Rust - Chapter 759



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RUST -759

Detective Han Tae-sik could not trust the Holy Kingdom itself.

That was why the information and claims provided by the Holy Kingdom were the same. It was difficult to take at face value the story that the powerful beings made up of new humans or superhumans were actually nothing more than cannibals.

“So. Are you saying that if we continue like this, Korea will just become a source of human flesh for cannibals?”

How can we believe that cannibals would pursue policies that increase pregnant women as they do now, since they grow stronger the more they eat people?

“It’s ridiculous. Korea was a country with a depopulating population. It was a situation where it had to implement a birth-raising policy without regard to means and methods in order to survive. The currency reform with digital currency and the implementation of living subsidies and discount policies for pregnant women can be seen as an extension of that.”

It was not that there were no suspicious parts. There was pressure to stop the serial disappearances or serial murders that seemed to have caught the tail. However, there was little evidence to claim that it was a national crime scene.

“Do you think that just because there is a place where corpses are strewn around, that this murder was committed by the government and martial law command? In fact… no. To be honest, do you have any evidence that the video you just showed me is not a fake video created using advanced artificial intelligence?”

It was laughable that the footage provided by the Holy Kingdom was used as evidence that the Korean government, martial law command, and the majority of the National Assembly were cannibals.

[Wow – Then you’ll believe it if you see it for yourself?]

Even though Kim Yang, who was furious, personally inspected the secret facility between Bundang and Dongtan, detective Han’s suspicions were not dispelled. He had seen such facilities several times while investigating serial murder cases.

“There are many criminal organizations in Korea. There are even more so now. There are Chinese organizations, Japanese organizations, Russian organizations, and Southeast Asian organizations. The currency reform has greatly reduced such organizations, but violent crimes have become more severe because of this. There is a possibility that the facility you are looking at now is a facility of a criminal organization.”

Miss Kim was furious at the detective’s attitude.

[Are you crazy, sir? What are you thinking when you see it with your own eyes and it doesn’t seem to be evidence?]

Maru had the same idea. He wanted to make them understand the situation and elicit their voluntary cooperation, but he seemed completely blocked.

[Aren’t you saying that they brought it here by force? Can’t we just use a leash?]

It was Ms. Kim who openly suggested using a leash and torture in front of a detective.

[If you beat, starve, and torture them, they will do it all.]

Was she born a killer from the beginning?

They were driven to the brink of starvation, tortured, and rolled around, and that was the way it was supposed to be.

Do or die.

Isn’t life simple?

When she heard Kim Yang’s story, a detective said, “Then that’s true, isn’t that something only criminals with no basis would do?” and she laughed.

[Where is the basis and where is the fairness here?]

Inhumane and immoral? So what?

To be frank.

Where in the world is there fairness?

Trial? Fair verdict? When did that ever happen?

Aren’t even the fairest trials inhumane and immoral?

Considering the culprit who killed his beloved child, his gender, the fact that it was his first offense, that he was remorseful, and that it was an accident, he will be sentenced to three years in prison.

Is this kind of verdict a fair verdict?

Could it even be called a moral or humane judgment?

In a situation where the parents committed suicide after being defrauded of all their assets, and the surviving child lost both parents and ended up in a facility, can we really say that it is moral and just to catch the entire fraud organization and just sentence one president to three years?

Miss Kim glared at a detective with her eyes that were somehow sparkling.

[It was like that even before the incident. But now it’s worse. They report, monitor, and control, and all men are drafted into the military, and women are told to just get pregnant without knowing who the father is. Is that moral? Humane? Fair? It’s not even funny. Throw it all away and have some kind of plan for pregnant women giving birth?]

Didn’t they say that the country would take responsibility if you gave birth?

Then what about the facilities to raise those children? How many people are there to look after them? Is there anything like that?

[Looking at it, it seems like in two or three months at the earliest, or four months at the latest, there will be a million babies born. If they give birth to that many babies at once, will there be enough doctors, nurses, and hospital beds to handle them? Looking around here, there aren’t many hospitals specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. How are they going to handle that many mothers? Doesn’t it seem strange? Really?]

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[Tell me. In just a few months, there will be a million newborns. What are you going to do with them? I’m asking you. Right now.]

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[What do you think will happen? You must have an idea, right? Like we said, will the newborn become prey to cannibals? Or will the country raise it well?]

Instead of answering, one detective turned his head away.

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“Detective Han, why did you do that? From what I heard from the woman, it didn’t seem like she said anything wrong.”

Lee Moon-sik couldn’t figure out why one detective had been uncooperative.

“They said to do whatever they said because they had guns, but what happened?”

“Do you believe what those criminal bastards say?”

Is that what psychopaths and sociopaths say?

Lee Moon-sik shook his head at Detective Han Tae-sik’s words.

“What does that mean?”

“The King of the Holy Kingdom, Vladimir Kalin, but his real name is Hamaru. I know his face. I saw it with my own eyes.”

“When did you see it?”

“Do you remember the World Group executive’s death? The strange scene where the two executives were murdered in a semi-basement villa. It was the son of that house. And the World Livestock Arson Case, too. A mass murder and arson case at a livestock processing plant. Hamaru was an employee there.”

“Huh? Are you saying that the King of the Holy Kingdom is connected to a long-standing unsolved case? Oh my goodness. The King of the Holy Kingdom is a Korean? And he’s also a prime suspect in an unsolved murder case?”

“Yeah. If the footage they showed you is true···.”

He showed a short video of the fight, saying that he would show them that the people in the facility were not simple criminals but cannibals, and in that video, Detective Han Tae-sik discovered traces of an unsolved case.

“The stab wounds left in the unsolved case and the way the King stabbed himself in the video of the engagement are very similar.”

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Lee Moon-sik blinked.

“Wait a minute. The traces left in the unsolved murder case and the traces made by the King of the Holy Kingdom are surprisingly similar. It’s a strong suspicion, but the author of the mass murder in the past is the King of the Holy Kingdom. So should we believe the murderer’s story? Is that what you’re thinking?”

It was a detective who nodded silently. Lee Moon-sik said as if he was dumbfounded.

“That doesn’t make sense. So, after committing a murder and arson in Korea, he fled to America and became king three years later. Is that possible?”

“He must have been connected to a criminal organization from the beginning. Something like the mafia, a gang, a major cartel. Maybe even a cult.”

If you listen to the prayers of some of the guards in a mad voice, it would be like that. The object of their prayers was not a god, but the King of the Holy Kingdom.

Lee Moon-sik muttered with a shocked face.

“Isn’t that more dangerous? What are you going to do if it’s real torture or something? Are you going to endure it like a patriotic martyr?”

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“That’s true, but if you think about it again, it’s also true that the government and martial law command are acting strangely. The National Assembly also doesn’t check the government and martial law command.”

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That was the problem. By switching to central bank-issued digital currency, the government essentially took complete control of the money flow.

Although it is a strange expression, it was possible to control the currency, which is essential for capitalist market transactions, through political logic rather than economic logic.

A detective who had been listening silently spoke in a slightly shaky voice.

“Let’s assume that everything they say is true···.”

Let’s say there is a Holy Kingdom in North America with overwhelming technological prowess, whether it was created by laundering criminal organizations or not.

And what if it were true that most of the ruling class in Korea, including the government, National Assembly, and martial law command, were cannibals?

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Let’s also say that the current system is the result of policies implemented by cannibals to turn Korea into a giant hatchery.

So, men were taken into the military and controlled, and women became livestock to produce food for cannibals through pregnancy and childbirth.

“So. Trust that. Imagine that you tracked down a bunker hidden somewhere in Namsan and informed the Holy Kingdom.”

So what happens after that?

“After we defeat the cannibals?”

According to what a detective saw while going around investigating here and there, the population of Korea must now be around 30 million.

On the other hand, the government and martial law command officially announced that the number was 40 million. According to the official position, the population of Korea was 40 million, but the number of the Holy Kingdom fluctuated around 4 million.

Could a Holy Kingdom with a population of only 4 million in an area dozens of times larger than Korea be able to fully govern Korea?

“It is likely that young and capable people will migrate to North America.”

That would be effective.

So what about the rest of us?

What happens to those left behind in Korea?

“If we eliminate cannibals right away, will hospital facilities that can care for pregnant women fall from the sky? Will we be able to stop farming that we are currently doing by sending conscripted soldiers?”

Even if the Holy Kingdom were to kill all the cannibals who currently controlled the government, the National Assembly, and the Martial Law Command, nothing would change.

“No. Everything will change.”

We’ve created a ruling system with a cannibalistic ruling class at the top, so what would happen if we wiped out that ruling class?

Even electronic money was a dominant system, and pregnancy and childbirth, conscription, and economic activity were all dominated systems, so what if that collapsed?

“The moment the Holy Kingdom saves or liberates Korea from cannibals, everything that has been suppressed will burst out.”

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So what will be the result?

When the pent-up desires of these people explode, is there a way to resolve them?

It didn’t seem to exist in Han Tae-sik’s eyes.

The men who are running around in the military would naturally want the conscripted units to be disbanded. Then who will do the farming, who will suppress the Chinese refugees, the Japanese refugees, and the criminal organizations?

So, would killing the cannibals and abolishing the current system change anything? No. The conscripted soldiers were expected to continue doing what they were doing.

What if they refuse and demand the disbandment of the unit? What if they go beyond a simple demand and start an armed struggle? The Holy Kingdom will use its overwhelming technological power to crush the rebel unit.

The same was true for women. Even if it was a sacred kingdom, it would not be possible to quickly create hospitals, doctors, and nurses to manage a million pregnant women.

There was no way to solve the problem of pregnant women. What if we normalize the current system that provides unlimited benefits for pregnancy and childbirth?

In difficult times like these, would women try to get pregnant? Even women who are pregnant would try to have abortions. Then who should pay for the blood?

If you help eliminate the ruling class that has become cannibals and track them down and destroy them, what happens to your responsibility?

Even if we estimate conservatively, the number of cannibals and their immediate family members would be over a hundred thousand. Or perhaps even hundreds of thousands or even millions. Should we help those crazy people who want to kill all of that huge number?

“···They said that the Ojin Group joined the Holy Kingdom, and that they would kill all cannibals. Do you think I should help them with that?”

The fact that the Ojin Group had joined meant that they could create a suppressant (cure) that could control the cannibal’s cannibalistic desires.

However, they were people who would kill all cannibals. When asked whether he thought he should help them, Lee Moon-sik could not answer.

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[··· Do you think I should help you with that? -Chick-]

Kim Yang exploded with anger at Han Tae-sik’s words coming from the speaker.

“That. Did you hear that sound?”

She thought Han Tae -sik was a completely dog.

So, I don’t like it because if I help track them down, I’m helping commit mass murder.

Even if it’s a cannibal, wouldn’t it be okay to use a cure (suppressant)?

Nothing will change even if we kill the ruling class, so I don’t want to get involved in killing them without a plan.

To Ms. Kim, it sounded something like this.

Maru could understand Han Tae-sik’s feelings.

If you asked an ordinary person to decide on the lives of tens or hundreds of thousands of people, it would be normal for them to have a hard time.

Rather, it would be strange for someone to deviate from the norm and easily make life and death decisions by simply calculating human lives based on numbers or profit and loss.

Ms. Kim raises her voice again toward the thoughtful Maru.

“Can’t you just grab those leashes? Seriously. Can’t you just grab them?”

“First, let’s extract information from the cannibal’s head.”

There needed to be a line drawn between what to do and how far to go.

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Hood, Ki-soon and PD looked serious after hearing about the situation in Korea.

“This is a dangerous situation.”

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“I think I should erase it.”