[Comprehensive] The Last Assassin

Shen Qiong sat at the table, listened carefully to Aria's words, and finally nodded in agreement: "You are right."

Aria was originally prepared to be angrily and abused by the other party, but she never expected that in the end it would be a heartfelt approval.The way the young assassin in front of him played his cards out of common sense made the Egyptian youth stunned in place, almost losing his ability to speak.

It took him a while to ask: "Aren't you an assassin?!"

"Yes." Shen Qiong nodded calmly, "As you can see."

Aria couldn't understand more and more: "Then why-"

"I'm actually very curious." Shen Qiong interrupted the young man. Sitting on a round stool, she raised her head suddenly, and her green eyes under her bangs were shining like the emeralds that Egyptians love most.

The assassin said: "I figured this out when I was ten years old, but you didn't figure it out until now?"

Aria: "Wh-what?"

Shen Qiong leaned on the corner of the table and stood up, but even so, she was still slightly shorter than the young man by a head.She seemed a little dissatisfied with this situation, but there was nothing she could do. She could only take a few steps back, keep her eyes on the same level, raised her head again and said, "Unless you become a killer and use the skills of an assassin to work for the powerful, otherwise it will Can't really bring you angstroms."

She looked at the young man critically, and commented regretfully: "But I don't think you can be a killer, so the identity of an assassin really can't bring you money."

"You have to give up, I have no objection. I will report this matter to my mentor, and the Egyptian branch will be removed."

Shen Qiong followed the young man's words, she nodded and said, "This is your freedom."

"But also, your father, Shreve was also an assassin until his death, I need him to collect all the information about Egypt - on this point, you shouldn't reject me, right?"

Alia stared deeply at Shen Qiong, he pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "Wait."

Shen Qiong nodded, sat back down again, and even took a sip from the water glass.

Peter Parker had accumulated a lot of questions since he entered the door and met Aria. Now that he saw Aria leave, he couldn't bear it anymore, and asked, "Did you really think about the question of whether assassins can make money when you were young?"

Shen Qiong didn't even raise her head: "Of course, when I saw a butterfly|knife for the first time when I was a child, but the shopkeeper said that I didn't have money and wouldn't sell it, I understood this truth."

"That's why I worked so hard to get into the finance department in university. Although there were too many absenteeisms due to tasks and training, I was reluctant to graduate."

Peter: "..." The owner didn't sell it because he had no money!Who would sell a murder weapon to a child!

Peter was stunned: "Have you been thinking about this since you were ten years old?"

Shen Qiong put down the cup, and looked at the 16-year-old boy quietly: "In my country, in order to compete for survival, you have to learn English at the age of ten. Do you learn Chinese at the age of ten?"

Peter: "...don't learn."

Shen Qiong: "So when I was ten years old, what's wrong with thinking about whether the profession of assassin can make money?"

Peter found it difficult to refute, so he asked instead: "Then why did you become an assassin again?"

Shen Qiong fell into silence, and said slowly: "Life forces me."

Peter: "?" If life forces you, shouldn't you be an assassin?

However, Shen Qiong then said slowly: "Of course, the more important reason is that I have talent."

"The talent is too strong, don't learn to waste it."

Alia, who came out with a small box in his hand, froze in place when he heard these words. He looked at Shen Qiong with a colorful expression for a moment, and it took him a while to regain his composure. He walked back to the living room on the first floor, Hand over the small wooden box in your hand to her.

Shen Qiong opened the box, and seeing several USB flash drives inside, she understood that these were the materials Shreve collected before his death.So without further ado, she nodded to Aria as a thank you, and planned to leave with Peter.

Aria's house is simply decorated, and judging from the traces of cracks in the white paint on the walls, it should be his father's legacy for him.Apart from the necessities, there is not much decoration in the house. Perhaps the most valuable thing is a red curtain hanging behind the table in the living room.

The unique family crest was embroidered on this cloth curtain. Shen Qiong glanced at the family crest one last time, and said a last word to Aria before leaving.

Shen Qiong said: "The triangle in the sun is the symbol of an assassin. If you really want to avoid the Templars completely, or cut off contact with the assassins, I suggest you take off this cloth." After a pause, she added Said, "But I guess, your father probably didn't tell you the meaning of this picture."

An assassin who lives in the light—this is one of the forty assassins who participated in the assassination of Julius Caesar. This assassin chose to die in Egypt because he was fascinated by the mysterious and glorious culture of Egypt.The Assassin's triangle in the sun wheel - that's his signature.

Shreve should know who his ancestors are, otherwise he wouldn't hang such a family crest solemnly at home.However, he should have also seen his son's reluctance to inherit, so he refused to tell Aria the history—this may contain the father's helplessness and his final desire to protect his son.

Alia was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, but in the end he didn't ask Shen Qiong what the meaning of this curtain was.

Shen Qiong and Peter left the small building, and the red wooden door creaked shut.Peter looked at her and then at the closed wooden door, and asked softly, "Is this okay?"

Shen Qiong said thoughtfully: "Some things can only be figured out by ourselves, what we can do is to force him to the point where he has to figure it out."

She smiled: "This is also the method I learned from others. In short, since he wants to leave, let him leave."

Shen Qiong looked at the small wooden box that was hardly covered with dust: "I'm not as patient as the professor. I chose the roughest way and let him regret it first."

Peter Parker seemed to understand, but Shen Qiong had already dragged her to the hotel that Dick had booked.

There is still a box of data that needs to be processed.

When Shen Qiong connected the computer he brought but was having trouble with the password of the USB flash drive, Peter Parker volunteered to solve the problem.

When Shen Qiong saw that he just tapped his fingers on the keyboard, and he cracked all the passwords in a short while, and all the data was clearly displayed on the screen after transcoding, she immediately understood Tony Stark painstaking efforts.

She really needs Peter Parker's help...

Peter inserted all the U disks into the multi-line interface, and quickly cracked all the passwords, but encountered difficulties at the last step.He turned around and asked Shen Qiong with some uncertainty: "This password seems to have a self-destruction program. I am not as skilled as Mr. Stark, so I may not be able to solve it."

Shen Qiong asked curiously, "The last one?"

Peter turned the screen to her: "Six letters, it is reasonable to say that the general decoding program can be unlocked, but it seems to have an anti-decoding system built in. I am worried that forced cracking will destroy the data inside."

Shen Qiong stared at the screen for a while, and entered a six-character password without hesitation, and Peter Parker didn't even have time to stop it.

Fortunately, the computer beeped soon, indicating that the password was correct.While Peter breathed a sigh of relief, he cast a look of admiration, and asked, "What did you fill in?"

Shen Qiong said: "The surnames they inherited from are exactly six letters."

Peter was taken aback for a moment before he said, "How do you know..."

"Because my father has nothing to do after he gets old, he spends all day compiling these histories about assassins, and the more he reads, the more he remembers." Shen Qiong said, "But I also guessed, but luckily I guessed it right."

Peter had lingering fears: "Indeed, there is only one chance. If you make a mistake, it will be destroyed."

Shen Qiong froze when she heard the words, she realized later: "What, isn't there three times!?"

Peter: "..." After a long time, are you just ignorant and fearless? ?

Spider-Man patted her head weakly, Shen Qiong lowered her head and stared at the computer screen again consciously, she murmured: "Okay, let's see what is stored in the most confidential U disk. "

While muttering, Shen Qiong manipulated the mouse and clicked on the folder.

The folder contained only a photo that looked like it had been taken by accident, and a document to accompany the photo.

Shen Qiong stared at the thumbnail of the photo for a while before double-clicking to open it.

In the picture is an old man wearing a long black trench coat, but unfortunately because of the angle problem, only the side is photographed.

He has a pair of jet-black eyes, is in his 60s, and has half-century hair.The old man's face is elegant, and he can vaguely glimpse the demeanor of his youth. One of his hands is in his pocket, and the other is reaching out to pick up the novel on the bookshelf.

The square emerald ring on the skinny finger that went to pick up the book was particularly eye-catching.

Shen Qiong's gaze was almost fixed on the ring.

Peter noticed Shen Qiong's gaze and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"...No." The assassin's eyes showed confusion very rarely, and she pursed her lips, "It just feels familiar."

She looked away, clicked on the document, and quickly scanned the contents of the document.The document is not long Even with such a high level of confidentiality, it is only one page.

The document reads: Nedilat, one of the candidates for the former head of the Templar Knights, joined the Exorcist Holy Order after losing the election, became the chairman of the Exorcist Holy Order, and commanded the twelve Knights of the Round Table, the second only among the Templar Knights. The most difficult and difficult person to deal with outside of the Grand Leader.The biography of the character is a mystery, only know that when he was the head of the North American branch of the Templars, he participated in many operations against the assassins, and he won more than he lost, which was a big worry for the North American stronghold for a while.Later, he failed in a secret mission and lost his candidate status. Instead, he chose to join the Exorcist Holy Order and pull out dissidents for the Templars.After joining the Exorcism Holy Order, the information became a mystery. The only trace of being captured was the rescue of a teenager in Ethiopia three years ago. Other than that, there is no trace to be found.

Shen Qiong read this short text dozens of times, engraved almost every word into her mind, and then closed the page.

If it involves the most mysterious exorcist Holy Order among the Templars, Shen Qiong can probably understand why the secrecy is so strict.He is the leader of the Guan Exorcist Holy Squad, this information is indeed extremely precious to an assassin.

Shen Qiong pulled out the USB flash drive and carefully put it away before looking at other materials.

The rest of the information is related to the current situation in Egypt and the branch of the Templar Knights.The most valuable is nothing more than the status of the grand master of the Egyptian branch of the Templar Knights.

However, as Shen Qiong guessed, due to factors such as domestic religious confusion, political instability, and economic decline, the Templars did not have much interest in this country that had almost been squeezed out of gold during several foreign invasions.Compared with the size of the North American branch, the Templars here are not very powerful, but even so, they still take advantage of their own advantages and take advantage of the internal contradictions in Egypt to easily stir up trouble in the city of Cairo.

In Cairo, sectarian forces and secular forces, political and military confront each other, and the city is in chaos.

As Arria said, in Cairo like this, the Assassins could do nothing, even if they assassinated the Grand Master of the Templars, the conflict was not resolved, the people were not really liberated from it - fundamentally, nothing changed.

Shen Qiong sighed and wanted to turn off the screen, but suddenly noticed something.

The modification dates of these documents are some years ago, some a few months ago, but most of the dynamic personnel information that needs to be updated frequently, the last modification date is mostly within a week—even the latest information was not updated yesterday. was updated.There was no trace of any funeral held in Aria's house, which meant that Shreve had definitely passed away for some time.

——If Aria really gave up her identity as an assassin and this country completely, as he said, then these information about the Templars and the current situation in Egypt should not be updated anymore.

Peter also noticed this, and he said softly, "We'll see him again, won't we?"

Shen Qiong nodded, and she smiled meaningfully: "It's not that you're an assassin who wields a Hidden Blade."

"Those who have the same belief are brothers."

The young assassin narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "In order to serve the light, we choose to work in the darkness."

"—we are assassins."

The author has something to say: 1. The last sentence is a line from the Assassin's Creed game.

2. We all know that there are no Templars in reality, so the fabrication of the specific situation in Egypt and the existence of a certain sect does not mean that the author has any bias, nor does it have any religious meaning.After all, the Templars are so bad, he still relies on Christianity, right?