StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 334 The Chaser of the Supreme Council

Entering late February, the area where Oasis Town is located has experienced a continuous few days of light rain.The rain brought some coolness to the sweltering oasis town, and the lingering red haze in the sky also showed signs of weakening.

The rays of the sun shone through the dispersing mist, and the sky was covered with a transparent blue light, like the hem of a skirt.

Oasis Town was just a small settlement at the beginning. The wide and narrow alleys composed of rows of staggered prefabricated houses and the high storage tanks of the gas refinery are located in Altera's rugged and winding rift valley terrain. between.

This is probably the most habitable place in the region, with a river that rises and falls with the seasons in the Rift Valley below the town, and the drought-tolerant and hardy Black Forest of Altera to the south.

It is not easy to find water sources and settlements that can shelter the wind and sand and stabilize the soil in Altera, because most areas are either barren land where there is no grass or are located on dangerous moving plates.

Altera's land plate has been extremely active in the last few million years, and new high-energy gas springs are discovered almost every moment along with the latest cracks, and cracks that have existed for many years are also buried.

Although it is named Oasis, Oasis Town has always been a chaotic and hopeless place. There are all kinds of wanted criminals and people engaged in illegal activities living in the town. Mercenaries and pirates also like the smoking taverns, Bars and underground black markets.Altera's population is even more complex than Port of the Dead, and pedestrians must watch their backs even during the day.

In recent times, with the Zerg invasion and the arrival of the Revolutionary Army of Korhal, the chaos and crime in Oasis Town have been cleared.It's not that people here have suddenly become law-abiding, even the most vicious of people have to stay temporarily Be a man with your tail between your legs.

Even though many people in Oasis Town are dissatisfied with the status quo, they dare not complain.The streets are full of Revolutionary Army soldiers in power armor and armed with live ammunition. From time to time, arc tanks and heavy armored vehicles cross the widened and rebuilt town roads to the front line to clean up the Zerg.

The tallest and most conspicuous buildings were replaced with the gold and red flags of the Revolutionary Army. As long as people raised their heads, they would inevitably see these red flags of wolves and whips.

For the vast majority of people in Oasis Town who live in illegal businesses, the arrival of the revolutionary army is definitely more worrying than joyful.The revolutionary army built a new government building and the sheriff's office with a five-pointed star insignia in Oasis Town. Not only that, but the school and hospital were also rebuilt.

Marshal Augustus Mengsk of the Revolutionary Army seems to be very obsessed with the construction of infrastructure in his territory, as can be seen from his vigorous promotion of the construction of the subway network in Ansardar, the main star of Antiga.

The big shots in the oasis town didn't like these changes. They believed that the revolutionary army had destroyed the customs and living standards of the Altera people, but Augustus just laughed it off. He couldn't let a country full of assassinations and violent conflicts The town exists for a long time under its own rule.Even if Augustus doesn't completely cleanse Oasis, he'll let the criminals know the value of obeying the law.

On this day, Augustus did not stay in Oasis Town and wait for his generals to report the latest progress in eliminating the Altera Zerg, but went to the largest nearby Kel Morian high-energy gas refinery.

At the moment, on the other side of the planet Altera, Tassadar's protoss fleet is still bombing the main lair of the Jormungandr swarm, and Zeratul's dark templars are hunting in the wilderness and dark canyons of Altera. The elite of the insecticide swarm.

Kel Morian has a few miles of high-energy gas collection, extraction and storage industrial facilities at the foothills of the mountains south of Oasis Town. Officials from the province got the right to build a factory here.

Those corrupt federal officials didn't care whether they were bribed by Kel Morians or pirates. It was justified to exchange Altera's natural resources that had little to do with them for real money.

The gas refinery is a building composed of solid alloy workshops, thick and knotted pipes, exhaust gas outlet gates, and tall gas storage tank facilities. There are also living areas for workers, entertainment areas, and even supporting bars. The living environment is comparable to that under federal rule. The Alterans are much better.

Before Augustus came to this factory, it was the guild guards of the Kemerian Kelanis Guild who guarded these gas refineries. Their equipment was sufficient to deal with any pirates and other threats in the interstellar world, but this was not enough. How long will these brave guild guards guard here.

After the Jormungandrad swarm invaded Altera, none of the more than 2000 Kel-Morians in this factory survived. Most of the buildings were covered with abscesses and purple crusts, and the interior of the buildings was stuffed. Bloody tissue and meridians.

Under the guidance of the Zerg main hive gene, all the infected human buildings seem to have regained their lives, living like a real creature, and the spreading vines provide nutrients for these buildings.

If these infested structures are not destroyed, they will transform the humans devoured by the swarm into the terrifying Infested.Infected people who exist in accordance with the will of the hive will move with the movement of the swarm and become real monsters.

It took days to clear the infected buildings and roads of human remains.

The facilities in the refinery were completely unable to function anymore. The explosion of the core reactor destroyed dozens of buildings and collapsed the outlet of the high-energy gas spring.

Now Augustus is standing in front of a completely infected refinery control center, watching Revolutionary Army soldiers use flamethrowers to clean up the sticky deposits on it, and the air is filled with the smell of burnt protein.

"Some new creatures were discovered in this area. The domestic animals and pets brought by the workers in the factory were more or less deformed. All kinds of alienated creatures frequently attacked our soldiers and local civilians." Sha Ra Kerrigan stood beside Augustus.

"This factory is out of order," Augustus told Kerrigan. "It must be destroyed and buried. The swarm's infestation has gone deep underground."

While talking, the building in front of them was covered with exoskeleton, ugly hard skin and purple carapace. Tissue squeezed out, like a fish drawn from a ruptured stomach pouch, and its body was covered with a thin amnion-like substance.

Hateful aberrations had manifested in the Kel-Morian.He was once a guildguard of the honorable Kailanis guild, as evidenced by the totem-like sun emblem on his chest.All honor is a far cry from what this warrior is now, a monster controlled by the hive mind.

"Bury him." After leaving these words, Augustus walked across a main road of the refinery to the production area, past a collapsed holographic projection theater.The pile of rubble covered with blackened organic matter buried many souls of the dead, but the colored lights and glass fragments in the rubble glistened in the sun.

In the distance is a gigantic zerg hatchery, composed of hundreds of tons of organic matter covered in sharp spikes and horny crusts.The massive structure, much larger than the stadium, is supported by a strong exoskeleton and skeleton, which pulsates like a living thing, as if breathing.

The purple-black creeping blanket spreads from the hatchery's rooted position to the surroundings, like ink soaked in clear water.

Below the hatchery stood hundreds of Revolutionary Army soldiers and Goliath armed robots, all of them staring vigilantly at this living building that seemed to be alive.

Farther away are more than a dozen zerg extraction rooms covering the spouts of high-energy gas springs. The special organs they evolved can replace human distillation and refining facilities to convert the high-energy gas gas rich in impurities into a concentrated state, and then make these Precious gas resources serve the evolution of the entire swarm.

A functioning psychic disruptor is glowing yellow, indicating that the area is safe.

"Reporting to you, the great Marshal Augustus Mengsk, I am Captain Frank of the 9th Division, and we are keeping an eye on these dangerous Zerg buildings all day long." A man in dark gray military uniform , The officer of the Revolutionary Army with two silver vertical stripe badges on the brim of the hat reported to Augustus.

"No need to add the great to my name, Captain." Augustus knew the man's name, and Captain Frank was a software engineer on Korha IV before joining the Revolutionary Army and is now the Field Marshal himself. Fanatics.Many admired Augustus, but the captain was especially paranoid.

"Salute to the warriors of the 9th Division." Augustus saluted the captain as Tychus grunted across the hatch.If the soldiers paid a little attention, they would have noticed that this burly man was dragging a worker bee that looked much bigger than himself, walking towards Augustus.

It was an ugly creature shaped like a manta ray, with huge pincers and pairs of tiny triangular eyes, and its wormlike body was flanked by webbed wings.While those fleshy wings don't help the zerg stay airborne, it does float in midair like a vulture cart.

"Guess which place I won in the bug kicking contest, it's ten feet away (three meters one)." Tychus said as he walked, pulling the tail of the worker bee and dragging towards Augustus Come.

"Are you crazy? Don't let this monster get near the marshal!" Corporal Faraday almost jumped up, and shouted at Tychus loudly.

"Shut up, you jumping Keha monkey, stop giving me orders, you are not qualified." Tychus nonchalantly dragged the motionless worker bee to Augustus in front of.

"Don't worry, the monster's sharp teeth and thorns have been pulled out, and Kexidi gave it enough anesthesia." He threw the worker bee on the ground vigorously, clapped his hands and said in satisfaction : "This monster is even more dangerous than a springtail, and it can spit out poisonous thorns at you like a Hydralisk. Someone got hit and is still lying in the hospital, waiting to return to Antiga or Umoyan's order."

"Now it's just a toy."

"Dangerous toy," Kerrigan added sternly. "You're acting like an ignorant child."

"Such an ignorant child." Augustus walked towards the Yermungand worker bee lying on the ground.Due to the effect of the tranquilizer, the worker bee was still lying flat on the ground, revealing a relatively soft abdomen with its head drooping.

"The Cerberus Project folks will need it—and this hatchery. Hopefully we can figure out how to make those larvae morph into cocoons," Augustus said.

"It will take a lot of time to transport these back to Umoyan." Kerrigan looked at Augustus and said, "During this period of time, we have already transported a lot of live Zerg samples to Umoyan's main star—— Aren't those Umoyan scientists really playing with fire and setting themselves on fire?"

"Everything is within the scope of the Umoyan Council's permission." Augustus put his hands behind his back: "You can never imagine how much the Umoyans want to obtain a complete Zerg hatch."

"They paid a high price for this," he said. "If the Umoyan Guardians can't deal with a few worker bees and hatcheries, then the United States should not count on their protection."

"Maybe one day the Kel-Morians and Umoyans will have to ask us how to deal with bugs," Tychus said with a chuckle.

"Can you sense this worker bee?" Augustus looked at Kerrigan at this moment.This place is extremely far away from Char, and it is in the very center of the influence of the psychic disruptor. No matter how powerful the master's psychic power is, it cannot be sensed here.

"I think I can." Kerrigan held out a hand to the worker bee. "You told me never to touch the zerg against your orders."

"Now you can try," Augustus said to Kerrigan. "I want to see what the limit of your power is. Try to control it."

"The psychic disruptor also has a great influence on me." Kerrigan concentrated, and a golden light appeared in her emerald pupils: "But the distance is so close, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Kerrigan took control of the drugged worker bee with her powerful psychic powers. It quickly turned around and poked Tychus, who was begging Corporal Faraday for cigarettes, with its huge pincers.

"Aww!" Tychus jumped up hugging his ass.

"Holler may also be able to do it, but such psykers are really pitifully rare among humans." Augustus smiled, and he continued.

"The next step is to try to transform this worker bee into a hatchery."

Augustus did not expect much from this.

"Why do you think so? Alright." However, under Kerrigan's control, the worker bee turned into a wriggling tissue immediately: "If the hatchery is the thing in front of me."

"Dr. Francois said that the genes that respond to psionic energy seem to be hidden in the bodies of these worker bees."

"Cancel this order," said Augustus immediately.

"My God." Tychus and Corporal Faraday were stunned.

"Emergency, an unmarked protoss fleet has appeared on Altera's outer space orbit—" At this moment, the deputy captain of the Huberian suddenly came from the pager on Augustus report sound.

"Stop them? We need your instructions."

(End of this chapter)