Rust - Chapter 260



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RUST -260

Maru felt something strange in his hand and swung the sword gently.

This is because a slight resistance was felt against the Eclipse, which could easily cut through reinforced concrete.

The air was torn apart with a rough cracking sound as the sword swung up, down, left, and right.

Krrrrrr- Krrrrrr-

There was nothing particularly strange. If I had to be specific, it would be that cutting the monster’s hide felt tighter than reinforced concrete.

If you think about it, it doesn’t seem strange. The 7.62mm sniper rifle wasn’t weak either. Considering that it easily stopped bullets that would pierce through reinforced concrete, it seemed like it could be possible.

As I was examining the cut fur here and there, the pieces on the floor began to stir little by little, as if they were waking up from sleep.

“This kid!”

“Kill him. Kill him!”

“···What is this···.”

Even though their arms were cut off along with their torso, they still kept looking for ‘Honore.’ with their snouts.

‘Honore?’

I was so shocked that I lost my mind because I saw that even though the upper and lower bodies were separated, they were not dead and were moving around, and they were even talking. Are these guys Japanese?

“Japanese?”

As Maru muttered in Japanese, the men’s fury grew louder.

“American dog!”

“Kill him. I’ll kill him!”

As one of them uttered a murderous tantrum, a flame burst out of the air and wrapped itself around Maru’s helmet like a living snake.

[Life support system activated.]

Wheeeeeek- The helmet of the Ripper suit blocked out the hot air from outside. Maru didn’t even blink, since he already knew that there was a guy who could manipulate fire.

Just swinging a sword.

Tsuk-

The jagged blade roughly sliced ​​through the neck of the convulsing man. The flames that had been blazing around his helmet lost their power and disappeared into thin air.

“개새끼가!”

The remaining one struggled violently. He didn’t seem to care even though his internal organs were falling out through the cut section.

If you’re going to die, die nicely. Why are you so tough?

Phew-

Only after the tip of the knife dug into his skull did it become quiet.

‘I feel uneasy.’

I felt a little dirty because it felt like I was killing another corpse.

“The superhumans sent from the Northern Front to Beijing seem to be Japanese. Does the US know about this?”

[···Since the DEFCON was activated, the security level has been raised, making it difficult to secure data without a trace.]

“If the US side is having a hard time, they can just raid the Northern Theater Command or the current Beijing Chinese government data.”

[I will check.]

Diana learned one thing: flexibility.

Although both the Chinese government and the Northern Theater Command had put up strong security measures, they were enemy forces, so they could have broken through them without worrying about the consequences or traces.

As Diana made up her mind to start hacking, the Northern Front began to hurriedly destroy the data. Rather than searching for the data she needed, Diana chose to take it all away. It looks like her ‘flexibility’ went up from 1 to 2.

Not stopping there, he used this to attack the American server while he was in the Chinese server. Naturally, both sides were in chaos, but Diana kept spreading the data until the moment she was cut off.

“Don’t rush to find the information. What did you say was the most important thing?”

[They said it was safe.]

“Yes. Safety. Safety whether you’re awake or asleep. Safety comes first. Make sure you organize yourself so you don’t get caught.”

[All right.]

Among the materials Diana had extracted, there wasn’t really anything top secret, but if you put together things like lower level secrets, orders, and reports, you could roughly get an outline of what it was like, like a puzzle.

If you trace it from both sides, China will be intertwined with the US and the US will be intertwined with China. Diana’s ‘flexibility’ went from 2 to 3.

[···It seems like it will take time to restore the data since they destroyed it. Among the things I have confirmed, the most notable is the incident where the Northern Theater Forces were annihilated in the Kanto region of Japan.]

It was said to be a secret operation carried out by the United States. According to what the Northern Theater Command found out, it was recorded that the United States used tactical nuclear weapons to annihilate them.

[In the Northern Theater, Japanese refugees were used as shields to carry out a retreat operation… In order to hide the eyes of the US military, the removal of surveillance equipment and communication devices laid down in the East Sea region actually turned out to be a bad thing.]

I thought that if they covered their eyes, they wouldn’t attack because they thought of the refugees, but the US thought the opposite. They must have covered their eyes so that they wouldn’t be caught when they didn’t have refugees.

[According to the Strategic Command and Virginia data, they were trying to use the large-scale retreat operation of the Northern Theater to sweep it away in one go.]

Maru nodded as he listened to Diana’s explanation.

“After inducing a retreat, you tried to use that to sweep them away in one go?”

[Yes, the operation turned out to be a complete success.]

“But what does this have to do with the Japanese?”

[The Northern Theater attempted to lure Japanese refugees to the ports where the retreat was taking place, using them as shields. According to Northern Theater records, there were many Japanese refugees in the ports during the large-scale retreat.]

“Wait a minute. So the US knew that and attacked the port?”

[Because the Northern Theater destroyed American surveillance equipment and relay stations, we concluded that all those gathered at the port were Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians.]

In the Chinese Civil War and the Vietnam War, there were many operations disguised as civilians. Americans had seen terrorists disguised as civilians and units disguised as civilians so many times in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars that they had no mercy when they thought of it as a deception tactic by the enemy.

“If it was a annihilation operation, it must have required enormous firepower. What did you attack with?”

[Based on records from the Northern Theater, it is assumed that the United States used tactical nuclear weapons.]

It would be nuclear. It would be difficult to blow up the entire port area with just a few dozen missiles.

As the fighting between Ukraine and Russia showed, conventional missiles were not very effective in attacking cities.

Because the city was made of reinforced concrete, it was much stronger than you might think. It didn’t collapse from a single missile like in the movies.

“nucleus···.”

What would the Japanese think? They are the only victims in human history to have been hit by a nuclear weapon, and now they have been hit by another one.

The reason didn’t matter. What mattered to the Japanese was that the hated nuke had been dropped again.

It didn’t matter whether the Chinese or the American military was like that. What mattered was that another nuclear bomb was dropped on Japan, and that they died from the nuclear bomb.

“So you’re saying that the Japanese superhumans have joined hands with the Northern Warfare Division?”

[In the circumstances, yes.]

“Fuck- ha-”

The Northern Theater Command of China used the Japanese as shields to block American attacks while retreating.

The United States, which thought it was a unique deception tactic of the Communist Party and attacked as planned,

Japan, which was tightroped between China and the United States, was hit by nuclear weapons along with the Northern Theater.

And now.

The Northern Theater Command is targeting the nuclear security codes held by the Chinese central government.

A Japanese superhuman who infiltrated Beijing as a mercenary for the Northern Theater Command.

America’s moves seem to indicate it is preparing for an all-out war.

The Chinese central government asked the United States for unofficial help.

The United States unofficially entered the country to secure nuclear security codes and carry out operations to destroy them.

Even though they were split into upper and lower parts, the chicks didn’t die right away and continued to struggle.

I thought it was just a dirty feeling. This was just a swearing situation. It wasn’t good. Maru’s sensitive senses screamed that something was wrong.

It wasn’t a feeling of being stabbed by life. The entire space I was breathing in, all the way to the far end of my field of vision, felt gloomy.

The reason for the nuclear attack was clearly the trickery of the Northern Theater Command of China. Couldn’t there be someone in Japan who could see through that? If so, it means that they entered Beijing at the request of the Northern Theater Command even though they knew about it.

There was a lingering sense of foreboding surrounding the nuclear security codes.

“Diana. Where are the guys we’re chasing right now?”

It wasn’t something to be done quietly and carefully.

When you don’t know where to go, it’s better to solve it quickly, no matter how noisy it is.

A map and directions appeared on the HUD. Maru’s appearance disappeared as if it was shimmering.

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Dan Brown, the director of the Department of Homeland Security, put a pill in his mouth and chewed it.

The text on the pill package reads: ‘Chew and swallow.’

Who would chew it like that? Most people just swallow it with water, but he chewed and swallowed it as instructed in the manual.

Isn’t that obvious?

If there is a prescription, isn’t it most effective to follow the instructions?

It was the same even when boiling cup ramen.

Add the soup and pour in water up to the indicated line.

Is it that difficult?

Open the soup, put it in, pour water up to the line, wait 3 minutes, then stir and eat. Is that so hard to do?

Why do you only put half the water in and don’t even wait and just chew it raw and say it tastes good? Why don’t you put soup in it? It should taste good even if you skip the soup?

In the eyes of Director Dan Brown, that’s exactly what the Strategic Command and some generals were doing. They were gently coaxing and giving instructions for using the Vladimara. So why not just do it like that?

If you make a promise and keep it, there’s no problem. Is that so hard?

Isn’t it the same as boiling cup ramen?

If you buy cup ramen and eat it, it has to be delicious even if you skip the fucking soup.

It should be fine even if it’s cold water, not boiling water.

If you say you should be able to eat it like a hot bar as soon as you open it, isn’t that retarded?

Of course, I understand that you are having a seizure.

This was because various circumstances were revealed as military intelligence agencies, including Virginia, confirmed and verified information that Vladimir Kalin and Yania Kim were not Japanese, but in fact Korean.

Vladimir Kalin was clean. The family’s mid-sized business had failed, his father was undergoing chemotherapy, his mother was recovering from drug addiction, and his younger sister was a promising pianist. Up until this point, there were no problems.

Things started to get complicated when his younger brother said that the person who had promised a future with his brother was the person who had recently been appointed as the chairman of Ojin Group.

I contacted the Ojin Group and they said that it was true. That is, she was engaged to Vladimir Kalin.

When it became known that the person whom the female president, a promising company president, and a genius in the pharmaceutical industry, had been waiting for was Vladimir Kalin, everyone’s gaze changed.

We have developed a new drug to treat intelligence retardation and anger management caused by a mutant virus, and it is highly likely that it will pass phase 3 clinical trials.

What if we had Vladimir Kalin, who was linked to this group of misinformation, under our command?

A situation where it is not 1+1 but 1+a.

‘Vladimir Kalin may be avoiding the female president of the Ojin Group.’

No, why? She’s a beautiful woman and the president of a wealthy group.

‘If you look at Vladimir Kalin’s actions, it could be an escape from love.’

Since he didn’t know about the bloodbath that Maru had caused or Na Ju-hyeon’s madness, it was possible to interpret the reason Maru had washed his identity in that way.

So, the idea is that the family that had fallen into ruin sold Vladimir Maru to Ojin Group. So, for true love, he washed his identity and ran away.

A woman who stayed by Vladimir Kalin’s side from Korea to Japan and even after arriving in the United States. A love affair with Yania Kim.

‘You said Kim? I’m sure you know that woman.’

And everyone was shocked by the results.

Presumed to have been born in North Korea.

Not another country, but North Korea?

Assassination-related activities discovered in China.

North Korea is shit too, but China?

Worked as a cleaner at World Group PMC through Hwalongjeomjeong.

‘Janitorial staff’, that means ‘killer’.

In these times, not one, but a set of three.

The North Korean Chinese-assembled Korean activity killer is said to be next to our precious Vladimir Kalin.

Could they be North Korean agents? Cosplay spies who defected from North Korea were common.

China’s trap? Honey traps have been a favorite tactic of China.

There’s a killer there?

‘Is there any reason to be negative about enlistment…’

“Maybe that’s why they fixed the building like that…”

‘It’s definitely over-armed.’

‘Could it be that North Korea and China have been in contact?’

‘If there is any trace of North Korea and China, we must check carefully.’

‘That’s right. If you’re caught in a honey trap, you need to get it sorted out quickly.’

The story went round and round. That’s the conclusion reached.

Just in case, let’s verify it as quickly as possible.

While we’re at it, let’s try this and that and see if it’s connected to China or North Korea.

Manager Dan Brown gulped down the cold water.

Even if it gets twisted, it can get this twisted.

The relationship between Vladimir Kalin and Yania Kim that he saw had nothing to do with love’s escape.

However, it was agreed that verification was necessary, as Yania Kim’s uncertain past was indeed problematic.

But the problem was that the way other agencies were verifying Yania Kim and Vladimir Kalin was completely ignoring the instructions posted by Chief Dan Brown.

To him, it’s like throwing dynamite into a bonfire and calling it a safety test.

‘If we keep going like this, there’ll be a big accident.’

Chief Dan Brown thought that when Vladimir Maru returned, he should tell him everything frankly about the current situation and have a serious talk.

“Sir, this is an urgent message from the Strategic Command. They are sending a unit to take control of Vladi Tower.”

“Once the operation begins, we will have the Homeland Security agents in charge of tower security take control of the central control room and open the doors.”

What the fuck-

“Chief Den Brown said, clutching his chest.

“Tell them I fainted.”