Rust - Chapter 174



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RUST -174

Scattered gray snowflakes.

A red burning flame.

Maru’s assessment of the field with black smoke rising here and there was simple.

“This is a bumper crop of nonsense.”

Chook-

The floor, which was beautifully carved vertically with wheels sticking out from the floor, shook its head. It was split vertically rather than horizontally, but it did not die and continued to wiggle its legs.

“This is ridiculous.”

The size was the same. The baby wheels were too big. The ones that were the size of the palm of my hand were now the size of my forearm. And what was the feeling of cutting the shell… For now, it was good to join up with Ms. Kim.

“I’m nearby. Where are you?”

[Chick chick-chiik chick chick-chick chick]

Short-range communication will be sufficient.

“What’s wrong with the communication? Can you hear me? Where are you?”

[Chick chick-chiik chick chick- chick chick]

I experienced this on a yacht while going to Japan, but it wasn’t like this if it was a communication failure due to a volcanic eruption.

‘Doesn’t this just feel like it’s disconnected due to a volcanic eruption?’

So now it felt like it was artificial. So if I had to be specific, it felt like radio interference? Who?

The country that comes to Maru’s mind is China.

Why China?

Original data held by Lt. Col. Gilbert Brown. Information hidden on the 15th floor of the stolen hospital. Spies within the US military came to mind one after another. And what if the Chinese kids are waiting in that mess right now?

[Chick chick-chiik chick chick-chick chick]

Completely garbled communications were coming in over and over again.

A strangely repetitive feeling.

I remembered what we had talked about when talking about rescue operations at sea with Kisun. The same radio signals that the ships we encountered on our way to Japan had sent in this direction.

3 short beats, 3 long beats, then 3 short beats again.

S···O···S···?

No, what the hell, where are you?

Maru, equipped with newly farmed Chinese stealth gear, jumped up onto the tree.

If you keep cutting it, it will come out.

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The exosuit aimed its chain gun downwards, targeting the wheels climbing the tree.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

With a loud thud, holes were made in the bodies of the wheels on the diagonal line. The problem is that even though the holes were made, these little guys didn’t die.

Kim Yang moved along the rope connecting the trees. Suddenly, the rope swayed. When he looked back, he saw the wheel chewing on the rope.

‘Cut the rope?’

When I looked at the place where the rope was hung, I saw that the wheels that had climbed the tree were chewing on the rope here and there.

‘Do you know the purpose of the rope you hung?’

While the armored personnel carrier was able to move through the snow piled up with its size and strength, the exosuit was not able to do so. Although it is much stronger than a person at a size of about 2m, it is true that it lacks the power to move through the piled up snow pile.

Kim Yang, the exosuit, the chain gun, and the ammunition combined weighed around 170 to 180 kg, making it impossible for him to move lightly on the piled up snow.

Because we couldn’t move through the deep snow, we were moving between trees using ropes, but the wheels were blocking it.

The bigger problem was whether the wheels knew how to use the rope and did what they did.

Wheel thinking? Kim Yang shook off the horrible thought.

There were many ways to kill the wheel. The volcano wouldn’t last a thousand or ten thousand years, and the ash and smoke would settle, so it was easy to kill it by just bombing it. You could spray it with pesticides, and if necessary, you could spray napalm and burn it all.

You’re saying you’re going underground? There were nuclear bombs and neutron bombs. If you wanted to, killing them wasn’t a problem. The only problem was if there were survivors, you had to grind them down together.

‘But have they really gotten smarter?’

There was something awkward about seeing it that way. Reason and fear were usually intertwined. If the cockroaches had become smart enough to understand the concept of death, then if we killed just the few in the front, the rest would run away, but it was strange that there was no sign of that happening.

“No matter how much trouble the baby shrimps make, they are still tiger shrimp.”

A shrimp with a queen in front of it is a shrimp. It’s still a shrimp even if it gets smart and runs around.

Kim Yang checked the remaining ammunition. There were about 350 rounds. And because he had been making a lot of aggressive moves, the battery was quickly running out.

When is Baekjeong coming? I carried a location tracker with me because he told me to. Surely he didn’t forget it? He told me to carry a location tracker in Detroit.

Kim Yang turned on the radio. A warning appeared on the head-up display. It was a warning that the radio was currently being jammed.

I briefly turned the radio on and off three times. Then I turned it on for three long times, hung up, and then did three short times again. If I do this, even if I only get noise, the noise itself will be heard as Morse code. Do you not understand this? Do you understand it?

Beep-beep-beep-

The red dots were gathering on one side. Then, flames shot out, and a series of soldiers who had broken through the cockroach net began to run.

‘Breaking through the encirclement and requesting support?’ It wasn’t a bad decision. If we took out all the wounded and civilians and gathered only the best and ran the shortest distance, it would only take 10 to 15 minutes from the forward base to here.

‘But. The direction they’re going is strange?’

It wasn’t the direction of the forward base. Kim Yang checked the topographic map on the head-up display. It was the same even though he checked it.

‘What are they doing? They’re going to the wrong place?’

That was strange, but there was another strange part. The soldiers were carrying people on stretchers. They weren’t just running with civilians and wounded soldiers, they were running with them? When I zoomed in with the camera, I saw Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown.

It was Ms. Kim who felt somehow dirty. There was no other way to describe it than as a feeling of discomfort. It was just a dirty, uncomfortable feeling.

The crazy shrimps, the radio interference, the ones going to strange places, Gilbert Bra

Everything that carries Lieutenant Yun. And Ms. Kim wasn’t the type to just leave things that made her feel uncomfortable.

Grasp- The harpoon gun split the tree. The exosuit moved along the connected rope. It was in the direction that the soldiers who escaped with Lt. Col. Gilbert Brown fled.

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Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown said weakly.

“Kool-kul- Where are you going?”

The US Marines are the ones who abandon civilians and comrades? They all died fighting, but it was just heartbreaking to see that these people who were running away were my subordinates.

Even if you claim that you were trying to save your superior, isn’t this disobeying orders and kidnapping? And you even use my excuse while running away?

“Go to a safe place.”

Safety? Safe? Is there any safe place in Japan, which has become hell? Even the semi-fortified Donohue Hospital eventually collapsed.

“Safety? Cool- Where is that?”

“I’ll be there shortly.”

Are you arriving soon? Are there any safe places near the hospital where the robbers were? I have never heard of any such places.

The answer was also strange. It wasn’t about joining the forward base, but a safe place. I looked around Lt. Col. Gilbert Brown. More than half of the soldiers were Asian.

In that sense, the survival rate of Asian soldiers was particularly high. Even when a platoon was wiped out during a reconnaissance mission, many of the survivors were Asian. Since the operation was conducted in East Asia, Japan, the proportion of Asians was high, but even considering that, it was a strange thing.

“stop!”

The soldier in front raised his arm and stopped the group. Lieutenant Brown half-raised himself and looked around. A safe place? This place?

The rubble of the collapsed building formed a concave, bottle-shaped terrain. Far from being safe, it was a terrain where anyone lying in wait would be annihilated.

I remembered what I had experienced in Iraq. A narrow entrance, buildings lining both sides of a large open space. And a building blocking my path. It was so similar to what I am experiencing now, a building that had collapsed on its side blocking my path.

Shadows visible through the building windows. People in white camouflage are sticking their guns out the windows. Red laser points are etched all over the bodies of the agents at the back.

“Drop your weapons.”

The adjutant next to Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown opened his mouth leisurely. At the same time, the men in the lead circled around and aimed their guns at the men in the rear.

“······.”

“!!!”

A situation where those in front and those behind Lt. Col. Gilbert Brown point their guns at each other.

“Everyone, put down your weapons or you will die.”

Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert shouted.

“Coolook! Coolook! What are you doing!”

“Colonel, don’t you know? We’re completely surrounded. You did that in Iraq, and you’re going to do that here too? Are you going to kill your men like this?”

You pushed your subordinates to their deaths because of your stubbornness in rescuing civilians. Are you going to do that now? The adjutant smiled bitterly.

The space shook and a figure wearing a military uniform of unknown nationality appeared next to the adjutant.

[Are they all dead?]

“No. It would be better to capture them alive. The more samples the better.”

Chinese? These little bastards. A spark flew into Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown’s eyes.

“These bastards are betrayers! The United States Marine Corps will never! Absolutely not surrender!”

Two clicks!

The white clothes that had been sticking their guns out the window with a heavy sound turned red. The adjutant and the lieutenant colonel both had ‘Huh?’ expressions.

Go go go go go!

In an instant, those at the window turned into a beehive. The laser points aimed at the Marines scattered in all directions. Take advantage of the gap. Lt. Col. Brown shouted, spitting out blood.

“Attack! The US Marine Corps will win by death!”

“Whoa!”

“You fucking punks! Shoot! Get the Colonel! Quickly!”

At the same time, the shooting began. Soldiers pulled their triggers at those who had been their comrades just moments before. Those who had saved each other’s lives in the defensive battle at the stolen hospital were now spraying bullets to take each other’s lives.

The battle lines on both sides collapsed in an instant. An open space was created around the bed where Lieutenant Colonel Brown was lying. The fighting gradually became fierce as both sides tried to take the Lieutenant Colonel away.

In the midst of a hail of bullets, Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown quietly took out a grenade. If it was the Chinese, they would be after the data. The original data that he had. Burning it would be the surest way, but even if he blew it up with a grenade, it would be difficult to collect.

The moment the Lieutenant Colonel’s hand reached for the safety pin of the grenade, the rippling space kicked the Lieutenant Colonel’s arm. Crunch! His arm broke and the grenade rolled to one side.

“Ugh- Cool! Damn it!”

[Useless thing!]

An arm shot out of the space and grabbed the lieutenant colonel by the hair.

Tukakakakakak!

The 7.62mm chain gun raked through the billowing air. Crackle- The air tore apart and corpses scattered.

[3 o’clock! Exosuit!]

[It’s an exosuit!]

The white camouflage suits hiding in the building began attacking the exosuit at the 3 o’clock position.

Concentrated attack. Kim Yang jumped from a fairly high place. There were only two gas charges left. The falling exosuit released gas to reduce the impact of the landing.

Fuhuahahahaha

The snow piled on the ground created a blizzard, creating a smoke bomb-like effect. Meanwhile, Kim Yang’s exosuit hid itself.

[Shoot!]

[attack!]

While the enemy’s attacks were focused on Kim Yang’s exosuit, the Marines in the rear risked their lives and managed to secure Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown.

“Colonel. Are you okay?”

“Coolook- coolook-”

It was a lieutenant colonel who only coughed up blood.

“Medic! Colonel!”

“Retreat! Secure the retreat route!”

The Marines began to move to secure a retreat route, and the enemy attacked by Kim Yang split into two.

[Stop it!]

[Catch the Colonel!]

[Kill them all!]

[Where is the exosuit?]

Ms. Kim regretted why she did that.

I was just trying to be nice, I was just thinking and shooting, but it felt like it came together wrong.

Baekjeong intervened because he thought the head of the Department of Homeland Security would be happy if he could take Lieutenant Colonel Gilmersi alive and get a big payout. But these guys were not easy.

The bullets they used were mostly 7.62mm armor-piercing bullets. Up until then, I could withstand the defense of my exosuit, but the bullets that seemed to be 12.7mm were a problem. Even just one grazed me and I was shaking. If I had been hit properly, my arm would have been broken or blown off.

Knock knock! Papa Park!

Yeah, that gun that kid’s shooting. That one.

Knock knock!

Who are you to shoot 12.7mm like a machine gun? Even I, wearing an exosuit, use 7.62mm.

‘I’m going to kill that bastard.’

While Kim Yang was distracted by the guy firing the 12.7mm ASh assault rifle, the exosuit was captured by an enemy wielding an anti-tank missile in the rippling space.

And then a loud warning sound went off from Kim Yang’s head-up display.

Beep-beep!

An anti-tank missile flew in, accompanied by a warning sound indicating that a missile was aimed.

I instinctively tried to roll over to avoid it, but I could see the anti-tank missile slowly following me as it curved around.

‘ah?!’

It is unavoidable.

The missile’s warhead was getting closer.

I am···

Why···

still.

still.

Really …

Rumble-

A black solid line was drawn.

??????????????????

An incoming anti-tank missile exploded, splitting it in half.

BAM! BUSH!

“Hey. What are you doing? You’re not getting up.”