Rust - Chapter 479



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RUST -479

A soft voice telling me not to step on his head.

The black horse, with a start, turned its hooves towards the cannibal’s chest.

Kwajijijik!

Kkwadduk!

The body of the superior entity that was stepped on twice was crushed into a ball.

Only after the Black Horse crushed the chest of the superior entity did Maru release the Ripper suit’s hiding power.

[Are you annoyed right now?]

Hureung? Purururururuk- (Huh? That’s absolutely not what I’m saying-)

Phew-

[Then why did you step on it twice?]

Purung- Purung. Pururururung- (That’s- a bit hard. It was hard-)

Although he couldn’t exactly interpret the black horse’s cries, he could tell by the feeling, so Maru quietly looked at the guy. The black horse was sweating coldly, unable to meet his eyes.

Tsk-

[Good job.]

Heeeek!

He chased after them without making a sound. He did pretty well this time, so he decided to give them a pass.

‘I understand what you’re saying, so I think professional training might be possible…’

I was in a difficult situation because the superior entity disappeared while I was trying to catch the spear, but the black horse succeeded in chasing it silently and I was able to catch it quickly.

‘Are you glad you at least saved your head before it was too late?’

I stabbed him with the intention of stabbing his lungs in the upper arm or back, but I got a critical hit in one shot. Since I was aiming for vital points so often, I think I instinctively aimed for the heart.

‘I stabbed him and it hit a vital spot…’

As a result, I managed to salvage the head, so I just had to check the information to see what happened here.

‘Instead of bringing a psychometer, I should have brought Dr. Brain Dung Dung.’

This time, Erica had to do the hard work.

[Chi-i-ik – heat dissipation – beeping completed.]

[firing.]

[Beep – Bombardment begins.]

A thumping, earth-shaking sound began to echo through the dense bushes.

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A small hand resting on a severed head.

The white hand trembled several times.

Ugh- ugh-

Erica, who had tried psychometry, turned her head away and retched. Maru patted her on the back and asked.

“Are you okay?”

“Uuuuk- huff- that. Stop···! Back! Stop tapping my back.”

“It feels like nausea turns into real vomiting.” Maru stopped patting her back at Erica’s gaze.

If it were before, I would have given up right away, but Erica was doing what she had to do. She really tried hard and improved. Phew- She took a few deep breaths and organized what she had read with psychometry.

“···People who appeared to be from the Virginia Company and the military supported this town.”

“okay?”

Maru nodded calmly, as if he had expected it.

“But the timing of the support is strange.”

“When to apply?”

“Yes. They started approaching the village near the St. Lawrence River about a year ago.”

“So you’ve been coming here since spring and summer last year?”

The story goes that they had been working in this area even before the kingdom was declared.

‘That’s amazing.’

In the first place, there was no connection to Canada last year. That means there was a high probability that it was not a ploy aimed at this side.

‘then.’

East. It was realistic to think that it was an advance aimed at New York. So. The story is that they had been preparing for a year in advance to control the East, which would be a future obstacle after declaring withdrawal from the United States.

“yes.”

“What is the work?”

“They told me about the smuggling routes and distribution methods that start at the border between the United States and Canada.”

As expected, the Virginia Line was the best when it came to drugs. Thinking of using the Canadian border to get in.

“Did they start giving out weapons like surface-to-air missiles and Vulcan cannons back then?”

“We brought the weapons by airship around the time this cold spell subsided.”

It’s a blimp. Is it much different from the DHS blimp?

“Tell me more about that.”

“A small airship. Half the capacity of the airships we use? About that much.”

“······.”

If it was a small airship, it would have been assumed that several of them were moving.

‘It must have been possible because it was around the time of the severe cold. If the flocks of birds had been moving around actively like last year, I wouldn’t have thought of launching an airship.’

Erica listed information about the villages she had contacted.

“Oh, and recently, I laid a trap in the Blackrock village.”

Now that I think about it, this guy suddenly changed direction while running away.

“Is this a trap set to catch me?”

“yes.”

During the conversation, a report came in from the artillery unit.

[Chi-Ik – Bombardment completed.]

“Move to the next base and wait.”

[Net. Beep-]

“Sacred Crow Unit, Wolf Unit enters.”

Maru thought for a moment and then gave a firm order.

“The survivors… are to be exterminated.”

[Kaaaah-chijijik-]

[Cheek- Krrrung!]

After two days of search and chase, there were no survivors.

Maru organized the information Erica found and sent it to Detroit. With PD and the new security chief, they could prepare for Virginia and the military’s infiltration.

And along with the supplies, a report from Kim Yang and Director Yu Mark 2 arrived. Maru, who was contemplating what to do with the trap and Blackrock Village, was impressed after reading the materials sent by the two people.

‘The most important thing in the Afghan War was supply.’

‘The enemy is trying to prolong the situation by cutting off our supply and inducing irregular warfare.’

‘The goal is to strike the economy through long-term irregular warfare. The goal is to suppress economic development while continuing drug smuggling, and to create anarchy in the outskirts, effectively forcing the kingdom to abandon its outskirts.’

Even if it is a fragmented memory, the judgment that comes from experience is no joke. That is why I could not take the following content lightly.

‘A village that surrenders is meaningless.’

Why?

Maru’s brow furrowed at Director Yu’s assertion.

It was just one place, but taking over a village and using it as a supply base is meaningless.

‘Defense was outsourced to reduce US military losses in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.’

A wide front. Insufficient manpower. Overwhelming equipment, but too much land to control. The conditions were similar to what the kingdom was going through now.

‘They tried to create a defensive line and secure public order by handing over supplies to pro-American forces in the occupied territories and those who surrendered and converted.’

The result, as everyone knows, was a failure. Through this, Director Yu, Mark 2, and Yang Kim predicted that Maru’s planned defense plan would fail.

“Ha- Right-”

Maru sighed. They didn’t have the manpower or material to push down the smuggling village that the bastards had destroyed and build a stronghold.

The same goes for taking over the village as originally planned and pushing for ‘outsourcing of defense.’ If the data is as it is now, the result was obvious. Just like in Afghanistan and Iraq, we would only eat up supplies and continue to suffer losses.

But if we leave it alone, the drug will spread like a cancer through smuggling routes, and rebel forces will grow stronger in remote areas.

Maru’s worries deepened.

Kim Yang and Director Yu Mark 2 boldly advised to abandon the outskirts. They were to wipe out all the villages related to smuggling and small towns that had fallen into enemy hands.

And he recommended a strategy of relocating all those who surrender and cooperate to major cities and large towns.

The idea was to wipe out remote villages and small towns, create a buffer zone, and build only a minimal number of small forts, leaving only reconnaissance and surveillance tasks.

The estimated number of survivors in remote villages and small towns was at least 2 million. So, the idea was to eliminate hundreds of thousands of people at once.

‘The villagers were smuggling together. We warned them that if they were caught smuggling, they would all be destroyed, but nothing changed until we wiped out seven villages.’

I warned them again and again as I pushed them one by one, but none of the villages stopped on their own while I was pushing through the seven villages.

‘I won’t smuggle. I’m just trying to avoid it for now by saying I won’t do it again. I can’t pass on my bad habits to others.’

It was Ms. Kim who said that no matter how generous the supplies were, smuggling would not be stopped.

‘Because I saw it. I know.’

All the people she had encountered were like that.

A life of contentment and a life of full ownership.

Which life will you choose?

Most people tend to want to live a life of full ownership.

Human desires are something that cannot be changed easily.

Maru agreed with Kim Yang’s story. That’s why he thought that the method proposed by Kim Yang and Director Yu Mark 2 was not a good one either.

It was difficult to start by replacing 100,000 to 1 million people when the population was already insufficient.

Is there no way? Is there no way?

There is a way to make the townspeople buy it on their own…

Let’s check the report of Director Kim and Director Yoo Mark 2, the PD’s report was waiting.

The first content was about the need to create an Inquisition.

‘There are cults using the name of His Majesty the King Vladimir Kalin. We need an Inquisitor to punish and purge them.’

It was the PD’s request that it be written as Heresy Inquisitor and read as Special Investigation Unit.

He warned about the corruption of the Holy Church.

The answer to that is the establishment of the Inquisition.

‘Secret Information Department···.’

Given the secret activities of the Virginia Company and the Confederate warlords, a special investigation unit was necessary. PD said that if the investigation was conducted by an Inquisitor armed with sincere faith, transparent and clean results could be seen.

The following was about the monster claw knife that the researchers took. A Karimbit-style monster claw knife that is a heirloom of Director Yu.

It’s been almost a year and there were no results, so I just let it pass, but the PD and the artificial intelligence Diana confirmed and reported it.

‘I conducted an experiment using the spear, armor, and claw knife you sent me this time, which was only a hypothesis.’

The spears used by the spearmen, the bones of the monster armor they were wearing, claw knives, etc. were sent to them, and they quickly tested them and showed us the results.

‘···The research was limited because the original artifacts given as samples could not be damaged.’

I did my own research for a year, including carefully scraping it, analyzing the ingredients, and finding the characteristics, but I was unable to conduct a practical experiment.

Now that the materials have arrived in abundance, they have started a practical experiment and are sending the results. The spear that the spearman used was very unique. It was strong but also flexible and moved like a snake.

The secret to the spear being strong, durable, elastic, and flexible is the byproduct of a monster, according to the experimental results.

‘They say that even if you add only small amounts of rare earth elements, the alloy performance improves.’

More importantly, there was an experiment with bullets containing monster bone components.

Bullets made from monster bones had weak penetration and destructive power in normal situations, but they had far superior penetration and killing power against cannibals and monsters.

‘You made bullets using claws and bones?’

As time went on, larger caliber firearms were needed to kill monsters and cannibals. 5.56mm or 9mm Parabellum bullets were no match for the grain of rice.

Even if you wanted to catch a monster rat, you had to use a .45 caliber AP bullet or a 7.62mm AP bullet. Even a 6.8mm bullet was barely enough. The rats also had increased defense.

Even coyotes, foxes, and wolves were virtually impossible to catch with anything less than a 12.7mm armor-piercing bullet. As for the monster bears, anti-personnel firearms were ineffective.

The same goes for cannibals. Cannibals that are becoming harder and tougher. Especially cannibals that have been strengthened by eating people whole were resistant to even the stabbing of a sword on the floor.

‘A giant monster, a cannibalistic demon named Tan.’

It was a story that Kim Yang would like.

Maru authorized the establishment of the Inquisitor system and ordered the production of new bullets.

‘Heresy and the Inquisitor.’

‘Religion and Holy Church. Administration?’

Inquisitor? Administrator?

So what happens if you use the Holy Church to do administrative work?

It may placate those who are dissatisfied with AI administration.

In addition, it may have been possible to restore even a little the morals and ethics that had collapsed while enduring a nuclear war and a harsh winter.

Self-regulation? Public sentiment management?

That’s all they did in the medieval church.

hmm-

It was something to think about in order to overcome the current situation.

Above all, religion did not disappear. In remote villages, cannibals were worshipped as gods and sacrificed voluntarily, so wouldn’t it be better to have a Holy Church?

Besides, in the village where Maru himself personally took care of it, there was no other noise.

Krrrrrrrr-

Eclipse was pulled out with a growl.

‘I guess I’ll have to try it.’

Next target: Blackrock.

It was Maru riding a black horse and heading to Blackrock Village.

[Wait in a siege formation.]