StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 713 Narud is a bad old man, full of bad water
"Did you hear that, Amon? The Empire is not so easily defeated."

With the roar of Faraday, the commander of the Keha Defense Army, in the command center, the unclean red cloud covering August Grad finally faded, revealing a blue sky suddenly, with white clouds shining in the golden sunlight. The next is brilliant.

After the cloud cleared, people saw a bleak scene. The once tidy streets were in a mess, with potholes and shockingly huge bullet casings embedded in the road.The majestic high-rise buildings, statues and monuments of Augustgrad crooked and collapsed in the rising black smoke columns, and the magnificent railroad tracks, turnouts and bridges surrounding the city collapsed in sections, like broken The spine stretched across the back of the black dragon.

Many areas were the scene of a fire burnt through, with clouds of smoke and dust blocking light from reaching the ground.Destroyed homes, facilities, and roads are in dire need of repairs, traffic is sluggish, and the public transport system has been shut down, but it's only a fraction of the scale that August Gradle faced in the aftermath of the disaster.

But in any case, everything can't be worse than Keha ten years ago, when all they inherited was a radioactive wasteland, and there was not even a sound stone in the shattered earth arrive.

When the first batch of residents returned to their homes one after another, imperial soldiers from various combat units were still guarding the traffic arteries, and huge mechs could be seen striding through the windows without interruption, shocking The floor and window glass rattled.

Through the matte masks and the cockpit, people could not clearly see the soldiers' faces and hear the voices of the soldiers, so they all appeared silent and calm.

Compared with the loss of the city, the casualties of civilians are even more heartbreaking.Under the layers of white cloth next to the excavator lay horrible corpses, some of which were dripping with blood and barely human-like, while others were black charcoal with only human shapes recognizable.

When this terrible disaster came, the people in Augustgrad still knew nothing about what they were going to face, and the fear of the unknown and the invisible was sometimes more terrifying than the real enemy.

Many people still don't know who the enemies who invaded Augustgrad are. Sometimes they are protoss and zerg, sometimes they are humans, but it is clear at a glance that they are not real flesh and blood creatures.Facing those marines covered under armor, you can clearly feel that they are living, flesh-and-blood people, but those void creations do not have such emotions, they really come from a different dimension .

A bloody and inescapable fact has been placed in front of the people of the empire. It is not safe to stay on the heavily guarded capital of the empire. So is there really a safe place in the Koprulu sector?
War has come.

Since the alien civilization first appeared in front of the world, the flames of war have never been far away from this ill-fated star sector.Every war is magnificent and protracted, and every war is a preview of the next more terrible war, which is bigger and more brutal each time.

The catastrophe came so suddenly and ended so quickly that no other Imperial world outside Korhal knew of it.Augustgrad was hit hard, other cities on Korha were affected, and the number of casualties continued to increase.

Later this afternoon, the once-interrupted Augustgrad UNN radio channel finally brought the news that everyone was looking forward to.

Kate Rockwell, who took over control of the UNN studio after host Doni Vormilian accidentally sprained his ankle while trying to avoid danger, told the audience who were standing in front of the televisions and car radios that a The attack on August Grad has been defused, disaster is over, and victory has come again.But everything that happened in Augustegrad cannot be resolved with understatement, and the subsequent losses and casualty statistics are even more worrying.

What really troubles UNN is how to explain the existence of void fragments and void creations to the public. This cannot be solved by opening a few more popular science columns. It is better to admit to the public that hell and demons exist, but God It's hard to say whether there is an angel or not.

One thing is for sure, although the Tyranid forces had encountered the Void armies in Atriaes and Sacoolas, it was the first time they had appeared so close to the public.

Even after the void shards had been cleared away, the imperial forces that entered Augustgrad took great pains to wipe out the gushing void creations.Fortunately, without the energy support from void shards and void cracks, void creatures cannot exist in the real world for too long, and will eventually dissipate due to exhaustion of energy, otherwise what happened in Augustgrad The war will continue to prolong and cause more damage.

In the past, humans only knew that their enemies were protoss and zerg, but they knew little about the enemies in the void.Obviously, these must be some more terrifying monsters, they are weird and evil, killing rampantly, without any scruples.

The imperial government is not going to hide it from the people, whether it is the soldiers or the people fighting for the empire, they should know who their enemies are.The tragedy of Augustgrad should make them loathe Amon, not succumb to invisible fear.

Compared with the real zerg and hybrids, the empty and mysterious void can arouse fear in human hearts more.Some extreme religious organizations among humans in the Koprulu sector have begun to believe in the god of darkness, Amon, and hybrids. These concepts will soon be demonized or sanctified due to the barriers of time and geography.

Leave it alone and it will only get worse.

Empress Sarah Kerrigan, making her first public appearance through the media since the disaster, did not shy away from the loss of August Grad, but everyone who was terrified could get out of the empress' composure. Comfort on the majestic face.

The queen is being interviewed in a devastated park square, not in a heavily guarded palace. She is wearing a military uniform with a gun on her waist, which is more suitable for her blade-like temperament than those gorgeous dresses.The emperor of the Tyrannian Empire never needed beautiful women to decorate his court in Augustegrad. On the contrary, the palace was only built to serve as a foil for the queen.

People wouldn't know that if it wasn't for the fact that the palace still needed an indispensable figure to sit in charge and preside over the overall situation, their queen would have already led the imperial generals to charge into battle.

Empress Kerrigan's unflappable words lead people to believe that the Empire has finally saved Augustgrad before it was about to sink into the abyss of destruction and worse.Now that the disaster is over, the families of the victims will receive pensions and relief, and they will soon rebuild their homes, as always.

"Nearly a quarter of the urban area was affected by this attack and suffered varying degrees of damage. The city of Blivov is the most serious. At present"

Ursadak Park Square used to be a part of Augustgrad’s spectacle-like landmark building with its huge area and magnificent buildings. There are beautiful fountains and monuments everywhere, and wide boulevards. At the far end stands a memorial statue of the Marines erected by the Empire for the Brood War.

But now, the entire square has almost been reduced to ruins, and the debris left by the collapse of void fragments is scattered everywhere on it, and the sharp fragments are embedded in the square like javelins.The void shards are products that emerged directly from nothingness. Its material composition is different, and it emits a faint purple-black light under the sun.

Next to a huge void shard wreckage in Usada Park Plaza, Kerrigan is listening to a report from Augustgrad city officials. Behind her are some UNN film crews, and the rest are royal Officer of the Guards and Imperial Marines.

The rumble of excavators and cranes is all around, and some dexterous sentry mines are walking up and down among the ruins with their mechanical feet, like a few spiders slipping through the gaps.

Medical transport planes carrying battlefield triage stations and intensive care units roared past in the sky almost every moment, and the Minotaur-class battlecruiser Helios (Helios, crashed in the Battle of Wings of Liberty) Warfield's flagship) a huge shadow was hanging over the square, and shining lights were projected from gray clouds.

At this moment, the eyes of these people looking at Kerrigan can almost be said to be "shocked". They have seen the Queen use the power of psychic power to pull up the reinforced concrete of a collapsed skyscraper, and rescued the people who were buried in it. With such great power, it is hard for people not to doubt whether she still belongs to the category of human beings.

Kerrigan rarely shows her abilities among other people, but such power is no longer comparable to her in Ghost Agent.

"Yeah, yeah" Kerrigan nodded repeatedly to the imperial official, and issued orders from time to time, which were immediately recorded by the recording officer next to him.A lot of black dust fell on the face of the Empress of the Empire, but it still couldn't conceal her solemn beauty.

All the voidshards in Augustgrad have been destroyed, but it will take quite some time for the wounds of the war to heal.Fortunately, the world around Keha has not been hit, and the core world of the empire is still safe and sound, and with the power of the first star of the empire, everything will soon be back to normal.

This is a warning, and it is also a turning point when the Tyrann Empire is about to enter a more thorough state of war.Resources from the mining world and the outlying colonies will also be continuously delivered to the core world, and hundreds of foundries will be running at full capacity, producing countless armor and cannon to arm the army and fleet of Augustus the Great.

When the final battle comes, the Tyrann Empire will not only have to face the invasion of the second-generation master swarm, but also the entire golden fleet of the Dharam Protoss and countless void creations. A battle of annihilation.

"Lieutenant Nova is here."

At this time, Nova Terra, the commander of the Imperial Special Forces, arrived with several soldiers, and the UNN film crew stopped filming immediately.

Dressed in a classic blue-and-white skintight battle suit with a Firestream shotgun strapped to her back, Nova is the perfect Ghost, tough, smart, capable, and dangerous.

As the commander of the empire's covert operations force, Nova's identity has never been revealed, and few people know that she is actually a well-clothed noble boy. It's just the death of her father and her view of psychic talent that made her go down the road. the road now.

Few people know that the relationship between Kerrigan and Nova is more like a master-student relationship, and Nova is almost raised as a daughter.

"Compared to these shadows of the void, the Void Ripper is more like a void creature from the void, but there are not many of them." Nova talked about her experience on the battlefield as soon as she met Kerrigan. knowledge.

Void Rippers are powerful behemoths born in the Void. They can be summoned by Amon and enter the present world by tearing the space-time rift between the Void and reality.

"Void Ripper. It scares us far more than hybrids." Kerrigan once witnessed a Void Ripper appearing on Korhal sweeping an energy lightning filled with void energy. Center Building, destroying an Imperial Marine Corps.

They would surely have wrought even more havoc in Augustgrad if it weren't for the Void Rippers themselves being locked in place by the void rift beneath them.

"I think Amon is terrorizing us," Nova said, "but if he has the power to drag all our planets and even armies into the void, why not?"

"If Amon can do it, then he doesn't need the army of hybrids and Dharam protoss." Kerrigan said: "Amon will think that humans are weak, but the Tyranid Empire is not."

"Eamon thought it would scare us, but he was wrong."

"Your Majesty, we have received a report that the Emperor's flagship has arrived in Korha's outer space orbit." While they were talking, an officer brought new news.

"He's back with the fleet?" Kerrigan asked the officer. "All of it?"

"Yes." The other party replied.

"A bit late, but that's okay." Nova looked at Kerrigan and said, "If Amon's attack on Augustgrad was to get all our fleet back, then he succeeded."

Kerrigan couldn't help defending Augustus, saying: "Augustus said that Amon is actually arrogant and self-centered, as long as he feels that he has no plans and thinks that we are doomed, everything will go down. develop in a direction that is beneficial to us.”

In general, Augustus knew what Amon wanted to do, and he did it on purpose.

"He really knows Eamon," Nova said.

"He knows us better than he knows himself," Kerrigan continued.

"Hey, are you sarcastic?" Nova asked.

"I didn't say that." Kerrigan spread her hands.

A few minutes later, Kerrigan received a communication from Augustus, who was apparently on the bridge of the flagship White Star.When Augustus was inquiring about the situation of Augustegler, Jim Raynor arrived with his fleet and the Xel'Naga worldship retrieved from the Sigma sector.

"Ask Jim, who is driving the ship now?" Augustus looked at General Wachowski beside him: "That world ship shouldn't stop on Keha's orbit."

"What's wrong?" Kerrigan asked.

"It's too close," said Augustus.

(End of this chapter)