Rust - Chapter 743



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RUST -743

“attack!”

At Kim Yang’s command, the airships and drones that had been waiting in battle formation began to attack. The airships armed with coil guns and rail guns attacked, piercing the atmosphere like a shower of light.

Before they could even evade the blow, the coilgun bullets pierced through the bodies of the Changwon crows.

Feathers that had stopped even the most powerful rifle bullets and bones that had become as hard as carbon fiber shattered like biscuits. A thick, white line shining through the red light created by the coilgun bullets pierced through the flock of crows that had gathered like dark clouds.

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The railgun bullets that sank diagonally raised a small mushroom cloud with just physical force. Even though the railgun bullets only grazed past, hundreds of crows were caught in the trajectory and torn to pieces.

Eighteen such railguns began to pour out bullets. In a flash of thick white light, the black clouds disappeared into pieces and crows with broken wings fell down in a heap.

Caw! (Retreat!)

Kaaaak! (Lower your altitude!)

Caw, caw! (Scatter. Scatter!)

The crows seemed to be going crazy as tens of thousands of them melted away in an instant.

1 minute? 2 minutes?

A situation where, after pecking at food with its beak a few times, the fellow bird next to it disappears.

The enemy couldn’t even see properly. All he saw was a red hot line and a pure white light.

Yeah, let’s beat them up.

Those guys who said they were above.

It’s because of the new guys.

The surviving crows of Changwon scattered and tried to go to Changwon, but Kim Yang wasn’t going to just leave them alone.

“Drone attack.”

An artificial intelligence that returns to the parallel-connected network begins to control a drone fleet and chases the scattering flock of crows.

The special cartridges were not as powerful as those from the coil gun, but they were enough to catch crows.

The movement of drones, sometimes driven by four generations, sometimes by 20 generations driving 7 or 8 generations.

They began to thoroughly wipe out the crows by using ranged attacks from a large number of people to catch the few crows.

When combined, they become a coil gun and a rail gun.

How drones attack when scattered.

Kaaaak! (Hide!)

Kaaaak! (Go home. Hide in the building!)

What fell on the crows hiding between the gaps in the roofs of buildings were small, cute nukes.

The military unit panicked as they saw small mushroom clouds rising up.

It was scary to see a building destroyed by a single railgun blast, but what was rising up now was clearly a mushroom cloud.

“Sea. Is it nuclear?”

“Shut the fuck up. If it was a nuke, we’d all be dead.”

“Isn’t that a mushroom cloud?”

“What if that’s a mushroom cloud? What kind of crazy bitch fires a dozen nukes? Shut up and don’t talk nonsense!”

Kkaaaak! (They’re just going to sweep it away!)

Cackle, cackle? (Didn’t you know she was crazy?)

Kaaaak? (But can I kill them all?)

Cackle? (Are you really going to kill them all?)

The atmosphere is not good.

What would happen if we killed them all because of us?

But why don’t the humans here join the Holy Kingdom?

There are no people coming, just bringing food.

Kwak-kwak. (This won’t work. Bring me the tablet and use it yourself.)

Caw. (Okay.)

“Sergeant, are the crows here typing texts on tablets?”

“Fuck- what the fuck are you talking about again? You were talking shit about crows talking, and now what the… Is that real? Is that real right now?”

“I’m watching it too.”

“Right? The crow is texting the tablet PD right now, right?”

The sergeant and the private read the letter the crow handed them.

[We belong to the Holy Kingdom Air Force Crow Squadron.]

[Applications for immigration to the Holy Kingdom are being accepted.]

[If you complete your military service, you will be officially granted citizenship of the Holy Kingdom, so please consider carefully before applying.]

“Sergeant, didn’t the US military do something similar?”

“MAVNI? If you serve in the US military, you get citizenship?”

“Yes, that seems to be it.”

“Ha. But that crow… No. If you think about the guys in Changwon, it wouldn’t be strange if they knew how to use a tablet. But the Holy Kingdom?”

Such things were happening all over the unit. It was chaos caused by crows attacking officers who appeared to be cannibals.

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Caw! (Reveal your identity!)

The crow pecked at the major’s eyes and slit his carotid artery with its talons. Phew! As the nape of his neck was cut and blood gushed out, the second lieutenant and sergeant standing next to him drew their guns.

“This crazy crow!”

“Shoot!”

The K5 pistol fired, but failed to penetrate the crow’s feathers.

Foodduck – The expression on the crow’s face as it flew up was rotten. ‘You shot without even knowing that I saved your life?’ The sergeant couldn’t pull the trigger any longer after seeing the crow’s extremely unpleasant expression.

The crow’s expression was an expression, but it was only a few days ago that he had shot the crow that had taken over Changwon, causing dozens of casualties.

As the crow flew out, the lieutenant ran to the major, who was bleeding from his neck.

“Major!”

“Conscripts!”

The so-called desperate attempt to stop the bleeding by applying pressure to the carotid artery.

“This··· This···.”

“Cow. Lieutenant. The major is injured over there…”

The deep wound on the nape of his neck seemed fatal, but it was slowly healing. The second lieutenant and the sergeant blinked and looked at the major.

The same was true of the eyeballs that the crow had eaten. The clear vitreous fluid and blood flowing from the eyeballs had stopped flowing. The eyeballs had not regenerated, but it was surprising that the wounds were healing in real time.

The major’s arm grabbed the second lieutenant’s wrist, which was bleeding from his neck. The second lieutenant screamed in pain as if his wrist bone was about to break due to the tremendous force.

“Captain Won! This is me. I am Second Lieutenant Na Jun-il!”

But the eyeless major grabbed Lieutenant Na’s forearm and opened his mouth.

“Cow. Major!!!”

Big-

Kkaaaaaaah!

The forearm was chewed and the bone of the forearm was exposed at once. The lieutenant was flopping around like a live fish in a sushi restaurant, but the major’s hand, which held the lieutenant as if it were being held by a press, did not move at all.

simplicity and honesty-

The barracks became quiet as the second lieutenant, who was screaming, was bitten by the nape of his neck while being dragged by his tattered arm. Without realizing it, the sergeant pulled out the second lieutenant’s pistol and aimed it at the major.

The sight across the swinging gun sights. The Major’s wounds were healing in an instant. The rumor of Kadera came to the sergeant’s mind.

‘They say there are cannibals.’

‘This is ridiculous. Why are you suddenly calling me a cannibal? Why are you calling me a vampire?’

‘They say there are vampires too.’

‘Oh my god, it’s been over a year since we lost internet access with the US. What are you talking about?’

‘There was also news of a cannibal being wiped out in New York. The vampire rumor came from a relative who lived in Texas. There was a rumor that a missing person was found with all of his blood drained.’

‘No. Sir. I heard that you have relatives in America. Why are you suffering here when you can go to America after doing well?’

‘That’s right. But there are real cannibals. There’s a big sweep in New York. The New York police got involved in the operation.’

He lowered his voice and pointed his finger at the ceiling.

‘And the rumor spread that cannibals had settled down there.’

‘Ah- Let’s stop talking nonsense.’

In the darkened office, complaints poured out one by one.

‘Let’s talk some sense.’

‘It’s noisy.’

‘Everyone, go to sleep. We’re going to be going round and round again tomorrow, right?’

The man’s bitter smile could be felt even in the darkness.

‘Remember. If you see someone who eats people and becomes stronger or has their wounds heal faster, run away. Or shoot them in the head.’

‘Ah- really.’

‘Let’s just catch it and stop talking nonsense.’

‘If you say something like that, you’ll get dragged off by the military police. These days.’

And then the man disappeared somewhere. There was no word of desertion, no word of being taken away by the military police. He just disappeared as if he had never existed.

The sergeant, recalling the incident at that time, aimed his trembling gun at the major’s head.

Ewww-

The sergeant pulled the trigger as he saw the sunken eyeball slowly opening up along with the sound of meat being ripped.

bang!

The bullet struck the eyeball that was just starting to grow new flesh. Lucky Shot – The major’s body, which had been munching on the second lieutenant, suddenly stopped.

‘Is he dead?’

At that moment, the major threw the lieutenant’s body and blocked the gun’s muzzle. He pulled the trigger reflexively, but all the bullets hit the lieutenant’s body.

ah-

After a vain sigh, the sergeant’s face was crushed by a single punch from the cannibal. The cannibal wearing the rank of major tore open the sergeant’s crushed face, sucked out the brain fluid, and then called the martial law command on a landline.

hmm?

There was no sound. It was just dead.

?

He turned on the military radio right next to him.

This was also a dead end.

That meant that communication was completely cut off. In the meantime, he looked out of the barracks, where one eye had fully recovered. He saw a medical soldier running out of breath with a military doctor.

Tsk-

The major shouted as he left the barracks, seeing that there were two dead bodies.

“The crows attacked! The crows killed the lieutenant and the sergeant!”

As if in response to the major’s shout, the cry of a crow echoed through the sky.

Caw? (Us?)

Kaaaak? (Who?)

Caw? (He killed you?)

Fooddudeuk!

The torn remains of the major lay scattered on the floor, unable to even scream.

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The soldiers were speechless after seeing the image shown by the crow. There really were cannibals. And even the major, several captains, and the colonel and general who had come to inspect the unit were cannibals.

After seeing the footage recorded on the reconnaissance camera hanging from the crow’s neck, I couldn’t help but believe it. The ominous rumors were true.

Soldiers with special blood types have disappeared, and soldiers who used to pass on rumors outside the unit have disappeared.

It’s already been over a year and six months since my smartphone stopped working, and it’ll soon be a year since I started not receiving any replies to my letters home.

No one knew when military service would end, whether they were called up as reserves or active-duty soldiers. There were only rumors that a riot would occasionally break out in a certain unit, half of the men would die, and the other half would be taken to the front lines.

The crows who searched the barracks and found the files hidden by the major skillfully sent the data to the expedition team, and the auxiliary AI onboard the expedition team’s airship received the data, hacked it, and deciphered the security documents, relaying the situation.

Huh-

“So the west coast region is practically blocked by the military because Chinese refugees are flocking there?”

[According to the data, yes.]

It was said that the area from Incheon to Siheung, Hwaseong, Dangjin, Seosan, and Taean Peninsula was virtually under the control of Chinese refugees.

The situation is that they are barely able to stop the spread by mobilizing the military. Since we are already at war with China, there were opinions that we should just wipe it out, but they said that it would be difficult to stop it because there are many capable people among those who escaped from China.

This was the same for the Japanese refugees. They were blocking Busan, but the reason they couldn’t do anything more was because of the capable people.

Even when she and Maru crossed over to the United States, they had only created a reserve force of 2 million due to the war with China. In just two years, hundreds of thousands of casualties occurred, so they created additional reserve forces and conscripted 3 million, but even that was not enough.

“The food problem is serious.”

[The loss of Incheon Port and Busan Port was a big deal. All the transport ships that were importing food were captured.]

“Are the refugees crazy? The Navy just sat there and did nothing?”

[It seems that there is a limit unless there are capable people who can sink transport ships.]

“Yeah. If I had eaten that, the war wouldn’t have broken out with the refugees.”

[Currently, Mokpo Port, Gunsan Port, and Yeosu Port are importing as much rice as possible from Southeast Asia, but it has been revealed that food supply is impossible as the governments of Southeast Asian countries are also collapsing.]

30 million in Busan, over 50 million including Chinese refugees in cities in the western region including Incheon, and 40 million Koreans. It was said that over 10 million Koreans died in two and a half to three years.

Kim Yang said, looking down at the Changwon crows that were crouching with their heads together in a line.

“Gather all the information and situation so far and report to the home country. Including the crows’ conscription.”

[Forwarded to the home country.]

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Maru reviewed Kim Yang’s report and video.

‘You’ve destroyed the Changwon crow.’

Of the 70,000 crows that survived, only about 10,000 survived. They were completely crushed using even small nukes. In fact, they were able to annihilate them, but they were left alive to negotiate with the Ulsan crows, and ended up saving a little over 10,000.

If we took the crows from Changwon to Ulsan, it was certain that the refugees from Busan would move to Changwon, which was occupied by crows.

However, the crows of the Holy Kingdom took over the military unit blocking the west and northwest of Changwon. Then, there was a report that they were recruiting soldiers to come to the Holy Kingdom.

‘These.’

He attacked the cannibals who were controlling the upper ranks of the unit while recruiting for the Korean army. He even asked for information that could help him understand the situation in Korea, so he couldn’t help but get angry.

“What do you think?”

[It’s complicated. It seems like we’re causing the butterfly effect?]

“Don’t worry about that. Just think about us. What do you think?”

[Bringing Korean troops?]

“okay.”

[It’s not bad. There aren’t many Asians in the Holy Kingdom right now.]

Even including mixed race Asians, the percentage was less than 0.2%.

[You need at least 10% to have a voice. The reason why black people’s voices are loud is because they are over 10%, and the reason why Hispanics’ voices were loud before the incident, especially in the western and southwestern United States, is because of that. When they went over 18%, there were towns where people didn’t speak English and instead spoke Spanish.]

The population of the Holy Kingdom, which was expected to be between 4 million and 5 million, has decreased significantly since the census of Canada was completed.

This was because there were cases where people manipulated their neighbors into living things and received relief supplies from the surrounding area. The actual population of the Holy Kingdom was around 3.98 million. The talk of 5 million or something was all an illusion.

‘It’s not an absolute necessity for population, though.’

As Ki-soon said, considering the areas of Canada where almost all people are white, there was a need to increase the proportion of Asians.

“Let’s officially sanction what the crows are doing and introduce an immigration system with conscription as a condition.”

[Like MAVNI (Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest)?]

“First of all, let’s not accept just anyone. Let’s start with people whose abilities have been proven.”

It was the beginning of the Holy Kingdom immigration program targeting Koreans.