On the surface of Mar Sara, the capital of the colony is Mar Sara City.
The last time Augustus came to the crimson land of Mar Sara was more than a year ago. When he set foot on this barren but majestic beauty again, he felt like he was in another world. He thought it was Renault. Son John has also been born for more than three months.
The capital area of Mar Sara experienced the devastation of war a year ago, and the main roads and buildings that were destroyed by artillery fire have also been rebuilt and repaired, and have been restored to their pre-war appearance.
At that time, several main divisions of the Revolutionary Army surrounded the main urban areas, while Governor Mar Sara's Planetary Defense Force tried to use residential areas as a barrier and strategic buffer zone for the Governor's Mansion.
Today, the grid-like criss-crossing streets of Mar Sara City are an extremely depressed scene. Buildings such as solar phone booths, orbiting satellite base stations, restaurants, shops, and Adien crystal trading stations have long been empty. . This large city that once had more than one million people had turned into a silent dead city, with only a Terran Federation flag still fluttering in the wind on a flagpole in the distance.
The fluttering flyers for the barber shop swept past Augustus' short brown army boots with spikes, and flew toward the sky with a gust of wind. Augustus tightened the collar of his thick cloak, his thick gray eyebrows still knitted together.
At this time of year in the capital area, rainfall is scarce and the air is dry. Frequent windy weather blows up the red soil outside the city, bringing with it dust that is as scattered as drizzle.
Not long ago, the oases and green spaces outside the capital area could protect the city from the incoming wind and sand, but now the green plants in this area have withered. The thick zerg germ blanket has spread to places less than a few miles away from the main city, and both farmland and rivers are covered with a sticky blanket that looks like oil.
"Spore infection... Look at these houses, mushrooms are almost growing on them." Tychus Finlay was wearing his specially made crimson power armor with the number 625 painted on it, holding a Holding a Whisper Persuader heavy machine gun: "There are Omega Squadron's spaceships in the sky, and there are still bugs digging holes underground. The situation is unfavorable... This is really strange, the entire Sara galaxy. ....."
"We are the only ones thinking about saving people."
Just as Tychus said, the Jormungandr swarm has begun to infect the city, and dark purple granulations of the carpet have been revealed next to the sewers and manhole covers.
"Look at this damn place, mushrooms are going to grow soon." Tychus cursed.
Behind Augustus, Tychus and others, a fully armed 1st Division battalion of the Revolutionary Army was passing by them in an orderly manner. The power armor was printed with a white whip ring and the 1st Division. The revolutionary soldiers with black double-headed eagle badges were followed by huge red Goliath armed robots, and a large number of Moria tanks and medium tanks were driving past on another wider road.
Avengers and Wraith fighter jets belonging to the revolutionary army flew through the sky from time to time, as well as batches of transport ships carrying airborne troops.
These troops are all heading in the same direction and the same goal, which is the largest airport in Marsala, the Marsala Airport.
They were ordered to seize the airport, which was being controlled by Omega Squadron, within two hours in order to use the launch port to launch transport ships carrying refugees. A dozen hours ago, a Marine company from Duke's Alpha Squadron tried to capture this aviation party, but encountered stubborn resistance from Omega Squadron.
As a last resort, the Alpha Squadron lieutenant commanding this company could only seek support from the main force through the communication radio.
Before the revolutionary army arrived in Ma Sara, the city had been continuously transporting weapons and equipment from the Mar Sara military base and crystal mines from government warehouses through hundreds of APOD transport planes. The airport launches spaceships day and night, and the schedule is always full. However, there are only property, weapons and files on the transport ship, but there are no refugees in urgent need of evacuation.
It is said that the previous Magistrate of Ma Sara used large transport ships to transport the finances he collected during his term of office of more than a year, and the only people who could board the government and military transport ships were wealthy businessmen and people with connections. Even the dogs and cats of the Justiciar were able to escape Mar Sara's seat, but not his people.
"Stop whining, Tychus. I heard that you are an expert in dealing with zerg. What do you mean, what are you going to do to deal with the worms here?" Jim Raynor, wearing the magic gray paint of Heaven, was wiping his beloved The Colt military revolver was gesticulating from time to time, as if he wanted that pistol to crack the Zerg's head.
Not only is an elite Omega squadron stationed in the main city of Mar Sara, but a few creaking and howling springtails may appear in its dark and narrow streets at any time. This small and agile creature is even capable of traveling through Mar Sara's sewer network, dragging passing humans underground.
Before the revolutionary army entered the city, residents here could often hear the sound of a large group of creatures suddenly rushing past their feet, and the thud of horny paws on broken metal was eerie.
More and more missing reports, corpses that have been found chewed clean, and giant scorpion-like creatures have never caused any response from the city government and the Governor's Mansion, as if they don't care about this kind of thing at all.
Today, there are likely millions of zerg beneath the city, hollowing out the city's sewer network and toiling away at building their underground kingdom. If the timing is right, or if the leader of the Jormungandr swarm decides to attack, the swarm can destroy an entire city like a huge wave capsizing a small boat in the sea.
"Burn... burn it with fire." Tychus said: "The protoss have told us what to do... burn all the bugs, whether they are springtails, hydralisks or... Burn all the eggs laid by insects."
"The only thing you need to do is add black pepper and cumin to the roasted bug carcasses. The only way to deal with the bugs is to burn the entire planet's surface and then pour them into their damn caves." Magma is injected into it. The protoss has already demonstrated it to us."
"Yes, you should try the Allosaurus Wings, Jimmy, New Sydney Wings style." Hanak Hank said: "I find that burning bugs is a lot more fun than burning people... But Those monsters don’t have fat on their bodies, so they can’t be burned as lamps.”
Some time after the destruction of Cha Sara, Tychus and other senior officers in the Revolutionary Army watched the documentary footage of the Protoss Expeditionary Fleet destroying Cha Sara. This greatly impressed Tychus, who once looked down on the Protoss. Impressed, he transformed overnight into a proponent of superior fire mechanics and a barbecue guru.
This also allowed Tychus to have more in common with Hanak Hunk, the commander of the Flamethrower unit in the Revolutionary Army.
"Burn the entire planet... If we could do it, we would have done it long ago." Augustus said at this time: "At present, our troops can only fight in small-scale battles in local areas. The Zerg are competing against each other, but once it comes to a full-scale war, they can only fight back with fusion weapons."
"Boys, wait until we get Mar Sara's people out before we think about roasting bugs."
At this time, several sporadic gunshots were heard from the front of the revolutionary army's march. It was obvious that the vanguard troops led by Rick Kidd exchanged fire with the enemy. But the gunfire soon stopped, and Augustus received reports that Omega Squadron had retreated.
"Augustus, there are many residents stranded in the city gathered outside the Mar Sara Airport. They have set up tents outside the airport. They just hope that the federal army will find their conscience and give them a lift when they escape." Colonel Rick's voice came from Augustus' communicator.
"When the Jormungandr swarm first invaded Mar Sara, the rich people who had the money to buy the tickets for the long-distance starship had already left. Now the only ones left are the middle class and ordinary civilians."
"Approximately how many people are there? First establish an isolation area. We need to confirm whether these people are infected." Augustus said immediately.
"Maybe tens of thousands of people." Rick replied: "I'm afraid we have to mobilize more transport ships to this area."
At present, the revolutionary army has gathered approximately two million Ma Sara refugees and transported them through the airport in Ma Sara. The speed of gathering the refugees and organizing rescue was unexpectedly fast.
This is not unrelated to the efficient work efficiency of the Revolutionary Army officers with firm beliefs and the support of the Ma Sara people for the Revolutionary Army, but the most important thing is that the Federation has completed the work of collecting refugees ahead of schedule.
The soldiers of Omega Squadron used force to drive the residents living in the city into refugee camps surrounded by simple tents and wooden fences, and then sent troops to guard them like prisoners.
When the zerg invaded Mar Sara, the federal government did not take any measures at all. They first implemented strict military control in the name of protecting all federal citizens - if this is still a tenable measure, then the act of forcibly driving residents of cities and towns to centralized refugee camps in the wilderness is Quite incredible.
The revolutionary army on the Augustus side clearly knew that the Federation did not have so many transport ships to transport everyone out, and they might not have any plan to rescue the Ma Sara people at all.
The federal behavior of driving people out of the city and relocating them intensively is even more difficult to understand, because if they are not prepared to evacuate the refugees, the city will undoubtedly be safer and easier to defend than the unprotected wilderness.
A few days after the revolutionary army landed on Mar Sara, the soldiers of the Omega Squadron stationed on the surface of the planet also evacuated Mar Sara without mercy, leaving behind millions of desperate Mar Sara people.
Fortunately, the revolutionary army arrived in time. Just as Augustus had promised when he left Mar Sara in the past, they would one day return and their return would bring salvation.
"The next evacuation mission will be left to you." When Augustus said to Rick, everyone could feel that the sky seemed to suddenly become darker. The sky filled with misty red dust seemed to be suddenly covered with dark clouds, and the distant sun became looming.
"This is the fleet monitoring station. We have detected that a Jormungandr swarm force of nearly five million is gathering towards the city of Mar Sara. The fleet headquarters is sending air support troops to the ground." Including Ogu The ground commanders in Studou all heard the fleet's warning at the same time.
"This is not good news. It's going to rain soon - a rain of insects." Tychus smacked his lips and said.
"It's your turn to perform," Augustus said.
"There are zerg coming right here." Suddenly, Sarah Kerrigan, who had been silent next to Augustus, raised the sniper rifle in her hand.
Kerrigan was wearing a fitted dark gray military coat and a long-brimmed military hat to protect her from the wind and sand. Her fiery red waist-length hair fluttering in the wind was like a trembling flame.
"Just underground in the widened sewer network... they're only about seven hundred yards away from us," Kerrigan added.
I can feel their chaotic thoughts, full of murderous desires - the elite assassins of their swarm, following the orders of the brainworm Yak of the Jörmungandr swarm...the swarm wants to devour Leader of the revolutionary army. "
Kerrigan is also able to read the minds of the zerg, because the zerg's thoughts are not complex, and they do not even have complete logical thinking capabilities. She could also clearly sense the will imposed on these creatures, and spoke an unfamiliar word based on the zerg's name for that will.
Brainworm Yak.
The leader of the Jormungandr swarm.
"It seems that the Zerg also understands the principle of catching the thief first." Augustus said calmly.
Augustus was surrounded by many generals and dozens of elite guards, and there were two advancing main battalions in front and behind. Almost at the same time Kerrigan spoke, Corporal Faraday led the heavily armed Marshal's Elite Guard soldiers to form several layers of human walls around Augustus.
Except for Augustus, it was the first time for everyone present to hear the term brainworm, but they had no time to care about it now.
"Keep an eye on all sewer exits and watch your step!" Tychus said loudly after fighting against the swarm.
"Boys from the Red Devils, open the valves of the liquid storage tanks and prepare for the barbecue." There was no fear in the voice of Hanak, who was wearing Firebat powered armor, only a kind of trembling excitement.
"What?" Renault thought more at this moment: "How did the bug know that Augustus was here."
"The zerg can acquire their memories by eating or infecting their enemies," Kerrigan explained: "This is a new discovery made by Dr. Francos."
"The recently killed
The distance of seven hundred yards was only a few dozen seconds for the elite Zerg assassin team that was moving at high speed. With the heartbreaking sound of metal twisting, the first springtail that emerged from under the sewer manhole cover waved. It jumped out of the ground with its crackling, elite front paws.
This is a larger and stronger zerg than ordinary springtails, with colorful skin, a crown of spines, and a larger mouth.
However, the elite springworm that had just emerged ran into a ball of hot plasma, twisting and burning in the blazing blue flames.
