Rust - Chapter 707



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RUST [RUST]-707

“Ah, ah!” (King of Evil!)

After I was able to freely use the link, I was literally doing more than an adult’s share of work.

I don’t mean to offend you because you’re mentally an adult, but aren’t you still a kid in body?

Not only did they have to defend the Newport News shipyard, going all the way to Montreal and Quebec was frankly beyond overkill, it was child abuse.

It was Heeyeon, clenching her fists with a serious expression.

‘It’s still dangerous though.’

It was dangerous to be in the Detroit Vladikavkaz Tower because of his younger brother(?) who believed he was the reincarnation of Director Yu.

Genetically, the clones were actually twin sisters, but in terms of the time of birth, Hee-yeon was the older sister. However, the younger sibling(?) who was just born thought she was Director Yoo herself.

Despite having explained the entire situation, Director Yoo decided that he was the reincarnation of himself. This was the exact opposite of Hee-yeon’s decision to simply draw a line between Director Yoo’s memories and memories and declare that he was an independent person.

‘Jew.’

From the moment Director Yoo decided that Yu Da-in’s name was his own, Hee-yeon and Da-in were bound to clash over everything.

The most dangerous of these was that he was trying to take control of the clones. Because of Director Yu’s memories, Hee-yeon was able to roughly guess what her younger brother(?) would do.

“It’s not right to do this by following the rules.” (But that doesn’t mean you should do it this way.)

[Report from the Acid Rat Clan north of the shipyard.]

The assistant AI sent an urgent report to Hee-yeon, who was muttering.

It was a scout rat belonging to the Acid Clan sending text messages and videos. Even Hee-yeon, who had memories of Director Yoo, found it fascinating to see the rats typing messages on a tablet panel.

The content was a report of the discovery of a group of spiders and humans in a city northwest of the Newport News Shipyard.

“Details.” (Details)

[Uploading tactical camera video.]

Footage shows humans and spiders fighting. The spiders have completely taken over the exterior walls of a building and are hunting humans trapped inside.

‘Burn it with fire!’

‘Be careful not to touch the spider web.’

‘What is this?’

‘It won’t light!’

Even if it caught fire, the spider web would quickly go out, as if it had been flame-retardant treated, and would not spread even when people burned it with torches.

Eventually, the spider web started to catch fire after being sprayed with precious lighter fluid, but the people were unable to escape.

It was because the spiders surrounded the place where they were gathered to light the fire. Heeyeon tilted her head at the spiders’ group behavior.

Don’t spiders originally hunt alone?

It’s the same when I recall Director Yoo’s memories.

Spiders were similar to hikikomori territorial animals. They usually hunt by spinning webs in one place and staying inside the house to wait patiently.

But the spiders in the video were different. They were building webs together and hunting together. They were acting in groups, like fire rats or acid rats.

‘This is weird.’

There were many spiders near the shipyard, but none of them changed so dramatically. Perhaps they grew a little bigger, or their webs became a little tougher.

It was the first time that a spider had been discovered that had changed so much that it could hunt people openly, and that it had a web that was so strong that it could not be broken even when burned with a torch.

‘What should I do?’

The reason the Acid Rat went on a long scouting expedition was because of the competition with the Fire Rat. There was no reason for him to go from the Newport News Shipyard to Richmond, which was northwest along the James River.

Anyway, I went to Richmond to scout out. As a result, I found a mutant spider. And a creepy spider in many ways…

Hee-yeon’s worries quickly came to an end.

“Reconnaissance Jaran Fogersher Origami.” (Reconnaissance data will be reported.)

Hee-yeon prepared the link, giving orders that the acid rat and the flame rat will further strengthen the northwestern border.

If it was Director Yoo in my memory, he would have personally confirmed this, and the same goes for Hee-yeon.

“Choo-tung!” (Go!)

[Where are you going?]

The sound of the assistant AI being torn apart echoed through the situation room.

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Empire, New York.

A hydrogen bomb, and one made using the singularity of the Holy Kingdom, was incredibly powerful.

‘Everything flew away.’

Even though the bombs were dropped as close to the southern shore as possible, down the Hudson River, in an attempt to preserve at least some of New York’s infrastructure, New York lost its function as a city.

President Dan Brown looked out the broken window at the ruins and was lost in thought. He had seen Washington, D.C. and the places where the nuclear bombs had fallen in China, but he had never seen such overwhelming destruction as the scene before his eyes.

‘The scope itself is completely different.’

Why did you create a weapon like this?

Even the Soviet Union, which created the Tsar Bomba, predicted that a 100-megaton yield would be too strong, so they reduced the yield to 50 megatons and conducted experiments. However, the Holy Kingdom, as if to show off, created a hydrogen bomb with a yield of well over 100 megatons and actually used it.

London and Paris, hit by several hydrogen bombs of this power, would have been literally wiped off the map. Dan Brown wondered about the fundamental reason for creating such an outrageous weapon.

He looked out the cool, broken window, lost in thought.

Areas directly hit by the crater were literally vaporized, and the ensuing shockwave and aftershock alone rendered all of New York City non-functional.

All the rats that came up to the ground were wiped out.

The rat kingdom deep in the sewers is also finished, just like New York.

The City that Never Sleeps, the City of Freedom, is gone. So who will take its place?

If the plan to rebuild New York is to preserve its symbolic meaning, the plan to build a floating city using mega floats will literally be stranded.

Dan Brown’s sunken gaze looked down on the ruined New York.

‘Whether intentional or not… it’s surprising.’

Intentions didn’t matter. Results did.

Even if the symbolic meaning of the succession is that way, the monster’s movement was unexpected. The mutated monsters around New York all fled due to the terrible power of the hydrogen bomb.

‘How ironic.’

The monsters that had witnessed the terrible destructive power ran away without even attacking them directly.

The difficult task of building a wall around the outskirts of New York to stop the mutant monsters was solved with a single hydrogen bomb.

It is said that the Holy Kingdom, which possesses such hydrogen bombs, declared an all-out war and could not hold out long before calling a ceasefire.

“Ant Empire···.”

Dan Brown’s sunken eyes took in the ruins.

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Although there was strong public demand for New York to be rebuilt, Dan Brown, as president, focused on building a seaside city.

“The Holy Kingdom has made a truce with the ants.”

The Holy Kingdom and the Empire had different directions in mind. The more he talked to Vladimir Kalin, the more Dan Brown realized that their perspectives on the problem and their worldviews were different.

The fact that they had a truce with the ant empire meant that they could communicate with the ants. It was obvious that they couldn’t have a truce if they couldn’t communicate with each other.

Then, a fundamental problem was bound to arise.

Ants···.

So, it means that we will recognize the ant empire that ants created together as equals. That is what the ceasefire meant.

The problem was that the Holy Kingdom had arbitrarily called a truce. Although the warring parties were the Holy Kingdom and the Ant Empire, Dan Brown had different thoughts.

As the Holy Kingdom recognized ants as persons, the Empire was bound to be affected. Could an Empire that interacts with the Holy Kingdom designate ants as pests and hunt them down?

“We should consider our empire as being involved in the truce of the Holy Kingdom.”

This wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. Similar cases abounded.

It is what allows crows and wolves to be paid salaries, conduct banking transactions, and even make payments.

In a capitalist society, granting someone the right to economic activity is tantamount to acknowledging that they have become the subject of production and consumption.

Is it only the crow and wolf? Even the Sanseong Gull at the Newport News Shipyard will be recognized as a member of the Holy Kingdom after some time and merit.

Seriously. Is that normal?

Is it normal and right to give rights to crows and wolves? No matter how good PC (political correctness) is, there is a limit to it.

Politics is a human act, an act exclusively for humans, and an act that should be centered around humans. But then you bring in animals like crows and wolves?

Even if we make a hundred concessions and say that animal rights have been expanded, what about artificial intelligence? Why do we give rights like the right to self-preservation to programs attached to computer hardware?

They say it’s the right to self-preservation, but in reality, it’s the same as giving them the right to survive. Even without that, AI is faster at processing information than humans, so how can you not dispose of such AI as you please?

Do you really not know what that means? What if there is a problem with AI? Even the Holy Kingdom has quantum computers. The combination of AI and quantum computers could literally be a disaster.

The Holy Kingdom also wanted to avoid that, so they installed and maintained artificial intelligence with supercomputers and newly built computers, but what will they do if, as time goes by, the artificial intelligence wants quantum computers?

But now they say there is a truce with the ant empire. And to make matters worse, they are going to hire ant workers to do the construction, but there was no answer.

‘Are you going to hire ants and pay them a salary?’

“Human currency has no meaning to ants, so we try to go for in-kind payment as much as possible.”

‘I guess it’s just snack foods and meat.’

‘That’s how it should start.’

Dan Brown asked.

‘If you hire ants, will the mice do the same?’

‘The rat is still thinking.’

‘Ants are okay, but field mice that risk their lives fighting are not. How long do you think that will last without causing any problems?’

‘······.’

‘What about AI? The new exosuit is said to have an assistant AI that can operate autonomously. Is there a plan for how AI that has become not just a simple program but also a physical body will behave?’

‘······.’

It wasn’t that the Empire didn’t know how to use AI, so it didn’t use it. It was easy to untie something and easy to overturn it, but it was hard to tie up something that was once untied and pick up something that was overturned.

To Den Drown, this was the policy of the Holy Kingdom. It seemed reasonable and not bad, but from Den Brown’s human-centered perspective, it was a very dangerous choice.

‘I think the same thing applies to clones.’

‘······.’

Are you going to treat the clones U+ and Naruzu as individuals?

So when a clone dies, the citizens will react as if they were dead?

Since survival was the issue at the time, all of the choices made so far may have passed with the excuse that they were made for survival, but human nature was different.

Ants and I are the same workers?

Does the crow get paid more than me?

Now you’re going to worry about the housing problems of these little rats?

The AI ​​learning failed and it became weird, but I can’t erase it and reinstall it. Are you crazy?

Considering human nature, is it really such a small matter that the Divine Kingdom so easily chose to ignore it?

‘What is it that the Holy Kingdom pursues while taking on the problem?’

‘It’s survival.’

“Den Brown declared, recalling the conversation he had had with Vladimir Kalin.

“The empire will be of men, by men, and for men.”

That was the spirit of the United States, the humanism that the empire was to inherit.

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Montreal, Canada

Montreal’s downtown area was in shambles after the ant paratroopers, using their winged paratroopers, infiltrated and destroyed the rear.

Amidst the fierce battle with the soldier ants, roads were destroyed and buildings were left half-ruined, precariously standing as if they were about to collapse.

Somehow, I saw a scene that seemed incongruous.

It was a sight of ants easily pushing away huge debris.

They diligently gathered up the debris and filled it into the gaping sinkhole, and ready-mix concrete trucks and pump trucks began filling it with cement.

In various places in Montreal, ants and humans are working together to repair damaged roads. Ki-sun sighed softly as he watched the ants moving around like construction workers.

“Ha- Yagada Hana is really good at finishing things off.”