Rust - Chapter 560



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RUST -560

As if recognizing the CCTV, black tentacles soared high in the sky and swooshed down on the rat. The rat that died after being impaled by the tentacles reared up a moment later with tentacles still hanging from its head and back.

[Tea. Team Leader.]

[Shut up. Keep your mouth shut and stay in your seat!]

‘shit.’

It didn’t happen like this in the lab. There was nothing like this. The team leader immediately reported the situation to Chairman Shim.

[The tentacles move individually?]

[Yes, they are moving in a swarm. If this continues, the entire swarm of rats will be contaminated.]

[That’s good.]

[yes?]

The team leader suddenly thought that this guy was crazy. He even sent me the CCTV footage. Could it be that he didn’t see it?

[I···. Chairman. Did you check the attached video?]

[I saw it. What about the altar fragments? Did the test subject attack the barricade?]

[The altar fragments are still there. And they are not coming towards the barricade.]

[Yes, that’s it. The test subjects and tentacles are under control, so just stay where you are. Do not attack until the rats are cleared out and you are out.]

[But Mr. Chairman, if something like that moves inside the barrier, it can’t be stopped.]

[This is an order. Do not attack. Turn off your flamethrowers and pull back. Do this now.]

[···yes.]

The security team leader had no choice but to follow, even though he cursed.

[Pull back the flamethrower. Stop preheating. Put out all the fires and get back.]

The employees who did not hear the conversation between the team leader and Chairman Shim protested strongly.

[Team Leader, if that comes from behind, we’ll be defenseless!]

[It’s a tentacle, so you can’t hit it even if you shoot it.]

[Even if you don’t use a flamethrower, you should still have it installed so you can respond in an emergency.]

The team leader suppressed the backlash.

[Your heart is pounding and your mouth is open because you ate American food? Huh?]

[······.]

[······.]

[This is something the Chairman personally instructed. Are you still dissatisfied?]

The staff became dumbfounded as they were able to survive several times under Sim Eun-young’s command.

[······.]

[······.]

Following orders gave me the best chance of survival.

As always, this time it will be the same. The staff suppressed their anxiety.

[Pull back the flamethrower. Stop warming up. Whatever happens, don’t attack first.]

[ancient.]

[Yes-]

The team leader turned his head toward the employee who was always stretching the end and emphasized again.

[Even if it rushes in front of you, don’t shoot. Got it?]

[ancient.]

[yep.]

[practice!]

[practice.]

[practice-]

The eyes of the employees who were filling the hole where the flamethrower had fallen out were filled with fear and anxiety. The team leader, who had taken off his helmet, muttered quietly.

“Fuck···.”

Zurilyric-

Squeak! Squeak!

A sound from across the barricade drowned out the team leader’s curses.

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After Maru descended to the ground alone, the airship was on high alert to see when the aftershocks would strike. If a large aftershock were to strike, they would be ready to rescue Maru at any moment.

Kaaaak!

Knock!

The crows escorting the airship croaked long and hard. It meant that all was well. The nurse responded to the crows’ calls.

“is it so?”

Caw- Caw!

“Then what happened over there?”

Got it!

“Oh, wow. It’s new.”

Cut-cut-cut-

A nurse and crows chatting away.

“What is it?”

Miss Kim suddenly appeared in front of the nurse, seemingly out of nowhere.

“Ah- ah. I was just telling a story from the old days.”

“Old story? Huh? Nothing much happened?”

“Yes. They say that the birds nearby fled to the eastern mountain range to avoid the earthquake. But. Too close…”

The nurse said, taking a step back from Ms. Kim, who was pressed against her chest. Ms. Kim narrowed her eyes and looked at the nurse intently.

“Yes? Anything···.”

“You’re not just going to be arguing with crows, are you?”

“Eeeee- No? Not at all. The crows are still escorting the airship right now.”

“Don’t just watch the airship, but also conduct ground reconnaissance. If anything strange happens, tell me right away. Okay.”

“yes yes.”

“I will watch.”

“······.”

Ki-sun, who saw Ms. Kim coming in after catching the nurse, asked what the problem was.

“What’s going on? Why are your eyes like that?”

“No work.”

Hey, look at that sharp thing.

Ki-soon left behind the strangely sensitive Kim Yang and went outside.

‘Did I say that for nothing?’

After Maru told her the reason why he fights alone, Kim Yang reacted sensitively. Well, he always said that he would be by her side as a great person, but in the end, it turned out that it wasn’t, so she couldn’t feel good.

Ki-soon was also in a bad mood. Even though she was his best friend, she ended up being a burden. She laughed it off when Chairman Shim’s stand-in sister stomped on her head, thinking it was an industry award, but it wasn’t true. If only she had mutated barnacle tentacles, she wouldn’t have been taken hostage.

‘Tsk-‘

Ki-sun took out her laptop and organized the information she had collected so far.

In order to help Maru maximize his fighting prowess, I needed to know what Maru’s abilities were. I needed to accurately understand the characteristics of his abilities so I could find a way to use them effectively.

When I analyzed Maru’s ability like that, it was absurd. It was an uneasy feeling that I couldn’t tell whether it was intuition or extrasensory sense.

In other words, it was an ability that could be concluded as ‘I felt uneasy so I looked into it and found something that could be like that.’ ‘The ability to feel uneasy?’ It’s hard to say that it wasn’t an ability, but in the end, if I felt uneasy, something would always happen.

Does that mean I can use my uneasiness freely? That wasn’t the case. I couldn’t use it actively either. Not only was the activation of the ability random,

‘What should I call this ability?’

Flame detection? Negative prediction?

In any case, it was difficult to use this tactically. There was also room for interpretation that a causal relationship was being forced.

Above all, it was too uneven to be considered a crisis response capability. However, its scope was too narrow to be considered a prediction of the future.

Since it doesn’t occur under special conditions or react after being triggered once, it was difficult to devise tactics or strategies based on the feeling of discomfort.

In other words, it should be said that this was an ability that shined the most when Maru himself jumped into the field.

A wrinkle formed between Ki-sun’s eyebrows.

The creepy feeling is an extraordinary ability, but the killing power is even worse. Since it is a killing power in a range where it is difficult to identify the enemy, this is an ability that can only be used when Maru himself jumps into the scene.

‘They say there are crows that say the god of death is something.’

Although the killing power decreases as the distance increases, it was clear that it was an ability that went beyond the laws of physics. Even quantum computers and grape clusters were unable to analyze the principle.

Although I was able to output results that were somewhat similar through data extraction, I was still grateful because I was able to inversely calculate the changes in scope and power through the results.

Based on the range that the life force can reach, it was a fairly large area. However, the calculations showed that the range that causes a heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage is not that wide.

‘The distance that can be killed by living alone is not that long.’

The different situations that Ms. Kim and the nurse experienced also played a role.

When Kim Yang first encountered a flock of birds, when crows were crowing over medicine, when he was hunting a pack of rats that had taken over a village, he had seen the struggle to survive, so he narrowed the scope of his speech to a more sobering level than expected.

But the nurse was different. She felt the same way indirectly when she was surrounded by rats in an abandoned church, and she also saw drugged crows swarming Maru and dying in an indoor stadium. She said that the killing had spread over a very large area.

I had to roughly figure out the minimum and maximum areas that the living could reach in order to deploy troops to support the floor, so I analyzed it diligently, but in the end, it was useless.

‘That Maru guy. What kind of ability is that? Is it an ability that prevents you from applying even if you want to? Really.’

Ki-soon was lost in thought as she scattered the battle formation using Maru’s abilities here and there.

‘Maru’s abilities have not been revealed, but if you analyze the footage captured by tactical cameras or CCTV, you will feel that something is strange.’

Those who were skilled in warfare would have no choice but to analyze what they themselves were analyzing. The enemies who figured out the pattern of Maru moving alone would have no choice but to dig traps in return.

There were signs of an attempt to blow up the entire building last time, so it was obvious that attempts to blow up entire areas would continue.

‘We need support. At least enough to distract the enemy’s attention.’

It was a pity that the main body of the barnacle infection was discarded immediately. Since it was going to be discarded anyway, it would have been better to use it in a situation like now.

‘Did Maru anticipate this and dispose of it?’

Knock. Knock.

Ki-sun jumped up at the sound of a knock and closed her laptop.

“Who are you?”

“me-”

No, how would you know if I just said ‘I’? When I opened the door, there was the face of the young Director Yu. If it was a clone, he wouldn’t be able to make such a vivid expression, so it was Mark 2 who had been linked.

“What’s going on?”

It felt a bit awkward. Ki-soon laughed to himself, thinking it was because he was a clone.

“Regarding support, I think it would be most realistic for me to go.”

Should I say it was the clone’s way of speaking? No, it was the Mark 2’s way of speaking that bothered Ki-sun. Maru gave him a name, but what could he do? Ki-sun felt like a Mark 2.

That’s why it came out like this now. The Jewish director. It was clear that he realized that Maru needed support as a result of his experience as a war enthusiast and combat expert.

“Whew- It’s difficult right now.”

“Mr. Kim Ki-soon. If it were you, you would know how fatal the isolation in a situation like this could be. And even if others don’t, you know that if a situation arises where a meat shield is needed, the most realistic thing to do is for me to do it.”

Ki-sun’s eyebrows rose slightly.

“Not yet. Don’t you know what he meant by naming you? He said he wouldn’t see you as a copy of the Jewish director. Do you think he’d move around using you as a meat shield? That tight-fisted guy?”

“···That’s why we have to go further. The rats won’t be a problem, but if we go into Charlotte’s bunker, the communication will be cut off. Who knows what might happen inside. Could it be that he’s planning to use the virtual reality data to resurrect her?”

“What the hell are you talking about? That guy can’t even do proper data analysis.”

“Then it’s even more so. Since I and the clones will go in, place Kim Yang at the sniping point. Since you haven’t lost anything yet, you probably have time to think about other things. What’s precious should be protected in advance.”

Dog chew- Ki-soon’s eyes sank coldly.

“······.”

“You have nice eyes. Then let’s prepare accordingly.”

Ki-soon glared at her as she turned around and called out to Ms. Kim.

“Once the bunker entrance location is revealed, we need to prepare for support immediately.”

[Okay. I’ll get ready right away.]

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Could it have been caused by a major earthquake and tsunami?

Even though they knew that they would die if they got close, the rats kept swarming them. They had been oozing life for over an hour, easily surpassing the previous record.

‘Focus. Focus.’

My senses were already disturbed and hadn’t recovered. I felt like a mishmash of various feelings of discomfort and uneasiness.

Was it the earthquake, or the aftershocks, or the rats and cockroaches… or maybe it was the mess caused by the recipe for the rapid cure.

‘Or maybe there are other guys after Charlotte.’

It was okay because I knew that if several causes were mixed, the feeling would turn into an error. Maru boiled over once more and turned the group of rats that had come close into fresh leather.

Beep- beep-

An entrance with flashing emergency lights was visible through the collapsed debris.

‘Found it.’

The entrance to the underground bunker. Maru couldn’t approach easily. Suddenly, a feeling of uneasiness and dirtiness overlapped.

Is it Yejin? Or not.

While hesitating for a moment, the blinking light slowly died down.

Squeak-

Squeak-

The entrance to the underground bunker. The hatch began to make a metallic sound of twisting.

Squeak-

Clink-

Zuriririririk!!!

Kiririririk!!!