Rust - Chapter 623



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RUST [RUST]-623

The red dot began to enter the room on the second floor of the gun shop and began to lodge itself inside. The laser reticle slid through the broken window and prowled around like a wolf stalking its prey.

At the appearance of the monster that tore off the crow’s wings and sucked its blood, the fat owner froze in place and rolled his eyes.

“Clear!”

“Clear!”

The unit that entered the first floor quickly checked the first floor and headed to the second floor.

The man who had been standing still despite the creaking sound of the stairs creaking, wiped the blood from his mouth and looked at the store owner who was panting in fear.

“I don’t like fatty blood, but···.”

The shop owner raised his voice at the ominous voice.

4. People

“I said it because it would be a waste to throw it away.”

Above all, the cost of trolling here is not balanced.

“I think I was unlucky.”

“Sa. Sa. Sal···.”

Shhh – Be quiet. Then I’ll go easy on you.

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bang!

The wooden door burst open and fully armed men poured in.

“Don’t move!”

“Hands up!”

“······.”

What the unit members saw was the corpse of a crow with its wings torn off and dead. And the corpse of a large man with white skin.

“crow?”

“shit···.”

The death of the crow was more problematic than the death of the person, because the crow belonged to the Holy Kingdom.

“There is no other trace.”

“Call the forensic team.”

The forensic team that had been waiting came in and recorded and analyzed the scene.

“It’s strange.”

“···It’s definitely strange.”

The forensic team members who observed the scene closely muttered. It was a scene that could not be understood with common sense.

“What happened?”

“What should I say about this… It’s an incomprehensible scene.”

Things weren’t going well.

Two crows from the Holy Kingdom were killed. It seemed as if they were trying to smuggle gold, but all the gold bars they were trying to trade for the Holy Kingdom’s special bullets were left at the scene.

Then why did they kill the crow and the gunsmith? It wasn’t a crime targeting gold bullion or special bullets.

What was even more absurd was that after the crow entered the gun shop, it only took about 15 minutes for the troops to surround the area and advance.

The surveillance team that was tracking the crows arrived at the scene 10 minutes ago. In that short 10 minutes, there is a story about a culprit who killed two crows of the Holy Kingdom, killed the owner of a gun shop, and then disappeared.

“One crow died from a crushed neck and spine. Another and the gunsmith died from excessive bleeding.”

“Excessive bleeding?”

The deputy commander’s brow furrowed. If he had died from excessive bleeding, there should have been a sea of ​​blood everywhere. But the scene was too clean for that to be the case.

Moreover, the gun shop owner showed no signs of resistance. There were no visible gunshot wounds or stab wounds.

‘It wasn’t even strangulation.’

It’s also strange that two of the Holy Kingdom’s crows died. They were also clearly classified as mutant monsters.

With sharp beaks and talons, and feathers as sharp as blades, they are capable of chewing up any amount of firepower, but when you look at the scene, they died without even being able to fight back.

‘It’s not poison.’

There are four glasses on the table. Cocoa, sake, milk, and water. There are three bodies. So one of them is the culprit or ran away from the scene.

He wasn’t the culprit. There were three crows that came here. There were also three bags containing the special bullets of the Holy Kingdom, so it was said that one crow escaped alive.

“···The strange thing is that the cause of death was excessive bleeding, but no blood was visible.”

“We need to find a witness.”

In this case, it would be a crow.

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As he read the urgently received report, General Dan Brown felt his headache returning. This was because it was revealed that the ravens of the Holy Kingdom were smuggling gold.

I don’t know when they started smuggling, but the fact that they were smuggling was a problem in itself. The biggest card the empire had was gold, and it was leaking out.

The gun shop murder case was the starting point for a full-scale investigation. The results were dismal. Almost all special bullets distributed to the public were considered to be smuggled, and gold smuggling was also discovered to be on a large scale.

President Den Brown immediately summoned Gisun.

‘Smuggling? Was gold a smuggled item? No, can it even be called smuggling in the first place?’

‘What are you talking about?’

‘If I buy gold in New York and sell it in Detroit, is that smuggling?’

‘······.’

‘The Holy Kingdom and the Empire have been dealing with each other since before, even before the Holy Kingdom and the Empire became independent nations.’

‘So it’s not smuggling?’

‘There was no treaty or custom regarding smuggling, and it would be difficult if you suddenly brought up this when you had never raised the issue since the beginning of the transaction.’

‘Are you in trouble?’

I wanted to create relevant provisions and crack down on gold smuggling right away, but it wasn’t easy. The reason was that the smugglers(?) were crows.

If you want to use an airship, you need an escort of crows. It was unavoidable because the mutated birds would fly at the sight of the aircraft.

We were developing an escort drone, but it took time.

It wasn’t a problem with technology, but rather a problem with the procurement of parts. Ironically, this happened because most of the parts related to drones were made in China.

It’s not that there weren’t any American parts, but almost all the parts factories related to drones were in western California and Oregon. And those areas were completely looted and reduced to rubble.

‘There were drone-related companies near Seattle, San Francisco, and LA.’

Another obstacle is that the problem cannot be solved simply by creating armed drones.

When mutants gather together, a type of electromagnetic interference occurs, which can cause communications disruption, electronic equipment malfunction, or even breakdown.

It took time to produce and deploy an armed drone capable of responding to electronic attacks (EA), including jamming.

Until the issue of air escort was resolved on their own, it was difficult for the Sacred Kingdom’s crows to smuggle anything. The Sacred Kingdom even denied the very fact of smuggling.

‘If that’s not smuggling, then what is it?’

‘It’s private trade.’

In other words, they are saying they will continue smuggling.

When did they start smuggling gold? It must have been when they converted it into real money. It was a mistake that they didn’t know how to trade using crows, not people.

‘Have you caught the gunsmith murderer? I believe you would not let the culprit who killed two crows in the Holy Kingdom go free.’

With the investigation making no progress, investigators requested the sole witness and were flatly rejected. However, they did hand over the crow’s testimony so they could analyze the circumstances.

Based on the on-scene investigation and the testimony of the sole survivor, Crow, the most likely explanation is that the incident was the work of a Confederate spy.

If it was the work of a robber or villain, there would have been no way the gold bars and special bullets would have been left there. Even though the cause of death was excessive bleeding, the fact that there were no bloodstains meant that the culprit had to be a vampire.

‘Those Confederate bastards have finally turned into vampires.’

They called cannibals new humans, but they created werewolves. Those guys have finally succeeded in creating vampires called nobles. They have secured longevity, if not immortality.

What do those who have secured long life want?

‘Rejuvenation.’

The core of the Confederacy was made up of those who sought rejuvenation: the Virginia Langleys, the military who sided with them, and those who wore the mask of conservatism.

‘And then the Confederacy and the Holy Kingdom made a non-aggression pact.’

As the Empire and the Confederacy fought in Seattle, the Holy Kingdom stood aloof, using its non-aggression pact with the Confederacy as an excuse.

The Holy Kingdom took the U+ program. The Holy Kingdom also took the Bloody Mary program’s research materials. In other words, what would happen if the Confederacy found out that the secret to rejuvenation, which they so desperately wanted, was in the Holy Kingdom?

Can we continue to play the game of neutrality when we have a non-aggression pact with the Confederacy?

A feeling of anticipation flashed across President Den Brown’s expressionless face.

The lights were always on at the Holy Kingdom Embassy in New York.

“The crows that trade gold are being attacked?”

“Yes. This is already the fourth time.”

I knew about the gun shop incident, so this is the third time since then.

“Where is it?”

“That’s it. Number 2 was in front of the business partner and number 2 was in front of the accommodation.”

“In front of the accommodation?”

“yes.”

Ki-soon’s already squinty eyes became even narrower.

[Chief – Governor. The Empire has sent information regarding the culprit.]

“Put it up right now.”

[Four. And I also sent you some research materials related to the Bloody Mary program.]

“Really? Keep it in the storage room.”

Ki-sun first looked into the Empire’s investigative records. It was a report that recorded all the investigations that had been conducted so far without any omissions. To summarize the results, the story was that the culprit was presumed to be a spy for the Confederacy.

‘A spy for the Confederacy?’

If it had been the Holy Kingdom, it would have been over before the spy reached the city. He would have become daily food for rats or a delicacy for crows and wolves. But this was the Empire. It would not have been strange for a fierce espionage war to break out in the dark.

“A vampire···.”

I knew the story about the vampire. The question was why the vampire was targeting the crow.

‘I don’t understand. The Holy Kingdom doesn’t eat people, so why the crows…’

Because it was a bitterly cold winter, the only thing the crows did was exchange new ammunition for gold.

‘···crow?’

The main tasks of the crows were escort, reconnaissance, surveillance, and bombing. This meant that the crows knew where everything was and who was where.

“Are you saying you are looking for a place or a person?”

Catching a crow means you must have the equipment or ability to extract information from the crow. If it attacked four times, it was likely to continue until it found what it wanted.

What is the place or person that the Confederate vampire is looking for? After going from cannibals to werewolves to noble vampires, what is it that he is looking for?

A story related to Director Yoo that suddenly came to mind.

‘juvenescence?’

The Confederate vampires were clearly looking for something related to rejuvenation. Kisun immediately sent the relevant information to the Ark Tower.

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He had been guarding the path where crows pass all day, but he was frustrated that he hadn’t seen a single feather since yesterday, so he sucked a sip of the blood he had stored up.

‘This reacts quickly?’

Do the Holy Kingdom guys even have any empathy for crows? In order to have empathy, you need to have affection for them or something like that, right?

There are thousands of crows waiting here, so I thought it would be a simple loss if a few disappeared.

At first, they sought to secure the Empire’s cloning technology. Then they sought to find the Holy Kingdom’s rat control technology.

‘I’m going to catch one of the two,’ he said, and guess what? I hit the jackpot. The memory of one of the crows I caught.

‘Director Yoo’s clone…’

Those Holy Kingdom guys were hiding that.

It was a pie in the sky as it was impossible to infiltrate their base, Detroit, but in Raven’s memory, the Holy Kingdom guys and Director Yu’s clone were being driven out.

‘It was the same in Seattle, too.’

Honestly, this information alone was worth a thousand dollars. It was a rejuvenation that the company had almost given up on.

In this situation, what would happen if we found out the specific location of Director Yu’s clone? At least we could go up a few levels. Enough to be able to receive a title during the reorganization.

Jjuup-

A man sucking on a straw to calm his mixed emotions of boredom and anticipation. The red liquid went up the straw and disappeared into the man’s mouth.

“Hey- huh-”

The blood of the gunsmith who was morbidly obese tasted terrible. Diabetic medicine, blood pressure medicine, high cholesterol medicine, and even athlete’s foot medicine. But I still had to eat the locally distributed blood sugar.

Phew-

He closed his eyes tightly and turned his head as he continued sucking on the straw.

The feeling of being watched. The feeling of being observed.

?

After becoming a noble, something caught my attention as my senses became more acute.

When I focused my senses on it, the sound of its small heartbeat was incredibly fast. Small body, fast heartbeat. It wasn’t human.

‘Rat?’

A little mouse with its head sticking out was staring at him blankly.

“What are you looking at? What the-what-what unlucky.”

A little mouse running away into a hole.

“These days, even rats can clearly see people. What is the world going to become···.”

He couldn’t continue speaking and suddenly his mouth became frozen.

???

anything.

Something unknown was coming towards him.