Rust - Chapter 192



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RUST -192

As the atmosphere on the floor changed while they were communicating, Chairman Shim noticed it right away.

“What’s going on?”

“They say a military helicopter is coming.”

“A military helicopter?”

Chairman Shim, who had been thinking about something for a moment, handed the travel bag that was next to him to Maru.

“I would like you to transport this to Seoul.”

When Maru did not respond immediately, Chairman Shim ordered his bodyguards to destroy the evidence.

“Blow away all the broken traces and corpses. Quickly.”

“If you do that, the chairman will be in danger.”

“You’re trying to avoid danger, so fly before the helicopter arrives.”

“All right.”

While answering, one of the two glared at Maru. Maru was so dumbfounded that he just thought it was cute. Maybe he had decided that he wouldn’t cut it because he was on good terms with Chairman Shim, or maybe he was just immature.

When Maru just looked at him with a “hehehe” expression, it was the bodyguard who turned his head away first. Avoiding answering and having a staring contest with the bodyguard, Chairman Shim spoke first.

“If it’s a military helicopter, it must be connected to the World Group. Or it could be President Min, who is a direct descendant. No matter who comes, if this trace remains, it will be difficult to move forward.”

Maru looked at Chairman Shim with a crooked expression. Doesn’t it seem like he’s doing something too hard for Maru’s own sake? That’s really strange. Is that why the bodyguard was glaring at him?

I didn’t really plan on working in Korea, but when I think about it, wasn’t it because of Ki-sun that I came here? When I had to come again due to unavoidable circumstances, Chairman Shim’s words were right in that I didn’t want to get tired.

I worked hard to change my status, so it would be a shame to lose it. It would have been better to avoid it if I could, and to go back if I could. But to lose it was more extreme than the chairman thought.

“Isn’t it burdensome?”

Chairman Shim smiled slightly at Maru’s straightforward words.

“I hope you don’t feel too burdened by this, since I’m doing it just in case.”

“I think it’s a bit too big of a scale to think that way. Anyway, thank you for thinking about it.”

“What? If I can help, I should help.”

“But there are a lot of people that need to be evacuated. Is that okay?”

I remembered the spitting man taking the hostage and threatening him. It seemed impossible for two security guards to get the passengers out and evacuate them before the helicopter arrived.

“It won’t be a big problem since they are dead people.”

“Dead? Not under anesthesia?”

Chairman Shim made a complicated expression.

“They used a mixture of anesthetic gas and sarin gas. It seems like they had no intention of keeping him alive from the beginning.”

Maru tilted his head from side to side for a moment. He felt a stiffness in the back of his neck.

“Excuse me, weren’t they trying to kidnap the chairman?”

If he wanted to kill her, he could have just detonated a bomb. As Maru’s eyes narrowed, Sim Eun-young let out a small sigh.

“Don’t get me wrong. There have been a lot of attacks recently, so I carry atropine and a neutralizer with me in case of an emergency. All my bodyguards were killed, and only you two survived.”

“Is that so?”

This was a problem in its own right. It meant that they knew that the Chairman had the antidote.

[Mr. Chairman, please evade. The bombing is ready.]

“Let’s go outside and talk.”

Maru followed Chairman Shim out of the train. Everyone died? All the passengers? He couldn’t believe it. Wasn’t that mass murder? They even used poison gas. Are you in your right mind?

!!!

Yes. When I concentrated and spread my senses as much as possible. The three energies that were crowded together. And the five dull feelings surrounding them. Except for the five presences that were dropped behind, there was no life energy.

Why didn’t you realize that? Why didn’t you know that all the passengers were dead?

[Military helicopter expected to arrive in 5 minutes.]

Maru took a deep breath at Kim Yang’s radio call.

“Stay further away. It’s dangerous!”

On the other side, a security guard waved his hand and told them to get out of the way. As soon as the chairman and Maru got farther away, the train started to explode.

Chairman Shim spoke in a bitter voice as he watched the exploding fireworks.

“The World Group suffered a huge loss of power due to the failure of a large-scale expedition. In fact, the security and PMC were almost completely blown away. Normally, this would have been resolved implicitly behind the scenes before it happened, but looking at the situation, it seems like they were unable to stop it and ended up getting breached like this.”

If dangerous information was obtained, they would have launched a preemptive strike. Ms. Kim would have been mobilized for such work, and Director Choi and Director Yoo would have also been part of that lineage.

“Since the World Group and our side don’t have the resources, we are desperate to defend ourselves. If the opponent decides to do this, we will inevitably suffer.”

Maru kept his mouth shut. Chairman Shim mumbled as if he could read her uncomfortable feelings.

“In reality, it is difficult for the government to manage everything. This is the same in Japan and China. It is difficult for government officials to handle all the cases, and each country uses private companies or organized crime to keep each other in check.”

Even in Korea, it was like that. The officially counted number of foreigners is over 2 million, and if you include illegal immigrants, the number may be over 2.5 million. Even that number has decreased significantly due to COVID-19. How can you manage and supervise that many people?

Industrial spies disguised as ordinary people? Spies? Criminals? Even if an incident broke out, it broke out long before, and even if it got bigger, it got bigger a long time ago.

There was a world hidden from the general public, but reality was a cesspool. I was really squeezing and squeezing and barely managing to cope. What if there was a situation where I couldn’t do anything even if I squeezed it like a dry towel? I had no choice but to turn back.

They began to outsource cases that could potentially become diplomatic disputes or that could cause problems when handled. Korea to World Group, Japan to groups including Charlotte, and China to Crystal, a company related to the Black Dragon or Triad.

There was a certain amount of implicit balance, but due to various incidents, that balance was broken, and as a result, this disaster occurred.

Japan was ruined in some sense, Korea was left empty, and China was showing off its power for the first time in a long time. Naturally, Korea’s borders had no choice but to turn to China. It was during this gap that the current incident occurred.

“Korea will become more dangerous in the future.”

China will seize the opportunity. There are many things in Korea that they want to take. Those who want to revive Japan are the same. They will do even worse things than they did today under the pretext of reconstruction.

The same goes for other international organizations. Since they can’t go directly to Japan, which the US has spit on, they will try to sneak into Korea and try to get high while they are in Korea, right?

It was already a popular restaurant among international criminal organizations, and its popularity was sure to explode in the future.

“What’s in the bag that’s causing this mess?”

“As you can guess, the original research materials and various samples and materials.”

“What about that translucent film from before?”

“You can think of it as a technology of a different dimension.”

Maru ended up laughing at Sim Eun-young’s pointless words.

It was a technique of a different dimension. I tried to knock and stab it with my sword, but it reacted as if it was absorbing the shock.

“Can I take it to Charlotte Tower?”

“No. You can bring it to our headquarters in Gangnam.”

“Then I’ll see you in Seoul.”

“Yes. At headquarters.”

I had a lot of questions, but knowing was a disease, and it wasn’t the time to worry about others.

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On the express bus to Seoul, an urgent news report was being reported on the news.

[KTX train accident, not a simple train accident, but a possibility of terrorism.]

[There is a possibility of planned crime.]

[Exclusive report. Testimony from police officers who controlled the scene.]

Huh?

It was unexpected. I thought they would hide it by making excuses, but when I saw the news report, it seemed like they had no intention of hiding it.

‘Or maybe they decided the issue was too big to hide.’

There were too many deaths. Many of the police officers and SWATs who were deployed also died on duty. The snipers that Kim Yang put down on the rooftop probably knew the situation, so honesty might be the best policy.

[···Are you saying that the sign was not caused by an explosion?]

[Yes. Based on the autopsy results so far, the main cause of death for the victims appears to be sarin gas.]

[Sarin gas was a weapon of mass destruction used in the Tokyo subway gas attack in the 1990s···]

[Amid claims that this KTX train accident was a planned terrorist attack···]

[According to what has been revealed so far, the terrorists blew themselves up after successfully carrying out the attack.]

[They say that fingerprint and genetic testing results suggest that the terrorists are Japanese?]

[Yes. As a result of the investigation by the National Institute of Scientific Investigation and the Special Investigation Unit, it was revealed that the criminals were also those who entered the country illegally from Japan.]

[···Then what do you think the terrorists’ purpose was?]

[Amid claims that the intention was to reveal the miserable reality of Japan being ignored by the international community]

[In the National Assembly, the issue of the Japanese Special Refugee Acceptance Act, which has been ongoing since last year, has been brought up again, and the conflict between the ruling and opposition parties is growing.]

[We must accept Japanese refugees unconditionally and without limitation. Only by accepting refugees can we solve the population problem that will arise in the future.]

[What kind of nonsense is that? If we accept people who have no understanding of Korean culture or even the intention to live together with us, what kind of problems will arise after that?]

[Look at Europe. Europe. What happened after they accepted Muslim refugees?]

[Is Japan Islamic? Japan has a similar culture to ours. There is no extreme cultural conflict like in Europe.]

Are you going to turn it like this again?

Stories like, “He’s a Japanese terrorist,” “This is all happening because we didn’t help Japan during the disaster,” “We need to accept Japanese refugees,” and “Are you crazy?” kept piling up.

“They are amazing in many ways.”

“?”

“No. I don’t even see the tip of President Charlotte’s nose.”

“Of course.”

Ms. Kim made an expression that said, ‘Hehehe – she still doesn’t know the world of adults.’

“It’ll probably end like this?”

“huh.”

It was a well-known fact that Japan was in a state of virtual paralysis. Even if the terrorist was Japanese, there was nothing we could do. There was currently no government in Japan, so there was no way to protest or hold anyone accountable.

Kim Yang asked the bright-eyed Maru.

“What did Chairman Shim say?”

“I said that Korea would be a mess from now on.”

Kim Yang’s eyes looked slightly disappointed.

“There was no other story?”

“What are you talking about?”

Gold, gold bars, a way to thank someone who saved his life, something like that? Maru turned away from Kim Yang’s golden eyes.

“There was nothing particularly different.”

‘Why? Why?’

“I decided to help Ki-sun find it. I destroyed all the evidence when I blew up the train.”

‘No. You’re saying that’s all you can do to thank me for saving your life? You knew that blowing up the train was a good thing for you, too.’

Kim Yang’s eyes are getting rougher. Chairman Sim Eun-young didn’t see it that way, so I’m disappointed.

“Because we decided to receive a generous amount of additional Chinese medicine.”

‘Did all the rewards go to Baekjeong? Finding Gisun, erasing the evidence that Baekjeong had so excitedly cut up, and even the neutralizer. It’s all good only for Baekjeong.’

Maru responded to Kim Yang’s gaze.

‘Is this because I took a day off from studying?’

‘······.’

As Maru stared at her, Kim Yang turned her head away and closed her eyes.

Yeah- Yeah-

The text Hood had sent came to mind.

[Found traces of a friend. On the day of the concert, it was confirmed that he traveled in the car of Na Ju-hyun of the Ohjin Group. Afterwards, it was confirmed that he went into a cafe with the concert pianist who was in the car with him and had a conversation before returning to his lodging.]

‘Concert pianist? You’re talking about Naru, right? That’s right. Doesn’t he know that Naru is my younger brother?’

yes-

It was CCTV footage from a cafe. When the footage was played, Naru and Gisun were seen. A large bouquet of flowers was placed next to Naru. It was the bouquet that Gisun had been holding before the concert began.

Since the voice wasn’t supported, I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but the two of them had serious expressions. Then, Naru suddenly got up and Kisun tried to follow her, but Naru seemed to be telling her not to follow him.

Naru left the bouquet and went outside, while Kisun just watched. Even without a sound, I could tell.

‘I got screwed.’