StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

The elevator to the bottom of Terra Sky Tower went smoothly without any unexpected changes, but the war outside still showed no sign of subside.

Zebediah Terra, who was holding her sister Nova in her arms, was protected by her family guards and entered the spacious private underground hangar. She quickly walked through dozens of land-based floating cars that cost tens of millions of federal credit coins. , flying cars, private yachts and larger spaceships. The launch channel of the spacecraft leads directly to the outside world, so even rapid takeoff underground is not a problem.

Among the many powerful founding families and great merchants of Tarsonis, a hangar like this is just a small dwarf. Constantine, the head of the Terra family, doesn't have much of a taste for luxury cars, and the family business he owns is the manufacturer of these cars.

The underground hangar is full of armed security personnel and armed servants, and a loyal butler, Sander, is commanding them. At the same time, more people were walking in.

"Master Zebei, thank God, you are safe and sound." The butler was wearing a tuxedo and crisp black trousers, with a spotless white shirt underneath. His waist is straight, and even his hairstyle is as meticulous as his own.

Jacob Sander, a thin black-haired man, carries a gun and a short sword behind his back, and his bright leather boots are very polished.

"Is there any news about father and mother?" Zebediah put Nova down and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand.

This little girl, who was only ten years old and had no experience in the world, was heartbroken, crying and hiccupping.

The last time Zebediah saw Nova crying was when she was very young, and since she has grown older, she has increasingly shown a maturity that is beyond her age.

"They can't be reached," Sander replied.

There are extremely advanced electromagnetic interference equipment in the city center of Tarsonis, especially near the Sky Tower of the Creation Family, but the people on Earth have easily paralyzed almost all communications.

"Master Constantine is meeting distinguished guests from afar at the top level. He is surrounded by the most trustworthy guards and agents. This is the highest level of protection. No one can get close to him." He continued.

"My wife is far away at the Osborne Automobile Manufacturing Plant, and she is protected by the most elite armed forces of the Terra family."

"Is this the attack method of the Earthlings?" Even Zebediah knew that this would be absolutely fatal to the command system of the Terran Federation Army. If the federal high command cannot figure out where its own armies are, it is even less likely that they will know where the enemy is.

"Please board the ship immediately. The loyal servants of the Terra family will escort you away to the death." The butler bowed and said.

"Aboard the Galaxy Hopper is the fastest way to reach the starport of Terra, but during the war any civilian aircraft is likely to become a target for both sides. Flying it is the best pilot Andre, who was on the first In Total War, he drove a transport ship to engage in thrilling aerial battles with alien dragons many times, creating a miracle of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds."

"What should father and Clara do if we leave on this ship?" Zebediah could not possibly acquiesce that her father and sister had been poisoned by earth assassins and hybrid monsters.

"You don't have to worry about this. There are definitely enough manpower and ships, and the alternatives are sufficient to deal with all possible situations." The steward said.

"Then is this situation also expected?" Zebediah's rhetorical question made the other party speechless for a moment.

"My master said that if he dies at the last moment, you will be the leader of the Terra family." The butler hesitated for a moment.

"What on earth is he thinking?" Zebediah's face changed.

Constantine Terra, the leader of the Terra family, had anticipated this situation long ago and was fully prepared. Ten years ago, if someone had said that Tarsonis might fall, Constantine would have thought it was a funny joke.

About a month ago, when the UED expeditionary force first invaded, many founding families had secretly sent some family members and heirs to planets affiliated with the family to temporarily avoid the danger, and at the same time transferred and delivered property, preparing to once the situation stabilized. , take them back when the war becomes clear.

That's what the founding families of Tarsonis did during the First Total War of the Zerg and Protoss invasions.

But there are still quite a few members of the founding family who remain, because Tarsonis has the inheritance they have accumulated for generations and cannot be left alone.

The Terra family was also planning to do this. For example, another Hot family that had good relations with Korhal sent their heir to Umoyan. But the eldest sister Clara was unwilling to leave, and Nova was too young, so her parents were naturally worried.

Moreover, at that time, they did not expect that the UED expeditionary force's offensive would be so swift and violent.

"What is the situation outside? Have the orbital defense forces and planetary defense forces in the outer space orbit of Tarsonis been defeated? Why did the enemy appear in the urban area of ​​Tarsonis?" Just before the evacuation, Zebedi Ya still believes that he must figure out what happened. He has always been the one to make his own judgments and decisions, instead of leaving everything to his parents to decide.

Just escape from here. If you head towards the center of the battlefield, you are really asking for death.

Zebediah, who is only fifteen years old, is already helping his father manage the family business. He is both an elegant noble and a very capable and courageous heir. No one will regard him as an ignorant child.

"We can't contact anyone - the communication channels of the Federation Council, the Tarsonis Police Department, the Federal Security Service, the FBI and the army have all been severely interfered with." Butler Sander looked grim. Since the communication equipment has failed, even the various floors of Terra Sky Tower cannot communicate with each other.

"But even with the eyes, you can probably understand that no matter what the Federation's Tarsonis defense forces are doing now, the Earthlings have landed on the surface of Tarsonis, and their troops and captive genetically modified monsters have appeared directly on the surface. The city of Tarsonis and even the city center,” he said.

"I'm afraid that no place in Tarsonis is absolutely safe right now. At this point, we can only count on the federal army to successfully repel the UED expeditionary force's attack and defend Tarsonis."

"Oh my God, Zebediah. Joe told me that earthling assassins have infiltrated the Terra Sky Tower. Where is Dad?" At this time, a young and beautiful blond woman walked through a heavily guarded door under the protection of servants. He came in with an expression of anxiety and panic on his face. She is Clara Terra, the eldest sister of Zebedia and Nova.

Clara wore a creamy white silk shirt with a boat-shaped collar. The excess hem of the shirt was neatly tucked into orange striped pencil pants, and the waist belt outlined an attractive pear-shaped figure.

Clara's high-heeled silver Oxford shoes were still clattering as she ran towards Zebediah, and her black woolen shawl was in disarray. It seemed that Clara had just dressed up to go to a private tutor for lessons when she was brought here by the eager servants.

Clara still hasn't figured out what happened. When the servants first told Clara that someone had broken into the Sky Tower of Terra and was about to kill her father, she just screamed and cried like an ordinary woman.

"I don't know, we haven't been able to contact him yet." Zebediah also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his sister Clara. Although they often quarreled, they were still family after all: "The UED expeditionary force is besieging Tarsonis. Their troops were even present in the city centre."

"Then what should we do?" Clara asked in panic.

"It is no longer feasible to take refuge with other families and federal military fortresses, and I'm worried that even running to the port will not help." Zebediah thought for a moment and pointed out this point calmly:

"The military port of Tarsonis must be a priority target for UED, and then large civilian ports will soon fall." He said: "Galactic hoppers have warp engines, so escaping Tarsonis directly is not a problem, as long as they avoid Just the fleets at war will do.”

"Then what are you waiting for?" Clara spun around a few times, her high heels clicking: "Dad, he will be fine, right? Let's go quickly."

"." Zebediah gritted his teeth, knowing that he had to make a decision immediately.

"Dad, he's here." At this moment, Nova, who had been clutching Zebediah's clothes and burying her head on his back, suddenly said.

Zebediah immediately raised his head and shouted: "Get ready for battle!"

Several more family servants walked quickly into the underground hangar, but almost all of them were injured. They had frightened expressions on their faces, as if they were fleeing from some unstoppable, man-eating monster.

These people are all Constantine's personal guards, and they are all people familiar to Zebediya.

"Where is Constantine Terra?" Zebediah grabbed one of them and asked.

"Monster! Monster!" But the other party's face turned pale, and his swaying pupils were no longer symmetrical. His whole body was shaking and he could hardly speak a complete sentence.

It was a man with light blue eyes. He turned out to be a Wraith fighter pilot who had repeatedly performed extraordinary feats in the war against the Zerg. Logically speaking, he should have seen many weird and twisted zerg, but he had never been scared to death.

"Who can answer my question?" Zebediah let him go with a serious expression.

"He's dead!" said another man who had just walked in. He was once a federal navy captain. After retiring, he accepted Constantine's high-tech job and became an instructor for Terra's servants.

"That monster killed everyone. He cut people's arteries alive and used the flowing blood to draw pictures of evil gods on the ground." He held Zebediah's shoulders and coughed out blood from his mouth. .

"Run quickly, or it will be too late."

"Run, little rat in the gutter." A huge shadow appeared outside the door, and then, two arms covered with dense carapace opened the door that was about to close. The collapsed door immediately crushed the family guards guarding there, followed by the sound of broken bones.

"If you want to survive, then draw your sword from me."

That was not the hybrid that Zebediah had seen. The current one was obviously much larger. It moved forward on the blood-stained marble floor with a pair of extremely thick legs, and each of its two arms Holding a dead person.

It has an extremely terrifying huge mouth, and its gaping gap seems to be big enough to swallow a car.

"How could that happen?" Clara collapsed on the ground as soon as she saw the monster. She covered herself and couldn't stop crying.

Her father, the man she had treasured for the past twenty years, was being bitten by the monster. Only half of Constantine Terra, the powerful man in Tarsonis, was left, and blood was dripping from his hanging hands.

Zebediah's hands and feet were cold, and he was always lucky, thinking that his father might escape. But in front of such a monster, no human being can be its opponent. Even human psykers appear small and fragile.

Hybrids were born for destruction.

A heart-piercing pain almost overwhelmed Zebediah. He just wanted to cover his sister's eyes, but it was too late.

Zebediah was surprised to find that at some point, Nova's beautiful green eyes gradually lost their luster, and suddenly turned completely into gold, and an unprecedented spiritual energy waveform was rising.

For a long time, Nova has lived a luxurious life like a princess, and she has never seen real death. And now, she is watching her beloved father die in front of her.

For a high-level psyker, strong stimulation can greatly stimulate his hidden psychic power. This is why the Terra Federation's psionic plan always seems so crazy.

"What a delicious treat" the hybrid almost immediately locked onto Nova in the crowd. It still holds the remains of Constantine in its mouth, but it uses psychic powers instead of its mouth to make sounds.

Then under the fearful eyes of everyone, the hybrid exposed its neck covered with hard scales in front of humans, and proudly raised its huge head with a pair of huge crowns.

It opened its mouth like a snake and swallowed Constantine directly.

"Is this what devouring feels like? This is ascension! I have ascended!" It roared violently:

"This feels so good -"

Suddenly, the extremely terrifying psychic power frightened everyone, and everyone present fell to their knees under the weight of some invisible pressure. Even the seemingly extremely powerful hybrid could not move.

Zebediah half-knelt in front of Nova, with bright red blood left from her mouth and nose, as if she was about to be crushed by gravity. He moved with difficulty in front of Nova, grabbed her face and made her look at him.

"Nova, Nova, you and us." When Zebediah said, blood also dripped from the corners of his narrow eyes. He hugged Nova with all his strength, comforting her even though it took great pains to say a word.

Zebediah knew very little about psykers, and had no idea that an out-of-control high-level psyker would release a terrifying power comparable to a psychic storm, killing everyone here in an instant. However, the sense of responsibility as an older brother still drives Zebediah to stay close to Nova instead of running away from her.

"Look at me, Nova."

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