StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 356 Char's Psionic Screaming

Mar Sara, White Rock Fortress Command Center.

Augustus leaned over the long battle table in the command room, getting up from time to time to take a stack of reports from the mining area and the fleet from Kerrigan who was walking around.

The command center is high enough to overlook the entire fortress under construction. The island-style command room on the top is surrounded by bright glass. Augustus can see the barracks, warehouses and symmetrical anti-aircraft missile towers just by looking up.

On the combat map composed of holographic projections, hundreds of shimmering federal colonial worlds are clearly visible, and hundreds of billions of planets are like dust made of light, with Tarsonis as the center to the edge of the Koprulu star area. There are many planets.

When Augustus moved the star map made of light and shadow, some stars flickered gently: Edna, Atticus, Thoros, Blasis α, Pontefull, Sigmaris Prime, these planets They are all marked with the red and blue flags of the Tyrann Federation, while Antiga and Mar Sara are marked with the red flags of the Revolutionary Army.

Other distant planets, such as Luria IV and Aeneas, are marked as mining colonies of the Kel-Morian Consortium and affiliated worlds of the Umoyan United States, respectively.

The Kel-Morian Commonwealth once had a vast territory and countless mining worlds, but now it has shrunk to a corner of Moria.The expansion ambitions of the Umoyan United States are far less than those of his two brothers in the Koprulu sector, so the sphere of influence has always been maintained within a limited range.

The revolutionary army's planet on the edge of the world and the Zerg's brood world overlapped almost, which also made the federal fleet dare not go deep.The planet of the Protoss has always been hidden in the mist. Augustus only knew that the Protoss Empire had many colonies in the Golden Age.

On the three-dimensional holographic projection of Mar Sara, the fleets of the Revolutionary Army and the Protoss Expeditionary Army are still moored, and Zeratul's troops are always hiding in the shadows.

"Where are those Kermorians? Lieutenant Roland should have brought their mining consul over by now." At this moment, Augustus suddenly remembered something, raised his head and asked Kerrigan.
"what happened."

Kerrigan looked at Augustus. "Confirming with the lieutenant's unit."

"... just received an urgent report from Roland's platoon."

"There must be something wrong," said Augustus. "Come in."

"Roland Orom called the command center, we need reinforcements!" When Lieutenant Roland's voice came from the communication channel in the command room, both Augustus and Kerrigan heard the sound of Gauss rifles firing.

When they heard the familiar sharp insect chirping, their expressions immediately became serious. — Mar Sara has zerg.

"Who is the enemy, and how many people (worms) are there?" Augustus' voice was still very calm, without any panic.

"Infected mutated Kelmerians Zerg!" Lieutenant Roland's voice was intermittent: "They are pouring out of the mine continuously, and we will not be able to resist them."

There were also a few screams from the revolutionary lieutenant's channel, but it was not from him.

"Ask Jim to come here, how many troops do we have at hand?" Augustus frowned. The planet has not been completely cleared of zerg."

"Whitestone base is stationed with two full battalions of the Guards Division and two Red Devil Firebat platoons. The mobile unit that can rush to support the fastest is the Reaper's Reaper Company." Kerrigan said.

"The reaper is the elite of the elite, and ordered Captain Xiao to immediately go to the location where Lieutenant Roland uploaded last time." Augustus immediately ordered.

"Pull up a battalion of guards, have the firebats get the fuel tanks ready, and get rid of the zerg first, so we can figure out what's going on," he said, "Get the command vehicle ready.

"Tell my officers that when I get to the site I expect to hear a report that they've put everything in order."

"Yes, sir," Kerrigan said.

Augustus picked up the gloves he put on the combat table, walked out of the command room and came to the wide passageway composed of a slope, and Jim Raynor, who was rushing over, bumped into him.

"You've come just in time." Augustus said to Raynor, "Jimmy, we may have to command the troops.

The entire White Rock Fortress moved according to Augustus's order, and fighter planes roared over the fortress.Workers all stopped to ask passing soldiers what was going on, and all mentioned the war.

The flow of people in the barracks quickly flowed, soldiers put on power armor and weapons as quickly as possible, tanks and Goliath armed robots also drove out of the garage, and the torrent of steel rolled forward.Two reorganized Wraith Squadrons of the Air Force also rushed to support Augustus. When it comes to the problem of Zerg, everyone's nerves are highly tense.

When the armored command vehicle in which Augustus arrived at the tunnel entrance of the Kelmorian mining area, the air was filled with the smell of burnt protein and blood.

This is a mining complex composed of alloy buildings and huts. A wide road crosses the entire miner's residential area and leads directly to the mine pit.Now the road is littered with various tools and personal items of the Kel-Morian miners, and there are stinking and red blood everywhere.

Some brownish-gray zerg chitin covers the surfaces of these buildings, but it's not obvious.The immature granulation is like a creeper extending on these buildings, slowly wrapping everything in it.

Weird and distorted corpses of infected people can be seen everywhere. These monsters with protruding spikes and distortions are lying on the road, either smashed into a sieve by bullets, or burned to ashes by fire bats.

A few hundred yards away is the entrance to a tunnel that leads directly to the ground, and there are firebat troops with gold and red demon symbols painted on their armor.Even now, they are still blocking the entrance of the tunnel and using the flamethrowers in their hands to burn the monsters gushing out of it, with the sound of burning clicks one after another.

"Lieutenant Roland, you can tell me what happened." Augustus picked up a fragment of the flag with the KM logo from the ground. Erased by flames.

"Marshal, I didn't complete your task." Lieutenant Roland was a short Mrs. Meinho, who was an exception among his family members who were generally big and round.However, Mrs. Meinhau's creativity and perseverance are also evident in Roland.

"It's not your fault." Augustus waved his hand to signal him to stay calm: "On the contrary, I want to commend you for your heroic performance in this encounter."

"...Fighting is our duty." Roland saluted Augustus.

Then, Roland began to tell Augustus what happened: "In the beginning, we did receive a signal from Kelmorian, repeatedly telling us that they belonged to the Vito Mining Guild."

"But after we entered their camp, we discovered that it had already been infected by Zerg, and there were hideous infected creatures everywhere, and no living person spoke to us anymore. The mercenaries guarding the place had died long ago. , their bodies were torn apart and covered with festering boils."

He said: "Those Zerg-infected creatures are slow to move, but when they die or get close to my soldiers, they will explode themselves, and they are more powerful than our best pulse grenades."

"Most of the casualties in my unit are caused by the self-explosion of the infected."

"So, it is impossible for anyone in this area to send signals to you anymore, so who was the first person to contact you?" Renault, who was standing beside Augustus, stared at the mutated creatures that were still gushing out. mine pit.

"We don't know, General." Lieutenant Roland showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "But the machine can't speak by itself."

"Based on the current scene, it should be unlikely that there will be survivors here." Kerrigan also said.

"Lieutenant, we found his relics in the private room of the leader of the Kemorian mining team—and a strange corpse." A soldier of the Revolutionary Army who came running quickly reported to Roland and Augustus Say.

"Go and see." Augustus let the soldier lead the way.

"We have to figure out whether these monsters escaped protoss fire or just arrived from somewhere else," he said.

Augustus didn't go far before he came to what the soldier said was the company residence, a more upscale house with glass windows and wooden floors, used to indicate the distance between the company and other mining squad members. difference in identity.

In this small house, overturned cabinets were mixed with piles and piles of clothes and bloody blood spots.A man crouching over a table looked up at the still-lit laptop screen in a monstrous pose, his blue-green uniform pierced by protruding lumps of muscle, spikes, carapace, and teeth.

What made Augustus and others shudder was that a sickle-shaped brown-black spike from a piece of zerg tissue was piercing deeply into the man's spine.

"What is that?" Lei Nuo was always very courageous, he took down a photo frame from the table, and on it was a photo of the man and his family.

On the back of the photo is a proverb from the Moria satellite. The handwriting and style are very beautiful.

"The swarm controlled him." Kerrigan's nose wrinkled. "They kept the man's brain and controlled him to send messages to the outside world—but it seems to be more than that."

"I read some sad news from this living brain." Kerrigan took a few steps around the man's chair.

"They found Mar Sara long before we did, and it was only a tentative dig. Despite being in a dangerous zerg-occupied area, the CEO of the Vitor Guild rewarded them with a generous reward. There must be a brave man," Kerrigan said.

"So the bravest people in the guild came with the mentality of fighting hard, and the rest of this mining team were contract workers who were bound by debts and illegal contracts." She said.

"Kel-Morian's mining team soon discovered an underground mine that had been preserved from the bombing of the Protoss fleet. Shining like gold, it is worth twice as much per standard load unit as ordinary Ardion crystals."

"Is it Youjin? Or a gold mine?" Augustus said in a faint voice.

"No matter what, clean up this mining area immediately."

"I heard you all, tell Hank's bad boy pyromaniacs that we need to push on." Raynor ordered, "Immediately draw a vanguard from the Reapers, Firebats, and Rangers, and I will lead the team myself. "

"There is a bottomless lair in the depths of this mine, which contains a large number of cave bats infected and assimilated by the Zerg and a large number of infected humans." Kerrigan said: "The first person to enter the mine to explore Horrible monsters were brought back among the people, and before they could figure out what they were torn to pieces by nocturnal monsters."

"I suspect that there is at least one zerg queen hiding in this mine. This creature has some obvious intelligence that allows her to use simple strategies to capture prey by trapping or laying an ambush instead of attacking from the front."

"Deep into the ground." Augustus looked at Kerrigan: "We all know that the protoss' attack on Mar Sara was not as thorough as we imagined, and not all the main cannon beams penetrated the earth's crust. .”

"If a subterranean hive is lucky, they may escape doom. This is a warning that Mar Sara is not as safe from vermin as we think. The zerg are probably hiding underground, waiting Chances of resurgence," he said after a moment of thought.

"Send mopping forces across Mar Sara, searching for any possible surviving zerg nests, with an emphasis on areas where the zerg once appeared."

".Let Colonel Pryor and Harnack's troops take charge. The soldiers from the Sara system are eager for vengeance against the zerg who once invaded their homeland."

"Bury these Camerians." Augustus looked at the photo album in Lei Nuo's hands. On it was a photo of the leader of the Camerians and his fiancée.

"Find his family as best we can, and return the relics."

"I'll arrange for someone to go to uh right away." Kerrigan suddenly covered her forehead while speaking, and Augustus immediately hugged her who was shaking.

"Scream!"

"What? I didn't hear anything." Augustus was sure he didn't hear such a voice.

"That's from uh. damn..."

"Maybe you need a good rest, honey." Augustus supported Kerrigan.

Not long after, another black shadow appeared in front of Augustus, and Zeratul appeared from it.

"Augustus, my brother, the prophecy confirms my fears. The human psyker who escaped in Hegee has been reborn in Char, the brood world of the Zerg." Dark in purple robe and black armor Master Zeratul appeared like a sudden wind.

"Just now, what we heard was the first scream of that creature born from the sinful amniotic membrane. This scream resounded through the stars and spread far into the void."

"I have heard a warning," Zeratul said to Augustus.

"The trajectories of the stars are nothing but stones thrown by Naganaga, the fog will eventually dissipate, and all the truth will be revealed in the darkness.

"It doesn't sound good, what happened?" Renault also looked over when Zeratul appeared.

"Stop talking nonsense, Zeratul, you'd better tell me what's going on with that inexplicable thing in one sentence?" He said:
"I almost forgot about Hedge. Can't you bring some good news, friend."

(End of this chapter)