Rust - Chapter 787



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RUST -787

Of the over 10,000 newborns grown using cloning techniques, more than 20% developed problems.

It wasn’t clear whether it was because of the cloning technology used, or whether the problem was present while the baby was still in the womb, but whatever the reason, the fact that over 20% of the babies had the problem was very serious.

“The disability rate is over 20%?”

[yes.]

The existing cannibal government intentionally did not take care of pregnant women, because what mattered to them was not whether the fetus was normal or not.

“If there are that many, there must be a reason?”

[There are several reasons, but I think old age is the biggest cause.]

The number of elderly mothers has increased because the cannibalistic government of Korea has given economic benefits to pregnant women without asking any questions. This is because once pregnant, they receive discounts ranging from a minimum of 50% to a maximum of 80%.

[I checked and found that there is a record of encouraging childbirth regardless of age.]

The PD was surprised by Ki-sun’s story.

[Are you saying that you encouraged it even though you knew the dangers of Nosan?]

[Yes. As long as we raise the birth rate, we don’t care about other issues.]

The cannibal government also provided free in vitro fertilization to encourage older people to have children. They provided not only living support but also medical support. As a result, there were over a million pregnant women in a short period of time.

Ki-sun’s explanation continued.

[If you include physical disabilities as well as mental problems, it would be over 30%.]

Add in mental health issues like borderline intelligence, ADHD, and autism, and the situation could be catastrophic.

“Ha- You’re crazy. Seriously. You’re crazy.”

Maru shook his head at the terrible situation.

The cannibalistic government didn’t care whether the newborns were disabled or not, as long as they consumed them domestically and exported them, but the Holy Kingdom did not.

When newborns grow up well and are supposed to do the work of one person, the fact that 20% to 30% of them are in trouble is terrifying, if not hopeless.

Losing 30% of your troops is considered annihilation, but starting with a loss of 20% to 30%, your plan to adopt a newborn and grow it quickly has hit a snag.

[Can’t we just not worry about it? Can’t we just separate out the problematic ones and raise only the good ones?]

[What about those who have problems?]

Kim Yang did not understand Hood’s objection.

[What does that mean?]

[What about children born with physical or mental disabilities?]

Kim Yang blinked at the hood’s explanation.

[Why do we care about that? Isn’t that a problem that Korea should be concerned about?]

If a new government is formed through an election, shouldn’t that government be concerned about these issues? We just need to adopt good kids.

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When no one said anything, Ms. Kim tilted her head. Did I say something strange?

[Honestly, that’s not true. When adopting, isn’t it more common to adopt a normal child, rather than a child with a disability? So, why don’t we just not adopt a child who is not normal?]

[Haa- That’s not it. If we don’t bring them here because they’re not normal, those kids will die.]

Even if you have a normal family, it is not easy to give birth and raise a child. So, would a mother who chose to get pregnant for economic gain raise a newborn with problems?

If there was someone who said they were buying a child, there was a high chance that they would sell it. The children sold in this way would end up in refugee camps in China or Japan and become food for cannibals.

[One of the reasons we take the newborns is to prevent them from being handed over to cannibals, but that doesn’t mean we abandon them just because they’re sick.]

The corners of Kim Yang’s eyes furrowed at the story of Hood and Gisun.

[Me. It’s really hard to understand. Didn’t you say that if we continue like this, our Holy Kingdom will be in danger? Both politically and militarily.]

Politically, there is growing discontent, especially in the Canadian region. Militarily, the problem is the lack of manpower compared to the vast territory.

[Then, leaving everything else aside. Shouldn’t we solve our own problem first, regardless of whether we get cursed at or not?]

Clones are hard to select because they are clones and cause social problems, artificial intelligence is hard because the electromagnetic ability of the person can be destroyed by a single blow, and it is dangerous to think about fatal errors or rebellions, so it is not allowed.

So, didn’t you say that you would accept Korean military immigrants, take newborns, and raise them using cloning technology to expand the military and resolve gender imbalance? Then shouldn’t you throw everything else away and only think about that?

[What does it matter to us whether Korea is cursed or whether Korea will perish in the future?]

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Ki-sun sighed deeply at Kim Yang’s words.

[When the empire falls, the aftereffects come to us and help the empire. Korea is the same. If Korea falls, China, North Korea, Russia, and Japan will all grow in power. What if Korea falls? The surrounding powers controlled by cannibals will become stronger. I said that if the cannibals become stronger, we will eventually become dangerous, so we are doing this.]

[What are we going to do with our big nuclear weapons? Let’s just wipe out Korea and China, the cannibals, with nuclear weapons. The radioactive contamination isn’t that big.]

“Calm down. It’s dangerous to clean up with nuclear weapons. We disinfected Tokyo with strategic nuclear weapons, but we haven’t even been able to resolve the sinkhole that formed.”

Maru tried to calm down the excited Ms. Kim, but for some reason, she had difficulty calming down.

[Didn’t you say that Tokyo became like that because of the secret laboratory with the altar?]

“That’s right.”

[Then it doesn’t matter if we use nukes on China, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia. We even destroyed the cannibals of the Southern Confederacy with nukes. Why aren’t we using them when we’re told to keep making nukes?]

“There was a situation where China, Japan, and the United States were linked. When China used nuclear weapons, they intentionally avoided some areas, including the eastern region. The same thing happened when the United States counterattacked. And the biggest problem is that we lack information. What if there is something like an altar in China?”

[Did we use the nuke after checking and investigating all of that?]

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Did they use nukes after checking whether there were any altars in London, England, Paris, France, and Texas, the Confederate States of America?

Maru’s forehead slightly furrowed at Kim Yang’s sensitive reaction. Kim Yang wouldn’t do something like this even if it was annoying, but she was reacting particularly sensitively.

‘I’ve adapted to living here to some extent, so I don’t think my psychic abilities would have been contaminated to any degree.’

Maru’s gaze turned to Ms. Kim. She had come to the conference room armed with a core armor.

‘Should I do it?’

Even if the heart stops, the auxiliary AI of the core armor will perform CPR and life support protocols. As Maru watched silently, Kim Yang also kept his mouth shut.

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Miss Kim’s blurry eyes make it hard to read what she’s thinking.

Maru decided to do something after seeing Kim Yang’s gaze.

‘let’s do it.’

The murderous aura that had been rising from Maru’s entire body passed through Kim Yang. She let out a short groan and fell forward, gasping for breath.

“Come to your senses. We did a thorough job of it, both in the Confederate States of Texas and when we erased London and Paris. We didn’t just erase them. You were there with us.”

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Whether it was because she had been awakened by a faint urge to kill, or because she had suddenly been struck by the urge to kill, Ms. Kim stood up from her seat with her mouth tightly shut.

Kiyong-

[Headache. Going to bed.]

“Okay. Take a deep breath and go to sleep.”

As soon as Maru gave permission, Ms. Kim went out of the conference room.

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It was impossible for Korea to handle the 200,000 to 300,000 children with disabilities. Even before the outbreak of the mutant virus, the number of students in special education classes in Korea was rapidly increasing.

[The situation wasn’t good from the start.]

[It’s strange. The age of acetic acid is increasing in major developed countries as well, but the disability has not increased to this extent.]

Na Ju-yeon explained to PD and Hood’s questions.

[Because Korea’s geographical situation is not good.]

To the east is Japan, to the west is China. We worked hard through spring, summer, and fall.

Even just the yellow dust from China, fine dust, heavy metals, and various chemical pollutants are not enough, and recently, even the nuclear power plants built along the coast have been causing chaos.

[I remember hearing the news that there was a radiation leak at a nuclear power plant in China.]

Perhaps because he had worked in broadcasting, he was a PD who could quickly recall old news stories.

[It’s not just radiation that’s a problem. Microplastics are also dangerous, as are heavy metals and various chemical contaminants. The same goes for genetically modified foods.]

Anyway, out of over 1 million newborns, about 10,000 were delivered by cesarean section, and problems were found in 20-30% of the babies.

Assuming that the number of sick children is the same, that means that there are a whopping 200,000 to 300,000 children with disabilities.

At a time when the number of the Holy Kingdom army was 300,000, there was no answer to the question of 200,000 to 300,000 sick children.

[It’s not a management issue, it’s whether the economy can handle it.]

Ki-soon shook her head.

In the Holy Kingdom, which has a population of 4 million, including the entire Canadian region, there was no way to handle the 300,000 disabled people.

[Social maintenance costs will skyrocket.]

[If we continue to carry on with the 200,000 to 300,000 people, we should consider economic growth impossible.]

The cheapest way is to dispose of it and then burn it completely to prevent it from entering the mouths of cannibals or mutant monsters.

Who would do that? If a normal person were to kill and burn 100,000 people, they would definitely lose their mind.

[For physical abnormalities, in addition to gene injection treatment, stem cells can be used to culture and transplant the defective area. What if there is a brain problem, how about using whole brain technology?]

Hood opposed Na Ju-yeon’s proposal to eliminate disabilities by using technology to change the genes of cells using RNA, transplant surgery through stem cell culture, and technology to attach chips to the brain and connect them to the system.

[Have you forgotten the mutant virus incident? It must have been concluded that using RNA to manipulate human DNA is extremely dangerous. And attaching a chip to the brain to make it into a full-brained form is also dangerous. Is there a way to deal with a bio-EMP? And what would you do if a full-brained person were to be hacked?]

Hood was a hacker. She was confident that she could hack anything with her partner, Samantha. Maybe a brain?

Hood could guarantee that if Na Ju-yeon implanted a chip in the brain and connected it to the system and network as she had said, there would definitely be problems.

Despite Hood’s objections, Na Ju-yeon remained calm.

[So, is there another alternative? Or are you saying we should just dispose of the disabled children?]

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[We have the technology to overcome disabilities. What we have to decide is whether we will use technology to overcome disabilities, or whether we will accept disabilities as a social loss and just accept them. I think it is one of the two.]

The Holy Kingdom has decided to manage the disability through technology that has reached a singular point.

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Disorders such as autism have been adjusted to network and system links through whole brain functioning. If we only consider the brain, it has become a state similar to a half-living computer.

[Start work.]

“Getting started.”

Likewise, people with borderline intelligence have become humans who demonstrate above-average operational capabilities through brainwashing.

[Start downloading the management information directly.]

“Complete understanding of the task. Continue working.”

The same goes for anger management disorders and ADHD. Networking and system connections through the entire brain virtually erase mental problems.