Rust - Chapter 403



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RUST [RUST]-403

Hood was secretly quite surprised.

Not torturing them with rats.

‘Torturing rats?’

What kind of mentality makes you think of torturing a rat?

But when you think about the rats going beyond ambushes and surprise attacks to even using tactics like crawling under vehicles to directly infiltrate the enemy’s base, torture seems like it might work.

How do you torture someone?

Psychometry could not read the beast’s memories, but it was possible to determine where it had moved to and what had happened in places where strong residual thoughts remained.

It was just that the cockroaches attacked and went somewhere. The reason the psychometry abandoned its comrades and ran away was because it read the horrible residual thoughts, not because it read the cockroaches’ mental world.

Unfortunately, I am currently in a situation where I cannot even do that due to the fear of assassination. I knew that I could not use my psychometry ability, so I hired a nurse.

‘Is it possible?’

Let’s say the torture was successful. Even if the nurse had interpreted where the rat’s main base was through torture, would it have been possible to properly understand what the rat was saying and what it meant?

Are rats using human maps or navigation systems?

Everything would be different, including the concept of direction and distance?

What on earth do you plan to do as a nurse?

Maru’s rat torture plan was put into action right away.

Capturing the rats that were swarming around the crashed airship.

Ono Nanae broke into a cold sweat when she heard the words, “Trick the rat to find the main character.”

‘Well. But you said he was smart. Let’s have a conversation first…’

The caged rat saw her and screamed.

Squeak! (Get out of here!)

“Oh, over there. So can you hear me?”

The rats squeaked at the nurse’s words.

Crazy woman! (She’s crazy!)

Squeak- squeak! (Hey, can you open the lock?)

Jjiik-(I have to try it-)

Huh? What did you just say? Opening the lock? So escaping?

It was a bust before we could even get started.

“So you’re saying these were trying to escape?”

“Yes. I said I’ll open the lock.”

Jjieeeek-

Click-

“What are these kids talking about?”

“Uh- Your eyes are weird···. No, your eyes.”

“Eyes? Whose eyes? Where are the eyes?”

In response to Maru’s question, the nurse simply looked at him with an embarrassed expression.

“Uh···. Hmm···.”

So what I’m saying is that the rats are sitting there evaluating my eyes.

One corner of Maru’s mouth twisted slightly.

A moment later, a rat tied tightly to a long, straight branch cried out.

Jeeeeek!

A single candle was visible beneath a slowly rotating branch. As it slowly spun round and round, the tip of its tail barely brushed against the candle.

Hood’s brow furrowed as he looked at it.

“Do you really have to do it with fire?”

“Animals are not afraid of fire, and burns are extremely painful, so it’s effective.”

If you cook it slowly over low heat, starting from the tail end, its mouth will open on its own, just like it did now.

Jeeeeek!

@$%#%$#$

“Why are you doing this?”

“Why are you asking? Ha- Don’t ask and don’t answer.”

You said to gently coax him and find his base?

Miss Kim shook her head after seeing the nurse’s expression.

“That’s because the little mice haven’t come to their senses yet.”

“yes?”

“I told you so.”

“?”

“How dare you talk back first.”

“······.”

In a situation where even crying out for help isn’t enough, where can you go?

Kim Yang and Maru exchanged glances and nodded.

Behind the fire, water awaits.

Rats struggling on a seesaw. Crunch- crunch! The seesaw tilts and the rats plunge their heads into the cold water.

Before the bubbles started to bubble and I could feel my breath fading away, the seesaw tilted to the opposite side with a thud. The rat hanging on the other side turned its head around, but the seesaw went down without a trace.

Pogurruruk!

The rats watching the scene from their cages were quiet.

Because if a rat squeaked, it would be caught and roasted. Even rats that were doing something else would be caught and allowed to experience the rides themselves.

As expected, he was smart. He quickly realized that if he made even a sound, he would be hung up on, and if he didn’t look properly, he would be dragged away.

“Excuse me. Can I ask you something now?”

“No, wait.”

“Yes? You’re doing well without showing off?”

“You only need one mouth. Wait.”

to?

At first, the rats were very close together, but they changed after just a little bit of starvation.

As the torture continued and food was not provided properly, the rats attacked and ate the weakest rats.

“Rats are naturally susceptible to starvation because they have a high metabolism.”

The story goes that the rats that were hiding in the sewers suddenly start to come out in droves and run around everywhere because they are hungry.

“When we found the main camp, we were going to block the road and starve them to death, but if they eat each other like that, it won’t be easy to starve them to death.”

“Yes. They are not afraid of cannibalism, so it would take a long time to starve them to death.”

It was a monster rat that could even chew through reinforced concrete, so if it found out that the passage was blocked, it would definitely try to get out through another way.

“It wouldn’t be easy even if we used poison gas. Even though pest control workers tried to catch rats by spraying gas, they were not able to do so.”

“There would have been no cards for the traders to play. There were also issues with human safety and destruction of the ecosystem.”

But it wasn’t Maru.

Ecosystem? What do you know about an ecosystem where monsters are going to increase as you eat monster rats? Residual gas? All the surrounding towns were empty, so there was no need to worry. There was no need to worry about people’s opinions like in New York.

“How many are left?”

“Five.”

The nurse could understand the rats, but the rats could not. Unlike the crows, who had been communicating well from the beginning, the rats were semi-one-way.

Jeeeeek! (You evil things!)

Sizzle sizzle! (I curse you!)

“They say it’s a curse?”

“Get rid of that kid.”

Click-

“You still haven’t answered where the main force is?”

“Uh. That’s. So.”

“What’s the problem?”

“That’s it. I don’t think they know what ‘main’ means?”

“······.”

“······.”

The Obsession Floor ended up telling the rats who didn’t know what the main base was, and the last remaining one headed to Chatham City, near where the airship crashed.

“As expected, it came from a nearby city.”

Hood looked dispirited at the conclusion, which was too vain for information obtained through torture with fire. He had tortured dozens of rats, but had not obtained much information.

“Then, since there are things I don’t know.”

Kim Yang said as if he was wondering why he was feeling so frustrated about something so obvious. It was also unclear whether he had any connection with the New York rat pack. The reason was that the captured rats were of lower class and had no high-level information.

“Based on the information that has come out so far, it appears that they have formed a more solid class society than we thought.”

“You little rats have a class society.”

It seemed almost certain that the rats in New York had some connection to the ones in Chatham.

“How about capturing rats belonging to the ruling class?”

Hood, who knew full well the importance of information, suggested it, but Maru refused.

“Unlike New York, the sewers are too small to deploy troops.”

If it was an armored exosuit, it wouldn’t have been impossible to ignore the gnawing and catch it, but that would have been if it was a normal rat.

Judging from what the monster rats had done so far, it was clear that they were going to set a trap. No matter how sturdy the exosuit was, it would be over if it got crushed by rocks or buried in the ground. There was no need to risk going into the sewers.

Because all you have to do is kill all information.

“Fill the sewers with VX gas.”

“If we fill the sewer system with poison gas, isn’t there a risk that it will travel through the sewer system and reach ordinary homes?”

“This city is already finished.”

“······.”

“Look around.”

At Maru’s words, Hood looked around. Snowmobiles were moving busily, transporting supplies. Across the snowmobiles, which moved noisily, leaving tracks that seemed to dirty the white snowfield, the guards and knights wearing armored exosuits were standing guard in all directions.

“Despite all this noise, no survivors are coming out.”

That means it’s either completely destroyed or it’s scary to come out.

“Start warning broadcast.”

A loud siren woke up the city of Chatham.

[Today, we are spraying gas into the sewers to exterminate the rat population. It is a toxic gas, so please block the sewers.]

Information began to spread, starting with how to block the sewer. Soon after, Chatham City’s sewers were filled with VX gas.

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[VX gas is running low.]

The work team contacted us. The VX gas consumption was much greater than expected. It was enough to spray Chatham, but not enough to spray London, northeast of Chatham, and Windsor, across from Detroit.

“First, we will divert all remaining gas to Windsor. We will thoroughly distribute it to Windsor and its surrounding areas, and think about other cities later.”

[All right.]

The idea was to use the gas for urban or special warfare situations, not to fill up city-scale sewers, but that’s where things ended up. The consumption of gas meant that the essential chemicals used to synthesize the gas were running low.

[This is the last production run. Additional production is difficult due to a shortage of key raw materials.]

In the past, it would have been easy to do business in New York, since there was nothing you couldn’t get through Homeland Security Director Dan Brown. But now it was difficult.

“Since you have a snowmobile, why not take a tour of the nearby cities? There’s a petrochemical complex southeast of Detroit, near Pittsburgh.”

[Among the cities adjacent to the Great Lakes, the University of Chicago is the only university with a medium-sized or larger research institute.]

The farming area was decided based on PD and Diana’s recommendations.

“Let’s start from Pittsburgh.”

The snowmobile headed southeast of Detroit.

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Busan – Hotel Charlotte.

Chairman Sim Eun-young closed her eyes. The agreement to receive cooperation and protection from the US Forces in Korea in exchange for moving the US troops to the mainland became meaningless.

In order to escape the government’s pressure to conscript supplies and capable people, they asked for help from the US military in Korea, but the answer they got was, “It could be interference in internal affairs. It’s difficult to help.”

The Ojin Group, which had virtually taken control of the metropolitan area, abandoned everything and moved its base to Ulleungdo Island, and it seemed that the government had already sensed that it was going to turn its back.

The reason why the Ojin Group, which fed Korea by exporting various medicines including anger management and cannibalism treatment, fled in such a hurry is because of the corrupt government.

A huge reserve force was drawn up for the war with China, but the war was at a standstill, neither a ceasefire nor a ceasefire.

China, divided into seven parts, was raving about how they were the victors, and the US repatriated all of its troops to the mainland because of what had happened there.

Although the US forces in Korea remained, the US forces in Korea, which were mainly composed of the Air Force, were literally becoming a burden because of the sightings of flocks of crazy birds.

Conscription in this situation?

“Signs of a large-scale troop movement have been detected.”

“It has been confirmed that some of the armored divisions also slipped away during the night.”

“They said that if you surrender unconditionally within 24 hours, they will guarantee your safety.”

“Ha-Unconditional surrender? Safety guarantee? You said that first?”

It’s not like we’re negotiating, but rather preparing to move troops and guaranteeing safety?

Sim Eun-young had to make a decision.

Should we just lose everything and disappear like the crazy government said, or should we make the region our stronghold? Looking at what they were doing, it was clear that surrender was not going to work.

There is a limit to the uprising based in the Busan area, but the current crazy government could mobilize at least 1 million troops.

Sim Eun-young, who had been lost in thought, made a decision.

“We are going to America.”