Experience in building a branch of Crab Castle King in Hong Kong and Heilongjiang

When Taketori put the last electrode sheet on his left temple, reached out and pressed the button on the edge of the "game cabin", he felt that the originally hard nano-material pad under his body was immediately soft like water waves, and people couldn't help thinking about it. To lie on it and sleep.

At the same time, she also heard a gentle and magnetic mature female voice reporting various data from the earphone.

"Drip - the presence of the user has been detected."

"Drip—the product was detected as Animus system LDNW-167, an internal test version produced by Abstergo Corporation."

"Drip - detected that the gene sequencing is completed, detected that all preparatory measures have been completed, and started to run the test."

Then Taketori Che didn't see any big movement from this instrument, but the laptop beside him made the sound of cooling wind when the graphics card was running.

After 3 minutes, the voice of the system continued: "The product is in good condition, and there is no risk of loss of control at present."

"The user's current heartbeat is normal, blood pressure is normal, respiratory rate is normal, pulse is stable, and the rest of the body data is stable——Evaluation: You can start using this product."

"Please choose the historical figure you want to trace back, I wish you a pleasant journey in life."

Suddenly, projections of six faces appeared in the air before Taketori Che's eyes. Even optical projections could engrave the faces of these six ancestors vividly, as realistic as modern photography technology.

"Wow, this technology is amazing." Taketori Che was amazed, "It is indeed a black technology product in "Assassin"."

The differences presented in front of her were - the weather-beaten ronin with long black hair tied up, the calm female swordsman with a calm face, the Ottoman general wearing a snow-white turban and black beard, the cunning and calculating goatee locksmith, smiling A gentle and kind woman who cooks by hand, a scholar and doctor who wears a monocle and combs her hair neatly...

Taketori Che had an idea in mind.

She raised her finger and pointed to a head in the air.

…………

……

Akihara Shiina is a child born in spring. On the day she was born, the cherry blossoms on the mountain in her hometown happened to bloom.

Although she was born in an ordinary rural family, she doesn't feel troubled by it.

She has a brother who is five years older, and a pair of loving parents. Everything is so ordinary and ordinary.

But as she grew up, she found that her brother could practice swords, and her father was his teacher.

When teaching my elder brother how to practice swordsmanship, my father would put on a dark face and beat people with a bamboo sword if he disagreed with him. It was so scary.

Later, Akihara Shiina heard her mother accidentally say that her grandfather, whom she had never met, used to be a military officer of the shogunate, and the son he taught would naturally not be lazy and pass on the way of swordsmanship in the family.

"Where did grandpa go? Why haven't I seen him? And grandma?"

"They... went to a very far place and will not come back."

After Akihara Shiina heard this answer, she simply thought that her grandparents were playful and didn't want to go home, so she pouted immediately.

"Hey, why did Dad come to the country?" The young girl lay on her mother's lap and continued to ask curiously.Like a little animal with a keen sense of smell, she smelled the scent of the wisteria flower sachet worn by her mother at close range.

It's a familiar and reassuring smell.

In the courtyard not far away, the elder brother holding a bamboo sword is training himself hard day after day, while the sullen father is standing aside with his arms crossed and watching.

Mom touched Akihara Shiina's little head.

"Because there are many complicated reasons, such as politics, stance - after the Meiji Restoration, the status of an old school military officer like your grandfather is very embarrassing, plus some things... Ah, why did mother tell you these things, Even if you don’t understand, you might as well go and play with your brother later.”

Mom said with a smile.

Sure enough, my brother's training this morning ended soon.

Akihara Shiina stumbled and ran over, threw herself into the arms of the sweaty boy, and called sweetly, "Brother!"

"Shiina! Go slower!" The boy smiled and picked her up, and kissed the little girl twice on the face.

"Hey!" The little girl pushed her brother's head away, with a look of disgust on her face, "It stinks!"

However, the young man smiled casually. He looked at his father who was standing aside with a stern expression, and said solemnly, "Father..."

Akihara Shiina also came to her senses, and quickly used her dog's eyes to look at her father, showing off her cuteness crazily.

"Cough." The serious middle-aged man couldn't hold back his expression in front of the two cute children, and turned his face away, "Go and play, remember to come back for dinner at noon."

"Yes, Father." My brother replied.

However, just as the two children were about to leave the courtyard, the father suddenly said, "Taro! Where is your sword?"

The boy was stunned for a moment, and found that Akihara Shiina was looking at him with a playful look. He immediately stuck out his tongue secretly, and ran back to pick up the bamboo sword on the shelf and hung it at his waist.

"Yeah." Dad just nodded and allowed them to leave, "As a brother, you must protect your sister. As a warrior, you can never leave your sword."

This is one of the happiest moments in Akihara Shiina's memory.

Through genetic backtracking, Taketori Che silently watched the silly girl with black pigtails bouncing around in the mountains and forests, while her elder brother followed her with a basket of wild berries in his arms.

The boy's gaze was so gentle, as bright and moving as the sunshine in spring.

Is this the elder brother... Taketori Che sighed.

She is an only child and has no brothers or sisters. After her parents had an accident, naturally there is no possibility of having an extra blood sibling.

But for Akihara Shiina who was more than a hundred years ago, all this happiness changed in that winter.

It is obviously just a common influenza, and in later generations it would only need to take medicine for a week or two at most, but in that era it was a deadly disease.

First, my mother was infected when she went out to buy vegetables, and she fell ill after returning home, and then my brother also fell ill.

In order to prevent the young daughter from being infected, the father hugged her in Daxuetiandi, and sent Akihara Shiina overnight to his wife's natal home two mountains away, and asked Shiina's grandfather to help take care of the child.

When leaving home, Akihara Shiina, who was tightly wrapped, lay on her father's shoulders and looked back at her home—only a faint light was reflected through the paper window.

The wind and snow were howling outside, and the weak flame like a bean might be extinguished at any time.

The little girl blinked, letting the falling snowflakes block her vision.Watch as the building and courtyard fade into darkness.

Two weeks later.

When Akihara Shiina returned home, her mother had recovered, but her brother still suffered from sequelae.

Several doctors who came to see him shook their heads.

"Let's not talk about practicing swords, even if you can move and walk like a normal person in the future, I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

Since then, the dark clouds over the home have not dissipated.

While no one blames the mother, the woman has been blaming herself.She took good care of her son who was sick in bed, and she shed tears for no reason when no one saw her.She worked hard to maintain the family, and Akihara Shiina still liked to lie next to her brother's bed and chat with him.

It's just that my brother has become very weak, and he is no longer as sunny and healthy as before.

"Brother, when will you be okay? The wild fruits in the mountains are about to ripen again. Last time you said you found a litter of little rabbits, and you are going to help me catch two of them."

The sickly boy stared at his innocent and lovely younger sister for a long time, then suddenly raised his pale and feeble hand, and touched her cheek - just like before he got sick.

"It will be soon. When the first leaves of the maple tree turn red this year, my brother will recover from his illness."

But my brother didn't last until autumn.

He didn't even see the first red maple leaf, and was buried deep in the soil.

Akihara Shiina cried very sadly during that time, and no one could comfort her.

In her plump and tender hands, she tightly clenched a dry red leaf, which was a gift from her brother who went into the mountains last autumn.

After my brother left, the whole family was unhappy.The father often sat in the courtyard where he used to teach his son how to practice sword, staring at the open space, not knowing what he was thinking.

Akihara Shiina saw the bamboo sword used by her brother before his death, and she turned to look at her father's lonely back... and found that he seemed to have aged a lot.

So the child dragged the bamboo sword and ran to his father, shouting: "Father! I want to practice swords! Teach me!"

Father was in a state of depression, seeing her like this was even more furious: "You crazy girl! Put down brother's sword quickly! What does it look like!"

"Girls can't practice swords?"

"What kind of sword do girls practice?" The man said angrily, "Teach your mother how to manage a house, and then you can marry a good man! Sword practice is useless!"

However, Akihara Shiina was not angry, she just blinked her black eyes and approached her father, and held the hand of the middle-aged man who had lost his son with her own.

"Father...are you missing brother?" She asked softly.

In an instant, the eyes of the stubborn father turned red.

"What do you know!" He habitually yelled, but he didn't break away from his daughter's little hand.

Under Akihara Shiina's silent gaze, he finally softened his tone: "Why do you suddenly want to practice swords?"

"Because this is what Dad wants my brother to do, right?" The girl replied seriously, "My brother can't do it anymore, but he did entrust this matter to me before."

"So that's what Taro told you... Your brother is a gifted child. It is indeed my wish to entrust him with the family's kendo. No, it can even be said that the Akihara family has been passed down from generation to generation and is proud of it." The foundation of building a family." The father looked at her heavily, and the emotion in his eyes did not know whether it was resistance or anticipation, "But...it will be very hard. You are a little girl, how can you suffer this kind of hardship? "

"I'm not afraid of suffering!" Akihara Shiina replied loudly, "Because it was Grandpa who gave this gift to Dad, and Dad gave it to Brother—now, Brother gave it to me! I want to learn it and give it to my children in the future! At that time, whether it's grandpa, dad, or even brother...will be proud of me, right?"

Father looked at her for a long time with a complicated expression.

That look reminded Akihara Shiina inexplicably of the promise her brother made to her about Hongye that day.

"Then I will teach you. But remember, once you set foot on this road, you are not allowed to back down."

"Yes, Dad!"

In fact, the words were so harsh, and the father just wanted to scare the little daughter away with the heavy daily training. As long as she said that she didn't want to practice, this hellish training would stop immediately and never be mentioned again.

But beyond the expectation of the middle-aged man, his daughter's talent in swordsmanship is not weaker than that of the eldest son who died young.

Akihara Shiina looks weak, but in fact she has a lot of vigor and tenacity, and also has the simple characteristics of a countryman-it can also be said that she clenches her teeth and rushes to the end when she determines the target.

Three months passed like this.

It was at this time that Taketori Che's consciousness really descended into this young body.

"The word kendo comes from the book "Wuyue Spring and Autumn"! Our Japanese kendo first originated in the Sui and Tang Dynasties of the Linhai Power. At that time, the envoys sent to the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty brought this technology back, combined with our local swordsmanship and years of training. , Only then has today's unique local... Wait?"

The father who was standing aside and talking suddenly noticed the abnormal situation of "Akihara Shiina" today, strode over, and beat her arms and calves severely with the wooden stick in his hand.

Snapped!

Heartbreaking pain.

Taketori Che shuddered for a moment, and then he remembered that his body was not that of a mercenary who had been tempered in modern society, but a country girl who was only six years old—not so resistant to beating.

The girl's father was still walking around her, correcting all kinds of minor problems that popped up on her body as he went.

"What kind of posture are you holding the knife? You are standing crookedly! When the enemy cuts you, just wait for a fall!"

"Why did you forget the training results of the past three months after only one night? Let me tell you, you are still far behind your brother! If you learn kendo with such a lazy attitude, you might as well go outside Go cut the weeds in the field!"

Taketori Che: ...

Although I wanted to ask why my ancestor's father was so vicious, Taketori still honestly read out what she should say according to Akihara Shiina's script: "Sorry! Father!"

"Is an apology useful! Will those losers whose heads were cut off in the competition still have a chance to say these words?" The stern father roared angrily, "Give me double training today! Swing your sword more! Five hundred times!"

After that, he turned around and went back to the house to rest, leaving his little daughter to continue practicing under the scorching sun.

As an adult who has seen many scenes of life and death, Taketori's consciousness is not angry. On the contrary, she understands the thoughts of this male ancestor very well-yes, between life and death, there is no chance to apologize and beg for mercy.

This also shows that the father actually silently acknowledged his daughter's hard work and talent in kendo in his heart.

He is no longer sexist like before, but... really looking forward to something Akihara Shiina can do.

All right!Now that we have gone back to this era, let's practice hard!

In fact, Taketori Che doesn’t need to learn this basic kendo from scratch at all. She can skip this part of the plot and go directly to the following story—but if she wants to truly understand the mysteries of her body, she knows that she must Retrace the footsteps of our ancestors, step by step.

The Animus system turns this traceability journey into a game interface. If this is using a computer or other console game platform, Taketori only needs to press the "X" button on the handle to launch a "light tap", " "B" key to launch "heavy attack", "Y" key to "search for loot", etc... It's a pity that she is now in this memory world similar to soul wear, and all actions must be done physically, and there is no way to use the system to advance The set shortcut keys are used to fool the past.

But Taketori Che is not in a hurry. The ratio of the Animus system time to the real time is astonishing, almost year by year. That is to say, even if she does not fast-forward the memory world, she can still make the ancestor "Akihara Shiina" in a short time. "Give the liver a lifetime".

What's more, the memory in the bloodline gene is very clear, as if it is a real world, so the girl is playing a whole series of virtual games!

And compared to the crazy overtime life of the garbage boss who accompanied the port mafia, how could mere sword practice stump her?

Taketori Che settled down to learn traditional Japanese kendo and family kendo from the NPC "father", accompanied by many training concepts she brought from later generations, and his father quickly recognized her progress in learning.

It's just that the eyes that look at her occasionally are still very sad... as if looking at another person.

Both Taketori Che and Akihara Shiina knew very well that this man was looking at his eldest son who died young.

——If Taro (older brother) is still alive, he must be able to do this, right?

With practice day after day, the leaves of the big trees in the courtyard changed from new buds to full green leaves, and then gradually became dry and yellow.Four years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the body that Taketori is manipulating is also ten years old.

The girl woke up this morning, and while smelling the ripe aroma of various fruits coming from the mountains, she found that a task had been refreshed on the upper left of her vision panel.

... Yes, there are tasks. It is said that the Animus system will design many tasks based on the personal experience of the original owner of the body, and then guide the latecomers to experience it.

Taketori Che chose to accept the task.

"The weather is getting colder." She heard the body whispering to itself, "Are the wild hawthorns on the mountain ripe? I really want to pick some back."

So the text of the task window has also changed.

[Going up the mountain: go up the mountain before the sun goes down today, and pick wild hawthorns (0/15)]

[Mission description: Before going out, pass today's kendo assessment by father. 】

With that sentence finished, Taketori Che found that he could manipulate his body again.

But she frowned, and glanced at the line of instructions under the task, which meant that today "father" would have a fight with her to complete an assessment like a monthly exam.

From the current sword skills and fighting experience, Taketori can tell that her "father" was also trained on the battlefield back then.Combining the fact that the deceased grandfather was a "military officer of the Tokugawa shogunate" and that his father preferred to live in seclusion in the countryside despite his good skills, it is not difficult to guess that his father was probably also the one who maintained the rule of the shogunate. The new government established by the "Falling Sect" is hostile, so he lives in a small village farming and farming incognito.

The little girl rubbed her face, yawned and walked out the door.This is good, it means that in the four years of learning swordsmanship, she can justifiably beat her father violently again.

——In fact, in the real memory, Akihara Shiina was repeatedly beaten by her father, but this does not prevent the descendant Taketori Chetsu from a hundred years later from beating up the ancestors!

After washing and having breakfast, Taketori Che came to his father with a bamboo sword and explained his intention to go up the mountain today.

He will definitely say next: "Go up the mountain? Then you have to pass the test of being a father today."

Sure enough, the middle-aged man in front of her stared at her, and said slowly: "Go up the mountain? Then you have to pass the test of being a father today."

What followed was a brutal one-sided beating.

—It’s about the daughter beating the old father.It can be called the act of showing filial piety.

As a real-life mercenary and game master, Taketori Che, once he has mastered the various basic fighting methods in the game, it is normal to have an impossible ending—for details, please refer to the beginning of the game "Sekiro" and " The plot at the beginning of Devil May Cry 4 kills.

The ninja Sekiro rides the savior alone, and starts a duel with the elite boss Genichiro Ashina on the ground full of reeds.Normal players will be directly defeated and have their left arm chopped off by the enemy, but abnormal players (referring to masters) can let "Sekiro" defeat Kenichiro Ashina, and then be killed by the plot of the game CG, and the boss sneak attack forcibly cuts off his left arm... …

The beginning of "Devil May Cry 4" is also very similar. From the beginning, the final boss is showing off his power. If the protagonist can really defeat him, the whole game will be declared as the end of the whole show.

Therefore, Taketori Che didn't pay too much attention to this duel at the beginning. No matter how Akihara Shiina in memory was guided by her father's swordsmanship in actual combat, anyway, she was holding a bamboo sword, and she was stunned. The blood bar was almost cut to the bottom.

However, when she approached her father with the bamboo sword and was about to give him the final blow, she suddenly found that her body was stiff and she couldn't control it!

Too bad, it's plot killing!

Sure enough, after being unable to control the character "Akihara Shiina", Taketori could only watch helplessly as his father, who was lying on the ground just now, suddenly jumped up and slapped his daughter's left leg with an unimaginable speed and force !

Turn the offensive!

Akihara Shiina, who was only 10 years old, hit the street on the spot!

Taketori Che: Mommy, it's my real father.

It's not over yet, I saw the man raising the knife in his hand, and the bamboo sword in his hand was like lightning, aiming at the back of the daughter's neck without hesitation——

However, she just tapped her little head lightly.

Akihara Shiina's cry was soft: "Ouch."

The sun shone down, covering up the fleeting smile on the father's face. After all, this man still couldn't bear to completely KO his little daughter.

"Okay, today's training is over." The middle-aged samurai who was beaten half to death by Taketori Che said majesticly, as if he had really won, "You still lack a lot in actual combat. Slack off and keep working hard!"

Akihara Shiina got up from the ground and shouted crisply: "Yes! Father!"

The descendant Taketori Che who silently watched on the sidelines: ...

This gentleman, you were rolled on the ground by me just now, why are you pretending to be aggressive here.

After passing the examination, Taketori Che ran back to the house, took the sickle and bamboo basket and was about to go up the mountain, when her father suddenly stopped her when she was leaving the house: "Shiina!"

"Dad, what's wrong?"

Whenever he wasn't practicing, Akihara Shiina would call him dad instead of the more distant and serious "father".

"Bring your sword." The middle-aged man standing under the tree in the courtyard said the same sentence as four years ago, "As a warrior, don't let your sword leave your side."

Taketori Che was stunned for a moment, she could clearly feel the yearning and touch of this delicate and slender body in an instant, and immediately she replied respectfully: "Yes, Dad."

There is nothing to say about going up the mountain.

Anyway, Taketori Che has been in this memory world for four full years, and he is familiar with this hill where there are no large beasts.She quickly locked on to the target through the scent in the air, picked fifteen pieces of wild hawthorn, and obtained an experience reward of 10.

Girls feel that this kind of upgrade is completely useless, and they can't practice the real "Ten Lipo Sword God".Oh, this refers to the kind of strange masters who forcibly level up in the novice village and become a master before leaving the village. It is a routine of obscene development.

However, when she was carrying the bamboo basket down the mountain, she suddenly saw a fluffy white shadow rushing past her eyes.

rabbit?

At this moment, a new task suddenly popped up in the task bar.

【Catch the rabbit: follow the trail of the prey and catch the rabbit alive. 】

[Mission Description: Once you and your elder brother made an agreement to catch two rabbits and bring them back to raise. Now that he has passed away, your love for small animals will not change.]

Taketori Che blinked, but still ran after him.

The experience of living and growing up in the mountains and forests for many years allowed her to see the rabbits at a glance, and the wild survival experience of many mercenaries also greatly helped her catch up with the prey.

Unknowingly, Taketori Che deviated from her usual mountain path, and finally found the rabbit's footprint in a bush.

She pushed aside the bushes, but was surprised to find that there was a huge and natural rock barrier in front of her, and the footprints of small animals on the ground extended into the rock strangely and disappeared.

Taketori Che failed in this mission of not giving up, and simply circled around the stone a few times, but saw nothing.

Just when she decided to give up this side mission and walk back, she didn't notice that her feet were suddenly empty, and she fell directly into a well-covered earth pit!

Taketori Che:?

The surrounding area of ​​the pit is smooth, and it is more than four meters high from the ground. It is obviously a hole dug by hand to trap prey.

Strange, that rabbit...the disappearing footprint, and this pothole...is there someone guiding her to be trapped?

She tried several times and found that Akihara Shiina's small body couldn't jump on it.At this moment, Taketori Che misses his macho body in reality...

What's even more amazing is that the task of catching rabbits has also changed.

【Descent: go home】

[Mission Description: Escape from the pit and find the way down the mountain]

Taketori Che let out a hey, how can such a small obstacle stump me, a saboteur?

So she put down the bamboo basket, took out the sickle and began to dig the climbing points on the wall—the wall is a solid layer of soil, and it can still be destroyed if it is dug hard.

This work was done from noon to night.

Eat some hawthorn and other wild fruits when you are hungry, and endure it when you are thirsty.

When the girl crawled out of the pothole in disgrace, it was already a night full of stars.

She took a deep breath of the fresh air in the mountains and forests, and was a little puzzled why her parents didn't come to look for her. In the final analysis, it can only be said-mission requirements!

Taketori Che quickly recognized the direction, and ran towards the downhill with big strides... However, an inexplicable white mist quickly filled the mountains, and Taketori Che quickly lost his sense of direction.

what's going on?

【Shiina, walk slowly. 】

A gentle young voice spoke softly behind her.

enemy? !

The very vigilant Taketori Che pulled out his bamboo sword and slashed behind him!

However, the bamboo sword helplessly blew wisps of white mist, as if it had missed nothing.

There is no one behind her.

Fortunately, after this supernatural event, the white mist dissipated quickly, but Taketori Che became more and more uneasy.

She quickly descended the mountain, but when she ran near the foot of the mountain, she saw a big fire in the night—it was burning fiercely, and the crimson flame engulfed the house.

The girl who stopped in her tracks, her face covered in dust, was completely stunned.

She felt that her hands and feet were getting cold, and her teeth kept chattering together.

Because it was her house that was burning!

She threw down the bamboo basket and sickle, and rushed to the door of the house as fast as she could in her life.At this time, several villagers were rushing to put out the fire with wooden buckets. A neighbor uncle who was familiar with her was startled when he saw her suddenly appearing, and suddenly realized something: "Don't go! Shiina! Danger——"

However, Akihara Shiina still crashed into the flames.

Through the smoke and flames, she didn't see anyone or a dead body in the courtyard, or rather, she prayed not to see any dead bodies.

But the girl was soon disappointed.

In the living room that used to be playful, the walls and floor are now covered with knife marks.

And the mother... the mother fell into a pool of blood, as if her body had been bitten by a wild beast, she died in a miserable state!

Taketori Che only felt that two voices were separated in his brain.

One was breaking down and crying in despair, while the other was calmly analyzing the corpse—as if she had suddenly gone schizophrenic.

Is it really a beast?

But there are no big beasts within a radius of ten miles, and if they are really beasts, why can't my father stop them?

By the way, where's the father?Where did father go!is he still alive

"Dad! Where are you, Dad!!"

The little girl suppressed the despair in her heart, and ran forward to search, while avoiding those dangerous flames as much as possible.

She walked through her own home, ran wildly in this home that had witnessed the growth, laughter and tears of the past ten years, looking for the last relative.

Taketori Che found it.

To be precise, Shiina Akihara should have found it.

The man who had always been strict but loved himself was also dead.

——I was nailed to the tatami by a broken knife, the eyeballs disappeared, and the dull and empty eye sockets looked at the burning ceiling without any movement.

His death was even worse, his whole body was scorched black, and the smell of barbecue grease and thick smoke penetrated into the girl's nostrils.

Hot tears rolled down from her eyes in an instant.

I don't know if it's painful or smoked.

...not a beast!This can't be the work of a beast!

If it was a wild beast, then the father's body should be eaten to pieces like the mother's, instead of losing his eyeballs and being nailed to the tatami with a sword!

Nakatake Taketori, whose eyes were blurred with tears, saw it, and she saw it clearly, that knife... that knife was his father's favorite knife during his lifetime!

It is said that the sword was passed down from the ancestors from the war years and witnessed the rise and fall of the Akihara family.

So ironic, so ironic!

The last samurai crucified by ancestral swords!How can there be such a reason? !

...How can Dad meet the ancestors of the past with such a way of death?

She gritted her teeth, jumped onto the tatami that was about to collapse, rushed over, pulled out the broken knife from the scorched male corpse, and then turned to run away—but at the same time, a tongue of fire rushed over, burning through the top of her head. beam.The huge creaking beam fell, and Taketori only had time to raise his head when the beam scraped across his forehead, and blood gushed out.

Just then, a neighbor man wrapped in a soaking quilt rushed in and dragged her out.

Taketori Che's eyelids became heavier and heavier.

But she fell into a complete coma in the end, and still did not let go of the broken knife in her hand.