Rust - Chapter 216



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RUST-216

National Guard Command Center

The commander and FBI agents reviewed the footage brought in by Maru, Ms. Kim, and the escaped soldiers. The unbelievable was actually happening.

“oh my god.”

“······.”

As soon as we rescued the soldiers trapped in the armored vehicle, we received the footage, so there was no time to manipulate it. That means that the footage you are watching now is real. It is something that you can’t believe even after seeing it.

The rats were strange. No, I couldn’t help but think they were crazy.

Ambushes, surprise attacks, communication blocking, lures, and even tunnels and traps.

The commander immediately contacted the National Guard headquarters. Federal agents also reported to headquarters.

“This is an emergency.”

“We need additional manpower.”

Since eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, reason has been the essence and weapon of mankind.

Yes. Humans were the lords of all creation. And now the monster rat attack incident was an incident that could threaten human status.

“Get survivors’ testimonies now!”

I had to figure out how the crazy monster rats attacked the village.

“Take this straight to the Department of Defense!”

The information we had right now had to be reported as a top priority. There were dozens of towns across the United States that had lost contact. If that many towns had all been hit by the rabid rats, the situation was dire.

Whether the command center is Busan or not.

Ms. Kim sighed deeply.

[I want to take a shower.]

please.

Maru nods his head at Kim Yang’s pitiful eyes as she tells him to get some rest.

“Okay. Let’s go before we get dragged around. Get in.”

Wheeeeeeeeing-

The motorcycle carrying Ms. Kim on its back slowly disappeared.

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As soon as Maru arrived at the building, he turned off his cell phone.

“Turn off your phone?”

“Uh. I think it might be noisy.”

Hearing that, Ms. Kim took out her phone and turned it off. Now that I think about it, it seems like Ms. Kim didn’t call anyone or anything.

He wasn’t a bully, but he didn’t have any friends in the first place. Well, he was a killer disguised as a World Livestock Accountant, so there’s no way he would have friends. Maybe it’s because we’ve been hanging out together so often lately, or maybe it’s because we’ve been hanging out together for a while now, but Maru was having all sorts of thoughts.

‘The nurse and I are similar in age… no.’

The nurse graduated from a four-year nursing college and had experience working at a hospital. She was around the same age as Maru. In contrast, Ms. Kim was a bit younger.

‘Was it 22? Did you say 23?’

Kim Yang, who had been lowering her head, rolled her eyes and met Maru’s eyes. A look of subtle regret? Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed.

“What is it?”

“No. Just. What are you going to do after you wash?”

“I’ll take a deep breath and eat some meat.”

“Hmm. And?”

Isn’t that enough to just wash, eat, and sleep? But why are you suddenly asking me this? Miss Kim was puzzled.

“It looks like the construction on the swimming pool is almost finished. Should I get some rest and go to the swimming pool tomorrow?”

“Good! Good idea!”

Oh- Ms. Kim became more energetic as if all her fatigue had disappeared.

“Then get some sleep and see you tomorrow.”

Choaaaaaaah-

I showered a few times, but the smell of napalm and rat intestines didn’t go away as well as I thought it would.

In some movies, they say that the smell of napalm at dawn is refreshing, but that was a joke. The smell of burst intestines is the same. Even though the burst intestines were just splashed on tactical boots and special uniform pants, it still smelled good.

Maru, who had let go of his peculiar discomfort, ate a simple meal and lay down on the bed. There was not a single stain on the bedroom ceiling, which was decorated with the best materials.

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Maru closed his eyes and thought about what happened today.

A deserted village.

The house was dark with the electricity cut off.

Outside the brightening window, the surrounding area turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Burning flames and billowing black smoke.

And then a cute squirrel wearing an acorn shell hat came running in carrying a little fork.

Squirrel? Fork?

Titi titi titi- Titi titi titi-

Maru opened his eyes to the sound of the alarm and was shocked.

‘Is this a dream?’

Have you been stressed lately? I don’t think I’ve been stressed much. I closed my eyes for a moment and fell asleep. I had a strange dream.

I wasn’t particularly tired after going out for a drink, but I was planning to use the excuse of having been working for over a week to get some rest, but my dreams were terrible.

‘Is it because of those weird rats?’

Well, even a squirrel is a mouse.

Maru headed to the swimming pool. He tried to relieve his anxious feelings by swimming, but for some reason he didn’t want to go into the water.

‘I overcame my PTSD, so I don’t know why I’m suddenly like this.’

I thought I had recovered from the trauma of my near-drowning incident, but it happened again and again.

There was no need to go into the water if I didn’t feel like it, the sun was shining and the atmosphere was perfect for sunbathing.

As Maru was about to put on his sunglasses and lie down, Hood approached him tentatively.

“excuse me···.”

The voice of the hoodie with a voice modulation. Maru slightly lowered the sunglasses he was wearing and met his eyes at the somewhat hesitant tone of voice.

“What’s going on?”

“I. I keep getting calls telling me my phone is off…”

Now that I think about it, Hood. He came in on his own.

I don’t know if it was an intelligence agency or a government agency, but since she was connected to them, it seemed like she was nagging at me when Maru didn’t answer the phone.

“Was it so?”

“······.”

“I thought it was important.” Maru muttered to himself, put on his sunglasses properly, and sat down on the sun bed. Hood stamped his foot at Maru’s nonchalant response.

“I thought you said you’d come if I didn’t get in touch with you?”

“Come here? Who are you?”

“Is that Strategic Command? They’re coming from there, and the FBI, and oh, the Marines are coming to say thank you. That’s what Lt. Col. Gilbert Brown said.”

“All of them? Did you say you would come here?”

“yes.”

“This is driving me crazy.”

I was trying to relax, but why is everyone making a fuss?

He needed to take action before something useless happened. As soon as Maru turned on his phone, the phone twisted his entire body.

A phone that is constantly buzzing and whining, crying because it has missed calls and texts piling up.

Maru filtered everything out and dialed the number of Director Dan Brown of the Department of Homeland Security.

[Hello. Why is it so hard to contact you? Is something wrong?]

As soon as the signal dropped, Manager Dan Brown picked up the phone. Was he waiting in front? He must have been in a hurry, because he was even politely greeting me.

“I was so tired that I just turned off my phone.”

[Are you hurt anywhere?]

“Yes, that’s fine.”

[I heard what happened in the village of Leon.]

Judging from the emphasis on the word ‘I heard’, it seemed like he had heard news of a pack of rats.

“You’re talking about a pack of rats.”

[As I said yesterday, the situation is serious because air support is difficult.]

Certainly, they were not simple monster rats. The rats in the underground lab and the rats I encountered at the stolen hospital were no joke, but they were nothing compared to the rats I encountered in the village yesterday.

There were even guys who acted as dictators, reacting just like people. Judging by their judgment and group behavior, they looked like a kind of military with a clear hierarchy.

[In addition, more than half of the agents who went to check on the surrounding villages where contact was lost went missing.]

I remembered that the Homeland Security agents I had been with had dispersed to search the surrounding villages. It was heartbreaking to think that more than half of them were missing.

“It’s better to scout with an exosuit or armored personnel carrier.”

I had no intention of continuing to go round and round.

“Oh. There are a lot of people who come here. I’ll tell you in advance that I won’t open the door for anyone other than the Department of Homeland Security. I can’t stop them from coming by helicopter, but wouldn’t they crash? There are a lot of birds because there are rivers and lakes nearby.”

Why would you fortify it? If you were going to let anyone in, you wouldn’t have done it like this. Even if they came in by helicopter, they wouldn’t open the door to enter the building. If they get birdstruck while flying around like that, it’s your fault.

At Maru’s words, Manager Den Brown’s head started to hurt again.

So, I don’t want to talk to anyone else but the Department of Homeland Security. I’m only going to talk to the Department of Homeland Security. I don’t know if I should call this good or if it’s just a slap in the face.

The FBI was immediately arguing that Vladimir Maru should be designated a top threat and placed under close surveillance, while the military was arguing that difficult times were ahead and that a hero was needed. Vladimir Maru should be recruited as a soldier and made into a symbol of the shield and sword of the United States.

‘I’m not even a captain.’

In Virginia, there was a surge of deaths related to East Asian espionage, and there was a desperate need for an Asian superhuman, so they were calling for Vladimir Maru to be handed over.

In Chief Dan Brown’s opinion, Vladimir Maru was a bomb. A bomb that needed to be detonated carefully, while being carefully selected for the time and place.

But what if we make the bomb into a soldier?

If you give me an appropriate rank and then scold me, I’ll scold you. You are a hero from now on. A proud soldier of the United States and a poster hero. So, roll with evil and violence. That’s an order. Then? It was going to explode on the spot.

Federal Bureau of Investigation? Designate him as a high-risk person and put him under surveillance? Probation? Are you crazy?

This was the same for Virginia. Spy? The one who had contact with Vladimirov in the first place was Virginia. But she broke it after trying to get it back, so how are you going to control her? Trying to brainwash her with drugs? Do you want to commit suicide?

Even when gathering all the information confirmed so far, it was difficult to find anyone with abilities comparable to Vladimiru even in Japan, where many people with enhanced physical abilities have been discovered. This was also the case when looking at just the activity videos.

That’s why it was right to use Vladimir Maru gently and gently.

Just like the situation in the village last night, if he hadn’t been there, it would have been annihilation. And the troops and investigation teams that were sequentially deployed would have been continuously eaten up.

[Can I please know that you have no intention of contacting any other agencies?]

“Yes. I’m still very tired.”

her-

They’re saying they’ll only work under the Department of Homeland Security, excluding other agencies. Should we assume that there’s a certain level of trust between them? Or are they just trying to avoid all the bothersome work?

‘Both, I guess.’

One thing was certain: Vladimir and his men were geese. They had to protect their stomachs from being torn apart.

[Okay, I understand. Exosuits and armored personnel carriers. As I said yesterday, it takes time.]

While the number of exosuits and armored personnel carriers was increasing, Kim Yang was asked to roll over. Maru turned his head and looked at the pool.

In the pool, Miss Kim was floating in the water. She went in to swim, but she was just floating around blankly like a corpse.

“Miss Kim has also been working on site for over a week and is very tired. It seems like it will be difficult for her to do other work for the time being.”

[I see. But as you know, that rat is really dangerous.]

Maru suddenly remembered his dream. It was a dream about a squirrel wearing an acorn hat and holding a sharp fork. If time passed, it might really happen.

Rats are like that, but considering what happened in Yellowstone National Park, it wasn’t a good thing. What if bears or wolves changed that much beyond rats becoming smarter?

No, it was almost 100% certain that it would change. In Japan, the monster cats showed reason. They aimed for pursuit and individual defeat. Cats, being territorial animals, acted in groups.

“It may not be just rats. Remember the reports about the Japanese monster cat?”

Ugh-

It was Chief Dan Brown who unconsciously made the sound of straining in the bathroom. Incidents were breaking out everywhere, and honestly, he was at his limit.

[Is there a possibility that wild animals, pets, and even livestock can mutate?]

“Yes, it almost certainly will.”

It was certain that things would change. Not everything would change. That was the case in Japan too.

“Those who have become smart are probably those who have eaten brains or hearts. That’s the case with mutants and cats.”

[···I must make sure that no sacrifices are made.]

“That’s right. Those rats would have eaten up a village and ended up like that.”

[Ha- I guess the bears and wolves that attacked the town near Yellowstone have also become smarter.]

“Yes. If you think of them as simple beasts and try to hunt them, there will be many victims. The more victims they eat, the more cunning they become.”

It was a flash of brilliance. After the Yellowstone incident was broadcast, hunters from all over the country came to the park to hunt grizzly bears and gray wolves.

If the story is as it is now, the hunters will be wiped out. And the beasts that will become a greater threat will attack the villages and cities.

[shit.]