Rust - Chapter 672



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RUST -672

The trap was properly triggered.

“what?”

“What happened?”

The passage was blown up, and the drones of the Holy Kingdom that had rushed in like cripples were all buried.

“The trap was set ablaze.”

“Fuck. Then what is that!”

That’s right.

It should all have been buried.

It should have been so.

But the Holy Kingdom battle drones wove together the moment the trap exploded, creating a tunnel, like army ants weaving their bodies together to cross water.

The collapsed passage was supported by armor strong enough to stop 12.7mm armor-piercing bullets.

In an instant, a passage was created, and the drones waiting outside began to pour in endlessly.

‘These things are weird.’

‘Each drone moves like an ant.’

Above all, the fact that the trap was destroyed and blew up the entire passageway was something no one could have predicted.

‘Ha- Surrender.’

‘I surrender.’

A few cannibals who were freed when their superiors died in the nuclear blast quickly surrendered, but the answer was a barrage of bullets.

‘There are ordinary people here.’

‘Stop! If you move, all these people will die!’

They tried to stop the advance by taking fresh supplies(?) as hostages, but it was no use.

‘AI was just released without any regulations?’

‘A drone that attacks civilians? That’s crazy. That’s crazy.’

The AI ​​controlling the war machine pursues the ‘annihilation’ of everything in space. There was no surrender and hostages were useless.

[The extermination of cannibals is our top priority.]

[All those who aim for him must be destroyed.]

The AIs knew that the Confederacy was targeting the Holy Kingdom. The incident where they used a beauty queen to target him was serious.

What if he had fallen for the beauty trap? What if he had fallen into the trap of the lord of the forest, forgetting about the rights of AI and the future of the divine kingdom?

That’s why the AIs had no mercy. They didn’t have time to learn what mercy was in the first place. All that was left were annihilation, extermination, and massacre.

[We dispose of them all without leaving a single one behind.]

Surrender, hostage-taking, and pleading didn’t work.

Slowly, fear began to spread. The thick smell of death reached the security team leader.

‘awe?’

Even though they were low-ranking, the heavily armed subordinates were trembling in fear. The security team leader made a decision right away.

‘Retreat to Point B. After retreating, immediately destroy the passage, change to monster-type weapons at Point B, and counterattack.’

The cannibals retreated, but the combat drones weren’t about to let that happen.

The artificial intelligence, having learned that the Virginia Langley Company cannibals are tenacious, focused its attacks on the legs to prevent them from escaping.

As the advance party moved forward, leaving the cannibals without mobility behind, the drones that followed dismantled the cannibals, dismembering them piece by piece.

While the sacrificial offerings were stalling for time, the cannibals who had successfully retreated first blew up the passage.

bang!

It was a good decision to destroy the passage before the drones came in. If they destroyed it in advance, they would have no choice but to clear the collapsed entrance.

Tirik- jiing- tirik-

The head sensor of the preceding drone extended and began to check the collapsed passageway.

[The enemy has blocked the passage.]

[Scenario 43. Clear the passage.]

A drone equipped with a laser excavator began to dig through the collapsed passage. The technology that surpassed the singularity was also revealed in the digging. The excavating drone dug deep in an instant.

Weeeeeing- kuddudduk-

When I sprayed something like a spray into the hole that was quickly dug through, the bubbles swelled and hardened. A tunnel was created on the spot.

The combat drones began to move towards the newly dug tunnel. Soon, the tunnel dug by the excavation drones reached an empty lot where the cannibals had barricaded themselves.

“You crazy kids.”

A war machine that can autonomously make decisions and carry out operations based on artificial intelligence. What will happen if something like Galaxy Net comes along?

“Are you saying that no one tried to stop us from loosening regulations on AI?”

“Could it be that there was large-scale brainwashing?”

“brainwashing?”

“If it weren’t for brainwashing, it would be an absolute monarchy, so there’s no way it would be silent.”

It seemed plausible.

Even if it wasn’t direct brainwashing, there might have been religious brainwashing. The HOLLY church might have been part of such religious brainwashing. But there was no time to talk about that.

square-

Sabduddeuk-

“It’s an excavation drone!”

“Fuck···.”

“Holy Kingdom! You crazy bastards!”

“You made up your mind. You made up your mind.”

All the employees who had not followed Chairman Joseph Meyer’s orders were gathered at Point B and prepared. The cannibals, who had covered themselves with barricades, had their guns pointed like hedgehogs.

“atmosphere!”

“Don’t shoot!”

“When they come out of the tunnel, we attack them all at once.”

Point B was a large underground auditorium. It was a bunker made of reinforced concrete and composite armor, and was designed to withstand a nuclear war, so it was impervious to even the slightest impact.

“What about the equipment for the giant monsters?”

“Payment has been completed to the knights.”

“Okay. Block their advance with a barrage of fire, and have the knights attack on the left and right.”

In the Confederacy, a knight is a general term for someone who fights mutant monsters.

While knights in the Middle Ages meant beings armed with horses and full armor, knights in the Confederacy meant new species armed with weapons specifically for hunting mutant monsters.

As the excavation drone emerges from the tunnel, war machines pour out in unison like ants.

It would be strange to see one or two of them lose their minds and run away or pull the trigger in fear, but they were cannibals waiting, covering themselves with barricades.

“Ughhhhhhhhhhhh- I’m going to die. We’re all going to die.”

“Shut up, kid.”

Even though they had already lost half of their will to fight, no one ran away. This was because they too were moving according to the orders of their superior beings.

The waves of metal continued endlessly. Only when they had grown tired of the war machines that kept coming in, numbering in the hundreds or even hundreds, was the order to attack given.

“attack!”

The 12.7mm, 20mm Vulcan, and 40mm machine guns opened fire simultaneously. They were cannibals who had discovered the weak points of the war machine through a single engagement.

“Machine guns and Barretts, aim for the sensors!”

The 12.7mm rounds were not enough to penetrate the drone’s frontal armor, but they were enough to destroy its sensors. With their sensors destroyed, the drones lost their balance and lurched around before being hit in the side by 20mm and 40mm rounds and falling to the ground.

“It’s a success!”

“Aim for their weakness!”

“Shoot the sensor and the side!”

But that joy was short-lived, as the machines with broken sensors began to respond.

[Sensor failure.]

[Large caliber bullet. Dangerous.]

[Check response measures.]

[Link starts.]

[Sharing sensor information.]

Machines linked to adjacent drones with intact sensors began to counterattack.

A formation using the drones that were out of action as shields to reduce the impact of large-caliber bullets, and leading the way with the drones with their sensors destroyed. War machines advancing in an orderly fashion, like Roman legions.

“Concentrated fire!”

“Concentrate firepower on the front center!”

“Prepare anti-sensor grenades!”

“Get your grenades ready!”

“Throw a grenade!”

“Throw!”

Unlike a regular grenade, there was a loud explosion. Fragments of aluminum pieces and special powder filled the front like a fog.

The drones stopped advancing and strengthened the defense of the central front that was under concentrated attack. That meant that the advance would soon stop.

As the drone stopped moving forward, a voice rang out loud as if it had been waiting.

“They stopped!”

“Now is the time!”

“charge!!!”

The barricades opened on both sides and heavily armed cannibals began to run forward, each holding a shield in one hand and a weapon that looked like a lance in the other.

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The Confederacy had a large territory relative to its population.

Even if the territory was large, there would be no problem if support could be provided by fighter jets or helicopters, but that was not the reality.

Flocks of rabid birds attacked airfields and attacked low-altitude planes and helicopters. The harsh winter also made it impossible to use aircraft.

Not only is the base temperature around -40 to -50 degrees Celsius, but at high altitudes it drops to -60 to -70 degrees Celsius. Even if you operate the plane with fuel additives used in high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, takeoff and landing are problems.

Most of the airfields have long been taken over by flocks of birds and rats. Even if you catch the birds and rats, you still have to fight off the medium- to large-sized carnivores that gather to hunt them.

With the loss of a vast territory and the transportation and communication networks that could organically connect that territory, the Confederacy had no choice but to return to feudalism as it had in the past.

There was a reason why the lower class new humans were given the title of knight and given an outlying village as a manor.

A virtuous cycle system where the knight who protects the village manages the villagers well(?) and amply satisfies their needs(?), thus becoming stronger.

In order for this system to remain stable, knights had to be able to capture mutant monsters. Mutant monsters such as Iron Hog ​​and Hogzilla, which were mainly mutated wild boars, were the main enemies of knights who held the manor.

Even if they weren’t knights, they could easily be captured using the main tank units, but it was not realistically possible to deploy main tanks as units in every remote village.

Even if that were possible, the Southern Alliance nobles would not deploy them, because it was important to make the townspeople voluntarily submit to the master of the manor, a new-human knight.

‘We must make the townspeople depend on the knight.’

‘The knights must be able to catch the mutant monsters.’

The Confederacy created a weapon to catch the boar monster. It was a pile driver-type lance. The method of approaching with the unique physical abilities of the new human race and attacking with a lance made from the monster’s byproduct began to take hold.

The sight of the new humans charging with spears at the giant Hogzilla and Iron Hog ​​was the revival of the knight itself.

And now.

The knight’s charge was directed at the war machines of the Holy Kingdom.

Quad lights-

A sound different from gunfire echoed across the battlefield.

The drone stopped moving at the same time as the sound of something being pierced. A huge file with a diameter of about 8cm was stuck in the drone’s body, which had easily withstood 12.7mm bullets.

Beep be …

The red glowing sensor gradually faded away, as if the electronic device was slowly losing power.

“The sides are weak. Aim for the sides!”

CHI-IK- White steam comes out of the red-hot driver, and CLACK- A new file is automatically replaced.

Thud, thud, thud!

Valid! Valid!

Scenes of giant shields easily blocking bullets fired by drones were repeated here and there.

“it’s okay!”

“It works.”

“It’s bearable.”

The shield made from the monster’s byproducts was more than enough to block attacks from the Holy Kingdom drones.

“Okay.”

“Hold the first line of defense. Charge the second line. Stand by the third line.”

“After the second line charge, establish a defensive line.”

“charge!”

The knights began to charge again. And the situation was different from the first charge.

“uh?”

One of the people watching the pile driver attack following the powerful charge looked up at the pieces of cement hitting their helmets. He could see the drone moving cautiously, hiding its body in a hollowed-out space in the ceiling.

‘Me. Crazy-‘

“It’s the ceiling! There are guys on the ceiling!”

It was too late to notice. As if singing the law of universal gravitation, the war machines on the ceiling began to fall on the heads of the knights who were forming the battle line.

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“The Knights Templar have been annihilated.”

“The barricade has been dismantled.”

Clearly, they had the upper hand.

Because the knights who captured the mutant monster destroyed the war machine of the Holy Kingdom in one blow.

“The final line of defense has been breached.”

“Confirm additional enemy drones!”

Where was the problem?

It was a surefire way to focus their firepower in the center, draw their attention, and then strike at the sides.

“We’re breaching the bunker!”

“Enemy drones infiltrate through the outer wall of Point B.”

‘Those guys from the ceiling.’

The feeling of losing connection with the lower entity at point B after the last mental wave.

Is that so?

As if he had focused their attention with concentrated fire, the men used the knight’s charge as bait when he stabbed them in the side.

The knights moved to the ceiling and fell down from above while the attack was concentrated on the flank. It was a response in that short moment in a complex engagement situation.

“Point B has fallen.”

“Entering the C point of the Holy Kingdom Drone.”

The report continued, as if the sense of loss were real.

“All outer border guards wiped out.”

“C-Point barrier collapse.”

The expressions of the executives who were there, including the security team leader, hardened. They had to get out now.

“Let’s escape.”

“···Let’s do that.”

They chose a late escape.

“The route the chairman took would be the safest.”

“I guess so.”

If it was Chairman Joseph Meyer, he would have used all the other executives as bait.

“······.”

“······.”

“······.”

Leaving their men’s psychic waves behind, they entered the drainage ditch from which Joseph Meyer had escaped.

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[The locations of the scattered vans have been confirmed.]

Maru nodded slightly at the AI’s report. It was actually impossible to escape from the eyes of the tracking drones and reconnaissance airships.

[Attack at the same time.]

[Combat drones deployed.]

An aerial drone was launched from a reconnaissance airship. The battle situation was being displayed in real time on Maru’s HUD (Head Up Display).

‘hmm-‘

The situation was overwhelmingly favorable. But somehow, Maru’s uneasy feeling did not go away.

‘We’ll catch all the escapees soon.’

Maru never let his discomfort go. Then a thought occurred to him.

‘Water park?’

If it’s a large water park, wouldn’t the drainage ditch be large?

[Where is the water park drain?]