Rust - Chapter 86



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RUST-86

A mark left by the barricade being pushed away.

At the end of it all was a sickbed lying around, its limbs bound by velcro that had fallen off.

What kind of dog is that…

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the Velcro fasteners that were supposed to hold him in place hadn’t just fallen off. They had been cut into parts with something sharp. That meant someone had intentionally ripped the Velcro fasteners.

Are you a psychopath or not a retard?

It wasn’t good. The psychopath was messing with the stronghold that I had painstakingly built. I had set up a safe zone on the 1st to 3rd floors, and I was able to take the elevator to the 15th floor and expect a helicopter rescue, when this happened.

First, we called together the people who were not on the first floor when the incident occurred.

“There was an incident where an infected person entered the first floor and killed five, no, six people.”

The medical staff and employees were in an uproar. They were broadcasting about Code Black and Gray, but it was actually an infected person coming in and harming people.

“Are you saying that the infected broke through the barricade?”

“Good question. That’s not it. Some crazy guy caught the infected and released them.”

“yes?”

“Is that true?”

“No way. There’s no way a person would do that···.”

“Evidence that says so. Do you have any evidence?”

The floor threw the sharp-cut Velcro forward.

“If you look there, you can see that the Velcro straps have been cut with a knife. That’s from the hospital bed we found near the incident.”

“Big- No, that’s what you say, but how do you know anything with just this?”

“Isn’t this a fixed velcro? The kind used to secure things to a hospital bed.”

“Who the hell would do something like this….”

“Can’t we tell just from this?”

“If this is the only evidence that this incident, in which six people died, was the work of a madman, then I think it is an over-interpretation.”

There were some people who didn’t believe the evidence even when it was right in front of them. It was as if they thought it was fabricated evidence. So there were some who whispered that it was a staged play to make people rely on force.

The reaction is a bit, how should I put it? It’s dirty. All we have to do is hold out until Ki-sun and the bodyguard are healed, but should we just move Ki-sun and the bodyguard to the first floor and block them?

The amphibious vehicle was on the basement level, and the control room and machine room were on the first floor. The restaurant was on the third and first floors, so let’s block off the first floor and the basement level. I think if we make one elevator go to the second, third, and 15th floors and another elevator go to the basement level, the first floor, and the rooftop, there won’t be any problems. What should I do?

“Ah- I didn’t mean to say anything else. I just wanted to tell you not to trust anyone but the people here. I don’t know who on the first floor did that. The people here now were not on the first floor. Check each other’s faces. Come up with countermeasures. If you have anything to say, say it now.”

“?”

“!”

People just stared at the floor. Why are people who have learned so much so that they feel so frustrated?

“What do you want me to do? I’m not a good person. Aren’t your lives yours to live? We created a safe zone, and now some crazy guy is catching infected people and releasing them.”

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Did everyone get together after I laid out the board? It’s quiet, this is it.

“Why are you all quiet? I told you to talk.”

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Ahh, it’s so stuffy, really.

“Would a crazy guy have done it alone? He couldn’t have pushed the barricade by himself, right? He had to have someone help him catch the infected, put them in a hospital bed, and drag them out. That’s why everyone on the first floor is suspects.”

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“When I told you that, there’s evidence, no evidence. There’s no way that could happen. You’re trying to make me depend on you, so what are you talking about? I can’t believe you. Did I get paid to do this? Well, for now. Whether the culprit is crazy or a psychopath or whatever, do as you wish. Since there seem to be no other opinions, I’m going to restrict access to the first floor from now on.”

“What? If it’s on the first floor, there’s a machine room, a control room, and a broadcast room. If you control those, does that mean you’re controlling the entire hospital facility?”

“That’s right. If you control the first floor, don’t you control the whole place? The broadcasting room is also on the first floor.”

“Oh? Thank you for your good opinion. Instead of restricting access, we should control it. We will control it from now on. If you have any complaints, you can tell us after we organize the infected people on the 4th and 5th floors and create a safe zone.”

It was a good idea. It was a simple matter of finding the culprit, whether he was a psychopath or a crazy person.

“Because I don’t know what a psychopath or a crazy person might do, I’m going to control them. Don’t think of it as control, but think of it as going back to how it was before I came. It’ll be easier for both of you. Got it? If I wasn’t here, we’d all be gathered on the 15th floor anyway, right? So everyone, go up to the 15th floor and don’t come down.”

I was going to leave the 2nd and 3rd floors alone, but let’s just keep them on the 15th floor like they were and cut off the elevator. Then there won’t be a problem. Whether they’re psychopaths, criminals, or corrupt people, if they have something to say, just take down the barricades, make their way through the infected, and come down one floor at a time.

“Everyone, go to the 15th floor. Now.”

Maru drew his sword and spoke in a low voice.

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[Chijik- So you’re checking the entire 2nd floor safety zone?]

“Okay. If there’s anyone who hasn’t gone to the 15th floor yet, grab them.”

[Yes? Are you telling me to hold on to it instead of sending it up?]

“Ah. Tie him up. If necessary, shoot his knees. You can kill him, but find out why he did it and kill him.”

Something felt uneasy.

[All right.]

“Don’t tell me twice, just shoot. It seems like there’s a little kid there. Even if something feels weird, shoot.”

[···All right.]

“Okay. Thanks for your hard work.”

Since Kim Yang-do has a good sense, he will find it no matter where it is stuck. If you go around with the Busan Charlotte uncles, there will be no problem.

Maru went into the control room on the first floor and changed the elevator to only go back and forth between the basement, the second floor, and the third floor. Then, he lowered a firewall to block the stairs leading down to the basement. Now, the first floor was completely blocked.

After locking the control room door with a key, I brought a long bench from the lobby on the first floor and stacked it in front of the control room. I also placed an empty can inside so that it would make a sound when the bench in the control room was moved.

Let’s see what’s on the first floor.

Maru took a deep breath. Slowly, calmly, with concentration, he walked, making no sound of his footsteps. It was like a shadow was walking.

On the floor of the disaster relief storage room, traces of where a corpse had been were still visible. The smell of blood was lingering, stimulating my sense of smell.

I focused on the sensation. Something faintly felt. Is it a person? It felt different. It wasn’t a person. Then what is it? The faces of the medical staff and employees who cleaned the corpses and the employees who cleaned the relief supplies storage room came to mind.

Something felt in the pile of disaster relief supplies, something was definitely down there. Maru cleared away the piled emergency backpacks. What was hidden underneath was revealed. Infected people tied to hospital beds. Not one, but four.

“Fuck. This was so serious.”

Pok- pok- pok- pok- suk-

After taking the body of the infected person tied to the hospital bed out, Maru locked the door to the storage room that had become quiet. While he was checking and locking the door repeatedly, he felt a rustling in the lobby outside the hallway.

Maru moved quietly, making no sound of footsteps. A presence was felt under the first floor outpatient clinic reception desk. Maru rose silently like a cat jumping and climbed up onto the reception desk.

Swish-

I noticed the back of the head of a female doctor who was putting things in her backpack. I waited for the moment when the woman who had put the things in her backpack raised her head.

Bam!

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Tankrang!

The sound of a tin can being clinked echoed through the hallway. Yeah. There can’t be just one woman.

[Chiiik – 1 killed, 2 captured. – 2nd floor – 3 total.]

“Thank you for your hard work. Please clean up the third floor too. There’s some trouble on the first floor.”

[···Beep- Got it. -Chik-Jiji-]

Since Ms. Kim and the uncles went, it became the 3rd floor.

She must be a doctor because she’s wearing a gown. No, she might not be a doctor. If she were just an ordinary woman, she wouldn’t have been able to ignore the half-threatening order to go up to the 15th floor. The fact that she was left alone on the first floor, where a psychopath or criminal might wander around, and was looking for something was suspicious in itself.

I thought it was an industry-academia collaboration or industry-medical collaboration because the hospital had a clinical pathology lab and various labs attached to it, but is it really that much more of a hassle? I get annoyed when I have a lot to do, but something keeps crawling out.

“Hey, aren’t you guys on the 15th floor?”

Two men in suits were struggling to move a bench in front of the control room door.

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You must have heard rumors about the knife fight, but you still rebel…?

Two people took their stances, pulling out the three-stage iron baton and the taser gun. Judging from their posture, they didn’t seem like fools. After hearing rumors of swordsmanship, did they still have confidence? They shouldn’t kill, but they were wondering how to relieve their strength, when the two took out ampoule syringes and stuck them in their necks.

Phew-

‘Huh? What’s that?’

The atmosphere, the energy, the feeling changed in an instant.

Maru moistened his lips with his tongue without realizing it.

It’s creepy. It feels like something out of a drug dealer. What is this?

Is that right?

Charlotte, who was called Berserker Paul, seems weak and similar. Seeing that she’s in her right mind, she’s different from the drug dealers I met at the port.

His eyes weren’t completely bloodshot, but his pupils were dilating and constricting abnormally.

“Hand over the keys and get out.”

The man holding the three-sectioned staff growled softly.

Maru answered in one word, round and round.

“Okay.”

At the same time as the answer

Bam!

The three-sectioned staff that the man swung flew right over Maru’s head.

Knock, I shook my head to dodge, and the three-stage bong that was coming down vertically changed direction to a right angle. Swish- The floor moved sideways as if sliding, and the round end of the three-stage bong chased it. It was being pushed into one of the walls.

As he was pushed against the wall, a taser gun was fired. Pazik- A needle with a thin wire attached to the end was fired. Maru’s pupils dilated momentarily and he felt a tingling sensation as if all his nerves were connected. Hooung- The taser gun’s needle was flying. The three-sectioned staff was swung as if to block a place to escape. A wall that blocked a place to escape.

Ha-ah- With a short, interrupted breath, Maru’s legs stepped on the wall beside him. Knock- a light sound. With his first step, he stepped on the wall, and with his second step, he stepped on the ceiling, and came down as if he was being slammed down in the air.

The wrist holding the taser gun fell to the floor with the sound of meat being cut.

The blade that cut off the wrist headed towards its next target. The tip of the swinging staff, the blade sliding towards the right arm of the man holding the staff.

Ting! The sound of a sword being blocked. Sparks flew from the three-sectioned peak.

Tank! Tank! Ting!

Wrist. Head. Wrist. A series of strikes. What he was aiming for was not Maru, but the sword Maru was holding. The blade of the three-sectioned staff was breaking, as if it was made of something.

‘This kid.’

Maybe because I was given medicine, my reflexes, reaction speed, and strength were good.

‘It’s just a bumper crop, a bumper crop.’

It was a bumper crop of shit and a bumper crop of shit. I guess that’s why Japan had a bumper crop of earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons.

‘Bend. Relax. Lightly.’

Take your strength away,

Ting! One step while slightly pushing the end of the three-sectioned staff to the side while striking hard.

lightly.

Faster.

Tieeeeeeee- The tip of the sword follows the one retrieving the three-sectioned staff that was being beaten.

Kku! The man tried to shake off the tip of the sword by swinging the staff he had retrieved from side to side, but the tip of the sword slid left and right like a snake, avoiding the staff, and touched the arm holding the staff.

The tip of the sword touched my forearm with a slight snap, biting me like a poisonous snake, and wrapped around my forearm in an instant. The blade wrapped around my wrist and elbow.

The flesh on his forearm fell off like a toad.

Kkaaaak!

Bam!

He hooked the screaming snout. The jaw snapped shut and fell silent. The man began to hiccup as he saw his colleague’s forearm turned into a bone.

“Hey. Wrist. Stop the bleeding there first.”

Hiccup. Hiccup.

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Since it was a large general hospital, if treated quickly, they could treat the wrist or the forearm where some flesh was removed. So I had to give them hope. I wrapped the wrist and the flesh in plastic bags and put them in the icebox.

“If you answer my questions correctly, I will let you get your severed wrist treated.”

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“You better answer correctly. When that passed out kid wakes up, he’ll ask you the same question. If you answer differently, you’ll end up with two wrists that need surgery. If you’re unlucky, you might even end up with an ankle.”

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“Okay. Did you catch the infected?”

“okay.”

“why?”

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It’s tough from the start, starting from the ankles because I don’t know what to do with the drawing or writing.

“···Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Where should I start explaining?”

“We have to do it quickly. You know the sooner you suture the amputated area, the better, right?”

“Are you aware that it has become more common for infected people to lose their senses and become easily excited?”

“Go on. Don’t ask questions. Just keep going-.”

“Chickshaw- Among the infected, there are those who have started to show symptoms of dementia. It was a symptom that appeared when a person infected with a mutant virus was infected with another mutant virus. At first, the symptom was thought to be simple dementia.”

Intermittent explosive disorder and intellectual disability are crazy, and now dementia?

“The problem was that it wasn’t just dementia. As evidence began to emerge that the infected brain was physically altered, evidence also emerged that the hormones secreted by the brain were also changing. And if the hormones were altered, that meant that the altered hormones were affecting the human body. Dementia was just an early symptom of that change.”

Oh my.