StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 124 The Ghost of the Past

Specter 24718 lost an arm and a right eye in the mission to assassinate Angus Mengsk. The granite fragments in the explosion pierced both of his lung lobes, which meant that he had to rely on oxygen backpacks and auxiliary equipment for the rest of his life. The ventilator passed.

Augustus has learned from Kerrigan that he is one of the three Ghost agents on the assassination mission, and that another agent, 24506, is still lurking somewhere in Stilling.His target was Augustus himself, but he apparently failed to act for some reason.

No one knows where 24506 is at this moment, maybe he is still ready to take Augustus' life, maybe he has already returned to Victor V Base or the Ghost Academy in Tarsonis.

"He almost couldn't make it through, and he was in a coma for a week." In a recuperation room for severely wounded people at the headquarters of the Keha Revolutionary Army, a private surgeon employed by the Mengsk family told Augustus Say it all.

When Augustus came to the room, Specter 24718 had awakened, his pale, bloodless face under his helmet making him look like a vampire lying in a coffin.The Ghost was on a ventilator, breathing heavily like an exhaust fan.

There are four psychic shielding instruments in this room, and as Augustus saw, the data displayed by the console of an instrument used to monitor his psychic index has always been within a safe range, and a psychic shielding instrument on call at any time Umoyan shadow guards watched him all the time.

"Augustus, son of Angus. You should have killed me." Ghost 24718 looked at Sarah Kerrigan behind Augustus and shook his head.

Sarah Kerrigan, who followed Augustus Mengsk, was a capable adjutant. The soldiers in the headquarters base of the Revolutionary Army and the civilian staff of various departments could not ignore her beauty.Kerrigan has beautiful pale green eyes with long lashes, and her lips are full and sexy.

Sarah Kerrigan put on an officer uniform of the Korha Revolutionary Army. The upper body was a thick woolen jacket with a row of copper buttons, and the lower body was a split skirt with a long and thick hem.

Kerrigan also wears a boat-shaped cap with no brims, the long fiery red hair of the shawl is gathered in the back, the cap badge is a ring with a golden five-pointed star in the center, the Mengsk golden wolf on the shoulders and the pointed horns pointing down Her inverted V epaulettes reveal that she was a Lieutenant in the Guards.

After being captured by the rebels, the powerful psyker was grateful to Augustus for his deliverance and determined to join the revolutionary cause to atone for his past sins.This is almost a matter of course. The Federation molded her into a killer, and Augustus promised to give her freedom and no longer force her to kill.

After all, Umoyan's shadow guards are still working for Umoyan's elected council. Although Augustus entrusted them with important tasks, he still has to cultivate his own psykers.

The re-use of the federal assassin who assassinated his father caused some concerns, including Corporal Faraday, the chief of Augustus's guards, and the senior officers of the Revolutionary Army who were informed of the incident, and the original demons of Augustus' team.But since neither Augustus himself nor his father thought there was anything wrong with it, others stopped questioning it.

"But what else do you expect from me? Even if you remove my psychic suppressor, my personality that was molded in childhood is still dangerous to you. I used to love all life, but Now it's just a butcher who enjoys killing." His voice was a little sad, but it didn't make him cry.

"I used to be a kid who raised chicks that had fallen from their nests to the ground, but now I love nothing more than pinning a Victor squirrel's tail to the ground and bringing it alive. peel off the skin."

"When I was in this ward, I often heard someone talking in my ear, or saw phantoms when I was young. Countless people I killed were whispering in my ear, but in fact I didn't know how Terrible. Actually, I think they're just singing."

Ghost 24718 is quite dangerous, always melancholic, talking to himself so much that his doctor can't figure out if he's talking to another self, he's addicted to killing, but inside he hates it.

"This is one of the precursors of schizophrenia. He believes that his nature is kind, and his body has a pure and kind soul in the past, but he has a hysterical love for killing and cruelty." The doctor said in an absolutely calm tone.

"When 24718 was talking to himself in the mirror, he learned that his mentor had forced him to kill his favorite pet, in order to test his control over the ability of telepathy. There are many similar trainings, such as Choose a bullet that has no live ammunition among dozens of pistols and shoot yourself in the temple."

"I'm considered out of control, so I'm the agent who was implanted with the psionic suppressor in the first place. I'm a devil, and I love torture. Even so, don't you feel scared?"

Augustus and the doctor exchanged glances, and both felt that this was a rather tricky role.

"Even so, I still want to hire you as my ghost consultant." Augustus said: "I want to set up a special agency based on psykers, and the function of this agency is far more than assassination."

"You are very sincere." Specter 24718 said after looking at Augustus for a long time: "To be honest, I am willing to deal with the Tyrann Federation for you. The Ghost Academy ruined my life as a normal person, and I am determined to take revenge. "

"But I can no longer integrate into the lives of normal people." Specter 24718 has a pair of melancholy blue eyes in the deep-set eye sockets, and his tightly pursed lips are as colorless as his face. : "I'll kill for you, if you need me to."

"We don't have to kill any more, Marshal Augustus Mengsk assured me," Kerrigan told 24718.

"I didn't expect you to trust him so much. You should know that people don't agree with what they say, and despicability and lies are the most deceptive." Ghost 24718 shook his head: "Okay, but I like killing people, this is my hobby. Maybe that would make me feel guilty and regretful, but confession is something for the future."

"If you want me to serve you, it's better to choose a similar job. It doesn't matter whether you remove your political opponents or the executive chief of Kel-Morian," he said.

"I will do whatever it takes to achieve your goals regardless of any morality and morality. If one day, you need me to bear these crimes, then push me to the gallows or the guillotine, and I will bring all the secrets to the to hell."

"." Augustus took a deep look at him before saying, "I will find you the best psychiatrist, fit you with new prosthetic limbs and eyes, and then you can report to the new department gone."

"Thank you," said the ghost, and began to lower its head, whispering some kind of unintelligible prayer.

"He is confessing to the Holy Spirit. 24718's parents are devout Doomsday Adventist believers. They believe that all difficulties come from God's punishment of sinners, and they firmly believe that the end of mankind will definitely come."

The doctor explained to Augustus.

(End of this chapter)