Rust - Chapter 426



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RUST -426

That queen died so vainly?

Even she, who had undergone extreme training to prepare for mental attacks, was shaken, but Vladimir Kalin not only stabbed the queen in the chest but also cut off her neck without a second thought.

‘What a monster.’

This wasn’t ‘monstrous.’ It was ‘a monster itself.’

The agent felt like his mouth was dry.

Using data from the Pittsburgh lab, most experiments to increase dominance of higher-ranking individuals have failed, except for the Queen here in Seattle.

‘Why doesn’t the Queen’s rule work?’

Although she was far from the Pittsburgh specimen, she was a queen who was at least three to four times stronger than the average upper-class individual.

As their dominance grew stronger, they were able to charm not only lower-ranking entities but also humans.

The Queen’s dominance and charm were so strong that the returning soldiers willingly submitted. Despite her best efforts, Vladimir Kalin was not affected. This information had to be made known.

“I’m not a cannibal!”

“I’m an agent who was undercover!!”

The blade that had been swinging gently stopped right in front of the nape of the neck at the sound of the heart-wrenching scream. A truly terrifying level of control.

“Agent?”

Chiik- The front of the Ripper suit helmet opened, and black eyes looked at him. After the queen’s head was cut off, Maru’s murderous intent began to strangle the agent as his unique dominance dissipated.

‘Die.’

A feeling of oppression, as if one’s soul is being crushed.

The agent nodded desperately, despite the fear that made him feel like his heart was going to freeze.

“Ugh- ugh- it’s an agent.”

The training he had received to deal with torture, the training he had received to resist those with psychic abilities, shone through here. That was why the agent told the truth, saying he was an undercover agent.

“Ha- Agent. Yeah, so you’re an agent.”

“···Ugh. Ugh- Yes.”

Are you passing?

I told the truth. I didn’t say who I was from, Virginia Langley or Homeland Security. I had a gut feeling that if I lied, they would find out.

“Yes, agent. But you know, there’s no subject or object.”

“yes?”

“There were a lot of kids like you···.”

“?”

Vladimir Kalin’s incomprehensible mutterings.

puck-

The agent lost consciousness after his jaw jerked back with a dull sound.

Maru looked at the agent whose jaw had dropped.

I tried to hit his chin gently to shake his brain, but ended up hitting him a little too hard.

‘It’s okay, since he didn’t die.’

You don’t have to fry the psychometry that you’ve been working so hard on. You can just take it with you like the Queen’s Head and use Dr. Brain Dungdung.

The central control room monitor was filled with CCTV footage showing the lower entities running wild after the Queen’s control was released.

As the cannibals who ruled directly by the queen began to run wild, the cannibals who had been subservient to the queen began to grow in power. Less than five minutes after the queen’s death, her kingdom was torn apart.

[Chijijik- Here- Soldiers, do you know us? Chi-beep-]

“What soldiers?”

[Beep- This b*tch… saw us in Japan. Sigh-]

“Japan? Bring them all here. Central control room.”

[Chiiik- Okay.]

‘They are American soldiers who know us.’

Are you suddenly pretending to know me?

Strictly speaking, there was a possibility that they met during Operation Yellowstone and Operation Escape from Japan. In Japan, which had collapsed due to disaster, the troops that had fought in the Northern Theater of China were sent to Korea and then to the war against China.

After that, those who had retreated to Korea during the war against China returned to the mainland with Charlotte’s help and were deployed to Seattle, San Francisco, and LA, so it wouldn’t have been strange if there were soldiers who knew Maru and Kim Yang’s faces.

The problem was that this was Seattle, a city ruled by the Queen. That meant that the soldiers there were directly or indirectly under the Queen’s rule and recognized her rule.

‘As soon as they found out that the Queen was dead, they pretended to know…. So you know that the Queen’s control has been broken, but you didn’t act up like the lower-level cannibals?’

Maru’s gaze turned to the agent whose jaw was turned and who was lying on the ground. He felt that it might be related to this.

Maru used the central control room control equipment to free the people trapped in the breeding pen.

[Thank you. Thank you.]

“That’s enough greetings. If you go straight to the right, there’s a weapons store in front. The door is open, so grab your weapons and…”

The people who lived off the cannibals’ lunch boxes were so shocked mentally that they didn’t know what to do even though they had raided the armory and armed themselves heavily.

[Where should I go? What should I do?]

“There are few cannibals in the underground shopping center and arcade. If you go there and barricade yourself, you’ll be safe.”

[Underground. Can’t we go to the underground central control room?]

“The cannibals will be coming this way soon. If you want to fight, come. You are welcome.”

[······.]

“How? Are you coming?”

People couldn’t answer. Maru lightly brushed away those who were clinging to him and waited for Kim Yang.

[Ah- The repeater is almost gone.]

I wonder why these guys are so good at finding repeaters. They hid them deep in the snow, but they found them like ghosts and destroyed them. The soldiers were dragged behind Ms. Kim, who was grumbling.

A star among the captured soldiers.

It was clearly a single star attached to the short-haired woman’s epaulettes.

[Because this woman knows us.]

“okay?”

Maru handed Byul a paper cup.

“What is this?”

“Let’s spit on it first and then talk.”

It was Maru who held out a paper cup for the cannibal identification test.

Before the short-haired woman could say anything, the muzzle of Kim Yang’s gun poked the back of the short-haired woman’s head.

[Spit it out.]

[immediately.]

The moment the saliva that the star spat out touched the white paper cup, it slowly began to turn red.

Are you a cannibal?

Are you a cannibal?

Maru and Kim met eyes.

‘What is this? Is this cannibal wearing a star?’

‘There must be a string, right?’

A cannibal who has escaped the queen’s control. A cannibal who wears stars at that.

In many ways, Maru thought it was a good decision to come to Seattle.

“Okay. Just a moment.”

[Shut your mouth.]

Oh, where are you going to play with your beak?

Shut-

While Kim Yang was forcing Estelle Liman’s mouth to silence her by sticking a gun in her mouth, Maru called in the psychometric Erica.

Erica was startled when she saw Estelle Liman holding a gun in her mouth.

“It’s a bit much to go that far… If you’re a star, you’re a general.”

“What about the cannibals at the air force base? They were wearing military uniforms too. Are they all soldiers just because they wear military uniforms, and are they all generals just because they have stars?”

Maru, who answered calmly, asked Erica to check with psychometry.

“You don’t need to look at anything else, just know what the upper line is. Don’t go too deep.”

“What about this person?”

Maru nods his head at Erica’s words that he should also see the agent whose jaw was turned.

“First, this woman, then later.”

“all right.”

As Erica’s palm tried to rest on her head, Estelle Liman twisted her body.

“Ah. Ah… Yeah.”

[no?]

Kim Yang nodded her head to signal, having pinned Estelle Liman’s head down by shoving the gun deep into her throat. With a gasp, Erica’s psychometry began.

A moment later, Erica opened her eyes and looked confused.

“This. This person… is a double agent? A joint agent? Something like that, I think.”

“slowly.”

If Julia were alive, she would have telepathically relayed to Erica the exact scene she had read psychometrically, but now she had to rely on Erica’s explanations, which was frustrating.

“We are receiving support from Strategic Command and Virginia Langley.”

“Since when has it been like this?”

“The Virginia Langley connection started when that guy over there with the jaw dropped and suggested I keep the Queen of Seattle in check, and if she betrays or falls short, get rid of her and take her place.”

So, the agent who omitted the subject and object was an agent of Virginia Langley.

“Wouldn’t it have been impossible to restrain the Queen’s dominance?”

“Virginia’s secret lab? They made a modified cannibal virus there. If you become a cannibal with it, you can control your cannibalistic desires by drinking only blood? Blood. They said you can also resist the dominance of higher-ranking entities to some extent.”

The biggest problem of cannibals, their explosive cannibalistic desires, have been successfully limited to some extent. If they can resist the dominance of the superior entities to some extent, they would be perfect for keeping the queen in check.

Estelle Liman’s value was there. She could be a cannibal without being driven to extremes by her appetite. She didn’t need to kill people because she drank blood instead of human flesh.

Since she didn’t have to run a breeding farm, there would have been little opposition from the general public and the returning soldiers. Estelle Leeman was using this trait of hers to build up her power.

“We’ve seen this far. Should we see more?”

“No. That’s enough. You’ve worked hard. Just rest for now.”

Ms. Kim, who was watching the central control room monitor, approached quietly.

[It’s a total mess. What should I do?]

The lower-ranking individuals, whose appetites had exploded, went wild, and the higher-ranking individuals, oppressed by the queen’s dominance, began to fight for their power.

Those who were waiting to die in the breeding ground escaped with Maru’s help and were holed up in the arcade and underground shopping center, holding out while shouting, “Come in- I said, come in-” and the returning soldiers who had lost their minds due to the queen’s dominance were also fighting to the death.

“What should I do? I’m going back.”

[Just leave it here?]

“You have to take what you need.”

We had to bring as much manpower and materials as possible.

[You’re going to clean up all the way to San Francisco?]

“I checked with psychometry and it seems like things are going strangely. I think we should try extracting information while the Queen’s brain is still fresh. For now, it seems like things are going right.”

[Okay. So you want the airship to come this way?]

“No. Let’s go. First, let’s dismantle the lab equipment and server.”

A crow-escorted airship began making round trips between Seattle and Detroit.

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Kim said, looking at the bubbles rising from the bio-terminal.

[Why do they say things like this these days?]

[Pergururrrrrrrr]

“I know.”

Maru pulled out the information extractor attached to the Noedungdung terminal.

Ssurukruk – As I thrust the information extractor that had been attached like a tentacle into the Queen’s head, the eyelids and mouth of the already dead Queen began to twitch as if they were alive and began spitting out the information contained in her brain.

The image information displayed on the monitor attached next to the biometric terminal. The agent flinched as he saw the Queen’s information being revealed one by one.

Hee-hee-

I thought something was strange when he broke my jaw so I couldn’t speak properly. But since he said he had psychometric abilities, I thought he would interrogate me using those abilities, but he put an information extractor in my brain.

Oh my goodness. This wasn’t a situation where I could have hidden information.

“I will tell you.”

The agent spoke desperately, but his face was swollen and his jaw was broken, making it difficult to hear him clearly.

The agent struggled desperately, knowing that if things continued this way, the tentacle would get stuck in his head.

[But this sound. Doesn’t it sound strange no matter how many times you listen to it?]

[Pokkyurrrrrrrr]

“No matter what the sound is, the performance is good.”

Dr. Brain Dungdung was very useful.

The best thing that the Geese Raiser did was to create a brain-like bio-terminal. There were quite a few researchers who wanted to take it apart and find out how it worked, but Maru was against it.

Because there was no way a kid like Geese Riser wouldn’t have installed a security device. He didn’t want to mess with it carelessly and have it explode.

Maru, who had extracted all the information from the Queen’s brain, grabbed the agent’s head with his jaw turned.

“Zuubar (please)”

“What do you mean by please, without even including the subject and object?”

Kwajik- The information extractor began to pierce the agent’s skull and implant metal roots into his brain. The agent’s trembling body slowly began to sag, and information began to appear on the biometric terminal monitor.

“Do you see these?”

[?]

By organizing the information extracted from the Queen of Seattle’s head and the information extracted from the agent who omitted the subject and object, I was able to roughly figure out what was going on.

“I was thinking of stabbing these guys in the ass once the weather cleared up.”

[?]

“While stabbing New York, he was preparing to stab us too.”

[What are you going to do?]

“Shouldn’t we help him become a better person?”

A cool smile fluttered across the room.