Rust - Chapter 440



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RUST -440

The two destroyers and the airship that set off from New York first arrived at the location where the cocoon was.

Since they had the brain information of the Geese Raiser, it was easy to find the location of the cocoon hidden by the Raiser group, but they couldn’t enter right away because it was blocked by a 5-6m thick layer of ice.

You could probably get through it by using a bomb, but if there was a problem due to the impact, that would be even more of a headache.

Eventually, after two hours, Maru arrived and things started to get easier.

“If you’ve been in New York for a long time, why don’t you just stay there?”

[Then you would have drilled it little by little with a hammer and chisel.]

The answer was from the very talented Kim Yang.

Kak- kakakakak-

I clicked my tongue at the slightly lighter taste of the cleanly shaven ice floor.

Tsk-

Even though I said I was using it sparingly, I felt bitter whenever I felt the loss of Eclipse.

[why?]

“I think it’s a bit worn out.”

Researchers were asked to find a way to restore the durability or create a sword with similar performance to the Eclipse, but without significant results.

Maru looked at Eclipse with a sad expression.

A question mark appeared above Kim Yang’s head when he saw that.

‘Despite having a sad expression, it seems like he’s just writing without thinking. Why is he like that?’

Look at the ice cutting even now. It’s not like there aren’t any spare knives, there are also skewer knives made of special alloys specifically for stabbing, and straight-edged knives specifically for cutting.

What do you mean, you’re using Eclipse instead of the spare sword you brought with you?

What do you mean you said it was a waste when you said it was good? Kim Yang was puzzled.

Pok pok-

As the ice was cut away, it was transformed into a spacious staircase and space.

“By the way, didn’t you say that the mercenary unit that Erica was in was guarding Cocoon?”

[I think so.]

Ms. Kim nodded.

[why?]

“I remembered that you were here.”

[You want to send an airship to bring him back?]

“No. I wish I had, but that’s the state of things. There’s internal information, including Geese Riser’s brain information. Before we go any lower, plant the repeater first.”

She said, poking the repeater.

[But is the New York Navy okay? They’re following us in a submarine? What if they attack us while we’re in?]

It was Kim Yang who was talking about the submarine squadron commander who had been running wild for a long time after being sunk by a submarine. I was worried that he might be the one who got stabbed, even if I didn’t know about anything else.

“They all disappeared when they said they were deploying anti-submarine helicopters. What is this?”

It was no use coming up secretly and trying to capture the destroyer. Since all the manual controls on the bridge were cut off, how could they take it?

“I warned you that if you get caught, you won’t be left behind. Even so, if you keep doing that and get caught, you’ll get bombed.”

[What if you hack and drag it like the hood hacked and drove it?]

“If there’s a hood, how can it be hacked? Even if you hacked it and took it away, it wouldn’t be of much use. If crows come running with bombs in their thousands, and if necessary, in their tens of thousands, how can you stop them?”

No matter how good the Aegis ship’s simultaneous detection capability was, it was not enough to stop the thousands or tens of thousands of dive bombers.

Even if the power of the crow-specific bomb was weak, it was enough to destroy the Aegis radar, and if the Aegis radar was damaged by the crow bomb, that was the end. A destroyer without an Aegis system would just be prey to anti-ship missiles.

A special door made of a material that was visible at the end of the ice was carved away.

“They’re all here. Do you have the number?”

[Information saved.]

Beep beep beep-

I pressed the password as confirmed by the brain information, but the door did not open.

One more time.

Titidik-

Beep- red

띥- If it turns green, then the password was not incorrect.

[This door won’t open.]

“Get out of the way.”

[Slice? You said this is a really thick alloy? You said you don’t like the Eclipse wearing out?]

“No. Don’t cut it. Hit it.”

Hit? The door? Suddenly? Why?

Before Kim Yang could ask, Maru delivered a front kick.

Thump- thump- kuwang-

A heavy impact sound echoed through the thick door.

After kicking the door a few more times, Maru told me to try opening it again.

‘Will this work?’

Contrary to Kim Yang’s expectations, the door began to open.

Beep- squeak-

[This. How did you know it was open?]

All you have to do is hit it.

“I thought the moving parts would be frozen because they were buried in ice. I gave them a shock to break the hardened parts. I was hoping it would break, but it opened anyway.”

[What if the defense system is activated by an external shock?]

“The entrance is locked, so how can an automatic turret come out? Even though I kicked it like that, the emergency siren didn’t go off, so it looks like the situation here is the same.”

[What’s inside?]

“It doesn’t seem that cold.”

In response to Maru’s answer, Kim Yang equipped a shield on her exosuit.

An exosuit strides into the darkness, carrying a shield made of special materials. The lights should have turned on automatically, but they weren’t coming on.

‘Power outage? That’s strange.’

‘Try operating the sensor first.’

It went from heat detection to motion detection to biometric detection, all in one go.

[No response.]

Maru, wearing the helmet of the Ripper suit he had taken off, sent a signal.

[Go a little further forward to put down the chemical light.]

Kkiyungkkiyung

As the exosuit moved forward a little further, bloodstains became clearly visible on the walls and floor.

[Have you seen it?]

[I saw it.]

Kkujik- Kkutuk-

The floor was slanted with chemical lights, throwing them in all directions. A bluish light began to fill the dark space.

[Doesn’t this require psychometry?]

[What if I just let him read here and he gets ruined like last time?]

‘No, sir. But we still have to see what’s there. Aren’t you going too far with things going well these days?’

Maru, who silently ignored Kim Yang’s screams, activated stealth and began checking for traces.

The first thing that caught my eye was the evidence of a skirmish near the entrance.

‘The weapon used was… a gun?’

Where else would you find something that doesn’t use teeth, claws, tentacles or corrosive fluids?

[Check the entrance. The bullet marks are 7.56mm caliber. There are no 5.56mm bullets.]

Those gathered at the entrance resisted fiercely, but they could not hold out for long and appeared to be completely wiped out. Judging from the bullet casings and magazines that fell to the floor, each person was reduced to a bloody mess before they could even fill 60 rounds.

[The guns seem to be the same, but one side was hit unilaterally.]

[Place a repeater in front of the entrance. Up until now, send the data up to the airship.]

With a thud – the sound of a repeater being hit, Kim Yang gave her opinion.

[When checking this, wouldn’t it be better to close the door?]

[······.]

[But if I close the door, the communication will be cut off. What should I do?]

[I think it would be better to close the door.]

[When you don’t know what’s inside, you should play it safe.]

As soon as communication was established with the airship, Hood and the man spoke in unison.

[There are a lot of supplies, facilities, and equipment in the cocoon, but it’s okay even if they aren’t there.]

[According to the information extracted from the Kiss Riser, there should be no problem. So I think it is a problem.]

Hood was of the opinion that the supplies in the cocoon had never existed in the first place, while the man was focused on the fact that something like this had happened even though there was no reason for it to happen according to the information.

hmm-

Maru stared quietly into the bluish darkness.

There was no awkward feeling. There was no strange feeling either.

It was hard to believe it 100%, because I didn’t feel any discomfort even when the mutants or infected went into hibernation.

‘But the feeling and sense aren’t dirty.’

hmm-

What should I do?

Based on my experience at the Japanese secret research institute, it wasn’t something that could be avoided.

Even though they turned on the secret laboratory’s automatic incinerator to burn cockroaches and kill baby rats, didn’t the cockroaches and baby rats crawl out and produce a good harvest?

Maru’s decision was quick.

[Send the 2nd team of the Royal Guard this way. Take turns controlling the entrance and exit. Keep the doors closed for 10 minutes, then open for 5 minutes, until they are checked and released.]

[It’s dangerous.]

The hood is dry.

[But we have to do it now. When the weather gets warmer and the ice melts, there might be an emergency exit or something. What if something gets out there? Think about how fast the rats can spread. Even if it’s just the easternmost part, if it spreads, it’ll be instantaneous.]

[······.]

[······.]

I had to check it now, right away, without delay.

According to the information extracted from Geese Riser’s brain, this should not have happened. But what happened is that the unexpected happened.

[Even if we have the supplies, we still need to check the cause of the mess.]

[······.]

[······.]

If we don’t find out what it is and what’s going on, then when it hits Vladislav Tower, we’re going to have to go through it all from the beginning.

The bird, two teams of guards took up positions at the entrance.

[Enter. Close in 5 minutes from now, and open in 5 minutes from now.]

Maru and Kim Yang entered the deep darkness across the bluish light.

Kook- thud-

Kkeuk- thud-

Chemical lights were sprinkled on like Hansel and Gretel’s bread crumbs.

What follows is a long trail of blood. A trace of a dead person being dragged away.

For some reason, the chemical lighting seemed to be getting dimmer.

[Deploy the drone.]

Eight drones took flight from Kim Yang’s exosuit.

The fourth unit flew around the perimeter, and the fourth unit flew forward to obtain information.

The HUD screen began displaying footage from eight drones.

Different information poured out from each split screen. Maru’s eyes moved as if shaking, analyzing the information from the eight screens.

[Let’s stop tracking for a moment and go to the central control room.]

[Okay.]

The four drones conducted a preliminary reconnaissance and found that there was nothing particularly dangerous. However, as we went further in, traces of various things became abundant everywhere.

The strangest thing was the skeletons strewn about the hallway in front of the central control room. Coincidentally, a long trail of blood was leading there.

And the screen that appeared on the HUD was that of the central control room, the iron door was shattered as if a bomb had exploded.

WHING – The drone entered the central control room with a small sound and looked inside.

The distribution boards, branch boards, and circuit breakers were all smashed up. The central control room was revealed to have completely destroyed the power system.

However, he could not understand the piles of skeletons that were piled up from the central control room corridor all the way inside. When Maru’s eyebrows furrowed, Kim Yang lifted the skull bone and began to examine it carefully.

[There are signs of holes in the skull. Of the 5 skeletons confirmed so far, all 5 had broken skulls.]

[The whole skull?]

[Yeah. All of them.]

A memory suddenly came to mind at her answer.

Skull marks found in the Wright-Henderson Air Force Base bunker breeding grounds.

It was similar to the remains left behind by a cannibal who tried to increase his abilities by eating a whole person.

[There was a cannibal here.]

[Cannibal?]

[Yes. It seems that they eat people in a confined space to increase their numbers.]

When Kim Yang didn’t know what was going on, she was nervous, but when Maru said he was a cannibal, she got angry and said she wanted to end it quickly.

[If it’s a cannibalistic ghost, it’ll be over soon. If I just clean it up quickly and open the lid… what is it?]

[No. There’s a bunch of shake cans over here.]

Shake cans similar to those used by the gas risers were rolling around.

From the moment he saw it, memories began to weave through Maru’s mind like sweet potato vines.

A cannibal’s representative weakness.

After a certain period of time, they cannot resist the instinct to eat human flesh. If they cannot obtain human flesh, they will try to satisfy their appetite by eating infected people or other cannibals. And if they are unable to consume human flesh, their body will begin to break down.

An experimental scene from the information extracted from Geese Riser’s brain. I remembered the cannibal who had not satisfied his appetite, and his human form collapsed and turned into a monster.

[It’s a monster.]

[?]

What? A monster out of nowhere? Kim Yang looked up at Maru.

The Eclipse was pulled out with a low rumble.

[There is a monster.]

[You said you were a cannibal a little while ago?]

[No. There is a monster here that has fallen from the cannibal world.]

[What does that mean···.]

Beep- beep-

Beep beep beep-

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep-

The HUD screen was instantly filled with red dots created by the motion detection sensors and life detection sensors.

[uh?]

Maru spoke softly to Ms. Kim, who was making a sound of embarrassment.

[Go. Back up.]

[huh.]

Kim Yang, who responded reflexively, automatically sat down and took a shooting stance. The information sent by the drone and the information confirmed through the scope were mixed together, and the monsters’ movements were captured in three dimensions.

‘That’s···.’

The swaying movements were not human. Did I see it correctly?

She rubbed her eyes slightly and looked at the HUD. That was it.

In that brief moment, Maru had already fired Eclipse towards the head of the monster at the front.

Kujijijijik-

It feels different from hitting a person’s skull.

It felt like hitting a temple bell.

The skullcap was so strong that vibrations rose from the Eclipse’s blade as it absorbed the shock.

‘It’s cut off.’

Anyway, it got pierced and was cut off anyway.

Then I could kill him. That’s it.

The blade that had been shot in a straight line suddenly accelerated in a circular motion and separated the monster’s upper body.

Churrrrrrrr-

Swish swish-

The brown juice that poured out from the upper body, which had collapsed like jelly, wriggled.