I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Moreover, even with their heavy armor, these mounts raced across the track like the wind. The nun knights riding on these mounts wielded huge muskets, like those used by hunters. The fusion of the knight's lance and the musket allowed the nun knights to employ a variety of combat techniques.

Soon, the cultists in the laboratory brought in a siege tank and quickly evacuated. Immediately afterward, the laboratory's loudspeaker announced that the nun knights should attack the target. Upon hearing the order, the nun knights quickly turned their attention to the siege tank and charged. With the acceleration of their mounts, the nun knights aimed their muskets at the siege tank and rammed into it at high speed. With the sound of metal being destroyed, the tank in front of the nun knights seemed to have suffered a terrible attack; the front of the tank was completely dented, and the siege tank was sent flying. This showed just how terrifying the impact force of these knights was.

Volume 2 [StarCraft II: Back to Home]: Chapter 1854 [The Accelerated Progress]

While Yhaka and her allies were developing powerful weaponry, Kerrigan, on the Leviathan fleet in the Zerg swarm, had fully awakened from the hatchery. Awakening from her convalescence, Kerrigan felt somewhat guilty for underestimating her opponent. Although she knew her adversary was strong, she hadn't expected Narud to resort to underhanded tactics, transforming into Raynor and her former self to cause her trouble.

However, it was also for these reasons that Kerrigan saw some intelligence: Amon had been resurrected, but Kerrigan didn't know where he was, which gave her a headache. At least Kerrigan knew that Narud had other bases for producing hybrids, but she didn't bother to destroy those bases now. She was going to settle some old scores.

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Within the Imperial territory, Kerrigan dispatched her Leviathan fleet to search for the Hyperion. After all, Kerrigan needed someone to help her find Raynor. Although Yhaka possessed computer skills, according to her, she controlled electronic devices entirely through user-friendly software on a tablet. Sending her to find Raynor might attract the enemy's attention, so Kerrigan dared not let Yhaka search for Raynor's whereabouts. It might attract Mengsk's attention, and Raynor might be moved to another location, which would be undesirable.

The only good news was that the technical department in Korhal had obtained records of several prison ships, but the problem was that they didn't know which prison Raynor was in, and in order not to alert them...

Soon, with the help of the Leviathan fleet, Kerrigan also quickly found the Hyperion's trail.

...on the Hyperion...

After losing track of Raynor, the crew of the Hyperion also searched for him. Although news came from Korhal that Raynor had been executed, Valerian, Mengsk's son, did not think so. He understood his father too well. Raynor's trump card in holding back the Rangers and the Zerg Swarm was that Valerian did not believe his father would do something like killing Raynor so soon.

Hearing Valerian's words, everyone felt a little relieved. However, the problem of where to find Renault's whereabouts was still a big one. The Empire's security network was vast, and searching bit by bit would take a lot of time. Most importantly, the longer they were searched within the Empire's security network, the greater the chance of being exposed. In that case, a large fleet would warp in and beat them up. They should know that their current forces had already suffered considerable losses in the Battle of Char and the previous raid on the laboratory. Now, they were basically unable to fight several regular fleets of the Empire.

However, at this moment, an unknown psionic signal was received in the bridge. The strength of the psionic signal was unknown, and they did not know what it was that the psionic signal was so strong that the detector could not identify it. Horner and Valerian decided to try to contact the other party.

As the communication projection on the bridge was activated, Kerrigan appeared before Horner and Valerian. However, Kerrigan now resembled the Queen of Blades, which startled Horner and Valerian, who were clearly surprised that Kerrigan had reverted to her Queen of Blades appearance.

Fortunately, Kerrigan was not in the same state as Char had been before; she was fully conscious.

“There’s no time to explain. Jim is still alive, but I can’t sense him. I have a list of Imperial prison ships here. I hope you can hack into the Imperial security network and help me find where Jim is being held. I’ve already sent someone to deliver the list of Imperial prison ships.”

Hearing Kerrigan's words, Valerian looked at Horner and asked, "Can we trust her?" Kerrigan, the former Queen of Blades, had caused considerable destruction to the Empire, and Valerian was worried about whether she was setting a trap or genuinely seeking their help.

Horner answered Valerian's question decisively, "I will save Jim as long as there is even the slightest chance of him living." Seeing Horner's firm stance, Valerian had nothing more to say. However, Valerian did remind Horner that with their current technical personnel, it would be extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible, to hack into the Empire's security network.

In this situation, Horner thought of an expert who could hack into the Empire's security network, but the expert was in the hands of a very troublesome guy (in Horner's opinion), which gave Horner a headache, but he had no other choice at the moment.

Just then, Horner and his men heard something approaching from the ventilation duct. They were all stunned by the noise, and Horner said to Valerian, "Valerian, tell your men not to fire."

"What? Well, I hope your decision isn't a mistake..." With that, Valerian ordered his men not to act rashly. Although the guards didn't know why Valerian ordered them not to act rashly, they lowered their weapons, but their fingers were still on the triggers just in case.

Soon, as the ventilation duct was opened, Yhaka's figure darted out of it. Horner and the others looked on in surprise at Yhaka's sudden appearance.

"Yooyo? You suddenly appeared like this? Where did you go before?" Everyone present was very surprised by Yohaka's sudden appearance, after all, they did not expect that Yohaka, who had disappeared without a trace, would appear here.

"Hmm? Yuuyu has been with Kerrigan the whole time, oh OwO." With that, Yuuyuka handed Horner and the others his tablet. Seeing the tablet, Horner, who was about to ask a bunch of questions, was silenced. After taking the tablet from Yuuyuka, Horner saw some intelligence that Yulis and the others had obtained. From this intelligence, Horner and his team had significantly narrowed down the scope of their search of the Imperial security network, which was of great help to them.

"Thank you, Yuu, this information is extremely important to us." After reviewing the information on his tablet, Horner looked at Yuuhaka with a sigh of relief and expressed his gratitude. However, Horner quickly thought of another question: where did Yuuhaka get this information from?

However, Horner quickly put those thoughts aside, as rescuing his superior was of utmost importance. He promptly went to Mira Han's place to demand the release of his officer.

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After Horner and the others went to demand the people back, Ehaka's main body quietly left and returned to Leviathan, while his clone went with Horner and the others to help. Although Kerrigan looked at the outside universe of Leviathan without moving, Ehaka could still tell that she was a little anxious.

However, Ehaka did not go up to say anything to the other party, because Ehaka received a message from the clone that the matter had been resolved.

After the Hyperion returned, Kerrigan finally made a move. Seeing that the Hyperion had gone to ask Horner and the others, Yhwach yawned and then took out a bag of beef jerky from his dimensional portal and started munching on it. After a long time, Kerrigan obtained Raynor's location from Horner and the others.

After locating Raynor, Kerrigan ordered the Leviathan fleet to set off towards a specific coordinate the next day.

The next day, after the Leviathan fleet warped, they quickly arrived at a coordinate. Kerrigan then saw her target—the Moros, a highly maneuverable prison ship that warped to a random coordinate every hour. Even so, this highly maneuverable prison ship would still go to some space stations to resupply.

The Moros ship docked at the Atlas space station to resupply, but they never expected to be attacked by Kerrigan's Leviathan fleet.

Before the enemy could escape, Kerrigan's Leviathan extended its tentacles and entangled the enemy ship, preventing it from forcibly warping away.

On the bridge of the Leviathan, Kerrigan told the others that she could handle things on the Moros, and that the others should stay put. Although Yhaka didn't know why Kerrigan wanted to go alone, he sensed that there were no powerful enemies on the ship and didn't care much.

After a while, Ehka heard an explosion coming from the Moros, which startled him. However, after receiving news from his clone that Kerrigan was alright, Ehka's expression changed from one of surprise to one of embarrassment.

After Kerrigan returned, Yhaka clearly noticed that Kerrigan seemed a bit down. Yhaka had a completely bewildered expression about this, since his clone could see that Raynor had returned, but Raynor's expression didn't look good, which left Yhaka puzzled.

"Strange adult OO???" Yuhaka scratched his little head with his tail and then ignored these things.

After some time, Kerrigan announced preparations to march on Korhal. Upon hearing this news, Ehaka immediately showed an "OwO~" expression, clearly happy that this matter could end quickly. After all, Ehaka wanted to end this somewhat tedious war as soon as possible and go home to play with other people.

Kerrigan looked at Yhaka and asked, "Yhaka, how's the layout on your Korhal going?" Yhaka nodded in agreement. Seeing Yhaka's approval, Kerrigan said with satisfaction, "Very good. When our Zerg swarm begins its attack, have them launch an attack from the outside. While I don't expect them to help us much, I'll be very satisfied if they can destroy the Empire's orbital defense platform."

"OwO?" Upon hearing Kerrigan's words, Ehaka also showed a puzzled expression, clearly indicating that Kerrigan looked down on his church.

However, Yhaka didn't think it mattered much. After all, Yhaka felt that her church had surprised Kerrigan. In the subsequent meeting, Kerrigan explained the battle plan to everyone present. They would first concentrate their forces to attack the outer areas, since there were orbital defense platforms and anti-aircraft equipment there. Kerrigan's Leviathan fleet could not safely approach Korhal. Kerrigan did not want her Leviathan fleet to take such a risk for unnecessary losses.

After discussing the plan, Kerrigan ordered the Zerg swarm to begin operations.

In the palace in Korhal's capital, Mengsk looked out at the city while listening to a report from his mechanical adjutant. The report clearly stated that military bases on various planets and the fleets that came to support them had all been attacked and intercepted by the Zerg swarm and were unable to return to support Korhal.

Upon hearing the news, Mengsk, puffing on a cigar, watched as airdrop pods rained down from the sky and a barrage of firepower erupted from the ground. Instead of feeling tense, Mengsk remained remarkably calm.

As the communicator next to him rang, Mengsk answered it, and a scientist's voice came through the communicator in the room: "Führer Mengsk, Dr. Mebius has activated all the technological weapons, but the hybrid will take some time to activate. What should we do now?"

Mengsk nodded in response to the scientist's words and said, "Very good, let's continue like this."

Meanwhile, upon hearing Mengsk's words, the scientist nodded and then closed the communication. He then cautiously looked at the somewhat distracted Mebius and asked, "Dr. Mebius, Führer Mengsk has stated that he will do his utmost to produce armed puppets and hybrid legions."

Upon hearing the scientist's words, Möbius waved his hand to indicate that he understood and asked the scientist not to bother him. Seeing Möbius's actions, the scientist quickly fled. Möbius ignored the scientist's actions, his mind filled with thoughts of how Yhaka protected him before his weapon self-destructed. If it was truly for the sake of intelligence, was it really necessary to take such an action?

Even after thinking about this, Mebius couldn't come up with any solutions.

P.S.: Let's speed things up a bit, get ready to attack Korhal, and also think about the new storyline.

Volume 2 [StarCraft II: Back to Home]: Chapter 1855 [A Surprise Attack from Under the Sandstorm]

Located on the outskirts of the capital city of Khar, this is a desolate area. Most of the empire's population is concentrated in the center of the capital, while the outskirts are a development zone and also the location of gray forces. However, due to the radiation, it is basically uninhabitable for ordinary people.

Outside the city walls, a group of soldiers were on guard. After all, the Zerg swarm was attacking the planet, and it was perfectly normal for them to come from anywhere. The Imperial soldiers had to defend against the Zerg coming from all directions, especially the outer areas, which were important for deploying their orbital defense system. There weren't many open areas in the city for them to set up artillery positions, so this area was extremely important. If the Zerg seized this area, their defense against the Zerg's airdrop pods would become much more difficult.

However, at that moment, they saw a huge sandstorm rising from the wasteland on the outskirts. The soldiers were not surprised to see this, as sandstorms were quite common in this area, and the outskirts were considered a defensive zone against sandstorms.

Ordinary sandstorms wouldn't be a problem, but these sandstorms sweep in from the desert, and therefore have a radiation effect, which also affects the surrounding areas. Of course, this doesn't hinder the empire's military presence in the region.

As the soldiers hid in the fortress waiting for the sandstorm to pass, they suddenly discovered that their communications were being affected by radiation, emitting intermittent static. Imperial soldiers were used to this phenomenon, but for some reason, the interference was much stronger this time, which puzzled the soldiers present.

At this time, the soldiers also felt the ground shaking a bit, but they thought it was just the vibration caused by the artillery fire from the orbital defense system and didn't pay much attention to it.

However, at that moment, when a soldier peeked out from the bunker, he saw a blue light flashing in the distance before the sandstorm. The soldier who saw this was very familiar with what this blue light was. It was the color of the flame produced by the high-speed thrusters of the maglev train. The soldier was not surprised by this. As for why the other side was so fast, it was probably because of the swarm invasion.

However, no matter what, the gate here will not be opened for the other side. After all, the Zerg swarm might break through from the outside, and if the gate is opened, the Zerg swarm might take the opportunity to rush in. Therefore, their superiors will not open the gate for the railcar.

However, for some reason, the soldier felt that the speed of the maglev train did not seem to have slowed down, but rather that it had become faster.

Meanwhile, at the command post, the commander was puzzled to hear a high-speed maglev train rushing towards them from the outside. Why would a maglev train be driving this way?

The commander, thinking about this, probably figured that the insect swarm attack on the periphery had led the refugees and workers outside to try to take the maglev train back here to seek refuge.

However, the current situation is quite bad, and he will not open the gate casually. If the people outside are infected with the alien virus, there may be an outbreak in the city. Therefore, he ordered the communications personnel to send the maglev train back. After hearing the order from his superior, the communications personnel tried to contact the maglev train, but unfortunately, they did not receive a reply. The communications personnel found this very strange, but they still reported the situation to the commander.

Upon hearing the communications officer's words, the commander here also showed a puzzled expression, but he quickly seemed unconcerned. After all, the thick outer city walls and gates were not easily breached, not even by a maglev train.

However, what the commander did not expect was that this time it was not an ordinary maglev train.

The soldiers guarding the city gate retreated slightly upon seeing the approaching railcar. After all, they had ignored the train following their commander's orders, as they didn't have ammunition to waste on such things. Once the Zerg swarm attacked, they wouldn't have much ammunition left to spare.

Accompanied by the distant roar of engines, the soldiers on the wall also saw the train, but what they saw was different. This train had what looked like a huge drilling rig mounted on its front. The soldiers were dumbfounded when they saw this. Before they could react, under the cover of the sandstorm, the maglev train pierced the alloy gate on the wall like a sharp knife. In just an instant, the huge alloy gate was smashed open.

The soldiers were dumbfounded when they saw this scene. They obviously did not expect that the city gate would be broken open.

However, the fact that the city gate was smashed open by the maglev train was nothing compared to the violent explosion that followed. The maglev train exploded violently, engulfing the entire area around the city gate. The soldiers there were caught in the blast before they could even react.

The commander in the command room was startled by the sudden explosion. The violent shaking and the loud bang of the explosion prompted him to ask what had happened and why there was an explosion.

As for the commander's question, the soldiers outside told him about the explosion. Upon hearing that it was the maglev train that had crashed through the city gate that had exploded, the commander looked completely bewildered. He clearly hadn't expected such a powerful explosion on the maglev train. Could it have been a supply train loaded with ammunition?!

But why hadn't anyone contacted them, and why hadn't anyone on the train contacted him either? This left the commander somewhat bewildered.

Meanwhile, outside, Yulis was sitting in the cockpit of the largest war knight, watching the exploding railcar in the distance, and said, "Very good, the enemy's walls and gates have been breached. It's time to prepare for an attack."

With that, Yulis ordered the communications officer beside her to command the troops to launch an attack. Upon hearing Yulis's order, the communications officer nodded and then broadcast the order. After hearing the instructions broadcast, the giant war knights and large war knights located in the super-giant war knights area began to move out, while the other types of war knights and cultists began to move out.

As the ground shook, the soldiers, who had just been stunned by the explosion, came to their senses. Hearing the noise, they quickly went to the city wall. Then they saw a huge figure walking towards them from the sandstorm. The soldiers were dumbfounded when they saw this. They obviously did not expect that there would be enemies here.

But upon closer inspection, they realized their enemy wasn't the Zerg. So why were they hearing sounds like a massive machine, like Thor's, moving outside?

The soldiers who thought about this were also very puzzled, but they soon stopped wondering.

A scorching beam of light swept across the outer city wall, instantly melting the soldiers and defensive structures on the wall as if they were being scorched by the high temperature. Some easily explosive devices detonated under the attack, and the second explosion caused the commander in the command post to show a headache.

"What's going on with this explosion?!" In response to the commander's question, the communications officer tried to contact others to see what was happening, but for some reason, he only heard static. The communications officer quickly reported to the commander, "Commander! Our communication system seems to be interfered with; we can't contact the outside world."

Upon hearing the communications officer's words, the commander was slightly taken aback. After all, how could the Zerg swarm possibly use signal jamming? The Protoss did indeed have similar jamming technology, but the question was, when did their Terran Empire provoke the Protoss?

The commander was also puzzled. He quickly sent someone out to investigate. The messenger, after hearing the commander's order, understood and rushed out. After passing through the safety passage of the trench, he arrived at the location of the explosion. There, he saw many soldiers who were fighting, hiding in the trench and firing at the outside.

The messenger who witnessed this scene was also somewhat puzzled, since he heard sounds like gunfire coming from outside, rather than the roars of the alien insects.

The messenger hurriedly asked the soldiers on this side what had happened and who their enemy was.

Before the soldier could answer, a powerful impact sent both of them flying. The messenger, who was also thrown into the distance, was thrown back to his senses. When the messenger recovered from the dizziness, he saw a giant creature more than 15 meters tall standing in front of him.

Upon seeing the battle mech with the skull-mask-like giant in front of him, the messenger was also shocked. Although the Terran Empire had many battle mechs, this bipedal battle mech was a type he had never seen before.

Soon, the combat mech seemed to notice a stray enemy and aimed the plasma flame jet on its right arm at the messenger in front of it, firing blue-white flames.

Seeing the enemy aim their weapon at him, the messenger quickly rolled into the trench to avoid the flamethrower. After dodging the attack, the messenger quickly took out all the smoke grenades he had and threw them on the ground. Then he quickly hid in a nearby tunnel. The instant the messenger dodged, blue and white flames engulfed the spot where he had been standing. Although his power suit was thick, he could still feel a faint burning sensation on his back. This made the messenger feel like his pants were on fire, and he hurriedly fled to another place.

After reaching a slightly safer location, the messenger tried to contact command using his communication equipment, but for some reason, he found that communication was also being interfered with. This gave him a headache. Although the current situation was enough for him to send the intelligence back, the messenger felt that the attack was too strange. After all, he didn't even know who the enemy was. This made him feel that he needed to find out what other enemies they had besides the Zerg.

Soon, following the messenger's actions, the messenger quickly arrived at the forward command post, which was in a safe location. There, the messenger met with the commander, who explained what had happened. Suddenly, a group of enemies appeared out of nowhere, launching a surprise attack on the area under the cover of a sandstorm. In just a moment, three lines of defense were breached. The large mech units deployed by the enemy were of the human style, not the Protoss type.

This made it very clear to the officer here that their enemy was human, but he didn't know which faction it was. However, the things the other side brought out were all things he had never seen before, which gave him a great headache.

Upon hearing his superior's words, the messenger looked astonished. He hadn't expected that even his superior couldn't identify the enemy. This gave the messenger a headache; how was he supposed to report back to headquarters?

Could they simply say that the enemy was attacking their outer defenses?

To be honest, this reason would probably lead the command to send me out to investigate the situation again, or to add an investigation team to investigate where the enemy came from.

However, the current situation doesn't seem to be easy to investigate.

...And on the outer front lines...

The towering war knights, under the cover of the sandstorm, were unleashing their firepower on the enemy's defenses. Although the sandstorm obscured the enemy's vision, it was of no use to the war knights. The Shadow Spider-type war knights, like agile jumping spiders, attacked the unsuspecting enemies. With their superior mobility, the Shadow Spider-type war knights could climb onto buildings and launch sneak attacks on those below. The Imperial soldiers were suffering greatly from such attacks.

Of course, they were thinking that once the sandstorm passed, they could call in air support. However, what they didn't expect was that the sandstorm was also a trick by the enemy, and it was basically impossible for it to stop.