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Chapter 62 Ancient City

Chapter 1
After the Zerg host disappeared on the battlefield, and because the Zerg had a large number of Hydralisks, they didn't build spore crawlers that could both defend against air attacks and detect hidden units. This meant that the Zerg had lost their ability to detect cloaked units in the short term, and the larvae were unable to hatch due to the lack of nutritional support from the host, preventing them from continuously replenishing their forces to support the battlefield as before!

In this situation, Uraj seized the opportunity! He immediately dispatched three Arbiters that had exhausted their energy to the battlefield.

Although these three Arbiters were currently in an energy-depleted state and unable to use their signature abilities of Freezing Field and Recall, their abnormal passive ability to refract light and cloak Protoss units within a large area nearby didn't require any energy!

Under these circumstances, the Zerg could only desperately attack the uncloaked Arbiters. However, the Arbiters could fly, and they were surrounded by a staggering number of various cloaked units. By the time the three Arbiters were destroyed, the Zerg forces had suffered heavy casualties and were almost completely wiped out.

Faced with such dire circumstances, the Zerg's defenses finally collapsed completely!

The Protoss forces surged like a tidal wave, sweeping through the Zerg base and destroying its main hatchery before the Queen of Blades could return! The outcome was decided. Even if the Queen of Blades dared to join the battle at this time, facing the vast number of Protoss troops, it would only be a futile sacrifice.

Immediately afterward, the Protoss began constructing a strange building on a high ground behind the Zerg base. This building looked like an energy crystal magnified dozens of times and required nearly a hundred workers to build simultaneously.

Furthermore, the remaining Pandora crystals were being consumed at an alarming rate - one thousand units, two thousand units, and finally, as many as three thousand units of Pandora crystals and rare gas minerals were used up. Finally, it formed a structure resembling the Oriental Pearl Tower, made of luminous crystal.

Then, Uraj ascended the hundreds-of-meters-tall crystalline tower. With his loud chanting, a mountain peak in the distance suddenly collapsed, revealing a three-meter-tall, black and gray triangular object. It looked like a totem or a marker.

To Fang Senyan and the others in the distance, the thing felt like a tombstone weathered and decayed for thousands of years, representing the glory and splendor that had once faded into the depths of time, yet still concealing an indescribable sinister power!

Immediately afterward, Uraj's chanting continued. During the sustained chanting, landslides occurred on two other distant mountain peaks, revealing two more identical objects.

These three totems each occupied a corner, forming a neat equilateral triangle when viewed from above, completely enclosing an area of at least twenty to thirty square kilometers.

Then, in Uraj's intensely fervent chanting, countless cracks appeared on the surfaces of these three triangular totems, which had stood for millennia and seemed destined to stand for millennia more. Like the surface of cracked ice, they crumbled and scattered, revealing the smooth, golden light inside, the sharp lines characteristic of the Protoss, and the compelling brilliance!

At this time, Uraj's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth were overflowing with a large amount of blue liquid, and his body was teetering, but he was still gritting his teeth and holding on.

These three triangular totems began to tremble violently in the chanting. Then, rings of sonic ripples, almost visible to the naked eye, quickly spread in all directions. The ground in the middle began to vibrate and crack rapidly. Initially, there was one crack, then the cracks widened and multiplied. Then, the entire ground collapsed violently, as if a magnitude 12 earthquake had occurred. Rolling smoke and dust almost blotted out the sky... Then, when the dust dissipated, almost everyone held their breath!

Because the originally barren ground had completely subsided, revealing a huge cavity hundreds of meters underground. In the cavity was a magnificent Protoss city covering dozens of square kilometers. Many parts of the city had become ruins, but many parts remained intact. It was even possible to see many units still advancing.

A city was buried here!

An ancient, magnificent Protoss city from the height of their power!

Judging from the current situation, it was embroiled in the flames of civil war. For some reason, it seemed to have been frozen in time, and only now had it reappeared before everyone!

At this time, Uraj had collapsed softly, but a look of anxiety and terror appeared on his face. He seemed to be trying to say something, but doing so only caused the blue liquid to gush out of his mouth more quickly and violently, so that after he fell, he turned into specks of blue light and drifted away with the wind.

With Uraj's fall, the Protoss naturally wouldn't fall into a leaderless situation. A High Templar with lightning swirling around his body took his place and issued a strong psychic command:

"Charge! Protoss warriors, go and reclaim our ancient power and glory!"

With this order, all Protoss units rushed towards the ancient and magnificent city. However, after getting closer, they discovered that around the city, there was an indescribably thin light membrane that enveloped the entire city on a vast scale. This was probably why the entire city seemed to be frozen in time.

Facing this unknown light membrane, the Protoss units that approached were packed relatively close, but they still didn't open fire, waiting for instructions from their superiors. However, the remaining Protoss units were still crowded together, densely surrounding it for at least several kilometers.

But, at this moment, across the light curtain, a cloud of darkness quickly floated in from the horizon.

It was actually twenty or thirty newly hatched Zerg hosts. They had obviously upgraded their movement speed. Even if the Protoss units tried their best to bypass the huge light curtain to attack them, or even if they directly flew over the heads of the Protoss soldiers, it was clearly too late!

The twenty or thirty hosts had already begun to drop their large number of carried units onto the ground. Upon seeing these units, even Fang Senyan's heart trembled! They were scarlet monsters.

The surfaces of these monsters were completely covered by a majority of scarlet muscles, but upon closer inspection, one could still vaguely discern the human combat armor inside. Two bone-like tentacles also grew from their backs.

These monsters moved with astonishing speed, as if human marines had been injected with stimulants! Then... they aimed at the light curtain and violently rammed into it one after another, causing a series of violent explosions!

This was one of the special units developed by the Zerg, the Infested Terran!

The Zerg Queen can infect the severely damaged human Main Base Command Center, and then use parasitic biochemical toxins to infiltrate it. Once the Main Base is completely infected, the former occupants can be turned into mindless suicide warriors. Their bodies are distorted and deformed, producing extremely unstable chemicals. Once an enemy appears in front of them, they can detonate their bodies to unleash terrifying power to eliminate the enemy.

In the game data, the power of the Infested Terran is the same as that of an atomic bomb! Both deal 500 points of damage! (The atomic bomb deals 500 points of damage or 2/3 of the target's health, whichever is greater). This shows how abnormal the suicide power of the Infested Terran is!

And the twenty or thirty hosts in front of them had transported at least thirty Infested Terrans, which almost meant that the light curtain had to withstand the terrifying bombardment of thirty atomic bombs!

What made Fang Senyan feel like he was "hoisting himself with his own petard" was that, without a doubt, these Infested Terrans were created by the Queen of Blades after she occupied the abandoned Main Base on Planet Pandora. If they hadn't been plotting to use a borrowed knife to kill someone, there would have been no possibility of a human Command Center falling into the hands of the Queen of Blades!

When the eleventh Infested Terran slammed into the light curtain and exploded, the entire light curtain collapsed. It was impossible to describe the scene at that moment. It was as if a terrifying super hurricane instantly surged outward, sweeping across the entire world with indescribable terror and speed!

If Fang Senyan hadn't noticed the appearance of the Infested Terrans and immediately landed his transport ship on the nearby hillside, using the solid mountain to block the terrifying shockwave,

otherwise, even if the transport ship wasn't blown apart, it would most likely be blown into outer space... Even so, Fang Senyan saw many giant rocks weighing at least several hundred tons lose their weight and fly lightly from the air a dozen meters above his head. It seemed that they wouldn't be embarrassed to land unless they flew dozens of kilometers.

When they were focusing on hunting the Zerg hosts in the Zerg base, the air force assembled by Planet Pandora had also been attacked by Hydralisks and other anti-air ground units, and half of them had been shot down. In this terrifying storm, more than a dozen Ghost fighters failed to execute the command in time and were directly disintegrated in the air. Therefore, Fang Senyan's remaining forces only had four Ghost fighters and about fifty marines loaded in the four transport ships...