StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 601

Even in the daytime, the top of the Imperial Fortress in the Cactus Canyon is gray, and the gray fog and dust soaring into the sky make visibility extremely low.

From last night to this afternoon, the deafening gunfire and violent explosions of heavy weapons have never subsided. Bombs fell from all around the fortress, and dense rockets, pulse cannons, and railguns interweaved a dead jungle above.

"Commander, tactical analysis shows that the number of insect swarms far exceeds ours."

"It's commonplace." Augustus scanned the long string of numbers on the screen and the thrilling units behind.

The Phaethon galaxy is crowded with zerg, and the swarms in the orbit of the planet can also be said to block the sky. There are so many of them that when the huge Leviathan swarm takes off, the Phaethon's The moon was all dimmed.

At this moment, the extremely bright white light outside the window suddenly flashed, followed by a violent roar, and even the Star Chart Platform vibrated.

"The Minotaur-class battlecruiser Eris was destroyed, and the captain and crew have successfully abandoned the ship and escaped." A staff officer reported to Augustus.

"Confirm where the lifeboat landed, and they must be rescued." Augustus immediately ordered.

It's just that Augustus knew in his heart that the chances of these crew members surviving were extremely slim, and the Zerg didn't have any chivalry, and the lifeboats might have been destroyed before they landed.If someone was lucky enough to land on the surface, considering that the entire area of ​​Cactus Canyon except the stronghold has fallen to the zerg, they just jumped from one fire pit to another.

"Your Majesty, an army of insect swarms is attacking us from the south." Another officer reminded Augustus loudly: "The defense troops have lost too much in the next round of attack by the Jormungandard swarm. Their commanders have called for reinforcements."

The command center where Augustus is located has been transformed into a planetary fortress equipped with Ibex machine guns.Hundreds of anti-aircraft missile towers, induction towers, communication towers, and psionic jammers stood around the planetary fortress. A few hundred yards away was a fortification wall made of alloy steel, which was actually at the forefront of the war.

Obviously, this swarm army is coming for Augustus, because both the Xel'Naga Artifact and Dr. Narud have been moved nearby.

"Where are our reserves?" asked Augustus.

"They all went up." The other party replied, "They set off an hour ago."

"Faraday, let the royal guard go up." Augustus said immediately.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Faraday obeyed immediately. If the fort fell, it would be meaningless to have more royal guards guarding the emperor.

Moreover, Faraday believed that, in terms of the density of the Dark Templar around the emperor, even a cannonball falling on his head would automatically bounce off.Those court ministers who were summoned by the emperor would never have imagined how many pairs of eyes were staring at them in the palace of Auguste Grad, and except for those with a bit of telepathic talent, they would never find anything wrong in their lifetime.

By displaying his personality charm and diplomatic lobbying, Augustus officially obtained a shadow guard from the Archbishop of Durham as a guard force when he became emperor, which is unique in the history of protoss and human beings. Probably and never again will a human being be honored.

If it were any other race, the Tyranid Empire would have to worry about these powerful dark masters taking their emperor hostage, but the Protoss neither disdains nor sees the need for that.Augustus Mengsk has proved his friendship with the protoss with practical actions. Even if he is not alive, the protoss will always remember his great deeds of saving hundreds of millions of protoss in Aiur.

Once gained the friendship of the protoss, the bond between them can only be severed by the death of one of them.

"General Ulysses, is there any news from the other imperial troops outside Faer?" Farah was the first to leave, and there were not many people left around Augustus, and not long ago he had just sent Arctur Prince Si and his Prince's Guard sent out.

General Ulysses Hargrove is in charge of maintaining liaison with Imperial forces on other worlds.When the master mobilized the army to attack Phaeton, most of the imperial fleet was intercepted on the way to help.

Of course, this is intentional.Augustus wants to use the Nova Impact of the Xel'Naga Artifact to greatly weaken the power of the swarm, but he is reluctant to lose all his belongings.

"Although communication was blocked, they basically responded," Ulysses replied.

"General Jaco Bennett and General Hanak Hank also sent a message from the secret channel, saying that they will arrive at the home planet of the original Zerg Zerus after the next hyperspace transition." He went on One to Augustus reported:

"General Edmund Duke has arrived in Braxis to keep an eye on the war between the Primal Zerg and the Tal'darine Protoss."

Since the Tyrann Empire brought the original zerg to the territory of the Tadalin protoss, these two masters who refused to admit defeat have completely clashed.Let's put it this way, the original Zerg is a character who refuses to accept and does it to the end, and Tal'darin is also the ultimate villain.

These two ruthless men have been fighting for several months, and it has spread to the nearby imperial world.To weaken the Tal'darine is to weaken Amon's power to a certain extent, but Augustus also has to be careful to prevent them from going to fight on their own territory.

"Warfield commanded a large fleet consisting of seventeen squadrons to guard the Formica-Lorenzo-Garan star field between Phaethon and the blessed land of the empire." General Ulysses continued:
"General Pryor sent troops to Gavill, and within a day he took down that planet and established a base. He also found three samples of the latent cluster genes of the Tiamat swarm on Gavill, It is being sent to Stetman's lab in Korhal. This sample will be used in research related to the upgrade of Widow Ray's groundclaw blades"

"Very good." Augustus had already forgotten whether he had given Prior the next task, but that didn't matter.

"What about the support promised by the Umoyans?"

"They said it was still on the way," Ulysses said, "but the Umoyans did send a large number of high-end military products such as Eradicator combat robots and mine-sweeping drones.

"Youmoyang Council is willing to pay as long as it is willing." In fact, in Augustus' view, Umoyang only needs to pay him.

The Umoyans paid for the equipment, and the Camerians paid for the resources. This deal was quite a bargain.

"Infected Gerald Dugal has raised an army of infected people called the Army of Darkness in Char to invade our border, and General Alexei Stukov is raising the army." Yuli Sith said:
"Many mimetic larvae were found in core worlds such as Keha and Tarsonis, but they did not cause panic among the people."

Of course UNN made a lot of publicity about the emperor's conquest, but the people of the empire didn't know that Augustus was in Phaethon.Only after the campaign is over will the incident be revealed, perhaps with a documentary.

Of course, Augustus's personal conquest still caused a lot of opposition in the empire, especially the officials of the empire and people loyal to the royal family.

The emperor's daughter is only three years old, and has not yet been designated as the heir by the emperor.If both the emperor and Prince Arcturus were killed in battle, the empire would surely be in chaos.At that time, no matter who succeeds, it will be difficult to stabilize the situation.

By then, though, the Tyranid Empire would have been devoured by the swarm.

"Gerald, who was a supporter of human supremacy, is really embarrassing now that he has fallen into this situation." Augustus said:

"Of course, the saddest should be General Stukov."

"After so many years, the swarm infection has obviously distorted Dugal's mind. Dugal can no longer be called a human being. It should be strange if he still thinks from the standpoint of a human being." Ulysses S said.

"What is that brain worm doing?" Suddenly, Augustus asked again.

Since the Royal Cerebral Worm α was sent out, it has indeed made a lot of contributions.Its Cerberus swarms are mainly used to infiltrate the zerg nests and destroy the vital hatching grounds of the zerg.

There is such a rebellious swarm among the swarm army, it is no wonder that the brain worms are so angry.In the highly ordered pyramid of the swarm, it is absolutely impossible for the cerebrates to disobey the order of the master, but there is obviously an exception.

When it comes to sneaking around every corner, this cerebrate is not bad at all.

It's just that it never dared to get close to the master, for fear of being controlled again.And as long as powerful groups like Yermungad and Tiamat appear, they will run away immediately.

This guy definitely has abilities, and he is very big, but he is afraid of death.

"Cerebrate α is on Genesis, and it hasn't moved for two weeks." General Ulysses said:

"It appears that it is not as loyal as it appears to be."

"I think it's scared out of its wits." Augustus shook his head: "Gongfeng, I remember that it was just a poorly developed agricultural world that didn't join the empire until recently."

"Great wine is abundant, and the food culture there is also unique in the Tyrann Empire." Ulysses said: "The local officials complained that an airborne marshal ordered him to send Coke and fried chicken every day. Not only that, it And openly accepting bribes."

"Unimaginable corruption has appeared on a brain worm, which really damages the image of the imperial soldiers."

"I knew it." Augustus knew that he couldn't expect a brain worm to be a human being: "Tell it, just say that I already know about this matter, and let it figure it out."

"They are coming!" At this moment, someone in the headquarters shouted.

Looking down from the towering planetary fortress, thick smoke is billowing outside the fortifications.

Just like the usual attack method of the Jormungandrad swarm, large numbers of zerglings are rushing to the front, while the terrifying Hydra Hydralisks are behind, mixed with a large number of banelings, cockroaches and lurkers, From a distance, it looks like a torrent made of carapace.Yermunga is represented by luxurious purple, they are just like the meaning of the name, they are the snakes that devour the world.

Augustus noticed that Jormungandr's army of swarms had also been mixed with some new monsters - destroyers.The Ravager is a new variant of the cockroach, a violent and irritable creature that is also more powerful and cruel.

This is a creature larger than the Hydra Hydralisk. Its towering back has evolved stronger bone armor and hardened bone spurs.By projecting bone plates, the Destroyer is able to spray hideous acid-corroding bile at its enemies.

The saboteur's corrosive bile is terrifying, not so much bile as a bright orange plasma powerful enough to tear through human fortresses and tanks.

Corrosive bile has a long range, long enough to threaten bunkers and fortresses beyond the range of human weapons, so whenever a saboteur appears, it means a hard fight for their enemies.

This terrifying monster should be a variant of the Zerg that appeared on the eve of the End War. It was first discovered by the Empire in 2505, and since the second generation master returned from Zerus, the evolution rate of the Zerg has also increased. is accelerating.

Of course, this is also related to the fighting methods of the Tyrannian Empire.

Under the leadership of Emperor Augustus Mengsk, the army of the Tyrannian Empire repaired fortresses and hoarded supplies whenever they went to war.Unless there is a large-scale mechanized force, equipped with powerful tanks and mechs, the imperial army will try to avoid unfavorable field battles as much as possible and turn the war into an offensive and defensive war, using fortresses and heavy firepower to consume the Zerg's strength.

Every time the swarms that fought against the empire had to face solid cities and armor, the cerebrates had to find a weapon that could smash the turtle shells of the Tyranids.

Destroyers are born.This is a bio-mortar that can move and bite, a bio-cannon in the true sense of the word.

Augustus saw a large mass of scalp-numbing orange light ejected from the spine plates of the saboteurs surrounded by dense bony spurs, and a deadly rain of light immediately fell from the sky.Immediately a puff of black smoke rose from the fortifications of the fortress, and there were explosions and flames one after another.

This is just the prelude to the attack. In the distance, a large group of different dragons appeared in the sky. Among them, there will be a giant flying creature like a manta ray, and many smaller creatures are crouching on it.

"Brood Lord," said Ulysses.

"They don't fly high enough to be dealt with by anti-aircraft fire."

Brood Lords are also a variant that only appeared after the Second Total War. They are mutated from Mutalisks, and they are a kind of swarm space carrier that can drop a large number of living Broodworms from the air to the ground.The broodworms they unleash are short-lived creatures, not much larger than a springtail, but also extremely vicious.

"Use a nuclear bomb." Augustus ordered directly: "Blast them all into glass."

"Ulysses, I will leave this place to you." After speaking, he walked out of the headquarters and came outside the planetary fortress.

Outside is the rotating Sael'Naga Artifact, with a faint blue flash of charging completion flashing on it, while Dr. Narud next to him is sweating profusely doing final adjustments, saying to himself Just say "it will be better soon", "God bless" and the like.

Maybe Dr. Narud is really in a cold sweat. He can't figure out why a suspicious human emperor would trust the alien race so much. How can anyone travel with seventy or eighty dark templar masters and a hundred top ghost agents behind him? of.

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