Rust - Chapter 665



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RUST -665

As if trying to draw Maru’s attention to the monitor, the text message that Ki-soon sent came up quickly.

[we]

[Let’s calm down.]

[First, take a deep breath.]

[Hoo hoo hoo – hoo hoo -]

[Are you calm? Stop for a moment.]

‘This kid.’

Maru’s eyes, slightly deflated, narrowed.

Even though he was receiving the situation via text message, Ki-sun was quick to respond as if he was there. If he had been even one second late, Maru would have shattered the bio-communicator and declared war. Ki-sun’s quick reflexes that successfully prevented that were truly remarkable.

[Are you calm? Did you put the knife down?]

Ki-soon quickly got back to the main topic, perhaps noticing that the atmosphere in the room had become cold.

[The Confederacy may have lied, but we have to consider the case where it is true. It is quite possible that it is true.]

“······.”

[Let’s think about it calmly. It’s strange that Mr. Den is prepared to fight with us. If we lose right now, New York could be blown away. But the reason he came out as a representative and mentioned the possibility of war is because he was sure that New York would be safe, right?]

Indeed. The order was the order. The current situation means that the Empire has verified the technology of the Confederacy. The reason the Confederacy and the Empire joined hands was also the same.

In fact, the Empire had to choose between joining hands with the Holy Kingdom and making a front against the rest, or joining hands with other nations, including the Confederacy, and making a front against the Holy Kingdom.

The Empire’s choice was an unavoidable situation, given that it was not a situation that could be changed by Generalissimo Dan Brown alone.

[so?]

[So what’s the big deal? We have to buy as much time as possible. Let’s buy a month, no, two months.]

Time was on the side of the Holy Kingdom. If they could pour their research capabilities, which had reached the singularity, into the study of psychic waves, they would surely be able to find a countermeasure. It was not impossible to develop technology to hack the Confederacy’s biopsychic devices.

[No. We must attack now.]

At Maru’s assertion, Ki-soon suppressed her anger and sent a sincere text, thinking, “What the hell is wrong?”

[We need time. Why are you doing this? Just a little.]

Maru had a feeling. Even Ki-sun was thinking that time was on the side of the Holy Kingdom. So, wouldn’t they know that?

Should we give the Holy Kingdom time, which seems to have reached the singularity? Could the fact that we sent our bio-communicator to talk like this now be a pretense to slightly lower the Holy Kingdom’s defenses?

[No. Chew- Why is that a disguise? If you attack us now, you sent us to rip off our bio-communicators? You wouldn’t have done that.]

[And still there are more.]

Who knows what they’ve done to the biocommunicator? They said it only excites and drives wild small mammals crazy, but what if they could stimulate mammals of all sizes?

What if it was a radio generator with communication capabilities? Or what if it had poison gas canisters or dirty bombs hidden inside?

[So the talks broke down and they might have been trying to seize our bio-communicator? So let’s just hit them?]

[okay.]

Ki-soon cautiously sent a text message to Maru’s firm response.

[Did you get that feeling?]

It was a feeling that would come up intermittently, mainly when fighting directly, so it wasn’t activated right now. Still, Maru closed his eyes for a moment and concentrated.

I didn’t feel anything. If I had to say anything, it would be that the irritation that came up earlier hadn’t gone away. Irritation is a negative emotion after all.

[uh.]

[No? You didn’t get the feeling?]

Ki-sun took advantage of Maru’s slightly lacking shamelessness to tear him down.

[If it’s a situation where we have to go to war, we should go to war. But isn’t war something we should do when it’s advantageous for us? Is it advantageous for us to go to war right now?]

Naruzu was carrying refugees from the European continent, and Montreal was in shambles after the recent crackdown on cultists and the business community was blown up. The northern Canadian strongholds were expected to be on the move to stop the hungry mutant monsters when winter passed and spring came.

The Holy Kingdom had been mobilizing all its resources to, to put it nicely, strengthen its internal structure, or, to put it badly, barely maintain its hold.

[First of all, the defense of our borders is the problem.]

We had already built AI turrets and GP (guard posts) to strengthen our southern border defenses. However, the southern border of Michigan, where Detroit is located, was guarded by field mice.

So if a psychic attack on a field mouse was possible, the entire southern border would be breached. And Detroit was too close to the southern border.

[···The bigger problem is that we can’t block the land route.]

It was impossible to maintain a long border without the rats and the unaltered sacred rats. This meant that weapons like the Dirty Bomb could be transported overland.

The moment he heard those words, Maru’s senses reacted. It was an uneasy feeling. Maru immediately called Diana and had her analyze the scenario that Ki-sun had just mentioned.

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Joseph Meyer observed Maru through his biocommunicator.

‘You’re young.’

He was so young. As the saying goes, Asians look young, but if you just look at his appearance, his face looks younger than his son, who is a senior in high school.

It was a feeling I had when I watched videos from my military days, including tactical camera footage, but seeing it like this made me feel uncomfortable.

‘At that age, one year is different from two years…’

It was strange. Joseph Meyer’s eyes narrowed at the sight of Maru, who seemed to have not aged.

Could it be that the reason they’re at odds with the Southern Alliance is because Vladimir Kalin is a new species? There was a story about that before.

The hypothesis that he is denying the Southern Confederacy because he is a new species and is afraid of being dominated by a new species of a higher level than himself.

However, he was seen as a modern-day human-centrist when it was revealed that high-level test subjects and new humans were killed by Vladimir Kalin.

However, he was labeled as an anthropocentrist for a short time, and it was revealed that he was not an anthropocentrist by imposing rights and duties on crows and wolves.

What’s more, the news that even artificial intelligence was being given rights caused a division of opinion even within the Confederacy.

Then what on earth is the reason for being hostile to the new humans?

‘Cannibalism has been a frequent occurrence throughout human history.’

‘I wonder if he lost his family to the new humans?’

‘No, based on the information we have so far, there is no connection at all.’

‘Then why on earth do you do that?’

If you knew the reason, you could negotiate. If it was an individual problem, you could just say you don’t want to get along because you don’t like the look of it. If that individual becomes the representative, I thought it would be a different issue.

Once they sat down to negotiate with Prince Vladimir Kalin, they would not refuse to negotiate on the grounds of personal feelings. This was the conclusion reached by the Southern Alliance.

So the Confederacy offered the Empire a bio-communicator and asked them to come to the negotiating table with them. The Empire accepted the Confederacy’s request because it believed it would help them put pressure on the Holy Kingdom.

The talks began, and the story did not proceed as the Empire and the Confederacy had expected. Prince Vladimir Kalin was not a man who could be understood by the commonly known diplomatic practices or negotiation grammar.

He also drew a line with President Den Brown, whom he had built trust with and considered close, and the meeting was on the verge of ending.

Joseph Meyer thought that this was not going to work. Best was to transfer some of the Holy Kingdom’s technology, as he had previously discussed with the Empire.

Both the Confederacy and the Empire wanted three major technologies: strong artificial intelligence, quantum computers, and nuclear fusion power. They were trying to make it a condition of avoiding war if they received at least one of the three.

But Prince Vladimir Kalin’s reaction was too firm. He would rather fight than be torn apart, so there was no way it would work out.

‘Did you think this pressure was just a threat?’

That wasn’t good. So Joseph Meyer got involved.

“This means that both the rats and squirrels in the Empire’s underground can be easily dealt with using the Confederacy’s psychic equipment.”

[so?]

Joseph Meyer was surprised by Maru’s murderous reaction.

‘What kind of reaction···’

It was a reaction that was incomprehensible to his common sense.

At the same time, the biocommunicator’s sensors began to vibrate, and errors began to surface in the biocommunicator module.

Beep beep beep beep beep beep-

Pieeeeeeeee-

[Pogurrururururururur]

Pot-

The psychic feed to the Detroit conference room suddenly cut off.

“Is it disconnected now?”

Psychic communication?

“The communication device’s brain module is in panic mode.”

“······what?”

Report that this module connected to the module over there also got an error.

Joseph Meyer was speechless.

Is that possible?

A bionic brain module is terrified?

‘No way… Is that so?’

Is this the secret behind Vladimir Kalin’s power, which has been difficult to understand until now?

Maru’s killing power was a killing power that could not be explained by logic. If we only consider the objectively analyzed facts, Vladimir Kalin’s physical abilities were at most those of a low-level new human.

After being revealed to be the culprit who raided several secret laboratories, the researchers were literally thrown into confusion when they heard that he was the culprit who captured and split up an Aegis ship.

It was because it was impossible for the physical condition of a low-level new human. Let’s say that the building was cut down and the Aegis ship was torn apart by the legendary magic sword called Eclipse. Then what about the soldiers guarding it?

It was impossible to explain the killing power that killed not only the new human experimental subjects and higher-level individuals, but even the lowest of the nobles.

But now, we are getting close to the secret that Vladimir Kalin is holding. The corners of Joseph Meyer’s expressionless mouth twitched slightly.

“What a powerful psychic ability.”

The ability of a superior being to dominate a inferior being. The ability of a noble to mentally control a new person. If there was such an ability, it could explain what Vladimir Kalin had done so far.

‘Was the reason you were at odds with us until now because of hatred for your own race?’

‘A mutant close to a new human? It could be a new human with an extremely low probability created by an infinite combination of mutant viruses.’

Assuming that it is of the same class as the Confederacy, the behavior of the Holy Kingdom, which was difficult to understand until now, is now completely explained.

I could also understand the double and triple layer security that paranoid patients have.

If you want to hide the fact that the savior or the wise god is actually a being similar to the cannibals you were subduing, then security has to be tight.

It was the same with giving rights to artificial intelligence, such as animals like crows and wolves and inanimate programs. After all, they are beings that are more than humans, so what’s the problem with giving them rights?

It was the same with being able to control rats. He could control rats just as the higher beings and nobles could control cockroaches. The essence was the same.

‘The same goes for dominance. Oh, really? Was it like that?’

HOLLY The doctrine could also be understood immediately if you thought of it as a unique dominance of the new human race. So, Vladimir Kalin was a natural(?) nobleman created by coincidence after coincidence.

Joseph Meyer felt as if the fog had cleared away.

The fact that the attempt to link the psychic generator with a beauty trap failed, and that the young King Vladimir had no scandals involving women, were all explained the moment we assumed that he was a natural(?) nobleman.

‘It must not have been easy to control your desires.’

Sexual desire and appetite were intertwined desires. If he made a mistake while trying to satisfy his sexual desire, there was a risk that his hidden identity would be revealed, so he abstained from it altogether.

‘Wow, that’s amazing. That’s really amazing.’

“I didn’t know it was hidden like this,” Joseph Meyer exclaimed.

Come to think of it, the same thing happened with the construction of the Holy Kingdom. What was it that the Confederacy was trying to build step by step over time?

It was a perfect society with the new human race at the top. Knights had manors, and nobles had lands. And the king was at the top of the nobility.

The Confederacy of the South was to be renamed the Confederacy of Kingdoms after it had solidified its position. But he alone was already the king of the kingdoms.

He had already achieved the goals that the Confederacy was pursuing.

‘If we had approached things right from the beginning, there would have been no reason to fight in the first place.’

Joseph Meyer seemed to have had an epiphany. He now saw that the system of the Holy Kingdom was in fact similar to the system they had wanted.

“The biocommunicator has been calmed down.”

“Connect with the Detroit conference room.”

Hmm-

Joseph Meyer nodded.

“Connect.”

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Ps …

Beep beep beep – beep

[Pporrurururuk oemang-o-yam-ang-ha]

Maru’s bio-communicator, which had been losing its taste for life, is slowly returning to normal.

[There was a malfunction.]

There was a certain familiarity in Joseph Meyer’s voice. Maru was momentarily taken aback by the obvious familiarity.

Why is the author, who just threatened to turn the rat pack up with his psychic powers, suddenly like this?

[Let’s talk frankly. Let’s leave the Empire alone for now.]

Pot-

The biocommunicator connected to the Empire was forcibly shut down. As the Imperial envoy walked out with the biocommunicator, Joseph Meyer spoke as if he knew everything.

[If war breaks out, our Confederacy intends to side with the Holy Kingdom.]

“what···.”

[What???]