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Now that the system has arranged the identity, there is only one question - how to complete the handover with Mario across the language barrier.
Lu Xiao was confused for a while by Mario's Italian pronunciation, which was like flicking his tongue. He had no idea what the other person was talking about.
As the leader of the Italian Assassin Brotherhood, Mario used his extraordinary insight to detect Lu Xiao's confusion and embarrassment.
He deliberately slowed down his speech and used a variety of different languages to try to communicate with Lu Xiao.
After switching languages several times, Lu Xiao finally heard a language that was barely familiar to her - English.
"can you speak English?"
Although Mario's English was full of plastic and had a very strong local accent, Lu Xiao's eyes lit up at this, and he nodded hurriedly and responded: "Yes, I know a little English."
After all, they were students who graduated from regular universities. Although they seriously lacked an environment for oral communication, facing Mario, who was also not proficient in English, the two of them talked and gestured and finally roughly understood each other's meaning.
Mario struggled to confirm his origin to Lu Xiao, and cautiously asked about the origin of the pendant around his neck.
At this time, it’s time to test Lu Xiao’s ability to talk, which she has honed after working.
Lu Xiao opened her mouth and started making up a story, lying that she came from the distant ancient country of the East - the Ming Dynasty.
He is a descendant of a certain Assassin family in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the persecution of a high-ranking official who was a Templar Knight, his family was ruined. He had no choice but to leave his hometown and flee overseas, hoping to return to his hometown for revenge after learning a skill.
The story background of Assassin's Creed 2 takes place from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century when the Italian Renaissance was most prosperous.
Lu Xiao's history knowledge was not very good, and he could not accurately tell which emperor was ruling China today, but he could barely remember that China was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty during this period, and Boar Skin had not yet risen, so he was a relative
A relatively peaceful era.
In the 15th century, there were very few exchanges between the East and the West, and most Italians' impressions of China were still based on Marco Polo's guerrilla descriptions.
Lu Xiao's fabricated story and description of the customs and customs of the Ming Dynasty fooled Mario. With the proof of the assassin's pendant, Mario began to believe that this young assassin brother did come from a distant branch of the Eastern Brotherhood.
The Assassin Brotherhood and the Knights Templar have a long history. According to the game content of "Assassin's Creed: Origins", we can know that the predecessors of the Assassin Brotherhood and the Knights Templar existed as early as BC during the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt.
Founded.
The original names of the two major organizations were the Hidden Ones and the Order of the Ancients.
After thousands of years of evolution, the completely contradictory ideas of the two organizations have been spread to all corners of the world by members from generation to generation, and ancient China was no exception.
In the side-scrolling game "Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China", the protagonist is a female assassin from the Ming Dynasty named Shao Yun.
After Shao Yun's first covert failure in the operation of the Assassin Brotherhood branch in the Ming Dynasty, Shao Yun fled to Italy and sought help from the Italian Assassin Mentor at the time.
Of course, this is decades after Lu Xiao's current timeline.
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With half-belief and doubt, Mario decided to leave Lu Xiao, who had come all the way to seek help, in Monteriggioni to determine his character and true purpose through personal observation.
Lu Xiao had no objection to this. In order to obtain information about the Piece of Eden, he needed to integrate into the local Assassin Brotherhood and gain their trust.
And now, apart from the peeping... ahem, clairvoyance that he pulled out of the novice gift package, he has no fighting ability.
Now that he has been bound to the system, in the foreseeable future, he will definitely shuttle between multiple crisis-ridden worlds. Without sufficient combat power, it is difficult to ensure the smooth completion of the world tasks delivered by the system.
Although the system did not explicitly mention the consequences of failing a world mission, based on Lu Xiao's years of experience reading online novels, that was definitely not something he was willing to bear.
Monteriggioni is a miniature city located in Tuscany, Italy. It belongs to the territory of the Auditore family. The entire city has less than 1,000 residents and is truly a small rural town.
Under Mario's poor English description, Lu Xiao probably learned about the current situation of Italy...or, in other words, the Republic of Florence.
That's right, the complete Kingdom of Italy did not yet exist in this era, and Italy was just a concept and place name.
Now the entire Apennine is in chaos, and major cities have successively established kingdoms, principalities, autonomous cities and small feudal territories.
The Tuscany region where Monteriggioni is located is in a chaotic situation. The Republic of Florence, controlled by the Medici family, is the most powerful and has been in conflict with the neighboring Republic of Siena for many years.
Monteriggioni was sandwiched between Siena and Florence. In order to ensure the survival of the territory, Mario often swung between the two.
Yesterday's friends may become tomorrow's enemies, and vice versa.
The specific time of Lu Xiao's time travel is the summer of 1474, which is more than a year before the official start of the main plot in 1476.
Although Lu Xiao was wearing the brotherhood's heraldic pendant, and the story he told seemed to be the same, Mario didn't fully believe his story.
Taking Lu Xiao to the guest room on the first floor of Auditore Manor, Mario said enthusiastically: "Lu, you can stay here temporarily. I will test your foundation as soon as possible and arrange a suitable training plan for you."
"Please forgive me for not fully trusting you yet. You need to complete the Brotherhood's trial and prove yourself through practical actions before you can officially become a member of the Assassin organization."
Lu Xiao nodded in understanding: "I understand, thank you, Mr. Auditore."
Mario laughed heartily, stretched out his calloused hands and patted Lu Xiao hard on the shoulder.
"Just call me Mario. As long as you understand, be prepared physically and mentally. My training is very strict."
"And." Before leaving the house, Mario turned around and reminded: "You'd better learn Tuscan and Latin as soon as possible."
"There are very few people in the Apennine Peninsula who can speak English. In order to facilitate daily communication and reading, you must master these two languages."
Tuscan is the predecessor of Italian in later generations. As Florence, the center of the Renaissance, spread culture and art to various places, the language gradually became widely known and eventually became the official language of Italy.
Latin was the common language in Europe during this era. Although many countries began to use their own national languages more after the rise of the Renaissance, this ancient European common language was still used in formal occasions and in most written communications.
language.
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In order to understand the important information circulating within the Brotherhood, Lu Xiao must learn Tuscan and Latin at the same time.
Fortunately, many European languages, including Spanish, Italian and French, were originally derived from Latin.
Latin and Tuscan have a lot in common. Under the one-on-one tutoring from the language teacher assigned by Mario, Lu Xiao, who concentrated on learning, quickly mastered the new language.
Language learning tasks are all arranged at night, and during the day Lu Xiao has to participate in training with Mario or his mercenaries.
As Mario reminded, his training content is indeed very "fulfilling".
After completing the initial physical ability test and intensive training, Mario tailored a training plan for Lu Xiao.
Before officially starting combat training, Mario first suggested that Lu Xiao choose his usual weapon.
"Lu, as you can see."
On the training ground, Mario drew his special long sword from his waist.
"Although I am named the leader of the Italian Assassin Brotherhood, I am not as good at assassination as traditional assassins. That is not my character. My brother Giovanni is better at this."
"The main thing you can learn from me is the various skills required for frontal combat. After you complete my combat training, I will write to recommend you to Giovanni, who will help you complete the next step of training.
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"bring it on!"
Seeing Lu Xiao hesitantly taking out two daggers from the weapon rack, Mario clapped his hands and encouraged loudly in a provocative manner: "Attack me, and I will correct your wrong postures and bad habits during the battle."