Rust - Chapter 601



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RUST [RUST]-601

Two gunshots, one overlapping the other.

bang!!

The senior soldier fired his gun at Naru, who was identified as a clone without any emotion, and the clone was caught up in the explosive mental wave and pulled the trigger at the senior soldier who aimed his gun at the main body.

Gunshots erupted simultaneously.

Two people’s heads exploded at the same time.

The soldier who saw the hole in the head of the senior officer dropped the detector he was holding without realizing it. Before his empty hand, which had let go of the detector, could even adjust the submachine gun on his shoulder, the clone’s pistol fired first.

Valid-!

Reflexive double tap-.

Two bullets struck the soldier in the head and chest.

The Empire’s new bulletproof vest succeeded in stopping the special armor-piercing bullet, but it was useless, as another bullet lodged itself between the soldier’s eyes.

Furpudeok-

The clone stood there dazed for a moment, aiming his gun at the fallen soldier, then shook his head.

Trembling fingertips.

She couldn’t figure out why her hands were shaking.

Ugh-

I’ve been having persistent headaches since being exposed to the powerful psychic waves emitted by the main body.

Whether it was the body’s mental wave or a strong thought, it stuck to her mind like sticky glue and would not come off.

‘We have to move.’

The plan went completely awry. He was planning to disguise the main body as a clone and use it as bait while taking on the role of the main body.

‘I shot it right away.’

The moment someone was identified as a clone, they were executed immediately. I thought of the soldier who pulled the trigger without a second thought.

Tell the other kids about this…

‘Is there a need to convey this?’

A momentary temptation.

What if I just run away like this?

If you leave quietly without warning,

There was a good chance that all the other kids would be killed.

Then there won’t be any kids who know I’m a clone.

It was about becoming the main body.

‘No. Why am I thinking like this?’

Whoosh-whoosh-

The clone shook his head and focused.

????

A space of the mind that connects smoothly, unlike the past when it was stiff and took a long time.

It felt like a thin thread was connecting my head and my heart. The five red threads that had been blurry suddenly changed into four.

Fit-

A broken thread. Somehow, I could naturally understand the meaning of the broken thread.

‘He’s dead?’

She immediately focused her mind.

[The pursuer is attached. Two people per group.]

[There is a terminal that distinguishes the biochip]

[Immediate action after clone verification.]

[Even if you surrender, you will be killed.]

The thread connected to it trembled as important information was conveyed. I don’t know the exact meaning, but it seemed like the information I conveyed had arrived well.

She looked around the scene after relaying the information to the other kids.

What should I do?

First of all, I should get a tactical camera. In the worst case scenario, it would be evidence that the Empire killed the main body. And since I’m disguised as the main body, will I still be attached to the Empire?

‘No. I have to run away.’

A hazy thought came to my mind in a jumbled mess. The thought of having to run away kept coming to my mind.

Okay. I’m going. I’m running away.

Only after she had made up her mind to run away did the headache, which felt like a woodpecker pecking at her skull, begin to go away. She checked the escape route.

‘The shortest route is up the Hudson River, crossing the frozen river at Buffalo in northwest New York.’

She hitched a sled full of supplies to the snowmobiles the pursuers were riding on and set off without any hesitation.

After she left, a day passed and it began to snow. Imperial troops arrived on the scene just as the snowmobile tracks were covered in snow.

Soldiers poured out of vehicles that looked similar to Mercedes-Benz Zetros and began to search in all directions.

And then an officer with a cold look on his face got out of a modified GMC Sierra Manali vehicle that arrived later.

“We found the body of Lieutenant Manfred Landa. This way.”

Where the crunching sound of snow had stopped, three corpses were covered in snow. Lieutenant Manfred raised the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he was satisfied with the scene remaining the same.

The corpse, the white snow, and the lieutenant’s upturned lips created a bizarre atmosphere. The sergeant who guided the lieutenant swallowed his saliva without realizing it and took a step back.

The lieutenant knelt on one knee and bowed as if waiting for his superior to step back.

‘You’re lucky the rats didn’t eat it.’

The lieutenant thought he was lucky in many ways. He gently brushed away the accumulated snow with his black leather-gloved hands and checked the wound.

The marks from the new .45 caliber bullet were clear.

‘Double tap? You’re good at it.’

Is the shooting coming from that direction?

Lieutenant Manfred tilted his head. A white snow field stretched out before him, empty of anything.

hmm-

‘There was a shootout in front of the ambulance.’

There was no gunfight, because there were no bullet casings on the ground, so the dead soldier died without firing a single shot.

And the same goes for the corpse of the senior soldier next to him. A headshot from behind that went straight through the balaclava. A trace of a single shot that ended it all. Lieutenant Manfred’s eyebrows flinched.

As the lieutenant tried to look inside the ambulance, the sergeant who was following one step behind quickly explained.

“The body in the ambulance is a clone.”

“A clone?”

“Yes. There was a biochip reaction.”

“okay?”

Lieutenant Manfred’s eyes sank as he finally entered the ambulance. His gaze was focused on the diagonal scar rather than the bullet hole in his forehead.

A face seen in the command barracks near an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Brooklyn. It was the face of a woman struggling, clutching at the wounds on her face.

“Are you sure it’s a clone?”

“There is a biochip reaction that is only inserted into clones.

The lieutenant’s indifferent gaze fell on the sergeant who was repeating the same thing. The sergeant immediately reacted to the sergeant’s characteristically bright gaze.

“Let me double check. Medic! Here, take out the biochip.”

“······.”

Lieutenant Manfred Landa sat lazily on a stretcher inside the ambulance and looked at the face of the corpse he was calling the clone.

An expression that clearly shows desperation.

The fear of death was frozen in its raw form.

‘A clone that has had its fear genetically and chemically removed has this kind of expression?’

Since it had to act as a bioweapon, the parts related to fear were removed when creating the clone. Even if there were errors in the bioengineering process…

‘This is the main body.’

They say the clone disguised itself as the main body. Why?

Are you trying to use the main body as bait? Then you’re saying you had no intention of killing it.

‘Based on the direction of the gunfire and the bodies, it looks like the senior soldier shot the bitch. Did the clone disguised as the main body shoot the two soldiers?’

why?

Lieutenant Manfred Landa’s head was spinning.

The hypothesis was not logical. If you think about this, that side is caught, and if you think about that side, this side is caught. You’ll know when you try to catch it.

“That. The biochip and the unique number do not match.”

The sergeant spoke to the thoughtful Lieutenant Manfred.

“map.”

As soon as the sergeant handed over a tablet containing a map, the lieutenant checked the map and drew a straight line.

“We’re going to the Hudson River. 3rd Platoon stays behind to clear the scene and follow us.”

Snowmobiles that you would expect to see in polar regions began to move in a line.

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President Den Brown managed to overcome the headache and heartburn that had been plaguing him for some time.

[Bladinaru Kalin died. Cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.]

“That’s crazy. Who killed him?”

It was the worst.

[The pursuit team shot. I think they mistook me for a clone.]

“···What’s the evidence?”

[There is tactical camera footage and evidence of the firearm and bullet marks used.]

It means that there is irrefutable evidence.

No. How did you get me wrong? And why was Vladinaru Kalin, who was supposedly being evacuated with injuries, shot there?

Chancellor Den Braun’s face hardened when he heard that the clones had disguised Vladinaru Kalin as a clone and were attempting to escape.

[Lieutenant Manfred leads the pursuit team in pursuit of the clones.]

“I told him not to let it go. Never.”

The states surrounding the empire were practically lawless zones, except for the capital. Even if they were biological weapons, clones, once the side effects of the drug started, it was impossible to endure.

It was too far to the Confederacy, where anything was possible if it was to feed the Empire. The only place the clones could escape to was the Holy Kingdom. It was certain that the Chairman of the Ojin Group, who had the power of restriction, was there.

‘I guess I’ll run away towards Canada.’

It was a flight from the preggers. There was a deep fatigue in the monologue of General Dan Brown.

“Freeze the Bloody Mary program and find a countermeasure.”

If Vladimir Kalin later found out that his sister was dead, it would have been very misleading.

“And send ambassadors to the Holy Kingdom.”

I had to convey the situation as objectively as possible and direct Vladimir Kalin’s emotions towards the clone. And right now.

[It is difficult to use an airship due to the extreme cold.]

“Let’s go by land. No, it would be better to just go to Canada.”

[Are you speaking Canadian?]

“Yes. I heard Bernard Green has been inaugurated as the Governor General of Canada, so it would be nice to go there to congratulate him.”

Bernard Green (Kim Ki-soon) was close friends with Vladimir Kalin.

It would be better to pass on the news through a friend rather than delivering it directly. Strong emotions are sometimes expressed to completely unrelated people.

[I will prepare it that way.]

“Let’s leave as soon as possible.”

[Okay. Then what are you going to do with the body of Vladinaru Kalin?]

“Thump, thump,” said the long-suffering General Dan Brown, drumming his fingers on the desk and giving a low command.

“The main body is to be taken to the laboratory, and a perfectly copied clone is to be placed in the coffin.”

[All right.]

“Take all the footage of Vladinaru Kalin’s life in New York, the documents that led to our contract, everything.”

[ancient.]

I couldn’t just blow the Bloody Mary program after the U+ program.

If we continued to fight against the monster rats and other mutated animals as we were doing now, the Empire’s forces would slowly wither away, and once we started to fall behind, it would be nearly impossible to recover the front line.

‘I can’t give up on the clone troopers.’

The only way for the Empire to survive was to mass-produce high-performance clone soldiers. That’s why, unfortunately, they couldn’t hand over the main body.

By studying the body of Vladinaru Kalin, Chancellor Dan Brown determined that obtaining psychic abilities was essential to ensuring the security of the Empire.

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The Governor General’s Residence in Ottawa, Canada.

Koreans who are not interested in Canada have heard of Canadian cities like Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, but the capital of Canada is Ottawa.

‘We need to readjust the empire and its borders.’

Ki-sun opened her eyes slightly, with the border map in front of her.

The current border with the empire was drawn along the St. Lawrence River. However, when I came as governor, I realized that if you take the river as the border, it was an absurdly roughly drawn border.

‘Quebec is a city like Seoul, made up of Gangnam and Gangbuk, and Montreal is centered around Gangbuk, but since warehouses and farmland are concentrated in Gangnam, dividing it around the river would essentially mean re-drawing the city plan from scratch.’

Above all, they were unable to properly deal with the growing number of mutant monsters in existing Canadian territory, that is, south of the St. Lawrence River.

So the Canadians who were south of the river escaped to the Holy Kingdom to try to survive. The problem was that the mutant monsters followed the humans who escaped and came up.

Even if the bridge was cut off, it was not the case that the monsters would have been unable to cross the river. Rather, it was better to lead them to the bridge and capture them. So, there was constant fighting in the stronghold built around the bridge.

‘If they’re going to pass on to us what they have to deal with, then they should do it at the existing Canadian border.’

How do I get it back?

How about sending down a buffalo or a moose?

The amount of food that the carnivores are eating is no joke, so if you send some down, the empire will probably react.

While Ki-sun was organizing her good thoughts, an emergency signal appeared.

[Governor General. Urgent report from Montreal. Imperial forces are entering Montreal.]

“The Imperial Army is coming into Montreal armed?”

[Yes, they are called the Imperial Pursuit Squad.]

like-

Ki-sun’s thin, squinty eyes widened.

I already wanted to cry, but you slapped me in the face.

“What are you chasing? You want to come in without any prior consultation?”

[They say it’s to catch clones.]

“Tell them you can’t come in. They’re clones and all, so follow the procedures.”

[That. The clone they are chasing… is said to be the clone involved in the death of Vladinaru Kalin.]

what?