After the family dinner, Augustus returned to his room from the dining room on the pretext that he needed an early rest.
The Mengsk family's manor villa built on a mountain cliff has hundreds of gorgeously decorated rooms inside. Corridors with mahogany floors and staircases covered with expensive carpets connect the various halls and floors together. There are more male servants than there are rooms.
,Daily maintenance by maid and gardener.
Augustus followed his own memories and walked through the corridor where the gold-framed portraits of the Mengsk family ancestors were hung on the walls. He climbed the cherry blossom wood stairs and entered the floor with bedrooms and paper libraries. Finally, at a door
He stopped in front of the room with the English bronze plaque "Au" nailed on it with golden rivets.
Underneath the bronze medal is a promotional poster for the Terran Federation Marine Corps. The background of the poster is the surface of a lunar planet covered with craters, and the dark sky above. Several male and female Federation officers who are as handsome as stars are standing there.
On a high ridge of sand dunes, they gathered around with formulaic bright smiles, and each stretched out his hand to hold a flag fluttering in the wind.
The false and ridiculous show, even the synthesized pictures, is ten thousand times more real than this.
——This is what the original Augustus said about the poster. But despite this, he still posted it on the door, just to prove to his father his determination to join the army.
Next to Augustus' room are the bedrooms of Arcturus and Dorothy. The door of the former's room is only engraved with the same bronze plate with the English letters "AR" on it, while the door of the latter's room is engraved with "AR".
An abstract purple pony is painted on it. There are no door handles or keychains on all the doors. Where the handles should have been, there are square grooves about two inches on a side and one inch deep.
Standing at the door, Augustus thought carefully for a moment. Then he inserted his right index finger deep into the groove, and the head plate engraved with English letters immediately turned over. A small round camera protruded from the door and projected in front of him.
A holographic projection screen with a bright blue background.
The words flashed on the screen: Facial recognition completed. Fingerprint recognition completed. Iris recognition completed. Gene recognition completed. Records uploaded, 24-hour genetic database refreshed, unlocked, time March 25, 2488 AD
,22:37.
This is the world of StarCraft, a future world in the 25th century. But modern people may have no advantage at all when they come here.
There was a clang and the door opened.
Augustus walked into the bedroom and turned on the chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The soft white light passed through the hollow ceiling carved with white patterns and immediately illuminated the entire bedroom. The furnishings of the bedroom were not considered luxurious.
There is a lattice window with a bronze frame on the wall. Through the glass of the window, you can see the huge courtyard of the holiday villa. In the courtyard are the lush green gardens and gardens under the lights.
These evergreen plants are full of vitality and the fragrance of flowers is fragrant. Thin gravel roads separate the green world and lead to the building where servants and guards live. Outside the fence, a wider and straighter asphalt road leads directly to
A cold gray near-Earth spacecraft is parked on the helipad and an underground garage filled with various hover cars and armed armored vehicles.
The other two walls each have a single bed and bookshelves filled with books. Hanging next to the bookshelves are some firearms, including handicraft-like muzzle-loading guns, colonial-era semi-automatic weapons and the latest electromagnetic guns.
It turns out that Augustus liked firearms very much, not just for collecting, but he was also able to use these weapons skillfully. This was one of the reasons why Augustus wanted to join the army. If his brother Arcturus wanted to become
Prospector, Augustus' dream is to become a general across the galaxy.
Augustus lay on the bed and began to think about everything he would face in the future.
"Augustus Mengsk" does not exist in the original story. The Angus family originally only had one son and one daughter, and no second son. Rather than saying that he replaced Augustus, it is better to say that this character
It exists because of your own time travel.
The identity of an ancient nobleman can at least bring some advantages to Augustus. In the cruel world view of StarCraft, traveling with such an identity at this point in time is not actually the worst thing.
Unfortunately, he has to go to the Federal Recruitment Center to officially serve as a new recruit tomorrow morning, so he has no other choice.
The Terran Federation implements a military recruitment system and does not force recruitment from all walks of life. However, after signing up and passing a series of enlistment tests, those who refuse to perform military service will be regarded as deserters. As the number of enlistments is decreasing day by day, this
The regulations were not enshrined in federal law until the past two years.
The good news is that it is now the year 2488, and there are still more than ten years left before the first contact between humans and the other two alien races in the StarCraft worldview, the protoss and the zerg. Augustus has not encountered anything incredible yet.
of demons and monsters.
Regardless of the fact that the time traveler butterfly effect caused the first contact between humans and alien alien races to be advanced, Augustus will not encounter zerg or protoss until he successfully discharges his military service contract. Moreover, his brother Aktur
Charles is now a colonel in the federal army. In an email he sent last week, he bluntly stated that Augustus will be transferred to his army after the recruit training is completed.
Augustus sighed, stood up and walked to a floor-to-ceiling mirror, facing for the first time what he would look like after time travel.
The mirror reflected Augustus's handsome face, which was one of the proofs that he had the noblest and oldest lineage of the Tyranids.
Like all the men of the Mengsk family, Augustus is very handsome. He has high cheekbones, a nose that is almost hawk-like, a pair of bright and sharp cold gray eyes, and a fluffy dark gray short hair.
Clean and tidy.
Average, ordinary, okay.
"Mengsk." Augustus whispered this ancient and noble surname softly. In the various factories, affiliated cities and towns established by the Mengsk family on Korhal, they were like a real royal family.
But Augustus clearly remembered that in the background of the game, because his father Angus deliberately rebelled and wanted to lead Korhal to overthrow the rule of the Tyranid Federation, everyone in the Mengsk family except the eldest son Arcturus was involved in the rebellion.
Later, they were assassinated by three ghost agents of the Terran Federation.
As for the specific time, Augustus did not know.
By then, will he be able to prevent that tragedy from happening?
Of course, as a time traveler, Augustus also had reasons to ignore these and hide far away...
"Dong dong——"
At this time, Augustus suddenly heard the sound of the doorbell ringing. The information processor behind the door showed that it was his sister Dorothy outside. Augustus hesitated for a moment, walked over and opened the fingerprint lock on the door.
A girl with a silver-gray single ponytail walked in. She was wearing a lavender home dress, and her bright cold gray eyes were shining. Her expression was so helpless, and her sad eyes clenched Augu's eyes for a moment.
Stuart's heart.
In an instant, many memories flashed through Augustus's mind like electricity. Compared with the eldest son of the family, Arcturus, who was already twenty-eight years old, the age gap between him and his sister was not that big. Augustus
Stuart spent a happy childhood with Dorothy, watching her grow from a little kid dragging a pony doll around to a graceful young girl.
"Augustus..." Dorothy walked towards Augustus with her head lowered, and suddenly hit him in the stomach with a headbutt.
"They said you might die."
"I promise you that I will never die," said Augustus.
"From now on, you must write me a letter every week." Dorothy raised her head, her beautiful cold gray eyes covered with a hazy mist.
Augustus could not find any reason to reject his sister.