Rust - Chapter 848



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RUST -848

After being cooped up in a corner of the lab for days, virtually isolated, Kim Yang’s suggestion that they quietly work together on the Empire’s work was indeed tempting.

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous to go on an airship together?”

[Can’t we just go separately?]

When asked what would happen if the power went out of control and the airship broke down, Kim Yang answered calmly.

[Then why don’t we just move slowly while camping?]

Kim said that if they had new cold-weather equipment, they could easily come by skiing and sledding, so there was no need to worry.

[Since I’m supporting from a distance anyway, even if they go berserk, I can just dodge first. Inside, they can go berserk as much as they want, right?]

She used to say with sparkling eyes that if there was no evidence or witnesses, then it was the right assassination.

“First of all, this isn’t something that the two of us can decide. Let’s have a meeting.”

As soon as the meeting began, Na Ju-yeon and Hood protested.

“If there’s any problem with the airship, it’ll take almost a month, and you two are going to be out of the country for that period? You never know what might happen… It seems dangerous.”

“Have you decided to kill the Imperial senators and military personnel? As I said in the last meeting, it is a very dangerous decision to decide not to get involved in the Empire and instead assassinate the Imperial senators and military personnel.”

“What are you talking about? If you don’t kill the Imperials when they need to, they’ll get tired later. Killing them is one thing, but what are we going to do with our dignity? We have to use them in actual combat to find out how things work, right? The fastest way to secure control is to actually fight. You’re telling me not to go? So you’re just going to lock them up like that?”

I was worried about Ki-sun too.

“I understand that we need to get rid of the imperial senators and military personnel who are trying to water down the Holy Kingdom, but I wonder if that’s really the right thing to do. The fact that Ajeossi is not touching them means that those people haven’t crossed Ajeossi’s line. If they’ve crossed the line, you’ll know. Ajeossi also risked his life to kill those who crossed the line.”

Dan Brown was not an easy man. He was a man with a strong will to set boundaries and deal with those who crossed them.

What would Dan Brown think if he were to kill Imperial Senators and Military Personnel in the Holy Kingdom right now? He would pretend not to interfere with the Empire, but he would actually destroy Imperial politics.

“So, is there any evidence? No matter what that person says, if there’s no evidence, it’s okay. And if he dies like that, how would we know if it was a cannibal or a vampire?”

“Are we going to call them vampires and cannibals who only kill those who are negative to the Holy Kingdom?”

Kim Yang quickly replied to Ki-sun’s question.

“Why don’t we just say that he was trying to cause discord between us and the Empire?”

“Do you really think that’s okay?”

When Hood asked to confirm, Ms. Kim responded coldly.

“I think everyone is mistaken. What’s important to me is the highest dignity. This is the Holy Kingdom. Whether it’s the Empire or something else, why should I know about their circumstances? And isn’t it weird not to do it when you can? If you can’t tell the difference between shit and urine, then you’re still a flower garden?”

“So it’s natural to kill Imperial Senators. It’s for His Majesty’s sake to kill Imperial military personnel and practice their abilities. Is that what you’re saying? If it comes down to it, you can blame them on cannibalistic vampires. Is that the direction the Holy Kingdom should take?”

Hood and Kim Yang slowly started to count down the days.

[Should we stop there? There’s no need to go emotional with each other. If we try to resolve differences in values ​​through emotions, what will be left?]

The floor broke in the middle.

[I can’t help but use my abilities. I can’t stay locked in a corner of the lab forever.]

“There is no guarantee that virtual reality will work properly.”

As Na Ju-yeon said, that was the problem. She wasn’t sure if the virtual reality would be able to withstand Maru’s abilities.

What if there are disruptions to the research and development schedule right now? What if Maru’s ability to cross the line between virtual reality and reality goes wild even further?

Even without that, all the biometric terminals had been scrapped and the quantum computer was in a state of overhaul, so simulating actual combat was impossible.

“In the current situation, it is difficult to train and control abilities in virtual reality.”

“How about doing some practical training at the Free Canadian League?”

PD suggested an alternative.

If for some reason it is difficult to conduct a field test in the Empire, why not do it in the Free Canadian League?

Since the Vampire Count was eliminated, the cannibals who had been vertically controlled would have become independent from the Vampire Count’s control.

The cannibals who were freed from their dominance would actively seek to expand their power so that they would never be ruled by anyone again, and just as the Confederacy was in chaos, the Canadian region would also be in chaos.

“It may not be enough to call it a fierce battle, but I think it’s enough to test your abilities.”

It could also mean condemning those who hurriedly turned into cannibals, calling themselves the Free Canadian League and such.

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Kim Yang and Hood revealed that they would not silently oppose the PD’s opinion. Ki-soon also thought that it would be much better to beat up cannibals in Canada than to suddenly overthrow the empire.

“Ah, and again, will those who supported the Free Canadian League turn to the Holy Kingdom if they take over the leadership there?”

It was as the nurse said. Maru wouldn’t return to the Holy Kingdom just because the cannibalistic leadership was eliminated. Even if he did return, there was no intention of accepting him.

[It doesn’t matter. The Empire has decided to keep its hands off the Canadian region.]

Regardless of whether Maru went or not, those in the Free Canadian League would not have an easy time surviving the winter. It was all their own responsibility.

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It was crazy weather, with temperatures dropping to minus 40 degrees Celsius in early November. The Free Canadian League was literally turned into a mess.

It only took about a month and a half for the good public safety, distribution, and convenience facilities that had been built up in major cities to be completely destroyed.

The men who dug trenches through snow piled up to two meters deep breathed out cold air.

“Damn, I’m freezing. Anyone got a cigarette?”

“New Year’s Eve? You want to get a hole drilled in your head?”

“Fuck. What kind of free Canada is this when you can’t even smoke a cigarette to your heart’s content?”

“Be careful what you say. Think about the people around you too.”

After the Holy Kingdom left, everything changed in just a month and a half. The electricity and water supply were cut off, and the command center that was supposed to restore them was scattered, sitting in each neighborhood to grab land.

“Can’t I even swear with my own mouth?”

“Did you have a rag in your mouth?”

The large captain lowered his voice in a cavernous low tones.

“Zip them both before I shove the sewing machine in their mouths.”

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As things become quiet, the captain begins to calm the people down.

“Don’t you all want to starve to death? If we just sit here and wait, we’ll die. What will happen if we die here? If you have children, won’t your whole family die instead of just one?”

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“Anyway, I have to make a real profit this time. I do the same. Who wouldn’t do that here? It’s all about making a living.”

“Fuck···.”

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“Let’s be realistic. Even if we eat mart, we can’t protect it. Even if we could, it wouldn’t be meaningful. So while they’re fighting, we just grab the supplies that are strewn outside. Prioritize the supplies outside. And if we still have room, we grab the warehouse outside and leave.”

The leadership, who divided up the big city, the Free Canadian League members were acting like gang leaders. Whether it was a gang or a private group, the most important thing to maintain power was food.

The area around large supermarkets and food warehouses has become a battlefield.

If you don’t steal, you starve.

If you don’t protect yourself, your family will starve.

Both the one who protects and the one who steals begin to become cruel in the face of the proposition that it is for survival.

Why did this fighting start when just a few months ago there was no need for brutality and there were no shortages of supplies?

Doo doo doo doo doo!

Chulchul bang- Chulchul bang-

The irregular, discordant sound of machine guns and shotguns was a desperate cry for life. Either way, it was desperate.

The eyes of the one pointing the gun at me were full of evil.

The same goes for the eyes looking over there.

Even though they supported the same Canadian Free League.

They must be Canadians too.

Where on earth did it go wrong?

At the same time as the dull sound of a gunshot, the image of the head of the person who had pointed the gun at him tilting back was etched into the man’s pupils.

“Don’t come to your senses!”

Before the commander could even finish shouting, a diagonal line was drawn across his face and his face split apart.

Iron-pudeok-

Euaaaaaa-

The man flinched backwards. Behind the flowing, severed head, the grinning city councilman on the other side was visible.

“This fucking shit- die!”

The cannibal used the half-collapsed corpse of the captain as a shield at the same time the man pulled the trigger. Thud, thud, thud – the armor-piercing bullet shook the captain’s corpse.

Ting- creek- creek-

The magazine emptied in an instant. The finger pulling the trigger moved pitifully, but that was it. Nothing had changed.

The city councilman laughed softly. The self-proclaimed new human being bit into the round lump of flesh and brain inside the split skull in front of the man. The city councilman swallowed it without even chewing it and spoke in a quiet voice.

“It’s not bad. If you surrender, I’ll accept you.”

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Ugh-

A city councilman opens his mouth and chews on the bone attached to the spinal cord. The man, who saw the corpse of the deputy commander shaking its limbs like a frog with a spinal cord, replaced the magazine with trembling hands.

“I like the idea of ​​going to the magazine without running away. But you’d better answer quickly. I don’t have that much patience.”

The man changed the magazine, but was unable to complete the reload.

Is it the Free Canadian League that chose to eat humans like that? They wanted a country where city councilors could eat people and judge them.

Clank-

As he pulled the trigger, the councilman threw the corpse forward. The marrow-devoured corpse writhed and blocked the gun’s muzzle.

And then, from behind the cannibal, something like a black vine sprouted up. A black vine that suddenly grew out of nowhere without any warning signs.

?

???

The cannibal who was rushing at the man. The man who was unable to pull the trigger because of the corpse. They stopped after feeling that strange energy.

A crimson garden was spread out over the red-tinted white snowfield.

A vine growing between swaying blades of grass. An unrealistic and dreamy landscape. The cannibal shouted as if rejecting a space where even sound had disappeared.

“Who are you? What are you doing!”

As if responding to that, the black vines turned towards the cannibal. The cannibal, who had been making an expression as if to say, “Do you think something like this vine could stop me?”, froze in place.

The man could see the sight clearly.

The moment it touches the vine, the cannibal’s life is sucked out.

That terrifying cannibal was reduced to nothing more than a lump of organic matter.

uh?

The man’s head bowed and fell to the floor.

What he saw was a black vine that was suddenly wrapped around his ankle.

When did the gunshots that were so loud everywhere go quiet?

The view darkens in an instant.

The last thing he saw was a garden filled with black, unidentifiable vines and grass.

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Whee-

Ms. Kim, who was watching the situation through a scope on the roof of the building, whistled softly.

The instant death range of the old murder was roughly within 10m. If you increase the radius by a little more than 10m, it would be around 12m. Even at the widest possible range, the effective range for freezing the body or falling into fear would be around 20m to 25m.

Small creatures like mice, birds and ants were twice as affected there. But now the garden of death has spread so widely that it requires an extra zero at the end.

[Checked the range. It spreads over a radius of 118m to 123m.]

And within that range, the movement of the floor could not be discerned, for the rising vines and the long black grass swayed like reeds.

“Hey. What is this!”

“Shoot!”

A garden of death under attack from both sides.

Maru didn’t pull out the new clips.

A space that becomes quiet just by walking a few steps.

A sight where everyone becomes a good person and falls asleep.

Whee-

Miss Kim could only whistle.