Rust - Chapter 805



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Rust [RUST]-805

At least 130 million, and that’s just the ones that now cover New York City. No one knew if it was 200 million or more, including those that remained underground or inside buildings.

Even after the princess ants had mated, there were millions of winged male ants that were supposed to be kicked out of the nest and killed.

You want to be independent from the ant empire?

In a situation where the number of ants that an ant empire can mobilize may be 200 million or 300 million, an ant kingdom with only 20,000 to 30,000 ants per colony, or at most 50,000, can become independent?

The floor was dizzy.

So the ominous prediction was right. The ant colony, which had been trying to become independent from the ant queen, was actually planning to drag the sacred kingdom with them, even though they outwardly denied it.

[It was strange. No matter how hard-line the Empire was, the Empire, which had difficulty defending even small towns and villages due to mutant monsters until two years ago, is said to have pushed out the mutant monsters this year.]

[It was because of the ants.]

In the deep forests and remote nature reserves, ant empires were growing. Any mutated monsters became prey to the ant empire.

Since there was no food around, they had no choice but to send their herds far away. And when the ant kingdom near the sacred kingdom had some spare money, they ordered them to provide food.

[Considering the number remaining in the main camp, we need to think of at least 250 million to 300 million.]

Hood let out a trembling voice, tired of the unimaginable number of violence.

These ants are nearly 1m in average size. Even assuming that they are light compared to their size, they are probably weighing between 7kg and 10kg.

As his overwhelming physical ability to move 100 to 300 times his own body weight was used in the attack, the historic city of New York began to disintegrate.

[As expected. It seems that it’s not just the size of the ants that has grown.]

Na Ju-yeon, who was analyzing the ant video in silence, said.

Since ants smaller than a fingernail have grown larger than a forearm, I thought the mutation would have been all about increasing size, but that wasn’t the case.

[Do you have other abilities?]

[yes.]

There is another story about having another ability.

[Even if they are ants, it is strange for them to be able to dig through reinforced concrete or red bricks used in factories in the 20s. And formic acid is also at a dangerous level.]

It is said to be as powerful as the acid used by Acid Gulls and Acid Rats.

[Ah- Again- But they’re ants. Can’t they win against crows or magpies?]

Come to think of it, crows and magpies used to attack ant colonies, inducing the ants to shoot formic acid and remove parasites attached to their bodies.

[The difference in numbers is too great. Just what we’re seeing is over 130 million.]

Even if you add up all the crows that were originally there, including the magpies and crows that were brought in from Korea, the total would not even exceed two million, let alone ten million. So how can there be 130 million?

[So isn’t nuclear weapons the answer? It seems like New York is already finished anyway? Isn’t it better to just use them when you can?]

[The location is not good for using nuclear weapons and the wind direction is not good.]

Long Island was connected to New York.

[Why bother? Why not just blow them up with tactical nukes? If tactical nukes are too much of a burden, we can just carpet bomb them with our cute little ones.]

Even though they are small and cute, they are still nuclear. They can erase 300~400m, so if you lay down about 1,000 feet, 130 million ants will be fried.

[If you use that much, you will not be able to avoid radioactive contamination.]

[Why should we worry about that? If we just leave it alone, those winged ants will soon wipe out Long Island.]

‘It doesn’t seem like there’s any other way to kill time.’

Kim Yang said coldly.

The only way for Dan Brown’s empire to stop the ant empire was with nuclear weapons. They had to use them to survive, whether it was accelerated radiation mutation or radioactive fallout. But strangely, they were holding on.

Ki-sun groaned as she watched the video of someone desperately holding on, wondering what was going on.

[Really? Ugh- This is tricky. Ha- When I was talking to Mr. Den, he said that the King was negotiating with the Ant Empire. Mr. Den, aren’t you just going to hold out while waiting for the results of those negotiations?]

[They said it would take a long time to connect and negotiate now.]

The assistant AI reported that communication was difficult.

[Communication is impossible due to the biological EMP being emitted over a wide area.]

[Send a crow as a messenger. Don’t wait for the results and say, ‘Each of you should survive.’]

[Uh- Uh- I’ll send it right away.]

[If you’re going to use nukes, don’t waste time and use them quickly.]

The nurse looked at Maru at Kim Yang’s addition. Nodding – The nurse, who saw Maru’s signal, relayed the information to the crow messenger.

Kaaaak!

A squad of heraldic crows soared into the sky.

[Let’s go too.]

[Et- Mr. Messenger Ant, let’s go to the Ant Empire.]

As the nurse signaled the move with the pheromone interpreter, the messenger ant rose up.

(depart.)

Klick-

Maru and his party followed the messenger ants.

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[Manhattan has fallen.]

They were ants who had penetrated into Manhattan using the subway. So, even though they were prevented from evacuating to Manhattan, there were more people who went to Manhattan than expected, which had more high-rise buildings than Long Island.

Those who ignored evacuation orders numbered 500,000 to 600,000, and those who evacuated to random places, including Manhattan, numbered over 500,000 to 600,000. Between 1 million and 1.2 million people became food for the ants.

‘The napalm bombing was a failure.’

Should I use a nuke? Dan Brown checked the monitor. The monitor was already dead. The biological EMP had been activated because over 100 million mutant insects were swarming around.

[Armored Division Normalization Rate 70%.]

[More than half of the anti-aircraft guns and radar bases have been restored.]

[System restarting.]

“Second sortie?”

[The analysis is that it is ineffective.]

Even if a bomb was dropped, it would explode in the air because it was blocked by winged ants. This was the case not only for bombs but also for missiles.

‘Should we use nukes?’

Tactical nukes? Dan Brown thought that tactical nukes were not enough to stop the ants. If they were to be used, strategic nukes would have to be used.

‘A strategic nuke sent by the Holy Kingdom.’

A real monster hydrogen bomb weighing over 120Mt. If you use that, even if it explodes in the air, a radius of 40km will be evaporated.

‘The support of New Yorkers will fly away.’

Even if the radioactive contamination was minimal, it was impossible to avoid damage from radioactive fallout.

[The wing ant is coming over.]

[You can’t stop them with anti-aircraft guns. There are too many of them!]

[The winged ants are carrying soldier ants. They are moving like an airborne unit!]

Screams erupted from all directions as electronic equipment was restored.

‘When? How long must I hold out?’

Vladimir Kalin said he would negotiate.

If he can stop the ant empire, then he can do a decapitation operation.

“Hold on. Hold on while retreating little by little.”

[Ants are grouping together to make a bridge.]

[We are running out of flamethrowers.]

[Raft found. Ants are coming on the raft!]

[Blow up several rafts with Javelin.]

[A large number of ants were found washed up on the shore.]

[The landing cannot be stopped!]

The ants were reconnecting the broken bridge by weaving their bodies together. As if that wasn’t enough, the ants cut down the surrounding trees and began to cross the sea on a raft they had made by weaving the trees together with their bodies.

“······.”

[Your Majesty, a messenger crow has arrived from the Holy Kingdom.]

At the news the crow brought, Dan Brown opened his nuclear bag.

“Use hydrogen bombs. Evacuate the radius. Evacuate all refugees to the end.”

Creek-

A missile rose from the sea. A nuclear missile flew with a long white tail, creating another sun in the sky over New York.

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Maru’s group, heading towards the Ant Empire, could feel the hydrogen bomb exploding far away in New York.

[Haa- That old man finally wrote it.]

[Because there would have been no other way.]

The situation in the battle as seen from the stratospheric surveillance airship was hopeless. It was not a situation that could last even half a day, let alone a day.

[I never thought the ants would infiltrate the landing operation like airborne troops.]

[Probably a long-term war would have been impossible. Those ants would have dug tunnels under the sea.]

[It’s fortunate that we built a floating city. I’m sure that old man Den also thought it was a good idea to build a floating city.]

[Shield technology should be shared, right?]

Ki-soon closed her eyes for a moment at Maru’s thoughts.

There were millions of winged ants alone. Considering the spiders that could infiltrate the air, it was a reality that it would be difficult to survive without a shield.

‘I don’t know if they’d all become cannibals or vampires, though.’

Or else, you have to awaken your abilities. At the very least, you have to awaken your physical abilities to survive. It would be difficult for a normal person without abilities to survive.

[Probably. Without the shield, it would be difficult for ordinary people to survive.]

[I don’t know what the term “ordinary person” means, but I think it’s safe to say that there are no ordinary people.]

Na Ju-yeon suddenly said something out of the blue.

[What are you talking about? There are no civilians?]

[As I said last time, I think that after the mutant virus incident, the natural humans we knew before no longer exist.]

According to Na Ju-yeon, based on the research results so far, there are no ordinary people.

It’s the same story with mutant monsters eating humans and accelerating their mutation. Think about cannibals and vampires eating humans and becoming stronger.

If ordinary people were ordinary people in the first place, eating human flesh and blood wouldn’t have changed anything. After all, cannibals existed historically.

In other words, even people who are now considered normal people have some kind of factor in their bodies that causes mutations and makes those who eat them stronger.

By spreading and infecting the mutated virus, they turned ordinary people into biological factories that reproduce certain factors. Afterwards, they extracted those factors and created rapid treatments and various drugs.

And the major nations were studying cannibals, vampires, clones, and dominance. In Najuyeon’s view, it was all connected.

[I think they wanted to create a new world.]

[Is this mess a new world?]

[Yes. It is a new world for those with power.]

At Na Ju-yeon’s immediate answer, Ki-sun muttered, “Oh my god.”

[As the end approaches and humans become food or material, all existing morals, ethics, and systems will collapse and the will of the powerful will take precedence.]

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[From the perspective of the powerful, the end, chaos, and destruction are actually a world where they can do as they please.]

[So this apocalypse was actually intentional?]

[As you can guess, there were a lot of weird parts.]

[······.]

[It was also strange that there were areas where China and the US were engaged in a nuclear war but neither fired at the other. It was also strange that the world economy did not collapse at once even though Japan collapsed due to a disaster.]

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It was the same with Maru’s words that there was an altar in Japan and he blew it up with a hydrogen bomb. Even though Maru was a war hero at the time and showed evidence that there was something dangerous in Japan, Na Ju-yeon’s story is that it is strange that the United States federal government accepted it and dropped a hydrogen bomb on it.

[Without any information about it, it is difficult to understand dropping a hydrogen bomb there given previous US actions.]

Fragments of the altar. Japanese secret laboratories and research institutes. Even if they were lost after sending troops to retrieve them, would that be a reason for the United States to give up?

Wouldn’t they have continued to reinforce each other, by any means necessary, until they had achieved something, second, third, or fourth? Secretly.

But instead, as if he had been waiting, he dropped a hydrogen bomb. The result? A huge sinkhole opened up in Tokyo and a space filled with monsters completely different from existing life forms.

Na Ju-yeon fundamentally questioned whether it was really a coincidence. She doubted whether the events that had occurred so far, the cases that were said to have been resolved, were creating a larger flow.

[Look at the ants attacking New York. They seem too accustomed to war with humans to be just simple ants.]

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[And with so many mutant monsters out there, look at this. It looks like we can clean up all those mutant monsters with just two types of bugs. Is this a coincidence?]

The ants were not certain, so I put them aside, and the spiders were the same. There were many spider magicians, people who could control spiders, in Richmond alone, and the spider magician who extracted information this time was just a decoy.

Bait means that it is something that can be consumed without inflicting damage. So, it means that there are more people who can control the spider.

So, aren’t spiders biological weapons?

The bioweapons they control.

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The reason why the Virginia remnants have such tenacity and why they have various laboratories and facilities in various places could also be explained according to Na Ju-yeon’s story.

If they were a global power, even if we caught the remnants of Virginia in North America, they would come out again in South America. If we caught South America, they would come out in Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia at any time.

‘Bound together? It’s not that they fought each other, but rather that they fought to create the world they have now? Then, is Joseph Meyer’s creation of himself as a group part of that?’

Maru thought back to his experiences in Europe. And also in China, Korea, and Japan. What if all of those were part of one big program and protocol?

[Even so, what we are doing now doesn’t change.]

Go to the ant empire and see for yourself.

If the spider was a biological weapon, it would have been even more important to check.

If the ant empire is being manipulated like a spider, or if they’re allied with the Virginia remnants or whatever…

‘Sweep it away.’