StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 164 The Mine Hoe of Justice

"Oh—Ma Sara, the latrines of hell, and we're but bugs in the latrines."

Tychus Finley put on his own tailor-made CMC power armor. There are many miscellaneous patterns and badges on the crimson painting: nothing more than guns, cigar brands, and beer. The old boy also likes to gamble, so there are a few dice painted on the shoulder armor of the power armor.

Behind Tychus were several rows of Revolutionary Army fighters. The symbols belonging to the Stilling Wolfhunters and the Korha Revolutionary Army on their power armor had been wiped off and repainted in a rust color.

These Revolutionary Army fighters add up to a total of just over 40 people, which is equivalent to an entire formation.At this moment, they were standing among tall thorn bushes. All members turned off the searchlight on the chest of the armor, and the communication channel remained silent.

"Come on, Tychus. Except for Korhal and Tarsonis, other planets are either latrines or shit in your eyes." Jim Raynor, wearing a crimson CMC-200 power armor, smiled Say.

"Sometimes it's even worse than shit, even a little piss from me is more comforting than what they look like."

Raynor and Tychus chatted and waited for Augustus's order. About half a mile ahead of them was a sunken, dry river valley that was hard to spot.According to Kerrigan, a group of about 60 members of the local gang, the Brotherhood of Pegasus, was hiding in an abandoned wilderness stop and several cabins in the valley.

Members of this local gang come from all walks of life, including muggers, pickpocket thieves, and street Mar Sara cowboys, as well as local townspeople.

In such a fringe world far away from the civilized world, many things are not black and white, and even the most impartial and impartial justices and their magistrates are not pure and flawless, and there is no black material to catch.

Most of the time, the Brotherhood of Pegasus is helping their behind-the-scenes funder, Gustav Pharmaceutical Group, to deal with some shady activities in the local branch, such as kidnapping, defrauding or abducting minors for experimental materials used in live experiments , or smuggling drugs from Starport to Backwater Base for their clients in the Federation Army.

The Pegasus Brotherhood often set up some transfer stations on land smuggling routes to transfer their smuggled goods, and what Augustus learned was one of them.

But lucrative jobs like this don't come along often, and as the gang swelled to a staggering 800 members over the course of a few years, so did their ambitions.Gradually, the Pegasus Brotherhood set their sights on the crystal mines in Hiro's area.

Of course, the Brotherhood of Pegasus never thought of taking over the mining area in the hands of the revolutionary army, but just wanted to use a little force to get them to pay some "protection fees", so that they could draw a generous commission from the mine's revenue without paying any cost.

Unfortunately, the rebels that the Tyrann Federation speaks of are the most vicious and notorious terrorists in the entire federal territory.

Just when they were just looking for the wind and hadn't kicked the iron plate, the iron plate had already smashed through.

"If I go in first and beat all those third-rate cowboys to the ground, then I'll have the best loot." Tychus was eager to try, not paying attention to the enemy at all.The gangs here have at most experienced gang disputes between regions, and the gap in power armor is even more difficult to make up.

"Beware of Tychus." Augustus stood between Raynor and Tychus, his crimson power armor was no different from the others: "The people of Mar Sara are not easy to mess with."

"This is the battle plan." He opened his mask and said to Raynor, Tychus and Corporal Faraday beside him.

"We have provided drones to detect the terrain of this gang stronghold. The river bed is not deep. After going down to the river bed, the stronghold has no shelter or bunkers except for a few bushes. They have two outposts, but Kai Regan will take out all the Sentinels."

"As usual, Raynor led a squad from behind them—we set off at the same time, a thousand yards apart, and jumped down the river bed at the same time." Augustus concluded: "I took Tychus Go straight."

"These people don't necessarily have to be heinous villains, but as long as anyone dares to fight back, beat them into a sieve full of holes."

"Augustus is right." Reynolds said to them before leading the first squad away: "Quick battle, these Mar Sara bandits have no protection except a few reindeer leather jackets to keep out the cold. Their There are all kinds of weapons, including P-20 pistols, revolvers and shotguns, but those things have no effect on our armor."

"Let's do it." Augustus moved his wrist under the power armor, feeling a little eager to try.Since he became the leader of the Keha Revolutionary Army, the number of times he personally led troops to fight has been very rare.

Augustus is equipped with a general-purpose CMC-200, and the military technology of the Tyrannian Federation is still advancing at an accelerated pace after the Battle of Kailian.Compared with what Augustus encountered in the Turasis training camp, this power armor has added some new functions, such as alloy boots with computerized balance stabilization devices and ammunition storage units.

The general-purpose CMC-200 and CMC-300 have added heat source shielding, which prevents enemies from tracking soldiers in power armor through heat signature detection devices.

When the indicator light on the power armor HUD display was evergreen, Augustus began to run on the crimson sand of Mar Sara. The servo system connected in series with cables and precision sensor arrays gave him a powerful explosive force. He ran the half-mile distance and jumped into the river bed with little effort.And the Brotherhood of Pegasus stronghold at the corner of the river bed was still dark, and the members of the Brotherhood seemed to be asleep.

Then Augustus realized that he had overestimated the combat effectiveness of this gang. He regarded all the enemies as the elite federal army or Kel Morian troops as imaginary enemies. The Ma Sara villains mistook the men of Augustus for the Confederate Marines after a horrific awakening.

At this time, the CMC power armor has not been distributed to the planetary defense forces and police stations of the governors of the marginal colonies on a large scale, which is still an iconic symbol of the Federation Marine Corps.

They believed that they had not committed a crime worthy of the death penalty or life imprisonment, and they did not want to be convicted of attacking soldiers, so they immediately surrendered.

Not only that, but the fraternity members surrendered their weapons and squatted against the wall of the abandoned dock very consciously.

"Move your asses, guys, or I'm going to give you a hard kick in there." Tychus ignored them, kicking a few of the fraternity into a corner and searching for the loot.

"I am Captain Caesar of the 321st Battalion of the Federal Marine Corps. You have 5 minutes to explain the other strongholds of your illegal organization, otherwise we have plenty of means to make you speak the truth." Augustus said calmly: "If Your brothers tell more than you do"

Soon, almost without hesitation, the Brotherhood members scrambled to betray their brothers, and Corporal Faraday recorded all the locations one by one and sent them back to the Revolutionary Army camp, where dozens of Revolutionary Army squads were ready to go. up.

"To be honest, this is not what we should do." While waiting for the armored transport vehicle that was coming, Renault said to Augustus: "Besides, what should we do with these people, give them to the local sheriff? "

"It's not like you, Jim, when we get rid of these villains, the local people's life will be easier." Augustus looked around and found that the buildings built by the Brotherhood of Pegasus were solid and reliable rock buildings , and cast in concrete and slag.

Similar to the planet Meinhof of the Kelmorian Federation, the developed mining and quarrying industries are the main economic pillars of Mar Sara. At the same time, gold diggers from Joe Sara and other planets in the Federation The service industry provided is also relatively developed.

"Maybe, if there are fewer bad guys, the life of the good people will be easier." Renault thinks it makes sense: "But it shouldn't be just that, you should have other reasons."

"Our construction site still lacks some workers. Temporarily." Augustus's cold gray eyes seemed to have light: "Our place is much more comfortable than Mar Sara's prison."

"I hope they can reform themselves during this time and become good law-abiding federal citizens."

The mine of the Revolutionary Army is located in a misty valley, with straight and steep smooth walls on both sides. Even in the daytime, the sun is rarely seen inside the valley, and most of the time of the day is dark.This valley was once a tributary of a long river, and tens of thousands of years ago, there was still a rushing river flowing at the bottom of the valley.

Hiram Fick, the former armor mechanic of the Devil of Heaven, drove a brown CSX-410 harvesting robot [-] feet above the ground (about [-] meters) to walk in the dark night of Mar Sara.Fick sat in the open-air driver's seat high above the ground, with only a windshield in front of him that isolated him from the howling wind. Two beams of white lights were projected in front of the robot, illuminating the dark thorns and jagged monsters. stone.

This type of harvesting robot is commonly found in the colonial world of Tyrannian Federation, which mainly focuses on farming. It has a compound cutter on the front side and a tall threshing barrel on its back.Harvesting robots use bipedal servo-powered feet to move, and are mostly used to harvest rye in rugged mountains and gully plateaus that cannot be accessed by giant harvesters.

The two auxiliary mechanical arms of the CSX-410 robot driven by Fick were respectively equipped with a T-60 Gatling heavy machine gun and a synthetic resin shield. The two pressurized cooling water tanks behind the driver's seat were filled with curling white steam.These modifications, added by chief engineer Rory Swan, made the rumbling, bipedal mech even more cumbersome, but managed to transform it into a savage machine of war.

When not in combat, the robot can also assemble power tongs and welders for repair and mining operations.

"New miners? I heard that the kindest of them have also sold drugs to minors, so I will have less psychological burden when using these people. I hope these people can go home early and turn themselves in to the police. — Would you like some donuts, baby."

When Fick passed a corner, the lights of the mining area finally dispelled the darkness around him, and the voice of his good friend Rory Swan came to his ears.

When Fick drove the harvesting robot to a stop, he could see a huge drilling tower occupying the center of the entire valley. Amid the roar of the drilling tower, the dark soil was continuously transported out by the conveyor belt. Even these Some sparkling light blue Ardion crystals can still be seen in the deep soil that was sent out.

The reserves of crystal ore buried under this huge mining area are so huge that workers inside the pit can dig out a piece of crystal with a single hoe, and even a crystal that is only one cubic meter in size can make an ordinary person rich overnight.

Unlike those open-pit mines above the surface, this kind of crystal mine buried miles deep underground is extremely difficult to mine, and even the hardness of the open-pit crystal mine cannot be cut by a small laser torch.

"What's the matter, my friend, where did the marshal find these people, they don't look like our people." Fick found his Friend Siwan.At this time, the stubby, strong-boned Kel-Morian man was wearing a thick waistcoat and tea-colored goggles. His bushy mustache was trembling, obviously because he was concentrating on the honey donut in his mouth.

"Oh, Boss Mengsk brought a local gang." Swan smiled when he saw Fick leaving. After meeting for the first time on Norad II, they quickly became good friends because of similar occupations and hobbies .Swann was shorter than most of the Keha Revolutionary Army, and Fick was a "dwarf" less than four feet tall, so the two of them were called Augustus Mengsk's Dwarf and Hulk. bit people.

As for Augustus’s other powerful generals, they will have their own titles, of course, according to their popularity. The dog of Augustus Mengsk.

I have to say, quite apt.

"These people are not trustworthy. They cannot abide by military discipline like the soldiers of our revolutionary army. When the time comes, we will have to find additional people to guard them."

In many cases, marginal colonies are synonymous with backwardness, poverty, and barbarism. There is a lack of supplies here, and people have become as fierce as wild animals.

"Many of the people here are not really big villains. In the words of Tychus Finley, if you whip them a few times, they will be as obedient as old hens who are brooding-my God, this is too bad Yes." Swan shook his head: "Boss Mengsk seems to be planning to open more mines and needs more miners, and the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army also need to maintain warships and train."

"You are too kind, we don't have to be too kind to criminals." Fick said with a smile.

"How many mines is he going to build?"

"At the moment it looks like—lots and lots," said Swan. "The whole of Mar Sara is his mine."

"It's great." Fick couldn't help laughing. He obviously didn't think what Swan said was true: "We won't be able to mine that much unless we hire all the people from Mar Sara."

"Who knows?" Swan didn't quite believe it either: "It seems that he just wanted to find some kind of rare crystal, so he searched all over the planet."

"Okay, what about those bastards? Treat them like slaves?" Fick stopped asking, but pointed to a few local cowboys with dazed faces.

"In our mining area, these villains will live a regular life, go to bed early and wake up early, eat three meals a day with balanced nutrition at regular times, and they will have to go to night school before they go to work and rest."

"Lessons. So, what do you teach them? Literacy?" Fick asked in surprise.

"Study art and philosophy, and they will be taught by the political commissars of the Pan-Tayran Party. I heard that they will also talk about the revolutionary spirit, revolutionary traditions and revolutionary military discipline-I don't think they will ever think about going out in this life."

"The textbooks are Mr. Angus's "Keha and the Revolution" and Heinz's "August and Angusism", each five inches thick."

　Thanks to the hall master for the reward!Thank you brothers for recommending tickets and monthly tickets!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)