Rust - Chapter 916
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RUST [RUST]-916
A sight where everything is mixed together and returns to death.
Those in the red-dug trenches had turned into black, dark brown powder. That’s why the trench lines were more clearly visible.
Maru, who was floating into the air with a jetpack, measured his control by looking at the sight. The unbridled Garden of Death was eating and multiplying like a slime eating and growing.
As blades of grass tore through tents, vines dug into them like tentacles, squeezing life out of them. Black rats swarmed through chimneys and vents, killing refugees hiding in houses and huts.
If you ran outside, you would die because the garden of death was laid out, and if you hid inside, there was no escape. All that remained was death.
In an instant, illegal refugees by the thousands were turned to dust, and the death that had eaten the thousands expanded further to harvest more lives.
The area that started out as a 1km radius expanded to 4km, 5km, then 7km, 8km, and finally over 10km. It was a death that had practically reached even a part of Seosan City.
[Check communication status.]
[Communication status is good.]
[Communication becomes possible as the altitude increases.]
[The drone worked when it was high in the air.]
Once out of Maru’s control, the electromagnetic blackout that occurred when the Garden of Death was unleashed seemed to have slightly weakened in scope and intensity.
[The jetpack was a stroke of genius.]
[What is God’s move?]
[That’s a stroke of genius. If you wanted to go quietly without getting caught, you could’ve just paraglided or parachuted down. Going down on a noisy jetpack was a stroke of genius.]
[Okay. As expected, since the control was released, it is expanding independently.]
That guy Kisun.
Why are you suddenly letting me ride on a plane?
Are you trying to cover up the mess by talking nonsense?
[It’s nice that it can unfold independently even when separated from your body, but doesn’t the range seem too wide?]
A radius of 10km was too wide.
[However, it doesn’t seem to get any wider after expanding to about 10km.]
The range was confirmed by a blimp hovering at the troposphere boundary altitude.
[Really? It won’t expand any further? Are you sure?]
[Oh. It doesn’t look any wider when viewed from above.]
[You ate like that and stopped at 10km? That’s strange. It seemed like it would go straight up if you ran wild.]
Maru headed west using his jetpack. Arriving at the west coast in no time, Maru was able to witness the phenomenon he had been hoping for.
[also···.]
[What is it?]
[The reason the Garden of Death didn’t expand any further. It stopped expanding after it reached the sea.]
[Oh, I see. Even looking at it from here, something seems subtle.]
Ki-soon took a picture of the circular area of death he saw from the airship and sent it to Maru.
The Garden of Death spread out from the floor’s feet, forming a circle around it. The Garden of Death, which had been expanding from its starting point, reached its western end, reaching the west coast, and was unable to advance any further.
It is not certain, but it does not seem that the Garden of Death, which is harvesting life and expanding its territory, extends to the bottom of the sea.
[Anyway, I’m glad it doesn’t seem to expand endlessly.]
[I know.]
It was a better result than expected. It meant that if necessary, it was possible to loosen control by setting the coastline as the limit.
How long had it been? The Garden of Death, which had been squirming here and there, began to slowly shrink its area. It seemed to be a phenomenon that occurred when all life within the area was harvested and the acquisition of additional life stopped, and the energy needed to materialize was insufficient.
[Oh- It’s decreasing much faster than expected?]
[It seems that the control is not working, so it seems that the appearance has decreased, but the inside is fine.]
[Isn’t that because it’s so far away? Originally, it was controlled by directly touching it with your feet.]
[Is that so? Then let’s take a closer look.]
[Fill up your jetpack fuel before you go.]
[I guess so.]
Maru, who had run out of jetpack fuel, returned to the airship and replaced it with a new jetpack. Rather than refueling it, he simply replaced the entire jetpack.
Ki-sun shook his head when he saw that.
[Take it slow. Why are you in such a hurry when you know the descent is dangerous?]
Even if you get off just once, it’s dangerous. In the past, you would avoid danger because you have a special feeling, but isn’t that not the case now?
[The sensitivity has changed.]
[It’s okay because the result is similar anyway.]
My pounding heart wasn’t warning me of danger, but that didn’t change anything.
[Go.]
As the deck leading up to the Garden of Death slowly lowered in height, a rapidly shrinking figure came into view.
My heartbeat remained the same. I felt okay.
[I need to get a closer look.]
[Just in case. Don’t get too close.]
[Oh.]
I thought I was closing the distance a little, but I immediately entered the unique electromagnetic blackout zone. Communication was cut off and the jetpack control was having problems.
Puhwaaaa— Ah—
Maru instinctively pulled up to maximum output. The jet engine, which had been emitting maximum output for a moment, stopped as the electronic control got tangled. The jetpack, which had been rising rapidly in a U-shape, began to fall due to gravity.
Maru calmly removed his jetpack and deployed his paraglider. The Garden of Death on the floor began to grow vines towards Maru as if it had found a way out.
long.
Very long vines.
As Maru turned to avoid the vines that were rising up, entangled with each other and forming a cone-shaped structure, the vines froze for a moment. Even though they paused for a moment as if they didn’t know how to avoid them, Maru continued to circle around them.
‘I don’t feel like I have any control back.’
That meant that the Garden of Death wanted to use him to move. As Maru had expected, the vines began to rise towards the space that Maru had avoided.
The paraglider dodged the vines that shot at it roughly as if they were trying to drag it away by force, and finally escaped the area where the Garden of Death was spread out.
[Chijijik- Hey- No. Your Majesty. Did you really have to get that close?]
As soon as the communication was connected, Ki-sun let out a scream.
[Hey- I have something to check. Send me a new jetpack or something.]
[Jetpack, what the heck! You were in danger a little while ago, right? Death attacked you, right?]
[That’s not it, so send me a jetpack.]
[What should I do when it’s going to be blocked if I get close to it anyway?]
[I’m not sure, so send it quickly.]
[Oh, man – don’t make me lose my shit. Seriously.]
Ki-sun grumbled at Maru’s request and sent the jetpack. Maru put on the jetpack and walked closer to the shrinking boundary of death.
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The footage of Maru’s release from control was a huge shock to the Korean government. The Garden of Death, commonly known as the scene where the power of death multiplies at will, was terrifying in itself.
The movement of the out-of-control grass and vines, and the swarm of rats, was literally death itself. They tore through the double and triple-layered tents to withstand the bitter cold, tearing them like paper and digging their way in.
The sight of the adults turning the animals into fertilizer without a moment’s hesitation was completely different from the way they moved under Maru’s control.
It literally felt like a black demon was taking lives. In an instant, armed groups and illegal refugees on the Taean Peninsula were reduced to manure in the millions.
The trenches laid out everywhere were of no use, and there was no chance to fire the anti-tank missiles and mortars brought from China.
It was a one-sided massacre. It was horribly horrible. It was impossible to escape. Surrender was useless, and even the pleas of a child were ignored.
“······.”
“······.”
In just a few minutes, a 10km radius was completely swept away.
“Why on earth would you broadcast a video like this live?”
“It must be an attempt to break the enemy’s morale.”
“Will this discourage you? It’ll just cause resentment.”
“On the contrary, the morale of our troops will be broken. Massacre of civilians.”
“It’s completely different from when the Bupyeong-Bucheon line was built.”
“Yes, at that time, they only selectively attacked armed refugees anyway.”
“What kind of weapon is that? Is a beer bottle a weapon?”
“Big. Hmm. A beer bottle is also a weapon. A weapon.”
“Isn’t that the point? That ability. It’s still there even after it’s been removed from the body.”
“······.”
I thought it was an ability that would activate if you stepped on it, but it activates even if you don’t step on it. That means it can be used like a bomb.
“As you can see, if we infiltrate enemy territory and release that, it’s basically over.”
“With that kind of power, it’s practically a strategic weapon.”
“It’s a strategic weapon.”
“That’s why I confidently went live.”
It was also a clean weapon with no radiation at all. If there were any living things to consume, the range could have been even greater.
“Even the Chinese warlords wouldn’t be able to act rashly.”
“It would be the same for Japanese refugees.”
And that was the same for any country. Since it was revealed on live TV, any country that has an informant in Korea would know about it.
“What happened to the sea routes connecting Southeast Asia and Australia?”
“The southern Chinese warlords who control Taiwan are not opening the way.”
The South Korean government and parliament were worried. If the warlords in southern China block the sea routes to Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East, South Korea will slowly dry up.
“I said that when you fight, you have to fight.”
And if you are going to fight, it would be better to do it while you have the strategic weapons of the Holy Kingdom.
“From now on, we will send Chinese refugees to Taiwan.”
“yes?”
Sending Chinese refugees who were sent to North Korea and the West Coast to Taiwan.
“Sending refugees to Taiwan is shaking things up and causing war.”
Until freedom of navigation is secured.
To secure freedom of navigation.
The Korean government and parliament resolved to go to war.
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Maru, who kept his distance with the jetpack, laughed in vain.
‘Look at this?’
There were times when it seemed like control had returned, but it was all just bait to catch Maru.
‘He even goes fishing.’
The Garden of Death, which had failed to catch Maru, shrank in an instant to a radius of about 100 meters. Only after it had shrunk to that extent was control regained.
Only after confirming that the Garden of Death was no longer able to sustain itself, Maru approached the center of the Garden of Death.
As Maru approached the center, the Garden of Death blossomed in worship. Blades of blade grass broke off the stiff blades and wove them into steps. Ivy of death entwined itself to form platforms.
Maru landed slowly.
The moment Maru’s feet touch the platform.
It felt like the Garden of Death, which had been out of control, was once again completely under Maru’s control. However, Maru had no intention of maintaining the Garden of Death.
‘Release.’
Maru was lost in thought as he looked at the Garden of Death, which was turning into black particles and disappearing into thin air.
‘All the deaths that had piled up so far have been consumed.’
As before, it was possible to expand the area to about 100m. The advantage was that the controllability was stronger, but the disadvantage was that it was not possible to push a 5km radius at once like this time.
Tsk-
If they wanted to finish Seosan and Dangjin in one go, they had to move diligently. As Maru wiped out most of the armed forces and illegal refugees in Taean, the 800,000-strong Korean army began to clear out the remnants.
The armed forces were almost completely annihilated, and the refugees who had been illegally occupying the area saw the live broadcast and confirmed that what had happened nearby, and obediently followed the control of the Korean military.
[Chijijik-]
As soon as the Garden of Death disappeared and communications were restored, Ki-sun contacted me.
[The South Korean government says it will go to war with the warlords in southern China.]
[What? Suddenly?]
Ki-sun’s sharp gaze turned towards the floor.
You said it yourself. You have to fight when you have to fight.
[Why are we going to war when the refugee problem hasn’t even been solved?]
[No. He said he would do it while solving the refugee problem.]
[Solving the refugee problem? How?]
[Pushing refugees into Taiwan. Shaking Taiwan and attacking from within and without. Making Taiwan independent and using it as an unsinkable aircraft carrier.]
It was as if the Chinese warlords were going to use the same method they used to shake up Korea in Taiwan. They were going to send Chinese refugees to Taiwan, but it would be okay if the warlords were to sink ships going to Taiwan.
If we leave it alone and let the refugees arrive in Taiwan, the food problem will explode right away. Imagine a refugee population of close to 20 million.
Even without that, 20 million refugees are coming to Taiwan when guerrillas are still active in the mountainous regions of Taiwan?
Even for a southern warlord, it wasn’t easy. Wasn’t it a place that had been completely razed by Kim Yang’s expedition last year?
[That’s amazing.]
Maru admitted. After going through a few bloody shits, Korea seemed to have become more energetic. Ki-soon shrugged.
[Will the Southern Warlords Spit Out Taiwan?]
[We’ll have to go and see for ourselves. Anyway, all we have to do is resolve the Chinese refugee issue as we agreed to.]
While the Korean army cleared Taean, Maru headed to Seosan. Practice for spreading the Garden of Death like a bomb began.
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In an instant, Seosan was turned into a wasteland, and in half a day, the talk of whether the live broadcast was fake or not disappeared.
Videos shot by Korean VJs using drones began to appear on NewTube Korea, SNS, and portal bulletin boards.
Not one or two, but dozens of videos and photos were spread. Videos and photos that were clearly taken by different people from different angles.
Even those who said that the live broadcast was fake and manipulated could not say that all the video evidence and photos that were pouring out were manipulated and composited.
The news of the horribly cruel Garden of Death began to spread in real time. As Seosan was coming to an end, Dangjin, the next in line, contacted them to surrender.
[Dangjin will surrender. He just wants to be spared?]
[okay?]
[Then what are you going to do?]
[You have to go through Ansan to Incheon and Ganghwa.]
And that afternoon, the Chinese refugees and armed forces that had occupied Ansan, Incheon, and Ganghwa raised the white flag. The short-lived Chinese refugee crisis was over.
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