StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 168 The thief shouts to catch the thief
Echo Town, the gate of the immigration police station. 2489.8.28 at 9:[-] a.m.

Aside from human beings' instinctive reverie for the blue sky, Mar Sara's pure orange-gray sky also has the psychedelic beauty of the alien world: desert, red thorn forest, ocean of dust, grand canyon, piled up with ginger yellow Dry riverbeds of sediment, verdant fields between giant irrigation machines and underground water channels, and the rugged town that sits within them.

The architectural style of Echo Town is different from the limestone and marble buildings that Augustus built on the equally barren Kemerian star Meinhof. It is difficult for him to see a standard modular building in the town, with strange shapes The illegal buildings are reminding Augustus all the time that he lacks the minimum understanding of the heights that human architectural art can achieve.

Outside the low two-story courtyard building of the immigration police station, there is a crooked round tower, as if someone randomly stacked more than a dozen discs on top of each other. Whenever the wind blows, this round tower has a strange shape. The tower will make a trembling sound of the steel frame, making people always wonder when it will collapse.

The exquisite hut with white walls and gray tiles is a post office for delivering paper letters and express delivery, and several capsule hotels with chimney-like spires are straight to the sky.

A few hundred yards from where Augustus now stands is a local pub that glows purple and pink even in daylight, looking like a cut starfish.Above the bar is a huge holographic projection, which is a sexy and hot pink-haired girl, wearing a corset in the shape of a federal X-star, and her lower body is only tied with a one-inch-wide silk rope.

When Augustus jumped off the seat of his vulture car, the people of several vulture cars behind him also got off the station behind him.This time Augustus no longer swaggered through the city with dozens of Revolutionary Army soldiers. Behind him were only Renault, Tychus, Corporal Faraday, and the Revolutionary Army recruits who had just been transferred from the Revolutionary Army boot camp to the Guards Company. Sergeant Mira Han.

At present, Augustus has officers and political commissars operating the three mines in Mar Sara. The Revolutionary Army also has a think tank composed of staff officers and Umoyan advisers, as well as an officer corps composed of lieutenant officers. You don't have to put so much pressure on yourself, and you can stay in your office all day to process documents.

Pushing open the old-fashioned side-opening composite wooden door of the Echo Town Police Station, Augustus could see dozens of arrest warrants nailed to the wall at first glance, and some of the arrest warrants were even painted with red ink. Chacha.

Unsurprisingly, the arrest warrants for Augustus and his father Angus were placed in the most conspicuous position, with slogans written like scum, traitors and riot makers graffitied by the police.

It's just that Augustus's arrest warrant is completely different from his current appearance, and it's hard for others to associate his image in the barracks with this middle-aged man with a thick beard.

There are several police officers sitting behind desks in the police station. They are all wearing khaki uniforms, and their caps are very similar to cowboy hats, with eagles and five-pointed stars on them.

"If you want to report the crime, please follow the standard procedure, first report it to our operator, and hand it over to the intelligent robot. If you are here to provoke trouble, then we can kill you now." A man with sandy blonde short hair The policeman walked towards Augustus, no smile on his scarred face.

This is the first day of work for Augustus. Although the immigration police station must have received the news that Augustus is about to go to the post and got the photo of Augustus, it seems that the policeman did not recognize it. A new sheriff.

However, Augustus really didn't seem to be here to take office. Tychus who followed behind him was fierce, looking like a desperado with several murders in his hands.

"I am the new Sergeant Caesar, and here is my police officer ID and badge." It was impossible for Augustus to be angry about this kind of thing, he just took out his ID card and handed it to the other party.

There is a gold-bronze five-pointed star between the circular police badges of Augustus, and regular English letters are engraved on the edge: Federal Sheriff-Ma Sara.

"Sorry I didn't recognize you, Sheriff. Sheriff McAllen is in the inner office," the sandy-blond officer said to Augustus.

"What's your name, young man?" Augustus asked the officer as he walked past him.

"Chris Chris Elder." The officer looked Augustus in the eye without flinching.

"Your future has unlimited possibilities, Mr. Chris. As long as you work hard, you will have the chance to become a police officer sooner or later." Augustus patted him on the shoulder, then looked at Renault and the others behind him.

Augustus was not pretending, in fact, he would say this to almost all the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army who could say a few words to him, which has almost become a conditioned reflex.

"These are some of my new recruits. Time waits for no one, and I have already started looking for new candidates before I take up the post. Some of them are old subordinates when I was a sheriff."

Then when Augustus led Renault and others past Police Officer Chris, they all said hello to the police officer who stood upright.

"Is today your lucky day? You hairless little bastard." Tychus shouldered the officer away, causing him to stumble backwards.Except for recruit Mira Han, everyone else has used nano masks to adjust their faces, their skin has become darker, with a few more scars, and even the bone structure of their faces has been adjusted.

But no matter how they were adjusted, their faces all became more fierce without exception.

"This guy is just a bastard, just ignore him." Renault smiled triumphantly.

Renault has been in a pretty good mood these past few days. Last time he met Litty Elizabeth at the Jeanning Bar, he first cheated her of her friendship with a glass of free lemon juice, and then casually talked about his work in the Federation. Some "little things" in the army that are not mentioned enough.

Even after being dressed up in a nano mask, Renault's face is closer to the other him ten years later, and any Ma Sara girl at this age should like Renault's humorous conversation and his resolute expression, and Litty was attracted to Renault as expected—while Augustus and the others had to worry about how to stop the other party's father who might rush in at any time.

Predictably, it only took Reno some time to please Elizabeth.And based on what Augustus knew about Renault, he was probably a dedicated man.

"You pissed off Mar Sara's big bad wolf, you're in big trouble." Mira Han wore a multi-pocket waistcoat and a pair of pink hair hoops for Ma Sara's glare. Sunny sunglasses, beautiful eyes that keep turning.

"Our chief never cares about these trivial matters." Faraday's expression was unusually serious: "The man who just walked in front of you is a great man who will create an era. He is a giant thousands of feet tall. Yours is countless times longer than ours, and you won't care about the pebbles under your feet."

"." Police officer Chris felt dazed, watching the airborne immediate superior lead such a group of weird subordinates into the inner office of the police station, even if his hair was all messed up, he couldn't figure out why.

When Augustus walked into the inner office, Sergeant McAllen was dozing off with his cheek resting on one hand, the plump, rosy skin of his cheek leaking from the cracks between his fingers.Our venerable sheriff must have been fighting fiercely with the enemy in a dream, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he was completely unaware of the movement at the door.

"Cough cough." Augustus coughed, but Sheriff McAllen still didn't wake up.

Seeing this scene, Tychus calmly lit a low-grade cigar in the office, then walked up to McAllen, and lit the hot cigarette on his forehead with layers of fat .

"Ow!"

Sergeant McAllen jumped up immediately, his light blue eyes widened, and his fierce eyes looked like an angry lion.

"Who?" he roared, in a tone no less than that of a lion equal to his body: "You, you bastard born of a mother whore, I will put you in Indy Prison!"

"Break up our sheriff." Before Tychus could get angry, Augustus looked at Renault next to him, who immediately took out his Colt revolver and pointed it at Sheriff McAllen's. overhead.

"How did you gangsters get in here! No matter how much you threaten me, don't even think about getting a password to a safe from me." McAllen immediately realized his situation, and he finally came to his senses. Begin to recognize Augustus's features, comparing him to the faces of the most wanted criminals by heart.

"Are you the new sheriff?" The sheriff's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees: "I am Sheriff McAllen."

"This was my negligence. Last night I received a report that robbers were going to attack the bank in the small town, and they stayed there all night." His signature smile in official circles appeared on his oily face.

"That's my fault for blaming you." Augustus threw his holster containing the revolvers on Sheriff McAllen's desk, without asking whether it was true: "Sit."

"Please sit down."

Sergeant McAllen is almost 50 years old this year, and he can retire in six or seven years. His seniority is very old, and he became the federal police almost at the same time as Hiro's oldest sheriff.If nothing else, if Augustus hadn't suddenly taken McAllen's place, the unavailable Judge Ada would have let the only sheriff in the town take over the sheriff's place.

"I want you to sit down." McAllen gave up his seat. He is not a weak and incompetent sheriff domineering in small places. Although the photos have nothing to do with suaveness, they still have a strong and capable physique.

It's just that obesity itself is quite common in the police officers of the Tyrann Federation, especially the sheriffs like McAllen who have gradually retreated behind the scenes due to age.

"No, I have my own office." Augustus waved his hand.He had already learned about McAllen from Judge Ada. He was also a tough guy who hated hatred when he was young. second line.

And Sheriff McAllen, a sheriff who is famous for hating criminals and speaking dirty words, finally lost to donuts and carbonated drinks and other carbohydrate foods that would quickly deform his body after he relaxed. Getting fatter and fatter.

"Of course." Sheriff McAllen said with a smile: "This is your territory now, and the former sheriff's office is next to it."

"He's still good." At this moment, Tychus whispered to Raynor in a voice that everyone could hear: "Otherwise I must make him regret being born in this world."

"You're right," Renault agreed.

McAllen looked at Renault and the others behind Augustus about this matter. With his no longer the past but still vicious eyes, he saw that Tychus and Renault were by no means kind, and they were bored eating chewing gum and spitting out bubbles. La Han was just a young lady, and as for Corporal Faraday—both his attire and the aura he displayed were too sparse and ordinary, and he looked like an ordinary unknown young man.

"They are my newly recruited police officers, and I need you to help them with the entry procedures."

"It's useless to say more, I just want to remind you that from now on, there is only one person in the Echo Town Police Department who keeps his word, and that is me." Augustus flicked the dust off his body.

"I don't want a respected sheriff to have to retire early to preserve his reputation." Augustus sighed heavily and changed the topic.

"It needs to be sorted out here."

"Yes, the professionalism of police officers does need to be improved." Sergeant McAllen realized that his subordinates might also have left a bad impression on the newly appointed sheriff: "But they are still young, and they can study."

"That's not what I'm talking about," Augustus said. "I think there are still too few police officers here."

"We need to recruit people again." He made an unquestionable conclusion.

"Well - there are still 69 places, and the hangar administrator is also short." McAllen asked, "How many people do you want to recruit?"

"Recruit 200 people first." Augustus said surprisingly.

"It's impossible." McAllen immediately reacted and reminded Augustus that he was dreaming: "We can't pay that much."

"Also, this is not the first time you have entered the industry, government employees, especially a small place like Mar Sara that has been almost forgotten by Tarsonis. We all know that the federal government is the biggest and most vicious vampire in the Tyrann Federation, They could probably send me to jail for saying that, but the government is just stingy and beyond redemption."

"They don't get paid very often, but they always pay very little, and it's getting less and less over the years."

"In Ma Sara, only those who are blinded by justice will become policemen, because their income is not as good as that of a factory worker, but they risk being shot by bullets."

"Even if we have so much money, we can't recruit people." McAllen was telling the truth.

"You don't have to worry about this. How many sets of power armor are there in the arsenal?" Augustus asked again.

"Twenty-two sets of CMC-22." McAllen said: "This is the junk that was eliminated from the barracks and given to the local police."

"You don't have to worry about it." Augustus shook his head again. In a few days, he would be able to gallop across the land of Mar Sara with a company of revolutionary troops in a fair manner.

"We don't need so many people. Echo Town is just a small town." McAllen said doubtfully.

"Rebels!" Augustus said righteously, "Remote colonies like Mar Sara are the most likely places for rebels to hide."

"In order to deal with these rebels, we must strengthen the local defense forces."

"I also need to know if there are any hard bones nearby or the lair of some land snakes, not to mention Brotherhood of Pegasus." Then, Augustus thought of something and asked.

"There is one." McAllen replied after thinking for a while.

"There is a canyon in the desert known as the death zone, and it is the only way for many people to travel between the capital area and the Hero area. It is also the place with the most criminals. We call that canyon the Purgatory Corridor."

"According to people from other police stations, there is a special rare crystal mine underground. The electric pulse released by the crystal mine disrupts the magnetic field and electric pulse signal, making it almost impossible to communicate with the outside world. It is also the best place for criminals to hide. "

"Are you sure that the source of disturbance must come from a rare crystal mine?" Augustus originally asked casually, but now he is fully focused.

"I don't know." Sheriff McAllen was asked.

"Otherwise what else could be the reason?"

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