Rust - Chapter 870



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RUST -870

It wasn’t that there was no damage at all. We advanced while laying down bunkers and automatic turrets, but there were still not completely no gaps.

Some wolves paraglided down, others jumped through the snow or jumped from the fifth or sixth floor of a building, so it was impossible to stop them all.

[Have you gained enough experience?]

“Everyone ate well.”

The wolf subjugation operation was planned from the beginning to fill the soldiers’ experience level.

[Casualties?]

“92 dead. 188 seriously injured.”

Among the troops of over 100,000, the number of casualties was in the double digits and less than 200, including those with serious injuries, which was a tremendous victory.

Considering the accumulated engagement data of new firearms, core armor, and exosuits, it was a very fruitful operation.

It was worth it to have operated for over a month without being blown up by bombing. We had the actual combat experience of the regeneration and growth units, as well as the actual combat in response to the cold weather.

Moreover, this wolf subjugation was not a simple subjugation. It was a rehearsal for the spider and ant subjugation war that would follow in the spring.

It’s the same with meticulously building a bunker while catching a wolf.

That was also the reason why bunkers were installed repeatedly and persistently, even though they could have easily been captured by digging trenches and moats and setting up ice forts.

Securing and defending a stronghold.

The persistent repetition of advancing and defending using the defensive line was also practice for the war with spiders and ants.

“But… is Ki-soon upset?”

[I’m not so much upset as a bit embarrassed. He was the Governor General of Canada.]

Kim Yang was astonished at the story of Canadians who had immigrated from Windsor to London begging Ki-soon to save their relatives.

“If you wanted to save your relatives so badly, you could have asked them to recruit you as a volunteer.”

[So there really are no survivors?]

The final siege and annihilation battle was literally a bloody battle. The interpreter, the bomb maker, and even the cannibal who had been hiding at the end came out and attacked, it was literally a mess.

“None. The wolves started a fit at the last minute, saying they wanted to kill each other. People also came running with bomb backpacks, so there was nothing we could do.”

While Kim Yang and his personal guard lured the leader wolf and hunted him, the main force attacked the wolf pack and the humans who sided with the wolves.

If the people wanted to live, they should have disarmed and surrendered unconditionally, but they didn’t. There must have been rumors that they were shooting without regard for the hostages.

Or maybe someone had awakened their excitement powers and driven them crazy, but I couldn’t control the people who were openly rushing to blow themselves up. I didn’t feel the need to control them.

The conclusion is annihilation.

At the end, the wolves were gathered together, so a bio-EMP occurred. Maru decided to understand because there was nothing recorded on the tactical camera.

‘Even if it was Ms. Kim, there’s no way she would have killed him for no reason.’

Because of the bio-EMP, the use of core armor and exosuits was limited, and infantry that had gained experience had no choice but to fight.

In that situation, save the Free Canadian League people? Kim Yang couldn’t give such an order. So she just told them to clean everything up.

“Honestly. If someone was alive, they wouldn’t have rescued them. They attacked unarmed civilians. I thought they’d say something like that and get in the way.”

Maru could only nod at Kim Yang’s answer. It was true that Kim Yang had used her hands viciously, but the wolves had killed many more people as if they were taking revenge on humans.

[No problem. I gave you the authority to do as you please. If anyone raises an issue, tell me. Don’t get on each other’s nerves. Okay? Don’t nitpick and send it to me right away.]

There was no need for Ki-soon, Hood, PD and Kim Yang to feel hurt.

“Okay.”

[Okay. Then next···.]

If you fought, there had to be something to eat. If you caught a bear, there had to be bear soup. If you caught a wolf, a coyote, or a wild dog, there had to be a nutritious soup.

As if it had never been serious, Kim Yang’s face and eyes sparkled with anticipation. Maru’s story continued like that.

[I dismantled the leader wolf, but it must have used up all its energy. Its flesh was as soft as an old sponge.]

Miss Kim blinked.

Maru returned her gaze with a look of ‘Why?’

[You know that mutant monsters and cannibals have such great regenerative powers that if you don’t kill them all at once, they use up all their life force? Energy? to heal their wounds.]

Don’t you know that if you make a mess like that, there won’t be anything to eat?

I know that. The leader wolf opened his mouth at the end. Didn’t he kill him cleanly with a bullet in his mouth?

[He was killed cleanly. There was no skin or anything to salvage. Half of his upper body was covered in burn marks, and his entire body was riddled with bullet holes.]

Kim Yang’s eyes shook back and forth.

The leader wolf who came out to do a one-on-one fight…

Uh. Hmm.

Daguri? I did hit it.

They even created a sea of ​​fire with napalm traps.

They even built a bunker to trap them so they couldn’t escape, and then they beat them up.

“······.”

Kim Yang, who was struggling to remember the unbelievable reality, protested. It was clearly the leader wolf who was unaffected by napalm.

“They were hit by napalm and didn’t budge. They got burned. That wasn’t us.”

[That’s not true. Didn’t you use a small nuke? Weren’t you the one who gave the order to throw a nuke into the wolf’s den?]

“······.”

The Wolf Bone Soup that Kim Yang had been waiting and looking forward to had disappeared like that.

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“Cleaning up the battlefield is taking longer than I thought.”

[There were more wolves than expected.]

AI Diana explains why it takes time to clear the battlefield.

There were far more wolves than expected, burrowing in the snow or in cellars, than had been estimated by reconnaissance when the punitive operation was planned.

[The number of deaths by the Free Canadian League was also higher than expected.]

The same goes for the number of people living in the Mississauga-Toronto area. With thousands of wolves hunting humans for over a month, you wouldn’t expect many survivors, but that wasn’t the case.

The first day they entered the city, they were so excited by the abundance of game that they killed them, but from the next day onwards, they restricted their hunting and started using the city as a caged fish farm.

I knew they were doing that through reconnaissance, but the wolves were more restrained than I expected. They caught old and sick humans and those who tried to run away first.

Not only did they dig burrows in the snow and use cellars to reduce calorie consumption, they also hunted and ate only in extremely limited quantities as needed.

“It was a populous area to begin with. It is estimated that over 1.2 million people lived in the Mississauga-Toronto area before the wolves took over.”

Hood’s story that most of the population was concentrated in five major cities: Mississauga, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec.

After the Holy Kingdom withdrew, people flocked to the five major cities. The restoration of essential infrastructure such as electricity was centered around the major cities. Perhaps that was why they ignored the Holy Kingdom’s warning about an attack by mutant monsters.

But the result was the same as now. There were more deaths from the aftermath of the battle than from those who fell prey to the mutant wolf pack.

“The number of refugees who have fled to the Empire so far appears to be over 100,000. Samantha’s calculations predict that up to 200,000 people have crossed over to the Empire.”

Hood’s uncomfortable gaze, which had been explaining the overall situation, briefly turned to Kim Yang. It was because human life was at stake.

“···And survivors were discovered during the battlefield cleanup.”

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Kim Yang said there were no survivors in the Mississauga-Toronto area of ​​operations, but survivors were found during the battlefield clearing.

What are you going to do?

It was difficult to pretend not to know and kill those who survived that terrible sea of ​​blood. It was because the battlefield was cleared, and reserve forces and regular units were also deployed.

All of them were witnesses to the existence of survivors. If we kill survivors in this situation, rumors will spread among the reserves and regular units, and that will have bad consequences.

“What’s not good? What’s not good? Then why?”

Kim Yang’s cold eyes were resolute.

“Are you trying to kill me?”

“I don’t know why you keep asking, but… that’s exactly what I’m thinking.”

Ki-soon came between the two.

“Hey-hey- wait. I don’t know what either of you are thinking, but… I think it would be better to check what the survivors are thinking first.”

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“······.”

“You say they’re survivors who were hiding deep? So they might not know what’s going on outside. After all, we saved them. They might not have any ill feelings toward us.”

Ki-soon’s idea was that if there were no problems and no ill feelings, they should just let them live. The PD’s opinion was the same.

It was dangerous to try to solve the problem by killing. What if the minutes of the meeting were to be made public or the process before and after the meeting was made public?

‘You can’t completely trust survivors or soldiers. The same goes for artificial intelligence.’

PD had to see people and AI equally. He had seen many cases where people who had pledged to keep secrets broke their oaths. If you think about future variables, AI was no different.

‘We may develop the ability to interfere with AI. Even if we don’t, if AI gradually becomes more human-like, we don’t know what will happen.’

The PD didn’t say that outright, but said it was better to make a decision assuming that there was no way to completely block information.

“If something happens during a battle, it’s unfortunate, but right now the battlefield is being cleared. If something happens to the survivors now that the situation is over, it’s just a source of suspicion and conspiracy theories.”

Maru gave Kim Yang a look to calm down and sorted out the situation.

“Let’s keep an eye on the survivors and help them create an independent village.”

Everyone agreed with Maru’s story of creating a village where only survivors can live and watch over it.

“Kisun, check on the survivors’ feelings.”

“okay.”

The wolf subjugation scene was cleaned up and the survivors were treated in that way.

“The Mississauga-Toronto line is sorted out. I can sort out Montreal, so the only places left are Quebec and Ottawa.”

“Quebec is a bit strange.”

Hood uploaded the data to the monitor. In the footage taken by the stratospheric airship, Quebec was buried in white snow.

“Yeah. That’s weird.”

Kim Yang, who has a keen eye, immediately found the incongruous part. Kim Yang’s interpretation was that the very appearance of the city, which was hit by the bitter cold of minus 60 to minus 70 degrees Celsius and blizzards, was incongruous.

“If there were people there, they would have cleaned up the shit. But there is no sign of that.”

In Kim Yang’s view, winter snow was a very dangerous shit.

Even just the snow piled up on the rooftop was like that. I just left it because I thought it was annoying, but when it piled up 2-3m, the roof might collapse.

Even if it doesn’t collapse, what if a crack forms? Water will seep through the crack and freeze, causing the crack to grow bigger.

If they were reinforced concrete buildings, they would become weak and wooden buildings would rot if they were subjected to repeated freezing and thawing. That was what it meant when they didn’t clean up the winter waste properly.

“It was definitely different compared to last year’s video.”

Hood posted footage of Quebec during the time when it was under the jurisdiction of the Holy Kingdom.

Starting with the video of snow being cleared in the winter, white smoke was rising here and there from chimneys. And right next to it, in the current video, there was no smoke rising from anywhere.

“I collected testimonies from refugees in the Empire. Among them, there was a strange testimony.”

Hood played the testimony files he had obtained from the Empire.

(People who fled from Quebec told stories about spider webs.)

(Spider web?)

(Yes, they said the whole city was engulfed.)

It was evidence that spiders had taken over Quebec.