StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 374
Aiur is a hot and humid planet. The abundant and intense sunshine and abundant rain not only nourish the primitive rainforests at various latitudes and the gorgeous life in them, but also bring unbearable heat.

In the province of Antioch, cold winter has never appeared in many geological layers, and here there is only a short spring and a long summer.

Magnificent life thrives here, and so many of them have spawned strange species, giant sail-backed giant lizards, convergently evolved dexterous cats and primates, year after year. Make a beautiful debut on the stage of life evolution.

Antioch's primeval forest is vast and ancient. When those towering trees sprouted from their seeds, the protoss had not created their glorious empire.

Augustus had just stepped off a heavily armored command vehicle and was walking on the road carved out by tanks and rollers in the primeval rainforest north of Antioch, with Faraday's Marshal's Guard and a whole marching army beside him. Goliath Armed Robot Company in .

The surrounding area is filled with the fragrance of plant stems and leaves when the plants are crushed and cut, and the knocked down trees are neatly piled up to be used as temporary defense barriers and materials for building refugee settlements.

Continuing along this road, you will find the Altar of Antioch and the Cemetery of the Elders. It is said that the remains of the protoss heroes of the past are buried there, and there is a memorial line that has been walked by pilgrims thousands of times over the centuries. the road.Although it has an almost sacred meaning to the protoss, the protoss have also lost it in recent times.

Proceeding through the altar is the fortress city of Executor's Bastion, which Augustus ordered to take down, which is still under the control of the Protoss Empire.In Augustus's army, the Alpha Squadron and the four 2 divisions of the Revolutionary Army were the closest to there, and they were equipped with countless heavy fire tanks and support artillery.

Even so, it would be tantamount to wishful thinking to take down the Executive Fortress in a short period of time with only human military power.It was an impregnable fortress, and the defenders were able to constantly call in reinforcements through the network of crystal matrix warps throughout Ayr.

The real main force is the protoss army of Artanis and Phoenix. In any case, they must know better than humans how to deal with their own people.

While walking on the road and looking around and the forest in the distance, Augustus has admired the charming scenery of Al more than once, but he still sighs for the disaster that such a beautiful planet has suffered.

This is a vast virgin forest, with towering ancient trees supporting the blue sky of Al.The canopy higher than the head, vines and trunks thicker than human arms are staggered to form a labyrinthine natural landscape in the Ayer Rainforest. The poisonous and colorful poisonous creatures are perfectly integrated with the surrounding environment. Those ferocious large Animals peek at these strange alien creatures with amazing intelligence.

Large, broad, palm-like foliage interweaves with evergreen vines to create a green screen that shades the sun and casts a shady shade to the ferns below.The leaves of the vegetation are colorful, shining reddish brown, bright orange, fluorescent green and sapphire blue in the sun, like blooming flowers, and the trickling river flowing past is like flowing poetry.

No leaf is exactly the same, the veins like heart and lung veins seem to be depicting a mysterious map, and the vertical and horizontal branches are like colorful corals under the rippling blue waves, in various poses and with different expressions, beautiful and extraordinary.

To this day, Augustus has been to many planets, both the real purgatory and the heaven on earth with a pleasant climate.As the home planet of a powerful and huge protoss empire, most of Aiur's landforms are quite primitive, only those golden cities and mysterious temples are hidden between nature and mountains and rivers.

The engineers of the Revolutionary Army briefly admired the beauty of Ayr's garden and had to bulldoze the lush plants. If they didn't do that, once the zerg's creep tumors started to spread, no life form would be able to survive. No matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will turn into a viscous colloidal purple-black creep.

"Rundstein's division has entered the ruins of a city forty miles south of the Executor's Fortress." Sarah Kerrigan, a ghost agent wearing a blue and white ghost tight combat uniform, walked Knife tossed away the belly of one of the Ayr rainforest insects, and used psychic power to incinerate the rest of the poisonous insects.

This is a giant insect similar to a mosquito. Their bites on soldiers of the Revolutionary Army can cause a strong fever and cause death. This poisonous insect is by no means the most dangerous and deadly creature on Ayr .

The primeval forest of Aiur is full of dangers, and those deadly hunters are not even noticeable by human eyes.

"That city was abandoned not long ago, and there is evidence that a zerg from the Berog race attacked and destroyed it, devouring all the protoss." Condensed on Kerrigan's ghost battle suit With a layer of water vapor, the humid air made her combat uniform more clinging to her body, which made her look more feminine.

"Didn't the brain worm Gwen of the white Balrog tribe be killed by Zeratul's dark templar? It is impossible for Gwen to come back from the dead, and its out-of-control tribe was also defeated by the rest of the brood." Gusdu made no secret of his surprise when he heard the news.

While Augustus was speaking, the tiny air conditioners of his power armor were still working, bringing the wearer some coolness from the hot Aiur summer.Otherwise, the humid and hot air will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of soldiers from high latitudes.

This is one of the few times when Augustus gives high marks to the user-friendly design of the power armor designer, while the functions of other parts of the armor are mostly inhumane.

"If it wasn't for the master to rebuild this group based on the genes of the Belog group, or another group of brain worms or unknown brain worms accepted and controlled the Belog group."

After capturing the cerebrum named α, the Revolutionary Army made a breakthrough in the study of the internal class and ethnic specialties of the Zerg. They also learned from the mouth of the cerebrum that the will of the cerebrum was just born. People are soft-spoken, and it is difficult to establish their own prestige in the swarm—although this brain worm is unwilling to admit this, and it is still rolling when the researchers question it.

Belog are few in number, but each clan member is bloodthirsty and powerful.Belog is one of the groups that guard the master, and their presence here means that the master of the swarm must be not far away.

"General Rundstein's men were not attacked by the zerg, nor did they find any protoss survivors in the city." Kerrigan then said to Augustus:

"A jungle guerrilla unit under his command shot down an overlord worm with an anti-aircraft missile, and dug out a large number of protoss civilian corpses from the abdomen of that hideous monster. He suspected that the zerg had not eaten the protoss, Just take them away," she surmised.

"The Zerg cannot assimilate the genes of the Protoss, and they probably eat the Protoss just to relieve their hunger. The research of the Alien Lab shows that if the Zerg leaves the range of the creep, it must eat to replenish the consumed energy."

"If you can still think of the hybrid monsters made by the hybrid protoss and Zerg genes that we found in the Luria galaxy, you may think of the conspiracy behind the abnormal behavior of the Zerg." Augustus is not like that think.

"The zerg ate so many protoss, the resulting hybrid monster must have surpassed all of our imaginations."

Augustus thought of the hybrid body of the evil god created by the master's body in the future, and the monster formed by the fusion of the master's body and countless star spirits was the real doomsday terminator.

"." Kerrigan still couldn't figure out the meaning of Augustus's words, but she imagined that these words must have a profound meaning far beyond the limitations of her own thinking.

These words of Augustus will be recorded for the benefit of future autobiographers and historians who will write a biography of Augustus Mengsk the Great.

Before Kerrigan could say anything more, the commander of another main force also reported that they had entered the planned attack position, and new information was also continuously being poured into Augustus' Marshal's headquarters.

The Protoss is still strengthening the defenses of the Executor's Fortress, but that's not to defend against the sudden appearance of humans, but to resist the Zerg attack from the direction of the Sien province.

It was the first area to fall after the Overlord came to Aiur. A large number of Tiamat and Yermungad Zergs were hovering over the ruins of once glorious cities and broken disc spiers in the province of Sion. Time is the best time to launch an attack on the capital region of the Protoss Empire, and the two most powerful races will really take action.

"Tell Lieutenant General Bennett to launch an attack according to the battle plan. All we have to do is to drop bombs on the Protoss position. The louder the sound of 'fireworks', the better. Wait until Phoenix's army starts to move, and then launch a general attack. ’” Augustus ordered over the command channel.

"This is an important battle, and I don't need to mention the value of the executive fortress. I have only one requirement for the soldiers, and that is to take this fortress." He said: "I will not allow any failure. "

Augustus was still a long way from the front line at this time, and his destination was not the Executor's Fortress, but the nearest city already occupied by Zerg, which was also the Great Altar in the Protoss teachings location.

The battle to attack the Executor's Fortress was the most important battle since the Revolutionary Army landed in Ayr, but Augustus had to command more than just this battle, a temporary large army.

According to the original plan, Augustus will establish a temporary command center in that area to command the entire army.

At the same time as Augustus gave the last order, there was a sudden noise from the primeval forest not far away, and dozens of elite marshal guard soldiers around him immediately guarded the marshal tightly in the middle.

An eight-member Nova Squadron ghost agent team hidden in the shadows quickly approached the direction of the sound, while the other two groups stood by.

The terrain in Al's primeval forest is complicated, and the thick branches are tied together like a dragon, making it difficult to even run. Only dexterous primates and birds can adapt to the environment above the canopy.

"Is it Al's beast?" It's not the first time Augustus has encountered such a thing. When walking in the jungle, from time to time, panicked large animals broke into the marching ranks of the revolutionary army in panic.If they cannot be expelled, then the soldiers can only shoot those creatures that may have been regarded as some kind of god incarnation by the protoss of the tribal age in ancient times.

"It's the protoss." A ghost agent who went to investigate said: "More than 200 people, most of them are civilians, and very few have weapons."

"Bring them here," Augustus ordered. "Take the protoss relic that Tassadar gave us, lest the protoss see us as enemies."

"As you wish."

"Has the Protoss Empire lost control of its own civilians?" Kerrigan shook his head.

Revolutionary armies rarely encountered stray protoss civilians on their marches, and the latter would not deal with such strange primate creatures unless necessary.Aiur's primates are either stupid apes or palm-sized cunning little hairballs, and the protoss' understanding of humans is roughly the same.

Not long after, two templars in gold and blue armor were brought over, one of them was holding the common zealot protoss blade, and the other was using a warblade similar to the dark templar warblade. Sickle weapon.They were apparently the leaders of these Aiur protoss refugees and representatives sent to meet the human leaders.

"En Taro Adun, I salute you, noble Templar, I am Augustus Mengsk, the leader of the Human Revolutionary Army." Augustus said to the two Templars.

"Salute to Adun. I am Al Reina, the templar of the Fenatir tribe. I already know your identity and purpose of coming, but we don't need the help of humans. Please tell us, where are our people?"

One of the templars made a gesture of respect to Augustus. Despite his downfall, his words still couldn't conceal the protoss' deep contempt and superior attitude towards other races.

After all, before humans stepped into the starry sky, the Protoss Empire was silently watching and protecting countless such races.

"Follow us, you will meet your own people soon." Augustus glanced at Kerrigan, who was getting a little furious because of the other party's ignorant words, and told her not to care about such trivial matters .

"If you want to read my mind, you will find that Tassadar and Artanis, the executive officers of the Protoss Empire, are my best friends. The Human Revolutionary Army came here to help the Protoss. The promise made is also for the friendship between humans and protoss to last forever."

"By gods, you are as honest as pure gold and stone. I salute you, Human Commander." The templar's attitude towards Augustus changed visibly.

Then, out of the jungle behind him came a group of protoss in torn and filthy robes.Like all the protoss that Augustus had seen, these protoss who were forced to flee into the jungle had slender limbs and graceful and dexterous steps, but they were physically and mentally exhausted from panic, running day and night, and hiding in fear. No better gesture than the human refugees who had to flee their homes when the zerg invaded and the protoss burned their homes.

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