StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 231 Cerberus Swarm
Umoyan main star, A056 polar research station.

Belongs to Project Cerberus.

The neighing monster was caged and suspended in an artificial weightless field.

The skeleton of the cage is made of high-strength titanium alloy, and the outer layer is covered with a light blue plasma field.Augustus could see every detail of the cage through this thin blue light curtain, down to the scales of the imprisoned who were covered with enamel cuticles.

"The new scientific name is the Hydra Hydralisk, a more advanced Zerg life form than the Zergling. They have a higher brain capacity, and their brutality has also increased dramatically." The alien researcher at the A056 polar scientific research station said: "Sample Victor V, No. 012, comes from an egg waiting to be hatched underground in Loxton, an adult individual."

"For God's sake, this is a monster through and through, a big mutant snake." Jim Raynor couldn't stop shaking his head just behind Augustus.

"This is terrifying," said Corporal Faraday.

"It's dangerous..." Kerrigan stared at the Hydralisk.

"This is exactly what I said when I saw the Hydra Hydralisk for the first time. Major General Renault, maybe we have something in common." Arcturus Mengsk said.

"If we can make these monsters really be our weapons, then it will be worth the price for this plan."

The monster that Reynolds mentioned—Hydra Hydra's snake-shaped body brings more fear to human beings than the meaning of its name itself. evil creatures of the imagination.

As Renault and Augustus saw, the Hydra Hydralisk has a snake-like body and a thorny tail. Behind its long and round head is a cobra-like huge bone crown, and the crown The volume occupies almost half of its arched upper body.Perhaps due to incomplete evolution, the dark brown crest still retains the bright colors on the body surface of its insect larvae of the order Lepidoptera to alert predators.

The Hydra Hydralisk's wide and long mandibles and wide open mouth are equivalent to two-thirds of its head. The upper and lower jaws are full of rows of fangs and some kind of huge canine teeth. Equivalent to a military dagger, as sharp as a boning knife.Transparent saliva and dark green strong acid from the poison sac flowed from that terrifying mouth that could swallow a four or five-year-old child alive.

Anyone who has seen a pair of long bony sickle-bladed arms at the end will never doubt that this Hydralisk could easily use the pair of bone scythes to split a jeep. Its ten-foot tail is covered with jagged spines encased in a chitinous carapace, and poisonous spines stand on its back.

The skin of this monster named after the hydra Hydra in Greek mythology is unimaginably smooth, as if it is really a prehistoric giant snake with scaly armor, covered with huge horny scales of the main dragon-like monitor lizard .These smooth scales are what give the Hydralisk hiss as it swims across sandy ground.

The Hydra Hydralisk is much larger than the dog-like zerg that Augustus has seen, equivalent to the size of two marines wearing CMC-300 power armor, even if it is far away from Augustus It is more than 20 meters away and still looks like a behemoth.

The Hydra Hydralisk's chest is extremely ugly, like a chest whose skin has been torn open, the bloody muscles and tendons are turned out, and the ribs supporting the ventricle are all exposed, and the blood vessels and the surface covering it can be clearly seen. An extremely thick horny crust.

This is a terrifying monster that is extremely poor at killing. Its uncoordinated body proportions and body that is completely composed of thousands of muscles without even a trace of fat are so horrifying and terrifying, as if every tissue and organ in the body All made for killing.It's as if the Hydra Hydralisk isn't a naturally evolved creature, but a nightmarish amalgam of other creatures' most terrifying weapons.

The Hydra Hydralisk in the cage roared and roared in a state of no gravity. It tried its best to roar and wave its terrifying bone scythe to break free.

When Augustus looked at the Hydra Hydralisk, its lantern-like dark red eyes also looked at him, and there seemed to be some kind of wise cunning in those eyes, but it was already an out-of-control head. beast.

"Boss." Just as Augustus and others were observing the living Hydralisk, a chunky man in a white coat and gloves came over. He had a thick double chin and a shrewd chin Eyes, with a philistine smile.

Augustus had met him about two years ago, when Augustus was a Union officer on the front line at Turaxis II.They had had a deal and a brief conversation at the town of Oran near Fort Howe.

At that time, Augustus was about to release a batch of loot from the Free Revolutionary Army, and the man who purchased the armed forces for the Cerberus Corporation was anxious to acquire a batch of high-quality and inexpensive armed forces on the restricted list. .

It was only later that Augustus learned that this company was the creator of the future Cerberus cyborgs.

"Mr. Browa Langdon is one of the administrators and main persons in charge of this scientific research station." An accompanying small project supervisor introduced to Augustus: "He is a member of the Cerberus Corporation. "

The predecessor of Cerberus was just a small biotechnology company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy several times during the Kailian War. If it weren't for the fact that the Tyrann Federation government was eager to use biological modification methods to strengthen the Federation soldiers and cheated a lot of funds, they might not have survived. When I met Augustus.

Thanks to Augustus' insight, he bought the company a year ago and paid off all its debts. Otherwise, at least 20 researchers in this research station today would have been imprisoned in New Folsom. prison.

Now all of these people are working for Augustus' alien laboratory in Umoyan. Their experimental subjects include Zerg, Protoss, and all non-human creatures.At present, a scientific research project named Project Cerberus by Augustus has replaced the lives of these people for the next few years or even longer.

The project is funded and operated by the Mengsk family represented by Augustus. Hundreds of scientists from the Cerberus Corporation and Korha IV are all working hard for the same goal, that It was the idea of ​​weaponizing the Augustus Zerg.

"Thanks for your hard work, no need to introduce, Mr. Brois and I have known each other for a long time." Augustus smiled and shook hands with Brois, and the latter was immediately flattered.

"I still remember what happened in Oran Town. It was really a pleasant cooperation." Augustus's commendable advantage is that he can always remember the names and corresponding faces of the people he has met.And these people who are recognized will always have the illusion that they have a considerable status in Augustus's heart. Only Sarah Kerrigan can say that Augustus's manipulative methods are as superb as his skill with women.

And if a person who doesn't understand the cause and effect hears these words of Augustus and thinks of his identity, he will definitely think of the "pleasant cooperation" that bombed a federal government building or wiped out the A whole Union Army thing like that.

For example, those young but enthusiastic and energetic researchers next to him immediately admired Broward Langdon.

"At that time, I would never have thought that you were Augustus Mengsk, the leader of the largest rebel army in the Koprulu sector and the most prestigious and influential justice fighter in the 25th century." Brois, who has been in the workplace for many years, is indispensable Say a few words to praise Augustus, of course, these are basically words from the heart.

From the perspective of the Tyrann Federation, these words turned into a frenzied rebel leader and a man-eating demon.

"After all, I was just an unknown person at that time." Augustus did not waste time on pleasantries, but directly hit the topic: "How is the progress, I am not a biologist after all, no matter how good your report is There are many pictures and texts, and I can't see what stage the entire Cerberus plan is in just by just a few words."

"My people report that Project Cerberus has spent enough money to arm a heavily armored division without making any real progress. I wonder who's telling the truth."

"All of this is malicious slander." The fat on Browa's face trembled, but he was obviously already prepared.

"Look here."

As soon as the words fell, Augustus and the people next to him could see an experimental platform holding another Hydra Hydralisk rising from the ground.Compared with the Hydralisk just now, this Hydralisk's whole body has undergone body transformation with alloy machinery.

"You will be surprised." Brois confidently wanted to see a surprised expression on Augustus's face, but the other party just blinked his eyes from beginning to end.

The scaly armor and the chitinous carapace on the back of this Hydra Hydralisk were cut open and replaced with fine steel armor and sharp steel spikes. The pair of bony sickles were also replaced by a pair of cute Replaced by a titanium three-edged blade that bounces off like a bullet with a boost system.

The roots of these titanium alloy blades were deeply embedded between bones and muscles, and the cruelty of the transformation process was almost equivalent to rolling steel plates in a human body, enough to make any true human warrior's scalp tingle.

The mandible of this Hydra hydralisk uses a titanium alloy support bracket to add more sharper blades, and the dark red eyes that impressed Augustus are equipped with triangulation and more sensitive Sensors are replaced by orange mechanical eyes.

If it wasn't for a zerg that could quickly heal itself with the help of a powerful cell regeneration ability, any human being who underwent such a transformation would hardly have the possibility of survival.

"The alpha amino acids of the Zerg have unique R-group properties, which can combine the substances of dead cells with ordinary proteins to produce new cells. Under normal circumstances, the Zerg can regenerate infinitely. As long as the time is long enough, even a severely injured Zerg can Worms can also be fully recovered." Brois said to Augustus.

"After testing, the zerg's tolerance to pain is far beyond our imagination. They can fully withstand our transformation, and any previously modified organisms can't even withstand the welding of steel plates to their tissues."

The business of Cerberus Corporation before defecting to Augustus also included prosthetic limb transplantation for some "volunteers" and those who voluntarily underwent transformation due to physical disabilities, including but not limited to the implantation of some new auxiliary organs .

Among the blood-drinking professions in the Tyrann Federation, especially those killers who do dirty work, they are very willing to accept this transformation. Once they replace the legs, arms and even some organs of their flesh and blood with mechanical prosthetics, then the original Some fatalities are no longer a problem, and their weaknesses are less and less.

Recently, the Tyrannian Federation government and military have been the biggest supporters of machines, drugs, and even genetically modified people, because they have a large number of resocialized soldiers who can accept these transformations that violate human ethics and morals, and there will never be any complaints.

The federal army is accelerating the process of fully resocializing soldiers. Marines wearing power armor are no longer a glorious profession, but a humanoid weapon that can be quickly mass-produced or even marked with a barcode.

It would be great if the resocialized soldiers could be used again just like machines, just by replacing parts and refurbishing them, which would save the Federal Council a lot of money.

"So, after undergoing mechanical transformation, they are much stronger than before, aren't they?" Augustus did not make any comments on the semi-mechanical transformation of the Hydra Hydralisk.

"Of course, their titanium alloy blades can easily slice through the front armor plate of an arc tank." Brois said proudly.

"So, who's going to replace the blades on these modified Hydralisks?" Augustus asked.

"This problem must be solved, and at the same time, try to install small-yield nuclear bombs on them, because some species of zerg can burrow and sneak into the enemy's rear through tunnels." He said: "In any case, your task is not to put They are made tools to please me, but a zerg swarm that I can control forever."

"I care more about how you control these zerg so that they obey your every command without reservation."

"We use mechanical nerves to replace the connection between their brain temporal lobe and the body, and by simulating the electrical signals of neurons, our operators can remotely control these zerg through the control terminal through the panel - just like manipulating a drone. ’ Brois said to Augustus.

"Show me," said Augustus briefly but clearly.

Browa immediately went to the console next to him and operated it himself. The modified Hydra Hydralisk came out from the plasma isolation field, and quickly moved on the smooth ground of the scientific research station with his extremely flexible posture. swimming up.

Then the gigantic monster did an alien version of a belly dance, driven by the station supervisor's bad taste.

Augustus nodded frequently, feeling very satisfied.

"A beautiful toy." At this time, Arcturus, who had been listening carefully, said.

"Me, and my brother, are more concerned about whether this zerg can be mass-produced."

As soon as the words fell, the Hydralisk suddenly roared and rushed towards Augustus and the others. When the belly with the huge scales rubbed against the ground, it made the rustling sound of a snake crawling over dead leaves.

Browat suddenly turned pale with fright.It seems that the nerve modification technology planned by Cerbrus is not perfect, and this Hydra Hydralisk is undoubtedly out of control.

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