[Assassin's Creed] Spring and Autumn Temple

The tree shadow quickly retreated behind him.

Occasionally, a branch brushes across the face, bringing a slight tingling sensation.

In the dark forest, the man ran desperately, but the pursuers followed him like a shadow.

Seeing that they were about to catch up, the leader suddenly stopped and raised his gun to aim.

The first bullet hit his left shoulder, and the man staggered and continued to run.

The second shot hit the waist, and he finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground.

The man dismounted and came towards him.

The sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer, and the man uttered a word, and turned around with difficulty to face the man in front of him.

"Haytham."

"Shay."

Under the layers of shadows, the head of the North American branch of the temple looked bottomless, and aimed his gun at his heart.

"Any last words?"

In 1761, Shay Cormack rebelled against the Temple and was shot dead in Concord Forest for Hayson Kenway, head of the Temple's North American Division.

a month ago.

"Shay, stay."

Every Friday afternoon is a time for routine meetings, and the description is just a summary of last week's situation and assignment of tasks for the next week. However, when the meeting adjourned this time, Heisen stopped Xie alone.

Shay, who was about to go out, quickly stopped and turned around.

"I've heard some rumors lately."

Hai Sen stood under the cross with his hands behind his back, the shadow of dusk fell on his face, and he couldn't see what his expression was.

"We're in trouble."

"I suspect that there is a traitor among us."

"What do you need me to do?"

Xie Yi grimaced and blurted out.

"I haven't decided yet."

Heisen's voice sounded a little tired.

"It's just a feeling, I don't have a clue, I can only wait."

"And now, I have a personal matter to deliver to you."

That day, the sky was filled with flames, and the entire mountain forest was red, as if the stars in the sky were falling one after another.

He ran down the mountain in a hurry and ran to the front of his house, but only saw a sea of ​​fire.

"Mother!!"

The child roared and wanted to rush in, but suddenly someone hugged him vigorously from behind.

"Your mother is dead!"

He turned his head and saw a man's face, with a long scar running through his entire right eye, which looked particularly hideous under the light of the fire.

Shay set off from the North American branch of the Temple three days ago, and followed the steps step by step along the way, but as soon as he stepped into the Scottish plains, he felt that the situation had changed, and he immediately raised his vigilance and hurried on, but it was still a step late.

The entire Mohawk tribe had become a sea of ​​flames, and he searched for the child among the fleeing aborigines. At this time, he was holding him firmly to prevent him from fleeing again.

"If you jump in, you will die too!"

"Do you tube!"

The child roared and struggled, but the man was so powerful that he overturned all his movements with one hand. The child protested with bared teeth and claws, and suddenly bit his arm abruptly.

"Well......"

Shay's eyes went black with pain, and a distraction made him break free and run towards the flames.

This time Shay didn't hesitate any longer, he immediately took out a pistol, took aim, and shot the child in the neck.

As he hoisted him onto the horse, Shay thought he should have done it in the first place.

At this time, he stood on the high slope and looked back at the fire, feeling a little distressed inexplicably in his heart.The cold wind rushes over the top of the forest, bringing with it scattered ashes, and the child on horseback sleeps peacefully.

He didn't dare to imagine what would happen if he was a second later, whether this child would cease to exist.But the reality is that just now, the fire destroyed everything in his life.

When Ratonhagaton woke up, he found that his hands and feet were tightly bound. He raised his head and saw a man sitting not far away.

"Where are you taking me?"

Shay was cleaning his gun without looking up.

"Go see your father."

The child blinked, the word was very unfamiliar to him.

"What are you my father?"

Shay paused and thought about how to phrase it.

"Minions."

He finally said.

The child stopped talking, Xie thought for a while, and walked over.

"I can untie you, but you have to promise me that you are not allowed to escape."

"You are my mission, I must send you safely."

"So, if you dare to escape, I will let you sleep for another three days and three nights."

After speaking, he shook the gun in his hand.

The child stared at his pole, which was almost as tall as others, with a trace of fear in his eyes.

"Then I'll tell my father."

It's amazing, this kid has learned to play tricks.Shay rolled his eyes skyward and put away his gun.

"Okay, I just scared you."

............

For Ratonhagaton, he has just experienced the pain of losing his family and home, and has always been depressed, and Shay is also a silent person, so the two have seldom spoken along the way.

They traveled during the day and spent the night in the jungle at night.I don't know whether it was the fatigue of the journey or malnutrition, which made the child look weaker, and his complexion was much worse than the previous few days.

So at noon that day, Xie Yi walked away silently as he watched the little ghost gnaw his dry food with difficulty, and came back with a rabbit in his hand.

"What are you doing?"

Ratonhagaton put down his rations and looked towards him.

"Peeling."

The man said that he peeled the skin neatly, skewered the dead rabbit on a thin stick, and roasted it carefully, and the aroma wafted out after a while.

"Well, here it is for you."

He handed the roasted browned rabbit to him, and the child immediately grabbed it and began to bite, his mouth and face were covered with oil. It seemed that this journey had exhausted him a lot.

The nights in the north are always extremely cold, and they have to sleep next to each other at night.Hagaton was cautious and thoughtful, and soon fell asleep, but Shay couldn't fall asleep, and couldn't help but look at the child's face by the light of the fire.

This is the child Heisen had with that Mohawk woman. On his face, Shay saw Heisen's eyes and contours, and the brown skin and thick lips probably came from his mother, right?

So at lunch the next day, when Shay was about to go hunting to increase food as usual, the child silently held onto the hem of his coat and looked up at him.

"I'm going with you."

Shay looked down at the little one, and couldn't help laughing: This guy in front of him is not yet five years old, and he is just as tall as his gun. How can he tell him that this is actually a dangerous thing?

However, he still couldn't hold him back in the end, so he had no choice but to tell him not to run around.

But as soon as he was on the road, all his previous warnings were in vain. This energetic boy suddenly climbed up a tree to pick a beautiful wild flower, and then ran after a rabbit, scaring the birds in the woods. Had to scatter in all directions, and Shay had to drag him back even harder, poking him on the forehead and threatening not to bring him next time.

"Have you ever lived here before?"

When they sat around the fire at night, the child suddenly asked.

One sentence made Shay's heart tremble.

Yes, he lived here.

He was still in Davenport at the time, but looking back on it, it seemed so far away.

He walked all the way to the present with blood, thinking that he was numb to life and death, that he lost his heart in the cold sea as early as that night when he defected.However, the bright-eyed child in front of him made him realize with panic that he still had intentions.

These days he taught him how to search for clues, how to use traps, how to shoot arrows, how to take care of his prey.The children who grew up in the tribe are natural hunters, and the children quickly mastered the fur. During the day, they helped him make bait, followed him to pick up rabbits, and sometimes Shay would let him do it himself.

The relationship between them gradually eased, and there seemed to be a tacit understanding between them.Sometimes he stared at the figure of the child jumping in the forest, and he couldn't help feeling relieved.

It's just that the child in front of him, although he has lost his mother and home, but one day, he will forget the past, forget the pain, and start a new life.Unlike myself, he lost too much when he was very old, and there was not enough time for him to heal.

Hai Sen frowned and looked at the child in front of him, and Xie Yi.

The two of them had just traveled for a week and finally returned to the headquarters with great difficulty. At this time, both of them looked dusty and dusty.Especially Ratonhagaton, the little guy looks awkward, his little face is covered with dust, and a dirty little braid hangs down his cheek.

His eyes were focused on the necklace around his neck, slightly absent-minded.

Heisen couldn't remember the last time he saw this necklace, he only remembered that at that time, this necklace was still on another person's neck.

Four years of time, four years of memories and regrets, in exchange for this ignorant child in front of him.Heisen didn't know if this was a gift from heaven or a curse from the past.

"Take him to change and meet me at dinner."

After leaving this sentence, he turned around and entered the study.

"That's my father?"

While walking on the road holding his hand, Shay suddenly heard the child say.

"what happened?"

"No, it's just..."

The child hesitated, but finally swallowed the rest of the words.

Shay led him to the room and unlocked it.

There were no extra rooms in the headquarters, and Hagaton's room was remodeled from the original house arrest room.It is not so much a room as it is a prison cell. The gate is an iron fence with a lock on it.

However, the interior is much more normal. Although the furnishings are simple, they have everything you need. There are picture books for children of the right age on the desk, a few wooden carved ponies on the cabinet, and an exquisite candy box in the drawer.

It is indeed the proper room for ordinary noble children.It's just that it's hard to imagine what kind of mood Heisen had when choosing these things.

Shay sighed while grabbing the child to keep him from moving.

"Just look at it, and come take a shower with me now."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Xie Yi felt that something was wrong. Since when did he start acting like a nanny?

However, the child obediently obeyed, and Hagaton stood in the pool not long after, allowing the man in front of him to work hard on his body with a towel.

"...My God, have you never taken a shower in your life?"

Shay couldn't help moaning as he rubbed the mud on his body. He thought brown was his natural skin color, but after rubbing it, he realized that it wasn't the case at all.

It was only after the second wash that the water seemed clearer. He soaked the lotion in the water, and after a while, he created a pool full of foam.

"ah!"

Finally couldn't bear it, surrounded by piles of bubbles, the child blurted out, looking at the colorful bubbles in the sun, smiling.

At that moment, the brilliance in his eyes was exactly like that of a child who was only four or five years old.He played with the soap for a while, squeezed the rubber duck for a while, and blew the foam for a while, very busy.Feeling his joy, Shay couldn't help smiling too, lathered a dollop of foam on his head, and began to wash his hair.

When Haggaton was done, he sat by the mirror, and Shay stood behind him, helping him braid his hair.

"How about it?"

"Hmm... a bit rough."

The child looked at himself in the mirror and pouted.

"But it's okay."

After speaking, he jumped off the stool.

During dinner, Shay changed him into formal clothes, led him to the dining room of Heisen's room, put him on a chair and sat him down, and when he saw Heisen walking in, he was about to leave, but was suddenly held by the corner of his clothes.

"Shay, stay."

The child leaned halfway out of the chair and said to him in a commanding tone.The father and son are really alike.

So the three of them had a rather embarrassing dinner together.I don't know if it was intentionally provocative, but the child forgot all the basic etiquette he had taught him before when he came to the table, and he almost used his hands and feet to eat, leaving fish scraps all over the place.Heisen raised his head and stared at Shay silently. Shay looked at Heisen and then at Hagaton, meaning that I taught him that he can't do anything about me.

Since then, Hai Sen has always lived in seclusion, and it seems that having an extra son is the same as before.It's just that occasionally when Shay is staying with Hagaton, he looks over there.

The child has endless curiosity about nature, and once climbed an abandoned tower behind the headquarters, but Shay, who arrived in time, was terrified. He tried to persuade him to come down and give him a hard training, but he agreed not to Tell Heisen; once again, the little guy got a nest of squirrels from nowhere and kept them secretly under the bed. When Shay got up in the middle of the night to check the room, he saw the shadows passing by and thought there were mice. It was only when the group turned their backs on their backs that the child admitted that it was his good deed.While Shay rolled his eyes, he still acquiesced in this behavior, but in the end there were three rules: the two squirrels could only be kept in special cages, and they would be released into nature when they grew up.

He still continued to go out on missions. Because of his background, Ratonhagaton was indifferent and stubborn when he was a child, and he only let his guard down a little when facing him.So every time he went out on a mission, Shay would find a way to bring him a gift or two when he came back, sometimes it was a ceramic rabbit, sometimes it was a small wooden sword, and the last time he brought him a gift that could be hidden. The little bird in the sleeve also told him not to tell anyone, especially Heisen.

Raton Hoggyton grew up in the temple heartlessly like this, and things like falling over the wall, stealing his father's hat and hanging it on a tree, and running out fishing, only to come back full of water at night to let Shay It's not worth mentioning that you can't stop complaining about whether you went fishing or let the fish catch you.

"Master Cormac! Something has happened!"

Shea was walking on the road that day when a colleague suddenly ran over. Shea instinctively realized what had happened and immediately ran towards the meeting room.

When he slammed the door open, the scene in front of him was uncontrollable.

The conference room was full of mess and chaos, and Raton Hagaton was grabbing Charles tearing and biting at this moment. He couldn't tear it off like a dog's skin plaster, and he looked like an angry little wolf dog.

Shay can figure out what kind of process this is with the handle of a knife: the temple held an impromptu meeting, which happened to be bumped into by Raton Hagaton who was running around. As soon as they meet, they are out of control.At this moment, Hickey and Pitcairn were pulling his arms and feet one by one, trying to tear him off with great difficulty, but the child jumped up again before one foot touched, and Heisen slapped him angrily, Sweep him to the ground.

"Haketon!"

With a low cry, Shay rushed over and picked up the child from the ground.

When the child saw him, it was like seeing a savior. He threw himself into his arms and showed him his fingers.

"That's him! He set fire to our village and burned my mother to death."

"How many times do I have to say, I didn't do this kind of thing!"

Charles stomped his feet angrily, and Heisen gave the order coldly.

"Drag him down, and shut him up in the house, without supper."

Being dragged to the ground by several temples, the child's eyes were full of hatred, and he was still shouting when he was taken away.

"You wait! I remember you!"

"One day I will destroy all of you!"

"......"

The voice echoed throughout the corridor, like a hidden prophecy.

Heisen had a gloomy face. The good meeting was disrupted by this guy, not to mention embarrassing him in public. He glanced at Xie complainingly, as if he was blaming him for not taking good care of the child.

Fuck, Fuck, he, Shay, joined the Knights Templar, not the Templars.

In the end, it was Shay who rescued him from the temple and led him all the way back to the room.

"Read a book, or play with a toy."

He put the picture album and the wooden pony in front of him, but the child ignored them and didn't even look at them. Shay stretched out his hand to comfort him, but the child stubbornly avoided it.

Shay had no choice but to leave hesitantly, and gently locked the door before leaving.

In the evening Shay came again.

When he opened the door, he saw the child sitting with his knees hugged in the dark, and he didn't say a word when he came.

He walked over, knelt down and put the meatloaf in front of him, and the child immediately grabbed it and ate it. After eating, he continued to sit in the dark without saying a word.

Shay hesitated to leave, but at that moment, he suddenly heard a voice.

Subtle and intermittent at first, he soon picked up a signal like this:

is crying.

"...I don't have a mother anymore, and I don't have a home anymore..."

In the silent darkness, the child suddenly sobbed.From losing his home at the beginning, to losing his mother, to being beaten today, these blows together finally crushed his last nerve, and the grievances and resentment that had been accumulated for so many days were all eliminated at this moment. An explosion broke out, making this stubborn and strong child cry until he trembled all over and couldn't help himself. A pair of small hands kept wiping his cheeks, and suddenly ran towards him, wrapping his arms around his neck.

"I don't like my father, my father is always with the bad guys, I like you..."

"......"

At that moment, it was as if a current surged into his brain, and Xie Yi felt as if something had fallen in his heart.

His mind went blank, and he returned his hand in a daze, wrapping his arms around his small body.

He only felt his little heart beating against his forehead, with an unyielding tenacity and stubbornness, which shocked him all the way to the bottom of his heart.

I don't know how long it took for the child to let go of him, raised his face, and looked at him with his father's eyes.

"I want to drink chocolate."

"Don't tell your father."

Shay stood up and patted him on the head, then walked out the door, and locked the door before leaving.

He asked for a cup of hot chocolate from a colleague, but as he turned around, he suddenly remembered that something was wrong.

He threw the chocolate and ran back to the room, and he saw the door open, the door lock was hanging on the fence, and the key on his waist was on the ground.

He was indeed an extremely smart kid, and the carefully arranged hug just now was actually for the purpose of taking the key from him.

So emotional.

Without hesitation for a moment, Shay immediately rushed off his horse and started a frantic search.He ran all over Boston, all over the Scottish plains, from dusk to dawn the next day, and from dawn to dusk the next day, hoarse and exhausted. Is there a figure of that child?

He didn't know whether he felt more guilty about the failure of the mission, or more worried about him: This four-year-old child left his clan and adults' care, how should he live.

His heart was full of remorse. These days, it seemed that there was some invisible bond connecting them together. He saw suffering and misfortune in him, he saw stubbornness and strength, and he saw how he felt when he was a child. shadow.

He felt that these days when he was with him, he lived like a normal person, a person with all kinds of emotions and six desires, not a machine, a killing tool that can only obey.That stubborn child taught him responsibility and love in these short days.

However, the child just disappeared into the dusk of that day without any warning.It seemed to be a too beautiful dream, but he had to wake up before he could finish the dream.

In a daze, he suddenly felt a dull pain in his wrist, and subconsciously rolled up his sleeves, only to remember that it was the tooth mark left by that kid when he first met.

It's so ruthless... Even through layers of clothing, it is still clearly visible, like a small but stubborn mark.

In the end, he returned to the headquarters exhausted and found nothing. When he returned to the small room, he opened the door and saw Heisen standing in the middle of the dark room, holding a wooden pony in his hand.

"If it fails, Grand Master."

"Just go and go."

In the end, Hai Sen just said lightly, put the pony aside, walked out of the room, and locked the door heavily before leaving, as if locking a heart.

"Now we have more urgent things to do."

When walking on the road, Heisen told him.

"Do you remember what I told you about a traitor among us?"

"Do you already know who it is?"

"It's not known yet."

Hai Sen rubbed his temples in distress.

"We only know that this is a very cunning person, and he doesn't show his feet easily."

"The temple going to Lexington for a mission encountered an ambush. The supplies we shipped to the sea were stolen for no reason, our whereabouts were betrayed, and someone sabotaged it inside."

"I need to know who this person is, and I need a way to lure him out."

He stopped abruptly, turned around and stared into his eyes, saying every word firmly.

"So, I need you to die once."

In 1761, Shay Cormack rebelled against the Temple and was shot dead in Concord Forest for Hayson Kenway, head of the Temple's North American Division.

To be continued