Rust - Chapter 755



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RUST -755

Lee Moon-sik, who was suddenly surrounded, looked at a detective with a bewildered expression.

“Detective Han, they told us not to move. We’re detectives after all.”

A detective answered, placing both hands gently on the dashboard.

“The one with the gun is the one with the upper hand. You put both hands on the steering wheel. Those bastards will just shoot if they have to.”

“No. How do you know if he’s a sheep or not? He’s wearing a helmet.”

“Can’t you hear the sound of tongues rolling? I said they’re sheep.”

“Why are the Yankees here? If they’re American soldiers, they’ve all gone back to the mainland, except for the ones guarding the warehouse in Pyeongtaek. Miss – Then won’t things get complicated again?”

If the story is that the special forces and the pigeon-catching Americans were the ones who were twisted, then it’s a story that’s really twisted.

“Ah- That’s right. You said before that America is divided. Either way, they’re planning to intervene in Korea, so they’re probably going to kill pigeons and stuff. Looking at the shit they’re doing these days, I wish that were the case.”

“Moon-sik, you got it. So put your hands on the steering wheel first. These guys are not in a good mood. If what you said is true, they’re the ones who got rid of the special forces made up of superhumans, so why wouldn’t we get rid of them too? So put your hands on them first.”

When Han Tae-sik told him the truth, Lee Moon-sik, who had been wondering if he would do anything to a detective, put his hands on the steering wheel with a bashful face.

The guards, after confirming that the two men had no weapons in their hands, opened the car door and told them to come out. At the same time, Lee Moon-sik’s mouth automatically opened.

“Hey, you should have just told me to open the door and come out from the beginning. These kids are making the process so complicated.”

“······.”

“And even if we’re just using a pistol, why are these guys armed with exosuits acting like cowards to a bandage? Just give them your hands, get down, put your arms behind your back. Ah- just- I wonder where the prestige of being the world’s number one has gone.”

“······.”

Lee Moon-sik’s hands were tied behind his back, unaware that his mumbling was being interpreted by an AI assistant.

“Huh? Huh? Aaaah— Tie me up gently. What did I do wrong?”

“······.”

So the two people were taken away.

‧

The guard who captured the two men reported.

[We successfully captured the target. But there was a passenger.]

“Passenger?”

[Yes. There was a person I was riding with. He was a talkative guy.]

“So the one with the long tongue was next to the target and you caught them both?”

Ms. Kim, who was about to wash up and have a dinner party, turned her head and dabbed her wet hair with a towel.

“What were the orders?”

[The goal was to secure the target.]

“Is this a convenience store? Is this a buy one get one free deal? Why did you bring someone who wasn’t your target? Was it because you wanted to show me how long your tongue is?”

[no.]

Kim Yang could understand why Director Yoo had been so slightly taken aback. The military was a group that had difficulty returning to their right mind in the first place. It was even more so in a military overflowing with new recruits.

If it were Director Yoo, he would have put a bullet hole in that sane kid’s butt and hung him upside down, but not Ms. Kim.

Huh-

“You brought it, so you have to take responsibility for it and manage it, right?”

[yes.]

“Okay. You’re exempt from the company dinner today.”

[yes?]

Today’s dinner was a meat dinner to commemorate the victory and the great achievements of the highest dignity. It was the first time in several years that we had a Korean beef and black pork dinner, so Kim Yang’s eyes were serious.

That was understandable, as there were still black pigs left.

There was even Korean beef left.

Kim, who thought she was a ruined Korean, felt like all her hard work today was worth it since there was still meat left.

Of course, there remains the problem of buying meat, but that is a simple matter.

The lower-level cannibals in Dongtan and Yongin were killed in this battle, and even those who came down from above in an emergency were all eliminated.

There was no problem because I bought raw meat at a meat restaurant in Dongtan with the electronic currency obtained from their corpses.

The CCTV was already under control here and the phone lines were cut off, so it was useless to report that a stranger had bought the meat.

“Have a serious conversation with a talkative guy while eating combat rations together. A detective with a loose mouth? He must have some good information. If the conversation doesn’t go well, lock him up right away.”

What can I do if I have to use an information extractor?

[All right.]

‘Huh- you said you were detective Han.’

Before Maru comes, let’s take a look at what kind of person he is.

Since it is expected that he will have tracking capabilities, it might be a good idea to get to know him in advance.

There will also be a meat dinner.

Feeling slightly better, she decided to meet with a detective.

‧

Han Tae-sik was trapped in a mobile bunker installed on one side of the clubhouse.

He was in his forties, but all he had left was a fucking old body and the pride of having caught a criminal.

marriage?

The divorce rate among police officers is actually higher than expected. Even if they are not divorced, it is common for detectives to live separately or sleep in separate rooms.

As the world changes, work becomes more and more difficult.

People who got hurt while working outside or while recovering from an accident used to have time to recover mentally and physically by staying in an office for a while before returning to the field, but that was no longer possible because the office jobs were always full.

Excessive workloads continued to increase. Overnight duty was a given, as was emergency dispatch and night duty. Which wife would like her husband to leave the house every other day for overnight duty, duty, and emergency standby?

The same goes for my girlfriend. How long will I tolerate my boyfriend who suddenly goes on standby, saying that there is an emergency after making a date arrangement?

There were many cases where I became that unhappy.

It is not surprising that stories of women who were thought to understand and women who were trusted were caught living a free(?) life while their husbands and boyfriends were away are so common.

It was even more so after the world changed to what it is now.

What would happen if the temptation of money came to someone who had not been able to protect his family or love? What would happen if the temptation of crime came? A detective knew colleagues who had changed like that.

So what kind of pride is that?

Han Tae-sik looked out the window with bleary eyes. He saw that the entire field was filled with pigeon carcasses.

It was an unfamiliar sight to see a force of at least a thousand soldiers, armed with what appeared to be the latest exosuits, slaughtering mutant pigeons.

‘How did you catch that?’

Even with an air defense net, it would have been impossible to stop a flock of over 150,000 mutant pigeons. But as you can see here, there was no proper air defense net.

‘No. Even if we caught one, why did the rest of the pigeons run away?’

The fact that it killed tens of thousands of people and scattered over 100,000 pigeons means that it displayed overwhelming killing power.

No matter how I looked at it, it was just an exosuit.

Boom bang

Han Tae-sik turned his head at the sound of a knock or someone trying to break down the door. Before he could say who it was, the door opened wide and a woman in a uniform came in with a guard.

The woman’s face seemed somehow familiar.

‘who?’

He was a detective who remembered faces well due to the nature of his job, so his sharp eyes became focused. If a woman’s face was familiar, it meant that she was related to some kind of case.

Kim Yang, who received a strange look from Han Tae-sik, got straight to the point.

“I heard you have tracking abilities. Is that true?”

“?”

You’re asking if I have the ability without explaining who I am, what my current situation is, or anything?

‘Is it pressure?’

A detective looked at the woman in front of him.

There was nothing that caught the eye of the profession. It wasn’t a lie or an act. So this woman really wondered if she had tracking skills, so she asked about that first.

“Don’t you understand? I’m asking if you have tracking capabilities.”

“······.”

Han Tae-sik was momentarily speechless at the question blatantly asked by a woman who appeared to be in her early twenties. Perhaps thinking that it was an intentional attitude, the woman’s eyes turned cold.

“That’s why I said you shouldn’t say nice things.”

‘If you had asked me after I had beaten him up, beaten him up, and made him cry and snot and all the moisture had drained out of him, he would have answered right away.’ The woman muttered as if talking to herself and turned her head to the side to give orders to her subordinates.

From her profile, a detective could remember the face of a certain woman.

An unsolved case in which dozens of people were killed.

The world’s mass killing of livestock came to mind.

The only woman whose body was not found in the incident where all the employees who went to work at World Livestock died. The face of the female employee in the accounting department who was under investigation as a strong suspect was now in front of a detective.

“Ms. Kim? World Livestock Accounting?”

“Huh? Do you know me?”

A detective’s mind slowly became clearer with the investigative records from three years ago. He tried to investigate the World Group while investigating the World Livestock Mass Murders, but was cut off by his superiors.

Let’s dig into the World Group through unofficial routes. The truth is that the World Group was a company that was only good on the outside, but had deep roots in the shadows.

And when we delve deeper, there are circumstances that connect him to the government and the World Group. And then there are the sudden charges of coercive investigations, and even a warning with a pay cut.

The World Livestock Incident, in which dozens of people were dismembered and killed, has become an unsolved case. The prime suspect is a top-ranking figure in the Holy Kingdom?

‘This woman is the commander of the Holy Kingdom army here…’

Even if it was the Tang Dynasty army, a woman in her early 20s was the supreme commander.

I saw and heard it, but I couldn’t believe it.

If such a thing were really possible, it would have to be the daughter of the King of the Holy Kingdom, or a very close relative who created rank and power through bloodline.

If you look at it that way, it was strange in many ways.

If she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, what does it mean that she worked as an accountant for World Livestock in Korea? It would be even stranger if she were the daughter or relative of a drug-related organization.

“Where were you during the World Livestock Mass Murders?”

Miss Kim tilted her head as if to ask what the hell she was talking about, then blinked.

“Bulk pieces? Ah- that was ginseng?”

Ginseng?

Kim Yang nodded, regardless of whether Han Tae-sik frowned or not.

Even though it had been over three years, he still remembered it, and judging by the fact that he could remember even the slightest hint, it seemed useful even if he hadn’t awakened his tracking ability.

‘If I had awakened my tracking ability, it would be really nice.’

“What do you mean by ginseng?”

“There is something like that.”

Kim Yang, who had interrupted her conversation, turned around and said.

“This old man, please give him a lot of meat later. He’s going to work with us from now on, so pay more attention to him in various ways.”

[ancient.]

[All right.]

“Hey, wait a minute…”

Before a detective could ask anything, the door closed.

‘That woman is the real power in the Holy Kingdom?’

Not only did a woman involved in a mass murder case in Korea escape to the United States, but she also rose to a high position in the Holy Kingdom? The more I thought about it, the more incomprehensible it became.

‧

Maru, who had been waiting in the empty house, couldn’t understand.

If the cannibals’ pattern confirmed by the CCTV footage was correct, they should be home by now.

“Did I find the right one?”

[After reviewing all CCTV footage and surrounding CCTV data, the probability is 94.97%.]

‘I can’t wait all day.’

The irritated Maru moved to another place. It was also empty. Judging from the strong smell of blood in one of the bathrooms, it was clear that the cannibal had been there.

“Where have all these kids gone?”

Should I move to another place and find someone else? While I was thinking about it, a message from Kim Yang came in.

[When are you coming?]

“I was planning on going to Dongtan to catch some cannibals over here, but I can’t see any of those bastards because they all left home. Did you catch that detective?”

Kim Yang was slightly embarrassed. All the cannibals in Dongtan, Yongin, and Bundang had gathered at their base and disappeared.

Who would have thought that Maru would go to Dongtan to catch cannibals?

It seemed like I should tell you now. Kim Yang’s response was slightly delayed because her voice was really angry, as if she had been running around here and there trying to catch a cannibal.

[···Huh? Huh. Yeah? The detective caught him well. That detective’s investigative skills seem really good.]

“Huh- Okay. Don’t be so harsh. I need his help to catch the hidden cannibal.”

[···Yeah. Okay. But. We caught all the cannibals that attacked our base. So we bought a lot of meat with the electronic currency they had···.]

Just as Kim Yang was about to say that all the cannibals nearby had been captured and were no longer there, a report came in from the assistant AI.

[Military vehicles confirmed to be moving at high speed from Seoul to Dongtan.]

A visual of military vehicles driving in a single line at high speed appeared on Maru’s HUD. They were passing Bundang and heading towards Dongtan.

[CCTV reverse tracking results confirmed that it came from the direction of Namsan.]

[The military vehicle passes Bundang and heads south.]

[Moving towards Dongtan.]

There was talk that more cannibals were coming.

Maru, who had been in vain until now, stood up with Eclipse in his hand.

“Where are they? Their expected path.”

Kim Yang, who was listening to the conversation between Maru and the assistant AI, also became angry.

It’s been a while since we had a meat dinner together, and the bastards are crawling in without even noticing.

[Where is it?]