Rust - Chapter 195



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RUST -195

Maru, who entered the empty staircase, sprayed the air. Green laser lines filled the stairs.

[Laser security device pauses for 3 seconds.]

The time to stop was only 3 seconds because the emergency signal would activate if it stopped for more than 3 seconds. It had to be done within 3 seconds.

[3]

[2]

[1]

As the green line disappeared, Maru’s body floated up. Instead of running down, he jumped, skipping down the stairs. Maru grabbed the railing in midair and twisted his body.

Wheeeeeek-

The sound of a stealth robe fluttering.

widely-

Maru jumped down again in one go and pushed open the emergency door and went in.

Clang- beep-

Pot-pot-pot-

A green light filled the stairwell.

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Maru’s voice flowed out of the speaker.

[Enter.]

“Samantha, are you ready?”

[Laser detector interference ready.]

“Laser security device pauses for 3 seconds.”

[3] [2] [1]

[Laser detector interference successful. Pause for 3 seconds.]

Sir, can you do it in 3 seconds? I guess you asked me to do it because you can. Hood typed on the keyboard while looking at the monitor.

Tadadadadak-

“Samantha. Have you gained control of the control room?”

[87% secured.]

“What about the top floor CCTV?”

[Controllable.]

Just keep going like this. Just keep going like this.

Don’t touch anything that’s hard to touch. Just check. Just in case.

“Okay. Nothing much. Nothing particularly strange.”

Hood’s eyes scan through files in an instant with the help of artificial intelligence Samantha.

What do you want me to do right now? Take out the blueprints, seize the control room and block it, cut off communications, check the access route. Do you think that just saying the word will do it? Employer, please put some sense into it.

Without Samantha, this would have been impossible. You need at least a day or two to do anything, knowing what would happen.

I understand that the employer is thinking of his close friend, but isn’t it dangerous to go into someone else’s house like this? Even in movies, when they go undercover, they plan and practice for days.

Isn’t it true that ‘Eating in a hurry makes you sick’? If you say ‘Even the horns of a cow are pulled out while you’re at it’, then I have nothing more to say.

The information coming into his eyes and the thoughts in his head were mixed together. As Hood was roughly scanning the file titles related to the top floor, one caught his eye.

“Huh? Wait. Samantha. That thing just now. The top floor interior work thing.”

Hood checking the list on one side of the monitor.

“A jammer? Why install something like that on the top floor? Is it for conference room security? What is this?”

Hood’s expression became strange as he read the list of materials that went into the interior construction on the top floor. It was a civilian building. But they used this much bulletproof material for the interior construction?

Bulletproof glass. Let’s say you say so, but why do you do such strange things as covering the walls and doors with composite armor? Are you firing anti-tank missiles from the chairman’s office or the conference room next to it? Are you doing a weapons demonstration in the conference room?

‘Didn’t you say this is a company centered around constraints?’

Even a company whose main business is the military industry wouldn’t do something like that. Hood relayed the new information to Maru.

“Top floor. There is a radio-blocking device. The walls of the chairman’s office, conference room, main entrance, and entrance door are confirmed to be made of composite armor material.”

[Beep-]

Me. Employer?

[Beep beep beep]

···What the hell?

No, that’s why I told you to take it slow.

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As Maru pulled the handle, the emergency door opened with a metallic click. It was thick and heavy.

‘hmm?’

It was over 20cm thick. Even if it was a fire door, why would it be this thick? Maru looked at the ceiling. The CCTVs were installed tightly. There didn’t seem to be any blind spots.

It wouldn’t be detected since I was hiding in a stealth robe, but it would be a good idea to interfere with the CCTV if a fight broke out.

“Entry successful. Standby for CCTV.”

[Cheeeeeeee-]

“We’ve entered. Standby for CCTV.”

[Chiiiiiiiiiiiiii—]

“······.”

It seemed like communication with the outside world was cut off. Communication was definitely working before we entered.

‘A radio jammer? Did they install a radio jammer for security reasons? If that happens, it won’t be easy to respond.’

Maru was calm even in the face of an unexpected situation. Communication cuts were a daily occurrence in Japan. It wasn’t something to make a big fuss about. It would have been better if communication hadn’t been cut off, but it didn’t matter if it wasn’t.

Maru took a deep breath and spread his senses wide. A feeling that stretched out along the long corridor.

!!!

??

This was definitely weird.

Even at the stolen hospital, I could sense life on the other side. When the KTX incident happened, I could sense life from quite a distance away. But here, I couldn’t feel the other side of the wall.

I concentrated again and expanded my senses.

I should have felt whether there was someone on the other side of the wall or door, but I felt nothing. It wasn’t that my senses were abnormal. I could tell whether there was someone or not at the bend in the hallway.

Maru calmly recalled his memories. The chairman’s office, conference room, and hallway were drawn in his mind. The memories slowly transformed into a building plan. The building’s frame was a column-type structure. It was the most common structure, and most of the interior walls were made of false walls.

Feeling a little irritated, Maru tapped the wall. He knocked lightly on the wall, but there was nothing special about it. It was just silk wallpaper on plasterboard. It just felt full and not empty.

If something was strange and complicated, it had to be simplified. Maru headed to the chairman’s office while stretching his head from side to side.

The CCTV moved silently along the swaying space.

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There was no one in the top floor hallway.

There were no security guards, and no secretary at the desk. The top floor was literally empty.

‘pitfall?’

The corners of Maru’s mouth twitched. If this was a trap, it was too obvious. What if Maru gave up and ran away now? Why did he leave it so blatantly?

‘The CCTV footage that Hood confirmed was a manipulated screen.’

This meant that they knew they were going to hack and were preparing dummy footage.

The door leading straight to the chairman’s office opened.

The door to the chairman’s office opened with a low metallic sound. Here, too, the door seemed to be easily over 20cm. The voice of the person sitting at the end of the dimly lit chairman’s office rang out.

“Why are you so late? I’ve been waiting for a long time.”

Chairman Naojin Oh of the Ojin Group greeted us warmly, sitting on the sofa.

Did you know it was coming? Maru expanded his senses. There was nothing to catch. There were no bodyguards hiding their bodies like Charlotte Sim’s bodyguards.

“How many years has it been since then? When you were in your third year of middle school? Oh, right. The last time I saw you was at your middle school graduation. Right.”

I knew that Maru, not someone else, was coming and I was sure that he was coming. Maru, whose thoughts became complicated for a moment, glared at the chairman who had just come out.

“Let’s sit down and talk. I have a lot to say.”

“Where is Kisun?”

Chairman Naojin started to whine at Maru’s blunt words.

“This guy is really something. What’s so urgent about that?”

“······.”

“Stop bragging about your optical concealment device and sit down. Let’s sit down and talk while looking at each other.”

“Where is Ki-sun?”

Chairman Naojin’s sad expression changed in an instant.

“It’s still the same now as it was then. Of course, it’s not easy for people to change, and it’s true that you can’t change your old ways even when you get older.”

“······.”

“Yeah. It seems like you’ve gotten a little stronger, so you think the world is yours? You’ve gained the confidence to do anything, right? If you think about it, you’ll know, right? There’s a cause and effect to everything. There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world.”

No matter what Chairman Naojin said, Maru ignored it.

“So. Where is Kisun?”

Srrrrrrrr-

The sound of a sword being drawn was clear. Even though it was clear that he had heard the sound, Chairman Naojin did not even blink.

“Oh my gosh. In this situation, the most important thing is that friend, Ki-soon? She’s not even my real sister, she’s my friend. Did you give up on your younger sister? Hehehe-”

Chairman Naojin spoke while licking his lips with his tongue. As soon as he finished speaking, a black blade was fired.

Oh my god!

A black solid line stretched out towards Chairman Naojin’s forearm and was stuck in the middle. Maru’s eyes narrowed.

Clap- clap- clap-

Chairman Naojin slowly claps his hands.

“This is really amazing. Amazing. It’s a special material, and you can scratch it. It doesn’t even get scratched with a 9mm. I can’t believe it.”

Was the dark lighting to avoid being detected? Was the reason it didn’t catch on because something like this was blocking it?

Maru put strength into the arm holding the sword. Pitter-patter-

Even though he couldn’t be seen because of the hiding robe, Naojin spoke as if he could.

“It’s better not to use your strength. It’s not like it’ll work out that way. You’ll just melt away if you use your strength unnecessarily? Your internal organs and muscles, you know. You must have felt it, right? The more you use your strength, the more your body breaks down.”

Do you know about overheat?

“There is a limit to how gentlemanly you can be. When someone speaks, you should listen to them. If you can’t understand what they are saying, are you a human? Are you an animal? Should I treat you like an animal?”

“······.”

When the floor became quiet, Chairman Naojin clasped his hands together.

“It’s not easy being a father. But what can I do? It’s not just any daughter, it’s the daughter who started the company that wants this.”

“······.”

“Actually, I hated you and your family. I really hated you. That’s why I enjoyed it. I enjoyed watching your family fall apart and struggle.”

Naojin sighed with a bewildered expression on his face, wondering what had come to mind.

“The world is so unpredictable. What on earth did you see in it that made you decide to take care of your house?”

Maru felt a strong sense of discomfort.

“Why you of all the people?”

“Everyone is dying, getting cancer, going crazy, and going wild, so why aren’t you dead?”

Are you drunk and not even drinking? Why are you talking about this?

The CCTV footage from the Charlotte office came to mind. The story of how Nakasone Heisei was trying to capture him with Mago gas. It was the same now. Since it was blocked, they wouldn’t spray sleeping gas or anesthesia gas.

“···Is Ki-soon alive?”

“That friend named Charagi Gisun is better. She’s my daughter, but really···.”

Is Ki-soon avoiding the story? On purpose? That means Ki-soon is dead. Or she wasn’t caught. Was it a trap to use Ki-soon from the beginning? A trap to catch her?

“So what do you want?”

Naojin laughed at Maru’s words.

“What do you want? Haven’t you heard what I’ve been saying so far? Don’t you understand?”

While Chairman Naojin was speaking, Maru gathered his strength little by little.

The power that runs from the muscles in the arms to the back muscles, from the back to the waist, goes down through the core muscles, and reaches the thighs, and from the thighs, through the calves, and all the way to the soles of the feet.

“Speak straight.”

The face of the president who appeared on Maru’s street was distorted.

In that moment, a long mark was left with a twisting sound.

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Kagagagagagagak- ting-

A knife that breaks while cutting through a transparent wall. The knife that Chairman Sim Eun-young gave was broken in the middle. Maru threw away the broken knife in the middle, pulled out the knife he brought from the US, and cut the same place he had cut before.

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A blade that cuts deep into the cut.

Kagagagagagagak- squeak-

The transparent wall was torn into a long piece.

“Huh? Crazy.”

Naojin was dumbfounded. He cut that?

Maru, who had kicked away the severed piece with his foot, reached out to grab Chairman Jin.

Naojin saw Maru’s arm sticking out of the hiding robe and stepped on the emergency button with his foot.

Wheeeeeeing-

Wheeeeeeing-

The ceiling opened and two Vulcan cannons appeared.

“Die! Just die!”

The Vulcan cannon opened fire along with the mad shouts of Chairman Naojin.

Kukwakakakakaka

Go go go go go

A bullet grazes the cloak of concealment. Pachijik – the cloak breaks into pieces.

The movement of the floor is revealed from time to time.

Pak- As Maru, who had been kicking, turned around in the air, a black solid line was drawn.

Kkk …

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The Vulcan gun attached to the ceiling was torn off like a bottle cap.