StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 21 SkyTrain Orbit Base Station
"We cannot leave him," Zander said to Augustus.

"I will never abandon any comrade-in-arms." Augustus knelt down on one knee beside the wounded and said to him, "You will definitely live."

"Sir, I'm going to die." The wounded man's voice was unusually weak and calm.

"Although I don't know much, he seems to have lost a lot of blood. We should find a place where he can be transfused." Omo cautiously gave his advice.

"I also know about this, so it's useful to say something." Renault stood up and looked around.

"I've brought a radio," Omo whispered to Raynor.

"Don't tell me you got it wrong." Renault knew his hair all too well. Although Omo was not a clumsy fool, he often made a mess when he did things.

"There is only one in there, but I don't know if it is used to transmit radio signals. There is no ligature on it." Omo said and took out a black electronic device from his wide backpack. It looked like a radio.

"It seems to be an improved old model of equipment, and it is an antique from the colonial period. It should be useful. You did a good job, Omo." Augustus took Omo's backpack and began to adjust the equipment.

When Augustus was very young, influenced by his family and interests, he liked to study electronic devices and smart phones. Although he was not very good at this, using such radio equipment was not a good thing for him. How difficult.

"A triple-encrypted signal will be sent directly to the nearest command center." Augustus quickly edited and sent a distress message: This is the APOD-1304 four-engine possum transport aircraft, we have been shot down, Commander Lieutenant Warfield wounded.We need all the support we can get, we need medics, there are seriously wounded here!
The moment Augustus confirmed that the information was correct and sent it, two Camerian fighters appeared. These sharp-edged fighters were like blades cutting the sky.

The two Cerberus fighters swooped down from the clouds towards the Tyrann Federation soldiers on the train track, and fired at a distance of two hundred feet from them. Augustus seemed to be able to hear the opening of the Cerberus fighters' rocket nests. sound.

"Scatter fire! Watch out for rockets!" Reynolds took command in place of Augustus while Augustus was concentrating on debugging the dangerous equipment.He has great strategic intelligence in himself, and this talent was undoubtedly revealed when he was young.If Augustus is not here, then he is the only one who can command this new army at this moment.

At the same time, the recruits on the train tracks started running around and firing at the hellfire even though they knew they couldn't shoot down the plane.

Several recruits tried their best to prop up a shoulder-fired individual rocket launcher-this type of rocket launcher was obviously designed for marines wearing power armor, and ordinary soldiers needed several people to barely operate and aim.

Seemingly intimidated by the federal soldiers on the ground, the Cerberus suddenly turned from a dive posture, and lifted off again after drawing an arc.

Then, amidst the cheers of the Federation recruits, two Tyrannian Federation Avenger fighters rose from below the train tracks, passing over their heads at a phantom-like speed, chasing the Ke Morian fighters that were speeding up and fleeing.

"See, they're so cool!" Renault whistled.

"Where are we going now? Or are we waiting here for reinforcements?" Zander asked Augustus.

"From the current point of view, waiting in place is not the best option." Augustus glanced at the wounded soldier, staring at his increasingly distracted eyes, and then he looked at the mileage indicator on the side of the track Card.

"We are only a mile away from the nearest hover train base station, which can provide effective cover. It would be nice to find the patrol car used by the train track authority to clean up the track debris. This should be an engagement zone or both armies. In the contested area, no one can guarantee that there will not be a Kel Morian team that will suddenly appear."

"We have to act quickly. This place is too open and wide, with no cover. This ghostly place is so far away from the ground. There is really no way to enter the sky." Renault also said worriedly.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the scattered federal soldiers gathered towards Augustus again.More and more recruits in maroon uniforms were watching Augustus, awaiting his orders.In the silent silence, everyone expected Augustus to speak, to bring any news of rescue forces or to give orders.

Augustus looked at them, realizing that the young soldiers had placed their hopes in him.At this time, Benjamin, who was carrying Warfield on his back, was still trying to wake up the sleeping lieutenant, but there was not even a shot of medicine in the medical kit that could be used, so he could only put the lieutenant on a stretcher.

"Assemble." Augustus said as he put the backpack containing the radio equipment on his shoulders. Now there are four entire squads of nearly 50 people following his command. They will live or die according to their orders. .

"We're heading east along this track."

Under the organization of Augustus and Renault, this isolated and uncommanded platoon of recruits methodically formed two columns and began to run along the circular track.Since they had four stretchers and several heavy weapons, and needed to take care of the seriously wounded, Augustus, who was at the front, intentionally controlled his speed while taking into account the need to maintain the formation.

The high-altitude train track was silent again.The lights and warning lights on both sides of the track were already dimmed, and a gust of wind whizzed by from time to time, and several federal leaflets and announcements that were swept up by the wind swirled under their feet.

Augustus and the recruits walked between the two maglev rails. Since the maglev train had already stopped running, they didn't have to worry about the speeding train crushing themselves into meat paste.

The one-mile journey was not strenuous for Augustus and others who received daily high-intensity weight-bearing running training during the boot camp, and they soon arrived at the nearest train rail transit base station.The transportation base station is a steel tower supporting the sky train track network. Dozens of trains or motor vehicle tracks of different heights and sizes pass through the steel frame structure of the tower, forming an intricate and spectacular traffic network.

The high-altitude circular track where Augustus is located is the tallest one, at the top of the steel tower.They stopped on the section of track inside the tower and boarded the reinforced concrete platform built on a steel frame structure. Behind the platform was the train waiting hall and maintenance technician lounge.

Two vertically downward air elevators can reach the ground from the top of the tower. An empty platform and a scrapped take-off and landing signal tower show that this place can also be used as an apron before.

Out of caution and what Augustus had learned in boot camp, he sent two recruits with walkie-talkies to act as scouts.And the two recruits are fighters from his own class, the fearless Harnack Hank and the stoic Amy Brandon.This is not only because Augustus has a better understanding of his own people, but also to take care of the emotions of other classes.

After receiving the report from the scouts, Augustus led the people into the platform and placed the wounded in the empty waiting room.

In the maintenance mechanical library behind the waiting hall, Augustus found several nearly scrapped trucks, a space station transport barge with its engine removed and only an empty shell, and rusted piles that filled most of the warehouse. chair.The van was still able to move, but there was not much fuel left in the fuel tank, so it couldn't go very far.

Augustus checked the various equipment of the elevator and found that it was already damaged.

(End of this chapter)