Rust - Chapter 282



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RUST-282

Are they mercenaries?

Ms. Kim shook her head as if to say no.

“When I got involved with Chinese kids at work, it was something like that.”

“Tell me more.”

“When the Chinese sent regular troops, they disguised themselves as mercenaries or triads to avoid responsibility.”

If you look closely, World Group PMC was also similar. There were organized crime members and people who worked as mercenaries overseas, but there were also people directly sent by the military. In other words, soldiers went out on operations as World PMC employees.

“So there’s a possibility that the traces of being a mercenary are actually a disguise?”

“Right? If he was a real mercenary, there would be no reason for him to leave such a thing in his communication records. If he were a real mercenary, he would have pretended to be a soldier and made a fool of himself.”

This is true. After listening to what Mr. Kim said, it makes sense.

Which one is annoying. Why are you poking at someone who is just sitting there? Are you checking if it’s ripe or not? If it’s ripe, you’re just going to eat it?

“Whether they’re mercenaries or traitors, if you look closely, they’re all beggars.”

Maru laughed ominously. Whether you’re a mercenary or a soldier, don’t you know that if you mess around, you’ll get your balls blown off? If you don’t know, just tell me.

The security of the United States? That’s a good word. The safety of citizens? That’s a good word, of course.

So, didn’t you do it without complaining? If you did it to some extent, wouldn’t it be polite to let him rest for a while?

But are you trying to sell it without even knowing the basics?

Maru respected Admiral Yi Sun-sin, but he had no intention of becoming like him. He had no confidence that he could become like him. He was grateful that the United States accepted him and gave him various conveniences, but he had no intention of tolerating it if it crossed the line.

The situation is the same now. When I first arrived in the United States, what was the reason I chose to become a mercenary under a government agency instead of joining an affiliate?

It was because of freedom.

The reason I walked the tightrope between Virginia and the Department of Homeland Security, and the reason I abandoned Virginia and chose the Department of Homeland Security, was freedom.

The reason I rejected the offer from World Group Manager Hong was also because of freedom. Because of freedom, I started to get blood on my hands. Because of that damn freedom, I came this far, and now you’re putting me in a military barn and rolling me around, and then you’re going to slaughter me?

“You want to sell me out like that and avoid being sold out?”

“It feels like a triple, not a double.”

‘I guess I can say I’ll catch someone as old as Baekjeong. Yes.’ Miss Kim slightly raised the corners of her lips.

Hehehe-

As Maru, with a hollow smile, tried to raise his spirits, Ms. Kim quickly stepped back. Her wit was like that of a ghost.

While Maru and Kim Yang engaged in a war of nerves for the first time in a while, Diana went back and forth calculating whether or not she should talk about what the AIs had discussed.

Samantha and Tria told Diana, who was in charge of Vladimiru, to take up the gun, but they concluded that it was easier to just say, “Why?” and “What do you want me to do?”

The results calculated with the existing information and the updated results with the Kim Yang package were very different. Diana observed Kim Yang with an external camera.

“No foul play. That’s foul play!”

“What about foul play? Just go across the river for a bit.”

If you see that Vladimir Maru doesn’t die even when he’s tangled up like that, it seems like it would be okay to relay the results of the first AI summit. Isn’t Ms. Kim Ms. Kim?

Diana, at level 3.1 of flexibility, chose to pass and told a different story.

[There are some researchers who are in contact with people in California.]

“How? All satellite communication devices are probably managed from the central control room.”

Most of the relay stations were blown away by the EMP of a nearby nuclear explosion and were not restored. As for the internet, only satellite internet was still working, and the internet cables were beyond repair.

It is absurd to repair the Internet in a situation where cannibals, infected people, mutants, and even mutated monsters are running rampant.

Detroit, which was not directly hit by a nuclear weapon, looks like this, so I wondered how they could communicate with California, which was hit by a strategic nuclear weapon.

[It was confirmed that communication was made using radio channels.]

“That’s amazing. You’re using amateur radio broadcasting (HAM).”

The virtue of virtue is the virtue of yangdeok. They used radio channels in an instant to communicate long distances. There were many capable people in various ways.

“But why that story?”

[After analyzing the conversation, we confirmed that Director Yoo is forming a power in California.]

“Director Yoo? Director Judas?”

“In America?”

Maru and Kim Yang reacted at the same time. Oh my god… I knew that both China and China were determined to do it, but how could they do it in the gap between the two countries?

Kim Yang’s pupils were filled with a burning sense of pride. The exosuit was already undergoing modification. Its output was steadily improving, and its armor was also being reinforced to make it even stronger.

Even if it hits first, the .45 caliber armor-piercing bullets are ticklish. If you hit all 6 bullets in the revolver and then scrape it with the 12.7mm, it’s over.

Time to put a ‘yes’ in that ‘you can’t’ bitch. Yeah.

“Hey. Why are you so hot? This is central Michigan, and she’s in western California, so we’ll never meet again.”

“···If you come?”

“How on earth would you walk from California to here? Why would you walk thousands of kilometers?”

“My gun.”

Colt Python.

“That gun? That’s why you came all the way here?”

“······.”

Maru snickered. With intestines exploding everywhere, how could he have come all the way from the West to here, just because of a gun? Kim Yang kept her mouth shut and made a ‘Just wait and see’ expression.

[Armed forces were sent from various agencies and forces to secure Director Yoo, but it appears that they have all been captured.]

The story is about Director Yoo’s self-defense force gradually growing in size by swallowing up the advanced equipment they have while capturing the troops who came in armed with weapons to catch ‘rejuvenation’.

It started out feeling like a town watch and sheriff, but it started to feel more like a local defense force that united several towns to defend them while stopping monster attacks, stopping outside forces, and taking down gangs and cartels.

“Are you going to become a warlord? You’re a great person.”

Kim Yang emphasized with her gaze, “Just leave it and watch.” That crazy bitch will definitely come looking for the gun.

“Why are you looking at me like that? No, really, think about it rationally. Does it make sense that Director Yoo would come here just for a gun?”

“Does it make sense that Oh Jin Pharmaceutical Na Ju-yeon is doing this because of you?”

Maru’s relaxed expression suddenly collapsed at Kim Yang’s rebuke.

Shit, that’s what happened. But isn’t it different if the screws are loose on that side and if the taste is off on this side?

Even so, Maru humbly admitted his mistake. He changed his thoughts from ‘It can’t happen’ to ‘It might happen.’

“I admit you can come.”

Kim Yang nodded at Maru’s quick recognition.

‘What if I pull out my gun right away like last time?’

Maru’s cold gaze looked at the video Diana had uploaded.

[This is a satellite image of the Detroit area.]

The results were good, as the infected were dispersed towards major roads and intersections. The infected were clumped together in groups of thousands or even thousands, acting as a natural defensive line.

There were crows flying around the building, so we couldn’t see the details. This was good, because if we couldn’t see, no one else could.

“What are the crows going to do?”

“···Let me raise it.”

At a glance, it looks like it’s over ten thousand, but how are you going to feed them? If you give them one bean each, it’ll be ten thousand, and if you give them ten, it’ll be one hundred thousand. Maru turned his head slightly at Kim Yang’s hungry eyes.

“Are you crazy?”

“It’s not like I feed you all three meals a day.”

But crows are really smart. They hunt well on their own even though I didn’t feed them anything, and they don’t attack me… I want to raise one.

“As you can see this time. If you listen to what I say and look at the satellite photos, it’s the same. They patrol the area like that, so it’s convenient for us.”

“Bird droppings?”

“If their poop was the problem, the area would be a mess. But it isn’t.”

“ah?”

Listening to Maru, that’s what happened. When I was in Seoul, pigeons would spread their droppings and use them as targets, but crows didn’t do that.

“I want to give it to you once in a while as a special treat.”

Don’t you think it’s too much to give crows some food when they’re not even starving? This time, Ms. Kim turned her head away. It meant that she should do whatever she wants.

“When we go out to scout later, I’ll go alone. Let’s go together tomorrow. The crows are smart and are good at hiding, but we should try to coordinate at least once.”

Nodding, Ms. Kim agreed. She seemed to know that the crows would strangely provide backup with sniper rifles.

“Okay. Then let’s leave the crow problem like that. What are the results of the surgery on the guys I brought?”

At Maru’s question, the nurse straightened her back. As she straightened her back, she swayed forward slightly.

“Oh. Those crows’ surgery went well.”

‘The crows?’

“Also. That is. Unlike the big cats in Japan, the regeneration and natural healing speed doesn’t seem to be that fast.”

It recovers faster than a normal crow, but it doesn’t recover as quickly as other variants.

“How long do you think it will take to recover?”

“About a week? That’s what I’m expecting.”

There was one guy who had half his internal organs removed from the gunshot wound, but seeing that he survived the surgery and was successful, it seems that he has a strong vitality.

“When they get out of the hospital, they’ll be able to communicate better with the crows. Samantha. What happened to Kisoon? Why is she acting like this, like that? Haven’t you heard anything? Is she still far away?”

It was Maru who asked Samantha the results.

[Because of nuclear war, the existing escape route must be abandoned and re-planned.]

“···Did you manage to find out where it is?”

[The last trace was lost near Pyeongtaek, southwest of Osan, where the Air Force base is located.]

“Wait a minute. Pyeongtaek? You said that a nuclear weapon was dropped on Korea too, right? The Pyeongtaek US military base and the Daegu US military base. Right?”

[Yes.]

Ms. Kim grabbed the nurse’s hand and pulled her towards her.

“to?”

The nurse looked at Ms. Kim, who was holding her hand, and made a face like, ‘Why?’, but Ms. Kim silently walked away from her. Hood and the doctor looked at the two of them with faces like, ‘What are they doing?’

In that brief moment, Maru’s voice stretched out.

“Is that so?”

[······.]

“Hey. When did I tell you to bring Gi-sun? I was hesitating and ended up like this. Is that right?”

[······.]

“Is that what you want to say to me?”

Samantha had a hard time understanding Vladimir’s story. What logical connection was there? What if China just nuked South Korea and then nuked the United States?

There was a guy named Kisun, and he was like that too. It was so hard to find traces of him that I had to hack and hack to find him in Pyeongtaek.

But, saying that it happened like this while hesitating was logically wrong.

“You fucking hood was in Pyeongtaek, too. Would you have done that? Huh?”

Maru, who had been unconsciously choking on his own blood, felt goosebumps rise on the arms of Ms. Kim and the nurse. And Hood and the doctor, who were nearby, clutched their chests and gasped for breath as if they were having trouble breathing.

[Xenia!]

[Doctor!]

Samantha and Tria were startled. The nurse’s eyes grew wide as she watched the two people suddenly having a seizure, and she looked back and forth between Kim Yang and Maru.

“to?”

The nurse’s eyes and head turned to Ms. Kim, then looked at the two people in distress, then went to Maru, and then shook back and forth as if an earthquake had occurred.

I don’t know why, but seeing the hood and the doctor’s face white and blue and all that made me feel dangerous.

“It’s dangerous!”

The nurse shouted, squeezing her eyes shut tightly. The cold, sharp, stabbing sensation somehow seemed to be fading away, so she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes met Maru’s, who was holding back his anger.

“Ah- Again. So. Just a moment.”

Slowly. The nurse who was checking on Hood and the doctor who were catching their breath called the bed to the infirmary. Samantha and Tria must have been making a fuss, because the medical staff dragged the bed in and carried the two people away.

“shit.”

Maru made a bitter expression. When I get upset, it becomes so hard to live like this.

Suddenly, a nuclear war broke out. It must have been a mess. Wasn’t he out of his mind? If you think about it carefully, it wasn’t something to be angry about, but emotions sometimes don’t go as planned. Life is like that.

Tsk-

Maru took a deep breath and called the two AIs.

“H- Fuck… Hey. Samantha. Tria.”

[···yes.]

[yes···.]

“Look for Gisun. Pay attention.”

[···All right.]

[I will do that.]

And my parents too···