Rust - Chapter 847



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RUST -847

‘Mentalist?’

The mental waves that swept through the space were clearly mixed with dominance.

Could it be that while you’re in a virtual reality, a high-level cannibal or vampire has invaded Vladiak Tower?

‘A psychic mixed with dominance in a laboratory where psychic blocking equipment is always running.’

Maru’s senses were sharpened. There was nothing in his hands that he had lowered to his waist. Eclipse… New Eclipse was gone.

‘······.’

As I changed clothes to access the virtual reality, I remembered what I had put in my closet. As I stepped out of the access capsule, I felt something being stepped on.

?

Grass instead of floor?

Maru looked down, feeling as if he had stepped on something similar to grass, and what he saw was something rippling.

Maru blinked as the ripples that had been rising as if supporting Maru’s legs disappeared like an illusion.

Swish- I rubbed my eyes and looked again, something had disappeared without a trace. I knew what it was. It was a form of flesh and blood that had taken shape, a death that had taken substance, and it had disappeared just a moment ago.

The problem is that this place is reality now. Maru wiped the sweat from his palm. Could it be that this is not reality, but still a virtual reality?

‘That can’t be true.’

The last thing that came to mind was the Japanese eclipse. After that, I came out of the capsule, so this place was real and it had to be real.

But there was something strange. Of course, when I came out of the capsule, the AI ​​Diana was supposed to report, but she wasn’t there.

‘Hmm – is there a problem?’

By the way, emergency lights were on everywhere. The AI ​​couldn’t find Diana’s signature green light.

‘Is it because of the overlap?’

To be honest, my memories are still jumbled.

There were moments that were repeated and times that overlapped.

A little bit of the past and present and a little bit of the future.

It feels like everything is a complete mess and has been hammered into my head.

Although he just wanted to take a nap, Maru overcame his mental fatigue with superhuman endurance.

Mental wave.

That was because I had to find the guy who had sent out a psychic wave mixed with dominance.

As if responding to the fatigue and irritation, black vines rose and disappeared along with Maru’s steps.

A strange sight, with vines sprouting from something black in the shape of footprints, slowly turning into particles and melting into the air.

Maru was unaware of the strange phenomenon. He simply walked in the direction he felt the one who had fired the psychic wave containing his dominance.

‘hmm?’

A subtle feeling that I felt momentarily. It felt like the guy who had been sending out psychic waves had disappeared. He hadn’t run away. He hadn’t cut off the psychic waves either.

‘Erased?’

It doesn’t mean that the traces have been erased or anything, but rather that the existence has been erased. So should we say that he’s dead? Maru’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Maru didn’t stop walking, because the feeling of sensing that something was dead from a distance was still an unfamiliar feeling.

What came into Maru’s sight was a black vine rising up from the floor, wrapping itself around the brain-like terminal that had a copy of Joseph Meyer’s memories.

The black vines slowly transformed into sparkling black particles and disappeared into thin air as if they had finished their work. The foreign traces left in the transparent preservation container disappeared along with them.

Maru was embarrassed and troubled.

I just thought I’d catch the guy who shot the psychic wave. I actually caught him(?). And the black vines that had appeared in the virtual reality popped out into reality.

This was risky. It was a matter of whether this was a temporary phenomenon or if something like this would pop up in the future.

Tsk-

Maru looked at Joseph Meyer’s brainwashed brain, which should have been bubbling and foaming, but was still.

Somehow, there was not a single trace of life left in the clouded gray matter cells. It felt as if all the cells had died simultaneously.

It was as if each and every cell had been killed. I would have to do a detailed analysis to know for sure, but I could tell that what I felt now was true.

‘By the way. That’s strange.’

The mind wave blocking device was always operating to prevent the bio-terminal from doing anything useless. However, the fact that the mind wave reached Maru means that the mind wave blocking device has stopped operating.

In the event of such an emergency, AI Diana should have automatically taken control of the situation. If Diana could not control the situation, Samantha should have taken control, and if Diana and Samantha could not control the situation, the assistant AIs should have taken control of the situation.

‘It’s clear something has happened.’

Maru took his gaze away from the dead bio-terminal. The image of death with a physical form wrapping around the bio-terminal came to mind vividly.

Could it be that someone was contaminated by the psychic waves that Joseph Meyer’s remains emitted before he died? Maru headed toward the central corridor of the lab.

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AI Diana quickly restored the connection. Starting with the CCTV, connecting to various sensors, the entire Vladiak Tower came into Diana’s range of perception.

[Check the first floor]

[Check 2nd floor]

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[Confirming the research area. Checking the entire individual research lab.]

[Check out the Virtual Reality Center.]

[Some CCTVs are not working.]

[Some sensors are not working.]

[Repair robots and drones start working]

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[Beep- Emergency.]

[Lost bio-signal response from memory storage bio-terminal.]

[All surrounding biometric terminals lose their biometric response.]

[Check CCTV footage.]

[No CCTV footage.]

[No sensor response.]

[No sensor records.]

AI Diana was able to check one CCTV recording. It was a video of Maru walking. The footage showed the grass and vines blooming with each step.

Diana immediately tried to connect the signal in the direction of Maru, but it didn’t connect. All the connection lines were dead.

Diana, who had calculated why she had returned to the supercomputer and why it had been reset, reported the current situation from afar using the speaker phone.

[Currently, an abnormal situation has occurred.]

Let me briefly explain the current situation. Maru’s steps, which were heading towards the central entrance, stopped.

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Kim Yang was happy and sad at the same time when she heard that Maru had regained consciousness and escaped from the virtual reality. She felt regretful that if she had been in a state of confusion, she would have had another chance to rub it.

“What is that expression?”

“Can’t I even make the facial expressions I want with my own face? Oh, your facial expressions are only half-assed. Sorry.”

Hood and Kim Yang engaged in a subtle war of nerves. While the two were bickering, the nurse prayed with her hands clasped together.

“I hope nothing bad happens. Even if you leave the virtual reality, isn’t it dangerous? There are strange phenomena, you know.”

I simply assumed a prayer posture, but somehow a majestic feeling and a sacred aura began to permeate the surroundings.

“······.”

“······.”

The gazes of Hood and Kim Yang, who had been engaged in a war of nerves, wavered.

There was a brief exchange of sympathy through their eyes, thinking, ‘Isn’t this a good thing for a weird girl?’, but that was it.

‘Do it right. Don’t shamelessly refusing to admit it even though the outcome was decided and putting that person in danger by blowing yourself up.’

‘You don’t think the enemies will blow themselves up? They’re cannibals and vampires, and they often have their subordinates blow themselves up. Now that you’ve experienced it properly, shouldn’t you be prepared? It’s a good thing to think of it as a preventive vaccination.’

‘Let’s stop talking about that.’

‘Yeah. I agree.’

The two women chose a tacit truce. The nurse’s worried eyes were that destructive. I wonder how I can get rid of the nurse. Na Ju-yeon solved the two women’s worries.

“According to Diana’s report, there is nothing wrong with his health.”

“I’m so glad. Haha-”

The nurse lowered her hands. The grandeur that had defied gravity by moving backwards with her hands shook again. Even a woman like her could involuntarily exclaim in admiration at the exclamations and movements.

Boeing Boeing

Is that kind of elasticity and movement possible with that size? The three women each swallowed different elasticity.

“Oh my.”

“Holly···.”

“Fuck-”

The nurse turned her head at the small sound.

“Huh? Now···.”

At the nurse’s innocent gaze, which seemed to ask what she was talking about, the three women all shut their mouths and turned their heads.

When Kim Yang, who had noticed, poked Na Ju-yeon’s side as if telling her to speak quickly, she instinctively began to explain.

“There is nothing wrong with your health, but it seems like there is a problem with the expression of your abilities.”

Na Ju-yeon displayed a video on the monitor. Something unrealistic bloomed from Maru’s footsteps every time he walked.

“Can you live there?”

“······.”

“······.”

You’re saying that living is a passive way to get by?

Then isn’t it a walking disaster?

“Based on our analysis so far, it appears to be a realized life or a stylized death, but that’s not the problem.”

The sight of grass leaves and vines that had bloomed distinctly slowly turning into particles and disappearing.

“It’ll disappear soon?”

“The problem isn’t that it disappears. The problem is that it appears every time you walk.”

Kim Yang’s eyes sharpened slightly at Hood’s answer.

“That’s true, because you never know when death might strike him.”

It blooms just by walking, so if it suddenly pops up next to the veranda, it’s a total disaster.

So that’s right. A walking disaster.

“Besides, it doesn’t seem to simply affect living things. As it becomes a reality, I think it will affect electronic devices as well.”

When the artificial intelligence Diana came near, it was immediately erased and returned to the supercomputer where the backed up information was. Even the CCTV and sensors simply stopped working.

“Are you saying that the program will be deleted?”

Half of Hood’s face became serious.

“It’s not exact, but let’s take it as a guess.”

“So does that mean I can’t use things like core gas or reaper suits?”

“If you can’t control your abilities, then yes.”

“What about airships? Airships also have various electronic devices, including auxiliary AI.”

Na Ju-yeon nodded heavily to Kim Yang’s question.

“I’ll have to check that out too. If the power gets too strong and starts destroying programs and electronics, that’s definitely a problem.”

“······.”

“······.”

It is true that the typified killing power is terrifying, but if the reaction is that you can’t ride a core machine, a reaper suit, or a dedicated airship, wouldn’t your fighting power actually be reduced?

“I don’t think it’s something to be determined because it’s not certain. If we can completely control the vines of life and death that have become reality, it’s a problem that can be solved.”

That’s right. It requires training.

“When can we use virtual reality again? It takes practice to control life and death.”

“No. Even if we restart the virtual reality, we won’t be able to have a direct duel.”

“Why?”

“The bio-terminal that contained Joseph Meyer’s memories was dead. His life was completely erased. He was rendered incapable of biological activity by the vines of death in reality. Not only that, but the artificial intelligence Diana was also erased and regained consciousness on the supercomputer that backed him up. In reality.”

Na Ju-yeon said with a serious face.

“If you think of it as killing the program… I guess so. If you die from his will in the virtual reality, you can die in reality too.”

It was a dangerous story. Maru, who had to act independently and separate from the unit to survive, now had to be careful even when meeting people.

“I’m fixing the quantum computer, removing the damaged bio-terminals and replacing them with new ones. I’d like you not to meet until we’ve analyzed life and death. There’s a chance something dangerous could happen.”

So Maru was in a kind of isolation state. He could have gone out if he wanted to, but Maru remained in isolation.

Kim Yang whispered on the floor while she was spending her boring days.

[If you want to quickly understand your abilities and quickly find out your limits, isn’t the fastest way to do that by practicing?]

“That’s true.”

That makes sense. It’s true that practice is the most effective.

But where can you actually practice it?

[What if the two of us who decided to take care of the empire work together?]

The story of how we decided to get rid of the imperial senators and military personnel who had lost their sense of propriety.

[No good. I’ll do the long-distance. The close-range course is where the King uses his power to quietly make you good. How about that? The two of you clean it up and come back.]

Wouldn’t it be good to test the ability to do both and work together in order?

The two of us.

quietly.

Kim Yang’s eyes curved gently.

Not a good idea?

huh.