Rust - Chapter 562



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RUST [RUST]-562

The Charlotte Group security team had seen Maru’s activities directly with their own eyes during the Busan Uprising. That’s why they couldn’t even laugh at the saying, “If you move, you’ll get cut.”

The same goes for the employees who had only heard about Maru through rumors. Rumors aside, hadn’t they experienced it right now?

After seeing a composite barricade that could easily stop a machine gun being cut down with a single slash right before my eyes, I just froze.

‘Team Leader, what kind of monster is this?’

‘Shut up, kid. Just don’t open your mouth.’

If everyone is carrying guns and there’s a guy walking around with a knife? It’s best to avoid him.

If he was crazy, he would just be wasting bullets, and if he wasn’t crazy, he wouldn’t even be able to fire the gun. So is it the former or the latter now?

‘How long do I have to go on like this?’

‘I have a mouse in my finger. It’s a mouse.’

‘Then just break that finger! Just break it!’

In an era where people with abilities were beginning to emerge, and where mutants and cannibals were roaming the ruins, wouldn’t it be right to see wielding a sword as something out of the human realm? That’s why it was best to avoid combat, even if it meant snapping one’s crippled fingers.

“······.”

“······.”

“There are quite a few faces I’ve seen at least once. You know me, right?”

There are a lot of familiar faces here?

The employees were even more creeped out by Maru’s soft-spoken voice. It was not just his voice that was different, but Maru’s eyes were filled with a murderous intent that would cut down anyone who got in his way.

Maru nods his head at the security team leader who is frozen solid. At Maru’s signal to take off his helmet, the team leader carefully takes it off and coughs dryly.

“So you’re the security team leader? The one I saw at the Charlotte Hotel in Busan?”

“yes.”

A year and a half? Two years ago.

“I know, right?”

“yes.”

“I have a question. If you answer honestly, there won’t be any problems for either of us. Do you understand?”

“······.”

Maru started asking questions after seeing the team leader nodding slightly.

“The black tentacle in front of me. Was this made in Charlotte?”

“I understand that it wasn’t made by us.”

The team leader’s answer is that he knows it came from Yamazuki and Takaichi, two famous Japanese pharmaceutical companies.

“Okay. But you know, I fought those black tentacles in Japan. But it was different in many ways. What happened?”

“I work in security, so I don’t know much about that. Really.”

The security team leader saw Maru’s eyes narrow and made a desperate sound.

One of the staff members who saw this quietly signaled to the security team leader. The security team leader glared at the sight of him casually holding a submachine gun.

‘Hey. Stop! Stop! Are you planning on killing them all?’

‘Why are you trying to do that when you can just shoot from the side?’

The team leader’s face turned yellow.

The story that he came out in front means that he came with only a sword and cut through a swarm of monster rats and black tentacles, so why are you complaining?

‘Ha… Let’s just live in fear. Long and thin.’

‘···Team Leader, there are more than 20 of our kids, what’s so···.’

This was the problem for young people.

At first, it shrinks and hunches, but after a while, it seems to go away, and even though it wasn’t to the extent of shrinking, if you think it’s overdone, it sometimes goes out even more.

Just 3-4 minutes ago, they were frozen solid and couldn’t even make a sound, but as soon as their bodies warmed up, their brains also warmed up and they started to glow.

The team leader didn’t want to fight Maru. It was crazy to fight through the rats and black tentacles alone, and it was also crazy to cut down the barricade.

Let’s say I fought the crazy guy and won. And let’s say I managed to escape. But is that the end? Outside, there was chaos from the earthquake and tsunami. There was no guarantee of survival or joining the US military.

‘Please just stay still.’

‘What are you going to do if you get stabbed by a knife?’

‘Okay, I got it. Okay, stop it.’

‘I’ll tell the kids to relax.’

The story seemed like it would go well, but it didn’t seem like it would. The team leader, whose thoughts were complicated in many ways, sent a small signal. Still, it would be good to prepare for when things go wrong.

‘Just get ready. Just get ready.’

‘I will pass it on.’

Maru’s questions continued, wondering if he knew or not that signals were being sent underwater.

“Okay. Let’s say you don’t know. Let’s say that’s true.”

“······.”

“But what’s strange is the black tentacles attached to the rat. It’s saying that they used the parasitic rats to dig tunnels.”

“Huh? A tunnel?”

A rat that was eaten by tentacles? So what?

“Yes. They dug a tunnel to escape the fire.”

“······.”

Of course, if I could dig a hole, I would have dug it to escape the fire. Should I just wait to die? How could that be? Maru added to the team leader’s doubts.

“But, you know, why did those guys who dug a tunnel and escaped here just pass by without attacking you?”

“······.”

Maru wondered. Why did the ones who fled under the fire pass by without attacking these people? Coincidence? No way.

The black tentacles I saw in Japan hunted people. Why did the black tentacles that ate researchers and security guards and grew in size just pass by people?

The team leader swallowed his saliva at Maru’s sharp reasoning.

reason?

There was.

‘Fragments of the altar.’

The team leader desperately stopped his eyes from glancing towards the special storage locker.

‘If you have a fragment of the altar, you won’t be attacked by the black tentacles.’

If I ever find out about the fragments of the altar, I’ll definitely steal them.

Should I just hand it over first?

‘for a moment.’

You dug a tunnel? That means you went further in through the barrier where the altar fragments were.

‘Oh my God. Mr. Chairman!’

A black tentacle that had encroached on the rats had entered the rear area where Chairman Sim Eun-young and other key researchers were gathered.

If you lose the fragment of the altar here, everyone inside will die.

Should I hand over the fragments of the altar and ask for help?

No. What if you just eat the fragments of the altar and disappear?

Maru grabbed the handle of the knife as if forcing a choice on the team leader’s wavering eyes.

Maruya held the knife with the intention of telling them to answer quickly, but to the security guards who were barely able to catch their breath in the tense atmosphere, it felt like something else.

“Shoot!”

“asleep!”

“Stop!”

Suddenly, a gutgeori jangdan burst out from the noisy space.

Kungkiduk-Kungdeodeoreureureuk-

Oh my

The employees who had been hit with the sword fell to the ground, making strange noises. The team leader’s mouth opened wide at the ghostly movements.

“Team Leader, take good care of the kids. This is the last time.”

“Huh? Yes. These kids are out of their minds!”

Maru spoke to the back of the head of the team leader who was groaning at the employees lying on the floor.

“So. Let’s think about it as a price for our lives. Why didn’t the black tentacle guys raid here?”

The team leader answered without turning around.

“It must be because of the fragments of the altar.”

There was only one altar that came to Maru’s mind.

“That altar in the pharmaceutical company’s secret laboratory?”

“Yes.”

The team leader turned his head and stared in one direction. There was a metal storage box there. Click- When he opened the storage box, there was a black stone piece in a transparent preservative solution.

“If you have this, the black tentacles won’t attack you.”

“I don’t know the cause, but it was like that within a radius of about 15 to 20 meters.”

Maru asked, picking up the fragments of the altar.

“I’m thinking of going inside and seeing Chairman Shim’s face. What are you going to do?”

“I’ll go with you. Hurry up and get up! If you want to just sit here and cry, then keep crying.”

If there were no fragments of the altar, I wouldn’t know where or how the black tentacles would come from.

“Get the flamethrower. And the riot shield.”

The team leader followed Maru, harassing his employees. When they passed through several barriers and reached the center where Chairman Sim Eun-young and the research team were, what awaited them was a space filled with chaos.

The black tentacles that had been shot out from inside the fallen cabinet suddenly stopped and retreated. It was clear that they were not attacking in the direction of the altar fragments.

The tentacles embedded in the rat’s corpse were squirming and writhing, surrounding the floor and glaring at the security team. Judging by the holes in the floor and the red bloodstains, it seemed like they had been ambushed.

“Wait. Stop.”

Unlike the holes that were the size of an arm or thigh, there was a hole that was as large as a manhole.

A trail of blood towards that hole.

It was clear that he had come this way, whether he had been hit by the black tentacles or not.

Tsk-

Maru had no intention of going into a hole like that. Wasn’t it just a tunnel that would collapse if the aftershock erupted, like the altar fragments and all?

“There’s a bunker nearby. It’s connected to this bunker by an emergency exit.”

Maru shook his head at the team leader’s story that there was a possibility that Chairman Shim had taken refuge there. If there were no more fragments of the altar, it would be impossible to stop the black fragments that had absorbed the swarm of rats.

I don’t know about anything else, but the little rats were really good at gnawing. And with the black tentacles attached to them, they might have gained some kind of buff.

Instead of answering, Maru started gathering his research materials. At first glance, it looked like there was a lot of materials lying around.

Zuriririririk-

Whirilirilirik-

The tentacles sprouting from the rat pups’ backs and heads threatened, but they did not enter the influence of the altar fragments.

Maru ignored it lightly and started to focus on collecting data.

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Kim Yang’s fingers moved busily.

bang!

Clank-

Tuan!

Iron Crack-

[Where did it come from? Still haven’t found it?]

[Ah- Again- They say that crows can’t see anything.]

Why are you lying there, talking so peacefully?

[Just mark the suspicious area and bomb it. You’ll know.]

[Ah- Yes, I will convey that.]

Kim Yang, who had already blown off three heads in that short time, frowned. What happens when you shoot a head? Black tentacles sprout from the blown-off heads.

If it weren’t for the crows pinpointing the napalm bombing, we would have definitely missed a lot of the Charlottes infected with the black tentacles.

[Mark 2. How about you?]

[···I said it wasn’t Mark 2.]

[That’s short. Poop diapers. Once a Mark 2, always a Mark 2.]

[······.]

Who calls your name during an operation? Use code names.

[No news from inside the bunker?]

[Short-range communication isn’t working. I brought in a repeater, but it doesn’t seem to be working either. I’ll wait exactly 5 more minutes and then suppress it.]

Yeah, of course it should be, what good is a meat shield? Yeah.

I nodded in agreement when I heard that Mark 2 automatically maintained its highest dignity.

One well-raised poop diaper is not the envy of fifteen clones.

A new target has been caught on the digital scope of Kim Yang, who thinks so.

Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed as he reflexively aimed and pulled the trigger.

bang!

Clank!

Huh? Damage?

Tuan!

Iron Crack-

The second shot was fired like flowing water, and in that brief moment, Kim Yang seemed to lock eyes with her target.

Phew!

The left side of the head flew away, and the black tentacles inside the skull poured out of the burst hole.

Kaaaak!

Caw!

The crows took advantage of the gap left by Kim Yang’s sniping and immediately sprayed the guy with napalm. Even though I saw the guy burning from the pinpoint bombing, I still felt bad about it.

‘Could this be it?’

The discomfort that our Highest Dignity often talks about?

Kim Yang’s dim pupils began to shine slightly brightly.

Is that so?

What did we do with our dignity when things got awkward?

Cut it.

ah?

Other than that.

I ran.

Run?

It’s a bit much to run away just because we made eye contact.

[A large number of rats engulfed in black tentacles are detected moving towards the sniping point!]

[Tear gas won’t work on a rat engulfed in tentacles!]

[They evaded the defense line.]

[Climbing up the exterior wall of the building.]

Kiyung-

Kim Yang stood up abruptly and spoke to the guards.

[Stop shooting. Move to the second point.]

okay.

The awkwardness was a revelation of the run.

Kim Yang’s expression hardened as she quickly jumped to the next building using the cable she had laid down in advance.

“It’s slow to come. I thought it would come over faster.”

At the side of Chairman Sim Eun-young, a bodyguard exosuit stood silently.

‘betrayal?’

Kim Yang’s narrowed eyes quickly scanned the guard exosuits.

As if noticing the gaze, a black tentacle emerged from the gap in the bodyguard exosuit. Kim Yang’s eyes turned sharp as he saw the black tentacle waving in the air as if greeting.

“A crow bombing? That’s amazing. It must have been hard to avoid the bombing and surveillance. But we’re inside the building, so we can talk without being disturbed. Right?”

What the hell.

Ms. Kim responded.

[gas!]