Rust - Chapter 593



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RUST -593

The sound of a blocked pore opening up.

Hak-hak- mandible-

Heeyeon, drenched in sweat, exhaled with difficulty.

‘Why on earth are you doing this?’

It was that nightmare again.

A nightmare that has been going on for months.

Vladimir Kalin. So, the dream of dying by Maru’s sword. I used to have nightmares once in a while, but I haven’t had nightmares since I received the name.

But then one day, the nightmares started to continue. One nightmare was set in a wasteland, and another was set in a highland. The events in Iraq and Afghanistan came back to me so vividly.

It wasn’t just a simple memory, but a sense of reality that seemed to be repeating the experience. The incidents of subordinates dying and an entire village being blown away.

And the obsession with the cobalt-colored revolver grew stronger and stronger. Every time I saw Kim Yang and Vladimir Kalin, my competitive spirit surged.

To put it nicely, it was a sense of triumph, but a violent emotion closer to revenge and anger was gradually taking root.

‘I am not a Jew. I am Yoo Hee-yeon.’

She desperately tried to push away the emotions that were eating away at her mind, but she couldn’t avoid the nightmares that kept coming every time she tried to fall asleep.

And the dedicated researcher spoke with a bright expression towards her, who looked to be about 5 or 6 years old.

“I’m glad that our Heeyeon has a younger sibling.”

“Doongsan?” (Little brother?)

A memory suddenly came to mind. I remembered a story from long ago about a female mercenary who was carrying an embryo. She gave birth.

When I checked the date, it was around the same time that I started having those strange nightmares. Was that a coincidence? And then the clones started acting individually one by one. Was that a coincidence too?

I didn’t have any problems connecting, but it felt weird to see the clones acting spontaneously and arbitrarily when I wasn’t connected.

It was painful to see the clones created by the Empire, mass-produced as consumables, transform from consumables to human beings over time. This happened in just six months.

As the clones, who were treated as moving terminals that connected in place of the main body, developed their own individuality, Yoo Hee-yeon became increasingly reluctant to connect.

Constant nightmares, a reluctance to log in, and clones acting more and more freely. What if the clones are also affected by Director Yu’s newly born incarnation?

What is the use of the existence called Yoo Hee-yeon? 5~6 ​​years old. The results showed that it is uncertain whether the ability to rejuvenate will bloom if rapid growth treatment is performed.

It is said that the ability to rejuvenate may not bloom. If the ability to rejuvenate is not awakened, accelerating growth would be like shortening one’s lifespan.

So the growth stimulant program was stopped. He grew to be 4 or 5 years old in about a year. Now he has the size of a 5 or 6 year old, but from now on he has to grow like a normal child.

Heeyeon became anxious.

How long can a 5~6 year old body continue to play the role of an exhibition analyst or an operations officer?

As we have accepted a large number of returning soldiers, the number of officers involved in operations has also increased. Will opportunities continue to come to me like this?

How did it end up like this?

Why do things keep getting messed up?

What caused this?

if.

If only there was one chance.

What if that happens?

The answer I found in the midst of pain and suffering was one.

‘That’s why.’

One day, while suffering from nightmares, she found the answer.

okay.

That was why.

Hee-yeon decided to poison her mind and get rid of it.

When Hee-yeon said she wanted to see her child, the researcher naturally took her there, asking if she wanted to see her younger sibling.

Although she was able to meet the child like that, she was unable to achieve her goal because there were two large men next to the child.

“Fuck. How long do I have to watch Anna?”

“I’m sorry. If I had known this would happen, I should have come out earlier.”

Dick apologized to Dewey. Their relationship as team leader and teammate had changed into something more like a friendship over time.

“What did I say? Didn’t I say that kid was the target here too?”

“So was there another way? At the time, this was the only way for us to survive.”

As Dewey continued to bite and hang on, Dick began to feel a little feverish.

“Who said anything? But this is too much. Do you remember what you said at the time? Didn’t you say you would get revenge?”

“······.”

At the end of the word revenge, the two men’s mouths closed at the same time. What had been gnawing at their hearts for a year was the undying desire for revenge.

Moments when my family was taken hostage.

The times I lived as a slave to a cannibal family.

And the incident where they broke into the Homeland Security Department’s secret lab and ran off with the surrogate mothers and embryos.

In the end, he met Vladimir Kalin and was able to survive, but he lost the people who were like brothers and sisters to him.

Vladimir Kalin had clearly given room for revenge. He had said that there would be a chance to take revenge on the cannibal.

Wait.

A year has already passed since we waited so long, and now it’s winter again.

How long should I wait? I wonder if I wouldn’t have thought this if I had been mobilized for the northern monster wave.

If he had been sent to Newport News Shipyard security, or even deployed to the Seattle battle, he probably wouldn’t have gone crazy from frustration.

Yoo Hee-yeon laughed inwardly after hearing the two men’s words.

Who saved his life right before he died? Where would he have been sent if he had not been dissatisfied?

‘No way.’

If I had sent him north, he would have complained that he was supposed to fight cannibals, but now he’s been made to fight monsters. If I had sent him to shipyard security, he would have complained that he smelled like seagull droppings. What if I had sent him to the Battle of Seattle?

So Yoo Hee-yeon looked at the two people with cold eyes.

The two rough-looking men were talking nonstop, but they never left the child’s side. And the mercenary woman, who was the mother, was holding the child in her arms as if she were a real mother.

“Dick- Dewey- the kid is sleeping. Please be quiet.”

“······.”

“That’s right-. You- You···”

“Dewey-”

“······.”

A woman named Rebecca gave a faint smile to Yu Hee-yeon after making the two men shut up. She was too young to be a mother.

I was given the role of implanting and transporting an artificially inseminated embryo, but did I know that doing so would actually be the same as becoming a surrogate mother?

Yoo Hee-yeon felt the darkness hidden behind the woman’s smile slightly shake.

Rebecca called out to Yu Hee-yeon, perhaps mistaking her confused appearance for something cute.

“The baby is sleeping, do you want to watch it?”

When Yoo Hee-yeon, who felt strangely as if she were 5 or 6 years old, raised her head, the researcher in charge responded with a motherly smile.

As I approached slowly, I saw a baby who had completely outgrown the newborn form. The baby seemed to be sleeping, as if he had grown to the point where he looked like he was about 100 days old.

If growth had not been promoted, humans would have been slow-growing creatures.

‘no.’

It was humans who had grown so quickly without any growth stimulation.

This kid is the source of nightmares.

How can such a small child be the cause of the clones’ abnormal reactions?

The child who fell asleep without knowing anything was my younger sibling.

Biologically speaking, they were twin brothers.

If you consider the clones, they were all sisters made of the same DNA.

“Put your finger here.”

When I spread my index finger and placed it on my small hand, it flinched.

The child grabbed Yu Hui-yeon’s finger.

The soft sensation felt on my fingers, along with the scent of the child, made me feel strangely ticklish.

If you want to dispose of it by accident, now is a good opportunity.

Just pretend to be crazy and break your neck.

Perhaps because of the sense of kinship that came with the hazy feeling, my heart wavered.

cadet-

The sight of a child yawning instead of sleeping.

As the small hand that had been clenching tightly opened, it was Yoo Hee-yeon who pulled out her fingers that had been caught as if on fire.

“Okay, I should say goodbye now. I’ll come see you later, so say goodbye-”

That’s how our first meeting ended.

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‘Hee-yeon and the clones often visit the child born from Director Yoo’s embryo?’

Maru didn’t miss even the slightest sense of discomfort.

“Diana. Check the entire relationship between Yuhiyeon and the newborn.”

Maru ordered the artificial intelligence Diana to organize all the unusual information and check all CCTV footage related to Yoo Hee-yeon.

[Shortly after the baby was born, Yu Hee-yeon began having nightmares that kept her from sleeping.]

[The clones’ strange behavior also began around the same time.]

Although it was difficult to find a logical and scientific reason, it was true that the child’s birth and the abnormal behavior overlapped.

And in a world like today where strange abilities and people with powers arise, results are more important than logic and science.

“What are the results of the calculation?”

[It is difficult to objectively assess the research capabilities of the Homeland Security Agency’s secret laboratory, but it is difficult to say that they have secured the technology to implant memories at the embryonic stage.]

“then?”

[There are three cases: a case where Director Yoo’s thoughts naturally entered the embryo, a case where a separate thought entered the embryo, and a case where the embryo was formed naturally as a result of personality formation without the influence of a separate thought.]

“It’s a bit strange to say that Director Yoo’s thoughts were embedded in the embryo. Isn’t that so?”

Miss Kim tilted her head.

So, it means that Director Yoo’s thoughts that were wandering somewhere in the underworld entered the embryo and became his own body.

If that’s the case, wouldn’t it have been better to go to Mark II a long time ago?

Or join one of the clones?

Ki-sun opened her mouth as she looked through the materials.

“You said a fairly powerful telepath died in the New York sewers?”

“okay.”

“I ran a virtual reality to check the ability development and response methods of those with telepathy, and there was a very, very small chance that when a telepath died, they would enter someone else’s body.”

“A telepath entered someone else’s body?”

“Uh- There are those patients. People who have lost consciousness but all their functions are normal. People whose brains are normal and their vitals are normal, but they don’t respond. The mind of a telepathic person enters them.”

The story is that quantum computers and grape bunch calculations have confirmed this possibility.

So, Maru shook his head at the idea that the child born now could have the original Director Yu inside, or the telepath Julia who died in New York.

“Okay. Call Erica.”

[I called.]

There was a way to check, so there was no need to worry too much. Maru decided to try psychometry right away. If there was something in the child’s body, he could filter it out with psychometry.

“If you have any telepathy, please leave it to me.”

Na Ju-yeon slowly became more interested in research.

“Since the radio interference is getting worse, I’m going to analyze your telepathic abilities.”

They used to make a makeshift communication network by having crows carry small repeaters, but there was a limit to the battery life.

Even if we made batteries using quantum computers, grape clusters, supercomputers, and even artificial intelligence, it was not easy to kill two birds with one stone: miniaturization and increased charging capacity.

It is true that it is more difficult for a battery to maintain consistent performance even in the scorching heat of 40 degrees Celsius and the bitter cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius.

As Maru nodded in agreement, Kim Yang furrowed her brow.

“If there’s something inside, wouldn’t it be better to dispose of it cleanly? If you develop telepathy and it goes strangely, it’s dangerous.”

Kim Yang, who had once been severely beaten by a psychic, opposed the research.

“You don’t have to worry about that. I plan to start with virtual reality. I already have a brainwave and mindwave blocking lab in operation.”

“What about the self-destruct device? If you underestimate the psychic abilities, you might end up in trouble.”

As Ms. Kim insisted strongly, Na Ju-yeon looked at Ms. Kim.

‘Why are you doing this when you did a good job with Mayenshi 2.0?’

‘The difficulty is hell. Hell.’

‘Okay. But you know that if you mess with the difficulty too much, the whole thing will fall apart, right? So I can’t mess with the difficulty. Instead, I’ll change the starting point. Okay?’

‘···Try it.’

Although the two men finished negotiating, it was inevitable that a large bomb would be planted in the psychic ability laboratory.

[Psychometric Erica has arrived.]

“Tell them to start right away in the psychic lab.”

A multi-layered, separated psychiatric laboratory.

All the researchers were wearing strange helmets.

They say it’s a mental protection helmet, but Erica’s psychometry is the ability to read what she touches, so the helmet can’t block it. The opposite is also true.

“Please write this down.”

“Ah- yes. Thank you.”

Erica’s heart was troubled.

What if Julia was inside that child? The moment Julia was inside, it was clear that the child would become a test subject trapped in this psychic research lab.

However, it was hard to deceive. If they found out that he was deceiving them, he would have to fly away with them. At least in terms of the test subject, the worst would be to be disposed of in a flash.

As I entered the completely sealed space, I saw a baby just a few months old lying in a crib.

He began psychometry by gently placing his hand on the doll-like hand of the child who was quietly closing her eyes, as if she was asleep.

?????

At that moment, a voice echoed in Erica’s mind.

[hi?]

Heeeeeeeeek!!!