StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

The space here is so vast and huge that the ceiling seems as far away from the sky. It is dotted with artificial light sources that look like the sun and stars, covering the pyramid-shaped temple complex that stretches like towering mountains in the distance. Awesome glow.

There are many huge obelisks, huge columns, sarcophagus, star systems simulated by boulders, and even ancient walls that occupy most of the sky floating in the air, as if mountains are rising from the ground and hanging upside down. Above the clouds.

In the Guiyi Temple in Urna, every inch of land and every landscape comes from the ingenious man-made landscape. The temple is like a mountain, and the dome is like the blue sky, which is as incredible as a miracle.

Walking around here is like being in a vibrant natural landscape. Green lines symbolizing life are outlined in the black organic walls. Every texture like leaf veins and petals contains vitality, like a picture made of flower buds. A boundless web compiled.

The meaning is self-evident, Xel'Naga is the creator and the one who brought the original life.

Without waiting for a moment to rest, Augustus, Artanis, and Coralion gave orders to continue moving forward without stopping. Since a large number of hybrids have been discovered at the entrance, I am afraid that Eamon's minions have already arrived first.

Although this place was incredibly big, the only road in front of Augustus seemed to be this broad avenue with a winding end that loomed between the temples. There, the distinctive triangular dome of the first Hall of Revelation can already be seen.

Along the road stand high cliff-like walls, lighthouses emitting gleaming copper-blue light, and huge pillar walls. Groups of pillars carved with golden proportions of spirals, whirlpools, and geometric lines are displayed on both sides.

This was just the inside of a temple, but Augustus found that he was climbing up a winding road between lofty mountains. Every time he passed a section of the road, he could see a bottomless steep cliff sealing it off. the way forward. The inner walls of these cliffs are carved with stunning giant consoles, so large that only giants could use them.

If you want to move forward, you can only find other roads. Sometimes it is a gate hidden in the wall, sometimes it is a suspended bridge made of geometric cylinder rocks. This process is more similar to deciphering the secrets in a maze. If Zeratul and Artanis had not given guidance, humans would not even be able to find their way into it for a while.

But other than that, in the first half of the journey, the protoss and human troops cooperated closely, the division of labor was orderly, and the speed of advancement became faster and faster.

Augustus only encountered numerous surprise attacks by small and medium-sized hybrid troops, but these attacks were resolved and repelled in time, but they still delayed the advance a lot.

The Empire, Purifiers, and Dallam all dispatched the most elite troops. Even the human medics were veterans of many battles, having experienced famous battles such as Aiur, Char, and Tarsonis. Although the mixture in front of them is also very troublesome, it is not enough for them to fail.

At this moment, Augustus was once again blocked by a majestic high wall that occupied the entire horizon. It seemed that only a tightly closed giant door could pass through. The giant door was extremely large and tall, with intricately carved patterns of interlocking triangles, hexagons and circles.

There are two huge Mitsubishi-like pillars in front of the door. One is buzzing with bright blue light, while the other is much dimmer. There is a majestic and solemn giant stone statue further away from the gate. The light in the stone statue flickers from time to time, which is quite strange. A team of Durham Templars is going to check it out.

"Get started, load up the explosives." Renault pointed at the door and said in a familiar manner: "Use Lars G7 cluster explosives."

"Wait a minute, the explosives you are carrying won't have much effect on this door." Colorarion said, "We need to use solar light cannons."

Just when Augustus was about to speak out to stop the two blasting maniacs, the giant stone statue in the distance suddenly made a loud noise, and stood up suddenly under the pull of powerful energy, followed by a terrifying shock wave. Open, shaking the earth.

"What is that?" cried Tychus. "A moving stone statue!"

"It's a Xel'Naga structure. It's Xel'Naga technology that gives these organic rocks 'life'." Artanis: "Be careful, it seems to have entered a defensive posture!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the massive Xel'Naga stone creation called the Structure launched an attack on the surrounding Protoss Templar warriors. Two terrifying energy rays were emitted from the eyes filled with green flames, tearing them apart. Cracks burned the ground beneath their feet.

"Pure form, pure essence, show your power!"

"This structure should be the gatekeeper." Augustus said solemnly: "I'm afraid the way to open this door lies with it. Since Xel'Naga wants us to show our power, then it will be as he wishes. "

"Soldiers, kill it!"

The structure was very large, but it was also a more obvious target. Soon, all kinds of long-range firepower from humans and protoss were concentrated on it. Cannonballs, phase weapons and solar-charged weapons were full of bright tracks in the sky, only to make its body shatter and disintegrate, and it retreated continuously.

Augustus was standing less than a thousand yards away from the structure. The muzzles of hundreds of Goliath robots and Royal Reavers were flashing around him. Continuous explosions were heard. The scene was very special. Spectacular.

He could notice that the construction material of this structure was very hard, and even weapons capable of tearing through heavy armor could only leave a moderately deep scar on its surface.

If the structure can be brought back for study, we should be able to obtain a lot of technology from it, which will help the development of materials science and engineering in the Tyranids. If you want to get help from the Purifiers and Daram, you will always be overdrafted just by consuming the debt of gratitude. Therefore, Augustus cleverly promised to share a part of the Urnasal Naga inheritance to win people's hearts.

But as the original discoverers and initiators of exploration, the Tyranid Empire still gets the lion's share of the proceeds. And even if it is just a doorway in a structure, it is enough for humans to study for decades.

"Be careful, the rays emitted by that thing are very destructive and can easily disintegrate our armor!" Renault said in the communication channel.

As soon as Renault finished speaking, the Xel'Naga structure began to channel a powerful shock wave, and the terrifying entropic energy explosion swept away the protoss below it in the blink of an eye. Following this shock wave, multiple Xel'Naga charged crystals that looked like smaller structures appeared out of thin air. Once they appeared, they used terrifying rays projected from their eyes to attack the surrounding humans and protoss.

"Since these Xel'Naga technologies are so powerful, how did they lose to the bugs back then?" Tychus's eyes widened: "Does it mean that having a large number is great?"

"I'm afraid that's the case." Augustus nodded: "And I heard that they attacked by surprise back then."

At this time, the giant structure was already showing signs of decline, and its body was suffering from more and more wounds. Considering that it was blocked between hundreds of elite human and protoss warriors, it was quite amazing that it could resist for so long.

The Xel'Naga structure seemed to lack intelligence, and only attacked according to the fixed procedures set by the Xel'Naga countless years ago. Therefore, despite its powerful power, it seemed clumsy and rigid, and it didn't take long for the loopholes in the attack mode to be caught.

Even so, after more than ten minutes of indiscriminate bombardment, the Xel'Naga structure collapsed and turned into a pile of messy gray-black boulders. A huge four-sided pyramid emerged from the broken incarnation of the structure and joined with the dim pillar in front of the door, thus opening the tightly closed door.

Augustus asked Renault to mark the remains of the structure for further recovery by the troops that entered Urna, and then continued to order the troops to move forward.

They continued to move forward at an extremely fast speed, and soon passed through a gate guarded by a structure again, and the Hall of Revelation seemed to be right in front of them.

There is a huge square in front of the Hall of Revelation. The ground is carved with exquisite carvings that exude a shining green light. Mysterious giant obelisks and magnificent statues surround the pyramid-shaped Hall of Revelation building and many floating buildings around it. super giant suspended tower.

"The scouts reported that the corrupted Moebius Legion and Tal'darin troops were found in the front, and there were a large number of them. Now our vanguard troops are at war with them."

Under a huge ancient wall, Renault and Augustus were standing facing the altar of the Hall of Revelation in the distance. Several Royal Guard Marines in gold-red power armor were on guard, and an equipment The giant Goliath armed robot wearing amber alloy armor was striding forward.

As Renault said, there were signs of fierce fighting near the Hall of Revelation less than a mile away. Some defense buildings from the Tal'darin Protoss and the Moebius Legion could even be seen there, and hybrids could be vaguely seen among them. That huge, depraved, terrifying body.

There are several siege tanks nearby that are emitting billowing black smoke, which are left by these Moebius Legion. They are surrounded by the corpses of Moebius Legion soldiers. There are still subtle traces of void corruption on the armor of these soldiers. It is obvious that they may have entered the void before.

For these human soldiers whose consciousness had completely succumbed to the hybrid, Augustus had no choice but to order them to be killed, otherwise more warriors still loyal to the Tyranids would lose their lives.

Regardless, they were labeled traitors from the moment they pulled the trigger on their own countrymen.

There are also many betrayed Moebius Legion soldiers outside the Urna Temple, and based on the number of known missing Moebius battleships and elite teams, there may be at least hundreds of thousands of them. Some of them were not originally Moebius Legionnaires, but other imperial troops, members of anti-imperial organizations, or miscellaneous local armed forces.

It is obviously easier for hybrids to control ordinary people than highly trained professional soldiers.

At this time, Duram High Executor Artanis and Purifier Executor Coralion were personally leading their troops to engage these enemies, while Augustus's Tyranid Empire provided fire support from the flanks.

After all, Augustus is not a protoss hero who can block hundreds of enemies with one blow, and he can no longer charge into battle on his own.

"It seems that Eamon's minions arrived earlier than us, but how did they get past those structures?" Raynor looked at Augustus and said.

"Maybe these bastards took a shortcut." Tychus pointed to the top of his head: "Maybe they found another way to get in."

At this time, a group of Seta first aid team medical soldiers carried an injured renegade Moebius Legionnaire, who was the survivor of the battle just now. His armor had many bullet holes left by the Goliath robot cannon, and he was almost beaten into a sieve, but he was eventually saved.

At the moment, the soldier had been stripped of his power armor and was lying on an emergency medical stretcher, covered in blood.

The nameplate on his uniform shows that he is from the stationed Marine petty officer on the Sumer of Moebius's second fleet, named Max Redius. Records show that Max has been rebuilding before. Imperial Blackxis Colonial Service.

It can be clearly noticed that there are many scabs on the face of this non-commissioned officer, and it seems that they are all scratches by himself.

Augustus had seen many Moebius Legionnaires who had been corrupted by the hybrid's control. He had seen the terrible scars they suffered from self-mutilation and mutual attacks when they struggled painfully under the distortion of the powerful spiritual power of the hybrid. Some of them had dug out the scars. Their eyes, some people pulled out all their teeth.

"Poor thing," Tychus said, looking at the soldier. "If I kicked those hybrid bastards in the ass, they would have to run for an hour to find that piece of rotten flesh."

"What is this?" Augustus took a bloody pamphlet from the hands of a Seta emergency team lieutenant named Amanda Haley.

"Your Majesty, this was found from the body of Corporal Max Radius. It records his condition before he was controlled by the hybrid." Lieutenant Amanda said.

After hearing this, Augustus slowly flipped through the booklet and found out roughly what happened on Max's battleship. Their original mission was to go to a lost world of Xel'Naga ruins to find the sacred artifacts that the locals said, but they did not realize that a huge hybrid manufacturing factory was located there.

When the hybrid enters the battleship following the ship returning to the mothership, the disaster begins.

He turned quickly at first, then slower and slower until he stopped on the last page.

I saw more than a dozen lines of equivalent words written on it, each sentence becoming increasingly difficult to decipher from top to bottom, as if the spirit of the person who wrote these words at that time was infinitely close to madness.

That sentence is that I will never betray.

"." Augustus let out a long sigh: "Put him in the hibernation cabin of the White Star and take him back."

It's hard to imagine the desperate struggles these soldiers went through before they were completely controlled, but they all failed in the end. Now, they have become slaves to the hybrid.

Augustus could only hope that by killing Aemon, the influence the hybrid had exerted on these warriors would dissipate on its own.

After the Moebius Legion soldier was sent away, it didn't take long for Augustus to receive another call from Artanis.

At this time, Artanis and Coralion's forces had defeated the Tal'darin and Moebius Legion forces around the Hall of Revelation, preparing to open it.

"Atanis said they couldn't open the Hall of Revelation?" Augustus also frowned after receiving Atanis' communication.

"It's been in disrepair and broken?" Renault asked: "But since even the protoss doesn't know what to do, what's the use of looking for us."

"Why don't we dismantle it and take it back to study it carefully." Although Tychus changed his mind, he was still a thief at heart.

“You’ll find out if you go and see,” Augustus said.