Rust - Chapter 225



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RUST -225

Kim Yang quickly moved to a place near Lake Huron, where there was a view of the trails and roads.

The place where we settled down was on top of a large rock. If we went down a little, we could go towards Lake Huron, and if we went to the side, there was a walking path and a road. It was an easy place to escape.

As soon as we got into a favorable position for airborne attack, we started to operate the drones and keep watch.

“Current location. Check.”

[Chiiik- Location confirmed.]

“In the vicinity of the search area. Please check if there are any missing persons reports.”

[Beep- Confirming missing person report in the search area.]

Hood’s voice modulation was particularly jarring to listen to today.

It takes a long time. It’s slow.

It was Kim Yang who was starting to get on my nerves. Unit 2. Unit 2 who had no sense.

Wrapped up tightly? That was understandable. But refusing a company dinner, and refusing a Hanwoo Topp company dinner at that.

There is a saying that a person cannot even eat meat. On top of that, he is a vegetarian. Is he in his right mind? In Kim Yang’s opinion, vegetarianism is a mental illness.

An instinct that runs strong in the genes of mankind. If going against the instinct for meat isn’t mental illness, what else could it be? That’s why I was pretending not to know and keeping my senses sharp.

As expected, there was something the vegetarian was hiding. He had stopped looking for Samantha, the artificial intelligence he had always talked about, for some reason.

It was the same now. If there was an AI like Samantha, it would have been done already, but I was still making them wait.

If we use AI to process tasks faster, we don’t use it. Then where did that AI go? What do we do with that AI?

After thinking about it a lot, Ms. Kim frowned as she developed a headache.

Good thoughts. Think meat. Think gold.

The throbbing headache slowly subsided.

‘Vegetarian. I’ll have to try it next time I go back.’

Whether it will be the 2nd one, RIP. We’ll find out when we see it.

[Chijik – Three people were reported missing in a village 7km southwest of the location, and five people were reported missing in a village 8km northwest.]

“CCTV···. We will analyze the CCTV footage from the two villages and nearby parks and send it to you to see if there were any wild animals seen in the past week.”

[Beep-···One week’s worth?]

“Wouldn’t it be quick if we used AI? It was the same last time, right? Just analyze it and send it to me.”

You’re not even going to answer now? Okay. Let’s go back and see.

Kim Yang, who had raised the altitude of the 4th drone and made it scan a 1km radius, saw something flash on his HUD (Heads Up Display). It was something that seemed to pass by quickly because it was moving at a fairly fast speed. It was something that could be seen from about 1.5~2km away.

Kim Yang set the target area on the drone to confirm and played the video in slow motion. It looked like a shadow, but it wasn’t a shadow.

And it was quite fast. About 4 seconds to move about 100 meters? In the animal world, cheetahs and Thomson’s gazelles are said to be able to achieve such speeds, but only in full-out sprinting situations. But the animal in the video did so even though it didn’t look like it was sprinting.

“When will the video be analyzed?”

[······.]

“Hey… Look for a nearby zoo that’s been hit by an accident. It’s good that there were casualties, and it’s also good that there were escaped animals. Quick.”

[······.]

Ms. Kim immediately picked up the phone.

‘If you come out like that, I have Baekjeong.’

Ms. Kim, who immediately calls Baekjeong.

???

The phone didn’t work. There was no antenna.

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Control room

A person with a slightly regrettable head of hair smiled brightly in front of Maru. The last time I saw him, I was impressed by his regrettable head of hair and sagging dark circles under his eyes, and he was still the same.

“What about Tria?”

It was a doctor who asked about the supercomputer’s well-being without any greetings or anything. I wondered why he kept feeling so sorry, and he seemed younger than I thought.

When I saw him from afar or at a glance, I thought he was over 40, but when I looked closely, there were no wrinkles around his eyes. There were no wrinkles on his neck either. So he was in his early 30s?

So that’s why I felt sorry. Maru looked at the hood after realizing the reason why he felt sorry for other people’s hair.

Since you mentioned things like supercomputer initialization and optimization, Hood would know.

Following Maru’s gaze, the doctor turned his head and saw the hood tightly wrapped around his entire body, then reached out his hand.

“Hello. I’m Jack Neese. How’s our Tria?”

[··· Optimization in progress···]

“What? Optimization? Optimization! You just laid a hand on Tria? Who are you? What do you do to our Tria?”

The excited doctor grabbed Hood by the collar and started shaking him.

Jjal jjal jjal – The hood that had been shaking back and forth suddenly pushed down the doctor’s arm that had grabbed his collar. It was a cleaner movement than expected, as if he had learned some self-defense techniques.

Hook- The arm snapped down, and the hood of the head hit the doctor’s face as his body leaned forward. Crunch- With a thud, the doctor fell backwards.

Sigh!

The doctor covered his nose and pointed his finger at the hood. A drop of blood flowed out from between his fingers covering his nose.

“Da… You. Are you crazy? What did you do to Tria? Huh?”

The sold-out hood shuddered and suddenly let out a loud scream. It was a speaker-splitting sound, probably because the pitch was higher than the voice modulator could produce.

[Trianji what the hell is that fucking piece of shit computer!]

“Again. Again. A piece of shit computer? Insulting Tria? You. You···.”

[It’s a crappy computer! Our Samantha went to optimize it. How crappy of a computer is it that it’s still···]

“Samantha? I don’t know what it is, but is that something that’s touching our Tria? Whatever it is, it would have been torn apart by now. Ha- This is so ugly.”

‘Whether it was a computer or a program, the moment it touched Tria, it was over.’ The hood exploded at the doctor’s grumbling.

[It’s over? It’s splitting up?]

What on earth did you do to that damn supercomputer to make her say something like that? Samantha, are you going to go? What did you do to it?

[Dieeeeeeeeeee!!!]

Hood tackled the doctor who was getting up awkwardly. The doctor and Hood, who was standing up with one hand covering his bleeding nose, became entangled and started rolling on the floor.

These people are real. People are right next to them, but they’re just going their own way? Maru was dumbfounded.

The two entangled people were torn apart, but they were still glaring at each other as if they were going to kill each other. Even now, if Maru wasn’t there, they would have fought each other in a close combat. It was a headache, as if they had met a mortal enemy, an adversary they would fight to the death.

“You want to control our Tria with that artificial intelligence? That’s why people without philosophy or ideology always cause accidents.”

[That damn piece of shit computer. Let’s see if it still makes that sound even after our Samantha has squeezing and scraping it.]

“···Do you know why Tria is made up of three? Do you know the meaning implied by the structure itself?”

[What does it mean? It’s obvious what people who make crappy computers think. Isn’t it just imitating Japanese animation?]

“That’s why I say that those who lack basic knowledge are ignorant. The body of Tria is a design that structurally embodies Hegel’s dialectical diagram.”

[Why? Why don’t you hit 30 instead of 3?]

“···So, any program, whether it’s hacking or taking control of Tria, needs to occupy three places at the same time, but the connection cable is only connected to one side, so what’s going to happen? That means it’s physically impossible. That means no matter what you do inside, it’ll be a 2:1 ratio. Heh- heh- In the end, it’ll just split and become Tria’s nutrient. Do you understand?”

[Soyang? Dialectics? She’s good at packaging. Do you know what our Samantha is? She’s an artificial intelligence that complements and evolves on her own. 2:1? Huh- If you think you can suppress Samantha with just a few pages, you’re mistaken. If that shitty computer had a perfect structure on its own, as you say, wouldn’t our Samantha have died a long time ago? But what’s the reality? Soon, Samantha will perfectly train that wretched Tria and use her as a slave.]

“Joe. Assistant? Slave? Vulgar[email protected]@%$^&$&^$”

Maru, who was listening to the two people arguing, felt something was a little strange.

‘So you’re saying that you just put the artificial intelligence Samantha into a supercomputer?’

It also seemed quite old. No matter what anyone said, this building was Maru’s own. And everything inside it was everything.

Whether it was a modular nuclear power plant or a supercomputer, it was all his. But he installed AI in the supercomputer? He said he was optimizing it, but instead, he was criticizing AI?

‘Are you trying to say that you’re trying to optimize by installing artificial intelligence?’

Maru’s eyes scanned the hood. You’ve worked really hard. You’ve been a great help, and I thought you were doing pretty well…

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Even though communication was cut off, Ms. Kim did not panic.

It didn’t matter whether the communication failure was caused by Hood’s trickery or something else. What mattered was the situation now.

Perhaps because she couldn’t get Baekjeong’s help, Kim Yang’s concentration increased endlessly. She didn’t miss even the smallest reaction.

A drone monitoring the surroundings captured something. As expected, it was a blurry image. After analyzing the footage, there was a 90% chance that it was a wolf. The north side of Detroit was surrounded by lakes, like a peninsula.

This means that the terrain is not one that wolves can cross from, either north or east. So where did the wolf come from? Is there really only one wolf?

Wild dogs also moved in packs. But wolves? Their intuition was not good. They were lurking about 1.5 to 2 km away. They clearly knew where they were coming from.

‘It’s big.’

‘The monster cat was also incredibly large.’

Even though I only saw it vaguely through the unclear image, I could tell that it was huge. It moved left and right as if it wanted me to notice it, and occasionally looked up at the sky.

‘Do you know what a drone is?’

Kim Yang piloted the drone and moved it towards the sky where the guy was. Wheeing- The guy’s ears perked up at the low motor noise and he stopped in place.

It felt like the drone footage and my mind were connected. The muzzle of the 12.7mm machine gun was aimed at a target 1.7km away. The ammunition was a $60 high-explosive incendiary armor-piercing bullet.

The moment the guy who had been watching the drone with his ears perked up turned his head and looked in the direction where Ms. Kim was, fire erupted from the muzzle.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo

The muzzle fired 12 bullets in an instant. The bullets flew straight because the solidity of the exosuit suppressed recoil.

The bastard tried to run away as if he sensed something strange, but the bullet was faster.

puck-

Once I got hit, the bastard stopped moving. And then

P-p …

The 12.7mm high-explosive incendiary armor-piercing bullets that struck his entire body lit up with sparks. Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed as he saw the guy fall down with a thud, emitting smoke like burning meat.

‘12.7mm. Hit by a high-explosive incendiary armor-piercing shell, but still maintains its shape?’

It was a bullet that would shatter a person if it hit them. Even if it was a large wolf, it would have been torn apart, but it didn’t shatter. It was definitely a mutated monster.

Should I move?

Communication is cut off, and it is dangerous to request backup.

‘I told you to retreat immediately if something looks strange. So this isn’t my fault.’

To check the escape route, Ms. Kim is scouting the area with a drone. She cannot escape to the lake, so the shortest course is to run along the waterside promenade toward Detroit.

I had the map spread out on my HUD, checking the escape route, and a red dot appeared.

Beep-

Beep beep- beep beep beep-

The red dots started to increase one by one. The number was six. Incredible speed. Speed ​​that could run 100m in 2~3 seconds. I noticed them about 2km ago, but they approached me within 1.8km in an instant.

My eyes got hot as soon as I realized it.

My head felt like it was going to burn from the sharp, sharp sensation.

The images sent by the drone and the direction of the bullet that I had imagined in my head began to mix together. It felt like the target and the muzzle were truly connected.

Kim Yang aligned the muzzle of the gun with the imaginary line as if possessed. The trigger was pulled naturally.

Tudadadadadak-

A thick shell fell to the ground and rolled.

Ting ti ding- Two wolves, running sideways like bullets bouncing off rocks, fell over and got tangled up.

1.2km 3 horses.

Thud thud.

2 horses. 800m

One who evades in a zigzag manner, another who uses cover to rush in the shortest distance. As soon as I choose one, flames burst out of the muzzle.

Tadadadang 600m

There’s only one left.

The gun barrel was on fire, the eyes were burning, the head was hot. It wasn’t pain, but a cool feeling.

It felt like the gun, the drone, and myself were one. When I fired the gun, I could directly imagine how the bullet would fly and where it would hit.

The footage taken by the drone felt like I was seeing it in person. It was so vivid and real.

ha-

Miss Kim let out a sigh of relief without realizing it.

The moment when you aim your gun at the last one desperately rushing towards you.

Knock. Knock.

There was a sound of water drops falling.