Rust - Chapter 176



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RUST -176

The wheels are starting to turn with Kim Yang’s sponsorship.

Regardless, Kim Yang lit the flamethrower and started to dance the fire dance.

Hwaruruk- Hwaruruk-

Fireworks- Hwaruk-

Hot dance with wheels?

Kim Yang was the one who just got into dancing and dancing.

[Strong!]

[safety!!]

[Not burning!!!]

Kim Yang diligently drew the cockroaches’ aggro by spitting out each word. Maru entered the net through the space that Kim Yang had broken through.

Refugees, wounded Marines, and even wounded soldiers were holding guns to stop the cockroaches while desperately resisting.

The new 6.8mm rifle was more than enough to pierce the wheel shell. The stopping power of the regular bullet was excellent, and the penetration power of the armor-piercing bullet was excellent.

However, the problem is that the wheels that have been torn and pierced like that do not die, but struggle and continue to attack. And that is the biggest danger.

“Kyaaaaah! Save me!”

“Die! I told you to fall!”

The wheel with its head blown off was stuck to the leg of the Marine who was lying down and shooting. It was unable to cast a single bite because its head was blown off, but its hook-like claws were still intact. The claws went through the uniform and tore at the flesh of the wounded soldier.

The wheels were completely stuck, so I didn’t know what to do with the soldiers next to me. If I tried to tear them off, the hook-like claws would dig in and tear my flesh.

He tried to shoot it to knock it down, but the headless roach, having been shot in the torso, closed its legs tightly and dug its claws deeper into the wounded soldier’s thigh.

Kkaaaak!

“Get out of my way!”

One man pulled out a broadsword and began slashing at the cockroaches.

“Damn it. This thing. The knife won’t work?”

The sword did not penetrate the wheel’s hull. Instead, the wheel tightened with each stroke of the sword.

Eww! Eww!

The space shook and a black blade stuck out. The soldiers stepped back hesitantly, saying, “Huh?”, “Huh!”, “What is that?” As the black blade swung, the wheel’s legs and body were cleanly separated.

We saved one person, but Maru’s face wasn’t looking good.

Because wheels began crawling out of holes in the floor here and there. While the Marines were looking at the wheels outside, they broke through and came in.

The wounded soldiers at the back were the first to fall victim, and the few elderly and weak ones were next. They were children and students, so they had no weapons. They could not run away, and they were just killed. Judging by the small fingers that were cut off and rolling around in the snow, it was clear that they were like that.

So where are the victims? That was the question.

A stretcher carrying the wounded. There were bloody guns and scattered bullet casings, but no actual bodies.

‘Did they drag the body away?’

While I was lost in thought for a moment, wheels slowly crawled out of the hole.

Chook-

Maru shouted as he tore apart the men pouring out of the hole.

“Here’s a hole! Flame! Flamethrower!”

Several of the Marines who had been guarding the outside came running in, out of breath.

“A hole?”

“where?”

“think!”

“Light it!”

A soldier carrying a flamethrower blasted flames into a hole filled with cockroaches. The distinctive smell of burning crustaceans rose.

“There’s a hole here too!”

“They were coming from the rear!”

Soldiers and armed refugees, who had been focusing only on the outside, began to check the hole that had formed behind them.

“Huh? Hey. Who yelled that there was a hole in it?”

“Wasn’t it you?”

“No?”

Maru, who saw the soldiers looking around, quietly retreated without letting go of his hiding place. Fortunately, he was able to block the hole before it became too big.

With Maru’s participation, the defense line that had been in disarray began to stabilize little by little.

‘It’s not a mistake. They’re taking the body.’

Not only human corpses, but also the corpses of their own kind were being dragged away. There should have been a world of dead cockroaches everywhere, but in an instant, they were all gone.

The wheel wasn’t an ant. So why take the body?

I thought of the wheels I had encountered in the secret lab. They moved as if in a group. What if they were bigger? What if they were as smart as they were big?

A strange sound broke Maru’s thoughts.

“Press!”

“Press and turn over.”

“Hi!”

Maru steps towards the unique screaming sound.

“Relax your wrists!”

“yes!”

“Aim for the antennae.”

“It doesn’t cut.”

“Come here!”

A short old man, barely over 160cm tall, was demonstrating to a girl holding a naginata and a boy holding a Japanese sword.

“Don’t just stand there stiffly like a block of wood and swing your arms. Move around.”

“Back. With the strength of your back!”

“I’m not saying to hit, I’m saying to cut it off like this!”

There was an old man who was neatly cutting off the antennae of a cockroach. After cutting the antennae, the old man did not put the knife away but turned his head in the direction where Maru was hiding.

“Huh? Is there anyone there?”

Even if it was a less sophisticated stealth device than the one originally used, it wouldn’t have been easy to detect in the gray snow falling.

Did he just take a quick look? Or did he really notice? The old man raised his arm and told the children to move aside, making those thoughts disappear, and he started walking in the direction where Maru was hiding.

‘You really got it.’

As Illeung- Maru emerged from hiding, the old man looked around and spoke softly.

“Why are you so late? Isn’t it different from the promise?”

“······.”

‘What is this old lady talking about···.’

Maru’s eyes behind the mask narrowed.

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Tottori Prefecture is swept by a snowstorm.

The US military camp, which was busy preparing for withdrawal, was in disarray.

“What is the situation?”

The adjutant answered the commander’s question in a dark voice.

“The snow is making visibility poor. And the riots are back.”

“Should we assume that the virus spread explosively?”

“···Yes. That’s right.”

“Forward Base Colonel Greenfield?”

“The news has been lost.”

The intermittent communication was cut off again. The heavy snowfall that had stopped for a while was now pouring down. With the volcanic activity also becoming more active, it was difficult to predict when communication would be reestablished. A soldier reported in an urgent voice.

“Commander! Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Brown has just arrived from the stolen hospital.”

“What? Tell them to come right away.”

“Because his condition was not good, he was immediately transferred to the medical unit.”

“Are you conscious?”

“I don’t know right now. And I told the commander that I had to send this back to the home country as soon as possible.”

The envelope the soldier handed over contained a USB and some folders. The commander took out one of the folders and his face instantly turned red.

“Hurry up the retreat. Prepare as quickly as possible, and let the prepared units depart immediately.”

“All right.”

“Send a helicopter to the forward base and bring them all back.”

“Helicopters are difficult.”

Bad weather was a problem, and the volcano starting to erupt again was also a problem.

“Did Lieutenant Brown come on foot?”

“They say they just barely made it. The helicopter is out of service.”

The commander, who had been holding a folder with trembling hands, suddenly stood up.

“Find a way, by any means necessary! Get all the kids out of the forward base!”

“All right.”

The commander’s eyes, which had been glaring at his adjutant, turned back to the documents. So these Japs bastards had been two-timing him for ten years. No, they had been lying to him for over ten years.

‘Those damn bastards…’

It was somehow strange. What China and Japan were doing. Thinking about how they had been harassing Korea using the THAAD deployment as an excuse, I wondered why they had left Japan alone. I also wondered why there was no significant economic retaliation despite Japanese politicians saying they would go to war with China.

Because Japan is the world’s third largest economy? Because it is a market for China? There were many predictions and interpretations, but the contents of this document were completely different. Japan and China had been in a secret pact for a long time.

The plan was to drive out the United States from the Asia Pacific and create an East Asian co-prosperity sphere. The continent would be China, the ocean would be Japan, and by incorporating Russia, Japan, China, and Russia would unite to drive out the United States.

However, it was clearly written that if it seemed like China would win, he would side with China, and if it seemed like the United States would win, he would side with the United States.

They always seem to side with the United States on the outside, but they have been secretly supporting China for a long time.

Shipbuilding, special steel, chemicals, semiconductors, and even displays. Japan has consistently sold production facilities and technology to China and Taiwan. And China, which received them, rapidly developed technology.

What was more serious was that China and Japan also actively exchanged information in biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetic engineering.

The commander’s hands moving quickly as he turned the pages. At some point, the commander was unable to turn the pages.

“You crazy kids.”

The Japanese politicians were clearly crazy. No, Japan was clearly crazy. A sly voice was heard, as if receiving the commander’s muttered monologue.

“That’s right. They’re crazy.”

Outside the half-open barracks, John Smith was looking at the commander with a round face.

How is the guy who went to the forward base here? I see. When Lt. Col. Gilbert Brown came, did he come with you? The commander revealed his teeth as his eyes met with John Smith’s.

“Did Virginia know about this?”

“Not exactly, but I had a guess. So I deployed a large number of agents to find evidence···.

We had a strange feeling about Japan, so we deployed a large number of employees, but we lost them in a major disaster. The number of employees was drastically reduced, so we were in a difficult situation.

“···As you know, the lobbying in Japan and China is so strong. Even if you present evidence, it is cut off in the middle, so it is difficult to do anything based on guesswork. Isn’t it the same for the military? It is the same here, so even if you look at it like that, there is nothing you can do.”

“······.”

“Don’t stand in the way and come in.”

“thank you.”

John Smith entered the barracks calmly.

“Yes. Have you seen this document?”

“Of course I saw it. I even made a copy to take with me.”

John Smith lifted his briefcase slightly.

“If everything goes according to plan, Korea will be the next target after Taiwan.”

“That’s right.”

The commander was slightly moved by John Smith’s calm answer, as if he was saying something obvious.

“Is this someone else’s business? This is happening now?”

“They were swept up in a sudden disaster, but the main plot didn’t change. Taking advantage of the disaster was part of their original plan.”

“So what does the company think?”

“Why are you asking such a question? A company is like the military. If you criticize me from above, you criticize me. Do you think I understand the thinking of those above?”

The veins on the commander’s forehead bulged at the sound of John Smith’s answer.

“If you say so from above, you mean so? Are you crazy? This could lead to a world war!”

A strange smile appeared on John Smith’s face. His eyes, which had been looking at the Commander, turned to the papers the Commander was holding.

“World War? As you saw with your own eyes. It seems like they’re already seeing the results.”

Either the United States abandons East Asia and the Pacific and retreats, or they fall into the apocalypse together. They thought there was no harm in it. If they had their plan, the world would turn upside down.

“You’re crazy.”

“···I agree.”

“Can you guess what would happen if this information were to reach the home country?”

“What will happen? Will anything happen right away? Nothing will happen, right?”

On the surface, that is. What would change except that the number of overtime, special work, and holiday leave at the company would increase? The decision would be made by the people above.

“You’re not in your right mind.”

“I agree with you.”

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The old man urged again at the silence on the floor.

“I’ll do as you promised.”

I don’t know what the promise was, but this old man knew something. Something unsettling. Above all, what Maru was wearing right now was Chinese-made concealment equipment. The fact that he knew this meant that the old man had connections with China.

“···Looking at the current situation, doesn’t it seem different from the promise you made?”

Maru blew the whistle in a calm voice.

An old man whose face suddenly distorted and who thrust his sword forward.

“You… What are you doing?”

Oh? It’s not working.

But old man. Don’t you know that you shouldn’t point a knife at people recklessly?

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