StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 370 Al
The figure behind the holographic projection screen gradually blurred and finally disappeared, leaving only a pair of scarlet eyes.

"He was Lord of the stars, and He returns as King."

"A despicable villain who hides his head and shows his tail, you think this scares the open-minded freedom fighter!" The hot-blooded young man Jim Leno has tried his best to understand the meaning of these words, but he is still at a loss.

The riddleman who jumped out suddenly said a bunch of words that he couldn't understand at all, but it stunned the protoss.

To Raynor, it was nothing more than the babbling of a conspiratorial, neurotic mad scientist hoping to scare people away.

"Can you find out where the signal of this communication was sent?" Augustus turned on the built-in computer in the commander's power armor and ordered the fleet to prepare to leave the asteroid belt.

"Nothing," Kerrigan replied immediately.

Augustus looked at Tassadar and Zeratul again, noticing that both of them had a heavy heart.Narud's words had a much greater impact on the Protoss than on humans, and especially dealt a heavy blow to Zeratul, who had been pursuing the prophecy of Xel'Naga.

"The Xel'Naga have long predicted a dark age, and the voice in the darkness has brought eerie omens." Zeratul said: "If these evil creatures made of protoss and zerg genes are the ones who carry out the Aegis If you are the executioner of the dark plan, then the catastrophe we have to face will not stop there."

The wise Sacoolas star spirit elder felt a heavy sense of mission: "I must pursue the ancient prophecies scattered in the universe by Xel'Naga, and find out the conspiracy of the dark god Amon. May the gods guide me the way."

"You want to leave us?" Hearing Zeratul's words, Augustus thought he was going to drive the Void Seeker to look for Xel'Naga's prophecy.

"Of course not now, my friend Augustus." Zeratul said in a low voice: "The sacred homeland of Aiur must be saved first, and then I can leave with peace of mind to pursue those prophecies."

"Let us leave this place of right and wrong." Tassadar also said: "Everything that happened today must be recorded and communicated to the Supreme Council. As the leaders of the Protoss Empire, they must be aware of the warning brought by this discovery .”

"The three arks built in the era of Adun were born in response to the doomsday that may destroy this Protoss civilization."

When Augustus walked out of the shuttle with Tassadar and the others, the researchers in the Alien Laboratory of the Revolutionary Army were collecting samples of hybrid corpses and deformed creatures in the container, and the rest were burned.

The Protoss are working on returning to the fleet some of the Tal'darim's weapons and vehicles, which the Tal'darim stole from the Protoss Empire.As for the few weapons imitated by Tadalin craftsmen, the rich and powerful Protoss Empire destroyed them without hesitation.

By the time Augustus returned to the fleet, Tassadar's flagship Starship fired its main guns and shredded the entire asteroid, shattering it into thousands of smaller asteroids and stardust.

With a gloomy and dark prophecy, the fleet returned to star Luria IV in the territory of the Kel-Morian Federation, and destroyed a plundering fortress of Kel-Morian pirates along the way.

In the next week, all departments of Augustus' revolutionary army continued to operate as usual.

Augustus knew well that the upcoming Battle of Aiur would be an extremely difficult battle. Under his order, a large number of soldiers got precious vacations.

The soldiers who poured into the local city of Luria were impatiently preparing to spend all their money. In a few days, the economy of the main city prospered many times, and even the local dark-skinned girls turned rosy.

The economic depression caused by the war is weakening the once giant of the Tyranid Federation after the Zerg took away one fringe colony after another that provided raw materials, manpower and other products to the main world.

The federal parliament has had to cut various subsidies, and even the wages of public servants working for the government have shrunk sharply.At the same time, the corrupt and bloated federal government and capitalists are stepping up their exploitation of the federal people.Confederate soldiers are under tremendous mental pressure to fight the terrifying Zerg, but their salary is not guaranteed.

And even in the toughest of times, Augustus' revolutionary army insisted on distributing soldiers' salaries in Umoyan currency, which was less susceptible to the inflation and deflation of the Tyranid Federation.

Supporting a huge army with nearly 65 combat personnel alone requires huge funds, and the construction and maintenance of new weapons and warships is an astronomical sum.This is not only the funding support from the Mengsk family, the people of Keha, and the Umoyan Council behind Augustus, but also the income from Augustus's efforts to open more mines wherever he goes.

In addition, Augustus has the best soldiers and engineers in the Koprulu sector.

The lofty revolutionary spirit makes them work twice as hard as the Federation soldiers. For example, the SCV space engineering vehicle drivers in the Revolutionary Army can always use half the working hours of the Federation projects to collect corresponding Twice as many resources.In addition, the extensive use of Ke Morian and Umoyan's technology is also the reason why the Revolutionary Army's mines and factories always have doubled output.

During this time, Augustus did not give himself a vacation. Most of the time, Riogustus talked with Tassadar and Zeratul, discussing the detailed plan of marching into Aiur.

They had to put aside for a moment what they had seen and heard at the Tal'darin outpost.Because the commanders all know that once they return to Aiur, the United Fleet will not only face Zerg, but also the army of the Protoss Empire may attack them.

And Augustus gave his own opinion on this matter. He believed that the United Fleet must find support for them on Aiur. Only with more support can the fleet gain a firm foothold on the planet.

Both Tassadar and Zeratul agreed with Augustus' ideas and praised his wisdom.

As the legendary executive officer of the Templar estate of the Protoss Empire, Tassadar's prestige among the Templars is unmatched in the empire.He had many old friends on Aiur, and those virtuous warriors might help him.

As time went on, Augustus, Tassadar, and Zeratul all felt that the return to Aiur was imminent.

By the second week of November 2492, the logistics officers of the Revolutionary Army had basically completed the work of collecting supplies on Luria, and hundreds of refugee ships transformed from the mining transport ships of the Kelmorian Federation Transport Guild also joined the Revolutionary Army. fleet.

Not only that, the conscription department also recruited thousands of recruits in Luria as usual, most of them were miners and young youths who could not eat enough under the oppression of the union guild.These soldiers were quickly incorporated into a supplementary brigade of recruits, undergoing rigorous training until they were deemed ready to acquire their own power armor.

After Augustus confirmed that the high-energy gas fuel tanks in the fleet were filled, and the engineering stations and armories were filled again with various freight containers, the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army who had finished their holidays were called back to the bright red flag of the Revolutionary Army Next, board the transport ships returning to the fleet from various ports.

The ready-to-go revolutionary fleet set off amid the sighs of the people of Luria, and many soldiers even bid farewell to the reluctant young girls they had just met locally.

This is not only because the capable young men with pockets full of banknotes make the locals earn a lot of money, the locals in Luria are actually still expecting the Revolutionary Army to overthrow the rule of the Commonwealth.

After the guild war ended, the major guild stockholders in the Camerian Consortium distributed the compensation and losses to all the people in the system.The guild enterprises of the consortium are always uneven. Some pay attention to the benefits and subsidies of employees, so they have gained a good reputation, while others don't care about the life and death of workers at all. Anyway, they have other people and machines to replace them.

In the Kel-Morian Commonwealth, the oppression of commoners is no less than in the Tyranid Federation.The so-called unions that speak out for workers have been lies and jokes from the very beginning.

In the end, the Revolutionary Army did not bring more changes to Luria IV.But in contrast, every time Augustus's army reached a new place, the revolutionaries took root like dandelion seeds falling to the ground.

After leaving the Luria galaxy, the revolutionary fleet joined the fleets of Tassadar and Zeratul in another galaxy, and the huge combined fleet set sail again.In the fleet, the busy work is still going on, and everyone is trying their best to find something for themselves to pass the boring time.

Augustus was always conferring with Zeratul and Tassadar except for those moments spent with Kerrigan, always believing that the journey to Aiur would be dangerous.

This period of time travel is extremely long, and Augustus can only record time through the calendar.The most intuitive thing is the growing age of Augustus' nephew Valerian and Raynor's son John Jr.

When it entered January of 2493, the United Fleet arrived at the destination Aiur galaxy across the distance of time and space.

When Kerrigan told Augustus that Aiur, the home planet of the Protoss Empire, was close at hand, Augustus was still writing letters to his family in his personal room on the flagship Hyperion.

This is not only a habit he has developed since he came to this world, but also the few times when he can really relax.

Whenever Augustus sighs that time flies, he always looks at the family photos on the desk and the photo of the devil in heaven.To this day, Augustus still writes to many of them, some of whom are no longer received.

"The fleet is jumping out of the hyperspace channel, Admiral. Below the bridge is Al now."

Kerrigan walked in with a long gun on his back: "The Aiur galaxy is scattered with fleet wreckage across most of the galaxy and the huge corpses of Zerg - Tassadar told us sadly that the once glorious Armada of the Protoss Empire has disappeared. It was hit hard."

"But the Zerg is absolutely uncomfortable." Augustus caressed the photo of his nephew Valerian and John Raynor. Just now he was still lamenting that the little John who was babbling behind Valerian and his own Brother Arcturus' relationship is unexpectedly good.

Arcturus Mengsk, who has always hated psykers, liked this child who had shown great psychic talent since he was a child, not only because he thought this child was likely to become his son Valerian. It is also because of his own recognition of General Jim Raynor.

Arcturus only hates powerful psykers who are not under his control or who pose a great threat to him, and a child is obviously not one of them.He still resented Sarah Kerrigan, who had assassinated his father, not because of his poor father, but because he was worried about psykers controlling his brother's mind.

Hearing this, Augustus put down his hand holding the photo, put on an iron-black coat with golden wheat ear epaulettes, and followed Kerrigan out of the room.

Augustus found Raynor, Harnack, and Tychus in the narrow passage leading to the bridge. The first two were talking about Aiur and the fleet, and only Tychus was still immersed in the holiday a month ago.

"I've never been so far away from home. You know, I'm a good sentimental person, and being away from home for too long always makes me miss my mother." Tychus complained when he saw Augustus .

"Pity your mother, if you can think of the teachings of that gentle woman when you are about to do something bad, Tychus, at least you can behave more like a human being." Augustus waved Tychu away Si's complaint is like swat a fly to death.

"Jim, any updates?"

"Augustus, we have just arrived in the Protoss realm. We are not familiar with the place, and we don't know what happened in the past." Renault said immediately.

"But the only thing we can be sure of is that the main force of the Protoss and the Zerg is surrounding Aiur in the entire galaxy. At least two planets have been devastated by the Protoss fleet. One of them The volume has shrunk by about one third," he said.

"No matter how powerful the Protoss Empire had in the past, most of them don't exist now."

"So the Protoss has lost?" Augustus asked.

"Actually, it is very likely that both sides will lose." Reynolds replied: "Neither the Protoss nor the Zerg will ever stop negotiating a peace. If two powerful races start a war in a small galaxy, then one side will completely defeat the other." One side never stopped before."

"We probably completely underestimated the intensity of this battle - at first, the Overmind only sent a small number of zerg into Aiur, but now the entire swarm is smashed in the face of the Protoss, in Flowers exploded on their home planet.

Augustus walked into the bridge while talking with Renault and others. At this time, the bridge was brightly lit, and outside the portholes were the dark space and scattered stars.

A group of brilliant orange light clusters bloomed in the sub-folding force field, dispelling the darkness of nothingness.As many as a thousand phantoms and silhouettes of battleships appeared around Hyperion, causing a thrilling and fascinating sign of time-space distortion.

"The long voyage brought us here." Augustus walked to the main screen of the bridge, looking at the Protoss Mother Planet Aiur, which was once green and verdant but now covered with black spots.

—the birthplace of the protoss, and the center of their vast empire that spans the astral plane.

"Al," Augustus said.

"Gather my generals and tell the soldiers that we are about to go to war with the Zerg Overlord and the Protoss Empire."

(End of this chapter)