StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 18 Horace Warfield

Braddock's late-night racers were finally sanctioned.

The gendarme responded quite quickly, and set up checkpoints at the four gates of Turasis very efficiently.Still, when Augustus swaggered in with a group of marines, they almost got away with it.

Augustus also learned from a military policeman after he was locked in the cell that in order to catch the fish that slipped through the net, there were military personal information collection terminals at the entrance and inside of every bar in Braddock Town. facial recognition features are recorded.

Every soldier in the Bloody Mary's bar was actually stuck in the first place, but at least the experience was enough for Augustus and his drag racers to brag about to everyone else.

Jail time extended to a week for Augustus et al. for stealing Vulture car.However, Augustus knew that the gendarmerie could only detain them for two more days at most, and the front-line troops who were in urgent need of recruits would not allow them to take another five days of comfortable vacation.

"Max! Get your feet off the ground!"

Augustus was locked in a cramped cell with nine others in his class, sleeping on a concrete floor covered with hardboards.And when they weren't really on vacation after all, they had nothing to eat or a place to bathe all night, and had to sleep in wet clothes.

If this is the case, forget it, the second row and the first shift must share the same unobstructed flush toilet.

"It's not my fault, you have to ask the jailers why they didn't make it bigger." Xander Max retorted louder.

"I don't care whose responsibility it is, move away!" Benjamin Crandall's face was livid, he was sandwiched between Xandermax, Tom Omo and Ilya Kulovsky, and he was far taller than the others His sturdy body couldn't move.Although Benjamin used to be a monk in his hometown monastery, his temper was much worse than others.

"Damn it, we're not prisoners!" complained Alain Rundstein.

Awakened by the noise, Augustus looked at the time on his watch: "Hurry up if you need to pee, the visitor is about to come in, don't get naked in front of the guests."

"Hold on if you want to shit." Reynolds added: "Gentlemen, when you pee, hold it steady and don't spill it on the ground."

The confinement room was originally an armory. Now the weapons and armored vehicles in it have been emptied, and the open compartments are separated by pieces of metal baffles to detain unruly soldiers and criminals. Augustus et al. Above people's heads is the tall trestle dome of the armory.

The only source of light here is the sunlight coming in through the vents and windows, and the emergency lights in the brig are only turned on under certain circumstances.

The south and north walls each have a three-foot-wide fingerprint door. About the top third of the fingerprint door is highly clear tempered glass, which means it's unobstructed when looking in from the outside, but also from the inside. the same.

When Augustus looked towards the fingerprint door on the south side, he suddenly saw a shaking figure, which was a military policeman in a black uniform.

"Is it Hank and Josephine?" Jim Reynolds next to Augustus also noticed, but he obviously didn't believe what he said: "Based on what I know about the two of them, they must be very drunk now, Only when we returned to the barracks tonight did we realize that we had given the gendarmerie a slap in the face, and then we had to continue to catch up on sleep."

The fingerprint door was opened, but it was not the military policeman who came in, but an officer in the uniform of the Marine Corps. The silver vertical stripes on his shoulders indicated that he was a lieutenant.

The lieutenant has a sharp-edged, thin and dark face, with nicks left by the wind, sun, and extreme environments on his face. He has a short beard, a short cut, and black hair.

"Are you Augustus Mengsk?" The lieutenant pursed his wide lips, staring into Augustus' cold gray eyes.This soldier has a seriousness that can only be tempered by real experience of war and death. Although Augustus concluded that this officer will not be more than 30 years old, the frivolity that belongs to young people is far from it.

"I am." Augustus looked at the lieutenant without flinching.

"I'm Horace Warfield, the company commander of the 33st Company of the 14th Battalion of the 5th Brigade of the 1rd Ground Assault Division." A smile appeared on the lieutenant's steely face, but it was fleeting.

The name reminded Augustus of the old general of the Tyranid Empire who died in the Battle of Heart of the Swarm in the game. He tried to connect the image in his memory with the young officer, but quickly gave up.

"It's Arcturus' division." Augustus suddenly thought of something.

"That's right, it's your brother." Warfield nodded and continued, "According to the recruitment notice issued by the Division Command Center, your recruit platoon will belong to the 33rd Assault Division from today onwards."

"Sir, I think this means that the gendarmerie at the Turasis main base will no longer be able to detain us," Augustus said.

"So I came here early in the morning to lead people." Warfield didn't give Augustus any more good looks: "Boy, this is not an honorable thing."

"At least I wrote four reviews." Augustus spread his hands.

Then Augustus woke up a few guys who were still sleeping soundly, and followed Warfield out of the cell.Although they didn't know what happened, the few recruits who were still in a daze were overjoyed that they were released.

Facing Lieutenant Warfield with a serious expression, the recruits were very sensible and did not ask if they could continue their vacation.

Warfield's "Saber Command Car" was parked at the gate of the armory. Although the car was spacious enough, it was still a bit reluctant to squeeze ten people, including one of Warfield's adjutants.Luckily no one is going to complain when Hanak Hank is away.

"Come and drive, go to the starship launch port." Warfield said to Augustus: "I heard from the military police that your driving skills are not bad."

"I'd be happy to try the command car, sir." Augustus got into the car with ease, without restraint.Driving a car of this size is a piece of cake for him, and the sat-nav is already set to tell him where he is going.

"If you're not afraid of me driving it into a ditch."

"Hehe—you'd better not do that." Warfield, who was sitting in the passenger seat, said with a smile.Perhaps because Warfield was a recruit under Augustus' brother Arcturus Mengsk, and the initial impression was quite good, he was quite easy-going in front of Augustus.

"I remember the last time Arcturus wrote to me, the address was still on the planet Onuru Sigma." As the car started, Augustus talked about his brother.

"That happened last month." Warfield replied, "The Kel-Morians have withdrawn from the Sigma galaxy, so we were ordered to come here for reinforcements."

"It's a good sign, the Kel-Morians are about to die," Augustus said as he drove.

"I hope the war will be over by next year at the latest," Warfield said.

"I don't think it's difficult to achieve." Augustus nodded.

Both of them stopped talking, and Augustus drove the command vehicle to the boarding platform of the Turasis main base.Along the way, he saw many troop trucks full of soldiers and company after company of Goliath armed robots. The numbers and insignia of these troops were very unfamiliar to Augustus.

Meanwhile, as far as their eyes could see and as far as their eyes could see, a battlecruiser of incomparable size was slowly moving out of the clouds, casting a huge, moving shadow on the far end of the horizon.

"Sir, my two soldiers are still in the town of Braddock." At this moment, Augustus remembered the two guys who were almost forgotten by him.

"The specific location?" Warfield frowned.

Augustus named a strip club.

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(End of this chapter)