Rust - Chapter 819



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RUST [RUST]-819

People had different ideas about when the end would begin and when that would happen.

Some say it began with the disaster and downfall of Japan, others say it was the spread of a mutant virus, and still others say it was the end of the US-led world order.

Disasters caused by environmental changes, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Pandemics, such as the spread of mutant viruses. And finally, the collapse of the international order and the resulting collapse of international trade.

They seemed different, but the result was the same. The collapse of the world order represented by globalization and the world market was the collapse of the economy, and that was the beginning of the end.

[It’s an apocalypse that starts with a broken economy. Honestly, I thought that was over the top.]

Ki-soon sighed.

Isn’t that right?

The proposition of life and death, the end. In this life-or-death situation, we are looking for the economy and international trade.

But if you look into the essence, it’s a scary story. Even if you just look at Korea’s food self-sufficiency, it’s the same. Except for rice and a few other things, it’s a country that can’t be self-sufficient.

Almost all food depended on imports. We knew that, but we just didn’t fully understand what that meant.

The Ojin Group’s Na Ju-yeon created a panacea that could suppress the mutant virus outbreak, and since they had a treatment with asymmetric value, they simply used that advantage to forcibly maintain the existing trade.

It was Korea that firsthand experienced that the economy kills people, as the cure recipe was forcibly disclosed and the Ojin group moved to Ulleungdo and later to the United States.

Only after the population of nearly 15 million began to rapidly decline and the conscripted soldiers began to build farms were they able to escape the desperate food shortage.

As the Korean case shows, the moment the global supply chain breaks down, making a living can become a problem. Not in a figurative or metaphorical sense, but in a real sense…

[···That was understandable. I was mistaken because I didn’t have to starve to death if I just robbed the nearby mart and the 24-hour convenience store.]

So people didn’t really understand what it meant when they heard that the international distribution network had collapsed and that mutated monsters were appearing everywhere and ruining crops.

They just thought that starting with grain prices, food prices would rise, and then along with oil prices, energy costs would rise, making life difficult. They never thought that they would starve to death.

For people living in the affluent 21st century, starving to death was something that only happened in movies and novels.

[Canada doesn’t seem to have thought about that, perhaps because they are rich enough to raise pigs fed barley.]

“You could starve to death?”

[Oh. But are you really going to starve me?]

“It’s not my decision, it’s theirs. I gave them enough chances. If freedom and independence were really their goal, they would have prepared for everything, including countermeasures against mutant monsters and the issue of making a living.”

Maru calmly answers Gisun’s question.

“You want to become independent without being ready for independence? In a situation like this? You want to oppress us, and you must have planned to commit terrorism under the pretext of oppression. Do you need to be dragged there?”

Ki-soon agreed with Maru’s cool-headed analysis, but he wondered if he was being too hard-line when there was a way to avoid causing controversy in the future.

For example, we were able to show through the media how dangerous it is to advocate independence without any preparation.

The Free Canadian League has released information that it is the descendant of a terrorist group that once held the entire Weeland Canal area hostage.

But Maru didn’t do that. He just gave her a month’s grace period.

“A month has passed as promised. But what’s the result? You haven’t stopped the Free Canadian League and all that stuff from stirring things up, and you haven’t reported them either. What’s the reason?”

[I guess you mean you don’t recognize us…. I guess you don’t really think we’ll starve.]

“Yes, that’s right. The essence is that they don’t acknowledge us.”

It meant that they did not recognize the Holy Kingdom. Furthermore, it meant that they did not recognize the existence of an Oriental named Prince Vladimir Kalin.

[It is true that there are historically and racially different things.]

“Why should we understand that? This is the end times. Survival and safety are the top priorities. If we saved them and kept them safe, they should respect us. That’s the basics. Do you think they don’t know that and are acting like this now?”

Are you ignorant of cause and effect? ​​Are you saying that you don’t know that you have to pay back debts and be grateful for help?

“I don’t know. It’s because of greed. They do it to get more. They do it to get recognition that they are superior.”

Before the Holy Kingdom took over Canada, mutant monsters roamed the city. Every day was a life-or-death choice, and there must have been people who starved to death because they couldn’t leave their homes.

If you have never had that experience, then I don’t know, but even after that experience, you say things like, ‘The Holy Kingdom, put down your troops and technology and go out for peace,’ ‘Canada, for the Canadian people,’ ‘Give back freedom and peace,’ ‘Recognize the Free Canadian League.’

“Why should we care about them? Why should we do whatever they want? They are the kind of bastards who take human rights and morals hostage and ignore basic principles. I don’t think so.”

After a one-month grace period, Maru stopped distributing food and energy as promised.

The Free Canadian Federation territory entered into a free state of nature.

What they wanted: a natural state where they could live freely without any interference.

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Supporters of a free Canada were taken aback by the announcement that the Holy Kingdom was suddenly cutting off food and energy distribution.

For self-sufficient Canadians, the idea of ​​a food crisis caused by a food shortage was a completely new thing, as Canada was a country rich in grains, enough to raise pigs by feeding them barley.

As the Holy Kingdom withdrew, the entire Canadian province was paralyzed in an instant. The Free Canadian League leadership gathered at the civic center to resolve the situation.

bang-

“Look at this. What did I say?”

“These are the guys who treat human life like a fly’s life.”

“Have you seen what they are doing? Is this something a human would do?”

“They must have been aiming for this since they started reducing food stocks last month.”

Leaders of the Canadian Free League expressed their anger among the crowd that filled the civic center.

Some were set ablaze by the anger they unleashed, while others chose frozen silence in the face of the cold reality.

“All the bastards who were sucking the asshole of the Holy Kingdom have run away.”

“Where did you go?”

“I heard he was going near Detroit.”

“Windsor, huh? Windsor alone won’t be enough.”

“It will cover from Chatham to London.”

From Windsor, which has a metropolitan population, to Chatham, along the line to London in South-Western Ontario, Canada, it could accommodate a population of approximately 1 to 1.5 million.

Of the Canadian population of over 2.5 million, over 1 million joined Free Canada. About 500,000 watched in silence, while 1 million actively joined the Holy Kingdom.

The Free Canadian League leaders could not have imagined that so many would defect. The political system in which liberty, equality, and fraternity were trampled upon, and the balance represented by the Bill of Rights was ignored, was the monarchy of the Holy Kingdom.

The Holy Kingdom was not judged by the French spirit, nor by the British tradition. That was the reason why the two powers, which did not mix like oil and water, were able to join hands as one.

The problem was that it was a sacred kingdom ruled by a baseless Oriental named Vladimir Kalin, who had no bloodline, no history, and who ignored the very traditions of Europe.

If you think positively and have the ability, you can seize power. Then what should you do after taking control? Shouldn’t you have a plan for the future?

Now that we’ve dealt with the mutant monsters and solved our energy, food, and security problems, wouldn’t it be natural to form a proper government?

But the Holy Kingdom did not do that.

Instead of returning power to the Canadian people and forming a government through elections, the Governor General was created. Instead of caring about Canada, the Governor General was busy going around here and there.

What the hell are you doing?

Are you kidding me Canada?

The talk of doing so was also absurd. They were going to abolish restrictions on military enlistment? And they were going to give voting rights only to those who had served in the military? It was absurd.

Regardless of whether you are a woman, elderly, or disabled, if you do not serve in the military, you have no right to vote.

What’s more, freedom of residence was restricted. If you wanted to move, at least one family member had to have served in the military.

What kind of crazy law is this? It’s a bill that even Jerry (Germany) would not have enacted in the days when the country was considered an army.

As things were bubbling up inside, the final blow came: bringing over 2 million Asians to Canada.

Although it was one third of the entire population of the Holy Kingdom, it was a population almost the same size as the local population in Canada.

The Holy Kingdom was doing the same thing as China, using the same method China used to control its minorities: electoral control.

Push more Han Chinese than ethnic minorities and hold elections. Han Chinese become representatives of ethnic minority areas and take control of those areas.

The king and the governor were Orientals, and they were doing exactly that. That’s how the argument began to emerge that we should fight against the attacks of Orientals.

“The Confederacy has promised to send assistance.”

“It’s not ruined? You said it was a state of civil war.”

With the success of the Holy Kingdom’s decapitation operation, the Confederacy was literally thrown into chaos.

Cannibals with moderate abilities fought to become superior individuals, and the surviving vampires and superior individuals had to fight to maintain dominance.

Because it was a structure where those with high dominance were semi-subordinate and semi-dominated, those with similar dominance never allowed their opponents to secure stronger dominance.

Even if an entity with even a little bit of strong dominance were to emerge, the surrounding forces would unite and subdue it before it could become any stronger.

The idea was to throw the weak ones to exhaust their dominance, and then have the strong ones break through the defense line and raid(?) the ones that had exhausted their dominance.

“It’s just a ranking system among the new humans.”

“That’s enough of your story. So how can you, the new human race, who is busy taking care of himself, help us?”

“Let’s hear it for ourselves.”

“Please come out.”

Step by step – step by step –

A strange, non-human energy began to be felt at the entrance to the community center. It was like the instinct of prey to sense the energy of a predator.

Cannibalism is no longer considered a disease. Cannibalism is just a side effect of a new species that becomes stronger by simply eating humans.

Step by step – step by step –

“How can I help you?”

Becoming a new human was the optimal mutation for survival in the apocalyptic world. If meat could be consumed stably, then the mutation into a new human was an evolution and a class revolution.

So, this means that not everyone can become a new human being. It means that the society will be maintained by a small number of nobles and the food supply of the large number of people.

“I will give you the evolution you desire. I will make you a new human being. Will that be enough support for you?”

The atmosphere heated up as the man said that he would make it so that the existing new humans would be sacrificed in order for a new new human to be born.

Fit-

The male and female guards following the nobleman on either side threw daggers toward one corner.

Click!

Jjiik-

One of them ran away after being grazed by the dagger, and the other one, whose body was pierced, howled and slowly closed its eyes.

While the man was catching and chasing away two rats, the woman threw a dagger that broke the window and flew outside.

Clang-

Spud!

Caw!

The crow flew up with a start.