Rust - Chapter 415



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RUST -415

[Did animal brainwashing succeed?]

There have been hypotheses that it is possible to communicate telepathically with highly intelligent animals such as dolphins or crows, but even that is only a possibility of communication, not brainwashing.

[Isn’t it concluded that even for those with psychic abilities, it is impossible to immediately control animals?]

[Because you can find good ingredients in Japan.]

The team leader, who was starting to find the doctor’s neutral voice particularly irritating, confirmed it again.

[As you can see from the video, that’s a monster. Are you telling me to capture it?]

[Yes. Please capture as many as possible.]

This is crazy.

[That’s a monster. It’s not just a rat.]

[That’s why it’s good.]

I’m going to turn back.

[As the person in charge of the scene, let me be clear: Those rat bastards need to be exterminated immediately, by any means necessary.]

[Well said. If it looks horrible to an expert like you, then it must be the same for the enemies.]

[···The enemy is not the problem.]

[No. The enemy is the problem. It has always been the enemy, the hostile forces. Whether it is brainwashing or training, that is my job, and it is your job to catch rats at my request.]

The team leader resisted the urge to smash the radio.

It wasn’t even an acoustic kitty program. It was a mouse that hunted a cat that was strengthened by an electronic kitty program. How can you say something like that after watching that video?

[Team Leader, those guys came out.]

[Huh? It looks like a drone got caught.]

[what?]

[Watch out for drone movements.]

A rat knows what a drone is? No way.

[Move. Are you still on guard?]

[Yes, and the number of people on alert for drones is increasing.]

In the footage taken by the drone, there were baby rats climbing up onto the roof, standing up like meerkats, and staring at the drone.

[Is it possible to lure it with a drone?]

[It seems difficult because we are only keeping a close watch and not approaching.]

[This is ridiculous.]

It’s absurd that they hunted cats that weren’t even normal cats, but cats enhanced by the Electronic Kitty program. And they’re even using them as border guards?

[Equip the drone with sleeping gas and send it back. Make it retreat.]

[All right.]

Wheeeeeeing-

Drone heading back towards base camp.

A long trail began to form along the white snow field.

The doctor’s eyes sparkled with anticipation as he replayed the video of the rats hunting the reinforced cat.

“Doctor, we’re in big trouble.”

“What’s going on?”

“All the staff who went to the Pittsburgh lab were killed.”

“What about the sample? What happened to the test subject?”

“Not confirmed.”

“Then we need to send additional staff to secure test subjects. A team with good performance…”

The top-performing team was securing vital experimental samples from Perryton, North Texas.

“It’s difficult. It’s hard.”

The doctor’s grand plan was shaky from the start. He planned to use the samples he had managed to secure from Japan and the test subjects in Pittsburgh to brainwash the special rats he had found in Perryton.

“What does the Pittsburgh lab do?”

“They say they’re sending teams 3 and 4 together.”

Because of the extreme cold, it was difficult to move in large groups.

“Even if we give up everything else, we must secure the research log and test subjects.”

The drones were busy going back and forth, keeping an eye on Peryton. The rats were so clever that they prevented the drones from approaching the windows to check inside the building.

[Huh! A clothesline?]

[Increase altitude.]

The rats restrained the drone with a clothesline.

They tried to catch them by throwing sleeping gas into the building, but it all got blocked.

[Battery level drops rapidly.]

[Damn it. How much longer can I hold out?]

[It will take at most 10 minutes.]

[Retreat.]

Perhaps because of the extreme cold, the battery efficiency was extremely poor.

The drone, which had been able to fly for over an hour after recharging, was now barely able to last 30 minutes.

How did it end up like this?

The capture operation ended in failure, with only a bang.

The drone landed. As the maintenance worker stepped toward the drone to change the battery, the worker’s legs slid down.

uh?

At first I thought only one foot was missing, so I tried to use the other leg, but it also fell down. It looks like both legs are buried.

The people around him chuckled at the sight of him struggling in the snow. Until the agent who fell into the snow started screaming…

Kkaaaak!

The agent, who was writhing and screaming terribly, began to squirm as blood flowed from his mouth, and then his head suddenly snapped back.

[what?]

[Pull it out. Quickly.]

Everyone’s nerves turned red as they headed towards the pit.

[Hold on over there.]

[One, two.]

The moment they grabbed hold of the hanging arms and tried to pull them up, the snow the two people were standing on sunk down. The two of them, who were struggling to get out in a hurry, raised their voices as if they were singing in unison.

[Ahhhh! My legs- My legs!]

[Kyaaaaak! Save me!]

Crap – With a sound of the snow being chewed, the three agents who fell into the pit disappeared.

What the fuck?

[Wake up!]

[Climb up the rock or tree!]

What caught the eyes of the shouting team leader was a rat biting the Achilles tendon of a subordinate and then running away into the snow.

[Ouch! Ankle!]

[Ankle-]

[Team Leader. It’s a rat attack.]

[Climb up the tree and return fire.]

Thud, thud, thud!

[throw grenade]

[We’re out of ammo.]

Red flowers began to bloom in the camp, which had been white from the falling snow.

[Scattered. All scattered. Retreat···.]

The team leader was speechless. The rat approached from behind, climbed up the stairs, bit the team leader’s right carotid artery, and came back down.

Achilles tendon.

eye.

carotid.

Those rats that only bite and squeeze the vital points are vicious assassins.

I tried to stop the blood from flowing out with my hand, but it was no use.

Following the order to retreat, the backs of the desperately fleeing men became blurred.

‘You crazy bastard. You want me to capture this thing?’

The team leader’s gaze turned toward the cloudy sky where snowflakes were beginning to fall. The pupils in both eyes slowly dilated.

Soon, hundreds of rats covered the team leader’s body.

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Hood repeated Maru’s words again and again.

The important thing is safety and survival.

The man who built this building and even turned it into a satellite town. Vladimir Kalin, who achieved all this with a single sword, was still talking about safety and survival.

“Samantha. Is it really that dangerous?”

[It is true that it is quite dangerous even if we only consider rapid climate change.]

To the point where you prioritize survival and safety over moral values ​​and such?

“Not all of humanity. Us. Here, I mean.”

[It’s the highest safety rating.]

Hood looked out the window at Samantha’s words that it couldn’t be safer than this.

[It was determined that the attack on the mining village was a pack of rats.]

As we headed towards the mining village, installing repeaters, various information including tactical camera footage was being sent here in real time.

“Okay. Play it from the beginning. Play it at 4x speed.”

An image appeared on the monitor.

The sight of VX gas being sprayed on a village buried deep in white snow. It seemed as if the colorless, odorless, and tasteless poison gas was engulfing the mining town.

This was followed by scenes of the guards armed with armored exosuits and Kim Yang going from house to house, breaking windows and throwing Vx gas grenades.

“Samantha. That Vx gas grenade you saw in the video. Is it okay to use it like that?”

They sprayed highly toxic gas into the town, and not only sprayed it into houses, but they also detonated gas bombs in the basements of the first and second floors. It was clearly an excessive response.

[There has been no exact experiment, but it is said that just one gas grenade thrown now has the power to kill everyone in an area the size of a soccer field.]

“The toxicity residual period is long. So, please run a simulation by inserting a variable for that.”

You used a poison gas cannon for safety and a gas cannon for survival? That’s possible.

Samantha simulated what might happen if a large amount of poison gas were sprayed. And the results were more catastrophic than expected.

“Connect me with Vladimir Kalin. He has to stop the misuse of gas grenades. I’m also trying to transmit simulations, so please organize them.”

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If the joke about a monster rat living in New York became a reality? Would you laugh?

“No nerve gas.”

[Director!]

The voices of the field agents grew louder.

Despite the desperation contained within, Dan Brown remained unshaken.

“Do you plan to put nerve gas in every mouse hole? If you put nerve gas in every mouse hole that can kill the size of a football field with just one shot? Do you know what will happen when the sun goes down?”

You fight to live, not to die, right?

Why did you call Yania Kim a crazy bitch? Wasn’t it because she didn’t look back and didn’t think about the future?

[There is no way. If we continue like this, the subway will become a passage for rats.]

“But you can’t force VX gas into every mouse hole.”

[Once they spread, that method won’t work either.]

“Are you saying we should abandon New York City?”

[I can’t protect you anyway. This is already hell.]

“···Let’s find a way.”

A conference room filled with silence.

The situation unfolded against the backdrop of a nerve-racking cough.

“As you can see, the area around Kennedy Airport in southern Brooklyn and southern Queens has been taken over by rats.”

It took advantage of the severe cold and heavy snow that disrupted transportation, communications, and electricity.

It was estimated that the rat horde that had eaten over 100,000 people had grown to at least 5 million. At least 5 million. And that was only in some areas of the south.

There was a chance to stop the rat swarm.

When we called Yania Kim and the guards to disinfect, what if they had finished their work?

What if we had cleared out the culverts instead of chasing the cannibals and getting distracted by the supplies they had hidden in them?

What if we hadn’t passed over the stories of homeless people and refugees who had taken refuge in underground sewers to escape the harsh winter cold?

There would have been no outbreak of rats numbering at least 5 million.

If the rat swarm was not stopped immediately, the number of rats would increase to 10 million within two months, and in four months, the number would exceed 50 million.

“Director, you have to make a decision.”

“······.”

The central city of the East and a symbol of the rebirth of the United States. The City that Never Sleeps.

The Big Apple, which has avoided nukes and EMPs and even survived the activities of cannibals

The great city of New York was about to be destroyed by a pack of rats.

“Okay. What if we use VX gas? What happens then? Where are we going to evacuate the civilians?”

“······.”

Where do you go to escape the gas in this bitter cold of minus 20 to minus 30 degrees Celsius?

Since New York is along the coast, it’s -20 to 30 degrees, but further inland, it’s easily -40 to -50 degrees. You wouldn’t be able to last even half a day, let alone a night.

“Even if we produce gas right now, there is a shortage of raw materials.”

“The raw materials in Pittsburgh seem to have come from Vladimir Kalin, so how about getting them from there?”

“The airship we sent last time went missing, so you’re saying we should send another airship?”

“It would be a waste to use an airship without any guarantee that it would be able to survive the cold.”

“Do you seek safety in a situation where nothing can be guaranteed? Now is not a matter of probability, but of necessity.”

“Everyone be quiet. Does everyone understand that if we use VX gas in large quantities, there will be no consequences?”

“···If you use gas and go straight into detoxification, you can reduce the damage.”

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Virginia Secret Laboratory.

“Doctor. Team 1 in charge of capturing the sample has been annihilated.”

“What did you say?”

“Regular contact was lost, so a search party was dispatched, but they said all that was left were traces of blood.”

“Are you saying there is no body?”

The team leader who had said that the doctor was a monster came to mind.

“Yes. They say they can’t find any trace of it.”

“Any signs of rats? Any sign of a pack of rats moving around?”

“Yes. They say only bloodstains remain.”

“Tell the search party to continue Team 1’s mission.”

“Team 1’s mission?”

“I mean, securing the sample. Since you said there are a lot of them in Perryton, you can just ask them to secure it for you. Please deliver it quickly.”

“yes-”

And soon after, news came that the search party that had set out to find Team 1 had lost contact. The doctor was immediately summoned to the chairman’s office.

“What on earth did you ask me to bring? No, what on earth is in there?”

The doctor, who received a cold look from Chairman Joseph Meyer, answered in one word.

“It’s a rat.”