Rust - Chapter 237



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RUST -237

Nagano, Japan. Base of the New Japan Alliance.

It was mid-to-late March, and the city was groaning under heavy snowfall. The aftershocks and heavy snowfall continued, causing many houses to collapse and break, and people who had fled the monsters gradually gathered, causing a serious shortage of basic necessities.

The lips of the old man, Shinta Kadama, quivered as he looked at the map. The place marked in red was far back.

“The Americans have pulled back their supply base.”

“I guess it’s because the forward base collapsed due to an attack by Chinese special forces.”

After fighting the Chinese guards in Nagano and the retreating American troops, and mopping up the remaining Chinese troops, they succeeded in securing the massive amount of supplies accumulated in Nagano, but the amount of necessities needed to feed a city was truly enormous.

China requested additional supplies, saying that the Chinese army was annihilated during the battle with the US army and that supplies were lost during the fighting, and received supplies from the US army, saying that humanitarian aid for refugees was needed, but neither side sent enough.

Unable to use large transport ships due to US coastal surveillance, China withdrew from Nagano and focused its efforts on other supply cities.

The US military sent supplies, but after several interruptions, they gave up on further supplies and told the people in Nagano to evacuate to western Japan.

Both sides abandoned Nagano. With neither the US nor China willing to save Nagano, the New Japan Alliance, short of supplies, ended up even raiding the US military supply base.

“How much food is left?”

“If we distribute it like we are doing now, it will take about 30 days.”

“No. I think it’s going to be tough to hold out for even 15 days.”

Kiriko Kadama said, handing over the documents.

“The number of refugees arriving every day is so high that it is difficult to count them.”

The rate at which refugees were arriving was too fast.

“It also seems true that the mutant monsters there are affected by the weather.”

Perhaps because the weather has cleared up, mutant monsters have been spotted in a wider area. Fortunately, a few days of cold spells are expected, but it looks like spring weather will continue after this snowstorm. There is a high possibility that the mutant monsters near Tokyo will move north.

Even if they moved their base, they needed food. They had to hold out at least until the harvest this fall.

‘Waiting for the harvest in the 21st century.’

The old man was filled with indignation. Why did Japan suffer such hardships? Why did the great plan collapse before it even began?

If everything had gone according to plan, the United States would have been driven out, the Pacific would have been divided in half, and Japan would have become a giant nation that encompassed half of the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia.

The opportunity to overthrow American hegemony through the Japan-China-Russia alliance was right in front of us. If we had waited 10 years, no, 5 years, we could have taken revenge. In the new world order, Japan would have risen to the top. But how did it come to this?

“···Japan rises again.”

Even though it is like this now, Japan will rise again.

Because the heavens have not yet abandoned Japan. At the end of the disaster. At the bottom of hell, Japan became the mother of the new human race. The place where the most physically enhanced new human races are born is here. This place. It was Japan.

Why do China and the United States keep pushing their military forces? Isn’t it because Japan holds the secret of evolution?

“What would you do with an offer from China?”

A proposal to cooperate in infiltrating the United States by disguising special forces from the Northern Theater Command of China as Japanese.

“If you send us enough food to feed 100,000 people for three months, we will actively cooperate.”

“100,000 for 3 months? Isn’t that too much to ask?”

“Hmph- If you just collect a single chopstickful of food from each of the 1.5 billion Chinese people, you’ll get that much. If they were so inclined, they’d send it.”

“Can it evade US maritime surveillance?”

“There is no need to break through. If they say they will provide food aid on humanitarian grounds, can the US stop them? Rather, they are using the excuse of providing us with food aid as an opportunity to bring in a large quantity of supplies for the expeditionary force. Even though they know it is obvious, they are doing so.”

People were paying attention to the old man’s mouth. Kadama Shinta spoke while receiving the gazes of those people.

“All we have to do is sell information to the US that China is trying to infiltrate special forces into the US mainland, and that’s all we have to do to induce food aid.”

As soon as the old man finished speaking, a young woman’s voice was heard from the other side of the wall.

“That’s an interesting story.”

A young woman’s voice? No, was it a young woman’s voice? The accent was unique. A foreigner?

“Who are you!”

Instead of an answer, the entire window sash was ripped off. A languid voice drifted inside through the cold, swirling snowstorm.

“I mean, I have business in America.”

“What year are you?”

“How did you get in here?”

“Don’t move!”

The moment the people inside were about to take out their weapons, five gunshots shook the room.

The people who were about to draw their guns, the people who had just pulled their swords out of their sheaths, the people who had jumped up from their seats, all had their heads blown off.

The result of a 12.7mm bullet equally crushing the skulls of both enhanced and normal people. People crumble like straw bales.

A thick scent of blood and steam rose from among the brains and debris that were scattered excitedly on the floor.

A moment that lasts less than a second. 0.3 seconds? 0.4 seconds?

Even the body-enhanced people couldn’t tell when the guns were drawn or how they were shot. The old man, the secretary, Kiriko, and the few others who were sitting there in a serious manner were unable to move.

Ting ting-ting-

The sound of a thick cartridge falling to the floor from a huge revolver. Even after watching the leisurely reloading of bullets, the old man, Shinta Kadama, could not draw his sword. He could not stand up.

Ppoduk-

Although he could not hide his expression full of resentment, the old man could not hold the sword. Looking at the old man, the woman suddenly flashed her white eyes and said.

“Should I wait?”

“You······.”

Kiriko shouted, as if to block out the trembling voice of the old man.

“Grandpa! Be patient! And you. What do you want?”

The woman’s sparkling eyes scanned Kiriko.

“I told you I had business in America.”

Crazy bitch.

Kiriko was speechless when she saw the crazy woman laughing whitely in front of her.

I have business in the US, so why am I here…

Wheeeeeek

Moist snowflakes blew in through the torn window.

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Chief Dan Brown closed his eyes after reading the autopsy report.

Two people died of cardiac arrest. Three dogs also died of cardiac arrest. Two dogs that survived suffered from paralysis and were unable to control their bowel movements as soon as they started to convulse and were euthanized.

The following is a list of injured people.

One person is unconscious in the intensive care unit, two people are paralyzed on one side of the body due to cerebral hemorrhage of unknown cause, one person has a crushed jaw joint and will have to eat only gruel for the rest of their life, one person has lost seven teeth including a wisdom tooth and has a glass jaw, one person has eight broken ribs, and one person has a fractured shin and knee joint and will likely have to use a cane.

If you think about it, there are even people who show signs of mental illness…

And all of this happened in less than a minute.

Chief Den Brown exhaled a puff of smoke and went back to square one.

‘Is this kid a real person?’

I suspected it last time, but it’s definitely a human baby. We actually talked face to face and had a video call.

Still, that’s not true. This isn’t it.

Is it normal for a kid to cripple four adult men with his bare hands without even holding a knife? What about a sudden heart attack and cerebral hemorrhage? Is it mental illness?

I guess it’s because it’s a movie, but this is…

No. I would only bother with it if it made sense medically.

If you’re going to die, you all die, and if you’re going to be okay, you all have to be okay. Some people suffered from heart attacks, paralysis, and insanity, and no one knew what caused it.

Asking a mentally ill person why he or she is doing that is not going to give you an answer.

“It’s stuffy.”

First of all, the data is treated as top secret.

If the military saw this, they would definitely go crazy. Even if it wasn’t the military, if the information was released, there would definitely be some idiots who would come out and say things like, ‘Brainwash them into becoming super soldiers for the United States.’ It was obvious that they would fill the pockets of the undertakers.

Captivate? How?

Anesthesia? Are you out of your mind?

What if I fail? Will it be okay?

The Department of Homeland Security has even conducted simulations to prepare for the worst. The simulations showed that the only way to take down Vladimir Maru with minimal damage was through bombing, artillery fire, and a wide-area suppression using weapons of mass destruction.

Even if you go into a crowd of people in a big city, you have to be prepared for a lot of casualties. But you want to catch them? Do you want to commit suicide? What if you miss them? Do you say such things after watching the Japanese video?

It was a sudden, heartbreaking exaggeration.

Yeah, it was everyone’s fault.

The Marine Corps, Army, Homeland Security, and Virginia should have worked together to not release the Japanese footage. I really didn’t know that they could be so thoughtless to think about touching the footage.

Even the Virginians, who are famous for being persistent, say, “Let’s just get on with it” when it comes to things related to Vladimir. If you know that, shouldn’t you be able to get a feel for it?

If you think about it, it’s a line that was changed in Virginia, so it’s worth touching it as a crime of contempt, but they didn’t do it. It means that they know it too. If you touch it wrong, you won’t get your principal back.

But those who were lacking in the content kept poking around as if they had to eat shit to know what it tastes like. And no matter how fast you regret it, it’s always too late. Before you have a seizure, you shouldn’t have done something you’d regret in the first place.

Just when you thought the tantrums had calmed down, the state government was now starting to poke at them. This time, if the Homeland Security agents weren’t there, there was a place waiting to take a step.

The incident in South Dakota was an accident, but the other two locations revealed that they were targeting Vladimir Maru. In other words, they were planning to frame Vladimir Maru as a criminal and have him caught and manipulated by the state government.

I don’t know where or what they heard to come up with such a stupid idea, but that’s the point. The state government started doing this without the knowledge of the federal government.

‘It’s a mess.’

Chief Dan Brown lit the fire again at the beginning of the year. He couldn’t just sit there and do nothing.

The Department of Homeland Security was an agency that was created by consolidating the subordinate organizations of several agencies. As a result, it maintained connections with previous agencies, and was able to easily obtain information from other agencies. Likewise, information from within the Department of Homeland Security was also constantly leaking to other agencies.

Before the water could be changed, problems erupted from all sides. Literally explosively.

Even though they were mobilizing all the agents, both those who were and those who weren’t, and running around, the situation was gradually getting worse.

“Sir, this is an urgent request for assistance from Virginia.”

“If it’s related to Vladimir Maru, it’s impossible because the operation is currently in progress.”

“It is said that there are signs that an organization called the New Japan Alliance is attempting to invade our home country. It is said that the special forces of the Northern Theater of China have disappeared. It is said that the target is expected to be Korea or our home country.”

“Fuck!”

The New Japan Alliance was a pro-Chinese force centered around physically enhanced individuals. They attacked US military supply bases, stole supplies, and were known to have linked up with the Chinese military to attack US troops. It was a terrible situation to even think about such people coming to the mainland.

The Chinese Northern Theater Command was also a headache. The Northern Theater Command was the main warlord force currently engaged in unofficial warfare with the US military in Japan. The status of the special forces there was a major target of attention, but I missed where they went.

If they went to Korea or Japan, it would be fine, but if they really infiltrated the mainland, it would be dangerous. The Department of Homeland Security had to stop them, but they didn’t have the manpower. Damn manpower.

Manager Dan Brown checked the staffing board. There was only one place that could afford to cut staff right now.

“Return all but the bare minimum of staff in the Vladimir Maru building.”

“All right.”

We had no choice but to remove the personnel from the Vladimir Ark Tower. They said that once they left, they wouldn’t be allowed back in, but in the current situation, there was nothing we could do.

“From now on, we will be managing all Japanese and Chinese students and tourists, including Japantown and Chinatown. We will be checking thoroughly so that we don’t miss even a single rat that came in from outside.”

“ancient.”

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A wide forest is bound to contain a lot of life.

And now. The forest with the floor had only traces of life left. In mid-to-late March, the animals that were hibernating woke up from hibernation and were busy looking for food.

Have you ever wandered around Yellowstone National Park in the US, known as a wildlife paradise, for hours without seeing a single animal?

This is just weird.

[Video analysis results showed no animals were found.]

“yes?”

Maru looked around. The trees were bigger than he had thought, and the atmosphere was dark even though the sun was out.

“Let’s start with the repeater first.”

[I will specify the location.]

A sign appeared on the HUD (Heads Up Display). A large tree nearby. Maru got off the motorcycle and ran with light steps.

Tadadadadak-

The footprints that had been horizontal became vertical as they hit the tree.

Then, I jumped onto a thick branch extending to the side, grabbed the branch again, spun around, and jumped a few times. In no time, I arrived at the top of the tree.

[Please fix the repeater in place.]

When we embedded the repeater, which looked like a lunchbox, into the tree, the solar panels and antennas that were tightly attached to the repeater dug into the tree and opened up like an umbrella.

[Solar power generation- Good, signal reception- Good, motion detection sensor- Good, camera? Good. All functions are working normally.]

good.

The moment I landed on the ground, facing downwards like a swallow full of water, something caught my sense of the floor.

“Diana?”

[Not captured by sensors and cameras.]

Maru’s eyes narrowed.

No way···

Is it really that hard to live like this?

It felt like the primal killing intent was stabbing me in the eye.

Srrrrrrrr-

As soon as he pulled out his sword, something thick burst through the leaf litter.