Rust - Chapter 220



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RUST -220

Michael Newman, the most senior producer on What’s Up TV, has been through a terrible ordeal: kidnapped, beaten, and burned by a gang.

The surgery was successful, but there was no way to avoid the scars. I had to wear gloves to hide my hands that had turned into dried squid, and I wore a mask to hide the distorted side of my face.

“Ow SHIT!”

“That kid’s face looks like it’s been fried.”

“Where? That thing?”

“Oh- Isn’t that Fry Face?”

“I think it’s undercooked?”

“If you want to cook it, cook it until it’s hot and crispy.”

“If you’re a man, you should cook it until it’s completely black. Black-black- peace-”

Hehehehe

“Hey, just take your mask off and go out.”

“You look so damn cool!”

“He looks like the villain at the end of a wizarding movie. That noseless bastard.”

“Hey. I told you to take off your mask.”

There were many people in the world who were beyond imagination. Some people would make hateful or abusive remarks to people who had been burned, and some would even pick on someone’s appearance to harm them.

“Things like burrs.”

Michael passed the squabbles on the street. This was Detroit, a city that had recovered a lot, but was still dark. Black darkness.

Two police officers on patrol approached the crowd.

“Hey, what are you all doing here?”

“Police threatening good citizens?”

Woo-woo-woo-

“Hey, take a picture- take a picture-”

“Riot police. Fucking awesome!”

Michael turned his head from that distance.

When the vice president took over as president, the vacant vice president position should have been filled by Michael PD, but that didn’t happen.

Contrary to expectations that PD Michael would retire after losing his vice president position, he started working even more passionately.

Anyway, Michael was one of the real powers at What’s Up TV, and even though his personality changed after the accident, he still had many employees who followed him.

How long had he walked along the empty streets? What caught his eye was a reinforced concrete wall that seemed to be over 10 meters high. He had thought it was like that when he saw construction work from afar while driving, but it was certain when he saw it in person.

This was a fortress.

Fortifications that were considered useless were being re-examined in urban warfare. It was the fortification of large buildings. Fortifications in the city center made of reinforced concrete became a nightmare for urban warfare.

‘There’s no entrance? No main gate?’

A building completely surrounded by walls, with no main entrance. The only entrance was a passage leading down to the underground parking lot. Even that was structured to completely control the entry and exit of vehicles.

PD Michael’s heart was pounding for some reason. The fact that this building was approved meant that it was connected to a government agency.

Detroit was struggling to shed its image of violence and devastation. Why did they build this building at a time when they were trying to become a jazz city and a city of culture?

“This is PD Michael from What’s Up TV. I’m in front of the building now, but there’s no entrance.”

[If you look towards the riverside, there is a sloping entrance leading down to the basement.]

“Yes, I can see it.”

[Just go down there and follow the security guard’s instructions.]

As I entered the path leading down to the underground parking lot, I saw a huge door. The door, which appeared to be made of metal, was a structure that lifted upwards like an old castle gate.

The door, which must have been about 5 meters wide and tall, went up with a heavy sound. The metal door panel must have been about 1 meter thick. No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t normal.

‘What on earth is this place?’

Two security guards wearing masks marked the PD who was looking around.

“PD Michael? Come this way.”

Security guards leading you to what looks like an airport security checkpoint.

“If you have any dangerous items or metal items, please post them here.”

“doesn’t exist.”

After passing through a metal detector and an X-ray machine, and going through quarantine procedures, I was finally able to enter.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

No matter where you looked, the only thing that came to mind was a military purpose. The corridors were filled with things that could be used as barricades and barriers that could be lowered if necessary. Even if an enemy were to invade the interior, it seemed nearly impossible to properly break through.

“Welcome.”

As I entered the lobby on the first floor, a man wearing a deep hood greeted me.

“···Nice to meet you. This is Michael Newman from What’s Up TV.”

PD and Hood’s gazes exchanged. Hood pulled down so that his face was hidden. Reflective goggles that made it impossible to see his eyes. Masks that covered his lower body, and even gloves.

The PD felt a sense of kinship with the way she dressed, which seemed to obsessively hide her bare skin. He felt the same way. Hood must have felt the same, as the awkward atmosphere naturally softened.

“If you want to advertise for a job, you need to have at least some basic information about the company, but there’s nothing about the company in the email.”

“I see.”

Hood nodded coolly at the PD’s words.

“As you know, there was an incident where a criminal organization created a fake company and advertised for recruitment, so we are a bit cautious about advertising for recruitment on TV channels.”

Several cable broadcasting stations that had advertised for recruits at the time were wiped out. As expected from a country of lawsuits, this was the result of the victims biting the lawyers they had hired like piranhas.

The cable broadcasting station’s excuse that they had not known about the job posting was not accepted. This was because it was true that they had posted the job posting without properly checking.

“And there are some parts of the job ad that I don’t understand.”

“?”

“If it’s a food company, it’s bound to hire people related to food, and if it’s an automobile company, it’s bound to hire people related to automobiles···.”

“I see. I think it would be best to meet the CEO and discuss that directly.”

That wasn’t what Hood had to say. He was only guessing.

“The representative is currently working, so please wait for a moment.”

“Ah- yes.”

The PD blinked at Hood’s choice of words. He said he was ‘working’ instead of ‘reporting work’. What kind of work does he do as the CEO?

After a while, I saw a man walking towards me. He was Asian.

‘Surely that person isn’t the representative?’

He looked so young. High school student? College student? Younger than some heavyweight boxer at 16. Younger than some famous professional wrestler at 16.

The thought of ‘is that a secretary?’ disappeared as he approached.

!

The night when the drum bonfire was burning. The PD’s eyes saw that night. The rippling space. The sharp, sharp murderous intent. The events of the gangs separating came to mind.

Why? Why?

A tingling sensation. Goosebumps rose up and the strength left my legs. I desperately tried to pull myself together, but my entire body began to tremble.

And when he… he approached, Michael Newman realized.

Oh my god.

Hot tears flowed down.

The evidence of that night. The salvation of that night was here.

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The embarrassing encounter ended sooner than expected.

It was like, whatever Maru said, it would definitely ‘come true’. Kim Yang looked at the PD’s back as he was leaving, tilted her head for a moment, and then nodded.

“It’s okay.”

What do you see that says it’s okay?

“Your eyes are sincere.”

“······.”

Are those eyes truly true?

PD decided to take care of the job advertisement. He seemed to be able to communicate well with Hood, so I thought I could trust him. He was also an expert in that area.

“Are the people who are going out going out?”

Hood was silent in response to Maru’s question.

“That’s a bit···.”

The building was equipped with the most advanced and up-to-date facilities. It was built with money that was literally spent like water. Most people who lived in such a place would say they would never leave if they were suddenly told to do so.

If the number is small, it may not be so, but there were more people to be sent out. Out of 500 people, more than 400 people had to be sent out, but they were holding out and not leaving.

“You said three days, so we will begin the forced eviction as soon as the time comes.”

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous to force it like that?”

This was Detroit. And the people they were sending out were the people who originally lived in this area. That meant they had to be forcibly sent out armed with firearms.

Maru ended up laughing bitterly.

“You’re breaking into someone else’s house and telling them not to come out. Not only are you sitting on the floor, but you’re threatening the landlord. What else can you do but act in self-defense?”

“······.”

“More than anything, what those people eat and drink, haven’t they been eating for free up until now? Why didn’t they bring their families along and do it? Are they just going to sit here? Do they have a conscience? When construction was underway, it was important to finish it quickly, so they just let it go, but once the construction is over, shouldn’t they stop on their own?”

“······.”

“And you’re not going to leave? Armed with a gun? You must want to commit suicide.”

Kim Yang vehemently agreed with Maru’s words that there are many different ways to commit suicide.

The worst part was that they were just wasting meat without doing anything. Kim was furious when she heard that the large refrigerator that was full of meat was empty in a week.

“You can use sleeping gas if necessary. If you don’t think it will be resolved through dialogue, just use the gas.”

“···yes.”

There was no need to get blood on the knife. It was something I could just throw outside after putting it to sleep. If it still stuck, then so be it. Kim Yang could just come out.

[Do I really have to send it?]

Chief Dan Brown’s voice was weary.

“Yes. Those people are people who don’t have the basics.”

People like that were bound to cause problems later on. If you and Ms. Kim were busy and kept being called here and there, wouldn’t that have only made those writers’ stomachs full?

It was not that I didn’t understand what Vladimir Maru said, but the situation was also delicate for the Department of Homeland Security. A third of the people who were ordered to leave were former agents or relatives of current agents.

In order to speed up the construction and at the same time strengthen security and guards, a lot of manpower was needed. Security and guards had to be trustworthy at the very least, and in the end, they were connected through personal connections and blood relations. It was not easy to simply ignore the complaints and grievances from that side.

[Still, thanks to those people, weren’t we able to finish the construction without any problems?]

“So? When the construction is over, everyone should go back to their places. Some people even took their families with them, and when I told them to leave, they used the children as shields. I can’t just leave those people alone.”

Den Brown was shaken by Vladimir’s firm stance. What could he do when the owner told him to leave, even though he had a lot of stuff piled up and empty rooms?

[Please avoid causing casualties.]

“Aren’t you going to go out on your own two feet?”

[Strategic Command and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly objected. They said they would report to Congress.]

It looks like he’s going to bring up that damn parliamentary order and install it.

“Tell them to do so. If they refuse to leave, I will force them out. The voluntary eviction period is until this evening. I plan to evict them as soon as I have time. Please send them enough transport vehicles.”

And then the time came.

“Let’s turn on the gas.”

Maru turned on the gas right away without waiting even a second. In an instant, the residential floor was filled with gas. There were hallways where the CCTVs had been broken, and barricades were set up here and there to prevent people from leaving.

“I gave them a good amount of time to move, and now they’re doing this. See? The barricade?”

[I saw it]

“First, make it from the entrance.”

[Okay]

As Kim Yang made her way into the exosuit, security guards were to go in and drag out the people who were asleep under the anesthetic gas.

Youngchayoungcha Kim Yang cleared the barricade and made an entrance. As she entered, she saw people scattered all over the place. They were holding real guns.

[Have you seen the gun?]

“You dare eat my meat and then shoot me?”, “This is ingratitude?” Kim Yang’s anger index pierced through the sky.

“I saw it. Hold on. These are the people who are going to be kicked out anyway.”

[······.]

It wasn’t just the people waiting in front of the barricades who were the problem. These guys were crazy enough to have separate keys for their doors.

[It’s locked here too.]

Installing reinforced doors in case of an emergency actually turned out to be a convenient solution.

Eventually, the process of opening the doors one by one with the help of security guards and dragging out the anesthetized people one by one continued until dawn.

I thought things would end well thanks to Kim Yang’s good anger management and the security guards’ hard work, but it wasn’t easy for the United States and China.

[Rabbit Broadcasting has reported on the suspicions surrounding the building. It’s on air now, so I’d like you to watch and talk about it.]

Maru turned on the TV after receiving a text from Manager Dan Brown.

[···This video shows the interior of a building in Detroit.]

A view of one side of the restricted area of ​​an empty underground parking lot. No-trespassing signs were displayed in a threatening manner. A wall made of composite armor and a vertically opening barrier were captured. The host stepped forward behind the video that clearly showed the fortress-like appearance.

[Who owns this strange building, and for what purpose did they build this facility? We will meet the workers who built the Haedan building and the people who were in charge of security later.]

Huh? This is it.

Just as Maru was being dumbfounded, a phone call came from Manager Den Brown.

‘He said he’d talk about it after the broadcast.’

“yes.”

[Did you watch the broadcast just now?]

“Yes. I guess I shouldn’t have just let it go.”

[Except for that broadcast, you know.]

“I’m frustrated,” said Chief Dan Brown.

“Are you talking about any other broadcasting station besides Rabbit Broadcasting?”

[What’s Up TV. Turn it on now. Now.]

Maru changes the channel. A large phrase.

Behind the frame, which was ornately covered in gold leaf, bold letters were visible.

[Ark of Salvation. Recruitment]

[The safest place to protect your soul and body]

[-HOLY—HOLY-]

[The only ark that He always watches over and protects]

[We are recruiting talented people in each field.]

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Huh? So now.

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[Donations and contributions are the love and faith of all of us preparing for the end times.]

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