Rust - Chapter 567



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RUST -567

Ki-soon frowned at the nurse’s fuss.

The situation was already serious, so the high-tension voice was annoying.

“Why are you so excited?”

“Our children are in danger. Why are you saying that?”

“Does it make you less dangerous if you make a fuss?”

“······.”

The nurse kept her mouth shut.

That’s not it.

We knew that tentacles could burrow into dead bodies, but was there any concrete evidence that they could burrow into living things as well?

Previous sources only stated that the tentacles ate people. To be exact, this is still the case. The only accurate information is that the tentacles parasitized the crow that fell and died.

Isn’t it still a hypothesis that contaminated crows will fight and become contaminated? How can you say a hypothesis as if it were fact and make a fuss about worrying about the children?

And that wasn’t a fuss. It was just a natural reaction, but calling it a fuss is gaslighting, right? The nurse recalled being ‘burned’ in her previous hospital.

Seeing the nurse’s breasts, Ki-sun naturally recalled the popular saying that it is difficult to play the piano when breasts are large.

‘Ah- shit.’

Why are you thinking about that again?

Now is not the time for this.

Breasts and piano, that was definitely a cursed subject.

On the monitor, Kim Yang and the guards were slowly gathering. In that brief moment of exchanging a few words with the nurse, the contaminated crow flew over ten li away.

“No. I told you not to approach. Don’t you see that? The number of contaminated crows has increased?”

“I told them not to engage in close combat. Those guys over there are scouts, and if they retreat behind them, they won’t be able to see the enemies moving through the rubble.”

To check for them trying to bypass the debris and cracked roads, you had to fly low, and flying low put you within the tentacles’ attack range.

The reason why Kim Yang and his bodyguards started to gather was because the number of people who took a detour started to increase as they stopped flying at low altitudes.

“Damn it. But still, tell them to do the reconnaissance at a high altitude.”

“all right.”

Ki-sun immediately sent a warning message to Kim Yang.

“The crows are infected with tentacles. That makes support bombing and low-altitude reconnaissance difficult. The enemy is bypassing through the collapsed rubble and cracks, so get out of here. Judging by the way they’re turning around, they seem to be going crazy and trying to catch you.”

[Okay. So where is the retreat point?]

The airship took a while to gain altitude. Even the crows that were maneuvering at high speed were attacked by tentacles, and the airship landed. The ones that rose up looked like they were begging to be killed.

“Just wait a moment, I’ll check and get back to you.”

Ki-soon marked Ms. Kim’s location on a map of San Francisco. As soon as she received the warning, Ms. Kim increased her speed of escape.

When the 2D map was changed to 3D, the current situation was clearly revealed. The terrain was densely packed with 2-3 story buildings between the overlapping hills.

Was San Francisco really such a beggarly place? There were no tall buildings around. There were long hills and low buildings, eventually reaching the top.

“Fuck.”

Ki-sun cursed without realizing it.

I thought I had successfully broken through the siege and escaped, but even that was a mistake.

It was clear that Sim Eun-young had anticipated and prepared for the possibility of being pierced. If you went up the long hill, the surrounding area was a park, but if you took a detour, you would inevitably end up isolated on the top of the hill.

It wasn’t a good idea to go to support by airship either, as the tentacles using the nearby hill forest for cover seemed like a good place to attack.

It is difficult to make a detour because if you go down the hill, there is a park and a valley, so it is a good location to dig in the soft soil and lie in wait.

However, it was difficult to thoroughly check the ambush as the main force led by Sim Eun-young was chasing after them like crazy.

‘The missiles… are all used up.’

All the cruise missiles and air-to-ground missiles were smashed into the tentacle pits. Only the air-to-air missiles and bombs remained.

“Let’s get higher. We have plenty of napalm bombs. Let’s burn the area around the point with those.”

If you don’t have teeth, you have to go to the gums.

If precision bombing is difficult, the entire surrounding area is blown up.

Ki-sun immediately relayed the situation to Kim Yang. He said that the direction he was running was not good and that he was being driven up a hill.

[So what’s the plan?]

“I’ll turn the entire area below the hill into a sea of ​​fire, so if you can get through the fire, you should be able to escape.”

[Okay.]

Ms. Kim moved without saying a word.

Ki-soon, who had confirmed the point, briefly relayed the current situation to Maru. Maru, who had delivered the supplies to Hee-yeon and Clone, responded immediately.

[Chijik- So you’re saying that you’re persistently targeting Ms. Kim?]

“Yeah. Looking at the way the board is going, it looks like they’re planning on turning Miss Kim into a demon.”

[Masok? Chijijik- Hill?]

“It was my mistake to overlook the terrain of San Francisco. Kim Yang is so good at hit-and-run and the lure worked well, so I missed the terrain. And the tentacles contaminated the crow. The damage wasn’t great because they spread out before they could grow, but close-range reconnaissance became difficult.”

[Chick- What are you planning to do? Beep-]

“We are going to use napalm to create a sea of ​​fire around Ms. Kim and use that to escape.”

[Chijijik- ···Okay.]

Ki-soon, who had finished communicating with Maru, looked down at the ruined city of San Francisco.

She was a talkative older sister, but somehow she ended up with tentacles.

‘That’s too bad.’

She was a woman who seemed like she could communicate well with others.

That’s why she was such an annoying older sister.

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Sim Eun-young, who lost 11 out of 12 places, was desperate.

And that desperate struggle paid off.

Miss Kim, who had been running around in a hurry, naturally climbed up the hill.

Even if Kim Yang is a master of escape, he was cornered in terrain that could create a ‘magic trap’, so now all that’s left is to slowly tighten the reins.

“Phew- Now this boring game of hide-and-seek will soon be over.”

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“What the hell are you talking about? You said we should kill them all out of the blue, and now you’re saying we should recruit them to our side unconditionally?”

(□-□□□□-□□–□□-□–)

“As I said, the King of the Holy Kingdom strongly dislikes non-humans. In the worst case scenario, he will forcefully drag you over here to create an opening, but the best way is to take Miss Kim hostage and secure her safety.”

(□□□□□-□□□□-□–)

“So, after enduring the winter, we have to leave. If it’s as cold as last year, it won’t be easy to endure the winter. I hope we don’t forget that our goal is ‘survival.’”

(□-□-□□□-□□□-□–)

The stupid tentacles began to gradually wake up and start to scold her, having eaten her brain. Sim Eun-young was mildly annoyed, but she held back and explained.

“You can survive if you look at it in the long run. In the long run… I prepared 12 places, but you wouldn’t know if 11 of them were destroyed? I told you this place is not easy.”

She raised her head and looked at the sky.

An airship that looks like a tiny dot among the crows circling in the distance.

It would have been nice if we had succeeded in capturing the airship.

I was trying to contaminate the crows and take advantage of them, but Kim Ki-soon was no pushover.

I was in a situation where I could have wasted my time, so I broke the pattern I had been hiding, and I was blocked from the start.

There were no such twists and turns. There was no way there could have been any, since they had not even approached in the first place. The plan to contaminate the crows to block the bombing and capture the airship ended with securing a few more crows flying at low altitude for reconnaissance.

‘At least we avoided the worst.’

If we had held out without revealing the hidden pattern and had been pushed back, we would not have been able to push Kim Yang like we did now. The crow dive bombing and precision bombing were over, and low-altitude reconnaissance had been blocked, so it was easy to maneuver around the debris and gaps.

‘Then how will it turn out on the other side?’

Should we send a zeppelin or a crow up the hill to rescue Miss Kim?

You knew you’d be within the tentacles’ range, right?

Should Kim Ki-soon take the risk and come down right away?

‘No way.’

They’ll probably bomb from high altitude.

They’ll bombard them with napalm to keep them from approaching, and then they’ll try to escape with Kim Yang and his bodyguards in the gap.

As Sim Eun-young predicted, the airships and crows began high-altitude bombing. It was just napalm bombing that burned down the area.

A smile appeared on Sim Eun-young’s face, who had been suffering mentally for a while.

As expected, it was as expected.

There was something you forgot.

In order to lower the altitude to pick up Kim Yang and his guards, there was something that had to be taken care of before the other tentacle attacks: the terror of the contaminated crows.

Even a total of twenty or so contaminated crows would be lethal. How do you stop the crows from descending from low altitudes and from sticking to the airship?

‘Even if we haven’t forgotten the polluted crow, there’s no way. It’s a race against time.’

Now it was a race against time.

The siege began to close in, and Kim was isolated on the top of the hill.

They were creating a sea of ​​fire with napalm, but the throwing, rather than precision bombing, did not cause much damage.

Do you catch Miss Kim or let her go?

To live or to die.

Sim Eun-young stared at the sky, oblivious to the bombing that turned the surroundings into a sea of ​​fire. The airship, which had been as small as a dot, began to appear as large as a coin.

‘I guess I have no choice but to come down.’

Her smile grew wider.

As the coin-sized airship slowly made itself appear larger than the container, she released the tainted crow.

“It’s an airship. Cling to the airship and its escorting crows!”

Spud!

Wheeeeeeeeing-

A dozen or so polluted crows soared in a line like arrows. And the roar of the aircraft hurtling toward the soaring crows.

‘Jetpack?’

Sim Eun-young looked at the jetpack and thought, “Oh no.”

The flight took advantage of the earthquake and tsunami that sent all birds east toward the Rocky Mountains.

I should have fled to the sky, not the ground.

If it could fly, whether it was a private jet or a helicopter, it should have taken off.

She was a maddening sight, jetpack charging towards the swarm of polluted crows.

I shouldn’t have blown it so pointlessly…

The contaminated crow and the jetpack collided mid-air. No, not really a collision?

Buhwaaaaah!

That wasn’t a sound.

It was a visual phenomenon that I could see with my eyes, but it was also a sight that made me feel like I could hear the sound of something being cut in my ears. The sight of nearly twenty contaminated crows being torn apart in the order they rose.

Her eyes widened at the unrealistic scene.

“I… I… That’s impossible!”

The polluted crows, torn vertically apart, fell in vain.

Wheeeeeeeeeeing!

The jetpack’s engine roared like a chainsaw.

The direction the cutting machine was pointed was right where she was.

“···Mi. Crazy···.”

Her eyes, which had grown large, began to shake.

Upeeeeeeeeeeee!

Acceleration that is getting more and more intense.

‘Suicide or bombing?’

Sim Eun-young shouted desperately.

“Stop it! Stop it!”

The forces near her tangled together and raised a huge barrier.

Chuririririririk!

A giant, squirming creature, a fusion of tentacles and rats, corpses drowned by the tsunami, and corpses crushed by the earthquake, rose up to protect Sim Eun-young.

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■!!!!

The low-frequency sound that caused fear reverberated, and as if to counter it, the jetpack’s engine noise reached its peak.

Kiiiiiiiiing!

As Maru detached his jetpack, which had gone beyond top speed and caused the engine to go wild, the jetpack struck him like a missile and exploded.

Kwaaaaang!

Shim Eun-young’s face was briefly revealed through a hole in the flesh wall made up of tentacles and corpses. Her expression, which had changed from surprise to relief, changed again to shock.

Because the floor that had been propelled by the jetpack was falling due to inertia.

Hurrrurruruk—

Their eyes met through the burning hole.

“······.”

“······.”

Maru pulled out Eclipse while looking straight into Sim Eun-young’s eyes, which were filled with fear and shock.

bang!

bang!

bang!

As each bullet from the 12.7mm Rsh revolver strikes Eclipse, the blade vibrates more and more.

Eclipse’s whole body shook as she cried out loud.

Only then did Sim Eun-young shout out in a fit of rage.

“Stop it! Stop it—-!!”

The sword of the spinning floor was drawn vertically towards the huge lump of meat engulfed in flames.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬—

As if it were an unavoidable fate

A wall of flesh splits left and right before Sim Eun-young’s eyes.

The tentacles and corpses severed by the crimson blade were crushed by the ultra-vibration.

iced coffee-

She was so unaware that a sound that was neither a sigh nor a gasp escaped her throat.

The sight of Maru pushing his body through the vertical gap was fixed in Sim Eun-young’s eyes, frozen in shock and fear.

iced coffee-

Run away. Back. Quickly. Move.

please.

Maru’s ferocious murderous intent was directed at Sim Eun-young, who was trying to back away hesitantly.

A crimson blade passed by her side, as she froze for a moment in that terrible murderous intent.

Crunch-