Rust - Chapter 349



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RUST -349

The cigarette that Director Yoo was holding was suddenly cut off.

A thin plume of cigarette smoke rose from the ground, slowly losing its luster.

The pupil, which was located in the center of the four hundred eyes, gradually dilated.

Maru’s face, with one side of his helmet blown off, appeared in that pupil. What was clearly visible at the end was the muzzle of a gun that had been turned to the side after being shot between the eyebrows.

Why?

The pupils that had begun to dilate slowly shook. There was a mark on the arm holding the gun.

when?

The first thing that came to Director Yoo’s mind was Ms. Kim crawling on the floor wearing an exosuit. His thoughts did not continue any further.

Puhwaaaaak-

Blood spurted from his gaping chest.

As the higher entity was in danger of death, the ones surrounding Kim Yang started to swarm the floor like a swarm of bees.

Kim Yang shouted at Maru, who was standing there with his sword hanging down, perhaps because he had been hit in the head.

[What are you doing!]

Kim Yang diligently pulled the trigger while checking the video sent by the drone and the location of the red dot on the HUD in real time.

Tadatang- Toung- Tang!

[Come to your senses···]

The guy who fell down, shaking all over after being hit in the head with an incendiary armor-piercing bullet, kicked Maru’s leg.

The sharp pain and vibrations slightly shook his pitch-black consciousness. When Maru, who had been standing still in a daze, opened his eyes, he felt murderous intent from all around, and for some reason one side of his vision was dyed red.

‘My head almost flew off…’

It was strange.

‘What happened?’

It was half a gamble. As long as I didn’t die instantly, I could use the pink quick cure to survive.

Did you get it?

It was too noisy around me for that to be true. I couldn’t even feel anything in my hands.

I looked up and saw cannibals rushing blindly like devils through the swaying bushes. I felt like I had lost consciousness for a moment, but it felt like I was watching a movie where the scenes were suddenly cut off.

‘These things are going crazy like this.’

When I tried to cut down Mother in New York, I remembered the guys who had a seizure. That means Director Yoo is still breathing.

Maru instinctively looked around to find any trace of Director Yu.

[Either you get rid of it or avoid it!]

Kwaaaaaaa-

Euaaaaaa-

The cannibals were running madly, struggling. Ignoring the bullet holes in their heads and chests, Maru began to absentmindedly trace the marks left on the floor.

Euaaaaaa-

Dieeeeeee-

[···If you’re in your right mind, avoid it!]

A distinct bloodstain caught Maru’s eye. His gaze followed the long bloodstain on the floor.

At the end of the thin blood trail, what was visible was Director Yu leaning against a tree and someone trying to run away while supporting her who was half-lying.

Chief Secretary.

[If you’re hurt, get out quickly!]

Kim Yang’s voice was pecking at the helmet.

damage?

Then what about that?

The tip of the sword that had been pointing towards the ground flew up. With a feeling of being caught here and there, three or four cannibals emerged from the side and separated into upper and lower parts.

“There- where?”

I have to see it through to the end.

At the voice of the cracked floor, the chief secretary, who was supporting Director Yoo and moving forward, responded.

Whoosh- The chief secretary aimed the Rsh-12 that Director Yoo had been using at Maru. In that moment, Maru’s body, which had been keeping its balance low with unsteady steps, was shot forward.

—=—=—

With shaky steps, Maru’s sword tip, which had passed the chief secretary in a flash, began to aim at them persistently.

I got brushed once.

Dodged twice.

But there was no third time.

!!!

Maru twisted the tip of the knife that had pierced the Chief Secretary and Director Yoo like a skewer.

Woohoo!

“Okay- Wait a minute···”

The chief secretary spoke desperately.

“If you kill us, San Francisco will fall. And LA.”

so?

whatever?

“Uh. You crazy bastard…”

As the twisted blade cut through his ribs and headed for his heart, the chief secretary, who had been struggling to resist despite having his arm holding the gun cut off and his torso pierced, gradually became quiet.

Plop-plop-plop

The eerie sound of flesh and bone being torn apart.

The sound of cannibals going crazy.

And then a voice muttered softly right in front of my nose.

Maru ignored all the noise and used all his might to swing the twisted blade diagonally upward.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

“······.”

“······.”

Empty gazes crossed slowly.

After that brief moment of severing consciousness, the cannibals that had been swarming around scattered in all directions like cockroaches.

Maru had no intention of missing a single one.

“Kill them all!”

[You heard me. Don’t miss the escape.]

The crows that had been circling around as if escorting the airship began to chase after it in groups of three or five.

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Inside the airship

Kim Yang, with her nose high, hovered around Maru like a satellite.

“Why? Do you have something to say?”

Porrrrrrrr- Brain thump thump Maru, who was looking at the video saved in the bio-terminal, said something.

“Big- no. Hmm- hmm- not at all.”

The way he puffs out his chest and struts around in front of Maru’s eyes, even though he says no. The way he walks with a showy gait while wearing the cowboy hat that Director Yoo used to wear.

Behold this greatness!

And most importantly, aren’t the results?

An achievement that no one can deny.

Did Newga give you the rule?

Did Newga decide that Baekjeong’s head would fly away?

Kim Yang, who walked around wildly, exuding strong pride, had no intention of bragging.

cancer.

This is not something to be proud of, but an achievement that will forever be remembered in the history of the Vladislav Tower. Wasn’t it a heroic act that saved the life of a great leader?

huh.

Unable to hide her smirk, Kim Yang, who was spinning around, changed direction and headed towards the loot on the table.

A table with a Colt Python .45 caliber and two Rsh-12s on it.

There were a few Rsh-12s that I brought from Japan, but they felt different. They were the ones that the old lady used. The Colt Python that had been crying alone also found a partner.

The priest’s heart?

I am so grateful for that.

The so-called set of Director Yoo’s relics.

Cowboy hat with knife marks. Charisma +1

Colt Python 2. Attack speed +4.

2 modified Rsh-12s. Attack power +8.

Cowboy Boots. Movement speed, posture correction, mount specialization +3.

Hehehe-

Kim Yang, who was wiping the Colt Python with a cloth again and again, glanced at the floor.

‘I’m embarrassed.’

Hee-juk- Ms. Kim Yang, who was laughing, quietly placed the Colt Python down on the table and prayed for a moment.

Pogurruruk-

As Ms. Kim became quiet, Maru began to continuously look through the images stored on the biometric terminal.

There was a lot of useful information for Geese Raiser. It included the location of the cocoon hidden in the eastern region by Raiser Pharmaceuticals, and the special ability users possessed by the PMC under his control.

Among the many pieces of information, the most paranoid and repetitive were those related to the new human race and rejuvenation. Perhaps because rejuvenation was linked to eternal life, there were more people targeting Director Yu than expected.

Among those who could be called the ruling class in China and the United States, Director Yu was a celebrity, and the annihilation of Director Yu’s subordinates was the result of their greed to monopolize the youth by capturing or killing them.

‘Was your goal to avenge your lost subordinates in Japan?’

The reason Director Yoo rolled all the way to the US was most likely to be revenge. She seemed like a crazy woman, so I thought she would have a carnivore streak, like ‘getting paid for meat’, rather than revenge, but that wasn’t the case, was it?

Maru suddenly had a thought. What if Ms. Kim dies, the nurse, Hood, and PD die, and the Vladiak Tower collapses?

Should you choose revenge? For the quickest and most certain revenge, would you choose to become a cannibal?

Although it was in the secretary’s brain information, Geese Riser’s brain information also had a weakness to cannibalism. If he did not receive human flesh for a long time, his body would break down and he would turn into a monster with lost memories. A monster that looked like a mixture of a human and various other things.

Director Yu clearly checked the memories of the Geese Riser, so he knew of his weakness. If that’s true, then he chose it even though he knew about it. It was a choice that was hard to understand from a common sense perspective.

The entire fleet of Geese Riser ships sank underwater due to his own bombing. So, even though he knew that all the equipment and raw materials he was carrying had disappeared, was the reason he chose to infect them with cannibalism really just because of revenge?

The moment I was infected with the cannibalism, I was at risk of falling into the clutches of the Geese Riser. I also had a weakness. I jumped into a situation where I didn’t know what would happen.

‘I don’t know.’

Either crazy or something is broken.

Pogurruruk–

[They say that the search is difficult because of the thick fog at dawn.]

The nurse’s report continued.

[However, they say they have cleared out all the cannibals who are openly convulsing on the streets of San Francisco. It is difficult to check underground and inside buildings.]

“That’s enough. The rest is up to the survivors or the vigilantes to handle.”

The nurse is slightly flustered by Maru’s calm answer.

[Uh. Uh… That’s it.]

“What’s going on?”

[I- There’s no militia in San Francisco. Maybe in the surrounding areas and even LA.]

“What does that mean?”

The story is that the area that Director Yoo controlled has now become an uninhabited area.

[The crows say that the vigilantes here were infected with a cannibalistic disease and it was a mess···]

Because it was in the information of the Kiss Riser. Maru also knew roughly. But weren’t the vigilantes who became cannibals only about 30-40%? What about the remaining 60-70%?

[60~70%? No. They say that if you take out the dead and injured, there are less than 10~15% left.]

“···First, let’s turn everything towards searching and recovering the bodies of Kis Raiser and Director Yu.”

[Yes. You all heard. Please come back. From now on, we will rest until the fog clears.]

I danced with the crows with my swords so as not to miss a single one of the scattering cannibals, but the corpses of Geese Raiser and Director Yu were gone.

‘What kind of guys are they?’

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A voice in my head. Julia’s telepathy.

[There is a crow on the tree in front.]

“Fuck. This is driving me crazy.”

Should I just abandon them and go? The crazy crows suddenly started looking for something. They circled the place where Chairman Geese’s body was and the place where the rejuvenation was cut, and then started chasing after him.

My first thought was, are crows crazy? Birds of a head are searching for and tracking traces? Tell that to someone, they’ll get cursed at. But it was happening right before my eyes.

A crow sitting on a tree guarding the path. At first glance, it looks like there’s only one, but upon closer inspection, there are at least four or five more nearby.

When I first encountered it, I didn’t know that and shot it, but I ended up getting surrounded by crows swarming around me like bees.

I managed to quickly hide in a hole in the bushes and escape, but judging by the way the crows were acting, I didn’t think I would fall for the same trick again.

“How is the city?”

[I think most of it has been sorted out and turned to search.]

Should I hide in the city? No, it was dangerous. There were not one, but two corpses of the higher-level entities. Considering the cannibals’ sense of smell, there was a possibility that the ones who had been hiding would be stimulated and crawl out. If that happened, the crows would 100% catch them.

Throw it away?

No. Right now, this was my only lifeline, my only survival line.

There were plenty of parties with whom to negotiate.

What’s unfortunate is that it would have been the icing on the cake if there had been a bio-terminal made from the doctor’s brain.

As we turned back, avoiding the crow’s surveillance net, there was a black horse running wild in the forest.

Heeeeeeeing-

Plop – heads crushed, crunch – leg bones crushed, the cannibals were slowly turned into minced meat.

[This is the horse that Director Yoo rode.]

“I know.”

[Did they chase us?]

“Fuck. Get ready.”

Purururuk – The moment I was about to raise my hand towards the giant black horse that was growling threateningly.

Maru’s voice was heard from above the trees.

“Put that down.”

What bloomed in the eyes of the mercenary captain who saw Maru was a desire for revenge.