Rust - Chapter 828



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RUST [RUST]-828

Even though we returned to Vladislav Tower, Ki-sun’s expression was not good.

“What’s with the dead body?”

[Ah- I don’t know. I don’t know.]

As Ki-soon couldn’t hide her complicated feelings during the video call, Maru asked.

“What don’t you know?”

[Even though we did so well, the fact that more than half of them supported the Free Canadian League means they hated us, right?]

Maru continued his story while gathering the corpses of the cannibals whose heads had disappeared to one side.

“If we were living in Korea, and Korea was suddenly taken over by Indonesia and an Indonesian came as the governor, how would we feel?”

[Why do you keep giving examples like that?]

“Then what if a country like Sudan, which is in the middle of a civil war in Africa, suddenly occupied Korea?”

[What are you talking about all of a sudden?]

Ki-soon roughly understood the gist of what Maru was saying, but if you look at it as it is, humans are just beings swayed by emotions.

Humans are certainly emotional beings, but at the same time, they are rational beings and conscientious beings. If not, when the end comes, as soon as the law collapses, humans will have destroyed themselves through slaughter and plunder.

There were certainly places where looting and killing took place. On the other hand, there were places where people from the same area banded together to maintain order. And they were all human.

Maru added to the story, perhaps noticing Ki-sun’s thoughts.

“The prejudice against Asians is worse than I thought. China caused a big accident. Canada also doesn’t have good relations with India. Honestly, when I mentioned Indonesia and Sudan in Africa as examples, you flinched inside too.”

[······.]

The refugees who had fainted from the thought of living came to their senses one by one and started to run away in shock. Maru ignored them and cleaned up the scene.

“Prejudice is very deep-rooted. I didn’t know it, but there was a case where someone yelled at an Asian person who was eating at a restaurant and made a fuss. And the person who committed such racist acts was not a drunkard or someone with a violent criminal record, but the CEO of a high-class company in the United States.”

[That’s an extreme case… I mean. Hah- well… What’s the point now? I’ve already left Canada.]

Kim Yang chimed in on Maru and Gi-sun’s words.

[What about prejudice? You just have to think that she has that kind of mindset. In my experience, there have definitely been those kinds of guys.]

개새끼들도 그렇고 젓 같은 년들은 어디에나 있었음.

That’s statistics and science. Yeah.

Ms. Kim nodded with a serious face.

[That must be because what I did in the past involved getting involved with criminals.]

[What are you talking about? My experience doesn’t lie. I’ve been through it? My experience is 100% true?]

Ki-soon was speechless. What can I do if he experienced it himself?

[No. How did the story come to this?]

[I was talking about how I didn’t care at all about the discrimination and bullshit those guys were causing.]

Have we ever talked about that?

Although Maru and Gisoon had the same expression, Ms. Kim looked confident during the video call.

[If they discriminate against us, we can discriminate against them too, so there’s no need to suffer.]

[What does that mean?]

[You reap what you sow. If you discriminate against others, you should accept the discrimination that year. Or not?]

Ki-soon looked at Maru with a bewildered expression at Kim Yang’s confident claim. For some reason, Maru was nodding slightly at Kim Yang’s story.

Ki-soon was shocked.

[Oh my god. No. Seriously. Are you sure?]

“I don’t think Mr. Kim’s idea is bad because we want to make sure of the causal relationship. In fact, the legal standards we first created were in the same context. Discrimination should be viewed in the same context. If we just let it go smoothly, then things like the Free Canadian League and other things like that have come up.”

Maru’s story reminded Ki-sun of the first law that was strictly enforced when the Holy Kingdom was founded. It was to severely punish fraud and false accusations.

In a credit society, fraud is a crime that undermines the trust of its members, in other words, it is a crime that shakes the foundation of the credit society, so it should be punished as a serious crime such as murder or robbery.

The same goes for false accusations. False accusations are crimes that aim to ruin someone’s life by accusing them of being a criminal.

It was a bill that said that anyone who committed an innocent crime must be punished as a felon, as long as they tried to ruin a person’s life.

So, from the beginning of its foundation, the Holy Kingdom strictly held those who committed crimes accountable. If one plundered, one had to pay the price, and if one harmed others out of greed, one had to be punished even more severely.

Courts based on AI judges, lawyers, and prosecutors, as well as juries comprised of Holly followers, were not tolerant of premeditated or violent crimes.

Tolerance for such crimes was an insult to the victims and at the same time against the will of His Majesty the Holy Father Vladimir Kalin, the founder of the Holy Kingdom.

So the moment Maru designated the issue of discrimination as a social crime, rather than a simple matter of personal character or likes and dislikes, discrimination also became a serious crime.

[No. Stop for a moment. You should have the freedom to say no to people you don’t like.]

“Is discrimination also freedom?”

Even though he was the governor, Ki-sun was also subject to discrimination. It is true that it was even more painful because Ki-sun could read emotions.

[Even if it is not to that extent, the moment we try to evaluate and judge human emotions, it is said that the result may be different from what we intended.]

“······.”

[Discrimination is bad and can sometimes be a crime, but the moment you turn it into a serious crime and apply the zero tolerance principle, you’re going to have bigger problems.]

[What’s the problem? I’m trying to get rid of those discriminatory bitches.]

Ki-sun’s eyes narrowed even further at Kim Yang’s rebuttal.

[If discrimination becomes a serious crime, there will be people who will use discrimination in reverse, and related crimes will increase. What are we going to do about that? We’ve finally established a principle, but it might end up in tatters.]

How can you prove that you have been discriminated against? The only way is to insert an information extractor into your brain and open it to see if it is true or not.

Is that really the right thing to do? On the other hand, what if you misunderstand that you were discriminated against when you did not discriminate? What if you did not intend to make a false accusation and just reported it out of pride because you were discriminated against?

I made them drill a hole in the other person’s head. And it ended with ‘It was a misunderstanding’? It was bound to get complicated. Ki-soon explained that part.

[What happens when human emotions are included in the realm of law? Where did PC (political correctness) start? What about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)? It started as a story about banning discrimination and doing the politically correct thing, but what happened in the end?]

“······.”

Maru understood. He acknowledged that it was a convenient idea to include good, bad, dislike, and even disgust in the realm of violent crime.

[It’s good to punish murder, planned crimes, fraud, and false accusations severely. However, I don’t think that we should treat emotional crimes as severe crimes. It could make the problem worse.]

“I agree, but I think there should at least be a causal relationship.”

It was natural that if you discriminate, you should be discriminated against. However, it was not easy to do so in the Holy Kingdom.

If you throw racists at people who don’t discriminate and tell them to discriminate, it would be ridiculous. If you throw racists at people who are racists and tell them to discriminate, it would be ridiculous.

[When things are difficult, financial therapy is the best.]

Kim Yang nodded and answered. Since ancient times, when you have a headache, most of it is solved by receiving financial treatment.

The story was about giving financial treatment to those who openly discriminate despite being told not to discriminate. Isn’t that what most laws are like?

[It seems that the current situation at the Canadian Free League is the result of internally festering feelings of discrimination. It seems unlikely that their true feelings will change even if the fine is increased.]

Hood, who had been listening to the story quietly, said, “In the past, the United States also wasted a great deal of energy on racial discrimination issues.

Hood believed that the reason the United States was able to endure was because the compensation system worked together.

The idea was to reward those who excel regardless of race. The idea was that this should go beyond material or economic rewards to include status.

So, while financial treatment is good, Hood thought that the whip alone had its limits. Sometimes, a carrot could be more effective.

A method of promoting people who do not discriminate to higher positions or hiring people based on their ability and giving them higher positions along with sufficient compensation if they produce good results.

[There are already departments that are doing things that way, so I don’t think it would be a bad idea to promote them on a large scale.]

The research department that Na Ju-yeon was leading was right there. A place where only mad scientists could survive, regardless of race, gender, age, religion, or culture.

“Let’s do that. Let’s award the research department and create promotional materials related to it.”

[All right.]

PD added his opinion.

[It is effective to judge based on performance, but if we only focus on that, people will start to abandon their conscience or sacrifice others for performance.

This was the reason why there were few people who wrote success stories who did not commit crimes. Why is it possible to think of sacrificing others to achieve success? The PD thought it was because of a lack of community awareness.

[But when are you coming? Wouldn’t it be better to talk about this in person?]

In the video, Kim Yang’s eyes sparkled with the question, “When will you come?” Maru answered while looking around the roughly cleaned up scene.

“You have to hold on to your head.”

The vampire bastard who took over the Free Canadian League. Our goal was to catch him.

I thought the guy who commanded the terrorist unit would retreat and go back to the main camp, but he suddenly went to the empire.

I tried to extract information from the guy’s head, leaving only the torso, but the head just melted.

They were strangely different from what was expected.

[Should I go too?]

Ms. Kim said quietly.

“As I said, you never know what they might do. Just in case, make sure to defend yourself there.”

[···Okay, I understand.]

Beep-beep—

[Those believed to be cannibals are approaching the battle site.]

The assistant AI made an emergency report. A red dot appeared on Maru’s HUD (head-up display) approaching at high speed.

A zoomed-in image from the stratospheric surveillance craft appeared on the HUD, corrected in real time. The figure at the very front was a woman by the outline.

‘Is that her?’

During a meeting of the Free Canadian League leadership, one of the two vampire escorts who entered the civic center was a woman.

“They’re coming. Let’s meet again later.”

Maru pushed the crow and the field mouse back.

“Raise the drone’s altitude.”

[Drone altitude increases. Begins to reverse track the enemy stratospheric airship’s path.]

Beep beep beep beep beep

The HUD captured the guys who had been running furiously slowly slowing down and starting to move away from us in a semicircle.

Maru looked around at the refugees who were slowly coming to their senses and activated his stealth equipment. Several refugees were startled when they saw Maru disappear into thin air.

‧

The plains through which the blizzard passed were covered in white snow.

‘Colton got hit?’

Although he was an unlucky bastard, he was a formidable man in terms of strength. Colton was the first to notice the rat hiding in the community center.

Colton being hit was a problem, but the bigger problem was that the operation may have been discovered. Even though the operation, which lasted three stages, failed and they had turned to the Empire, they were hit?

‘Check out how it happened.’

The master was taking this situation very seriously. In the worst case scenario, he would leave the Free Canadian League as it is and leave for the time being.

‘We have to take care of all the bodies.’

In order to increase the number of new humans, new human factors were needed. Parts such as the brain, heart, and major organs. Now, even corpses were important future resources.

A tent began to appear in the distance. It was the place where Colton’s special forces had decided to infiltrate. The woman raised one hand and waved it halfway, and her men spread out in a wide semicircle.

‘advance.’

A wind blew with the smell of blood mixed between humans and new humans. The thick smell of blood gradually numbed the sense of smell. The refugees gathered on one side stood there dumbfounded even though they saw them approaching.

‘huh?’

It was a strange reaction. Is it because it’s not a military uniform? Or…

Bam- The connection in my head was severed. The string connecting me to my subordinates.

‘what?’

Turn your head and look to the left, the strings breaking in your head in real time.

what’s this.