StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 316 No Mercy
"I knew nothing good would happen."

Hearing Augustus's words, Tychus rushed up with the heavy machine gun in his hand, and he was accompanied by more than 30 revolutionary red fire bats and the dark priest Zela who moved like a shadow picture.

The Firebat troops in the Revolutionary Army have different names from those of the Federation, and they will proudly call themselves the Red Devils, because the Firebat No. 1 of the Revolutionary Army, Hanak Hank, still regards his troops as Part of the Demons of Heaven.

A full combat company of about 120 guards strode across both sides of Augustus. These elite soldiers were equipped with a large number of AGG-12 grenade launchers, punisher grenades, individual rockets and electromagnetic bombs. weapons, strong enough against the zerg's hard chitin carapace and the protoss' plasma shield.

Augustus ordered the soldiers to attack and called for more reinforcements. He believed that the Zerg would definitely defend the new agent of the Swarm to the death.

As a Goliath armed droid with a Revolutionary flag on the cockpit passed Augustus, he announced his final order and led the Marshal's Guard and several companies behind him to advance.

In Augustus' line of sight, Zeratul at the front moved forward like a fleeting shadow, his steps in light and shadow were graceful and coordinated, like a feline approaching its prey, so fast Incredible.

In comparison, Tychus and other huge firebats seemed too cumbersome, and their ability to keep up with Zeratul was entirely due to the slowing down of the dark templar master on purpose.

This time the zerg did not roar and attack the humans, they hid behind the high walls of the infected border checkpoints and in the shadows behind, watching the attackers' every move.

"Deploy the psychic disruptor quickly!" Augustus waved his hand and ordered the engineers carrying the psychic disruptor components in the team to assemble it immediately, but with the low roar of a hunter hydra.

Hundreds of metallic-green Hydralisks, whose carapaces gleamed in the sun, swam snake-like through the creep clusters, moving the spines on their backs to fire a mass of venomous spines at incoming enemies.

These deadly spines, which can shoot through a 500cm-thick stainless steel shield at a distance of 2 yards, have sharp sawtooth and green acid on their edges, and pierced through the power armor of the frontmost firebats in a blink of an eye, piercing their helmets inside of the goggles.The sound of the spine piercing through the hard alloy steel armor is crisp and clear, like a sharp knife cutting a piece of white paper.

The firebats who were pierced by dozens of hundreds of spines died the moment they fell to the ground, and their armor servo system immediately locked the connection ports and bleeding parts of the entire power armor.Under normal circumstances this would have helped those within to hold on until the medics arrived, but now that just locked up a cold steel coffin.

The combat company fire support team of the guards veterans behind the firebats fired ground-to-ground missiles at the Hydra Hydralisk in the checkpoint almost simultaneously and used heavy weapons such as magnetic rail guns to suppress firepower.

The distance between them and the Zerg was shortening rapidly. After Augustus took another short breath, Zeratul and the human vanguard behind him were less than fifty yards away from the entrance of the checkpoint. distance.

At the entrance, there are large springtails ready to go. Like hounds hiding behind the trees, they are pacing around the wall and barbed wire outside the checkpoint, as if thinking about where and when to approach them. The enemy delivers the deadliest blow.

Augustus was surprised to find that the zerg of the Fenrisian swarm were obviously smarter, or more cunning, than the individuals of other swarms.

When at least two hundred Fenris Zerglings gather at the checkpoint's entrance, they are like a pack of hungry but patient wolves, bloodthirsty like other packs of zerg, but knowing when to strike. The best time to attack.

Even in small numbers, the cerebrate Nagar's Fenris packs are still one of the main strike packs in Juggernaut's various hives, possessing deadly acuity and hunter's precision.If the zerg of other Clans are deranged beasts, the Fenrisian Clan are keen wolves.

Fenris Zerg is a deadly and even elegant hunter in the swarm. Their mission is to find excellent genes for the master and capture prey that is of great benefit to the evolution of the swarm, expanding the gene pool of the entire zerg.

Coming from a signal that could not be detected by humans and protoss, the interior of the checkpoint suddenly boiled, and hundreds of Fenris Zerglings approached the attacking enemy from different directions at the same time.Although the gene sequence of the springlings in the swarm is known for speed and agility, the Fenrisian group is obviously faster and more sensitive.

Revolutionary soldiers under Augustus tended to describe zerglings as ugly, scarred and mossy skinned dogs, because they were, but Fenris' zerglings were clad in a beetle-like verdigris carapace middle.The sickle-like appendages on their backs and the transparent veined insect wings flutter like moving lightning bolts.

Following these springlings are numerous Fenris Hydralisks, they are not as huge and dangerous as Tiamat's, but they are faster, swinging their spiked snake tails on the slimy creep. When it moves, it looks like a black mamba swimming in the grass.

Zeratul was the first to engage the Fenris zerg, following a moving shadow to a zergling that leaped at him on its powerful hind legs, stretching from the cuffs on the back of its ruffled hands. The green psychic blade that came out cut off half of the monster's head in just one breath of Augustus.

Then, Zeratul turned to a Fenris Hydralisk that was rushing towards him, dodged the fatal blow from its scythe-like foreleg, and as he turned, he leisurely sliced ​​the hydralisk away with the psionic blade in his hand. The relatively soft abdomen of the snake.

Augustus' eyes could barely follow Zeratul's movements, and for the first time he felt the limitations of human eyes.Contrary to his usual slightly stooped elder appearance, Zeratul on the battlefield is a deadly and graceful killer. He killed the Fenris Zerglings and Hydralisks one after another like an elegant The swordsman danced the waltz waltz to open the enemy's throat.

Unusually elegant and agile, graceful and deadly, this seems to be the innate talent of protoss. What distinguishes protoss from humans is not just their appearance and customs, but their body structure and functions are completely different.

Humans have never seen how Zeratul and the Dark Templar fight with their own eyes, and Zeratul taught Tychus and other Revolutionary Army soldiers behind him a lesson, telling them not to try to provoke them in the future A dark templar.

And Zeratul told Augustus that a dark templar should hide himself, attack in the shadows, seize the opportunity, and wait for the opportunity.But in the eyes of Augustus, the Dark Templar Dean just rushed forward, cutting the enemy to pieces in the shadow of the sword.

Zeratul may be deadly and powerful enough, but he's not strong enough to face an entire swarm alone.When Zeratul killed the roaring Fenris Zerg one after another, Tychus raised his honey whisperer heavy machine gun and fired a series of depleted uranium bullets at a row of zerglings. Its own flamethrower shoots out streams of dense plasma flames.

More than a dozen springlings struggled to the ground in the fiery plasma blast from the firebat troops, crackling like dried lisianthus on fire.

Augustus was in the middle of the advancing line, flanked by Corporal Faraday's Marshal's Guard and two giant Goliath-armed droids.When the densely packed Fenris Zerglings tried to attack Augustus from the flank, the Goliath armed robots beside him quickly calibrated and fired. As the barrel of the 30mm machine gun rotated, the Zerglings one after another were blasted into debris.

But these springtails are not only extremely agile and fast, but also have obviously adapted to human attack methods. Their zigzag formation is quite scattered, and humans want to easily sweep several of them with a missile or a row of bullets. Even more zerg are simply not possible.

At this time, the psionic disruptors carried by the revolutionary army were activated, but the zerg here did not seem to be affected much.

The jammer failed again.

An agile Fenris Zergling dexterously leaped over the corpses of its own kind that fell on the ground, dodged among them, jumped left and right, and moved towards Augustus along the gap between the Goliath armed robot and the Gauss rifle barrage of the Revolutionary Army soldiers. Pounce, deftly like a coyote or a sparrow with fingers.For a moment Augustus could almost see the horrifying scarlet eyes of the screaming little monster.

Augustus was convinced that the springtail was coming straight for him, so he raised his Gauss rifle with the golden wolf emblem on the buttstock to aim at the fast-moving springtail, aiming calmly and shoot.

Augustus possessed this quality in the Turasis boot camp, and he was able to keep firing even when the shells fell not far from his feet.

When dense, large swarms of zerg rush towards the front line, this momentum is enough to deter any enemy in front of the swarm. As long as a human soldier can shoot at the enemy accurately and without making mistakes, then he can already be counted as a soldier. A veteran.

Just as Augustus emptied the first magazine, the tossing and moving springtail was swept by a row of bullets.Augustus didn't even know whether the bullet that killed the springtail came from the gun in his hand, but no one cared about it at this time.

Even if the zerg of the Fenrisian swarm are deadlier and more dangerous than other packs, they face an elite force.The soldiers around Augustus are all from the best fighters in the Korha Revolutionary Army, and their equipment is also the best, comparable to the federal special forces and the most famous elite mercenaries in the Koprulu sector. squad.

The zerg who invaded Heji obviously didn't expect Augustus's troops to come here. In the eyes of the cerebrates of these groups, this plan should have been seamless.

Augustus's men quickly repulsed this attack of the Fenrisian swarm and forced them back, opening an open path between the swarm and the border checkpoint.

The Fenris bug swarm retreated temporarily, but judging from the vibration frequency on the surface, the support Zerg that came in large numbers should still be on their way through the underground tunnel wormhole network.

When Augustus came to the entrance of the checkpoint, the steel door covered with creeping creepers had already been torn apart by the Zerg, and the only part left was also densely covered with the fangs and claws of the Zerg. Sharp scratches.All the spine-bearing zerg organic tentacles had been wiped out by Zeratul and Tychus, and the remaining Fenris zerg were forced to retreat to warehouses inside the checkpoint.

One of the warehouses was particularly tightly guarded. The Firebats and Guards companies behind Zeratul and Tychus were launching their final onslaught there, and there were dozens of corpses of Zerg and Revolutionary Army soldiers on the ground.

Many people had their hands and feet cut off by the Hydra Hydralisk's sickle or pierced through their chest by spiked tentacles, and the remains lying in a pool of blood were torn apart.

At this time, Augustus left a dozen Goliath armed robots and arc tanks to guard the direction they came from, and led his own guards to support Zeratul and Tychus.

There are still more than a dozen Fenris Zergs still guarding the entrance to the warehouse. Behind them is a huge glass-steel door. Its smooth surface is covered with vine-like tentacles and resilient blue veins, like chains. The door was also locked, and the walls of the entire warehouse were covered with organic honeycomb shells and hard exoskeletons intertwined with each other.

Augustus killed the last Fenris Zergling in front of the warehouse with his own hands, and ordered the Demoman to use D-charges to blow open the door.

When Augustus's shoulder armor was scratched by the splashed glass and steel fragments, the picture behind the door made his eyelids twitch.

It was a huge, oval-shaped chrysalis or cocoon, composed of sharp skeletal nails and a skin-like green film, which was more like the soft eggs of snakes than the cocoon formed by the metamorphosis of insects.The chrysalis shines like the sun, shining brightly in dimly lit environments.

Augustus could see a humanoid creature within the period through the thick, sticky wall of the chrysalis, which should still be an underage child, curled up in the chrysalis filled with liquid.

After that, the chrysalis will be taken to Char or other places for further transformation by the evolution master of the swarm.The cells of this humanoid will be deconstructed, stretched, stretched and reassembled by the swarm into an incredible creature.

Near the chrysalis, there are four Fenris hydralisks crawling like snakes encircling snake eggs. Their bright green crowns are almost half the body of Augustus, and the pair of huge bone sickles on the forelimbs seem to be inserted Bone-colored greatsword on wooden floor.

The robe with the VEVE pattern painted on the chrysalis with bright red paint and a few sheets of paper filled with various symbols make the place look even more weird. If you look up, you can find that the top of the warehouse is hanging A skull and a drawn out bright red human spine.

What's amazing is that even with hundreds of rifles, grenades and rocket launchers aimed at them outside, the four Fenris Hydralisks are unusually calm, like lying on the doorstep in the noon sun to watch the house Nursing dog.

The Hydralisk just made a threatening hiss, and sometimes raised its crown like a cobra to watch the humans outside.

"This is weird." Tychus said goosebumps all over his body.

"My mother—"

"He's still alive. I can sense that this human being named Gabriel Tosh still has a clear mind." Zeratul ignored Augustus' shouts and slowly walked towards a chrysalis.

"He's mourning, he's crying."

"Is the child still alive?" Augustus asked Zeratul.

"The zerg have infected him, and the infection has altered his genetic nature. As far as I know, it's irreversible," Zeratul replied.

"This is my order," Augustus ordered mercilessly after a moment's silence.

"Destroy this cocoon!"

(End of this chapter)