StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 28 The Traitor

Center Block, Roon Township, 14:12 local time.

One-third of the buildings in this colonial-style town are buried under bushes, vines and thatch with stalks. Standing neatly in front of Augustus and the others.

Antennas and solar panels are installed on the roofs of these houses to receive signals and store energy.

Ruen Town is the same as many towns in Turasis II. The appearance of each house is highly similar. Straight roads divide the town into areas of equal size, which is a typical colonial town grid style. Even It is difficult for outsiders to get lost in it.This grid of towns is often found in young colonies.

There are a few open trucks and coal trucks parked scattered on the street, and public facilities such as street lamps, signs and benches have also become dilapidated due to lack of maintenance and repairs. In addition, Augustus Not even a single person can be seen, and the streets and squares are empty.

"That's not right, I said, I was expecting them to welcome us like heroes." The sight made Harnack grumble.

"If you come to meet them with a truckload of food and fuel, I bet you'll be a hero to the whole town, and maybe the place will just be renamed Hankton," Leno said on the communication channel.

"Sounds good." Harnack clearly meant it.

"This is going to be difficult, Honorable Chief Harnack Hankton. Intelligence says this whole town is full of rebels," said Augustus.

"Then let them all make way for Chief Hank." Hank said nonchalantly.

"Assemble at the central square!" At this time, company commander Warfield ordered in the communication channel: "Follow your squad leader and comrades closely, and be careful on the ground and behind!"

The central square of Ruen Town is the only open space in the town. It is just an open space marked out with lime powder, and its area is about the size of a football field.The lawn in the central square has not been mowed, and the lush Turassis II native plants have occupied the entire open space, and some emerald green knobby insects can be seen during the period.

In the middle of a lush green field is a solitary flagpole bearing a battered Confederate flag.

The first company was all deployed in the central square of Loen Town, and the third and second rows where Augustus was located were deployed directly under the flagpole, standing behind Warfield.The streets facing the north side of the square are lined up in four rows, the first row is deployed in the same formation on the right wing, and the fourth row is deployed behind the third row on the left.

"Villagers of Loen Town, I am Lieutenant Warfield of the Interstellar Marine Corps." The lieutenant held a radio in his hand, which could be directly connected to the loudspeaker of the radio station in Loen Town.

"Someone reported to the Marine Corps that there are Ke Morian spies here, and they spread lies to deceive the citizens of the Tyrann Federation." Warfield said: "In order to maintain the purity of the town of Loen, make sure it remains loyal to the Tyrann Federation, as the supreme commander of this region, I have obtained the arrest warrant of the planetary governor."

"I have the right to order everyone in this small town to gather in the central square now and accept our investigation. Those who are found innocent will be released immediately. But if you refuse to come to the central square for investigation, then, sorry , I will arrest you all.”

"Within 15 minutes, the time I give you is 15 minutes. Regardless of men, women, young or old, I don't ask you to be on time, but unless you are missing arms or legs, 15 minutes is enough for you to walk from one end of the town to the other. .”

"Don't carry any weapons, otherwise we have the right to fire first."

"Lieutenant, the order given to us is to execute the rebels, not to arrest them." Augustus's platoon leader Reagan said on the communication channel at the squad leader-platoon leader-company commander level.

"It's up to me to decide that no one deserves to be executed," Warfield said. "I'm not going to kill here unless I have to."

After Warfield finished speaking, the communication channel of the entire first company fell into absolute silence. His words were also transmitted to the ears of more than 200 people in the whole company through the public channel just now, clearly conveying his concern for this time. Qualitativeness of the task.

Augustus was standing just behind Warfield, next to Raynor and Harnack, the HUD display system on his mask had been switched to thermal display mode, allowing him to see the red figures hiding in the houses and basements.

Through scanning, the 3D real-time models of several residential houses are presented in the upper right corner of the screen, and a status bar that can be pulled down shows wind speed, humidity and temperature.

A few minutes later, there were more and more figures on the HUD screen of Augustus, and the townspeople of Ruen town drove towards the central square in twos and threes driving cars on the ground or riding maglev bicycles.The sound of breathing in the public channel gradually became heavy, and Augustus couldn't help but clenched the Gauss rifle in his hand.

Most of the townspeople who came had all kinds of weapons in their hands, mining hoes, shovels, engineer shovels, gunpowder automatic rifles of the last century, shotguns and bolt-action shotguns, and only a few people held electromagnetic or laser weapons. Weapons - Augustus guessed they were the organizers and leaders of these people.

These Roen townspeople, who seemed hostile at first glance, surrounded the square with modified private cars and tractors used for farming. Augustus roughly counted them, and felt that the number of people had exceeded 300, and there were still people in the area. keep increasing.

Warfield first watched all this with a blank face, and then he closed the mask on his power armor.

Including the power armor of Augustus, all the power armor masks of the 33rd Ground Assault Division are painted with off-white paint to depict the sharp snout of the wolf's head, the white fluff on the cheeks, the oblique triangular eyes and the pointed eyes. Ear.

But Augustus always felt that if he could restrain himself from imagining it as a husky, it would still be quite mighty and domineering.

"I want to speak to your commander!" After the number of the assembled crowd exceeded 500, about 400 yards from the front of Augustus, an elected representative stood up from the crowd.

"I am." Warfield replied in the coldest and most impersonal tone of his life: "Tell those people to put down their guns. I swear I will never blame the past. This is your last chance."

"We will never lay down our weapons to defend freedom!" The man with a mustache from Turasis walked up to Warfield and said without flinching: "Listen, you can't do this!"

"Decades ago, it was my father, our fathers who came here to snatch the land from wild animals and poisonous insects, bulldoze the land, build houses, and reclaim wasteland. Everything today is due to the efforts of our generations. Struggle," said the Turaxis man.

"And what has the federal government done to help us? They only make us pay taxes, pay taxes, pay taxes, but they don't even help us build roads. When cheap industrial products from Tarsonis flooded into the market in Turasis, The Governor's Office and the Federal Government Market Supervisory Authority have remained indifferent throughout and have allowed the disaster to unfold."

"When the local factories declared bankruptcy, countless unemployed workers, the government hypocritically announced the Turasis economic subsidy plan, which was already too late."

"If this is the case, we haven't seen a penny of the money from the subsidy plan."

At this time, there was a echo from the crowd, but Warfield and the soldiers could only be silent.

"When the war came, the Marine Corps not only failed to protect us, but also sent our children to the battlefield." The man with the mustache became more and more excited, and finally he raised his arms and shouted: "We don't need the Tyrannian Federation, nor The Kemerians are needed! The town of Loen belongs to everyone who lives here!"

"I demand that you get out of here immediately, or my townspeople and I will be shot!"

"This idiot, he already convinced me. If he had a better attitude of 'begging' us to leave, maybe that guy Warfield would really pat his ass and leave." In the communication channel of the first shift, Renault Don't get angry.

"He doesn't really think that the fire sticks in the hands of these mud bastards can penetrate my 'knight armor', does he? No way, no way?" Josephine, who was originally from aristocratic background, wouldn't be as angry as Renault just now. I empathize with that passage, I just think it is ridiculous that these people dare to threaten the Marine Corps.

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(End of this chapter)