

Is this a dream? Bugs move like this?

“crazy!”

“JESUS!!”

Eww!

The wheel attached to her thigh cast only one bite. The flesh was cut off in chunks. Before the screaming could end, another wheel took only one bite.

He rolled around trying to get rid of the wheels that covered his entire body, but it was no use. The claws, curved like hooks, dug into the man. The wheels that had dug in the claws made a crunching sound and ate the man alive.

bang!

A single gunshot caused the man writhing in pain to collapse.

“Fire! Where are you? Spray fire here!”

“There’s not much left!”

The flamethrower fuel is starting to run out.

“Give me the remaining fuel!”

“The lieutenant colonel is here.”

“Are there any kids left to survive? They will receive support.”

Soldiers who started dating refugees raised their hands to protect their lovers. Nearly half of the soldiers chose to fight on the defensive.

And on the other side of that circle of chaos, the monsters’ eyes began to expand one by one.

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Rumble-

The space shook. The shape of the floor appeared as if coming out of thin air.

“Whew- this is it.”

There were traces of explosions, traces of 20mm Vulcan shells, and traces of fighting with large close-range weapons.

‘This looks like a fight between armored personnel carriers?’

It was strange. The armored personnel carrier was the new weapon of the US military. Even if information was circulated and other countries succeeded in making it, they would come here and fight the US armored personnel carrier? Does that make sense?

So, does this mean that these traces are traces of them fighting among themselves?

Maru looked around. There was a long trail. It looked like a sled had been pulled. Following the trail, a cobalt-colored colt python was buried in the snow.

‘Is that the gun that Director Yoo used? Why is it here?’

Maru, who had quickly grabbed his gun, continued to follow the sled’s tracks. The things that caught his senses gradually increased.

‘American soldiers? American soldiers searching?’

The look of searching for something.

More and more soldiers were coming this way. Maru hid himself in his concealment equipment and walked towards where Kim Yang was.