Rust - Chapter 75



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RUST -75

The calm sea was occasionally red.

The scenery that unfolded above the drifting ships with only traces of people left behind was similar to a scene commonly seen in front of a beehive invaded by wasps. It was a sight that brought to mind the traces of bees with their heads and bodies cut off and scattered all over the place.

Huh- Huh-

Maru walked with difficulty towards the wheelhouse.

“Crazy···. Phew-”

The bulletproof mask he was wearing was shattered here and there, barely hanging on his face. There were marks of bullets here and there on his bulletproof vest. Blood flowed lightly from his forearms and calves where bullets had hit them. Red footprints were appearing with every step.

I wanted to sort it out quickly, but it didn’t work out. At first, it felt like I was fighting people, but later on, it felt like I was dealing with a South American cartel that I had only heard about. The eyes weren’t completely turned around, but they were half-turned…

“Whew-whoosh- you crazy kids!”

The gun was too often a sight to behold. Why was it so desperate? A narcotic combat stimulant? A family member taken hostage? Was it all a holy war?

Maru couldn’t understand. Wouldn’t it be scary if the person next to him died? If the person in front died, wouldn’t the people behind him think of running away? Even though he killed and killed them like that, they still rushed at him as if they had been given honey. If he had a sword, he would have taken care of them one by one… There were so many enemies that he couldn’t understand.

It was literally a human wave tactic. Maru was far beyond the physical abilities of an ordinary person, but a single headshot to the head would kill him anyway. If he was hit in a vital spot, he would be incapacitated just the same. Even a small wound that was barely noticeable would cause bleeding, and bleeding ultimately meant losing stamina. So he had to avoid even the smallest wounds.

As a result of fighting with extreme concentration and senses, I ended up overheating. It felt like my whole body was going to melt. I had to use a neutralizer twice before I could get some relief.

If they had fought on land instead of the sea, it wouldn’t have been this dangerous. And now they had to fight while jumping around on a small, narrow boat in the sea. From the middle, the ship would jump up and attack the boat itself, making it really dangerous.

“Fuck- Ki-soon! Miss Kim!”

The corpses piled up near the wheelhouse showed that a fierce fight had taken place.

A calm and tranquil sea. The white hull of the catamaran rocking like a cradle was dyed red by the setting sun.

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Seoul, Charlotte Group headquarters.

The view from the second tallest building in Seoul was spectacular.

Sim Eun-gyu believed that this landscape would become his. Whoever rules Seoul will eventually rule Korea. It is not possible to rule Seoul by only ruling the sun. You must be able to rule the shade to become a true ruler. And the Charlotte Group had stronger dominance in the shade than other groups. In other words, it meant that half of them were ready to rule Seoul.

‘One by one. One by one like that.’

Sim Eun-gyu tilted the whiskey glass he was holding. The strong whiskey warmed his mouth. He felt his thirst burning. Yes, this was the taste of desire.

“Fucking bitch.”

If only she hadn’t been there, the Charlotte Group would have grown even faster. If only she hadn’t left out the hotel and construction while they were busy growing together as one.

“Well, I guess it’s over now.”

Sim Eun-gyu was proud of the results he had achieved.

In Japan, more than half of the forces supporting Sim Eun-young have succeeded in persuading them. And now, the Charlotte Group has succeeded in reaching out to the financial industry. Securities and capital. Based on this, mobile banking and internet payments have also almost been completed.

Now, starting with the four financial companies of card companies, securities companies, capital, and insurance, and advancing into mobile banking and mobile-internet payment systems, it is connected to department stores, large marts, outlets, luxury goods stores, and even home shopping. From the moment this starts to work properly, Charlotte Group’s cash mobilization ability will grow rapidly.

“Sir, we have received a call from Shikoku.”

“okay?”

Did you pass on Kyushu and go to Shikoku? You fucking bitch.

I used my brain to the end, but it was within the expected range. I had already sent the southern Kyushu guys to Shikoku. I told them to accept half of the family first, and if they wanted to move the rest to Korea, they had to produce results, so they probably tried to produce results even if it meant substituting their subordinates.

When family and survival are at stake, morals and ethics are bound to collapse. There was no way that Sim Eun-young could escape, thrown in front of those who were determined to achieve results by any means necessary.

Sim Eun-gyu, who had been expecting a good report, nodded while taking another sip of whiskey.

“They found and attacked a ship registered in the name of Charlotte in Busan, but CEO Sim Eun-young was not on board.”

“What? Then where did she go?”

“yet···.”

The glass in Sim Eun-gyu’s hand trembled.

“Really? Then what about those on that ship? What happened to them? Didn’t Sim Eun-young say that she was with Kim Yang and the knife-wielder? What about them? Did they capture them? Did they kill them?”

“They said they couldn’t confirm life or death because the resistance was so strong…”

under-

So you’re saying they didn’t take control of the ship? But how do you know if she got on or not? Aren’t these guys just trying to sloppily sloppily sloppily sloppily sloppily?

“They searched the ship during the fighting, but there was no trace of President Sim Eun-young.”

“Are you sure?”

“yes.”

“The fact that the life or death of Ms. Kim and the swordsman is unknown means that we failed to capture the ship?”

“yes.”

“This is truly unbelievable. World’s Choi, the executive director, must have told you about Kim Yang and the swordsman’s weaknesses, but you knew about it and yet you couldn’t capture them or kill them? Are you incompetent? Or maybe you weren’t desperate?”

The top executive of World gave information. Information about Kim Yang’s weakness. It was surprising that a gunman who was ranked among the top three in World had such a weakness, but it was more interesting that the company called World was controlling and managing that weakness.

The weakness of the swordsman who had retreated Executive Director Choi and his immediate subordinates was the same. In fact, it could be said that he had no weaknesses. His weakness was that he was able to use human wave tactics. I couldn’t help but believe it since Executive Director Choi, who had fought him himself, said this. It was absurd, but there were many ways to replace manpower. So, he could have ended it by capturing him or killing him.

“They succeeded in pushing it to the end, but they couldn’t finish it because nearby drug dealers got involved.”

“Drugs? Drug dealers are setting up shop openly?”

I had received reports that the security situation had collapsed. But to the extent that drug dealers were blatantly running amok. The situation was getting worse by the day.

The volcanoes in Kyushu were not only spewing ash, they were also spewing lava. Seismic waves were being observed like crazy, and rumors were going around that this was another large volcanic eruption. Communications were still possible in Shikoku and western Honshu, but Kyushu and eastern Honshu were completely cut off. The communication cutoff had been going on for more than four days, now it was the fifth day.

More than half of Japan’s territory was out of control. It was hard to predict when administrative power and public authority would be restored. Even if administrative power and public authority were restored, what would happen to the collapsed infrastructure? What about the radioactivity that must have leaked out like crazy due to this earthquake? Amidst the uncertain outlook, what was certain was that Japan, as a country, had effectively lost its function.

Sim Eun-gyu tilted the glass he had been holding tightly. What unfolded beneath the high view was the bustling city of Seoul.

Who would have imagined that it would change like this? Korea, which Japan thought of as a rag to wipe away food spills, or a restaurant where you can suck on a straw in your back, would become this big?

At the end of the bubble in the late 90s, it was Korea that gave the Japanese economy a chance to recover. Because Korea collapsed due to the IMF, Japan’s financial and lending industries had a chance and were able to prosper. I thought that Korea, which had been hit with a straw like that, would not be able to get back up after the IMF.

So, there was a time when Sim Eun-gyu thought, what’s the point of learning Korean when he was young? He thought it didn’t matter if he couldn’t speak Korean. After all, important agenda items in the group were discussed in Japanese. That’s how he believed that by sucking up Korea, Japan and the Japanese economy would rise again. But the current reality is ironic.

“Ha- Bring me that bitch’s neck. Shut the mouth of that bitch who talks nonsense. And finish off the ones we’ve caught. If we’ve caught them all, we’ll finish them all off.”

I’ll definitely finish off Kim Yang and the knife wielder. They have a deep ties with the World, so I’ll have to take their heads off and get what I deserve.

Human-to-human tactics? It was a good thing. Those who were consumed there were those who had been attached to Sim Eun-young anyway. Was it necessary to accept them all if they turned to this side? It was good in many ways if they killed each other.

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Maru, who had pushed away the corpses piled near the wheelhouse, entered with difficulty. The bulletproof vest covering the cockpit chair was tattered like a rag.

“Kisun-ah! Kim Ki-sun!”

As if responding to Maru’s shout, an arm rose slightly upward.

“Hey, if I call you, you fucking have to answer. Are you okay? Huh?”

“···You, fucking··· do you think this looks okay to your eyes?”

“I knew you’d be late. Why are you here so late?’ muttered Ki-soon.

Maru’s face crumpled. A belt was wrapped tightly around one arm. He could see a shrapnel halfway into his elbow joint. Of all places, a joint. He might end up with a cripple in his arm. What did he do to get a shrapnel like this? Where’s the hospital? Should he go back to Tokushima? There was a general hospital nearby.

“Let’s go back to the port and go to the hospital.”

“Shit. There are people in this neighborhood who are trying to get us, and if we go in there, we’ll all die. Do you still want to do that when you know it’s obvious? What about overheating?”

“You’re going to be a cripple.”

“What’s the big deal about one arm or your life? It’s not like I’ve decided to lose my arm right away. If it’s a large port, there’s usually a hospital nearby that can perform the surgery. Let’s go quickly. It’s the right thing to do at a time like this.”

Maru felt his heart burst at Ki-sun’s words.

“Fuck… While you were like this, what was Ms. Kim doing?”

“Don’t ask when you already know. If it weren’t for Ms. Kim, everything would have been ruined a long time ago. Do you really want to do that?”

Oh, really. Maru felt suffocated. Even though he had injected a neutralizer, the heat still spread.

“So what about Ms. Kim?”

“excuse me.”

Ki-soon turned his head toward where Ms. Kim was. There, Ms. Kim was lying down. Drops of blood were dripping from her casted right arm.

‘These are sold in pairs.’ Maru was about to say, when he saw the bulletproof helmet that Ki-sun was wearing. Small, slanted bullet marks. They were small. If it was 9mm, there would be no marks like this. There was a clear difference between 22 caliber and 9mm bullet marks. No matter how you looked at it, it was 22 caliber.

“Hey. Did Miss Kim shoot you?”

A headshot, too?

“You say smoke or fog makes your eyes dizzy? Fuck, I’m going to die from pain. Let’s go. Let’s stop talking nonsense and go for now. You need to get into the ice water too. Let’s get out of here quickly. Let’s go to the hospital first, right?”

Maru opened the refrigerator in the wheelhouse, poured a few bottles of energy drinks into his mouth, and got up. He felt a little relieved after the cold energy drinks went down. It felt like his stomach skin was stuck to his back. Maru stuffed the chocolate bar next to him into his mouth and went out of the wheelhouse.

I saw an amphibious vehicle slowly approaching from the other side. I had to get it first, gather what I needed, and prepare to leave. My muscles were sore as if I had been beaten all over my body.

Yeah, let’s do it quickly. Let’s do it quickly and then take a break.

Maru packed up the amphibious vehicle and pushed the corpses strewn across the deck into the sea.

Kim Yang was still unconscious, and Ki-sun was also lying down, not knowing when she had fallen asleep or passed out. She had learned how to operate the autopilot. Maru operated the machine to move the boat. With the sound of the engine running, the catamaran moved toward the purple and blue sea.

“Ha- this is fucking crazy- I’m dying from exhaustion.”

I filled the whirlpool bathtub in the player’s room with ice and got in there, and it felt a little better. One by one, stars appeared in the sky. And in the direction of Kyushu, there were no stars at all, as if the sky had been painted with a black brush.

Even though I confirmed that Ki-sun and Kim Yang were alive, I was still anxious.

Even after leaving Tokushima Port, where enemies were swarming, the sense of unease remained.

No. On the contrary, my anxiety was growing. I was getting irritated by the unknown anxiety.

“Ah- really···.”

A momentary feeling of sadness. A rumbling inside.

What did you feel on the plane when you escaped from Japan to Korea?

uh?

what?

Suddenly, I felt like my entire stomach was going down as if I had been put in an elevator. 12m? 15m? I jumped up from the whirlpool bath and looked around.

It feels like the sea level has suddenly dropped.

The feeling of the sea receding like an ebb tide.

But why does it feel like it suddenly fell off like this?

The tide was slowly receding. It was so sudden and sudden that it suddenly receded like this…

Chiriririririt

My whole body felt tingly and my hair stood on end.