Chapter 600: Sea of ??Insects Falling from the Sky
Several Jörmungandr Allosaurus spread their ferocious wings, riding on the hot air rising from the cactus canyon to sail low through the magnificent wind-sand canyon. Their shiny carapace shines with a coppery luster in the golden sunlight.
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With the powerful flapping of its leathery wings, the flashing black shadow of the alien dragon quickly swept across the flowing sand. In their eyes glowing with ominous orange light, there were buildings of a human fortress shrouded in the sky-covering red sand.
The black shadow is already vaguely visible.
A few weeks ago, this place was still a wasteland. Both the majestic planetary fortress and the breathtaking earth-shattering cannon seemed to rise overnight. Countless fortifications formed a huge and thickly armored building.
The fortress, thousands of cannons and missile towers stretched into the sky.
The Cactus Canyon Fortress is built on a large high-energy gas mine. The extraction wells deep underground continuously extract pure high-energy gas. The thick pipes connected to the distillation and refining towers are winding and crisscrossed, and are connected with those responsible for water supply and power supply.
Pipes pass by.
The orderly heavy factories and barracks are located between the nuclear power plant and the substation. Tanks and mechas drive in and out of the armory. It is not only a solid fortress, but also a large city with complete facilities, with sufficient ammunition and food.
It can also last for several years.
This scene was also panoramic to the Jörmungandr swarm brainworm Yak on the other end of the psychic link. At this moment, these alien dragons were just like its eyes.
The closer we get to the fortress, the more conspicuous the corpses that are still buried in the yellow sand become, and the air is filled with the smell of blood and choking black smoke.
Only the bravest commandos and death squads among humans dare to approach an apparently insurmountable death barrier, but these alien dragons showed no hesitation or timidity.
The main hive mind shapes countless zerg individuals into a whole. All zerg are just part of the swarm. Even a mighty zerg army is just a tentacle stretched out by the swarm. High swarm
In everything, under the righteousness of the ethnic group, nothing cannot be sacrificed.
The alien dragon that pounced on the fortress was no small target. The densely packed anti-aircraft missile towers of the fortress responded immediately. The muffled metal frames of the dozens of missile towers closest to it moved in unison, and the hydraulic system hissed.
The tracking scanner and automatic sensors immediately locked onto the target in the sky, and Longbow missiles were sent into the launcher one after another.
The missile tower covered with shiny titanium alloy armor shell roared, and the missile dragging the flames seemed to be thrown. The gun of Longinus, burning with blazing flames, caused ripples of halo in the sky.
, and suddenly large amounts of blood and carapace fell from the sky.
An alien dragon with its wings torn apart by missiles fell heavily onto the thick concrete ground poured into the base fortress. Blood and flesh immediately spattered, and it was horrible to see. Even so, it was still alive. Even with such heavy injuries, the alien dragon
The vitality can also heal itself.
It was trembling in the pool of blood formed by its own blood and trying to stand up. Even though it was covered in blood, it seemed to not feel the slightest pain. Like a real evil dragon, deep lines appeared on the ground under the scratching of the exaggerated claws.
Deep scratches, and the snake-shaped body covered with spikes made a sharp squeaking sound every time it struggled...
But the sound of heavy footsteps soon approached, and two teams of marines in red power armor surrounded it from both sides. The electromagnetic rifle of Baoxiao immediately ended its life.
At the last moment when it fell, the dimmed eyes of this alien dragon reflected a face with gray hair and gray eyes. This face immediately made the brainworm Yak who was paying attention here solemnly shrink his radiant eyes.
Worm body.
In the spiritual link of the swarm, the Cerebrates who were whispering to each other were in an uproar, gnashing their teeth, as if they wanted to tear this face apart. It was not until Dagos, the most powerful Cerebrate, spoke that they gradually became quiet. Augustus Mengsk
, his biggest crime was not killing countless zerg, but daring to enslave their powerful and proud cerebrate brothers in an attempt to steal the power of the swarm.
At the same time, Emperor Augustus, who saw that the alien dragon had disappeared, received an alarm from the seismometer the next moment, and the fleet also issued an early warning, showing that multiple insect swarm Leviathans were entering the atmosphere of Phaethon.
This is not the first time that the swarm has launched an attack on the fortress. Ever since Augustus arrived on Phaethon and brought the Xel'Naga artifact, the swarm that originally gathered on the eastern and southern borders suddenly moved towards Koprulu.
Phaethon came from the far corner of the star sector.
The Xel'Naga artifact that has been assembled has an unimaginable attraction for this race. The mysterious signal it sends even makes the protoss "can't stop". The nearest protoss empire colony comes to inquire about the news. Every day
Scholars from the interstellar Dark Templar Xel'Naga have arrived in Phaethon, looking for clues about the creator Xel'Naga in the heavily weathered canyons.
"How does it feel to be at the center of a war? Using yourself as bait, one careless move will lead to losing everything." Arcturus dodged the splashing blood of the alien dragon with a look of disgust on his face. Once exposed to the air, the zerg will be destroyed.
The blood will turn into a very corrosive acidic liquid.
"If I have a choice, I usually put others on the hook instead of myself, and by the way, I can exclude dissidents." He said to Augustus beside him: "You have to know which approach is more conducive to consolidating your rule.
favorable."
"When I have a killer weapon like the Xel'Naga artifact in my hand, it must be reserved as a last resort."
This passage is circulated among the people. The Mengsk family rules, and it is up to them to decide who should die for the sake of the empire and who should shed the last drop of blood for the emperor. There are many people living in the palace of Augustgrad now.
Wolf, so the empire dominates Koprulu and eyes the earth.
"You should let me bring the Xel'Naga artifact to Phaethon instead of coming with me." Arcturus said: "Even the loss of a prince can arouse the fighting spirit of the imperial people."
"I swear I will never do such a thing again," Augustus said to him.
"One thing I learned from Jim is that people's hearts come first." Augustus disagreed with Arcturus' words: "My people and soldiers should know that their monarch is willing to sacrifice for the well-being of the empire and the people."
What kind of sacrifice, the publicity of actual actions is far better than a thousand fabricated boasts and ruthless iron rules."...
"I have always believed that only power can create an empire." Arcturus does not understand people's hearts, nor does he understand the people's hearts. It is just his self-interested personality that determines his style of doing things.
Arcturus believed that his brother was too kind in some ways, but that had nothing to do with weakness. Augustus was this kind of emperor. He was born into a noble family and had never been in contact with the common people before reaching adulthood.
The ability to empathize is exactly what Arcturus lacks.
If Arcturus's family members all died violently as before, then he would have no sympathy for the suffering of others. He is a son of vengeance, never a savior.
"I don't think this is a conflict." Augustus looked at the desert in the distance. The surging yellow sand was like a mountain and a tsunami. This abnormal phenomenon indicated that a large number of worms were moving at high speed in the desert.
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From Augustus's position, he could even see the huge snake-like bodies wriggling in the desert. When their ugly heads jumped out of the sea of sand, the terrain of the Cactus Canyon even changed its appearance, and was captured by these monsters.
When the raised dust fell again, it eventually formed a small rolling sand dune.
The Nydus Worm is a great threat to human defenses. This terrifying giant insect can even penetrate the ground of Augustgrad and the walls of the Xel'Naga Temple.
"Dundu worms!" an Imperial officer shouted. Within a few minutes, a large number of neatly dressed Imperial Marines merged into the main roads from all over the military camp. The scene of tens of thousands of armored soldiers moving at the same time changed from
It's extremely shocking when viewed from the air.
After a long period of tempering during the Second Total War, the newly formed imperial troops after the Great Recruitment became well-disciplined and capable of fighting well.
"We need both power and the support of the people." Augustus took a needle gun from Faraday's hand. Several giant Goliaths of the Spartan Company were moving with heavy steps.
to the preset fire points of the fortifications.
"If the person who said this was you, I wouldn't think he was an arrogant person. I heard Jim say that he learned all his revolutionary ideas from you." Arcturus has always obeyed himself.
brother, but still raised his own questions.
"Hold the line, soldiers, the Emperor is with you." Augustus was silent for a moment and saw a group of Imperial Marines rushing to the front line, and immediately shouted to them: "Go and see the Xel'Naga artifact.
, now it is more important than the entire fortress."
The emperor obviously didn't care about Arcturus's problem: "That's Jim. He is too humble. I often tell him that he should be tougher."
Arcturus shrugged and followed Augustus through the military camp where soldiers were constantly coming out, encouraging these brave warriors to fight bravely as they walked.
The first officer's regulations that all Tyrant Emperors must recite is: The emperor is the supreme commander of all the armed forces of the empire. The place where he is is the empire, and guarding the land under his feet means a desperate battle.
Augustus walking among the soldiers should have boosted their morale. This year, the emperor in the Augustgrad Palace seemed to be getting farther and farther away from his loyal soldiers. Those who were alone in the peripheral world
The Imperial Army, which fought hard but could not wait for reinforcements, inevitably felt abandoned...
But now he's back.
"The airdrop capsule is crashing into the surface of Phaethon, and the estimated arrival time is in three minutes." The young Laiou, the chief security officer in charge of network communications for the fortress, reminded all the imperial commanders in Augustus's command channel.
In the sky of Cactus Canyon with thin clouds drifting away, tiny black spots were falling rapidly and becoming larger and larger. The number of these black spots quickly increased to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
Similar to the Empire's airdrop pods, the Swarm also has the means to airdrop ground troops. These airdrop pods, which are made of hard carapace, shock-absorbing sponge tissue and buffer-filled liquid, can hold a large number of Zerg and safely deliver them to the ground.
battlefield.
Nowadays, the number of insect swarm Leviathan in the Phaethon galaxy has reached a quite astonishing number, with the genomes of as many as seven large insect swarms and 21 regional secondary insect swarms appearing. The Phaethon galaxy and
The number of zerg in several surrounding star systems can even be counted in the trillions.
Most of the swarm was attracted to Phaethon by the signal released by the Xel'Naga artifact, and the Imperial Navy was unable to stop such a huge number of zerg.
The entire fortress was engulfed in the roar of giant cannons. Various missile launch platforms, anti-aircraft laser cannons, and machine gun platforms all spewed out deadly tongues of flame. The flames and thick smoke of the explosion quickly obscured the sky, and most of the airdrop pods
It was shattered by anti-aircraft fire before it hit the ground.
Even so, a batch of airdrop bags fell into the fortress, and the impact was strong enough to create huge craters, trample buildings, and crush the people and vehicles below into powder.
One of the airdrop pods landed on a high-rise supply station not far from Augustus. After a loud bang, metal flew and debris flew everywhere, causing a commotion. The Imperial Marines below reacted quickly
Rush here and suppress the many springtails and hydralisks that jumped out of the cracked airdrop pods at the landing site. Then the marauders armed with heavy weapons came to support them.
"They're everywhere!"
"Then fire everywhere!"
Several springtails ignored the imperial soldiers who fired at them and jumped over the crowd in the direction of Augustus, as if they were sure he was there.
"Give me a gun, Corporal Faraday." Arcturus, who saw all this with his own eyes, was not panicked even though he was a prince. He was a man who had walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and had killed countless insects.
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Faraday handed Arcturus an AGR-28 rifle.
Without waiting for the surrounding Royal Guards to open fire, Arcturus opened the safety, drew his gun, and fired. His shooting was accurate and ruthless, blasting off the Springtail's head one by one.
"The marksmanship is still as good as before, Arcturus." Augustus also fired a few shots, but he missed.
"The jackals are at our door." Arcturus put down his gun.
"Well, here comes the jackal with a shotgun," Augustus replied.
At this moment, a figure that looked panicked and stumbled into the sight of Augustus and Arcturus.
The man was wearing a researcher's uniform and a white windproof coat, with a frightened expression on his white-bearded face.
"Ah! Zerg!" Narud saw the corpses of several springtails and was immediately thrown into confusion.
"I, I am a scientist, Your Majesty. I study zerg, but I have never seen such a scene." He then stammered to explain to Augustus to cover up his embarrassment:
"I'm not good at fighting."
Augustus couldn't help but praise Dr. Narud's acting skills. He said to himself that Dr. Narud is the best at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. It looked as if Narud was about to dance to Ogu like a little girl in the next second.
Stu screamed in his arms.
meaning.
"It's really hard for you. Doctor, I hope you came to tell me that the Xel'Naga artifact's Nova Impact has been fully charged."