StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Augustus watched Arcturus' face turn from red to green, then slowly to purple, and then to black. His unpredictable brother rarely showed his emotions on his face. But now, Arcturus's expression was as rich as that of a funny comedian.

So Augustus pointed out kindly: "Actor, you look bad."

He asked knowingly: "What's the matter?"

"No, I'm fine." When Arcturus reached for his empty wine glass, he found that he had almost finished the whole bottle of wine. The Mengsk family members are fond of fine wine, but they will never get themselves too drunk.

But soon, Arcturus Mengsk put away his irritability and became expressionless again. Despite this, his gray eyes were still cloudy.

Let's put it this way, Arcturus rarely gets angry, and the last time can be traced back to the old Federation's use of nuclear weapons to bomb Korhal. Later, as the cruelest revenge, he tied the instigators of all this - many leaders of the Creation Family and the Federation military generals who carried out the bombing - to nuclear bombs and sent them into the acidic swamps of Char.

Later, Tychus Finley was the one who came closest to truly angering Arcturus, and more than once.

Once, Tychus was accused of betraying state secrets and openly hanging out with a female Umoyan agent.

However, after the Security Bureau agents took Tychus away for interrogation - the fixed procedure was usually a good beating and repeated mind reading, he had to admit that he relied on his status as a veteran to exchange money for revealing (fabricating) the unknown little secrets of Emperor Augustus and Roman's love affairs. In addition, he lied that the Empire had multiple unknown extinction-level military projects, which scared the intelligence personnel of the National Defense Army and made them sleepless for several months.

In fact, this damn thing is much smarter than he wants others to think. Mr. Finley had seen through the other party's identity long ago. He was playing a game of taking advantage of others, cheating them of money and sex, and others had to thank him.

Since then, dozens of Umoyan shadow guards have wanted to kill him day and night.

For a period of time, Arcturus was responsible for allocating the huge military expenditures of the empire, and also paid for the empire's numerous confidential projects and covert operations. In this regard, he was a stingy accountant and cashier, and any possible overspending or fraud or false reporting of accounts would make him furious.

One day, Tychus came to the prince's mansion of Arcturus, dismissed others, and claimed that "there is a big thing to do", implying that it was a top-secret mission assigned to him by the emperor.

In the military system of the Terran Empire, Tychus Finley is a unique existence. He is the leader of the second Heaven's Demon Squad. Apart from this, he does not belong to any army and only obeys the orders of the emperor of the empire. He has a very high degree of freedom. In the confidential archives of the empire, Tychus's identity is marked as an outlaw, a villain and a gangster, and there is no other family.

Arcturus approved a sum of money for him. The amount was not much, but it was enough for a nine-man elite team.

However, the big event that Tychus claimed was just taking his friends to a bar in New Sydney. It was said that Mr. Ty, the superman of Tyran, ordered twelve prostitutes and drank a gallon of beer in one night.

This group of genetically enhanced tough guys and gun kings fooled around for several days, and they were still very fast. When they spent almost all the money, they drove a boat to the territory of the alien zerg and caught a small brain worm back to pay off the debt.

The military and scientific research value of a brain worm is definitely worth the money paid by Arcturus, because although the Empire has the Cerberus swarm, it still cannot produce its own brain worms, and this highly intelligent individual is extremely cunning and difficult to capture.

In the imperial law, privately selling brain worms is illegal. As for Tychus, he took advantage of a loophole and sold a brain worm to Arcturus at a bargain price.

This really pissed off Arcturus, but the dog emperor was the one who was the most annoying. After hearing about this, Augustus was really going to castrate Tychus and make him the first eunuch in the palace of Korhal, and to appoint him as the chief eunuch. This scared the guy so much that he pissed his pants and was quiet for a while.

"That's good." Augustus saw that Arcturus had recovered, so he said, "Otherwise, I'll ask someone to find my private doctor."

Actors waved his hand, indicating that the emperor didn't need to summon the imperial physician. Then, he turned off the holographic projector and stood up to leave.

If he continued to watch, this rebellious son would sooner or later piss himself to death.

"Tell me?" Augustus was also ready to get up and leave at this time, and a group of servants were rushing to change his clothes for the ceremony.

The emperor's daily schedule was very full. At the moment, he was about to attend an important public ceremony, and the imperial military was about to show the people their latest war weapons. This would be the best recruitment propaganda.

"What?" Arcturus knew what Augustus wanted to ask, but he didn't want to answer.

"Tell me what you think." Augustus said as he put on his dress: "It's about Little Wa, not these letters."

"Very good, I need to have a good talk with him." Arcturus frowned, and his forehead was full of wrinkles.

He emphasized: "I have a disobedient son, he is still a big boy."

"I am not surprised at all, young, immature, innocent, he is too well protected by his grandparents and mother." Arcturus's expression was very tough when he spoke, but too many hand movements meant that he was not as calm as he appeared.

"Valerian lives in his own world, blind and ignorant, and sooner or later he will get a bloody head." Old Meng said more and more smoothly: "And that Pasteur woman only knows how to cry, in this In the age of swords and fire, she taught her son to read poetry and sing."

On the other side, the emperor's attendants and etiquette advisors did not dare to say anything, but just listened with their ears pricked up.

To them, the scene of Arcturus and his son having a passionate exchange was nothing new. This is the most authentic side of this prominent family.

The husband and wife are harmonious, the father is kind and the son is filial.

"I thought you should praise him before saying this." Augustus showed a fox-like smile: "At least when it comes to confronting his father."

"You should praise him."

"What do you praise him for?" Arcturus said a little defensively: "Of course, I have no objection. He can invest in history, science and even damn alien mysticism, and let a hundred or a thousand archaeologists do it. He works. That's what a Mengsk would do, not get his hands and boots covered in mud. Time is life, and every Mengsk's life should be used for a greater cause. , just like me."

Augustus put it succinctly: “Become a boring man.”

Arcturus was silent for a moment: "No, that's not the case."

Lao Meng's words are very vague, and I don't know which thing he is denying. It sounds like he wants to say that I am not a boring person, but that is not important.

"Then you want him to be you." Augustus had already put on his dress, put on his medal, and waved his entourage to prepare the special plane for travel: "Become another Arcturus Mengsk. Just like As Angus hoped back then, he insisted on making you his heir."

"Now we all carry on Angus's legacy, but we will never be another Angus."

"I'm much better than him," Arcturus said.

"I have to admit that I was wrong. You are not boring at all." Augustus smiled: "So, you are admitting that you identify more with Angus back then than with yourself who had the courage to resist his father at that time."

"I didn't say that." Arcturus denied.

"Come on." Augustus spread his hands: "Arctors, you open your legs to everyone, but you still pretend to be a pure and beautiful girl."

"He can do anything, I don't care! But Valerian can't do archeology." If Arcturus is the tyrant who controls the Mengsk family, then his words are an ultimatum to Valerian , but in front of Augustus it was like being a rogue.

"I have no objection." Augustus and Arcturus had completely different educational policies, and he never thought of arguing about who was right and who was wrong. In his mind, there wasn't even a question about what Valerian should do in the future.

"Until Xiao Wa actually accomplishes something worthy of being called a great achievement, he will not engage in archeology."

When Valerian told Arcturus that he wanted to fight on the front line, the latter was afraid that one day he would be gone and his death would be worthless. But if Valerian says otherwise I will go do archeology, then Arcturus will compromise and would rather his son go into battle.

Both brothers were silent for a while, and finally Augustus said to Arcturus: "It's been a long time since you've spoken to him."

"God knows, I don't care at all," Arcturus said.

"Don't deny it, old man, you control too much. One day, you and I will both die, and then you will still be able to control how they live." When Augustus walked out of the war room, he stood guard The Royal Guards Marines outside the door immediately saluted him, and the armor's servo system clicked as uniformly as clockwork.

The sun fell from the high glass skylights, and every imperial flag on the wall was enveloped in a golden light.

"You sounded like your last words." Arcturus did not deny what Augustus said: "You are only thirty years old, and the existing technology is enough to support you to live to two hundred years old, and by then we will have already developed Develop more powerful life-extending technology.”

"Don't curse me, you will definitely die earlier than me, and your eyes will glow blue when you die, which is very scary." Augustus complained about his brother.

"Dark Templar Zeratul told you this?" Arcturus didn't understand the plot. Of course he didn't know how he died in the original storyline: "Those protoss always claimed that they knew future, but those are all lies.”

"Tsk" Augustus would rather let Arcturus guess without telling him the truth.

He changed the topic and said: "But while I am alive, it is time to take away all threats to the empire, including Amon. I want to say that nothing is immortal, and the gods will die, and those in Urnari are already dead. Xel'Naga is proof of that."

With that said, Augustus pulled Arcturus and took the elevator directly to the huge apron platform on the upper floor of the palace. A huge royal transport ship arbitration machine has been prepared for a long time. Each arbitration machine is equipped with a stealth module and a rechargeable shield, which is expensive to build.

When Augustus boarded the spaceship, the airspace above the palace had long been cleared, and the layers of shields guarding the palace were constantly opening, like an onion being opened.

The Imperial Square was already overcrowded, with hundreds of thousands of people surging like a black torrent. The police of the Augustgrad City Government and the military marines had to work together to maintain order. And these people were only a small part of the people who came to attend the ceremony. More people came from other places and could only squeeze around the square. The large number of people even completely blocked the traffic.

This was an extremely spectacular sight. Augustgrad, the most important heart of the Terren Empire, was still beating vigorously, even more prosperous than before the war.

Looking down from the sky, the boulevards prepared for large-scale military parades looked like snakes crawling with ants. All the white monuments, columns and statues were hung with brightly colored flags. Hundreds of huge imperial flags stood everywhere in the square, making a drum-like sound with the wind.

When a fleet of hundreds of Viking fighters flew over the Imperial Square, salutes were fired in the square, and countless fireworks rose into the sky, which could be clearly seen even in the daytime.

In this war, Korhal, Augustgrad, this great city swallowed up countless crystals and gases from all over the empire, and spit out armor, cannons, and warships.

It can be said that there would be no empire without Korhal, and there would be no Korhal without Augustgrad.

However, even for the high-spirited Korhal people, the long war is depressing, so they need such celebrations to vent their stress.

Only at this time, Augustgrad, which has never stopped running, will stop to take a breath and rest. People finally have time to cheer, eat and drink, and then have a good sleep, no matter whether they are really happy about a victory.

Today, everyone came to see the empire's latest war machine, Xantos, with their own eyes.

"The ultimate trump card, land boat."

On the transport ship, Arcturus was introducing this war weapon to Augustus. In fact, he was the person in charge of the weapon development plan.

"Xantos is the greatest single war weapon of mankind after Odin. It is an extremely large super machine. It can carry a variety of weapon modules and is equipped with heavy assault artillery groups, including multiple ground and air laser artillery groups, a flamethrower, armor-piercing railguns, and a Vulcan blaster that can penetrate the armor of the Gorgon-class battlecruiser."

"Xantos also has an air port for deploying air superiority fighters, equipped with fighter hangars and missile nests. It can also accommodate a whole steel-hard Imperial Marine Corps and large mechas that can provide it with a full set of fire support. It is more of a mobile weapon platform than a mecha."

"Finally, it also has a high-energy laser weapon that can be called a killer. The death ray it emits can burn hundreds of Zerg to ashes in an instant. Swan's people call it Musashi Beam."

"Most importantly, compared to Odin, Xantos can fly."

"If all of this was done by Swan, then I won't have any doubts." Augustus nodded.

Mrs. Mainho had full confidence in his and his team's design. If he said that one shell could send Eamon's ass to the sky, then there would be no need for a second shell. When dealing with machinery, Rory Swan would not make any mistakes.

"Good, this is a monster, and only monsters can control monsters."

Suddenly, all the holographic projection screens in the Imperial Square began to turn to the Xantos parked in the center of the square, and people began to cheer.

". The prototype armored steel plate equipped with Xantos can bounce off any direct attack." At that time, Donny Womilian, the host of UNN headquarters, was warming up for the arrival of the celebration, but he acted more like working for a talk show: "Kate didn't believe it, an amateur said amateurish things."

"Don't listen to her."

People cheered.

"Now, please welcome the pilot of Xantos, Tychus Finlay, a hero of the Empire and one of the legends of the Heavenly Demon."

Under the gaze of countless eyes, Tychus Finlay appeared, and he was rarely wearing a military uniform, with medals hanging all over his chest, but he still looked like a gangster.

When looking at Xantos, Tychus smiled like a child who got a new toy, and also like a greedy catfish.

Odin?

I don't know him at all!

"This thing is really the greatest creation in human history, no doubt about it. Driving it around to uphold justice really makes me cry."

"I can't wait to drive it to fight Amon, long live the Empire!" (End of this chapter)