Rust - Chapter 749



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RUST -749

Kim Yang thought the hair designer might be a trained government agent or someone in the professional field disguised as a hairdresser, but that wasn’t the case.

Huh-

Anyway, when I opened my brain, I found out that it was indeed a government spy.

There were two reasons why Ms. Kim was reported. First, she was not pregnant, and second, she tried to pay in cash.

‘Electronic money?’

When I counseled soldiers, many of them answered, “I thought it would be a little more comfortable for my family if I rolled over.” But that wasn’t just an answer that came out of nowhere.

‘It would have been useless to start a rebellion without proper firearms, but the essence was CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency).’

Ms. Kim nodded slightly.

It seemed impossible to resist the government and martial law command, which held the purse strings and controlled goods, distribution networks, and even energy.

‘Who came up with this idea?’

By the way, what should I do with this woman? Since she has a hole in her head, there are two ways to do it.

Drag it away and make a bludgeon out of it, clean it up cleanly, or plug the hole with a quick fix.

‘What should I do?’

Kim Yang, who had been worried, decided to use the rapid cure. Since they were in a system where they monitored each other like the 5th person in charge, if this woman disappeared, they would come to check how she disappeared.

‘Just in case, let’s erase the memory for now.’

“Erase your memories after this evening.”

[ancient.]

After roughly 4 hours of memory loss, I used a rapid cure.

After confirming that the hole the size of a 100 won coin had healed in an instant and fluffy hairs were beginning to grow on the white flesh, Ms. Kim and her personal guards carefully inspected the CCTV and recorded files before returning to base.

“Did you connect the CCTV?”

[Yes. I checked all the CCTVs coming this way.]

Ms. Kim immediately checked the footage from the information extractor. It showed people over 50 years old, regardless of gender, disappearing.

There was talk on TV that the mutant virus was starting to spread again, and that everyone who had been in the path of a confirmed virus patient was being tested.

‘Huh? A mutant virus is running rampant?’

But why are only those over 50 disappearing? Kim Yang’s eyes narrowed. The woman’s memory images continued to play.

[No. I told you I didn’t go out?]

[You can check it out.]

Then one day, a couple in their 50s who lived next door to the woman were taken away in an ambulance. A few days later, a man in his 60s who lived alone upstairs was also taken away in an ambulance.

[Oh my. Isn’t that a little strange?]

[···Now that I hear it, that’s true.]

The guests gathered and chatted. The story was that people who had no children or were dead seemed to be disappearing.

[How do I know where to go if I call an ambulance?]

[Then what happens to the house?]

[Yes. What about the property?]

[What will happen? The country will swallow it up in this situation.]

[Oh my. Oh my. Can that really be true?]

[No, that could be possible.]

[That’s right. How much budget would it take to maintain the current maternity benefits?]

As if that were true, a group of five or six people entered the house of the couple next door. The woman checked because she had a duty to report it.

[Who is there opening the door and coming in?]

[This is a cleaning company sent by the government.]

The woman reported it, not believing the words of the cleaning company employee who showed her what looked like an ID card.

[Thank you for reporting it. If there’s something that strange, you should report it. The people cleaning the house next door are actually licensed workers.]

[···Yes? Yes.]

So the empty house where the owner had disappeared began to be cleaned up. Most of the items were loaded onto trucks with recycling center marks.

During the cleaning process, a wad of cash hidden by the couple next door was found, but since CBDC (central bank digital currency) has become established, cash has become meaningless.

The same goes for dollars and yen. The only things of value are gold, jewels, and luxury goods. The same goes for strong alcohol and cigarettes.

At some point, ambulances began to frequently visit the apartment where the woman lived. When the cleaning company forcibly cleaned the apartment even though the people who went in the ambulance did not return, ominous rumors began to spread among the people.

[Look at that. This is the government making up its mind to do something.]

[It was the same in China at the beginning of the mutant virus outbreak. They took away the entire family and ransacked the empty house.]

The woman reported the people who spread such rumors.

[I’m doing well. You said it was Building 103, Room 607, right?]

[Yes, the government is arresting people and robbing empty houses.]

[Okay, I’ll raise your relationship score and credit score. And I’ll add the reward to what you reported last time.]

[Oh? Yes. Thank you. Thank you.]

That evening, the couple in room 607 of building 103 was taken away in an ambulance. That was a little signal of sorts. A signal that if you go in an ambulance, you won’t come back.

That’s why it became increasingly noisy.

[Teacher, open the door. If you lock the door and don’t come out right now, it is obstruction of official duties.]

[go away.]

People in their 50s and 60s tried to resist by locking their apartment doors, but the results were disastrous. As she looked at the memory information, Ms. Kim’s expression became more and more strange, and she sent the data extracted from the woman’s brain to the floor.

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Maru frowned after checking the information sent by the expedition team.

“Isn’t it too dangerous to just leave this?”

“Did you get that feeling?”

Maru shook his head when Ki-soon asked if his special instinct had been triggered.

“That’s not it. I think it’ll be untouchable after a few months.”

It was predicted that at least 700,000 to 800,000 newborns would be born in the next 2 to 3 months.

It is a policy where raising children is free, but if they are not handed over to the government, the 50% to 80% discount benefit is lost and support disappears at the same time.

Since it was said that after giving birth to two children and handing them over to the government, support would continue for 10 years regardless of whether or not they had children, women who wanted an affluent life right away were bound to follow the government policy.

Hood sighed, reflexively raising his hand to his half-and-half mask.

“No matter how much it changes the quality of life, it’s so strange to hand over your own child to the government.”

Ki-soon heard Hood’s muttering.

“You can think of it as an extreme manifestation of the tendency to prioritize the quality of one’s own life.”

This phenomenon occurred because the economy grew rapidly, but the ethics that went with it were not established in society.

Just as the reason for not having children was because one’s own life was more precious, it is natural that the reason for having children and handing them over to the government is also because one’s own life is more precious.

Of course, that tendency wasn’t the only problem. There were other problems related to marriage and childbirth, starting with the culture that said you need to own real estate to get married while blaming the sky-high real estate prices.

In a country where women can clearly state that they want a spouse who earns over 150 million won and owns an apartment in Seoul, there are many reasons why they did not have children.

That is why, in such difficult circumstances, the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of pregnant women is a bitter phenomenon in many ways.

“······.”

“······.”

Artificial intelligence Diana organized the information.

[Assuming that pregnant women continue to give birth, the cumulative number of births will increase over time. It is expected that there will be between 1.6 million and 2 million newborns within two years.]

What happens when so many newborns are born at once?

Maru, who had been lost in thought, opened his mouth.

“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t just leave it alone.”

Cannibals could eat newborns to become stronger, or they could sell the remaining newborns to the seven Chinese to get the supplies they need.

If they had access to bionic technology from Virginia or China, they could put newborns in growth accelerators to rapidly grow them, brainwash them, and turn them into weapons of war.

If we assume the worst, we could sacrifice him to the black amorphous monster we saw in Japan. Either way, there was no normal ending.

“It’s dangerous. The cannibal in the Air Force base bunker grew stronger by eating newborns and fetuses.”

Hood also realized the seriousness of the situation. So did the PD.

“Do you intend to launch a preemptive strike with hydrogen bombs, as you did against the Confederacy?”

Ki-sun said in response to the PD’s question.

“I’m not against the attack, but if they’re using the bunker as a base, they’ll end up massacring civilians and pregnant women.”

“······.”

“Sure. I guess that could be possible in Korea.”

“······.”

The general public may not know, but there were quite a few secret bunkers in South Korea that were not open to the public. This was thanks to the North’s constant boasting of new nuclear weapons and missiles.

As a result, nuclear bunkers built by the US military in Korea during the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as nuclear response facilities built by the military regime, began to be secretly installed.

And that was the case even as the country entered the top 10 economies in the world. It wasn’t made public, but as the economy grew, so did the bunkers.

If the cannibals were lurking there, a preemptive strike on the Confederacy might not have had as great an effect.

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Kim Yang stood in front of the mirror and turned her cut hair around.

Huh-

Should I have done a magic straight?

I saw that he was obviously wasting time, so I just got a cut, but my hair didn’t feel better after I got it fixed.

By the way, the highest dignity’s response was late.

Could it be because of Ki-soon? Or Unit 2? Maybe the PD uncle said something new.

‘It’s easier to just clean everything up neatly.’

It would be nice if our people could live well together, but what can we do? The situation is not good.

I don’t know about anything else, but if you look at the newborns that are produced (?) in 2-3 months and the cannibals eat them one by one, I don’t know what kind of monster will come out.

It wouldn’t have been strange if he could take control of everyone within a radius of several kilometers with a single psychic wave, or if he could split them in half and then split them in two like a planarian.

If there were hundreds of thousands of newborns, then such monstrous cannibals and vampires could come out in the hundreds, or even thousands, of units.

‘The Highest Dignity will judge well···.’

Maru was uncompromising in matters of survival and safety, so all he had to do was wait.

Huh-

‘I wish I could just tidy things up and go back.’

I sent the crows to Changwon and read it as negotiation and wrote it as threat, but there was no news from the crows in Ulsan.

“The crows of Ulsan still haven’t responded?”

[Yes. There is not much difference in the movement of crows in the Ulsan area.]

Kim looked uncomfortable when she heard that he had been monitoring from a distance using a stratospheric orbiter and that it was just the same.

I briefly thought about just shaking a few of the little guys to bring them back to their senses, but not now.

It was not good to divide the force, since the operation could be carried out according to the decision of the highest dignity. Kim Yang slightly raised the retaliation level for the Ulsan Crow.

“What about the magpies?”

[That’s a bit of a problem.]

“?”

[They say you can’t be with dirty crows.]

Were crows and magpies on bad terms?

Miss Kim tilted her head.

[And I showed them the orchard of the Holy Kingdom. The reaction was not good.]

“why?”

You showed off the latest automated farming system that the Holy Kingdom is proud of, but the response was bad?

[Farming requires dedication, but there is no dedication in growing fruit.]

“?”

What the heck are these crazy magpies?

Are you sick or something?

That absurdity only lasted for a moment.

[This is an emergency telegram from your home country.]

[This is a message from His Majesty Vladimir Kalin himself.]

Miss Kim, who had been dazed because of the magpie, came to her senses at the news of Maru’s appearance.

“Move up the stratosphere. Reload the information every hour. Double the base defenses. And request additional supplies for the little guys.”

The corners of her mouth went up slightly at the news that Maru was coming.