Rust - Chapter 224



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RUST -224

Kiiing-kiiing-

Kim Yang’s footsteps are the footsteps of anger.

As expected, there was no one to trust. He clearly said he was going to rest for a few days, but as soon as the new product came out, he started doing it again?

If it’s sponsorship, what’s the unit price?

······?

Yeah, I admit that, but still, wouldn’t Baekjeong be the one to do that?

······?

Are you going to stand up and do it?

Anyway, that’s what happened.

Was this the reason why the beef was slaughtered and fed well? Really?

That was the most important thing.

‘You and I are both out, so if something happens here, we’ll get tired, so shouldn’t one of us stay? So you go.’

‘Why me?’

‘Sponsorship. Product review. Like.’

‘······.’

I couldn’t go against the pretext of a sponsored combat mission. I couldn’t give up my exosuit. With this, I could carry around the 12.7mm easily and use the 20mm Vulcan.

As I continued to use it, I began to wonder how I ever lived without it. The survival kit, weapons, and ammunition all combined weighed over 100kg, but I was fine. How could I lose this?

Kiyongkiyong

The steps of anger turned into steps of acceptance.

‘The operation area is northeast of Detroit, near Lake Huron and the Canadian border. There have been reports of wolves being seen near the park. They say there were no wolves nearby, so check and search the surrounding areas.’

So, if you’re checking to see if there are any weirdos around your house, get rid of them in advance. You’ll have to go outside again because you’ll have to look around a large area.

‘No backup?’

‘Whether it’s the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, or even the police and the National Guard, they’re all in chaos right now because of the shortage of personnel due to accidents everywhere. Don’t think there’s anyone left to take care of it.’

‘What if I make a fuss like a rat?’

‘If it seems dangerous, retreat unconditionally. If it’s difficult, hold on. I’ll go right away like last time.’

Baekjeong is coming soon?

Well then. What.

joy-

Kkiyungkkiyung

Kim Yang looked around. He had driven the pickup to the road, but the place where the sighting was said to be was near the park trail, and cars could not enter.

“Enter the park trail. Begin search.”

[thanks for your effort.]

It was difficult for infantry to move freely while carrying small missiles or heavy weapons larger than 20 mm in urban or mountain warfare.

It was not easy to move a weapon weighing 80-100 kg by manpower, including the rack and spare ammunition, which weighed 30-40 kg. However, if they set up positions in fixed locations, they would just become prey to drones and cruise missiles.

There was a need for weapons that could move freely, such as small missiles, and platoon or company support heavy weapons, and the result was the exosuit and the armored soldier.

In Japan, which was in shambles due to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and heavy snowfall, the exosuits and armored personnel carriers performed exceptionally well. Although their firepower was weak compared to tanks, self-propelled guns, and attack helicopters, they were sufficiently adaptable to various situations and environments.

They have made brilliant contributions to striking various monsters and Chinese special forces armed with 12.7mm assault machine guns in concealed equipment.

The downside is that it is expensive.

In order to make light and thin armor, something like Griffin composite armor had to be used. High-power small motors also had to be expensive, and the same goes for new batteries.

Whether it’s exosuits or armored vehicles, high-performance semiconductors were needed in large quantities. Unfortunately, the supply and demand for semiconductors has been very unstable since the COVID-19 outbreak. This has again become a factor in driving up production costs.

The exosuit had everything that Kim Yang liked. First of all, it was expensive, and above all, it was expensive. And it was so good that its performance was amazing. And it was a special rare item. What can I do? I have to write a review.

“No sign of wolf.”

There was no detection even with the motion detector.

[Chiiik- Search while moving from 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock based on that point.]

“Okay.”

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An exosuit was seen entering through a CCTV on one side of the promenade.

“Please check all the CCTVs inside the park and the surrounding areas, look for wolves or wild dogs, and report them immediately. New residents will start coming in from the afternoon, so please don’t miss that and check that as well.”

“yes.”

Maru watched Hood work. Now that he thought about it, the way he worked was a little different than before. So.

“Samantha doesn’t write?”

The hood, which had been shaking slightly for a moment, continued its work.

“Samantha is working on something else right now.”

“Can we cover it without the help of AI? Without needing more manpower?”

It wasn’t a good idea to have other people coming into the control room. Hood’s voice was a bit hoarse, but the voice changer covered it up.

“It’s okay. If there are a lot of people coming and going, there will be security issues, but if Samantha returns, there will be no problem.”

If that’s the case, then Maru nodded.

“We do accept them through selection, but it would be difficult to filter out all the people from other organizations. So we have to assume that there are some swindlers among the new residents and take security into consideration.”

“Yes. I will be careful.”

Among the new recruits this time, there were quite a few people in the bio field. Some said they wanted to do research using supercomputers.

“Oh. Right. Those who are researching bio-related fields said they wanted to use a supercomputer. When will the supercomputer be available for use?”

“···Right now? It’s hard to write right now. I’m in the process of optimizing the program. It’ll probably take some time.”

Do supercomputers need optimization too?

“It won’t take long, right? We’ll be hiring people for the program and system soon, so let me know if you need anything.”

“Yes? Yes. Okay.”

Yeah- Yeah- It was a call from PD.

“Then, thank you for your hard work.”

Hood let out a small exhale as Maru stepped out of the control room. Samantha was taking too long. He didn’t know what would happen if he kept going like this and more people came in.

‘Samantha. What the hell happened?’

When Hood momentarily lost focus, something flashed past the corner of the monitor screen.

PD was always polite. Maru felt a bit burdened because he was treated so politely by someone so old.

[I’m contacting you because someone with ties to both the Department of Homeland Security and Virginia has applied for occupancy.]

“Both sides? You said you were connected to the Department of Homeland Security and Virginia? What do you do?”

[I am a computer expert. I am an expert in hardware, systems, design, and optimization.]

“He’s a dangerous person to accept carelessly.”

Even if they were hardware experts, it seemed like they lacked the skills to handle software or they didn’t. What if someone from both the Department of Homeland Security and Virginia decided to take control of the system?

?

PD must have been able to guess this risk based on watching how things were handled so far. But the fact that he asked this question meant that there was a reason to choose him, or that he had abilities that were too valuable to not choose.

“Is that person really needed here?”

PD paused for a moment to answer Maru’s question.

[···He said he met the CEO once before.]

“Are you talking about me?”

[Yes. I met him once because of a problem with installing a supercomputer. He said that if there was a problem with the supercomputer, he was the only one who could fix it.]

Oh? That guy. The guy with the thinning hair that came with Manager Dan Brown to the module nuclear power plant and supercomputer installation issue.

“I remember. But you said he wanted to move in here? The Department of Homeland Security and Virginia wouldn’t have let him go because they lacked experts.”

[that···]

The PD hesitated. He couldn’t hide his slightly embarrassed look.

“······.”

[···It seems like you really cherish your supercomputer.]

??? What does this mean? You want to save the supercomputer and move in yourself?

No. That’s what happened. He even came here himself to try to save a decommissioned supercomputer.

Now that I think about it, I just remembered what I was talking about with Hood. It seems like optimization is lagging. If we had a supercomputer expert, it would help with optimization and everything.

“Tell them that once they move in here, they can’t leave. If they insist on leaving, we’ll let them out, but they can’t come back in, so tell them to think carefully before making a decision.”

[Do you plan to receive it?]

“Yes. They are different from regular computers, and the supercomputer here seems a bit special.”

It was like trying to scrap it because it had an error message, and the Department of Homeland Security was trying to stop it from being scrapped. It was an extraordinary supercomputer in many ways, even for Maru, so it would have been good to have someone who knew about it.

[···Yes, I understand. And there is someone from the Middle East who applied for residency.]

“The Middle East?”

They said it became a worldwide topic of conversation, but in the Middle East too?

[A Saudi Arabian prince has applied for residency. What should we do?]

I don’t know if it’s in English-speaking countries or Europe, but out of the blue, the Middle East? And the 6th prince of Saudi Arabia? The PD had to have a big name for him to just reject it.

“What do you think?”

[If you need funds, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to allow them to move in.]

“No. Why are you coming all the way from Saudi Arabia? The situation in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East is not good.”

[···It is not certain, but the internal power struggle seems to be intensifying and the fighting with the Yemeni Houthi rebels seems to be getting more serious.]

Maru didn’t know, but the internal power struggles among the royal families and nobles in the Middle East were truly brutal. Assassinations also occurred frequently.

“The situation is dire, so I want to get out of here.”

[Yes.]

The Middle East was complicated. Especially if you had power, you never knew what kind of troubles would come out of having someone like that move in.

If you consider that in an Arab country, with a wife and bodyguards, you would have to bring in about 100 people to accommodate one prince.

I don’t have any qualifications or abilities. I have a force of about 100 armed people, who are supposed to be security guards? It wasn’t a good thing. I didn’t lack money, and I wouldn’t be short on it in the future.

Isn’t Ms. Kim still working hard and earning dollars? She’s also receiving generous sponsorships. In the future, what’s important isn’t money. It’s tangible goods and stability.

“Please refuse.”

[Yes, I will make sure to convey that.]

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Wheeeeeeing-

Four drones that move around the exosuit as if escorting it.

If it was a 2-drone, I would have only been able to see the front and back, front and back, left and right, but with a 4-drone, I could see all four directions at once, so there were no blind spots. In addition, the AI ​​automatically did the pre-emptive reconnaissance, which was really convenient. As expected, a 4-drone.

When there was no such thing, Kim Yang would feel nostalgic when she thought about how she had worked and how hard she had worked at the company. When she thought about how she had suffered so much but had not been able to eat beef properly, she felt a surge of anger.

Honestly, compared to back then, it wasn’t that hard now. The welfare of beef was secure, and the sponsorship was solid. If there was a problem, there was also Baekjeong Call.

‘There are also gold bars.’

After nearly three hours of searching along Lake Huron, nothing particularly stood out.

It’s March, but it’s still chilly in this area. There were places with thin ice around the park and walking paths, and there was still a little bit of unmelted snow under the shade of the trees.

‘There’s really nothing?’

What did you see here?

“No traces until the 11th Eastern District.”

[Chick- Confirmed.]

Unit 2 responded. Baekjeong must have gone somewhere.

“Search of District 12 begins.”

Kim Yang started to head north. He had a light lunch of beef kimbap in the middle and searched again. He searched for almost 4 hours, but found nothing. The sun was slowly setting, and it would soon be evening.

“No trace of Northeastern District 4.”

[Beep – Confirmed.]

Isn’t this just going to go around and around like this for a few days?

No. No. No.

진짜 뭔 개새끼도 없는데 늑대는 무슨, 아무것도 없구만.

huh?

Miss Kim tilted her head.

Nothing?

Not even one??

I fast-forwarded through the footage shot by the four drones on the HUD (head-up display). Nothing was visible in the footage shot by the four drones.

So you didn’t see a single cat, rat, or bird during the whole day you searched? And you’re saying that in an American park, there aren’t any animals?

I didn’t even see anyone. No matter how much they say it’s a mutant virus, what kind of people are Americans? What kind of people are people around Detroit? It was ridiculous that there weren’t any people all day because the weather was cool.

Tingle-

Kim Yang pulled the trigger.

Crunch.