Rust - Chapter 558



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RUST -558

The sight of the road made of asphalt and cement twisting like a snake was unrealistic.

Something completely different from the CG in the movie.

The city collapsing in an earthquake wasn’t as noisy as in the movies. It was a flat, shapeless ending. There were no flashy explosions, no spectacular collapses, no desperate struggles to survive.

To put it bluntly, it was like a scene where trash was flying everywhere from a trash bag with its sides bursting. San Francisco, which was being destroyed in real time, was becoming a giant garbage dump rather than a city.

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Even if he had been 10 or 15 minutes late, Ki-soon’s expression was not good, as he thought he would have been struggling there. Kim Yang, who was fully armed with an exosuit, opened her face shield and her eyes sparkled.

“Oh— It’s splitting.”

Ms. Kim let out an exclamation of admiration at the sight of the twisted road cracking open, swallowing the cars that had been flashing loudly.

The small flames that rose as the buildings near the road collapsed like reeds gradually became clearer. The faint flames that seemed to flicker for a moment began to spread like mold in an instant.

“The gas might have been cut off?”

The gas must have been cut off, and the electricity didn’t seem to be sufficient, so how did the fire start? Ki-sun answered Kim Yang’s curious question bitterly.

“···The weather has gotten chilly, so they must have lit a fire in the fireplace. Probably.”

“I was really curious. Why did fires break out when there was an earthquake and a tsunami? Even without gas and electricity, fires like that can break out.”

‘Is that something to be curious about?’

Ki-soon sometimes saw Kim Yang as a strange creature. It was like a four-dimensional feeling. The sight of her innocent face happily shooting a gun was something he couldn’t get used to.

It was the same with Kim Yang. Sometimes, when I see Ki-soon venting her frustrations, I feel like he’s an idealist who doesn’t know the harsh reality. In short, a reactionary. Yes.

“Ah- right. What about Chairman Shim?”

“It was a substitute.”

“Again? You were a double in Japan too?”

‘Wow, it’s gross. It’s gross.’ If it were Japan or Korea, I wouldn’t mind, but even here, you’re acting like a body double. What crime have you committed? Kim Yang’s expression changed strangely.

“Yeah. I think I was watching from the bunker.”

“Bunker? Then you wouldn’t be dead.”

Kim Yang had good memories of Sim Eun-young. After all, wasn’t it fate that they had a relationship with gold?

“It depends on whether the entrance can hold up.”

“Then how about we take a walk around?”

I’m talking with both hands heavy.

If it’s Chairman Shim’s bunker, wouldn’t it be heavy and shiny and plentiful? Since it’s a big city like San Francisco, it must be surprisingly full. Ki-soon reminded Kim Yang, who was trying to rescue Chairman Shim and take care of him with both hands, of the reality.

“When I escaped, I cut down the double and this manager.”

“···No, how come? Are you sure? Did you really kill them? Not just one arm or leg?”

Instead of giving a detailed explanation, Ki-sun shattered Kim Yang’s dream.

“Crunch crunch crunch dang gang.”

“oh my···.”

What a pity. If I had captured you alive, I would have received you with both heavy hands.

Miss Kim glanced at the floor, unable to hide her pitiful expression.

‘As expected. You were feeling sorry. Yeah.’

Contrary to such comments, Maru felt the strange sensation he had felt in Japan.

The sensation of something resonating that was neither sound nor radio waves was strangely clear.

Unlike before, when I would feel dizzy and lose consciousness for a moment, I could endure it now. Maru opened his mouth with his eyes wide open.

“Bunker. Where is the bunker where Chairman Sim Eun-young might be?”

Kim Yang’s eyes, which had given up on finding the bunker at Maru’s words, sparkled with gold.

“I found it right away when you told me to look for it earlier. There were five places near the building.”

A map appeared on Maru’s contact lens, with five red dots. As Ms. Kim had said, all five locations were not far from the building.

That may have been the reason why the building was used as the Charlotte headquarters building in the first place. Not one or two, but five. And it’s not even a multiple choice.

“Where is the biggest place?”

“here.”

“Where is deep underground?”

“That was the deepest part a little while ago.”

The biggest place is deepest in the ground?

“Then we should start from there. Get ready. And get the search party ready too.”

“search party?”

The earthquakes were subsiding, but the uneasy feeling remained. It seemed that I would have to come to a conclusion with Sim Eun-young.

“Tell them to bring a shield too.”

“It was all washed away by the earthquake, so why bother?”

“The rats and the wheels can’t all be dead. And the people too.”

“Okay. Then I’ll prepare the flamethrower and V’s X-bullet.”

Ki-soon stopped Maru, who was about to go down.

“Wait a minute. It’s still dangerous.”

“It looks like the earthquake is over.”

San Francisco, where the shaking had gradually subsided, had turned into a giant trash can.

“There might be an earthquake. And this is the seaside.”

Maru nods slightly at Gi-sun’s persuasion.

“Because of the tsunami?”

“It’s not just the tsunami, but wouldn’t it be better to check for additional collapse risks before going? We’re all just trying to survive.”

Maru’s brow furrowed at Ki-soon’s words that no matter how much he flew and crawled, it would be useless if he was buried alive. It was true, but he couldn’t just ignore the uneasy feeling.

“Chief Lee, that body fell. Didn’t that seem strange?”

“A corpse? Or a black tentacle?”

“What’s so strange?” asked Ki-soon.

“Black tentacles.”

“If something like that was in the office, there’s no way you wouldn’t have noticed. Then that means there was a host for the black tentacles.”

It was a strangely good way to get to the point.

“I guess so.”

“Hah- So that means the substitute sister was the host.”

‘shit.’

Ki-sun’s face crumpled.

‘She was a good older sister.’

Ki-sun’s eyes sank deeply as he muttered to himself.

‘There’s no way the black tentacles would be shaken by an earthquake…’

If he absorbed corpses and grew in size, this town would be finished.

Ki-soon’s thoughts came to his contact lenses in real time, but Maru pretended not to notice and just stayed still.

“I understand you’re worried about the black tentacles, but don’t go right away. An earthquake of this magnitude is bound to have aftershocks. It’s best not to go until the aftershocks subside. Even the monster tentacles are weak to fire, right?”

Ki-soon continued speaking to Maru, who nodded silently.

“If the tentacles make it hard to search, let’s create a sea of ​​fire with napalm or roast them with tactical nukes. If there are any survivors, they’ll probably all leave anyway.”

“That’s right. If they don’t run away quickly, they’ll know they’ll become food for rats and cockroaches, so they’ll definitely abandon the city and run away.”

So, Kim Yang and Ki-sun came together to say that if they waited leisurely, they could easily deal with it by bombing or nuking, so they shouldn’t rush anything.

“I know what you’re saying, but what if Chairman Shim goes to the Confederacy or the Empire?”

“Do you really care that much about rapid treatments?”

“Yeah. If I didn’t know the raw materials, I wouldn’t know. Whether it’s the Empire or the Confederacy, I have no idea what would happen if I went in. It’s just so dirty and uncomfortable.”

“So is that worth risking your life for?”

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“Isn’t it a matter of life and death whether we get a quick cure recipe from the Empire or the Confederacy and boil it or shit it?”

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“Let’s say that it’s dangerous. But I still find it hard to understand why you’re so impatient. We have an Aegis fleet, and soon we’ll be able to build a carrier battle group. We’ll have a carrier battle group armed with nuclear missiles, so I honestly don’t know if we should risk our lives right now.”

Maru, who had been quietly listening to Gi-sun’s words, nodded.

“You’re right. If you think about it rationally. But, Ki-soon, how many of the things we’ve experienced so far have been predictable?”

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“Who could have predicted that Japan would be so ruined? That China would launch a preemptive nuclear strike? That cannibalism would spread after the virus? That China would split into seven parts and the United States would essentially split?”

“So you have to risk your life and go in? What if you slip and fall? What if you go into the bunker and it collapses due to an aftershock? You are not just an individual. You are our king and the pillar of the Holy Kingdom.”

Kim Yang, who was watching Maru and Ki-soon wondering if the King needed to take risks in order to prepare for an unpredictable future, tilted her head.

“Then why don’t you just send the one that’s okay to send?”

There are some years when you can fight moderately well and be a good meat shield. Yes. Director Yu Mark 2 years. If you send it by linking it to a clone, its fighting power will be fine. Even if the clone dies, only the link will be broken, so the main body will be fine.

Ki-sun, who had been listening to Kim Yang’s story, agreed with a blank expression.

“Yeah, that would be better. I guess I’ll lose it because it’s a clone.”

“No. I don’t have a good feeling about this. There might be a situation where I have to settle things with Chairman Shim, and it would be best if I went and sorted things out myself.”

Ki-sun and Kim-yang shook their heads. Who could stop that stubbornness?

“Ha- Yes. Do as you wish. But don’t think about leaving right away. Check the tsunami and aftershocks before you go. Your Majesty.”

“If Mark 2 is not enough, then I will go with you.”

In the midst of all this, the pilot’s voice rang out.

[It’s a tsunami.]

[The tsunami is coming!]

The water rose in an instant. It was different from a tidal wave or a wave. It was just a feeling of the water level rising. As if the sea level had suddenly risen, the water suddenly rushed in and pushed the San Francisco coast in an instant.

Buildings that had been twisted here and there by the earthquake began to collapse, unable to withstand the tsunami. Rats and cockroaches that had filled each building disappeared into the muddy water.

The scar left by the earthquake. The deep cracks that acted as a moat temporarily stopped the tsunami. People who were escaping took advantage of the gap and headed to a nearby building.

Pew pew pew

Phuong—

People who had climbed up to the roof of the building shouted SOS and fired flares and signal flares in the direction of the airship that Maru and his party were on.

Judging by the things they had, they seemed to be from Charlotte’s side. Ki-soon wiped his face as he saw a swarm of cockroaches and rats rushing behind the backs of the people waving their hands.

People who didn’t die in the earthquake but got hit by a tsunami, and people who escaped the tsunami ended up being eaten by rats and cockroaches. How many times must they have come close to death?

‘How many times have you been on the brink of death?’

A thought that suddenly occurred to me.

“Surely this isn’t a foreshock?”

Kisun muttered, recalling that during the Great East Japan Earthquake, before a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck, there was an earthquake of about magnitude 7.3.

“No. I think Jeonjin is right.”

The ominous feeling was growing stronger in real time. It was not because of the rapid cure, but because of the earthquake and tsunami.

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Ki-soon’s worries and Maru’s feelings became reality.

Just four hours after the initial earthquake and tsunami struck, a major earthquake comparable in magnitude to the one that leveled Japan struck San Francisco.

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It’s been a week since the earthquake and tsunami devastated San Francisco.

The city, which had suffered over a hundred aftershocks and several tsunamis over seven days, was reduced to a giant mud pit mixed with garbage dumps and graves.

“This is driving me crazy. Are you still going to come down after seeing that?”

“Because it seems like the major aftershocks and tsunamis have all passed.”

Judging by the fact that her heart, which had been pounding wildly, was slightly uneasy, there was no great danger. And Maru couldn’t just pass over that part.

“Without even passing by, everything was buried in the mud?”

Instead of answering, Maru stood up, wearing the helmet of the Ripper suit. Ki-soon spoke with a look that said, “I really have both hands and feet.”

“We’ve installed repeaters here and there, but we have to assume they won’t explode once they enter the underground bunker.”

“OK”

“If there’s no news after about an hour of going in, I’ll push them all in?”

“One hour is too short. Let’s make it two hours.”

With a wave of his hand, Maru fell from the airship.

Sloppy-

Monster rats enthusiastically welcome Han Maru, who landed in a mud pit that reached up to his calves.

Squeak! (Feed!)

Jjii-ik! (Fresh food!!)

Jjii-jjijik! (Fresh meat!!!)

Srrrrrrrr-

With the sound of Eclipse being pulled out, a thick death rose from Maru’s entire body.

Take? (Huh?)