[Assassin's Creed] Raging Seas

When Shay was asleep, something hit his head suddenly, and when he opened his eyes, it turned out to be an axe.

What the hell! ?

He jumped up immediately, and a tall figure landed in front of him.

Ordinarily, Shay should have been quite excited when he saw Connor, but he always felt that something was wrong?

"Thank you for not forgetting us, but if you were a little bit off-point just now, I would be decapitated."

Connor ignored him, picked up the ax and started looking around, "Where's my father?"

Shay kicked those around him.

"Stop, I'm awake."

Heisen sat up at some point, leaning against a pillar.Connor looked around and said in a low voice:

"You are still in their hands, I dare not attack rashly again."

"I've dealt with most of the guards, now come with me."

After finishing speaking, he threw a bunch of weapons he found from nowhere in front of them, which were the equipment they had disarmed before.

"But Master Kenway got an arrow wound in his leg and couldn't walk."

"......"

Connor stared at Heisen for a long time, and then, the silent man walked up to his father without saying anything, and half-knelt down with his back to him.

The three of them walked forward in the night, melting into the boundless darkness like a few drops of water.I saw a lot of corpses along the way, and it seemed that Connor had already taken care of a lot when he came.

Connor stooped and sneaked all the way with Heisen on his back, hiding in the grass or behind the wall from time to time, while Shay opened the way ahead, and signaled for them to pass after confirming it was safe.

Chaos broke out after only walking a distance of less than [-] meters. Xie Yi fought three against one, but one of them saw them hiding behind and rushed towards this side immediately with a knife.The incident happened suddenly, and Connor was about to put down his father and draw the ax to fight, but it was too late.

Blood spurted out instantly, splashing both of their faces.Hai Sen took the Hidden Blade from the man's neck, pushed the corpse to the ground, panted and said:

"Come on!"

Connor paused and said something in a low voice.

"...Thank you, Father."

After Shay finished over there, they continued to sneak in the dark.

On the island at night, countless fireflies illuminate the road ahead, and the overlapping palm trees are illuminated by the moonlight, spreading a quietness towards them.The distant stars are scattered in the night, and the Milky Way meanders across the sky.

"...You always wanted to kill me, why did you come to save me?"

Lying on Connor's broad shoulders, Heisen said angrily.Whether it was due to blood loss or exhaustion, his voice was extremely weak, as if it would dissipate into the air in the next second.

"......"

"Once you die, all the follow-up plans of the temple will be disrupted, and all my previous efforts will be in vain."

It took a long time for Connor to reply him, as if he also felt that this reason was untenable, so he didn't say anything more.

When he was very young, Connor had fantasized about his father's appearance, and imagined the scene where he and his father had skin-to-skin contact, but in the end, he didn't expect it to be in this situation.

At this time, the man was lying on his back, his chest was tightly pressed against his back, so that he could clearly feel his heartbeat, the solid and powerful rhythm, with an inseparable sense of blood and bond , has been shocked to the bottom of his heart.

He suddenly remembered that this might be the only time in his life that he carried his father behind his back.

Thinking of this, he unconsciously tightened him into his body.As if feeling his heart, Hai Sen also hugged his neck tightly. The relationship between the two people who lost prematurely was slightly made up on this erroneous night.

They came to the shore, boarded the boat, and Connor and Shay took turns paddling. After sailing for about an hour, they finally saw the Mollingan hidden behind a large reef.

Shay didn't really feel relieved until they finally set foot on Mollingen.If the crew hadn't been around, he would have kissed the deck with all his body.

Connor put Heisen on the bed and left. Heisen secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Given the current relationship between their father and son, it would probably be embarrassing to be polite.

Fortunately, the arrow wound on his leg didn't hurt his muscles and bones. Under the physiotherapy of the ship doctor, Heisen was able to walk normally soon, and what surprised them even more was that just when they almost gave up chasing, the first At noon for three days, the Vulcan appeared again at the end of their sight.

Shay put down the binoculars and immediately ordered to sail at full sail, while he himself climbed onto the mast, and the long sea breeze blew his temple robes like a vulture about to fly.

However, just then, I heard a sailor shouting loudly below.

"Sir! Another boat is coming behind!"

Shay immediately picked up the binoculars and looked back: I saw a three-masted galleon appearing at the end of the boundary between the sea and the sky, which seemed to be almost twice the size of the Maureengan.

The incoming ship is the well-known Vulture in the entire Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the European Assassin Division.I saw that she was almost galloping at the speed of cutting through the waves, and she approached a hundred yards in a short while.

Through the binoculars, he saw that the leader of the Assassin Legion on the ship was Laertis, Sir Willendry's subordinate, and there was a woman standing beside him. Shay recognized that it was Claudia, who lived with them in the early years. Davenport, who was later transferred to Europe as a mentor, is a ruthless character like Hope.

"Sir! They're firing at us!"

Before he finished speaking, Shay felt the mast on which he was standing shake violently, almost knocking him down. While ordering the whole team to fight, he pulled a cable around him to swing down.The Vulture had been prepared for a long time, as soon as it approached, dozens of assassins boarded the Mollingen.

"They are deliberately delaying the time so that the Vulcan will fly away."

Xie Yi gritted his teeth and was about to draw his sword to fight, but was stopped by Hai Sen.

"Before that, I have one more thing to confirm."

The deck was bloody and chaotic, but Heisen took Shay to the cabin where Connor lived.

In the small cabin, Hai Sen stood in front of the young man with his hands behind his back, and the roar of artillery fire outside the window shook the sky, but he spoke slowly.

"This battle is not what we wanted. The opponent is far from us. Judging from the current situation, I don't know whether we can survive."

"The opponent is an assassin. We certainly don't want you to assist them in attacking us. Similarly, we don't need your help."

"Because for you, it's all history, it's all the past, and it's a fact you can't change."

However, after a pause, he smiled again.

"But since you still recognize me after 20 years, it means that I still lived to that time."

Connor nodded silently.

"I first knew you because I saw your portrait on the wall in the basement of the Davenport home."

"All the Templars living in North America at the time were on that wall."

Then, he turned to look at Shay who was on the side.

"But Mr. Cormack, I don't know you. There's no picture of you on the wall."

Connor lay on the porthole, watching the flames bursting out of the window, and slowly fell into deep thought.

After knowing that he might not appear in the future, the man still followed his father on the journey without hesitation.Before leaving, he patted his shoulder and said with a smile:

"Since that's the case, if something happens to me, you will be in control of this ship. May you treat her well."

But now, looking at the fierce battle in front of him, he couldn't help but think of what happened before he came here.

On the eve of his travels, it was the first year of the Battle of Bunker Hill. George Washington had just issued the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress. At the critical moment of life and death, I don't know how many earth-shaking changes have taken place there during the days when he left.

The Assassins and the Temple are very different in power, and the other side has a steady stream of reinforcements. Almost half of the Assassins on the Vulture have gone to Mollingen. Even Heisen and Shay have excellent swordsmanship and well-trained crew members, and it is difficult to escape for a while.

"It can't go on like this!"

He knocked down an assassin with a sword, and Heisen roared in Shay's direction.

"Then what do you say!"

Shay narrowly dodged a bullet that brushed his cheek and yelled at him too.

"We fight back!"

The two leaned their backs together, and Shay heard the meaning of the words.

"MasterKenway, how sure are we this time?"

The man behind him stopped talking, and suddenly smiled sideways at him.

"Shay, have we ever been sure of a shot?"

The words fell, as if they had a tacit understanding, the two laughed at the same time, and both swords pierced an assassin's chest together.

Before Heisen could assign a task, Shay jumped into the sea.

The surface of the vast sea was covered in blood, like a sea of ​​fire.The howling wind blew thick smoke into the sky, and on the top of the mast, a huge banner was hunting and rolling under the dim sky.

"Strange, I saw another person beside Hai Sen just now, where did he go now?"

Looking at the battle situation on the Mollingen, Laertis frowned.

Almost all the Assassins in North America were concentrated in their attack this time. When the European Assassin Mentor Claudia came to the mainland to investigate, they borrowed her ship. Hold her back and wipe out all the temples above.

"Maybe he's dead."

Claudia replied that she was too far away, and she didn't see who the man was.The man didn't speak, but ordered his subordinates to bring the binoculars.

An assassin stepped forward and handed him a binoculars. Standing under the full sail, Laertis raised the binoculars to look, but at that moment, he suddenly felt a coldness in his heart—— A dagger pierced into his heart suddenly and silently!

It was the assassin who did it just now. The hood covered his face, and he looked so ordinary that he couldn't be more ordinary.However, at the moment when the blow was successful, he raised his head and stared coldly in all directions, his eyes were as bright as stars, and a scar ran through his entire right eye.

"Shay!"

Taking a closer look, Claudia instantly recognized this compatriot who had long since disappeared, and was shocked: The number one assassin in North America in the past actually appeared in the camp of the temple at this time!

Seeing too many upheavals, she blurted out: "Assassins, kill this traitor!"

Before she finished speaking, dozens of white-clothed assassins beside her immediately mobilized and surrounded Xie Yi.

"Master Kenway!"

However, Shay ignored them. He suddenly jumped onto the side of the ship and shouted. He threw a cable on the mast towards the Maureen with all his strength. Heisen just pulled the sword out of an assassin's heart, and quickly grabbed it. Leaving the cable, he leaped into the air, drew a sharp arc across the air, and instantly kicked the two assassins surrounding Shay far away, and landed beside him.

At this time, the two were on the Vulture at the same time, and the assassins around them all came to kill them, but when they made their moves, they were all very familiar moves.But the same tricks, but the experience is very different. How can the juniors who are also from Davenport be the opponents of the seniors?Xie Yi and Hai Sen smiled knowingly, and joined hands to fight a bloody road side by side. Suddenly, they seemed to have returned to the time when they climbed the snow mountain together to suppress the bandits.

Claudia watched the two people jump up and down on the Vulture like lightning, flying around, coordinating seamlessly, the sharp sword light stirred up bloody light all over the sky under the dim sky, like a grand funeral .Seeing that all the assassins on board were knocked down one after another, she quickly ordered to shoot with all hands, but although she was an assassin mentor, she belonged to the European branch, and all the assassins around were North American assassins, so she didn't dare to obey the order .

Heisen and Xie Yi teamed up. I'm afraid there is nothing in this world that can resist it?

When the sun was setting, the entire line of the Vulture was occupied, and the assassins on board fled desperately.The two of them worked together to dismantle the fort and destroy the steering wheel before giving up.

Seeing that the general situation is over, Claudia has already abandoned the ship and fled. Xie Yi wanted to chase again, but was stopped by Heisen.

At dusk, they returned to the Maureen, and the huge setting sun sank behind them. Everyone was covered in blood, exhausted and exhausted. There was a mess in front of them. Thick smoke filled the sea, and the evening wind rushed past, bringing the smell of blood and smoke.

"I'm afraid it will take a few more days to catch up with this delay."

Hai Sen shook his head and smiled wryly, took out a handkerchief and wiped his sword.

"Master Kenway..."

In a trance, Heisen only felt Xie Yi holding his shoulder, and he turned his head.

Before him was a nightmare that he could not get rid of all his life.

The man fell slowly in front of him, like a weightless star falling into the boundless night.

"Master Cormac! Shay!"

"The bullet hit his chest in several places, all critical."

The wind lamp flickered in the turbulent cabin, and Heisen watched as Robert wiped Shay's wound.The bandaged gauze was changed dozens after dozens, but it still couldn't stop the flow of blood and the loss of his life.

Looking at the unconscious man lying on the bed, Hai Sen slowly remembered something.

He remembered what Connor had said. His son had run wild in North America for decades, and he had encountered countless temples, but he said that he didn't know Shay, and had never met him.

Could it be that Xie Yi's journey is really about to end here?Terminated in this vast sea far away from his native Ireland?End in front of your own eyes?

My heart seemed to be choked by a huge pain, but I couldn't say a word when I opened my mouth.

At this time, Xie Yi was lying on the bed, quietly closing his eyes, with a face that was almost religiously pure, solemn and stable.Silent and silent, ignorant and unconscious.

He was so serene, as if he had returned to the depths of the earth, to his mother's womb.

Hai Sen suddenly felt cold for no reason, and the severe chill accompanied by fear gripped his heart tightly like a monster in the deep sea, making him tremble all over and unable to hold himself back.

The last time he had this fear was when he lost his father.At that time, he was only ten years old, and he was taken away from his hometown ignorantly, to a place completely unfamiliar to him. Wherever it blows, it will be there...

He also remembered the first time he saw this man, when he had just rebelled and was being hunted down by his former colleagues, he saw Monroe die with his own eyes, and stood in front of him with Monroe's ring in his hand, like a The sad and bewildered gaze of the young man who didn't know where to go was very much like his ten-year-old self.

For so many years, he has been carrying the name of a traitor and running around the whole world, running around for the mission of the temple. Every continent has his footprints, every sea has his sails, how many winds of life and death Usually passed by the two of them, but he never let him down in the slightest.Shay Patrick Cormac is the strongest weapon in the temple, the sharpest sword in his hand, the pride of his lips, and the light of his heart.

"...If you don't have an operation, you will definitely die, but if you have to have an operation, the risk of infection is extremely high, but you may survive."

In a trance, the voice of the ship doctor came from my ear.

"Then let's do the surgery."

Hai Sen seemed to have seized a chance, raised his head and blurted out, but then, he realized the seriousness of the problem.Given the turbulent conditions of sailing at sea, it is impossible to perform surgery, but once they land on the shore, all their previous efforts will be in vain.

At dusk, Heisen came to the deck.

The sea breeze blows over his tired face, and the wide cloak flutters behind him.He looked at the boundless sunset, knowing that the day at sea was coming to an end, and after the long night, they would usher in a new dawn.

Since he was ten years old, his mentor Reginald has been instilling in him the idea of ​​the Forerunner, and after he became an adult, searching for everything about the Forerunner for the Temple became his top priority.In the past half of his life, he traveled around, visited the seven continents and the five oceans, visited the prosperous city-states and passed through the deserted seas, enjoyed the treatment of honored guests and was hungry, encountered diseases and thieves. His life was in jeopardy, but he struggled to survive. Now there are four ruins, only this one is left. As long as he gets the box, he can reveal the whole line. Seeing that victory is ahead, his long-cherished wish is about to be fulfilled, but how can he bear to give up? This is all you need?

His father believed in being an assassin all his life, but in the end he lost his life for this belief, and left his beloved wife and children prematurely; for him, Haisen, the future of the temple is his belief, maybe life What is needed is the guidance of such a belief.However, on top of that, there are still other things, such as family affection, such as love, these are the burdens in his life that are difficult to let go.

In this world, there is no way to achieve both. Once the temple is built, it will eventually lose one side.

Glancing at the sails of the Vulcan, the head of the North American Division of the Temple finally let out a long sigh, stepped off the side of the ship, ordered to dock, and prepared for surgery.

TBC