StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 582 Paradise Crisis
In mid-April, the conscription order was issued again at the Augustegrad Palace in Keha.This is already the third conscription mobilization, plus the previous two conscriptions, now the army of Augustus the Great has reached 4 million people.

More than 1000 divisions.

With so many soldiers, not to mention the uniforms, armor and supplies allotted to them, it is not easy to simply gather so many people together.

In the eyes of the emperor, this number was not enough.

From large-scale colonized planets to sparsely populated resource planets, the Tyrann Empire has more than a thousand territories, most of which were incorporated into the territory after the empire was established.To defend such a huge territory, of course an equally large army is needed.

During the first conscription, millions of people joined the army in just a few days, but now it is obviously not enough to maintain the number of troops by the number of volunteers.Obviously there have been several exciting victories on the front line, but the number of casualties has been increasing, which has poured cold water on those who want to gain fame and fortune by joining the army.

Compared to the zerg, dealing with the shattered Old Federation and pirate forces was almost like vacationing in Tyrador.

Parents, of course, do not want their children to go to the battlefield and become a part of the rolling chariot of the Tyranid Empire.If they had seen the soldiers who died at the hands of the Zerg with their own eyes, they would be even more reluctant to let their children slip away from them.

Anyone who thinks the worst way to die is to be quartered by swarms of zerglings has never heard of the infestation in Moria.Those terrible plague giants are mobile sources of plague infection. They are quite intelligent, secretive and cunning. Their bloated belly is full of twisted marines. Many infected humans are being swallowed by these monsters. still alive.

But no matter what, the criminal law system of the Tyrannian Empire is the iron law. The imperial constitution stipulates that military service cannot be avoided, and enlisting in the army is the obligation of the imperial citizens to the imperial emperor.

When conscription came to a world like Tarsonis, the people there were used to it.The conscription list has long been determined, but only because there are too many people are recruited into the army in batches. The citizens of the empire who meet the requirements have already been notified that they are prohibited from leaving the country and are ready to serve.

It has been more than a month since the war broke out, and Tarsonis is still quite prosperous, and it seems that it has not been affected by the war at all.It's hard to see idlers on city streets, with factories working overtime to fulfill government orders.More and more young men boarded the troop carriers to the barracks, but the remaining jobs had to be filled.

Most of the border planets close to the front line are implementing strict light control and curfew. Goliath armed robots and soldiers with live ammunition can be seen everywhere on the streets, which are completely different from the core world.

At night, New Gettysburg, the central city of Tarsonis City, is still brightly lit and crowded with people, and the financial center and business district are shrouded in purple and pink neon lights.

Ghost Agent X74996R Stone, who just graduated from the Kehausa Ghost Military Academy, is secretly carrying out a secret mission. This order comes directly from the Augustegrad Palace. Everyone knows that it means that the emperor personally issued it. .

Rumor has it that in the secret chamber of the emperor's palace there is a list full of people to be secretly executed for various crimes.

The battle on the front line is tense, but the seemingly stable rear is also full of crises. Stone's duty is to eradicate those thugs who intend to subvert the empire.For Ghost, who is loyal to the royal family, that is justice.

Not long ago, the Emperor received a report from the Tarsonis Police Department, which showed that many cunning mimic chicks had appeared in the slums of the main city of Tarsonis.Even more frightening, there is evidence that live zerg larvae have been brought into Tarsonis, which is no less than proof that there is at least one developing hive beneath the walls of Tarsonis.

The strategies of the brain worms are becoming more and more flexible. For them, it is very easy to use parasites to parasitize and control an ordinary human being.

Because of this incident, at least twenty Tarsonis officials lost their heads.If someone thinks that Emperor Augustus was kind and generous, he must have never heard of how the emperor executed the old federal war criminals on a large scale.

Considering that the incident occurred in the center of Tarsonis City, in order to avoid causing panic, the ghost team could only be dispatched to deal with it.

As far as Stone knows, more than 27 people from 100 Imperial Ghost squads were mobilized for this mission, and one-twelfth of the Imperial Ghosts were present.They are probably the most powerful group of telepaths in the Koprulu Sector, and each one is a super soldier.

Stone had trained in the ghost academy in Tarsonis for a period of time before, but he had never visited the bustling Tarsonis.

But the slums in Tarsonis City are another scene. The slums are located in the shadow of high-rise buildings, lack sunlight, overcrowded, poor sanitation, and stink.People living in the Tarsonis slums are often potential criminals, and more than half of them are addicts or people with a history of drug use.

The emperor ordered all the slums to be closed down, so the sons of Keha rushed into the slums, large and small, arrested those who were engaged in organ trafficking, drug trafficking, and human trafficking, and then convicted them cleanly and sent them away To the mines and resocialization factories in Mar Sara.

The order of the slums has been significantly improved during this period, and the imperial government even provided prefabricated simple housing and relief for the homeless, but as the population of the marginal world continued to pour into Tarsonis, the slums still flooded Lots of poor people.

The invasion of the swarm is the main reason for the return of immigrant populations, and opening up new worlds now often means more risks and uncertainties.

The situation is not much better than it was four years ago, when even the hard-line leader admitted he was too idealistic.

But in general, Stone believes that the Empire's efforts are not in vain, at least the crime rate here is much lower than in the past.With hard work, people living in slums have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of themselves and their families.

The scene of the slums in Tarsonis is actually quite old. Most of the people living here are unskilled laborers from different marginal worlds.But the difference is that most of them have stable jobs and are not illegal immigrants.

Men would spend an hour or two on the magnetic rail to work in the factories in the outer city of Tarsonis. Whether it was a factory that produced steel plates for warships or a factory that rolled modular building components, manpower was needed, and there were jobs everywhere. .

Women were employed in other jobs, such as synthetic food factory workers or busy middle-class housekeepers.Their children attend public schools in the slums and enjoy free educational resources.

Today's slums are hardly called slums anymore, although there used to be bars, banks and other social places here, but they already have the appearance of a city.

People slowly learned to save money, and after the signing of the Coplu currency system treaty in 2498, the imperial credit currency directly linked to the crystal mine became a currency that was more stable than the Umoyan citizen point.

This is all credit to Augustus the Great, although he always thinks he is not doing enough.

The Koprulu Sector is surrounded by strong enemies, which makes the Emperor sometimes seem too impatient and eager.The Emperor is confident of repelling the zerg, but the real threat clearly goes beyond that.

"Stop, there is a dangerous area ahead. The military has blocked the street. Check the equipment and set off in five minutes." It was the captain of this team, Theodore Pierce, a former federal agent who had experienced battles.The level of spiritual power is lower than that of Stone, but the victory lies in the rich combat experience.

It was still late at night, and although there were no stars in the slums, the neon lights in front of various shops illuminated the entire road.There are two children running in front of Stone, which shows that the law and order in the slum is not bad.

Further ahead is the cordon drawn up by the imperial military, guarded by the imperial marines layer by layer, and the heavy armor of the looters is stationed on both sides of the road like a fortress.

Stone is a seventh-level telepath, which already counts as a fairly high level.

Right now he could hear the voices of everyone in the area, a woman was complaining that her husband wasn't durable enough, a man who just got off work was watching today's UNN morning newspaper.A young man secretly fears whether he will be hired by the Tarsonis Police Service because he has a relative who once worked for the old Commonwealth nobles
But in the restricted area, Stone found anxiously that he could not hear other voices at all.If bugs can think, Stone should be able to hear too.

This is still a safe area, and the subterranean hives of the zerg are underground in the further blocks.According to the news sent back by the reconnaissance robot, a huge secondary main lair has taken shape, and the Zerg that sneaked into Tarsonis is growing and planning to use the city's intricate sewer system to invade the aboveground world.

"Sir, I have a plan."

"Insects are breeding and multiplying in the dirty sewers of the slums. The best way to do it now is to pour high-energy gas into it and burn it down with a torch." It was Vega who was speaking, Stone's teammate.She calls herself the "worldly" Ghost.In short, this guy has lost his money.

Vega wasn't bad looking, with dark blond hair and beautiful eyes.She is a realist with a lot of harsh words.

In the winding streets and alleys of the slums, Stone couldn't see his invisible teammates at all, but apart from equipment assistance, he could also vaguely feel their spiritual phantoms.Veigar's phantom is different, her psionic level is the highest among them.

Such a powerful spiritual perception ability was learned in the courses of a high-ranking templar, Callas. It is said that he was a friend of Emperor Augustus, and the latter spent a lot of effort to make the high-ranking saint Templar borrowed to Kehali.

Protoss never lie, so this is no bragging.

"That way the whole block would be blown up, how many innocent people would die." Stone always quarreled with Vega, who he thought was a cold woman better suited as a mercenary than an Imperial soldier.

Each ghost has a code name. Vega says she is a bounty hunter, and Stone calls her a beckoning cat.

"That's a thing from the old federal era. Ghost agents are not emotionless tools, His Majesty said."

"Your Majesty said that Ghost Agents should regard themselves as the heroes of the people, and your responsibility is to protect rather than destroy." Vega said: "I can't believe that someone actually memorized the emperor's holy words upside down."

In contrast, Vega has never missed the emperor's jokes in every issue of UNN.

In the streets of the slums, there is a propaganda stand that is playing a holographic video. On it is a picture of the Emperor Augustus Mengsk of the Tyrannian Empire giving a speech. He just mentioned the reconstruction work of Mar Sara.

There are such propaganda stands in almost every corner of Tarsonis, in order to ensure that the citizens of every land can hear the voice of the emperor.The quality of the emperor's speeches, and the fact that he was widely admired, made these props a kind of iconography, maintained by the people spontaneously.

"You have no faith." Stone couldn't help criticizing the other party.

Stone respected Emperor Augustus very much, and he believed that it was the other party who gave him a home.For someone like him, the Ghost Military Academy is home.

"My faith has fed the dogs." Vega said, "Little Prince, you should return to your palace."

Vega and Stone communicate directly in the language of the soul, and the communication speed is extremely fast, which is also the result of the training of the star spirit mentor.The teacher hopes that the students can make good use of this ability, but the students of the ghost military academy often use this ability to spray each other across the male and female dormitories.

"There is no problem with what Stone said, and the emperor does not want us to do things that will damage his reputation." Captain Pierce is the first two, and the two often have differences.Stone believes that as long as the hostages can be taken into account in the mission, casualties should be avoided as much as possible, while Vega advocates blasting them all to the sky.

"Okay, sir, can I have a cigarette now?" Vega said.

"No," Pierce said.

"Cut." Vega said.

Compared with Stone, who is generally trained as an ascetic monk, Vega prefers watching movies.

In another place, there is a promotional poster for the latest movie of August Gradler Universal, on which is the movie poster of "Brain Worm vs. Star Marines".Stone had seen this cerebrum in the palace. It was ridiculous that it dreamed of becoming a master, but right now it could only be a pet and a mascot.

This kind of movie is very popular recently. The brain worm is the biggest villain in the movie. In the movie, there is always a lonely but resourceful imperial marine fighting with it.

Vega liked this brain worm very much.

The audience thought that the cerebrates who thought they were cool in the movie were clowns, but they also thought that the Zergs were not so scary.

It's no wonder the guy bit through the marble floor while reading movie reviews.

"It's time, we'll set off right away." Pierce said, "I want to remind you once again that this mission is very dangerous."

"They should be afraid of us," Vega said.

　Tomorrow I will have pigeons for a day. I got a pair of glasses two days ago, and I can't get dizzy wearing them. Damn chicken.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)