The particle beam emitting blue light passed over the base of Alpha Squadron of the Revolutionary Army, melting ravines emitting red light in the formation of the Tiamat insect swarm.
A two-hundred-foot-long iron-gray fortification wall lay on its side in a mixture of ashes and blood, while the tents where the garrison soldiers lived next to it were burning in raging flames.
There was the center of the fighting, and a long line of Templars formed an impregnable line of defense around the gap, shoulder to shoulder. This was a brutal and bloody hand-to-hand battle, with massive swarms of springtails, Hydra Hydralisks and Ultralisks roaring and rushing towards the sword shadow of the blue psychic blade.
Behind the Templars are their Archon Taldarin and the Dragon Knights. The slow-moving Scarabs are rushing towards the most dangerous areas of the war. Each Scarab high-explosive bomb they launch releases a The electromagnetic force field can clear a large emptiness in the vast sea of insects.
The swarm army came on endlessly, and in the starry night of Char, Tiamat seemed to be the shadow of one connected wave after another. There are desperate battles and killings everywhere, and thousands of determined protoss and human warriors are fighting for the same goal.
People were being sacrificed every moment, so much so that Augustus had no time to tell whether the cries of the dead came from Aspects or humans.
After agreeing on the battle plan with Taldarin, Augustus fought on the fortification wall where he was for more than three hours. He first emptied all the ammunition of the Gatling machine gun and the twin 30mm cannon, and then Electromagnetic rifles, spike guns and SR-8 twenty-shot torrent shotguns were used.
Augustus, Reynold, and Corporal Faraday were fighting side by side with more than a dozen soldiers of the Marshal's Elite Guard. They had no memory of how many zerg they had killed, they were just mechanically loading ammunition with the assistance of the power armor auxiliary aiming system. Shoot, reload and repeat.
In this battle, strategy and skill didn't mean much. Augustus didn't even have to bother aiming, because the number of zerg was so large that a casual shot could hit it. Now, the best and best soldiers are the ones who can shoot as they are trained to do.
Personal heroism is of little use here, unless one is a powerful psyker like Sarah Kerrigan.
In the beginning, it was mainly Augustus and his men who held on to this fortification wall that had been scarred by the corrosive acid of the zerg. But as more and more alien dragons and insect guardians appeared in the sky, the soldiers around Augustus fell one after another.
The medics didn't even have time to treat the injured. They could only use the laser wound suture on the power armor arm to briefly treat the injured and then move them to the rear.
Augustus soon ran out of manpower. When the defense line was stretched thin, the Templars of Taldarin came to help, and a large number of dragon knights and high-ranking Templars took over the human positions.
"Did you hear that voice?"
At this time, Augustus and Renault were standing on the fortification wall and shooting at the incoming zerg below. Below lay the corpses of at least two Ultralisks and thousands of Zerglings and Hydra Hydralisks, but more Zerg were clinging to the corpses of their own kind in an attempt to scale the wall.
"They are digging holes." Between firing, Augustus clearly heard the sound of chitinous fangs and claws scraping against the metal wall. He immediately shouted on the communication channel: "They want to dig through This wall.”
There were Hydra Hydralisks with crimson skin and carapace standing there, as well as their larger, faster and stronger advanced elites in the insect swarm genetic sequence, the insect swarm killers. Their skulls were thickly stacked with bone shields and bright colors. The crown of his head seemed to be stained with blood.
At least two thousand Hydra Hydralisks and countless springtails are gathering in front of the fortification wall. The most ferocious and bloodthirsty killers among the Hydra Hydralisks are gathering the bone scythes on their forelimbs and the backs of their heads. The spine is about a foot long (30cm) extending out from the contracted hard carapace on the back of the head, and densely packed spines eject from it, falling on the fortification wall like a rain of spikes.
These dense spikes penetrated deeply into the fortification walls, making a clanging sound of metal. In the edge world of the Tyranid Federation, this bone spike from the Hydra Hydralisk is even a material for daggers and is the most valuable collection of human soldiers.
"Old Johnny, throw all the electromagnetic pulse grenades up...Flanders? Can you hear me?" Renault realized something and walked towards the ammunition box behind him, only to find that it was already inside All his men are grenades.
"Damn bugs, go ahead and eat shit!"
The last squad responsible for transporting ammunition has just left, which means that there is not much ammunition supply left in this base.
"When will Duke's men come? Where is the Tychus man? Where did he go?" Raynor shouted.
"I'm afraid they won't be able to come." Augustus looked at the sky as he spoke. The dark dragons almost covered the moon's light.
"Sending a transport plane under such circumstances is just a matter of death. Even the bravest pilots will not be able to send reinforcements and supplies among so many mutalisks."
Augustus noticed that an outnumbered Protoss reconnaissance aircraft was captured by more than a dozen alien dragons. After a few seconds, the Protoss fighter plane was torn into pieces, and the golden and blue Protoss fighter planes flew over the sky. They come less and less, like sunshine blocked by clouds.
At this time, the protoss dragon knights beside Augustus gave strong support. Their phase tearing cannon swept through a row of Hydra Hydralisks and beat them into powder.
Beside Augustus, a high-level templar wearing purple sacrificial robes and golden armor moved a few steps in front of him. The blue light in his eyes shone even more. The powerful psychic power was reflected in the dense hydralisk. The wave created a terrifying psychic ripple, tearing apart hundreds of zerg in an instant.
The protoss were born psychics when they were still primitive. Every member of the group is a "psychic" in the true sense. The spiritual ripples they inadvertently overflow may be harmful to small animals and weak races such as humans. deadly.
If the protoss cannot restrain its own will through this mental ripple, uncontrolled psychic energy may even evolve into a terrible storm that sweeps across Aiur. It is precisely because of this lesson that every protoss is required to suppress his or her psychic abilities at a young age, and Kara is the final destination of this request.
The High Templars, who rise to the top of Kara's hierarchy of Templars, are the most powerful psykers. They have mastered the ability to use this power through centuries of penance and can guide their own spirits. With this power, a high templar can transform a series of small mental ripples into a sweeping storm.
In an instant, countless insect corpses, carapace and blood were swept into the air by the psychic storm and fell one after another. All the insects enveloped by it were scorched black, torn apart by the hot and violent psychic storm, and were extremely violent. The hot skin wrapped around his body and burned him alive.
Psychic energy surges through the bodies of the high-ranking Templars, making them like shining blue stars.
Even the small amount of energy overflowing around the high-ranking templar made Augustus feel dangerous. At the same time, he also knew that the ability of the protoss high-ranking templar was far more than just creating a psychic storm.
Psykers like Kerrigan can already use telekinesis from a distance of ten yards to turn a person's brain into a mush or cause him to die of intracranial hemorrhage, and Augustus doesn't believe that high-level saints Don Samurai couldn't do it.
As far as humans are concerned, the higher the psychic level, the more "superpowers" they have, including shifting objects, creating fire, and even walking through walls like a ghost - of course this is similar The ability can only be seen in psykers above PSI level 8 and extremely special individuals.
The high-ranking templar has been using his power carefully, ensuring that it is used at the most critical moment. As the highest-ranking commander here, he is also paying close attention to the situation on the entire battlefield.
The behavior of the zerg digging tunnels under the human fortification walls also attracted the attention of the high-ranking templar, who immediately ordered the dragon knights to concentrate their firepower on the zerg that were immersed in digging.
In the past, any fortress wall built on the ground could not effectively block the attack of the insect swarms. It only took them a while to dig through the entire surface.
And what can form a solid land in the magma lakes and rivers that surge in the Burning Land are the hardest and densest rocks. Even the zerg's tunnel worm network is difficult to dig and connect satisfactorily in the death zone crisscrossed by magma lakes. Each insect tunnel, this is also the reason why human defenses can work.
Alpha Squadron's new alloy port fortification wall panels penetrate deep under the thick layer of ash and are embedded in the hard volcanic rock. This base is actually close to a real fortress.
But these fortification walls cannot last long. Even if the foundation here is difficult for the zerg to dig, it is only relatively speaking.
"When will those dark templars be able to kill even one brainworm?" The thunderous words of the high-ranking templars rang in the minds of Augustus and Renault.
"They are too slow, and we have sacrificed too many Sons of Adon for you and their promise." He said. "Is this a... lie?"
"You're on to the point." Renault replied while changing guns: "But we can only trust the Dark Templar, they are the key to breaking the situation."
"You see, a Protoss Templar can easily slay hundreds of zerg, but Char's zerg hatchery can easily create a thousand as he kills them," he said.
"As long as one brainworm dies, the zerg in a nest will be scrapped."
"I hope so," the High Templar said. "Then prove it to us."
"I suspect this is a plot, a plot by the Dark Templar to frame and kill us."
This is not because this high-ranking templar harbors malice towards the dark templar. The fact is that he always doubts the motives of Zeratul and others, and suspects that the other party is full of malice towards him. Because every El Protoss born after Adun's ascension has been taught that the Dark Templar are evil "terrorists" who seek to overthrow Kara.
"I can only say that believing in the Dark Templar is the only reason why I am standing here now." Augustus said to the high-ranking Templar: "In other words, the Dark Templar is more important than a fleet. .”
At this time, Augustus also put down the gun in his hand, feeling tired at this moment. As a living person, even Augustus would sometimes wonder why he had to go through so much trouble to come to this hell on earth.
But as long as he thinks of his family, Kerrigan, his loyal followers and their families, their families, and even the survival of the entire human race, Augustus does not feel that what he is doing is in vain.
As he was talking, a miserable psychic scream came to mind in the southeast direction of Augustus and others. This scream caused a tragic resonance among the Tiamat insect swarm in front of the fortification wall. They weren't mourning, the cerebrates of Tiamat's swarm were just genuinely angry.
The zerg became more violent. They attacked the protoss templar frantically, and did not retreat due to the scream just now. The furious swarm of Tiamat worms swamped several groups of Zealots and tore them apart in a blink of an eye. Blue light rose into the sky, like souls soaring upward.
"Zeratul and the others succeeded!" Raynor has already experienced this: "I knew it could be done!"
"Dark Templar... They did a good thing this time." The high-ranking Templar felt more intuitively about the whine of the brainworm, and he reluctantly said.
"Just this time."
The location of this brainworm must not be far away from here, so that they can hear the whine released with strong psychic power before it dies. In front of the Dark Templar warriors who are skilled in assassination, the cerebrates are as weak as children.
Before Augustus could be happy, he felt an icy sting in his mind. A shining green crystal jumped out of the storage unit on the chest of his power armor, projecting an image in front of him.
"It's the contact crystal that Zeratul gave you." Renault remembered.
"Augustus, my Dark Templars and I killed Osa, the Lord of the Deep Purple Nightmare Swarm, and a new-born Cerebrate." Zeratul's head flashed by.
"Not just one? Well done Zeratul!" Reno let out a haha: "How did you do it?"
"The Cerebrates focused their attention on their tribes on the front lines and their spiritual connection with the Overlord, ignoring the threats that were so close at hand," Zeratul said.
"You taught the Overlord and the Cerebrates a good lesson." Raynor said, "Well done, Dark Templar."
"Thank you..." Zeratul always had a habit of adding something to his words: "I must warn you, Augustus, the Lord's army is approaching."
"I'm listening, Zeratul." Augustus nodded.
"After completely severing the mental connection between these brainworms and the master, I felt frightened and angry," he said.
"Zergs are the descendants of all Cerebrates, and Cerebrates are the children of the Overlord. The entire swarm obeys the Overmind. The Overlord is like the father of all Cerebrates, and the death of each Cerebrate will affect its power. damage."
"The Swarm is angry, wary of their vengeance."
