Rust - Chapter 661



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RUST [RUST]-661

“It appears that the mimetic monsters spread this winter.”

If it had been any other season, the whole of Britain would have been covered in phantom monsters, as evidenced by the footage of the engagement. As the Black Drake flew low, all the phantom monsters in the vicinity gathered around.

“Isn’t that dangerous?”

That they were deliberately targeting the Black Drake. Isn’t that dangerous?

“That would certainly be the case.”

[If the story is that the mimic monsters are targeting and attacking airships, then it’s really dangerous. It means that they know that they can travel by airship. If they know about airships, they can use ships when the weather clears.]

Hood and Ki-sun agreed. Among the mutant monsters, there were already those that used human tools. The most representative example was rats. The field rats and fire rats used human weapons.

I know how to use electronic devices such as smartphones, computers, and tablets, and recently I was able to send simple text messages.

If that’s the case for the ideological monsters too.

‘No, I guess that’s how it is.’

It wasn’t something to be passed over, since the ones who had eaten away at my head wouldn’t have the ability to extract my memories.

“If they targeted the airship, I guess they were trying to move somewhere else.”

Maru looked at the map of London that appeared on the large monitor. After winter, the mimic monsters would spread around London.

‘It will probably spread along the River Thames. Once it does, I guess there’s no answer.’

Maru, who had fought them himself, could tell. If just a few of them disguised as gold bars were to wander around, they would end up in a town or a city. Even if they were disguised as large loaves of bread or bacon or cheese, they would still take care of it.

[No matter how much I think about it, there’s no other answer than nuclear weapons. And a really powerful hydrogen bomb at that.]

“If you’re going to blow up London, shouldn’t you send Paris along with it? There are strange things in Paris too.”

Ki-soon and Yang Kim claimed the hydrogen bomb.

“They say that the nukes we have are unlikely to be effective. According to Samantha’s calculations, the crater diameter would have to be at least 3 to 4 kilometers to sterilize London or Paris with nukes. They say that we would need at least 3 to 5 of those bombs to completely sterilize them.”

The crater radius of the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba was 3.5 to 4 kilometers. The artificial intelligence Samantha calculated that a hydrogen bomb with that much firepower would have to be used.

Beep-

Data calculated by AI Diana and Samantha began to appear on the monitor. Rats were living in the underground of London and Paris.

The rats in London were likely to have been eaten by mimic monsters, while those in the Paris sewers were likely mutated slugs.

The calculations show that a tremendous amount of firepower is needed to thoroughly disinfect the underground water and those deep underground. It is certainly not enough to just burn the surface.

“Wouldn’t it be better to just dispose of London and Paris? If even a few escape, they would contaminate all of England and France. If we’re going to disinfect them anyway, wouldn’t it be better to wipe them out completely?”

Hood added an explanation to Kim Yang’s puzzlement.

“As a result of Samantha and Diana’s calculations, it is highly likely that both the mimic monsters and the slug mutants have a central body.”

Central body. The highest entity in the chain of command. There is a story about an entity that can be called a king or queen.

[That makes sense. The fact that the mimic monsters took sophisticated group action to target the airship means that there must be a commanding entity. After all, London and Paris are cities with central governments. The fact that they were able to take over those in an instant means that the commanding entity must be excellent.]

“It was analyzed that if the command entity is killed, their connection will also be weakened.”

Hitting the head could buy time.

[I need to not only buy time, but also make up my mind to get rid of them. But that’s true···.]

The text of the late Ki-sun, who was obscuring the afterwords. If the weaponization and resourceization of the mimic monsters and slug monsters were successful, then huge profits were guaranteed.

“That’s right. Even just from the slug mutants, we were able to extract oils with various ingredients.”

It also contained ingredients that prevented skin aging and had powerful nourishing and tonic properties. In addition, it also contained ingredients that were good for use as anesthetics and sleeping pills.

“It was definitely that monster. The anesthesia and paralysis effects were strong.”

Maru nodded as he recalled the tactical camera footage of the mercenaries.

“I really couldn’t tell if it was a costume or not. I thought it was real gold. The weight and feel were exactly the same.”

This was also the case with mimetic monsters. Instead of miming like an octopus, they literally copied the material structure of the object of their mimetic.

For example, those who are imitated by the exosuit’s armor are said to have defensive power because they imitate the structure of the exosuit’s armor and cling to it, although not as much as the exosuit’s armor.

“So those who disguised themselves as gold bars copied the structure of gold, so they became a kind of gold?”

“No, that’s not true. I think it’s just that they absorbed the gold elements and disguised themselves.”

Ms. Kim was disappointed by Na Ju-yeon’s answer.

Well, when Maru cut down the guys disguised as gold bars, they were just black jelly-like things inside. Unlike Kim Yang, who was feeling sorry, Ki-sun’s text was urgent.

[Wait a minute. That means you can easily produce gloves with similar performance to the exosuit gloves.]

If you dispose of it after it’s been transformed, doesn’t that mean that all that’s left are gloves with slightly lower performance?

“It hasn’t been studied that far yet, but we are researching it.”

The fact that they were researching it meant that it was possible. If it was possible to produce armor or parts using the mimic monsters, it would be a revolution in production.

“No. That should be discarded.”

Maru’s voice was frighteningly cold.

“But if it’s available….”

“I say again, erase them.”

The black tentacles, the tentacles that had engulfed Chairman Shim, the morphing monsters, the slug monsters, all of those things had to be wiped out. Maru thought so sincerely.

“What would the Empire or the Confederacy think if they saw that? Even if they weren’t from those two countries, politicians, businessmen, scientists, everyone would drool.”

It was a large-scale enlargement of footage of the Black Drake burning London with napalm bombs.

“You can control it. It’s profitable. You can create new technologies. If you can use this, you can make a mark on human history. That’s how you ended up like this after turning the circuit of hope.”

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London became a deserted city. The survivors became marauders and wandered around France.

“Can’t we create new technologies without those things?”

People nod their heads to Maru’s assertion. The Holy Kingdom has broken through the singularity. Now all it needs is time. In ten years at the latest, it will be possible to slow down aging.

Even without dismantling and disassembling Director Yu to find the secret to rejuvenation, research is underway into technologies that can have similar effects using quantum computers, grape clusters, and artificial intelligence.

The same goes for hair loss, which cannot be solved even with singularity. All that was needed was to clone hair follicle cells and implant them. A drug that could fundamentally prevent hair loss was also about 70% complete.

With the introduction of assistive AI, robots, and drones, production facilities are also gradually expanding. Isn’t that enough?

“What was the reason for founding the Holy Kingdom?”

The reason for creating the Holy Kingdom was not to become rich or gain power. It must not be forgotten that the reason for creating the Holy Kingdom was for survival and safety.

Yes. The reason I created the Holy Kingdom was not to live a successful life. If that was my goal, I would have sat on a pile of money even if I just lived by cutting in the empire.

The purpose of creating the kingdom and sitting on the throne was to achieve the goal of survival and safety. So, do the morph monsters and slug monsters help in the safety and survival of the Holy Kingdom?

In the current situation?

If not, it should be ruled out.

Isn’t it?

Maru didn’t lose his original intention.

“Sweep away the slugs and the skeletal monsters. You said you need hydrogen bombs, right? Make them as fast as possible. Disinfect London and Paris before winter ends.”

[Wouldn’t that be dangerous? Britain and France are nuclear powers.]

Ki-soon was worried. The reason he held back from launching a nuclear weapon after seeing that Paris, France had become a den of slug monsters was because France was a nuclear power.

“That’s true. But it’s too dangerous to leave the slug monsters and the mimic monsters alone. We discovered them first and figured them out, but what if the Empire or the Confederacy come into contact with them when the weather clears up?”

I knew I was going to shit myself a lot while I was busy researching and getting additional samples.

Likewise, warning that there were slug monsters and mimic monsters was dangerous. This was because there were those who had to eat the things they were warned were dangerous.

“What happened to the Diana nuclear defense system?”

Bombing was something Maru had considered important since the time he built the Vladiak Tower. The reason he raided the Aegis ship and sank it into the adjacent lake was to prevent missile attacks.

The reason for desperately possessing nuclear weapons was to have nuclear deterrence. In other words, to prevent a sudden attack.

[Nuclear defense system 80% operational. Stratospheric interception system operating normally.]

The long-range nuclear interception system was running. At least Detroit was safe. Ki-soon sent a text message.

[No. Let’s say there’s an Aegis ship there. What about where I am? What about Canada?]

[The Canadian region can also defend against attacks coming across the Atlantic.]

“I realized this after going to France and England myself. There’s no need to be afraid.”

The central government was paralyzed. In France, cannibals took over the provisional government and army, and in England, marauders were wandering around.

“We may not know that we have detonated a hydrogen bomb, and even if we did, we could have prevented it by now.”

[Ha- See- I won’t oppose if you say you’re going to catch that, but even so, planting 4~5 Tsar-Bomba-class nukes is a bit… Wouldn’t that cause a tectonic shift or something?]

[It was found that if dropped on London, England, an artificial earthquake of magnitude 5.5 to 6.2 would occur. It was found that if dropped on Paris, France, an artificial earthquake of magnitude 5.7 to 6.4 would occur.]

[The only answer is a hydrogen bomb, right?]

“If there was a way, we could lure London to the Black Drake and continue bombing it. After a few more attempts, wouldn’t we find a way?”

[Radioactive mutation?]

“If we don’t wipe them out anyway, there’s no telling what kind of mutations will emerge. At the very least, we need to kill the leader. Now. Before winter.”

Maru was resolute.

Thus began production of the Tsar-Bomba class hydrogen bomb in the Holy Kingdom.

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It was a sacred kingdom that pulled out hydrogen bombs in an instant, as if they were making fish-shaped bread.

“Hehehe. Was it this easy to make?”

“Artificial intelligence and quantum computers have returned, so what have we done?”

“Then, since the assembly was all done by robots, we just inspected it.”

“After all, didn’t we just create a Tsar-Bomba-class hydrogen bomb? Who would have that kind of experience?”

“This is the first hydrogen bombing in human history, so we can’t miss it.”

“Yeah, you freaking bastards are flying, but aren’t they London and Paris?”

They were researchers and technicians who wanted to capture the last scenes of the historic city.

“Can I take a two-week vacation and go?”

[This is a request for leave for all members of the physics lab.]

[This is a request for leave from all members of the nuclear power laboratory.]

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The researchers and technicians requested a vacation and wanted to board the Black Drake to see the hydrogen bomb they had created explode.

Maru readily agreed.

The bombing was carried out in the classic way: by rising close to the stratosphere and dropping a hydrogen bomb attached to a parachute.

Woof woof woof woof—

The hydrogen bomb, dropped from 12km above the ground, opened its parachute. It was pushed around by the wind, but the propeller mounted on the outside started to operate and guided it to its destination.

And there was a great light.

A fireball created by the simultaneous explosion of five hydrogen bombs.

There are five scorching hot zones with a radius of 4 km.

An intense heat, as if five suns had been summoned simultaneously.

London literally evaporated.

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A giant mushroom cloud soared through the stratosphere.

“Oh- MY- GO—”

“JESU—”

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People couldn’t even properly express their admiration at the magnificent sight.

Some people shed tears without realizing it, others wrapped their arms around each other as if they were goosebumps. The cabin was shrouded in silence.

[The risk of radioactive fallout is within the calculation range.]

[Fine dust is beyond the operational range. More dust than expected reached the stratosphere.]

The simultaneous detonation of five hydrogen bombs was unprecedented. Even conservative simulations failed to perfectly account for the amount of dust.

[Nuclear winter expected in southern England.]

The Black Drake’s assistant AI Jeon-i explained the results of the bombing.

A few hours later, Paris, France also disappeared from the Earth. Even if a nuclear winter were to occur, there was nothing that could be done about it.

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[Strong protests from the Empire and the Confederacy against the use of the hydrogen bomb]

I can’t help but notice, since we created an artificial earthquake. But do we have any evidence that we did it?

“We say we don’t know.”

Maru decided to cut open the ship first.