Rust - Chapter 360



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RUST -360

It’s a Japanese monster wheel. Of course I remembered it.

“Yes. I remember.”

Detroit was safe, apart from memory, because every inch of space was filled with VX gas and sealed perfectly.

Maybe that’s why there are cockroaches, but the rats that have been seen occasionally recently have come near the circular tracks and disappeared as soon as they became food for crows.

[Cockroaches larger than the ones that ambushed our troops in Japan at the time are spreading.]

“······.”

Director Den Brown added to the silence on the floor.

[Based on the results of the study conducted by collecting samples and the response of the cockroaches identified through the subjugation operation, I suspect that there is a commanding individual or swarm intelligence leading them.]

Either way, it was a serious threat in the future. And so were the rats. Who knew there were rats that could act as poisonous scorpions? And there they were, so it was hard to guarantee that cockroaches wouldn’t have that.

“okay.”

[The most certain way would be to fill the entire underground area with a poison gas like VX gas, but it’s not realistic to use that kind of poison gas on all of New York.]

A huge amount of poison gas would be needed, but producing and securing that amount of poison gas would be difficult. Sealing the facility was also not easy.

[It will be used in areas where it is dangerous to enter directly or in spaces where it is predicted that there will be a gathering of them, but in the end, it is a situation where we will have to deploy personnel to clear it out.]

Director Den Brown has asked us to send personnel.

‘It can’t be just manpower.’

Although it did not reach the performance of Kim Yang’s custom exosuit, they were producing a small number of full-body armor-type exosuits that had defensive capabilities.

PD and Kim Yang were engaged in a war of nerves, saying they would use the exosuit to create a knight corps or a royal guard.

‘You said the number of units produced so far was 9? 10?’

Since it requires more resources than the power loader type exosuit, it is difficult to increase the number.

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous to use a power loader type exosuit?”

If it’s New York, there’s a good chance you’ll encounter not only cockroaches but also giant rats, so an armored exosuit is a must.

[I heard that you can produce a full-body armor-type exosuit.]

“Because it was difficult to procure parts, we were focusing on producing power loader models.”

[How about getting the parts or raw materials from here?]

“There are Ivy League universities and factories in the East, so wouldn’t it be faster to produce there?”

[Even university research labs and factories don’t have the capacity. Even if they do produce it, there could be complications due to operating rights issues.]

It certainly was possible. If we had followed the procedure, starting with selecting the company, reviewing it, and coordinating with the research institute, it would have taken over a year.

It is said that it is faster and more economical to produce in Detroit and purchase the finished product.

Director Dan Brown was pushing for it, saying that if the pilots were to come along with the exosuits, they wouldn’t have to immediately send in their manpower.

The conditions set by the Department of Homeland Security were as follows: Send three times the amount of parts and materials available in the East. So, if you produce 5 units, you will send 15 units worth of parts and materials.

“That alone would be difficult.”

There had to be spare parts always ready to be replaced immediately if something went wrong. It was hard to predict how many parts would be needed if there was a fight there. If you were to send three times as many, there would be nothing left for this side.

“If we look at the raw materials, we need 10 times more.”

[That seems too much.]

“No, I’m not saying that we’re sorry. Then give us one more modular reactor.” The director was startled by Maru’s words, but he still entered into negotiations.

However, when he heard the words, ‘We have to process the materials and assemble them, but what if we need to replace or repair them during the operation? Are we not going to use them? If we think about the losses, there is not even 10 times the amount left.’, Dan Brown also gave up.

[···10 times. Let’s do that.]

“We will send 1 team from the 5th generation and 2 teams from the 10th generation.”

After finishing the story like that, Maru immediately called Ms. Kim.

You go. New York.

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Maru managed Julia Spin, a wide-area telepath, in a remote, sparsely populated area on the outskirts.

Although it was said to be simple telepathy, it was difficult to see it as simple telepathy considering her experience being attacked by cannibals while operating.

After about a month of isolating Julia, who said, “I can only use wide-area telepathy,” I handed her over to Yang Kim and the PD, who wanted to try group training using Julia Spin’s telepathy.

The effect was amazing. In places where radio was not available, telepathy was literally like cheating. The commands were effective as they were individually delivered to the brain, and the ability to react immediately to situations was also fantastic.

‘This person is a talent that is really needed.’

‘This is okay.’

Even though PD and Kim Yang unanimously praised her, Maru was unmoved. It felt like Julia Spin was hiding something.

As always, Maru didn’t overlook his instincts. Julia, who was being treated, was going crazy and jumping around.

‘I’m really just simply transmitting telepathy.’

‘Really? Then let’s prove our purity with a necklace.’

If you’re really just using telepathy, nothing will happen, so don’t worry. If you’re not, or if you do something weird, the part above your neck will ascend separately, but…

And now. On the plane to New York, Ms. Kim was feeling very uneasy. She had to stay by Maru’s side, but she was on a long-distance mission.

Kim Yang, who opened her eyes to the ambition of the great next door, saw the scale of the dream gradually grow. As the dream grew, the great next door also grew higher.

‘Absolutely possible.’

Above all, the angle was visible. The angle that would become visible.

Think about it. It’s amazing that a guy who used to be a butcher at a meat processing plant and bought a building in the United States with a single swing of a knife is now someone that even the Director of Homeland Security can’t mess with.

Ms. Kim was confident.

It took only one year to grow from a bare body to a building, from a building to a village, and from a village to a city. All of this, including the airship you are riding now, was achieved in just one year. Just one year.

At first I thought it wasn’t a human baby, but now that I think about it, I’m sure it wasn’t a human baby.

‘It’s just great.’

All you had to do was stick close to him. If you could just get to the seat next to the highest dignity, you could live a life of farming safely forever.

It was hard to get there, but once you succeeded, everything was automatically copied. What a beautiful sound!

Automatic copy.

A great companion that should have no errors whatsoever for an infinite cheat life suddenly turned into a long-distance mission.

Why?

‘Unit 1’s trick?’

That wasn’t it. Then Unit 2?

Kim Yang glanced at the number 2 seated over there. It was Hood who had been impatient since last time because he had failed to achieve anything, and this time he followed him.

‘Now that both arms are done, is it time for the face to do this one?’

Hood, who had been burying his head in his laptop, lifted his head as if he sensed the narrow gaze. Kim Yang, who turned her head to the side, gathered her thoughts.

Currently, he is second in the overall ranking. He is number one in this dispatch. Then… Kim Yang, who had gathered her courage, stood up from her seat and lowered her voice.

“Attention!”

“We will arrive in New York City shortly.”

“As you all know, our mission is to eradicate the cockroaches that have eaten thousands of people.”

As the story got longer, the corners of her mouth almost started to twitch, but Ms. Kim held it in and spoke.

“You could call it a man-eating wheel. It’s just a waste of time that can’t penetrate our armor.”

“The deep underground where they are hiding is nothing more than a well-prepared oven.”

oven?

“Do you know that?”

“When you grill a cockroach, it tastes like shrimp.”

“Let’s go! Let’s grill shrimp!”

It was a somewhat subtle speech, but the 10 members of the so-called ‘Ark Revolutionary Guard’ that Kim Yang had chosen were enthusiastic. To them, Maru was their savior and the highest dignity, and Kim Yang was their idol and mascot.

Huh? Huh–

Shrimp! Shrimp!

Let’s bake! Let’s bake!

Hood and Julia shook their heads at the maddening sight, then their eyes met. The two nodded slightly and shared their thoughts, then each turned their gaze to the New York scenery outside the window.

The peaceful daily life of New York filled the space outside the window.

The airship landed on the roof of a building used by the Department of Homeland Security. New York seen from the sky was different from New York seen from the ground.

A scene of people moving busily among the refugees and homeless people filling the streets. It is the complete opposite of the empty, if not idle, Bloody Ark Town.

[Unit 2. How long will it take?]

“It won’t take that long since we’re extracting information using the worm we planted last time.”

Nod.

[You’ll know when you get caught, right?]

Kim Yang had no intention of tolerating it. Wasn’t that Unit 2? He was talking about something similar to Dr. Noedungdung. So, if the opportunity arose, he was fully prepared to dispose of it, and he didn’t hide it.

Then I’ll do it with my mind straight. Then, even if I get caught and die, I won’t feel wronged, right?

“···All right.”

[Good job. Good work.]

Kim Yang, who had parted ways with her tense hood, looked at Julia. Julia’s pupils were shaking as she moved her lips. Kim Yang waited quietly for the sight of her using her ability.

Throb-

Julia was startled when she noticed that Kim Yang was standing guard beside her.

“No, it’s not.”

[what?]

“······.”

Ah. So that’s why it was a necklace. Kim Yang was once again impressed by Maru’s touch. It was indeed great. In the suddenly calm atmosphere, Kim Yang called Julia in her characteristic tone.

[Communicator.]

“yes?”

[Yeah, communicator. Who did you talk to?]

“···With my former colleague···.”

He was my former colleague. Of course, relationships are precious. Julia cautiously opened her mouth to Kim Yang’s attitude of nodding and responding.

“Most of them were attacked by cockroaches, and the colleague I was talking to via telepathy right now is locked up because of that.”

[That colleague. A capable person?]

“Yes? Yes.”

[which?]

“Psychometry is the ability to obtain information by making contact with objects or people.”

Psychometry?

So that’s the best ability for catching spies? Huh? In order for the great republic to be solid, we need to root out the reactionaries and scum within, and that’s ‘perfect’ for that.

[Now talking, our best John···.]

Come to think of it, up until this point, there had been no unification of titles. The only titles that were commonly used were ‘that person’ or ‘the holy one.’

[Vladislav Town. Contact the Supreme One. Ask if he has a psychometric ability and can take it with him.]

“Yes? Yes.”

It was a communicator trying hard to communicate with telepathy, perhaps because it thought it was a chance to save its trapped comrade.

“···?”

“···!”

Before long, a cold sweat began to form on me, and in an instant, the communication device, from which beads of sweat were running down, fell down as if it had been overloaded.

Burrur- A pale face. Kim Yang tilted her head at the haggard look of the communicator. Was it because the distance was far? During training, I rolled it for hours and it was fine.

Haak-haak- The communicator, barely able to move while gasping for breath, relayed Maru’s message.

“Stop doing something stupid. Go catch some cockroaches.”

[okay?]

Whether it’s a regular line or a secure line, it goes through a satellite that the Department of Homeland Security has placed in the stratosphere, so we didn’t talk about it through direct communication, but should we go back and talk about it? That looks really good. Psychometry.

[You seem tired, so let’s rest for a bit and then start the operation.]

Whoosh- It was Ms. Kim who turned around and left.

Julia couldn’t relax until Kim Yang’s exosuit disappeared from her sight. Gulp – She didn’t have the presence of mind to wipe away the beads of sweat running down the side of her face.

Simply put, telepathy means the ability to transmit thoughts to another person using non-physical means.

Contrary to the seemingly harmless telepathic ability often seen in movies and novels, it was actually a very dangerous ability.

First of all, it was like that in that it connected to the other person’s consciousness. It was like connecting directly to the other person’s brain and conveying one’s intentions.

In terms of computers, it would be like someone connecting wirelessly opening up Notepad and writing something down. What would you think if you were playing a game and Notepad suddenly opened up and automatically entered text?

‘My computer has been hacked!’

Yes, if you think about it, telepathy is the ability to interfere with the other person’s brain.

The ability to show illusions or hallucinations also originated from telepathy. The ability to induce fear in others or to paralyze their minds were also abilities based on telepathy.

Being able to communicate with multiple people at once using wide-area telepathy means being able to connect telepathically over long distances… Julia fiddled with her necklace.

‘Vladimir Kalin, how did he not know?’

He immediately realized the danger he was in, which neither the mercenary group nor the Riser had noticed. And now, the spirit that had approached him to use telepathy was…

String-

Julia stopped thinking as a stabbing headache struck her. The days she had been boasting about her abilities without thinking and had become entangled with them passed by.

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Kim Yang and the so-called ‘Ark Revolutionary Guard’ went down to the entrance of the underground waterway. Her strong subordinates who believed in the great leader and followed her followed behind her.

Kkiyungkkiyung.

Cheek-cheok. Cheek-cheok.

It felt like there was a dull footsteps following me from behind.

When I was working at the company, I worked mostly alone, and when Maru and I worked together, it was just Maru, so I didn’t feel this way. Should I say it’s a bit ticklish?

[Area A-12 VX gas enters.]

[VX gas enters Zone B-5.]

As the gas began to fill the narrow sewer, the cockroaches were forced into the wider sewer.

[Cockroach at 2 o’clock!]

[5 o’clock direction!]

[Shoot!]

Puhwaaaaaaaah-