Rust - Chapter 94



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RUST -94

Black – The president covered his nose and mouth and stepped back. The bodyguard also fell away from the door. The mixed smell was a problem, but it seemed like the toxic gas was mixed in, making him dizzy.

Swish- Kim Yang took out a gas mask from her bag and threw it at the bodyguard. The bodyguard who received the gas mask quickly put it back on and nodded. Kim Yang handed the president an oxygen mask and a small oxygen tank and checked the gas mask again.

After the sound of falling, stumbling, and tangling through the slightly open door, the characteristic scream of the infected erupted.

Crouaaaaaa!

Suddenly the door was pulled inward.

“3. 2. 1. Now!”

As the bodyguard shouted, people in bloody robes rushed out.

Boom! Boom!

Knock knock!

“Head and heart!”

Miss Kim, who had shouted, moved to sit next to the wall.

The infected rushed towards the guards and the president in front of them. Kim Yang, who had found a good position diagonally, slightly stuck out the gun barrel and started firing rapidly. He poured out 9mm bullets with a low, heavy sound.

Head, chest, head.

Head, knees, head.

The infected who had been hit in the head and fell down struggled to his feet, but his knees buckled. He struggled and was hit in the head again, and fell silent. That guy from before. The guy who shot him in the chest. He went crazy after being shot twice in the head.

Mr. Kim steadily shot the head with two or three shots. The bodyguard and the president also shot mainly at the head, taking note of the situation. At some point, the infected’s characteristic screams suddenly stopped.

The sight of infected people writhing on the floor everywhere was unrealistic. They must have been shot at least twice in the head and once or twice in the torso and limbs, yet they were still moving…

The bodyguard and the president were silent, perhaps because it was their first time encountering the infected directly.

“······.”

“······.”

As the dull gunshots died down, something in the corner leapt at the boss.

Thump-thump-

The guy who jumped towards the president was hit by Kim Yang’s gunshot and spun around in the air before crashing down. The president quickly fired two shots at the guy’s head. The bodyguards immediately started firing confirmation shots at the heads of the infected writhing on the ground.

The three people who had dealt with eight infected people in an instant exchanged glances. Even though there was no particular conversation, they seemed to be in sync better than expected.

“······.”

“······.”

It was strange how well the sum fit together. Above all, the boss shot the gun very well. It was even more so when I thought about the people I had worked with before.

Among the targets, there must have been no one who shot for fun. Ordinary people would shoot at targets, or at best, clay shooting. So when faced with an emergency, they would shoot from their spot without even realizing it.

But the boss moved naturally and fired his gun. It wasn’t easy to move calmly and shoot while the enemy was running towards him.

The gun he was using there was the same. He said he was using the familiar Glock 17 because he was a gunman, but to the average person, especially a woman, the Glock 17 was considered a big gun.

As the little things caught my eye, something else caught my eye. Not only was the way he naturally held it with both hands and controlled the recoil, but the speed at which he changed magazines was too fast.

The bodyguard sent a signal. He was pointing to the place he had been at first, as if he didn’t know that Ms. Kim had changed her location.

‘Invasion.’ ‘Coverage.’

Inside the wide-open door, it was pitch-black. The security guard went in first, followed by the president. After a while, the lights came on. There was no normal place in the control room from the floor to the walls.

There were cracks here and there, perhaps due to the aftereffects of the earthquake. The walls were covered in yellowish, sticky material, and there were feces, pieces, and other byproducts rotting on the floor.

“It’s a mess.”

“There might be survivors in the server room.”

The guard said, looking at the door leading to the server room inside the control room. Ms. Kim watched the two men go to the server room and then looked around the control room.

What we need to check is the power supply to the entire facility and the possibility of restarting the CCTV. If the facility has power, we can move the barriers and defensive facilities, and if the CCTV is restarted, we can see what is happening inside without having to go in ourselves.

‘These facilities had emergency power grids and power restoration systems in the control room.’

Thump- thump-

Tutuk-tatak-

There’s a sound coming from inside. It looks like there are no survivors in the server room either.

My eyes fell upon a gray mass stuck to one wall. Black letters on a yellow background read, ‘Emergency Power Supply.’

‘Found it.’

As soon as the power supply started, the CCTV was restored. The dark tunnel was lit up. And the Bs filling one wall were captured on the CCTV screen. As the dark tunnel became brighter, they ran away to the dark side. The sight of their dark brown, shiny backs moving around in a tangled manner was a little creepy.

‘Ah- looking at it this way, it’s a bit.’

They tasted like shrimp when fried or stir-fried, but seeing them all bubbling like that made me think so.

‘I’m full. I’m full.’

That was also valuable in the old days.

‘uh?’

What was left behind in the place where the wheels moved was visible. They were white bones. Do the wheels also attack people? Isn’t it the same story as shrimps attacking people? Ms. Kim manipulated the CCTV and zoomed in. It was definitely human bones.

The seagulls are crazy, so are the wheels crazy too? What if I couldn’t chase away the wheels that poured out when I first opened the door? Oh, my goosebumps came up.

Kim Yang checked the CCTV one by one. The president and the bodyguard who were shooting in the server room were both doing well leisurely. It didn’t seem like they needed any support or anything.

‘Hmm-‘

Looking at it this way, the boss is definitely good at shooting. Of course, the bodyguard is also good at shooting.

There were some places where it was difficult to tell if the CCTV was broken, but most of the CCTV was working well. And then there was the sight of someone passing by.

‘Ah, it’s Baekjeong.’

Baekjeong seemed to be thinking about something. He went this way and then turned back. He seemed to be very worried.

‘First, let’s stop the wheels from coming this way again.’

The barrier on the side where the wheels had fled was lowered. As the barrier closed, the wheels were caught in a dark corner, squirming. They were climbing up the wall, slipping, and falling off the ceiling. It was total chaos.

The smell is there and there seems to be toxic gas, so I’ll turn the ventilation system back on and the autonomous defense system… For now, let’s pass.

Kim Yang compared the manual and roughly figured out how it worked.

[Control room can be operated. Any requests?]

[Chijik- Can we burn or clear away the space where there was something like an altar?]

Oh? There.

Well, it seemed like there might be such a function.

[But what if I touch it wrong and it explodes?]

[Beep- Ask the boss. If possible, try to get rid of it.]

[Okay.]

[And. Chick- no. Beep-]

‘?’

[Ti- If you can control it there, first, lock all the doors except the one we’re in.]

[Chijik- Take down all the barriers except the one on our way back.]

[Okay.]

Ah, I should have said that the wheels seemed to have attacked the person. I’m going to lock and block everything, so is that okay? I’ll tell you later.

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Server room.

The infected came out one by one along the hallway, making it easy to deal with them.

Where is Ms. Kim? The CEO looked up at the ceiling. The CCTV was working again, indicating that the power had been restored. The lights on the servers lined up on both sides were also blinking. A cool breeze blew from the vents, accompanied by a low sound.

The boss nodded. They find things to do and do them without being told. There were fewer people like that than I thought.

“You definitely have the ability.”

“···Yes.”

But it was a bomb. Especially Maru, who didn’t know where it would bounce. When he said he threw the hospital director and the council member, I thought, ‘What kind of guy is that?’ But when he kicked me with his feet, I couldn’t help but think, ‘He’s crazy.’ Yes, crazy.

The term ‘Calmly Crazy’ meant that guy. When he was explaining what happened at the hospital, when he said the reason for it, it seemed like he was being moral, but when you look at what he actually did, it was like he was saying, ‘Everyone, rest in peace. Rest in peace.’ He didn’t have any standards like Ki-soon, and even though it seemed like he could communicate, he would do whatever he wanted, so it was hard to predict.

The insight he showed from time to time, even when he seemed stupid, was too natural to be considered acquired. If it was an instinctive judgment, it would be dangerous to simply dismiss it as having animalistic intuition.

He was a difficult person to deal with, whether he was pretending to be instinctive while hiding his insight, or he was an instinctive guy who did whatever he wanted and his instinctive intuition was monstrous.

“What about rapid treatment?”

Maru’s eyes rose. He said there was no more warning. He probably wouldn’t think about the aftermath. If he had thought about the aftermath, he wouldn’t have kicked him.

“···Don’t touch.”

“···yes.”

The bodyguard swallowed his anger and answered. It was impossible to subdue him in one go since he had even lost his optical cloaking equipment. Was that what he was aiming for? The president shook his head.

I recovered 10 of the 30 rapid cures and used 1 of them. Now I have 9 left. It wasn’t enough. Even if I recovered the hard disk with the research data and recipes, it would take a long time to make them again.

Above all, how should we procure materials? Whether it was due to a problem with the supply of materials or a problem with the production facility, we had to somehow save this lab. At the very least, we had to produce until all the materials we had here ran out.

“Let’s gather the materials first.”

“yes.”

When I pulled out the server hard disk, the security guard took it and put it in a hard case.

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As soon as the president came out of the server room, Ms. Kim told Maru about her request.

“Can you burn down the lab? Why?”

“Well, you want to get rid of it?”

Kim Yang took on the ‘I don’t know’ pose. A combination of an attentive posture and an expression of not knowing. The president, looking at that look, felt like he was getting a headache.

“They say it’s difficult to incinerate it because it will burn all the materials needed to make the rapid cure.”

“Ah- I see. You can tell me the rest yourself.”

It was Ms. Kim who took out the walkie-talkie and spoke to Maru.

“They said it would be difficult to incinerate it because it would burn the materials used to make the rapid cure. I would like to speak to them directly.”

“Here it is,” the president sighed as he accepted the radio.

“You can’t produce rapid cures right away just because you have experimental data and recipes. The ingredients aren’t readily available.”

[Chiik- That strange thing on one side of the lab. Is that also a necessary ingredient?]

“Everything in that lab is related to rapid cures. What I’m saying is that anything in there should be preserved as much as possible.”

[– So there is a way to incinerate it. – Chijik-]

The president answered with a sigh.

“······.”

[······.]

Kim Yang, who was not interested in the conversation between Maru and the CEO, was absentmindedly checking the CCTV. The outside of the building was just outside. The infrared detection CCTV screen was also peaceful, with no unusual signs. Maru was frowning in the lab, and the security guard was seen looking outside the control room door.

‘It’s not good for Baekjeong to have such a frown.’

The boss will take care of it, I said, and as I was checking the screen, I saw an empty space. That was where the wheels had run away. I had lowered the barrier and locked it in···.

The wheels that used to scurry around were nowhere to be seen. A few were coming and going, but where did all those wheels go?

“Uh- Excuse me. The wheels here are gone?”

“What did you say?”

The president who was talking to Maru spoke sharply. It seemed like the conversation wasn’t going well.

“The cockroaches that were kept here are gone.”

The president approached the screen that Ms. Kim was looking at with the walkie-talkie in hand. The president nodded while looking at the screen.

“I guess it went into the vent.”

If it’s a vent, can’t it come this way? Those wheels attack people?

“The vents are designed independently, so they won’t come this way.”

[Chijik- What if you move through a gap created by an earthquake, rather than a ventilation shaft?]

Where did all those wheels come from in the first place? There were too many to be considered mere test subjects. So how did they get into the research facility, which was virtually sealed?

Huh? That’s right. The president and Ms. Kim looked at each other.

Bam-

A palm-sized wheel fell from a crack in the ceiling.