Rust - Chapter 379



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RUST -379

In the distance, the sight of the satellite villagers packing up their belongings and leaving was faintly visible.

‘They’re really leaving.’

Julia habitually stroked the necklace around her neck. The fear that could explode at any moment hung around her neck, making her feel like her ego was being eaten away little by little.

‘Is that what those people are carrying on their backs an exosuit?’

Upon closer inspection, I saw that he had a machine gun and a sniper rifle. I thought that a heartless person who would put a necklace around someone’s neck wouldn’t be the kind of person who would hand over something like that, but I was surprised.

She shook her head involuntarily, recalling the reaction she felt when she first connected telepathically.

You can’t trust someone whose heart you can’t understand.

That was the guiding principle, and it’s what’s kept me alive until now.

Director Yu was simple. At first glance, she seemed violent, but she was actually a pure person, so it wasn’t bad to help her. Because you could tell that Director Yu cared for her people.

But Maru. The human called Vladimir Kalin was completely unknown to me. It was as if there was a mental barrier, something deep and dark blocking my view.

This was something that Erica also agreed with. She said that he was the type that had difficulty reading her residual thoughts or thoughts.

So, he’s a dark guy whose mind you can’t read.

Even recently, if I had made a mistake, my head and body would have been separated. Without warning.

After that, Julia was careful not to accidentally use telepathy on anyone in Vladiak Town, because she didn’t know if the necklace would burst.

Erica told me not to stress too much, that it wasn’t a bad place to live, but she said that because she was worried about her neck being safe.

Erica said, opening the door wide and coming in.

“Julia. Did you hear? No. Did you see the broadcast?”

“What broadcast?”

“New York. There’s a war going on with cannibals there right now.”

“Cannibals? Cannibals? Were you taking medicine when we were here?”

“Yeah, that’s what happened, but I guess the people above didn’t do that.”

Up? High society. I remembered that Chairman Geese Riser also drank the shake, not the medicine.

“Like Chairman Riser and his staff?”

“Yeah. And they say there are 1 million militia members···.”

“···1 million?”

The population of New York State is roughly 20 million, and the population of New York City is 9 million. Whether it’s 1 million out of 20 million, or 1 million out of 9 million, that’s a huge number of people who voluntarily took up arms. But even so, there were too many. What on earth happened?

“How? A million is too much.”

“New York was turned upside down after a video of cannibals eating people alive was released.”

“Really? If you make that public, what will happen to the looting and rioting?”

“The looting and rioting ended quickly thanks to the help of the local people in suppressing it.”

People here? Vladimir Kalin is here, is that girl Yania Kim gone?

“What about the cure? There must be some families with cannibalistic people in their homes.”

“···I don’t think it’ll be good since they say the militia was mobilized for road control and search operations.”

They were called a militia, but they were people who had seen videos of cannibals eating people. Do you think the militiamen, consumed by rage, would think about human rights or law-abiding or anything like that?

If they saw a cannibal, they would definitely try to drag him away without any restraint, and if the cannibal resisted or his family resisted, the result was obvious.

“Are you crazy? What the heck? Are you crazy? What the hell are you thinking?”

The operation to find the cannibals last time was understandable. It was an incident where the cannibals were trying to grow their power and take over New York.

If you think of the situation at the time as something like a coup d’état, it’s understandable that they used force to stop it. The same goes for criminal groups using cannibalism. There was also a justification for catching gangs, mafia, and cartels.

But now it was different. It was said that some cannibalistic force had started a war by branding all cannibals as cannibals because they ate people alive.

‘Is that the Department of Homeland Security’s choice?’

I felt that way since then, whether it was a patriotic law or a security law, but now they’re even mobilizing the militia to kill cannibals.

“Not all cannibals are ogres. There must be some who take medicine and live quietly with their families.”

At Julia’s words, Erica turned her head away, pretending not to know. How could she say something like that even though she knew the scene that was read through psychometry?

“···If we were in New York, wouldn’t we have been called here and there? Then we’d be dragged off to track down cannibals. Then you would have been told to operate telepathically too···.”

“I guess so.”

Julia looked out the window again.

The footsteps of people leaving for New York, which has become a battlefield, were long. Did they know that New York had become a battlefield and were leaving?

“Do those people know there’s chaos in New York?”

“why?”

“I just wondered if you were going to do it anyway.”

If I were to go for freedom despite the threat of war, if I were to risk my life… Julia unconsciously touched her necklace.

“Really? Then I’ll look into it.”

Before I could say, “No, you don’t have to do that,” Erica went out. After a while, Erica came back with a slightly pale look and shook her head.

“The power and broadcasting in the satellite village has been cut off for several days. Maybe that’s why they didn’t know about it at all.”

“······.”

Not only did they cut off the electricity that is essential for living, but they also controlled information?

As expected, Vladimir Kalin was not a trustworthy person.

Julia now prayed for people who seemed very small.

I hope they can find a peaceful daily life…

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Maru watched the long line of people moving south from the tower conference room.

They said that since they were sending it anyway, they would replace the exosuit batteries and help them get to Canada if they wanted, but they were all rejected.

“Why did you refuse to go to Canada, even though it seemed much safer to go back a little?”

“I guess it’s because if you go towards Canada, the bridge gets broken and you have to turn back.”

“Aren’t there several bridges connecting Canada and the United States?”

“Because I can’t guarantee it.”

I tried to do my best, but it didn’t work out as I wanted. Relationships between individuals are difficult, but relationships between societies, groups, and groups are even more difficult.

I knew that once a relationship started to go wrong, it was hard to get it back, but experiencing it in a book and experiencing it in real life felt different.

Maybe it’s because this is America? They take exosuits and guns, but they won’t accept any other help. What the hell is going on?

“You’re saying that even though New York is basically at war, more and more people are following you?”

“Yes. People are not believing us because of the power outage and the internet and broadcasting.”

So Maru was dumbfounded by the story that he thought they were trying to keep him captive by lying. He hadn’t even treated them like slaves until now, so how could he react like that?

“Did you also show them the footage of the underground bunker?”

“yes.”

“Ha- I decided to send out the person I was going to send out anyway, but my first method was wrong.”

I was annoyed at the idea of ​​someone else’s stuff being taken away, so I cut off all the electricity, internet, and broadcasting and tried to collect the exosuit and equipment, but there was a strange phenomenon where more and more people wanted to go. They even started to distrust me.

After I said, “If you’re going to leave, take the exosuit or the equipment,” because I was annoyed and bothered, the number of people saying they would leave continued to increase.

At first, it was a problem of one satellite village leaving, but now, a little over half of the satellite villages are caught up in the atmosphere of leaving.

It was honestly shocking that this kind of atmosphere had developed overnight.

“······.”

“······.”

Hood was offended by the comment that seemed to suggest that his opinion was wrong.

“So why did you tell me to take the exosuit? And the gun too?”

“The new exosuit line is starting to take hold, and if we try to retrieve them, they’ll fight, but we can’t kill them all.”

There were plenty of weapons.

Even if they shared it with New York, there was no need to worry because they could take a huge amount of supplies considering the size of this place. So, I didn’t regret the few machine guns and sniper rifles they took.

It’s a bit of a shame to throw away the exosuit, but since the new exosuit line is now being established, it’s at a level where it can be overlooked, so I decided to just let it go.

“But I don’t think it’s a good idea to change a policy as easily as turning over the palm of your hand after deciding on it through a meeting. If it were something that easy to change, would there be any need to hold a meeting?”

If you’re going to decide on your own anyway, why bother having a meeting? Hood stared at Maru. Maru turned his head slightly at Hood’s half-and-half gaze.

“Haha- What are you talking about? If you wanted, you could take it all back, and if you wanted to dispose of it, you could dispose of it all, but you still bestowed me with grace.”

When the PD looked at Hood and smiled, Hood turned his head.

And then, as luck would have it, my eyes met with Ms. Kim’s as she returned from the scene and entered the conference room.

“···What is it?”

“······.”

Miss Kim, who was in high spirits, was generous for the first time in a while.

“If you have something to say, say it.”

“······.”

Maru and the PD were secretly surprised at her shrugging her shoulders and shaking it off even though the half-hooded woman kept her mouth shut.

Oh my, our Miss Kim has grown so much.

Maru was quick to congratulate him.

“Now, a round of applause for the guy who came back from New York.”

Applause began with the seals on the floor clapping.

Ms. Kim stood up from her seat with a proud expression and responded with a greeting.

Yeah, this was it.

I feel like things are finally starting to make sense now. Yeah.

Isn’t that obvious? If you’ve been working officially, you should have things like this.

As Ms. Kim sat down, her expression full of pride unconcerned, Maru asked about the situation in New York.

“So how did the battle go?”

“We are winning overwhelmingly.”

The story goes that they are using bunker busters to destroy them one by one and drain their blood. Maru was a little puzzled. Why are they destroying them one by one instead of attacking them simultaneously?

“To instill fear and despair in the enemy···.”

“···I see. Are you telling me to struggle against the death that is slowly approaching?”

The PD nodded. There was a lot to learn from Director Dan Brown’s methods.

“Let’s attack simultaneously and finish them off quickly. What are we going to do if the cannibals have a fit?”

“He said it was to unite the citizens.”

It’s a gradual but overwhelming show of destruction, trying to unite a divided New York. And it’s also trying to reaffirm the power of the United States.

“It shows their strength… I thought they would disband the militia once the situation was over and then proceed with the conscription process, but it looks like they are going to recruit right away instead.”

“It’s not conscription, it’s recruitment?”

“If he were the director, he would most likely have thought about that.”

“is it so?”

The PD read Maru’s expression, saying, “I guess that’s just how it is,” and smiled slightly.

“Can you tell me that you are going to conscript a million fully armed militiamen right now?”

“······.”

If you were to be conscripted into a fully armed militia of a million men, well-equipped to fight cannibals, where would their guns be pointed?

“So I thought they would disband the militia and then wait some time to start the conscription process. I guess they were aiming for recruitment.”

“······.”

“So it looks like we’re continuing to see overwhelming victories.”

From the moment he got his hands on a million militiamen and a large number of missiles, the PD explained that it was probably designed by Director Dan Brown.

“If only 20% of those who participated in the militia responded to the draft, that would be 200,000. Given the current atmosphere, this would be a figure that is easily achievable. If only half, or 10%, responded to the draft, that would be 100,000. If we link up with the Marine Corps that is defending the outskirts, we should be able to resolve the military issue.”

“······.”

Director Den Brown.

I thought he was a good guy after working with him several times, but he wasn’t an easy guy. The PD noticed that right away.

Up until now, I thought I had done well, but as my power began to grow, I had more than one headache. At first, I thought it was a good idea to reduce the burden by creating satellite villages, but if you look at the results, it was only half a success.

‘Gisun was good at that.’

It was Maru who suddenly came to mind.

‘It would have been easier if that kid had been there.’

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Chwiiyiik-

Long tentacles pierced the napes of the necks of the infected who were swarming in from all directions.

Ugh-

Kukeukeuk-

The infected people, who had anger management issues, ignored the pain and rushed in, but they did not have the ability to withstand the torn carotid artery and trachea.

Keuuuuk-

Brrrrrrr

The seizure was fleeting. In less than a minute, the infected people had grown cold, and it was time to light a cigarette.

after–

‘Damn, it’s getting colder, my body feels stiff.’

[Manager Kim Ki-sun and Director Kim have also arrived at the scene.]

At the operator’s words, Ki-soon, who had been rubbing the cigarette on the floor, got up and grumbled.

“What the hell is a manager? Tell him to take it easy. He’s reaching his limit.”

[The Chairman believes in it.]

“I don’t believe it at all···.”

Maru guy. Are you doing well?

It would have been nice if there was a floor.