Rust - Chapter 533



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RUST [RUST]-533

Knock knock. I touched it, but there was no response.

It was a biometric terminal that had lost the feeling of being alive.

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A bubble-free brain.

In that case, it could no longer be called Dr. Brainstorming, it could be seen as just an empty shell.

‘Then where did the kernel go?’

What mattered was how the kernel escaped.

Kim Yang immediately thought of the helmet Maru had brought. It was a device that was said to be able to directly engrave information into the brain using a type of electromagnetic wave.

If information can be engraved and erased, why not overwrite it too?

‘As expected, the highest dignity. I saw it right away.’

huh.

Kim Yang nodded on her own. She signaled to Erica with a chin gesture to begin psychometry. Erica hesitated slightly and gently grabbed the hand of the researcher at the front.

The eyebrows furrow slightly.

“This person is okay.”

“Over there next to-”

“There’s nothing strange about this person either.”

“Come this way.”

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About halfway through, a researcher who had grabbed Erica’s hand tightened his grip. Swish – Erica screamed like a sparrow at the force of the pull.

“Ouch- grab it hard···.”

Taaaaang!

A heavy gunshot, muffled by a silencer, rang out.

Pfftpfft—-!!!

The head of the researcher who had been pulling Erica away exploded. The upper part of the head scattered in all directions. The result of being hit by a 12.7mm armor-piercing incendiary bullet at close range was catastrophic.

“Woo——this——”

Erica sobbed as she was hit by the blood droplets and chunks of meat that burst nearby. If it were before, she would have fainted or screamed and struggled, stabbing the sky. She seemed to have gotten much stronger.

“good job.”

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Erica wiped her blood-splattered face and gasped for breath at Kim Yang’s praise.

“He was a devil-possessed bastard.”

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As she gestured at the corpse, everyone’s attention turned to the researcher whose head had been blown off. The other hand that had been holding Erica’s was holding a screwdriver.

“Have you seen it?”

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As soon as Kim Yang put down the gun he had pointed at the research team, the tense atmosphere suddenly calmed down. The researchers had come from a time when there were many people with anger management disorders and people who were not zombies but zombies were running wild, so the confusion quickly subsided.

Kim Yang, who was carrying the 12.7mm Barrett on his shoulder as comfortably as a normal rifle, spoke softly.

“Continue next.”

“Isn’t it over now that we’ve caught the strange guy?”

She shook her head firmly at the guard’s comment that it was over since one person had caught it.

“Yeah. No. Next···”

If he started, he should have gone all the way. He can use the new information extraction device to manipulate other people’s memories, so who knows how far he’ll go? What if he’d copied and pasted?

“Copy and paste?”

“Okay. Everyone be on your guard because someone might copy and paste. Erica- Keep going.”

It was clear that Maru had sent him with this in mind. He wanted to tell the researcher not to handle things carelessly.

Erica frowned at Kim Yang’s urging to continue.

‘Copy and paste? What are you talking about all of a sudden?’

She wiped the blood from her face and took another deep breath. When she closed her eyes, the blood came back vividly. A burst head. A corpse with the upper part of the nose shattered. A corpse.

Phew-

Erica, who had been holding back something that seemed like it was going to spill over, approached the next researcher. As she was close by, she grabbed the hand of the researcher who was covered in blood like her, and emotions surged.

Fear. And fear.

[Don’t read.]

After a series of pleas and fears, something different finally came out.

[Tria!]

Huh? Tria?

‘If it’s Triam, is that artificial intelligence?’

A small sound was heard as soon as Erica, who had been naturally bending down while holding the researcher’s hand and using psychometry, turned her head toward Ms. Kim.

Pew-! Pew-! Thud!

Then the strength drained from the researcher’s arm that she was holding onto, and he fell backwards.

“Keep going.”

Kim Yang nodded, carrying a 12.7mm Barrett on his shoulder and pulling out a silenced pistol with his other hand.

Huuuu-eup-

Erica wanted to cry.

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Dadadak- The sight of Maru floating up without fail as soon as the sound of running suddenly stops. Maru, who was running down the stairs as if jumping, checked the radio. The LED indicator light that had been blinking anxiously was shining steadily.

“There. What happened?”

[I just caught two. They appear to be copy-pasted, so be careful with those too.]

Copy and paste?

I was just wondering, but damn…

“After you finish cleaning up the lab, don’t come here. First, if anyone has ever used that machine on their head, have them check with Erica.”

[All of them? I’ll try, but I don’t know if Erica can handle it…]

“Check it out as much as you can. There are many researchers who are in good shape. How many new information extractors were made, how many people used them after they were made, who used them. Even if you can guess roughly, it’s nowhere.”

[Okay.]

The more I thought about it, the more I felt uneasy. It was uncomfortable. That was because Director Yu Mark 2 came to mind.

If Director Yu Mark 2 was possessed by a clone with the same genes, or connected to it, Dr. Jack Neese was using a method of copying and pasting his information to others.

The difference between the two was huge. If Director Yu Mark 2 could enter one clone at a time, then Dr. Jack Neese could copy and become multiple at the same time.

But the commonality of being able to transfer to another body was greater. What if Director Yu’s Mark 2 ability gradually grew stronger and could be used on ordinary people, not just clones?

The same goes for Dr. Jack Neese’s body-snatching. Now we use a helmet-type information extractor to extract, copy, and paste information, but what if we could do it remotely?

‘There have been experiments since the 70s and 80s.’

I remember when 5G came out. There were international articles about people crashing into 5G repeaters with their cars or protesting to prevent 5G from being installed near their homes.

Why did they do that?

This was because there were actual experiments that drove people crazy by shooting electromagnetic waves into their brains or controlled people by amplifying their emotions.

What would happen if Dr. Jack Neese took over the experiment and succeeded?

What would happen if tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Dr. Jack Nees’ brains, created through wide-area copy and paste, were connected serially and in parallel and started calculating?

Dr. Jack Neese, who had experience with brain-computing bio-terminals, had the computational power to far surpass that of a supercomputer.

If we could acquire tens or hundreds of thousands of human brains, we would need help to use them as terminals at will.

‘So, he must have gone to the supercomputer lab.’

Because if it’s Dr. Jack Neese, he’ll definitely try to secure Tria.

In front of the artificial intelligence computer lab.

A man was breathing heavily. I could tell because I was mentally connected. Two of my selves had just disappeared.

“Open up! Open up!!”

He shouted as he desperately tried to hack the security door.

I must have overwritten it too hastily, because the side effect, a headache, was getting worse. Now, the pain was so severe that it couldn’t even be called a headache.

Ugh-

The feeling of his body and mind being forcibly torn away shook his mind. For a moment, the strength left his legs and the man collapsed.

Coop-

A dizzying view with blood flowing from the nose.

‘I can’t stop here. I can’t stop here.’

The new information extractor was the key to opening up a new world. It was the beginning of technology that could create a society where no one was unhappy and everyone was happy.

If you use this, you can connect directly with Tria. If you use this, you can let others into the world you created.

If only he could completely take control of the supercomputer… and if he could control the Vladislav Tower, it would only be a matter of time before he could seize the hundreds of thousands of brains in Detroit.

‘therefore···.’

‘We can’t stop here.’

‘Open! Open!’

He sat up again. It was Dr. Jack Neese, who was using all the knowledge and information he had acquired during his time as a bio-terminal to break through the security door of the supercomputer room.

Phew-

Kigigigigigi-

The eyes of the man who finally opened the security door after going through a process that was almost crazy were filled with joy.

Hahahahahaha-

“It’s open. Finally. It’s open.”

‘Tria. I’m going.’

Let’s create the utopia we’ve been dreaming of…

As the automatic door opened, there was another door inside. It was not an electronic security door, but a door that opened with a dial and key.

Bank vault?

When did they put a safe door like this in?

I came here when the building was under construction. It wasn’t there at the time.

When we installed the supercomputer here, there was nothing like this!!!

The whirlwind of emotions gnawed at the gap between my body and mind.

Gulp

The blood that had stopped flowing from the man’s nose began to flow again.

And then in my ear hole too

And before I knew it, tears of blood were falling.

‘Khuhhhh.’

Even in front of the door blocking his way, he did not give up.

Even when he was trapped in a brain-dead bio-terminal, even when he was trampled under the feet of the Geese Raiser, even when he was under the tyranny of Vladimir Kalin, he never gave up.

I held on like that, butter, and now was the chance I finally got. I didn’t come all this way just to be stopped by a vault door or something!

Yeah, yeah-

[There’s a safe door here. I put a safe door in the computer room.]

Opening this required information, data, and technology. Limited ability to connect with other brains. Forced telepathy was activated.

[▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣]

Even cannibals and nobles have serious aftereffects when they use forced telepathy, but this was even more serious.

Euaaaahhhhhh!

Information trickled in from other copies of himself here and there. The man reached out toward the safe door, which was glowing gray-white.

Kiriririk-

The last flame of a dying body. The sensation in my fingertips was more sensitive than ever.

Tititititik-

The feel of gears and mechanical devices in action.

Tick-

He hit one. His arm, which had been carefully turning the dial in reverse, suddenly stopped moving.

Kkeukjik-

His right arm fell to the floor with a thud, not a mechanical sound, but the sound of meat being cut. The man looked back blankly at the sudden turn of events.

who?

Who would interfere with the survival of humanity?

“Who are you, kid? It’s the landlord.”

“Swish!” Maru growled, grabbing the man by the collar.

“Ugh- Open the door. Open the door!”

“How many people have pasted it? How many people?”

“If we open this door, mankind can live in paradise!”

“Where is it? Where did you put it?”

The doctor and Maru spoke at the same time.

“The Confederacy and the Empire will fight a great war. China, which has been split into seven parts, will do the same. The virus is still mutating, and we don’t know how far it will mutate. If it mutates repeatedly, even if we endure one, we will eventually be unable to catch up with the mutations.”

“You can’t keep up, you brat. Didn’t you know that there are naturally occurring people with the ability to control cannibals?”

There was no law that said he should just die. The doctor who had fallen down screamed as he was shoved by the collar that was being grabbed. Regardless, Maru took out one bullet and separated the warhead. The well-coned gunpowder was firmly packed in the brass cartridge.

“What about environmental disasters? Climate change? What if there’s a 7-month heat wave after 7 months of extreme cold? What are we going to eat to survive!!!”

Cheeeeeeek-

Maru smiled coldly as he burned the man’s severed body with gunpowder taken from the bullet.

“It’s something you can prepare for. I was prepared for it. You saw it when they were building this building. Is this bullshit?”

“You want to live only for a few? Even though there is only one way for all of humanity to survive, one way to evolve, one way to create a world where no one suffers? You can succeed! You can succeed! I am the proof. I am the proof!!!”

“That’s crazy. You crazy kid. So. Where are the other guys? What are they doing? Don’t you tell me?”

Maru’s sword was pointed at the prone doctor.

As the murderous intent grew stronger, blood burst out from the doctor’s nose again.

Zururuk-

Ugh- Ugh-

The doctor reached out towards the CCTV.

“T. Tria.”

“Tree. Ah-”

Wheeeeeeeeing-

The ceiling opened with a mechanical sound, revealing an automatic turret.

Kii- As the four gun barrels pointed at the floor, the corners of the doctor’s mouth, which had been struggling to hold on, rose slightly.

When Maru saw that, he calmly lifted up Eclipse.

Eeeeeeeeeeng-

An automatic turret that retracts back in with a sound.

The doctor’s eyes, which had been sparkling as if he had found hope, suddenly turned to confusion.