StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 317

"Fire!"

After Augustus gave the order, a revolutionary army captain and company commander immediately shouted and ordered his company soldiers to shoot. They used almost all the weapons that could destroy the chrysalis, including Mark rail guns, electromagnetic pulses, etc. Grenade and explosives.

This set off a chain reaction, and the four Fenris Swarm Hydralisks that had been guarding the chrysalis immediately transformed from a peaceful rest to a state of extreme mania.Their huge sickle-shaped forelimbs climbed out of the warehouse by breaking the blasted fiberglass door, and their heads with brightly colored crowns screamed at the revolutionary soldiers who were shooting at the chrysalis, as if they had walked out of an ancient tomb Pharaoh guards.

These gigantic Fenris hydralisks were not only bigger than any Hydralisk Augustus had ever seen, but their carapace was also impenetrable.Their chitin carapace seems to be fused with some special material or rare metal, making it extremely hard.Ordinary 8mm caliber electromagnetic rifle bullets will bounce off as soon as they touch the carapace, just like hitting the armor of a tank.

Standing between all the bullets and shells of Augustus' revolutionary army and the dark green chrysalis were four Fenris hydralisks, each fully fifteen feet high (approximately 4.5 meters). A real behemoth.

Not only that, but they are even capable of ignoring the scalding plasma flames unleashed by Revolutionary Firebats.

Augustus was watching a brave revolutionary firebat try to burn the Fenrisian Hydralisk in front of him with the infernal flamethrower in his hand, but the flames that were usually enough to burn zerglings and hydralisks to ashes were just The Fenris Hydralisk's verdigris-green carapace is streaked with black marks.

"Retreat! Corporal Pascal, you are no match for him!" Augustus ordered the firebat to retreat, and at the same time called for fire support from the one-man rocket team.

Augustus knew the firebat, a decorated soldier of Harnack Harker's Red Devil Pyro Brigade.Augustus once read the name of this firebat when inspecting this troop, and he could remember this person because of the conspicuous and dense Kelmorian Ripper badge on his CMC-250F power armor and eighteen family symbols from the Kel-Morian Commonwealth guilds. ——It was almost like a tattoo engraved on the armor.

Corporal Pascal was an Alpha Squadron Federation veteran during the Guild Wars, and the graffiti-like insignia on his armor represented how many people he had killed.If you pay attention, you can also notice the signs representing Cha Sara, Mar Sara, and the main planetary defense force of Antiga, and even the heads of two Tadalin protoss.

But the firebat didn't hear what Augustus had to say, the eccentric corporal who likes to listen to fiery heavy metal music while privately wiring in his power armor to cheer up when the high-energy gas fuel explodes into flames. .Considering that this brave soldier never retreated, he would not obey orders even if he heard what Augustus had to say.

Even if the giant Hydralisk in front of him remained motionless in front of the raging flames, Corporal Pascal was still focused on pouring hot plasma on its belly-he was intoxicated by it.Corporal Pascal had burnt many people alive, but nothing on his roast list included a Hydralisk of this size.

It's just that this time Corporal Pascal didn't burn all the enemies in front of him as he did in the past. The Hydralisk in front of him raised its foreleg with a huge bone scythe at the end, and slashed directly at the fire bat, killing a still The arm that was still spouting plasma flames was completely cut off.

Then, the Fenris Hydralisk swung the huge bone scythe again and cut off the remaining arm of Corporal Pascal to ensure that this human would no longer pose any threat to itself.In their wars with the humans, the zerg have gradually learned that killing a human only wipes out the enemy's vital strength, while severely wounding a human forces several or more humans to tend it.

As for the Zerg, there is no such concern at all.If a human kills a zerg, then the hatchery in the main nest will survive a hundred times and a thousand times more eggs waiting to be hatched.

And this ferocious giant hydralisk-like mouth of the Fenris tribe has been grinning at the position of the ears, and it let out a shocking low growl as it attacked, and Augustus had no doubt that it could bite off a person's flesh with one bite. half body.

"Get rid of it! Get rid of this bastard!" In addition to Corporal Pascal's heart-wrenching screams in the communication channel, several officers shouted offensive commands, and more Gauss rifles aimed at the Fenris spear. Snake, but against its small-caliber bullets it doesn't help at all.

At this time, a ground-to-ground missile from a revolutionary armed robot whizzed past Augustus's head, hitting the huge crown of the Fenris Hydralisk and tearing it apart, causing the entire bone The crown of the head was torn off a part.

At this moment, Augustus, Corporal Faraday, and two other soldiers of the Marshal's Guard rushed to Corporal Pascal, who was lying on his back and passed out, grabbed him and dragged him back.

When Augustus and others handed Pascal to the medical soldiers, a Goliath armed robot was rushing towards the Fenris Hydralisk at the fastest speed, using this inertia to use its omni-directional movable mechanical arm The alloy shield welded on the shoulder of the right arm hit its injured head, and the Gatling machine gun at the position of the other mechanical arm fired continuously at the Hydralisk's abdomen covered with hard scales, causing the monster to move further. Howling in pain.

This golden-red revolutionary Goliath armed robot has been modified to a certain extent. The two 30mm cannons were replaced with Gatling machine guns and a mechanical arm that can be replaced with mechanical claws and buckets.

Such modifications are not uncommon in the hands of the Kel-Morians, because the Goliath armed robots can accept a considerable degree of modification, not only that, they can even be equipped with the laser pulse cannon of the Wraith fighter.

After the guild war ended, this kind of Goliath armed robot, which was mainly modified to adapt to various battlefield environments, could also be seen in the Tyrann Federation army.The most common modification is to replace the cannons on either side of the cockpit with flexible multi-purpose robotic arms, which would make the Goliath Armor more like a bulkier T-280 space engineering vehicle than a walking giant.

The Goliath Armor pilot wrestles the Fenris Hydralisk with heroic prowess, like an iron giant wrestling a monster.A few hundred yards away, two other Fenris Hydralisks were killing Tychus and the Guards battle companies, and fourteen or fifteen Revolutionary soldiers were already on the ground.

The Dark Templar Zeratul faced a Fenris Hydralisk alone, which prevented the Revolutionary soldiers behind him from aiming decisively.He didn't know when he had jumped onto the huge crown of the Hydralisk, hanging on the thorny edge of the crown like a matador on the back of a bull so as not to be thrown off by it.

When Augustus looked at Zeratul, the Dark Templar master had already pierced the hard and thick skull of the Fenris Hydralisk with the psionic blade on his right arm, gouging out a Huge blood hole.

"Guards, get rid of that chrysalis!" Noticing that all the Fenris Hydralisks had left the warehouse, Augustus realized that this was his opportunity.

A group of marshal's guard soldiers rushed up without hesitation, but at this moment, a crimson scorpion suddenly emerged from the pulsating organic flesh pad under the chrysalis.Its gnarled body is a good twenty feet long, making it look like a giant millipede or armored snake.

The scorpion was a monster in itself, lifting its upper body like a cobra and hissing.That was not the neighing of its vocal organs, but the inhalation sound of its carapace shrinking.

A powerful elite scorpion, the unclean one.

The Unclean opened its ferocious giant mouth and spit out a ball of scarlet neurotoxin towards the marshal's guard who was close to the chrysalis. The viscous red liquid that fell on the soldiers' golden-red power armor seeped into the armor in a blink of an eye.With little warning and wailing, all the men fell.

Augustus fired a round of bullets at the huge red scorpion, but it only caused a burst of sparks from it.

"Follow me!" He waved his hand, and Corporal Faraday and the rest of the marshal's guard followed his marshal and rushed towards the huge scorpion.

But the ground suddenly began to tremble violently, and the thick dark purple creep clumps collapsed one after another, and the walls of the entire warehouse covered with zerg organisms collapsed amidst the tremors.

A pair of extremely huge eyes emerged from the ground and rose slowly, and countless curled tentacles broke through the ground.

"God——" Corporal Faraday beside Augustus exclaimed.

It was a giant king worm that buried itself in the ground. Now it has awakened and broke free from the shackles of the concrete block, lifting the chrysalis and the entire warehouse up from the ground.

It is the largest kingworm that Augustus has ever seen. When it rises from the ground, hundreds of thorny appendages and tentacles emerge from it together with a large number of reinforced concrete wreckage like the roots of a banyan tree. Fall in the air.The overlord is so gigantic that the Goliath Armor dwarfs it.

Yggdrasill (yggdrasill, the world tree in Nordic mythology, the middle part of its branches is where humans live.)
The Giant Overlord has incomparable intelligence to other members of the Zerg group. It looks down at the humans on the ground from a high position, and makes a thunderous purring sound.The pair of pincer-like appendages hanging from its lower abdomen swayed from side to side, and the thick appendages on its body that stored a large amount of helium emitted a dangerous red flash, which came from its terrifying spiritual power.

Augustus suddenly understood that it was probably this extraordinary elite overlord that strengthened the psychic link between the zerg and made their psionic disruptors ineffective.

In a buzzing roar, the huge shell of the Igthir giant worm and the capsule under it were stretched out, and hundreds of Fenrisaurus were flying into the air with their thin bat-like wings. Rising, screaming trickley - trickley - around it.

At this time, Augustus received a report from the troops guarding the outside of the checkpoint, and the detectors showed that a large number of zerg were approaching through the network of tunnel worms.

Before the situation got further out of control, the sky suddenly darkened, and a huge circle that was absorbing sunlight appeared. It was a wormhole that was about to take shape.

"Damn it, the number of bugs is increasing," Tychus Finley yelled over the Augustus channel as he shot a Fenris Hydralisk with a heavy machine gun.

The huge Fenris hydralisk in front of Tychus was in the bone scythe hydralisk on its forelegs, in the breastplate of a Revolutionary Guards soldier, trying to drag it away, while the surrounding soldiers Desperate, roaring and firing to kill it.

"Retreat, leave this checkpoint immediately." Augustus realized that even if everyone is buried here, they probably won't be able to destroy this chrysalis, and insisting on this meaningless attack will only will fall into the swarm of insects.

The cerebrate of the Fenrisian pack is quite clever, and although it did not anticipate the arrival of Augustus and Tassadar, it will not be negligent.The specialized rare elites in the entire swarm were deployed around this chrysalis.

Cerebral worms are not the corrupt and greedy federal governors in the Tyranid Federation or the generals who only rely on their background and qualifications to go to the top. They are smart and cunning, proficient in strategies, and almost never make emotional and emotional mistakes.

While Augustus ordered the troops to retreat, he led his men to pick up the soldiers of the Marshal's Guard who had fallen to the ground due to the neurotoxin spores of the scorpion. The soldiers were dying, but the toxin would not kill them immediately.

"Master!" Augustus called Zeratul, but he noticed that the other party had already dealt with a Fenris Hydralisk, and was standing on top of the giant king worm, fighting with the red scorpion, as if Fighting a giant red snake.

Hundreds of Fenrisian dragons are pounced on Zeratul, and the heroic dark templar is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.At the same time, the height of the Iggysir giant king worm is still rising and flying towards the forming wormhole in the sky until it becomes a black spot in the sky.

After being scratched by the sharp knife-like forelimb of the red scorpion, Zeratul came to Augustus in a cloud of billowing black smoke: "These cunning creatures escaped my eyes, they have been guarding here to protect the creature in the chrysalis."

"We need to think long term."

A large number of Fenris swarms are still approaching here. They no longer attack Heji's human city, but gather and wait to evacuate the planet.The cerebrates of this pack obviously don't think Hagee is safe anymore.

"Jim." Augustus, ignoring a wounded marshal's guard crying and carrying him in shame, communicated with the Huberian bridge: "Damn it, prepare a tactical nuclear bomb. It's not the little one with a [-]-ton equivalent. , Take out all our family assets, there is also an Apocalypse on the Norad III, yes it is it."

"Where is the target?" Renault asked.

Augustus reported a series of longitude and latitude coordinates: "Where is there a wormhole, don't worry about so many, just throw the nuclear bomb into it."

"Wow." There was an exclamation from Renault's side: "I like this trick, a great gift."

(End of this chapter)