Rust - Chapter 400



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RUST -400

A hole was drilled into the neck of a woman whose wrists had been cut off.

Knock-knock-knock-

The sound of a gasp as the bullet passes through the carotid artery.

A woman with her arms around Erica’s neck and face as if her wrists weren’t cut off.

Blood splattered everywhere as he made feeble gestures.

Gyaaaaaaah!!!

The nurse took the psychometrician out of the room while he was having a seizure.

“I am a stranger.”

The man, who said he was from the police department, raised both his hands and spoke.

Maru was dumbfounded by those words. So you were having a hot time with a stranger, and were all tangled up like snails in a small box?

“Snail? Thick? Tangled?”

Ms. Kim asked, aiming at the man.

Cold sweat beaded on the man’s forehead.

“It’s a misunderstanding. It really is.”

I don’t know what the misunderstanding was, but it was something that needed to be locked up and watched.

“It’s true. It’s really nothing to do with her. She’s a woman I don’t know!”

The cries of the man being dragged away, tied up tightly, gradually grew quieter.

A hand that held the pen tightly even though it had fallen to the floor. The PD opened his mouth after pushing the woman’s cleanly cut arm aside.

“Your hands are soft.”

“The movements were also awkward.”

It was a sudden attack, so it didn’t feel like a professional. Would there be a motive to risk one’s life and kill a psychometrician?

Maru felt uncomfortable.

He was just a psychometric power user. He wasn’t a powerful politician or a tycoon, just a psychometric power user. And he risked his life to kill him? Why? Are you in your right mind?

“Since the ability is what it is, there is a possibility that he may have held a grudge without realizing it. If he used his ability to reveal information that he wanted to hide, or to identify or track down a spy, there may be someone who wants revenge.”

PD’s words made sense, but it was strange that he had no life until just before. The moment he shook hands with psychometry, the life force that had not been there suddenly burst out.

The half of Hood’s face was slightly frowned.

“It seems like the situation is more serious than I thought.”

Everyone agreed with Hood’s words.

If the Department of Homeland Security was functioning normally, they wouldn’t have let a woman like that on a blimp. On the contrary, if a woman like that was on a blimp, it would be seen as a sign of problems at the Department of Homeland Security.

“It’s strange. I wasn’t alive until just before.”

Kim Yang reacted to Maru’s muttering.

“That’s controlling people with medicine.”

A story I heard when I was fighting drug dealers in the world. It was said that Chinese and Japanese kids use such drugs in the dark. There was a rumor that when there was a fight between gangs, they would use such drugs to hit the heads of their opponents by using women, children, and the elderly.

“If there’s something like that, wouldn’t it be available in the US too?”

“It’s a problem with the medicine, but if by any chance a person with psychic abilities uses their power, it’s extremely dangerous.”

The PD’s expression hardened noticeably.

A brainwasher. Telepathy was dangerous, but having open brainwashing abilities would be tiring.

“Let’s check the information first.”

It was when I was writing about Dr. Brain Dungdung, who was being managed separately and strictly.

The whirring mechanical sound and the gurgling bubbles were loud.

The moment you see the floor, bubbles rise up fiercely.

The monitor attached to the bio-terminal blinked and blinked in chaos as it made a loud mechanical noise.

“Have you forgotten what the conditions were for meeting Tria?”

As expected, it wasn’t just the ability to extract and transform information that remained. It had to have the ability to calculate and think on its own to produce such a response.

“Honestly, if it weren’t for this incident, I would have kept quiet for a few years.”

At the words that he had been trying to keep it for several years, the bubbling water droplets slowly subsided.

“Let’s start from the beginning. We’ll talk later.”

Since information extraction and organization are functions that can be used regardless of Dr. Noedungdung’s will, there were no problems in using them.

Maru inserted an information extraction device into the head of the woman whose arm had been cut off. As the woman’s body began to cool down, information began to be extracted from her entire body.

Pogurrururur-

Maru was impressed as he looked at the data that appeared on the monitor. In the video, things that were close to abuse were happening. The PD frowned at the method of brainwashing through drugs and mental abuse.

“MK Ultra?”

“It’s not exactly the same, but it’s correct.”

Maru asked at Hood’s assertion.

“How can you be sure that’s it?”

“I hacked that data.”

The MK-ULTRA Project was a material that had lost all its freshness. It was a material that frequently appeared in novels, movies, and dramas from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s.

But few have truly touched the darkness. It was lucky that Xenia Rodden survived wearing her hood.

“···It was a project that started after World War II, based on data obtained from Japan’s special experimental unit.”

“Japan’s special experiment unit?”

“Code name: Unit 731. It was the information of a unit known as that.”

“Yes? The US used the data from the Japanese military’s biological experiment unit?”

“Yes. I even added MK-NAOMI to the name of the related project.”

“······.”

PD added further.

“They said it was declassified in 2001, but no one believed it. There were a lot of missing parts in the content.”

In movies and novels, there were many dramatic scenes of creating perfect human weapons through brainwashing or creating assassins through brainwashing. This gave the general public the perception that the MK Ultra Project was a brainwashing program.

“I also thought it was brainwashing.”

“There is even an opinion that the intense topic of brainwashing naturally concealed the extensive experimentation with other psychoactive drugs.”

There have been various experiments on drugs that excite people and cause illogical thinking, drugs that lower trust and lower reputation, substances that cause symptoms of certain diseases and then reversibly cause actual diseases, ingredients that rapidly cause disability, and drugs that strengthen dependence and make people voluntarily become slaves.

“And we are left with only uncertain information about those experiments.”

There are even conspiracy theorists who claim that the MK Ultra project was used to explain the surge in homosexuality.

“There was also a homosexual trigger, so it can’t be helped. It’s not simple brainwashing, but it’s known that they studied personality changes by using chemicals, drugs, specific images, information, and mental stress to change human behavior or thoughts.”

“······.”

It was said that they had studied methods that utilized non-material images or information, from specific drugs or substances. Hood nodded.

“MK Naomi was a project that utilized microbes, bacteria, and parasites.”

Maru seemed to have glimpsed the darkness of America. Could this be the reason why many conspiracy theories were rampant in America in the early days of the virus outbreak?

Instead of answering, Maru watched the video quietly.

The information extracted from the Noedungdung terminal clearly showed the process of a person’s personality being erased and reassembled.

The identity of the assassin who tried to kill Psychometry was not a special agent who was prepared to throw away his life like a weed. He was just an ordinary college student.

“I don’t think I need to look any further.”

The video stopped playing. I felt dirty, but I was able to keep my cool.

‘It’s a trap.’

It was a twisted trap. It was okay if they killed the psychometrist, or if they failed. They had already achieved their goal of showing off that they could put an assassin on the DHS airship.

“If it was guys like this… Even the director would have been at a loss.”

“The other side doesn’t care about ethics, morals, or justification, but Director Dan Brown can’t.”

So he must have tried to ask for help. He must have thought that if he could somehow manage to call Maru and Ms. Kim, he could sort things out.

‘They knew what Director Dan Brown was doing.’

This meant that there were brainwashed, or at least aligned, members of the Homeland Security operatives.

“Overall, it seems like a trap.”

“I agree.”

PD and Hood also came to the same conclusion as Maru.

“They want you to come to New York with Psychometry.”

It would have been better if Maru hadn’t come to help. That would have been an excuse to create the image of Vladimir Kalin as someone who didn’t come to help even in the midst of a Homeland Security crisis.

If they come to help, I’ll just occasionally push in some brainwashed civilians and see how they do it. If I think it’s possible, I’ll capture them and try to brainwash them.

“If you had this ability, why didn’t you use it from the beginning? You could have taken control of New York right after the incident.”

“Because there were cannibals back then.”

The cannibals probably tried to brainwash him too. They probably knew it wouldn’t work and were just waiting for their chance.

“I would have quietly participated in the hunt for cannibals. I would have waited for an opportunity after rooting out the cannibals that could not be brainwashed. Then, due to the abnormal climate, I ended up being isolated here and there.”

“It must have been the best condition for expanding power.”

Maru was lost in thought.

When I went to New York and when I didn’t go.

If I went to New York, I had to consider many variables, but one thing was certain. I had to assume that the Department of Homeland Security was not functioning properly. I would have to fight off the suicide attacks of brainwashed people and the attacks of monster rats. Even if I could stop that and normalize things, it was obvious that there would be criticism.

“Are you going to hand New York over to them?”

“It’s not even my New York, so I have no choice but to hand it over.”

Those guys took over New York because they were so capable, so it’s not like we can tell them what to do, right?

“Once we take control of the East, we can aim for Detroit.”

“If you want to achieve an equal society with nuclear weapons, then go ahead and do it. Well.”

Why would you bring nukes? If you show them nukes, they will know to avoid them. They are the ones who are trying to seize power by brainwashing others. Do you think they would like to be equal with a nuclear spear?

Miss Kim nodded her head.

“And here’s what they’re overlooking: If they don’t stop the monster rats, New York is going to be finished. They’re using the rats to expand their influence while keeping the Department of Homeland Security in check. Well…”

Rats are capable of infinite reproduction as long as they have food. They have an uncanny reproductive ability that starts from a pair of rats and can grow to over a thousand rats in a year.

They even eat each other if they have to, and they even create a class society, and it’s even mutated. But you’re saying that you’re using them in a power struggle instead of catching them first?

The number of rats in New York was estimated at between 2.5 and 3 million. Even if that number were halved by mutation and cannibalism, that would still be between 1.2 and 1.5 million.

If New Yorkers have 9 million people, it would be a win if they could catch just one mouse per person. But what if we were isolated like we are now? What if the rats multiply and eat 9 million people?

“We don’t have time to worry about New York. We’ll do everything we can to recover the supplies on board the downed airship and bring the airship back as quickly as possible.”

“Would you like to give up, Director Den Brown?”

“You can’t just give up and say no. Is that guy someone who would be easily defeated? And he’s not stupid enough to crawl in on his own two feet when he knows they’re obviously targeting him. He hasn’t even formally asked for our help.”

The airship crashed, and all of its crew members were turned into rat droppings. So everything I thought about up until now was just a guess.

Let’s be blunt and factual: a Homeland Security blimp crashed, and there were two survivors, but one of them was an assassin sent to assassinate a psychometric user.

The only thing that was unsettling was that the assassin was a brainwashed civilian. If we just let that go, it would be over. There was no need to worry about who was being abandoned, and there was no need to worry about whether the fate of New York was at stake.

Kim Yang vehemently agreed with Maru’s words.

Good job, our Baekjeong. Of course, you don’t have to crawl all the way to New York in the cold and suffer. Yes. This was all a subjective response that was possible because of the nuclear weapons. Yes.

“The survivors may have been brainwashed, so we’ll put them in solitary confinement for now. Then we’ll send Dr. Brain Dung Dung back to his place.”

Pogurrurur-

Pogurrurur-

Although bubbles rose up as if to say that it was different from the promise, Maru’s eyes were cold.

“Let’s not pretend like we’re just machines and then get caught and then go on and on about what we did. We made a promise with Tria so we’re just leaving it alone. Just quietly reflect in a corner. Do you understand?”

(······.)

Porrrrrr-

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Director Dan Brown gulped down a high-caffeine beverage roughly. No matter how much energy drink he drank, he was not feeling sharp.

‘What kind of guys are they?’

After some conflict arose over clearing out the cannibals and dividing up the massive loot, subtle rifts began to grow.

We encountered a monster swarm of rats in an area where a mass disappearance had occurred with the FBI. It wasn’t a large group, but there were probably 200 or 300 rats swarming the villa.

Additional assistance was impossible due to the snow. Homeland Security and FBI agents fought fiercely to defeat the rats, but there were no civilian survivors.

He argued that the most important thing right now was to catch the rats, and that they should join forces to catch the rats even if it meant making some sacrifices, but this only made the problem worse.

‘The pursuit force was annihilated. Who commanded it?’

‘After annihilating everything, you want to go all out again? Where is the command?’

‘The Department of Homeland Security is trying to monopolize power by spreading insecurity.’

‘We condemn the actions of the Department of Homeland Security that deviate from checks and balances.’

‘The Department of Homeland Security exclusively uses exosuits. What is my intention?’

‘Homeland Security in league with the military. Marine Corps Commander Gilbert Brown, stationed in the outskirts, and Homeland Security Director Dan Brown are related.’

All sorts of noises came from all directions. And some of the agents’ behavior suddenly became strange. It seemed that some of the agents had approached the secret data room that had been dug as a trap.

[Director, it is brainwashing.]

“Fuck···.”