Rust - Chapter 21



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RUST [RUST]-21

Kim Yang had a very, very, very hard day today. Her right arm, which was torn to shreds by sashimi, was covered in a plastic cast full of holes.

The cast had a hole in it because the wounded area needed to be disinfected. My finger was getting swollen and I had trouble pulling the trigger of my pistol.

‘I don’t feel good.’

Kim Yang, a gunman and an instinctive gunman, relied on his senses to shoot. If his senses were off like they are now, he had to catch them quickly.

Maru saved his life anyway, but if it was someone from the company, they would have killed him without question.

So, she had to re-calibrate her senses with her left hand as the center. Kim Yang fiddled with the guns she had taken out with her left hand.

Boom!

Boom!

Holes were drilled into the target stuck at the end of the living room.

Hmm-

I still didn’t like it.

I can use my left hand to about 80-90% of what I can use my right hand to, but it’s a bit awkward to handle the recoil of a 9mm pistol with one hand.

Kim Yang switched to a .22 caliber Walther P22 with a plump silencer.

Boom!

Boom!

width!

width!

Recoil control was definitely easy. The caliber being 22 was a bit much, but two shots at close range was fine.

Ugh- Yang Kim, who had been licking her lips, tried moving her left arm slightly and even rotating it.

Left and right are OK. Up and down a little. Shaking or moving quickly is not possible.

But there was no tearing pain when moving. As expected, painkillers are the best. She confirmed the greatness of painkillers once again.

‘We need to move as soon as possible.’

Even as early as dawn.

The company will take action by the day after tomorrow at the latest.

If you’re really lucky, the company might not move at all.

But anyway, it had to be fried, fried.

If you only think about luck and get caught and die, you won’t be able to close your eyes because of the resentment.

Ms. Kim took out a large carrier and filled it with clothes she had been saving but couldn’t wear. She had to wear them at least once, but it seemed like the kids who hadn’t even opened the labels were calling out to her pitifully.

‘sorry.’

Unable to make a cool-headed decision, Ms. Kim checked the passport she had prepared in advance.

Kim Hee-young, Kim Hee-ae, Kim Young-young···.

‘What were you thinking when you came up with that name?’

The me in the ID photo… with the golden bob, the perm, the afro, and even dreadlocks, what on earth was I thinking in the past? This is a bit much.

Who would have predicted that there would be an urgent situation where this would be needed? I made it just in case.

In most cases, the company backed up the situation, so there was no reason to change my identity. It was the same when I got into a shootout with a Russian gang at a club or nightclub in Busan. The company took care of the aftermath, so there was no reason to change my identity.

It was the same when he exchanged gunfire with the yakuza at the container storage yard. Even when the corpses were piled up in double digits, Kim Yang’s status did not change.

But since the company was the one I had to escape from, I had to change my status right away.

“Ah- Most of this status was given to me by Manager Hong.”

Manager Hong must have created several identities that he didn’t tell the company about, but he didn’t know what they were. After all, he had to check the identities he had now, but how would he distinguish between identities that the company didn’t know about and identities that the company knew about? It was easy to think that it would be difficult to see them all lasting long.

It seemed difficult to jump to North or South America at once. If I went with this status, it would be recorded that I went to North or South America. Just in case, I needed a completely different status.

Then how?

[···So, does that mean that the heavy rain that fell until the end of August further aggravated the earthquake damage?]

[Yes. Japan had a concentrated precipitation belt called the atmospheric river until the end of August. The ground was weakened by the heavy rain caused by the influence of this precipitation belt. The ground was weakened by water, and when a major earthquake occurred, the damage was even greater···]

[Is it possible to estimate the number of casualties?]

[Currently, the Japanese interim disaster relief government has not released an official count. However, according to foreign media reports, at least 100,000 casualties have occurred in Tokyo alone.]

[How about lifesaving?]

[It is a very difficult situation. Roads and railways have been completely destroyed, and even electricity and gas have been cut off, making it very difficult to search for survivors and treat the injured.]

[Is downtown Tokyo like that too? Many Japanese buildings are said to be well-designed to withstand earthquakes.]

[Yes. However, the damage was extensive because the earthquake overlapped with the ground weakened by heavy rain, causing many places where the ground itself collapsed.]

Ms. Kim tilted her head as she packed her bags with the TV on as background music.

It was because the place that appeared on the screen that had passed by was familiar.

As the drone flew past the completely destroyed downtown Tokyo, it passed by where the Yakuza building used to be. The building was half-destroyed. It wasn’t completely destroyed, but the windows were all broken and there were cracks all over the building.

[Neighboring country Japan is suffering from an unprecedented disaster. We need to provide support on a humanitarian level···]

[What kind of support are we going to give to Japan, which took all the donations and help from our people during the Great East Japan Earthquake 10 years ago and only showed hatred for Korea···]

[There was a lot of debate in our National Assembly over deciding on the scale of support for Japan, right?]

[Yes, that’s right. Since Korea and Japan are intertwined in politics, economy, society, and culture, there were opinions that large-scale support should be provided in order to bury the past and form a future-oriented relationship, and those who are against indiscriminately helping while the past has not been resolved. There were also strong opinions that Japan, which has imposed economic regulations to kill the Korean economy, is actively anti-Korean, and that large-scale support should absolutely not be provided. While each argument is in a tense standoff···]

Kim Yang rewound the TV footage.

Although it was completely in ruins, I remembered the building that was full of cracks. It was the headquarters of a yakuza that had a contract with the company. There were various businesses in the building, including a loan company and a company that handled identity fraud.

As far as Kim Yang remembers, Japan’s passport issuance and family register system were different from Korea’s, and felt a bit retro? analog? Most of the time, it was a method that required face-to-face contact. She said that even when entering personal information into a computer, she needed a document she had written herself.

Since people write and input by hand, in some sense it can be seen as strong in security, but if you think about it the other way around, it was a system that was easy to forge identities by simply grilling the employees in charge. That is why Japan was a country where businesses specializing in forgery of identities involving yakuza and government officials were quite developed.

Kim Yang thought of something like a midnight escape support product. She remembered that it was fun to see a product that helped people who escaped at night create a new identity and start anew.

If it were at that time, it would have to go through various processes, but what if it were the same situation now?

[···Experts predict that there will be at least 3 to 4 aftershocks with a maximum magnitude of 8.0 and as many as 6 to 7 aftershocks.]

[Does this mean that there will continue to be strong earthquakes that are difficult to think of as aftershocks?]

[Yes. It is because it is impossible to predict what effect a major earthquake of up to magnitude 9.1 would have on the fault zone. Looking at the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, there were aftershocks. Experts predict that the current Tokyo Earthquake, which is even larger, will also have aftershocks.]

The earthquake destroyed everything from the town hall to the administrative center. The Japanese-style document storage facilities were probably also blown away.

Looking at the situation, it seemed impossible to count the dead and missing in the near future. Ms. Kim had heard somewhere that it took an entire month to count the dead and missing due to the tsunami during the Great East Japan Earthquake.

The situation was worse than the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the Japanese government was divided, and the situation was so bad that a provisional disaster government had to be established. So wouldn’t it be better to forge one’s identity?

Kim Yang turned on the circuit while watching TV.

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Miss Kim had a hard time in this world.

I took some painkillers and thought I was fine, but the thought of running away and moving alone with a sore arm made me think of the lonely, depressing days of the past… and I felt sad.

First, I signed a contract for the largest room in a women-only gositel(?) under a different identity. Perhaps because of the COVID-19 situation, it was nice that I could sign the contract remotely.

The largest room was 5 pyeong, and even the shower and toilet area were included in that, so the actual usable area was about 3.5 pyeong. It looked spacious in the photos and videos, but Kim Yang’s keen eye could not be fooled.

‘It’s so narrow.’

Anyway, they said that they would receive the package at the management office? the general affairs office? and you don’t have to pay for electricity or water separately, and they provide a TV and a basic computer, and the heating and cooling are centralized, so the heating and cooling costs are included in the monthly rent, so except for having to use the coin laundry, it was a satisfactory place to stay for a short period of time.

`It’s good if the company tracks it, but it’s okay if it doesn’t.`

Because responding to different situations in a variety of ways is a survival strategy.

Ms. Kim secured one place and signed a contract for accommodation under another name for a period of three months or up to six months.

Due to the coronavirus, there were a lot of vacancies, so an officetel that was offering 3 months free if you signed a 1-year contract, a single-family home that had been confirmed for redevelopment and had to move out within 1 year and 6 months at most, a villa that was going up for auction and was in bad condition, and even a place that was offering a special discount for long-term stays due to a significant decrease in guests. Ms. Kim used all her status to sign contracts here and there.

‘I like non-face-to-face interactions.’

If it weren’t for the relay site and the non-face-to-face contract, I would have lost an entire day.

Kim Yang glanced at her watch and wondered, “Has this much time already passed?” She continued to prepare for the move. The most important things, after all, were guns and bullets. In a gun case modified from a cello case, she filled it with parts such as sniper rifles, pistols, fuse parts, scopes, laser pointers, and most importantly, bullets.

When I tried to lift the bag with all my stuff in it, it was close to 18~20kg. If I was normal, I could have lifted it, but in my current situation where my condition was not good, it was impossible to move around with a weight that was fluctuating between 18~20kg and a large carrier on top of it.

Looking at the guns and bullets that were lying around and not being put in, Kim Yang’s heart felt like it was going to break. If the company really started to chase them, guns and bullets were something that couldn’t be found in Korea. If they were successful in going to North or South America, they would be able to get them, but before that, they didn’t know what would happen.

‘The best is to escape before being chased, and assuming the worst, the weapons must be faithful.’

If you think you might engage multiple enemies, the most important thing is supply. Of course, you can catch company kids and replenish your ammunition in the field, but if you have no time to do that and have to keep running, then supply problems are bound to arise.

‘A gun is a gun, but you need to pack as many bullets as possible.’

With this body, 18~20kg was the limit. Ms. Kim put down her heavy bag. She felt so sorry for the guns and bullets that she couldn’t put in, the bombs hidden here and there in the house, and the priests.

Is there no way?

‘Ah! Delivery!’

‘Quick service’

Ms. Kim quickly called the Gositel and the hotel and asked them to provide quick service. Both places said OK. Next was the officetel. The officetel also has a management office, but they said they do not accept quick service fees in principle, so they said they would deposit the money right away and passed. The rest of them sent packages to houses scheduled for redevelopment.

Ms. Kim immediately packed up the guns, bullets, and related parts to be sent by courier and express service. There were many large Styrofoam boxes. Ms. Kim carefully wrapped the guns and bullets in plastic and wrap, put them back in the paper box, wrapped them again, and decorated them with kimchi soup and anchovy sauce.

The box packed like that gave off the smell of aged kimchi and the flavor of anchovy sauce.

greatness.

A fragrance that naturally makes you frown.

Kim Yang nodded with satisfaction. If it was like this, whether it was an officetel, a goshitel, or a hotel, no one would open it. It was wrapped tightly in a large black plastic bag, but the liquid that had spilled out was intentionally leaked out, so anyone could tell it was in a ‘don’t touch me’ state.

“Okay. Okay.”

A moment of relief was felt.

‘If you create an identity in Japan, acquire real estate in Korea with that identity, obtain permanent residency, and then go to North or South America and create another identity, you will have successfully escaped.’

If you change your status like that, what will you do if you return to Korea and live in a place like North America or Canada?

Ms. Kim nodded.

After all that hard work, Ms. Kim opened the special Samgyetang Jeonbokjuk. She happily scooped up a spoonful and blew on it, putting it in her mouth.

The harmony of chicken and abalone, rich and savory, soft and chewy. Ms. Kim closed her eyes and enjoyed the harmony of flavors.

Tiringly riringly

Tiringly riringly

ah-

The cannon phone broke the mood. The only one who knew this cannon phone number was Baekjeong Maru. Kim Yang couldn’t help but express her anger at having her happy time interrupted.

“why?”

[Come out.]

‘Come out.’ Maru felt deep frustration at that single word. Kim Yang’s anger was suddenly controlled. Kim Yang, who was good at controlling her anger, answered gently as if nothing had happened.

“I’m eating right now. Can I eat before I go? Are you in a hurry?”

[Come out.]

No, this is Jongganna Setki.

It’s a matter of the account.