Rust - Chapter 815



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RUST [RUST]-815

Kikrik-

The ankle part of Maru’s core armor opened slightly and a bionic robot smaller than a 10-won coin fell to the floor.

A miniature robot that contains the singularity technology of the Holy Kingdom lands silently on the ground. What is the biggest problem when attacking mutants?

Stronger defenses? Increased size and strength? Increased intelligence? Those are dangerous, but the most dangerous thing is the biological EMP (electromagnetic pulse).

Because of the bio-EMP, advanced equipment could not be used when fighting the mutant monsters, and communication and guidance technology could not be used.

It was fortunate that the new core armor and exosuit had a biological EMP countermeasure system, otherwise the fight against the mutated monsters would have been several times more difficult.

So the idea came up. ‘If electronic devices have problems due to biological EMP, what if we make biological devices using biological tissue?’

The idea is to culture brain cells to replace chips, neural networks to replace wires, and muscles to become engines and motors.

Although it is difficult to create a proper bio-weapon right now, a plan has been put forward to create a bio-robot capable of exploration and search.

And now, the bio-robots that Maru had planted have begun to function.

The bionic robot quickly burrowed halfway into the ground, hiding itself like a living insect. A swarm of ants swarmed past, but as expected, it was unaffected by the bio-EMP they were spewing out.

The bio-robot pulled itself out of the pit and disappeared down the wall into the dark passage.

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Beep-

‘Another dead end? Stop right there. Hide against the wall and look up.’

The bio-robot was stuck to the wall of the blocked passage and looked up. There was a passage that was hard to notice unless you were close enough to check. It was also a passage that was vertically opened upwards.

‘This direction was a trap.’

It was also a trap targeting humanoid intruders. After driving them into a dead end, the scenario of them swooping down from above through a slightly obscured vertical passage while fighting came to mind.

‘No. 17 is also a dead end.’

‘Where No. 9 went led to a small, empty space.’

‘The signal is strong in the direction that No. 5 and No. 21 moved from···.’

Maru checked the data sent by the search robots in real time and made a map. Even though more than 20 exploration robots were already deployed, it was impossible to check all the passages that were entangled like a maze. The scale was so large.

‘If there weren’t any bio-robots, I would have been helpless.’

The labyrinthine passageways were clearly hastily constructed.

If it wasn’t hardened even by the ants’ unique construction method of quickly hardening, it means that it was a passage hastily dug during the bombing.

‘That’s true, but these things… are increasingly interfering with each other?’

In the passages connected here and there, ants started to appear one by one, then they surrounded me from all sides. That was fine, but the problem was that the direction was getting more and more wrong.

Beep beep beep- beep beep- beep—- beep—-

Coordinates on the HUD (head-up display). This means that you are starting to move further away from the place where the queen ants, emperor ants, and other higher-ranking individuals are gathered.

The story was that we were moving away from the signals sent by the bio-robots, and also from the coordinates captured using radioactive elements and traces of microorganisms.

[Can you tell where the ants are taking me?]

The assistant AI immediately answered Maru’s question.

[The geographic information confirmed so far is organized into three dimensions.]

A three-dimensional map came to mind. The path displayed on the HUD was tangled here and there in space, and it was clear that it was heading in the wrong direction.

Maru, who had been following the guard ants, stopped in his tracks. Maru did not budge even as the ants following him from both sides and behind, as if surrounding him, clicked their jaws and urged him to go faster.

One of the guard ants that had been walking forward returned and shook its antennae nervously.

(Stop. Reason. Follow.)

Even if the pheromone translator couldn’t translate intonation or tone, it didn’t ask me outright why I stopped and then told me to follow it before I could even answer.

[Hey. I asked to see the decision maker, whether it be the Queen or the Emperor, in person. Where are you going?]

(Audience. Later. Good. Treatment. First.)

As the floor became rough, the tentacles of the guard ants, which had been stiff and nervous, began to move gently as if to soothe them.

‘Shit.’

Ants treat humans well?

How do you plan to treat me?

Are you going to give me some of the sweet water that aphids sucked?

What on earth are they thinking?

I don’t know what he was thinking, but the important thing was that he was moving away from where his head was. And he was doing it while creating layers of siege nets to prevent him from getting anywhere else.

Maru grabbed the handle of the New Clips that was hanging neatly on his waist.

Should I paint now?

What if I hit it right here?

I haven’t found where all the heads are gathered yet, but if I cut them off here…

‘They’ll run away.’

One thing that was running away was the heads that were finishing it off. It was right to wait until the exploration robot found the place where the heads were gathered.

[Activate the bio-robot to maximum.]

[Search function is adjusted to the maximum. Operation time is significantly reduced from 92 hours to 48 hours.]

Maru followed the guard ants, his hand on the handle of the Newclips.

There were people in the place the ants guided.

“That. That’s enough.”

“Heh heh heh, there. There. There-go!”

“Huh- huh- huh- huh- ooh!”

“Stop. Please.”

“No. That’s not true!”

“Hehehehe. Hehehehe. Come on!”

“Oh—-today— ohhh today-”

“Mamamama. Mamamama delicious. Yummy. Mama. Delicious.”

Ants moving busily among people who were talking nonsense as if they had taken medicine. Unlike other ants, these ants had unusually large heads, but their jaws were small and delicate.

Strange ants clung to naked humans, cleaning them cleanly and stroking them with their antennae. People would convulse at the slightest touch.

There were various faces, crying, laughing, drooling, and half-rolled eyes. As the guard ants entered, the big-headed, small-jawed ants began to move busily.

‘What on earth are you doing?’

The ants that had been moving among the people stopped moving and moved to one side.

(Human. Treat. Breed. Okay. Human. Mate. Okay. Treat.)

What does this mean?

Maru was momentarily confused by the word that appeared on the pheromone translator.

Breeding with hospitality?

Do you like breeding?

Do humans like to mate?

So you treat them to sex?

Crazy. So you’re saying that since humans like to mate, you’re going to entertain them with mating?

(Shell. Strip. Mate. To your heart’s content. Treat. Good.)

shell?

Is the core armor called a shell?

Take it off and fuck to your heart’s content? That’s a treat?

Wheeeeeeeeing

[Confirmed increase in biochemical synthetic substance concentration.]

[Component analysis not possible. Biochemical response begins.]

[Outside air blocked. Air purification system in operation.]

It was a room where the warning sound of the assistant AI sounded somehow hazy.

My heartbeat is getting stronger and stronger.

It wasn’t meant as a warning. It wasn’t meant as a warning.

Maru, who had been controlling his slightly rough breathing, immediately gave an order.

[Administer neutralizer!]

It was Maru who hit the neutralizer without even overheating. Chick- The cold air of the neutralizer that penetrated his blood vessels began to cool down his heated body.

Still, Maru continued to set up the tent, and he grabbed the handle of Newclips. Even though he was holding it with his thick mechanical hand, the distinct presence of death calmed Maru down.

(Copulation. Copulation. Copulation. Copulation. Copulation. Copulation. Copulation. CopulationCopulationCopulationCopulationCopulation···.)

I wonder if there was an error in the pheromone translator.

‘It’s not a bug. It’s a pheromone.’

Maru’s gaze, which had been suppressing the strong impulse that was difficult to shake off even with neutralizers, was directed at the people being held captive, even though he had to use Newclips’ energy to hold it back.

People who were already entangled with each other. And before I knew it, there were ants who had dragged a few women and placed them in front of the porch.

(Human. Female. Mating. Mating. Good. Treat.)

(Copulation, copulation, copulation. Skin. Take off. Good. Copulation, copulation, copulation.)

The naked women, their eyes rolled back, clung to Maru’s core armor and began rubbing their entire bodies together, as if they were in arousal.

A sudden thought occurred to me. It was Maru who thought of something like a pheromone perfume. And now the scene unfolding before my eyes.

Pheromone?

Controlled by pheromones?

I remembered what it was like when I first came here.

People’s facial expressions changed in various ways as ants clung to them.

therefore.

now···.

You were researching controlling humans with pheromones? Ants?

And then you tell me to take off my core armor and mate?

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep

[We found a place where radioactive elements are concentrated.]

[Matches microbial traces.]

[Approaching the previously identified two-dimensional coordinates.]

‘Found it.’

The bio-robot finally found the ones that were hiding there.

(Mating. Good. Treat. Mating. Skin. Strip. Do. Mating.)

Maru slowly pulled out the Nuclipse, ignoring the sound coming from the pheromone translator.

Srrrrrr—

Unlike Eclipse, which was pulled out with a growling sound like a beast, Nuclipse was pulled out of its scabbard with a snake-like crawling sound.

Maru’s gaze sank heavily.

Can we save the people who have lost their minds in pheromone experiments?

does not exist.

Can you evacuate?

does not exist.

At the same time, concentrated and concentrated life energy gushed out from Maru’s entire body.

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The air that was full of passion died down as the murderous spirit that symbolized death itself filled the space.

The guard ants that tried to respond by raising their antennae, the strange ants with big heads and small jaws, and the people who were soaked in pheromones and moved as they were commanded by the pheromones, all turned cold.

Maru threw a napalm grenade into the slowly cooling pit and started running.

Kwaaaaang-

Maru picked up speed as a loud explosion and hot napalm flames began to burn the area.

Maru runs along the shortest path according to the 3D map identified by the bio-robot. Ants endlessly swarm through the holes and passages here and there, but they cannot stop Nucleus.

The moment when you stab the Nuclipse at the ant that is blocking the passage with its entire body. The blade trembles.

Wooooow-

The spot where the nucleus had been stuck disappeared in a clump as if it had been eaten by an invisible beast. When I cut the fragments of the falling ants horizontally, they were ground up in the same range as the horizontal swing.

There was no other way to describe it than that it was torn apart. It was as if the ants within range had been crushed into pieces, as if they had been put into a blender.

[Passageway. Collapses.]

[Identify the detour.]

[Okay. Shield up to max.]

[Shield operates at maximum output.]

Maru, who broke through the collapsing passageway at the same time that the energy emanating from the core was being replaced by a shield, began to advance while swinging his Nuclipse as if to tear the entire collapsing passageway apart.

The ants were startled by Maru’s reckless advance and tried to block the collapsing passage with their bodies, but they could not stop Maru’s advance.

[Increased bio-EMP. Anterior pupil. Estimated number of ants is over 10,000.]

Maru picked up the small nuclear grenade hanging from his waist at the warning of the assistant AI. The ants were trying to surround Maru as he entered the empty entrance to the cave.

Ting- Maru, who had thrown a nuclear grenade at full power with a popping sound, dug up one side of the passage with a new clip.

As the passageway, which had not yet completely hardened, caved in like pudding, the floor pushed its body into it. The huge shock wave that followed went through the caved-in passageway.

□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□—–

No matter how small it is, a nuke is a nuke. The power to blow away 300m to 400m in diameter swept through the space. Before the dust and heat could even clear, Maru, who had turned the shield to maximum power, ran towards the target again.

The whole body exploded in a terrible explosion, and the floor was blocked by crushed ants. Ants that would block the floor if they could literally move, if they could bite with their jaws, and if they could use formic acid with their butts.

Maru erased those ants with Nuclipse, like erasing meaningless graffiti.

(collaboration-)

Crunch-

(flat-_

simplicity and honesty-

Occasionally, an ant that seemed to be a slightly superior entity would come out and try to talk about an agreement or peace, but the pheromone translator cut it off before it could translate the word “agreement.”

As I studied humans, I learned that they like to mate. So I wanted to treat the King of the Holy Kingdom to a good mate.

It’s a culturally relative story. The ants didn’t know humans, so they tried to treat them as kindly as possible. The ant empire was wronged.

– Even so, Maru made a decision.

Just as humans tried to control and weaponize ants, ants also tried to control and weaponize humans.

Regardless, you’re going to expose the King of the Holy Kingdom, who signed a peace treaty, to pheromones? While you were studying humans? While you knew the consequences of humans going crazy from pheromones?

I only see the results. I only see the actions.

Pukagagagagak-

As the dozens of guard ants blocking the passage were cut down with one stroke of the sword, the other side of the passage was revealed to be wide open. Hundreds of princess ants, ant queens, and emperors were seen trying to escape.

Kwajik-

The front legs that had protruded from the dark shadows struck Maru’s body. At the same time that they struck Maru’s body, the corpses of the ants that had been torn apart by Maru’s counterattack were scattered on the floor.

Stop-

In that moment of shock, I stopped for a moment. Ants were jumping out from all directions, wherever they had been hiding.

Ants with forelegs that looked like scythes were targeting Maru’s blind spot. Pak- Pak- Maru swung his Nuclipse as he defended himself against the ants’ attacks. The hidden ants were simply torn to pieces.

There were also ants that clung to the ceiling and would swoop down on you, but no trap or special ant could stop you from getting to the floor.

(Danger. Agreement. Compliance. Violence. Human. Promise.)

(Peace. Armistice. Agreement. Compliance. Audience. Weapons.)

[This is crazy.]

Kujik-