Rust - Chapter 616



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RUST-616

It was definitely a person who jumped from the airship.

???

The eyes of Hee-yeon, Naru Clone, and the sword-wielding woman simultaneously turned to the black figure. Swoosh- The shadow disappeared as if melting into the air.

“Ripper suit?”

Hee-yeon was the first to react. If it was a ripper suit, it was the equipment Maru mainly used.

‘But isn’t it dangerous to jump from such a high place?’ The moment I thought that, the sound of a jet engine echoed through the air.

Wheeeeeeeeing!

The sound of a jet engine exploding from the sky caused the field mice that were rushing in like a tsunami to stop.

“Uh. It stopped.”

“Oh- is that the aggro that you just pulled?”

“amazing.”

“The jetpack has a small fuel tank.”

If I had used my jetpack at that point, I might not be able to get out of the field of field mice that had completely covered the field.

“There must be extra fuel tanks.”

“Or maybe we should just go back into the airship?”

Hee-yeon immediately took command, leaving behind the sound of the Naru clones’ chattering analysis.

“Now is the time. When the mouse’s attention is focused on the sky, retreat.”

“The order to retreat hasn’t come from headquarters yet. You haven’t forgotten that the purpose of the operation is to lure and delay until the troop deployment is complete, have you?”

The swordsman woman and the power scouts objected to Hee-yeon’s orders.

“Don’t talk nonsense. Don’t you know that when mutant monsters gather together, communication will be disrupted? Even if the headquarters orders a retreat, do you think communication will be disrupted when there are a million field mice nearby? I’ll take responsibility for what happens next. Lieutenant. Shut up and prepare to retreat.”

“···yes.”

Hee-yeon, who had suppressed the sword-wielding woman and the power scouts, looked at the stopped tsunami. The sight of so many field mice staring at the sky was like a scene from a horror movie.

“Over there. Over there.”

A cloud of mist was rising from the direction that Naru Clone was pointing. Since he was using a jetpack in -45 to -50 degrees Celsius, the air current created by the meeting of hot and cold air was clear.

The sound of jet engines moving from one end of the rat tsunami to the other suddenly stopped, stopping the rats.

“It was disconnected?”

“uh?”

As if a single drop of water had fallen into a still lake, a circular ripple appeared in the middle of the dark gray colony of field mice.

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Something that could be felt from at least 500~600m away? Hee-yeon, Naru Clone, and the one-armed woman turned their heads toward it at the same time.

“Huh? Huh?”

One of the reconnaissance agents collapsed, unable to control his trembling legs. As one of them collapsed, all the agents next to him simultaneously slumped down as if their strength had been drained.

“What? What is it?”

“What is this?”

One of the reconnaissance officers gulped dry saliva, sweating profusely. No one could answer that question. What was happening in the distance was that shocking.

In the place where the ripples had formed in a circle, only the corpse of a field mouse remained.

A plum tree branch bloomed at the end of the corpses. It was as if a calligrapher had drawn a long plum tree branch with ink using a large brush, leaving a large mark on the field made of field mice.

“ah?”

“uh?”

“······.”

“······.”

All I could see was a large line drawn, but I thought I could hear the sound of skin being torn and bones being cut. Chunks of rat flesh and drops of blood rose up like red plum blossoms between the black lines.

The sight of sight turning into hearing, the sound that created death turning back into red vision was surreal in itself.

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Something stronger than before blew past and disappeared.

A few members of the Power Reconnaissance Corps were struck down by something that seemed to dig deep into the human mind or the subconscious.

It was an unbearable horror. If the aftereffects were this far away, what would have happened to those nearby?

The rats that had turned into corpses in the shape of circular ripples, and even the rats that were outside the immediate death range had turned into pieces of wood, frozen stiff as if they had suffered shock.

As a long red carpet was laid out for the death that had lightly trampled the frozen field mouse, roses made of leather began to bloom on it.

When the red hidden in the dull gray was revealed, the sight of death blooming refreshingly on the stiff pieces of wood on the floor was almost grotesque.

“mama···.”

“oh my god.”

“HOLLY Sh···.”

One side of the dark gray field began to turn into a red garden. And then, as if to crush the garden, the dark gray tsunami that had stopped began to stir again.

□□□□□□□□!

Jeeeeeeek!

Centered around the sharp, ultrasonic sound, the mice swarmed like a huge wave toward the center of the red garden.

□□□□□□□□□□□□□□!!!!!!!!!!!

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The murderous intent of the crowd, the will of the group, and the life-affirming presence of the floor collided.

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Ki-soon followed Maru, who came like the wind and disappeared like lightning.

“Ah- Let’s go together.”

The new airship that Ki-sun used was amazing, but the airship that Maru rode in was literally out of standard.

‘You little brat. You’re not giving me time to talk.’

The story is that Naru used telepathy to either possess or steal a clone’s body, and that he ended up finishing off Naru himself.

I knew I would find out eventually, but I thought it would be better for me to say it myself rather than letting people find out through other routes.

But that Maru guy. As soon as he arrived, he didn’t even say hello but rather figured out the current situation.

‘How big is the field mouse population? Don’t exaggerate. Is it really 1 million?’

‘According to the reconnaissance team’s report, there are at least a million, and it could be more. And they say that the field mice nearby are joining the group.’

‘Crazy… So what were you going to do?’

‘If they whine about dying while requesting emergency support, I’ll let them use tactical nuclear weapons. It’s better to hand over control of the tactical nuclear weapons so that they can use them on their own, rather than asking for control of the tactical nuclear weapons myself. So I thought I’d use the tactical nuclear weapons to blow up the center and then mobilize the troops to deal with the remaining rats.’

‘How many troops can be mobilized?’

‘About 30,000 people, drawn from each fortress and mobilized from mercenaries in Montreal.’

‘Are you ready to go right away?’

‘Still, field fighting is tough.’

The biggest problem was the weather. Temperatures dropped at night and when the wind blew, the temperature would drop to minus 60 degrees. Even if we had taken measures to protect ourselves from the cold, we had no idea how much non-combat casualties there would be.

Firepower was also a problem. The armored vehicles, tanks, and self-propelled guns that we had were considered unusable.

If it were minus 40 degrees, I could somehow manage to get it rolling, but minus 60 degrees was an unknown world. If I dragged it and it froze, I would be stuck and would be finished. In a situation like this, multiple rocket launchers would be more effective than self-propelled guns.

‘so?’

‘The plan was to lure the main force of the field mice until we could increase our forces, then wage a delaying war, and once they were within a day’s distance, drop tactical nuclear weapons and deploy troops.’

‘We decided not to use tactical nuclear weapons because of the problem of radioactive mutation.’

‘What? Then what are you going to do? It’s impossible to block 1 million units with 30,000.’

The rats were bigger than I thought. The rats that ran the sewers of New York were about the same size, but these rats were no slouch.

It weighs over 10kg, and if you include the length of its tail, it’s about the size of a human’s lower body. Plus, it has skin that can defy even the slightest bullet.

Certainly, the rats were changing. Their brains were getting smarter, their size and defenses were getting bigger, and they were even forming larger groups.

Ki-soon was dumbfounded by Maru’s explanation that he had decided to use his faith to catch such a rat. It was the PD’s idea, but he was going to clash with not ten thousand units, but a million units and a knife?

Be worshipped as a god by a pack of field mice? Or die?

Is that the plan? Are you crazy?

Wasn’t it proven in Toledo that even if you create faith, it’s hard to maintain it for a long time?

‘Don’t worry about that.’

‘No. Aren’t you worried?’

When told that they were planning to use the rats imbued with faith to sweep away the rats in the sewer, Ki-sun just shook her head.

‘What about Heeyeon?’

‘I went to the decoy unit with the Naru clones. The main body is in Montreal. For clone control.’

As soon as he heard the answer, Maru flew to the scene. Ki-sun followed him in his own airship, but the distance between them was growing longer and longer.

“What kind of airship is that…? Are you crazy?”

The flying ship, which looked like a replica of a flying saucer, accelerated faster and faster until it eventually disappeared from sight in the distance.

“Oh. Does this connect to Montreal?”

[Connection is difficult due to severe radio interference.]

“What about the repeater airship?”

[Above the operation site.]

“Don’t go to Montreal, go straight to the operational area.”

[Change destination.]

“At top speed.”

[Starting to fly at top speed.]

Wooooow-

The airship of Kisun increased its speed. How far did it go?

‘Is it muddy? It’s not a day for snow to melt?’

The temperature at noon was minus 40 degrees. So the fields should have been white. But what you could see in the distance was a dark gray field. From one end to the other, everything was covered in dark colors.

‘No way. That?’

Ki-soon’s lips were tightly shut as he zoomed in on the image. Over a million. In the millions. The violence of that number, expressed in just a few syllables, was there.

A spectacle of dark gray waves rushing in like a tsunami. Over a million field mice were reenacting the natural disaster with their bodies.

The rumbling, rumbling movements were like waves crashing down. And as if to measure the range of the waves, there was a flying ship on Maru that circled the sky.

“Connect to Maru.”

[Not connected.]

“What about the repeater airship?”

[Communications are being exchanged over the suppression force.]

We were exchanging communications in the sky where 30,000 troops were waiting.

“If you’re there, can’t you relay it here?”

[Severe radio interference. Relay range has been greatly reduced.]

It was due to a phenomenon that occurred when mutant monsters gathered together. Even a few hundred gathered together could cause radio interference, so what would the radio interference be like when a million field mice gathered together?

“Send a Morse code. Tell them to fall back for now. There are troops waiting nearby. Let’s do a joint operation. I’ll tell the decoys to fall back too, so tell them to fall back for now.”

[Signal sent. No response.]

Before I saw it in person, I just read it as a million field mice, but seeing it in person like this, I realized that it was a tsunami made of field mice.

okay.

This was nothing short of a natural disaster.

‘There is no other answer than nuclear weapons.’

Ki-sun was determined to persuade Maru to drop the nuke. If he continued to oppose him, he would drop the nuke and throw away his position as governor. The sight of a million field mice from the sky was that terrifying.

“I’m going to use nukes, so dodge···.”

Before Gi-sun could finish her words, something fell from Maru’s airship. A black shadow disappeared as if it was melting into the air.

Ripper suit?

And the tsunami made of field mice created circular ripples.

“······.”

Ki-sun was out of breath.

What do you call it when it comes to preventing natural disasters like tsunamis?

The scenes where Maru fights were mostly seen through video records.

What were the things you fought while escaping from Japan?

Shit- that wasn’t it.

Even at the time, he was surprised, but the scene unfolding before his eyes was something that transcended Ki-sun’s common sense and imagination.

Even if Maru had surpassed humans, it was true that in terms of athletic ability, he was not much different from an Awakened or a cannibal.

However, I judged that it was simply a fearsome force when combined with the optimized sword called Eclipse, which was a sword whose fundamentals were unknown.

Considering the unique tactile sense, I thought it was true that it showed tactical weapon-level power only when dealing with people and large monsters.

That’s what it was.

That’s what it was like.

But isn’t that something that can be understood when you think of people with abilities or cannibals?

The murderous intent of hundreds of thousands of them gathered together shook the air.

The group’s murderous intent and aggression were combined to affect their surroundings as if they were manifesting psychic or psychic abilities.

□□□□□□□□□□□□□□!!!!!!!!!!!

The tsunami of destruction crashed down on Maru.

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And something that shatters those natural disasters in real time.

okay.

what.

For the first time, Ki-soon let go of understanding and analysis.