StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 298 Protoss Portal
Just as Zeratul finished speaking, the green prismatic crystal that refracted light and shadow like a gem dimmed, ending the video with a precise coordinate that humans could understand.

Augustus put the crystal back into the storage unit on the breastplate of the power armor, and ordered an officer of Alpha Squadron to be responsible for collecting the remains, weapons and supplies through the communication channel.

Then, Augustus asked on the channel if anyone knew the location of Protoss Archon Taldarin. A few seconds later, an Alpha Squadron medical soldier answered Augustus in the much quieter public channel. both problems.

It wasn't long before Augustus and Corporal Faraday found Taldarin, who was inside a protoss portal that was still intact.

The magnificent pyramid-shaped protoss building seems to be made of gold and blue gemstones. It is towering and towering. The barrel-shaped vaults are closed at the top to form a huge azure blue Kaidarin mind crystal suspended in the center. .

When approaching the elegant and gorgeous buildings of the protoss, Augustus could hear a soft moan from the crystal, which was as sweet and melodious as the water flowing in the mountains, with its own rhythm.There is a towering crystal tower dozens of yards away, and the psionic energy matrix network expanding from it looks like an imperceptible light blue halo under Char's vicious sunlight.

The buildings of the protoss seem to have been built to bring them closer to the sun. They shine incomparably brilliantly in the sun, like a pile of gold in the light.

Climbing up the hundreds of steps was a pilgrimage for a templar, their fleet and home beyond the warped rifts of time and space of the gateway.And Augustus didn't feel much reverence. As a human, it was difficult for him to resonate with the thoughts and customs of the protoss.

It's just that these buildings that can be called works of art also conform to human aesthetics. Augustus just thought that fortunately the nobles of Tarsonis hadn't seen the buildings of the Protoss, otherwise they would only feel that they were not luxurious enough.

The top of the portal is a flat-topped platform the size of two football fields, on which there are many protoss templars standing in full battle, guarding the Grand Consul Taldarin of the Protoss Koplu Expeditionary Army.

The high-status consul turned around in his dragon knight armor, the joints of the mechanical appendages were bent inward, and the cockpit slowly landed in front of Augustus, almost completely falling on the ground.

"It was a hearty battle." Taldarin's remnant body wrapped in the ice-blue nutrient solution in the cockpit was close to the shaped transparent window of the cockpit, and his shining eyes were fixed on Augustus. All.

Augustus didn't even know if he had read it wrong. He found a small fish had just swam in the cockpit of the Taldarin Dragon Knight.

"It would be great if Adun was here." He said to Augustus: "This is the first time I have shared the glory of victory with mankind, and it will certainly not be the last. Praise the light of Kara."

The templars around Taldarin also pressed their long blunt chins to their chests, which was one of their ways of showing respect.

Even the El Protoss who communicate directly on the spiritual level through Kala sometimes use body language to express etiquette and respect, and their fellow Nerazim Dark Templars who voluntarily severed the link with Kala need this even more Way.

"Consul Taldarin, it is my honor to fight alongside you." Augustus opened his helmet visor, but he did not smile, only a stern expression.

Augustus' brother Arturs had warned him to be ruthless, to behave like steel.

"Dark Templar Zeratul just told me about the space warp they found in the main hive of the Charr." Augustus didn't drag his feet.

"I don't know what that means, but I figured I'd have to get there right away and find out what the hell the zerg were doing."

"Send an elite army and set out lightly." Taldarin's look of recalling the past was fleeting.

"Before that, we must withdraw the remaining troops from this area and establish a new line of defense in dangerous areas that cannot be covered by psionic launchers." Augustus said.

"It's not necessary." Taldarin said to Augustus: "I can allow your warriors to teleport back to the fleet through the warp."

"It's a timely help, Grand Consul." Augustus was reminded by Taldarin, and suddenly remembered that the Protoss could transfer his army through the portal.

"Then this matter will be much simpler." He said, "I will take a few men to the location Zeratul mentioned to find out."

"And I," Taldarin responded, "it is the honor of a Templar to go to danger in defense of his people."

"Okay." Augustus just replied without any compliment.

Augustus discovered that getting along with the proud protoss is not as difficult as he thought.First of all, the protoss would not deliberately make things difficult for humans, at most they would just ignore them. They respected warriors and people of high moral character. As long as these two requirements were met, the rest would be much simpler.

It's just that except for a few people, few people can make the protoss look up to them, and even fewer can make them respect.

At this time, Raynor's call came from Augustus's channel: "I found Duke and Tychus. They stood firm all night in the wasteland of Char, and they were no less frightened than us."

"Bring them to me." Augustus overlooked the entire Alpha Squadron base from above the portal, and found that apart from the Protoss portal under his feet, there were very few buildings still standing in the entire base. up.

"The tallest protoss building you can see is, let Duke bring all the Nova Squadron scouts and scientists he captured."

Augustus waited on the platform of the portal for another ten minutes, until a group of about 1000 revolutionary army mixed troops came here through the collapsed fortification wall.

These people are basically riding on vulture vehicles and chariots. Compared with the number of troops led by Duke and Tychus before, it can be seen that their number has been reduced a lot.

A night in the exposed ash plains of Char took its toll on these warriors, and the swarms of the night were more terrifying than ever.

"That night was the scariest moment of my life." Augustus could hear Tychus's loud voice just two-thirds of the way down the steps.

"The zerg that besieged us in Char's Badlands is less than a fraction of what you have here, but it's still a shame." He walked quickly, assisted by power armor servos and adrenaline. Climbing quickly on the steps: "We built positions on several protruding high grounds, arranged trenches, barbed wire and spider mines, and used Victor Kaczynski's little spider robots."

"A dozen bugs swarmed at us, like the Reading III flies that smack your face in a vulture car. No sooner had the torrent of gunfire swept over the bugs than more and stronger ones soon followed. Come up," Tychus said.

"It's like when you're on the beach trying to kick the waves that come your way. The bugs come in waves, and once you fall down, you can't get up again."

"That's right, how much alcohol did you drink, Tychus?" After several years of getting along, Augustus understood some of Tychus' habits better than his mother.Tychus likes to drink a lot when he's at war, and usually he doesn't drink too much, just to refresh himself, and the side effect is that he doesn't talk much.

"Whiskey, the kind that's spicy enough." Tychus walked over the steps to Augustus, showing him a long scratch on his chest: "This is a big red whiskey The hand of the Hydra Hydralisk, who almost killed me at the time."

"I showed him the portrait of Lisdale on the chest of my armor, spit a mouthful of wine on the beast's head, and then stared at it to death."

"Okay, shut up Tychus, I'll listen to your bragging later." Augustus ordered the other party to shut up as always, and then looked at Raynor and Duke behind Tychus.

"General Duke, where are the men from Nova Squadron?" he asked Duke, who was opening his helmet visor.

Duke's bright white power armor had long lost its luster, and the disgraced general seemed uninspired: "Lieutenant, bring those damn bastards here. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have suffered heavy losses!"

More than a dozen soldiers of the Nova Squadron, whose power armor had been stripped off and only combat uniforms remained, walked towards Augustus, among them were two federal ghost agents.

It is worth mentioning that, as a well-known federal squadron, Nova Squadron is best at infiltration and covert operations.During the Kailian War, they often appeared in the rear of the Kel-Morian Combine dressed as black Ripper troops, and dealt a fatal blow to the guild guards of the Combine.

"Marshal, guess how many psychic transmitters the people of Nova Squadron have placed in Char?" When looking at the prisoners of Nova Squadron, Duke's voice was still full of arrogance and aloofness as always, as if he was serious. Holding his sky-high nostrils and talking.

"Four," said Augustus.

"At least ten." Duke said bitterly: "The signal released by each psionic transmitter can attract all the Zerg within 2.5 light years, which means that the entire Zerg in Char will be affected."

"That's brutal," Reynolds said.

"Before you were ordered to activate these psionic transmitters, what else were you told?" Augustus looked at one of the ghost agents of the Nova Squadron. Psyche hurt Augustus.

"No, sir, nothing." Due to conditions, this federal ghost agent has not been removed from the psionic suppressor, even if he really knows something, he can't say it.

"Activate the psionic transmitter and wait for the evacuation order," he said.

"But you didn't wait for the order?" asked Augustus.

"It's too late, sir, as soon as the psionic transmitter was activated, the zerg swarmed up." The ghost agent said.

"Take him down, every psyker is precious. As long as the psychic suppressor is removed, he can be used by us." Augustus instructed Duke.

Generally speaking, the squad that deploys the psionic launcher must evacuate immediately after activating the psionic launcher, otherwise it will be overwhelmed by the swarm.But in a zerg-infested place like Char, a squad deploying a psionic launcher would have little chance of evacuating.

That is to say, every time a psionic launcher is activated, one ghost agent is required. Considering the high cost of finding psionics of the right age, training and equipment, as well as the scarcity of ghost agents, the federation has really spent a considerable price. .

"What exactly does the Federation want to do?" Renault looked at Augustus and said, "This number is not as simple as trying to entrap us."

"Bring as many zerg as you can to Char, then use a thousand or more apocalypse nukes to wipe us out, along with the zerg, just like we did to Korha." Augustus A possibility came to mind: "There is no time to delay, Duke, you take the rest of the people and follow the warriors of the Protoss Grand Consul Taldarin back to the Protoss fleet through this portal."

"Remember, Duke, restrain those who follow you." Augustus told Duke again: "Tell our engineers, try not to touch the things of the Protoss on the warships of the Protoss, unless they allow .”

"Portal" Duke maintains a certain skeptical attitude towards any things and technologies that are not under his control, especially for the Protoss.

"Without the protection of spaceships and warships, how could a human body be able to withstand the loss caused by time-space folding? Let the protoss go to hell, even if I die, I won't go in."

Behind the central platform of the portal is a black, rotating hazy core. The black vortex, which cannot be penetrated by light, seems to be a non-reflective iris, like the reverse side of a mirror, and the edge is a line frame outlined by golden light.

Mysterious, unknown, as if there is a dark space behind it.

The portal of the protoss comes from the ancient Xel'Naga portal, and the technology for making the Xel'Naga gate has long been lost in the disaster called the catastrophe by the protoss.

In the era of Xel'Naga, the mysterious Xel'Naga portal connected various distant and unknown worlds, even beyond the Milky Way. At that time, the ancient Xel'Naga Gate was the transportation hub for the Xel'Naga fleet to explore the universe.

Even if countless galaxies and billions of light-years are separated, the user can reach the Naganaga portal in an instant.Now this kind of portal only exists in Al, Sacoolas, and other unknown distant worlds. Today's protoss only use Xel'Naga portals instead of making them. They use them to jump the army. The portal is the result of reverse research on the Naganaga portal.

And even if the Protoss' portal can jump the army across a distance of several light years, this technology is just an extremely poor imitation compared to the Xel'Naga portal.

"The scariest thing is not seeing it." Lei Nuo has never seen it before, but he is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and has never been afraid.

"With your short lifespan, you can be forgiven for not being able to understand teleportation technology," Taldarin said. "Only the bravest warriors will be able to pass through portals."

"Damn protoss, don't rely on the old to sell the old." In the federal army, Duke has always been the one who relied on the old to sell the old. He was undoubtedly enraged: "Look at me, dare I."

As soon as Duke said that, he rushed into the time-space rift of the portal, and disappeared as if passing through a shadow, followed by the remaining revolutionary soldiers.

"He's so easy to understand," Tychus said teasingly to Raynor next to him.

"The provocative method has tried everything against Duke, and what he can't bear the most is others' denial of him." Lei Nuo saw it clearly in his heart.

"Tychus, Jimmy, you stay." Augustus looked at Corporal Faraday: "And my guard."

"Okay, let old Tychus try what this 'magic any-way door' can do?" Tychus followed the team into it, and walked out staggeringly after a while.

"It's a wonderful feeling, like lifting the skirts of street girls," he said.

Tychus' poor tropes never go out of style.If the protoss hadn't been able to understand Tychus' offbeat jokes, he would never have gotten out of Char today.

"Come on, Tychus, we still have to go to Zeratul," Augustus said to Tychus.

"The zerg's sense of smell is extremely sensitive. They are like sharks in the water and can smell blood from miles away." The mission briefing displayed on Tychus's helmet is what Augustus just listed in the command system Task.

"It's almost impossible to expect to be able to march in the land full of bugs without anyone noticing."

"As usual, as long as the bugs don't catch our vulture carts, walking the dog on the Moor of Char is as easy as walking in your own garden," Augustus said.

　Thanks for the reward

　　
　
(End of this chapter)