Rust - Chapter 611



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RUST-611

Kim Yang tilted his head.

Is the HUD (Head Up Display) broken? It definitely felt like it was shaking because I stabbed it with a knife… But now that I look at it, it doesn’t seem to be the case.

The bitter cold of minus 40 degrees froze the dead rats lying on the floor like frozen meat.

Kkukkuk-trample-kkiyung-one step.

Kkuduk-mungkeo- kkyuyung- two steps.

So it was clear that I was hallucinating. I was frozen solid, but what was that drop of blood?

uh?

So, Ms. Kim realized it too late.

That this entire space was full of frozen rats.

The footsteps that had been briskly walking gradually slowed down.

There were rats frozen whole, and there were also remains that looked like they had been ground up in a blender. The black blast marks here and there were clear signs of self-destruction.

It was clear that the rats had taken poison and rushed in. The dead bodies of those rats were scattered everywhere, not in the hundreds or thousands, but in numbers that could not be counted even with a cursory glance.

Kim Yang blinked. When I caught a crow in the indoor stadium before, I thought it was huge and scary, but now this was just…

There were times in the past when I thought, ‘Is this a human baby?’

So, didn’t you acknowledge it deep in your heart as the highest dignity?

But no matter how much I thought about it, this scenery was not something that a human could have created with just a sword.

Even if you take that damn ‘slaughter’ into account, it’s the same.

Having experienced the killing in Mayan City 2.0, I could roughly understand that the killing spirit that Maru uses is a technique and ability that requires concentration, mental power, and physical strength.

So, the ‘life’ was something that could only be used a few times no matter how many times you tried. But look at this sight now. Either you could use it a ton, or the range had expanded a lot, one of the two.

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The average engagement distance during urban combat was within 10 to 15 meters.

So, it was a fraud to fly 15m to save, but now, even if you look at it roughly, it seems like a 40~50m radius was scorched earth. In terms of radius, it’s 40~50m, but in terms of diameter, it’s 80~100m.

Kim Yang felt that the monster raccoon that she had brought with such great enthusiasm somehow seemed insignificant.

[Oh. You’re here? What’s that?]

[Monster Badger. The little rats were on the same side as this guy.]

Maru reacted as if he knew what Kim Yang was saying.

[Ah- that.]

[?]

Kim Yang’s shoulders, which had been drooping, rose again at Maru’s story that it seemed like the guy mentioned when the rats were interrogated. That meant that he had single-handedly caught the thing that the rats had been holding up as a new god.

[Huh-]

[It’s not like it’s a god, but it seems like it’s a monster that we agreed to compromise with by giving a certain amount of tribute.]

[tribute?]

Come to think of it, you little rats.

There has been no news of tribute since some time ago.

‘As expected of those little rats. They were already lining other pockets.’

Kim Yang’s eyes turned cold.

[But why on the rat corpse?]

It was Ms. Kim who was curious as to why she had stabbed the corpse with Eclipse.

Kkaduk- Maru, who had been hammering Eclipse into his hard skull, answered in a long, hesitant voice.

[I remembered the last time I caught a giant rat and got a scab, so I tried this. I’m testing it to see if it’s effective.]

Even to her, the Eclipse, which had been damaged here and there by acid attack at the Newport News Shipyard, looked fine. It had a few scabs on it, but they were all gone and it was clean.

[Does it seem effective?]

hmm-

It wasn’t a change that was immediately noticeable, but as time passed, it was clear that it had definitely been regenerated? restored?

[When doing that, how about choosing big ones instead of small ones?]

Maru nodded at Kim Yang’s suggestion that since there was a change when he caught the giant rat, let’s try to do it with a big one instead of the small ones. That’s because he was going to do it with the big one anyway.

Kkuduk-

Woof woof woof-

Unlike the small ones that froze instantly, the big ones were not frozen solid.

As Eclipse dug into the solid bones and the slabs of meat that hadn’t cooled down yet, the shiny fur began to lose its luster. It was a slight change, but one that both Maru and Kim could notice.

[Have you seen it? It’s changing now?]

[Oh, I saw it.]

The two of them were excitedly looking for rats that could be used as food for Eclipse.

The stabbing was definitely effective. Although it was small, the missing part was restored, and the rough blade was gradually starting to fill in.

[How about trying this too?]

As Kim Yang readily handed over the monster raccoon, Maru did not hesitate and fired Eclipse. The blade that had sunk into the raccoon’s skull, which even 20mm armor-piercing bullets could not penetrate, began to vibrate faintly.

Kim Yang let out an exclamation of ‘Oh-‘ at the clearly different reaction.

As the raccoon’s hide, which had never lost its luster even though it had become tattered, began to gradually turn brittle, the day of Eclipse changed significantly.

The slightly crooked blade has been sharpened.

Maru, who had always lived with Eclipse, could clearly feel the change.

[It’s also a little heavier.]

[But didn’t it do this when you caught a bear and a buffalo?]

[I think it needs some time to absorb after putting it away.]

[I feel bad about just throwing away the things.]

Thinking back to when I caught a bear, I didn’t think it was something to be sorry about. The bear or buffalo that had completely exhausted its regenerative powers were less effective because they had used up all their energy.

[Then I guess I should hold on without using as much strength as possible.]

[I guess so.]

‘From now on, let’s catch anything ourselves.’

If Kim Yang lured him from a distance, Maru would just grab his throat. If he grabbed him without letting go of his strength, it would be more effective when eating, and he would be able to feed the knife. It was good in many ways.

‘Okay.’

The two people nodded their heads as they reached an agreement with their eyes.

Whoosh whoosh!

At the end of the flames that shot up into the sky, black smoke filled the air. Even in the bitter cold weather of minus 40 degrees Celsius, the napalm flames that burned up to 1,500 degrees Celsius heated up the surrounding area.

Maru did not leave the corpses lying around, but burned them. It was obvious that if he left the corpses, which numbered in the thousands, as they were, they would become food for rats.

“What are the other mice going to do?”

“I have to catch it.”

What can we do when it is revealed that the rats are playthings? We have to catch them. Even if we find the god of death right now and cry to prove our faith, there is a high probability that this will happen again in a few generations.

“What a pity.”

“There’s nothing I can do.”

I caught a few and interrogated them, but they were all the same. They weren’t completely incapable of communication, but they weren’t like crows, wolves, buffalo, or moose.

“I think communication gets better as generations pass.”

The story is that the 4th generation communicates slightly better than the 3rd generation, and the 5th generation communicates slightly better than the 4th generation.

Even if what the nurse said was true, that was something to think about later and had nothing to do with the rats here.

“But that’s the end. What if we just talk it through and then get called up and come up?”

‘Even if 100,000 units come, if you just block the way, the Supreme Dignity will be able to kill them all by himself, right?’ Kim Yang’s eyes were like that, but Maru didn’t think that way.

What if it’s not 100,000, but 1 million? What if it’s 10 million? What if it’s 100 million?

A swarm of rats could multiply indefinitely as long as there was food, and it would take about 5 years at most for a swarm of 10,000 rats to grow to 10 million.

“Huh? Is that so?”

“But that’s assuming there’s plenty of food.”

“This neighborhood is empty?”

“That’s the problem.”

What do they eat in this empty city that there are so many rats?

“uh?”

Come to think of it, that’s true? Kim Yang blinked.

“If it were cannibalism, the numbers would be maintained, but there couldn’t be this many. I caught a few and interrogated them, but none of them answered properly.”

Even if I used an information extractor to extract it, it was the same. There was only information about eating something like a dark brown lump. There was no clear information about where it came from or who brought it.

“More than anything, if we just pass over it now, the rats in other places could also be shaken.”

Maru thought that once he had stuck his teeth into it, he couldn’t just let it go.

Following Maru’s decision to kill, it was decided to drive out the rats from Toledo and the surrounding areas. The first step was to lure them out with bait.

The nurse who became bait was surprised, but the effect was certain. The nurse who lured the rats by sitting on the snowmobile took refuge in the car, and Maru used his will to sweep them away.

Later, the rats started digging traps in the direction of the snowmobile, but when Maru finished them off with a hunting hunt, they started avoiding the snowmobile and the nurse altogether.

Next up is Kim Yang’s long-range sniping.

When Kim Yang, who was left alone, sniped from afar, they first rushed in, but after Maru started to annihilate them in the middle, they were busy just running away.

Sizzle!

Sizzle sizzle!

The pack of rats that had rushed in shouting for revenge also lost order and control the moment they faced the floor.

‘Death!’

‘Save me!’

‘please!’

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A radius of 40 to 50 meters was a much larger range than one might think. No matter how many there were or what kind of traps were set, any group of rats that entered the area around Maru would either die or freeze in place.

Once they entered Maru’s range, they could never escape. Sooner or later, they would become Eclipse’s prey.

Caw!

Caaaak!

The crows that had flown in to reconnoiter immediately became faithful when they saw the tragic scene.

Blue sky

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A muffled gunshot echoed low through the quiet street.

Fighting-

At the same time that a 12.7mm hole was drilled into the body of the rat loitering at the very front, the baby rats ran away in all directions.

The rat pups, who had learned that there was death behind Kim Yang’s sniping, reacted immediately.

Sizzle! (Scatter!)

From those who dig into the snow, to those who jump up onto utility poles or streetlights to escape, to those who run at full speed into buildings or even down manholes.

Even though Ms. Kim had excellent rapid-fire skills, this happened before she could fire her second shot.

[Have you seen their movements just now?]

She was dumbfounded as she reloaded. They were rats who showed a speed that put the members of the organization that had been said to be tough to beat.

[······.]

Maru, who was lying in wait in front of Kim Yang, was also dumbfounded.

The speed of learning and responding was too fast. After falling into similar traps 2-3 times at the shortest and 5-6 times at the most, it became almost impossible to get through after that.

Catching rats was becoming increasingly difficult. So these days, Maru would just beat up any rats he could find.

And Ms. Kim was a little worried about that.

It was the same last time.

Why did the Supreme Dignity walk alone?

It was to use life freely.

Even when the effective range was 15m, I had to move alone, but now it was 40~50m. And since I was using so much of the killing intent, the density of the killing intent, or so I would say? It seemed to be getting more and more ominous.

The nurse said that at first it was just boring, but the crow was so shocked that it went into cardiac arrest.

Oh my god.

If the aftermath was that severe even when you were inside a thickly armored snowmobile, it meant that you would die if you were outside near the habitable zone.

The number of times you can use Live consecutively is also the same. The number of times you could use it 3-4 times has now increased to over 10 times.

The story is that it has become difficult for the guards and knights to even approach them, let alone stay by their side.

The stronger you become, the more alone you have to be.

Who else but she could know the solitude of the highest dignity?

That made Ms. Kim even more determined.

‘Great next door.’

huh.

As she was making that pledge, a communication from Maru reached her ear.

[It seems like these kids won’t come out of the basement.]

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[I guess I should go in and take a look?]

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