Rust - Chapter 470



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RUST -470

Intense drinking.

The ground explodes and the guards fly in all directions.

Kim Yang was momentarily stunned as she looked at the thick smoke and the debris flying fiercely.

Even for her, who had been through all sorts of hardships, this was her first time in a situation like this.

Even in the rebel areas of Southeast Asia, when the army came, they would abandon their villages, run away, and engage in guerrilla warfare, but they never did such a stupid thing.

Explode the dynamite?

A unit armed with exosuits has arrived?

[Beep beep beep beep!]

[It’s a trap!]

[Jackson! Jackson! Come on!]

No limbs were lost or anything like that due to the protective power of the exosuit covering the entire body, but the mass-produced exosuit was not able to completely absorb the impact.

The guardsmen, whose insides were in shambles like the contents of a can, were unable to get up. Kim Yang’s HUD caught someone trying to throw an improvised explosive device at the sprawling guardsmen.

The gun was positioned so that it was aimed at the wrist holding the bomb.

With her skill, it wouldn’t have been impossible to just swing her wrist, but as if the gun had some willpower, she aimed it at the bastard’s head.

Kim Yang pulled the trigger naturally without suppressing the will of the gun. The 12.7mm bullet fired with a light recoil obliterated the head of the guy who was trying to throw the bomb.

HUD images so clear you can almost hear the ‘bang!’ sound in your ears.

A corpse with its head missing, the bomb it was holding falls to the floor.

A fence covered in corpse fragments, accompanied by the characteristic sound of an improvised explosive device exploding.

[Bravo, Charlie secures the wounded.]

[Delta, Echo, and Fox on the fence. Take control!]

Kim Yang’s orders were quick.

[Bravo. Alpha Team Leader secured. He’s unconscious.]

[Charlie. Throwing dynamite at the fence. Need help.]

If it had exploded from the front, I could have blocked the impact to some extent with my shield, but since many of them exploded under my feet, I couldn’t do that. The ship that first blew up Alpha Team was also built in the same way. It was buried underground and then exploded, so the impact was great.

Why?

Is there something wrong with your head?

Ms. Kim could neither understand nor understand.

I couldn’t understand why they responded so violently.

That’s why I admitted it.

[Requesting support for the sacred crow bombing. Requesting complete annihilation bombing of the current coordinates.]

The airship that had been waiting became busy.

Kaaaak!

Kazuaak!

A flock of sacred crows began to spread the flames of death.

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[Concentrate fire on the main gate to prevent them from escaping the bombing. What happened to the back gate?]

[The back door has been blocked. There is a small side door near the back door. What should I do?]

[Echo, Fox, support the side door. The Sacred Crow Unit, whose bombing has ended, close in on a 4km radius and search. Check if there is an emergency exit.]

Kim Yang continued his attacks persistently and relentlessly. The high fence and tightly closed door were meant to keep the monster out, but now they were like a burning pile of firewood.

The voice of the curse that was torn apart, the screams of agony, and even the final plea for help. Everything was equally reduced to a pile of gray ash.

And then, as if in the background, the sounds of death from the forest a little way away continued. It was the sound of those fleeing through emergency tunnels or escape hatches being mauled by crows.

Maru, who checked the on-site footage recorded in the exosuit, controlled his expression.

Can armed civilians be considered civilians?

Maru thought this was a really dirty topic.

Not a complicated topic, but a dirty one.

Let’s say you went to Afghanistan to provide medical assistance.

What would you think if heavily armed people started shooting guns at you?

‘He’s just an ordinary civilian.’ Should I think like this? Or

Are you thinking, ‘Is that some kind of armed group?’?

And now was a time when unarmed people could not survive. The environment was like that too.

However, it was an unpredictable situation that people who had been receiving well suddenly started to resist by exploding dynamite.

“It’s difficult. Running a country.”

At Maru’s small lament, the PD slightly bowed his head.

The reason the Holy Ark Kingdom was founded was to build the ark.

An ark that saves people, not kills them.

Even if we can’t save everyone

At least, it can protect the lives and daily lives of those who entered the kingdom.

Safe cradle.

The ideal that PD dreamed of was not just a dream.

It was quite feasible. With him, safety was practically assured.

It was a PD who was gnashing his teeth.

‘These stupid and foolish things···.’

I was finally abandoning the favor.

Even if you say that it is fundamentally wrong, how can this be?

What kind of shameless behavior is this, trying to repay a favor even from an animal!

In the pioneering era, there were many incidents in the United States where people shot tax collectors who came to collect taxes. So, the history of IRS officers having to be heavily armed continued.

Taxes and guns have always gone together. That’s how this land has been from the beginning. The reason why the Detroit area is quiet is because they have indirectly experienced a miracle that no one can deny.

“It’s my fault for not checking before things got this bad.”

Even if things had come to this, I couldn’t delay the declaration of the kingdom. If I had, it would have turned into the central region where the large cities and neighboring areas are tied together and powers are running rampant.

Instead of answering, Maru asked again.

“I guess other areas are like this too?”

“It is highly likely.”

I began to feel a lingering discomfort that was difficult to explain in words.

“You want to take money, not pay taxes, and live freely? There are so many great people out there.”

“······.”

Only citizens were allowed to enter the city and were given freedom of trade. The moment they tried to revoke the citizenship they had been issued, it was clear that something like this would happen again.

Maru, who doesn’t hide his bitter expression.

“Given how complicated the citizenship application process has been, seeing things like this, it seems hopeless to just wait for them to fall away on their own.”

I wanted to leave the kingdom naturally, but the people’s response was beyond imagination.

“It was my mistake. I wanted to organize things in a natural way. I thought it was too convenient to say that they were people who survived fighting diseases, monsters, and extreme cold.”

Are those who survived in the outskirts lucky?

When someone dies in a rat attack, do the people who hunt and eat the fat rats that eat those people just get lucky?

The season when rats hunt people and people hunt rats.

A bitter winter.

It was wrong from the beginning to treat the survivors there in a general, common-sense manner.

Maru nodded at the PD’s words.

“That’s right. Who would have thought that only a few of the villagers would receive citizenship, and those who received citizenship would go into the city and collect necessary goods to distribute to the village, and survive like that?”

There was a reason why only people living near large cities were sensitive to civil rights, while those living in the outskirts were indifferent.

The problem is that people started to play with citizenship. Private loan businesses using citizenship as collateral emerged, and short-term citizenship lending and long-term rental businesses also emerged.

“They must have known that asking for 2,000 gold per household for all the villagers was crazy. If they knew that and still did it, then there must have been a reason.”

“Is this smuggling?”

“That’s very likely. Or maybe even heavy weapons and dynamite. Given the traps and improvised explosive devices, it’s probably true.”

“You did a good job of catching smugglers.”

The PD was a little surprised. Considering the pioneering era, it was a very likely thing to happen, and he didn’t think that a town related to smuggling would already be formed.

Unlike the PD who had cleared up his doubts, Maru still had a dirty feeling.

Because of Kim Yang’s scorched earth massacre? That wasn’t it. Then why do I feel uneasy?

Maru didn’t just let this feeling pass when he occasionally felt this way.

Maru, who couldn’t shake off his uneasy feeling even after figuring out the connection between smuggling and the outskirts, began to watch the video until the end.

[In this hot weather, there is no chance of survival.]

[Shut up and check everything until the end.]

Kim Yang meticulously searches the burning village to see if there are any survivors left. Her perspective wavers for a moment.

A bio-signal floated up in the corner of her HUD. Considering that all radar sensors had a shortened response range due to radio interference, it was a miracle that a bio-signal was picked up in this heat.

[Yeah. I thought there would be one.]

Maru was slightly curious about Kim Yang’s tone, but that wasn’t what was important right now.

Eeeeeeeung–

The sound of the motors rapidly accelerating the exosuit was clearly visible in the video.

The identity of the biosignal revealed at the end.

The corpse of a middle-aged man was shaking.

A dead man in a crouching position, catching the falling debris with his body.

Below, a boy who looked to be in his teens was desperately trying to escape.

The corpse of a middle-aged man and the writhing body of a boy.

That was the identity of the uneasiness. And Kim Yang also noticed what Maru felt.

[Ah- I knew this would happen.]

The reason people were able to survive in the stolen hospital was because of the ability.

So who gave people the strength to survive in this remote area?

A capable person?

If not?

It must be a cannibal.

It remains to be seen whether the boy who pushes the corpse carrying the large debris is a power user or a cannibal.

[Please. Please save me.]

[Spit here.]

[yes?]

[Don’t ask again. Just spit.]

Kim Yang’s voice was completely unshaken by the pitiful voice of the boy.

The boy’s eyes, which had been desperately shaking the corpse, suddenly distorted.

Ppoduk-

The body of the man covering the boy was twisted in a deformed manner, accompanied by the sound of his spine breaking.

The beast’s claws pierce through the gaps in the twisted corpse!

Kim Yang’s exosuit fell back as if it had been waiting.

Kiyong- Chak-

As he retreated, the muzzle was pointed forward, but the claws of the beast raining down like javelins were faster than he could pull the trigger.

Break!

At the same time that the claw dug halfway through the 12.7mm barrel, Kim Yang swung the buttstock like a bayonet, blocking the boy’s further attacks and kicking him away with her foot.

The small body was hit by the exosuit’s powerful kick and bounced into the half-charred ruins. Ta-da-da-da The sound of fleeing footsteps.

Tsk-

Looking up at the sky. After seeing the black smoke and flying ash, Kim Yang deployed 8 drones and began tracking them.

[4 o’clock direction! A 10-year-old entity that appears to be a cannibal has escaped. Create a perimeter and attack from a distance. Be careful not to approach at close range.]

Kkieeeeeeing-

Kim Yang’s report ended with the sound of the motor filling the screen again.

“What is this? Are you saying that boy is a person with powers?”

“No. He must be a cannibal, since he refused the cannibal test.”

“But if you look at that, isn’t the physical ability 3-4 times higher?”

The average physical ability of cannibals was 3-4 times that of an adult male. Unlike the shocked PD, Hood, who was handling the information, quickly grasped the situation.

“The data obtained from the underground bunker at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was real.”

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where nuclear weapons and various missiles were secured. This was information left behind by cannibals who took over the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC).

There is data showing that if you eat a whole human, your overall physical abilities will be strengthened. Ironically, the conditions of a long winter and an isolated village provided a good opportunity for cannibals to achieve such conditions.

“There was a reason why the Empire wanted to establish a stronghold in the provinces as quickly as possible. If something like that happened on the outskirts of the kingdom, then the Empire too… Oh, by the way, there was also a story that some of the units in charge of defending the outskirts of the Empire occupied a village.”

While PD and Hood’s story continues, Maru takes out something that looks like a karimbit from his desk drawer. One of Director Yu’s belongings. A knife made from the claws of a feline monster.

Although it didn’t completely cut through the barrel, it clearly dug halfway into it in the video. It was just a spear made from a beast’s claw.

Maru slammed the knife down with more force than before. The table was solid, made of artificial marble. The claw knife was stuck with a dull thud.

‘also.’

It wasn’t just a sharp claw.

What were the researchers doing?

Didn’t you give one of Director Yoo’s belongings to us for study?

Hood and PD, who had been having a heated discussion, shut their mouths.

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet. After the silence that had settled on the floor, Maru spoke.

“Send a black horse to the scene.”

If you have a black horse that is hunting for cannibals like a ghost, things will be easy to handle.

“We will fully implement a search for cannibals.”

“We will set up checkpoints at every traffic hub and conduct regular inspections.”

“Whenever you enter or leave the city, in addition to checking your citizenship, you will also be checked for cannibalism.”

Maru drew his sword towards the cannibal.

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It’s been three days since I chased that little guy. If I had known this would happen, I would have brought the wolf too.

8 Based on the footage sent by the drone, we tried to catch the sacred crow by spreading it and using the guards to tighten it. But we couldn’t find it because of some kind of coordination.

[The airship has arrived. This is the support unit.]

[okay?]

Because this time I voluntarily did it first.

I should just catch this guy and rest. Kim Yang was confident because he rolled over first.

[Ah- Let’s take care of this quickly and rest!]

A voice was heard in her ear as she made her promise.

Hehehe-heehehe-hing-

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