Rust - Chapter 394



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RUST -394

Erica wiped her sweaty hands on her thick jacket.

‘Look at that. That sinister thing. Look.’

‘It would have been better if you had come in together from the beginning, but you hid and then came out.’

‘If I had to, I would have killed them all.’

Nanae took Erika aside, who was very nervous.

“Don’t worry. Everything will be okay.”

“······.”

The nurse’s expression was too calm to ask, “If I fail, won’t you just kill them all?” However, Erica’s heart pounded as she read the story of the nurse and Vladimiru’s meeting through psychometry.

The first meeting between Vladi Maru and a nurse in Japan was a bloody and bone-breaking encounter. It started with the nurse simply destroying those who had been pestering her without any questions or answers.

There were also attacks on the elderly. Starting with the incident where a man in his seventies, Congressman Keichi Kadama, was thrown out of a building, and ending with the incident where a rest stop was turned into a sea of ​​blood as soon as he arrived in the United States.

I don’t know if this is a delusion, but I have a feeling that this place will turn into a sea of ​​blood in an instant.

What if that’s really the case?

‘It’s obvious. If it makes you feel bad, I’ll cut it up.’

‘He’s a butcher. A human butcher.’

Dori dori.

Erica shook her head to shake off the strange thoughts.

Maru, who had been released from hiding after a 10m gap, was a little disappointed.

Chijijik- Chijijik- You didn’t even notice the slight shaking of your cloaking module, which was being chewed up here and there by cockroaches. I had high hopes because you said you had shaken off the pursuit of the Department of Homeland Security. A little.

It was the same even then. I didn’t realize that they were extremely excited and that I was trying to stop them from pulling the trigger. The moment they pulled the trigger, I would have cut them all down, but I saved them.

“What are you?”

“Are these guys trying to hit us in the back of the head?”

You’re slow at judging situations.

Of course, I understand that they were really upset when they heard that their entire families were dead, but it seemed like a dud. So it felt like they were just ordinary people who had awakened their abilities, like telepathy and psychometry. I had high expectations since they were the ones who raided and escaped the Homeland Security secret lab. But it wasn’t.

[Erika. Nanae, you’ve worked hard. Let’s stop and go.]

“Huh? What about these people?”

“If you just leave it here···.”

[I’ll take care of the rest, so you two just take the woman and the surrogate mother’s body and leave.]

“Who the hell takes Rebecca away? Huh?”

“I’m not going anywhere.”

Thud – A light step narrowed the space. And then a blade shot out from the floor.

‘See? They’re all dead.’

‘Look straight ahead.’

Erica squeezed her eyes shut as the thought came to her mind.

Kujik- Kujajik-

The guns held by the ability users instantly turned into scrap metal.

uh?

Huh?

Ugh!

If it had gone in just a few inches deeper, the hand and wrist would have been cut off together. What was scarier than that was that no one reacted. The powers that had been excited by the thought that they would not have reacted even if their necks had been cut off became quiet.

“······.”

“······.”

Sword. And overwhelming weaponry.

Dick Herold had heard rumors about the Blade Master, though others may not have known.

[Do your best. And you said Rebecca? Was your dream to be locked in a secret laboratory and die like that woman?]

Everyone became dumbfounded by Maru’s calm story.

“······.”

“······.”

Dick quickly came to his senses.

All they had to do was kill them all and take Rebecca away.

Wouldn’t talking like this be giving you an opportunity?

dump-

Dick just got down on his knees and begged.

“Please help me.”

[······.]

Maru looked at Dick Herold and shook his head slightly.

Although there are some who have come to their senses late, it was a complete mess to see those with physical abilities not being able to react to the sword swings and still having their minds blown.

The rest of the men also fell to the ground after seeing Dick. Maru ordered his bodyguards, who were armed with armored exosuits, to take care of the surrogate mother’s body first.

[What are you going to do?]

Maru asked the woman right away.

“Please. Please. Save me. And my colleagues too.”

As Maru indifferently turned his back on Rebecca after hearing her words, Dick and the men pushed Rebecca forward.

‘You go too.’

‘I must get revenge.’

‘Live for our share too.’

‘I’m not going. How can I go alone?’

Maru nodded slightly at their appearance. They were not rotten and corrupt to the core.

“Please. Please. Take Rebecca with you. You know, she has U+.”

“I want to go with my colleagues. Please save me.”

[What’s that necklace?]

Maru said that he saw a necklace that looked similar to the one he had around Telepathy’s neck.

“The cannibals… have put a bomb necklace on you. It’s set to explode if you betray them or try to escape. They said it would explode if you left New York City.”

I see.

[I am not a philanthropist. Blood for blood, life for life. Do you agree?]

People looked at Dick as Maru openly said that if he spared his life, he would pay with his life.

You stupid kids.

Shouldn’t you live and see for yourself? Why are you looking at me?

Dick Herold answers Maru’s question immediately, contrary to expectations.

“I will do that.”

The others parroted along, agreeing with his answer.

[Extend your neck.]

“yes?”

[Extend your neck.]

Dick Herold stretched his neck out, and at the same time, a flash of the sword slashed past his neck. Swish-snap- Everyone gaped at the sight of the bomb necklace, with the detonator section cut off, disintegrating.

[Stick your necks out one by one.]

So they took off the bomb necklace.

Erica Lisbon continued to be amazed.

Even when the guns were cut off and they were told to stick their necks out, Vladimir did not kill them. Instead, he dismantled their bomb collars.

Looking at the simply dismantled bomb necklace, Julia came to mind. Judging from his actions, it didn’t seem like he would put the necklace on carelessly, but why did Julia wait so long to take it off?

‘uh?’

Before I knew it, the thought of killing them all, that crazy thought that had been floating around in my head, had disappeared.

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As two large vans pulled out of the underground parking lot, the Homeland Security and FBI agents who had been watching outside became agitated.

“Two large black vans, apparently belonging to Vladiak, were found in a mansion of unknown ownership. Please check.”

[CCTV confirmed.]

We started tracking them through CCTV installed on the road.

“How about a transmission image?”

“It’s a van equipped with response equipment.”

That means it’s not a regular van.

“Give the NYPD the source. They need to know why they were stuck in the building with the airship landing pad and then suddenly came out in droves and ended up here.”

“First, I decided to conduct a search on the road leading to the airship landing pad.”

The van was moving toward the entrance to the culvert, contrary to what the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI had expected.

“Huh? Huh- Are you saying we’re going to go down the sewer like this?”

[okay.]

Maru answered the nurse’s question.

[When the director lost consciousness last time, the Homeland Security Department’s movements changed.]

“A little bit. Wasn’t it?”

That meant that there were different factions within the Department of Homeland Security. Every time I dealt with Director Dan Brown, I felt that there were quite a few people who were dissatisfied with the content of the deal. Should I say that it was somehow unsettling?

[Before they say anything, shouldn’t we help collect the remains and check on those people ourselves?]

It was nice to see and hear firsthand what was going on with my family and how things were going. And it was also good for preparing for any eventuality.

‘If there are people nitpicking, just say that they are from this side.’

There won’t be a problem, Maru thought.

The search for the culvert progressed quickly, especially since it was not a search for the scattered survivors of the pursuit party.

Erica turned blue when she arrived at the scene. It seemed as if she remembered the situation at the time. A nurse was right next to her, patting her down and calming her down.

The scene was gruesome, with the pursuers, cannibals, and cockroaches all tangled together. It was difficult to find a body with limbs intact. Most of the bodies were eaten by cockroaches, exposing the bones, and there were many bodies that were difficult to properly extract the bones.

“Everyone, be careful and sort things out.”

“Be careful not to mix with the cannibals there.”

It was a terrible scene, but perhaps because so many people were mobilized, the cleanup of remains and relics proceeded faster than expected.

Maru headed further inward with the new recruits.

This was because they had to go further inside to confirm the remains of their families.

“Thank you for doing this for me.”

“I will never forget your kindness.”

There was a large space near the passage where the cockroaches had been chased away, where the cannibals had been.

‘Should I have brought Erica?’

I had no choice but to bring Erica because she didn’t look well.

[From now on, wear a gas mask just in case.]

What would it look like if you got hit by a small V’s x?

After a while, a wide open space appeared. It was a space where you couldn’t understand why there was such a space in the culvert. In one corner, equipment and supplies brought by the cannibals were piled up, and in a hole dug out like a hole…

“Sob- Seo. No way.”

“···That can’t be it, right?”

“Big- ugh- ugh- no.”

A man vomiting while wearing a mask, a person gasping for breath, and a person sitting and staring blankly into a pit. All five of them were not in their right minds.

[We have to clean up the situation before they come back to clean up the scene. Otherwise, the Department of Homeland Security will handle this place as well.]

The people with the ability got up hesitantly at Maru’s words and headed to the pit to collect the remains.

Four out of the five had at least some of their family members’ remains recovered, but one had none.

“Thank you. Really.”

The man was holding a wristwatch in his hand. Although the remains were not found, it was the wristwatch that he had given to his parents.

Maru nodded slightly to express his condolences and checked the luggage the cannibals had gathered. It was full of items that looked expensive even at a glance, perhaps because they had been brought from four families.

[Cheeeeeek- chijik-]

I tried to call the guards, nurses, and Erica from the combat zone, but the communication was not connected, even though it was only about a 5-7 minute walk away.

Maru’s brow furrowed slightly. Short-range communication failure?

It was like this in Yellowstone National Park. It was like this in the villages that were attacked by rats. It was like this in Japan when the cockroaches ambush them. When the mutated things gather together and become dense, the communications become disrupted as if they were jamming.

‘Ms. Kim said she reduced the number a lot.’

The absolute numbers were reduced, which meant that there were either cockroaches or rats swarming around here. Maru ordered his men to load up as much luggage as possible and head to the battlefield.

“Where was this?”

“It looks like important evidence.”

[Don’t talk nonsense about my loot. If you have any complaints, let’s make it official.]

There were some who glared at me, trying to find a way out, but no one was messing with me.

[It looks like the site has been cleaned up, so let’s head back now.]

As Maru and his party tried to go out, a person blocked their way.

“Please leave the psychometry here.”

[The requested work has been completed. If you wish to be dispatched further, please submit your request in the proper format.]

When trying to contact headquarters but communication was not working, there was no way to stop Maru. Whether it was force or status, Maru was the best here.

[The fact that there is a communication failure doesn’t seem to be a good sign. If you have finished cleaning up the remains, retreat quickly and block the entrance.]

Despite my friendly advice, I saw some people heading towards the passageway where the floor was. Then I saw them coming out carrying crates of supplies that the cannibals had stacked up.

“It’s piled up like a mountain inside.”

“There are some things that appear to be special equipment and important parts.”

The personnel who finished the remains collection began to move in a line inside the passage. Maru came out immediately without stopping them twice. Anyway, the story that he had told them to leave was still on the tactical camera, so that was it.

Unlike when we went to the culvert, the road to the airship wasn’t smooth. There was a checkpoint.

“Everyone, come out.”

“Disarm and come out.”

“Come out quickly and get on your knees. Put your hands on your head!”

Maru’s eyes grew cold.

[Are you telling me to get on my knees and put my hands on my head right now? Is that the order from the NYPD Commissioner? Or is the Director of Homeland Security knowing about it?]

The police were tough, trying to catch them by surprise and detain them, but they backed down when they found out Maru was with them.

‘It was a good decision to come.’

If Maru hadn’t been there, I might have seen all the stars. Maru, who boarded the airship, immediately gave the order to depart.

[To Vladiak Town.]

As the airship took off, communications began to pour in.