Rust - Chapter 902



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RUST [RUST]-902

At the end of the heavy silence, someone muttered.

“Nostradamus?”

“Angolmois?”

“The King of Terror?”

Come to think of it, he’s the king.

King of the Holy Kingdom.

Is that sacred?

Was he the king who brought about the end?

The South Korean president was literally watching the video with a blank expression.

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A look that says, “What on earth did I sing?”

The president’s pale gaze met Ki-soon’s squinted eyes, as if he were some sort of summoner who had called the end with his own hands.

(Kwaaaaak!)

(Save me!)

(please!)

(Run away!)

An armed man jumped from a tall building to escape the horde of rats of death, and black vines climbing up the outer wall wrapped around him like a chameleon’s tongue.

(Ahhhhhh!)

Perseok-

A person turned into fertilizer and scattered in the air.

Abigail was unfolding on the giant screen.

Even in the heavy silence, the PD, who had been standing in a Y-pose, slowly lowered his arms. Even when people looked at him as if he was a fanatic, the PD remained calm.

‘How foolish. How foolish.’

When he was captured by a gang and almost burned alive, it was he who saved his life.

To the gang, he was a reaper, and their deaths were his life. So is he a reaper or a savior?

‘How can humans be so foolish?’

Imagine a person who is about to be eaten by a cannibal. The only way to save him is to kill the cannibal.

Is killing cannibals salvation or not?

By any standards, killing a cannibal was an act of human salvation.

How about now?

How should we interpret the deaths of the armed refugee group in the video? If we look only at the results, regardless of whether it was brutal or not?

[He···]

The PD’s words were interpreted in real time by an AI assistant. Since it was interpreted in the PD’s tone of voice, it sounded as if the PD was fluent in Korean.

[The number of armed refugees who have been given refuge has exceeded 300,000. This means that there were 300,000 troops in a distance of about 5km from Bucheon to Bupyeong. If we had engaged in street fighting with them and tried to capture the enemy command center, how many Korean soldiers would have died?]

The broadcasting station’s cameras alternately filmed the PD and officials from the Korean government.

[I heard that the armed group’s strength exceeds 2 million. I heard that the West Coast region is under attack right now and that hundreds and thousands of South Korean military casualties are occurring every day. And that’s just soldiers, excluding civilian casualties. Isn’t that right?]

The PD’s voice was low and deep. Those who treated him as a fanatic frowned at the sound that seemed to come from the depths of their soul.

[Because of the 300,000 people he killed, tens of thousands of Korean soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Koreans were saved. Are you saying he is the devil? Not the savior of mankind?]

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[What do you think about in the end times? What do you believe? If He is the devil, are you asking for help from the devil and being saved by the devil?]

“······.”

“······.”

In the midst of terrible silence, dozens of cameras were pointed at the PD. He looked at the cameras with sincerity.

[In war… the death of the enemy means the survival of the friendly forces. And what you just saw was the death of a friendly force? Or was it the death of the enemy?]

The PD spoke again, spreading his hands out in a Y shape with great reverence.

[Worship the God of Death! He has killed our enemies, and we have been given life!]

[Praise the Lord of terror! He shatters the enemy with terror, and the enemy surrenders!]

The pale South Korean president raised his hand with difficulty. It was a signal to stop the live broadcast.

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Maru advanced until his control over death reached its limit.

The death zone drawn in a 5km radius slowly moved westward. Following the order to attack only those carrying weapons, the death rats attacked people separately.

Ouch! The rat bit me.

Go into the room and close the door!

Step on it! It’s just a rat.

Where’s the hammer? Hammer!

The standard for being armed was naturally left to the judgment of death. A knife or a kitchen knife could be used as a weapon, and beer bottles, frying pans, and even bricks could be used as blunt weapons.

You could break your grandfather’s head with the corner of your smartphone, and end his life with chopsticks and skewers.

The little black mouse died if a person hit it with a book, kicked it, or simply stepped on it. And Death considered anything that could cause death a weapon.

At first, they killed people armed with guns, then attacked people carrying blades and blunt weapons, and finally, they turned any human who was swinging with his limbs intact into manure.

The 300,000 armed force disappeared in an instant. And the refugees who had intact limbs and attacked the rats of death began to be collected.

As the number of people who died in an instant increased from 300,000 to over a million, Maru’s control began to waver. Excluding the time it took for the rats to move, it only took about 10 minutes to eliminate 300,000 + 1 million.

Maru, who had wiped out a 5km radius, summoned death.

The rats that had scattered in all directions were the first to melt into the air. The vines that had wrapped around the building and the blades of grass that had spread out stiffly like long swords also turned into black, glowing particles and disappeared into the air, looking like a dispersing mirage.

There were only a few places where fires broke out, except for the buildings where the special forces cannibals had resisted with flamethrowers.

As the Garden of Death that Maru had spread out disappeared, the communication that had been cut off was restored.

“I think that’s it for today.”

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As the drones that had been far away quickly scanned the surroundings and filmed the scene, Maru also came out onto the four-lane road to board the private airship.

There was no sign of human presence in the barricades and sandbag machine-gun nests built by parking cars sideways.

The city was devoid of any trace of human life. It was even more bizarre that there was no sign of human life in a place that was once bustling with over a million refugees, not to mention armed groups.

“Why aren’t you saying anything? Show me clearly.”

[···Haa- Well done. Very well done.]

What is it? Is it a twist?

Maru ignored Gisun’s nagging.

“You said there were over 20 million Chinese refugees? And there are over 2 million of them from armed groups.”

The point at which it was about to get out of control was around 1.3 million, so if we take our time, it should be okay to get up to 1.2 million, right?

Considering the time it takes to absorb and digest life… 4 days is a bit tight, but it seems possible to sweep it away once every 5 days.

[What are you thinking?]

“Once you start something, you have to see it through to the end.”

Once Maru made up his mind to do something, he went all the way.

I ran away all the way to America.

I have to deal with the ant empire. The moment I decided that, I finished off the upper echelons of the ant empire and pushed on until the ant empire collapsed.

As if he had decided that the war with the spiders was unavoidable, he had begun preparing to see the end.

Strictly speaking, it was the same thing that disinfected London, England and Paris, France with hydrogen bombs, and it was the same thing that completely wiped out the cannibalistic government and its collaborators that had taken over Korea.

When Maru hinted that he might put an end to the refugee crisis in Korea, Ki-soon was shocked.

[Ah- Your Majesty. Please calm down. Everyone here is already turning white and blue.]

“You said to show it properly? You said that if I just show it, everything will work out fine.”

[No. You did well… Sigh – Let’s talk about that later.]

“Did something complicated come up?”

Ki-sun was careful with her words.

[Come on.]

“okay.”

A white airship rose above the silent city sky.

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The South Korean government was shocked once again as footage taken by drones at close range was released one after another.

“Are you saying that all the refugees in that area have disappeared?”

“As a result of close-up footage taken by a drone… it seems like the same phenomenon that was seen on live broadcast occurred.”

That phenomenon.

A phenomenon in which rats eat people without even leaving a corpse behind.

A phenomenon in which the vines of death suck out the life force of a human being, turning the corpse into a handful of dust.

It was a thing too embarrassing to even bring up.

If you look at the road from Bucheon Sports Complex to Bupyeong County Office, there was a population of at least 1 million people.

Maybe there was more to it than that, but it meant nothing anymore, because it was all fertilizer.

“What should I do?”

The face of the South Korean president was haggard. The initial plan was to dismantle the armed refugee forces with the support of the Holy Kingdom.

I thought that if we could just wipe out the armed groups, starting with eliminating the four Chinese special forces cannibals, then the ordinary refugees could be controlled by the Korean military.

When we asked the Holy Kingdom for assistance, the King and the former Prime Minister of Canada came in person. So the Korean President spoke frankly.

‘This is not mediation. I want you to dismantle the refugee forces.’

If you think about it, it was the same as saying that the Holy Kingdom would take on the resentment and filth while Korea would reap the fruits, but I thought that we should pay a corresponding price for it.

This was because it was a sacred kingdom that was able to overthrow the cannibal regime and virtually take control of all of Korea, while returning power to the Korean people.

They were all considering things like ceding territory for 99 years, discounting the price of parts that were being exported as the main export, and establishing an immigration system from Korea to the Holy Kingdom to make it easier to accommodate the small population of the Holy Kingdom.

Instead of disintegrating the refugee force, they were completely erasing it.

Even those in charge of the administrative affairs of the Holy Kingdom were worshipping in a Y-position amidst the chaos, saying that the god of death was also the god of salvation.

It was a total chaos of shock, horror, and amazement. How can you possibly sort this out? It was even broadcast live. All of it.

“First, we need to selectively eliminate armed refugee groups.”

It was dangerous to sweep everything away like this.

“Why?”

“Because it seems to have limitations.”

The director of the information bureau answered, adjusting his glasses.

“What’s the limit?”

Is there a limit to that awesome ability?

“Yes. If there were no limitations, it would have been pushed to Incheon on the same day. Instead, it stopped. It seems reasonable to think that there are limitations to that ability.”

“It’s a limitation. How can that be the basis for asking for the elimination of only armed groups?”

“I don’t know the exact number, but it is certain that there are over 20 million refugees from China. But what if we wipe out not only armed groups but also ordinary refugees?”

“20 million refugees won’t just sit around and wait for time to die, so there will be armed forces in the tens of millions.”

If the inhuman abilities were unlimited, it wouldn’t matter, but if the abilities were limited as expected, it was Korea that would be beaten by a force of tens of millions.

Even if that entity were to capture a million refugees a day, the capital defense force would be annihilated even if the surviving nine million armed refugees rushed in and exchanged at a 10:1 ratio.

“I understand. And?”

Before the intelligence director opened his mouth, one of the congressmen spoke.

“How about asking for the Chinese military to be abolished?”

“Are you crazy?”

“Yes. If you do this and that and then it gets messed up and you spread it out here, can you handle it?”

“Everyone dies.”

I don’t know about anything else, but one thing was certain: if I made a mistake, I would die. The South Korean president once again lamented what he had done.

If I had known this would happen, I would have said that I would go to the Holy Kingdom myself. If the King of the Holy Kingdom were to come in person, I would have refused, no matter what excuse I made.

[Your Majesty, the head of a Japanese refugee organization is requesting an emergency call.]

“The head of a Japanese refugee organization?”

You must be freaking out because you saw death on live TV.

“Try connecting.”

[Chik- My name is Keiichi Kadama from the New Japan Reconstruction Association.]

Wiggle. The Korean President’s eyebrows rose slightly. Before he could answer, Keiichi Kadama spoke first.

[Mainland. Monsters have begun to come over from Japan.]