Rust - Chapter 592



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RUST [RUST]-592

While Maru and Gisun were busy with the post-mortem(?) processing, Ms. Kim was also concentrating on the after-death(?) tasting.

“I boiled it just as you said.”

Ms. Kim nodded after tasting a bowl of ‘gom’tang, which had been boiled for a long time and had a milky white broth.

First of all, the color of the soup is acceptable.

Then where.

It was Miss Kim who tasted the soup before adding salt and pepper.

Slurp-

It was a situation where I should have let out an exclamation like “Kwaa- Heuheu- Kyaa-” but I didn’t.

Miss Kim, with a subtle expression on her face, sipped the soup again.

Gyah.

“Why does this taste like this?”

Ms. Kim checks with the chef right away.

The Canadian chef replied as if he didn’t know what the problem was.

“Yes? I boiled it exactly as you told me.”

“So, if you eat ‘gom’tang, you should feel full of energy, hot, and refreshed, right? It’s like a feeling of being completely drained of energy and vitality.”

The chef was embarrassed by Kim Yang’s claim. He cooked it just as she asked, so what should he do?

“Even if you say so···.”

“Eight. This is wrapped? One. No, two, please.”

Ms. Kim packed up the freshly boiled gomtang and went into the conference room where Maru and Gisun were having a hard time.

“Oh, what is that?”

Ki-sun whined as she checked the heavy packaging container she was holding in both hands.

“Try this. It’s the ‘bear’ soup I caught recently, but it’s a bit strange.”

“Is it subtle?”

Hearing that the floor was subtle, he took a sip of the soup and furrowed his brow.

As Kim Yang said, there was something a bit strange. The taste was okay, but I would say it didn’t give me that special feeling of power.

Ki-sun must have felt it too, because she licked her lips and put her spoon down.

“It tastes good, but it doesn’t taste like anything I’ve had before.”

“yes?”

After hearing Gi-sun’s evaluation, Kim Yang’s gaze turned straight to Maru.

“That’s right.”

Maru had no choice but to agree. It was true that he felt somewhat powerless. Everything he had caught before was fine, so what was the problem with the ones he had caught this time?

‘The bigger the creature or the stronger its ability, the better the effect of the bodyguard···.’

Anyway, since they were already hungry, Maru and Gisun quickly finished the gomtang. After eating a whole bowl, their bodies felt a little warmer, so it wasn’t completely ineffective.

Ki-soon nodded, wiping the beads of sweat that had formed on her forehead with her sleeve.

“But after eating everything, I started sweating a little.”

“really?”

“Yeah, I started to feel something after eating about half of it.”

“oh-”

Kim was delighted to hear that it wasn’t a complete mess.

“I think it’s because all the energy was consumed due to the super regeneration.”

Maru, who rinsed his mouth with apple juice, began to tell a story.

“Judging by the fact that it didn’t die after being hit by the Bunker Buster and was trying to recover, its hide and fur became fluffy, so it seems like it used up all of its energy or whatever.”

“So you’re saying the effects you saw have diminished?”

“Maybe. If you boil the mother bear, you’ll know. Is it the same?”

As expected by Maru, the mother bear’s whole body was tattered and worn out. Seeing that it was less effective than the male Maru caught, he had to assume that his hypothesis was correct.

“Then the little one will be okay?”

Even though it’s a lamb, it’s the size of a refrigerated truck, so let’s check if Ms. Kim is right. Isn’t lamb delicious?

Above all, since the head was blown off by the tank’s main gun at close range, there was no time for regeneration or anything, so the Aegis would not have escaped.

“Oh- It’s better to grab it quickly.”

Kim Yang, who was happily eating the baby ‘bear’ soup, tilted her head. Then, what would happen if she mixed it with the mother bear soup, which was less effective?

“You know, that Japanese food. It’s when the mother and her baby eat together.”

“Oyako Don? (親子丼: おやこどんぶり, Oyako Donburi)”

“Yeah. That. I think it would be good to eat it that way.”

“······.”

“······.”

What? Why?

It was hard to catch, so I have to eat it efficiently.

Wouldn’t that be a good way to eat everything deliciously?

In this way, all the bear meat was mixed together and processed into meat, and the bones were also boiled at once to create an integrated gomtang base.

Piles of meat were distributed to Detroit and other newly rebuilt cities, and temperatures began to drop.

“Now that we’re done preparing for winter, let’s go back.”

Thanks to the ten-day retreat, Maru and Gisun had finished everything from the redeployment of the returning soldiers to the supply plan.

Roy Stern and his men were to act as a support battalion at the northern Canadian supply fort, so they would not be easily defeated even if the monster bear returned.

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Detroit in November began to be buried in heavy snow again.

“Did we do this last year too?”

“It was like that.”

The floor, which recalled the memory of being piled up over 5m, shook its head.

Ki-sun, who had been watching the two people’s banter, looked out the window with narrowed eyes. The sight of the sushi piled up neatly crawling along the road.

“Ulleungdo was no joke. This place is no joke either.”

“Has the weather in Korea gone crazy?”

“It’s not just the weather that’s bad.”

Ki-soon looked at the sky with a bitter expression.

The sky, with its thick, falling snowflakes, seemed to be covered in white cotton candy.

Who knew the government could go so crazy?

They didn’t know how to declare martial law, or how to deploy the reserve force of over 2 million people to wipe out neighborhoods that opposed them.

“Na Ju-yeon, who predicted that, ran away to Ulleungdo with the Ojin Group, but as everyone knows, that’s how it ended.”

“They’re cannibals. Either the command is made up of them, or they’re possessed by them.”

Although it was a casual remark by Kim Yang, it was not light-hearted. It was about the government and the military becoming cannibals.

“The Confederacy must have had some influence on it?”

“It may have been influenced by China or Japan.”

Na Ju-yeon intervened in the middle.

“China and Japan?”

“They were also conducting research using mutant viruses. If you think about it, China is the country where the mutant virus incident occurred, and Japan is the country that intended to spread the virus in order to make medicine, so it’s right to see that there is research related to cannibals.”

The official opinion was that China, split into seven parts, was ‘virtually in a state of civil war,’ but it was unclear what would happen inside.

The same goes for Japan, which has been ruined. Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and even radioactive contamination. The country of Japan has disappeared.

However, this does not mean that the Japanese archipelago has disappeared. The central government has disappeared, but each local government has survived. Each local government has begun to seek survival independently, and the resulting conflicts have grown to the point where armed conflicts have broken out.

“How did you know that information?”

“I found out through the Charlotte Group Intelligence Department. I’ve gathered important information here, so please take a look later.”

She showed that she did not get the position of president of Ojin Group by force.

While Maru absorbed the Charlotte Group and left to deal with the Northern Canadian issue, Na Ju-yeon interviewed and absorbed the Charlotte Group researchers, checked with all the people involved in the intelligence department, and organized the necessary information.

“···Thank you for your hard work.”

“No. You have suffered more than I have.”

Kim Yang’s eyes became clouded at the sight of Na Ju-yeon like that.

It’s scary, Mayenshi.

It must be something she does after returning to Mayenshi.

‘Who the hell is going to interview the Charlotte kids and take them away?’

Na Ju-yeon immediately responded to Kim Yang’s indifferent gaze that said, “I can’t just leave you alone.”

‘Mayenshi Ver. 2.0 is out. The performance is guaranteed.’

‘Are you sure?’

‘Of course. Try it once and then decide.’

‘······.’

While the two women reunited in Mayenshi, Maru looked through the materials Najuyeon had uploaded.

Certainly, the Charlotte Group had its fair share of grievances. In Japan, they were criticized as a Korean company, and in Korea, they were criticized as a Japanese company.

But now that I’ve carefully examined the data, it turns out it was a Japanese company. It was receiving benefits as a foreign company in terms of taxes and such.

Since Charlotte was a Japanese company, there was no way it could avoid it when the Japanese Cabinet Intelligence Agency proposed investing in Yamatsuki Pharmaceutical and Takaichi Shinyaku.

There was a story about how, although they had no choice but to invest semi-forcibly, they invested more and increased their stake to a position where they could view research data.

So, the fact that he said he was unfairly invested and then later lost was half a joke. Isn’t it also funny that the current chairman is not responsible because it was the former chairman’s doing?

‘First of all, all the medicines Charlotte made were made using technology from both companies.’

Berserker Pole, Rapid Healing, and Neutralizer were all like that. If you had pharmaceutical technology like Altolan, you would have been a top.

Maru felt slightly dumbfounded as he read the material.

‘It’s amazing. In many ways.’

There was a reason why the Charlotte group, which moved to the western United States, was able to rapidly expand its research area.

Because they absorbed high-level human resources from among the refugees who gathered from all over Japan based on backup data brought from a pharmaceutical company in Tokyo.

Japan was a stronger country than expected in the fields of chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, biology, and genetics. Charlotte, who had secured research personnel, focused on the field of enhanced humans and those with awakened abilities.

I was looking for a way to use black tentacles as one of the ways to enhance humans, so it was quite something.

‘They were only gathering and managing people with special abilities.’

Even those with the ability to purify the air were like that. When breathing in a closed space, oxygen decreases and carbon dioxide increases, eventually causing suffocation and death.

However, when an air purifier uses their ability, a phenomenon occurs where carbon dioxide decreases and oxygen increases.

Even fine dust and gas smoke were immediately purified. This is a phenomenon that cannot be explained scientifically.

The same goes for those with water purification abilities or soil purification abilities. If their abilities could be strengthened, it might be possible to purify cities contaminated with radiation.

‘Research to amplify the abilities of those with abilities.’

The list goes on.

The ability to accelerate plant growth.

The ability to find water underground.

The ability to extract salt from salt water.

And then, in the next line, a wrinkle appeared between Maru’s eyebrows.

[The ability to take control of electrical machinery.]

[Ability to break electrical devices.]

When we played the video of the experiment that followed, there was content that seemed like a lie.

The moment the seemingly capable child touched the computer, the monitor screen began to change on its own and the program began to run.

The monitor and mouse were left untouched. Fortunately, it wasn’t hacking ability.

In the following video, an old man wearing gloves takes off his gloves and touches the computer, and the computer goes out.

It wasn’t just computers. Any electronic device that used chips, whether it was a cell phone or something else, would break down the moment you touched it.

‘It’s not an EMP.’

If someone with such abilities were to touch a quantum computer or an AI supercomputer, the damage would surely be terrible.

“How are you managing your capable people?”

“Most of them are managed in the outer area. Those with special abilities listed in the data are managed separately in the inner area.”

“Are the capable people not dissatisfied?”

“Yes. I don’t have any complaints yet. Ah- Those who have had abilities since before are a bit like that.”

At Na Ju-yeon’s words, one of Maru’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

“A person with abilities that has existed since long ago?”

“They are the power users who escaped from New York before it became an empire. They are the power users who have Director Yu’s embryo. They seem to be dissatisfied with their treatment.”

That’s what the people who saved me in New York were talking about.

A woman and her group who blew up a secret laboratory at the Department of Homeland Security and escaped with the embryo of Director Yoo who was being researched there in her body.

“Dissatisfied with the treatment?”

“Yes. I don’t want to be locked up like in a prison any longer.”

There was nothing I could do. No matter how much I cared about security, something could happen.

It would be bad if it was revealed that the people who destroyed the secret research lab and stole Director Yoo’s embryos were brought here.

“You must have had a baby?”

“It’s been a while.”

Yeah, I guess she should have been born a long time ago.

As it turned out, there were many people with the same genes as Director Yu. Starting with Hee-yeon, who Maru named, another clone was added to the list of clones created by the Empire.

Tsk-

“Is there anything wrong with the child?”

“Yes. There’s no particular problem. Except that Yoo Hee-yeon and the clones come to visit the child often.”

“Hee-yeon and the clone went looking for you? Not just one clone, but clones? Since when?”

Maru, who felt strange for some reason, went to check.