Chapter 1383: Wings of Freedom (22)

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The Port of the Dead, the Bucefalos.
"Sir, Colonel Ollan's staff sent a communication saying that we should pay the'Relic Discovery Tax'. I asked him how much to pay, and the other party asked us to'look at it'. There are also those mercenaries... well, he who is it?"
Renault and his entourage took Tassadar back to the port of the dead by the shuttle and boarded the battleship. They met Jimmy who was nagging to report.
Halfway through the report, he looked up and saw Tassadar wearing a large military cloak, and he was speechless.
After all, this cloak can only cover his abnormal size and gorgeous armor, and is powerless for close observation, and Jimmy, as a well-informed scout, was also surprised by the appearance of the Protoss.
"[I am Tassadar, a Protoss.]" Tassadar replied in his usual tone.
"Uh..." Jimmy seemed even more confused.
"Friends, psionics, stay temporarily." Renault added a few words that are easy for Jimmy to understand.
"Oh, oh," Jimmy seemed to understand, "So what kind of room do you want to arrange?"
"[We don't need to sleep and eat, we only need photosynthesis or holding crystals to survive.]" Tassadar waved his hand and refused.
Also, he has no mouth at all.
"Large and dignified, with gold and blue as the main color, it is best to have a large crystal decoration." Renault recalled the architectural style of the Protoss.
"Okay, please come with me. The cabins of Captain Jax and his entourage are also ready," Jimmy looked at the others in his journey before leaving.
"[...]" Tassadar paused for a while and turned to Renault: "[It seems it makes sense for your compatriots to choose you as the leader.]"
No, this is an emotional intelligence issue, not a leadership temperament.
"I must reiterate," Renault led everyone to the life deck: "I am not a'leader' in any conventional sense, and my compatriots have not yet unified the entire human civilization."
"[In the face of the threat of Zerg, they will inevitably be unified, and of course a unified civilization needs a leader.]" Tassadar didn't care too much.
He seemed to be implying something, but Renault decided to pretend that he didn't understand it, and just hand it over to the Prince Keha of Arcturus.
"[After you are ready, I will take you to El,]" Tassadar walked side by side with Renault: "[There are my thousands of kinsmen and a whole golden fleet.]"
"If it is determined that the swarm has spread, I will ask for help." Renault nodded slightly.
The implication of this sentence is that if there are no bugs, Tassadar and his people will not come out and continue to add chaos to the originally chaotic star area, and I don't know if he can understand it.

"Commander Renault, I heard that you dug up the remains and unearthed an ancient alien?"
When Renault and Tassadar arrived on the life deck, Ariel greeted her. She was dressed as a ship doctor, as if she had just been treated for a crew member, with a medical kit in her hand.
"Oh, he is--"
"Zi Om—"
Before she could finish her words, Tassadar shook off the cloak that covered her figure, took two steps forward to block Renault and others behind him, and a pair of dazzling light blades appeared on the wrists of his arms.
"[This is the mimicry of the ancient plant Solian!]" He put a fighting stance on Ariel: "[Unfortunately, your crew is dead, I can only destroy it.]"
"This..." Renault glanced at Tosh, who looked at Ariel in confusion, shaking his head repeatedly.
This means that she is no different from when she first got on the boat?
"So scared!" Mirahan later took the opportunity to hug Matt and almost pushed him against the wall.
Jax didn't know why, but Tycus was holding his arms as if waiting for a good show.
"Sergeant Renault? Your alien friend doesn't seem to have a clear head?" Ariel seemed to be frightened by Tassadar's movements, and looked at Renault after taking two steps back.
"['Ancient plant Solian' is a low-intensity dangerous species,]" I don’t know if he is confident of his own force or to justify his behavior, Tassadar began to popularize science: "[They have no fixed form, often It will simulate the shape of other plants near the growing place, and may maintain a certain posture for thousands of years when it is not stimulated.]"
It doesn't sound dangerous at all... It's a salted fish in the plant kingdom.
"[The so-called'stimulus', including but not limited to biochemical tests, psychic interference, and exposure to heavy element radiation for a long time,]" Tassadar continued: "[In this case,'Solian' will activate and 'Parsitism' is on other intelligent species. The intelligent creature parasitized by it is equivalent to death, and the parasite itself cannot escape again. In order to avoid being discovered by the relatives and friends of the parasitized, they generally choose to leave the original living environment of the intelligent creature live alone.】"
Good guy, all kinds of information are completely matched. If Tassadar hadn't just been dug up, Renault would suspect that he had actually secretly investigated Ariel.
"That doesn't sound dangerous?" Renault glanced at the person, and Ariel shrugged, as if he didn't care much about what Tassadar said.
"[So it's'low intensity',]" Tassadar has been staring at Ariel vigilantly: "[Because they cannot be changed back to the original, they will try to awaken more of their kind after a period of life, which means there will be More intelligent creatures are parasitized. Although rare in the archives of think tanks, there are still records of civilization being destroyed by Solian. Therefore, apart from Zergs, we hunters will kill one hundred and three thousand. One of the dangerous species.]"
Is this list of kills too much?
"I think you can relax. This Ms. Hansen should not be what you call "Solian"," Renault tried to round off: "There is no sign of my crew being parasitized."
"[Whether it is or not, you can tell by a try.]" Tassadar waved his hand sharply, and the blue light in his eyes flourished.
At the same moment, countless dazzling blue electric lights suddenly appeared around Ariel, wrapping her up.
"Hey, wait, Ariel she—"
"[That's just ‘psychic suppression’, it won’t cause any harm,]" Tassadar raised his hand to stop Renault who was about to step forward: "[It will only make Solian appear in the original----]"
Whoosh--
Before Tassadar could finish speaking, two thick vines flew over, and they swiftly tied Tassadar's feet and dragged him to the ground. Then, the two vines were like whips. The unlucky Protoss flung between the floor and the wall, and the metal floor and wall that were hit even produced a depression.
Splashing--
As the current dissipated, the electric light surrounding Aire disappeared, and she became the whole body of verdant green again, wearing an exquisite off-shoulder evening dress composed of leaves, vines and twigs. There are branches and flowers, and the face is painted with light green eye shadow and lipstick.
"Oh," she waved her hand and retracted the two vines: "What a weak protoss."

After a while, the medical room.
"I just wanted to say,'Ariel is very strong.'" Renault shrugged while looking at Tassadar, who was lying on the medical bed with his eyes dimmed.
"'High-ranking Templar' uses psionic energy as the main means of warfare, so he rushed to the front line. Do you think you are a'high-ranking arbitrator'?" Ariel, still in a green evening dress, walked over , Put a high-powered crystal on the head of his bed: "Make do with it, there is no place to find the'Kara Crystal' for you now, thanks to you, I won't be able to go back for a while."
"[How do you—]" Tassadar looked at Ariel.
"So,'Thanks to you,' and when you forced me to'reappear', I also obtained information about the Protoss at the same time," Ariel nodded his head: "You clean up the bugs and plants It's all a set of methods-burning the planet into glass, and then the "other me" who saw this information went violent."
"Burnt glass?" Renault frowned.
Maybe some powerful space weapons can achieve this effect, but the behavior seems to be no different from what the Federation did in Keha. If the Protoss Fleet did this, it might be cut in half by Amir-she should not be able to do it. This kind of thing?
"[No, we won’t do that at the beginning,]" Tassadar probably understood the meaning of Renault’s expression wrong: "[Even if a certain planet is completely occupied by the swarm, as long as there is even one intelligent creature on the surface, we Will never use the'purification beam'.]"
Tsk, purifying the beam, it really complies with the naming rules of the Protoss for their class.
"[Ms. Ariel,]" Tassadar looked at the green ship doctor: "[The process by which you became like this is related to the Zerg?]"
"It seems there, and it doesn't seem to be," Ariel turned his head and thought: "Although the children will be violent because the Federation tried to fuse them with the bugs, I did not come into contact with the experimental products.
"On Tarsonis, where the Zerg was outburst, these'Solian Test Products' seem to have been fighting the Zerg." Renault added.
"[So that's it,]" Tassadar seemed to solve some doubts: "[Ms. Aire, please be sure to go to the outpost of El with me, you may be the key to clearing the threat of your world's insects.]"
I heard that the Protoss race especially likes to put high hats on others, and Renault, who was previously praised as a human leader by Tassadar, quietly pouted.

At the same moment, Captain Jax was looking through the information provided by Renault in the lounge.
Because he had his own battleship, he didn’t need to have his own room on the Bucefalos, but because of the unexpected incident, Renault and Ariel left early, and there was nothing to talk about with Tycus and Tosh. As for Matt, who is fairly normal, he is being entangled by Mira.
"The Protoss, the Zerg Hunter, the ancient plant Solian, and the self-preserving parasites are really interesting," Jax muttered to himself, "Did you say so? The little girl from Congressman Terra?"
"Although I really want to be invisible to make you feel embarrassed, if you really have any special anti-stealth means, it is me who is embarrassed." There was a wave of fluctuations in the air, and Nova, wearing a ghost combat suit, appeared in the lounge. A corner.
"Let Jim Reynolds recruit mercenaries as secret hands, Senator Terra's plan is not bad," Jax looked up slightly and glanced at her: "And through the information about the treasure, I came to the Port of the Dead, and naturally contact him. , Can be described as the finishing touch, but unfortunately, you don’t know what the treasure is. As a result, an alien came out when the situation is already chaotic. The'chess player' behind you must be vomiting blood in discomfort. ."
"What ‘chess player’?" Nova blinked: "My father and grandfather simply want to restore peace to the star area."
"Just treat it like that," Jax picked up the coffee on the table. "You didn't come here specially to laugh at an old man who failed the treasure hunt and got on the thief ship, did you?"
"Oh, the treasure hunt did not fail, but you really got on the'thief ship', General Horace Warfield." Nova chuckled slightly, and suddenly changed the honorific.
"I seem to have heard of this man," Jax's expression remained unchanged: "He should have died in the battle against the Jupiter Empire."
"Really? Then I'll just talk about it, you just listen," Nova opened her auxiliary tool: "According to official sources, General Horus Warfield belongs to the Warfield family and has been stationed at Emma for several years. The Warfield Fortress between the Star Territories and the Jupiter Star Territory. After the outbreak of the'Rebellion', the fortress fell under a fierce attack by the combined forces of Jupiter and Minmatar. Warfield and all its command members were attacked by the enemy. Fang Fang's tactical nuclear bomb attack killed all staff."
"It's a warrior." Jax continued to drink coffee.
"Now everyone knows that this is a nuclear bomb that the Federation itself lost, designed to delay the offensive speed of the rebels through radioactive wasteland and major damage. In fact, they succeeded in doing it," Nova continued: "But, as The Warfield Fortress, which has been in operation for several generations, cannot be defended by a single nuclear bomb. General Warfield and a few of his subordinates escaped, changed their names, changed their flags, and went everywhere as a mercenary group. He ran away, intending to wait for an opportunity to give a fatal blow to the Federation, but one day, he heard from internal sources about the ancient relics of the Federation with artifacts, and went all the way to the Port of the Dead, and saw Jim Leno, who was also abandoned by the Federation. Although the two sides did not find any artifacts after cooperation, a huge fleet is enough to support his revenge, as long as these aliens believe that the Tyrannian Federation is the culprit that caused the appearance of the Zerg."
"Very good story, I almost believed it." Jax drank his coffee.
"Heh, I just want to remind General Warfield that his plan has already been seen. Either change a plan or honestly cooperate with the sheriff. His old man must not like being stared at by a ghost."
Jax put down the cup and was silent.
"Let me say one last thing," Nova's figure gradually disappeared into the air: "The explorer Jax, whose name is your alias, is the most annoying coffee."