Chapter 31: The Blood of the Patriots (Part II)
Char Planetary Low Altitude Orbit, flagship of the UED Expeditionary Fleet, aboard the Alexander.
Lin Yidong looked at Admiral Dugar in the commander-in-chief hall, and then Lin Yidong realized that General Dugar was obviously much haggard.
"Lin Yidong, I want to hear how you feel that something is wrong with Duran."
"Your Excellency, here's the thing."
Lin Yidong then took out the things he had analyzed on the Longdu and repeated them, and Dugar listened patiently to Lin Yidong's words throughout the whole process, and rarely showed a very silent expression.
"I see."
After listening to Lin Yidong's statement, Dugar thought thoughtfully: "I said that after Keha, every time you have a military intelligence report with me, you don't look at Duran very right, and Alexei is also very unkind to Duran, the reason is like this." ”
Lin Yidong bowed his head and said: "Your Excellency General, Lieutenant General Stukov ...... him"
"He was a great general."
Dugar interrupted Lin Yidong's words, and at the same time, he also turned his back and looked at the big screen in the commander-in-chief hall and said to himself: "However, because of a ridiculous traitor, I personally gave the hateful order and instruction to execute my old friend. ”
"Your Excellency! It's not your fault, it's the traitor who caused all this, he came from the planet Blacksis, and as soon as we arrived in the Koplu zone, he began to look at us. I suspect that our arrival seems to have upset the original inhabitants here, so they now seem to have formed a fragile alliance against us. ”
"So, that's why Mengsk hooked up with the leader of the rebel army that rebelled against him, as well as the Star Spirit, and now there may be one more Zerg."
Dugar turned around, called the adjutant to turn on the star map projection, and took Lin Yidong to the holographic projection next to the star map.
"Kid."
Dugar suddenly changed his name, which made Lin Yidong a little overwhelmed for a while. "Listen, I made a huge mistake, I killed my old friend Alexei Stukov, and although I admit that I am not as good as him in many strategic aspects, I trust my instincts very much, and I have a hunch that our expedition may fail, but I do not want to see this happen."
"I'm preparing for the worst now, if our expedition fails, then no one will be able to return to Earth alive."
"However, Alexei's death has made me discover a person who can hopefully change the fate of this expeditionary fleet, and that is you, Lin Yidong Mantefield, the neglected descendant of the Mantefield family, but the most potential of the Mantefield family."
"You may not remember your background, because when you were growing up, the Mantefield family did some experiments on you, and it is normal that you can't recall some of the previous things, so you can go to Knightlian when you have time, he knows everything about you, which is one of the reasons why I sent him to you as the head of technology."
"And the commanders around you, learn to believe, learn to trust."
Lin Yidong suddenly felt a little sad, the Dugar in front of him was obviously hit by Stukov's death, otherwise he would not have said this kind of words that were obviously not in line with his temperament, you must know that Dugar has the nickname of "horse-faced father" in the army, and he can make such an extremely hardliner so sensational, which shows that Dugar has realized a series of serious consequences brought about by Duran's betrayal.
At this time, Lin Yidong also guessed another reason for the failure of UED: Stukov lost his combat effectiveness, and as a result, UED lost its most important strategic staff officer, and Dugar was hit by traitors and Stukov's death, and did not perceive the movement of the anti-UED alliance in the Koplu star area in time, thus losing the key technology of the planet Blacksis and the psionic jammer on it, and was cut off by the anti-UED alliance The way of life in retreating, It laid the most important foreshadowing for the end of the total destruction of the main fleet in the future.
But now, Dugar has Lin Yidong, and looking at his performance, Stukov seems to have something to explain to Dugar, otherwise Dugar would not have talked to Lin Yidong about these things so inexplicably.
"So, Lin Yidong, listen, in this Char attack, you led your Ten Palace Guard Fleet to serve as the main attack mission. According to the information you have returned, the Juggernaut on the surface of Char is in this location, and near him, there are three nests of brainworms guarding it. Char's space area has been sealed off by our UED fleet, and your mission is to lead the Ten Temple Guard fleet, with the cooperation of friendly forces, to defeat these three brain worms, escort our ghost agents and medical troops to escort the psionic suppressor to the Juggernaut, paralyze the Juggernaut with a highly effective sedative, and then use the psionic suppressor to completely control it. ”
"Upon completion of this attack, you will be promoted to brigadier general, and at the same time, I will authorize you to also serve as the deputy chief of staff of the UED Expeditionary Fleet."
"This ......"
Lin Yidong looked at Dugar in front of him in great surprise, this old general who was not satisfied with the old looked very tired at this time, and a faint worry lingered between his eyebrows, which made Lin Yidong very puzzled, could it be that Dugar really foresaw the failure of the UED expeditionary fleet?
"Uncle Dugal, where is the body of Uncle Stukov? I want to pay a visit. ”
Dugar replied, "You can ask the adjutant, and the adjutant will show you the way, and his body is currently parked in the Hall of Martyrs of the Alexandria." ”
After speaking, Dugar ignored Lin Yidong, went straight to his command platform, and began to make strategic arrangements - after Stukov died, many things had to be done by Dugar himself.
Lin Yidong didn't bother the old general, he followed the adjutant's guidance to the martyr's hall of the Alexander.
General Stukov's body was placed in a coffin, but as soon as Lin Yidong approached the coffin, he immediately noticed that something was wrong.
There are psionic fluctuations in the coffin!
This spiritual energy fluctuation is very secretive, if it weren't for Lin Yidong's existence behind Lin Tong, a plug-in with the highest authority in the world, he would not have been aware of this hidden spiritual energy fluctuation at all.
"It's ...... Fatebox? ”
Lin Yidong immediately released spiritual energy to sense the situation in the coffin, and found that General Stukov's physical functions except for the fatal wound on his heart, any physical skills that occurred due to death did not occur, and brain cells, body tissues and organs were still alive without blood supply, because there was a spiritual energy that had been hanging Stukov's last breath.
That is, Stukov did not die!
"This Duran! No, maybe call him Naruud, the minion of the dark god! ”
Connecting what he saw and heard in front of him with the memories of the StarCraft series in his mind, Lin Yidong finally understood why after Stukov's resurrection, his previous memories were not lost due to the death of brain cells caused by death.
It turned out that he was hung by Duran's fatebox technique, and after the Battle of Char, Stukov was buried in space, and Duran took the opportunity to send troops to bring Stukov's coffin back to his secret base and start his own research.
This is also after that, Zeratul accidentally ran into Duran's research hybrid, and Renaud and others came here to look for Stukov but couldn't do it halfway because of Duran's attack, and Stukov finally appeared in the form of a human-insect hybrid at the Mengsk Imperial Skyspear Space Station (is it here?). Near the lab, guide Kerrigan to destroy the hybrid lab and defeat Narud after regaining control of the swarm.
And now, Lin Yidong remembered Lin Tong's suggestion.
"Let General Stukov join the UED by means of an infector?"