Rust - Chapter 735



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RUST -735

It was the end times.

In the eyes of the world, the Holy Kingdom is nothing more than a lonely sailboat floating on the sea of ​​the apocalypse. The crew was important for the ship to sail properly and not sink.

If everyone on board can handle the boat, it stands to reason that their chances of survival in an emergency will increase.

If they were passengers who were just talking nonsense and watching from their cabins as if it were someone else’s business, they could have been kicked out of their cabins and thrown into a corner on the lowest floor.

Isn’t this an age where they show great mercy even if you just spare their lives?

[If it’s the right to vote and the right to housing, then it’s possible to filter out people who are just talking nonsense.]

Ki-soon agreed with Maru’s thoughts to some extent, but was also worried.

This is the Holy Kingdom.

A political structure in which everything is decided by the king.

In the present, when survival is at stake, Maru’s iron fist and AI’s administrative assistance are effective, but it is true that there will be room for conflict once time passes and safety is secured.

[But. It’s not over just because you filter it, right?]

How long will people with a will to power bow down to the absolute power of the king?

It was inevitable that it would split into dictatorship and democracy, monarchy and republic. Historically, this was almost certain.

The more we force them out, the more they will turn into underground organizations or nepotistic groups. We will use AI, crows, and rats to catch them and monitor and control them even more.

There was a high probability that it would become a bad move to become a huge, controlled garrison state that suppressed human nature.

[There will be talk of controlling humans with artificial intelligence and animals.]

There were such claims even in the early days of the Holy Kingdom. Those who crossed the line were expelled, but the moment the defense system was completed and it was thought to be safe, it would become controversial again.

There’s a reason dictators use threats and fear to maintain their power. It’s easy to do.

On the contrary, once safety is secured, humans tend to dream of more. Ki-sun felt bitter when he thought that if the absolute defense system that Maru was planning were to be activated, internal chaos would be guaranteed.

[That’s true… Now that we’re on the subject, what are your thoughts on this? What about giving rights to animals, including AI? It’s not like you don’t know that problems will arise later.]

It was not a bad decision, considering that AI was willingly loyal. But honestly, I thought it might be a bit risky to give ownership and property rights to crows and wolves.

Can humans endure being treated like animals? Maru calmly answered Ki-sun’s concerns.

“There won’t be any problem. They’re pets, you know. Aren’t there a lot of people who carry their babies around and push them in strollers? There are also people who raise pets instead of raising children.”

Maru thought that it was not a big problem for animals to enter the human order.

“Rather, since we gave ownership and property rights to animals that can discern right from wrong, I think we will support it because we think that it will create a society where even the pets we raise can be treated openly.”

[That’s not wrong. If there’s racial discrimination, how can there be no discrimination between species? It’s called human rights, but it’s about putting the value of animals and humans on the same scale.]

‘That… It’s likely that a mafia member will be wiped out just because someone killed their dog.’ Ki-soon muttered.

“The values ​​of animals and humans.”

Maru smiled bitterly.

Neither Maru nor Ki-soon lived in a place that was easy enough to discuss human value or the preciousness of human beings.

Which is more precious and valuable, a dog raised by a regular soldier or a dog raised by a division commander’s daughter? I would say a regular soldier, but in reality? If you only look at the results.

But can we confidently say that we treat ordinary soldiers with more respect? Honestly, how many people are treated worse than dogs or cats raised by the rich?

“This is not a situation where we can afford to discuss things like the preciousness of life and the value of human beings.”

Maru faced reality.

The idea that humans are superior to animals was only valid when society was intact.

If humans gathered together to form a group and that group had powerful weapons, they would be relatively superior. Otherwise, they would just be prey to mutant monsters.

“Assuming we hadn’t ended the war with the ant empire, would we have won?”

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If the Ant Empire and the Holy Kingdom, which can produce troops in the tens to hundreds of millions and are almost infinite in number, were to fight to the end, would they be able to win?

The end of the war was most likely a victory for the ant empire, who attacked by digging underground in Detroit, causing the ground to sink and the city to collapse.

Only Maru and the key figures, researchers, technicians, the Royal Guard, the Holy Knights, and some of the elite troops were able to escape via airship. The Holy Kingdom would have been destroyed.

What will happen to the people of the Holy Kingdom who are left after the war? Can they ask the ants to guarantee human rights? If humans say they will become slaves in order to coexist with humans, will the ants spare them?

That couldn’t be happening.

So the fall of the Holy Kingdom meant that not a single person would survive and everyone would turn into meatballs. That was a natural thing in the insect world.

The same goes for spiders.

Would spiders understand human circumstances? Even if they did, whether they would be considerate of human circumstances was a separate issue.

Since humans devour other humans to the bone, there was no reason why spiders shouldn’t do the same. What would have happened if, a few years later, when the spiders had fully established their power, they had attacked?

Could it have been possible to break the power like now? What would have happened if the spider’s power had failed to be broken?

Even if ants and spiders are like that, what if the mimetic monsters of England and the slug monsters of France had spread? Even then, how could it be possible since humans are more valuable than animals and are the most precious?

“Did you see the data the expedition sent? It said there were strange plants and animals overflowing. It seems like something that spread from Japan caused strange mutations. Like a combination of radiation from the fragments of the altar. Something like that.”

It was probably a combination of the two, otherwise there would have been an abundance of strangely mutated things wherever the nuclear bombs fell.

Maru replayed the video that Kim Yang had sent.

“The thing that we encountered in Tokyo is the problem more than anything else. It’s eating away at drones, and it’s eating away at exosuits. And it’s eating away at the people inside them. What if this spreads beyond Japan to the Philippines, Taiwan, and China?”

Whether it would take ten or twenty years, it was inevitable that they would eventually come to North America. Before that, the Holy Kingdom had to make preparations.

“That’s my opinion. I don’t think it’s a situation where we have to deal with internal conflicts due to political issues or economic distribution issues. I think it’s time to lay a solid foundation and organize it so that we can naturally put all our efforts into it.”

[So, you’re going to use all power in the military, national defense, and research, and separate politics, economy, and administration? And give animals the right to vote so they can check each other?]

“The animals can each elect a representative, and that representative can attend the parliament.”

[People who have served in the military fought alongside animals, so they wouldn’t have much objection to seeing their comrades, animals, have the right to vote, right?]

Ki-soon seemed to know what Maru was thinking.

“Because crows and wolves are as smart as humans. If you had experience fighting with them, you wouldn’t oppose them to the point of irreversibility.”

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Kim Yang, who was heading north between Taiwan and Okinawa, was quietly listening to Maru and Gisun’s conversation.

Huh-

The story was that they would only control the military and some key businesses, and leave the rest to representatives elected through voting.

To put it briefly, he is saying that he will step down from the position of highest dignity.

‘Why does it have to be like that?’

She was hard to understand. Seriously.

Aren’t you doing well enough now?

Wasn’t it true that a general mobilization order had been issued and that things were heading towards a state of war?

I could roughly guess what the two people were worried about.

She thought that it was different when she went into the bathroom and different when she came out, and that when the defense system was turned on, people would start complaining.

Then wouldn’t it be okay if we just hit him?

As soon as they come out, catch them, throw them in a coal mine or a mine, and reform them. That’s the end of it.

It felt like a difficult task that could have been solved simply by letting the whole family live together with the ants, digging the ground and eating, without having to go through the trouble of monitoring them or anything.

Kim Yang didn’t necessarily feel good about that absolute defense system. Most importantly, she felt that the dignity of the highest dignity could be diminished.

There was only one reason why Baekjeong could not say anything even though he was the king.

Because of the power that transcends humans.

It was not a simple swordsmanship, but an intuitive force that no one could deny. It subdued rats and subdued crows and wolves, and thus was able to maintain order in the Holy Kingdom.

But what would happen if the absolute defense system were to be fully operational?

Huh?

What if you don’t have the highest dignity?

We’d be safe even without crows and wolves and things like that.

If we exclude the HOLLY church, it was clear that the number of people with other ideas would increase in an instant.

Huh-

Ms. Kim listened quietly to Maru and Gi-sun’s words.

It was worth all the hard work of laying relay airships in the stratosphere, the communication quality was quite good, so it was both enjoyable and frustrating to listen to.

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[I feel a bit bad about saying this, but… Ha-]

As the Governor General of Canada, I saw so much of the lowest of humanity that I could only sigh.

Although it was milder than the American spiciness, it was still spicy enough to make your tongue numb. In particular, I had not expected the conflict between the British and French to be this severe.

During the winter, news of this and that did not spread, but as the weather got warmer and people started moving around, various rumors began to spread.

‘They say they’re moving the Canadian capital from Ottawa to Montreal.’

‘Why isn’t Canada rebuilding its infrastructure? Detroit has been completely rebuilt.’

‘Why was the plan to build a floating city in front of Toronto cancelled?’

‘The floating city planned for Lake Ontario was cancelled? Why?’

There were many malicious rumors going around and there was even incitement taking advantage of certain situations, so we had no choice but to take a hard-line approach close to martial law.

‘They say that the Holy Kingdom dropped a hydrogen bomb on London, England.’

‘When we attacked the Confederacy, we also launched a preemptive strike with a hydrogen bomb.’

‘They say those bastards nuked Paris too. The fly flew away. The fly.’

‘The French piglet is jealous of Paris. How many cities have been blown away now?’

As rumors spread that nuclear weapons had been dropped on London, England and Paris, France, Canada was literally forced to maintain order.

[If you are going to give the right to vote to crows and wolves, it would be better to give it to them before the defense system is activated.]

“Hmm- is that so?”

[Yes. It would be good to announce the expanded recruitment conditions as soon as possible.]

“Okay, I understand. You want me to do this before I go into the bathroom?”

Maru accepted Gisun’s opinion.

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Hood and the artificial intelligence Samantha were against the idea of ​​making public the experiences of Kim Yang’s expedition team.

“We haven’t plugged the loophole in Canada yet, and airing a broadcast with this much information could have very dangerous consequences.”

[Yes, the Confederacy has indeed collapsed, but it could be a variable enough. Moreover, it would be dangerous to release the expedition records while the remnants of the Virginia Company are active in secret.]

Maru, who had been trying to reduce the backlash by informing them of the external reality and then attempting to change things in one breath, nodded slightly.

“Are there going to be people who want to use Sakhalin king crabs or Tokyo monsters as biological weapons?”

[There is a greater than 99% chance that it will.]

The AI ​​Samantha answered definitively. An urgent communication from Kim Yang came in during the meeting.

[An emergency transmission has arrived from the expedition team.]

“Turn it around.”

Kim Yang, with a stiff expression, spoke against the backdrop of a slightly hazy video.

[7 The Southern Warlords of China have taken control of Taiwan and appear to have taken over all of Okinawa. The Southern Warlords are warning that if you don’t land at a designated location, you will be shot down with a surface-to-air missile.]

How to do it?