The 257th Chapter Zeratul in Kerrigan (2)

Since four years ago, he and Raynor fought against the Zerg on the home planet of the Protoss Aiur and helped the Protoss escape. Over the years, feeling the power of the Zerg, Zeratul has been pursuing a story about the Zerg. and the ancient prophecy of the return of the Xel'Naga.

He has an intuition that if he doesn't fully understand this matter, something terrible will happen!

After a long period of time, Zeratul discovered, according to some fragments of ancient protoss documents, that in this remote planet Ulan, which had long been abandoned by the protoss, there were some records of ancient prophecies. slate?

That's why today he took a small Protoss space shuttle and came here, to this remote planet, trying to uncover the secrets that have been buried here for a long time...

"The arrival of the swarm is just as predicted in the prophecy..."

In a huge dark cavern, Zeratul used the strong light emitted by the green psionic blade on his right hand, and he watched the stone slab carefully while muttering something.

Sure enough, what was in front of him was what he had been looking for.

After confirming, he began to read patiently, bit by bit, and his colleagues also struggled to translate those obscure ancient characters and abstract patterns on the slate.

"Then the protoss, the first race conceived by the gods, rose up against them..."

"Now, the xel'naga who created us... are coming back..."

"Are they coming back to save us...?"

"...or is it destruction?"

These are all the information Zeratul has learned from this tablet.

Well, in fact, this is just Zeratul's random guess based on the pattern. As for the words, he doesn't quite understand them!

Moreover, he also discovered that the information recorded on this stone slab is actually not comprehensive, it is probably only a part of the whole prophecy? So, after carefully removing the stone slab, he planned to search for it in other temples, scanned and recorded all the other stone slabs that recorded the prophecy, took it down and packed it away.

Suddenly, when Zeratul was turning around and preparing to leave for other temples on the Ulan planet, a few Zerg Hydralisks appeared in the dilapidated temple cave and attacked him .

"Hehehe..."

When Zeratul easily killed the bugs blocking the way,

A woman's deep laughter came out in the darkness.

Then, when Zeratul followed the laughter, he found a pair of huge bone wings, the whole body was covered by cuticle-like scales, and the hair was knotted like bone spurs. But a woman with a human body and a beautiful face came out of the darkness.

Zeratul said that he knew this person, and he was very familiar! At the same time, he gritted his teeth with hatred!

She is: the culprit who destroyed countless creatures and planets, the new queen of the Zerg after the master was killed, Kerrigan, Queen of Blades!

"I knew that you would definitely come here in the end, Zeratul, were you also attracted by that prophecy?"

Just walking out of the darkness alone, Kerrigan smiled indifferently after looking at the Hydralisks hacked to death by Zeratul with disdain.

Although there are still many of her large troops in this cave, she is not going to summon them now, so as not to irritate this ancient templar and the head of the dark church too much.

As an existence deliberately created by the master, Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades who has been granted knowledge, of course knows why Zeratul came here, so she came here ahead of time after roughly knowing Zeratul's whereabouts. I came to this planet named Ulan to make a layout, and planned to have a good talk with this old man who has a pivotal position among the protoss.

Just now, the reason why she let out a few hydralisks was nothing more than to want the old man to slap him for a while, to calm the anger in his heart.

"Your presence alone has defiled this sacred place, Kerrigan!"

It's a pity that Zeratul didn't want to listen to the words of this Zerg executioner who had slaughtered countless creatures. In the next second, he released the green psionic blade he had just retracted again, ready to attack the enemy.

"Didn't you hear that whisper from Zeratul's interstellar space? The entire galaxy will soon be turned into a sea of ​​flames..."

Kerrigan intends to persuade the stubborn old man that she doesn't need to look at the tablet of prophecy at all, she knows much more than what Zeratul has learned from the tablet now!

In fact, this matter started when the ruler was born...

Back then, the Zerg Overlord was created by Amon and endowed with the ability to think and learn, but did not have free will. It kept resisting in the prison that imprisoned its thoughts.

No one ever knew who was controlling the Juggernaut behind the scenes, but after discovering the human Juggernaut, he finally found a good way to get all the Zerg out of Amon's control, and that was to create Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades!

This magical existence created by Amon believed that only she could keep the Zerg race away from the fate of slaves, and only she could prevent the cruel future that the ruler had foreseen...

This is why Kerrigan didn't blindly attack Zeratul now. She, who knew more than the other party, obviously hoped to cooperate with the protoss with powerful psionic power to resist the coming fate of destruction!

As for the cooperation with humans, she didn't dare to think too much about it. After all, Kerrigan has killed countless billions of humans over the years. This kind of hatred is almost too big?

Besides, in the eyes of Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades who has not yet recovered human memory, human beings are too selfish and fickle, and their individual strength is too low and too low. It is really not a good partner!

Therefore, the protoss family became her only choice!

And among the various branches of the Protoss, Zeratul, the respected and open-minded headmaster of the Nerazim Protoss Dark Church, has become the only one she can talk to?

"Probably... But I'm afraid you won't have the life to see that time!"

Seeing that Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, seemed to appear in this place alone, without too many swarms to accompany her, Zeratul would certainly not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

In case, if he really accidentally killed the queen of the swarm, wouldn't that solve a big disaster for the creatures in the Koprulu sector? !

So, he stopped talking nonsense with the enemy in front of him, and directly raised the green psionic blade in his hand, and then a shadow pounced, turning into a black mist, and instantly rushed towards the Queen of Blades, Kerrigan past.

It's a pity that the Shadow Strike had just reached the front and top of the Queen of Blades. Before Zeratul's psychic blade could swing down at the enemy's head, he was blocked by the opponent's psionic energy. In mid-air, and was pushed out by an invisible psionic force field.

"Please! The small conflict between us has become meaningless now! An unstoppable storm is sweeping!"

"Zeratul, we don't have much time left. Now we should unite... to fight against the cruel fate of being destroyed."

Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, doesn't want to fight this stubborn old man of the Protoss, at least not yet!

She was afraid that if she accidentally beat the other party to death, wouldn't there be no room for relaxation? At that time, relying on her and her swarm, it is obviously impossible to effectively fight against the terrifying existence hidden in the darkness, always ready to destroy everything!

Because of this, just now, she didn't summon the insect swarm not far away, nor did she use any lethal skills, but just protected the opponent's attack and bounced it back.

"No!!"

Zeratul still stubbornly rejected the other party's proposal. He already had a lot of sins on him, so how could he still join forces with the bugs? He has not forgotten why the protoss' home planet, Al, fell!

If he really did what the other party said, then he, Zeratul, would really become the eternal sinner of all the protoss.

Therefore, after being bounced into the air by the opponent's psionic shield, he disappeared instantly again, and once again used his shadow assault skill, with the momentum of thunder, exhausting the shadow power of his whole body, in the process of disappearing and appearing In an instant, he brandished his psychic blade and slashed straight at the Queen of Blades...

In the next second, a puff of shadowy smoke reappeared, and Zaratul appeared on a rock in the distance, clutching his right arm in pain.

In the blow just now, he had successfully hit Kerrigan, Queen of Blades. However, his own right arm was also severely injured by the opponent's counterattack.

"It seems that fate cannot be changed after all... The end will come eventually... When it is my turn... I will gladly accept it..."

Looking down at a psionic bone wing that had been severed by the opponent and slid to the ground, Kerrigan frowned in frustration.

From this point of view, the negotiation and cooperation between the two parties has obviously failed, right?

Since the cooperation failed, it can be foreseen: in the near future, the destruction of the entire galaxy is, perhaps, really inevitable?

So, after using her super regenerative ability to regenerate the bone wings, Kerrigan stretched out her hand to calm her surroundings a little bit, and after those swarms who were about to rush up and tear the enemy apart, she sneered and took one last look at the stubborn star. The old man Ling turned around and walked into the darkness.

Kerrigan actually didn't feel much sadness about the failure to reach a cooperation.

From the point of view of Kerrigan, who has not yet recovered human memory, since they cannot work together and struggle to survive in the face of the coming tragic fate, they might as well be destroyed by the doomed fate together...

"Prophecy... is not absolute! There will always be new hope..."

After seeing Kerrigan, Queen of Blades, leading her swarm into the darkness, Zeratul thought about it, but still held back the idea of ​​cooperating with her.

In fact, at that moment just now, he really believed the other party's words. Just now, the other party clearly had the opportunity to take his own life easily, but she didn't do anything cruel...

Coupled with the fact that he had just seen the prophecy, and his own intuition that he had already had a premonition about it, the whispers between the stars?

Otherwise, he wouldn't have spent a lot of time in the past few years, devoting himself to finding this ancient prophecy about the return of Naganaga.

But, at least for now, he still has a trace of fantasy. He feels that if he can gather all the fragments of the prophecy slate, he may be able to find some better way to avoid being destroyed without cooperating with the Zerg. method?

"My mother! I heard it right just now, right? We seem to be involved in some big event?"

"The ancient prophecy of the protoss? The destruction of the world? An unstoppable storm? The fate of Rao Shizi? Turning the Milky Way into a sea of ​​flames? What were those two monsters talking about just now?!"

On the bridge of the Führer heavy battlecruiser after the magic reform, Captain Planck yelled excitedly while drinking, grinning excitedly.

It turned out that they had just passed the reconnaissance magic engraved on this battleship by Mrs. Anne, and used an invisible mobile real-sight reconnaissance guard to quietly follow the strange protoss who landed on the Ulan planet, and then used the bridge to Through the vision provided by the reconnaissance guards, I saw and heard the entire battle and conversation between Zeratul and Queen of Blades Kerrigan just now!

"Your Excellency, what should we do now? Do we want to get involved? Have you seen it? That protoss named Zeratul seems to be going to collect all the prophecy tablets?"

After looking at the image conveyed by the scouting guard for a while, Plank became a little restless!

According to what those two people said, a catastrophe that seems to be able to sweep the entire galaxy is engraved on those prophecy slates?

Then, think about the identities of those two people: one of them is the high level of the protoss race, the headmaster of the dark church? And the other one is even more amazing! Kerrigan, Queen of Blades of the Swarm? Given the identities of the two of them, they wouldn't just come here to play for fun, would they?

So, Planck thinks, there is at least an 80% chance that this matter is true!

If people like myself don't hurry up to get involved and understand the details, maybe it will really be over with a black eye at that time? He didn't want to be a fool when he was about to die!

"Well……"

Little Annie frowned, ignoring the drunken old man next to her.

She was just hugging her little bear, sitting on the captain's chair with great interest, squinting at the pictures fed back by the scouting guards, wondering what she was thinking.

In fact, when Zeratul checked the stone slab just now, she had secretly asked the scouting guard to scan it, and now she herself knew some of the content on it.

It is nothing more than the creator of life in this universe named Sarnaga, who is going to return to this universe again! Then, based on the conversation between the two, it is not difficult for her to guess the meaning: it seems that the returned Naganaga intends to completely destroy the life created by them in this world?

Isn't this the same as the Burning Legion in the world of Azeroth! Is that the so-called Dark Titan or something, said to be the boss of the great demon Archimonde who was killed by the green-headed elves? what do you say that is? Like Sargeras?

Tsk! Little Annie herself didn't expect that in this world that seems to belong to the technological side, there is such a thing as a creation titan?

If this is really the case, then this coincides with the great malice that little Annie faintly felt when she first came to this Koprulu sector!

Up to now, she can roughly understand the patterns, but she doesn't know much about the specific words on the stone slabs.

It seems that the above uses an ancient language written by some kind of spiritual imprint?

If she wanted to interpret it further, she would have to get in close contact with the stone slabs. She could only roughly understand the patterns based on the pictures provided by the scouting guards.

But... there seem to be a lot of bugs down there, do you want to go down and make trouble?

"Dreyus, what do you think of those two people?"

With a serious face, Galen continued to look at the image fed back by the scouting guards. In it, Zeratul, the protoss warrior, was advancing invisibly, dealing with the bugs blocking the way like cutting melons and vegetables.

He actually doesn't care about things like prophecies, and he can't understand them either!

What he cared more about was the Protoss Templar named Zeratul! That Protoss seems to be very different from the ones they fought on Haven Star before? Very difficult to deal with?

"I don't know about that female bug, but that Protoss, he is indeed a terrifying opponent!"

Looking at the protoss warrior in the picture who killed a lot of bugs without harming himself, Darius' face was also a little ugly.

In the picture that was just sent back, the other party just relied on the magical means of invisibility, and hacked to death a huge Thunder Beast bug like a joke?

This protoss, whether it's the method of teleportation and surprise attack by turning into black smoke, or the skill of flickering and suppressing the enemy like a prison, makes Darius feel very difficult to deal with!

What's more terrible is: the opponent even has that kind of skillful close combat skills and the ability to be invisible all the way? If it is an existence like a bug whose perception ability and IQ are not very high, it is estimated that he would not know how he was hacked to death by the enemy, right?

"When we really fight, if there is no way to break the opponent's invisibility or perceive the existence of the opponent, then I am afraid that all of our two teams combined will not be his opponent..."

Darius is not afraid of this terrifying protoss warrior if he confronts him head-on!

But the opponent not only has weird attack methods, but can also turn into black smoke for short-distance raids or long-distance flashes, and what's more terrible is that they can maintain long-term invisibility. This is really impossible to fight...

Darius could imagine that if ordinary human marines faced this kind of opponent, how many lives would not be enough for the opponent's strange assassination?

"If the distance is not far, I have a way to force him out of invisibility, but... he can still flash for a long distance..."

Looking at the picture, a flicker crossing a cliff with a width of one or two hundred meters, Galen didn't know what to say.

Running fast, stealth all the way, sudden surprise attack, long-distance flash, and the ability to suppress the opponent and let him hack and kill without being able to fight back? This is simply an existence of hanging up!

That is to say, now, if it was the time before them, without melee ability or special strength, how many people would not be enough to kill others alone?

"Hey! Galen, how many troops are there in our battleship?"

Finally, Annie, who sat in the captain's seat and was silent for a long time, not knowing what to think about, finally spoke out at this time.

After thinking it over and over again, she thinks, anyway, they are now able to advance and retreat freely, and they have a warship on standby in orbit, they can teleport back at any time, and they are not afraid of being attacked by the swarm? In this way, it seems that they can really go to the ground to disrupt the situation, and see if they can "borrow" the few prophecy slates that the protoss finally collected for a look?

"Army, army?"

Hearing the question from his little head of state Anne, Galen was stunned. Could it be that their head of state is going to fight with bugs and protoss?

"Report to the head of state: on this battleship head of state, in addition to our head of state guard of 20 people, it is currently equipped with only 300 marines, two heavy siege tanks, and the first batch of 10 pilot-produced maintenance Beijing fighter!"

As a captain and military chief officer of the Führer's Guard, Galen is obviously quite clear about the armed configuration of the Führer's battlecruiser.

These are troops that they can put into landing operations at any time. As for the security personnel, guards, and crew members in other positions on other warships, they are not counted for the time being.

"Why are there so few people..."

She frowned again, and when she found out that there were only such a few troops on her battleship, Anne muttered dissatisfiedly. She always thought that there could be at least a few thousand people on this battleship Woolen cloth!

But who would have thought that such a small number of combat troops would be installed? Normally, she looked at this battleship as quite big...

"Forget it! You go now, let the marines all dress up, and later, let's go to the ground of this planet to have fun!"

After she finished speaking, she also jumped down from her seat.

If she needs to go to the ground, she seems to have to go back and change into her ghost suit that she hasn't worn for a long time.

"Obey!"

There was a fight, and now, like the warships of the Protoss, the modified Führer battleship has the ability to teleport individual soldiers back and forth, so Galen will definitely not be cowardly.

"This is already the last fragment of the prophecy, Karas, our mission will be completed soon..."

Zeratul looked at the last temple altar in front of him, and happily said to the high-ranking templar who had suddenly teleported down to help him.

He had fought forcibly for so long regardless of the injury on his arm, but now, it was finally time for him to get rewarded!

As long as they know all the stone slabs and their contents, maybe the protoss will know how to resist the terrible fate of being destroyed?

"Master Zeratul, hurry up and take down the slate, I found that the bugs seem to have followed..."

The high-ranking templar Karas was not very happy. Instead, he looked worriedly at the darkness in the distance. There seemed to be the faint hissing of insects. They... I am afraid they will find here soon. ?

"The last fragment of the prophecy...it mentions a person who will 'break the cycle of God'?!"

After taking down the slate, Zeratul looked at it for a while, but he couldn't understand what these contents meant.

Break the cycle of gods? !

What is a loop? Why is it looping? Who can break it? What does it have to do with the coming destruction? Then, who is this person who broke the cycle? !

"Master Zeratul, even you can't decipher the specific contents of these tablets?"

Karas was a little surprised. Could it be that even Zeratul, the elder patriarch, could not interpret this prophecy? Then what's the point of them trying so hard and sacrificing so many warriors?

"Some writings are illegible, while others are ancient... Perhaps, we need the wisdom of the Guardians..."

After recalling the contents of the slates he had seen before, Zeratul shook his head helplessly. His knowledge was not enough to completely decipher these slates.

"Kerrigan, come out, I've spotted you!"

After putting away the stone slab, Zeratul suddenly put on a straight face, swung out his psychic blade, and coldly shouted at a high ground in the distance.

He had already sensed Kerrigan's psionic energy fluctuations just now, and the other party was just behind that highland!

"Perhaps, you can understand all the implications of the prophecy, Zeratul!"

"However, since you have already refused to cooperate, you will not be able to escape the fate of being destroyed together..."

Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, sneered and walked to the high ground from the darkness, looking down and coldly at the thirty or fifty templars and Zeratul next to the temple below.

"Why don't you gladly accept your death? Since it is already a doomed end...what's the point of your resistance...?"

Now that she has no expectations for cooperation, she also wants to know the specific content of the slates that Zeratul got.

After all, survival is the instinct of all living things! Therefore, she also wanted to find out from these prophecies specific ways to allow herself and her Zerg to survive the ensuing catastrophe.

Therefore, it is obvious that defeating and killing Zeratul now, and then snatching those slates from him, is her best and only choice at the moment!

"Come out, my pets, and crush them!"

The next second, the soft gravel ground behind Kerrigan began to tremble, and then countless bugs who had ambushed here in advance, a large number of hydralisks, puppies, and even several huge ultralisks, They all came out of the ground one after another...

"We are simply outnumbered! Master Zeratul, quickly leave here with the prophecy fragments, and I will help you block the Queen of Blades!"

Karas, the high-ranking templar wizard, discovered that not only the temple they were in, but also farther away, in all directions, there were a lot of roars of bugs?

The situation is already clear, they are now completely surrounded by massive swarms of insects!

"I will never leave you! Brother!"

Seeing that Karas, a heroic high-ranking warrior, wanted to fight against Kerrigan alone, Zeratul immediately became anxious. He knew that if the other party did this, it was simply sending him to death!

"Prophecy is more important than any of us, we must unlock this secret, Zela! It is our future!"

If they escape together, the final result is likely to die in battle together!

Because Karas knew that under the heavy siege of the swarm, except for Master Zeratul who could easily escape by using his invisibility and flashing abilities, the others were just a bunch of burdens...

Since this is the case, then he has to make the final contribution to the other party, holding back the Queen of Blades, so that the chances of Zeratul's master escaping are higher?

"Psionic storm!!"

After speaking, without waiting for Zeratul's reaction, Karas led the remaining thirty or so zealot templars, and formed a thin two-line formation at the front of the swarm's path.

"Go! Master Zeratul!"

Afterwards, under the protection of the templars, he floated behind the array for the first time, and began to arouse the psionic power in his whole body, so that the lightning storm could pass by those Hydralisks and puppies. On the road, a large group of psionic lightning gathered and formed, smashing those bugs who dared to plunge into the storm area into pieces...

"Your sacrifice will last forever...my brother."

Youyou sighed, knowing the seriousness of the matter, Zeratul tightened his backpack, then turned around and was about to run in the other direction.

Wait...that's not right! Why did someone send it down again? !

Zeratul, who had just run a few steps, had to stop when he noticed something at this moment. Because, with his keen perception, he found that on the flat ground not far away, there was a strong teleportation wave of the large army?

Could it be the new Protoss troops? Why is this happening? After sacrificing so many clansmen, there are still people teleported down from space to die? ! Are their commanders crazy? !

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

After a series of strong blue lights and strange noises dissipated, whether it was the protoss or the Queen of Blades Kerrigan standing on the high ground watching the battle, they all discovered this group of outsiders who had just entered the battlefield.

"This is... a human army?!"

Contrary to Zeratul's expectation, what was sent down was not their Protoss clansman, but three neat human marines in a large square formation?

There seemed to be more than three hundred of them in number. Except for the first row of 20 marines with cold weapons and a little ghost in gold and red paint, behind them seemed to be a whole Three Black Marines from the Centuries?

And look at the soldier badges held by each of their phalanx flag bearers. On the battle flag is the head of a ferocious giant bear with burning flames? !

This... What kind of human force is this? What kind of trouble do they want to appear here at this time?

Moreover, why has Zeratul never seen this kind of human flag after wandering for so many years?

Which country do they belong to? Is it the Umogian protectorate? The most powerful Tyrannian Empire? Or the Kelmorian Union? But it seems neither? Is there any new force emerging from the human race? !

Also, the most important thing is: When did humans master the individual teleportation technology unique to their protoss? ! Don't they only know the simple leap technology between battleships?

After all, when the level of individual psionic energy does not meet the requirements, the difficulty and threshold of technology are clearly there! How did they break through the difficulty of technology and directly carry out long-distance transmission on fragile human beings? Are you not afraid of tearing their bodies apart when teleporting?