Rust - Chapter 843



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RUST [RUST]-843

oh my god.

I think I’m really in love.

A sharp murderous aura felt from beyond the rising dust pit.

‘Coming.’

Crazy shaking.

Even the tension seems to squeeze out excitement.

Since Mayan City was neither a mere virtual reality nor an illusion, Ms. Kim could feel everything.

And now.

She finally realized.

It’s something you know with your heart, not with your head.

‘I wondered why it suddenly happened.’

Director Yoo, why did that lady act like that at the end?

What did you want to gain by becoming a cannibal and what did you want to do?

The desire for revenge must have been important, but so must have been a sense of despair.

But even without the floor,

Even if it weren’t for Maru, would he have made the choice to fight even at the cost of becoming a cannibal?

It was clear that the woman was feeling what he was feeling right now.

And Director Yoo mistook those feelings for a fight with his nemesis, but he was different.

Ms. Kim knew what this feeling was.

This heart pounding.

A tense feeling that could kill you

That was the thing that made my hormones go crazy.

‘love.’

Ms. Kim was proud of herself.

I wanted to praise myself for not being mistaken like Director Yoo.

And she wished that he could fall in love like she did.

huh.

If that’s the case, it won’t end easily.

At least more than that woman, Director Yu.

She took a deep breath and pressed the button again. The jumping mines buried ahead rose up with a pop, filled with love.

I hope it reaches you···.

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Ruins filled with the fresh scent of early spring.

Maru looked around his surroundings with a strange feeling as he saw the backdrop of a collapsed Detroit at some point in the future. This was because this was not a simple virtual reality.

‘The result of the simulation using a quantum computer and a bunch of grapes is like this. It must be because the calculations showed that at some point in the future, this will happen.’

I don’t know how much time has passed, but one thing is certain: the prophecy is that there is a high probability that Detroit will be ruined in the future.

A prediction that the future will not be one in which both the ruined and not-ruined coexist like Schrödinger’s cat, but rather one in which only the ruined remain.

‘The last time I trained was to catch ants. I wonder if I’m still alive here?’

Maru thought of Enpi Maru.

Not only the background, but most of the NPCs here are NPCs that are projections of the consciousness of real people.

So Maru also benefited greatly from the NPC. He was able to advance to the next level through a bloody battle with N.P. Maru, a clone of himself.

‘But in this ruined situation, why are we asking to have a game…?’

Maru couldn’t help but wait for a moment. Who wouldn’t misunderstand a game in virtual reality? At their respective energetic ages, there wouldn’t be any pressure in virtual reality.

Doesn’t that make sense?

Ahem-

Judging from the atmosphere, it didn’t seem to be what I expected.

But even if that’s not the case, I guess we should try sticking together just once.

‘The dating course isn’t a course where we kill each other…’

Maru’s head turned with a strange feeling. An extremely restrained gaze was directed at him.

‘no way.’

Seolma said that he catches people. At the same time, Kim Yang’s voice is heard.

[Let’s play a game.]

A sense of crisis is felt because it was such a perfect reality.

The moment Maru takes a step to the side, a bullet passes through the space.

▭▭▭▭▭▭▭▭—–

The trajectory of the new composite coil gun left a clear mark.

‘crazy-‘

Maru avoided death even in virtual reality. He tried not to die. He was always desperate because it was a virtual reality that was like reality, just like reality.

It was unclear how his ability to kill his enemies with intent would change if he experienced death as if it were a reality.

Even here, the sense of death was sharp, and it was even more so because the sense was sharp as if telling me to avoid death.

‘Are you crazy? You asked me out on a date.’

Maru’s body reacted to the continued killing intent. Maru took the shortest path toward where the bullet had just come from. There was no help from the auxiliary AI attached to the HUD, nor was there any new core armor.

All I have is an early Eclipse, without a Ripper suit. It’s not an Eclipse that’s been transformed once, it’s the very first early version of Eclipse.

I logged on to say I was going on a date, and out of nowhere an early model Eclipse appeared. I thought it was a prop, but is this what they gave me?

‘Okay, then try dying.’

Dadadak-

There was no hiding or concealment in search of a blind spot. Maru ran at the shortest distance and the fastest speed.

Maru split the small building blocking his way with the Eclipse he had pulled out as it ran, and went inside. He had only walked a few steps, but he could feel the aura of death from all directions.

‘pitfall?’

There was no time to turn back.

In the past, I would not have been able to detect mechanical traps, but after the huge slaughter in the ant empire, I could vaguely sense inanimate dangers like bombs.

The positions of automatic turrets, mines, things that could only be found with sensors in the past felt like fragments of death.

Facet-

I threw myself into the time when the floor, filled with neutralizers, began to split. The world began to split like a movie frame.

The sensation of a cold, encroaching agent circulating through the blood vessels in my body. It felt like a razor made of ice was cutting through my blood vessels, both painful and cold at the same time.

‘The Chinese system must have been realistic and historically accurate.’

It wasn’t like this when I fought N.P. Maru and decided to do it for the rest of my life. It wasn’t like this when I trained to deal with the Ant Empire.

It felt strange, like the effect of the neutralizer had become stronger but there were side effects, but the important thing now was to punish Kim Yang for being selfish.

The space where the frame was snapping and the bombs that were starting to explode began to intersect with the floor.

Maru enters the wall that has been torn apart by Eclipse. Following him, the floor and ceiling begin to bulge and burst little by little.

Boom! Kwakwakwak!!

The small building collapsed and a cloud of dust made of reinforced concrete rose up. Normally, I would have run in a zigzag pattern to dodge or circled around, but not now.

Maru, who had resolved to completely wipe out all the tears from now on so that they wouldn’t be able to do that, decided to break through.

hmm?

If it were Ms. Kim, she would have shot and stopped him even if she couldn’t be seen.

‘It’s a composite coil gun, so it should be able to fire continuously.’

Kim Yang wasn’t going to waste even a second. If he was going to fight with such confidence, he must have been fully armed. If he had come in a dedicated reactor, he would have had enough energy to fire continuously.

Paaak-

The moment I broke through the cement dust, the small building howled and exploded towards the back of the floor. Then, things that made a loud popping sound leaped violently into the air.

Pong- ting-

Pong- Tong-

An M16A2 jumping mine bounced up without me even stepping on it. Four mines rose up at once, each of which exploded in 0.5 to 1 second.

‘Forced with a detonator?’

The time it takes to recognize a mine and then split again.

Crunch- crunch-

A knife cut that slices the jumping mine into eight pieces in midair, like splitting an apple. The mine fragments flash as if a black solid line were dividing the space, and then fall like corn.

Puck-pit-

Two mines with their detonators still intact sparked, but the mine cut into eight pieces did not cause a chain reaction.

Maru ran, stepping on the torn pieces.

Kim Yang’s reaction was slightly delayed, perhaps because he was surprised that the forcibly activated mine did not explode properly and disintegrated in the air.

head-

Teeeeing-

Eclipse converted the powerful impact of the composite coil gun into vibrational energy.

Wooooow-

The blade made of vibration spread out widely and pulled out a blade of sonic waves that was likely 40cm long. Maru used the transparent blade as a shield to block Kim Yang’s attacks.

Toodoodoodoodo

A burst of nerves from the shooting and a decisive explosion from the square.

bang!

The steel storm created by the explosion of Claymore also failed to penetrate the shield of blades created by the vibration wave and was transformed into impact energy.

Wooooow-

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Na Ju-yeon received a call from Kim Yang, asking her to prepare for a hot game in Mayan City.

‘Last time, we had to do something with quantum computers and our bio-computing devices didn’t have enough power, but this time, we’ve prepared properly. Let’s just wait and see.’

The quantum computer and the remaining computing power of the grape bunch were not enough to reproduce Maru’s strange ability. So what if we mobilized all of the computing power?

“We will back up our research data and secure computing power, starting with quantum computers.”

“Please back up your biometric terminal and secure computing power.”

Although it is called virtual reality, Mayan City, which mobilizes everything from quantum computers and bio-terminals to supercomputers and artificial intelligence, is in fact like another world.

A scene where the wind blows and the trees sway. The process of the collapsed city weathering in an instant was a very natural result.

If we could reproduce Maru’s strange ability in that world, we would be able to clearly understand what kind of being Maru has become.

If you know your abilities, you can develop equipment that fits your abilities, and if you know your abilities, you can develop abilities that can help you with those abilities.

Na Ju-yeon thought that she was the one who could share Maru’s past, present, and future with him. In fact, they had been together in the past and were together in the present, so now all that was left was the future.

“I can’t support that new clip.”

If you put in a nucleus that hasn’t been analyzed yet, it would be difficult to determine the pure ability of Maru. The computational power would also be used to analyze the nucleus, and the computational power to analyze Maru would be insufficient.

“It doesn’t matter. We need to maximize computational power. Put it in the early Eclipse type.”

That was the reason Maru picked up the early Eclipse model.

As the battle began in an instant, the operator resources began to be consumed at a terrifying rate. The kinetic energy of the floor, which moved in seconds, was terrifying, but the traps and counter-fire that Kim Yang had laid out here and there were also abnormal.

‘Have you been hiding your strength?’

Kim Yang was practicing Mayenshi. Sometimes she would do things that seemed like sparring with N.P. Maru, but she didn’t, so I knew how much she was doing. But this was the first time I saw her like this.

Beep- beep beep beep-

Kim Yang’s heart rate accelerated on the vital check machine. Her blood pressure rose and her hormone levels began to go wild.

‘That’s amazing.’

Of the 36 drones, 18 were used as surveillance/reconnaissance/suicide drones, and the remaining half, 18 drones, were used as armed drones.

The sight of Kim Yang alone pouring out the firepower of a platoon unit through crazy drone operation. His flushed face. Sweat beads on his forehead. And the sound of his breathing was being recorded as is. Na Ju-yeon’s brow furrowed slightly at the sight of Kim Yang’s strange appearance.

‘Are you saying you were hiding your power?’

But why does this make me feel so uncomfortable? Na Ju-yeon’s gaze turned to the floor. Even the attack of 18 drones couldn’t stop him.

A charge like a real man. The drones that had been spread out in all directions began to gather one by one as Maru continued to move straight ahead.

Layers of barriers were created in an instant. Ms. Kim was no longer the solo assassination specialist she used to be.

She was showing off her talent as a field commander who could both snipe and command at the same time. With the help of the auxiliary AI, she was simultaneously controlling the drone and carrying out her own operations.

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Phew- Phew-

Kim Yang’s breathing became ragged. Even if he controlled 36 drones in real time, detonated the bombs he had planted, and sniped at them from a blind spot, he could not stop Maru’s advance.

With one sword? How?

The bullet wasn’t just a bullet, and the gun wasn’t just a gun. It was a composite coil gun. The bullet, fired through electromagnetic acceleration and gunpowder dual acceleration, had tremendous velocity.

But avoid and block that?

It was no use distracting them with guns and then using drones to take advantage of the gap. Bombs were no use either.

It’s coming. It’s coming.

Mr. Kim starts to self-destruct the drone towards the approaching Maru.

Kkwadduk!

Maru coldly destroys the drone that was sent with full of love.

It was a sharp cut before the self-destruction, as if he knew it was going to happen.

‘The Eclipse’s blade has become too long.’

I thought it would be worth a try since it wasn’t a space-eating Nucleus, but the early Eclipse types were no joke either.

‘It’s a straight line. I intend to go straight until the end.’

It was Ms. Kim who brought all the drones on standby on both sides forward in case they would make a detour. They would also have to use all their power to meet Maru who was coming towards them.

Kwajijijik!

Kim Yang’s mouth watered at the sight of the building and the wall splitting apart as if they were being ground in a blender, with an area about 10 meters in all directions being torn apart.

Haaaaaa-

A heart that beats like crazy.

I want to run away.

I want to run away.

It’s a guerrilla war while falling back.

Ms. Kim erased the thoughts that came to her mind.

You can’t run away.

I have to show it here.

My sincerity.

Kkwadduk!

It’s coming. It’s coming. It’s coming.

She felt like her head and heart were going to explode at the same time.

now.

At Kim Yang’s command, the reconnaissance drone was converted to suicide mode.

The attack drones began to fire concentrated fire without paying attention to their remaining ammunition.

A fatal attack pouring down towards the floor that had been cut straight through. Kim Yang’s eyes, hoping to create a blind spot for the sword strike, turned to the scope.

and.

Mungkul-

?

Black concentric circles unfolded from Maru’s footsteps. Kim Yang blinked reflexively.

uh?

The space changed as if the black concentric circles had become a garden.

Swish, swoosh!

A vine garden?

Choaaaah!

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Beep! Beep!

[Sir, the quantum computer’s computing power is limited.]

Boom- Boom- Boom-

[Biometric terminal overheating.]

[The cooling system is broken.]

Na Ju-yeon couldn’t take her eyes off the monitor.