Rust - Chapter 710



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RUST-710

As the motion detection sensor and bio-reaction sensor simultaneously raised their voices, Ki-soon shouted at Kim Yang.

[Don’t take it off, check it with the vibration communicator!]

Ah- right.

But it’s already been opened.

What’s more, the spider bitches have crawled all the way to the middle ground.

Even that goes through the rats’ surveillance net. Isn’t it just wrong to pass it by?

Isn’t that so?

Ki-soon shook his head at Kim Yang’s half-moon-shaped smile.

Before Ki-soon could say anything, Kim Yang’s exosuit kicked away.

Puhwaaaaak-

The exosuit’s entire body was on fire and the spider webs clinging to its legs shriveled.

A spider web that has lost its adhesive power and shriveled, but is still quite durable.

It is said to be heat resistant.

It definitely matched the footage sent by Mark 2.

‘That aside, where’s the bitch who made those spider webs? There aren’t any trees nearby.’

The once-burnt hills and plains were reduced to nothing more than a tangled web of black ash and dust.

‘She’s the bitch who weaves spider webs on the ground.’

Kim Yang seemed to know the answer somehow.

[There’s a spider web on the floor right now. It looks like a ground spider.]

[A spider?]

If ground spiders were to be found in such a large open space as now, they should have been abundant in the United States, but Kisun had never heard of ground spiders being abundant in the United States.

The guards closely followed the path of fire that Kim Yang had opened.

[Stop! Stop!]

If the spiders had dug a trap, it was obvious they would jump out from the side, so a long formation was not good.

[Large Diamond!]

[Flame blast in all directions centered on the formation!]

Napalm flames swept across the area. The smell of burning protein and the camouflaged spider webs on the ground cleared away, revealing the entrance to a bunker that was characteristic of ground spiders.

[What is this?]

[?]

[!]

Traces of spider webs woven together to resemble a door.

[The spider’s gate.]

Kim Yang answered indifferently, as if she didn’t know what she was seeing.

Hurrrrrurr

The spider web, made of thick layers of rocks, dirt, and ash, held up well even against napalm flames.

[Maintain flame. Prepare to throw grenade.]

[Ready to throw grenade.]

[Put it in right away when the lid opens.]

[Yay-sul.]

[All right.]

[Wait 1~2 seconds and then throw.]

[Deposit-]

[There are no such things as a kid.]

[James, you scared again. You scared again.]

[shut up!]

[Let’s not wave the grenade around like last time.]

[Shut up!]

The guardsmen placed grenades and waited for the lid to open.

‘This is weird?’

Ki-sun was perplexed when he saw the size of the hole the spider had made.

I remembered a documentary I enjoyed watching as a child. Most ground spiders live in East Asia, and ground spiders that block entrances like this are not that common.

It was also designated as an endangered species in Korea, and it was a rare species worldwide. If I remember correctly, that was definitely the case.

Moreover, the spider web itself that Kim Yang and his bodyguards were preparing to infest was also a problem.

‘Is that possible?’

The napalm of the Holy Kingdom was not just any napalm. It was napalm that had been improved through repeated research.

The firepower was truly enormous, burning at an extremely high temperature of at least 1,300 to 1,400 degrees. It was so high that it could literally melt steel bars and burn concrete.

But how can a spider’s web made of nothing more than a pile of rocks, dirt, and ash mixed together and woven with spider webs withstand napalm flames?

The moment the lid opened slightly, the heat of the napalm entered the lid.

Ting! Tidding – the sound of a grenade clip popping.

At the same time, dozens of pins bounced into the air.

[Fire in the hole!] (Fire in the hole!)

1 second- 2 seconds- 3 seconds-

These crazy people, really.

[Throw it. Throw it.]

Ki-sun took out the emergency fire extinguisher and approached behind the guard’s crippled bodyguard.

[Fire in the Hole!]

[Fire in the Hole!]

Napalm grenades were sucked in through the slightly opened lid. The three seconds I held it and threw it were effective, as the spiders were helpless.

The flames, burning fiercely with an explosive sound, began to mercilessly burn the spider web.

[Hold on. Take aim.]

Puhwaaaaaaaah!

As the lid burst open, oxygen-supplied flames shot up in an instant. And through the gap created by the rising flames, spiders with their entire bodies engulfed in flames sprang out.

[Shoot!]

Special bullets mixed with monster byproducts mercilessly struck the spider’s shell.

Bounce, stick, pierce bullets.

The ground spiders, who were on fire all over their bodies, desperately tried to escape under concentrated fire, but Kim Yang and his guards spread out a fire net as if they would not miss a single one.

Ashes and gunshots, red flames and black smoke began to fill the fields. And the quiet fields shook.

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The fields and hills begin to tremble as if they were alive.

Beep-beep-beep—beep beep beep beep beep–

Beep be …

Kim Yang’s HUD was instantly covered in red dots, then the HUD screen suddenly blacked out. Either the numbers were going crazy, or there was a mutated spider that was strong enough to interfere with electronic devices.

‘That’s impossible, without even the highest dignity.’

She shouted as she quickly got the estimate.

[retreat!]

The bodyguards, who had been holding the heavy bags in their hands without anyone knowing when they had picked them up, followed behind Ms. Kim, who was already running far away.

[I see Captain Wassi isn’t even looking back.]

[Ah- I looked back.]

[They say you absolutely must take whatever you are running with right now?]

[Ugh- I was going to eat and finish here.]

[James, are you scared again?]

[shut up!]

Kim Yang was the one leading the guards who were running away with their butts falling off.

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Maru checked the report submitted by Kim Yang and Ki-sun.

‘It seemed as if the fields and hills were moving as a whole.’

‘Air support from the Crow Bombardment Squadron and the Black Drake is required.’

‘The surest way would be to blow up Richmond all at once with a hydrogen bomb.’

So, Kim Yang suggested that we either do a large-scale carpet bombing or wipe them out with nukes. The Holy Kingdom currently has two hydrogen bombs, so in the worst case scenario, they could use one, but…

The moment I wrote that, I could have assumed that the new aircraft carriers under construction at the Newport News Shipyard and the entire 2nd Fleet, which was undergoing a full overhaul, would have been turned into scrap metal.

‘If you were to blow up Richmond and the Midway area with a hydrogen bomb at the same time, the Newport News Shipyard and its vicinity would be within EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) range.’

Kim Yang would know that much. Did the ground spider feel that threatening? Anyway, since you said you sent a sample of the ground spider, I had to check that first.

Hmm=

Maru’s eyes turned to the file that Ki-sun had sent. Ki-sun was doubting whether the fields and hills had even moved.

‘···The number is not small. But is it so large that the sensor will malfunction?’

‘It seemed to me like they were just bluffing.’

‘As far as I know, it’s hard for ground spiders to grow in such large numbers. Filling the fields and hills with only ground spiders? No matter how I look at it, it’s suspicious.’

Kisun thought that the ground spider itself was not a common animal in America.

“Diana. Is Ki-sun’s thoughts correct?”

[Based on data recorded on a tactical camera, it is a species of ground spider that lives in the Far East Asia.]

Maru felt uneasy at Diana’s answer that it was a species that lived in Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan.

“So you’re saying it’s a type that doesn’t exist in North America?”

[Search results, yes.]

If it wasn’t a native species, then someone must have brought it to America.

And in large quantities too.

Just looking at the results of the acid rat’s reconnaissance, it was clear.

‘There are definitely too many numbers.’

They were not ground spiders, but regular spiders, but considering that they surrounded and hunted half of the city of Richmond, there had to be hundreds of thousands of them.

There had been no spider problems until last year and the year before when we looked around the Newport News Shipyard while it was being rebuilt.

‘They say a swarm of hundreds of thousands of spiders suddenly appeared in Richmond…’

No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t seem natural.

First of all, if the mutation occurred naturally, there would have been territory and population control from the beginning, since spiders are generally territorial animals.

Besides, spiders are animals that hunt alone. A spider that hunts alone hunts in a group? No matter how you look at it, it feels like it was taken care of by humans.

Even if they weren’t brought in in large quantities, it seemed clear that they were bred in large quantities.

‘Then who would have done it?’

The first thing that came to Maru’s mind was China, because there was already a history of spreading mutant cockroaches.

‘If you sprayed cockroaches, there’s a good chance you sprayed spiders too.’

If China had carried out cockroach terror attacks in New York and other major western cities, then spider terror attacks were not out of the question.

‘If not China, it was most likely leaked from a secret laboratory with ties to Japan.’

With the collapse of the Virginia headquarters, security at the secret lab was compromised, and there was a good chance that something, whether a self-sustaining disaster or something else, would have caused the mutated spiders to leak out.

Maru, who had gathered his thoughts, decided on a policy.

“First of all, we cannot use the hydrogen bomb.”

Because if we use nukes, all the human and material resources poured into the Newport News Shipyard will be gone.

“We’ll mobilize all of our Crow Bombers and Black Drake-class airships to carpet bomb them.”

A large-scale carpet bombing campaign was decided.

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Hee-yeon, Clone, and the defense unit began a joint tactical meeting with Kim Yang, Ki-sun, and the royal guard.

“Isn’t Your Majesty coming?”

“Can you really bring such great dignity to something like this? Tell me, what were you doing while the spiders were making a fuss?”

Heeyeon kept her mouth tightly shut.

“Aren’t you going to answer? Isn’t this the area you manage?”

“······.”

As the silence grew longer, the corners of Kim Yang’s eyes twitched.

Mark 2 has grown a lot.

You didn’t come to the main body, but came via a link, and you stared at me with your eyes wide open, and you didn’t even answer my questions?

‘I raised him by changing his diapers, and now that I haven’t seen him in a while… he’s trying to crawl.’

Okay, let’s establish some discipline for once.

Ki-sun stopped him when she saw Kim Yang’s eyes becoming blurry.

[Hey. I’m telling you to report all of this to Maru.]

Kim Yang turned her head and spoke with her eyes.

‘Is it real?’

‘okay.’

Kim Yang, who decided to move on to a grand solution, organized the situation.

“The Crow Bombardment Squadron and the Black Drake-class squadron will provide carpet bombing support.”

The goal is to completely eliminate the spider forces that have advanced into the vicinity of Newport News.

“As soon as the carpet bombing is over, the defense forces and U+ clones will clear out the remaining enemies. In the meantime, the Royal Guard and I will search Richmond.”

“What about the survivors?”

This year-

The corners of Kim Yang’s eyes slightly rose.

“Rescue the survivors later. Carrying out the operational objectives sent down from the central government is the priority.”

“All right.”

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The first joint attack was launched by the Crow Bombers and the Acid Gulls. Flocks of birds flew out from the nearby forest, but there were not many birds that could withstand the attacks of the Crows and Acid Gulls.

A Black Drake-class airship, escorted by crows and acid gulls, arrived over the Mid-Range and began dropping massive amounts of napalm bombs.

[Burn everything in the Richmond direction!]

The fields, forests, and hills began to burn whole.

The carpet bombing continued as if it were burning the whole world. The napalm bombs, like karma, fell endlessly, and the burned forests burned again and turned into black charcoal. The ground and the sky were filled with smoke and red-hot heat.

As the search party arrived in Richmond, the auxiliary AI reported:

[A white flag has been raised on the roof of the entrance building.]