Rust - Chapter 239
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RUST -239
A snake with its snout spread open towards the floor.
From the long fangs lying sideways. Swish- venom spurted out. Pak- Maru swung his sword and slashed the venom that shot out like a water gun with his scabbard, ripping open the jaw and cutting off the top and bottom of the head.
Cheeeeeeek-
A cloud of smoke rose from the scabbard. He wiped the venom-soaked scabbard on the split snake flesh. The body that had been writhing violently despite the upper part of its head being cut off slowly unraveled. Poisonous?
Taking advantage of the gap, he stepped on the head of the snake that was aiming for his ankle, causing its skull to cave in and its eyeballs to fall out. The snake, whose head was shattered, twisted its entire body with its tongue still bitten.
The moment when the snakes surrounding the front, back, left, and right rushed in at the same time… once again. The leg that had trampled the snake’s head spun half a turn, creating rotational force. At the end of that rotational force, a blade danced.
A soft gnawing sound filled the air, like the sound of termites gnawing at a house.
Square square square
Crustling rustling rustling
Two pieces. Three pieces. Four pieces. Five pieces.
The snakes that were rushing from all directions were torn apart as if they were being ground in a blender. The murderous intent of the floor burst through the reptiles’ characteristic bloody smell that was scattering in all directions.
‘I’ll just wipe you out!’
As I poured the neutralizer into my heated body, a white steam rose up from my entire body like a haze, as if I had poured water on lava.
Phew-uh-uh-
A thick murderous aura gushed out from the sea of blood. As the deep murderous aura settled on the ground, the bushes swayed as if the wind was blowing. The cold, chilled air settled heavily.
The snakes that had been leisurely swallowing the survivors from the crashed helicopter alive began to spit out the people and slowly hide in the bushes.
“Where!”
Pak- Maru ran a distance of about 10 meters in one stride and cut down the weeds as if he was cutting them with a weeder. The snake, split lengthwise, twisted its body as if it could not die.
The cries of those who were half-eaten and then spit out, unable to die. The black smoke rising from the crashed helicopter and the sound of corpses being roasted in flames created the smell of a battlefield.
They were telling me not to chase them because they were going to leave them behind. The snakes that had even spit out the people they were eating disappeared in an instant. The faint sounds disappeared like sand between the bushes and mud.
“This dog···.”
As the murderous intent spread, the eyes of the soldier nearby whose lower body was crushed rolled back. He looked as if he was about to lose his breath.
“Fuck!”
Maru forced himself to calm down.
“Diana. Did you hack the tactical cameras and erase them all?”
[Cameras connected to the Internet have been deleted.]
[There may be individually recorded footage.]
“okay.”
Maru searched and destroyed the tactical cameras on the bodies of the injured and the victims.
“What happened to the people who went over there?”
The guy who shook his head saying there were no CS bullets was alive. He must have held out like he was told not to run away and to fight. Those guys who ran away? What do you know? Maru said as he cut off the tactical camera attached to the soldier’s helmet with his knife.
“You probably did it on your own.”
“But… I have to go save him.”
“Who? You? Or me?”
The soldier, surprised by the cold reaction, kept his mouth shut like a mute who had eaten honey.
“What if I go? What about the wounded and the survivors? The moment I’m out of sight, the snakes will swarm here?”
“You didn’t run away?”
“So, since the snakes have escaped, let’s go find the scattered people? Then you can go and find them. Cheer up and save your comrades.”
There was nothing more to say. Was he out of his mind from the shock? It seemed like he didn’t even know what he was talking about. Did the guys who were known for ambushes completely run away? It was impossible to know.
It felt dirty. It felt like I was fighting highly trained guerrillas. I’ve never fought guerrillas before, but that’s what it must feel like.
“Diana. Tell me the current situation. Request additional assistance.”
[Requested. In order to understand the situation, we are requesting the footage recorded on the tactical camera.]
“I have footage captured on my camera. Just send me the parts where the helicopter is attacked, the reinforcements are ambushed, and the ambush.”
[Sent.]
“And there are two helicopters. Tell them to come down and pick up the wounded. We’ll collect the bodies later.”
A radio transmission came from the helicopter, which had dropped the medics and paramedics and was now ascending. It was a radio transmission that it was going to return.
“Stop being a jerk and tell them to come down and carry the wounded soldiers since I got rid of the snakes.”
The helicopters that had been scurrying around landed, quickly loaded up the wounded soldiers, and took off as if they were running away. And it was only after several hours that reinforcements arrived by helicopter.
“Here. There’s a metal reaction on this side!”
“Pull it up quickly!”
It was only when darkness fell that the bodies were finally recovered and the battlefield cleared.
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I couldn’t understand.
It’s not that I didn’t give them the information, I said tear gas is effective on animals. I said clearly that tear gas is a direct hit on rats, monster cats, and snub-nosed babies.
But the soldiers, medics, and paramedics who later came to collect the bodies did not have tear gas canisters.
Do you listen to what I say?
[That’s not it. It is said that they paid everything to the first search party that went up.]
[The soldiers who later arrived by helicopter were the ones who went up to collect the bodies, so they were only armed with basic weapons. Weren’t most of them medics and paramedics?]
So you’re saying that they were the ones sent to collect the bodies. But still, are the mentality of the National Guard guys this bad? Isn’t that the military?
[These were troops drafted from the State Defense Force due to a shortage of National Guard personnel.]
What kind of military is this complicated? So there are three: the Federal Army, the National Guard, and the National Guard?
So the first search party was made up of federal troops + National Guard members, and then the next ones to come to recover the bodies were National Guard members + medics + paramedics?
No. Then I should send more CS bullets.
[As I mentioned last time, CS bullets are in short supply. CS bullets are the lifeline of the troops stationed in Japan, so even though we are sending them to the troops stationed in Japan as soon as we produce them, there is still a shortage.]
If you want to survive in fucking Japan, CS bullets are a must.
[Production facilities are continuously being expanded, but the existing facilities themselves are so old and production is low that it will likely take at least several months to supply sufficient quantities.]
It took that long?
[Besides, didn’t Mr. Vladimir Kalin take a significant portion of the stock that had already been produced?]
“······.”
[The Minnesota and Michigan National Guards are already requesting emergency assistance due to a shortage of CS rounds.]
So, it was an indirect pressure to release some of the accumulated materials.
[Coyotes are increasingly attacking civilian homes, and it is difficult to stop them with the shotguns and hunting rifles that civilians have. If we had CS bullets, we would definitely be able to reduce civilian casualties.]
This kind of pressure was something Maru could calmly ignore. You said you couldn’t give it to me because it wasn’t there? That’s a cowardly excuse.
“Aren’t there any substitutes? Aren’t there many types of tear gas?”
These days, the tear gas used to suppress violent protests contains edible ingredients such as pepper or capsaicin, and there is an atmosphere of not using chemical bombs such as CS bullets but rather using water cannons.
So that would be a lot. Wouldn’t that be something we could use? Its power would be weaker than CS bullets, but it would probably be effective against animals with sensitive sensory organs.
[I’ve been writing this for a while now. There’s already chaos everywhere due to a shortage of supplies. We can’t keep up with production. Even raw materials are running out.]
So, Maru tries to block the indirect pressure to release some of the materials piled up in the Ark Tower.
“Then what happened to the search party? If they had CS bullets, they wouldn’t have been hit.”
Manager Dan Brown sighed deeply at Maru’s ironclad determination to protect the supplies.
[After- It’s hard to explain in words. I’ll send you the footage captured by the tactical camera.]
Maru immediately played the video on a large screen.
The search party approached the point where Maru first stopped. That was the area where normal communications were possible. After that, they had to install a repeater, use satellite communications, or have a signalman relay.
Just as the signalman was about to report the situation and continue the search, something was seen moving. First, the infantry disappeared, then the troops armed with exosuits disappeared.
[All hands on deck. This is an emergency! Check your weapons and get going!]
[Be careful. Be careful of your destiny!]
The search party gathered together and began to move in the direction of the missing people. The tactical camera captured the tense soldiers and the armored soldiers ahead of them without any editing.
And that’s where they arrived. It was a bushy area along the river.
The armored personnel carrier that was ahead suddenly collapsed and began to be sucked into the ground. The armored personnel carrier was floundering. The weight of nearly a ton was poisonous.
[It’s a swamp!]
[What the heck are you talking about? Where is the swamp here?]
[Stop being a jerk and throw the rope. Throw the rope!]
In an instant, the ranks collapsed, and soldiers threw ropes to rescue the armored personnel carriers who were being sucked in.
As the exosuits and soldiers were about to pull on the rope, something stirred beneath the mud, entangled the armored soldier, and dragged him underneath.
The exosuit and several people who were pulling the rope got entangled in the rope and were dragged down together.
At the same time, snakes jumped out from the bushes and the ground. From snakes about 5-6 meters long to giant snakes over 10 meters long that were slicing through the floor.
Dozens of snakes swarmed the search party, dragging them into deep mud. The exosuit they were filming with their action camera was sucked into the mud.
The helmet had a gas barrier, but it wasn’t completely waterproof. The exosuit soldier sucked into the mud died of suffocation in less than five minutes. That’s how the action camera footage ended.
Unless you decide to use them in advance and prepare for them, there is no chance to use grenades or CS bullets. The 20mm Vulcan and 7.62mm machine guns, which were proud of making a beehive out of anything, were finished off without even firing a single shot.
The same goes for other footage. While the soldiers were struggling in the mud to save the exosuits and armored personnel carriers, the snakes launched a perfect surprise attack, and only a few people were able to resist by firing their rifles.
[It’s a snake!]
Aaaah!
Tudadadak
[Huh? Huh! Hey!]
[mom.]
The weak struggles were not effective. The video of the snake ignoring the 5.56mm bullets as if it were dragon scales looked like CG.
“That thing can’t even penetrate 7.62mm properly?”
[Video analysis results show that the armor-piercing shell is capable of penetrating.]
In Japan, the monster cats were a mess, but snakes were even more abundant.
“It was cut with a knife, you know.”
[I think it’s because of the characteristics of the scales and leather.]
The characteristic of repelling strong impacts. Even wolf skin was more difficult than expected if it wasn’t torn along the grain. In addition, snake skin seemed to have better defensive capabilities because it had scales.
“If a snake is that big, it would be hard to catch an alligator or armadillo with a gun, right?”
[Animals like hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and elephants might also have difficulty.]
Maru was simply amazed as he watched the footage taken from different points of view.
The snakes moved in unison, as if they had a unified command system. As if they were one body. They attacked perfectly, like highly trained soldiers or guerrillas.
They lured the enemy to a battlefield where they had an advantage, neutralized their main weapons, took away their mobility, and then attacked them simultaneously. Even so, these snakes were just too much.
It was obvious why there were no animals nearby. There were no way they could survive since there were so many snakes dominating the area. But people went in there because they thought it was good, so this was the result.
The problem is that there is no prey nearby, so they will move to a different territory. How will snakes that have tasted humans move? Since they like moisture, they are likely to move along the riverside. Unfortunately, most of the older towns are located along the riverside.
[Analyzing eyewitness accounts of the mutant and the surrounding circumstances, something unusual was discovered.]
“What is it?”
[Bears and wolves mutated first, and among the mutated wolves, small rodents, birds, and insects that ate the dead wolves appear to have mutated.]
“And the snake that ate the mutated small rodent changed.”
[This is a strong hypothesis based on the information confirmed so far.]
As Chief Dan Brown said, it is more likely that someone brought the Japanese mutant virus and spread it. There is no reason for gray wolves and bears deep in the park to suddenly contract the mutant virus.
It’s not like there aren’t scientists in the US who will soon come to similar conclusions, since they were already suspecting that it wasn’t natural.
Even if they had specific national tourists in mind, it would only be a matter of time before we find evidence.
How long will it last even if information is controlled? It’s already a mess. There is a shortage of supplies, and small towns below a certain size are having a hard time holding on.
The imbalances that begin with differences in economic power, population, resources, and production facilities will grow. If the state governments that are dissatisfied with this try to survive on their own, a threat that is just as great will be needed to bring together what is trying to scatter.
‘Is this really war?’
“Tell Chief Dan Brown that the snakes are likely to move downstream along the riverbank, and warn him that the mutated animals are more dangerous than the monsters in Japan. And tell him that I’m heading back now that I’ve found the search party.”
It spread through the food chain, so who knows what kind of monsters might have appeared in Yellowstone National Park. If you got caught here, you didn’t know how long you would be trapped.
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