Rust - Chapter 853



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RUST -853

Maru’s brow furrowed as he watched the HUD with the red dot slowly turning gray.

‘It’s turning gray?’

The biometric detector showed that alive things were marked with red dots, and when dead or out of range, the red dots disappeared. But then they slowly turned gray.

Then the screen turns black.

The various sensors and auxiliary AI were also silent.

Maru, who had taken off his helmet, took a cautious step forward. Even though he was clearly wearing special shoes, he could feel the slight touch of the soles of his shoes.

The feeling of stepping on the grass was strange.

It’s a completely different feeling from stepping on stiff, upright weeds. It’s a strange sensation as if the grass is opening up a path for you to walk on.

Wherever my footsteps took me, blades of grass lay down on their own, creating a path.

‘The feeling when I step on it is strange.’

As I thought about it, the rustling floor began to feel slightly soft like a carpet. As if reading my mind.

‘······.’

It seemed to react.

‘You can’t see the bottom, so you have to be careful of physical traps.’

As the nerves were focused on the ground, the grass and vines began to move in the direction of movement first as if responding to it.

Kujik-

Wooduk-

The sensation of the trap being dismantled with a soft sound. Maru focused his attention towards the direction of the sound.

‘I feel frustrated because I can’t see ahead.’

Although his physical abilities were said to have greatly improved, they were still similar to those of those with basic physical abilities awakened, or at the level of low-level cannibals. In this darkness, it was inevitable that he would become blind.

And at that moment. As if a blurry line was drawn in the deep darkness, the invisible space began to appear as a two-dimensional line. It was as if the surrounding scenery was drawn as a line in gray and dark green and appeared.

‘crazy.’

It was a completely different experience than last time.

Is it because I killed over 5,000 cannibals?

Or is it the result of training so far?

If we could control the grass and vines, wouldn’t we be able to react to our thoughts?

Wouldn’t it be possible to selectively or minimize the damage to both friendly and enemy electronic devices similar to EMP? In any case, it’s a similar phenomenon to EMP, but not EMP.

As Maru’s thoughts became more complicated, the garden of death that filled the floor began to replace Maru’s sight and touch.

The swaying blades of grass and vines began to transmit information through the hallways and rooms as if they were radar.

The grass and vines that spread across the garden seemed alive and took over every space within the area. They started by pushing through cracks in doors, vents, and even holes like drains.

The sense gradually became clearer. At first, I could only feel a 2-3m area around me, but that area gradually expanded.

The floor was invisible, but it was strange to see it. It was strange to see the leaves and vines moving and sending information in the garden where death was spread out.

Death beyond control. It was like living with an incomprehensible phenomenon. Maru, who was walking towards the dead werewolf, suddenly stopped.

When I killed five thousand cannibals, I wasn’t hungry or dizzy, but now I suddenly felt hungry and dizzy.

‘This is···.’

Heat. Symptoms that started with muscle pain and seemed to be progressing to generalized convulsions began to accompany it. Maru immediately released the area.

As the Garden of Death was released, the grass and vines slowly turned into black particles and disappeared into the air. The space that had appeared to be gray and dark green turned back into darkness.

Chick-

After inserting the neutralizer and then downing the energy supplement in succession, my slightly trembling body finally found stability.

Maru activated the powered-off helmet. He could use his keen senses to navigate the space, but he was too mentally exhausted to do so.

[System booting begins.]

[Please select a backup point.]

[No abnormal sensor operation.]

[No communication connection problems.]

First of all, I needed a break.

[Connect with Ms. Kim.]

[Communication connected.]

[Huh? Are you okay? You solved it faster than last time.]

[Not confirmed yet.]

Should I say that I communicated with the garden?

[Communication? You mean you had some kind of conversation with that area?]

[No, that’s not it.]

[So you can now control those vine-like things? So you can also attack by distinguishing between allies and enemies?]

[Ah- Wait. Let’s talk about that later.]

First, eat and rest.

[Okay. I’ll send the robot and drone right away.]

Maru nodded at Kim Yang’s words that he would send drones and robots, and turned around to scout the surrounding area and search the nearby fortresses.

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Maru, who had taken a break, immediately informed the people of the situation. This was because the phenomenon that seemed to be connected to the Garden of Death was extremely important.

[Really. That’s amazing.]

Na Ju-yeon had a slightly anxious expression on her face. It was probably an emotion that came out without her knowing, but she was brimming with curiosity since the Garden of Death.

[If it’s really- amazing. I’ll have to be- more- careful.]

A warning to turn around right away. If you cross the line out of curiosity, it could end up being a tragedy in many ways. So it would be better not to give that a chance in the first place.

[The change in the realm of death appears to have occurred after over 5,000 cannibals were dealt with at Rogers Centre.]

Na Ju-yeon nodded slightly, noticing Maru’s slightly cold reaction, and continued talking.

[And at that time, you didn’t feel tired even after taking over the entire Rogers Center, but you felt that tired even though you hadn’t even completely taken over a small space like a stronghold…]

It was Na Ju-yeon who suggested that perhaps the Garden of Death had been maintained by swallowing over 5,000 cannibals and was now a burden as it could not absorb life.

[You said that living requires concentration and mental strength?]

[That’s right.]

That was the reason why I couldn’t use the word ‘life’ indefinitely. The exhaustion of concentration and mental power inevitably leads to the exhaustion of physical strength.

If it’s a similar principle, then the Garden of Death is also expressed and maintained by consuming something. Whether it’s an enemy who died in the Garden of Death or something on the floor.

[So, does that mean that when the black grass has nothing to eat, it drains Maru’s mental power, and when that’s not enough, it drains his stamina and vitality?]

[When stamina is depleted, you say you lose your energy, right? I think it’s probably similar.]

Kim Yang’s face changed strangely when she heard the story about Maru sucking her stamina.

[Then. I guess I should just summon it when I have a lot of other things to eat.]

You only need to summon it when you kill things like cannibals or mutated bugs.

[I’m not sure, but I think it would be a good idea.]

Na Ju-yeon agreed with Kim Yang’s opinion.

[There are not enough cases yet.]

Hood, who says it’s too early to make a conclusion.

[There is no correlation between the duration of the territory and the number of entities killed by the Black Garden.]

Considering that it took Maru about 10 seconds to kill 3-5 cannibals in 2-3 seconds and over 5,000 cannibals, is it really dangerous that Maru, who used the Black Garden for searching, quickly felt hungry and tired?

If it is possible to summon them for about 10 seconds, then it is possible to kill over 5,000 cannibals without any problems. Then, Hood explained, why don’t you just cut them off within 10 seconds and use your ability?

[And here’s the more important part.]

It was the part where the system was involved. It was strange that the biometric sensor gradually changed from red to gray.

[By default, the bio-sensor displays a red dot when there is a bio-signal, and nothing appears when there is no bio-signal. But this time, the red dot turned gray and disappeared.]

This has never happened before.

[Perhaps the Black Garden could influence the system.]

The idea is that it might be able to do more than just stop and erase functions.

[Could it be that the red color changed to gray and then disappeared as a signal to the king?]

Ki-soon’s squinted eyes looked even narrower.

[What signal?]

I don’t know what kind of signal it was, but it was a strange feeling that it might be a signal in itself.

You say he struggled and died slowly? Even if he was a werewolf, if several vines attacked him, he would have died quickly. But if he changed slowly, doesn’t that mean he was intentionally not killed quickly?

[The garden was taking time to confirm my thoughts?]

[I’ll have to check, but it looks like that to me.]

[Why did you think so?]

[My ability is to see emotions in colors, right? So, I was concerned that the red color had turned into gray.]

[You said the part where the red dot gradually turned gray was stuck? Why?]

[Why is it gray? There are yellow and blue and so many colors.]

And you can now see gray and green in a space that was dark and you couldn’t see anything? Why is it gray and green? Maybe the background is gray and the grass and vines are green?

[The background is gray. The grass and vines are green.]

[Yes. The fact that the red dot gradually turns gray could be a way to convey that it has died and is now the background.]

[···What nonsense are you talking about? Even if that’s true, then? You intervened in this system to inform us of that?]

[We need to check whether there was any intervention.]

With the development of artificial intelligence, most programs were upgraded in real time. Artificial intelligence immediately executed convenience functions and detailed corrections, excluding core functions.

[I guess you’re saying to check if the biometric detector indicator has been automatically updated.]

The hood immediately checked the update status.

[It has been upgraded to be able to display in various colors.]

The problem was that it was a color that went into the selection. That is, the ability to choose whether to display things caught by the biometric sensor in red or gray.

The background was also red on a black background, gray on a white background, and red on a yellow background, so the conclusion was that there was no function to start with red on a black background and change to gray.

[Etto- Isn’t that at the same time?]

The nurse said timidly.

[at the same time?]

[Yes – so if you think that the black garden sent a signal by changing the color upgrade···.]

[In any case, it means that it can affect this system.]

[I think that’s definitely the case. There aren’t enough examples, though.]

[Anyway, it seems like we need more cases to confirm. How about the information confirmed by the crows and rats?]

[They said that in Sector B, from Stronghold 8 to 11, there was only one werewolf, and the rest were empty. And in Sector C, from 1 to 5, there was only one werewolf. Yes. It’s a report that there are some here and there.]

[Okay. Since we have to check it anyway, let’s check it right away.]

Maru decided to check everything that came out of the video conference. He also caught a werewolf and increased his proficiency through actual use of the Realm of Death.

[By the way. Did you extract any information from the werewolf you caught this time?]

[The werewolf brain brought by the robot was completely melted, as if it had a suicide device attached.]

That alone was enough to tell where the werewolf belonged.

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Sharara Rarak-

The expanding Garden of Death cornered the werewolf.

Kwaaaaang!

The cornered werewolf raised his head. When he figured out how to escape by climbing the wall and into the ventilation shaft, he put it into action.

The werewolf jumped up and used his amazing physical ability to climb up the wall. The moment he ripped open the vent and tried to enter, black vines poured out explosively from the vent and wrapped around the werewolf.

Ughh …

Before the werewolf died, the decapitated wooden plank fell to the ground, splitting and crushing the werewolf’s skull.