The elevator to the bottom of Terra Sky Tower went smoothly without any unexpected changes, but the war outside still showed no sign of subside.
Zebediah Terra, who was holding her sister Nova in her arms, came to the spacious private underground hangar under the protection of her family guards, and quickly walked through dozens of land-based floating cars that cost tens of millions of federal credit coins.
, flying cars, private yachts and larger spaceships. The launch channel of the spacecraft leads directly to the outside world, and even rapid takeoff underground is not a problem.
Among the many powerful founding families and big businessmen in Tarsonis, a hangar like this is just a dwarf. Constantine, the head of the Terra family, doesn’t have much of a taste for luxury cars. The family business he holds is
The manufacturers of these cars.
The underground hangar was filled with armed security personnel and armed servants, and a loyal butler, Sander, was directing them. At the same time, more people were walking in.
"Master Zebei, thank God you are safe and sound." The butler was wearing a tuxedo and crisp black trousers, with a spotless white shirt underneath. His waist was straight, and even his hair style was as meticulous as his own.
Jacob Sand was a thin, dark-haired man, carrying a gun and a short sword on his back, and his bright leather boots were polished.
"Is there any news about father and mother?" Zebediah put Nova down and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand.
This little girl, who was only ten years old and had no experience in the world, was heartbroken, crying and hiccupping.
The last time Zebediah saw Nova crying was when she was very young, and since she has grown older, she has increasingly shown a maturity that is beyond her age.
"Can't reach them," Sander replied.
There are extremely advanced electromagnetic interference equipment in the city center of Tarsonis, especially near the Sky Tower of the Creation Family, but the people on Earth have easily paralyzed almost all communications.
"Master Constantine is meeting distinguished guests from afar at the top level. He is surrounded by the most trustworthy guards and agents. This is the top level of protection. No one can get close to him." He continued.
"My wife is far away at the Osborne Automobile Manufacturing Plant, and she is protected by the most elite armed forces of the Terra family."
"Is this the attack method of the Earthlings?" Even Zebediah knows that this is absolutely fatal to the command system of the Terran Federation Army. If the Federation High Command cannot figure out the locations of its various armies, then they
It is even more impossible to know where the enemy is.
"Please board the ship immediately. The loyal servants of the Terra family will escort you away to the death." The butler bowed and said.
"Aboard the Galaxy Hopper is the fastest way to reach the starport of Terra, but during the war any civilian aircraft is likely to become a target for both warring parties. It is piloted by the best pilot Andre, who was on the first
In Total War, he drove a transport ship to engage in thrilling aerial battles with alien dragons many times, creating a miracle of survival from the Jedi."
"What should my father and Clara do if we leave on this ship?" Zebediah could not possibly acquiesce that her father and sister had been murdered by Earth assassins and hybrid monsters.
"You don't have to worry about this. There are definitely enough manpower and ships, and the alternatives are sufficient to deal with all possible situations." The steward said.
"Then is this situation also expected?" Zebediah's rhetorical question made the other party speechless for a moment.
"My master said that if he dies at the last moment, you will be the leader of the Terra family." The butler hesitated for a moment.
"What on earth is he thinking..." Zebediah's face changed.
The leader of the Terra family, Constantine Terra, had anticipated this situation long ago and was fully prepared. But ten years ago, if someone said that Tarsonis might fall, Constantine would only
Thought that was a funny joke.
About a month ago, when the UED expeditionary force first invaded, many founding families had secretly sent some family members and heirs to the planets affiliated with the family to temporarily avoid the danger, and at the same time transferred and delivered property, preparing to once the situation stabilized.
, we will bring them back when the war becomes clear.
That's what the founding families of Tarsonis did during the First Total War of the Zerg and Protoss invasions.
But there are still quite a few members of the founding family who remain, because Tarsonis has the inheritance accumulated in their era and cannot be left alone.
The Terra family was originally planning to do this. For example, another Hot family that had good relations with Korhal sent their heir to Umoyan. However, the eldest sister Clara was unwilling to leave, and Nova was too young, so her parents naturally
I feel uneasy.
Moreover, at that time, they did not expect that the UED expeditionary force's offensive would be so swift and violent.
"What is the situation outside? Have the orbital defense forces and planetary defense forces in Tarsonis's outer space orbit been defeated? Why did the enemy appear in the urban area of Tarsonis?" Just before the evacuation, Zebedi
Ya still believes that he must figure out what happened. He has always been the one to make his own judgments and decisions, instead of leaving everything to his parents to decide.
Just escape from here. If you head towards the center of the battlefield, you are really asking for death.
Zebediah, who is only fifteen years old, is already helping his father manage the family business. He is not only an elegant nobleman but also a very capable and courageous heir. No one will regard him as an ignorant child.
"We can't contact anyone - the communication channels of the Federation Council, the Tarsonis Police Department, the Federal Security Service, the FBI and the military have all been severely interfered with." Butler Sander looked grim. Because the communication equipment has failed.
, even the various floors of the Terra Sky Tower are unable to communicate with each other.
"But even with the eyes, you can probably understand that no matter what the Federation's Tarsonis defense forces are doing now, the Earthlings have landed on the surface of Tarsonis, and their troops and captive genetically modified monsters have appeared directly on the surface.
The city of Tarsonis and even the city center," he said.
"I'm afraid that no place in Tarsonis is absolutely safe right now. At this point, we can only count on the federal army to successfully repel the UED expeditionary force's attack and defend Tarsonis."
"Oh my God, Zebediah Joe told me that Earthling assassins have infiltrated the Terra Sky Tower... Where is Dad?" At this time, a young and beautiful blond woman passed through a door under the protection of servants.
She walked in through the heavily guarded door, with an expression of anxiety and panic on her face. She was Clara Terra, the eldest sister of Zebediah and Nova.
Clara wore a creamy white silk shirt with a boat-shaped collar. The excess hem of the shirt was neatly tucked into orange striped pencil trousers. It was paired with a waist belt to outline an attractive pear-shaped figure.
Clara's high-heeled silver Oxford shoes were still clattering as she ran towards Zebediah, and her black woolen shawl was in disgrace. It seemed that Clara had just dressed up and was going to take lessons with a private tutor.
He was brought here by the anxious servants.
Until now, Clara has not understood what happened. When the servants initially told Clara that someone had broken into the Sky Tower of Terra and was preparing to assassinate her father, she just screamed and cried like an ordinary woman.
"I don't know, we haven't been able to contact him yet." Zebediah also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his sister Clara. Although they often quarreled, they were still family after all: "The UED expeditionary force is besieging Tarsonis.
Their troops even appeared in the city center."
"Then what should we do?" Clara asked in panic.
"It is no longer feasible to take refuge with other families and federal military fortresses, and I am worried that even running to the port will not help." Zebediah thought for a moment and pointed out this point calmly:
"The military port of Tarsonis must be the priority target of the UED, and then the large civilian ports will soon fall." He said: "The galaxy hopper has a warp engine, and it is not a problem to escape from Tarsonis directly, as long as it avoids
Just the fleets at war will do."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Clara spun around a few times, her high heels clicking: "Dad, he will be fine, right? Let's go quickly."
"..." Zebediah gritted his teeth, knowing that he had to make a decision immediately.
"Dad, he's here..." At this time, Nova, who had been clutching Zebediah's clothes tightly and burying her head on his back, suddenly said.
Zebediah immediately raised his head and shouted: "Get ready for battle!"
Several more family servants walked quickly into the underground hangar, but almost all of them were injured. Their faces were full of fear, as if they were trying to avoid some unstoppable man-eating monster.
These people are all Constantine's personal guards, and they are all people Zebediya is familiar with.
"Where is Constantine Terra?" Zebediah grabbed one of them and asked.
"Monster! Monster!" But the other person's face turned pale, and his swaying pupils were no longer symmetrical. His whole body was shaking, and he could hardly speak a complete sentence.
It was a man with light blue eyes. He turned out to be a Wraith fighter pilot who had repeatedly performed extraordinary feats in the war against the Zerg. Logically speaking, he should have seen many weird and twisted Zerg, but he also
There has never been a time when I was scared out of my wits.
"Who can answer my question?" Zebediah let him go with a serious expression.
"He's dead!" said another man who just walked in. He was once a federal navy captain. After retiring, he accepted Constantine's high-tech job and became an instructor for Terra's servants.
"That monster killed everyone. He cut people's arteries alive and drew pictures of evil gods on the ground with the flowing fresh blood." He held Constantine's shoulders and coughed out blood from his mouth.
"Run quickly, or it will be too late."
"Run, little rat in the gutter." A huge shadow appeared outside the door, and then, two arms covered with dense carapace opened the door that was about to close. The collapsed door immediately guarded the door.
The family guards there pressed under it, followed by the sound of broken bones.
"If you want to live, then draw your sword from me."
That was not the hybrid that Zebediah had seen. The current one was obviously much larger. It moved forward on the blood-stained marble floor with a pair of extremely thick legs, and each of its two arms
Holding a dead person.
It has an extremely terrifying huge mouth, and its gaping gap seems to be big enough to swallow a car.
"How could..." Clara slumped to the ground as soon as she saw the monster. She covered herself and couldn't stop crying.
Her father, the man she had treasured for the past twenty years, was being bitten by the monster. Only half of the powerful Constantine Terra of Tarsonis was left, covered in blood.
It kept dripping from his hanging hands.
Zebediah's hands and feet were cold. He was always lucky and thought that his father might escape. But in front of such a monster, no human being could be its opponent, not even a human psyker.
It also seems small and fragile.
Hybrids were born for destruction.
A heart-piercing stabbing pain almost overwhelmed Zebediah. He just wanted to cover his sister's eyes, but it was too late.
Zebediah was surprised to find that at some point, Nova's beautiful green eyes gradually lost their luster and suddenly turned completely golden again, and an unprecedented spiritual energy waveform was rising.
For a long time, Nova has lived a luxurious life like a princess, and she has never seen real death. But now, she is watching her beloved father die in front of her.
For a high-level psyker, strong stimulation can greatly stimulate his or her hidden psionic power, which is why the Terran Federation's psionic plans always seem so crazy.
"What a delicious meal..." The hybrid almost immediately locked onto Nova in the crowd. It still had the remains of Constantine in its mouth, but it used psychic powers instead of its mouth to make sounds.
of.
Then, in the fearful eyes of everyone, the hybrid exposed its neck covered with hard scales in front of humans, and proudly raised its huge head with a pair of huge crowns.
It opened its mouth like a snake and swallowed Constantine directly.
"Is this the feeling of devouring? This is promotion! I am about to ascend!" It roared violently:
"This feels so good -"
Suddenly, the extremely terrifying psychic power frightened everyone, and everyone present fell to their knees under the weight of some invisible pressure. Even the seemingly extremely powerful hybrid could not move.
Zebediah half-knelt in front of Nova, with bright red blood left from her mouth and nose, as if she was about to be crushed by gravity. He moved with difficulty in front of Nova, grabbed her face and let her see
Hold yourself.
"Nova, Nova, you and us." When Zebediah said, blood also flowed from the corners of his narrow eyes. He hugged Nova with all his strength, even if he said a word, it would take a huge effort.
The pain also comforted her.
Zebediah knew very little about psykers, and did not know that an out-of-control high-level psyker would release a terrifying power comparable to a psychic storm, killing everyone here in an instant. However, as the elder brother
A sense of duty still drives Zebediah to stay close to Nova instead of running away from her.