StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 261 The Great Evacuation

The surface of Mar Sara, the colonial capital of Mar Sara.

The last time Augustus came to Mar Sara, a planet with red land, was more than a year ago. When he set foot on this barren but majestic expanse again, he felt as if he had passed away. Presumably, Renault's son John has been born for more than three months.

The capital area of ​​Mar Sara was devastated by the war a year ago, and now the main roads and buildings destroyed by the artillery fire have also been rebuilt and repaired, and have largely returned to their pre-war appearance.

At that time, several main divisions of the Revolutionary Army surrounded the main urban area, while the Planetary Defense Force of Governor Mar Sara tried to use the residential area as a barrier and a strategic buffer zone for the Governor's Palace.

Today, the grid-like criss-crossing streets of Mar Sara City are a scene of incomparable depression. The buildings such as solar-powered telephone booths, orbital satellite base stations, restaurants, goods shops, and the Ardian crystal trading station have long been empty. .This once large city with a population of more than 100 million has turned into a silent dead city, only a flag of the Tyrannian Federation on the flagpole in the distance is still fluttering in the wind.

Flying flyers from the barber shop swept across Augustus's brown military boots with spikes, and flew towards the sky with a gust of wind.Augustus tightened the neckline of his thick cloak, his bushy gray eyebrows kept drawn together.

In the Capital District at this time of year, the rainfall is scarce and the air is dry, and the frequent windy weather blows up the red soil outside the city, bringing with it dust like a drizzle.

Not so long ago, the oases and green areas outside the capital area could keep the city from the wind and sand, but now the green plants in this area have withered.The thick zerg creep has spread to less than a few miles from the main city, and both the farmland and the small river are covered with a layer of sticky creep like oil.

"Spore infection. Look at these houses, mushrooms are growing." Tychus Finley was wearing his special crimson power armor with the number 625 painted on it, holding a handful of secret words to persuade The heavy machine gun: "The sky is the spaceship of the Omega Squadron, and the ground is the bugs that are still digging holes. The situation is unfavorable. This is really strange, the entire Sara galaxy."

"Only we are thinking about saving people."

As Tychus said, the Jormungandr swarm had begun to infect the city, and the dark purple granulation of the creep had already appeared beside the sewers and manhole covers.

"Look at this place, it's about to grow mushrooms," Tychus said cursingly.

Behind Augustus, Tychus and others, a fully armed Revolutionary Army 1st Division Mobile Battalion was drifting past them in neat steps. The white whip-holding ring and the 1st Revolutionary soldiers with division black double-headed eagle badges were followed by huge red Goliath armed robots, and a large number of Moria chariots and medium tanks were passing on another, wider road.

From time to time, Avengers and Wraith fighter planes belonging to the Revolutionary Army and batches of transport ships loaded with airborne troops flew across the sky.

These troops are all heading for the same goal in the same direction, which is the largest airport in Mar Sara, Mar Sara Airport.

They were ordered to seize the air port, which was being controlled by Omega Squadron, within two hours so that they could use the launch port to launch the refugee transport ships.A company of Marines from Duke's Alpha Squadron had attempted to take the airport more than ten hours earlier, but had been repulsed by the defending Omega Squadron.

As a last resort, the lieutenant of the Alpha Squadron who commanded this company could only seek support from the main force through the communication radio.

Before the revolutionary army arrived in Mar Sara, the city had been continuously transporting the weapons and equipment in the Mar Sara military base and the crystal mines in the government warehouse out of the Sara galaxy through hundreds of APOD transport planes.The air port keeps launching spacecraft day and night, and the schedule is always full, but there are only property, weapons, and files on the transport ship, except for the refugees who urgently need to be evacuated.

It is said that the previous magistrate of Mar Sara used a large transport ship to transport the property he looted during his term of office for more than a year, and the only people who can get on the government and military transport ship are the rich and those with connections.Even the Inquisitor's dog and cat can get a seat to escape Mar Sara, and the refugees can't get a seat to escape the planet no matter how much they cry.

"Stop whining, Tychus, I heard that you are an expert in dealing with zerg, what do you say, what method are you going to use to deal with the worms here?" Jim Raynor, dressed in the magic dust of heaven, was wiping his beloved Colt's military revolver, gesticulating from time to time, seemed to want to use this pistol to burst the Zerg's head.

Not only is there an elite Omega Squadron stationed in the main city of Mar Sara, but a few crunching and howling zerglings may appear in its dark and narrow streets at any time.The small and nimble creatures are even capable of traversing Mar Sara's sewer network, waiting to drag passing humans underground.

Before the Revolutionary army set foot in the city, residents here could often hear the sound of a horde of creatures suddenly sprinting under their feet, the thumping of horny feet on broken metal was eerie.

More and more reports of disappearances, corpses that had been gnawed clean when they were discovered, and giant scorpion-like creatures have never caused any response from the city government and the Governor's Palace, as if they didn't care about such things at all.

Today, there are likely millions of zerg beneath the city, hollowing out the city's sewer network and laboring to build the zerg's subterranean kingdom.When the time is right, or if the leader of the Jormungandr Swarm decides to attack, the swarm can destroy an entire city like a wave capsizes a small ship in the middle of the sea.

"Burn it and burn it," Tychus said. "The protoss has told us what to do and burn all the bugs, whether they're zerglings, hydralisks, or their eggs."

"The only thing you'll need to do then is to add black pepper and cumin to the roasted bug carcasses. There's only one way to deal with bugs, burn the entire surface of the planet and shoot them into their goddamn caves Inject magma into it and seal the hole with cement. Protoss has already demonstrated to us."

"Yes, you should try the Allosaurus grilled wings, Jimmy, the new Sydney grilled chicken wings flavor." Hanak Hanke said: "I find that burning bugs is much more fun than burning people But there is no fat on those monsters, But it can't be burned as an oil lamp."

Tychus watched the documentary video of the destruction of Cha Sara by the Protoss Expeditionary Force fleet with other senior officers of the Revolutionary Army some time after Cha Sara was destroyed.This made a deep impression on Tychus, who once looked down on the protoss, and he transformed overnight into a supporter of superior firepower and a master of zerg grilling.

This also allowed Tychus to have more common language with Harnack Hank, the commander of the fire-breathing troops in the revolutionary army.

"Burn the entire planet. If we could do it, we would have done it long ago." Augustus said at this time: "Currently our troops can only compete with the Zerg in small-scale battles in local areas. When it comes to all-out war, you can barely fight back with fusion weapons."

"Boys, wait until we get Mar Sara's men out before thinking about grilling worms."

At this time, there were a few sporadic gunshots in front of the marching column of the Revolutionary Army. Obviously, the vanguard led by Rick Kidd exchanged fire with the enemy.But the gunfire soon subsided, and then Augustus got a report that Omega Squadron had retreated.

"Augustus, there are many residents stranded in the city gathered outside the Mar Sara air port. They set up tents outside the air port, just hoping that the federal army will have a conscience to pick them up when they escape." Colonel Rick's voice came from Augustus' communicator.

"When the Jormungandr bug swarm first invaded Mar Sara, the rich people who had the money to buy air tickets for long-distance starships had already left, and now all the people left are middle-class people and ordinary civilians."

"How many people are there? We need to establish a quarantine area first, and we need to confirm whether these people are infected." Augustus said immediately.

"Probably tens of thousands of people." Rick replied, "I'm afraid we have to mobilize more transport ships to this area."

At present, the revolutionary army has collected more than 200 million Mar Sara refugees and is transporting them through the airport of Mar Sara.

The work of collecting refugees and organizing rescue went smoothly unexpectedly.

This is not unrelated to the efficient work efficiency of the Revolutionary Army officers with firm beliefs and the support of the Mar Sara people for the Revolutionary Army, but the most important thing is that the Federation has completed the work of recruiting refugees ahead of schedule.

Prior to this, the soldiers of the Omega Squadron had used coercive means to drive the residents living in the city into refugee camps surrounded by simple tents and wooden fences, and then sent troops to guard them like prisoners.

When the zerg invaded Mar Sara, the Federation government was not entirely inactive.

The federal government of the colonies first implemented strict military control in the name of protecting all federal citizens-if this is still a tenable measure, then the behavior of forcibly driving the residents of cities and towns to refugee camps in the wilderness That would be quite unbelievable.

The revolutionary army on Augustus' side clearly knew that the Federation didn't have that many transport ships to transport everyone out, and they might not even have plans to rescue the Mar Sara people at all.

And the behavior of the Federation to drive people out of the city and resettle them is even more incomprehensible, because if they are not prepared to evacuate the refugees, the city is undoubtedly safer and easier to defend than the unsheltered wilderness.

A few days after the revolutionary army landed on Mar Sara, the soldiers of the Omega Squadron stationed on the surface of the planet also evacuated Mar Sara without hesitation, leaving behind millions of desperate Mar Sara people.

It's almost like the federation wants to make their people die faster.

Fortunately, the revolutionary army came in time.As Augustus had promised when he left Mar Sara in the past, they would return one day, and when they returned, they would surely bring salvation.

"The next evacuation task will be entrusted to you." When Augustus said to Rick, everyone could feel that the sky suddenly darkened a little.The sky filled with misty red sand dust seemed to be covered with dark clouds in an instant, and the distant sun became faintly visible.

"This is the fleet monitoring platform. We have detected a swarm of Yemengarde swarms with a number of nearly 500 million that is gathering towards the city of Mar Sara. The fleet command is sending air support troops to the ground." Including Augustus The ground commanders in the capital all heard the fleet's warning at the same time.

"This is not good news. It's going to 'rain' soon—bug rain." Tychus said, smacking his lips.

"It's your turn to perform," said Augustus. "Pest exterminator."

"There are Zergs coming straight here." Suddenly, Sarah Kerrigan, who had been silent beside Augustus, raised the sniper rifle in her hand.

Kerrigan was wearing a fitted dark gray military overcoat and a long-brimmed military hat to keep out the wind and sand. Her fiery red waist-length hair fluttered in the wind like a quivering flame.

"They're only about seven hundred yards away from us in the widening network of underground sewers," Kerrigan added.

I can feel their messy, murderous thoughts-they are the elite assassins of the swarm, following the orders of the cerebrum Yak of the Jormungandr swarm, and the swarm wants to devour the leader of the revolutionary army. "

Kerrigan is also able to read the minds of the zerg, because the minds of the zerg are not complicated, they don't even have full logical thinking ability.She could also clearly perceive the will imposed on these creatures, and spoke an unfamiliar word according to what the zerg called that will.

Brainworm Yak.

Leader of the Jormungandr Swarm.

"It seems that the Zerg also understands the principle of capturing the thief first." Augustus said calmly.

Around Augustus were many generals and dozens of elite guards, and there were two advancing main battalions at the front and back.Almost at the same time Kerrigan spoke, Corporal Faraday led the heavily armed Marshal's Elite Guard soldiers to form several layers of human walls around Augustus.

Except for Augustus, everyone present heard the term brain worm for the first time, but they don't have time to worry about it now.

"Keep an eye on all the sewer exits, and watch your step!" Tychus yelled after battling the swarm.

"Boys of the Red Devils, open the valve of the liquid storage tank and prepare for the barbecue." Hanak, who was wearing the firebat power armor, said without any fear, only a trembling excitement.

"What?" Renault thought of more at this moment: "How does the bug know that Augustus is here?"

"Zergs can eat or infect enemies to gain their memories," Kerrigan explained. "This is a new discovery by Dr. Francos."

"Who was the highest ranking of the recently killed commanders?" asked Augustus.

"It should be Lieutenant Colonel Alfred. He died covering the local refugees during the battle against the Zerg in the 14th battle of Mar Sara Rhine. Before he died, he had just arrived at the Marshal's headquarters." Kerrigan said : "His men did not retrieve his body."

"These bastards." Renault cursed in a low voice.

The distance of [-] yards is only a few tens of seconds for the Zerg elite assassin team that is moving at high speed. With the tooth-piercing sound of metal twisting, the first jumping insect that sprang out from under the sewer manhole cover waved With its crackling and sharp front paws leaping out.

It was a much larger and stronger zerg than a normal zergling, with colorful skin, a crown of thorns, and a huge, hideous mouth.

However, the elite springtail that just got out hit a hot plasma head-on, and immediately burned in a distorted blue flame.

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