Rust - Chapter 548



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RUST -548

“Are you sure that’s okay?”

Trauma is no joke.

“That much is okay. It’s only shocking at first, but if you keep doing it, it’ll be okay.”

“······.”

‘It’s okay. Even the kids who were paid to do the work had mental breakdowns. Are you serious?’

‘As long as you don’t die, as long as you don’t die.’

Maru responded to Kim Yang’s surprised gaze with an honest look.

Isn’t that how it was originally?

The pain that doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.

He and Kim Yang survived that chaos and have become strong now. So, if Ki-soon doesn’t die, she will also become strong.

Kim Yang shook her head as she faced the solid floor.

‘Do whatever you want.’

Then what if your friend suddenly turns around? Tsk-

Maru believed.

If it was Ki-sun, he would endure it. This wasn’t greed or expectation, it was a fact. He was a guy who didn’t commit suicide even when tentacles were attached to his head. He was a guy who didn’t go astray even after receiving such insults and neglect in the past. There was no way he would become this strange.

Maru confirmed with Na Ju-yeon.

“How’s Ki-soon’s new body?”

“The setup is done. Now all we have to do is move it.”

“We’ll move right after training. What about the grape bunches?”

“Yes. It’s been working stably so far.”

“What about combining the memories of the grapes that were put into the grape bunch and the extracted parts of the doctor’s knowledge?”

“There was a bit more loss than expected in the doctor’s knowledge extraction, but the addition was successful.”

In order to quickly catch up with the research that Dr. Brainstorming was doing, scientific knowledge had to be extracted and fused.

I was tempted to burn all the grapes just in case, but the combination of quantum computers, artificial intelligence, and supercomputers was just too shaky.

It was a success that the parts of the doctor’s memories corresponding to research and knowledge were extracted with high purity. In that case, it was a shame to just discard them.

Maru watched from the side, but he didn’t feel any signs of Dr. Byeonjin’s resurrection or anything like that.

“Okay. Then let’s increase the level of realism of the current virtual training.”

“How high should we raise it?”

“From your current position to the highest level.”

“The background is still close to real life, so I think it would be effective to make the NPC data and reactions at the highest level.”

When Maru looked at Na Ju-yeon with a look that said, ‘I told you not to touch the NPC side,’ she quickly explained further.

“I was shocked to see a face that looked exactly like Naru just now, but Ki-sun would have noticed. Those NPCs scream and don’t seem like living people. If they’re discovered, the effect will wear off quickly, but is that okay?”

“···Is there that much of a difference?”

“Of course. If you look at it with a little more leeway now, it feels a bit out of place.”

“How far can NPC Naru go?”

“To the point where you can’t tell them apart from people. In particular, Naru’s personality data is data extracted from the memories of me and Ki-sun, so if you run it, it will react very realistically. It will definitely be different from the clumsy reactions you have now.”

Maru nodded after thinking for a moment.

I was curious about how much Naru-rani had changed in Naju-yeon and Gi-sun’s heads, and whether she had matured, and I hoped that Gi-sun would overcome it well.

As soon as Maru gave permission, Na Ju-yeon immediately started adjusting the system. Seeing this, Kim Yang looked at the monitor and cheered once again.

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Ki-sun put her trembling hands on her knees and tried to stand up, but her trembling body lost all strength and she fell forward.

The moment Ki-sun, who had fallen forward, turned his head to get up, he came face to face with the open pupil of the woman who had stabbed him in the side with a knife.

Ki-sun muttered to Naru’s face, who had long, straight hair.

“Fuck···.”

What is this?

I couldn’t understand what was happening.

Why is Naru here?

Why are you wearing a special combat suit?

And why did he try to kill himself?

Everything from one to ten.

I just felt like my head was going to burst.

“Fuck! What the fuck!!!”

I felt like I couldn’t breathe.

Narurani.

‘I killed Naru.’

I thought I was going crazy.

Hoo- haa-

See- Whoo- Haaah-

I took a deep breath, and the excitement that seemed like it would explode slowly subsided along with a strangely calming feeling.

‘Let’s think. Think.’

Every result had a cause. Why was he left alone in the armored vehicle? It was suspicious from the start. And then, as if he had been waiting, the attack continued.

‘Why was there only one?’

If there were two people, they would have died without being able to properly resist. Ki-sun turned his head toward the woman who was mangled by the grenade. When he looked at the woman’s face with difficulty, it was Naru on this side as well.

‘Two Narugas? I’m going crazy and going crazy.’

Haa- See- Whoo- Bee

After taking a deep breath, Ki-soon was able to recall.

The fact that dead women with Naru’s face are strange.

‘If Naru was going to kill me… he wouldn’t have done it this way, he would have lured me.’

okay.

I wouldn’t have just shot from the beginning.

He would have shown his face, gotten close, and killed me after taking a clear opportunity.

The second attack was the same.

If I had approached him without dropping the grenade and shot him, it would have been over.

But it didn’t. Why?

Ki-soon’s head was spinning.

The first Naru’s shooting skills were just like those of a beginner. He seemed to know how to shoot a gun in his head, but he had never practiced with real ammunition.

The same goes for the side that placed the grenade from behind.

If a grenade explosion caused a thick cloud of dust, it was common to turn on the tactical light to secure visibility, then take position and remain on guard until the dust settled somewhat.

But he came rushing in right away. Does that mean he was a complete beginner? No, he wasn’t. It was a somewhat awkward entry, as if he had only completed basic training.

Regardless of gender, when a tackle comes in, you have to defend or deflect it and shoot, but there was no such thing. The most important thing was that the faces were the same.

The two women were identical, like twins. Long, straight hair, a tiny teardrop under the left eye. Small, red lips. Above all, her skin, like white ivory or marble, was Naru’s characteristic, no matter what anyone said.

Hurt.

When he thought about killing Naru, his heart began to tighten without him knowing it. Even as he thought to himself that something was wrong, his chest groaned. Ki-soon swallowed the pain spreading from his heart and slowly took a deep breath.

‘It’s not Naru.’

It was clear that it was not Naru, but Naru. So it was the same case as Director Yu Mark 2.

‘It’s most likely a clone.’

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Ki-sun swallowed without realizing it.

It’s Naru, but it’s not Naru.

His breathing became slightly ragged.

therefore···.

Ki-sun unconsciously touched the arm of the corpse lying right next to her. Perhaps because he was wearing a tight, tight suit, it felt alive, not like the typical corpse-like feeling.

Thump thump thump

after-

‘I am normal.’

‘I’m not a corpse lover.’

‘I’m just checking to see if it’s a clone.’

‘Yeah. There might be some hints about the enemy.’

Even though I was mumbling it to myself like a chant, I started to break out in a cold sweat.

‘No. It’s deeper than the crime of murder.’

‘You idiot. The world is already ruined, what are you talking about, a ssammantwi? A ssammantwi.’

A chaos that seems to split the ego.

‘Doing something like this now is a more serious crime than insulting the deceased.’

‘Crime is my ass. What about the people I killed with my tentacles?’

‘It’s now. It’s now.’

‘It’s all strange.’

Ki-sun shook her head. Paradoxically, Ki-sun was very stimulating in this current situation, as she had always been ignored by Naru.

At the moment when I was swearing inwardly and all my attention was beginning to turn towards him, a voice rang out as if it had known this would happen.

“It’s disgusting. Someone died right next to me, and what the hell are you doing in front of them?”

“!”

Ki-sun’s face turned red at Naru’s unique accent and voice. Nothing came to mind. Ki-sun reflexively waved her hand.

“This is… Oh. Oh my.”

“Misunderstanding? What?”

Again, again, again.

Naru was clearly wearing combat boots, but she was slowly approaching with her high heels making a sound.

A gaze that is as if looking at dirty waste.

At the look in his eyes that said, ‘Then that’s it.’, Ki-sun felt as if her heart had been stabbed.

No, I got stabbed.

Phew-

“??”

“!!!”

The sound of the heart protected by the ribs being pierced, the cold gaze looking down at Ki-sun as his whole body became heavy like water-soaked cotton and he collapsed.

“Are you done?”

“Okay. Soon.”

One by one, the other ferrymen came into his sight.

The blurred vision soon turned dark.

and.

Beep beep beep beep-

A warning light flashes red and makes a loud warning sound.

Kheuk-

With a heavy breathing sound, Ki-sun’s body bent forward.

Kkeu-

Woof-

Ki-soon vomits from the pain and despair he feels in his chest.

He raised his head, covered in cold sweat, as he groped and stroked his heart.

Ki-sun’s eyes, which had been shaking involuntarily at the familiar red light and alarm sound, slowly settled down.

‘No way. Regression?’

Ki-soon wiped the cold sweat running down his temples with his sleeve and looked around.

‘Or perhaps a prediction?’

Anyway, I was alive. That was enough.

As the sour smell of vomit filled the inside of the armored vehicle, Ki-soon figured out how to move.

‘I wonder what to do starting from the second floor.’

The moment you open the rear hatch, the Naru waiting on the second floor will fire a gun. Then, upon hearing the gunshot, the nearby Grenadier Naru will come, and the Narus will rush in behind him.

‘I have to find the information first.’

The current situation is like that, and I don’t know how it came to this.

‘I guess I’ll have to capture him alive.’

A phantom pain in his heart caused a glimmer of venom to rise in Ki-sun’s eyes.

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Imperial Foreign Affairs Office.

Naru’s unique voice echoed through the hallway.

“So what are you talking about now? Yes?”

The voice, which was half an octave higher in tone, was usually so refreshing that it could be described as a cuckoo’s cry, but when used like this, it was close to terrible sound pollution.

“You want me to vacate the house? Are you telling me to get out of the house? What do you mean?”

“If you commit a crime, all support will be revoked. Didn’t you know that it was in the support materials we first gave you?”

It was a natural thing. Why would you support a criminal?

“What did I do wrong? That guy kept looking at me and harassing me! Isn’t that sexual assault? I’m going to appeal! I’m going to sue!”

Naru raised her voice.

“You can figure that out. I repeat, since all privileges have been revoked, you will be solely responsible for the litigation costs and the outcome of the lawsuit.”

“What are you talking about? I’m going to sue you for sexual assault! Since there is a victim, the prosecution and police have to investigate!”

“It’s not sexual assault, so it’s not something the prosecution should investigate. The same goes for sexual harassment. There’s no evidence, right? And that person didn’t do anything directly.”

“You licked my body up and down like that! You made me feel ashamed! You blocked my way and threatened to give me my phone number!”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff sighed softly at Naru’s high-pitched voice.

“Don’t you know what the situation is right now?”

In the outskirts where law enforcement was not in place, rape, looting, and arson were commonplace. If rape was the end of it, fortunately, murder and cannibalism were also rampant. This was especially true at a time when the fight against mutant monsters was intensifying.

Since it was the capital of the empire, New York, I just passed by, but if it had been anywhere else, I would have been retaliated against long ago. What kind of life did you live to be in such a flower garden?

“We will do as we are told. The bail money has been processed as a long-term, low-interest loan, so please do not be late and repay it on time.”

Naru was kicked out of the house she was living in when her support money suddenly stopped.

That wasn’t the end of it.

The result of the defeat was so disastrous that a disciplinary committee was convened at Juilliard.

A student who caused controversy over sexual violence even though there was no sexual assault or sexual harassment.

He even sued and lost.

In other words, a criminal who committed an innocent crime.

There was no way Juilliard could leave alone a woman who had stirred controversy from the beginning and had even spurred a professor.

The decision of the disciplinary committee was thus announced.

“You’re expelled.”

Naru collapsed to the ground.

Even the people who served her were charged with espionage, including her handsome trophy boyfriend.

The glamorous New York.

The brightly shining city of capitalism.

Penniless and without a place to live. And it was an extremely cruel place for the unemployed.

The only reason Naru was able to save herself was because of diplomatic issues. Because she was Vladimir Kalin’s younger sister, she was protected by Imperial Intelligence agents to avoid getting involved with criminals.

Yeah- Yeah-

[This is Naru. This is the Monad Group Biotechnology Lab. I would like to use Naru’s DNA for a project I’m currently working on.]

“······.”

Naru decided to participate in the study. The amount was too large to turn down.