Rust - Chapter 945



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RUST -945

The choice of Ki-sun caused several problems.

The assistant AI judged that Ki-sun’s actions were against His Majesty Maru’s will and refused Ki-sun’s orders.

‘This ship cannot perform that command.’

‘The operational plan did not include any negotiations with the enemy.’

‘The plan was to strike the enemy with a simultaneous surprise attack.’

‘Lowering your altitude puts you at risk of being attacked by enemy anti-aircraft weapons.’

‘The current order is against His Majesty’s will and constitutes treason.’

After stopping the AI, Ki-sun manually piloted the airship to the Kyushu base, but of course, it was almost sunk before he could even start a conversation.

Even after the crisis of a possible engagement was overcome through many twists and turns, the problems continued.

Since the introduction of assistive AI, real-time interpretation has been done using AI, so it has not been easy to have a conversation with them while the AI ​​is stopped.

Even if you noticed the other party’s diplomatic rhetoric, responding naturally was a different matter.

Maru thought that it was almost a miracle that he had made it this far alive.

“Are you crazy? What if they say they extract information from the brain like we do?”

“I went there knowing that there was no such technology.”

“The mental response equipment isn’t omnipotent. What about control?”

“If you continue to refuse to talk and use your dominance to the end, I was going to use this.”

Ki-soon flicked the nuclear grenade hanging from his waist.

“crazy.”

“What we need is time. This is the only way to make time.”

I went from Korea to the Philippines, got involved in a sinkhole in the Philippines, and then ended up in a sinkhole in Tokyo.

Hundreds of casualties were incurred as the base of the unidentified men was attacked. Crows suffered casualties in the thousands.

If there were this many casualties when attacking one location, how many more casualties would there be if attacking three strongholds? It wasn’t the end just by taking control of three enemy strongholds.

If they couldn’t catch the tail, it would be the end, and the attacked ones would start attacking the revealed target, the Holy Kingdom.

What would happen if the migration to the floating city and the advancement into space were delayed due to a full-scale war with those guys? Maru was struck by the story that the only ending he could see was struggling in the mud.

Bam-

As soon as Maru’s fist struck, Ki-soon, whose face was bent into an L-shape, fell forward with a snap. Maru grabbed Ki-soon’s collar as he fell to the ground and spoke in a low voice.

“Are you crazy? Why are you the only one judging that?”

“···I told you.”

Don’t they have beliefs too?

Well then, how about we try talking to them?

Was that so?

“Is this because I said I wouldn’t talk to them?”

“You said that what you wanted was survival and safety···.”

“······.”

“They say survival and safety are the goals, but what we’re trying to do is the beginning of an endless war. I thought we had to stop that.”

As I let go of the collar I was holding onto, Ki-soon started to grumble.

“What if they turned you into a cannibal or a vampire?”

“But you said you were going to kill me and make a backup clone, so I gave up.”

They gave up on making Gi-sun their comrade because it was useless to try to control or turn him into a cannibal or vampire.

Moreover, the guys seriously entered into the dialogue with Ki-sun’s sincerity, not his threat to blow himself up if they did not negotiate properly.

“Fuck···.”

“Tch- I guess they didn’t like the idea of ​​blowing themselves up together.”

What the Holy Kingdom needed was time. More precisely, time to make the science and technology that surpassed the singularity a reality.

As Ki-soon had observed, Maru had no intention of taking on the role of a guardian who protects all of humanity. The PD secretly pushed him to be the savior of humanity, but it was no use.

Since Ki-sun’s attitude was that he only wanted to survive safely with those who entered the embrace of the Holy Kingdom, he thought that there was no reason to confront them to such an extreme.

“When we talked, we found out that they were worried about the same things we were worried about.”

“what?”

“Those with powers strengthened by faith. Pseudo-religious people and such.”

“With a little bit of dominance, you don’t extract faith and belief?”

“It seems that efficiency drops a lot when using dominance. We expected that. If they use dominance to extract faith and become stronger, there would be no answer, but since that hasn’t happened yet, it seems that there are some limitations. Anyway, it seems that the situation is complicated on that side as well, since there are those who succeed in extracting faith and faith without using dominance.”

Maru nodded, as he had heard such a story before. The vampire who had plotted to eat Canada had attempted something similar. Among the vampires who had taken over the northern stronghold, there were some who had faith.

“That’s why we said we wouldn’t bother catching those who eat faith.”

“What a bunch of funny guys. They want to use me without putting in any effort?”

It would be good for them if we just weeded them out, so we had no choice but to do that.

“I was going to grow up with faith anyway, wasn’t that something I had decided to do?”

“You’re being a jerk. You’re being a jerk.”

“Anyway, I confirmed this while talking to them. They are not a united force.”

“Cannibals and vampires, will they ever unite as one? You have to take a bite to find out.”

“Each stronghold, divided like a guerrilla organization, has a different perspective and different ideas. Although they share the same goal of creating a new world and establishing a new order, their methods are different and in severe cases, they are even hostile to each other.”

“So? There must have been some guys on your side who wanted to have a go at it.”

Ki-soon shrugged.

“What. If you want to fight so badly, then just attack first. But the words ‘let’s fight’ are completely ignored.”

It had already been proven that it would be dangerous to engage in an all-out war with the Holy Kingdom of Maru. The Confederacy, which had been the starting point of a new order from the beginning, was destroyed.

After that, all those who tried to do something about the Holy Kingdom were killed. Recently, seven high-ranking nobles, including counts, were wiped out. And that was all by Maru alone.

Perhaps because of this, there were more and more people among them who claimed that Maru would become the king of the new era. They believed that Maru was the pinnacle of the new human race.

“Are you saying that again? Are you in your right mind?”

“It seems like there are some people who really believe in it. It seems like there are forces that would join us if we went to war.”

“I’m dizzy. Really.”

“That’s why they also agreed to end it at an appropriate level.”

As the damage accumulated, there was a risk that more and more people would want to make Maru their king, and the more they fought, the more their strongholds would be exposed.

After considering all the factors, they couldn’t ignore Gi-sun’s suggestion. Maru, who had been quietly listening to her, hit Gi-sun’s forehead again.

Bam-

Ugh-

Maru shook his fist and said, looking at the curved line again.

“What kind of agreement is this? Oh, really. It’s a problem whether they believe us or not, but it’s a problem whether they believe us or not. Why are you talking about an agreement so easily?”

“······.”

“Those kids aren’t retarded and they probably figured out that we have the technology to extract information from them. Do you think we’ll come to an agreement?”

“Kool-ook- That’s not it. I heard that he obtained the information using psychometric abilities.”

Ki-soon said, avoiding the L-shaped bend in her body.

“So I just pretended not to know. The more you fight with us, the more you’ll get beaten up. That’s actually been the case up until now.”

“···Okay. Okay. Let’s say that’s true. What are your conditions?”

The idea is to end this by returning the islands that the Holy Kingdom has occupied.

“How on earth can you trust those guys? What do you mean by hostage exchange?”

“You probably won’t trust us either. I suggested we exchange hostages.”

“This is driving me crazy.”

Ki-sun said something after seeing Maru mumbling and grabbing the back of his neck.

“For survival and safety.”

“Ah- Shut up. Think about it.”

So why is that little kid Gisun acting like this?

Why did you come forward and offer to be a hostage?

Maru thought that the assistant AI had judged Ki-sun’s actions as treason. Did he say he would be taken hostage in advance because it was obvious that the AI ​​would impeach him if he returned to the Holy Kingdom?

Or maybe, since they have the ability to see emotions, they use that to read and identify the emotions of cannibals and vampires? To see the difference between them and humans?

‘Both, I guess.’

From his experiences as Governor General of Canada and the events that took place in the empire, and from observing the Korean government and politics, it was clear that Ki-sun felt many limitations.

‘I guess it was the same for yourself and for humanity. So, is that why you tried to find the meaning of human existence in faith?’

It was the same with the idea of ​​negotiating with those who were talking about the New World and the New Order. It must have been because, to Ki-sun, who could see emotions, the emotions they had were no different from the emotions of humans.

Tsk-

“There will be no hostage exchange.”

“We agreed to exchange hostages, but you’re going to break it unilaterally?”

“That’s something you did on your own. I never said anything like that.”

“Then are you going to start a war that may never end? You have a chance to buy time?”

“If they really want to make a ceasefire, tell them to give back the island and leave. Don’t let me see you while you’re making excuses. If I do, I’ll think you’re asking for a ceasefire or a death sentence.”

“······.”

The feelings Ki-soon saw from Maru were genuine.

“Huh- I see. But do you really have to do that? In the current situation, exchanging hostages isn’t a bad thing. The floating city has the necessary abilities to advance into space. As you saw, it would be good to take that woman as a hostage and study her abilities.”

“The air purifying woman? Are you talking about that woman? The woman who made contracts with people.”

“···Yes. It can purify not only air but also water. Maybe it can purify other pollutants as well.”

“Okay. If you take that woman away, what are we going to do with the shitty people here? What are we going to do with the people she contracted with? I don’t intend to use that as an excuse to take on the shit.”

Maru sighed. No matter how positively you look at it, what Ki-sun did was dangerous. Not only was it dangerous, but it was an action that could shake the foundation of the Holy Kingdom.

What if the intention is good?

Negotiating on your own during a military operation?

And then you blow yourself up if things go wrong?

Are you in your right mind?

Could it be that the side effects of being resurrected as a clone have accumulated?

Even if it was not a side effect, the psychiatric evaluation, detailed diagnosis, and subsequent trial could not be omitted.

I didn’t know how the AIs would react if I just let this go because they were my friends. What if the AIs took this case and made a big deal out of it in the name of the Holy Kingdom?

It was the same for other people.

What if the PD shouts out for faith without consulting with them, under the pretext of doing it for the sake of the Holy Kingdom and Maru himself?

What if Kim Yang, who is doing well these days, says he will carry out the Great Leader Project for the highest dignity?

It wasn’t just people who did that.

What if a horde of rats were to throw themselves into a rage and demand that they dispose of rotten humans for the god of death and worship the god of death only for the sacred rats?

“Do you think it’s over? No. I guess that’s why I said I would be a hostage.”

“······.”

“Ah- Ki-soon. Do you think that taking someone hostage will settle this? What will happen if everyone else starts a fight and tries to cover it up? This is driving me crazy. Kim Ki-soon. Why the hell are you making things so complicated?”

“sorry.”

“I want to move on from the fact that I hit Meiji really hard, but the problem is that it’s not the right situation. Damn it. For now, let’s bring back the Roy Stern unit that went to Hokkaido. They’re going back.”

“I get it.”

“Fuck. Tell me that cannibals and vampires are just for my eyes. Seriously. And tell them that if they mess with the Tokyo sinkhole and monsters, they’re going to get in big fucking trouble.”

“I will do that.”

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AI Diana, Samantha, and AI judicial assistants gathered together to calculate the Ki-sun case.

[It should be viewed as an act of treason.]

[This is an act of disobeying His Majesty’s orders.]

[It is the most efficient choice for the Holy Kingdom.]

[Even if your intentions are good, if you disobey an order, it is treason.]

[It is true that if we acted as planned, the Holy Kingdom would suffer great losses.]

[You must turn off the power or format the device.]

Although the results of the operation were polar opposites, the majority gave weight to punishment.

Ms. Kim nodded after hearing the news.

“I knew it.”

Green Sun. Since she has a pure mind, I knew she would do something at any time.

huh.

“Eeeeeee- Punishment? They’re even talking about the death penalty?”

“It’s a mess during a military operation.”

The nurse’s eyes grew wide at Kim Yang’s cool assessment.