"Thank you for your rescue, Star Spirit." Douglas wearily held out his right hand to the Templar in front of him.

The star spirit hesitated for a moment, he had never seen this kind of etiquette, but he still stretched out his hand and held it tightly with him as Douglas did, and said solemnly, "This is our honor, warrior. ”

Darham couldn't help but be in awe when he glanced at the warriors behind Douglas who were lying on the ground exhausted, ignoring the blood and corpses on the ground. The Templars respected such noble warriors, regardless of their race or faction.

"Ha, it's not a shame for us to let you arrogant guys say such things." Douglas chuckled tiredly, then patted Durham's arm, "I'll leave it to you here, we're going to get some rest." With that, he turned and staggered towards the crystal tower, which was transferring the disabled and evacuees.

The forces that held out until the end were made up of Yang Yi, the Rangers, and the Empire's troops, including the remnants of the fortress in front who had fled to this place after the fortress had been breached. When the entrance of the canyon was breached by the king beast, the rear troops did not know the accurate news for the first time, but the huge sound made by the impact of the king beast reached everyone's ears through the mountains of the canyon. Initially in charge of the canyon was an Imperial Marine colonel, who reacted immediately and set up a defensive position at the entrance to the only open space in the canyon with all his might against the king worm and the sea of euglena, while he urgently called for more reinforcements and set up a reserve position at the mouth of the cave where the reactor was being built just in case - a wise move that ultimately saved many people.

Douglas and King were company commanders in Ral's 17th Separate Company. The company was initially responsible for part of the defense of the Gorge Fortress. When the fortress was devastated, the company tried to warn the company members to evacuate, but the telecommunication was no longer available, and they had to evacuate the fortress first, which forced them to rush back into the canyon before the main force of the swarm arrived.

On the way, the evacuation convoy was inevitably attacked by the airdrop troops of the king worm. In the end, only a few companies of remnants were successfully evacuated from the positions at the entrances to the canyon and returned to the interior of the canyon. Most of the others have disappeared or died.

Without the Canyon Fortress to stop it, the swarm army poured into the canyon like a tidal wave. Under the dual offensive of the front line and the sky, such a small number of troops alone is simply not enough to hold here. The Marine Corps colonel in charge of the command was killed by Douglas after being controlled by an infected insect after an emergency evacuation order was given. Douglas was suddenly the highest-ranking unit commander in the entire position.

It was a fact that the canyon could not be held, and after one last unsuccessful contact with his superiors, he ordered all the personnel to retreat into the cave. The few remaining Daram spirits in the canyon volunteered to take charge of the aftermath and were wiped out, but managed to secure the safe withdrawal of the remaining human forces into the cave.

The rest ...... There's not much more to say. They relied on the fortifications that had been erected in advance at the entrance to the cave to resist desperately. The insects relied on their numerical superiority to nearly break through the defensive positions several times, but each time they were forced back by their concentrated firepower. But their casualties grew larger and larger because they could not be replenished, and eventually even the seriously wounded had to continue to fight together on the front line until Darlam's troops rushed to help.

The swarm troops also showed a decline at this time. The King Worm Sea Airdrop is effective, but the problem itself is that a large number of King Worms are killed, a large number of control nodes of the main nest of the insect colony fail, and a large number of alien insect troops begin to lose control due to the lack of King Worms. When Kerrigan attempts to hatch the king worm, she discovers that she is unable to get enough larvae to hatch the king worm in a short period of time due to the destruction of the main nest area by Reynolds' rangers. In order to ensure that Char's Alien forces did not completely get out of control, Kerrigan had to evacuate his forces as soon as possible to restore the operation of the main nest area first.

When the insect tide on the surface receded, everyone breathed a sigh of relief—including Tadarin's Dead Apostles.

The SCV began to rebuild the fortifications and buildings on the surface, while Tadarin and Dharam began to set up crystal towers and photon batteries near the canyon as guard posts and defenses on the perimeter. With the departure of Wang Worm, the fleet has finally resumed operation. The fleet was able to resend reinforcements to the surface and platforms, and Char's battle was finally showing signs of improvement.

On the other side, after communication was restored, Huberian informed the other ships of the fleet that Renault and Warfield had merged and left the main nest area and were retreating towards the gorge. The main force of the Empire, which was originally responsible for the movement warfare, was also retreating into the canyon, and they seemed to have encountered a huge number of main forces of the Alien Insects that had exceeded expectations, resulting in them not being able to complete the task of encircling and annihilating the Alien Insects troops.

Warfield was temporarily returned to the platform for treatment after being pierced through his right arm by a spiny snake spinal in the main nest area, and it is expected that his right arm may not be saved. But from Warfield's mouth, they finally learned the truth about the sinking of Warfield's battlecruiser - Warfield's flagship was the first ship to be attacked by the King Worm Sea, and was not only caught off guard when attacked, but was also said to have been attacked by the Queen of Blades herself.

“…… Is Kerrigan a shadow clone? Yang Yi frowned and looked at the report in his hand, "How could she appear in so many locations at the same time?" The timing is completely out of place. ”

This is space, not the surface, so it can't be explained by tunnel bugs, not to mention that the tunnel bug network on the surface has already been blown up by Renault's commandos.

"Perhaps, UED has made more than just a Queen of Blades?"

"Then you're overestimating the capabilities of UED." Yang Yi very simply denied this possibility, "Don't talk about UED, if you change the star spirit, you won't be able to make two Kai Ruigan in five years." I'm more inclined to be the Kerrigan of that project that is active on the surface, and the real Kerrigan who is active in space. ”

A1 originally wanted to refute the Star Spirit and was good at genetic engineering projects, but after careful consideration, he chose to give up the refutation - A1 really didn't think that UED was capable of creating two Blade Queens in such a short period of time.

"That Tadarin would have been furious if he had known that he had been defeated by a clone." Black Rose sneered gloatingly.

"I'm in the communication channel, human." Talis's faint voice rang out in the channel, "It's the all-hands, what a stupid person-"

"The head is also a human, so you have to be careful when you say this, Star Spirit."

"Adults are not the same as those despicable lowly people, you know better than I do, humans." Talis replied without showing any weakness, "You haven't been with the adults for so long, don't you know?" Could it be—"

"It's okay, it's okay, both of you can stop for a moment." Yang Yi stopped the argument between the two sides with a headache, "Okay, Talis, you and your troops continue to stay on the surface just in case. In any case, we cannot allow the tragedy of the past to happen again. Everyone else is in place. By the way, in terms of resources, you guys add it up, after fighting for so long, I'm a little worried that the resource reserves will be insufficient, if you need it, you can go to the empire or the rangers to ask for some, just in case. ”

"Anyway, we're about to enter the final stage, we've been working so hard for so long, we can't afford to lose at this time."