Rust - Chapter 564



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RUST [RUST]-564

“It’s symbiosis.”

Maru pushed the tip of the sword to the side.

The tip of the sword repeatedly moved in the direction of opening by pushing. Sim Eun-young’s eyes sank at the thought of moving to the side.

“Is this a rejection?”

“It’s a refusal and a slap in the face. It’s not right to block the road and do things like that. Am I wrong?”

‘Should I ring?’

There was an uneasy feeling somewhere. Maru did not ignore that uneasy feeling. As Maru stood still with the knife pointed at him, Sim Eun-young opened her mouth.

“We risked our lives.”

“I came here with two lives, so that’s why I’m like this?”

As the standoff continued for a moment, one of the tentacles surrounding Sim Eun-young slowly raised its head. It was a tentacle with a sharp blade-like tip.

Maru slowly adjusted his posture, as if he had experienced something in Japan. Hee-yeon and the clones also took their positions as if they were trying to protect Maru, and held out their flamethrowers.

“Okay. I’ll open the way for you. There’s no need to see any blood. As you leave, I’d like you to clear away the crows in the sky. What do you want me to do?”

“Okay.”

“Then I will wait outside.”

“······.”

Churiririririk-surukruk-

The sound of squirming disappeared from the other side of the deep pit. Maru walked forward with his sword drawn. Maru paused for a moment in front of the barricade made by the security team and examined the tentacles and rats on the ground.

A dead rat fused with tentacles. Just a rat corpse. And even a corpse of a normal tentacle. Yoo Hee-yeon asked Maru, who had been looking around carefully.

[What are you going to do?]

“I should go out and talk.”

[A bitch who lives with tentacles? She must be out of her mind.]

“How many people are in their right mind? In a world like this. Above all… Look here.”

The place where Sim Eun-young was. When a chemical light was thrown into a hole wider than a manhole, the inside of the hole, 20 to 30 meters deep, was revealed.

[This is a trap.]

“also.”

The green light that fell to the ground showed the ground that was full of holes like cheese. If they had fought here, they would have collapsed the ground and buried us.

Even if you didn’t die, what if you were stuck in the rubble and fought the tentacles that burrowed in like snakes? It wouldn’t have been a good look.

[That’s true. Then why did she back down so easily?]

“······.”

When will we ever have such a clear advantage again? In Director Yu’s memory, there was no such thing. When you have an absolute advantage, isn’t it natural to annihilate the enemy? At the very least, you could have captured them. Maru was lost in thought at Hee-yeon’s words.

“Maybe he wanted to show that he wanted to have a serious conversation.”

[A serious conversation between a bitch who’s been stuck with tentacles? It’s really hard to understand.]

The ominous feeling was slowly fading away. However, the lingering unpleasantness still lingered.

“Let’s go out for now.”

Maru and the clones came out of the emergency exit.

“······.”

[······.]

All of those many corpses had disappeared cleanly. Maru’s sharp eyes scanned the area around the entrance. There were faint traces of the body being turned over.

Traces of being dragged into the ground.

“They are underground.”

[I saw it.]

Kaaaak!

Knock!

It seemed like he was hiding tightly to avoid the crow bombing.

Maru boarded the airship, escorted by crows.

“What about Ms. Kim?”

“I went to search the Charlotte Building. With the guards.”

“Why there again?”

“It’s where the tentacles first appeared. There’s also the body of the substitute and Chief Lee Ki-young. He said he’d check that out and come back. Since you’re on board, you should go and get Ms. Kim right away.”

Ki-sun’s whole body starts shaking as Maru explains the situation while showing him the recorded video.

“Fuck. I held it together well. I knew you’d play a game in the bunker again…. Wow. I was really nervous. If the bunker collapses or gets flooded by a tsunami, w-fu-”

“So what do you think?”

“What? What did Chairman Shim say about quietly staying in our shadows?”

“okay.”

“That’s bullshit.”

“If that was bullshit, why didn’t you attack? You had a good position, so if you had attacked, you would have had a better chance of winning.”

Hee-yeon, who remembered Director Yoo, immediately raised a question about Ki-sun’s short answer.

“What did Chairman Shim, who is quick to judge, weigh?”

“Weighing?”

“What scale?”

Ki-soon’s slightly squinted eyes narrowed even further.

“If Ms. Kim and the guards had entered the bunker, I might have tried it… I guess they thought it would be a loss to risk getting hit by tactical nukes just to catch you and the three exosuits.”

Ki-sun’s guess is that if Kim Yang and his bodyguards had all entered the bunker, the fight might have been decided there.

“If I could take the number 1 and 2 official combat power and the number 1 and 2 in the power hierarchy at the same time, I would take a gamble, but what if I lose even one of them?”

“The bloody revenge will begin.”

So, Ki-sun’s interpretation was that there was a possibility that he changed his mind when Kim Yang and the guards escaped to another place instead of entering the bunker.

“I emphasized that we should talk outside because I don’t know if they’ll shoot me with a bunker buster or something if I send you out first, so I’ll go outside the bunker.”

“······.”

“He let me know that he was someone I could talk to, and he even showed that he was trying to end it on good terms. That’s very typical of Chairman Shim’s style.”

“Let’s say that’s true, but do you think that if Chairman Shim had caught me and Ms. Kim at the same time, they would have fought?”

“I think so.”

“What about you and Heeyeon? There’s also Hood, PD, and a nurse?”

“After you and Miss Kim are dead, it’ll be difficult to fight Chairman Shim with the remaining people. It’s possible to plant bunker busters or tactical nukes, but there’s no guarantee that we’ll catch them with those. If they went under the nuclear bunker, it’s basically a double bunker. The effectiveness is also questionable.”

“······.”

“We have to search the tunnels to confirm. You and Miss Kim. It’s true that, at best, no one can handle the black tentacles except the clones. Chairman Shim must have calculated that far as well.”

“Tsk-”

As Maru clicked his tongue, Ki-sun paused for a moment and continued talking.

“Anyway, looking at the camera footage, it seems like the choice to coexist with the tentacles wasn’t intentional. If you look at the body double and Director Lee Ki-young at the Charlotte headquarters before the earthquake, it’s clear that Chairman Shim didn’t coexist from the beginning. It’s clear that he was trying to control the black tentacles rather than coexist.”

“so?”

“Whether it was the earthquake and tsunami, or the internal division that led to the outbreak of civil war, or the shock caused the test subject to escape and wreak havoc, it was a situation that Chairman Shim could not resolve, and it is highly likely that he chose coexistence in order to survive.”

“I really can’t understand the spiritual world. What are you going to do by living with unidentified tentacles?”

Ki-sun answered after seeing Maru shaking his head.

“Survival. All life aims to survive, so I guess they made an agreement with the black tentacles, that they would rather live together than die together. Once they can survive stably, their goal will be reproduction.”

“Ah- really. After survival, reproduction?”

“Maybe. Since you said symbiosis, if that’s true, then Chairman Shim’s DNA would be there too.”

“Oh my gosh. Are you planning on giving birth to a tentacle baby? I really don’t know what you’re thinking.”

Ki-soon shrugged.

“So what do you plan to do?”

“Let’s cut off the tentacles.”

“Are you okay? Your reproductive capacity is so terrifyingly scary.”

“It is winter now. All the animals have fled toward the eastern Rockies.”

When we talked about fertility, he suddenly started talking about animals. But Ki-sun agreed.

“That’s right. All the birds have run away.”

“If a tentacle wants to reproduce, it needs a host to parasitize on, whether it’s alive or dead. And. they have a fatal weakness.”

“Fatal weakness?”

“Look after the fight with the black tentacle guys. Look carefully at the movements of the rat pup with the tentacle stuck in it and what happens after that.”

“The rat pups are moving so fast it’s crazy.”

To Ki-soon, there was nothing strange about it. Rather, it was a rat that ran wild like crazy after being contaminated by the tentacles, as if it had been hit with a battle stimulant.

“Yeah, and did you see the body?”

“corpse?”

In Director Yoo’s memory, Hee-yeon, who was reminded of the distribution, understood Maru’s words.

“It would certainly be advantageous for us if it were a long-term war. Since winter is coming soon.”

“That may be possible. But will that be enough? The reason we came here was for the recipe for the rapid cure, right? I’m worried about where it might lead.”

When Ki-soon pointed out the facts, Hee-yeon also agreed with those words.

“It seems like Ki-soon is right now. If we look at it bluntly, it’s like adding a tentacle variable to the rapid recipe variable.”

“So, should you two come to a conclusion with Chairman Shim?”

When Maru confirmed the two people’s thoughts, the two exchanged glances and nodded calmly.

“That older sister is slimy and sinister. She’s a woman who even coexists with tentacles in order to survive. Considering that she threw out the researchers as bait to catch Ms. Kim, and that she laid a trap under the bunker, she’s a woman who could turn into an enemy at any time.”

“······.”

“The problem, above all, is that it is now untrustworthy.”

“Yeah, that’s true.”

The fundamental question is whether it can be trusted.

Can you believe that Sim Eun-young said she would live peacefully in a corner like the tentacles that chose to coexist?

Maru’s eyebrows furrowed. The problem was that it was difficult to establish even a minimal level of trust because she was a woman who was so good at using body doubles.

“The band is really shit.”

How many times has this been the case? Ki-soon continued her story at Maru’s sigh.

“That’s right. Even when she was human, she was basically a body double. Now she’s got tentacles added to it? How can you believe it? At least, before the earthquake and tsunami, when we met in the building, if it wasn’t a body double, then I wouldn’t know. Can you be sure that the woman who asked me to meet her outside now is the real Sim Eun-young?”

There was a lot to confirm with Sim Eun-young.

The altar in Japan’s basement, what are the tentacles and how did they come to coexist, what function do the fragments of the altar have and how are they used?

The story of how a mutant virus that was being cultivated in humans was then cultivated in rats and cockroaches, leading to animal mutations, and the related data.

It would be nice if he could be trusted, but that was difficult. Especially because of what happened in the bunker and how he lured Ms. Kim into the bunker.

What’s worse is that it was a misunderstanding. No, it was not intended. There was even a loophole created to get away with it. There was even a body double.

Maru, who had been lost in thought for a moment, made a choice.

“I have to see it through to the end.”

Before Sim Eun-young and the tentacles leave San Francisco.

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Kim Yang and his entourage arrived at the Charlotte Building in downtown San Francisco.

The first thing they wanted to find was the black tentacles and the body of Chief Lee Ki-young. Just as they were about to start searching, they received a call from the airship.

[So you’re saying there’s a chance that Chairman Shim will come this way?]

[I think it’s almost certain.]

Kim Yang tilted her head. Why? Maru and Gisun explained the current situation.

[So. You said you were going to talk to Chairman Shim, but everything is uncertain? Is it likely that you think so too and are trying to take me hostage to try to talk to me?]

[okay.]

Kiyung-

She felt a little bad. Who took whom hostage?

I had good memories of him because he was someone who gave me a lot of weight, and I thought of him favorably in many ways. But he was not satisfied with just sticking to me with his tentacles, and he was after the highest dignity? He even tried to catch me with bait?

[Can I kill you?]

Miss Kim was Miss Kim.

[okay.]

The highest dignity must have given permission. Her eyes turned murderous.

[Search operation stopped. All personnel on alert.]

Kim Yang assumed that Sim Eun-young and the contaminated rats would come, and prepared their formation. How long had it been since they had finished preparing the flamethrower, nerve gas tank, smoke grenade, and even the escape route?

Sim Eun-young and Charlotte’s security team approached.

“What is happening here···.”

Taaaaang!

A hole was drilled into Sim Eun-young’s head.

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·········

Zuriririririk-

[Throw napalm!]

As hot flames shot up, small cracks began to appear in the floor where Kim Yang and his bodyguards had formed up.

Ddddddd-

[All retreat!]

[All retreat!]

[Retreat!]

Kim Yang and his bodyguards started running, spraying smoke bombs and napalm.

Whoosh whoosh!

The contaminated rats that crawled out of the ground were greeted by hot, burning napalm flames and thick smoke.