Rust - Chapter 596



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RUST -596

At Naru’s command, the clones in the backup position entered the direction where the link was broken.

The constant headache, is this some kind of rebellion against the clone theme?

Didn’t this happen during training?

The warning from the researcher in charge came to mind.

If you get a severe headache while controlling a clone, it is a sign of psychic reflux, so it is better to change the operation or stop it.

‘Stop the operation? In this situation?’

I lost a clone right after I started. And what if I reported that for some reason, the clones were showing signs of mental retardation, as if they were refusing orders?

‘I’ll be ignored.’

Are you getting a headache from the psychic reflux on the topic of clones?

Are you saying that the order is that difficult? Then why did the clone that went in first die?

‘Those who have no feelings or desire for revenge when their comrades die.’

To her, the clone was nothing more or less than something created from her own DNA and eggs. So Naru decided to hide the situation.

They said that if you focus on giving orders, you can control it more reliably, so I guess I’ll just have to control it a little more carefully.

Naru’s eyes darkened.

Major Brooks, watching Vladinaru Kalin commanding through his tactical camera, felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

‘No matter how urgent it was, the training period was shortened too much.’

The 12-week course was already short, but they shortened it even further… It felt like I was seeing in real time the problems of junior officers who graduated from the shortened OTS (Officer Candidate School) course.

There were cases where junior officers who had lost their subordinates for the first time in actual combat lost their reason and gave orders. There were also bad cases, such as abandoning their subordinates and trying to run away, or not being able to withstand the psychological pressure and not being able to give orders at all and just watching the situation.

‘You must have been educated about mutant monsters···.’

No matter how I thought about it, the sight of them just pushing in the clones without any further operational plan seemed too emotional.

Normally, he would have intervened immediately to take command back from Lieutenant Bladinaru and have the clone troop retreat, but the orders from above were to simply watch and intervene only if Lieutenant Bladinaru’s life was in danger.

It seemed like they were trying to give me a proper experience in real life.

‘Whew- Even if it’s a clone, is it okay to consume it like that?’

Major Brooks closed his eyes at the sight of Ensign Vladinaru’s high-pitched scream.

“If the so-called life is in danger, send in a rescue team.”

“ancient.”

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Detroit.

After the child entered the psychic wave blocking lab, Yu Hee-yeon stopped having nightmares. The clone’s strange behavior also disappeared. However, the strange feelings that had already been kindled did not easily subside.

So to speak, the spirit of victory, the desire for revenge, and the obsession with the Colt Python.

Emotions that burn like burning charcoal and won’t go out even though you know that they aren’t your own.

She clenched her small fist.

The fist of a 5-6 year old child was small.

Kim Yang approached her as she clenched and unclenched her fist.

“What is Mark 2 doing?”

“···Yoo Hee-yeon.”

Kim Yang smiled at Yoo Hee-yeon’s answer to call her by her name correctly.

“Oh- Your name is pronounced correctly.”

It’s not a lisp, it’s a proper pronunciation. Is that the selective lisp? Is that it?

“Civil war?”

The corners of Kim Yang’s mouth slightly rose at Yoo Hee-yeon’s question.

Even though he didn’t say a word, I could feel it. Isn’t this the feeling of that war-mongering lady?

For some reason, Ms. Kim found herself laughing.

So, this was the secret of birth? The mystery of birth? Something like that. No matter how much you struggle, the story of how you were born that way came to mind.

‘Didn’t they say that pine cicadas have to eat pine needles?’

It was a bitch with the DNA of that war maniac. Everyone thinks this is normal, but it can’t be, right? That’s what Ms. Kim thought.

“What if it’s a fight? What if it’s a twist? Should we just have a cool fight?”

“······.”

If we mobilized the clones, we could have easily caught them. But if we did that, many clones would have been sacrificed. We couldn’t kill the clones because of an emotional fight.

“If you’re scared, you can stick together in virtual reality.”

Kim Yang, who must have noticed her thoughts, smiled and suggested a method. She said that if you die in a virtual reality, you will feel almost the same pain as when you die. And yet, you want to fight?

“Why? You don’t like it when I ask you to stick together?”

“···I am not Director Yoo.”

I’m not a bitch who’s crazy about fighting.

Whoosh- Yoo Hee-yeon turned her head and quickly avoided the spot.

‘Huh-‘

If the warmongering ingredient was strong, I would have bitten it right away.

This doesn’t seem to work, so I guess I’ll have to scratch it gently next time.

Miss Kim shrugged her shoulders slightly as she watched the back of the little boy running down the hallway.

Swish-swish-

The heavy breathing was filled with moisture. My vision was somehow blurred by the tears hanging down. I knew it.

It was obvious that Kim Yang was displeased with herself. She knew that there would be talk of her being a clone or a human being.

The problem is that knowing something and how a 5-6 year old body reacts are two separate things. It’s not that the body doesn’t react just because it knows something.

The young body was sensitive to emotions and weak to stimulation. Kim Yang’s provocation was so annoying and infuriating that I just burst into tears.

Objectively speaking, it was something I could have just let go of, but my 5-6 year old body didn’t react the way I thought it would. So I left, but my mind didn’t calm down.

Swish-swish-

At the end of the sound, which was difficult to distinguish between heavy breathing or a sound of frustration, dew formed.

What if the newborn was the original? So the original could control himself just as he controls his clone?

What on earth did the Empire create?

Why did you remove the clone’s ego?

At first, I just ignored it. I thought that a clone was just some kind of biological weapon. A combat weapon that copied Director Yu.

That’s why when a clone is seriously injured or falls behind, they are discarded to prevent information about the clone from being leaked to the enemy. It was natural for the clone to sacrifice itself for the success of the operation.

It wasn’t her idea. It was something like a manual embedded in the clone’s mind. That’s why she was able to access it easily and operate it easily.

However, since the recent birth of what appears to be the original, the clones’ movements have changed.

Maybe it was because there were two more people interfering with his brain waves. Maybe it was because he was taking advantage of the gap in his control to encroach on the clones’ control.

‘What should I do?’

If he had declared that he was an independent being, along with the declaration that he was not Jewish, wouldn’t the clones have been deprived of the opportunity to even make such a declaration?

It’s not like she’s a clone human rights activist or anything like that, but she herself was a clone and a cloned human. She was just lucky that she wasn’t born in the Empire and wasn’t brainwashed or programmed.

If I didn’t know, I wouldn’t have known, but now that I know, I can’t stay silent.

Swish-

She wiped the traces of the rustling with her sleeve and walked away.

Maru pressed his temple once.

So what did you say a little while ago?

“Say it again slowly. What did you say?”

“Cro···. I’m going to reveal the control of Cro-ron.”

Yoo Hee-yeon, who entered Maru’s office with a somewhat solemn expression on her face, was speaking while correcting her pronunciation.

“Interference with control. Do you think it’s because of the person who was born this time?”

“Yes. Huh-”

Hee-yeon, who had stopped talking as if she had chewed her tongue lightly, had a sad expression on her face.

“It would be better to log in and talk instead of making it so difficult. Log in and talk.”

If I connect to the clone and talk to it, there won’t be any problem in speaking, right?

But as if Maru’s words had triggered something, Hee-yeon’s expression turned pale.

“Okay- okay- calm down and let’s go out for a bit.”

Ki-soon, who was watching from the side, seemed to notice something and took Hee-yeon out.

How much time has passed?

Ki-soon, who had returned, nodded. It was a signal to look at the monitor.

“What is it?”

“Read it yourself.”

The email Hee-yeon sent was full of doubts and problems regarding clones.

“So, if you think about it, is it because you think you are also a type of clone?”

“If you think about it, that’s true. I’m like that too.”

“······.”

“Don’t look at it like that. That’s not what’s important right now, it’s the story below.”

Below were written the things Yoo Hee-yeon felt while connecting to the clones. The clones were brainwashed, injected with Director Yoo’s memories, and programmed. The story was that they had their egos erased, becoming biological weapons that only responded to orders.

“You already know this story, right? Didn’t you immediately check it when Hee-yeon first stole the clone?”

“You are impatient, so please read to the end, Your Majesty.”

The King of That Dude. Maru continued reading. There were questions about access to clones and doubts about the clones’ self-formation.

“So, as operational experience accumulates and Hee-yeon connects, it seems like the clone is developing an ego?”

“It’s not impossible, I don’t know if I should call it that.”

Ki-soon began to tell the story slowly. It was said that the clone’s ego had been destroyed, but it had been injected with Director Yu’s battle memories.

What if, as operations are repeated, behavioral patterns emerge around the instilled combat memories? Would it be wrong to call that a kind of self?

“···I wonder if he felt that he was connecting to and taking over the body of a clone that had a weak sense of self.”

“······.”

“Well, that’s a separate story, but it doesn’t seem safe to me to be a clone trooper.”

Artificial intelligence is what makes programs like humans.

If that AI is dangerous, what guarantee is there that the cloned self programmed into a humanoid organism is not dangerous?

‘It’s a story about a clone who was programmed to be a soldier and have his ego destroyed, and then gains an ego.’

Maru’s expression became serious.

“I guess I’ll have to do a thorough investigation first.”

I didn’t feel particularly uncomfortable, but I needed to check this before I felt uncomfortable.

“Diana. Tell Erica to check all the clones.”

[All right.]

If you look into it with psychometry, you’ll understand.

“Strengthen access control to the psychiatric laboratory.”

[Entry restrictions have been increased.]

I don’t know what choices the born being will make, but it’s said that it’s influencing the clones, so it’s better to prevent contact.

Ki-sun, who was watching Maru’s work, suddenly said something out of the blue.

“I just had a thought. It’s about awakening abilities.”

“?”

“You said that when you are in danger of death, the possibility of awakening your abilities increases.”

“That’s right.”

That’s why there were many capable people among the Japanese refugees. They were pushed into an extreme situation due to the combination of natural disasters and the mutant virus incident.

“Then what will happen to the clones who are pushed into the dangerous battlefield?”

“···Are you saying there might be an awakened clone?”

Thump-

Maru’s senses reacted slightly to Gisun’s words.

“Diana. Tell Erica to use psychometry to check the clones’ egos and see if they’ve awakened their powers.”

[Delivered.]

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A dark and dreary factory.

Chemical lighting, giving off a bluish glow, fell on the windowless basement.

Talk-

A light that bounces once on the edge and falls back down. 2nd floor in the basement of a factory that should only have 1 basement level?

That meant that the floor beneath the floor had been breached, so Naru’s clones immediately relayed the situation.

Chijijijik-

Communication is blocked due to radio interference.

The main body was ordering to enter through the mental link.

[What are you doing at the entrance!]

[Everyone, get in! Everyone, get in and kill them all!]

Reconnaissance required.

who?

You go.

Now that you’ve brought it up, it’s your responsibility.

So who’s going to scout first?

The clones instinctively avoided the option of going down first.

Despite having the fear of death removed from the start, Naru’s clone was certainly extraordinary.

Orders must be complied with.

You go first.

Danger signal needed.

The main body refuses to receive the call.

Crazy bitch.

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???

Who was that just now?

The four clones looked at each other.

As time passed while they were huddled together at the underground entrance, the main body’s command grew stronger along with a headache that felt like it was going to split open.

[Everyone get down! Get down now!]

Unable to resist the powerful dominance, the four clones joined hands and jumped underground at the same time.

Sizzle!

Sizzle sizzle!

The sound of rats scurrying around inside a hole dug underground echoed.

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‘Whew- When I say that quietly, you have to move. Make sure to make your voice louder. Make sure.’

Naru nodded, feeling her heavy bangs refreshed as the clones followed the order to enter.

‘There were traces there. If we clean up from there, something will come out.’

It didn’t matter if it was difficult to transmit and receive radio waves. All I had to do was give a command with my mind waves.

‘Huh. That’s why you needed me.’

Naru’s shoulders tense up.

[All move to the abandoned factory. Go into the basement of the abandoned factory and join them.]

It was the ferry that sent all the clones to the abandoned factory.