StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 385 Storming the Midland Peaks

The wasteland in the northwest of Thane province, two days later.

The undulating mountains are surrounded by clouds and mist, the sky shines through the mountains, and a wide and long river meanders on the black land with ravines.The former flowery fields and vibrant green jungles have long since decayed and withered under the erosion of zerg creep, and the dotted lakes have become ugly ditches with broken walls, filled with flocculent creep clusters and covered with The spinous cavity of the bone.

The ruins of the once magnificent city of the Protoss still stand on the scorched land, and the protoss who built these ancient stone buildings and their descendants who lived here for generations have been erased, only the columns and huge stones lined up side by side still guard City-states and ditches in tribal times.

The towering round spiers and the psionic matrix circuits covering the entire province of Sion have collapsed. On the high walls once stood mighty protoss templars, and the flags of the protoss empire and tribes were erected.The banner, engraved with blue Anima crystals and gemstones in the finest silk satin, had weathered all weather, but now it was torn to pieces and thrown into the ground with the glory of the Protoss Empire.

Everything has withered, the flowers and insects have died together, only the stone statues still standing under the majestic broken wall.In the province of Sion in Aiur, the zerg from the distant star region brought continuous war, killing and destruction when they set foot here.

"hiss--"

In front of Augustus, a huge Hydra Hydralisk, which was comparable in size to a heavy armored vehicle, was twisting its terrifying snake-like tail and screaming in the blue plasma flames. Fell to the ground.Even so, the Hydra Hydralisk still roared and tried to attack the surrounding human soldiers until the flames burned its charred skeleton.

Surrounding this hydralisk were several other corpses of the same kind. Their chitin carapaces were riddled with blood that had dried up long ago, obviously dead for a long time.

"What a monster." While watching his firebats pouring hot flames around the Hydra Hydralisk, Hanak Hanke controlled his firebat, which was one size larger than ordinary firebats. The red demon armor walked to Augustus' side.

"Even our instruments couldn't detect that it was playing dead."

"With my people here, Boss, you just have the leisure to shit here and someone will hand you toilet paper." He opened his helmet visor while talking, and lit a cigarette for himself with a piece of grass root embers from the burnt turf.

"Thank you for your kindness, Hank, I don't think I need to do that." Augustus felt a wave of heat and a burning sensation when Hanak approached, and couldn't help but turn Augustus, who was looking around the wilderness and observing the terrain Eyes on him.

Harnack had two more scars on his face, only his iconic fiery red cockscomb still remained the same.There is a beautiful teardrop-shaped charm on his right ear, which is said to have been given by a female protoss.

"Aha, I think so." Harnack smiled brightly.

"It's kind of you, Hank," Kerrigan snorted.

Kerrigan walked up to the Hydralisk, which was gradually no longer struggling, and blew away the flames on it with a snap of her fingers. Her spiritual power was no longer comparable to that of other humans. and.

Clearly, humans are evolving.Although gifted human psykers are still rare, the best of them have brought unimaginable shock to the protoss.

"This hydralisk is very smart, and the part of its brain responsible for thinking is more complex than other zerg." Kerrigan walked to the huge crowned head of the scorched hydralisk: "It is likely that the zerg has killed itself There are genes picked up from the populations of organisms that cause them to make this change."

"That's from some kind of snake that can pretend to be dead." Augustus watched the Hydralisk gradually disappear in its wailing: "Fortunately, your telepathy has always been very reliable, if you didn't react fast enough, Lieutenant Ireland Lose at least one leg."

"In the past few years, you have saved many people, many families. That's why I say that even if you were once regarded as a slave, a tool, or a whip of punishment and punishment by the Tyrann Federation, you are still being treated by others. needs."

"That's why you value me." Kerrigan felt something akin to being redeemed.

Kerrigan killed many people, both politicians and civilians, in her service to the Ghost Project as a Tyranid Federation ghost agent.As far as those calling Kerrigan's call are concerned, they may really deserve to die, but Kerrigan, who can read other people's minds, knows that some of them are innocent, and she doesn't want to kill some kind of family young heir.

But no one cares what Kerrigan thinks, she just lives as a killing tool, as if that's the meaning of her existence.But Augustus would tell her: I need you, and those who survived because of you will be grateful to you, because you are no longer a god of death who brings death, but a righteous soldier of the Revolutionary Army.

"That's not why I value you, I value you because you are Sarah Kerrigan." Augustus corrected Kerrigan.

"I know." Kerrigan's strong telepathic ability could feel Augustus's sincere thoughts more clearly.Just like a person expresses love to a telepath, then the other party is likely to be dazzled by the intensity of love.

"Oh—why am I standing here, goddamn it, I'm like a light bulb," Harnack whispered. "Is this appropriate? This is not appropriate."

"I'm just conveying the gratitude of the soldiers to Lieutenant Kerrigan. Many of them are grateful to her, but they still dare not contact a psyker." Augustus shook his head: "Many people also see you To be a hero, isn't it?"

"Didn't you hurt this face just to protect a child?"

"Yeah, not when I accidentally burn her." Harnack closed his mask in a rare emotion that others would call shyness.

But Harnak forgot the smoke in his own mouth, and not everyone had Tychus' iron lung.

Harnack had been a Shiloh street hustler, a curmudgeon with a thousand chances of being a criminal or just plain villain, but now he was indeed seen as a savior and a hero by those who met him.

This guy had aspired to be a federal marshal, and Augustus promised to help him realize his wish.The trajectory of many lives has been changed forever by Augustus, and they will think of him with gratitude at many times in their lives.

Augustus is now standing on a dilapidated hexagonal altar, surrounded by steles and a kind of staff-shaped torch.The torch was iron blue, but not bronze or rock, but some organic material with a fluorescent green glow.

Farther on all sides are endless black wasteland and dilapidated wasteland.Less than two months ago, here was a garden world more beautiful and prosperous than Agria, but now it is desolate.

Trees and weeds were consumed by fire or zerg creep, and even the roots and grass roots were uprooted until there was nothing left.

Under the erosion of the zerg creep covering the entire continent, there were not even weeds left, but there are still a few small pieces of primitive rainforest struggling, with withered branches and sick plants. The yellow leaves resemble the exposed bones and wrinkled skin of a terminally ill old man.

Under the increasingly scorching sun of Aiur, these sparse forests are glowing with a heavy orange-gray, and it is only a matter of time before they are swallowed up by the blazing sun's brilliance and creep.

A huge tower with a dome stands on a stone foundation dozens of yards away, surrounded by moss on the tower body and the top of the tower, and the strange characters and symbols burst out with emerald green brilliance that symbolizes life.When it was first completed, this beautiful giant tower was once high in the hinterland of the rolling Sien province, and its radiance could guide lost travelers in the mountains and boats on the lake.Even now, it is considered to be a manifestation of "miracles".

In the ancient and distant era, when the ancient protoss in the tribal era was still ignorant, the distant drifter on the world ship, the "mentor" of Ihan, and the creator Saelnaga once visited Aiur.They showed many miracles, making the technology of the protoss reach the space age in a very short period of time, and thus won the fanatical worship of the protoss.

And these Sarnaga temples, majestic towers and mysterious underground ruins that still stand on Ayer are part of the miracles, and the greatness of Naganaga can be seen almost everywhere in Ayer. creation.

This is a historic Nagarnagar watchtower. According to the protoss survivors here, it stands here to benefit the lost, but the engineers of Augustus believe that it was designed for war.

But when Augustus came here, the Xel'Naga Watchtower had already been dilapidated, and one-third of the tower had been lost before the Zerg invasion. Whether the Civil War or the erosion of time is impossible to verify.

However, even though it has been damaged beyond recognition, this Sarnaga watchtower can still be used normally.At this time, there are still many engineers of the Revolutionary Army who are climbing up the Sarnaga observation tower to set up communication equipment, and Victor Kaczynski, the second person in the engineering team, is thinking about how to connect human equipment with the observation platform in Sarnaga. Together.

Naganaga does not need an observatory to observe the stars, because they come from the stars of the universe.The protoss still can't understand the technology used in this majestic tower. The Xel'Naga Watchtower Observatory can monitor half of the land in the province of Thane, and it is much clearer than human orbiting satellites.

In the direction facing Augustus, all the way to the west is the junction of the three provinces of Sain Province, Villari Province and the seat of Koshaka, the heart of the Supreme Council. There is a large swamp with deep swamps.

To the north is the Middling Peaks (Middling Peaks, the place name of Ayer that appears in the short story All Silence) area, where the battle is most exciting in Thyne Province. With the Middling Peaks as the boundary, crossing it is the ruler descending on Ayer. The place where it fell.

That area was once a rich and charming province of the Protoss Empire, known for being home to the highest peak of Aiur and the most thrilling karst caverns, where underground caverns filled with clusters of Kedari crystals are as beautiful as crystal palaces. .

At this time, the protoss called it the Wasteland of Death to commemorate the protoss of the province who almost all died in the Zerg invasion, and the humans called it the land of the master, directly writing the land of the master.

Dominion also sits a glorious Xel'Naga Temple, which towers to the sky, as if supporting the sky of Aiur.It had similar features to the temples Augustus had seen on Sacoolas, home of the Dark Templar, but was absolutely unique.

Whether it was a coincidence or not, the day the Juggernaut descended on Aiur, it had merged with the Xel'Naga Temple.

With the former Xel'Naga Temple as the center, the Zerg's Tiamat, Golander, and Yermungandr swarms built a giant Zerg main nest around the wings, and Fenris, Belo The Ge and Behemoth groups spread on Aiur like plagues and locusts in the name of the dominant Zerg.The swarm occupied a large area of ​​the northern hemisphere, and only the heavily guarded Antioch-Sain Province-Capital region of the Protoss Empire was able to firmly block the attack of the swarm.

As Augustus looked in Kerrigan's direction, there was nothing left of the Midling Mountains that once separated the two great provinces like the backbone of a giant.It was once covered with lush green rainforest, with springs and waterfalls, but now it is ugly and repulsive.

There are a large number of Zerg organic buildings and honeycomb-like exoskeleton armor on its ridges and passes, turning the entire mountain into an insurmountable barrier and barrier.

In the past week or so, this place has become one of the main battlefields where the protoss-human coalition forces fought against the main force of the Zerg in a short period of time.After more coalition reinforcements arrived, Midlin gradually evolved into the center of the war, and it became an area that both sides tried their best to fight repeatedly at all costs.

The Midling Peaks themselves symbolized perseverance and the will to climb in the culture of the Protoss Empire, because one of the greatest Protoss explorers in the history of the Empire was buried there.In the past few days, this place name has been constantly mentioned in the communication network of the Revolutionary Army, but it has also become a terrible word that the soldiers who were injured here and forced to withdraw from the battlefield are unwilling to mention and recall.

When Augustus looked towards the Midlin peaks, a large number of blue flashes and barrages were intertwined in the sky above them, and countless zerg flying creatures and protoss human fighters were fighting under the clear blue sky of Aiur.

The dozen or so giant statues advancing on the ground like moving towers are like high walls lined up in a row. Thousands of feet of plasma beams sweep across the Zerg that keeps pouring in from the crypt, scattered across the source of the Midland River. The protoss templars and revolutionary combat divisions on a thousand square miles are like black ants when viewed from a high altitude.

Cannon fire raged, and everywhere was burning.

The loud noises in Augustus’ ears never subsided. He could tell which weapon was coming from the Revolutionary Army, and calculated in his mind when the shells should hit the ground. However, as the soul of the Revolutionary Army, he no longer had to Then face the hail of bullets as a frontline soldier.

Not far away, an arc tank was rumbling in under the command of the Marshal's Headquarters, followed by two pairs of Revolutionary Army soldiers in golden-red power armor, who had just arrived from the area of ​​the Temple of Antioch Yes, ready to join the battle order to storm the Midling Peaks.Augustus waved his hands to salute these people, and saw the sincerity and warmth like gold in the eyes of these soldiers who returned the salute solemnly.

"Take Midrin, warriors," said Augustus. "Victory stands by my side."

　Thanks for the support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)