Rust - Chapter 580



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RUST -580

Maru slowly stopped his steps.

Gulp- Gulp-

Because the sticky blood and the dirt accumulated by the tsunami met and turned into mud.

‘I was planning to deal with it later because the sound was faint.’

I dealt with the three werewolves before they regained their senses, but the remaining one seemed to be more difficult.

There was no sign of the man in the dark suit. Maru’s senses, which were comparable to a biological radar, had missed the man’s traces.

A small motor whirred as the air purification system in the Ripper suit’s helmet restarted.

Wheeeeeeeeing-

I could hear the rustle of clothes amid the noise of carbon dioxide being released from the helmet.

It’s not something you hear, it’s something you feel.

The moment Maru’s keen senses caught the discomfort, the bastard rushed in first.

Parallax-

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬——–

Maru, who delivered a short blow toward the sound coming from the collar. A dark suit that split in two.

?

‘No taste?’

Maru, who had turned his body in the direction of the swinging blade, put strength into his arms again.

A gap between the blades that rotate 360 ​​degrees. A white mass that squeezes through the space Eclipse passed by.

A man who had taken off his suit jacket and was now wearing a shirt dug into Maru’s armpit.

Thud- The floor where my back had touched the ground radiated life. Flinch- I hit the left temple of the guy whose body was frozen with my elbow and felt a hard bone.

‘What kind of skull is this···.’

The man who had been determined to live came to his senses from the shock and tried to put a Kimura lock on the hand holding the sword.

The moment Maru realized that his opponent was about to attack his joints, he tried to twist his body to escape, but he didn’t have the experience to escape the bastard’s pressure.

‘shit.’

The sense of crisis began to grow stronger.

“Get out!”

Maru’s single-minded determination was replaced by a strong will to kill. Although he had experienced the will to kill once, his body froze stiffly again as if he could not adapt to such a strong will to kill.

The bastard’s eyes shook, perhaps bewildered by the sudden stiffness. Even though he was hit twice by a strong murderous intent at such close range, he did not lose consciousness. He just couldn’t move his body for a moment.

Whirik-

As I turned my body over and pulled out my entangled arms, Eclipse’s blade naturally caught on the bastard’s neck as if it had been sharpened.

Scream squeak-

Knock-knock-knock-

The blade, which was pressed in close, slowly began to dig into the tough skin, but it was so tough that it was difficult to cut it without applying enough force.

Tsk tsk-

As the blade struck down, tearing at his hide, the creature began to struggle, free from its stiffness. Without lifting a single inch from my mounted stance, I concentrated on slicing off the creature’s neck.

The moment the center of gravity and power of the floor were concentrated on Eclipse’s handle and neck, the one who had grabbed the blade with both hands jerked his waist.

!

The floor bounced off the seesaw and fell over. The guy who had fallen over quickly flipped over and shouted.

“Mother Fucker!!! I will kill you without leaving a single drop of blood!!!”

The neck and hands that had been cut by the blade were healing in real time. Maru’s eyes sank deeply into the wounds that were healing in an instant, as if they had been sprayed with a rapid healing agent.

It was faster and stronger than a cannibal. Its hide was too tough to be called skin, so much so that the blade could not penetrate it properly without Eclipse activated.

It would be difficult to penetrate that skin unless it was an armor-piercing bullet. Even cannibals can take bullets, but that one seemed out of the question.

‘That regenerative power. I’m not a cannibal.’

Was the vampire (noble) experiment that the Confederates were singing about a success? He was supposed to be a noble at the top, but his strength wasn’t that great.

If my muscles were strong, my joints would have gone out before I could even use my hands, so it was fortunate.

‘Stronger resistance to death than cannibals.’

If they were cannibals, they would have been foaming at the mouth if they had been stuck to each other and were fighting for their lives. But that guy just froze for a moment. Even the second time, he was just spraying his lifeblood, thinking it was a real slap.

‘Is this like a vampire prototype?’

Perhaps because he had almost died once, the bastard began to move cautiously. Maru’s senses were also sharpened.

Thump-

Thump thump-

The realm of extrasensory perception expanded and the bastard’s movements became sluggish.

and···

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!

As if to tear away that slowness, the bastard’s speed increased explosively. It rushed forward like the pages were turning quickly.

An ordinary person or someone with moderate physical ability would not have been able to sense the dash of the guy, but Maru was different. He had already experienced extreme speed many times.

A sword strike that countered the speed at which the bastard ran.

bar-

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A man who raised his arm to avoid the sword blow aimed at his neck.

Phew! Phew!

The tear gas smoke cleared as the impact reached the speed of sound, and my vision brightened. The face of the man who had offered his arm as a sacrifice and leaned back was distorted with a vicious grimace.

“······.”

[······.]

A brief standoff ensued.

and

Hard work.

A feeling of uneasiness began to rise in Maru’s senses.

I cut off one of his arms, and I knew that the kid was a close combat specialist, so I just had to keep my distance, but I feel uneasy.

Maru didn’t let his guard down at all.

‘If you don’t come, I’ll go.’

The tragedy was that the bastard had room to dig in.

Being dragged to the ground or having joints cut off had to be avoided.

then?

‘sting.’

Maru’s concentration was focused on one point.

Go—–

I decided to live and in one go······.

Just as I was about to take a step forward, the guy suddenly turned around.

?

The moment Maru says ‘Huh.’

Dadadadak-

A guy who runs away, throwing away his severed arm.

He climbed up the half-collapsed building almost vertically, then turned around and shouted.

“Bladii- Maaru- Kaaaaliin— I will never forget this Chiyoyoyo!”

The reason you were nervous was because that kid ran away? That means if you let that kid go, you’ll end up in a dirty mess. Maru yelled at the back of the guy’s head as he ran away with his tail between his legs.

[It looks nice, but what you’re doing is scary?]

[Is it good that you’re blaming your subordinates and running away alone?]

“······.”

[You idiot. Now you’re really an idiot. An idiot with one arm cut off.]

“······.”

[Run away like a worm!]

[It’s good to run away like a cockroach, it’s fast.]

“······.”

Despite Maru’s provocation, the bastard ran away without even responding.

Maru, who saw that the distance was getting further and further away, clenched his teeth and put the neutralizer in. A cold air flowed through his body, cooling down his heated body.

As Maru, who had picked up speed, caught up with him, the thing changed direction. The direction it changed to was toward Charlotte’s collapsed warehouse.

Maru could roughly guess what the bastard was thinking by looking at the direction he was turning. It seemed like the bastard was a vampire who was going to eat people and then try to get back at them.

“Okay. Follow meeeeeeeee- I’ll kill youeeee-”

A small sound heard through Maru’s Ripper suit helmet as he desperately pursued him.

Kiyung.

‘Kiyung?’

Tung-

The running man’s knees buckled as a low gunshot was muffled by a silencer.

Utangtang-

A guy fell to the ground with his face smashed into the ground, his knees twisted by a 12.7mm bullet.

Kwaaaaak!

The guy who suddenly got up. The deep cut on his face healed in real time, but what was faster than that was the blade on the floor.

“AAAAAHH …

Kujik-

The bastard’s head floated up.

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Wheeeeeeing-

Maru snickered at the sound of a small drone hovering over his head and put the severed vampire head into his bag. The thing opened its mouth wide, but what did it know? Once it had installed the information extractor into its head, that was it.

While Maru was collecting the vampire’s head and setting its body on fire with a napalm grenade, Kim Yang approached with a confident gait from afar.

Kkiyungkkiyung

Shrug shrug

Ms. Kim, who went toward the warehouse with the guards and shouted for confiscation, did not forget to keep watch and set up 8 drones. When the vampire approached the warehouse, Ms. Kim sensed it, grasped the situation, and shot it.

[How did you know to shoot it? You did really well.]

[Huh-]

Kim Yang raised her nose slightly. As if she didn’t raise it. Maru didn’t hold back on his praise.

[Shooting the knee. I don’t know what would have happened if you had shot the head. How did you shoot only the knee?]

“Wasn’t there something that got hit in the head and came out fine?” Ms. Kim replied with a look in her eyes.

“You remembered that? Good job.” Maru also gave him an enthusiastic look.

If Kim Yang had shot the torso or head, I don’t know what would have happened. If he had shot the knee, Maru, who was following behind, could have been cut in one shot.

[Huh-huh-]

Hurrrurruk-

The neckless and armless body was burning with napalm flames. The two walked away from the blazing flames, talking.

[So you said you were going to confiscate something, and that’s all over?]

[huh.]

The confiscated goods were substantial. The yakuza also had a history dating back to the bubble era. Should we say that custom guns are a work of art? There were also weapons belonging to mafia kids, and there were many that were quite good. As expected, it was the Charlotte Group and the Returned Unit.

[But the people there were a bit strange.]

[How was it weird?]

[Should we call them hostile? They started shooting at us out of the blue as soon as we left.]

Maru’s expression hardened slightly.

[so?]

[I didn’t kill him.]

Kim Yang glanced at Maru. According to ‘Think before you shoot’, shooting at the armored exosuit with a shotgun would only bounce off, so it wasn’t like they would all be shot and killed.

But since they fired shots at him, I questioned him after he was beaten up, and the conversation went in a strange direction.

[···The sound of the bomb exploding earlier was the sound of those people firing a mortar.]

[however?]

Maru nodded slightly. He could guess the content since there was a grave with a dog tag in the traces of the mortar explosion.

[They said that they captured the exosuit that the Federation Forces were using. It seems that the soldiers who did not join our side were attacked while heading towards the logistics warehouse.]

In addition to the bankrupts who were filtered out during the recruitment, quite a few refused to join. Some said that they were bankrupts, but what was wrong with committing bankruptcies against the enemy? Some said that they could not abandon their comrades, regardless of the reason.

It seemed that one of the scattered troops had been attacked by the militia. Maru felt a bit bitter.

The Charlotte Group and the Return Unit must have worked tirelessly for the past year to stabilize San Francisco, but in the end, they were attacked by the militia.

[Isn’t that how Americans are?]

‘They’re looting and burning each other. Isn’t that an American tradition? It’s common for them to kill each other, so why are you looking so gloomy?’

Maru couldn’t help but laugh bitterly at Kim Yang’s gaze.

How could the Holy Kingdom not do that? The Holy Kingdom also had to operate a militia in the outskirts of Canada. Maru thought a lot because the militia and the stronghold defense forces had to complement each other.

[···First, let’s collect all the werewolf corpses.]

[Not burning it? You burned the vampire earlier.]

[Because I brought the vampire’s head.]

[Ugh- Okay.]

Although it was easy to deal with, werewolves were not easy. Maru’s body was one, and it didn’t seem like things would go smoothly if he fought these guys.

‘Is it only Kim Yang and Hee Yeon who can react?’

Even if we caught Director Yu’s clone, that would be all. Even if we had cannibals and werewolves, what if vampires appeared? When we thought about the outskirts of Canada, we thought that simply burning them down would not be the solution.

If the Confederates were going to do something, they would certainly have a chance of digging in from the outskirts. They were the kind of guys who called cannibals new humans, so they could use their powers and regenerative abilities as bait.

I remembered the PD’s words telling me not to think only of HOLLY’s religion in a negative light. I thought about how, whether I like it or not, if there is nothing related to faith, it is not easy to maintain humanity in a world that is collapsing like this. So, HOLLY should be a symbol of humanity and a symbol of salvation.

Let’s say that’s true.

‘You have to find the weakness.’

So it was right to let you know that becoming a cannibal, a werewolf, or a vampire is never a good choice.

[The research speed of the Confederate bastards is faster than we thought. At least we need to know what their weaknesses are, how they will move, and what they will do in order to prepare.]

[Okay.]

Kim Yang, who was wrapping up the werewolf corpse, turned her head. In the distance, she saw a person collapsed in a corner, foaming at the mouth.

[huh?]

What Kim Yang saw was the unconscious Roy Stern.