Chapter 367: Mengsk the Heartbreaker
Perhaps because of the so-called incompatibility, in the eyes of Jim Renault, Kane Zhao is not a person to work with.
As he complained to his old friend Myles in private: "That guy is a madman who doesn't take his own life seriously and doesn't take other people's lives seriously." ”
Faced with such a Renault, Myles didn't know how to keep it. New Melbourne no longer exists, and although he is now a Justice of Fort Sanctuary, the position, and indeed the city, is not recognized from the official point of view of the Commonwealth.
Liberty's evaluation of this is: "The alliance is as good at selling cuteness as ever, neither admitting nor resolutely denying it, which is convenient for making a fuss." If they are really in a hurry, they will say, 'Isn't it a refugee camp?' I don't appoint civil servants here, and I don't report the autonomy there!'
So Renault announced that he would cease to exist in New Melbourne on a day when he automatically stepped down as sheriff and went as his ranger.
has been a sheriff for four years, and Renaud also has a few younger brothers who are willing to follow regardless of gains and losses.
And Kane also added the icing on the cake, saying that he can understand the idea that Renault has full autonomy in his career rather than having a bunch of immediate bosses.
So, Renault left, and he generously sent a lot of equipment. As a result, although Renault is a little less manpower than the same period in history, its weapons and equipment are much stronger.
Not only is the advanced CMC-500 Custom Power Armor available, but there are also heavily modified vulture chariots, fire chariots, and liquidator armored vehicles.
The highlight is a lightly armed transport ship that uses the skeleton shell of a ground-effect aircraft, but is equipped with the mainstream plasma jet engine and warp jump engine on the market, as well as a vector control system (all of which are large-sized equipment, and in the context of basically maintaining the original shape rather than external equipment, the space for these three and auxiliary equipment is very limited after loading).
It was built after Renault's ideas, so he loved the ship so much that he named it 'Lyti', a nickname for his late wife, Lydia Elisabeth Reno.
After pulling up his own small group, Renault did not leave Marsala directly, but is said to have visited an old friend. After that, there was no news. Kane didn't bother to pay attention, and he didn't see Renault at Arnhem.
Arnhem is one of the few settlements in the Northland region that is dominated by grain cultivation. Of course, the barren land and poor cultivation techniques made it impossible for the Arnhem to make a fortune even if they were industrious enough.
This is actually a good thing to some extent, the local officials are not under much pressure, they hide from the top and do not deceive, the taxes are low, the people feed their livestock with the grain they grow, and the ecology is a shadow of the farms in the American Texas of the world, there is meat to eat, there is corn to gnaw, and that's about it.
Kane learned about Arnhem's situation through information channels, and he did not see it himself. When he learned this, he also understood the Arnhem's reluctance to join Fort Sanctuary.
The asylum fort is full of rules in the open and secret, although the reward and punishment system is used to mobilize people's enthusiasm for work, but in this era of early public wisdom, as soon as the ruler pouts his ass, the people roughly know what shit this person is going to pull, the difference is only in the conspiracy and conspiracy, like labor for ferry tickets, the people are also forced by the general trend, to take refuge in the fort and work, barely count it as you and me.
Most people belong to the donkey, and if they admit it in their hearts, it is easy to say otherwise. If you are tired of your heart, this kind of small flame in your heart will burn more and more because of some trivial problems, and turn into an evil fire.
Evil fire always has to be vented, some people balance it with something warm, some people vent it in the form of exercise including exercise in bed, some people will strengthen the desire to destroy, and some people will hold back.
The last one is the most terrifying, it will explode sooner or later, and it is often the kind that is caught off guard, usually looks harmless, and suddenly goes crazy and generally hurts others and hurts oneself, or in fact, it has developed a bad habit behind the scenes, such as killing people.
The Arnhem belong to a group of people who have barely exploited the exploitation of the Alliance, coveting the small life that is not granted but is still free, and refuses to accept control.
Life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom...... The freedom of the Arnhemes, and the freedom expressed in this poem, are not the same thing, they are the same thing, at least Kane thinks, it is a matter of 'degree'.
The Arnhem people's western cowboy temperament, in the eyes of an eastern ruler like Kane, is that they do not obey the king, they have been stocked for too long, and they are wild and untamable.
Of course, this is a bit of a half-joking, Kane is not an old-fashioned ruler, and his mind is full of the way he is on the shore, and he feels that he is more noble than everyone else.
Kane is also from the grassroots, and he can think from the perspective of the people. An important reason for his scorn on the Arnhem was actually due to the different ideas nurtured by Eastern and Western cultures.
He couldn't understand the mentality that he would rather die than accept a certain amount of discipline, even if it was relatively reasonable.
Against this backdrop, when Kane met Sarah Kerrigan in Arnhem, he felt a little bit of a sense of lightness.
It has to be said that the ability of the prophet is sometimes a constraint, and according to Kane's knowledge in advance, the reason why the 'Son of Keha' led by Mengsk was able to catch up with the 'feast' at a critical moment was entirely because he had the strategic qualities that a guerrilla-type anti-government organization leader should have.
To put it mildly, it is to know how to fish in troubled waters, and take advantage of the chaos to fan the flames and smash and rob, so that you can be profitable.
And analyzing Mengsk's tactical ideas, you will find that this person's gameplay is trendy and rogue, he uses the level 10 ghost energy unit Kerrigan as a special tactical force, in fact, Kerrigan, who has been trained by ghost agents, has a much stronger combat power than ordinary special tactical forces.
So, whether it is sabotage, kidnapping, or beheading and assassination, it is actually all played, and the 'Son of Keha' can be strangled repeatedly, but it is growing stronger and stronger, an important reason is that there is Kerrigan in Mengsk, and the big tiger of the Federation has too many omissions to take care of.
The best unit of anti-ghost agents is the ghost agent, but the ghost agent is not a cabbage, it is rare, and the relevant technology is still in the stage of continuous improvement, so the disability rate and fatality rate during the training period have been very high.
A small number of Ghost Agents will only be able to defend the main facilities on the main planets, and at most one more Mobile Force will be able to take out Kerrigan and Monsk.
It is conceivable that Mengsk has Kerrigan as a hanger, which is much more interesting than what base or Tiger in the Earth Era.
Arcturos Monsk, Kane thinks, in the Oriental language, is: prosperous and powerful, troubled and treacherous.
Under the influence of his family, he rose to the rank of colonel in the army, and then became a successful prospector and ore miner.
It can be said that Arcturos has proved his ability with real performance, and twice.
With his family assassinated and his homeland leveled, Mengsk leads some of the survivors on a path of revenge.
Compared to the behemoth of the Federation, the son of Keha is too small, which is known better than anyone in Mengsk, who has served in the army to colonel.
He knew that if he wanted to achieve his revenge, he would not succeed if he took the usual path. Even if the heirs of those ancient families are constantly dying, they are already deeply tied to the system-structure of the Federation, and as long as the Federation does not fall, those ancient families will not die.
So he put aside his family feud and absorbed Kerrigan.
Even if Monsk placed a ghost launcher on Tasanis, Kerrigan thought that Mengsk would eventually change his mind and not activate the ghost launcher, but chose to continue the mission assigned by Monsk?
It's because Mengsk knows that Kerrigan is a murderer, and he still chooses to forgive.
This kind of forgiveness is not just pretending to be generous, you must know that Kerrigan is a level 10 psyker, and she can naturally read minds to people within range.
Although she herself said: "Human consciousness is divided into shallow and deep, and I can only read shallow." ”
But in fact, few people can distinguish their thoughts so deeply, otherwise Snape in the HP world would not have given special training to Harry Potter because of Occlumency, which is a wizard, born with strong mental power, and has to be specially trained.
To the best of Kerrigan's knowledge, Mengsk had no such training.
It is true that Mengsk has not accepted it, he only knows some relevant theories in general, after all, he was once a colonel, and he has a certain opportunity to come into contact with relevant information.
What really makes Mengsk a big deal is that he's the kind of guy who can even fool people himself.
It was precisely because he successfully deceived himself first that he deceived Kerrigan.
In other words, the path of creation was taken step by step, and Mengsk also took it step by step, and when he mastered the ghost energy launcher, he realized that the opportunity to overthrow the Federation and even replace it had come.
When the Spectral Launcher was successfully dropped into Tasanis by the defeated Edmundo Duke, and Kerrigan was torn apart by him for this operation, Monsk realized that Kerrigan could bury the baby.
Not to abandon, but to bury, not for family feuds, but for secrets. Kerrigan knows too much, after all, the Son of Keha has done a lot of dirty things in those years, and Kerrigan has participated in almost every case, or rather, without Kerrigan, those plans are simply difficult to implement, and even if they do, it will be extremely costly, and the small business of the Monsk family cannot afford to play at all.
But that's all in the past, the Spectral Launcher summons the swarm, destroys Tasannis, and turns a new page in the history of the Children of Keha. If Mengsk wants to receive the federal heritage and stand out against the background of the extermination of the head of the Union, he needs a good name.
The son of Keha fought with the Federation, which only made him famous, but the media mouthpiece was in the hands of the Federation, and his reputation was not good.
In this context, people like Kerrigan, who know too much and are too righteous to know how to compromise, will have to die. In particular, Carrigan is still friendly with Mike Liberty, a well-known journalist who dares to tell the truth, and he can't live.
As for Jim Reynolds, Monsk didn't see Renault's Destiny Child, probably because he wasn't bad himself. A person like Renault, who has seen at least one platoon in Mengsk for half his life, was a character when he was transported, and when he was transported, how many Tex were able to stop all the charges and save Renault from prison?
Therefore, Mengsk does not take Renault very seriously, but the quality of a successful superior who has been further trained by the painstaking management of the son of Keha allows him to instinctively grasp and use every bit of available power.
It is precisely for this reason that Liberty says of the man Mengsk: "He is a cruel tyrant who does not allow anyone or anything to hinder his actions, but at the same time he is erudite, wise and charming." Even with his hologram, you will feel like he is right in front of you, listening carefully to everything you say. You may even feel that you have a lot of weight in his eyes, that you are a character, and that it seems very important to him to get you to agree with him. ”
I have to say that compared with Mengsk, there seems to be no shortage of intelligence and adaptability of Renault, and Kerrigan, who is called the queen by countless fans, can only be regarded as a laborer, and Mengsk is a laborer.
In the end, there was no way, and Mengsk fell into the classic villain death plot killing mode with too much talk.
Kane's mind was full of that, so when he saw Kerrigan in Arnhem, he immediately had a comparison and analysis.
He guessed that Arnhem might have been secretly communicating with Monsk for a long time. In other words, a colonial stronghold like Arnhem doesn't mind trading with Mengsk, and Mengsk doesn't mind playing smuggling and building an intelligence station by the way in order to feed the son of Keha.
Therefore, the prophet sometimes restricts the train of thought, and the appearance of the Son of Keha in the Sara system is not a temporary rush, but a fairly high inevitability. This is also the reason why history has changed, and the son of Keha still comes to join in the fun.
"I was expecting us to see each other a little bit later...... "Kane said meaningfully to Kerrigan......