Rust - Chapter 371



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RUST [RUST]-371

Kim Yang didn’t turn around even though she heard a dull slicing and something piercing behind her.

There would always be a floor there, so she could just focus on the one in front of her.

Thud, thud, thud!

A round enemy exosuit that can withstand a mix of armor-piercing and incendiary armor-piercing rounds at close range.

What the heck is this kid?

Why don’t you die?

Even though I focused on the head, it didn’t work properly. If I had shot at this point, I would have caught the mutant. An angry Kim Yang activated her newly equipped equipment.

Wheein-

A cylinder rising above the shoulder of her exosuit. An anti-tank missile launcher.

?!!!

The round guy held out both arms as if to say, “Wait a minute,” but Kim Yang fired the missile without a second thought.

Puhwaaaaak!

The modified anti-tank missile, which flew without any idea of ​​its minimum range, hit the enemy’s chest. There was a dull explosion. It didn’t have much destructive power, but it was enough to penetrate the exosuit’s armor.

I caught one

Mr. Kim surveyed the battlefield.

‘CCTV first.’

Kim Yang’s eyes, which had broken a nearby CCTV, read the information appearing on the HUD (Head-Up Display).

There was nothing visible in the thermal image, but there were several red dots created by the motion detector. The thing that appeared and disappeared here and there was Maru. The two red dots slowly moving away behind were…

‘?’

If they were enemies, they would have entered through the hole in the wall, but they went back through the hallway they came in through.

‘Are these guys crazy?’

Run away? Run away without giving a signal?

[Hey. You fucking idiots over there.]

The red dot that had been moving slowly in Kim Yang’s communication suddenly stopped in its tracks. Now that we’ve stopped the ones that were running away, let’s help Maru.

Tsutsuya!

At the strange sound, Ms. Kim instinctively took up her position.

And the scene that came into her eyes. The round enemy exosuit. The head of the sturdy guy that had withstood even 12.7mm bullets was pierced.

The blade that had been inserted like a skewer of a round fish cake came out with a pop. She skewered four while catching one with her modified anti-tank missile and made one into sashimi.

‘It’s not like I’m any stronger or anything.’

The knife was no different. It was the knife he always carried.

But that’s five in the ten seconds.

You caught one every two seconds?

Strictly speaking, it didn’t even take 2 seconds? It meant that since the first one he cut wasn’t cutting well, he switched to stabbing and caught it in an instant.

Kim Yang’s eyes sparkled.

‘also···.’

The floor disappeared into the rippling space again. Kim Yang raised her arm, signaling that she would search the inside of the gaping hole in the wall, and then moved to the right.

Inside the fake wall made of plasterboard and lumber, there was a wide space as expected. On the ceiling here, there was a CCTV that flashed red lights at regular intervals.

Tukang-ting.

Tukang-ting-rur.

Toung-ting

Kim Yang, who had blown up all the ceiling CCTVs, said something that suddenly came to mind.

[But. What if these guys are Air Force kids?]

[If the Air Force shoots, should I get hit?]

To her, the United States of America was somehow a bit of a nuisance. Something that shouldn’t be touched?

Maru felt the same way, but in this era where everyone is living for themselves, they couldn’t just leave those who had launched the preemptive attack alone. The enemy’s exosuit was unique, so it was difficult to capture them.

Whether they forced their way in or not. If they were watching through CCTV, they could have at least given a warning on the broadcast. They came in without warning, so they attacked them right away? Even after seeing Kim Yang’s exosuit?

Anyone who looked at it would see that Kim Yang’s exclusive exosuit was an extraordinary object. If they attacked it while confirming it on CCTV, then who would have done it in the natural order?

[Don’t go too deep inside.]

Maru stopped Kim Yang from going deeper into the empty lot and called out to Psychometry.

[Here, pick one of the corpses and check it out. There might be something to salvage. And Julia, bring the biometric terminal.]

[Are they okay?]

I was trying to escape without them noticing.

[I don’t think he was trying to completely run away.]

[···ah.]

Telepathy is on a leash, and psychometry is off, but they know that if the spider-like drones outside activate, it’s over.

‘For someone who worked in the mercenary group, both of them do things that are like that···.’

When it comes to women who eat with guns, Director Yoo and Yang Kim come to mind first, so the two of them reacting like civilians seemed unfamiliar. Even if she had psychometry, didn’t she have telepathy as an operator?

Kim Yang slowly looked around the empty interior, looking for anything that could be a doorway or trace, while Psychometry placed his hand on the corpse that Maru had stabbed and read the residual thoughts.

[Brought it.]

Telepathy brought Dr. Brain Dungdung. Maru had her extract information from the head of the corpse that Kim Yang had killed.

Julia hesitantly removed the exosuit’s helmet, which had a hole in its chest.

Chi-sik- With the sound of gas escaping, the helmet was separated, dented and broken here and there by bullets. Inside was a head. Short hair and pale skin. Traces of not being exposed to sunlight for a long time were evident.

As she inserted a tentacle-like information extractor into the corpse’s skull,

Poggurururuk-

As the bubbles formed, information began to flow out.

[How long will it take? He’s dead anyway, so pull him out as quickly as possible.]

[···yes.]

Julia unconsciously caressed her neck and increased the speed of information extraction.

[Ugh- gee··· now.]

The psychometry that was reading the residual thoughts suddenly felt like it was going to vomit, then opened the helmet’s face shield and started vomiting. After throwing up everything she had eaten, she spoke in a thin, trembling voice.

[Here. Underground. Cannibals rule.]

[Cannibal?]

She began to lose focus in response to Maru’s questions and began to stammer and babble.

[···I. Have to go. Here. Now. Here. Have to go.]

Cuckoo!

Kim Yang, who had come next to Psychometry, struck down the helmet of the struggling woman. Psychometry sat down in a daze due to the strong impact that hit her head.

Swish swish – Kim Yang, who was waving her palm in front of Erica’s half-opened pupils, clicked her tongue.

[I’m half-asleep over this. I don’t think I can use this.]

When asked what he saw, he just blankly stared at the outside and tried to go out, so Maru moved to another location.

[That’s it.]

Kim Yang took the rear, and Maru maintained his hiding position and headed towards the entrance. They hadn’t gone in too far, so they came out quickly.

[How do they react?]

[doesn’t exist.]

I thought they would chase me, but there was no response from inside.

Isn’t it basic to cut off the retreating enemy’s retreat route or to pursue and attack them? But they just let them go outside.

‘This is the reaction when cannibals rule.’

It was a very creepy room. It seemed that Kim Yang felt the same way, too, as he stared into the dark interior.

Only after coming out of the dark building and basking in the sunlight did Erica come to her senses.

“Yeah. The underground bunker has been taken over by cannibals?”

“Food. A cannibal… Ugh-.”

Erica, who was feeling nauseous, used her ability on the ground. She used the remaining two abilities by resting, once, and now she has used them all up.

[What did you just do? You just blew your ability usage count?]

Kim Yang was furious. If you have psychometry, you can go inside and extract information from terrain features when you need it, but you use it like this? Where the hell is this bitch coming from?

[What if I take the lead on this?]

Looking at what he’s doing, it seems like he’ll do whatever he wants. Wouldn’t it be more productive to give him a shield and have him do it in front?

Maru’s eyes turned cold. He clearly told her not to use it carelessly and to give him a signal to use it, but he just used it on the floor? It was a symbol of not wanting to go in with him.

Even if you take a break and can use your powers, what if you just use them on the floor again? Judging from what you did, it seemed like that would happen.

“hey.”

Even when Maru called out to him, he was trembling, burying his head in the floor, and covering his ears.

This was unexpected.

Is that pitiful sight real? Or is it just a desperate act to avoid going in?

Maru sighed softly and said.

“If you don’t tell me exactly what you saw, I can’t decide whether to go in or not.”

“······.”

“We came here for a purpose, and we won’t go back until we achieve that purpose. The same goes for you. Do you think you can go if we don’t?”

“······.”

“I hope you know that if you don’t tell me the end, I’ll have to write this.”

It was Maru who was talking while looking at the biometric terminal.

“Wait a minute. There’s no need for that. I just extracted information from the body. You can just look at that.”

Julia intervened.

[What are you talking about? Isn’t cross-validation basic? And if the two are of different ranks, they will have different information, so you’re just telling me to end it as one?]

Will these guys really come to their senses when they die? Kim Yang made a murderous expression.

“···Let’s check the information you selected first.”

An image appeared on the monitor of the biometric terminal.

The events that took place in the underground nuclear bunker at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base began to unfold from a first-person perspective.

Cannibalism virus.

A virus that has mutated again from the same virus that causes anger management disorder and genetic mutation in humans. A virus that changes everything to be advantageous for survival except for the desire for cannibalism.

On average, they become three times stronger than the average adult male, have increased disease resistance, have enhanced tolerance to toxins, have regenerative powers that allow them to regenerate quickly from injuries, and have increased responsiveness in the event of life-threatening situations.

If it weren’t for the uncontrollable urge to eat, it would be considered a disease essential to survival. However, if you look closely, it was a mutation with limitations in that cannibalism was essential.

What happens when cannibals can’t eat? Just like the Riser group, the underground bunker cannibals have also been experimenting with the same thing. The results are the same. Bodily deformation and eventual collapse.

When humans don’t have meat, they make soybean meat and eat it, and even eat insects to get the protein they need, but when cannibals feel the urge to eat, they have no choice but to eat humans.

The moment you become a cannibal. The irony that humans are the most essential beings of all. The moment humans become extinct, they become extinct along with you.

The cannibals in the underground bunker, who found out about this, started breeding humans instead of increasing the number of their comrades. In this way, the underground bunker turned into a giant human breeding farm.

[Is this all?]

“He seems to be a low ranking guy among them.”

There was no important information about what the round exosuits were, whether there were any special ones, or how many cannibals there were in total.

Information related to defense facilities was also fragmentary, and there was insufficient information in many ways to make a bold move underground.

[So you were a security guard. This.]

“okay.”

It was the end, as there was no nutritious information. Then what did that psychometric freak see that made him do that?

‘If you’re going to do that after seeing the human cage. That’s ridiculous. Really.’

The back alleys of China where Kim Yang struggled to survive were worse than that. That’s why she thought the psychometric bitch was not a good fit.

I’m not going to take him in and live with him, I’m going to beat him up and fix him.

If you don’t understand what I’m saying, you have to use it immediately.

Just like that, Julia stopped Kim Yang, who was approaching the psychometry with the information extractor in hand.

“Just a moment. Give me a moment. I can talk.”

So, he’s trying to communicate using telepathy. He’s asking for a chance because he can understand without having to say anything directly.

I looked at Maru with the information extractor in my hand, and Maru was signaling me to give him some time. I wish I could quickly clean up and take the nuke if I had it and go home.

Miss Kim, who had been expressing a small complaint, stood guard at the entrance to the building.

Psychometry, which had been trembling as if telepathy was doing something with psychometry, gradually calmed down. And after a while, telepathy started to feel nauseous. Maru was seen checking something next to him.

‘Tsk, just pretend it’s nothing.’

A red dot appeared on Kim Yang’s HUD as he began to hold on tightly.

Direction to the building entrance in the dark.

Clank-

“Ah, I’m unarmed. Let’s talk.”

A clean-cut man who looked to be in his mid-forties raised his hand.

“Excuse me for a moment. It’s been so long since I’ve seen sunlight, it’s really dazzling.”

A man wearing sunglasses asked while looking at Kim Yang’s exosuit.

“Where are you from? Marines? Are things still going well over there?”

What should I say?

I glanced to the side and saw that the floor I had hidden was nowhere to be seen.

[Go.]

Where?

The long afterimage on the motion detector video was directed towards the building entrance.

ah-?

Ms. Kim pulled the trigger.

Tudadadadadak!