Rust - Chapter 230



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RUST -230

In the hospital room, Hood, Xenia Rodden looked at her right arm again and again.

White skin. Not the skin that was distorted and bruised by burns, but smooth and clean skin.

Fingers spread wide, fingers spread out to the left and right.

Straight fingers, without a single trace of the melted substance being forcibly removed. The white nails were pretty.

“iced coffee-”

How could this happen? How could this happen?

A misty moisture rose above the burnt eyelids.

Tears flowing down.

What the heck? How did this happen?

The joy and surprise were short-lived. Then I noticed my left arm, still intact.

I felt my face and it was the same.

Why? Why? Why? Why?

Why? Only the right arm? Why?

It’s treatable. It’s treatable. It was fixable.

“Ah- ah- ah-ah-ah-”

A desperate sound like a squeak came out of my mouth.

[Xenia. Calm down.]

“Samantha. Samantha. It was fixable. Samantha.”

It was a hood that made a gurgling sound like vomiting.

[There was medicine, but it was too little.]

“It’s not there anymore?”

In that case, you should have treated the face, not the arm.

“Who treated you?”

“who is this?”

I don’t know who he is, but he must be someone who doesn’t understand a woman’s heart.

No. It’s obvious that the face is more important than the arms for a person, whether male or female. But you treated the arms first, not the face? That person must not know the human heart. Yes, Samantha.

[This is the representative.]

Representative? Vladimir Kalin? The owner of the building.

A sword strike that broke the laws of physics came to mind. And then the memory that followed. The pain of being beaten. Kim Yang’s cold smile behind the gun pointed at his head.

‘Good luck with your vegetarian diet. Take care of your eyes.’

bang!

Hood, who flinched without realizing it, trembled and screamed.

“That woman. Gun.”

“The woman who shot me. What happened to her?”

Samantha confirmed what Ms. Kim looked like at the time. She was on her knees, holding up both hands. So this was…

[I was punished.]

In terms of data, that’s what happened. The blue light was flickering.

“You said you were punished.”

[······.]

The blue light flickered at the feeling of Xenia’s persistence.

“Dead?”

[······.]

You didn’t kill her? You were going to kill Samantha and yourself at once, but you still didn’t kill her because you had a long relationship?

“You got kicked out?”

[······.]

She wasn’t even expelled? Then what kind of punishment was she given? Was she locked in solitary confinement? She didn’t seem to be uncomfortable in solitary confinement at all. All I could think of was her rolling around in her room.

“What kind of punishment did you receive!”

[···Food restriction punishment.]

Oh? You starved me?

Hood thought of the woman who almost killed him.

I couldn’t just leave it alone. When I was so hungry that I had no strength…

[Xenia. If you want to heal the burn, you must not cause any trouble.]

“How do you know what we did?”

[Calm down, Xenia. And think about it.]

“······.”

The Hood, who had been unable to hold back his anger, gradually calmed down. It would have been possible if Samantha had taken control of all the supercomputer units. However, two out of the three units were occupied by other AIs.

Information disruption is impossible, and information manipulation is also impossible. The bald doctor’s artificial intelligence was always eyeing Samantha. If he was caught causing trouble in this situation, Samantha would probably be discarded. He would also be in danger.

I never thought you’d react so sensitively to Samantha being moved to a supercomputer. If you think about it, isn’t the problem that there was an AI of Dr. Bald in the supercomputer?

Why are you only doing this with our Samantha? If Samantha wasn’t there, wouldn’t the doctor’s AI have done it alone in the supercomputer? Because Samantha was there, the system of keeping each other in check became what it is now. If Samantha wasn’t there, wouldn’t we have been affected without knowing?

‘How can I get a cure?’

‘What does Bloody Maru want?’

A blue light enveloped the hood, lost in thought.

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Mr. Kim’s chopsticks were trembling.

Isn’t it really bad to discriminate against people based on what they eat?

‘No meat for the time being.’

How cruel. How cruel. How can you do that and then eat only yourself?

Is that something you would do in front of someone? Let’s say your finger slips and you poke a hole in the pumpkin. Is that really such a bad thing to do?

Cheeeeeeek-

The sound of oil dripping onto the charcoal struck a chord in Kim Yang’s heart.

Across from Maru, where they were leisurely eating beef in twos and threes, a table full of vegetables was spread out in front of Kim Yang. Here was a bunch of grass, there was aquatic plants, and here was mold.

Mushrooms? Isn’t that mold?

Brrrrrr-

Vegetarian. 5 vegetarian. Not even 9-vegetarian, but 5 vegetarian.

Because of that kid, I can’t even eat properly.

What about unit 2?

That’s just fucking vegetarian.

forgiveness?

Forgiveness is a no-no.

There’s no way a guy who can’t come to his senses even after being hit will come to his senses.

Gulp-

My hungry stomach, ravenous with anger, begged for food.

Kim Yang picked up the stir-fried mushrooms with trembling chopsticks.

Well well.

I was even more upset because the bulgogi had a subtle taste of shiitake mushrooms.

Kim Yang, who was chewing on stir-fried mushrooms, closed her eyes.

5 When the gun was aimed at the pumpkin of the vegetarian, the fear of death bloomed in the pupils of the vegetarian that were round like taro.

The trigger was pulled to make that fear a reality, and at the same time, the cherry tomato hit the barrel of the Glock-17.

I wouldn’t have noticed it before, but I definitely noticed it right before the cherry tomatoes hit the barrel.

I was able to compensate for the slight impact and completely miss the target, and put the bullet in. If I had just hit it a little better, if I had just felt it a little better, I could have ruptured the vegetarian’s subclavian artery. If I had killed him with one shot, he would be eating meat right now. Because once he dies, it’s over.

Well well

Hey see-

You’ve become really good at shooting, but you’re a really high-level person, but you’re just a bunch of idiots? Is that okay?

Kim Yang glared at the floor with wide eyes.

‘Is this what happens if you eat too much?’

Despite Kim Yang’s protests, Maru took three pieces at once and put them in his mouth. The meat juice was slightly visible. Maru’s lips, glistening with fat, did not allow Kim Yang to eat the meat.

The meat on the grill is getting smaller and smaller. Baekjeong eats it like a devil, going from 3 points to 4 points and 5 points.

The aroma of beef grilled over charcoal pounded Yang Kim’s heart.

Brrrrrr-

Kim Yang was so sad. What is this? It was the vegetarian’s fault.

Maru swallowed hard and wiped his lips with a napkin as he spoke.

“Shooting is good, but is it okay to kill someone who has a lot of work to do?”

“···no.”

Kim Yang’s voice was moist. Maru nodded.

“Still, it’s a lot better than before. It was a good thing you didn’t pull out your gun right away.”

At first, didn’t the kid just turn around and try to blow the nurse’s head off without warning? Thinking back to that time, Miss Kim had really become much better.

Maru was always wary of anger management.

It is true that I sometimes had the urge to just cut everything up and leave in a flash. I was confident that I wouldn’t starve wherever I went as long as I had a good knife.

But shouldn’t people have at least one place where they can live warmly and eat well? That’s why I worked hard and became a building owner.

As a building owner, anger management became easy. If you couldn’t hold it in for a moment and had to run away after cutting it, wouldn’t it be so frustrating? Where are you going with this? You made it so good and now you want me to do good things for others?

Maru’s anger was so well controlled. The owner of the building. The life of a perfect owner of a building with the latest facilities. When you have plenty of free time, your anger is naturally controlled.

“What was the slogan at the hotel?”

“Let’s be nice. Let’s think and shoot.”

“Yeah. You were doing well, so why did you do that? Think about it a little more.”

“···I thought about it. There’s something wrong with that hood. It’s true.”

Ms. Kim protested strongly.

“know.”

“······.”

Hood lost his parents and friends in an instant while he was a child, fearlessly setting up a fire. He also suffered permanent burns. Wouldn’t it be more unusual for a child who went through such an experience to be normal?

“I’ve seen those kids cause trouble.”

Kim Yang himself had his own problems. There were times when he would lose his taste because of things like ‘fog.’, ‘the past.’, and ‘abandonment.’ The fog was particularly poisonous. Now, it has been neatly treated with Baekjeong.

“Everyone has problems. Is there anyone these days who doesn’t have problems?”

If you look closely, it wasn’t just the hood that was the problem. Wasn’t the doctor who sneaked in also a problem? I thought the name of the supercomputer was Tria, but it turned out to be the name of the artificial intelligence that was in the supercomputer.

Considering the fact that the doctor came in without telling him, it was actually a good thing that Hood’s artificial intelligence Samantha went in and split the supercomputer unit.

‘If you put it that way, then.’ Ms. Kim nodded slightly.

Maru was happy to see Kim Yang like that. It certainly seemed like her anger management disorder had improved a lot. She had to admit it. She really had improved a lot.

As I gently pushed the meat on the grill forward, Kim Yang quickly picked up three pieces and gave a bashful look. Maru couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight of her extremely happy face.

Cheeeeeeek-

The delicious sound of meat cooking echoed throughout the room.

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The artificial intelligence Samantha was quite capable.

Perhaps because the supercomputer he was sitting on was a unit of a different dimension, it started doing incredible things in an instant.

They hacked all the mobile phones and CCTVs in the area around where Ki-soon was, and took control of all the devices that could access the internet, including computers. It was definitely an analysis and hacking ability on a whole other level.

So, in just one day, Samantha succeeded in finding traces of Gisoon. From the moment she caught the tail, Samantha showed what artificial intelligence could do.

[There is a 92.11% chance that it will be in these 3 places.]

Samantha succeeded in identifying the place where Kisun was believed to have disappeared.

“Then how do I bring it?”

[Virginia is a good option, through the Department of Homeland Security.]

It was difficult for Maru to go to Korea and bring Kisun back. Civilian aircraft operations were restricted due to the bird strike incident.

In that case, we would have to travel by military aircraft, but it is not possible to avoid accidents just because it is a military aircraft, and the procedures for mobilizing a military aircraft were complicated.

Since flights were not available, the only option was to take a boat. It would take a month for a round trip. In a situation like now, where things change rapidly, I couldn’t leave the building empty for a month.

“So, instead of taking care of the work here, let’s bring a friend from Korea?”

[This is the most feasible solution.]

“Okay. Let’s contact them and we’ll find out.”

Maru immediately called Director Dan Brown of the Department of Homeland Security. After hearing the whole story, the director answered in a voice that sounded like it would pierce the floor.

[···So, are you saying that since Mr. Bernard Green is in Korea, you would like to ask Virginia to bring him?]

“yes.”

[If there is anything you need, I can help you, but only within the continental United States?]

“Yes.”

The manager sighed and said it was difficult.

[Things are getting worse in Japan. The fighting with the Chinese army is getting fiercer, and armed clashes with the physically enhanced Japanese are becoming more frequent. In fact, the place where Mr. Vladimir Kalin is needed the most is the Japanese front.]

“······.”

[Virginia and the military have been requesting the draft of Vladimir Kalin for some time now. We have been opposing the draft on the grounds that we are preparing for an emergency in the country.]

“······.”

Oh, I didn’t know that.

[But, colleague. If you ask them to bring a friend and offer to do the work in return for the request, wouldn’t they naturally ask you to go to Japan? Or just stay in the US mainland? In Virginia, they would secure a friend and ask you to do some work for them for a few years in return.]

If it was Virginia, it would definitely be more than that.

When I heard the story, the military was in chaos. They said that some crazy woman was attacking the American soldiers. She suddenly attacked them and said, “Where are my guns?” and then killed them all.

A woman who appears to be a body enhancer, armed with a Russian-made 12.7mm assault machine gun and revolver, which are used by Chinese special forces operating in Japan. I thought it might be that woman, but the Chinese military also said that more than one platoon was annihilated after being attacked by that woman.

There’s a woman who attacks the United States and China at the same time? Is that crazy? Maru didn’t know who she was, but he respected her.

[She has great marksmanship, is good at combat, and deals a lot of damage. The military seems to want Vladimir Kalin to catch her.]

“Even though there are armored personnel carriers?”

[The military said that they couldn’t capture the crazy woman because she avoided engaging the armored soldiers, but separate information says that several armored soldiers were also hit.]

“That’s amazing.”

I thought of the armored soldier I saw in Japan. It was about 3.5 to 4.5 meters tall. It was a humanoid robot that could adapt to various environments and was an all-weather weapon. You defeated that armored soldier? And you did it alone?

A feeling of warmth rising in my chest. Victory?

Maru swallowed the heat again. As if he had noticed Maru’s feelings, Manager Dan Brown secretly sent him a file.

-Tiring

[Here’s a video of the military and Virginia engaging with a woman codenamed ‘Witch.’ Take a look.]

“Open it with a monitor.”

I played the file Samantha sent on a large screen.