Rust - Chapter 772



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RUST -772

There were three traps.

One way is to dig a trap, use the trap to your advantage, and then attack using snipers.

If a sniper attack using a double trap is detected, the second is to use the discovered sniper team as bait and blow themselves up.

And if even that fails, the last step is to attack using the monsters that rush in in response to the explosion.

Could it be possible to break through such a triple-layered trap?

The first trap was a psychological trap. Most enemies who were sniped would try to find the sniper.

Naturally, he will come from the direction the bullet came from, and if he goes that way, the sniper team waiting will snipe him from a distance, and then detonate the bomb that has been planted to finish him off.

The simulation results showed that the success rate of the first plan was over 98%. Only one or two people out of 100 suspected that it was a trap, and only a small number of those who suspected it actually dug in.

Even if there was a 1~2% chance of detecting the trap, it was not easy to attack the sniper team waiting with the trap set. This was because the sniper team was escorted by a squad consisting of police SWAT and special forces.

Even if you overcome all those difficulties and attack the sniper squad, what awaits the enemy is not victory, but self-destruction. And it is not a simple self-destruction, but self-destruction using a new type of bomb made in Russia.

It was a trap that would cleanly blow away a radius of about 100m once it exploded. It was called a new bomb, but in reality, its destructive power was comparable to that of a miniature tactical nuclear weapon, so it was impossible for even high-level new humans to survive there.

According to the information I received, he likes to wear the Ripper suit, so it was clear that he wouldn’t be able to survive with the level of defense that the Ripper suit had.

Even if they survived by chance, they would suffer serious injuries and end up becoming food for the mutated monsters drawn in by the explosion.

[Ughhhhh – rustling -]

“What is this noise now?”

The last sound heard from the communicator was an eerie sound.

That’s the sound of meat being cut along with the bone.

Yeah, that’s exactly what it sounded like.

“The enemy.”

“···Are you a monster? You survived the explosion?”

“That explosive power was enough to sink even a medium-sized destroyer in one shot.”

“It’s one thing to have survived the explosion, but it’s even more problematic that it managed to get through the mutated monsters and come this close. We need to get out of here immediately.”

“Let’s go right away.”

As they became high-level new humans, their dominance and physical abilities improved, but that was all. Since their outstanding physical abilities were not fully utilized as combat abilities, they decided to avoid combat.

The problem was that something found them faster than they chose to make a quick getaway.

“Um. What is that?”

“Run away!”

“Scatter!”

“There are mutant monsters everywhere, why don’t you disperse!”

Some of the people who shouted to disperse shook off the guards and disappeared into the dark forest. The rest retreated behind the guards.

“What is that?”

“I don’t know what it is, but shoot.”

A man wearing a SWAT uniform aimed a submachine gun. The bullet was a special warhead made from fragments of the altar. It was a bullet that could penetrate even the reinforced hide and bones of the mutant monster.

Knock knock knock knock-

A machine gun with a silencer emitted a dull flame from its muzzle. And then, the thing that had been slowly approaching from afar suddenly picked up speed.

It’s a 9mm submachine gun, but the bullets are custom-made. I thought, ‘If I just aim, I can kill anything,’ but I was wrong.

It was either because he was dodging the gun barrel or because he had a third eye that allowed him to see the bullets, but he didn’t get shot.

“Please step back further.”

I tried to step back and distance myself, but I couldn’t shake off the thing that was closing in on me with brisk strides, using the trees and rocks in the darkness as stepping stones.

“Support fire. Give me some support here.”

“You still haven’t caught it?”

“This is why live-fire training is important.”

“Stop talking nonsense and shoot.”

Even if the four of them came together to form a net, they couldn’t hit it. Or did they hit it?

The soldier took off his stuffy night vision goggles and aimed for his target. He could see it approaching within 20 to 30 meters.

The appearance of black skin that appears to have been burned and torn off. The appearance of red muscle fibers being exposed under the peeled skin.

“Dog. Crap. What is that?”

Even if they were a new species, it was impossible to fight with burns all over their body and their skin peeling off. But to avoid concentrated fire at such close range?

And he saw.

That thing that avoids long-range sniping by nodding its head.

I don’t know how he noticed the sniper shot flying from the side, but he dodged it. It wasn’t a coincidence that he dodged the bullets fired by four machine guns.

“Ugh. Crazy. Run away—-.”

His voice did not continue. It was only two steps forward that split him diagonally.

Puhwaaaaak-

The blade, which was swung down from the shoulder, cut through the lungs and heart, and then the liver before exiting. The lungs, heart, and liver were all places with a lot of blood, so drops of blood spurted out in all directions as if a blood bag had burst.

“This dog—”

People who were twisting their bodies toward the thing that had dug into their ranks froze in place. They couldn’t move as if they had been cursed with petrification.

A state where one cannot even plead for one’s life or surrender.

Tata dadada- tick–

They froze with their triggers pulled, and their magazines emptied in an instant. The only thing they could barely move was their eyes. The people next to them were all motionless, as if they had turned into stone statues.

‘Save me.’

‘Go. Monster.’

Only the shaking eyes proved that they were alive. And then the merciless stabbing towards them began. A scene where they were split diagonally, cut vertically, and torn apart vertically.

“Keuuuuuu- Sa.”

Cookie-

The scene of slaughter was carried out as if they were catching sashimi at a sushi restaurant. At that moment of death, they remembered the images of themselves being cannibals.

I suddenly remembered the time when I had chopped people up fresh after holding them captive with my power. The time when I had eaten alive those who were begging for my life.

“Poem. Poem···,”

The last thing he saw, his upper and lower bodies separated, was a pool of blood on the floor being sucked towards it.

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Long-range sniping was easy to avoid because the sharp aim and the direction of the muzzle were aligned. More difficult than sniping was the submachine gun that used special bullets.

It was virtually impossible to dodge the barrage of machine gun fire from close range. Maru avoided the head, heart, and legs, and threw the rest.

puck-

Skit-

It pierced the forearm and grazed the shoulder.

The unidentified bullet was certainly powerful. Although it was only a 9mm bullet, its penetration power was terrifying. The vampire suit that was pierced like that tried to drink Maru’s blood for restoration.

So, he had no choice but to cut it roughly until blood overflowed. The vampire suit that swallowed the enemy’s blood healed its own damaged parts and then breathed life into the floor.

Maru’s body, which had only the agility of a low-level cannibal, was filled with strength. The vampire suit that was tightly wrapped around his entire body freely lent its strength as if it were Maru’s actual muscles.

The more blood he absorbs, the stronger his defenses, resilience, and athletic ability become. The more blood his enemies have, the more quickly they recover, causing the enemies to scatter in all directions in confusion.

And the ones targeting those scattered cannibals would be the mutated monsters that occupied Gangwon Province. Maru thought of the mutated monsters that had gathered after the self-destruction.

The mutant monsters swarmed so much that it would have been impossible to escape if there had been no will to live. If left alone, they would eat high-level cannibals and become stronger.

Tsk-

Maru, who had reaped the eclipse, took a step towards the nearest explosion. Swish – With just one step, the distance between them narrowed by more than 10 meters.

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[Have you seen Alexei just now?]

[Be quiet. That’s a monster.]

Whether he was a mercenary or the King of the Holy Kingdom, he was something untouchable and something that should not be touched.

[You must capture or kill them to collect samples.]

[···firing.]

And the bastard evaded the sniper’s attack by just nodding his head. And then he dashed inside the formation in one breath.

Just by allowing access, the Korean SWAT and special forces were instantly turned into pieces of meat. What followed was simply a repetition of simple slaughter.

After confirming that the guy could avoid sniping, the Russian special forces immediately went into hiding.

[Even if it’s a monster, how can it hear our short-range communication?]

[If that were the case, I would have come here a long time ago.]

[Did you film everything?]

[Yes. But is that it? The one with the code name Reaper.]

During the war between the United States and China, rumors of a mercenary called the Reaper circulated. Some said that he was an American biological weapon, while others said that he was just a typical Chinese boast, but there was no accurate information.

[Was he really a messenger of death, not just in name?]

[It is definitely a bioweapon.]

As soon as the situation was relayed to the submarine waiting in Sokcho Port, an order was given from the home country. So Russia gave the obvious order.

‘Capture the entity suspected of being a biological weapon. If capturing it alive is difficult, kill it and secure a sample.’

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB also disappeared into history. As a result, it is true that Russia’s intelligence network was greatly weakened.

Russia has steadily rebuilt its broken intelligence network, but it is nowhere near the KGB’s heyday. Russia has used every means at its disposal to fill the gap.

What Russia, which collected intelligence by utilizing both HUMINT (human+intelligence) and TECHINT (technical+intelligence), was able to confirm was that the mercenary called the Envoy in China was the same person as the American war hero.

Most of the information that came in after that was unreliable. Stories like the mercenary in question being a Korean-Japanese, or the mercenary buying and remodeling a building under the pretext of preparing for the end of the world like Noah’s Ark.

Mercenaries could not become heroes. A hero was someone who took the lead for his country, not someone who could be sold for money.

So, the moment you see a mercenary and say something about him being a war hero, the credibility of the information is bound to drop. Naturally, that’s how the Russian home country sees the current situation.

‘Just a mercenary with outstanding abilities.’

There was information that he was the king of the Holy Kingdom, but it was followed by analysis that he was the king of Baji and that there was someone else who had real power.

‘Yes.’

‘If he were really the king, would he have come to a place like this?’

‘There is a high probability that it is a clone of a mercenary.’

It was definitely like that. But the reality I see now is not that.

[Capture and sampling are abandoned. All retreat.]

[What do researchers do?]

[Secure only those near the retreat route. Abandon the rest.]

[All right.]

Their thoughts were fleeting dreams and hopes.

Because the messenger had no intention of just letting them go.

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It was impossible for Maru to catch the Gwanaksan cannibals scattered in all directions by himself. Even if they were research and professional cannibals with no connection to sports, their physical abilities were truly extraordinary.

At first, they ran clumsily, but once they got used to running, they ran away desperately. That’s why the Russian special forces caught chickens instead of pheasants.

Ki-soon paused Maru’s story for a moment.

“Wait a minute. Are the Russian special forces killing chickens instead of pheasants?”

“As expected, the Russian and Gwanaksan cannibals are connected.”

“Couldn’t you have captured those Russian kids?”

“They set a trap to kill me, so what’s the point of capturing me alive?”

Ki-sun shook her head at Maru’s sharp answer.

“Okay. So?”

“What’s the big deal? That special bullet. I thought it was made in Russia. It turns out it was made by the cannibals of Mt. Gwanak.”

“what?”

“I looked into the information. Among the Japanese refugees, there was someone who had fragments of the altar. They obtained them and analyzed them at the Gwanaksan bunker and the Daejeon bunker, and figured out a way to coat the warhead and the blade of the sword.”

It was great in many ways.

[So can we use that too?]

Ms. Kim reacted to the words special bullet.

“It might take some time, but we have the actual product and the basic information, so we can make it.”

The monster bullets currently used by the Holy Kingdom were good, but they were bullets specialized for living things. It was true that they were weak against armor.

However, this special bullet was literally close to ignoring defenses. It was even able to penetrate defenses using core energy.

Ki-soon, with his eyes narrowed, turned the fire on.

“By the way. That vampire suit. Is that okay?”

Looking at the combat footage, the blood sucking is no joke.

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