Rust - Chapter 685



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RUST -685

If you think back to the early days when Maru was a swordsman, his specialty was definitely surprise attacks. And after experiencing various battlefields, could it be said that he was reborn as a master of backstabbing?

Stealth and ambush using the Ripper suit were almost mastered. From highly sensitive mutant monsters to cannibals, Maru could not be detected.

High-ranking cannibals and vampires sometimes noticed, but Maru always made the first move.

The same is true now. The Virginia remnants who had taken control of the Governor’s residence where Gi-sun was were unaware that Maru had infiltrated their side.

‘There must be more than 20 people.’

If he wanted to kill them, he could have easily cut off their necks, but Maru avoided them and headed to the panic room. The moment he killed the guards, they would realize that their comrades were dead and go crazy like a hornet’s nest had been poked.

If you were going to kill them, you had to start by taking out the heads that commanded them. If there was a formula for effectively taking down high-ranking cannibals or vampires, it was to start by taking out the ones in the highest positions.

‘That’s… It looks like our weapon?’

The equipment they were holding were weapons from the Holy Kingdom. The uniquely shaped 12.7mm gun and various equipment were clearly weapons from this side.

‘Either the guards were attacked. Or the munitions warehouse was robbed.’

Either way, it wasn’t good. You could get hurt, but that meant it wasn’t reported to you. The biggest problem was that the assistant AI didn’t work.

If they had acquired the ability or technology to disrupt artificial intelligence and sensors, it would have been difficult to prevent small-scale infiltrations like the one we’re seeing now.

Maru put aside his thoughts for a moment and did not step on the stairs leading down to the basement. His heart was pounding – it was because of the feeling he had just before going down the stairs.

‘Booby trap?’

Or maybe it means there are some guys hiding.

Boo-

Maru jumped without stepping on the stairs. At the end of the stairs, where he descended like an owl’s wings without making a sound, was a panic room.

A vampire holding a whip and a door with a hole in it. And an escort standing behind him. There were two escorts in total. One was facing the stairs, and the other was standing next to the one holding the whip, ready to jump out at any moment.

Clink clink clink!!!

The whip twisted and shot as if it were alive.

?

An attack that defies the laws of physics.

Usually, when swinging a whip, you use recoil or centrifugal force, but this attack was a departure from that method.

‘ability?’

Maru’s gaze turned to the round door. A red liquid was melting the door.

‘Acid?’

What the heck are these?

Gagagagagagagak!

The whip, which moved like a snake, wrapped around the blade of the woman who was resisting in the panic room. When everyone’s attention was focused on it, the floor moved.

Whirl!

Two stilettos flew towards the man guarding the stairs. The stilettos were aimed from a diagonal angle, but the man knocked one away with extraordinary reflexes.

Ting!

The second stiletto went deep between the outstretched arms. The second stiletto went in like a tail biting its own tail and got lodged in the bastard’s skull.

“Swoosh-!”

A guy with a stiletto heel sticking out of his head, staggering backwards, then collapsing when his back hits the wall.

?

!!!

The moment the head of the guard next to the man swinging the whip turned, the Eclipse of Maru, who had been aiming behind, drew a long line.

Thud- thud-

Two severed heads rolled side by side on the floor.

[Hey, are you okay?]

A relaxed sound came from inside the hole.

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Now that Ki-sun has been rescued, Maru is thinking of punishing the guys all over the Governor-General’s residence.

“After I leave, blow up the stairs.”

“Blow up the stairs?”

Maru explained further in response to Ki-sun’s expression of asking if it was true.

“They broke through the door with acid or something. So it would be better to just tear down the entire stairwell.”

Even if you try to put up a barricade, they’ll just melt and come in.

“The collapsed ones will be dug up later with excavation drones?”

While Maru was cleaning up the rest of the guys, it was effective in preventing a hostage situation from occurring.

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Kururururung-

Ki-soon, who had collapsed the stairs, spoke to the woman who was groaning in pain.

“Wouldn’t it be better to just leave it and go to the Vladislav Tower to repair it?”

It was a woman disassembling a mechanical arm that was making noise and vibrations, perhaps due to the strain from wrestling with a whip.

“What if something goes wrong before that? You have to take care of the equipment in advance so that it is at least usable.”

To be honest, the one-armed woman was a style that was full of refreshing health. She was a woman who tried to use a beauty trick, but lost one of her arms and wandered around the outskirts, and now she is Ki-sun’s dedicated bodyguard.

I don’t know if she forgot the grudge of losing her arm or if there was another reason, but Ki-soon liked seeing the woman silently doing her best.

“I heard that if you accumulate merits, your severed arm will be restored.”

“That would be great, but if you go back to your original arm, your fighting power will decrease drastically.”

Even just a moment ago, if it weren’t for the robotic arm, my wrist would have turned. The woman spoke calmly, recalling the force she felt when she twisted the blade with a whip.

“What was your ability?”

“Swift. It’s the acceleration series.”

The reaction speed was good enough to hit a whip that broke the laws of physics in the middle.

“······.”

“······.”

She answered briefly and focused on fixing the mechanical arm. Ki-sun suddenly wondered what this silence meant.

As she slightly raised her power, colors began to appear around her. Ki-sun’s ability to express emotions through colors told her about her situation.

Blue. The color of reason.

It meant that he was concentrating on fixing the mechanical arm. Peek- Ki-soon smiled, his eyes relaxed.

What on earth did you want?

The woman spoke cautiously to Ki-sun.

“I heard you launched a nuclear attack on the Confederacy. Is that true?”

“It’s true.”

The color began to change, as if mixing red ink with blue ink. This meant that emotions were beginning to spread.

Ah- right.

I had forgotten for a moment, but she was the woman who came to weave Maru into a honey trap. So was Bbangsooni.

‘They were both connected to the southern military.’

Breadsoonie Roana Blanc was unintentionally caught up in a terrorist attack and detained. The bastards approached Roana Blanc anonymously and tried to use her for the terrorist attack.

The fact that they approached her anonymously meant that they might reach out to Erilyn Newman, who was escorting Ki-soon, at any moment.

Ki-soon continued to observe the color of the woman with the knife. The color that had been rapidly turning red at the mention of dropping the nuke was slowly turning back to blue.

“Was it really necessary to launch a nuclear attack?”

“If you hadn’t fired the nuke first, this side would have been in danger.”

In retrospect, Ki-soon was against a preemptive nuclear strike, but looking back now, Maru’s decision was right. If he had hesitated and wasted time instead of using the nuclear weapons, it would have been more dangerous.

“······.”

“······.”

Silence followed again. As soon as he became aware of the silence, he felt a sense of uneasiness.

“That. Thank you.”

If it had been Gi-sun, he would have said something like, ‘Thank you for escorting me.’ But somehow, the words ‘Thank you’ just came out.

“I just did what I had to do.”

She answered frankly. A communication came in for Ki-sun, who was wondering whether to ask something he was curious about.

[I’ve sorted it all out.]

“······.”

This quickly?

Ki-soon felt a bit regretful.

I tried to talk about this and that while I was trapped, but Maru didn’t help.

[Come up right away, I’ll dig it with an excavation drone.]

“okay.”

The digging began with a low vibration sound.

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There were several more attacks targeting the Governor General of Canada, Ki Sun.

It was an attack that came through the gap of thinking, ‘I blocked it once, so it won’t come again,’ but it couldn’t avoid Maru’s uneasy prediction.

‘I attacked twice and was blocked both times. Would you attack again?’

Those who infiltrated again as if trying to break through the psychological gap were merely turned into red stains by the swordsmanship of the waiting floor.

“Surely you won’t come again?”

[I think you’ve given up since you don’t seem to have any feelings.]

“Oh, I’m sick of it. So are we going to Detroit now?”

[Since I’m here, I’d like to take a look at the soldiers and mercenaries here.]

Ki-soon nodded at Maru’s words.

“What about Erica? Did you call Erica too?”

[Oh. He’s coming now.]

It was not something to be overlooked that those who had targeted the Governor’s Residence were armed with weapons from the Holy Kingdom. It was a loophole that had to be blocked.

“You’re so persistent. I wish you could just get rid of them all at once.”

[···That seems difficult.]

Even though they killed Chairman Joseph Meyer, they were still alive and moving.

While most cannibals and vampires would fight to become the head if you cut off their heads, the Virginia ones recognized each other as heads and started playing separately without fighting.

“What a strange bunch of guys. When you cut off their hair, they grow back more hair.”

If you think about it that way, you can understand the continued raids on the Governor-General’s Residence. You can see that they were independently raided by people who thought it was worth a try.

“Then, as the number of these kids increases, they can each carry out terrorism as they wish.”

[maybe.]

Ki-sun found herself cursing at Maru’s answer.

Detroit was heavily fortified, so where would a terrorist attack targeting the Holy Kingdom come from?

Isn’t Canada home to the governor general, who is easy to travel to because the border is long and nutritious if you just catch him?

What the fuck.

“Let’s extract information and find the hideout. Wherever they are hiding, let’s find them and uproot them.”

[I tried it, but they put some kind of device in these kids’ brains, and all their brain cells melted.]

So, that means we have to capture them alive. That wasn’t easy.

Even though Maru seemed to be able to catch them easily, it wasn’t like that when you look closely. If it wasn’t for the one-hit, sure-kill swordsmanship, they would have counterattacked with their unique regenerative powers and physical abilities.

Even without that, Maru’s physical abilities weren’t that great, so it wasn’t easy to go into a long battle. This was especially true for those with acidic body fluids.

The moment you decide to cut off the limbs and capture them, it would take at least three stabs, which would mean three or more exposures to the acidic fluid.

Eclipse was weak to acid, and so were the two newly acquired Stilettos, so the longer the engagement dragged on in an attempt to capture them, the more burdensome it became.

[That’s also the problem, the fact that there are vampires with abilities.]

“whip?”

[Uh- The whip is like that, but if you consider acidic fluid as an ability, it’s definitely dangerous.]

The hypothesis that cannibals and vampires cannot awaken their powers was wavering. If that hypothesis were valid, it would mean that those who awakened their powers would become vampires. There was only one force in Montreal that had the potential to do so.

“Are you mercenaries?”

Ki-soon skipped the intermediate steps and went straight to the conclusion.

[So we need to check that.]

That’s why I called in Psychometric Erica.

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New York, Governor’s Residence.

A vampire with holes all over its body was thrown out onto the street with a small explosion.

Cheeeeek!

Red drops of blood began to melt the thick layer of snow and ice.

[Surrender.]

The heavily armed new clone warned the crawling vampire, but the vampire desperately ran away as if he didn’t hear it.

Tudadaang!

My head burst like a watermelon, and the pieces that exploded in all directions melted everything.

[Clear.]

Just as Gi-sun was suffering from terrorism, President Dan Brown was also receiving passionate love from vampires.

Unlike when there was a central figure called Joseph Meyer, each vampire chose Ki-soon and Dan Brown as trophies to quickly rise to the top.

[Intruder eliminated.]

[The acidic fluid punctured holes in the barriers and roads.]

This is already the third intrusion today.

Fortunately, the Holy Kingdom sent us mind-blocking technology and equipment. Through this, we were able to normalize those who were shaken by the power of control, and prevent the infiltration of vampires.

“I guess I should talk to the Holy Kingdom.”