Rust - Chapter 927



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RUST [RUST]-927

One of the men, who had been scraping the small monster clinging to his neck with his butt, screamed as he grabbed the back of his neck.

“Ahhhhh- My neck. It bit my neck!”

I tried to stop the bleeding from the wound, but the blood that had fallen just kept scattering.

“Put your hands down. Look where you are.”

“···My throat···.”

“Put your hands down quickly. You have to move your hands so I can put styptic on the wound.”

The hand that had been covering the nape of his neck slowly fell away. The nape of his bulletproof vest. The part where the bulletproof plate was not was torn.

“You have to take your helmet off because it’s below your chin.”

The team leader, who was about to take off his helmet and check the wound on his neck, pulled out his gun and aimed it at the man’s head, pulling the trigger.

bang!

A soldier fell to the ground with his brains scattered by the powerful force of a .45 caliber gun. The wound on his neck showed clear signs of infection.

“FUCK! FUUUU–CK!!!

The team leader shouted after spewing out a torrent of curses.

“If you get bitten, grab a grenade and run away!”

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“It is better to die a glorious death than to become a monster.”

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The infection was too fast. Even if they were lucky enough not to die, they would become test subjects, and they knew that would be a more hopeless ending. They were the ones who silently pulled the triggers toward the small monsters that were advancing.

“It’s too small!”

“Flamethrower!”

“I told you it wouldn’t work!”

The new humans’ excellent reflexes and physical abilities were no match for the immortal little monsters.

“when?”

“Shut up and shoot!”

“You want to shoot here?”

“Just shoot!”

It wasn’t easy to hit all the targets, ranging from the size of a finger to a body length of less than 30cm at most. This was because they were small and moved quickly.

Phew! Phew!

A sticky flame was sprayed. Even in the sea of ​​fire that spread out in an instant, the small monster did not stop moving. The small monster spread flames here and there as if it were a legged torch.

“You said it didn’t work!”

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The sound of gunfire seeped through the six-letter words. At that moment, a person who had been quietly standing in a corner turned the gun to the side and pulled the trigger.

Tudadadak-

Those who were saved by the bulletproof vests immediately returned fire.

“This kid!”

“Has the bastard gone crazy?”

He didn’t show any signs of being bitten, but then got ‘infected’ and started shooting at his own group.

Tudadadada!

“That crazy kid!”

“Scatter!”

Through the gaps in the chaos, small monsters broke through the defense line.

“We’re surrounded!”

“If I get trapped here, I’ll die anyway!”

“Flamethrower!”

“I told you it won’t work!!!”

“Don’t shoot. You’ll only put us in danger!”

Not only ‘infection’ but also ‘erosion’ progressed very quickly.

Oh my god!

It was fortunate that the researcher was infected, because the protective clothing was easily torn and exposed skin, making it easy to see whether it was ‘eroded’.

“Fuck···”

“The lab has been breached!”

“What about the researchers?”

“All but two were ‘infected’.”

“The infection has already been ‘eroded’.”

Less than five minutes after being bitten by a small monster and ‘infected’, I was ‘eroding’. My skin was melting away in an instant, and pus and oozing were forming.

It took less than five minutes for the ash and dust to stick to my tattered skin and harden like cement.

“Gather the information. Let’s escape.”

“You cannot enter the lab.”

“There are too many eroded researchers.”

The researchers were in chaos, but the monsters that were ‘eroded’ while wearing bulletproof vests were truly terrifying. They were even wearing bulletproof helmets, so if one of them was eroded, it was almost certain that the defense line would be breached.

Kwaaaaang!

The team leader shouted as he blew up his subordinate who had turned into a monster with an anti-tank missile.

“If you’re going to become a monster, go out and die, you idiots!”

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“Numbers 12 and 17, go into the lab right now and get the data.”

The voice of the team leader calling them by number rather than name was filled with dominance. The two of them ran into the lab filled with exhausted researchers.

“What are you looking at? Even if you break through the siege, you’ll still die!”

The order to break through the siege began to bind his men. It meant that he was giving orders using his authority.

“Fuck···.”

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It’s been quite some time since they became a new species. It’s also been known for a long time that eating humans increases your dominance.

That’s why those who became new humans tried to become strong whenever they had the chance. No one wanted to live a life at the bottom.

Because I became a new human, paradoxically I lost my freedom and ended up living a life under control… This is not the life I wanted.

We became new humans to rule, not to become meat shields like we are now. Internal conflict was bound to grow.

‘We will go up no matter what.’

‘If I survive this time, I’ll take care of the team leader’s kid.’

But that’s a story for later. For now, I had to break through the siege as ordered.

“There was no sound of a monster shooting a gun.”

“Get your mind right. You can’t change the magazine. They just don’t die very well.”

Until just a moment ago, they were the same security team, but now they are just eroded monsters.

“Are you saying that pus and pus are flowing out?”

“There’s nothing to be scared of because you’re covered by a bulletproof vest.”

“The helmet has a sealed mouth.”

“There is no risk of being bitten, so if you hold on calmly, you can catch it.”

“It’s hard to kill it quickly anyway. So let’s break its lower body joints and take away its mobility.”

“We can just freeze the little monsters with nitrogen.”

Since it’s small, if you freeze it with nitrogen at a temperature below -180 degrees Celsius, it will freeze quickly. If you step on it after it’s frozen solid, it will turn into powder.

Maru, who had been watching the scene from a tall palm tree, landed between the security team trying to break through the siege.

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“What!”

Before they could even turn their guns, black vines dug into their chests.

Zuririck-

Parik!

Dozens of daggers hanging from vines led the security team that had been trying to break through the siege to their deaths.

Kkeuk-

omg-

Kreup-

The dagger neatly pierced the bulletproof vest, splitting the ribs and tearing out the heart. Maru, who had put dozens of people to sleep in an instant, disappeared into the sky through the vines.

In just a few seconds, the scene was filled with corpses strewn about. Some of the corpses had their heads missing. Monsters who had lost their peace began to rush in through the gaps that had opened up.

And for a moment.

An unidentified camp was engulfed in flames with a loud explosion.

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As if they had achieved their goal in the blazing flames, the monsters began to return to the sinkhole. And as they returned, the vines on the floor struck the back of their heads.

Quadduk-

The sound of a dagger hanging from a vine.

A dagger containing fragments of the altar cut the monsters to pieces.

Wow wow wow wow-

The monsters that were about to return to the sinkhole turned around again and started chasing Maru.

Kwaaaaaaaah-

Woooooooooooooo-

As if he wouldn’t miss it, the monster’s voice began to resonate like a chorus. And in the distance, in the direction Maru was running, there were rebels facing off against government troops.

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Beep-

It was Ki-sun who was terrified to hear the hatch of the airship close.

“You said you were going to bring down weirdos, but what did you do to the rebels and government forces that made them act up?”

“I brought you one as a gift because you seemed to like that monster.”

Ki-sun shook her head at Maru’s answer, which seemed to say that he did as she wanted.

“crazy···.”

Ki-soon’s gaze turned to Maru’s waist. Maru held out the thing hanging from his waist as if he had been waiting for someone to look at him.

“Get some information from here.”

It was Maru who was sticking out his head that was hanging on his waist like a bundle of dried persimmons. It wasn’t just any head, it was a head wearing a helmet.

“Helmet? Isn’t that a rebel? That guard’s head?”

“Hey. I watched what these guys were doing, and they weren’t ordinary people, they were cannibals. Their movements weren’t normal human.”

Ki-sun’s eyes narrowed even further after hearing Maru’s explanation.

“Okay? Okay, I see. You’ll know once you get the information.”

“Send this straight to Detroit.”

In the preservation container was a small animal that resembled a rat. It was struggling without dying even though it was cut up and down.

“It’s small? It looks like a monster. I’ve never seen it before.”

“This is my first time seeing it too.”

“Why? There are enough monster samples.”

“I have a few things to check. Then I’ll go back.”

Maru, who had changed into his Ripper suit, opened the airship hatch and said.

“Where?”

“I heard you liked the gift.”

A story of rebels and government forces.

“Really. Oh. What do you like? Your Majesty, please.”

“If you contact me again, ask why I did it when you have no proof.”

“crazy···.”

“You didn’t get caught earlier, did you?”

Ki-sun made a dejected expression at Maru’s hazy gaze.

“What’s the big deal? Your Majesty, please, let’s do this in moderation.”

“That’s what they do. I tried to do it moderately, but they ended up causing a lot of trouble.”

It was the same when the rebels were talking about Allah and the sinkhole, and it was the same when the government forces were drinking kimchi stew while claiming that Mindanao was Philippine territory and failing to drive out the rebels.

I was trying to just let it go because they weren’t cannibals, whether they were rebels or government soldiers, but I found out that I was dealing with unidentified people.

“That goes for cannibals too.”

“···So, you’re going this time. No way?”

Maru shrugged his shoulders at Ki-soon’s gaze that seemed to suggest that he was going to say, “No witnesses.”

“Not that far. I need to check out sea salt and solar energy.”

“You. Really. Ha- Your Majesty.”

Are you that angry about the actions of the rebels and the government forces? In that case, wouldn’t it be better to just kill the rebels and clean up the heads of the government forces?

Before Ki-sun could say anything, Maru opened the airship hatch and came down leading a robot loaded with sea salt.

The sight of him raising his hand and waving it as if to tell her not to worry disappeared into thin air, absorbed by the stealth function of the Ripper suit.

‘There aren’t enough monsters to test the effects of the salt and solar beam. Did they bring in both rebels and government forces?’

While educating the rebels and government forces? After taking off the helmet that Ki-sun was wearing from the severed head, he inserted an information extraction device.

[Pokgurururuk-]

The sound of bubbles rising from the information extraction terminal. And then a blank monitor with no screen appearing.

hmm-

Are you having a headache?

Ki-soon inserted an information extractor into the other’s head.

[Pokgurururuk-]

There was no information about this either. These guys weren’t just cannibals. They were using a method to turn the brain into mush after death to prevent information leaks.

‘It’s amazing how much information is controlled.’

Those guys who are connected to the US, Japan, China, and Europe. I had to see them as the limbs of those guys whose identities cannot be confirmed.

There were several indications that the apocalypse might not have been a coincidence. There was even a hypothesis that the spread of the mutant virus might have been an attempt to turn humans into sacrifices or food.

Humans infected with the mutant virus also developed anger management problems and impaired judgment, leading to a sharp increase in crime.

‘It’s not just crime that’s on the rise, but impaired judgment that has a decisive impact on elections.’

In addition, the secret laboratories confirmed in the US, China, and Japan seemed to be connected by coincidence. Although they were independent secret laboratories, the subjects they studied were all unethical.

The development of biological and bioweaponry, experiments involving altars of unknown identity, research using materials of unknown origin, and cannibalism.

It was also strange that the experiment to create a new human race ended up using a cannibalistic disease caused by a ‘factor’ inside cockroaches. The same was true of the experiments with vampires and werewolves.

That wasn’t the only strange thing. China’s preemptive nuclear strike was also absurd. It was also strange that New York, in the eastern part of the United States, wasn’t attacked, which could be dismissed as a coincidence.

What was strange was that the major shareholders of the Chinese bio-research institute and the Japanese pharmaceutical company were Americans, and they were famous people on Wall Street. It was too strange to just ignore.

“Ha— This is it.”

Ki-soon let out a long sigh. The brains of the skulls Maru had brought were all crushed to the point where no information could be extracted.

‘They say it’s an international force.’

Any force that can reach as far as the Philippine island of Mindanao must have been preparing for the end a long time ago.

Maybe they were trying to take advantage of the apocalypse.

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Wheein wheein-

Wheein wheein-

It was a new type of robot that followed Maru without difficulty even though it was fully loaded with sea salt. In a normal combat situation, it would have been fully loaded with supplies and provided infantry support.

[If they come this way, sprinkle salt on them.]

[Beep-Okay.]

The assistant AI controlling the robot responded immediately.

[No need to engage in dangerous combat. Retreat while sprinkling salt.]

[Order confirmed.]

[Okay. Fire in communicator order.]

[Communicator firing.]

A balloon-tipped communicator shot into the sky, tail to tail.

And the monsters that had rushed into the area where the rebels and government forces were were rushing back to the sinkhole in the thick dust with many more comrades.

[Solar condensation.]

[Sunlight condenses.]

[Fire at those in front.]

[firing.]

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A huge beam of sunlight poured down in a straight line.