StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 504: Griffin Swarm

A Becca Rowe proverb more or less reveals this terrible disaster, just when you think one thing is bad enough, beware, the next will only get worse.

When Old Brun returned home, the howling wind outside had turned into roaring thunder, and the slanting rain was like thick walls, and the weather became damp and cold.The sky was completely dark, and blue-violet lightning that was miles long bombarded the ground.

Becca Ro is a terrible place, with severe weather such as thunderstorms, hail, torrential rain and tornadoes for most of the year and very little good weather the rest of the year.This climate is common on many planets with atmospheres, but is particularly severe on Becca Ro.

Extreme weather would destroy the colonists' crops and mines, and rebuilding them would have required a tenfold effort.After all, not all planets are as warm and sunny as Tarsonis.

At this time, staying in a modular steel building with insulating coating is the most sensible choice.

"The children are back." Mrs. Brune was wearing an old and faded but well-laundered work shirt, and a dry towel was in her hand.

Becca Luo's Freeport has its own weaving workshop and tailor. They have long stopped doing business with other colonies of the Federation or interstellar merchants, so daily necessities and various tools have to be made and forged by themselves.

The equipment that was dismantled from the spacecraft in the early colonial era, once a part is broken, or even just a broken tube, there is no need to repair it.

This inherited torch colony is just a place where a group of people with the same tragic fate but longing to live in freedom gather together to keep warm.Many people in this generation are related and support each other.

The furnishings of Brun's house are also very simple. Even the tables, chairs and blankets have been used for many years.The people in Freeport haven't developed a class and wealth gap, which means they are mostly equally poor and living a hard life.

There are no TV stations on this planet. Although power stations and signal towers are still functioning normally, TV sets and radios are not available in every household.Even so, the people here have not given up hope of living, and want their children to receive education as much as possible.

"After the freeport general meeting, you follow Nicola to the seismometer and weather station outside of town. I'm really worried that something will happen." Rough, but the youthful firepower of youth can still be seen on the face.

In fact, old Brune and her wife are not old at all. They got married when they were sixteen or seventeen, and they are not yet thirty, but they are much older in appearance.

"What the imperial soldier said is true, is there really any alien monster coming to Becca Low?" she asked.

Old Brun took off his raincoat wrapped in a layer of tarpaulin and hung it on the hanger next to him to dry in the shade. The expression on his face was as gray as the sky: "Honey, I only hope that I am blind, But Brutus almost pissed his pants. Brutus is a good crop grower, and at that time he wanted to bury himself in the mud."

As he spoke, Mr. Brun lowered his voice: "I'm afraid it's true."

"It's terrible." Mrs. Brun looked at the torrential rain outside the window, as if she was afraid that a terrible monster would jump out of it.

"Forty Hills weather stations and farms lost contact with the town before, and this time it took longer than usual. With the sudden arrival of the Tyranid Empire, everyone was very upset. So, we drove the combine harvest Flyed to Forty Hills and saw only a few glider eagles and wall lizards. It was business as usual - although the usual weather was pretty bad." Brun said:

"Everyone was relieved that maybe the Imperials were just sensationalizing. But it didn't take long for us to see something was wrong," he said:
"The weather station in Forty Hills is covered with some kind of fungus, like purple mildew, and the weather balloon is full of veins and arteries like human tissue. Dr. McCarthy and his few who stayed there employees and students”

"Ah, what's the matter with them—he's a good man, and the doctor has been trying to improve Becca Rowe's harsh climate." Mrs. Brune felt a burst of sadness.

In Becca Luo, many people lose their lives every year due to extreme weather, and talents with important skills such as scientists and mechanics will be difficult to cultivate once they die unfortunately.The technology and civilization of this small place will only continue to degenerate unless they get out of their own development path.

"They all turned into monsters, monsters with fangs and sharp teeth, and their skin became as slimy as fish." Brun said with lingering fear:
"Everyone panicked at the time, and Nicholas even ran away. Only Kirsten and I picked up the shotgun." It was hard to say how much bragging there was in Mr. Brun's words, and he coughed Said, placing the old Torrent shotgun behind his back on the corner of the table: "I killed one, and Kirsten killed the other."

"Then we drove back—it was a nightmare. How could humans have become like that, what made them that way. If the data disk that the Imperials gave Nikolai recorded If it's true, then it was the zerg that killed McCarthy and the others."

"And the scientists of the Tyranid Empire call that an infection."

"Holy Virgin Mary, Forty Hills is only a dozen miles away from here. Those monsters who can kill people in the weather station can do the same to people in Freeport." Mrs. Brun was stunned for more than ten seconds, Only then recovered from the shock.

"But where can we escape? Leaving Freeport, our fate will not be better than staying here."

"I can only ask the imperial army for help, and I hope they will lend a helping hand. If it is the Federation, even if they will provide support to Freeport, they will take the opportunity to control the entire town, put forward additional conditions for military protection and force us to pay military expenses . . . though they could have done it without this excuse." Brun sat down in his chair:
"There's no time to organize another citizens' meeting. Several old people in the town have unanimously decided to seek military help from the Empire, no matter what price we have to pay." He whispered, as if he was afraid of disturbing the two people in the bedroom. children:

"It's not just the weather station, it's a dozen family farms far from Freeport. It's getting worse and even the dogs and livestock are turning into some kind of monster."

This generation of Beka Luo people is different from the previous generation, they will never cling to the past experience.

"Hopefully the storm that was a complete disaster for us in the past can also stop those enemies." He took a cup of tea from his wife and moistened his throat.The man who had never left Becca Luo realized that he was the only support for his wife and children at this time.

It was tea steeped in salad moss, and wheat and oats occupied the only land in this mountainous and barren rugged terrain of Beka Ro.As for coffee and tea, the locals have long stopped growing them. Even if all the land is planted with food, it will be difficult to feed everyone.

"There are a few missile turrets left by the previous people in Freeport, which may come in handy. We have pulse guns to deal with large beasts, but we have long been out of ammunition."

"I don't know whether I should trust those imperial people. Most people in the town hold the same opinion as me. This is the rule set by our fathers. People in Becca Luo support themselves with their own hands, and they will never Go back to the Tyrann Federation." He went on to say:
"The military officer has been emphasizing the difference between the Empire and the Federation. He said that the Tyrann Empire was established by a group of people who overthrew the Federation. The Emperor of the Tyrannian Empire did better than the Federation Council and the founding family——our We all hope that smart merchants should not exaggerate when they sell themselves."

"My father only told me before he passed away. He stared at me and asked me to remember: Never trust the Federation. I will never forget his expression at that time. I only hope that the Tyrann Empire and the Tyrannian Federation are the best It really makes a difference."

"An army to protect the people? That ceased to exist about two centuries ago." Mrs. Brune is a wise woman, and it is with this wisdom that she raised her children with limited food.

"But if there is a group of people fighting against the enemy of mankind, they may indeed be nothing like the Union soldiers our fathers saw."

"Yeah." Bren nodded, coughed again uncontrollably, and suddenly felt uncomfortable all over.

Brun's face was almost as green as his skin when suddenly he saw green spots appear on the back of his hand.

He had seen such skin not long ago—on those compatriots who had turned into monsters for some reason.

When is it
infection?

In what form, by what means of transmission, is it still possible to cure the infection?
Brun thought of some kind of purple-black gelatinous blanket spreading beneath their feet, and though they were careful not to approach the infected buildings and twisted humanoid monsters, it still made those disgusting sticky, snot-like material adhered to the boots.

A combination of shock, anger and remorse made Brun's heart tense, and he stood up immediately, distanced himself from his wife.He was more worried about his family than himself at the moment.

There have also been outbreaks of infectious disease in Freeport, but it was spread through the rainy weather and the moldy grain that was left in the ground because it was not harvested in time, that is, food.

According to the information and warnings given by the empire, although in their so-called all-out war period, that is, after 2491, the Zerg virus and infection were not the main means of attack by the Zerg.Their methods of spreading the virus are not clever, and infected people will not infect healthy people, causing cross-infection again.

Until recently, a brain worm named Carlos appeared in the human field of vision, which further perfected the Zerg infection method, and has bred new Zerg variants carrying a large number of microscopic parasites and mold viruses.

Today, gigantic spore ejection clusters are capable of spraying trillions of infection spores across the universe. ——This alone is already extremely terrifying. Once the extremely tiny spores enter the planet's atmosphere, they can be scattered all over the planet, attaching to the air currents and rivers to find their hosts.

The way the zerg spread the infection is also unpredictable, and of the known ways, other than spores dispersed in the air, many people don't even know how they are infected.

Kalos's swarm is possibly the most fearsome zerg that humanity has ever encountered, and its purpose is to destroy the human enemy.Once the disease spreads throughout the Koprulu sector, it will be a terrible catastrophe.

The Tyrann Empire officially named Carlos, and its group was the plague group, which was named Griffin by Emperor Augustus (Griffin, a griffin in Greek mythology, with the head of a griffin).

"What's wrong? What happened?" Mrs. Brune had never seen such an expression on her husband's face.

"I was infected by the Zerg. On the way, I contracted the terrible disease that the soldier called. I don't know how long I can live, and I may die soon." Brun was silent for a few seconds or more It's been a long time, but he has made up his mind when he shows his wife the bulging veins and scars with hyphae on his wrist.

He silently put on the raincoat he was wearing when he came back, and took his gun:
"You may have also been infected while talking to me—" The larger man with dark brown shaggy hair paused:
"Honey, you have to lock yourself in this room now. Do not open the door to the children, no matter how much they cry or plead. When the doctors and scientists from the Tyranid Empire arrive, they will tell you What should I do."

"I have to get out of here and warn the others." He opened the door and jumped into the wind and rain that could knock people down again:
"After all this is done, I will go to the automatic refinery. Only the flames can prevent the further spread of the epidemic."

"farewell."

Mrs Brune was a strong woman, but by the time the door closed again, she was in tears.

Outside the door, a torrential rain was pouring in, and Brun realized that his physical condition was rapidly deteriorating.It's more likely that he was infected hours ago and just had an episode now.

Fortunately, he didn't meet many people.

The weather was already getting worse, and the wind seemed capable of knocking Brun down entirely.The storm hovered in the twilight sky, and the only light in the sky was gone, only the bright lights in the free port remained.

The sound of the wind was as shocking as ghosts crying and howling wolves, but in Bruner it was like the roar of a monster.

Brun's mind was still wide open, and he only hoped it wasn't a flashback.He had to find those who were also likely to be infected together, and persuade them to leave with him.

Then, he will broadcast to inform everyone to unite and persevere until the reinforcements from the Tyrann Empire arrive.

(End of this chapter)