StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 290 A passing handsome boy in the dark hall (6000 chapters)

"Recruit."

Augustus stared at the departing Zerg, and looked sideways.

Before the words fell, a pair of black nanofiber combat boots appeared in the ashes, and then a ghost agent in a black refracting combat uniform appeared beside Augustus.

"Marshal, the ghost is reporting to you."

This is a ghost agent from Alpha Squadron.After Duke declared his allegiance to Augustus, he is now a member of the Marshal's Guard.It has pale skin and sad, light blue eyes, and is mostly silent.

The ghost number of Alpha Ghost Agent was put aside just like his previous experience, and his name became a trace that was deliberately hidden by him.Augustus still calls him by his Ghost squad code name, Recruit.

Ghost agents often choose special nicknames for themselves during operations, such as sharp knife, bone, stork, rookie and other code names, and these code names are related to the abilities or personalities of the agents.

The recruit is no longer a recruit and a normal rookie, and most of the people who know all about it and their squad members are dead.

"What did you sense?" Augustus asked the Ghost.

After Kerrigan was ordered to stay on Antiga Prime, the Ghost agent and four other ghosts from Victor V Base and Alpha Squadron took over Kerrigan's original responsibilities.

Umoyan's shadow guards used to protect every member of the Mengsk family at the beginning, but now Augustus would rather use the surrendered Tyrann Federation ghost agents than give the personal safety of himself and his family to Umoyans.

Kehal's relationship with Umoyan was still warming, but Augustus knew it was only because the Revolutionary Army was clearly weaker than Umoyan.And once the Keha people replace the Tyrannian Federation, the relationship between these two powerful interstellar political entities is as fragile as a bubble in the sun.

"Pain and sorrow." Ghost Agent's tone sounded quite sad: "I can't understand this feeling very well."

Their childhoods were all distorted, and for powerful psychics, any negative emotions are likely to be magnified.

"It should have come from a Zerg cerebrate, but its psychic power is not as strong as Sass. When Sass, the cerebrum of the Gum Swarm, died, its psionic scream was much louder than this."

Cerebral worms mainly use their innate psionic voice. When they are threatened, their psionic roar will spread far and wide in the form of psionic waves like a terrible scream.

"When Sass died, there was a period of crying and howling. I heard that the people who stayed on the ground heard Sass' screams and hoped that guy knew how shameful he was." Renault said.

"The location of the brain worm should not be far from us." Augustus said to the ghost agent: "Can you sense where it is?"

To track a psychic creature as powerful as a cerebrate, one must enlist the help of a human psyker—although they are nowhere near as sensitive to zerg psionics as Sarah Kerrigan.

"East." The ghost agent's deep breath came out from the breathing mask on the helmet, and the voice was as distant as a ghost underwater.

"I am sure, Marshal."

"That's it." Renault's brain, who was listening on the side, spun rapidly.

"The Burning Lands," said Augustus. "Duke's troops landed there. They may be in trouble."

On the map, the Plain of Mirrors, the Burning Lands, and the Valley of Death are three bordering areas. They are just artificial geographical divisions, and there are no dangerous terrain barriers.

Augustus immediately set about contacting Duke's Alpha Squadron, who knew no more about what was going on than anyone on this side.

According to Duke, his troops were attacking a Zerg main lair under the orders of the Marshal, and then the Zergs in front of Alpha Squadron suddenly went crazy.Augustus then ordered Duke to slow down the advance speed, search for the dark protoss spaceship that might be docked nearby, and at the same time send a force to meet him.

"Jimmy, gather your men. If you want the best vulture motorcycle riders, one combat company is enough." Augustus suspected that the person who killed the brain worm was most likely the Dark Templar, but there was no such evidence evidence of.

Not surprisingly, the leader of these dark templars should be their consul Zeratul.The elder Dark Templar left his hometown of Sacoolas many years before the Zerg invasion. He has been traveling the universe, looking for relics related to Xel'Naga and exploring forgotten knowledge.

Only the dark templar can cut off the spiritual link between the cerebrate and the master of the swarm using void energy, completely cut off the induction between the master and a certain cerebrate, so that the master can no longer resurrect his cerebrate at will , thus killing the brain worm in the true sense.

"Okay, I'll drag our best vulture cars out of the cargo spaceship right away." Renault suddenly reacted: "You don't want to find the corpse of that cerebrate. I guess all the bugs around here Crazy, they must be looking for the murderer."

"What we are looking for is the murderer. After killing the brain worms, they probably haven't gone far, but are observing the reaction of the zerg."

Many flashes flashed in Augustus's cold gray eyes in an instant, and he said in his heart that next time he wanted to find those dark templars who saw dragons and dragons, and he didn't know how long he would have to wait: "I need them to deal with aliens. insect."

"But brain worms can't be killed." Renault sighed.

"But as long as it is your order, I have no objection. I hope we have time."

At this time, the psychic jammers erected by the Revolutionary Army Engineering Corps at the landing point had begun to operate, providing an invisible barrier to isolate the zerg for the nearby camp.

"Tychus." Augustus first announced his order to the officer in charge of defending the landing point, and then found the line of Tychus in the communication channel: "Retreat, return to our landing in Char Click and stand by."

"Come on! What's going on? The heavy machine gun on my hand is still hot, and my aim is very steady. I just shot the heads of a few Hydralisk monsters." Tychus did not respond to Augustus's order any doubts.

When he was in the federal army, he always sneaked and tried to take advantage of the federal army's orders. Although he never gave up complaining, he carried out the revolutionary army marshal sternly.

"When will the next attack be?"

"Waiting for orders," Augustus said to Tychus. "Now you are the supreme commander of the landing site."

"Where are you going?" Tychus asked.

"It will take some time to explain." When Augustus spoke, Renault had already dragged out several modified vulture cars: "Follow your orders, Mr. Finley."

"This makes me uncomfortable..."

After finishing speaking, Augustus was impatient to listen to Tychus' nonsense. He always seemed to have endless words on the battlefield, and even the spirited boy Reynolds couldn't compare to him.

The Vulture car prepared for Augustus looked no different from the others, with a wedge-shaped slender body and propellers with curved jet pipes.The paint job of the Vulture is crimson, with gold and off-white fringes.

However, like the favorite cars of many vulture riders, this vulture car has also undergone a series of modifications-of course, this is illegal, and the police at the Tarsonis Police Department can judge which ones just by the roar of the vulture motorcycle engine. The car should be fined.

The Vulture engine of Augustus uses the latest twin-turbo design of the Camerians, and the fuel is compressed and refined high-energy gas. If necessary, the Vulture can even go up to 300 miles per hour. .

Like other Vulture vehicles in the Revolutionary Army, Augustus' vehicle still uses a fragmentation grenade launcher as a weapon. In addition to carrying spider mines, its ammunition storage box still stores the previously designed by Victor Kaczynski. , and named Viktor Vandal's spider detection robot.

This exquisitely designed Vulture was given to Augustus by his brother Arcturus, because the man in his early 30s still remembers his brother's sincere love for racing.Arcturus' concern for his family only increased after he learned that his mother and sister were nearly killed by Kerrigan.

When he got into this vulture car, as the Marshal of the Revolutionary Army, Augustus, who had rarely driven this kind of "dangerous vehicle", couldn't help but think of his time in the Turasis II recruit training camp.

"Do you still remember the time we drove the vulture car to avoid the pursuit of the military police?" Augustus sat on it steadily, and the engine of this beautiful motorcycle immediately purred like a cat.

More than a dozen Revolutionary Army vulture vehicles with the same gold and red painting were roaring past Augustus and stopped not far away.In Char's land of ash and black rock, engineers are surveying the ground and driving space engineering vehicles to remove huge rocks.

Bunkers and missile towers rose from the ground, and revolutionary army officers and political commissars with golden wolf head epaulettes were standing on the fortification wall and using binoculars to observe the main lair and flames of the Zerg in the distance.A large number of soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, lined up in three columns, were passing behind the officers, their gold-plated matte masks painted with fire pandas looked dull in the sun.

"Of course, Kurowski swears he'll never ride in your car." Leno climbed into his beloved gray-green Vulture: "He still shakes and throws up when he sees a Vulture. "

To this day, Colonel Ilya Kulovsky, the Demon of Heaven, still loathes the Vulture, and his troops never use hoverbikes as vehicles.It was a curse, and Colonel Kurowski had been emphasizing that Augustus should never get into the car.

"I'm sorry." Augustus laughed.

"Come on, agent." He said to the Alpha Ghost agent code-named recruit: "Sit tight and put on your seat belt."

The other party showed a rare hesitation in his life, but in the end the sense of responsibility and love for the marshal overwhelmed the fear.

"You are such a devil leader." Renault believed that he had discovered the evil side of Augustus. It is said that this guy even took the trembling teaching director on the dangerous winding mountain road in Keha IV Steeling when he was a student. Get on the motorcycle.

When he was in Moria, Augustus once drove the boss of a consortium of private operators in a racing car. In the end, this big businessman with weak legs had to agree to all the demands of Augustus.

"But I have to admit that driving a vulture car on a planet in the Koprulu sector is a very romantic thing." Renault caught up with Augustus as he spoke.

Augustus' convoy of vultures raced across the pale ash-covered landscape of the Mirror, over caves and rocky hills emitting sparks.The air was sticky and stale, smelling of gray ash and choking smoke, like paper ashes that float in the air after burnt foil is burned.

The distance is full of continuous volcanoes and smoking craters, and thick smoke and scalding steam are gushing from those volcanoes.Over Augustus's head swirled thick clouds of ash that glowed a fiery red in the sun's rays.

Even after driving dozens of miles, Char's surface is still covered with a thick layer of ash.Perhaps Char once had vegetation and a great variety of life, but neither is there anymore.

There are reports of primitive rodents living in relatively stable areas of Char, and even a purgatory like Char shows signs of life.

The road conditions were much worse after Augustus drove out of the Mirror Plain, and they sometimes had to avoid extremely wide lava rivers and huge rocks.

The complex terrain has brought great obstacles to Augustus and his subordinates, just like those seemingly solid but fragile ice layers, under some thick ash is hot magma.

During the march, one of Renault's rangers accidentally fell into the lava river, and the 20-year-old Cha Sara disappeared without even humming.

This dealt a bit of a blow to the morale of Augustus' men, but the soldiers' morale remained high.It's just that when Augustus's troops arrived at the junction of the Burning Land and the Plain of Mirrors, they had already lost two brave warriors, and even the bodies could not be found.

The Burning Lands is a dead place dotted with magma lakes and rivers. Its surface radiates bright fire, and the fiery flames even burn the sky red.

Between the magma lakes are rocky islands composed of cooled magma, and Zerg organic buildings that seem to be connected to the sky stand between the magma.The magma reflected the main nest of the zerg, which was composed of dark brown carapaces, sharp horns, and spikes, into a fiery red, as if the firewood was burning red in the fierce flames in the fireplace.

It is hard to imagine that the zerg would choose this area as their main hive area.

In this area where even if one stumbles, one will fall into the magma, it is impossible for human beings to live for a few minutes, let alone live.

Augustus met Edmund Duke and his Alpha Squadron on a solid rocky stretch of land in the Burning Lands, a region of hardened rock surrounded by volcanoes, flat enough to withstand Listen to the roar of heavy tanks and artillery.

Alpha Squadron has established a small impregnable fortress on this land based on command centers and engineering stations.There are several Goliath armed robots patrolling the fortress, and the three flags representing Alpha Squadron, Duke, and Mengsk House are fluttering against the scorching wind of the Burning Land.

Although no one cared, Duke's allegiance was to Augustus himself and not to the Revolutionary Army.

As soon as the Vulture stopped, Augustus rejoined his fellow Ghost agents and Raynor and Alpha Squadron.During this time, the Ghost recruits highly praised Marshal Augustus' driving skills, but he still threw up.

Duke looks complacent.Apparently, while Duke still didn't understand why the zerg had become chaotic, he was happy to attribute that to his own wise leadership.

"Marshal, we just destroyed a secondary main hive, and the zerg there are simply vulnerable." Duke didn't dare to open his helmet and expose his head to the poisonous air of the volcanic region, otherwise August You will definitely see his extremely proud face.

"Are the zerg here still in a state of madness?" Augustus confirmed that more than three hours had passed since he set off. If the overlord had resurrected the dead cerebrum, the zerg that the Alpha Squadron was facing there The Zerg clan should also return to normal.

"Yes, they're still barking like mad dogs, what's wrong?" Duke asked Augustus.

"Idiot, of course this is wrong." Renault scolded.

"What qualifications do you, a fringe country bumpkin, have to question a distinguished general? You were still gnawing mud on a stone planet when I was fighting Kel-Morian bloody." He didn't dare to make too much noise in front of Situ.

"Have you found any traces of the Protoss ship?" Augustus asked Duke.

"Our detection equipment has not found a single Protoss spacecraft here." Duke changed the subject: "But."

"While the monster was screaming, my ghost agent confirmed his approximate location." He pointed to a volcano in the distance that was spewing thick smoke.

When Augustus looked at the discovery, he suddenly found that there was also a layer of creep on the rocky rock wall of the volcanic mountain.These creeps have undoubtedly adapted to the hot environment of Char. Before that, the most effective way to eradicate the creeps was to use fire.

"It's near the rocky walls of the southern volcano, and there are zerg like mad dogs everywhere now."

"Did you send someone to investigate?" Augustus looked at Duke and said.

"Sure, I sent two resocialization squads and a Ghost agent, but they're still on the ledge of that volcano right now," Duke replied. "Nothing but a few rotten rocks."

"Speaking of which, the zerg are absolutely insane. My people noticed at least three different zerg nests fighting each other and fighting among themselves."

"There are conflicts among the zerg?" he said sarcastically. "Competition for turf or something. That's funny. That's good news, it seems that the zerg are not monolithic."

"Hopefully it's true." Reynolds rarely agreed with Duke.

"It could be that other hives are clearing out those zerg that have lost control due to the loss of cerebrates," Augustus said.

"Why did they do that?" Raynor asked. "If the cerebrate will be revived in Char, the zerg won't have to kill the ones that are out of control."

"It may be because it has no chance to be resurrected." Augustus' voice became more serious.

"Do you think the people in those black spaceships did it?" Reynolds guessed what Augustus was thinking: "But even so, the probability of us finding them will not be easier than finding a needle in a straw .”

"Unless we want a magnet."

"Let them come to us in turn." When Renault understood what Augustus said, Duke on the other side just felt that the two men were playing charades.

"You must have a good idea."

"Remember the fragment of the Xel'Naga artifact we found in Mar Sara?" Augustus looked at Lei Nuo with sharp eyes.

"Oh" Reynolds was thoughtful: "I still remember this. When that dark cube was still buried under the Purgatory Corridor, there was almost no way to use electronic equipment in that ghostly place."

"Until now, Swan and those scientists have not researched anything from that thing. It can even block our own communication methods." Renault said.

"Well... I can't think of any connection between that and what we were just discussing," he said matter-of-factly.

"It will work." No one could see the expression under the visor of Augustus' power armor helmet.

"Wait and see." Renault patted his helmet: "So you brought that artifact fragment? That thing is evil."

Soldiers guarding this fragment of the Xel'Naga artifact will always hear indescribable whispers and see brilliant lights and shadows fighting each other in nightmares.Some will take it as a reflection of their own ordeal, while others claim to have heard the voices of dead family members and vague prophecies.

"How is that possible?" Augustus waved his hands and said, "I'm crazy to carry it with me."

When Augustus was speaking, a black shadow floated across the sky, which was an APOD-33 transport ship.Swan's research is not without progress, at least the interference intensity of this Xel'Naga artifact fragment to the signal can be adjusted to a safe range.

This plan was laid out by Augustus before he decided to land on Char.

Although Augustus wasn't sure that the Xel'Naga Artifact Fragment would fish Zeratul out, he had high hopes.It was impossible, and there was nothing he could do.

"Go and have a look." Augustus led Duke, Renault and others towards the landing site of the transport ship.

The APOD-33 transport ship landed on the flattened platform of the Alpha Squadron engineers, and several engineers were walking out carrying boxes containing the Xel'Naga artifact fragments.

"What should we do now?" Lei Nuo looked at the black box containing the fragments of the Xel'Naga artifact.

"It's very simple, use the equipment to amplify the signal of the Sarnaga artifact fragment." Augustus replied: "If they are nearby, they will definitely be interested in this artifact fragment."

"Hopefully this doesn't bring in any other unwanted guests."

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