StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 171 Excavating the Artifact
The scientific research base of the Chimera Pirates is about 450 miles away from the entrance of the Ridge Plain. The main building of the base is underground, and there is only one mining base station on the ground that seems to have been abandoned. The base station has the KM logo of the Camerian Federation.

This mining base station looks as if it has been idle for many years. The bright yellow cuboid steel frame shell is covered with a thick layer of rust-colored dust, and one-third of the wall is buried in red sand.Sand and miner's debris piled up inside could be seen through the shattered glass, and a broken cable from the crane's jib hung overhead, swaying with the strong westerly wind in the purgatory corridor.

It was the dark night of Mar Sara. Different from the scorching heat of the day, the temperature plummeted below zero, and the heat wave enveloping it immediately turned into a icy cold wind.

In the dark, the 120st Company of the [-]st Battalion of Stilling Wolfhunters under Sergeant Tychus Finlay, Commander of the Revolutionary Army, was marching west along the Corridor of Purgatory a mile from the abandoned mine. [-] Revolutionary Army soldiers in dark red power armor formed a skirmish line, with two arc tanks rumbling forward in the middle, and four wraith fighters hovering in the air tens of miles high.

A half mile to the rear of Tychus's corps was Raynor's Rangers, no more than a platoon.

The Rangers are a special tactical and fast-strike force armed with the best weapons and fastest vehicles of the entire Revolutionary Army, able to settle battles before all friendly forces arrive on the battlefield.

At the same time, each squad of Renault Rangers has a heavy machine gun, two firebats, two grenade infantry with reinforced and thickened power armor, an infantry with a single rocket launcher, and a medical soldier with a multi-functional medical box. .

The task of the Renault Department is to provide fire cover for the vanguard and serve as a communication transfer point between the vanguard and the follow-up main force.The emblem and representative colors of the Rangers are determined by the Revolutionary Army Marshal Command, which are sky blue and wings of freedom.

This unit was the first to recruit troops from Mar Sara, because Leno himself had a good impression of Mar Sara because of his girlfriend Litty Elizabeth.

"Order Tychus to run forward immediately." Augustus led the main force of the other two Revolutionary Army Marine Corps to the finale. He was wearing a power armor command armor, surrounded by many heavily armed Revolutionary Army sergeant.

"Reynolds is responsible for covering the right flank of Tychus, waiting for the troops in front to fire before opening fire. Faraday continues to advance along the left ridge, blocking the way for the Chimera pirates to retreat westward."

Since this is the area with the strongest band interference, all means of communication using electromagnetic waves are ineffective. Augustus can only command his subordinates by shouting.Each platoon has resumed the position of the communication soldier, responsible for transmitting the commander's order to the entire company and even the follow-up troops.

At this moment, the sky was dim, and a very thin dark red light appeared on the horizon of Mar Sara, and there were two huge round moons four times the size of the earth's moon hanging in the sky.Even though the light of the moon has obscured the light of most of the stars, there are still stars shining above Augustus' head.

Beside Augustus are Sarah Kerrigan, a ghost agent holding a tank-style sniper rifle, and four Revolutionary Army sergeants wearing CMC-300 power armor. With assistance, it can cover a radius of one mile, and any telepathic fluctuations cannot escape her perception.

The first gunshot sounded at 0:56 local time, and immediately in front of Augustus there was a fire enough to light up the sky, and the guns blared like thunder.

The arc tank behind Augustus began to fire, the power armor blocked out most of the noise, but the roar of artillery fire still drummed in his eardrums.A few fleeting spots of light landed miles ahead of Augustus, setting off a burst of blinding fire.

With all available communication equipment out of order, Augustus had no way of knowing what was happening ahead, but he knew what to do now was to push forward quickly.

Chimera's scientific research base is not a solid fortress, and the pirates inside cannot be the opponents of Tychus's department. Even if Tychus' attack is blocked, Raynor's rangers can immediately provide fire suppression.

"Go at full speed! Charge!" Augustus's order was passed on to the company and platoon by the signal soldiers, and all the revolutionary soldiers in red power armor began to run.

These soldiers are still using the badges of the Civil Defense Force (militia force) of the Ma Sarahiro Autonomous Prefecture and the Echo Town Police Department, so the Chimera pirates will only regard the enemies attacking the scientific research base as an open siege of the Tyrann Federation rather than other forces.

Augustus had already reported the operation to the Hero State Sheriff's Office and received official approval, so it was only an official military operation—although the militia's firepower was comparable to that of the Tarsonian army.

When Augustus' troops advanced at full speed, the fighting flames on the surface in front of them quickly disappeared, and Tychus led his men into the underground of the Chimera Pirate Research Base in less than a minute. in the building.

By 1:16, 20 minutes after the Tychus forces exchanged fire with the Chimera pirates, Raynor's rangers entered the subterranean portion of the research base building.

And Augustus had no way of knowing the real situation inside, but when he arrived at the abandoned mining base station, Tychus had already dragged a Chimera pirate leader to him.

The main building of the mining base station has been shattered by arc tanks. Under the shattered wall is a circular entrance with a diameter of only twenty feet. One after another, the bloody corpses of members of the Chimera pirates were taken out by soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. Which shipped up.

These Chimera pirates can't even find a complete piece of power armor, at most they are the energy armor sewn on the clothes.

There were no more than ten corpses, and Chimera pirates wearing purple headscarves and ship-shaped caps walked out of the scientific research base in a neat line.The fighting will of these pirates was far inferior to that of the Kymerian army that fought against Augustus, and they would be defeated at the first touch.

"These pirates are very famous. They are really not as good as the Kel-Morians in fighting. They are really vulnerable."

"As I said, a nap time can solve these stinky fish and rotten shrimps." Tychus grabbed the collar of the Chimera pirate leader and came to Augustus, wrenching the The forehead of a chimera pirate, forcing him to meet Augustus' gaze.

The Chimera pirate is wearing a dark purple long-sleeved windbreaker, lined with a white shirt, and a dining scarf around his neck. He has a Chimera tattoo on his right cheek. It is a mythical monster with the head of a lion, the body of a sheep, the body of a snake and the tail of a snake.He has long blond hair and a high nose bridge, and he has a distinct Umoyan accent when he curses loudly.

"What are you studying here?" Augustus waved: "Don't be so rude, Tychus, be friendly to our pirate friends."

"Captain Zambu's fleet will arrive at Mar Sara soon, and you will soon know how much trouble you have caused!" After spitting at Tychus, the pirate stood up and threatened Ogu Stu said, "The spirit of the Chimera will find you."

"But you can't even send out a distress signal. Even if they figure out what happened here in a few months, they won't come to Mar Sara for you." Augustus didn't lower his power armor. Mask, although Kerrigan can read other people's memories, the pirate leader who manages this research base has value worth using:
"Actually, you and I both know that this kind of low-level threat has no meaning. If you know something, please tell me."

"Otherwise I'll hang Bi you bastard, put it in the sun of Mar Sara, and whip you hard, and sprinkle salt on the wound." Tychus came closer and stared at you viciously. Looking at the pirate who dared to spit at himself.

"You think you're going to end well? Just one day, and the sun will dry you up."

"We are studying the strange phenomena here." The pirate leader still succumbed, he knew that he was finished: "I don't know whether to call you sir or police officer, we are just doing scientific research here."

"The Tyrann Federation and the Kelmorian Federation have been fighting each other, only we are still contributing to the progress of all mankind."

"Have you found anything?" Augustus asked him, smiling.

"Yes, we actually have a clue about the cause of the band anomaly." The Chimera pirate leader didn't realize that he had become a prisoner at all.

"I'll tell you everything I know, but you must promise to let me go."

"It depends on how much you tell the truth." Augustus pointed to Kerrigan beside him: "She is a psyker, and I have a way to find out if you are fooling me."

"If you don't cooperate," Augustus replied, "I will hand you over to the Umoyan United States."

"Don't worry, Umoyan has no death penalty."

"It must feel good to be home." The pirate leader looked at the logo of the Federal Civil Defense Force on Augustus's armor: "I thought you would shoot me directly or send me to federal prison-I never knew The government will send the Chimera pirates back to Umoyan."

"Now you have heard," said Augustus.

Four-fifths of the scientific research base of the Chimera Pirates is underground, and [-] feet below the ground are deep-dug laboratories and living spaces.

The architectural style of the scientific research base is similar to that of Umoyan. The plates are all smooth blue and white alloy, and each room is connected by passages that can accommodate two people in parallel.Here, both living and entertainment facilities are available. It looks more like a scientific research base built by Umoyan's official scientific expedition team, and most of the people living inside are scientific researchers.

Augustus leads the passage leading to the main laboratory of the research base, followed by Typhons, the leader of the Chimera pirates, and Sarah Kerrigan.Dr. Francois, who was in charge of the research on alien creatures of the Revolutionary Army, followed them wearing a CMC-200 power armor, followed by a team of Revolutionary Army sergeants in two rows.

"We found the remains of a mysterious alien civilization here - because it is impossible for our poor brains to understand what it was like to be the civilization of the most intelligent race that conquered the galaxy 100 billion years ago, so in the end we also get I don't know where those fragments came from." Typhons, the leader of the Chimera pirates, recognized his situation.

"The ruins." Augustus walked out of the passage and came to a large laboratory of the Chimera pirates.

A few feet long prismatic crystal hangs from the ceiling of the laboratory. This crystal exudes a vivid pale green light, obviously not a more common Ardion crystal.

"I have seen this kind of crystal. There are a small amount of green crystals in the geological formations of the corridors of purgatory. I doubt that this kind of crystal can resonate with psykers." Francis pointed to the crystal: "It can regenerate, and it can also resonate with psykers." Absorb energy."

"This is indeed a strange crystal, which contains some kind of strange energy, but now it can only be used as a decoration. A stone plate full of patterns and symbols was discovered together with this crystal." Typhonus said and handed Augustus a fluorescent green crystal that was made into a pendant.

Augustus stroked the pendant in his hand, feeling the coldness from the void, and said in his heart that it should be a Xel'Naga crystal: "What can we use it for?"

"We can't use the energy in this crystal for the time being." Typhons shook his head and said, "But the cooling effect is quite good."

"Okay. How is the work of deciphering the text going?" Then Augustus observed the internal structure of the laboratory and found nothing out of the ordinary.

"The answer is obvious, and there is no progress." Kerrigan folded her hands on her chest, and finished the next sentence for the faltering Chimera pirate.

Augustus came to the glass container where a stone slab was placed, observing the spiral patterns and the extremely regular hexagons on it.The protoss and Xel'Naga's texts are very similar, but in Augustus's impression, the protoss seems to have no connection with this planet except for purifying Mar Sara with a star destroyer.

"Put it up, maybe this is a prophecy for future generations." Augustus couldn't read it either, but he believed that someone would understand what was written on it.

"That's all you found?" Augustus asked him as two Revolutionary Army sergeants carefully removed the slate from the glass container.

"Only these." Typhons said: "The race that left this slate did not establish a city in Mar Sara, it seems that it was just placed here."

"It's not this stone slab that caused the abnormal phenomenon in the purgatory corridor. I believe it came from another ancient race's creation. And the signal source is right under our feet." He pointed to the ground under his feet.

"Dig down and down until you reach the source of the intense electrical pulse."

"It's time to dig," Augustus said to Kerrigan beside him.

"Notify the Revolutionary Army Engineering Corps and Construction Team that I need them to establish a mining outpost at this location within a week."

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(End of this chapter)