Rust - Chapter 535



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RUST -535

‘I don’t have time.’

The doctor approached the unconscious Na Ju-yeon’s bedside. The deep, dark abyss came to mind, but there must be a ‘mystery’ beneath it.

The doctor, who was clenching his teeth, put a helmet-shaped information extractor on Na Ju-yeon’s head. And at the moment when he was about to connect the wires from the information extractor, the hospital room door opened and fear poured in.

The fear of death ran down the doctor’s spine and into his mind. If he just connected the cable and pressed the button, he might be able to reach the ‘mystery’.

If I just connect and extract, I can go beyond science and rationality and enter another realm. But my body did not listen to me. My weak body could not endure life and froze.

Dazed

Barur

Stiff

‘You little monster-‘

It came.

As soon as I realized it had arrived, I was able to move my frozen limbs a little.

How long did you last with a conventional brain?

Even if I fail here, at least one of my divided selves will succeed. A small hand reached out for the cable.

“Stop moving there-”

Ignoring the sound behind him, the moment he connected the cable, the world spun around. The last thing the doctor saw was the headless body of a female researcher.

Chook-

As soon as he saw the CCTV screen, Maru ran to the hospital room and swung Eclipse around. The blood drops and residue that had been attached fell, leaving traces on the floor.

‘Resist living?’

The torso of the female researcher, whose head had been cut off, was hanging precariously on the bed. Even though she had not used much of her willpower because Na Ju-yeon was unconscious, she quickly shook off the willpower.

Rustle-

The sound coming from a decapitated corpse.

The corpse collapses towards the bed before Maru reflexively swings his sword.

eww-

Na Ju-yeon regained consciousness.

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The sensation of the information extractor piercing through her skull and forcibly extracting the memories from her brain was terrifying. The feeling of her existence being torn apart and sucked out was short-lived, but Na Ju-yeon’s consciousness reached the bio-terminal.

The sight of each of the blue-glowing particles swaying and connecting with each other was dreamlike. As her consciousness brushed against the blue particles, a record surged forward with a shock that seemed to pierce her soul.

It was a huge amount of information. A huge amount of memories poured into her, almost like an ocean of information. The memories of ordinary people were almost nonexistent.

Memories of a researcher who has spent his entire life researching, memories of the chairman of Riser Pharmaceuticals, and even memories of a soldier who has undergone special training.

The memories accumulated by dozens of people were like an ocean of information, and when Na Ju-yeon felt that she too was becoming a part of that ocean, the ocean began to swell.

Feeling like you’re being pushed back through a narrow passage?

That wasn’t it.

It wasn’t that they were being pushed out, it was the opposite.

There was something like a black hole at the end that sucked in all these memories. A being that changed, greedily sucking in all the information.

! Na Ju-yeon realized what it was. It was herself.

When the version of herself that was pulled out of the information extractor and the version of herself that was pulled out of the information extractor in reverse merged, she lost consciousness.

Mu where everything disappeared.

In the scattered fragments of memory, she walked through the past, traveled through the present, and glimpsed the future. The future, split into dozens and hundreds of pieces, came together and scattered.

Like flowing red.

Flow?

Na Ju-yeon, who had forgotten her senses, began to doubt in the space. The moment she began to doubt, the feeling of something flowing became clear.

where?

face?

The moment I became clearly aware of the body part called the face and the sense of touch called flowing, my previously dark vision opened up.

eww—-

What she could see was the dry ceiling typical of a hospital room and a corpse with its throat cut. Blood was flowing from the cut surface, soaking her face and forehead.

I rolled my eyes to the side and saw him. He was holding a sword.

I see

He came to save me.

Somehow, I was able to figure out the situation with just a small clue.

He had come to save himself as he had in the old days.

‘······’

A sound that sounds like an auditory hallucination.

Pokkak-

Pain felt in the skull.

Oh, that’s right.

The overwhelming emotion was fleeting, and Na Ju-yeon’s eyes narrowed as she remembered him drilling a hole in her head to find out what she was thinking.

“······.”

“······.”

Maru pushed the body aside for now. As she stared blankly at him, her breathing became slightly ragged and her gaze seemed to have become tense.

“why?”

“······.”

Na Ju-yeon had no answer to Maru’s question.

As she kept her mouth shut, Maru grabbed her hand. Her hand, which had caught his wrist in a daze, was headed towards the top of her head.

Swish swish-

He made me stroke my own scalp with my own hands.

“What is this?”

“It’s okay. My head is fine. If you’ve come to your senses, just get up.”

ah-?

Maru, who saw Na Ju-yeon’s sharp eyes become loose again, walked out of the hospital room. Her gaze turned to Maru’s back and stopped at the severed head on the floor.

“Can I use this?”

Na Ju-yeon turned her head towards Maru, raising the new information extractor.

“As you wish. Do you know what I mean?”

She smiled as she tapped the knife handle against the floor.

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“How is the processing situation?”

[The lab where the repairs were first started has been cleaned up.]

There were some casualties, such as a researcher who ran away in fear being shot to death, but in terms of the results, Kim Yang’s handling of the matter was clear.

So far, Kim Yang has caught five doctors. If you include the ones Maru caught in the infirmary, there are a whopping six. Based on Diana and Samantha’s analysis of the CCTV, it is estimated that there are at least four more, and up to seven more.

“Once the lab is cleared, track down the guys who left the building. I’ll go to the containment cell.”

Two people were filmed entering the isolation room where Dr. Brain Dungdung was mainly kept. There was a southern psychic generator there that was used for honey trapping and psychic terrorism.

[Okay, but what happened to me?]

When you say her, are you referring to Na Ju-yeon?

“I regained consciousness.”

[···Uh. Um- I’ll chase after you right now.]

Maru snickered at Kim Yang’s voice, which sounded a little regretful. Kim Yang, who had shouted that she would chase him as if her intentions had been discovered, cut off the call.

Maru shook his head slightly and headed towards the quarantine facility.

“What’s the situation inside the storage room?”

[CCTV has been destroyed, but the microphone and speaker are working.]

[As a result of voice analysis, two doctors were confirmed.]

“Upload the content.”

A voice recording was played from the Ripper suit helmet.

(Please organize all tasks and follow the instructions.)

A voice was faintly heard, mixed with the evacuation announcement.

(How did this happen?)

(Didn’t you say it would definitely succeed?)

?

Somehow, he felt uneasy. Maru did not just ignore that feeling of discomfort.

“Play on repeat.”

It was clear that the two people were not talking to each other.

“Again. Just turn up the volume.”

Clearly, two people were talking to someone, but their voices were not heard.

“Are you sure you amplified the sound to the max?”

[Amplified to maximum.]

“Are you sure there’s no one else in the quarantine facility? And you’re sure no wireless devices or anything like that were brought in?”

[The quarantine facility is a radio-blocking zone. Even if wireless equipment is brought in, the signal is blocked and communication is impossible.]

But what if you’re talking to someone?

how?

Transmitting information without a communicator?

A person who suddenly came to mind. Julia and telepathy.

‘What if it’s telepathy?’

The psychic generator used for beauty tricks and mental attacks was in the containment unit.

“Diana, block access to the quarantine facility and control the surrounding area.”

[Isolation facility locked down. Perimeter control begins.]

Maru, who activated the stealth function of the Ripper suit, melted into the shadows.

The traces of heading to the infirmary to secure the mystery disappeared. And the energy that had been focused on escaping from the beginning began to fade away one by one.

‘You’re saying we’ll kill them no matter what?’

‘Are you that stupid?’

Dr. Jack Neese lamented.

‘Surrender now.’

‘Fuck! The bitch surrendered and they just shot her.’

Surrendering unconditionally was useless. The result was death.

I knew Yania Kim was crazy, but how dare she act like this? How much help did she give me when I was at the Noedungdung terminal?

Dr. Jack Neese was able to rise up because he had confidence in himself. He was able to do it because he had a plan for survival even if things went wrong.

He had evolved one step further. Even if he didn’t like the new world where no one got hurt, there was no reason to kill him.

Unlike the days of simple brain-like bio-terminals, it is now possible to extract and input information, and by using paste, it is possible to mass-produce skilled soldiers in an instant.

You don’t like that either? But if you capture them alive, wouldn’t it just increase the number of brains that can be used as brain-dead bio-terminals? But you were throwing all that away and killing them.

If you think about it logically, that couldn’t be happening.

Even if you approached it tactically, there was no way you could kill them all like that.

No matter how you look at it, capturing him would have been a huge gain, but she ignored all that and killed him? She was a crazy woman who even blew off his head and didn’t need a biometric terminal or anything.

“The response disappeared again.”

“It’s just us now.”

The two of them stared at the vibrating psychic generator.

A swaying shadow approached them. Feeling no pain or discomfort, Dr. Jack Neese sat lost in thought.

‘So it started with a psychic generator.’

When I was in the brain-dead bio-terminal, I came into contact with a psychic wave generator. Since only my brain remained, I couldn’t feel the sensation, so at first I didn’t know if it was a psychic wave.

However, as a result of continued exposure to psychic waves, a foreign sensation began to develop in the brain, as if a strange organ had grown inside it, and it became possible to receive psychic waves.

What the psychic generator sent was a plan from the South. It was a plan to use a beauty trick on Vladimir Kalin and arouse the emotions of the women around him, thereby amplifying internal conflict.

The purpose was to convey the scene itself as a thought, not through language. It was a little different from the telepathy known so far, but it was definitely something that fell into the category of telepathy.

Dr. Jack Neese, who had been reduced to a brain-chilling bio-terminal, found hope. What if we use the generator’s functions? Doesn’t the fact that we can transmit images in their entirety mean that we can transmit information in its entirety?

Inside the brain-booming bio-terminal, the doctor researched like crazy. The countless layers of knowledge showed him the way. That’s how he finally found hope.

Information extraction, information injection, erasing, and overwriting are the things to do.

If you could instantly erase your original memories and overwrite them with your own, you could create another version of yourself with the same information as yourself.

Above all, it was encouraging that he could extract, edit, and store a person’s life in one breath. This was a technology that was absolutely necessary for the new world he wanted.

While I was waiting for that opportunity, I had the chance to absorb information from the famous Chairman Na of the Ojin Group. I expected that if I absorbed information from her, who was known as a pharmaceutical genius, I would have more opportunities than I have now.

It was an abyss. In an instant, the information storage limit was exceeded, and information from this side was sucked into the other side.

The end of the limit. I survived the moment when it seemed like it was all over. I was able to seize the opportunity to turn things around.

The doctor sent out a psychic wave to the researchers who approached him to repair the brain-dead bio-terminal. Then, the researchers, who thought they had come up with the idea themselves, began to implement the inspiration that had come to their minds.

The result was a new type of information extractor. A device that could extract information without drilling a hole in the skull, and could instantly send one’s consciousness to another place.

The doctor sent out a mental image of a full-dive. An adventure in a new world, a journey away from the reality of going to the end and into this world full of fun.

Even a simple game can become a virtual reality that is as real as reality once it is calibrated. So, out of curiosity, a few researchers put on the helmet themselves and became Dr. Jack Neese.

“···They say.”

Na Ju-yeon spoke to Maru while looking at the scene that appeared on the large monitor.

“Are you okay?”

“Oh my- are you worried about me?”

At the end of several cables connected to the helmet she was wearing was a head that hung like a bunch of grapes.

The mouth of the head in the round glass container moved. Bubbles began to rise from the mouth, one by one.

[Pokkyurrrrrrrrr—–]

[Ppeugyurrrrrrrrr—–]

[Quuuuuurrrrur—–]