Rust - Chapter 82



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RUST-82

CCTV, is that working?

They said there was a strong electromagnetic field near Tokyo, but it wasn’t clear whether this area was affected or not. Judging from the drainage pumps that were working, it didn’t seem to be affected, but it was necessary to check first.

While the others waited in their current positions, Maru carefully moved to the CCTV blind spot. Since it was a hospital, there were quite a few blind spots on the CCTV. According to the signs, there were two control rooms, one in the basement and one on the first floor.

The control room on the first basement floor was probably a control room related to machinery, electricity, and facilities, and the control room related to information and computers seemed to be on the first floor. If the control room on the first floor is operating normally, there will be someone running it. I could ask that person about the hospital situation, so I decided to go up to the first floor for now.

Maru exchanged glances and gestures with Kim Yang.

[Wait here. I’m going upstairs.]

[Okay.]

Okay, you figured it out in one go.

There are a total of 8 elevators, 6 of which had their lights off and 2 of which had their lights on. This means that 2 of them were operational. However, considering that elevators generally have CCTVs, it would not be a good idea to take them up.

I climbed the stairs relying on the emergency lights. It was hard to tell by the emergency lights, but there were bloodstains here and there on the stairs. Traces that I couldn’t completely clean up because I was in a hurry to clean them up. But the fact that someone cleaned them up means that there are people with normal thoughts, so maybe that’s good news?

The first floor was bright. Natural light came in from the large windows. The outside shutters and blinds were down, but the upper part was wide open, allowing bright sunlight to come in. That’s why the traces were more clearly visible. Like the stairs, this side also showed signs of being hastily cleaned up, but it couldn’t hide the fact that it was a mess.

‘What happened?’

Are the hospitalized patients going crazy because of the aftereffects of the virus that the nurse said?

Okay, if that’s true, then a more important problem has arisen.

So who subdued those crazy, rampaging people and how?

Is it true that we have really subdued everything?

If they had subdued everything and were in control of the entire hospital, they couldn’t have just left those who broke through the fire door in the basement alone.

‘Let’s do it as planned for now.’

I headed to the control room on the first floor as instructed on the guide map.

?

What the heck? What just happened?

It’s not like I’m going to live or anything…

The center of the first floor was completely empty, and it went all the way to the fourth floor. Was it upstairs? I looked up, but there was no one there. I felt uneasy. Maru gently grabbed the handle of the knife tucked into his waist. The tension was relieved, and his sensitive nerves relaxed.

Where are you?

Knock knock

A small sound, like something being pushed. Second floor?

Before the sound of the sound died down, he ran up the stairs to the second floor. At the end of the stairs on the second floor was a barricade. Maru, who confirmed that the stairs were blocked, ran straight towards the reception desk on the first floor. He used his momentum to step on the reception desk and jump. He grabbed the railing on the second floor and climbed up easily.

You can get up to the second floor by jumping in place, but you never know. Hide 30%. If you can, it’s even better to hide 50%.

The place where the sound came from was the blood collection room on the second floor? That was the direction.

Knock knock

A small thumping sound. Yes, that’s right. That’s it.

When I went to the blood collection room, I saw two female nurses struggling to push the things blocking the entrance. They were so focused and exerting so much force that I didn’t even notice them when I got closer. I thought they might be startled, so I called out to them quietly from a distance.

“Hey.”

Hey

Got-

The nurse who had screamed loudly covered her own mouth with her hand after making her own noise. The nurse who had been startled and collapsed, turned pale and crawled back inside.

“No. Hey. Wait a minute…”

Before I could even say a word, the nurses who had gone inside locked the door.

‘What the. This is ridiculous.’

I heard the sound of running wildly from afar.

Kwaaaaaaa-

A loud noise echoed through the hallway. A sound that seemed to be telling people not to run away. A long scream telling people to stay there and that they would kill them. People running towards them, making sounds like animals. People were running towards them, filling the hallway.

What the fuck. Crazy.

I went back the way I came to the blood collection room. The people chasing me from behind, their eyes rolled back, looked just like the drug dealers who had taken their medicine.

Siiiiiineeeee!

A person who jumps towards the floor and gnashes his teeth at you, telling you to die.

Pook- The slash of the sword lightly swept across his neck. The blade, moving as if taking a leisurely stroll, entered the ribs of the woman running beside him, knocked lightly on her heart, and returned.

Two people falling almost at the same time, people tripping over two people. Maru, who had quickly stamped a seal on the nape of the neck of the people who had fallen, stepped back.

after-

Relax, and let go of all your strength. Left hand forward, right hand holding the sword backward. The people who had fallen and were entangled with each other stretched out their arms to Maru. Hands reaching out like tentacles.

Tak- He pushed away the outstretched hand with his left hand. The blade that followed accurately cut off the wrist joint that was extended toward the floor and grazed the nape of the wrist owner’s neck. Slack-

A man who had slipped on the fallen corpse came crawling. He stepped on the head that was about to bite his shin like a dog, and the skull and jaw joint made a cracking sound. He greeted the heads and necks of those who were struggling together with a single blade and stepped back.

Gooooooooooooooooooooooo

Those who roll down the corpses, wondering what grudge they have.

He stretched out his arms and straightened his crouched body as if he had been rolling to gain momentum. He moved slightly to the side and raised the blade he had placed in his armpit. The blade split his collarbone and cut his cervical vertebrae in half. Thud-

Without hesitation, I take another step back and slit the nasal passages of the person rushing towards me…

Phew-

A long, long line of corpses began to stretch down the hallway.

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As the hallway grew quiet, another push was heard from the blood collection room. Maru slid open the barricade the women had been struggling to push against and went inside.

Eek- The surprised nurses fled into the room inside, squirming. Before the nurses could close the door on their way into the room, he grabbed the doorknob and opened it, going inside.

The nurse who had screamed loudly covered her mouth and groaned in surprise. The nurse who had crawled slowly was the only one who had not collapsed.

A musty smell. It was a storage room next to the blood collection room. There were several people lying in the room. They were breathing shallowly, thinly, and laboredly, as if they were having trouble breathing properly.

“There are people outside, so you’re yelling at them to make them cum, and then you run inside and lock the door, so they’re going to die?”

The two nurses bowed their heads with tearful faces.

Ah- this is real.

Just. Ah- Really-

After a few minutes, Maru finally got lucky.

“What the hell is going on? Why have the people outside changed like that?”

It’s not even a fucking zombie.

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“So you’re saying that the infected patients are acting strangely?”

Two nurses nodded simultaneously.

At first, it was thought to be something like depression caused by a viral infection. Isn’t there also a term called corona blues? But it turned out that it wasn’t. Sudden violence, aggression due to emotional amplification, and then behavior that seemed normal as if nothing had happened.

He said that many medical staff were initially injured because he was talking quietly as if he was a normal person, but then suddenly swung his fist as if something was wrong. He said that it was later revealed that this was a phenomenon caused by infection with a new mutant virus. Even if you get vaccinated, the probability of breakthrough infection is 30-40%.

First of all, the important thing was whether Ki-sun, Ms. Kim, and Bodyguard 1 could be operated on.

“Excuse me. Where are the doctors?”

“Most doctors are on the 15th floor.”

No, why? Are you on top of the sin?

“So, is this hospital currently unable to perform surgeries?”

“I need to get tested before I can have surgery, but there are patients near the MRI room on the third floor, the CT room on the second floor, and the X-ray room, all of which are operating rooms.”

“Couldn’t the security guards or something like that subdue him?”

“There are so many patients who change suddenly. At first, in an instant… So.”

If they had completely lost their sense of reason due to violence and had gone wild, we could have subdued them somehow, but it was difficult to respond because they would return to normal after displaying insane violence, clean up the things they had destroyed or killed, and then return to their hospital room.

Government guidelines, hospital policies, and other response measures should be sent from above, but the government is devastated by the earthquake and hospital guidelines are not being sent down. What if there are many casualties while suppressing patients? After the situation normalizes, who will be held responsible and how?

So, the basic policy is to build barricades to prevent people from moving up and down, to block people from coming in from outside the hospital, and to block them again and again to reduce responsibility and prevent the problem from spreading.

Although there was a difference in degree, it was a story similar to what the nurse who brought him to the ship said. However, when I listened to the story, it was not a simple problem of violence.

He said that in the early days, when things were fine, they would build barricades to warn each other not to come over. Then, at some point, they suddenly lost their minds and started fighting and killing each other. It is said that the medical staff ran away around that time.

“They start acting more and more strangely, and they can’t even remember what they said…”

The nurse who had crawled in began to sob. The nurse who had screamed also began to sob, perhaps infected.

“Looking at the guide map, it looks like there are hardly any hospital rooms on the 1st to 4th floors, except for the intensive care unit and emergency room. Are there that many patients?”

“There was a treatment room. There were patients and their guardians waiting to be treated.”

There was. It was past tense.

“Anyway, the number must have decreased a lot now. Are you saying that the patients who just rushed outside and made a mess of things are now waiting near the examination rooms where they were treated?”

The nurses nodded.

He makes a big deal out of it and then goes back as if nothing happened? Are you in your right mind? Shouldn’t he be doing something related to survival, like pushing through the barricade and running outside, or looking for food?

“We’ve sorted out the infected people on the second floor to some extent, so let’s go outside for now.”

Maru, who came out, could understand what the nurses had said. The infected people here certainly seemed to be out of their minds. The corpses that should have been lined up were gone. There were traces of them being roughly cleaned up. Where did they get cleaned up? Why?

Did someone put honey on the corpse?

There were probably 35 to 40 bodies, but they were all taken care of in the 30 minutes or so that I spoke with the nurses? That meant there were still infected people somewhere. I checked the walkie-talkie on my waist. It was still working and there was no vibration. It meant that there was no problem where Ms. Kim was.

Even when I came out, there was no reaction. So, as long as I don’t make a lot of noise and don’t provoke anything, it’s okay. It wasn’t a good idea to push the barricade while going up the stairs to the 15th floor. It was definitely better to take the elevator if I wanted to go up quietly. They said that two out of the eight were in working condition.

“Is it okay if I take the elevator up?”

The nurses nodded. I was worried that we might get trapped if the control room forcibly stopped the elevator or something, but if that wasn’t the case, I was glad.

[The door closes.]

The nurses who got on the elevator were excited. Most of the medical staff said they would go to the 15th floor and wait for the helicopter. It was only after getting on the elevator that the nurses said that most of the doctors were on the 15th floor. I had a rough idea, but it didn’t matter.

Among the nurses, there was a woman dating a doctor. The two were chatting. Oh, it’s a good time. Is Japan a little different? The nurse was young, and from what I heard, the doctor she was dating seemed to be in his late 20s. If this incident hadn’t happened, they would have gotten married soon. Even in this situation, they’re talking about marriage.

[It’s the 15th floor. The door opens.]

!

As soon as the elevator door opened, something sharp stabbed inside. Maruya, who had been standing behind, lightly knocked it aside, but the nurses who were riding with him were the problem. One nurse in front of the door was stabbed in a vital spot and died instantly without even making a sound, and another was stabbed in the stomach and chest and collapsed.

People holding crude spears made of ringers were standing around with blank expressions.

[The door closes.]

Suddenly-

[The door closes.]

Suddenly-

The door hanging on the dead nurse’s torso opened and closed repeatedly.

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“It’s not me. It’s not me···.”

The doctor, who was the dead nurse’s lover, was muttering in a mental state of confusion.

“You! It’s because of you.”

“Why did you bring the women? Huh? Why did you put the women in front!”

The doctor, who was mentally exhausted, suddenly rushed in. He lightly jabbed the doctor’s forehead. Even though it was light, it was a counter-jab to the force of the attack, so the doctor fell over.

“I wonder if it’s okay to blame someone after killing someone. The nurse was even waiting in front of the door to see her lover soon. There was no need to put her first. Okay? Do you understand? Then calm down. Calm down.”

A middle-aged doctor came out from among the bewildered people and examined the nurse who had been stabbed in the chest and stomach. If she had just left it there, it would have been okay. She stabbed him deeply and then, because she was a nurse, she was surprised and pulled it out again. It would have been good if she had pulled it out the right way, but she was surprised and pulled it out in a panic. It wasn’t good at all.

“Kuroda-kun, what are you doing in front of an emergency patient! Haneshima-kun, prepare for surgery right away.”

Was there an operating room on the 15th floor? The sign simply said that the 15th floor was a VIP room. If that’s the case, can I call Ms. Kim and her party downstairs?

“Dr. Miyake, there is no operating room here.”

“What are you talking about? If there’s a doctor and surgical instruments, that’s an operating room! Get ready quickly!”

Maru quietly chimed in.

“But wouldn’t it be much better to take a CT scan or X-ray and then have the surgery in the operating room? There are also examination rooms and operating rooms on the second floor.”

“Who doesn’t know that? The second floor is unusable because of the infected patients.”

“I’m talking about almost all the infected people near the examination room and operating room.”

“what?”

“······.”

“Is that true?”

“So the nurses could have gotten on the elevator with me? If there were infected people, how could the nurses in the blood collection room have gotten here?”

A middle-aged doctor named Dr. Miyake immediately spoke.

“Bring me a hospital bed. Go with the patient to the operating room on the second floor.”

“Huh? I’m not sure, teacher…”

“That’s right. You haven’t even confirmed it yet, right?”

“What are you suggesting? Are you saying that you should let the person you stabbed with your own hands die? One person died before you could do anything, but can’t you still save the other person?”

Maru spoke quietly to the middle-aged doctor who had been yelling at him to get ready.

“There are more emergency patients down here now. There are also some with minor injuries. Can you help me with that?”

A smile that was hard to describe, but seemed to fit the impression. The middle-aged doctor froze as if time had stopped at that smile, and then nodded.

“thank you.”

Maru took out the walkie-talkie and called Ms. Kim.

“They said surgery is possible here, so get ready and come to the second floor. Use the elevator. There are infected people here, and they’re sensitive to noise, so be quiet.”

[There is an infected person. Sensitive to sound. Be quiet. Understood.]