Rust - Chapter 93
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RUST-93
Ms. Kim, who was pressed against the wall, tilted her head at Maru’s shout.
‘number?’
No, what about grenades?
But the body trained by Baekjeong was honest. Quickly, she opened the grenade and threw it inside the round door with a ‘one-two-‘.
Pfft …
“island!!”
‘Huh? Right again?’
Kim Yang instinctively took out her flashbang grenade, the Double Flash Bang, and signaled to throw it. ‘Oh, right. I’m hiding.’ She said it while throwing it.
“Eyes closed!”
You don’t even have to close your eyes, you have to keep your eyes open. I know you’ll close your eyes on your own even though I told you not to.
Bam! Paaaaang!
Chiik- Phuong! Paaaaang
A flash grenade that explodes twice with a slight delay.
The things that had been rushing in with a rustling sound receded like the tide.
The bodyguard who was trying to carry the president through the door was standing blankly in front of the door with a pale face.
“What is it?”
Kim Yang asked, sticking her face out of the optical robe. The bodyguard had to go in without saying a word, but she looked like she was about to cry because she couldn’t take any steps.
‘What on earth is going on?’
Kim Yang glanced at Baekjeong. Baekjeong had the same expression. An expression that seemed to have come back from a half-exit. Why was everyone like this?
Kim Yang, wrapped in an optical cover robe again, walked confidently into the door.
Crispy-
Kujik-
Suddenly, a crisp and popping sound comes from the sole of the shoe. There doesn’t seem to be any problem with infrared detection.
Kujik-
Big-
Oh, really? Ms. Kim slightly shined a light inside the robe.
A dark brown, shiny body, huge Bs the size of a palm were lying on the ground. The hairy legs attached to the torso torn to pieces by a grenade were flailing, and the feelers attached to the severed head were waving like tentacles.
Hehehehehehe
Are you kidding me with your protein source? They’re a bit big, but they’re still bugs. When you fry them, they taste like shrimp. How cute.
As Ms. Kim took the lead and went inside, Maru and the bodyguard followed her through the door with stern faces.
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‘Where are the researchers?’
Maru went out, illuminating the dark ahead with his tactical light.
As I passed through the entrance, the horrible feeling I had stepped on lingered on the soles of my feet. When I escaped from Japan to Korea, the cockroach I saw on the airport bench was the size of my finger. I thought that was a terribly large size, but the cockroaches that came rushing in like a tide here looked to be two or three times that size. Crazy size.
I wonder what they were researching in the lab to make the wheel that big. Even though it’s a bug that’s lost all vitality, the way it moves each part of its body with its torn body is just…
‘Fuck. Why are the lights off?’
Considering that the emergency lights were on in the tunnel before entering, there should have been electricity inside the door as well. But not only was the electricity out, but the emergency lights were also off, which was extremely strange.
Cool-
The president coughs and spits out blood.
“Where are you going?”
The lab door in the direction the guard had held was slightly open, with gray-white bones stuck in it. It was unclear whether they had been caught escaping from the inside or trying to enter from the outside.
‘There’s no smell.’
It wasn’t decay. There was no distinctive smell of a rotting corpse. It was strange that only white bones remained, but I couldn’t help but go in. Kim Yang peeked inside the door. He was using the optical cloaking equipment as if he was a regular user.
[There is nothing right in front of the door.]
“Protect the entrance area.”
[Okay.]
Swish- Maru, who had drawn his sword, entered while holding a tactical light with his other hand.
Knock- knock-
Maru kicked the bones strewn across the doorway with his foot and closed the door.
[Found the switch.]
“If there is nothing wrong with the surroundings, turn it on.”
[Okay.]
[Nothing unusual. Lights will turn on after 3 seconds. 3···2···1]
A moment later, white light poured down from the ceiling. The white laboratory revealed in that way, and the inside of the laboratory was filled with a sight that made one want to curse.
A space filled with cutting-edge scientific equipment. It looked like a typical laboratory, but what was inside was anything but.
Japanese has some unique expressions that are hard to understand right away. For example, the Japanese word for child, kodomo (子供), is one of those unique expressions.
The character ‘gong (供)’ has the meanings of ‘offering’, ‘feeding’, and ‘sacrifice’, and is the character ‘gong (供)’ used in human sacrifice.
So why did the word “ball,” which seems to have nothing to do with children, come to be used to refer to children? The answer seemed to lie in the laboratory.
“Fuck.”
Crazy. No other expression came to mind. I thought of the Yamatsuki Shin-yak researchers and hospital staff who had been making a fuss at the stolen hospital. I could see how they could do such things so calmly. Those fucking things were just a daily routine for crazy people.
The president is half-conscious, but the bodyguard and Ms. Kim are surprisingly calm. What kind of lives have they all been living?
The bodyguard took out some medicine from what looked like a refrigerator. It was a red-glowing medicine. A red color that felt ominous. Can’t you feel it?
“Wait a minute. Isn’t that color too red? Wasn’t the medicine that the CEO originally had pink?”
“······.”
No matter how urgent it is, it’s like that.
“Looking at the lab, it seems like it’s full of crazy kids. Just because something looks similar, does it mean it has the same effect? Just because something looks strong, does it mean it’s strong? I wouldn’t use that.”
“······.”
It was the floor leading into the medicine storage room where the bodyguard had entered.
‘Found it.’
Pink ampoules lined up in a row on one side of a glass-doored refrigerator. There were at least 30 of them. And a small refrigerator on the other side had a few red ampoules. Was that why they were thought to be more effective? Because they were stored more strictly and there were fewer of them?
Maru transferred the pink ampoules into the case. The bodyguard who followed glared at Maru as he took out a row of ten pink ampoules.
‘Look at it.’
[There’s something strange here.]
“Don’t touch me!”
[······.]
Aren’t you just getting a little closer?
“Stop right there. Don’t come near me.”
[···!]
“Step back for now.”
Maru said in a fit of rage. In times like this, it was best not to touch.
[Okay, I get it. But it’s really weird.]
Are you telling me to come over? If it’s weird, why are you showing it to others instead of just yourself? Whenever you see something dirty or disgusting, you call someone over. Maru took a deep breath and headed towards where Miss Kim was.
A space enclosed on all sides by partitions.
On the white wall, the blood-red traces flowing down were drawing strange letters. The thing in the center looked more like an altar than a laboratory. And the things piled up in the trench-like area under the altar were bones and some kind of byproduct?
On one side is a state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, and behind it is an altar surrounded by bones and entrails. There is no contradiction like this, where superstition and science coexist.
“Everything here is weird. What’s weirder here?”
[On that thing that looks like an altar.]
“What is it···?”
The space seemed a little blurry. Does it make sense for space to be blurry? Is it like a hologram? There was a more fundamental discomfort there. It felt like seeing tens of thousands of bugs, like cockroaches and maggots, writhing around.
Maru cursed softly. In the hazy space beyond, he felt something that was either an antenna or a tentacle waving around.
“Come out quickly.”
First, I dragged Ms. Kim outside. My stomach was churning.
What on earth… did I just see? Seagulls were running wild, strange infected people were suddenly eating people’s brains and livers, and cockroaches the size of palms were swarming like waves. What the hell was that?
Was that why you had that ominous feeling?
What on earth were you researching? What does that have to do with medicine?
“Hey. Come on.”
When I told her to come out, it was Ms. Kim who was halfway there.
[······.]
“Aren’t you out of your mind?”
He hit me hard with a stick where my head would be.
Exactly.
Kim Yang’s head popped out from the place where it had been shaking. Her eyes were sullen and asked why she had hit him.
“I told you to come out. Why are you staring at something like that instead of just watching a fire?”
“······.”
Just as we were about to start a staring contest with a clear winner, the president approached us with a pale face.
“You brought some quick-fix medication.”
“Yes. By the way, what is this place? Is this a pharmaceutical research lab? You supported this?”
Maru was proud of having brought the cure. After all this hardship, shouldn’t he have received it? The optical concealment equipment was also like that. It was give and take. The president looked around and slightly frowned.
“It wasn’t just Charlotte that supported it. Other major companies also supported it. It was a project that the Japanese Cabinet Information Office and influential Japanese families also participated in.”
“Is that so? That’s fine. What is that altar-like thing over there? Is that part of the experiment? What was this place used for research in the first place?”
No matter how much I think about it, it seems like it’s beyond the realm of science.
The president opened his mouth, which had been tightly shut.
“If you find out, you will come with us whether you like it or not. Will you still listen?”
“No, that’s fine. Have you packed everything you need? Then let’s go right away.”
Maru firmly struck the iron wall. I’m already tired, and I’m completely entangled? Just from hearing it? Are you crazy, sitting there listening to that? Kim Yang made a curious expression, but her gaze was distorted by Maru’s gaze.
“The rapid treatment drug is···.”
Maru glared at the president with the same gaze he had used at Kim Yang.
‘This is mine.’ ‘It’s no fun if you touch it.’ ‘Do you think I’m a fool?’
The president closed his mouth at those intense eyes and then opened it.
“I need to stop by the central control room and the server room. I need some information.”
“Okay, I’ll wait for you without going anywhere, so go ahead.”
The boss was taken aback by the tone of voice that said, “Hwayihwayi, have a nice trip.”
“Aren’t you going together?”
“Miss Kim will go with you.”
Even though Kim Yang had hidden herself by putting on the optical cloak, she couldn’t escape Maru. Maru was talking to where Kim Yang was.
“Go and protect CEO Kim Yang-ah.”
[···Okay, I understand.]
As the president, the bodyguard, and Ms. Kim left the laboratory, Maru looked around.
On the other side of the bizarre space, there was a row of black glass spaces. When the brightness was adjusted with the touchpad in front, the glass became transparent, losing its blackness. On the other side of the transparent wall, there was an empty bed with only a red trace left.
Ssurukruk- As the blackness disappeared, the next space revealed an empty bed. And the next, and the next.
As I went further inside, there was a space with shutters or iron bars inside the glass. It felt more like a prison than a hospital room. And finally, there was a place that was completely blocked off with metal.
It was a place where words like ‘Danger,’ ‘Warning,’ and ‘No Entry’ were wrapped around like talismans.
There are so many attached, why are you opening them?
As I was passing through that sealed metal box-like space, I heard a sound. A small sound. A sound that entered my head directly, not my ears.
[···help.]
[Please save me···.]
Maru turned his head towards the sound and narrowed his eyes.
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The president’s gait was unsteady, as if his physical strength had not yet fully recovered. The bodyguard was walking ahead, looking around, while Ms. Kim moved while hiding tightly against one wall.
“Do you like it?”
[······.]
Ms. Kim remained silent. She was afraid that if she spoke, her location would be revealed.
“It’s not good to take it like that. It’s robbery. Even if it’s give and take, if you think about it from the other side, wouldn’t it feel bad?”
Of course, that’s possible, but that’s what Baekjeong did. It’s none of my business. Kim Yang wasn’t affected at all by the boss’s words. It’s all Baekjeong’s fault.
The bodyguard who was moving in front raised his hand, spread his fingers, then clenched his fist.
There was something there. The guard pointed his gun at the control room door, and the president was also taking a stance, as if he had drawn his gun. Yang Kim also stood against the wall, readying a Glock with a silencer.
The guard opened the door slightly. A smell escaped from inside the door that opened slightly. A musty smell, a putrid smell, and a smell of a shithole. The inside, which had been quiet for a moment, gradually became noisy.
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