Rust - Chapter 81



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RUST-81

The face of the Hotel Charlotte manager was haggard.

It had only been a few days since they had been torn apart, but she had the face of someone who had suffered for over a month. She looked at the floor, bowed her head, and thanked him.

Yeah, that’s normal. Two years as a bodyguard is abnormal.

Maru nodded slightly in thanks.

“I know it’s a bit embarrassing to say this, but I have a critical patient so it’s a bit urgent.”

Isn’t it now commonplace to say that there is no subject for the patient in critical condition? So it wasn’t a lie. Well, it would be true even if you said the subject. It’s not like there are necessarily two people, right?

“The bodyguard we sent over there was seriously injured. Was it Hatsune Ayako? That person.”

There were slight cracks in the face of Bodyguard 2 and the expression on the face of the stand-in president.

“The spear went through a bad spot. Since the bleeding wasn’t stopping, I sprayed high-performance instant adhesive to stop the bleeding and gave him a blood transfusion as soon as possible, but I don’t think he’ll last long.”

So, if you have that medicine, take it out. Hurry up.

If you give him the medicine, he won’t just throw it away or anything. Maru loves kindness and quietness. Above all, he is Maru who receives what he gives and gives what he receives, and he lives in accordance with nature. He is just a little Hamaru who loves peace.

First, let’s treat Ki-soon and Kim Yang, and then we’ll treat Bodyguard 1. How great. Let’s treat all the patients first, and then we’ll go to Tokyo together, hand in hand. Okay- Let’s take out that medicine. Quickly!

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“······.”

“Sir, can you trust this guy?”

Who is this old man? There wasn’t just one old man, there were several. Among them, there was someone who had been seriously injured. So, if I take out that medicine here, I’ll be noticed?

“If this guy hadn’t come to the rescue, we would have been caught here.”

“But this is also their operation···.”

Maru smiled brightly and took a step forward. It was like an optical illusion or magic to float up to the floor and move 3 meters in a single step.

“Operation? What operation? I understand that you feel bad about being hit in the back of the head, but it’s not right to do this in front of everyone. Whether it’s an operation or a bluff, it would take just one minute to give everyone here a good rest. Why are you calling it an operation?”

Maru, who had reached right in front of the man’s face, spoke without erasing his bright smile. It took a minute. If you make up your mind and use all your strength, you won’t be able to escape in this narrow space and will end up in a sea of ​​blood in an instant.

“Sir, are you just trying to relax? If you feel like your shoulders are heavy, just say so. Say that you want to put the load down and rest. I’ll help you for free. Don’t bother me and make everyone else tired. Just say so. I want to get some rest.”

A smiling face. Unfocused eyes stared at the man. Those were not the eyes of a living person.

Gulp.

The man’s mouth was shut in one motion.

“If you trust the people here and continue to go with them, I won’t stop you, but the bodyguard over there doesn’t have much time left. I don’t know what he’ll do in the future, but I’m not a man with much free time either.”

“You’ve changed a lot. You’ve changed a lot.”

Maru nodded at the president’s words.

“If something needs to change, then it needs to change.”

“okay.”

The president was tight-lipped about what was so troubling him.

Okay, now that I’ve laid out the plan, take out the medicine. Take out that medicine. If there are a lot of eyes watching here, you can just go out and take it out separately.

The president, seeing her innocent face, stepped outside.

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As expected, I had the medicine. It was a pink medicine in a small ampoule.

I had a headache. It was because of the remaining amount. It was already a small ampoule, but looking at the amount left, it seemed to be insufficient to properly treat even one person.

Ki-soon’s condition was not good. It was not only her arm, but also her internal injuries that were the problem. I don’t know much about internal injuries, but I heard that they can suddenly become dangerous. Bodyguard 1, who made excuses to ask for medicine, was also not in good condition. They were trying to keep her alive by using instant adhesive and giving her a blood transfusion.

If I use all of that medicine, it will save her life, but it doesn’t seem like it will be completely cured. What if I use all of the medicine on Bodyguard 1? What about Kisoon? On the other hand, if I use it on Kisoon, it might heal her internal injuries, but it won’t be enough to heal her arm. Instead, Bodyguard 1 will get some rest.

It was a headache.

“This seems woefully inadequate.”

I found out by trying it myself. They say that even small amounts can have remarkable effects, but the amount was too small. And since there are no other medical facilities or specialists, I needed a larger amount to replace them.

The boss was silent.

No more? Really? You knew there was a risk of betrayal, right? Then shouldn’t you have brought more emergency medicine? Or have you already used it all up? The easiest way to check if there was more medicine was to just poke it, but if there really wasn’t, it would be hard to deal with the aftermath.

Really not there? Really? Let’s look at the president. Bodyguard 2 blocks the president’s path.

No, why are you being so sensitive? It’s embarrassing. Ha- I let out a breath like a light laugh and asked.

“Isn’t there a way? Since there is a shortage of medicine, there has to be a way, whether it’s surgery or treatment.”

“···It’s difficult to confirm who betrayed and to what extent, so it will be difficult to use a nearby hospital.”

The president said wearily. Is this really the president? When she looked again, she felt uneasy. And the feeling of hesitation that she had at first was even more so.

First of all, medicine. That couldn’t be hidden. If he was really the boss, he wouldn’t have kept only enough for one person. Even if he had used it for someone else, he would have kept more than enough for one person. So the remaining medicine might have been a decoy to make it look like the double wasn’t a double… Well, maybe he went too far?

“So there is a hospital nearby?”

“There is a hospital that Charlotte supports.”

Even if the mess was over, if there was a hospital left, there would be VIP rooms and operating rooms. Then it was worth going. If you could have surgery, you could share the medicine that was lacking. Didn’t you experience it yourself? When you received treatment and used it directly on the affected area, you saw great results even with a small amount.

“Let’s go that way for now.”

Traitors, there are dozens of people waiting in the hospital anyway, so they wouldn’t do that, right?

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Catamaran’s third-floor cockpit. Ms. Kim looked around through the scope.

There wasn’t much left of 12.7mm bullets, and the same was true for 7.62mm bullets. I didn’t expect that I would use the gun this much. When I was at work, even on the most intense missions, one or two magazines were enough. At most, I’d shoot about 20 rounds?

After she thought she was running out of bullets, her body suddenly started to feel numb. One by one, one by one, Kim Yang stretched out her left arm to the side and then closed it, doing some kind of stretching exercise.

[···Uh. Also··· Over there, that··· radar? It says something is coming this way?]

What is this? Kim Yang tilted her head.

“Which direction?”

[Huh? Which direction?]

“From which direction is something coming?”

[therefore···]

“Just say it clockwise.”

[Ah- Yes. Between 9 and 10 o’clock.]

It was the direction Baekjeong had gone. Kim Yang looked at the 9 o’clock direction from the 10 o’clock direction with the scope. A yacht was approaching from afar. It looked much bigger and better than the catamaran I was on. It was definitely heading straight for this direction.

Should I run away? I was told to go out to the open sea if there was trouble.

[Ah! – They say that thing coming over there is riding on a floating platform.]

The nurse’s voice sounded surprised, and Ms. Kim nodded. If it was Baekjeong, it wouldn’t have been strange for him to bring a pear.

There were 12 people on board the mega yacht, and quite a few survived. Excluding the president and two bodyguards, there were 10 people, 3 seriously injured, and 2 lightly injured. 5 people were fine. And all of the fine people were crew members who knew how to drive a yacht. For now, we decided to call one person to the catamaran and let him drive it.

Moments later, mega yachts and catamarans were slowly pushing themselves up through the complex sea with their flotation devices.

There were many hospitals that Charlotte sponsored throughout Japan. The one we were going to now was in a nearby city.

“I guess this place was swept away by the tsunami too.”

The man who was almost forced to take a break from work by Maru spoke to President Shim.

“I guess so.”

Even if it was not directly affected by the Great Southern Earthquake, that is, the Nankai Draft, it was not possible to escape the tsunami. The port city was half destroyed, and judging by the marks on the 3rd and 4th floors of the concrete buildings, it was likely hit by a tsunami that was 8 to 10 meters high.

“Shigesaki Hospital seems to be in trouble.”

A hospital close to the sea must have been difficult.

“I guess I have no choice but to go to the hospital.”

There were many places that had become mud due to the tsunami. It was difficult to go because the seawater had not receded. They said we had to go further in… Honestly, I was anxious.

“Well, I think we’ll be able to go since we have an amphibious vehicle.”

Isn’t that what you went through all the trouble to bring here for times like this?

Since the president went with them, there was a brief scuffle, but the president and bodyguard 2 were said to be on the ship. If there was a problem, they would escape to the sea under the president’s command and later join the hospital team.

So, two amphibious vehicles headed to the city. On this side, Maru, Kim Yang, Ki-sun, bodyguard 1, and a driver, Mr. Charlotte from Hotel Charlotte. Five people like this. On that side, one driver, three seriously injured, and one lightly injured. Five people like this. Ten people in total were moved to the hospital.

Maru was to be in charge of close escort and Kim Yang was to be in charge of security, so the vehicle Maru was in departed first.

Ironpuck-purruk

Burururururuk

The amphibious vehicle waded through the half-water, half-mud area. After rolling through the mud for a while and climbing a short hill, a ship appeared in the sea far away. The sight of a mega yacht and a luxury catamaran anchored side by side in the distance looked very peaceful.

When I turned my head, I saw the opposite scenery. Unlike the peaceful sea, a miserable scene was unfolding at the bottom of the hill. Almost all of the wooden buildings had collapsed, and the places where the water had not drained were still mud.

The floor was a sea of ​​water, but there were places above that were on fire and burning. What was strange was that there were no traces of people. It was a fairly large city, but at first glance, it looked like there were no people.

“There’s no one here?”

“Everyone must have evacuated.”

The driver said that everyone had either moved to shelters or was watching from higher ground. But even so, why are there so few people?

“Which way is the hospital?”

“Over there. You can see it from here. It’s the tallest building in the neighborhood. Ah- I see it. That’s the building. It’s 15 stories.”

I could see a large building in the distance. A 7-8 story apartment building? In Japan, they call it a mansion? It was a building between those buildings.

“At this rate, we should be able to get there in about 30 minutes.”

The amphibious vehicle waded through the rubble and mud toward the hospital. The stolen hospital seemed to have escaped damage because it was on a slightly higher ground. The scene was similar to what I had seen at the hospital where the nurse had been kidnapped. It seemed as if all the people I hadn’t seen on my way here were bustling around.

“The emergency room is closed.”

The driver said that he had a headache. The emergency room was completely closed, but the main entrance was also completely closed. There was no hospital staff in sight, and even the firewall and shutters were down.

The Japanese, who were supposed to be quiet, were banging on the shutters and yelling. The atmosphere seemed like it could escalate into violence at any moment. There was already a fight going on in the corner. Is it already a violent situation?

The first floor looked glamorous. What about the basement?

“Let’s go underground.”

“Wouldn’t the water have filled up?”

Instead of answering, Maru slapped the amphibious vehicle he was riding. If the water had been just right, there might have been no one underground. And if it was underground, even if you opened the door and went in, there was less chance of other people following you in.

There were also traces of an attempt to lower the shutter blocking the entrance to the basement. Fortunately, a car trying to get out of the basement got caught in the middle of the shutter and stopped it midway, allowing me to enter.

The basement was as I had expected. There were clear signs of water filling up and draining here and there. And the water was still draining very slowly. The sound of the drainage pump working. The sound of the drainage pump working meant that power was being maintained, whether it was emergency power or something else.

“The firewall is down.”

“This side is also locked.”

I walked around the basement once, but there was no open entrance. It seemed like it was completely closed off so that people from the outside couldn’t come in. At the hospital where I brought the nurse, at least someone came out and pretended to direct traffic. But here, even the basement was completely closed.

“Miss Kim. Can you open this?”

Ms. Kim nodded and took out a small C4. The fire door was tightly shut, but it was no match for Ms. Kim’s small C4.

The fire door handle blew clean off with a low bang.

As expected, Ms. Kim.

Maru gave a thumbs up.

‘Why are you doing something you’ve never done before, G···.’

Miss Kim, who had been muttering softly, quickly turned her head.

It was quiet inside the fire door.

Only the green and white emergency lights were on, and all the lights in the hallway were off. Knock knock- Ms. Kim lightly tapped her casted right arm with her pistol, making a low sound. Ms. Kim nodded toward the ceiling. CCTV was visible.