A villa and mansion in the center of the main city of Ansadar that originally belonged to the Antican resource tycoon was recently converted into a headquarters, because in this low-rise Palladio building, mainly built of red bricks and diamond-shaped glass, Under the classical building is a safe chamber built with thick alloy steel walls, deep underground. The thickness of the reinforced wall alone is more than 60cm, which is enough to withstand the nuclear explosion of tactical nuclear weapons.
Considering that the Tyranid Federation has sent ghost agents to assassinate those with political dissent more than once, using bloody and cruel methods to eliminate dissidents, although Augustus himself often appears at the forefront of the war, the Marshal's Revolution The Guard still wanted him to be in the safest place possible while commanding the troops.
Although there are ghost agents like Sarah Kerrigan protecting Augustus, Corporal Faraday still believes that it is not foolproof. Now not only the Tyranid Federation, but also the Zerg are thinking about killing Augustus. As for what the Protoss thinks, no one knows. There is no guarantee that they will not have a break with the Revolutionary Army one day.
After all, the Revolutionary Army has many tough guys who can lead soldiers into battle and generals like Warfield who can command the overall situation. As long as Augustus still stands on the battlefield, the Revolutionary Army will be an army with a soul.
"People in several cities near the main city of Ansadar captured the federal government in the city after you broadcast to all Antiga. The federal flags on their city government buildings were removed and burned, and replaced with revolutionary flags. The red flag of the army." In the underground safe room, Kerrigan was making a military intelligence report to Augustus.
"Good news has also come from other regions. In some places, federal officials have even taken the lead in rebellion. They have already hidden our flags in their homes - followed by people begging us to rescue or eliminate local zerg. Please,” she said.
"Maybe there is also the flag of the Camorians. This is already commonplace." Augustus laughed it off.
"We don't have that many manpower to guard dozens or hundreds of cities and residential settlements for the time being. It's best to have as few areas and directions as possible that need to be defended..." He stood upright, with one hand on his hands. Behind his back, the other hand was drawing something on the tactical map on the LED screen.
Above are the star maps of Antiga's main star and its two satellites, as well as maps of some major battlefields on the planet's surface, covering a battle front that stretches for more than ten thousand miles.
"First gather the main population in the largest cities and then station troops. Then use psychic disruptors to build defenses. Let the locals stock up on food and prepare for a long battle."
As Augustus was speaking, he stared intently at the battle map on the screen while picking up a small glass of brandy from the wine cabinet next to him. To this day, the Mengsk family's taste for wine still affects Augustus, which can be seen in his father and brother.
When Augustus was thinking or feeling dull and miserable, when coffee had no effect, he would often cheer up by drinking a small amount of alcohol. Augustus was a good drinker, and he always dabbled in spirits. The last time he was drunk was when Josephine died.
"Your orders will be carried out as always." Kerrigan casually pinned her fiery red hair tied behind her back to her chest as she spoke, walking past the mahogany tables and chairs on one side.
This underground secret room is not spacious and can only accommodate Augustus, Kerrigan, Corporal Faraday and his elite guard soldiers.
Even so, this underground secret room with redwood floors is fully equipped with all the necessary equipment, including automatic washing facilities, tables, chairs, and beds. The warehouses on the lower floors store enough storage for the residents to live for several years. water and food for a long time.
A miniature fusion reactor can power all the facilities here. Even if the entire planet becomes silent, the underground safe room can maintain normal operation.
All standards were prepared to deal with a possible nuclear war, because after the Federation used nuclear bombs to destroy Korhal IV, people no longer doubted that the Federal Government would impose nuclear bombs on the rebellious colonies under his rule.
"The worm tunnel network of the Gamu swarm near Ansadar is still growing, and the number of detected zerg lifeform signals has exceeded 200,000." When Kerrigan approached Augustus, The mechanical intelligent adjutant in the lower right corner of the screen began to sound an alarm.
"The swarm is about to attack," the mechanical adjutant said.
"Sarah, how is the deployment of the psychic disruptor?" Augustus sipped the wine in his glass.
"The engineers of the engineering team have completed assembly and are starting the psychic disruptor. The lead engineer reported to me that they will be able to activate the psychic disruptor in ten minutes," Kerrigan said.
"They'd better hurry up." As Augustus said, the screen switched to the Ansadar footage taken by the fleet in high-altitude orbit.
At this time, swarms of Gamu insects with dark orange carapace are gathering on high platforms in all directions of Ansadar. The squeaking and howling alien monsters are like a rising tide rushing towards the alloy steel fortification walls outside the city, buried deep in the The bunker clusters on the ground and the missile clusters on the walls are all calibrating their shooting angles.
On the tallest building in the Ansadar complex, there seemed to be countless golden and red flags of the Revolutionary Army flying. In the sky, there were Wraith fighter planes, Avenger fighter planes and Camorion painted with the Revolutionary Army emblem soaring in flying formations. It roared over the city, making the glass windows of residential buildings rattle.
In the city squares and other public places, hundreds of thousands of Ansadar are gathering spontaneously with weapons, ready to support the front line at any time.
Compared to the period of federal rule, the people of Antiga were obviously more willing to support the military operations of the Revolutionary Army. This is not only because of the revolutionary army's commitment and every word and deed of practicing its revolutionary ideals, but also because compared with the revolutionary army, the federal army is more like the terrorists and butchers who kill the old, weak, women and children promoted by the federal government.
And just as the insect swarm was getting closer and closer to Ansadar, the psychic disruptor in the center of the city suddenly activated, and an invisible wave spread in all directions like ripples on the water.
And just as Augustus saw, the zerg that were approaching the Ansadargam swarm suddenly stopped their pace. At the front were springtails, Hydra Hydralisks, Thunder Beasts, and Scorpion Worms. The insect swarm army composed of , mutant dragons and insect swarm guardians suddenly stopped while advancing at high speed and fell into a sluggish state, as if they were intelligent robots that had not received instructions.
The tight and orderly attack formation then became chaotic, and the originally violent ones began to fall into a dazed wandering state. Some particularly violent zerg even extended their fangs and claws to their compatriots. Not long after, the swarm began to fall into a violent state of fighting each other. Using the same batch of zerg born in each main nest as a group, they began to attack the zerg in other main nests.
The psionic disruptor affected the zerg within a twenty-mile radius of Ansadar, disrupting the control the garmu swarm cerebrates had over their members, causing the zerg within to attack each other like their ancestors on Zerus. Everyone fights.
Soon, rivers of blood flowed outside the city of Ansadar. The zerg killed each other, and finally fell to the fangs and claws of their own kind. The flying zerg creatures in the sky were fighting each other like evil dragons. Driven by their instincts, the blasting mosquitoes uncontrollably crashed into the helpless king worms floating in the air. Countless blood, carapace and organs were raining towards them like a torrential rain. The ground fell.
The remaining insect swarms retreated into the Tunnel Worm Tunnel in confusion. The ruler of the Gamu swarm, the Cerebrate Worms, will probably take a long time to figure out what kind of weapons the humans of Antiga used to cause this. The chaos caused him to lose control of the group members.
This may well have been a bolt from the blue for the cunning brainworm, for ever since the Swarm Masters created these advanced swarm intelligences, they have never lost control of the members of their pack.
"Very good...Swan and the others did a good job." Augustus could hear the cheers of the staff officers on the command channel, which meant that humans had no weapons that could effectively counter the Zerg forever.
However, at the same time, the sound of breaking glass suddenly came from the underground safe room, and Corporal Faraday and the guards all pulled out their guns.
"What's going on? My dear." The smile on Augustus' face suddenly solidified, and he turned his head and glanced at Kerrigan with sharp eyes.
For Augustus, whose PSI value is only level 3 (most Tyranid psychic levels are between 0 and 2), this artificially created psychic waveform can only bring him a slight sting. It hurt, but it was a huge roar in the mind of Kerrigan, who was extremely sensitive to psychic powers.
In a place where Augustus couldn't see, Kerrigan frowned. Just a trace of his powerful psychic ability overflowed and detonated a wall lamp with golden patterns and all the wine bottles and glasses on the table. Zhu Red port wine spilled all over the floor.
Seeing Augustus' eagle-like gaze, Kerrigan couldn't help but move back to avoid him. Kerrigan has extremely painful memories of losing control of her psychic powers, and she fears that others, especially Augustus, will fear her because of it.
However, what Kerrigan didn't expect was that Augustus turned around and held her in his arms without hesitation.
"Calm down, everything will be fine. This bit of psychic energy is just a breeze on the ocean to you." Augustus said.
Seeing this, Corporal Faraday and others put away their weapons and turned to cleaning up the glass fragments shattered by Kerrigan's telekinesis.
"Does the psionic disruptor affect you too?" he asked.
"I can feel my psychic powers being weakened," Kerrigan said. "...But it's not noticeable."
"Obviously the zerg's psychic powers are different from those of us humans." Augustus believes that this weakening may not be a bad thing for Kerrigan, which means that the possibility of the Overmind discovering her is reduced. .
"What's your current psychic level?" he asked Kerrigan.
"It seems like nothing has changed..." Kerrigan put down her eyepiece: "It's still 10."
"...I know this feeling, top students say so." Augustus shrugged.
Kerrigan blushed and retreated from Augustus' arms. Although Kerrigan also longs for the feeling of being protected, she is not that kind of weak girl. In fact, after putting on the ghost combat suit, Kerrigan is able to kick a person's neck with one kick.
"Adjutant, contact the engineering team on the Hyperion and ask them to make more psychic disruptors. I need to deploy this kind of equipment throughout Antiga." Augustus faced the screen again and said.
"At the same time, I also need them to improve on this basis. Now that we can create a psychic disruptor, we can make it a portable weapon or install it on a weapon."
"What are the Federal landing forces at Antiga doing now?"
"...Commander, the detector has detected that a large number of zerg appear near the federal station, and the zerg near Ansadar are gathering there..." The mechanical adjutant on the screen said to Ao Gustus reported.
"It is expected that the federal army will be overwhelmed by the swarm in fifteen minutes."
"What happened?" Kerrigan scanned the screen, but she soon understood.
“To paraphrase Jimmy, wow—someone’s going to have bad luck,” Augustus said.
"They originally came to deal with us, but after we use the psychic disruptor, the Zerg will find that the only enemy left on this land is the federal army. After all, the federal base is not far from us. "He said.
"If the brainworm of the Gamu swarm had the same intelligence and some emotions as humans, he would definitely be angry. And the ignorant federal army is the target of its anger."
"The Revolutionary Army Rangers are calling the headquarters. This is Jim. The bug is heading towards the federal base - it's really an eye-opener." Reno's voice came from the communication equipment of the headquarters.
"Whoa—someone's in trouble," he said.
"Following your orders, my men and I are racing twenty miles outside of the Confederate compound... Do you want to intervene? We're ready to tap dance over the dead bodies of the Confederates."
"You know, Jimmy, this matter is beneficial to us. Be careful of the Federation's man-made troubles diverted to the east." Augustus said: "Be careful and always monitor the communications of the Federation landing troops."
"It's good to hear." Renault said: "This is what they asked for. If these people had stayed in the orbiting fleet honestly, they would not be in such bad luck today."
"Okay...I'll keep an eye on them." He said and closed the communication.
"Adjutant, switch the monitoring channel to the main channel." Augustus said.
"Perhaps the cerebrates of the Gamu swarm are looking for differences between the two human armies, us and the Federation? We will never be able to figure out what is going on in the minds of the zerg, after all, their moral values and way of thinking They are all very different from humans.”
Augustus kept staring at the main screen until more than ten minutes later, the cry of the federal landing force being swallowed up by the raging swarm of Gamu came from the radio communication on the monitoring channel, and he left there.
