In the blazing blue flames, the mimic larva in front of Stone struggled and turned into a viscous dark purple liquid, like a burned-out candle. Several others had not been hit by bullets.
The shattered mimic larvae soon met the same fate. The explosion of flames immediately devoured everything around them, but the ghost agents were unscathed.
"Well done, Tanya." The advantage of Stone is that he never hesitates to praise his teammates.
Although her psychic power level is only 5.1, Tanya Caulfield's ability to control fire makes her a weapon against the zerg. Among those with telepathic talents, Tanya's talent is extremely rare.
, this ability to control fire attacks with thoughts is called flame explosion.
"You're right." Tanya snorted.
Tanya has known Stone for a while, and this serious young man has a compassionate heart.
In the old federal era, ghost agents had to erase their memories every time they completed a mission. Therefore, it was common for them not to remember the comrades they had fought alongside, and it was not necessary to cultivate a tacit understanding with their teammates.
This is also the reason why ghost agents generally have a cold image, because since they will be forgotten, there is no need to leave any traces. If you have too many entanglements with other people, the other party will definitely suffer.
This approach is quite necessary. From the perspective of confidentiality, the commander will never elaborate on the orders when issuing orders to the soldiers, because it is impossible for soldiers who do not know the secrets to reveal the secrets. On the other hand, those who are killed
The memory of the person will always remain in the mind of the ghost agent, and the accumulation of small things will increase the chance of the ghost losing control.
In the Imperial Age, Ghost agents were no longer mainly used to deal with internal threats. They mainly fought against Zerg and Protoss. The new system made the Imperial Ghost program much more humane. Emperor Augustus even allowed the Ghosts to retire.
Hold public office.
"Guys, pay attention to what's going on around you when I invade this guy's brain." Next to him, Vega activated his own domination mask:
"If it had a brain."
The instructors in the Tyranid Empire's Ghost Military Academy are very fond of geniuses with mind control abilities. They are usually the best among the students and have extremely high PSI psychic level ratings. The domination mask can strengthen these ghost agents.
The mental power helps them control other people's thoughts.
There is no doubt that Vega has this talent. As an expert in the field of mind control, Vega is extremely dangerous, because unless equipped with psychic shielding equipment, those powerful figures may become her playthings.
At this time, there was a dying mimic hatchling standing in front of Weijia. It had been shot several times and was squirming in a dying struggle. Its everted tissue shape was somewhere between that of a human and an insect. The significance of the birth of a mimic hatchling.
It is penetration and destruction, this is the mission given to them by the insect swarm.
Except for wild zerg and special individuals, ordinary zerg individuals do not have complex thoughts.
Just as Vega stared at the monster for a few seconds, its struggle immediately softened, like a puddle of dark purple glue.
Only high-level ghost agents like Stone can feel Vega's powerful mental power. For her, controlling a person's brain is as easy as destroying him.
If Vega can control the commander of an army, the situation on the battlefield may quickly reverse.
Ten seconds later, Vega shook her head, raised her thighs wrapped in bright white tight-fitting combat uniforms, and stepped on the squirming mimic larvae, muttering: "This pig."
Immediately afterwards, Vega pulled out the pistol from his waist and shot into a dark corner. A hidden eyeball was instantly shattered into pieces and slowly fell off the carpet of creeping bacteria. This is exactly what the zerg used.
The living eyeballs discovered the secret ghost agents.
The swarm is connected by a huge psychic network, and after invading the mind of one of the zerg, Vega can obtain crucial information.
"I can't imagine that these monsters might do evil in His Majesty's face." When he saw Vega trample the dying monster to death, Stone couldn't help asking: "What information did you get?"
"I have to admit, when I smashed that handsome face, I felt a little regretful." Vega picked up his C-20A shotgun again and replied:
"It's rare that the intelligence department didn't do something stupid. They were right. There is not only a completed main nest here, but also an insect queen. At the same time, there may be tens of thousands of zerg in this area, and they are all the descendants of the insect queen.
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"Queens? They are new variants that emerged after the invasion of the original zerg. They are rare in places like Tarsonis." Tanya said with a venomous tone: "And this Queen of Tarsonis is probably
The first living specimen we'll catch."
"I have read the data on queens in the combat manual. Compared with queens, they have lost the ability to fly and have become more like an arachnid, and they are bigger than a truck," Stone said:
"How did she get in here?"
The Tarsonis Customs Service has strict quarantine measures for imported goods, and not even an alien rat can slip in. What's more likely is that something went wrong with some of them.
"All the zerg in Tarsonis come from the same insect mother, mimic hatchlings, springtails, hydralisks, cockroaches, including those worker bees working deep in the sewers," Vega said:
"And this insect mother was mutated from a larva that parasitized in the body of the new Sydney Sheriff. This law enforcement officer was promoted due to his dedication to his duties and was transferred to the Tarsonis Police Station. When passing through customs, he asked
The customs officers paid a large sum of imperial credits to skip the review process."
"It's a shame that his wife and four children, who he left behind in New Sydney, are still waiting for news from Tarsonis."
"Did you fight that insect queen just now?" Tanya said.
"She is controlling the mimic larvae." Vega seemed very relaxed: "The Queen's mental power is very powerful, but it is not as strong as the brain worms in the palace. It will take a lot of money for me to fight with her for control of the mimic larvae.
A lot of energy, this is a true battle between heaven and man."
"Obviously, at that time, his brain had been controlled by parasites in his body." Captain Pierce continued:
"Do you know the location of the insect queen?"
"I know, the insect queen is not far from us." Vega said: "But there are a large number of zerg protecting her.
"As long as we get rid of her, the zerg here will soon turn into a ball of loose sand." Pierce said.
"Just us?" Tanya said.
"Upload the coordinates of the insect queen to the tactical network, and other ghost agents will immediately know what to do." Pierce said.
"Uploading." Vega said.
"What about Team D and Team E?" Stone suddenly asked.
"They can take care of themselves." Pierce said: "The mission has changed. Now our target is the insect queen."
"The other teams who heard our report will be here soon."
The Pierce team took action again. As they went deeper and deeper into the intricate pipes of the sewers, there were more and more traces of the battle. The ground was littered with numerous metal fragments from the Widow Mine and shattered zerg bombs.
These loyal machines are at home in the complex and changing sewers, and when necessary, they will sacrifice themselves to clear the way for Imperial forces.
The Ghost Agents advance very quickly. Once the eyes that monitor the sewer network are removed, the Zerg will become blind. It is undoubtedly difficult for ordinary Imperial combat troops to advance in such complex terrain, but the Ghost Agents
We are all experts in penetration.
Stone and his teammates quietly passed by the zerg that were patrolling anxiously in the sewers, watching the huge Hydra Hydralisk looking at the undulating carpet of bacteria in confusion, and they kept waving their sharp blades.
The Bone Scythe tried to pick out the enemies in the air, but they were all swatted away by the agile ghost agents one by one.
These super soldiers have always been synonymous with efficiency, and they did not waste time on the zerg on the periphery.
Gradually, there are more and more tissues, insect organs, and entangled insect intestines attached to the surface and walls like a thick blanket in the sewer. Green insect eggs as tall as a person can be seen everywhere.
It is standing, carefully guarded by diligent worker bees, like an orderly termite colony.
A huge insect queen appeared in front of Stone and others. Her astonishingly terrifying body was crawling among a large cluster of egg worms, and the specialized egg-laying organ on its abdomen continued to produce rice-like worms.
egg.
Insect queen.
After the Brood War, the shortcomings of the Cerebrates, which had powerful spiritual powers but almost zero defense capabilities, were also exposed. Under the orders of the new master, the queens who were originally responsible for guarding the nest and spreading parasites were replaced by the Master of Evolution.
Abathur's transformation evolved at an astonishing speed, becoming a higher-level commander.
Insect queens came into being. They not only have the main hive mind to control the huge psychic network, but also have a powerful body to deal with assassinations. This is obviously another life form that is completely different from the queen insects. It is not called a rebirth. Too much.
In the original zerg homeworld of Zerus, the overminds and cerebrates learned new knowledge from their distant relatives, so much so that they forged another advanced zerg entity with the ability to lay eggs.
Overlords and cerebrates still rule the swarm's power pyramid, while queens are one level lower than cerebrates. They do not have the ability to regenerate, but they are also more numerous.
In order to prevent the queen from threatening the Cerebrate's status, although this new strain of zerg has considerable intelligence, it does not have an independent personality. They must still serve the nest and there is no possibility of betrayal.
Stone realized that this queen was different from the one in the data. This may be due to the differences between different hive strains. Over the years, the differences in the evolution of the various branches of the insect group have become more and more obvious.
In his opinion, this insect queen is a strange mixture with characteristics of zerg, human and protoss.
The insect queen is like a centaur with the upper body characteristics of a human female, except that the lower body of the horse has been replaced by the torso of a centipede and the appendages of a crab. There are all kinds of sharp spikes and blade-like thorns covered in a layer of solid horn. layers and thick bone plates on top of the body.
Compared with this hideous and terrifying body, the insect queen's upper body is actually somewhat beautiful. The insect swarm must have drawn inspiration from human women, so the insect mother has become like a human being, but with a female body. The concave and convex body is covered with exoskeleton armor and bone spurs, and the truly angular face has bug teeth and hazy yellow eyes.
Her head covered with huge bone armor looks like that of a protoss. This is probably just a coincidence.
As a "loving" mother, insect queens have strong maternal instincts and loyally guard their nests, and rarely step outside the range of the creep, which is why they are extremely difficult to capture.
As for why she is so human-like, it probably has something to do with the psykers who were captured by the swarm. Perhaps the zerg took a fancy to the maternal qualities of humans and regarded this as an excellent trait that was beneficial to protecting the group.
At this moment, the insect queen didn't seem to notice Stone, and her attention was focused on the zerg that were fighting other human troops.
Stone passed through the hydralisks crawling around the insect queen and slowly approached the insect mother. Invisibility does not always work. After the Dark Templar gave the insect swarm a terrible blow, no insect hive would not be able to attack these insects. Invisible warriors take strict precautions.
Vega was faster, walking in front like a nimble cat. This ghost always spoke of being afraid of hardships, and was always the fastest and most accurate in her moves.
Ghosts are always silent.
But when Vega was still dozens of yards away from the insect mother, the hydralisks guarding the insect queen suddenly became frantic. If Stone hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been almost cut into pieces.
"This cunning monster." Stone, who was well prepared, immediately used the C-20A shotgun to kill several springtails at close range, but more Zerg rushed over immediately. The C-20A's piercing bullets dealt with the Hydralisks.
The carapace is effective, but ammunition is limited, and the Ghosts tend to kill key enemies with sniper kills rather than jumping in between enemies like Templars for a killing spree.
If this insect mother can see the invisible Stone, she was just pretending not to see it before. Compared with the past, these new species have not only become larger and more dangerous after absorbing the genes of other species, but also
Have higher wisdom.
"Vega, it's up to you." Pierce said, but he took out the handle of a single-molecule psychic blade, and then, a pure blue psychic blade spurted out.
The psychic blade is indestructible, capable of cutting gold and stone, and can kill a zerg with just one strike.
A Dark Templar master once said, once the starlight and the enemy discover your traces, when you are surrounded, young apprentices, a shadow rush is in front of you.
Every Imperial Ghost is a disciple of the Dark Master of Nerazim.
Weijia heard the words and kept running towards the insect queen. She was carrying nanomedicine that was enough to anesthetize the master. It was left over from the UED. It was extremely effective, but difficult to replicate.
Emperor Augustus once ordered a crackdown on this potion, but with little success.
There is an Easter egg stamp of the Worm Queen on the back.
(Tanya’s sister is called Tanya Caulfield, a character in the official novel Evolution. In Red Alert, she is Tanya Adams.
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