Rust - Chapter 350



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RUST -350

Kim Yang was preparing to snipe from a distance.

The scope showed only one man, but the motion detector detected six in total. That means there were five people using stealth equipment.

[There are five guys hiding.]

Maru nodded to Kim Yang’s words. Because he was catching things that were offensive to his senses. In addition, they were strangely avoiding the crows’ surveillance net.

They were so skilled that they could have been missed if they had avoided the crows at first. According to Geese Riser’s brain information, they would have been a mercenary force comprised of capable people among the PMCs under his direct control.

[What are you going to do?]

[I guess I’ll have to take a look first.]

According to the information, they were not cannibals. Geese Raiser also wondered what would happen if he infected a power user, but before the relevant experiment could be carried out, Maru turned New York upside down and headed to Raiser Pharmaceuticals headquarters, which was thwarted.

The members were mostly from the mental realm, with a small number of people with abilities similar to healing factors and regenerative abilities, as well as those with abilities similar to telekinesis.

Telepathy and psychokinesis are abilities that have been studied since the 1960s and 1970s. Before the war, they had reached the stage of sending telepathy through mechanical devices.

There were rumors that telepathy was used to replace the communication network in the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan. After that, various experiments continued with related research in the United States, but there were no significant results. Until the great disaster in Japan.

[What are you looking at?]

[Is it useful?]

Miss Kim grumbles at Maru’s words that he will watch over her. If it’s useful? If you say you’ll use it, it’ll be used?

[They are said to be capable people. And they are mentally capable people.]

A kid who showed his welcome. Welcome was already a dirty ability, so what if he had the ability to poison others or something like that? If he could control emotions, it would literally be a mess in an instant?

Her thinking was simple.

‘Let’s quickly clean up and go home.’

Haven’t you seen everything there is to see in the West?

I also killed the thorn in my eye, the Geese Riser, and as a bonus, I also got Director Yu’s heirloom set, so I exceeded my goal.

So, what we need now is a reward vacation.

[Because there is someone with the necessary abilities.]

[···Okay, I understand.]

If you need a Baekjeong, then. Kim Yang looked at the enlarged image of the target. The face of a man who wasn’t hiding came into view. According to the image information, it was the leader of the mercenary group.

Maru moved along the tree like a shadow.

The sound of horseshoes getting closer and closer, and the commotion of cannibals flailing around, the mercenary leader appeared in the corner. He was carrying a large bag.

Purrrrrrr-

The giant black horse that had killed the cannibal was rumbling, and the mercenary leader was cautiously reaching out his hand toward the black horse.

“Put that down.”

The hand reaching out towards the black horse stopped, and Maru jumped down from the tree as if to block the gun on his waist.

‘This kid has a disgruntled look in his eyes.’

As Maru slightly relaxed his gaze at the mercenary captain’s impudent gaze, his eyes suddenly became polite. He could sense the people around him becoming agitated by the shallow murderous intent.

“Let go of your hiding place. If you continue to hide, I will assume you are thinking of something else.”

In a voice filled with a faint murderous intent, the mercenary leader signaled for them to come out of hiding. Four people shimmered and appeared. Five people were hiding, but one was not coming out.

“Is this all?”

“Yes.”

“Really? What’s in your bag?”

“···This is a request.”

Maru laughed at the mercenary captain’s words.

“Any mercenaries who worked under Geese Raiser would know who I am.”

“······.”

“I was looking for some things that I had caught and taken away, and by the looks of them, they look like you, don’t they?”

“······.”

“I don’t want to criticize you for picking up something that fell on the ground in this situation, but if the owner finds it, shouldn’t you return it? If you’re confident, then go ahead and do it.”

“······.”

The mercenary captain swallowed his saliva at Maru’s words that were mixed with a hint of murderous intent. If Bakum Barak had been there, he would have incited fear for a moment and waited for an opportunity, but that idiot went west and lost contact.

It was Vladimir Kalin who had killed even Derek Coster, a powerful illusionist. It was clear that Julia’s telepathy would not budge, and if he had killed Derek, it was assumed that any lower-level psychic ability would not work.

The mercenary captain carefully put down his bag, spread out both his hands to show that he had no intention of fighting, and took a step back and said.

“If that’s what you want, can we go?”

Sigh- Maru tilted his head as he laughed.

“You have to do your math correctly.”

Whether it was a request from the Kiss Riser or a personal desire, you’re going to touch me first and then just walk away? That’s not right.

“What do you want?”

“Come work for me for about 10 years.”

The mercenary captain was dumbfounded by Maru’s sudden suggestion. Is he in his right mind?

“what···?”

“I’ll try to save you.”

Or else it’ll just end here neatly.

The mercenary captain quickly raised both his hands as the murderous intent began to grow thicker and thicker. He was hit by a crazy bastard.

“···No. But still···”

“I ask again, are these all the people behind you now?”

It was Maru who cut off the mercenary captain who was trying to protest.

‘Raymond, you idiot.’

One of them was hiding. This kid was definitely a troublemaker. He probably thought it was too dangerous to reveal everything. But why should he decide that? That was the problem with those foolish kids.

Although he may have acted based on his experience of going here and there, it was useless in the current situation. If he had to respond by improvising, it was right to act with his life at the forefront.

But what kept catching my eye was the bag. If I could just take that bag, my life would turn around. I felt an ominous feeling mixed with the thought that it might be possible.

[Sir, Raymond is stepping back.]

Julia’s telepathy, is she saying she doesn’t want to get her nose pierced for 10 years?

[Tell them to unhide.]

[···Why don’t you just follow them and make a surprise attack?]

Maybe he was tempted because he thought it was his chance to hit that bastard in the back of the head.

There are cannibals in the forest, so they won’t tell you to disarm right away, so wouldn’t that give you a chance?

‘A surprise attack from behind.’

The mercenary captain carefully drew up a quote.

[Aren’t there any other guys nearby?]

[There is none within a 1km radius.]

Vladimir Kalin, he was alone. It seemed possible.

He may look like a superman, but he’s also afraid of bullets. The fact that he can dodge or block bullets is proof of that. If he was okay after getting hit, he would have just walked around getting hit.

The mercenary captain made up his mind. If he didn’t seize the opportunity when it came, he would be an idiot.

[Tell everyone to be ready whenever they want. You only get one chance.]

What was in the preservation bag were the corpses of Chairman Geese and Hoichun.

If you take this, whoever you hand it over to will have bad luck. You got a chance to change your life, but you want me to hand it over and roll around for 10 years?

Even if we put aside the desire for revenge, the money just didn’t add up.

[···yes.]

The commander’s order was relayed to the members. After a very short moment, the mercenary commander calmly answered.

“Yes, everything.”

“Really? Is that all?”

“yes.”

“Then what.”

As Maru’s hand moved to send a signal, bang – the sound of the stealth equipment exploding. Raymond fell to the ground with his stealth equipment broken as drops of blood spurted out everywhere.

“Raymond!”

“It’s a sniper!”

“You guys are everything? Then aren’t you guys that don’t matter?”

“You crazy kid!”

“Kill that bastard!”

The mercenary captain didn’t look back when Raymond fell, but only stared at the floor. He was on guard. But it was no use. The distance of about 10 meters was shortened in the blink of an eye.

Flash-

Added value added-

The upper and lower bodies were separated before the gun was even drawn.

By the time he felt the stinging sensation, his two eyes floating in the air could only watch the two subordinates being split apart beautifully.

Watching it on video meant nothing. I saw the cannibals being chopped up from afar, but that meant nothing.

Surprise? Opportunity? Shit… I’m blind.

In the increasingly darkening vision, the mercenary captain gathered his remaining strength and spat. After all, this place was going to be a grave.

Whoa!

Maru, who had knocked out a woman who had fallen down in surprise with a bang by striking her with the side of the sword, stopped the blade right in front of the neck of the man who had raised both hands in confusion.

“Ugh- Surrender. I surrender. It’s been surrender since a while ago.”

Maru raised his hand slightly to signal that it was done. Kim Yang was about to aim for her next prey with the scope, but her lips were just licking.

[A woman again?]

[What the heck are you talking about.]

[Stopped cutting. Woman?]

[Can’t you see the guy next to you?]

[Huh-]

[Wide-area telepathy. I said earlier that I needed someone with the ability.]

Director Yoo was able to command with precision because he had wide-area telepathy. There were quite a few instances of communication failures there.

In places like underground, but what if there’s a communication failure due to mutants gathering? Even in Yellowstone, the communicator wasn’t working. So, even if other abilities don’t matter, they had to have telepathy.

The man who surrendered didn’t have good abilities, but he surrendered, so there was no need to kill him. Even though Maru explained it to her, Ms. Kim answered with a strange nasal sound, ‘Huh. Huh.’

[hey-]

Kim Yang stopped snorting at the low-pitched voice on the floor. ‘Ah- I’m pissed.’

[Okay, but what about the horse next to it?]

[word?]

When I turned my head, there was a huge black horse watching from a distance. If someone was cut down and gunshots were heard, wouldn’t it be normal for them to run away?

Contrary to Maru’s thoughts, the huge black horse that Director Yu rode started to ramble when it saw the bag on the floor.

Purururuk-

“What the heck, this kid?”

Are you looking at my bag right now?

Whoosh- thud-

As Maru, who had shaken off the drops of blood on the floor, glared at the black horse, the rustling sound stopped.

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Miss Kim, who was looking out the window, frowned.

“That one. It looks like the horse is following you.”

Even if it was a slow-moving airship that was hunting down and killing cannibals, it had an average speed of 70 to 80 kilometers per hour.

Following such an airship, it was certainly no ordinary horse. It was not easy for a normal horse to run even 70~80km.

“Huh-” Ms. Kim muttered in a subtle voice.

“Is that a female?”

“······.”

Ppoduk – A dark aura rose up slowly.

Miss Kim, who had stepped aside, protested desperately.

“No. I said I was just genuinely curious.”

If you think about it, isn’t that just following the person who killed its master? Even the mare that lost its master followed the charm of the great leader. Well, I really don’t have any other intentions, so I thought that this might be a good thing. Really.

“So why did you focus on females?”

“Uh- um- ah? Right. What are you going to do about San Francisco and LA?”

Although Ms. Kim quickly tried to change the subject, Maru’s punishment did not stop.

[We received a call from the Department of Homeland Security.]

“Up to here?”

They said that they could reach Detroit in the central region, but they restored the communication network so quickly? Maru asked back at the nurse’s sudden words.

[Yes. They say that it has become possible to communicate using a stratospheric airship. It is only possible to communicate now, but they say that internet will also be possible next year or the year after.]

The reason I’m telling you this now is because I want to indirectly say that the United States can be rebuilt. Is that possible? It doesn’t seem like something that can be done just by reviving one wide area network.

“It’s difficult to talk right now, so I’ll call you later.”

[yes.]

Maru looked out the window, lost in thought.

Communication was important. But communication alone wasn’t enough.

Even if you look at the West right now, it was the same. It was Director Yoo’s personal ability that united the divided survivors and drove out the gangs, cartels, and mafia. The vigilantes were growing up by eating what Director Yoo threw at them.

However, the number of vigilantes who survived this incident was reduced to around 15%. With that number, it was impossible to maintain public order in California.

Can communications keep the peace? If the vigilantes fail to exert their power, criminals who were pushed out to the outskirts will start to come back to the city, and it will become a lawless area.

[That’s why. I want you to hold the center so that the West doesn’t fall to the Southern separatists.]

That’s why Homeland Security Director Dan Brown made the call.