Rust - Chapter 468



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RUST -468

Kim nodded at Maru’s hard-line response policy.

Isn’t that obvious?

If you don’t like the kingdom, don’t eat it. It would be funny to eat it to your heart’s content and then look for communists. So is the reward really that small? It wasn’t.

Even if you only hit 30g for 1 gold, 10 gold is 300g, 100 gold is 3,000g, so it’s 3kg. Whose dog’s name is 3kg gold?

But it wasn’t 100 gold, it was 132 gold. 132 gold is roughly equivalent to 4kg of gold bars. It was a truly enormous amount of money.

‘But you want me to give you 2,000 gold? Don’t you just want to die?’

The places where defensive facilities were built were remote areas such as riverbanks and national forests.

In a place like America, the price of land in the outskirts is just shit, so what are you talking about? The defense facilities are installed to save their own lives, so what are you talking about?

‘There are so many cockroach-like bastards out there. Is that why they’ve managed to survive so tenaciously in this rural area?’

The first people to participate in the citizenship issuance were people from the Detroit area. There were no major problems here. Even if there were, it didn’t take long to sort things out.

The problem was areas far from Detroit.

As the weather cleared and land transportation became possible, and in cities of a certain size, relief supplies were supplied using airships, and citizenship applications and issuance services began.

And now, as it turns out, there’s a problem.

“This needs to be finished when the weather clears up. It won’t be good if it drags on.”

They’re like cockroaches, if you don’t exterminate them, they’ll just keep sprouting up everywhere, making excuses.

“Mobile repeaters are being installed. Once radio broadcasting begins to operate normally, things will get a lot better.”

If you were to install a fixed system in a building, it would be difficult to withdraw in an emergency situation. Likewise, installing a wired repeater would have caused various problems.

The communication network could be gnawed by rats, or cut off by disgruntled individuals. It could also be targeted by intelligent monsters.

So the mobile repeater was born. It was a trailer modified to incorporate solar panels, batteries, a radio transmitter and receiver, and a machine gun bunker.

“This isn’t something that can be broadcast through a repeater.”

Why was the Detroit area so quickly cleared? Wasn’t it because it was cleared early and stabilized quickly?

And there was another crucial problem with the Detroit area. Detroit had Maru. Detroit had Vladaaktown. Detroit had satellite towns.

Even if it had become a lawless zone, at least it was a situation where things that needed to be protected were kept. This was because of the trade and because there was a safe zone called the satellite village.

But, what area is being criticized now?

There was no such thing.

After the incident, there was anarchy and a long, bitter cold. These were the people who survived and endured that terrible time.

You declared the kingdom?

Whatever it is, it’s hard to make a living, so what are you talking about?

The kingdom is giving out necessities and relief goods?

Okay then.

You need citizenship to enter the market and the city?

And they’re even giving out living expenses to citizens?

Then you should receive it right away.

But you want to take my land?

Whoever wants it!

At the beginning of the incident, public security collapsed and administrative power was also destroyed. All that was left was to fend for themselves. That was how people survived for nearly a year.

It was a natural life to suck only the honey and throw away the bitter. There was no need to fear things like administrative drones and security crows that warned.

If they had restored the administration in the first place, they would have sent armed civil servants instead of flying drones. If they really wanted to maintain public order, they would have sent heavily armed police or the military instead of crows.

Now that we’ve declared a kingdom, wouldn’t it be better to go out there and be more rewarded?

Let’s sue. If we stall, we can get something more for it.

“If you give it time here, it’ll spread everywhere like a cockroach. If you catch it early, you can catch it quickly, but if you give it time, other places will quickly become a mess. It’s true.”

I don’t know what will happen once the kingdom is settled, but for now, it’s a matter of safety and survival. If a few people are left to their own devices and the rabble spreads like wildfire, safety and survival will be at risk.

Above all, it was clear that Kim Yang himself would be in trouble if things broke out anywhere.

We need to quickly sort things out and set up a framework to live comfortably. Yeah.

“Those people aren’t the kind of people who can be solved just by what they say.”

A daily routine in which hungry rats attack and eat people, and then the people next door eat the rats that have gained weight after eating people. It was the same in remote villages.

Those who have endured death like that must have big livers.

Those who survived the hellish winter and the terrible monster rat hordes, wild dogs, and wolves had nothing to fear from administrative drones and security crows.

Maru nodded.

“We will send in the new drones, the sacred crow unit, and the wolf unit to clean things up.”

“I’ll go too.”

‘You like rolling around, so why are you suddenly doing that?’

‘To tidy up and rest before rolling.’

Maru’s eyes looked like, ‘Is it really necessary for me to go all the way to you?’

Kim Yang also responded with his eyes.

‘So we have to go further. If we know the exact cause, wouldn’t we be able to prevent this from happening?’

It felt a bit strange that Ms. Kim said she would do the work herself, but Maru had been thinking about it too, so he readily agreed.

“Okay. Find out the cause. Make sure you take care of it while you’re at it, to make sure it’s not something that was done to you.”

“I will definitely take care of it.”

I rolled it over on my own, so are you going to roll it over again?

So, please release some strategic reserve materials in abundance.

A grand plan that not only gives them a reason not to take it easy in the future, but also aims for gomtang and boiled pork.

Ms. Kim had thought about everything.

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Empire. Chancellor Den Brown’s office was busy.

[Operation Recovery is a success. The rats have been driven out of John F. Kennedy Airport.]

“What about other airports?”

If we succeeded in securing the airport, then it would be a matter of stopping the flock of crazy birds from coming in by any means necessary.

‘Once we can use the air force, the operational range and radius will increase.’

According to intelligence, the south, where the weather was warmer than the north and east, was experiencing an explosion of bird and rat populations.

This was the Empire’s chance to gain air supremacy before a flock of birds or rats could clear the airport.

[Bangor Airport is in a deadlock due to the large number of carnivorous birds and canines that prey on rats in the vicinity.]

“Is the Buffalo Niagara Airport the same?”

[Buffalo Airport is a failed operation.]

“Why?”

[Birds continue to flock from Canada.]

“In Canada?”

[Yes. The carnivorous birds that were driven out by the crows have started to settle in Buffalo, and now it has become a city of birds.]

Dan Brown’s eyebrows furrowed at the thought that Buffalo, a city of nearly 300,000 people, had been eaten by birds.

Although the Empire was declared and the nine states were united into one system, it was still a problematic empire.

Even those who supported the imperial system through voting did so only for immediate survival, nothing more, nothing less.

Since it was impossible to know at any moment if a revolution to overthrow the empire would break out, it was necessary to focus on stabilizing the system. In this situation, the fact that a city with a population of 300,000 people was blown away was bad news.

With the noise from the provinces already continuing, there’s chaos with the birds too?

“We have to recapture Buffalo. How about using gas there too?”

[Conditions are different from Kennedy Airport. It is close to the Hudson River, so there is a high possibility that drinking water and agricultural water may be contaminated, and there have been reports of resistant rats being found in nearby Canada.]

“There are rats that are resistant to gas? In the border areas of the kingdom?”

[yes.]

Damn Yania Kim. She was spewing out that V’s x. Or was this something she was after? Did she do this in advance because she thought the Empire would be in danger if it secured Buffalo Airport?

‘No. That can’t be. She’s not the type of girl to think that deeply.’

Dan Brown dispelled the rising suspicion.

“You have to catch either Bangor or Presque Isle airport.”

Without at least one of these two airports in the northeastern part of the empire, it would be difficult to manage the newly acquired territory.

If transportation and communication were not properly connected, which was already a problem, there was a risk that local governments would break away like in the feudal system of the past.

Transportation and communications had to be secured, and an airport had to be kept alive to control the areas annexed from Canada.

Reports began to come in that the veteran units that had been deployed to capture John F. Kennedy Airport were being sent to capture northern airports.

[It is said that among the birds that prey on rats, there are some that are resistant to the gas.]

[It is said that carnivores, including wolves, are enduring longer than before.]

How long has it been since you started using gas in earnest, and you’ve already developed a tolerance? This is not good. It happened a little while ago. Wasn’t there a story about resistant individuals emerging from the Buffalo area bordering the kingdom?

“Where is it?”

[Found in Rochester and Long Island.]

Rochester was a city near Buffalo. Long Island was next to New York City.

Dan Brown’s eyebrows moved slightly.

“Is this a Brunswick warfarin case?”

[That’s what the researchers see.]

Warfarin was a rat poison made by modifying coumarin, an anticoagulant extracted from soybeans. It was an effective rat poison that enjoyed explosive popularity after its release, taking up 70% of the rat poison market share. The event that shook its reputation was the Brunswick incident in Scotland.

At that time, Brunswick was so full of rats running around the streets even in broad daylight. Citizens and farmers sprayed warfarin rat poison on a large scale to catch these rats, and it was effective, catching a huge number of rats.

But that joy was short-lived, and soon the rats began to increase in number again, so the citizens sprayed large quantities of rat poison containing warfarin. The rats began to die again.

Kill and grow, sow again and shrink.

How many times did that pass? At some point, no matter how much warfarin rat poison I sprayed, only the rat poison disappeared, and the number of rats did not decrease.

The cause was discovered to be that rats that had developed resistance to warfarin rat poison were feeding on the rat poison and breeding. The situation was finally resolved after the chemical, biological, and radiological defense unit was mobilized to catch the rats.

“The use of VX gas is currently restricted. It is to be used only under conditions of complete annihilation to prevent the development of resistant organisms.”

[All right.]

General Dan Brown, who also ordered the development of a gas to counter the internal resistance, drank some black tea. There were a lot of stressful things, but it was much better than before. Much better.

Hurruk-

The feeling of hot tea soothing my stomach.

[A special envoy has arrived from the kingdom.]

“Hmm- Is it because of what happened at the border?”

There was an incident where rebels protested that they had ambushed the Empire’s territory. The Empire had many problems at the moment, and there was no time or people to worry about that.

They were putting their manpower into recovering the airport in the northeastern region, trying to figure out how to manage the Canadian territory they had shared with the kingdom.

[They claim that the Empire’s land and air routes have been opened.]

“···Send them in.”

A moment later, the kingdom’s special envoy, Xenia Rodan, entered with light steps.

“They say the Empire’s air defenses have been breached. Do you have any evidence to back that up?”

Didn’t you already experience it last time? The bitch who spent her time in the kingdom eating rice without any diplomatic investigation. Even Den Brown, who was wasting time, didn’t want to change the subject.

“Of course.”

Hood handed over the data. Even if we assume that the enemies were lying in ambush at various points, the M777 howitzer is a gun used by both the US and Canadian forces.

It wasn’t a self-propelled gun. No matter how you looked at it, it was unusual for an American self-propelled gun, not used by the Canadian Army, to be on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.

“There have been opinions in the kingdom that the Empire may have intentionally opened the way. Although this is a minority opinion.”

“I hope you don’t talk nonsense.”

If the Empire had been after it, they would have sent the Marines fully armed. Judging from the clumsy way they gathered the militia and scraped it together as shown in the data, it seems like Virginia Langley or a military unit affiliated with them exerted their influence.

“It’s not just nonsense. If you want to move self-propelled guns, you have to either transport them by air using airships or move them by land. In either case, if the Empire doesn’t know about it, what should we think?”

General Dan Brown looked at the hood with a blank expression. The peculiar incongruity of the half-and-half face caught his attention. The black and white division was a little jarring.

Why does Vladimir Kalin keep sending women like this? She may be better than Yania Kim, but has she not yet found the right diplomat?

“No matter what you think, the Empire did not intentionally open its airspace. I don’t see any reason for us to care.”

“······.”

“However, if we were to formally form a military alliance, things would be different. There would be issues that we would have to jointly address.”

“······.”

Chancellor Den Brown, in turn, tried to seize this opportunity.

After all, there are experts in catching monsters in the kingdom.