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Many people will feel that the previous era was better than the present, even Confucius 2,000 years ago was no exception.

At that time, the sage Confucius criticized the use of the term "ritual collapse and music destruction" at that time. At that time, music was only enjoyed by the informed class. Confucius used this to refer to the system at that time.

Although it is a reference, there were still many musical instruments at that time, and each country in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States had its own musical instruments. We are all familiar with such as chime bells. There have been many "qin", "se" and "sheng". At that time, there were more musical instruments used on a small scale: some movies and TV shows occasionally appeared, such as Xun, Fou, Zhu, Zheng, Yu, Xiao, flute, etc., and many other instruments that can only be seen in historical documents such as镈, Yong, 铙, Sheng Zhong, Song Zhong, Yuqing, Bo Yang, and so on.

At that time, there were a lot of musical instruments, but there are few people who can even play them now. As a last resort, Fang Xi only used a small number of ancient musical instruments when he produced "Assassin's Creed: Spring and Autumn" in China, such as chime bells. , flute, flute, zither, etc., and some instruments that were not born at that time, such as pipa, erhu, etc. were also used.

In short, if you compare the overall quality of "Assassin", Fang Xi feels that the music is still slightly inferior. It is not popular, and Hongyi Studio tried its best to find people who can play, but let alone form a group like the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in front of us, it is a bit difficult to form a quartet of blowing, playing, playing and singing.

In the end, on the one hand, it is limited by the lack of talents in ancient musical instruments, and on the other hand, music must also be considered to integrate into the times.

Therefore, the final soundtrack in the assassin game was found by a professor from the Music Department of Haifang University and incorporated some Chinese music to form its own style.

And today's symphony orchestra played the score of the assassin's soundtrack that Fang Xi handed over to them a week ago, a performance of completely western music.

For this "mini-concert", Fang Xi prepared two short films, both in the form of pantomime, which can maximize the performance of the characteristics of music.

All the players in the audience have already been stupid.

Yu Jiashu expressed the feelings of many people:

"Master, I never imagined that the first time I heard a concert in my life, I would actually stand and listen to it at the game venue..."

On the screen, there is a glimpse of the past in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States, and then the flying eagle's perspective is raised, and its gaze is surrendered to the north, where an empire is slowly rising irreversibly.

The perspective focuses on a young man, and the audience watches him go through wars, all kinds of hardships in his life, seeing him displaced and struggling, and watching this good world turn into scorched earth.

Finally, under the witness of the audience, he put on the assassin's hood, and jumped down from the city gate wall with a crisp eagle cry.

The first short film is relatively more in line with the lives of the people during the Warring States Period.

Although the princes' struggle for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period sounds domineering, it was a history of blood and tears for the people at that time.

The so-called five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Seven Heroes in the Warring States Period are just a few flesh and blood mills. These mills devoured the quiet and peaceful life of the common people.

The accusation of war in the short film is very strong, so the orchestra is also handy to manipulate, and it is easy for players to substitute the assassin's perspective. With the blessing of anger, injustice, revenge, etc., revenge begins.

Fang Xi once thought about it when he was reading "Historical Records", why did Tai Shigong write biographies for the assassins?

Because assassins are the embodiment of a kind of spirit, they help the weak and save the dangerous, regardless of life or death. What Tai Shigong praised even more was the chivalrous spirit of the assassins who "die for their confidants".

"Whether this righteousness is achieved or not, but its intention is relatively clear. If you don't deceive your ambition, your name will be passed down to future generations. It's not absurd!" This is Tai Shigong's praise to the assassins in history.

In other words, assassins are a group of people who are unrestrained and only live according to their own heart. This is also the charm of assassins.

So in this game, Fang Xi didn't want to talk about how the pieces of the Garden of Eden could destroy the world. Assassins are the last weapons of civilians. This is the concept that Fang Xi wants to convey.

So the second short film is about the revenge and redemption of the protagonist of the short film.

Qin's extermination of the six kingdoms was the first very complicated war in the history of China, because on the one hand, the Qin army was powerful, and they had great ambitions for unification. On the other hand, the war had lasted for a long time at that time, and every vassal state began to gradually become corrupt, and the domestic land mergers were serious, and the people were in dire straits. Among them, the princes and nobles of Wei State have the habit of tree terraces in Daliang City.

The higher the terrace, the more respected the identity. In summer, princes and nobles like to watch dances and sing on the terrace. Sounds like a pretty good life - if their terraces weren't built by oppressive civilians.

Hundreds of terraces echo each other from a distance, singing and dancing to cover up the sound of fighting outside Daliang City, but the highest terrace among them is only the lonely and drunk King Wei.

A group of princes and princes gathered together and reached a plan to force the people to go up to the tower to resist the Qin army.

At this time, the protagonist who had been buried for a long time finally appeared, wearing the iconic assassin hood, rising from the water to slay Wang Yijian. The princes and nobles were in chaos, but two other assassins appeared in the water, and soon, the terrace area returned to calm.

The order was not conveyed, and the three assassins took the initiative to open the city gate, and then fled away.

The assassin's action also came to an end amid the sound of Xiao Suo's music. To the surprise of many viewers, there was not much joy in the assassin's successful operation. Desolation and distress were the themes of the three young assassins.

In the end, they returned to the terrace. Standing on it and watching the Qin army entering the city, they did not treat the common people well. They pulled up their hoods again and jumped down from the 100-meter-high terrace.

Here also ushered in the only lines in the short film. Fang Xi specially invited a professional voice actor to record two short sentences in Chinese with a little singing voice for three days.

"Walking in the dark and serving the light, everything is false and everything is allowed."

Subtitles appear at the bottom of the clip at appropriate times:

"Line in the dark, Serve the light. Nothing is true, every is permitted"

The short film ended with a stunning leap of faith, and finally a sentence familiar to players from last year was displayed on the screen:

"We are Assassins!"

The short film officially ended, and then the scene was silent for ten seconds, with thunderous applause~

In the tide of applause, Yu Jiashu slapped his hands red with excitement. While applauding him, he was also busy exchanging views with his roommates beside him, expressing his excitement in his heart.

Fang Xi in the backstage was finally relieved to see the reactions of the players and the audience. For every creator, they certainly believed that their works could cause a sensation.

But after the actual market test, everyone will be uneasy, but fortunately, it seems that the assassin has finally been favored by the players.