From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 620 Doomsday, it seems, has irreversibly arrived at this moment

Tychus' muscles suddenly tensed, and every tendon was as taut as a fully drawn bowstring.

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his bulging temples, plowing tracks on his face full of wrinkles and ravines.

This tough guy who was not afraid of alien insects and powerful enemies was now like an insect nailed in amber, unable to move. After all, Athena's divine power turned into tangible pressure, causing his iron neck to make a "cracking" sound under the unbearable weight.

"Ho ho."

Tychus's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, and the airflow generated by the vibration of his vocal cords barely squeezed out broken syllables.

His gray-blue eyes, which usually carried a hint of sarcasm, were now bloodshot and his pupils were contracted. It seemed that this man, who could remain calm no matter what the situation, was now having trouble maintaining even the most basic breathing rhythm.

The specially made cage power armor began to emit a dying metallic groan.

The joint bearings sparked under the crushing power of God, and the multi-layered composite armor gradually twisted and deformed like tinfoil being kneaded by an invisible giant hand. Hydraulic oil splashed out from the burst pipeline, forming a sticky black puddle at Tychus' feet.

"I" Tychus said, each word as if it was forced out of his lungs:
"Mengsk has embedded a neural bomb in his power armor."

Upon hearing this, Jim Raynor's face became extremely gloomy.

Although the Ranger Commander noticed something unusual about his friend and the secrets he carried, he never thought that he would become a spy for his mortal enemy.

Then, Jim Raynor raised his exclusive large-caliber firearm, locked the muzzle on his friend's forehead with a steady movement, and asked:

"Since when?"

Tychus's mouth twitched into a twisted smile, saliva mixed with blood dripping from between his yellow-brown teeth. "New New Folsom"

Tychus, who was bearing the might of Athena, tried to cover up his trembling with his usual cynicism, "Do you really think that the perfect jailbreak was achieved by relying on my personal charm?"

The blood that suddenly welled up in his throat turned his self-deprecating laugh into a cough. "Ahem! That old fox even chose the color of the warden's mistress's underwear."

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At this reply, Jim Raynor's finger moved to the trigger.

But at this moment, Athena's Spear of Victory suddenly burst out with golden light.

The inscriptions carved on the spear seemed to flow with life, projecting a three-dimensional matrix in the air.

When the light shone on Tychus's breastplate, the shield suddenly became as transparent as glass, and the scarlet device hidden next to the cold fusion reactor was suddenly exposed.

In the core module where liquid energy was flowing, the emblem of the Mengsk family was flashing, surrounded by many encryption locks, which obviously could not be removed by ordinary means.

“Shit! That thing is connected to my brainwave map!”

Seeing this, Tychus suddenly roared, "As long as a non-preset disassembly procedure is detected-"

"Quiet."

Athena's voice was not loud, but it seemed to vibrate directly into everyone's bones.

She simply adjusted the angle of the spear tip slightly, and Tychus's jaw was lifted up by an arc of golden light.

When the goddess waved her left hand, tens of thousands of golden lights weaved in the air, and each pattern contained psychic laws that were difficult for mortals to understand.

Tychus's power armor began to be deconstructed at the molecular level.

The first thing to be peeled off was the outer composite armor, which evaporated into golden particles like dew in the sun.

Next came the hydraulic system; the dark, viscous liquid condensed into black gemstone-like crystals in mid-air.

When the deconstruction reached the neural connection layer, thousands of "wires" were pulled out from Tychus' spine, twisting in the air like silver snakes, and finally turning into light dust and dissipating.

In this process that was like "peeling an onion", Tychus's face was distorted into a nightmarish scene.

Although Athena's divine power protected his body, the conditioned reflex brought on by imprisonment still caused him to spasm all over.

When the last restraint ring was turned into powder, the strong man fell to his knees like a puppet with its strings cut, and his knees hit the ground with a dull echo.

His trembling fingers stroked the skin of his chest, and in the pile of vaporizing metal wreckage on the ground, the Mengsk family emblem flickered for the last time and was then engulfed by the surging golden flames.

"Hahahaha!" Tychus' laughter was hoarse at first and gradually turned into a deafening roar.

He grabbed a handful of dissipating metal ashes and scattered them into the sky, watching them transform into meteor-like golden light in the divine flames, "I can finally take off this iron coffin!"

Athena retracted her spear with the graceful movement of a swan bending its neck.

Each golden leaf on her olive branch crown was glowing with a faint golden light, and her pure white Greek costume was moving without wind.

When the goddess lowered her eyes to examine the kneeling mortal, there was neither pity nor contempt in her gaze, only the absolute insight of the deity into the chess piece of fate.

"Now." Her voice made the golden particles in the air resonate. "Tell me your complete truth. How much information have you passed on?"

"Not at all." Tychus, no longer oppressed by the divine might, wiped his face and looked at Jim Raynor and said jokingly:
"Every time that old bastard asked me to report, I made up dirty jokes about space pirates for him. Besides, even if I wanted to report the scene here, I couldn't get it out. So in the final analysis, I haven't become a real spy yet."

Athena's eyes shone with divine light. "You cannot lie in the realm of truth. Although this person is a prisoner, he has never betrayed you. As for how to deal with him, it is up to you to decide."

After saying this, the goddess turned and left, leaving the scene in an eerie silence.

The rangers looked at each other in bewilderment. They were used to battlefields where everything was either black or white, but they didn't know how to treat this tough guy who was both good and evil.

Tychus' words echoed in the air, with a bit of rough calmness.

Then, the tough guy wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and grinned at Jim Raynor, showing his signature smile:

"Why, little Jimmy, are you disappointed? Didn't you catch a real traitor?"

Renault still had his gun pointed at him, but his eyes were no longer as cold as before. He knew Tychus too well. This "bastard" might be talking nonsense, but he would never lie in a life-and-death situation, especially in the realm of a god's truth.

"You're a complete lunatic." Raynor finally cursed in a low voice and slowly put down the gun. "Knowing what kind of person Mengsk is, you dare to make a deal with him?"

Tychus shrugged, moving his long-lost shoulder joints: "Hey, life has to have some fun, and besides-"

He glanced at the remains of the power armor that had turned to ashes on the ground, "That old bastard is probably jumping up and down over the bomb that can't be exploded."

After a pause, Tychus glanced at the rangers who were on high alert around him, then looked at the space gate in the distance that reached into the sky, and a rare seriousness flashed in his eyes.

"Look, Jimmy, after what happened, I think we all understand--"

Tychus looked in the direction Athena left. "These guys have the support of the true gods, and they also have those war machines (flaming lizards) that are almost three meters tall. I think it would be better to team up with them temporarily? It's hard to lose here, and I just want to make a big fuss."

Upon hearing this, sparks of desire to fight ignited in the eyes of many rangers.

The miracle of the goddess's advent just now was too shocking, and the technology displayed by the space gate was far beyond their understanding.

A young soldier couldn't help but whisper: "It's so exciting to think about fighting side by side with the goddess!"

Renault was silent for a moment, his eyes moving back and forth between Tychus, Leon and Mike.

Finally, he took a deep breath and made a decision.

"Okay, let's form a temporary alliance." He extended his hand to Leon, "I need to borrow your communication equipment to contact my flagship."

Lyon naturally would not refuse this request, nodded slightly, and said:
"can."

Not long after, in the capital city of Ma Sara, the last remnants of the Tyran Empire were in an unprecedented panic. This once prosperous city has now become a steel "tomb".

Outside the towering fortifications, darkness shrouded the desert and Gobi, and what was even more desperate was that Ma Sara's low-Earth orbit had been completely blocked.

The battleships of the 3rd Flame Lizard Company were suspended in the sky like the god of death.

The fleet did not open fire, nor did it even approach the atmosphere, but its mere presence was enough to cause the entire city's defenders to collapse.

"Sir! Our communications are completely jammed!" a signalman reported tremblingly, "We can't even send out an emergency distress signal!"

Inside the command center, the commander of the Terran Empire had a grim look on his face. He stared at the red spots on the holographic sand table that represented the enemy ships, his fists clenched so hard that they made a clattering sound.

"What on earth are these monsters waiting for?"

No one answered.

But everyone knows the answer. The Flame Lizards are waiting for the defenders in the city to collapse on their own.

On the streets, the number of deserters is spiking.

The deserters helped each other to take off their power armor and military uniforms and blend into the panicked civilians.

The sound of executions by the gendarmerie rang out one after another, but with every body that fell, more people disappeared deep into the dark alleys.

Fear spread like a plague, and even the most loyal officers began to privately discuss the possibility of surrender.

The panic among civilians was even greater.

Merchants in the city frantically hoarded food, thugs in the slums took the opportunity to loot military supply warehouses, and the underground rebels, who had always opposed the rule of the Terran Empire, created chaos everywhere.

The power station was blown up, the water purification system was damaged, and even two transport boats that had not yet taken off turned into fireballs on the tarmac.

The nerves of the imperial defenders have been stretched to the limit.

"Command! Another riot broke out in Area D7! Requesting support for suppression!"

"Fuck the support! I'm about to be torn apart by the mob!"

"Are we going to fight those giants or not? Can we just give them a quick death?"

The communication channel was filled with roars of collapse.

Field commanders found that the looks in their soldiers' eyes were becoming increasingly strange; they had the ferocious look of wild beasts cornered into a corner.

In some barracks, some people even openly discussed "Why don't we kidnap the colonel as a token of our surrender?"

Just when this crazy undercurrent was about to erupt——

The dark night sky was suddenly torn apart by a green glare.

Everyone was stunned.

The light didn't look like the flash of any human weapon, but rather like some living thing breathing?

Immediately afterwards, continuous explosions and flames broke out in low-Earth orbit, and the atmosphere was stirred into a swirling, strange cloud.

"What's going on?! Are the orbital fleets exchanging fire?"

"No, that's not right! That's not our battleship at all!"

Whoosh————Boom——!!

The piercing scream tore through the night sky of Ma Sara City, like the sharp claws of the god of death cutting through the sky.

A large burning "meteorite" with a dark green tail flame slammed into the central square before anyone could react.

The smoke spread in a circular shape and the surrounding building glass exploded instantly. The crystal fragments were illuminated by the fire, like a deadly crystal rain.

The soldiers patrolling nearby were knocked to the ground by the shock, and the screen interfaces of their helmets were flashing impact warnings frantically.

When they recovered and gathered at the edge of the crater, they found that the road surface had collapsed, and some kind of steaming acidic mucus was still dripping from the edge of the center of the collapse.

"The reconnaissance team will go down and take a look!"

As the patrol captain issued orders, the five soldiers gradually approached the edge of the pit.

The pale beam of light from the helmet pierced into the darkness, and as they got closer, a creepy "clicking" sound became clearer and clearer, like countless bones rubbing against each other.

The private soldier walking in the front suddenly froze, because the shadows moving at the bottom of the pit were reflected on his helmet screen, and he shouted hurriedly:

"Sir, I think we should—"

The next second—

Roar--! !

A "bug" as big as a bull broke out of the ground, burning slime hanging on its shell, and its eyes flashed scarlet in the darkness.

Its blade-like forelimbs swung past with afterimages—

puff!

The lower body of the soldier in the front was still running, but his upper body, which was still holding the gun, had already slipped to the ground.

Blood gushed out from the cross section like a fountain, staining the armor of the surrounding soldiers dark red.

"Fire! Fire—"

The captain never finished his order.

Because more insects emerged from the ground, and the second and third ones appeared one after another.

Their shells were still stained with the foul slime from the sewers, and the digestive fluid dripping from their mouthparts corroded the ground with a hissing sound.

The patrol team had no time to form a defensive formation before they were completely overwhelmed by dozens of alien insects.

The last sounds coming from the communication channel were the metallic whine of power armor being torn apart by sharp claws and the teeth-grinding "crunch" of human bones being crushed.

The communications officer at the command center was pale, his trembling fingers barely able to hold the microphone:

"Attention everyone! Unknown creatures have appeared in the East District! I repeat, they are not rangers nor those giants! They are alien insects!"

But the warning was too late.

At this moment, the night sky has turned into the curtain of hell, and tens of thousands of meteorites are whistling down.

A meteorite accurately hit the roof of the hospital above the residential area. The insects that drilled out of the meteorite began to organize a massacre of medical staff and the wounded.

Inside the military fortress, the acid corrosion of an insect triggered a chain explosion in the closed ammunition depot, tearing the entire steel fortress apart from the inside.

The most horrifying things are the large meteorites that fell into the Gobi Desert. In the vast sea of ​​sand, dozens of huge mounds of earth are rising, as if some huge monster is about to break out of the ground.

The alarm lights at the command center cast a bloody shadow over everyone. The end of Ma Sara City seemed to have come irreversibly at this moment.
(End of this chapter)