[Assassin's Creed] Raging Seas

Shay carried Heisen on the surface of the sea, floating up and down, and drifted westward, or slightly northerly.

Shay was very hungry and was afraid of being suddenly attacked by sharks. From dusk to now, they have been soaking in the sea for five or six hours. It's not that he still expects to be rescued. Whether he is rescued or not depends entirely on Gist. Did you go to the captain's cabin to have a look before going to bed?At this time, Gist was not on the ship at all, even if he was on the ship, there was no reason to run to the captain's cabin.He considered the trend of the ocean current, considered the difficulty of measuring the wind direction, speed and trend on board, and calculated where the Mollingen had probably traveled, and how long it would take if he turned back now... While thinking, He slowly realized that Heisen lying on his back hadn't moved for a long time.

From the time I found him until now, the man has been in a coma, with his hands loosely around his neck, and the water-soaked three-cornered hat is draped limply on his head.

Later, as the wind and waves died down, a piece of driftwood that had come with them served as a temporary resting place for him.

Shay lay on the log and drifted with the waves, thinking that a week ago he was still in the box of the most luxurious tavern in New York, with wine and girls around him, and in a blink of an eye he was soaking in the cold sea water, it was so desolate.

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

"It was you who insisted on wearing it from here at the beginning. Look, it's better now."

"Of course, I'm not blaming you. I just think that people can't be too stubborn. Sometimes they have to listen to what others say."

"Oh, let's talk about being happy."

"Do you know how I felt when I first saw you?"

Shay waited silently for a moment before continuing.

"When I saw you, you were standing at the end of the long table, under the big sign of the temple, with your hands behind your back facing me, and your upper body was covered in shadow."

"It took a long time before you turned around. At that time, I don't know if it was Monroe's request before he left. I had a hunch at that time that I would dedicate my life to this cause and to you."

He sighed.

"But you know what, you've been disappointing me since then..."

"Back when we were on a mission together, and I was gassed by Hope and locked up in a warehouse waiting to die, how I wished that you were the one who broke through the door in the next second."

"There are still several missions, I was going to sneak in secretly, but you are lucky, you got into a fight with them when you came up, we almost couldn't escape several times."

"Later, I followed you up the snow mountain and broke into the temple. During the earthquake, you ran a long way and threw me down. That time I was almost buried at the foot of the mountain and slept with the ice and snow..."

"Look at you, if you do this as a human being, I will save you without hesitation when you fall into the sea, but in the end, you will lose your boat. You can be satisfied."

"Oh, Haytham, you man..."

Realizing that he had said all this, but only to himself, Shay stopped in time.

When did I become so verbose.

Cheyenne.

The vast sea stretches as far as the eye can see, and the luminous algae plants float underwater, illuminating the entire sea surface as if hundreds of millions of stars have sunk down.The faint sea mist envelops the distant moonlight, the floating clouds in the sky are rapidly changed by the sea breeze, and Hai Sen is sleeping peacefully on his back.

Once Shay was startled by a sudden jet of water nearby, at first just a shape looming in the swell, and then a huge whale appeared next to them.Xie Yi happily wanted to call Heisen to come and see, but he remembered that he hadn't woken up yet.

It was a full-grown male whale, more than eighty feet long, and it floated there for several minutes with constant intervals of jetting.He saw the white jets of water erupting from its head, gushing silently under the vast sky.Then it took a loud breath, lowered its head, lifted its tail fin out of the water, and disappeared quietly again.

The sea surface became calm again, and the moon rose, illuminating the entire sea surface like a dream.As the earth turned, so did the sea, and to the west was the last remnant of night, and to the east, against the wind, the beginning of day.

After a night of exhaustion, Xie also felt tired. He lay on the driftwood, blown drowsy by the gentle sea breeze, and his consciousness gradually became blurred.

In the dream, there was a howling wind, blowing away every cloud.

In his dream, he saw the childhood he and Lian En spent together, and saw the appearance of himself going out to sea with his father for the first time: the sea wind filled the sails, the boat songs echoed in his ears, the horn of victory resounded through the sky, Distant continents shimmer at the ends of heaven and earth.

The situation changed overnight, like a hurricane rising from the ground, suddenly rolling everything up into the void, the sea, sailboats, sails...all of them vanished in an instant.

father...where is father...

He stretched out his hand blankly and looked around, but there was nothing.

That storm took everything away from his father, everything from him, his dreams.

He ends up back in New York alone, on the streets, exhausted.

He began to frequently fight with people in the tavern, and began to live by robbery and stealing. Every street in New York left traces of him escaping from the hunt. The world betrayed him, and he turned to betray the world.Every time it was Lian En who pulled him up from the corner and washed the ashes and wounds all over his body. Lian En was his only light in those days full of blood and ashes.Later, Lien introduced him to the fraternity, and he found another home.In Davenport, he trained with his predecessors. Boston was very windy and snowy, but he felt that there were sunshine in all seasons, shining into his tightly locked atrium. So many past events passed by like the wind. happy years.

Then, he dreamed that he began to question, dreamed that he betrayed without hesitation, dreamed of the bullet that pierced his chest and the icy ocean, and dreamed that he killed brothers and sisters who treated him as family one by one.In his dream, he was smiling and weeping loudly, the past entangled him like a shadow, pulling him into the abyss.What he finally dreamed of was the heavy snowfall in the North Pole. He stabbed his sword into Lian En's chest, and the man fell on the white ground, looking straight over his shoulders at the snow-filled sky sky.

Shay was kicked awake by Heisen.

He opened his eyes, and for a moment he didn't know where he was. Not far away, Hai Sen, who had woken up under a tree, weakly threw a stone at him, as if he was getting impatient waiting for him to wake up.

"Go and make breakfast."

"Aye master Kenway."

Shay rolled his eyes and stood up. The man was ungrateful.He shook the sand on his body, and found that they were on a small island, surrounded by dense vegetation, and the sun was pouring down from the top of their heads, making them too dazzled to open their eyes.

Shay kicked his boots and wandered along the shore, walking far away, the sand in his shoes made him very uncomfortable, and the vicious sunlight made him even more irritable.There are a lot of seabirds living on the shore, and he wanted to shoot some of them to roast and eat, but he thought about how long they would stay in this wilderness, and the ammunition could be saved a little, so he gave up in the end.

He finally came to a tall palm tree with a bird's nest, and there might be bird eggs, and he carried a flint and steel with him, and it would be good to bake some bird eggs if he couldn't roast the bird meat.

Climbing trees was easy for Shay. Davenport's home was wooded, and he used to like to run to the trees and take wild gooseberries to sneak up on passing fraternity members.He quickly climbed to the top, and when the chicks saw his face, they stretched their necks toward him, fluttered their small wings, and called to him chirping.

"Hey, I know you're hungry, but I'm not your mother."

Shay tapped the chick's short beak, reached into the nest and carefully took out two unhatched eggs, put them in the small wallet with bullets behind him, and then prepared to descend the tree.However, he glanced under the tree inadvertently, and almost fell out of the tree in fright.

I saw that the originally empty tree had been surrounded by people at some point, and the clothes should be local aborigines. Everyone looked like they were facing a big enemy, and the guns in their hands were all aimed at him.

Shay lowered his hands from the tree, looked around, and found that the situation was not that bad.

All the people surrounding him were women, probably dozens of them.As far as I am currently fully armed, I should barely be able to fight.

As soon as his eyes rolled, Xie Yi had a plan, so when a soldier came up to search her body, he grabbed her neck with his backhand, and the remaining soldiers immediately fired at him, and he immediately drew his sword to block, A few soldiers rushed forward, and Xie Yi realized that although the opponent was a woman, she was surprisingly strong. Seeing that she was about to be defeated, he ran away, but before he could take a few steps, he was caught by a noose that fell from the air. He fell to the ground with his neck in his arms, and the people behind rushed up and pushed him down. All the weapons and weapons on his body were looted and tied tightly.

The last thing Shay thought of was that in this world, things don't turn around.

His hands were tied, and he staggered along behind the horse. During the escort, he saw Hai Sen who was also detained. The man's body was covered in ashes and his cheek was scratched. When he saw him, he followed him. As if seeing it, it is estimated that he was subdued after resisting like him.

Just when they were about to faint from the sun, they finally arrived at their destination. Several female soldiers shouted and pushed them into a grass shed.Shay got up and saw a few men sitting in the thatched shed. Seeing them coming in, he just glanced indifferently, then lowered his head and went to work again.They were then handcuffed, and the steward gave them a basket of potatoes and two small knives, and said something, Shay didn't understand a word, but he probably ordered them to peel the potatoes.

He picked up the knife from the ground, and saw that it was not a knife at all, it could only be regarded as a sharpened stone, not enough to kill a fish, let alone hurt a person.

He and Heisen looked at each other, and both of them sighed heavily at the same time, sat down and started peeling potatoes.

In the afternoon of that day, a tall and majestic woman came to the hut where the slaves lived, followed by several female warriors. The men who worked called her "Kana Dogon". It seemed that she should be the leader here. .Xie Yi and Heisen were forced to kneel and salute. The leader came to them, pinched their chins and raised their faces to look at them. He left without saying anything. A man who was originally following her stayed behind. down.

The man told the two of them that he was an archaeologist who traveled all over the mainland in order to explore world civilizations. Afterwards, because he was proficient in the local language, he was detained by the leader here as a translator.

The man also told them that according to the rules here, the captured male captives are generally taken to the slaughterhouse and then slaughtered the next day. They were not taken away, probably because the leader looked down on them.

Xie Yi and Hai Sen looked at each other silently, and turned their heads away silently, not knowing whether it was joy or sadness.

The days on the island always seemed extraordinarily long, eating potatoes every day, Shay felt that he was about to sprout.He felt that during the few days he stayed here, he had exhausted all the hardships of his life, not to mention being beaten and scolded, and he still couldn't get enough to eat.He began to miss the food on the boat. Although the cook was brought by Hai Sen from England, and he only cooks fried fish and looks up at the stars every day, it is much better than here.

After listening to other people's conversations and observations in the past few days, he probably guessed that this small island lived in a matriarchal society. They can't do military training and drinking; men either farm the land or are kept in captivity to work in straw sheds, and women are brought into tents only when they have special needs.In the past three days, he has seen many men being taken away in the afternoon and returning exhausted in the middle of the night.

There were also women who came to look for them, but they didn't understand the language, so they just messed around.Heisen is fine, but poor Xie Yi has been a hooligan for most of his life, and it's the first time he's molested by a woman, that feels aggrieved.

On the third day, he finally couldn't help asking Heisen.

Shay: What do you think your son is doing right now.

Heisen: I'm thinking about how to sell your ship to the assassins.

Shay:  …

On the fifth day, Hai Sen finally couldn't bear it anymore. Not being able to drink tea, take a bath and keep a diary for such a long time made this always tolerant man go crazy.

"The great head of the North American branch of the Knights Templar, but he has to be imprisoned by a group of women in a hut to peel potatoes. If it is spread, the assassins will laugh at him for hundreds of years!"

He yelled angrily as soon as he dropped the potato, and Shay saw a guard walking towards him and quickly signaled him to shut up, but Heisen became more and more annoyed as he thought about it, and continued to yell.

"When I return to the headquarters of the temple, I must send someone to raze this damned island, and all the women will be sent to Australia and betrothed to the local death row prisoners!"

"...Ah, by the way, and that damned leader, that guy named Kanadogon, for the sake of her resemblance to Canezio, I... Well!"

Before he finished speaking, he was hit on the head by the guard's knife handle, probably because they thought it was too annoying for them to talk too much.

They peeled potatoes during the day and slept next to each other at night. When Shay got up to work on the seventh morning, he accidentally looked up and quickly woke up Heisen beside him.

"Look! It's Maureen Root!"

At the end of the world, a two-masted sailboat was coming with the wind and waves, and the dark red elite sails were particularly dazzling at the junction of the sea and the sky.It was the tall Connor who was hanging on the top of the mast and pulling the cable to look this way. The long wind swept his snow-white assassin's arm, and his resolute gaze was always fixed on the front.

For the first time, Hai Sen felt that having a son was really a wonderful thing.

The boat broke down on the shore, and then a small boat got off, and after the boat docked, a crew member got off.

Shea recognized that man, he was one of the first batch of crew members he recruited, and they were not far away at this time, Shea wanted to raise his arms and shout to show his position, but seeing the guards staring at him, he finally held back , I had to watch helplessly as the crew member was taken into the tent where the leader lived after talking to the guards on the shore.

After a while, the crew member came out of the tent. Just when Shay thought he would rescue them, he saw the guy boarded the boat again and returned to the Mollingen. He drove away under the watchful eye.

Heisen:? ? ? ?

Shay:! ! ! !

At noon that day, the interpreter came again and told them with regret that Connor had indeed searched for them island by island according to the map. Lied and told him that the two people he was looking for were not here.No way, the matrilineal society also needs labor.

At night on the small island, everything is quiet, only the sound of wind and sand can be heard.After a soldier inspected the area as usual, he went to the assembled tent.

However, just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard a rustling sound from the haystack not far away, so she went over to check.

Just when she lowered her head, she suddenly felt that someone behind her was strangling her neck, and she was covering her mouth and nose just as she was about to yell, and she lost consciousness after struggling a few times.

Shay threw the unconscious guard to the ground and began to search her.Heisen also got out from the haystack. Shay found a key, a long knife and a dagger. He used the key to undo the shackles, threw the knife to Heisen, and put the dagger in his pocket. Headed silently into the darkness.

Since you can't count on others, you can only save yourself.

However, before walking 100 meters, there was a sudden sound of shouting and killing behind him.

"Run!"

The two let out a roar at the same time.

The island was endless under the moonlight, and the wind and sand were raging. The two of them ran desperately under the night sky, and gradually they could see the boundary of the coast.

However, before they approached, a shell exploded in front of the two of them. The huge impact shook them to the ground. The two raised their heads and saw the Maureengen appearing at the end of the world again.

The sky above the sea was reddened by the flowing flames, as if the stars in the sky were falling one after another.

Countless shells were fired from the Mollingen, roaring towards the opposite island.The roaring sound exploded in my ears, and the flames in the entire island exploded and splashed, like meteors falling down the Milky Way, and scattered in mid-air like fireworks.

The crew of Mollingen came ashore in a small boat and engaged the guards on the island.The crew members are well-armed, but the guards are superior because of their large number of people, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

When the moon rose, the entire island was in chaos. The fire roared and burned to the horizon, and the sound of guns and soldiers was amplified back and forth under the sky.The sprayed blood was quickly absorbed by the hot sand, and the howling wind brought a strong smell of gunpowder.

There was a lot of voices behind them, more and more soldiers were chasing them, and countless guns flew past them.The smoke was so choking that it was almost impossible to breathe, Shay and Heisen yelled at the Mollingan while running wildly, their faces were reddened by the flames, and the people on board also saw them, and hurriedly lowered the boat in their direction .

However, just a few hundred meters away, Xie Yi suddenly only heard a muffled groan from Hai Sen beside him, and suddenly fell down.

"Master Kenway!"

Xie Yi turned pale with shock, and quickly stopped, only to see an arrow shoot into his thigh, with such force that the entire arrowhead didn't penetrate the skin, tearing open a hole several inches long.

"Go away! Leave me alone."

Heisen pushed him forward.

"Catch up with the Vulcan, find the Precursor Box, and come save me!"

"......"

Xie Yi hesitated, and at that moment, it seemed as if countless secret memories spewed out of his heart, and some intense and unspeakable emotion suddenly surged in his pupils, and thousands of emotions swept across his eyes like a storm However, for a while, he couldn't move.

"Go away!"

Hai Sen didn't give him a chance to think, he grabbed his collar and roared while gnashing his teeth, his eyes suddenly sank.

"Do you think I'm for you? I'm for the temple."

"If it was you who was hurt, I would leave you without hesitation."

However, at this dazed moment, the two were overtaken by the people behind. Xie Yi raised his head and only saw the handle of the knife facing him, and then fell down with his eyes darkened.

In the early morning, both sides withdrew their troops.Gunpowder smoke filled the surroundings, and the originally prosperous island was now dead silent, with traces of artillery bombardment everywhere, broken walls and ruins.Accompanied by two crew members, a tall and strong young man walked into Kana Dorgon's big tent through the ruins.

Ever since the crew on the Mollingen found out that the captain and captain were gone, they unanimously recommended the healthy and healthy Connor as the interim agent. In the past few days, he drove the Mollingan to visit four small islands. , just came to this island this morning.

According to the usual practice, he sent the crew to bring gifts to inquire, but when he came back, he replied that there was no, and only said that the local interpreter made a strange gesture to him before leaving.After speaking, the crew member demonstrated it to him.Although Connor was big, he was definitely not a stupid person. He immediately understood the meaning of this, so he parked the boat not far away, preparing to sneak attack at night.

He wanted to take the island in one fell swoop, but he thought that his father was still in their hands, and it might not be good for them if he really fought to the death, so he saw that the attack was almost done, so he sent someone to send a proposal for peace.At this time, he was standing in the center of the big tent, surrounded by female warriors with swords and swords, and said in fluent English calmly and calmly:

"Now your island has been severely damaged, and I have no intention of attacking again. As long as you are willing to return my father and my father's subordinates to me, we will retreat immediately and give you a generous compensation for reconstruction. "

The translator conveyed these words to Kanadogon, and they talked for a few more words, during which the leader's eyes kept lingering on Connor.

After a while, the interpreter turned to him.

"The leader said that it can be returned, and the reconstruction cost can also be waived, but there is one condition."

"As long as I can do it, I will do my best."

However, when it came to this point, the translator showed embarrassment and hesitated for a long time before making a sound.

"...The condition is that you stay and marry a girl from the tribe."

"......"

That night, Shay, who was covered in injuries, sat side by side with Heisen on the big rock under the moonlight, watching the beautiful Maureengen disappear again at the end of the world.

TBC