Chapter 23: Winners in Life
Sweeping the surroundings, rows of exotic houses and plainly dressed people mingle around them.
Wearing a hooded outfit, he moved with the movements of the crowd around him, the Hidden Blade was hidden under the robe, and the cold touch kept Zhu Jue's brain awake at all times.
The gray air mist on the skill icon in the lower left corner is fading away.
The target is the man standing in front of the fruit stand in front of him, who is always looking around as he buys fruit, and occasionally raising his hand to see the metal reflections in his cuffs through the sunlight.
Hum.
He is really a novice assassin, and it seems that it is necessary for him, the master assassin, to teach him what a true creed assassin is.
The distance is constantly getting closer.
The palm of his hand was raised slightly, and the Hidden Blade was ready to be unsheathed, and the sword was smeared with the highly poisonous potion he bought with krypton gold last night, and he must see blood to seal his throat!
Scold~
There were red points of light overflowing from his chest, and when he looked down, he could only see the appearance of a section of the tip of the sword when it was withdrawn, and when he turned his head sharply, he could only see a person wrapped in a gray robe exactly like the passers-by around him who was retreating.
"What a novice assassin, you dare to wear a pure white suit to assassinate, is this because you are worried that others will not find you?"
As a sneering word came to his ears, the picture in front of him instantly fell into darkness.
There is only one death hint left: you have been backstabbed by "Ezio's Mentor", and the damage is being calculated...... One hit kills!
"Uhh!!h
Zhu Jue, who was wearing VR glasses, rolled frantically on the floor of the room, and the wind chimes next to him also flipped together.
The First Master Assassin of Heywood is also concentrating on his apprenticeship today.
Assassin's Creed: City Assassination
An online VR game announced the year before last, all players can set their identity after logging in, and then choose what kind of identity they will live in the city.
The content of the game is simple, the player must take on the role of a normal resident while searching for other players in the city who are also pretending to be ordinary people through various channels and complete the assassination before they know it.
"Mr. Ivanka, please don't forget the agreement with Mr. Gentleman. ”
The voice prompt of the memo made Zhu Jue take off his VR glasses a little irritably, get up and walk to the sink.
......
The agreed place was a private clubhouse in the Westbrook area.
"Have you ever dreamed?"
The gentleman, dressed the same as when he first saw him, leaned against his desk, beside which was a candlestick made of gold, with a bright yellow flame lined with a white candle, not a holographic projection, but a real object.
Similar candlesticks were placed throughout the room, barely illuminating the quaint study.
"Do you think there is any normal person who hasn't dreamed...... Isn't there electricity in the place you chose?"
Zhu Jue looked at the layout of the room in front of him, which didn't look like the high-end place he had seen outside when he came before.
The wooden bookshelves that surround the walls are strangely not a single book on them, and the gentleman's desk is in the middle of them, and the floor under his feet is even paved with brick and stone, and there is still a little floating ash in the gaps.
It was hard to imagine that Zhu Jue had been traveling through the skies of Dawning City in an empty boat five minutes ago, and suddenly arrived in such an ancient room five minutes later.
The sudden change in the environment made him feel inexplicably confused.
If it weren't for the fact that the mobile phone could still receive the signal normally, Zhu Jue would probably have to ask what year and month it is.
"I bought this place and renovated this room as a meeting place for the team, when I first arranged this place, I really asked the designers to decorate it according to the state of the European Middle Ages, so there was no basic lighting, and the reason was to adapt to certain environments in advance, I would let the group gather here before each trip, on the one hand, to discuss travel plans, and on the other hand, to change the mentality. ”
The gentleman's gaze lingered on the wind chime for a moment, and then continued,
"Let's get back to the topic, have you ever thought about making your dreams come true?"
"Hey, if you called me here to talk to me about my dreams, I advise you not to waste that time, everyone is an adult, you can't talk directly?"
As soon as he heard the meaning of the gentleman's words, he was about to play a sharp game, Zhu Jue frowned and said nonchalantly.
For the guy beside him, Zhu Jueke has never had any respect or fear, when he was in the corridor outside 1103, if he didn't know some special information, it is estimated that it would have been cold now.
The gentleman could make Zhu Jue vaguely sense a hint of threat, but it was not as good as the middle-aged man he had met in the black market before.
"You're really a very interesting person, it's been a long time since anyone talked to me like this, so I'll be more blunt, the game I gave you two days ago, have you ever played it?"
The candle flame beside him fluttered for a moment, and the gentleman's gaze froze and kept smiling.
"The game isn't bad, but why did you give me that game?"
The game Zhu Jue is talking about,Naturally, it is "Assassin's Creed: Assassination in the City", it was not bought online, but the gentleman sent this game and the matching game equipment to the door by courier, and he was stunned for a while when he was notified that Zhu Jue came out to sign for it, and he opened it and played it for two days after checking that there was no problem.
"Some of the premise of this game is very similar to what we're going to experience next, so I'm going to give it to you as a beginner's lesson, and I've always prepared one for them when I recruited new people in the past. ”
"Tomorrow night, we're going to the alternate space you mentioned earlier, which we call the Dream Realm, and the world is a little similar to the environment in the game, a bit like the life of the European Middle Ages, and you can think of yourself as creating a new character in it. ”
"We have to find a way to hide our identity, and we can't let anyone know except our teammates, because there are many enemies, not only those who are like us, but also some natives in the Dream Realm, who are keen to get something by killing us, after all, outsiders are always not so easy to accept. ”
"Dream Merchant, this is a main profession, and it is also the unified identity of our people, but with the different thoughts and actions of each person, most of us will take the initiative to 'change jobs', I formed a team of travelers, the purpose is to find treasures in the dream world, and those who specifically trouble us are dream eaters, including dream merchants and some more special existences...... This aspect of the situation is a bit complicated, and it is difficult to explain it in a short period of time, you just need to know that there is basically no possibility of negotiation or cooperation between the Dream Eater and the Traveler, so don't be deceived by some Dream Eaters...... That's all for now, I think it should be simple enough. ”
These contents are obviously abbreviated versions, and the gentleman does not intend to finish the information of the dream world in one go, because the information he has learned so far is only two places he has visited, and it is unrealistic for him to analyze something.
But even so, the "captain" of the team is still responsible, and in order to make Zhu Jue, a newcomer, understand earlier, he actually found a game as an example.
Listening to his introduction, Zhu Jue on the side subconsciously recalled the scene he had seen in the different space of Fang Dou Mountain.
You must know that Zhu Jue always thought that the strange space was just a wasteland where monsters existed, but he didn't expect that there were still people living in it, so he thought that the weird and disgusting screams he heard in his ears at that time were not the sound of the wasteland?
"What are you thinking?"
Zhu Jue's contemplation attracted the gentleman's attention.
"What can I expect from your so-called trip?"
In fact, Zhu Jue didn't particularly care about the name of this alien space and the strange enemies inside, he only came to participate in this matter from beginning to end to obtain those treasures that could strengthen his spiritual power.
What he couldn't wait to know was how he could get them from this alternate dimension.
"That's a good question, the previous Starter Pack, I think you've already felt its utility, it can unearth the special power of human beings, some people call it spiritual power, some people propose soul energy or telekinesis and so on, but there is no doubt that it is truly the power of the human self, not the ability injection, mechanical transformation of these enhancements with the help of external technology or some other technology...... Of course, I'm not saying that the latter is not strong, but I'm just stating a relative concept. ”
The gentleman seemed to be prepared for Zhu Jue's question, turned sideways slightly, and wiped his fingers over the candle flame at the top of the candle, and in the next second, a flame was directed to his fingers, and then the flame seemed to be stretched by an invisible palm.
"This ability is extremely rare in our world, only a small number of people can access it, but in the dream world, it is a very common thing, those who live in the ancient world have abandoned technology and embraced mystery, and what we have to do is to use the power of technology to better embrace mystery. ”
"The fantasy dream world is very special, some ancient books that have been handed down to this day believe that it is a world composed of human dreams, but it has its own development trajectory, and there are many special items in that world, and they are obtained in a variety of ways, for example, the wine I gave you before comes from a rodent monster in a certain forest, its effect is to enhance the soul or spiritual power, and most people go to that world to pursue nothing more than the same thing, liberate the soul!"
Probably in order to arouse Zhu Jue's interest, the gentleman even deliberately raised his tone when he mentioned this matter.
"Soul liberating, sounds interesting. ”
replied with a somewhat strange expression, Zhu Jue wanted to make a happy appearance, but he couldn't get excited.
God knows how strange Zhu Jue's heart was when he found out that the ultimate goal of these people turned out to be something he had already done a week ago.
It's no wonder that the Great Race, before helping him free his soul, would say that this was an important skill comparable to the Ancient's crystal technology.
Is that how it feels to be a winner in life?
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