Rust - Chapter 490



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RUST -490

Ms. Kim entered the room and jumped on the bed.

Aaaah!

Ms. Kim hitting the pillow like a cat is meowing.

‘Why did you do that?’

Why would that be?

Bam- Bam- Bam-

When I saw the one-armed bitch and the bread bitch, I felt uncomfortable and even upset. Anyway, it was like that.

‘okay.’

I was already feeling down, but the fact that the nurse in Unit 1 was yapping about with her ring made me even more annoyed.

When it came to rings, it was natural to think that it was something that she should receive. However, Kim Yang felt her pride hurt when she gave the ring to Unit 1.

Aren’t we like each other, saving and protecting each other’s lives, just like following a needle and thread? That’s why we eat delicious food together and have been like that for so long.

It was like adding insult to injury. In a situation where I was already annoyed by Unit 1, how dare Unit 2 show up and ask for a ring?

Unit 1 was proud of receiving the ring, Unit 2 was shamelessly and openly after the ring, and at the moment when they were all acting crazy and were about to cry, Maru rebuked them.

My mind suddenly opened.

I thought the nurse and the hood would be shocked since I myself was still alive after going through the chaos of killing and being killed, but guess what?

Both of them were shaking but holding on without fainting. They even had their accessories, suspected to be mental equipment, removed.

‘It’s strange. It’s strange how those bitches keep talking without any reason.’

Bam- Bam- Bam-

Bam- Bam- Bam-

Kim Yang’s eyes sparkled as she patted her pillow coolly.

“These bitches, surely···”

Her instincts, honed through K-dramas, were strongly warning her that Unit 1 and Unit 2 were probably after the seat next to her.

That’s how she consoled her heart.

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Kaaaaaaah!

“Yeah. I was surprised too.”

A crow that had come back to life sat on the nurse’s shoulder and muttered.

He said it was a light killing, but it wasn’t a light killing to a small animal. Especially when he yelled at the end to take off the ring, it was really scary.

Caw- Caw!

“Right – you’re interested in me, right?”

There were bracelets, anklets, and rings, but he specifically gave me the ring.

Wouldn’t that mean nothing?

Is it just a coincidence?

Is that what he did?

Nanae Ono’s heart thumped so hard, thinking that she was being treated so specially.

Kkack! Cawk!

“Well, if you score a goal, you win, right? Yes.”

It was natural that there was a goalkeeper at the goal, and it was also true that scoring a goal would win the game. But how did the crow know that and talk about it?

Kaaaak-

“Huh? You know? No, not that far···.”

Caw? Caw!

“If I lay an egg first, it’s over? But still···.”

While Crow taught Nurse dribbling and Marseille turns, Hood talked to Samantha.

Samantha checked Xenia’s heart rate and body temperature with various sensors, finding that they were slightly elevated, but within normal ranges.

[You look happy.]

“Do you see it?”

Half of Hood’s face smiled. It was only half, but he had faith that he would be cured. No, it was a deeper feeling than just faith.

[Is it okay now?]

“······.”

My toes, which had been wiggling to the rhythm without me knowing, stopped abruptly at the words Samantha spoke.

She wanted to turn back the past. If she succeeded in digitizing humans, the causal relationship of past-present-future would be meaningless.

If I succeeded in datafication and entered the meta universe, I could do anything I wanted. It was easy to make the deaths of my parents and friends seem like they never happened. All I had to do was create such a world.

That was the world she and Samantha wanted to create. A world where not only she but everyone could create the past, present, and future they wanted. Xenia and Samantha had dreamed of such a world.

“are you okay.”

now.

Hood smiled faintly without realizing it. The half of her face, stiff from the burns, was awakened to reality, but she was happy about it.

[Tria has shared Dr. Triaga’s research data. What should we do?]

“Dr. Brainstorm?”

[Dr. Jack Neese.]

“Anyway, his thoughts and ours are different.”

Although they shared the same goal of digitizing humans, their goals were different.

Her and Samantha’s goal was to create the world they each wanted. In terms of games, it would be a game where you can freely use the mode you want in single player. A game where you can create the world you want, whether it’s the background or the rules.

In contrast, the world that the Doctor and Tria wanted was another world with certain rules like reality. In terms of games, it would be a multiplayer game. There would be no modes or trainers.

So in their game, he and Tria were like gods, since they were the only ones who could manipulate the rules and change them.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to share our research. What about you?”

[I think it wouldn’t be a bad idea to share research materials if you can reference their research.]

“Why? You know that doctor is weird.”

[If you look at the climate prediction files from the Empire, it is true that it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future. It seems necessary to research related technologies just in case. And as soon as possible.]

Even though it became an empire, the IVY League universities did not run away. The empire had an overwhelming number of universities compared to the Confederacy.

Considering that each university had a research lab, it was necessary to consider that there was a difference in research power between the Confederacy and the Empire. The important subject being studied in the Empire was the field of future prediction.

But that future prediction hypothesis was extremely serious.

“Is it that serious?”

[Based on research data, the calculations have concluded that the Earth has entered the extinction stage. If things continue this way, the area where humans can live will be greatly reduced.]

Research into low-temperature sleep devices that could be used like hibernating animals in winter was also necessary, and the possibility of mental memory datafication, a method of maintaining the self by discarding the physical body and datafication, was also increasing.

[There are many reasons why humans were able to thrive, but one of the most important reasons was the global chain based on capitalism. But that global system has collapsed. So what happens next?]

It was an objective diagnosis that could only be made with artificial intelligence.

“We survived the Great Depression, and we quickly got through the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It may take some time, but we can probably withstand any economic problem, right?”

[When Japan collapsed in the great disaster two years ago, the existing world economic system must be seen as having lost its function.]

The volume of goods that Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, had been exporting and importing disappeared. Naturally, a shock on the level of the Great Depression should have swept the world, but that did not happen.

Why?

Why did I feel like nothing had changed much between last year and the year before, even though Japan was gone?

This was because the chaos caused by the explosive increase in the number of infected people, the spread of cannibals, the emergence of mutated monsters, war with China, and the outbreak of a refugee civil war in Europe all occurred at once.

So, while Japan failed to notice the aftershocks of its downfall, the recession was already spreading in all directions.

They say it’s stagnant, but if you look closely, it’s not stagnant; it’s already as good as dead.

The dollar, the reserve currency, was immediately destroyed. The Confederacy broke away from the Union, refusing to pay its widely spread debts, and the East, which had been holding onto the dollar, also threw it away and changed its name to an empire.

What about US Treasuries and the dollar settlement system?

What about the size of the yen economy that was left floating in the air as Japan collapsed?

In effect, the global market and supply chain died simultaneously, with no sign of recovery.

[The result of the calculation is that the issue has gone beyond what humans can resolve politically. The only thing left is war.]

China, the big hand, was divided into seven parts and fighting.

Likewise, the United States is in the midst of a squabble between the Empire in the East and the Confederacy in the South.

As American influence waned, the Middle East went wild, as did Europe and India. At any moment, nuclear war could have broken out again.

Even if a nuclear war did not break out, wars over food, energy, and raw materials were inevitable. The number of countries that would rather go to war than sit around starving was increasing.

In the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and higher, a severe cold wave and heavy snowfall lasted for seven to eight months, while in the equator and the Southern Hemisphere, record-breaking heat waves and droughts occurred.

Large-scale farming was over, and the immediate harvest required the planting of soybeans, corn, and potatoes, but the grain companies were only thinking of using the situation to deregulate and reap profits, even as mass starvation and famine loomed.

[The uncertainty is too great. We have to prepare for the worst.]

Samantha once again said that we need to accelerate research into human datafication technology and low-temperature sleep (hibernation) technology.

“···Let me tell you a story.”

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Even though the cause of the discomfort was found, Maru did not stop.

“Diana. Do you have the results of the jewelry ingredient test yet?”

[The bracelet’s component analysis is complete.]

“Upload it right now. What about the rest?”

[It looks like it will take one more day.]

Maru read the report.

I thought it might be a smooth material like porcelain, and as expected, it was a ceramic material.

“Is it a bone component?”

[It is said to have a similar structure to bone china.]

It wasn’t simply carved from bone, nor was it your typical bone china. Could it be monster bone?

[There is living cell tissue in the center. Research results show that it appears to be a type of nerve cell.]

“Are the monster’s nerve cells in the monster’s bones?”

[The bones are those of a monster, but the nerve cell tissue at the center is said to be human DNA.]

“Human? Ordinary person?”

[It appears to be either a cannibal or an infected person.]

“So you’re talking about nerve cells infected with a virus?”

[Yes, we are currently conducting experiments to see if there are mental waves emitted from neurons.]

“Upload the video from the conference room earlier.”

When I cooled down the jewelry and lightly sprayed it with life energy, the three women’s reactions were strange.

[?]

[?]

[?]

A scene where the expressions of the three women became similar, a question mark appeared above their heads. Slightly flushed cheeks. The gazes of the three women looking at him like that.

Psychic defense? With that expression? If it’s because of a psychic attack, then I don’t know.

“Isn’t it strange? No matter how I look at it, it seems like I’ve been hit by a psychiatrist?”

[···According to the sensor records, all three people showed a slight increase in heart rate and breathing rate.]

“Right? It looks like you got scammed.”

[···The results of the calculation are similar to the physical reactions that occur at idol fan events and the physical reactions that lovers show when dating.]

What the hell is that?

It’s a bit too much to live with, but what about dating? Celebrity fan service?

Sure enough, their equipment was scary.

[The mental waves coming from the jewelry have been analyzed. The pattern is similar to the mental waves that come out when a certain emotion is at its peak.]

There were areas where the mental waves from the accessories canceled each other out, but there were also areas where they overlapped and amplified. Maru, who was looking through the hot analysis data, said while marking the data with an asterisk.

“Here’s this data. Why are there 4 waveforms? There are only 3 pieces of equipment.”

[This is a wave that interfered from outside.]

Interference from outside?

“Run this simulation now. Divide it into before and after the external waveform comes in.”

[These are the simulation results.]

As expected, there was a stimulating waveform from outside.

“Is it possible to trace back the source of external waves?”

[Operation begins.]

The computing power of special computers was enormous.

In an instant, a map appeared and a red dot appeared on it.

A park with a view of the Vladislav Tower. There was something emanating mental waves in the park right next to the outer wall.

“Miss Kim and Erica, send the guards.”

[All right.]

Roll on.

If you roll over, you’ll come to your senses.

First of all, it was a floor that started with Kim Yang.