Rust - Chapter 483



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RUST -483

Miss Kim swallowed the cake slowly.

Gulp-

Roana, who had been looking forward to the taste evaluation, looked at Kim Yang with an expectant expression.

It was the best cake I’ve ever made. I put a lot of effort into it, so of course I would praise it. Contrary to her expectations,

Ugh-

Kim Yang, who had whetted her appetite, rinsed her mouth by slowly drinking cold water and gestured toward Roana as if to tell her to come closer.

?

As she approached, Roana bent down and heard a sound in her ear at the signal from Ms. Kim, who motioned for her to lower her head and listen.

“What are you?”

“yes?”

“What kind of girl are you?”

“That’s moose···.”

The moment she tried to raise her head and waist, Kim Yang slammed Roana’s head onto the table.

Kwajik!

Knock!!

“Why are you doing this?”

The moment the head chef was about to intervene, a Colt Python .45 was pulled out. The dark cobalt blue barrel was pointed at the chef.

Stop!

Knock knock-

Kim Yang, who had signaled for them to step back by jerking his gun, spoke in a soft voice.

“Where did you survive? Winter.”

“Ugh- What the hell is this? Let go of my head!”

Roana, who was pinned to the table, began to struggle.

Creek-

Roana’s body froze at the sound of the ball being thrown back.

“Yeah. I thought about it carefully before I got holes in my arms and legs. Where did you spend your time? Winter.”

“···That. What does that mean···”

Bam!

Kayak!

Kim Yang, who had struck Roana’s head with the grip of her pistol, gave her a final warning with a cold gaze. It was a final warning that she would shoot if there was no answer.

“Why on earth are you doing this?”

The head chef shouted at the sudden change in appearance of the best customer who was so cute and bright.

“Why is that? Because it doesn’t make sense.”

“···Front and back?”

“······.”

The head chef and Roana couldn’t understand what he was talking about.

Let’s see this year’s colors. Don’t you think it’s weird?

Where did you live to have such soft and smooth skin?

huh?

“Oh, it wasn’t like this. It was a total mess when I first got here.”

“So you came back so fresh after just a few days?”

You have to say something believable.

Even in Southeast Asia, it was the same. Even if you only wandered around the jungle for a short period of three nights and four days, it took ten to fifteen days for your rough skin to recover.

But how did my skin, which had been worn out over the years, recover so well in less than a week?

Roana spoke with a sob at Kim Yang’s suspicion.

“I- I was managing. I was continuing to manage. I was managing because I was a newtuber.”

“Okay – let’s say so.”

You said it hasn’t been that long since you got here?

Then where did you live before that you were able to live while managing it?

Where did the food come from? How did you keep it safe?

“······.”

“······.”

So where is that?

Where was she, what was she doing? How could she, who had been stuck there for over a year after the incident, sneak in?

What are the chances that the pretty girl will survive that harsh winter in body and mind?

In North America, where there are so many gun-toting drug dealers, how could a bitch like this get away with it?

“······.”

“······.”

If this isn’t weird, what is?

Isn’t that weird? Okay, then.

“Hey- So where have you been? Where have you come from? Aren’t you going to answer?”

Just as we were about to start off cool, the artificial intelligence Diana intervened.

[A report has been received of a violent incident. Please put down your firearm.]

“Hey. Don’t you know what’s going on right now?”

[Please put down your firearm. We must resolve the issue according to procedure.]

“I thought it would be crisp and refreshing. This was not the case at all.”

If the can is like that, then so be it.

No matter how much you talk about artificial intelligence or whatever, a tin can is still a tin can. There is no flexibility.

‘What would you do if you fought with a tin can?’

Kim Yang, who had lost his cool, shrugged and put down the Colt Python.

“This. Lock him in solitary confinement. Or use Dr. Noedungdung to extract information.”

I just lost my appetite.

Roana Blanc’s tear-stained face. The head chef and cooks were seen trying to comfort her as she cried with a pitiful look on her face.

Tsk-

Should I have just shot it?

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Maru felt uncomfortable when he saw the small drone equipped with high-performance transmitter and receiver equipment.

“Does this mean it can transmit and receive up to 8 to 10 km?”

“Yes. We also used quite good parts, such as the camera and battery.”

“Could it be spread around the area too?”

“It’s expensive equipment, so it would be difficult to just spray it everywhere. It’s more likely that it’s only installed in towns or on major roads.”

“There’s no use in breaking it now, right?”

“Yes. Since it has a high-performance transceiver, it would be correct to assume that information about how the village was attacked was passed on to them.”

This is true. There was a reason I moved through shadows or shade even after activating the optical stealth function, but I got caught like this.

“8~10km.”

Maru put down the drone with a small orbit and became lost in thought.

“If it’s long, it’s long. If it’s short, it’s short. There must be a repeater nearby.”

“···I guess so.”

Since they couldn’t have installed a large repeater, they must have used a drone as an intermediary to spread the message.

“Ha- Well, that’s what we did too.”

“yes?”

When you go into various underground laboratories, didn’t you put in a gas tank and a camera-equipped repeater? That’s probably how they gathered information.

“Smell this.”

Maru called the wolf unit and held out a surveillance device.

Sniff sniff – Krrrrrr – The wolves turned around and sniffed around.

“You remember? Then find something that smells similar to this.”

Boom!

They were wolves rushing out.

If we dealt with the relay outside, their drones would be useless. No matter how much footage we took, we wouldn’t be able to pass on the data.

“We’re going straight to the next town.”

“The reconnaissance isn’t over yet?”

“We have to drive them out before they can do anything.”

“···All right.”

Now that the footage of the Blackrock Village raid has been leaked, they’ll be watching it and figuring out how to respond. The longer they wait, the more tired they’ll become.

Until now, we had been giving each village a day or half a day to persuade them before starting the operation, but not anymore.

Maru moved without hesitation.

Maru warned as he headed towards the village entrance alone without even turning on his stealth function.

“This is kingdom territory. Disarm and surrender immediately!”

“The territory of the kingdom? What the hell are you talking about?”

“You must have heard of it while smuggling?”

“We are not smugglers. Get out.”

“Then come out. There’s a psychometrician here, so let’s see if that’s true.”

“Who are you to say you’re going to check it with psychometry? Huh?”

Some villages just shot straight away, while others dragged their tongues out to kill time, but it was no use in front of the castle.

bang!

Oh my gosh—huh!

As the large-caliber bullet struck Eclipse, the village gate and fence were immediately split in two.

The defensive line built around cannibals and those with powers was cut down in an instant by Maru’s sword.

Maru gave his life without holding back.

You’re saying it’s a dump? It’s a dump.

“Keuk- Su- Breath-”

“Ugh- my chest”···

“Move. Move!”

What are you moving about? Just rest comfortably.

The village that seemed useless was the one that started off by just trying to survive or die. However, this method actually turned out to be effective.

The same goes for finding followers. In villages with relatively little damage, no one answered who the followers were.

The more severe the damage, the more people would reveal who their followers were, and with the help of Erica’s psychometric cross-checking, the truth would be revealed in no time. It was not long before all the followers who had been hiding were caught.

In the villages where he joined through conversation, even his followers responded that they should give him a chance now that they knew the truth, but in the villages that were half-scorched, the majority of people were of the opinion that he should be dealt with harshly.

What was even stranger was that the villagers, who were just going to kill him whether he died or not, tended to believe in and support Maru.

Having been locked in the extreme cold for so long, have you developed some kind of mental disorder? Are you just coming back from the brink of death?

“I don’t understand.”

Hood nods at Maru’s sigh of disbelief.

“Maybe so.”

Imagine being in the same room as a cannibal who devoured people whole for over seven months. People who lived each day under the pressure of not knowing when they would become prey, and in fear of not knowing when their turn would come.

But what if a being appears who can easily dismember that terrifying cannibal? Even for a normal person, it would be a situation where they would feel bad, so how would Vladimir Kalin be viewed by those who have been completely ruined?

“Still, that kind of reaction might be better. For them and for us.”

Hood’s toes wiggled inside his sandals.

“Perhaps what broken people need is someone they can rely on.”

[···Who is the one who saved me from the valley of death?]

[Who is there to look after you and care for you?]

[The ark of salvation is open only to those who believe.]

[The end has come. The one who will save you is···.]

Hood, who was admiring the village where the preaching of the Holy Cultists resonated, pointed to a log planted in a corner.

“What are those people going to do?”

Followers. Those who were loyal to the cannibal and wanted to become cannibals were tied to a log.

“I decided to leave it to the Holy Church.”

“Is that so?”

Hood’s eyes widened as he looked out the window.

“Huh? Those Holy Church people are stacking firewood under the logs?”

Next to me, psychometric Erica was talking to a member of the Holy Church. For some reason, Erica’s face looked very tired.

Although there was no instruction to gather separately, one of the Holy Christians shouted to the villagers who had gathered in large numbers.

[The followers of the cannibal did not repent even though they ate and hunted people with the desire to become cannibals!]

“Kill him!”

“That bastard dragged my daughter to the cannibals!”

“Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!”

[He even tried to avoid judgment by lying until the very end. In accordance with the sacred authority given to this heretic inquisitor···.]

The speech continued for a while.

The townspeople’s condemnation and cries for him to be killed.

The torch thrown in this way ignited the firewood beneath the log.

Whoosh whoosh-

The followers, engulfed in the hungry flames, began to scream.

“Kuaaaah! Not me! Not me aaaaah!”

“Not guilty. I’m muu …

“Save me! Save me!”

The sound of a voice being torn apart echoed for a moment. After that terrible final scream, silence descended along with the crackling sound of firewood.

In the heavy atmosphere, the solemn voice of the Holy Church’s inquisitor woke up the surroundings.

[Have you seen! The end of those who have fallen into evil! Have you heard! The screams of those who spit out lies until the very end!]

The townspeople began to cheer.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!

“Good luck dying, you little shits.”

“Huh-huh- daughter. Huh-huh-”

“Long live the Holy Kingdom.”

“Long live His Majesty Vladimir Kalin.”

The sound of someone shouting “Hurrah” began to spread like an infection.

An evening with a deep sunset.

Fireworks that erupted simultaneously in several remote villages began to brighten the darkened land.

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Aooooooo-

The nurse blinked as she heard a howling coming from afar.

“They said they found the third one.”

They started sending out signals that they had found the repeaters the enemies had planted.

Awww-

“Ah- four.”

The wolves had an excellent sense of smell.

He found the hidden machine like some kind of drug-sniffing dog.

“I’ll give a special meal to the wolves who worked hard this time.”

Maru allowed the bear intestine special.

“Ah- I bet all the wolves would like that.”

At the nurse’s words, several sacred crows raised their voices.

Caw!

Knock!!

“To be honest, I didn’t do well enough to deserve a special treat this time.”

Kaaaak!

Ugh, ugh!

“No, but still. Then should I tell you?”

······.

The crow, who had glanced at the floor, pretended not to be a crow and began to preen its feathers with its beak.

Swish swish – A crow fluttered down on the nurse’s shoulder, picking out its feathers, and tucked a strand of hair behind the nurse’s ear, whispering.

He ruffled his feathers again and gave the nurse a small peck on the hair.

Originally, the sacred crows were on good terms with the nurses.

But after spending almost a month together, they seemed to have become friendly like most crows.

Word of Maru’s visit, which lasted nearly a month, must have spread, as most villages opened their gates to only the guards, crows, wolves, and Holy Cult members.

When word of the coming of the Divine Kingdom spread, the cannibals and their followers fled, but most were unable to evade the pursuit of wolves and crows and were captured.

[A report has arrived from the guards that went to Truwa Village.]

[There are no cannibals in this village, but it is guarded by people with powers. The people with powers there say they want to see His Majesty.]

“Was there a separate reason?”

[I want to spar with Your Majesty, who is renowned as a swordsman. How dare you. You are disrespectful. Should I dispose of you?]

It would be a shame to call them abilities.

If you can recruit capable people in one match, it’s cheap.

“No. Let’s go and see.”

[Okay, I’ll get it ready.]

While you’re at it, why don’t you clean up that area too?