Rust - Chapter 565



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RUST -565

Taaaaang!

The people watching the video became quiet at the action of Ms. Kim, who immediately blew off Chairman Shim’s head. She asked if it was okay to kill him, and then just pulled the trigger.

“Hey! I told you to kill some time!”

When Ki-soon, in a panic, screamed at the screen, Maru responded calmly as if he didn’t know that would happen.

“I’ll take care of it. That’s fine. What happened to the other side?”

“No, what···. Huh- okay.”

As the real Ki-soon changed the screen, images sent by crows scattered throughout the San Francisco area came to mind.

“The black tentacles’ traces are being searched by crows. Crows are really smart, aren’t they? Are they okay?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. We’ve already tightened the discipline a bit. We’re even operating a disciplinary unit.”

“Punishment Unit? With crows? Could it be the Sacred Crow Unit?”

“Yeah. You don’t have to worry about that because the PD and nurses are taking care of it.”

Ki-soon nodded at Maru’s words.

“The crows have found 7 points so far. If we look at them all, there will probably be at least 10.”

The most important thing in this operation was to leave no regrets. So we decided to use the two nuclear weapons that are always carried on the airship for emergencies: the B61-12 tactical nuclear bomb and the B83 hydrogen bomb.

So there were two chances. If I failed to kill Sim Eun-young’s body the second time, I was going to request strategic nukes from the Empire and the Confederacy and blow up the entire city of San Francisco.

“That’s amazing. You’re saying that you’ve created more than 10 places that could be seen as dens in such a short period of time?”

“That means he was thinking about bunker busters and tactical nukes. That guy is honestly not ordinary. His double and the way he uses people.”

From the moment she became symbiotic with the tentacles, she would have assumed the worst and prepared for it. If it were Sim Eun-young. That’s why she survived the assassination that occurred among the Charlotte Group’s successors, and why she won the final fight.

“But is it really necessary to search the building?”

Ki-soon answered Maru’s question with certainty.

“I like doing it. Since I’ve come this far, I have to do it.”

It was Ki-sun who sent down Mark 2 and the clones to retrieve the tentacles remaining in the Charlotte Building and the corpse of Chief Lee Ki-young. The purpose was to search the building while Kim Yang and the guards drew the aggro.

“Does it make sense?”

“Chief Lee Ki-young, that guy has changed too. The tentacles the body of the body double was holding are important, but Chief Lee’s body is also important.”

Ki-sun thought it was important to secure that sample.

Even if those with abilities were created, their numbers were still small. A few out of ten thousand. At best, one out of a thousand.

In contrast, even the number of rat pups was increasing tremendously. The same was true of the mutant monsters.

What would happen if the environment continues to change so rapidly that it is advantageous for animals that have become more monstrous than humans to survive?

‘The more ways to strengthen your power, the better.’

Although the lineage is different, since it was a series that had used tentacles before, I could understand why Chairman Sim Eun-young chose to coexist with tentacles.

The same was true for Director Lee Ki-young. He was certainly a great person, but he was only within the limits of human limitations.

Even if Charlotte had strengthened her Berserker Polo, it would have been impossible for her to become strong enough to engage in combat with Maru. However, Chief Lee Ki-young engaged in combat with Maru for a short while. How?

I had to find out why. Whether it was a new drug or the result of a human enhancement procedure, it was a sample that I absolutely had to secure in order to prepare for the future.

‘I just need a sample to start with, whether it’s the black tentacles or the corpse of Chief Lee Ki-young.’

Quantum computers and bunches of grapes will take care of the rest.

[Chijik- No trace left at the scene. Should we go down?]

“Please wait at your current location for a moment.”

Ki-soon checked the surroundings with the drone after receiving communication from Mark 2. There were no black tentacles near the building, as if Kim Yang’s aggro was correct.

“There aren’t any obvious ones outside the building, but be careful when searching the inside. The opponents are tricky.”

[Chiiik- Got it.]

Ki-soon pushed the screen where Mark 2 and the clones were searching to the side, put the drone into auto-alert mode, and zoomed in on the image of Ms. Kim and the guards.

Maru approached Gi-sun like that.

“Do you really need a sample of that?”

“Sim Eun-young’s body isn’t going to use nuclear weapons?”

“yes.”

Samples, captures, and such were not in the Maru options.

“That’s what I’m saying. I’m also curious about how you created the stand-in.”

“Okay. Then I’ll go down too. Just in case.”

Maru, wearing a jetpack on his Ripper suit, waved his right hand to signal.

“If there is a problem, send a signal immediately.”

“Okay. Be careful.”

Phew-

The floor was heading towards the ground, with the jetpack’s roaring noise at its end.

Shoot and run, burn and run, hit and run, one was the amazing Kim Yang and his bodyguards.

[scout?]

[There’s an ambush ahead.]

Kim Yang, who had been looking at the sky for a moment, decided on a direction.

[To the right.]

[The building there is leaning? There is a risk of collapse.]

[So it’s you. Go first and plant the bomb.]

[all right.]

Kim Yang and his bodyguards flee towards a slightly tilted building, with a swarm of tentacle-infested rats in hot pursuit.

As soon as they passed the leaning building, Ms. Kim shouted.

[blasting!]

bang!

The leaning building fell sideways with a loud bang. As the contaminated rats crawled out of the rubble, trapped in the huge pile of reinforced concrete, a flamethrower was waiting for them.

Whoosh whoosh-

Zuriririririk-

Jjiiik- jjik-

The tentacles’ writhing and the rats’ desperate cries disappeared into the blazing flames, but Kim Yang was not greedy. She just fell right in.

[Stop. Move.]

It was Ms. Kim who was acting really annoyingly.

Less than a minute after Kim Yang and his guards fled, the main force led by Sim Eun-young arrived at the rubble of the collapsed building and the flames rising.

Inside the exploded head, black tentacles were wriggling and slowly filling the inside. Then, the tentacles slowly rose up and transformed into healthy flesh.

As the wound where his head had been blown off healed cleanly, Sim Eun-young caressed the area where the hole had been made with her hand and gave an order.

“Surround them. We have to capture them.”

So you shot without hesitation… Is that really so?

Sim Eun-young stroked her hair again.

The wound had healed, but it still felt like a hole had been opened.

The whispers that fill my head

(□-□□□-□□□□—)

“Ah- You shouldn’t kill him. He has something dangerous.”

The scene that Sim Eun-young recalled was the video of the Tsar Bomba exploding.

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“It’s less powerful than that, but there are probably many similar ones. You said you raided the air force base. Now you know why we need to capture it, right? Okay? Just a moment.”

Sim Eun-young looked back.

The Charlotte Building, half-destroyed in the distance, came into view. It felt like the traces of tentacles planted here and there were disappearing.

Searching the Charlotte Building?

Was it a diversionary operation? Or not.

Sim Eun-young turned her head in the direction where Kim Yang and the guards had fled.

“Oh, really. It seems like we’ll only end up losing money if we do this.”

(□□□-□-□□-□□□□-□—)

“That’s your problem. Who would have thought that long-distance telepathy wouldn’t work? The distance is too short.”

A rumbling sound echoed in her head.

“Ah- but the top priority is the rabbit that’s running away right now. If we capture the rabbit alive, we can at least talk to it. No. We absolutely cannot let go of the rabbit. The moment it falls far away, that bomb will fall on our heads.”

(□□-□-□-□-□-□□—)

Sim Eun-young raised her head. The sky was obscured by smoke and napalm fumes from the explosion of the building. There must be an airship somewhere out there.

It’s the worst.

But when wasn’t it the worst?

Just as I have survived so far, I will survive this time too.

She spurred on her pursuit of Kim Yang. A swarm of rats infected with black tentacles began to move in waves.

“It’s a siege. The siege is our top priority. Go.”

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Bang- tata dang!

The tentacles of the .45 caliber incendiary grenade protruded from the air and formed a honeycomb.

Whirlirik-chuck!

Yoo Hee-yeon naturally put the revolver back in the holster hanging on her waist and opened and closed her hands. The feeling. The sensation in her fingers was unfamiliar yet familiar.

The vivid pleasure of putting in six shots in less than 0.1 seconds. The pleasure of hitting all six shots where she wanted them to go reached her heart.

chuck-

She pulled her Colt .45 revolver from its holster and reloaded.

Ting-titi-ting-

The refreshing sound of a brass shell hitting the floor.

The pungent smell of gunpowder.

And the moment I saw the silver .45 caliber Colt revolver…

Chijijik-

My vision was blurry and the gun I was holding had changed.

The familiar blue Colt revolver.

She muttered without realizing it.

“Pyson.”

Chijijik-

What came into view again was a silver Colt revolver.

Somehow she felt missed.

A vague feeling suddenly occurred to me that I just needed to get it back.

‘Get it back?’

what?

“Pyson.”

The sound heard as the revolver that had been in the holster came out again.

Zurilyric-

Bang- ta- tang!

The tentacles sticking out from the ceiling transformed into squid-like creatures that were hit by three bullets and burst into flames. Yu Hee-yeon shook her head and headed to the next floor with the clones.

‘stop.’

As soon as Hee-yeon thought this, the clones that had been moving left and right stopped. The clones that had stopped as if they were one body took their places one after another.

As the door opened slightly with a twisted hinge, a diagonally divided section of the room came into view.

The tentacles sprouted from the diagonally cut section and were intertwined. Even though it was cut diagonally, the double’s face still blinked, and Hee-yeon couldn’t help but feel disgusted.

“I found a substitute for Chairman Shim, who was cut diagonally.”

[Chiiik- Is it possible to secure the upper body?]

Hee-yeon looked inside the room again at Ki-sun’s answer. The tentacles weren’t moving that actively. It wasn’t impossible since there was a flamethrower and a nitrogen sprayer, but Director Yoo’s memory was pushing for killing rather than capturing.

“···Capture possible.”

[Chi-ik- After capturing him, please secure the body of Chief Lee Ki-young as well. If all of it is difficult, some samples are fine.]

She broke off the communication and sent forward a clone armed with a nitrogen nozzle.

There was no problem. After rapidly freezing it using a nitrogen sprayer, it was put into a specially made container and that was it.

Director Yoo’s memories mocked her judgment.

Year of the Monkey. Hehehehe-

It feels like that.

Memories of being caught in a suicide bombing while trying to capture an enemy in Afghanistan and losing my men to an improvised explosive device (IED) while on my way to treat civilian injuries during an engagement in a remote village were mixed together.

‘I am Yoo Hee-yeon. I am not a Jew, but Yoo Hee-yeon.’

A strong thought occurred to her the moment she was about to rush in, muttering softly.

You idiot, if you have a top, where is your bottom?

An upper body cut diagonally. Tentacles on the cross-section. A head with blinking eyes.

Head? Can you hear it?

Kwajik-

A pile of tentacles burst through the ceiling and engulfed a flamethrower-equipped clone.

Tentacles sprouted from the diagonally drawn lower body and wrapped around the clone’s exosuit.

The clone next to him immediately sprayed his flamethrower.

An attack that can be performed by the armored exosuit because it has high heat resistance.

Puhwaaaaaaaah!

He kicked away the exosuit that was squeezing his lower body with tentacles as the flames poured out, used it as a shield, and ran up the wall.

Dadadak-

The moment my attention turned to that side, my upper body, which had been lying there as if it had been waiting, suddenly flipped over. Using both arms and tentacles, I rushed towards Yoo Hee-yeon.

Valid- tadadang-

Although he fired six shots at once, unlike the tentacles before, the upper body of the substitute withstood the .45 caliber bullets.

First of all-

The clone aimed the nitrogen nozzle, pushed Yu Hee-yeon aside, and immediately spit out the nitrogen.

Phewhaaaaah!!

The sharp cold quickly began to harden the upper body and tentacles of the bandit.

The substitute’s lower body was attacked with a dropkick as he ran up the wall.

Bam-

A clone that gets knocked back by a dropkick.

Nitrogen liquid sprayed into the air, forming white crystals and scattering in all directions.

And during that gap, tentacles began to gather from all directions.

Black tentacles began to poke their heads out of the vents.

Ta-da-da-dak!

Thud-thud-

Falling tentacles.

Kkiei-

Yoo Hee-yeon, who had been blasting the tentacles that were trying to raise their heads with special bullets, felt a bitter taste in his mouth. The situation was turning into a mess.

‘Is it difficult to obtain samples?’

Just as Yu Hee-yeon was about to signal the flamethrower clone to burn it to the ground, a wall burst open and the sound of a jet engine was heard.

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At the same time, a black line was drawn on the lower body of the substitute who was jumping over the wall.

The sight of the lower body, cut into four pieces as it was swinging its tentacles along the walls, falling to the floor with a thud.

This···. What···.

“······.”

Maru, who had come through the wall, said a word.

“Put that in. Where’s the upper body?”

Heeyeon’s head naturally turned to one side.

As Maru turned his gaze, there was the upper body of the double who was struggling with the clone holding the nitrogen sprayer.

The sound of someone taking a step forward.

And then there’s the rustling sound of something being cut.

The rolling sound continued like flowing water.

“······.”

“······.”

“······.”

Heeyeon and the clones looked at the floor.

“Ah. While I’m at it, this too.”

My head, which had been rolling around, suddenly stopped in the middle.

“······.”

“······.”

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