Rust - Chapter 777



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RUST -777

The black clouds transformed into a round donut shape and circled around the bunker.

[I think that’s at least 100,000. Are you sure?]

[Please wait a moment.]

The nurse, who had silenced Ms. Kim’s urging, clasped her hands together again and shouted.

[Let’s talk about our story. Representative. Would one of you like to come down as representative?]

The flock of crows that had been circling like a giant halo became noisy.

Kaaaak? (Did he just speak Korean?)

Caw? Caw? (No? It just sounds like a human sound.)

Kyauk? (I don’t know human sounds)

The crows began to croak.

That’s strange. That female human.

Somehow my eyes keep going to it and I feel a strange sense of warmth.

They said they would talk to the CEO, but who would go?

After the boss, I’m second in line.

Stop talking nonsense.

What the hell? You want to die?

Yeah, kid.

It turned out well even though it was already twisted.

The large, round, spherical body then bulged into a sea urchin or starfish shape, and then suddenly clumped together into a circle.

Kaaaak! (Take care of that little brat!)

Caw! Caw! (Peck, you little bastard!)

The crows suddenly started fighting as the formation that had been maintained with great force collapsed. What started out as a physical fight between the crows gradually became bloody.

Miss Kim praised the nurse as if she had seen her again.

As expected, those breasts were sinister. Yeah.

[Number 1 did well.]

The nurse’s head turned as she stamped her feet at Ms. Kim’s sudden praise.

[Huh? Eeeeeet-]

That’s not true.

[Let’s pass while they’re fighting. The stealth robe activates and we get out.]

As I was going around the place where the crow’s blood was pouring down, I heard a human voice. It was the sound of a skinny man shouting something to the crows.

When Kim Yang turned to detective Han, detective Han nodded. That man was a person with the ability to communicate with birds. Her eyes changed to those of a lioness watching her prey.

Kiyung-

There was a small sound from the joints of the lowered exosuit, but the situation was so chaotic that the crows’ attention was entirely focused on the fight.

“···We shouldn’t fight now. Now is not the time for us to fight among ourselves!”

The man’s voice, which had gone haywire from how much he had screamed, shouted desperately, but it was drowned out by the cries of crows and the sound of flapping wings that echoed through the air.

“You must go and help as soon as possible. Do you intend to break the treaty? Do you intend to disobey the orders of the Raven King?”

Kim Yang’s ears perked up.

Crow King? Are you saying that there is a king of crows in Ulsan?

Kkeuyung- Kkeuyung-

Even though he approached right behind the skinny man, he didn’t notice Kim Yang’s approach. Even the crows escorting him were all focused on the fight unfolding in the sky.

She suddenly reaches out her hand towards them.

Kukduk-

Big-

Kim Yang grabbed the neck of the crow she was escorting with one hand and twisted it, and with the other, she grabbed the man’s neck tightly and dragged him inside the robe.

The man with the strangled carotid artery struggled for a moment, but that was it. Only the corpse of a crow with its neck crushed and dead remained, cooling down.

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A landscape of werewolves and monster boars, their heads cut off in a friendly manner. The small, rising hills were made of torn pieces of meat.

The floor should have been soaked with blood from the corpse fragments, but the absence of any moisture was eerie.

“Ugh- I don’t know.”

Colonel Yuri cried out with tears of blood in his eyes. Even though all his limbs were cut off and only his torso remained, his spirit was not broken.

[You don’t know how many troops are in Vladivostok, and what their armament status is? Colonel? Well, there are many ways to find out. It doesn’t matter.]

He was a colonel that Maru liked so much that he would have scouted him right away if he hadn’t been a cannibal, both in his commanding skills and his unwavering determination even when faced with death.

The Holy Kingdom was sorely lacking in field commanders. The northern monster front in Canada was held in check by Roy Stern.

It’s a good thing Roy Stern is here, but without him, Kim Yang would have had to blockade northern Canada.

‘That’s why the 2nd Fleet was important.’

As it was a fleet, there were quite a few officers of the rank of colonel. If they could just select officers with decent commanding ability, it would have been fine, but Maru made a complicated expression as he remembered the time when they were blown away because of those Virginia Langley bastards.

It is true that Kim Yang’s command has improved a lot, but he is inferior to Colonel Yuri’s. Kim Yang was not bad at reading the battlefield and responding, but Colonel Yuri was overwhelmingly superior at predicting the situation and deploying troops.

Perhaps because it was a talent I hadn’t seen in a long time, it was too much of a shame to just throw him away. But I couldn’t give a free pass to a cannibal who ate people.

[What if we put it in virtual reality?]

Na Ju-yeon gave her opinion.

[Virtual reality?]

[If it’s the method that Xenia Rodden and Dr. Jack Neese have studied, it seems possible to transplant a prisoner’s personality into a program.]

It is the technology to move to a virtual world that Dr. Hood and Dr. Brain Dung Dung were promoting.

[So, let’s put Colonel Yuri in a virtual reality and have him act as an assistant?]

[Yes. I don’t think it will be a problem since I already did basic training in virtual reality.]

A slight wrinkle formed between Maru’s eyebrows.

If you use that technology, even Colonel Yuri, who refuses to cooperate, will naturally have no choice but to help. Even if Colonel Yuri refuses to cooperate, it would be easy to control him once he is turned into an NPC.

[Since data loss occurs for dead people, there are bound to be some unnatural parts.]

Hood, an expert in the field, said.

The moment the breath stopped, a special reaction occurred in the brain. Even if the brain that had that reaction was put into a virtual world, the same personality as before was not created.

Dr. Jack Neese wanted to become a god of the virtual world. If the virtual world replaces reality, then the being that controls the virtual world is like a god.

In order to become a god, he wanted to destroy reality and move all the people in reality to a virtual reality.

By brainwashing people who entered the virtual reality and sending them back to reality, the doctor could control reality as well. The god of the virtual reality would become a god in reality as well.

Dr. Brain Dung Dung said that while hiding it. Until the end of the apocalypse. Let’s keep the individual’s DNA and save the individual’s personality in the virtual world.

After the apocalypse ends and the Earth is purified, wouldn’t humanity be resurrected by restoring the body with the stored DNA and inserting the personality preserved in virtual reality?

The technology was applied to the resurrection of Gi-sun, and further developed the clone technology of the Holy Kingdom. The problems with Director Yu’s clone created during the Homeland Security era were also corrected to some extent through virtual reality.

The problem of division among the Naru clones created by the Empire, that is, the Naruzu, could be adjusted to some extent through virtual reality.

[Let’s put them in virtual reality. The special forces are dead, but let’s try to revive them in virtual reality.]

[all right.]

[yes.]

After much thought, Maru decided to send Colonel Yuri and the Russian special forces into the virtual reality.

[Caught a man talking to a crow.]

Then, a communication came in from Ms. Kim.

[But there’s a problem. The crows here are crazy. What do I do?]

Are the crows crazy?

The video sent by Ms. Kim showed what appeared to be a hundred thousand crows fighting each other.

[Isn’t this too violent to be called a fight?]

[It started out as a fight, but now they’re killing each other.]

Na Ju-yeon, who had been analyzing the video sent by Kim Yang for a long time, said.

[It seems likely that it is due to interference and collision.]

[Interference? Conflict?]

What does that mean?

[In a study on the dominance of cannibals, there was an analysis of what happens when cannibals fight each other.]

The hypothesis was that if superior entities fight each other, then the inferior entities that are controlled by the superior entities will also be affected.

[Dominance becomes stronger as the number of dominant individuals decreases. When two groups fight and one side becomes dominant, the one with the reduced numbers will have remaining dominance, and with the remaining dominance, it will try to dominate the other side’s subordinate individuals.]

This is what happened when a criminal organization that ruled the streets of New York became cannibals. It is a story about a superior individual emerging from among the individuals who escaped from control, and a lower-ranked individual that became a superior individual trying to become independent.

Of course, the original leader tried to catch and kill the one who had fallen, and that was the result of the two fighting. The reason why it was difficult to catch and kill the other man was also because of the clear difference in power.

This is because of the nature of dominance. The more subordinates you lose, the more leeway you have in dominance, and the more likely you are to interfere with the enemy’s subordinate entities.

So, that was the reason why the criminal group that initially turned all of its subordinates into cannibals did not increase the number of subordinates who became cannibals.

[So does that mean that the one who is dominated by both sides is crazy?]

Kim Yang’s gaze turned to the nurse next to him.

So, the crows were communicating with a skinny guy, and when a vicious chest appeared and appealed to him, the crows went crazy?

[I think that although Ono Nanae’s communication skills are different from her dominance, the crows’ strange behavior may have been caused by a reaction from their overlapping similar abilities.]

Kim Yang’s eyes became gloomy at Na Ju-yeon’s explanation.

[So if you kill the communicator there. Interference? Reaction? Those things will disappear, and the nurse will be able to control the crazy, rampaging crows?]

A skinny man with his whole body tied up began to wiggle like a caterpillar after hearing Ms. Kim’s words.

‘Eww- eww- eww-‘

[If it’s as hypothesized… then it’s highly likely that it will happen.]

The nurse said to Na Ju-yeon’s answer.

[Eeeeeee. Killing? Wait a minute. Whether it’s dominance or psychic power, there’s a range.]

[What are you talking about?]

[Ah- Also- If you can communicate with crows in Ulsan from Seoul, there’s no reason for that person to go all the way to Ulsan. So I’m the same way. You have to go to the place where the crows are to talk, you can’t talk to those who are far away.]

[So instead of killing them, let’s send them far away?]

The nurse mustered up her courage at Ms. Kim’s voice, which seemed to indicate that she was tired and that she was being brushed off quickly.

[That. That’s right. Didn’t you come here to catch someone who has abilities?]

A skinny man sobbed at the nurse’s plea for help, not her defense.

‘Keuuu- keuu-‘

[Shut up.]

He was a skinny man who held back tears at Kim Yang’s scolding.

[What should I do? Oh, and they say there’s a king of crows in Ulsan. It looks like this guy negotiated with the crow king and brought crows as reinforcements.]

Maru, who was pondering Kim Yang’s story for a moment, said.

[First, take the man to the base. Once the distance is far, let’s check what happens to the fighting crows.]

[Okay.]

Kim Yang immediately divided the pursuit team into two teams and told them to bring the skinny man up. One team slowly drove away in a car.

The fight between 100,000 crows was truly enormous. More than 10,000 crows died, and almost all of them suffered injuries of various sizes. The number of people who died from serious injuries alone was likely to exceed 10,000.

The sight of crows, their wings broken and their entrails exposed, gasping for their last breath amidst the piles of corpses.

The excitement that had not died down even in the midst of the tragedy began to slowly subside.

Die. Kill me.

Yeah, die. Let’s die.

The fighting crows gradually entered a lull.

Kim Yang, her eyes wide open, looked at the nurse and said.

[Is that really true?]

[Huh? Yes···.]

[Then let’s recruit them quickly.]

[No. That’s why I am.]

I’m not saying it’s dominance. I’m just saying.

[Okay, then let’s do it.]

Nurse Kim Jong-yong was sitting uneasy as she urged her.

The nurse, with her eyes tightly shut, called for assistance.

[Medicine. We need medicine. We need rapid-acting medication and a hemostatic agent. We also need IV fluids. Everyone is badly injured, so we need to treat them first.]

[Okay.]

Miss Kim’s eyes were slightly clouded, but she was Miss Kim who had applied for the supply as the nurse had requested.

The nurse rolled up her sleeves and began treating the crows.

Kaaaak! (Thank you, human female!)

Kaaaak- (Pfft. It feels warm-)

Caw! (Wings, wings!)

[Here. We are short-handed. Please help.]

[···Okay, I understand.]

Kiyung.

Kim Yang picked up a crow lying on the floor. When he suddenly lifted it, the crow’s wounds opened and it flapped its wings as if it was dying, but it could not escape the exosuit’s grasp.

Ugh- Okay.

Clank-clank-clank-

Miss Kim immediately sutures it with a medical stapler.

Kkaaaaaaah-

After forcibly silencing a screaming crow by stuffing a piece of jerky into its beak, Ms. Kim applied ointment to the crow’s wounds and laid it down in a boiled(?) position.

Crows in a white-skinned pose pile up in an instant.

to?

Huh?