StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 281 Killing a Cerebral Worm

"What? Are they really going to do that? The government in Antiga is corrupt enough. For God's sake, the Confederacy is really insane." Don't have to listen to Kerrigan to read the line from Augustus Fluctuating on the surface, her emerald green eyes were bursting psionic gold with rage.

"Honey, after the incident with Keha IV, the Federation has completely lost its original bottom line." Augustus looked at Kerrigan: "For a long time, violence has dominated human worlds."

"General Warfield, they seem to be forcing our fleet to fight them. We cannot allow the Federation to bomb Antiga recklessly."

"The Protoss fleet was found at 50 AU at 4 degrees to port. Are they trying to intervene in our 'dispute' with the Federation fleet?" Warfield said.

"I'm sending you the footage, and you can see what we're shooting in the Power Armor headset. I thought the Protoss couldn't tell the difference between us and the Federation itself, like we don't rely on the tags on our feet You can’t tell the difference between two chicks.”

"When the chickens are pecking each other in the cage, they start to interfere? Since this is the case, the protoss should not ignore the Kailian war." Augustus said: "It seems that the protoss will not interfere with us The internal contradictions of these 'lower races'."

A video with snowflake-like garbled characters streamed into Augustus's headset.In the picture, dozens of federal battlecruisers with flashing lights are moored on the edge of the pale yellow Antiga main star, and a large number of wraith fighters are swarming out of the port of the battle armor.

For a moment, there was a burst of ripples in the synchronous orbit of the main star of Antiga, and a golden-blue fleet composed of at least one hundred protoss aircraft carriers and thousands of fighter jets suddenly appeared and approached. combined fleet.

This must have caused great confusion in the Federation Fleet, and the frequency of radio communication in each communication channel increased more than ten times in a very short period of time.

The Federation has already seen how the main guns of the Protoss Fleet destroyed the sister planets of Sara from orbit. Even if the Federation’s admirals are confident in their new armor, they will not think that steel can resist enough to evaporate the ocean, The protoss main cannon that blasted the surface of the planet into crystals.

The main reason why the Federation Fleet dared to approach Antiga was that they believed that since the Protoss would bomb the planet sooner or later, it would not be a problem for them to drop some missiles in advance.

Another reason is that they clearly saw that the Revolutionary fleet in space was not attacked at such a close distance from the Protoss fleet.But now the commander of the Federation Fleet has figured out that people are different.

The protoss fleet had already made a gesture of imminent attack, but they did not launch an attack immediately.The brown and purple-painted steel fleet of the Federation confronted the golden-blue fleet of the Protoss for a full few minutes, until the flagship of the Delta Squadron leaped away first, and the Federation fleet retreated.

The Protoss Fleet understood the intention of the Federation Fleet and forced them away.

And this Federation Fleet has already spent too much time in Antiga, presumably at this time the Federation Council of Tarsonis is angry at their incompetence.

"If Duke of Alpha Squadron had not been the Admiral of Nova Squadron commanding this fleet, he might have rushed up." Augustus no longer cared about wars in outer space orbit.

"These federal bastards will have to pay for what they did, and pay for themselves."

Augustus immediately proceeded to order the Renault Rangers and Mar Sara Governor Pryor's troops to search for possible surviving insect nests, and ordered the Air Force transport planes to land immediately to transport wounded soldiers and corpses.

Then, the Revolutionary Army Engineer Corps on the Ansardar Plain established a communication base station at the location of the destroyed Gam swarm nest.Several Revolutionary Army Marine Divisions began to withdraw to Ansardar one after another, while the [-]st Guards Division commanded by Augustus was in charge of the rear.

While ordering the troops to retreat, Augustus remained in place to keep an eye on the movements of the protoss ground forces.He found that the protoss army was standing on the bloody corpses of tens of thousands of Zergs, and some protoss were doing work like cleaning the battlefield-cutting off valuable Zerg fangs and claws as a souvenir, This should have something to do with the customs of certain tribes of Protoss.

The protoss troops have always kept a certain distance from Augustus's revolutionary army, and have no desire to communicate with humans.

"The main nest of the zerg in this area has been cleared-this means that the zerg in the Ansardar area has been cleared, and then we only need to deal with the remaining worm nests in Antiga." When Gusdu was talking, he suddenly noticed that he, Corporal Faraday and others looked up into space.

Kerrigan tilted her head, her long fiery red hair tossed aside.Even Antiga's wind was red when the sparks of the battlefield flew past the ends of her hair.

A magnificent protoss warship is emerging from the dark clouds in the sky of Antiga.Rather than saying that it is a battleship, it is better to say that it is an extremely brilliant golden palace or a handicraft condensed by obtuse angles, acute angles, beautiful geometric shapes and spiral shapes.

Its slender and streamlined golden hull forms gracefully and lightly in the sea of ​​clouds, like golden leaves and a golden ship cleaving the waves. Storms and lightning linger around the hull of this battleship, and countless wasp-shaped and butterfly-shaped battleships are surrounding it with it.

Above the heads of Augustus and the others, several wraith fighter jets with orange flames spraying from their tails were flying towards the incomparable golden giant ship, leaving several trails of water vapor condensation in the sky.

"Flagship of the Tassadar Expedition, Star Shuttle," Kerrigan said, looking at the ship.

Judging from the information currently held by the Keha Revolutionary Army.The fleet led by the executive officer Tassadar is just an expeditionary force temporarily formed by the Protoss Empire to eliminate the Zerg, and the history of the warships of the expeditionary force can even be traced back to more than ten centuries ago.

In other words, at least in the era when humans were still looking at the starry sky by the fire, the protoss may have been able to build these super battleships that could burn the planet.

"It's so beautiful." Augustus lowered his head.

"War and aesthetics coexist. It looks more like something to be placed in a museum. Judging by our human chronology, these warships are considered antiques." Kerrigan suddenly realized that Augustus When looking at those protoss warships, the gray eyes seemed to be filled with pink peach blossom little stars.

And the ladies of the nobles and celebrities in Tarsonis did not enjoy this kind of treatment, including Kerrigan.

Of course, Augustus was not purely admiring the warships of the protoss.If possible, he hopes that human warships can also have main guns that can flatten planets, strong plasma shields, and a large number of amazingly powerful shipboard interceptors.

"Even antiques can easily destroy the giant steel ships that humans are proud of. The federal spaceships that were destroyed by the Protoss fleet due to Zerg infection on Mar Sara's orbit were all directly vaporized." Augustus Speak to Kerrigan.

"If it weren't for Tassadar commanding this fleet, we wouldn't even have the chance to approach Antiga."

As Augustus spoke to Kerrigan, a long, golden protoss shuttle emerged from the lowered hatch of the Star Shuttle.

The shuttle stopped about a few hundred yards away from Augustus. For the purpose of showing respect to the Protoss, Augustus ordered his guards to line up to welcome them.

He guessed that this might be an envoy or a diplomat. Of course, there might not be such a profession in the Protoss Empire.

Augustus couldn't find anything like a hatch on the outer shell of the Protoss shuttle, he could only see some beautiful polygonal windows and exquisite patterns.A Protoss High Templar emerged from an inset iris at the side of the shuttle, followed by a line of Protoss Templars in gold and blue armor stepped out of it.

These protoss warriors are taller than human warriors in power armor.Compared with the Tasdarin protoss warriors that the revolutionary army had seen, the protoss warriors of Tassadar had exquisite and shining armor, and the armor was lined with soft light white silk battle robes.

Protoss warriors seldom wear helmets. Compared with humans, their overlong chins have metal decorations to cover up their rounded edges and corners. The ends of the long nerve bundles are sandwiched with gorgeous golden ornaments and crystals.

A tall protoss in purple and white robes and armor was the last to emerge. Around his waist was a cross-shaped belt inlaid with blue gems, and his armor was like shining platinum and flowing silver.A psionic storm holds him up, allowing him to hover several feet in the air.

He walked like Augustus, riding arcs and storms, like a god.When Augustus realized that it was Tassadar, the other party was already close at hand.

"En Taro Adun, Executor Tassadar." Augustus stretched out his right hand wrapped around the servo and armor.

Tassadar hesitated for a moment, and read the meaning of shaking hands from Augustus' shallow consciousness.The protoss executive's shining sea-blue eyes narrowed in a slight arc, and then he reached out and held Augustus together.

The protoss's palm was very broad, almost the size of two or three human hands, with wrinkled light blue skin and thick, manicured nails at the end of his fingers.However, the power armor's palm isn't too small, so there won't be a situation where Augustus' palm is completely covered.

"Salute to Adun, Marshal Augustus." Tassadar's voice appeared directly in Augustus's mind: "You may not know the meaning of Adun, but I want to tell you, friend, he is A hero of our kind, who saved us from being destroyed by the Dark Templar."

Although humans are a race with low-level psychic powers and cannot control the expression of their own thoughts compared to the protoss, it is easy for Tassadar to read Augustus's thoughts, but he did not do that.

Tassadar noticed Sarah Kerrigan beside Augustus, and his eyes lingered on her for several seconds.Apparently, Tassadar was surprised that there were such powerful psykers among humans.

This refreshed Tassadar's understanding of the upper limit of the psychic level of human psykers, and he might think that there might be more than one such psyker among humans.

Beside Tassadar stood a female protoss in a white robe, her light blue eyes were only indifferent to humans and seemed indifferent to everything.

Augustus guessed that this should be a protoss protector, a role similar to the history writer in humans.The difference is that they are living libraries of mobile databases and knowledge.

For example, the scene where Augustus and Tassadar met today will be directly preserved by the protoss protector in the form of memory, and readers can re-experience everything that happened today from her perspective.Usually, only those considered the greatest executives and elders of the Supreme Council have protectors around them, to witness and record important moments in history at all times.

Protoss protectors are few in number, and Rohanna, the supreme protector aboard the Spear of Adun, is supposedly a more exalted one.

"You're wondering why I'm here," Tassadar said.

"." Augustus was indeed puzzled, but he didn't like the feeling of his thoughts being read through.

"After a long period of reconnaissance and the reconnaissance of the Sagas templar, we found the giant main lair of the Zerg on the other side of the planet Antiga. The war advisor believes that the brain worm of the Zerg is there." Tasa Dahl knew much more about Zerg than humans.

"The swarm is like the nerve endings that extend from a brain, and the cerebrates are their master brains. As long as we can kill a cerebrate, the swarm will collapse."

"You really did that?" Augustus knew that even if the brain worm was killed, it could be resurrected by the master.A cerebrate whose body is killed can also be reborn in another reshaped body. To kill a cerebrate completely, you must use the void owned by the Dark Templar, another faction of the Protoss energy.

However, so far, Augustus has not encountered the Dark Templar of the Protoss, and he does not know the coordinates of their home planet Sacoolas.

"It's not that we haven't encountered Zerg for longer than you." Tassadar said: "But there is no doubt that Zerg must also be the creation of our god Xel'Naga, because they also have the same effect on the Kaidarin crystal. reaction."

"We'll try to kill a cerebrate and see what that does - that way, we don't have to pay our warriors' precious lives to fight a sea of ​​zerg."

"...Maybe that would be useful." Augustus appeared to be thinking about Tassadar's words.However, he knew that the resurrection of the cerebrates would actually take time, and losing a cerebrum for a short time would probably have an irreversible impact on the worms.

To be honest, these words of Tassadar have gone beyond the outline, and now maybe no one except Augustus can understand the meaning of the terms "Sael'Naga" and "Kaydarin Crystal".

After all, a human shouldn't know so much about Protoss or Zerg at this point in time.

"What is Naganaga?" Augustus asked knowingly.

"They are our creators, who have guided the gods of the Protoss family in history. Because of the teachings of Xel'Naga, we were able to quickly move from the tribal era to the interstellar era. It's just that Xel'Naga is no longer in Al and we have arrived anywhere." Tassadar was very patient.

"I know you don't believe in the existence of gods, but for my ancestors at that time, those technologies that cannot be fully understood today should be miracles."

"God?" Augustus smiled: "I am my own god."

"Aren't they there anymore?"

"The Xel'Naga left very early. After that, our ethnic group fell into a long-term division and catastrophe." Tassadar said: "If there is no great Kas, we will continue to be divided."

"...So, when will we be able to kill that brain worm." Rather than saying that Augustus is not interested in the history of the protoss and their gods, it is better to say that he knows too much, so that he doesn't want to dig into the root Get to the bottom of it.

What Augustus was more concerned about was when the zerg on the main star of Antiga would be resolved, so that he would have time to stabilize his rule on this planet and help other marginal planets.

"Before the next solar cycle, after moonset," Tassadar said.

"Do you really think we can help you?" Augustus said, "It seems that you don't need our help to kill that brain worm."

"We're happy to fight alongside real warriors ... and we really don't understand the terrain of the planet compared to the natives," Tassadar said.

"What I learned at Fort Adun and the Templar Academy taught me that pride doesn't help a war," he said.

"I have seen the power of humanity in you, in you."

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