Rust - Chapter 775



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RUST -775

The door to the command and control room opened violently. A pale soldier shouted in a trembling voice.

“Captain Volkov! This is an attack!”

I went into the bathroom and heard the emergency siren and when I came out, they were all dead. It had been 4-5 minutes since I went into the bathroom. In less than 5 minutes, they had all turned into corpses.

Gunshots? None.

All I could hear was an emergency siren and the sound of a toy fighter jet flying by… The soldiers’ heads were cut off, as if they had been swept away by a legendary monster called Dullahan, which was said to cut off people’s heads.

“It’s annihilation! Everyone is dead!”

There was no way I could die in such a vain way.

There was absolutely no way this could happen.

Because all of the agents here, including Captain Volkov, were new humans.

There was no way he could have been hit by a bullet, but he was unaffected by a 7.62mm bullet. It was impossible for thirty of these new humans to die in such a short period of time. So this must be a hallucination of a psychic.

Clang- The soldier with the loaded pistol placed the muzzle against his forearm and pulled the trigger. Taang- A hot sensation ran through his forearm.

Even though it was just a passing bullet, the flesh split open and blood spurted out all the same. A hot pain ran down my arm.

‘It’s not a hallucination.’

He quickly applied the styptic to his forearm. The sticky, milky cream turned into a silicone adhesive as soon as it touched the wound, stopping the bleeding.

‘If it’s not a hallucination, then what is it?’

He bit his tongue, sharpening his senses once more, and spat.

Phew-

Five minutes is a long time. It must have been much shorter than that, since I came out of the bathroom right after the emergency siren sounded. I don’t know what that means, but I wonder if it’s still nearby.

As that thought occurred to me, my mind suddenly snapped.

‘Oops.’

Gunshots. I thought it was a hallucination, so I fired the gun, but what if it wasn’t a hallucination? I don’t know what it was, but it was sure to come here.

What came into his sight as he instinctively lay face down were headless corpses. Captain Volkov and the other unit members whose names were unknown because their nametags were obscured, all had their throats cut off.

My throat was cut.

Clearly, the neck was cut off···.

Why

There’s no blood on the floor?

It’s still late summer.

Even though the weather should have been hot, he somehow felt cold.

Root-

The blade that came out through the back accurately pierced the spine and heart. I didn’t feel anything, but it was a sudden attack.

Even if the spine and heart are hit, they don’t die instantly. That’s why they’re new humans. He ran forward and tried to remove the blade. But his legs wouldn’t move.

Could it be that your spine was broken and you couldn’t move?

It’s not like you’re stabbing with the blade tilted to the side?

For a moment, the doubt subsided, and a strong suction-like sensation spread throughout my body, sucking my heart and spine.

Kkeuuuuu-

Even when I tried to run away, I couldn’t find the strength in my limbs. It felt like everything was being ripped out. Suddenly, I thought of the corpses with their heads cut off.

The reason why there was no blood on Captain Volkov’s body right in front of him. The reason why there was not a single drop of blood even though his throat was cut was because of this.

The last thing he saw was the ominous blade piercing his heart, roughly absorbing his own blood.

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Maru held Eclipse still as she greedily sucked something in. The scratches from the special bullets made by the Gwanaksan and Daejeon cannibals were slowly filling up.

‘This is it.’

Maru clicked his tongue inwardly. So, it was what happened when they caught the acidic seagull and acidic rat at the Newport News Shipyard.

The Eclipse, which was scientifically evaluated as indestructible, was damaged by the saliva of acid gulls and acid rats.

Fortunately, despite being hit by saliva that could melt even 300mm of armor, it was unscathed, with only a few dents here and there, but it was true that Eclipse, which had the destruction resistance property, was damaged.

And when the giant rat that was taking control of the aircraft carrier under construction was killed, Eclipse sucked the giant rat’s blood and marrow and restored itself.

There was another similar thing. A similar thing happened when a high-ranking cannibal, that is, a superior entity, was killed.

At that time, the situation was so complicated, and I was worried that Eclipse, which was judged indestructible, had been damaged, so I thought it was fortunate that it was repairing itself.

‘Look at these.’

As Eclipse sucked blood and marrow, even the vampire suit began to move slowly, as if it could no longer stand it. Dark red blood vessels extended from the soles of Maru’s feet like tree roots.

The blood vessels that had been slowly extending as if watching Maru’s mood suddenly lost their color the moment they were pierced into the corpse. The blood that had spilled around disappeared as if time had been reversed.

“Hey. Take it easy.”

Eclipse vibrated slightly. It seemed as if it was throwing a tantrum, but then calmed down as if nothing had happened. The same goes for the vampire suit. The veins that had stretched out like tree roots disappeared as if they were an illusion.

“This is driving me crazy.”

Could it be a side effect of killing too many people recently? They say that cannibals and vampires become stronger when they eat a lot of people, and it seemed like Maru was the same.

Even among the Russian special forces that were just killed, each and every one of them was at least close to a superior individual. They were cannibals who were at the very top of the ranks.

It was almost impossible to catch with 5.56mm or 7.62mm rifle bullets. It had tough skin and strong bones, and had strength and agility far superior to that of humans. It was also resistant to viruses, bacteria, and radiation, so ordinary people thought it was impossible to defeat the cannibal.

There were over thirty of these cannibals, and it took about the same amount of time to clean them up as it took to cook a cup of ramen.

Maru could definitely feel that he had become stronger. The problem was that his strength was somehow out of the norm.

‘Isn’t that right?’

In fact, things weren’t normal when he tore open the side of the yacht in Japan and turned the helicopter around. Maru let out a slightly empty laugh and looked around to start extracting information.

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[As expected, Russia was targeting Korea’s technology and newborns. However, the scale does not seem to be that large. There are only about thirty people in Yangyang and no more than fifty in Sokcho.]

Ki-sun nodded slightly at Maru’s story.

“That’s right. The West is in a mess right now, so sending troops all the way to East Asia would be like a two-front war.”

[Besides, there seems to be something in the Arctic Sea Route. And in the sea near Sakhalin.]

There was information that something that had not yet been discovered was appearing in the Arctic shipping lane, even though it was a king crab. So it was decided to postpone the support of troops using transport ships or submarines indefinitely.

“What about air transport?”

[It’s the same for you. The flock of birds is like that, and even if they take off, the airports they land at are all a mess.]

The portal bulletin boards and SNS that had been bustling in the morning had entered a lull. This was because the Holy Kingdom literally carried out only the bare minimum of administration and continued the policies promoted by the cannibal government and martial law command.

Nothing had changed. Most Koreans were bewildered by the fact that daily life was still the same, even though the government, the National Assembly, and the martial law command had been wiped out.

Even though the powerful were gone, their daily lives continued on, perhaps because of the strangeness of not having any major problems.

Most of the administrative officials, including the president, were wiped out, the stars in the Ministry of National Defense fell out, and most of the members of the National Assembly died. To put it bluntly, the country was basically ruined, but the daily life did not change.

How long will it take before we realize that the powerful did not create our daily lives, but that they themselves created our daily lives?

“There’s no problem here either. Most of the police and soldiers are civilians. They follow the control here well. It’s definitely good that they only regulated the referendum and decided for us to leave.”

[Is that so? Then I’ll go straight to Sokcho. Send a transport ship here to pick up the Russian military supplies and bodies.]

“Be careful. Ah- Wait.”

[What’s going on?]

“It’s nothing serious. I just found out while checking information here. There was a person with the ability to communicate with birds.”

[Like a nurse?]

“Not as much as her. It seems like she has abilities that are specialized only for birds.”

[So the pigeons and birds of prey moved as if they were in league with the cannibals?]

“It seems so. And didn’t you say in Mr. Kim’s report that there was a flock of crows in Ulsan? Over 200,000.”

[uh.]

“The cannibals sent a bird-speaking expert to Ulsan to recruit the crows, but since we intervened first, they sent the expert back.”

[however?]

“But that ability person disappeared in the middle.”

[A flock of birds.]

The flock of birds was not dangerous. However, the problem was the areas without a floor. If you avoid the areas with a floor and aim to individually attack them with a flock of birds, or if you terrorize them with a flock of hundreds of thousands of birds, it would obviously turn into chaos in an instant.

“Let’s put the tracking of cannibals in the metropolitan area on hold for a moment. How about sending Detective Han and Ms. Kim to look for someone with bird communication skills?”

[Let’s do that. I’ll go ahead and grab the Sokcho military base and submarine as planned. I don’t think it would be good if we dragged our feet here either. Good work.]

“Yeah. You too, be careful.”

Ki-soon immediately called Ms. Kim and detective Han.

[What is it?]

“A person with bird communication abilities has gone missing. I’ll assign a detective to find the person with bird communication abilities.”

[Isn’t the highest dignity something to be known? Isn’t catching cannibals more important?]

“If there is someone with bird powers, it will be easier to negotiate with the Ulsan crows and magpies.”

[Where can I get the medicine? We have Unit 1… a nurse. Isn’t it enough to just have a nurse talk to the newbies?]

Ki-sun’s eyes widened slightly without her knowing it.

“That’s enough. But it’s not like I have three or four nurses. I’ll have to stay in Korea for at least four months. It would be better to have one more available force. And if it’s someone who can communicate with the birds, that would be even better. And Maru also agreed to this.”

Kim Yang’s eyes, which had been tense, opened at Maru’s agreement.

[Ugh- Okay.]

As Kim Yang’s face disappeared from the monitor, Ki-sun shook his head.

If you watch the video of Maru’s engagement, you’ll definitely notice a change. The sense of discomfort you get from the video of the Russian military base being cleared in Yangyang.

‘The only good thing is that it wasn’t torn apart.’

It was a cleanly cut floor as Gi-sun had suggested, but it felt uncomfortable.

A video of a cannibal’s life being taken so naturally, so horribly, as if it were absolutely natural, as if one were squeezing a passing bug to death with one finger.

Perhaps after the pigeons were annihilated, something seemed to have changed. Although it was on the human side before, it is now unclear.

Ki-sun’s gaze turned to another monitor.

Goo- Gooooooooosh-

Guuut- Guuut-

Video shows a pigeon committing suicide by hitting its head on a telephone pole.

‘Die. You have to die!’

‘We are beings born to die.’

‘The end of life is death. Life is completed through death!’

People who are slowly going crazy after being beaten to death.

‘Get out of the way!’

‘Run away!’

‘Ahhhhh – Save me!’

The cannibals desperately running away from the floor were all out of their minds.

Where did the pride of the so-called new human race go? Where did the snouts that used to say that humans were just talking cattle go? This is just a video of them struggling to survive.

Why are the Royal Guard and the Expeditionary Force exposed to the elements? Is Ms. Kim okay?

Me too.

Maru’s life had no identification.

Everything that entered the range was affected.

Those who are exposed to life commit suicide and run away, so why don’t we?

What is it that makes us so scared that we don’t run away and go crazy?

Ki-soon’s squinted eyes hid his heavy gaze.

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The Russian military base under construction in Sokcho was busy preparing for battle.

“Climb up to the watchtower. Grab as many cartridges as you can!”

I had scattered my ammunition here and there based on my experience in the Ukrainian War, but this was Korea. There was no way the M142 HIMARS (HIgh Mobility Artillery Rocket System) would fly through Gangwon Province, which is full of mutant monsters, so it was right to collect as much as possible.

“In a submarine?”

“They said they would provide support with fleet-to-ground missiles upon request.”

Colonel Yuri frowned.

“The problem is that we don’t know what the enemy is.”

The size of the enemy and their operations were unpredictable. The special forces in Yangyang numbered over thirty. That number was annihilated in just a few minutes.

Judging from the fact that their control was cut off, they were all killed. It would have been reasonable to take at least one person as a prisoner, but it was an act that went against common sense to annihilate them all.

If it’s the new Korean people, they’ve already negotiated a cooperative relationship with Russia, so it wasn’t that side. Then it’s either Japan or China.

‘Maybe those two joined forces.’

Colonel Yuri looked toward the submarine with a somewhat heavy feeling. In the distance, he could see the submarine rising above the surface, preparing to launch a fleet-to-ground missile.

The faint sound of gunfire was carried by the sea breeze.

‘What? Suddenly there’s gunfire.’

Colonel Yuri brought the tactical binoculars around his neck to his eyes. The submariners were firing into the air.