StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 251 The Infected

"Jimmy, let our heroic pilots continue to stare at the battlefield on the edge of the Sara galaxy, and all discoveries must be sent to the Marshal's Command through the highest priority line." Augustus ordered Raynor.

"I promise those great guys won't bat an eyelid," Raynor replied immediately.

"How can this virus and parasites be transmitted?" Augustus went to the alien scientific research laboratory on the upper floor of the mobile fortress through an anti-gravity mobile platform at the end of the corridor.

Two Alpha Squadron sergeants in white power armor were guarding the door. After seeing Augustus, these resocialized soldiers immediately gave an impeccable military salute.Compared with the ordinary Revolutionary Army soldiers who generally looked serious, these people all had professional smirks that Tychus thought were silly.

"At present, it seems that these are mainly transmitted by Zerg creep, and it has not been found that it can be transmitted through air, water and body contact." Kerrigan said.

"If that's the case, there should be a species in the zerg group that is responsible for infection." Just as he was speaking, Augustus had already walked to the door of the zerg research laboratory: "Where are the infected people placed? "

"The medical center in the mobile base is already overcrowded. At present, we place all the critically ill patients in the A-11 isolation area, and the rest are placed in other isolation areas according to the degree of infection. All isolation areas have been disinfected and inactivated. , guarded by the Revolutionary Army Special Operations Battalion to ensure nothing goes wrong," Kerrigan replied.

"Why do those people have to be watched? Shouldn't they be too sick to move at all?" Renault asked suspiciously.

"You'll know when you see those patients," Kerrigan said.

"Have you seen zombies? Those are the people."

"I've seen that kind of movie." Reynolds recalled: "I have the impression that zombies are similar to Harnack who is crazy hungry, the difference is that they eat people."

The door of the scientific research center opened slowly with the arrival of Augustus. Augustus led Kerrigan and others into a dust-free cabin and changed into protective clothing before entering the heavily guarded alien laboratory.

Just like Umoyan's laboratory, large and small dissecting tables, robotic arms, consoles, and culture containers filled with blue liquid occupy most of the space in the entire laboratory.

Even Augustus was even more horrified when he saw the distorted creatures on the dissecting table that could hardly be called human.The corpses of the infected being dissected exude an unbearable stench of putrefaction and corpse decay that fills the entire laboratory.

The infected people who appeared here obviously had just died, and it was unimaginable how the corpses decayed rapidly in a very short period of time.

On the dissecting table closest to Augustus lay a man in a black jailer uniform, and Augustus could only vaguely recognize that it was a man by the beard on his face, and the English letters on his clothes It shows that he worked in the federal prison in Los Andares during his lifetime.

The man's sunken eye sockets were extremely black, as though some creature had hollowed out or eaten his soft eyeballs.Like a scene from a thriller, the man's entire face was rotting away, covered with pustules and spikes as long as daggers.

Tendons and bony spikes burst out from under its uniform, and its limbs underwent terrifying mutations visible to the naked eye. Specialized bony spurs and fleshy tentacles replaced fingers and nails.He has become a full member of the swarm, losing his human intelligence and becoming an uncontrolled beast.

"When we brought these people back, they were not in good spirits at best. Some of them fought with guns for several days and nights." Renault said, looking at the man lying on the platform.

"The epidemic is the most terrible enemy. A well-trained soldier can overcome the fear of fangs and claws and bloody mouth through holographic projection training, but he cannot defeat the disease."

Then, as it gradually deepened, Augustus met several old acquaintances in the laboratory, including Dr. Frankos, the chief alien biologist of the Revolutionary Army who served the Federation on the Victor V star, who came to visit as a student of the former Egon Stetman and Cha Sara Sheriff Collins who studied.

"Judge Collins, what are you doing here? You should take a good rest in the single rest cabin we arranged for you." Augustus was very surprised that the other party appeared here now, and wanted to know who gave him Such rights made the Revolutionary Army Marshal a little unhappy.

"Marshal Augustus, I must find a way to save my people. They say that the Zerg virus is irreparable, but I don't believe it at all." Judge Collins was wearing a heavy protective suit, and his tired eyes The unbearable eyes had obviously not been closed for a long time, and they were covered with dense bloodshot eyes.

In this era, the advancement of medical technology has made intractable diseases centuries ago no longer incurable. , More never-before-seen diseases also began to appear.Medical security resources are only open to the wealthy, and disease is still one of the enemies that threaten human existence.

"We'll find it, we will," said Augustus, looking at Justice Collins, promising him.

"But, I need you to explain to me: why didn't you tell me that the people in Los Andares were infected?"

"We don't know exactly how many people are infected. They were infected in the last week, and no one expected it to end up like this." Judge Collins' voice became weaker.

"I'm worried that once I speak out, the rescue ships won't come again. There's no way I can leave them."

"...I can't condemn you." Augustus stared into the judge's eyes: "But there will never be a next time."

"Dr. Franks, tell me what's going on with these people." He then looked at Dr. Franks and his young student Stetman who were trotting not far behind Collins.As a professor and lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Tarsonis, Dr. Francos is fully qualified to be a teacher of Stetman.

Judging from Stetman's pale face and startled look, he obviously saw enough monsters that would make him unforgettable all day, and he was trembling and unable to control himself.

Just as Dr. Francos was about to say something, the chest of an infected corpse on an dissecting table suddenly exploded, blood spattered everywhere, and two flesh-colored worms with hard carapaces burst out of it.As soon as these two bloody monsters were born, they opened their small pairs of triangular eyes and let out a sharp and terrifying scream, like the sound of stones passing through glass.

However, before anyone else sounded the alarm, the laboratory researcher who was operating the mechanical arm to dissect the Zerg by the dissecting table quickly drew a P-30 electromagnetic double gun from his waist and shot them precisely. on the head of the monster.

After the two gunshots, the laboratory immediately fell silent. This ordinary researcher of the Alien Researcher of the Revolutionary Army calmly retracted his electromagnetic rifle and continued to complete his dissection work, as if nothing had happened.

Egon Stetman, on the other hand, let out a scream and fled.

"Ah—ah—this is too scary!"

It may have been a while before Egon Stetman got over his fear of xenomorphs.Dead monsters like Aegon aren't scared at all, but it's another matter if they move.

(End of this chapter)