Rust - Chapter 612



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RUST-612

Is our highest dignity about to fight a lonely battle alone again?

How difficult is the path to a great next door?

Ms. Kim sighed.

Is it really necessary to send the highest dignity alone like this?

This kind of contradiction···.

It is the fate of those who stand next to the great to have to endure such suffering.

Listening to Maru’s communication with such a heavy feeling, something felt strange.

[Don’t go too deep… I saw it on the information extractor.]

My heart was pounding so hard that I lost track of what he was saying.

‘huh?’

[It’s like a supply warehouse near the entrance. Only up to there···.]

Kim Yang tilted his head.

Should I ask again what you said earlier?

I don’t think that’s right given the atmosphere.

While I was thinking like that, another tooth fell out.

[···I’ll wait right at the entrance.]

‘who···?’

Who is waiting?

[There will be a reaction if you go down.]

‘for a moment!’

???

[Even if the new exosuit collapses, it can withstand it···.]

[Okay. Wait a minute···.]

Kim Yang’s eyes began to spin around.

Despite her request to pause, Maru continued his explanation.

[Again, don’t be greedy and think about going too deep, just go in moderately···.]

[······.]

[What do they eat···.]

Kim Yang, whose passionate will to be next to the great man was slowly cooling down, spoke in a voice.

[Are you serious?]

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Kim Yang resisted fiercely, but had no choice but to follow Maru’s advice. What can I do? The highest dignity is openly criticizing me.

‘Are you serious? I was nervous about those rat traps in New York too, so why wouldn’t you be nervous about those guys here?’

‘That’s why I said you had to go in, right?’

The story began with the explanation that the latest exosuit could survive a collapsed sewer until rescue was possible, giving a reasonable reason for her to go in.

If I could move around and live like radar or sonar, I could go anywhere, but that wasn’t how I lived.

Since it was a single shot, the power was greatly reduced when it passed through a blocking area such as a wall. It would be like that, because if Maru’s killing intent had gone through the wall and the armor, Ms. Kim and the nurse would have died long ago.

‘When we go back this time, let’s make an exosuit exclusively for Baekjeong.’

Ms. Kim made a serious pledge.

Isn’t it also the job of the person sitting next to him to help the Supreme Being walk freely and alone at any time?

And if there is a special exosuit for Maru

Huh-

The highest dignity and always being by your side···.

huh.

What would happen if we gave the Supreme Being a special exosuit?

Defense is great, strength is good, gather them and use ‘Sale!’ After detonating, wouldn’t it be over if you just hold out until the cooldown and just cut it down?

‘Huh? Then why haven’t you used an exosuit until now?’

Ta-da-

A drumbeat rang in her head.

Oh no! This can’t be happening!

How could this happen!

The highest dignity has been working around the bush until now. The highest dignity has been avoiding the weight of that position. So, he has been pushing and exploiting the person next to him!

Phew-

Kim Yang, who had inserted a repeater, chewed on it inwardly.

When I go back this time, I must not forget to talk about the exosuit.

Phew-

As she walked forward, stepping on the repeater, a swarm of rats blocked her path.

[Check for rats.]

[Chiiik- beep- there is no- chiik- behind. Push it forward- beep.]

[Okay.]

Puhwaaaaaaaah-

As the flamethrower spewed flames, the rats blocking their path were instantly engulfed in flames. Kim Yang’s exosuit dug into the gap, turning the area into a sea of ​​flames.

‘These kids… Aren’t they going to run away?’

A swarm of rats crawled out of nowhere. They pushed their way in even as the fire burned, and ended up blocking the passage with their own corpses.

[Have you seen what they do?]

[Chiiik- I saw it. It’s dangerous to stay there. Beep- Get in. Chiiik]

Even when an exosuit with its entire body on fire starts pushing through a barricade made of rat corpses, the pieces of flesh are not easily broken through.

Even though they had suffered burns all over their bodies, the rat pups, who were still alive thanks to their mutant vitality, screamed as they were crushed and crushed.

Jeeeeek!

Squeak!

‘I can’t do this with strength…’

Mr. Kim immediately pulled out a new type of grenade and slammed it into the wall.

Three. Two. One.

Quaddeck!

The grenade that had been shoved into the exosuit’s elbow exploded, sending rats flying in all directions. As I widened the hole that had collapsed with a flamethrower and entered, I saw what the rats had been doing.

Take?

Sizzle!

They were blocking the passage and digging around it. If they hadn’t just dug in, the floor would have caved in and the ceiling would have collapsed.

She roasted the struggling rats with her flamethrower and advanced inward, occasionally inserting her special grenade.

Kim Yang had no choice but to admit that Maru’s judgment was correct. In this situation, it was true that her fiery charge was more effective.

How far did she go in? She had reached a space where she could see why the guys had been desperately blocking it.

The location in the video where the information extractor was inserted into the rat’s head and extracted. The warehouse, which was filled with brown balls the size of a person’s fist, was lit up.

‘lamp?’

Instead of lights fixed to the ceiling and walls, they were lights spread out on the floor, connected by wires. Long, stringy lights were shining like the lights used to decorate a Christmas tree.

‘You turned on the light by connecting the wires?’

I got away with it when the rats got bigger and wrapped their bomb bags around their necks, but this wasn’t it. A light?

It was surprising that they had connected the lights and wires, but what was even more surprising was that they were turning a generator and using electricity.

[Have you seen this just now?]

[Chiiik-······. Beep-]

Kim Yang was surprised. It was a different scale from what he had seen in the video from the perspective of a rat. Moreover, if we compare this to humans, isn’t it like a giant logistics warehouse? How can a rat like you manage supplies like this?

[Chiik- Take the rice cakes and come out quickly. Beep-]

[Okay.]

She quickly grabbed some brown rice cakes nearby, set them on fire, and stepped back. I don’t know what the material was, but it caught fire very easily.

‘You ride so well?’

The sight of the fire spreading in an instant. But one more time.

After another long sweep with the flamethrower, Kim Yang began to escape.

She expected a massive chase by a pack of rats with their eyes wide open, but there was no such thing. Despite the lack of pursuit, she remotely detonated a grenade she had planted in advance, blocking the passage and getting out.

[great job.]

Maru, who was preparing to provide support as she entered the entrance, congratulated Ms. Kim.

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The snowmobile pulled out of Toledo and headed toward Detroit.

It was cold with daytime temperatures reaching minus 40 degrees Celsius and nighttime temperatures reaching minus 50 degrees Celsius, but fortunately there was no blizzard, so driving at a constant speed was no problem.

“These things aren’t chasing me.”

“Huh? If you die like that, will they come after you? Of course they won’t come after you.”

“Rats these days have no tenacity.”

“That. Guts? Is that a guts issue?”

The moment he gets caught, he’s a corpse, so how could the rats follow him and kill him? And he said he wanted to go quickly and rest, but he’s being stubborn. Nurse Kim was confused about what she wanted.

‘All the cubs have lost their willpower and become weak.’

Ms. Kim was calm.

Will I be able to catch it this easily next time? It was hard to say for sure. It was because I had Maruya’s ‘Sal!’, but it was different for me, who had the exosuit as my main weapon.

It was obvious that traps would be laid on the ceiling and floor, and judging by the fact that they had wires connected to the supply warehouse and even turned on the lights, it seemed like it wouldn’t be easy in many ways.

‘So I think we need to make sure now.’

But our dignity wanted to quickly go back and analyze the ingredients to see what that damned rice cake was so important for.

“Next time it’ll be even more annoying than this, are you okay with that?”

It was Kim Yang who once again recommended the Eclipse, which had its blade sharpened and was being carefully examined on the floor.

“It would be different if we could kill them all, but that’s not possible. Right now, analyzing information and responding is more important.”

“···Okay, I see. I have a question. Why do you only use Reaper suits? If it’s the latest exosuit, the armor is strong, the battery is full, and the output is good.”

Srrrrrr- As Maru, who had put Eclipse back in its scabbard, turned his head, Kim Yang was waiting with a question mark floating in her eyes.

Maru held back a smile and answered at the sight of Kim Yang’s bright expression.

“Good. It’s safe from shrapnel when a bomb goes off. And you don’t have to worry about missing bullets. But what if you use the skill while wearing a thick armored exosuit? Wouldn’t the effect be reduced?”

Yes, that’s right. If something blocks your life, the effect is greatly reduced.

Wearing an exosuit and ‘living!’ This is difficult.

Kim Yang’s expression darkened.

“The defense will go up, but what about everything else?”

“Anything else?”

Among Maru’s strengths, the most important were explosive acceleration, maneuverability, and agility.

Explosive acceleration that moves 10 to 12 meters in one step.

The ability to run vertically up walls, kick off walls and ceilings, and perform three-dimensional maneuvers.

The agility to dodge and counterattack attacks coming from all directions using acrobatic movements.

“It’s not like you can keep up with my movements.”

“······.”

As Maru said, no matter how much the latest exosuit’s performance improved, it wasn’t enough to give up its unique advantages.

But she is a woman who doesn’t give up.

Ms. Kim nodded slightly and looked forward to the future.

Quantum computers, grape clusters, researchers, if you go through Maru’s moving exosuit. Can’t you make one?

Upon arriving at the Detroit Ark Tower, Maru immediately called a meeting. I don’t know about other places, but it was safe to say that control over the rat horde in Toledo had virtually disappeared.

“···It was my fault.”

The PD bowed his head. He was the one who had to control and manage the tribute rat tribe, so he was responsible for not being able to quickly grasp the situation.

“Let’s talk about that later. First, let’s check the data and then discuss countermeasures.”

“······.”

The reason why they were unable to quickly grasp the situation despite virtually losing control and why the problem did not get worse was because the rats were moving south instead of north.

“The rats are using their brains.”

Hood continued his story, drawing arrows on the rats’ movement path data.

“It seems that the rats have expanded their influence by using the drugs and bombs we provided.”

As she pointed to the video file, information extracted from the rat’s brain appeared on the monitor. The content was of a herd of rats swarming toward a city by a lake in the distance.

“The lake and buildings over there are Chicago. And this is Cleveland.”

It was said that the Tribute Rat Tribe had taken over Chicago and Cleveland, or was fighting to take over. And it was analyzed that the appearance of the monster badger was the reason that the Rat Tribe, which had been maintaining the front line in the South, chose to expand its territory and lose its faith.

“Fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any major security issues.”

This time, he had caught and killed the monster badger, the natural enemy of rats, and had wiped out tens of thousands of rats, so Hood thought that after experiencing that, the rats would not come near the north.

“I think so too. If the rats were clever, they wouldn’t bother to go north.”

The PD also agreed with Hood’s opinion. The nurse and the psychometry also nodded. That was because the video footage showed Maru slaughtering a swarm of rats in the tens of thousands.

An overwhelming killing power beyond imagination. A sight that is hard to believe was done by another human being. Even just watching the video makes your skin crawl and your stomach churn, so it is hard to believe that the rats that experienced that would attack.

Maru had different thoughts, but decided to start by clearing up the lingering issues.

“···What are the ingredients of that rice cake?”

The brown rice cakes that filled the huge supply warehouse. Na Ju-yeon answered while uploading analysis data on the monitor.

“The analysis results showed that most of the material was made up of cockroach fragments, mixed with small amounts of fungus.”

oh my god.