Rust - Chapter 443



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RUST [RUST]-443

Amidst the brilliantly shining golden waves, the figure of Kim Yang wriggling.

“Hey, get your hands off of me.”

“Wait a minute. Seriously. How do you feel about this?”

Kim Yang’s attachment to gold was so intense that it was not even tempted by Maru’s secretly blooming murderous intent.

“Can’t I take it?”

“I told you to get the equipment first. You have to move the big ones first. It’ll make things easier.”

“What if I just come from New York and grab some gold bars?”

“Why do New York kids come here? And why the gold? New York is overflowing with gold.”

“It’s gold. The more the better. Above all, you never know when the dollar will become worthless.”

“With Director Den Brown here, would you go down that easily?”

To say that the dollar was trash meant that New York’s daily life would collapse. In a city like New York, the collapse of fiat money meant that virtually everything that had been going on would collapse.

‘What do you know about this?’

It was Miss Kim. She had no knowledge of economics or anything.

Maru’s suspicious gaze stabbed Kim Yang.

She noticed Maru’s gaze and quickly presented the evidence.

“Director, your eyes are crazy. You never know what you might do. Those eyes are dangerous. It’s true.”

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

Kim Yang protested, holding on to a gold bar that must have weighed about 20 kg. It only takes a moment for it to disappear, you know?

“It’s really- really- real. From the way you sounded and the way you were video calling, you looked like you were going to have an accident.”

They say that before a big accident happens, it’s always like that. That’s what I experienced while working in World. The eyes are weird? Then, whether it’s the head or the side that explodes, it’s the rule. Yeah.

“Looking at it, that gentleman has endured as much as he can. He might cause an accident, so what if he causes another accident? Even if he causes an accident, would he touch what’s mine? He’s not the kind of person to commit suicide, is he?”

“What can’t a blind person do? If we send a submarine secretly and sneak it in.”

“No, really. Why would that person come here and kill himself? His goal is to rebuild the United States, and since he’s been working with me, he knows exactly what kind of style I am. He wouldn’t openly say he’s going to die. And now I have nuclear weapons and an Aegis ship. And he’s touching this place?”

“Would a person with taste think like that?”

At Kim Yang’s words, ‘No. Fuck. Hey.’ Maru’s eyes sank heavily.

“······.”

“Why don’t you take your hands off of that and come here?”

Perhaps because he was annoyed, Maru’s expression became a little more intense.

Raincoat- Uoooooo-

Kim Yang, who had made a strange sound, rolled her eyes desperately, resisting the urge to live. Her sorrowful eyes were directed at the pile of gold bars.

“Can’t I stay here?”

“What did you say earlier? You said we should clean up the area again just in case I let you go completely?”

Since we knew that the cannibals in isolated places would turn into monsters, it was easier to deal with them before the ice melted.

First of all, since it’s a monster that’s hard to catch with bullets or shells, we were going to go together and take care of it quickly, but what are we doing now?

“No, it’s okay to go with the guards too…”

Maru’s life force rose to his feet.

‘Ooooh.’, ‘Keu-eung.’, ‘Kaaaat.’ Miss Kim, who seemed to have no connection with her, kept letting out exclamations while holding onto the gold bars. Her face looked like she could really suffocate if she made a mistake.

“Ha- Okay. Let’s load it first. Load it first.”

Maru, who had been pressuring me to live, finally shook his head.

Kim Yang, who had been holding on to her life with unwavering conviction, happily let go of the string at Maru’s declaration. Her eyes slightly rolled back as she held onto the gold bars without letting go.

Could it be that good?

Maru chuckled as he watched Miss Kim faint happily.

I had been checking out the supplies in the cocoon for a few days and taking what I needed first, but it turned out that the gold bars were the first to take their place.

“What kind of analyzer is in the airship’s cargo hold? Let’s take that and the quantum computer module back down and take the gold bars over here.”

[Yes? I decided to finish preparing the installation, but do you want to exchange it for gold bars?]

A man who works hard said.

“Something came up here, so let’s do that. It’ll be a day or two late, but there’s nothing we can do about it.”

[I will prepare it that way.]

The man started to take down the load he had lifted without saying a word to Maru. Hood’s voice continued as if he had been waiting.

[I guess things have gotten a little crazy in New York.]

“Things got worse? How did you know? Has the communication problem been resolved?”

Maru reacted sensitively to Hood’s report.

The reason we were able to wander around here and there until now was because the satellite was disabled due to a communication failure. Once the communication failure was resolved and the satellite was able to function properly, anything that could be towed by an airship or a destroyer would be considered a hit.

[The communication failure remains. There is a buoy-type repeater on the destroyer, so we were able to establish a communication connection by installing it.]

A buoy-type relay station used during the Japanese campaign to cut off support from the northern Chinese theater. The multipurpose buoy, which functions as a sonar, radar, and communications relay station, was deployed so that it could be used to know what was happening in New York.

“What is the situation?”

[It is said that members of the National Assembly, including senators and representatives, were killed by the monster.]

“A monster in New York? To a pack of rats?”

[no.]

Hood uploaded the video. The CCTV footage from New York broadcast showed the monster, a collapsed humanoid body, a pair of tentacles that looked like cockroach antennae, and a distinctive sound.

Kieeeeeee—

Maru swore without realizing it.

“That killed the congressmen?”

[They were seen at the Capitol, but were trapped inside when the anti-terrorism system was activated.]

The Capitol building has become a giant lunch box.

“What about Homeland Security? Director Dan Brown just sat there?”

[They said they couldn’t do anything because Congress was in the process of reclaiming and redistributing all of the Department of Homeland Security’s authority.]

Hood briefly explained. After that, professional quarantine companies moved in, and even special forces from the Army, Navy, and Air Force entered, but there were no survivors.

“Ha- They’re all different. Really.”

Director Dan Brown would have guessed the weak point of that guy. He also handed over the data on the encounter with the tentacle monster in Japan.

The report stated that it was initially resistant to gunfire, and gradually became more resistant to bludgeoning. It also stated that cutting and burning were its weaknesses.

‘You’re saying that you didn’t relay the information to the special forces that fire is effective and that it’s hard to catch them without fire. What on earth are you thinking?’

What was even stranger was that the monster suddenly appeared. And it was in a Capitol building with a blocking system, so the monster couldn’t go anywhere else.

“no way?”

Suddenly, I remembered what Ms. Kim had said a little while ago.

The story goes that Dan Brown’s eyes have gone crazy.

“Ugh- Look at that. Doesn’t it taste good even if you just look at it from afar?”

Kim Yang muttered, shaking her head from side to side.

Maru didn’t say anything like there was no evidence that Director Dan Brown had done it, or that it couldn’t have been done based on what the Department of Homeland Security had done. It didn’t matter whether the Director had done it or not.

The small silence was broken by the hood.

[Internet portal sites, SNS, and broadcasting station bulletin boards are about to explode. If the temperature had not been below -15 to -20 degrees Celsius, there would have been looting, arson, and rioting.]

“I see.”

[After checking, it seems that this is not a natural public opinion formation.]

“Is someone trying to sway public opinion?”

[It’s not surprising that the military and the surviving members of Congress are desperate, but there has been no movement at all from the NYPD, the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.]

That was a little weird.

The fact that the SWAT team did not immediately enter and the lack of explanation of the investigation process into the monster’s intrusion route were also problematic.

Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which controlled the blocking screen, was in a situation where the controversy over responsibility was growing. So, even though they actively expressed their position, they kept their mouths shut.

“Shouldn’t the FBI or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention be doing something about this Capitol Hill bioweapon attack?”

[Yes. In this kind of atmosphere, you should also send a press release to the press or do an interview. Otherwise, you might get involved in a dirty way, which is very strange. And the Department of Homeland Security is only focusing on finding out the facts.]

“Facts? What facts?”

[Things like the corruption of the lawmakers who requested the withdrawal of emergency powers, or the circumstances in which monster rats, mutant coyotes, and cats were turned into harmful marine creatures and disposed of by private quarantine companies.

It was all sorts of things. Even with the monster rats, wasn’t it actually a war rather than a rat hunt?

The lawmakers probably knew that the monster rat swarm was no joke, but they handed over the task of fighting the rat swarm to a private quarantine company? Is this a true story of outsourcing security?

“and?”

[The military’s mistakes were also revealed to the press. Starting with the Navy’s case of having a warship blown up by a pack of rats, there was also the case of the Army and Air Force trying to forcibly seize an Aegis ship despite the fact that securing it was important, and then there was the problem of that. They are also revealing one by one the hidden things from the Army and Air Force.]

Is this a fact bomb?

Create public opinion with facts?

Does it make sense?

In a world where lies and fiction reign supreme?

Even after killing a car?

There was something I was aiming for.

What is that?

The New York faction was already divided as much as it could be.

In a situation where it is difficult to resolve conflicts, if you keep insisting on facts, you may become a public enemy. Director Dan Brown could not have been unaware of that.

Knowingly doing that means…

‘That can’t be right.’

What if we reveal that the military, which was appealing for support for martial law and military rule while struggling in a public opinion war with the executive and legislative branches, is only engaging in idiotic play?

It also revealed that the Congress, which should have been restraining the military, was a retard and was only controlling the Department of Homeland Security, which was in good shape. The administration was already revealed to be half crazy during the cannibal eradication operation.

What will the military think when they openly say that all the dogs covered in shit are barking?

Oh my, do you think we all think we’re doing well?

The ones holding the guns are the military, right? The military must be desperately trying to stage a coup right now.

According to Maru’s feeling, the fact bombing of the Department of Homeland Security was an attempt to induce a military coup. If a coup were to occur, the military would quickly seize control of the executive, legislative, and media branches, or perhaps dispose of them.

When the military coup d’état purges, what if the Department of Homeland Security stands up? Who will the 80,000 new recruits support? The Marines? What about the other agencies, the NYPD, the FBI, the DEA, the CDC?

“Are you aiming for a scenario where you take power after a military coup?”

[······.]

That Den Brown?

“The Department of Homeland Security has had several opportunities to seize power, but it’s not like they’re going to let them go and make a mess of things like this.”

Even when the first cannibal suppression was carried out, if the Homeland Security Bureau had made up their mind, they could have easily seized power. The second suppression was the same.

If the power had been reorganized around the Department of Homeland Security at that time, there would have been strong opposition from the military and Congress, resulting in bloodshed, but in the end, the Department of Homeland Security would have been able to take power.

They seek to maintain the system of checks and balances, to continue and protect daily life, and then they seek to induce a coup and take power?

Maru shook his head. He wanted to go too much by feeling.

“This is really subtle. I have a feeling that Director Dan Brown is after something.”

Hood was slightly surprised by Maru’s analysis.

[Yes. It wouldn’t be a coup. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t need to take that risk. Even if they did induce a coup, wouldn’t it be more effective to collude with the military and become one of the powers? That would also be advantageous for preserving New York’s power.]

Kim Yang, who was rubbing the ball against the gold bar, blurted out a word.

“Why share? You should eat it alone.”

[What does that mean?]

“Right now, one head has the advantage.”

Kim Yang’s argument was that ‘this is an era in which the people’s will must be unified.’

[Are you saying that Director Den Brown is aiming for dictatorship?]

“What are you talking about? North Korea is a democratic people’s republic.”

Miss Kim smiled faintly.

[If we look at Director Dan Brown’s actions so far, he has worked to rebuild the United States.]

A little, Hood’s voice was not good, because he understood what Kim Yang was saying.

Kim Yang shrugged her shoulders with an expression that said, “What? Just wait and see.” Instead of answering, she began to focus on healing by smelling the gold bars as if nothing had happened.

“It’s the worst case scenario, but it’s possible. We’d better get this sorted out as quickly as possible.”

There was no reason to delay, as the situation in New York was rapidly becoming unstable. Two airships began to carry supplies day and night.

And a few days later, when all the equipment in the cocoon had been moved to Detroit, an urgent breaking news came in.

[There’s a coup in New York. The military has staged a coup.]