Chapter 36: The King of Assassins (1)
In the catacombs of Paris, the Assassin Test is over.
The tombs of King and Queen Louis XVI are piled with freshly baked corpses. The presiding officer of the League of Assassins, the French anarchist, was also killed. There were less than thirty assassins who escaped death, including five Chinese such as Ah You, the descendants of the Arab Assassins, as well as Qi Yuanshan, Fangzi, and Ye Kenan, who got up from the pile of dead.
Qin Beiyang recognized the detective, and thankfully, he didn't die in the line of duty like Sheriff Xavier. But he remained quiet, not wanting to expose Inspector Ye's existence as a "traitor".
"Inspector Ye?"
Ah Yu recognized the face, the scarf had long since faded, and the detective was alone, besieged by five assassins.
"Sister Ayou, please don't touch him." Qin Beiyang jumped in front of them, "I am willing to exchange myself for Inspector Ye's life." ”
"Brother, you shouldn't have come here." Ah You turned his head slightly, "And Qi Yuanshan, don't hide." ”
Qin Beiyang understood that as soon as they entered the tomb, the phone call from hell, the French word "don't move", was given to him by Ah You - reminding him not to act rashly with the coffins of the king and queen, so as not to trigger the tomb beast.
The group of Assassins were adept at using telephones, just as they had used in their caves in Shijing Mountain, Beijing.
Qin Beiyang was desperate, and lamented that his group, together with Inspector Ye, was going to be wiped out......
The old Arab hero walked up to him, looked at Qin Beiyang in awe, and suddenly raised the golden dagger of the Assassins, as if he was going to cut his throat in the next second.
However, the old assassin held the hilt of the knife upside down and handed the dagger to Qin Beiyang's hands—clutching the crescent scimitar at a loss, the golden leather sheath feeling hot.
The Arabs raised Qin Beiyang's right hand and shouted, "Assassins!" ”
Suddenly, all the Assassins present were shocked - the eventual winner of the League of Assassins' Conference, the successor to the Assassins' honor, turned out to be a "traitor".
Qin Beiyang spread out his hands, but he didn't expect it to be himself? From the age of nine, he had vowed to kill the Assassins, and he was not in harmony with the Assassins of the world.
"Brother, you are tonight's hero, you killed the Tomb Beast and saved everyone's lives, you deserve this honor. A year ago, you practiced the 'Assassin Dao' and the 'Underground Palace Dao' in the 'Heavenly Kingdom Academy', and you were the first place in both of them, and you should be a model for assassins in the world! ”
Ah You came up generously, grabbed his right hand, and raised it high again.
His fingers were trembling: "Sister Ayou, what did you say?" Heavenly Academy? What are Assassin's Road and Dungong Road? Is it really not a dream? ”
"It's not a dream, did you say that the Yoshiko in front of you is a dream?"
Fangzi leaned in front of Qin Beiyang, shook his hands, and grinned: "Congratulations to Brother Beiyang!" ”
No one dared to disagree anymore, chanting the slogan in unison: "Assassins! Assassins! Assassins! ”
Qin Beiyang was completely stunned, and really wanted to tell everyone loudly - my fate is on the line, and you have to elect the next one as soon as possible.
The final winner of the Assassin Test, the list of thirteen people who participated in the assassination of Versailles came out—
At the head was Qin Beiyang, then the old Arab assassins, then Ah You, Daddy, Ah Hai, Tuhuan, Ghost Mask, and a Pole, a Yugoslav, a Turk, an Indian, an African, a Korean—the last one, Qin Beiyang had seen in the Montmartre Heights.
For the rest, there were a dozen or so injured assassins, including Yoshiko, who was too young to be good enough.
Ye Kenan and Qi Yuanshan, who were judged to be traitors, were to be executed immediately according to the rules - the Assassin League was the same as the Artisan Alliance in this regard.
However, as the new leader of the Assassins, Qin Beiyang had the right to grant amnesty.
"As long as you don't hurt these three people, I'm willing to go with you to the Palace of Versailles to assassinate the Big Three, otherwise I'll kill myself!" Qin Beiyang clenched the golden dagger and aimed it at his throat, "Let them leave the catacombs in two hours, the assassination has been completed at this time, and there is no time to report the news." ”
Ah You frowned, and her father wanted to persuade her, but she waved her hand resolutely: "Okay, I promise you." ”
Ghost Mask leaned into his ear and said, "Beiyang, according to the old rules for hundreds of years, every newly elected heir of the Assassins must speak at the General Assembly of the League of Assassins. ”
"Let me speak?" Qin Beiyang's face was embarrassed, "I'm just a craftsman, and I'm even more clumsy!" ”
"Don't be modest, I don't know you yet? Think of the 'Library of Heaven'. ”
The Heavenly Library? What kind of place is it? Could it be the "kingdom of heaven" in the dream? In the 100 days that I was missing?
Searching his stomach and scraping his stomach, Qin Beiyang still couldn't think of it, but remembered the tower secret room of Notre Dame Cathedral - the epitaph of Qin Jin, the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance, three of which came from the wise words of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: love, non-attack, and rescue.
Raising the Assassins' golden dagger again, he shouted to the survivors of the League of Assassins, "Everyone! I don't change my surname, I don't change my name - Qin Beiyang, China! ”
“China chinpeiyang.”
The ghost mask turned "China Qin Beiyang" into English, and at that time, Hanyu Pinyin had not yet been invented, and the Weituma Pinyin method was used.
"In today's world, the great powers are tyrannical, the weak eat the strong, and morality is degraded. All the ancient civilizations of the East were regarded by the West as an uncivilized and inferior people, which is really upside down. Two thousand three hundred years ago, the Chinese Mencius said: Spring and Autumn are unrighteous wars. The war to divide the world, Qianmo crisscrossed the well, once it was all ruins, the bones were heavy, the wives were separated, and the white-haired people sent the black-haired people, which was really a battle of unkindness, injustice, disloyalty and unfilial piety! ”
Nineteen-year-old Qin Beiyang has never been so sharp-toothed, like a volcanic eruption: "Whether white, black, Indian, Arab or Chinese; Whether kings, tycoons, workers, or farmers; Whether elderly, children or women; whether it is health, illness or disability; Regardless of whether brothers and sisters are friends or not, all brothers in the world are brothers. ”
Ghost Mask is expertly translated in English and French, striving for a general understanding for everyone.
"When was the highest honor for an Assassin? It is not revenge and assassination, but self-sacrifice, like a comet hitting the moon, a white rainbow piercing the sun, and an eagle striking the temple! "Historical Records: The Biography of the Assassins": From Cao Mo to Jing Ke, the righteousness of the five people may or may not succeed, but their intentions are more reasonable, they do not deceive their ambitions, and their names will be hung down in future generations, how can it be vain! ”
As the heir of Assassins, Qin Beiyang has secretly denied the spirit of Assassins 800 years ago and the brainwashing tradition of "Assasin's Heavenly Garden".
He skillfully replaced the spirit of the League of Assassins with the spirit of "scholars" praised by Zhuzhu, Nie Zheng, Yao Li, and Jing Ke, the immortal Sima Qian, the assassins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period of China, more than 2,000 years ago.
When Ah Yu and Fangzi heard his words, they smiled lightly at the same time. When the ghost mask finished translating with difficulty, there was crazy applause below, praising Qin Beiyang in their native language.