Rust - Chapter 76



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RUST -76

Coming.

What’s coming?

Maru surveyed the southern seas.

Nothing was happening.

The dark sea was just a dark sea.

I was warned that it would not be a tingling sensation.

At that feeling, Maru looked out at the sea without letting his guard down.

uh?

Was it like that there?

The feeling of the horizon bulging out.

The horizon rose about 12 to 15 meters?

Is it a wave?

Are the waves like that? No, that’s not a wave!

It wasn’t a huge tsunami, because there was no wind.

then?

Tsunami?!

Maru headed towards the cockpit like crazy. There was no escaping it.

If you get swept away by the tsunami, there is no answer. You have to ride the tsunami back to the station.

Maru, who had been cursing softly, turned up the engine output to the maximum. After a while, a black swell approached the bulging ship. In the open sea, it felt like just a rippling wave, but as it pushed towards the land, it seemed to be getting higher and higher.

The engine, which had been fully fueled, made a labored sound. The ship began to climb the swell as if climbing a mountain. Squeak- for some reason, the hull screamed. The bow tilted and raised its head at an angle of more than 30 degrees.

It felt like I was floating in the air, either being pushed back or pushed forward, the two in balance.

“F—ing!”

what’s this.

A siren sounded from behind. We had been out at sea for almost an hour, when did we get so far behind? I looked back and saw lights on the other side. It was a port. The engine was running at full speed, and as it struggled to get tired, I was barely able to get over the hill made of water.

Maru took a deep breath and saw a port being swallowed by a tsunami before his eyes.

As if a black curtain had fallen, the bright lights that had been shining here and there began to go out. The sirens that had been waking up the night fell silent, and the harbor sank like a sinking ship.

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The tsunami wasn’t just one.

The tsunami came down several times with a time difference, although the height gradually decreased. When the water receded, it came down again, and when it receded again, it came down again, many times. How long had it been like that? Even the tension-filled floor could not endure it and fell asleep.

As soon as Maru woke up, he checked on Ki-sun and Ms. Kim. Despite the chaos that had occurred, Ki-sun and Ms. Kim had not woken up. They both had high fevers. They were given antibiotics, fever reducers, and IVs in a hurry, but they didn’t seem to have gotten much better. Both of their conditions were getting worse so suddenly.

Fortunately, the ship was still in place. Maru checked the GPS map. Tanabe City, a port city located south of Tokushima Port, was the city he had seen at night. There were two general hospitals marked on the map.

Should I take him to the hospital first?

The side effects of overheating had not yet completely subsided. I had no confidence in protecting both of them. If there were enemies on this side, it would be the same as going to die.

In that case, the only way was to bring a doctor or nurse. It would be nice if at least one of them was conscious, but the high fever had to be controlled early. It was clear that it would get worse as time went by.

It was not yet fully daylight and the tsunami waters had not yet receded. As daylight dawned and people began to come out, it was obvious that it would be difficult to bring in doctors and nurses. Maru, armed with a jackknife and a Glock 41, took a motorboat and headed to the general hospital in the port city.

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Although he had been working in Japan for over two months, Maru still did not know much about Japanese geography.

Most Koreans would be like that. Even if they knew about Japanese cities, they only knew about big cities or places famous for tourism. Maru was the same. Even though his family frequently traveled to Japan until he was in middle school, it wasn’t much different from what most Koreans think about Japan.

So this kind of thinking, Japan is an island country, so it would probably be submerged in the sea. Why? Because it is an island country. So why? It is an island. Isn’t the elevation low? Isn’t it just flat land? That’s not the case. Japan, except for the Kanto Plain near Tokyo, is a country with many mountains, just like Korea.

Port cities in Japan also had a lot of terrain similar to Busan or Tongyeong. Flatlands between mountains, hills surrounding the port. There were more of these types of terrain than I thought.

This meant that if a tsunami were to hit, you could quickly evacuate to a nearby high ground. But when a tsunami actually hits, would you really be able to do so?

The answer to that question was right before Maru’s eyes.

Booooooo-

“······.”

It was a maru that steered the boat to avoid large floating objects by slowing down. It was hard to imagine that this was a port city.

Everything was swept away. The only buildings left were a few large reinforced concrete buildings. The tsunami had clearly swept in up to three or four stories. Muddy water was streaming down the broken windows. No one called for help even as boats passed by.

Ki-ki-gi …

The sound of something twisting in the water was heard even outside the water. The building swayed and collapsed. It seemed to have withstood the tsunami that struck one after another, but eventually collapsed. The residential area turned into a mud pit. All that remained were parts of the roof and panels floating.

Thump- thump- something was touching the boat and floating away. Maru just turned his head.

The city that was swept away by the tsunami became a floating wreck in the muddy waters.

Maru thought that since the city was completely destroyed by the tsunami, people would be completely disoriented. So he expected that before dawn, he would be able to easily get one or two doctors or nurses out of the hospital. But that was not the case.

“shit.”

There were traces of the tsunami that had swept right up to the hospital. The hospital was on a small hill, and there was a hill behind the hospital. Fortunately or unfortunately, there seemed to be no direct damage to the hospital. Perhaps that was why survivors were swarming around the hospital.

Emergency workers and people were transporting the injured to the hospital, and the number of people pitching tents in the hospital parking lot and holding out was increasing in real time. They said that public order had collapsed, but is it human nature to stick together in the face of a natural disaster?

Maru quietly headed towards the hospital entrance. At the hospital entrance, staff were blocking people.

“Currently, our hospital is a designated COVID-19 hospital, so general patients are asked to use other hospitals.”

“What kind of nonsense are you talking about? We were all swept away by the tsunami. Where do you want us to go?”

“All wards in our hospital are designated to accept COVID-19 emergency patients.”

“This is a hospital where severely ill coronavirus patients are admitted. General patients cannot be admitted.”

“Except for the doctors related to COVID-19, most of them are currently on leave, so there are no doctors in other departments.”

It was an emergency. The hospital staff responded according to the manual, unable to take responsibility for the situation.

“Don’t make me laugh!”

“I’ll beat him to death! Where’s the doctor?”

“Call a doctor now! Call him!”

“Our hospital is operated according to government policy. You can’t do this. Please maintain order.”

“When did the government disappear!”

“Even though there is a patient with a broken leg, you refuse to accept him!”

The hospital’s main entrance and emergency room were a mess. If what the hospital staff said was true, it meant that there were currently no surgeons. Even so, there must be nurses. Instead of pheasants, we had to find the necessary medicines and nurses.

The front of the hospital faced the sea. Turning slightly to the back, there were nurses’ dormitories and auxiliary buildings. There was a small tennis court, a golf practice range, and sports facilities including a half-court basketball court. There was a walking path and a platform leading to the back hill.

The dark sky began to brighten a little. I was anxious. I think the nurses’ third shift was around breakfast time? In Korea, it was around 7 AM, 3 PM, and 11 PM. Is it the same in Japan? It varies from hospital to hospital, so I couldn’t tell what it was like in Japan.

While I was hiding my anxious feelings and half-hiding near the walking path behind the nurses’ dormitory, waiting with the thought of ‘just come out’, someone really came out. I wish it had been just one person, but there were five.

Nurses came rushing out. I looked at my watch and it was 6 o’clock. They were heading to the dormitory from the hospital. Five was too many. I waited a little longer with patience. Nearly twenty people came rushing out. Five is too many, but twenty?

Should I really go into the dormitory? While I was wondering what was going on with the floor, I noticed a nurse coming out alone from afar. After all the twenty nurses had entered the dormitory, the nurse slowly came out of the hospital.

Her handsome face was worn out with fatigue, and her disheveled hair looked as if someone had grabbed her and shaken her. Her condition was somewhat lacking, but there seemed to be no better alternative at the moment.

“Hey.”

The nurse collapses in her seat with a hiccup as soon as she hears Maru’s voice.

What are you talking about? Why are you being so over the top? Maru just went straight ahead.

“There is an emergency patient. We treated him with first aid medication and antibiotics, but the patient has a high fever and cannot move. The hospital here is not accepting patients, so I would like you to come with me.”

The woman who had been giggling shook her head at Maru’s words.

“Huh? I… I’m not a doctor.”

“If you’re a nurse, you have medical knowledge and have practiced, right? First, go with me and see the patient. And do you know where the surgeons are? We need skilled people. There’s a patient with a torn suture site and shrapnel embedded in the patient’s body…”

“Huh? Okay. Just a moment. I’m just now···”

The nurse sitting on the floor hesitated, looking around for something.

“It’s hard to explain in words.” Maru glanced at the Glock 41 slung at his waist.

It was a nurse whose face turned white. It was strange that she was so pale and still looked around and anxious. She was scared of guns, but there was something else that made her even more anxious.

“Hey, you. That woman has a prior engagement with us.”

“Get out of the way. Close your eyes.”

“You have to follow the reservation order.”

Three men popped out from around a corner of the main building and shouted.

widely!

With a kicking sound, the jaw of the guy who was talking about the oath was twisted to the left by Maru’s right hook. As the other two were wondering what was going on, Maru’s elbow lifted one of the guys’ jaws.

Crunch – Before the sound of jaws breaking could even die down, the last one was hit by a backspin blow that twisted his waist and bounced against the wall like a bouncy ball before falling forward. It all happened in the blink of an eye.

to?

Huh?

Wide eyes. The nurse’s eyes widened. What the fuck.

“Now, there’s no one talking about pre-arrangements or anything, right? Let’s go.”

It was a deck heading towards the boat, dragging a stammering nurse. The nurse was dragged along obediently.

“So. Do you know any good surgeons out there?”

“Uh… again… so.”

I was already in a hurry, but the nurse’s tone was making me suffocate. Isn’t it weird that they’re taking the nurse here? It’s nice that she followed me obediently, but I’ll just take her there and if something goes wrong, I’ll have to go get her again.

Woohoo! The sound of the motor split the waves.

The day was slowly beginning to brighten. The sky was changing from deep blue to blue.

A luxury catamaran is visible in the direction of the motorboat. The nurse’s expression changed to “Oh-” as she saw the luxury yacht in the direction of the boat, and then her face turned blue.

The catamaran, which looked white and luxurious from afar, revealed a miserable appearance as we got closer. Drops of blood were flowing down one side of the deck. The holes here and there were saying, ‘I am a bullet hole.’

I dragged the trembling nurse towards Ki-sun and Ms. Kim. However, when the nurse saw the patient from the nursing hospital right in front of her, she showed a rather composed appearance.

The nurse took out a blood pressure monitor and thermometer from the first aid kit and measured their body temperature and blood pressure. She checked the pupils of Ki-sun and Kim-yang with a pin light, looked at the IV that Maru had roughly put in and the antibiotics and antipyretics that were nearby, and carefully examined Ki-sun and Kim-yang’s wounds.

“to···.”

Huh? So? What do you mean?

“Uh··· Again···.”

Eh? So? Is it serious?

“to···”

“No. It’s really frustrating. Speak. Please.”

Eek-

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Maru decided to think that they had brought in a somewhat strange nurse. He didn’t know what was needed right away or what to do, so he coaxed and comforted her to check on Ki-sun and Kim-yang. She was a nurse who did things quite meticulously, so she must have been skilled.

So, they said that the emergency measures were effective for the time being. However, in Ki-sun’s case, removing the shrapnel embedded in his arm was a major surgery and they couldn’t do anything about it, and since there were no surgical tools or medicine, they said there was nothing they could do.

Ah··· I glared at the nurse who was trying to get my luck back, but it was omitted.

“I thought it was just one large fragment, but there were several smaller ones, so I think I’ll need surgery at a large hospital.”

“If you touch it wrong, your nerves and arteries are at risk,” said the nurse, keeping her words short.

“Do you think I will recover normally after surgery?”

The nurse rolled her eyes. She made an expression of ‘I don’t know.’ That meant that her condition was serious. Furthermore, Ms. Kim’s condition was not good either.

Even if the surgery is done quickly, it is difficult to guarantee the prognosis. Kyushu was hit by a volcano and a tsunami, Shikoku was hit directly by the tsunami, and Tokyo is far away, so I don’t know what to do, but since it is an area that lost contact after the earthquake, the situation was obvious. It was clear that hospitals would be overflowing wherever you went in Japan. No, how many hospitals were left in the first place?

under-

Maru touched the spot where he had been wounded during the fight at Royal Marina. The wound had disappeared without a trace. He could feel smooth skin.