Rust - Chapter 410



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RUST -410

Bullfight-

The 12.7mm anti-material sniper rifle with a special silencer let out a heavy sound.

The head that had been wandering around on Kim Yang’s HUD was blown clean off, sending flaming debris flying everywhere.

Wheeeeeeing-

The special exosuit, fully equipped with cold-weather gear, made a labored sound.

‘The battery drains too quickly.’

The goal was to reduce noise when moving, but the noise and the immediate movement time were problems. If the operation time was shortened like this, it would be practically useless for anything other than stronghold defense, so it was like an automatic turret.

‘The wireless automatic turret also has the same battery problem, so is it better?’

Although it was an exosuit with +3 cold resistance made of wolf skin, it wasn’t meant to be worn for long in the bitter cold of -40 to -50 degrees Celsius.

Bullfight-

Kim Yang, who had followed Maru’s advice to blow the heads off of anyone who approached without fail, would simply shoot a 12.7mm high-explosive incendiary armor-piercing bullet whenever he saw something on the HUD linked to the crow reconnaissance camera.

[It’s minus 48 degrees right now, right?]

Those cannibalistic bastards are seriously crazy. They’re walking around in -48 degrees Celsius, and they’re not even zombies. What are they doing so slowly?

[It’s minus 48 degrees. Oh, and the kids are going to go on recon shifts so it’ll be free for about 5 minutes.]

What is it?

Even the reconnaissance shifts aren’t even timed, so there are five minutes left in between? Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed. The crow chicks and Unit 1 are the same.

Hmm-

Kim Yang has been holding back a lot lately. The Ark Revolutionary Guardsmen weren’t like that at first either. When the keywords nuclear possession, North, and Republic were listed, they felt uncomfortable.

Republic is a good word, but when you combine it with North, what kind of country comes to mind?

‘But in a situation like now, that’s the best.’

Wouldn’t it be best to unite around a strong leader in terms of efficiency?

To be honest, it was something Maru could do if he put his mind to it, and it was true that it was frustrating at times to see him turn down that good and easy path.

Kim Yang’s lips turned into a duck’s beak.

I have lived in China and have lived in Korea since my mid-teens, but I am still a slave to capital. It is a chain that I cannot escape. I eat and live this way and that way, and I try to eat and live.

So, Ms. Kim didn’t really have a dream.

Living a simple life by eating delicious food and doing small things?

To do that, you need money or something that can turn into money.

I especially like something yellow, thick, and shiny. Yeah.

Honestly, isn’t it not a bad thing to not have a dream and just try to make a living by earning a little money?

But as she watched what Maru had accomplished in a year, Ms. Kim started to get greedy. A greed that was a little bigger than the life of a small-time money-grubber.

The story of ‘Paradise on Earth’ that I heard every day as a child.

The world is a mess, but what if we could create a little paradise?

If you could add a hand there?

Wouldn’t it be possible to spend the rest of your life just hanging out next to each other and sucking on the honey?

‘You’re young.’

Kim Yang, who remembered the PD’s words, nervously checked the sniper rifle’s functions again.

Clank- clank-

‘On the topic of crazy fanatics.’

You’re talking nonsense about HOLLY. To whom? Huh-

[The scout crows have now settled in. They say there is nothing moving around. You have worked hard. Come in and rest.]

As Ms. Kim, who somehow answered the nurse’s cheerful voice with a snort, entered the snowmobile, there was Maru taking off her ripper suit.

[Are you here?]

“Oh. You must have worked hard outside in the cold too.”

It’s the way I used to speak when I was a little bit like that, but it’s a little embarrassing to suddenly change it? It’s also embarrassing to speak so casually. Yeah.

[Clearing out the entire research lab?]

“We’ve cleaned up to the third basement level with VX gas. We’ll clean up the fourth basement level soon.”

[Right? Gas is good?]

“It worked well.”

‘It was good, right? Hehehe – Even a small VX is cool.’

Kim Yang, who was shrugging, noticed Maru’s thoughts.

If the gas reaches the third basement level, any survivors will escape to the fourth basement level. If they do that, it will be a complete annihilation.

‘As expected from Baekjeong.’

It was trustworthy. Yeah.

Now, if only our Baekjeong would just make up his mind and create a little paradise like the cute VX that he pushed. How could that not work? Wouldn’t that be really great? Yeah.

Maru, who had been avoiding Kim Yang’s bright eyes, left first.

“I have a meeting right now, so wrap up and come to the conference room.”

[Okay.]

In the Snowmobile conference room, Hood was tapping away at his laptop.

Dadadadak-

Even though the poor laptop keyboard screamed that it was going to die, Hood’s merciless fingers did not stop. Hood glanced at the floor sitting across from him and continued working, saying a word.

“That psychic. Did you really have to kill him?”

Hood’s gaze was directed at the laptop monitor.

“It’s dangerous to be a psychic, but you can also switch into someone else’s body. Haven’t you seen the footage from the tactical camera? You can switch in an instant.”

Hood’s fingers, which had been typing on the keyboard, suddenly stopped.

“I saw it. There was a part in the recorded video where they talked about the weakness of that ability user. Couldn’t they have used that to draw them over here?”

If you think about it, she was the same. At first, she joined this side through threats and coercion, and later, she was driven into a stake by curing her burns, which was her wish.

Although he was working to treat the burns that covered half of his face and body, he had decided to settle down in the hood because he was honestly attached to it and liked the work.

From her own experience, she thought that even a person with only a torso left could have the potential to become like her.

“Even though he tried to steal my body?”

“But in the end, I couldn’t do it.”

Julia, a telepath, said that using telepathy was too hard for Vladimir Kalin. The same goes for Erica, a psychometrician. She said that even reading residual thoughts was difficult.

If two psychic power users were like that, Vladimir Kalin might not be able to use psychic powers.

‘If it was immune to psychic powers, then there wouldn’t have been a problem. Was it really necessary to kill it?’

If we evaluate the series of events, it was a meticulousness that even Satan would admire. Not responding to the plea for help, making him mistaken, and then leading him to the VX gas zone on his own two feet.

‘The reason he went up from the 4th basement floor to the 3rd floor wasn’t just because of the gas. He also had the intention of preventing others from transferring to his body. He must have seen it all the way there.’

If it was Vladimir Kalin who was so meticulous, it would have been possible to subdue him without killing him. Maru said as if he had guessed Hood’s thoughts.

“After experiencing it here and there, I realized that it’s hard to work with people with psychic abilities.”

“···It’s because I feel sorry for my abilities.”

Why not just give them a decent body, or regenerate their amputated limbs with some mysterious cure that can even heal horrible burns?

If we had someone on our side who could control thousands of cannibals, it would be like gaining a thousand troops. It was such a shame.

“Do you feel sorry? Well, that guy was so desperate at the end that he transformed into the body of a blonde, plump woman and begged to be spared, saying he would do anything for her.”

“······.”

That was kind of like that.

Hood slightly avoided Maru’s snickering gaze.

“I’m fine. Juliana and that bastard’s psychic powers didn’t work on me. But just because I’m fine doesn’t mean you’re fine, right? And everyone else is too.”

“······.”

That was definitely the case.

“The ability to control cannibals? To maintain thousands of cannibals, we have to kill hundreds of people at least every two weeks? Do we really need to do that?”

“······.”

Unlike before, we now have tactical nuclear weapons and cruise missiles, so we can defend or attack if we want.

With good nuclear warheads, cruise missiles, and bunker busters, why create an army of cannibals? And an army ruled by a bunch of idiots? And feed them civilians?

“Even if that’s what happened, the conclusion is already there, right? Virginia Langley and the military tried to use that guy and did something stupid and ended up like that, and you still feel bad about seeing that, you know…”

“······.”

When the facts came to light, Hood kept his mouth shut.

If you look at it that way, aren’t they all like that?

Whether it’s nuclear weapons or cruise missiles, aren’t they weapons for victory?

Is killing with a bomb a good killing, and killing with a cannibal a bad killing?

Hood continued with his work, as Vladimir Maru’s thoughts were not wrong.

‘That’s annoying.’

Maru, who had been quietly watching Hood working with his mouth tightly shut, blurted out.

“Look for MK Ultra-related materials first, rather than other materials.”

“why?”

Maru just laughed, knowing that this was Hood’s personality.

“When I came into contact with his mind, it had something to do with MK Ultra.”

“All right.”

If the experiment to use the bastard’s ability to replace drugs was successful, wouldn’t it have been used somewhere? There’s no way Virginia Langley or the military would have just ignored it. If there were any people in Vladaak Town who had been manipulated in this way, they needed to be weeded out in advance.

“There is research on shortening the brainwashing period using psychic abilities in the MK Ultra program subfolder.”

“Is it just research? There are no operations using it?”

“There is an operation. There are no details, only a brief summary.”

“It doesn’t matter, so just upload the relevant ones.”

The information that appeared on the monitor was data showing that several Homeland Security agents had used their psychic abilities.

“If the Virginia company tampered with Homeland Security agents, wouldn’t Director Dan Brown be at risk?”

If he dies or gets seriously injured, the Department of Homeland Security will be thrown into chaos, and that means New York will be thrown into chaos, right? Maru nodded calmly.

“That gentleman wasn’t such an easy person.”

“But it would be dangerous if your subordinates don’t know that you’ve been affected by their psychic abilities.”

It was true that a hidden sword was scarier than an exposed one, and it was dangerous if his subordinates suddenly betrayed him. Director Dan Brown wouldn’t be easily fooled, but I’d like to give him a warning.

“Can you communicate with New York?”

“It’s difficult.”

If it weren’t for the extreme cold, they would have sent an airship to leave a message under the pretense of going to get essential raw materials, but the situation wasn’t favorable.

Moreover, this communication failure was getting worse and worse, making it difficult to travel even 50 miles (80 km), let alone 100 miles (160 km) without a repeater.

Hood, who had been staring intently at the laptop monitor, let out a startled voice.

“Huh? What is this···?”

The operation plan was in the hidden files.

The content is that the two people who need to be brainwashed first are Vladimir Kalin and Yania Kim. The analysis and strategy is that if even one of them is successfully brainwashed, it can deal a huge blow to the one who has not been brainwashed.

Plan B was to work with Xenia Roden, the Vladislav Town information officer, to take control of the AI ​​Samantha and secure Vladislav Town’s systems.

“······.”

“······.”

It seemed quiet for a while, but then he started preparing using his psychic abilities.

I thought they would stop now that they had tasted the bitter taste of the hospital kidnapping attempt, but they were wrong. The Virginia Company had been targeting them for a long time.

“Haa- That’s right.”

Do you see these?

Kisun had foresight.

Because the decision to go with the Department of Homeland Security over the Virginia company was largely based on Ki-soon’s opinions and judgment.

Maru and Hood sat quietly in thought.

“······.”

“······.”

Ms. Kim, who entered the conference room with the nurse, tilted her head.

“What’s going on? Why is the atmosphere like this?”

When Hood summarized the situation, Ms. Kim got angry.

“I told you from the beginning, Virginia, I didn’t like how slimy they were.”

Hood agreed with Kim Yang’s words.

“The Virginia Company has a reputation for being persistent and clingy.”

“But then, didn’t you just touch this lab for nothing?”

The nurse blinked at Kim Yang’s sudden drift.

“to?”

“So, the psychic here went berserk? Became independent? That’s what happened? He was caught by Virginia, and all his limbs were cut off, leaving only his torso. What’s a poisoned test subject going to do in the future?”

At those words, Hood clapped his hands in agreement.

“Ah- That’s right. Since the mental subjects who were abused in all kinds of experiments were released, either the Virginia Company or the military would have wanted revenge···.”

We’re the ones who helped with that.

Yeah. I did. It was refreshing.

Huh? Sokka-

Kim Yang, Hood, and the nurse’s eyes turned to the floor.

Maru looked at those eyes calmly and laughed.

“So. Should I offer my body to help you get revenge? Or should I offer your bodies to help you get revenge?”

Huh? That’s not it. Ms. Kim’s expression changed to something like, “This isn’t it?”

“Have you all forgotten why we came here? We came to get the raw materials. How could we possibly know that there’s a large-scale laboratory in Pittsburgh, or that the test subjects are rebelling and forming a force, and just leave them alone?”

Maru looked at the hood.

You said you hit me with a fact earlier, so you subtly asked Kim Yang what he said, right? Right?

Hood slightly avoiding those gazes.

Yeah, good. I feel good.

You’re working outside.

“Today? Right now? I just got here?”

Kim Yang-ah, what did I tell you? I told you to think about it and do it.

You work overtime.

“You want me to organize this by tomorrow? All of this data? And Samantha isn’t here either?”

Hoody, did you think I wouldn’t notice if you did that so sneakily? Keep trying.

You···. are done.

“to?”

Just listen to the crows. Don’t let the kids complain.