Rust - Chapter 941



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RUST [RUST]-941

Scarlett failed to stop Malloy from having his throat cut.

How was it that everything around it was on fire?

Why did Malloy, who was good at avoiding the bastard’s attacks, do that?

For a moment, her mind seemed to freeze. The hot air she felt from the bracelet on her wrist helped her come to her senses.

‘The choir’s ability didn’t work.’

You were unaffected by the choir’s mental waves and ultra-high frequency attacks? I thought you were properly eaten when the flock of crows fell.

Whew Whew-

How did someone without a bracelet survive? The hot air rising from her wrist calmed her fingertips, which had begun to tremble slightly.

‘head.’

He harvested the head.

If Malloy thought they were going to take my head and extract information from it, then he couldn’t hand over Malloy’s head.

“Burn!”

If it hadn’t been prepared in advance, it would have been a total annihilation without being able to stop it even once. Even though it made such a mess, it couldn’t stop Malloy from dying. Even though he didn’t spread that black death.

Scarlett held her trembling right hand with her left and determined the direction. By aligning her gaze and arm like this, she could burn with greater firepower. The difference in concentration.

The explosion of flames engulfed Malloy’s headless body and his head rolling on the floor. It would have been nice to catch Vladimir Kalin, but that was a failure.

‘Now that Malloy’s head is gone, they’re going to come after me.’

In an instant, Malloy’s corpse, which had been reduced to a pile of charcoal, was blown away by the wind. A faint image was reflected in the space where the ash was flying. The shape of a person formed by the ash sticking to him.

‘It’s hiding.’

Scarlett’s eyes caught the sight of Vladimir, covered in ash, moving around in a cat-like manner to avoid the flames.

Every moment, as the wind blew, the ash seemed to blur and suddenly disappear. She desperately tried not to turn her head in that direction.

Don’t turn your head.

Don’t move your eyes.

If he finds out, he’ll avoid you.

So that he doesn’t notice.

The moment you step into the mud.

I have to finish it in one go.

Death, walking slowly, stepped on the mud with a small thud. And then Vladimir Kalin stopped for a moment.

Come in more.

Come in more

A little more.

Footsteps follow after a wait that felt like seconds or minutes.

Chalbak-

Death was slowly turning sideways.

‘Behind.’

Scarlett concentrated. As if she was going to unleash her power in one fell swoop. When the small crackling sound was lost in the wind, she shouted.

“Die! Die!!”

Kwarrung- Kwarrrrrrrr- Hwaaaaah!

A circle of fire burst out around her. The crimson flames crossed the mud and wrapped around the container that contained the ‘choir.’

The subordinates who were waiting to throw the blood packs were also engulfed in the flames and melted.

Kkaaaaaaah!

Even as her subordinates screamed in horror, even as their flesh melted and blood boiled into flames, Scarlett’s powers did not cease.

“Dieee …

The mud made of blood turned into a pit of hell. Her right hand stopped shaking. The thought of surviving was stronger than the thought of winning.

Jaw- Jaw-

In her eyes, trying to calm her maddening breathing, she saw a black area pushing away the flames. A black area that burned and turned to ash, and as it turned to ash, it rose again and approached ceaselessly.

‘Ah- no···. No. That can’t be.’

Even if she denied reality, the garden of death was approaching. It was coming, burning, collapsing, and coming again, an inescapable fate was waiting for her.

I had no strength in my legs.

‘head.’

‘They’re going to cut off my head.’

A situation where all the blood that created the mud has been burned.

There was nothing left to burn.

really?

doesn’t exist?

There was.

There’s one thing to burn.

A spark lit up Scarlett’s pupils.

Flash—–

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A huge firework shot up into the sky, as if a small nuclear bomb had exploded.

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“The damage is huge.”

Ki-sun succeeded in completely destroying one of the four submarines in the Pacific Ocean, partially destroying two, and pursuing and capturing one that escaped.

Their submarines were all different. They had different combinations of engines and batteries. There were three ships with small nuclear power plants and hydrogen fuel and batteries.

It was a waste of money to trade three submarines for two airships, but it wasn’t bad to get a nuclear power plant for submarines, a new engine, and a hydrogen fuel system, along with hypersonic missiles.

Even though they had the scientific and technological prowess to reach the singularity, they only delved into areas like railguns, coilguns, lasers, and neutron beams. It was true that they didn’t care about things like hypersonic missiles.

Even the railgun alone had a speed of Mach 6 to 7, which was twice the speed of an average missile. There was no need to research expensive hypersonic missiles.

But when I got hit, it turned out that it wasn’t. The shield that was supposed to be able to stop railgun bullets was broken after a few hypersonic missiles. This was because the destructive power generated by the difference in weight between railgun bullets and hypersonic missiles was different.

Now that we have secured their hypersonic missiles, it would be possible to reverse engineer them with our singular technological prowess to create hypersonic missiles with even better performance.

‘It should be quick, since we have verified samples.’

If equipped with a bunker buster warhead, it would be possible to force through even those hidden deep underground.

‘Their base in mainland Japan is deep underground. It would be effective to make a bunker buster with a hypersonic missile.’

It would have been nice if we could have found out their North American base, but the harvest of Olbaek and the Flame Woman’s heads ended in failure.

Maru shook his head as he returned empty-handed to Gisun, who had been waiting for him to bring him the head.

“It’s a dud. The woman blew herself up.”

“Suicide? You vampire bitch?”

“Yes. It exploded by using its entire body as fuel.”

“······.”

I didn’t know that. If there had been no Garden of Death, it would have been really dangerous. So many vines and blades of grass would have burned down before they could bloom properly.

“If it weren’t for the king, we would have been in big trouble.”

“Okay. I failed. So what.”

Maru explained the situation in a rough way. The more Ki-sun listened to Maru’s story, the more she felt that those guys were not easy.

If Maru had sent the guards instead of the guards, it would have been a massacre, as he had poured blood and turned the surrounding area into a swamp, and hidden something like a strange choir.

“It’s not just lip service, it’s real. If it wasn’t you but someone else who went, they would have died.”

“······.”

It was a total annihilation, with Kim Yang and the other capable units being wiped out without a trace.

“When I first saw her, she even abandoned her secretary and ran away. Who would have imagined that a woman like that would suddenly blow herself up? If she does something like that, there’s nothing we can do.”

“······.”

Ki-soon’s eyes, which had been comforting him, widened slightly. Even as he spoke, something seemed strange.

“······.”

“······.”

Vampires, cannibals, and high-ranking people are the ones who value their own lives the most, and yet they blew themselves up?

‘It’s strange. It’s a bit odd to think that he simply couldn’t overcome his fear.’

I was a woman who had been through hardship once, so I thought I would die, but I didn’t want to die alone. It felt a bit awkward to just say, ‘Fuck! Bang!’

‘You’re saying that selfish guys blew themselves up?’

The vampires from the Confederacy were dividing their territories and keeping each other in check. Since they were not able to unite as one, they could be dealt with one by one.

‘Then what?’

Ki-soon’s slightly dilated eyes narrowed again.

“So you cut off that astute bastard’s head and then burned his body?”

“It burned the entire head and torso, as if it thought I was nearby.”

Ki-sun was lost in thought as he asked about the situation at the time again.

“What’s the catch?”

“Burning your head and blowing yourself up means you’re not going to give out any information.”

“yes···.”

“The guys who put the self-destruct device in the heads of their subordinates blew themselves up.”

“······.”

“It’s a bit strange that the high-ranking cannibals and vampires who valued their own lives the most blew themselves up.”

“So what do you think? Why do you think he blew himself up?”

“At first, I thought he had blown himself up because he couldn’t bear the fear of death, but when I heard that he burned Cheonrian’s body first, I didn’t think that was the case.”

“then?”

“Belief? Or maybe it’s because of some kind of belief?”

A wrinkle formed between Maru’s eyebrows.

“Vampires have faith? Like fanatic terrorism?”

“No. Rather than that… there’s information that came out of the heads of three Japanese vampires.”

The idea that they should rule over humanity. The idea that if humanity is not to go extinct, the nobles must control and manage humanity with powerful abilities.

“They are crazy.”

“Maybe their thinking makes sense?”

Maru made a dumbfounded expression at Ki-sun’s words.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“Let’s say you blew yourself up to protect the base information. You realized that we were extracting information. That’s why you burned Olbaek’s body first. When you realized that you couldn’t stop him no matter what you did, you blew yourself up to die with him…”

Ki-soon’s slightly dilated eyes narrowed again.

“He must have blown himself up to protect the information. He must have died trying to stop you. Then, shouldn’t we see that he died for the rule of the nobility, the new world system where the few control the many?”

“so.”

“Haven’t we been catching those kinds of guys all along? We’ve been killing people-eaters, so what are you talking about all of a sudden?” Ki-soon said, slightly turning her head at Maru’s gaze.

“If those guys had been selfish and only wanted to live for themselves until the end, I wouldn’t have had these thoughts. It’s a bit like that since they blew themselves up.”

If we think about what humanity did before the catastrophe, it was like this. We had to eat the Earth and reproduce indefinitely.

Is it normal that half of humanity is starving while producing enough food to feed over 10 billion people?

People who turn food aid into weapons and starve those who oppose them. People who believe that it is okay to use religious freedom to destroy other countries’ cultures and traditions. People who plot wars regardless of whether people die or not if it benefits them. People who have no qualms about killing others if it makes them money.

Were they really so wrong that they thought a new order was needed to eliminate such contradictions? Research was ongoing to eliminate the side effects of cannibalism, and if one were to actually become a vampire, the side effects could be controlled with blood alone.

Then, wouldn’t it be completely wrong to say that their idea that having a ruling aristocracy governing humans is the way to control contradictory and destructive humanity?

Maru answered Gisun’s story with a serious face.

“Hey. Come on. What did Riser Pharmaceuticals Chairman Geese Riser do? What have the cannibals and vampires we’ve caught so far done?”

He ground up humans and drank their essence to become stronger. To rule. And he justifies his desire for dominance by saying that humans did something wrong?

“The kids who played with food became cannibals and vampires. The kids who held the lives of sick people in their hands became cannibals and vampires.”

“······.”

“The guys who control politics, economy, society, culture, media, and religion are talking nonsense about seizing power and becoming nobles for generations, and the responsibility lies with the common people? If those guys were truly for humanity, they would have put down their wealth and power and said, let’s all join forces to prevent the end. Has there ever been such a guy? Don’t those guys who say that it’s all the common people’s fault and that humanity should be reduced go around badmouthing their own kids?”

“······.”

Why aren’t the people who say that humanity needs to be reduced? Oh, is that so? Are they exempt from reduction because they have become a new species?

“I don’t need any of that. I can’t accept those guys. They eat people as they please, what’s wrong with nobles? If the apocalypse hadn’t come, those guys would have caused it and caused trouble. They blew themselves up for their beliefs. Fine. But if those beliefs are beliefs that will kill me and establish me, why should I accept those beliefs?”

“······.”

“If there are any kids with such beliefs, we should kill them as soon as we see them. No. We should find them and kill them. Then, shouldn’t we be able to sleep soundly?”

“Yes. That’s why I was looking for their stronghold. But you know, I think we need to think about it seriously.”

Failure to secure the heads of the All-White and Flame Years meant that if we could not find any more strongholds while attacking the three bases in Japan, our tail would be cut off here.

And the inability to root them out means that it will eventually become a competition for power. A competition for power with the new world and the sacred kingdom they dream of. The competition and conflict will probably continue until one side collapses.

“No matter what they offer, even if it means being free from flesh and blood, I will never join hands with them.”

“······.”

Ha- Marushak.

That’s why.

Did you instinctively know that the fight would not end?

Whether intentional or not, the floating cities and stratospheric colonies were a natural countermeasure to that situation.

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The island, having lost all of its top-tier vampires, was quickly rendered powerless.

The combination of railgun fire and hypersonic missiles pierced through the underground bunker, and no high-ranking cannibal was able to stop the attacks of the paratroopers who were starting to vent their anger at being unilaterally beaten.

“There is more data at the base than I thought, so it will take some time.”

Kim Yang glared at Maru’s words that it seemed like they would have to visit all of the bases in Japan.

[He said he’d be here soon. The atmosphere here is strange too!]