Rust - Chapter 739



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RUST -739

Huh-

[So you’re saying they escaped through this passage?]

[four.]

[There is only one place they can escape to.]

[Everywhere else has collapsed.]

The passage discovered outside is being diligently cleaned by war machines, so it doesn’t seem to be connected to this place.

A subtle sound was amplified in Kim Yang’s ears.

[What does this mean?]

The auxiliary AI analyzed the waveform.

[matches the vibration of the scream]

The running pups are screaming?

Gyaut-

why?

Ms. Kim made the decision.

There’s no need to put the kids in a noisy place.

[Put a robot here too.]

In times like these, the war machine was at its best.

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What would happen if the officers and non-commissioned officers, who were supposed to be new humans, ate their subordinates? Of course, the army wouldn’t be able to survive. Then, wouldn’t it be okay to make all the soldiers new humans?

The New York gangs and the Mafia used that method and split up because some of the lower-ranked entities suddenly became higher-ranked.

In addition, as time passed, it became quite cumbersome to evolve them into new humans. A large amount of mutation factors had to be injected, and the places where mutation factors were concentrated were the brain and the heart.

How many times would it be necessary to remove and heal the hearts of all those soldiers in order to properly transform them into new humans?

Up to this point, we could see how difficult it would be to humanize all troops. But there was a bigger problem left.

Once you create a new human force, there is an inevitable problem that will follow: a fresh energy source.

Let’s say we create a 100,000-strong new human army. Without counter weapons like exosuits, massacring 1 or 2 million people would be no problem.

If the enemies respond to melee combat in this way, you can engage them to use them as fuel or healing sources, but what if the enemies avoid melee combat and only use ranged attacks?

What if it goes into a firepower war, such as carpet bombing and concentrated firepower from self-propelled guns and rocket launchers? What would happen if the new human forces were increased to the maximum and the war suddenly entered a lull?

You will either have to regularly eat them or take a cure (suppressant) made from a recipe released by the Ojin Group.

But the latter of the two was impossible, as there was no way to properly trade with Europe, the production site of the raw materials for the treatment.

If there was a Ojin group in nearby Korea, they would have secured supplies even by pressuring Korea. The Ojin group fled to Ulleungdo and was shattered when special forces from each country infiltrated.

So the only realistic way left was regular cannibalism. Since they were turning all the common soldiers into new humans, they would need a huge amount of energy.

The war has stopped, so we can’t get the supplies we need from the other side. So what will happen? The only way left is to cause mass disappearances of our own people.

That’s why the Confederacy distributed villages in the form of manors according to merit, but did not turn all of its soldiers into cannibals.

It was the same with China, which was divided into seven parts. Even though a civil war had begun, the idea of ​​turning all the troops into new humans was tantamount to self-destruction.

An army was needed to support them immediately, and the only way to prevent the new human officers from eating the soldiers at will was to impose strong penalties.

What this meant was that once something happened and they broke the rules and ate soldiers, they had to kill everyone without leaving any witnesses.

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At the end of a dark passageway where screams and groans have disappeared.

A grumbling voice leaked out from the increasingly thick smell of blood.

“Damn. I thought I’d be able to move up a level by eating this much.”

“I heard that eating it one bite at a time won’t have any effect.”

How to become more dominant. Just consume enough.

However, it is not just about eating, but rather eating a certain amount of a corpse. The most certain way is to eat a whole person. If you take an adult male and estimate him to be 75kg, it is virtually impossible in wartime.

“I thought they were just trying to monopolize everything from above.”

“Would you have lied knowing it would be found out right away?”

As I spoke, it seemed like I was lying.

“······.”

“······.”

“How are your wounds?”

“It’s healed.”

Two lieutenants, four lieutenants, and four second lieutenants.

“Is everyone okay?”

“yes.”

“it’s okay.”

Those who had been listening to the two above answer. In front of them lay two or three piles of mangled corpses.

‘There are many greedy people.’

Well, I guess that’s because no matter what you do, if you just go up the level, the path will open up.

“Whew- The commander is dead and it seems like everyone under him is dead too.”

It was clear that the limitations inherent in dominance had disappeared.

‘I should have left at least one person alive.’

I didn’t hear properly why the administrative and engineering soldiers couldn’t go outside. I even heard that enemy drones were conducting reconnaissance. When I thought about it, there was something strange.

‘There’s no way their drones could have missed the movements of ordinary soldiers.’

It must have been caught by a sensor or camera or something. Then how did they come back? They threw out the bait and ran away? If their drone was that easy of a weapon, it wouldn’t have ended up like this.

“Isn’t it strange?”

“what?”

“How did you come back knowing there was a drone outside?”

“I guess I was lucky.”

“······.”

He thought desperately, “I’m on the same level as this kid.”

If I could just get back to my home country alive, I could go up a level or so. The information I have now is worth a thousand dollars.

‘We need to disable the drone’s detector.’

how?

?

·········okay.

How did regular soldiers know there were drones out there?

no way?

The gaze of the superior turned to the corpses strewn here and there. Was there a soldier among them who had awakened his powers?

A person who has awakened to something like the ability to confuse detectors? The face of the soldier who begged for his life to be used as bait appeared in my mind.

‘Did you try to hide the fact that you were awakened and run away by saying you were bait?’

Ha-Fuck.

“I see something approaching from the hallway.”

The lieutenant who had been pushed out of the jambap and was naturally standing guard in the passageway spoke in a low voice. He heard the sound of the cannibal’s sensitive senses moving.

“What is it? Is this a chase?”

“It’s not the sound of an exosuit starting up.”

Another superior, who had been injured and sitting down to rest, suddenly stood up.

“Get out of my way.”

The superior, who had been looking down the passage for a moment, turned his head and frowned.

“Hey, what do you hear?—-”

puck!

A corpse fell to the ground with its head blown off, a red line drawn across it.

Red solid line?

“Open the hatch!”

“They say there’s a drone outside···.”

“Shut up and open up! We have to spread out to survive.”

“······.”

“······.”

How can you avoid that huge number of drones by scattering? The superior sighed as he watched them timidly move without opening the hatch.

“Are all of those numbers here? Think tactically. They went somewhere else. There are probably only a few drones here.”

“······.”

“······.”

“If you throw a smoke grenade and run at full speed, you can survive. The terrain is also forested. Drones can’t land in forested areas. If you can just get into the city, you can survive. You can survive.”

“They might kill civilians too.”

“If they had intended to kill civilians, they would have used a proper nuke. They would have blown up the city from the start. So open the hatch and get ready to run. If you go out, there’s a chance of survival, but if you stay here, you’ll definitely die.”

There were two or three guys who looked like they might just surrender, but they were the ones who had their heads blown off without warning and told them to surrender.

“I’m going. Those who are there can stay. But as you can see, they are the ones who blew off my head without even warning me to surrender. I hope they get a chance to surrender.”

The superior gave up on further persuasion and took off his upper garment.

Squeak-

After taking off my top and opening the hatch, hot air rushed in.

A large-scale series of volcanic eruptions occurred in Japan, causing the average temperature in Japan and neighboring countries to drop by a whopping 2 degrees, but temperatures are still approaching 40 degrees.

The forest, which should be cool, looks like this, but the city, covered in reinforced concrete and asphalt, must have been a steamer.

“3. 2. 1. Let’s go!”

Boom- Boom- Boom-

As the smoke bomb exploded, a desperate escape began.

—The situation appeared on the monitor.

Pogurrurururuk—

Kim Yang went back and forth through the memories above, checking them here and there.

It was a good idea to equip the new robot with coil guns. Since they consume a lot of power, I put one out of every ten and they worked very well.

Even a cannibal’s head can be cut off with one shot.

This was clearly a significant achievement.

‘It seems like a low-level cannibal since it couldn’t even react, but at least I killed the cannibal in one hit.’

The same goes for drones.

When we connected the chipsets in the drone in parallel so that they could be used by the auxiliary AI that controls the drone, it showed incredible efficiency.

It is true that running a drone with one assistant AI is not cost-effective, but connecting it to a network and supplementing the insufficient computing power through a parallel connection method was effective.

‘The PD guy really hated AI networking···.’

What can we do? The leader of the expedition was Kim Yang himself.

[But is that all? Aren’t there more important memories?]

It’s a somewhat disappointing memory.

[Additional memory confirmed.]

Pogpogurubulreureureuk—

A strangely shaped gold bar flashed through my memories as I turned them over and over.

0.1 seconds to 0.2 seconds?

It was such a brief moment, but Kim Yang’s amazing visual acuity did not miss it.

[Stop.]

Beep – Based on the still screen

Drrrrrrrr-

Ms. Kim carefully turns the jog shuttle.

A yellow lump slowly became clearer in the midst of the tangled and clumped memories.

Jinguase gold bars.

So, it’s a giant gold bar weighing over 220kg.

The gold bars that were supposed to be in the museum were somewhere else.

‘Then that’s right. They’re not the type of people to just leave things like this alone.’

Kim Yang’s eyes sparkled.

[Where is this?]

It was definitely not because of the gold. I told you so.

Ahh- I don’t trust people. That AI bitch.

[···The basement of the occupation force commander’s mansion near the headquarters.]

Yeah, that’s right.

There is no way that an occupying commander from the southern warlords would eat or sleep in the command building.

Yeah, yeah.

huh.

[Are you done cleaning?]

[Sorted by drones and robots.]

The Black Drake’s auxiliary AI transmitted the cleaning footage to Ms. Kim.

[Okay. I’ll go now.]

Hehehehe-

[Should I report the current situation to the home country?]

[Report.]

Ms. Kim moved with light steps.

[No biological response.]

The bodyguards escorting her, the commander of the expedition force, entered the yard first.

[No motion detector abnormality.]

[Clear.]

[Clear.]

[There is nothing wrong with the yard.]

The commander’s mansion, cleaned by drones and war machines, was swept clean. Corpses were strewn about, as if they had tried to loot the items in the place while they were busy running away.

Judging from the movement despite the holes here and there, it seemed like everyone from cannibals to regular soldiers who died in one shot were gathered there.

Certainly, if it was Jin-Gwa-S gold bars, it would be worth looking back at.

But even so, cannibals have such great physical abilities that they can run away with a 220kg gold bar, but what about ordinary soldiers? They wouldn’t even be able to lift it.

When we came down to the basement, the vault was as magnificent as ever.

[Open the lid.]

The door was so sturdy that it took a full three hours for robots and guards to take turns using lasers and plasma cutters to open it.

The heavy safe door opened, and Kim Yang’s eyes grew wide.

‘Is this an ant made of gold?’

There were hundreds of golden ants, ranging in size from the size of a thumbnail to as large as the palm of your hand.

Named bugs such as cicadas, grasshoppers, butterflies, and spiders were all displayed in frames in the dozens and hundreds.

It wasn’t just bugs. Small, miniature figures of animals representing the twelve zodiac signs were made of gold, as were elephants, crocodiles, turtles, and other things.

This was the first time Kim Yang had seen such things since she was born. They were simply gold rings, bracelets, necklaces, gold watches, gold bars, and at most, gold toads and turtles sold at gold shops.

The things here were almost like works of art made of gold.

And at the end of the long line of gold artifacts, like a museum, there was a Jinguashi gold ingot.

?????

There were five things that looked exactly like the 220kg Jin Guas gold bars.

Huh? Huh?

Ms. Kim ended up making a sound she didn’t know she was making.

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An excited Kim Yang explained the whole story with great enthusiasm.

It was a grand discovery, and it was his own achievement, one that he never overlooked, not even in small ways.

[So the real thing is crazy. Totally···]

Maru’s voice flowed out of the speaker.

[Is that so? Send them all on this supply ship.]

[!!!!!]

[You can’t carry out an operation while carrying gold nuggets.]

Huuuuuuuuuuu!

Miss Kim cried without realizing it.