Rust - Chapter 692



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RUST -692

After locking Dan Brown in the hotel, the meeting began.

“How about cleaning it up?”

Kim Yang was the first to express his opinion.

“What are we going to do with our awesome artificial intelligence?”

The betrayal of the bodyguard and secretary was true, so Kim Yang’s argument was that if we just delete and organize the parts where the Supreme Dignity saves us, the story will naturally become clean.

Why else would it be called the ‘United States of America’? It was even a country that added ’empire’ to the ‘United States of America’. It was a hybrid that also included democracy and a free market economy.

If you seriously thought that was possible, you were out of your mind. It was dangerous to even think about rebuilding the beautiful United States of America, the great United States of America.

“It’s not a revolution, it’s reconstruction. It’s crazy. And if you look at the way it’s going, it’s a ploy to drag us into their crazy dreams.”

With so much work to do, why did she have to clean up Dan Brown’s dirty house? Kim Yang was furious.

“If the information confirmed by psychometry is true, I think it would be a good idea to help General Dan Brown.”

“I agree. It is better to help now.”

Hood and PD were of the opinion that they should help Dan Brown.

“Based on the information we have obtained this time, it is highly likely that the anti-cannibal vampire policy will be abolished if President Dan Brown falls from power.”

Hood monitored the contents that the Imperial press was gradually pushing out.

‘Should cannibals be ostracized?’

‘Is the history of oppression and exclusion repeating itself?’

‘Cannibals aren’t born. They’re made.’

‘The reason and truth behind the Empire’s suppression of cannibals.’

‘The fall of a noble family. Suppression under the pretext of being cannibals.’

“Although it raises suspicions that Confederate money went to the press, the editorial argues that it is wrong to unconditionally reject cannibalistic desires when they can be controlled.”

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“It’s no use trying to help the people of the Empire. They’ll definitely come up with something different later. Just look at that.”

“That is why we must help Dan Brown not to fall from power.”

The PD, who took Hood’s opinion, said:

“If the chaos in the Empire continues, the number of refugees will increase. If refugees with such thoughts come in, the Holy Kingdom will fall into chaos.”

It was impossible to conduct a ideological verification of the refugees who came in numbers of 100,000 or 200,000 at a time. There were thousands or tens of thousands of psychometricians, so it was not possible to investigate them all.

However, it was also dangerous to not accept refugees and just let them die.

If you wander outside and die, you will become prey to the mutant monsters, and considering the nature of the mutant monsters that grow stronger by eating humans, it was the worst choice.

“It will strengthen not only mutant monsters, but also cannibals and vampires.”

It was said that it would be difficult to just leave them alone, whether they live or die, and that if they accepted them, it would be tiring and a nuisance in many ways, and that a refugee crisis would break out.

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The PD continued talking after seeing Ms. Kim with her mouth tightly shut.

“Revolution in the Empire is a very risky thing.”

The fall of Dan Brown would not mean the fall of the Empire, but it was certain that the next regime would be hostile to the Holy Kingdom.

“In particular, safety and security risks are expected to increase.”

The PD explained that if a hostile regime is established in the Empire, there will be a problem because it will create a route for cannibals and vampires that broke away from the Confederacy to come to the Holy Kingdom through the Empire.

“It would be less of a burden for us if General Dan Brown remained in office. At least he could give and take.”

Kim Yang felt frustrated with the two people’s thoughts. Give and take is a thing of the past, but look at what they are doing now. It is not like that at all. Above all.

“Can you believe it?”

Are you sure you’re not gambling with your life?

What if you were gambling with your life to bring in the Holy Kingdom?

How many times has that person risked their life and gambled with others? What if this situation right now is also a calculated gamble?

“I wonder if we could just stick a data extractor in Dan Brown’s head and see what he’s thinking, rather than using some crappy psychometry.”

Ki-soon was slightly surprised by Kim Yang’s argument. It was rough, but it was pointing out something that absolutely had to be confirmed.

Above all, even though he was quite familiar with Dan Brown, he was trying to dismiss him coldly.

“Why do you look like that?”

“No. I thought it was cool.”

“A person who is crazy about something, whether it be a belief or an ideology, will drag everyone around him along. That’s a disease. And I didn’t like Dan Brown.”

When you assign work and fail to manage it properly, you are already out of favor.

“What’s going on?”

“I once went to New York to ask them to help me get rid of rats and cockroaches. That time was also a mess. I don’t know if it was because of the power of that guy, or politics, or whatever. I was in the basement with rats and cockroaches, and my intestines were about to burst, but what was so complicated about it?”

Kim Yang was reluctant to help Dan Brown.

It’s not like you helped me once or twice, but this time it happened again. You saved my life, and now you’re gambling with it?

“I’m not sure yet if it’s gambling or not.”

“Can’t you tell just by looking at it? And for people like us, if the back of our heads starts to tingle, it’s right not to do anything.”

She shared her experience of how it is common to go there and end up seeing blood, thinking it would be okay.

‘The back of the head. Well, trust is the problem.’

In Ki-soon’s view, Dan Brown was a man who would do anything to realize his ideals.

‘The problem is that he can do anything. First of all, he put his life on the line.’

A person who risks his own life would not risk the lives of others. Ki-soon’s eyes narrowed even further.

“I agree with Kim Yang’s opinion. I personally like Mr. Den, but he could be poison to us.”

Now it was 2:2. The two were taken aback by the gazes directed at Erica and the nurse.

“Eh-eh- why are you looking at me so scary?”

Kim Yang pressured me with her eyes.

‘Tell me you agree with me.’, ‘Let’s get this done.’, ‘Quickly.’, ‘Right now.’, ‘Unit 1!’

But nurses weren’t the messy nurses of old.

“Eh-oh- Shouldn’t we talk to that guy Den Brown? What do you think?”

“What kind of story is this! If we’ve talked this far, shouldn’t we come to a conclusion now?”

Miss Kim was furious at the nurses’ rebellion.

“Enough. Does Nana agree or disagree with disposing of General Dan Brown?”

The nurse answered Maru’s question grandly.

“Uh- No, I disagree. If that person dies, more people will die.”

Miss Kim was about to explode at the nurse’s answer, but Maru raised his hand to stop her.

“What about Jooyeon and Erica?”

Na Ju-yeon shook her head.

“I will abstain.”

“I also abstain.”

As Na Ju-yeon abstained, Erica quickly followed suit and abstained.

‘Disposition 2: Support 3: Abstention 2’

Kim Yang and Ki-soon are disposed of. Hood, PD, and nurses support. Na Ju-yeon and Erica abstain.

Maru took a moment to collect his thoughts and then sat up.

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Trapped in his hotel room, Den Brown was amazed by the transformation of Detroit.

‘It’s amazing. It’s a completely different city than it used to be.’

Detroit was a declining city. It was portrayed as a lawless city in movies, dramas, and novels, and it really was. It was so bad that employees who were assigned to Detroit were even considering resigning.

But not anymore.

It had only been two or three years since Vladimir Kalin had settled in Detroit, and in those two or three years Detroit had become a completely different city.

‘There are so many crows, but there is no bird droppings on the ground or in the buildings.’

Considering the giant wolves roaming the streets, you would expect dog feces to be plentiful, but there wasn’t.

‘Are you saying that animals hide their excrement and urine?’

They say crows and wolves are so intelligent that they can even maintain public order? Above all, it was shocking that there was no bird droppings.

‘Birds hold back their poop?’

Isn’t it structurally impossible?

Or maybe it’s because you mutated in that direction…

No matter which way you look at it, they were strange crows.

It was surprising that crows and wolves behaved in the same way, and that animals that were practically mutated monsters could freely roam the city, but what was even more surprising was the transparent barrier that surrounded the entire hotel.

‘The technology gap is overwhelming.’

Is it made of sound waves? Air? Or some other substance?

I don’t know how they created this transparent barrier, but it definitely had an insulating effect.

Outside, the temperature was between -40 and -50 degrees Celsius, and even down to -70 degrees Celsius, but inside the transparent curtain surrounding the hotel, it was freezing. Around 2 to 4 degrees Celsius.

‘Even if nuclear fusion could produce unlimited amounts of electricity, the Empire couldn’t create something like this.’

The technical skills themselves were different.

If we compare the technological gap with the Empire, we should say that they are at least 20 to 30 years ahead. And that’s just based on what has been revealed so far.

‘What’s even scarier is that the gap is still widening.’

Dan Brown’s brow furrowed. He had expected an assassination attempt, but it was hard to predict that his old secretary and bodyguard would do it.

However, if we infer the results in reverse, there were several reasons.

‘Did you think you were being overtaken by new clones and artificial intelligence?’

After the new clones began to be mass-produced, Dan Brown began receiving protection from the new clones. The same goes for secretarial work, and the introduction of a secretarial system combining the new clones and artificial intelligence was under discussion.

Even so, assassination? And in the Holy Kingdom at that.

‘Is Virginia Remnant a vampire’s doing?’

It was highly probable that this would happen. The only question was whether the Holy Kingdom would judge it that way.

What would he think of the fact that the people he brought in, claiming to be the President’s closest associates, fell for the vampires and attempted to assassinate him, even though he had handed over the mind-wave blocking device and technology?

‘Not good.’

Before he could even gather his thoughts, what was to come came first.

[His Majesty the King has arrived.]

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Maru went to find Den Brown with the information extractor and the Noedungdung.

“Let me get straight to the point. The Holy Kingdom has concluded that Chancellor Dan Brown and the Empire cannot be trusted.”

“You can’t trust me? That’s sad. I thought we could lean on each other even if we couldn’t trust each other.”

“I guess you’ve already forgotten that we joined hands with the Confederacy to try to take over the Holy Kingdom.”

“Eat it all. What are you talking about? To be honest, it was an incomprehensible act to wipe out London, England, and Paris, France, with nukes.”

“Is that a problem?”

“There are many problems. If there was a reason, you should have told us why you made that choice. At least if you had considered this a little bit. Couldn’t you have told us even unofficially? Without that, you were the one who launched the nuke. Who do you think broke the trust first?”

“It’s ridiculous that trust is even mentioned when the Holy Kingdom uses nuclear weapons.”

“Because it’s nuclear, not something else.”

“I just blew up a city overflowing with mutant monsters. I thought that if the weather cleared up and the monsters spread, there would be nothing I could do. It’s pointless to talk about it now, but the result is one. The Empire tried to exploit the Holy Kingdom instead of siding with it because it used nuclear weapons. That’s the result.”

“So, does that mean we should have unconditionally supported the Holy Kingdom, which blew up London and Paris without any justification? I wish you would know that the position of the Emperor of the Empire is different from the position of the King of the Holy Kingdom.”

Maru shrugged.

“Well, that’s fine. I hope the Empire can solve its own problems. However, if you want the Holy Kingdom’s support, I hope you can prove your trust.”

“Prove trust? What would you do? Promises and treaties would be meaningless.”

It was Dan Brown who was talking about unilaterally abolishing the non-aggression pact.

“It would be a demonstration of trust if you could let me know what you’re thinking.”

Maru said while looking at the information extractor.

“You don’t have to worry about side effects. The punctured area can be regenerated cleanly.”

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Ki-sun, who had been watching the silent Den Brown, immediately sent a signal.

[My emotions are fluctuating.]

Maru added quickly.

“I want to be clear, I will not force it. It is entirely up to the President’s choice.”

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