Cold weapons are a man's romance

"So," Cesar unbuckled his seat belt and leaned into Roman's ear, "I got your first time?"

"If we're not friends, you call it sexual harassment."

"Then you call the police?" Cesar leaned on his seat, smiling lewdly at him.

Roman took out his phone.

"Hey! I'm joking!" Cesar quickly retracted into the driver's seat with an upright face, as if he hadn't said anything surprising just now.

Roman laughed out loud.

"Come here." He hooked Cesar's neck and took a selfie with his phone.Cesar didn't have time to adjust his expression, leaving a shocked face in the photo.

"The one just now was deleted and retaken!"

Roman jumped out of the car: "No!" Someone like Cesar, who values ​​his appearance so much, would definitely not allow his black history to be stored in other people's mobile phones.But come on, what kind of friends are you without holding black historical photos of each other?

Cesar chased after him, trying to grab his cell phone.The two started chasing and fighting in front of the museum.Fortunately, they did not do this in the museum, otherwise it would be the turn of the security uncle to teach these two "swordsmen" the basic manners of life.

Only a "click" sound was heard.Their "frolicking" was captured on camera.The photographer put down his phone, revealing a head of shiny blue hair.

August hid his phone and greeted casually: "Hello! Cesar! Roman!"

The two froze at the same time.

"August? Why are you here?"

The little emperor, who was still dressed in heavy metal punk, rolled his eyes: "Joke, this is a public place, why can you come and I can't? Are you the only ones in the world who like swords and armor?"

"That's right, you are also a fan of military combat, and there is nothing wrong with being interested in this kind of exhibition..." Roman straightened his clothes, pretending that he was not playing with Cesar just now like an eight-year-old child, "You want to come with us?" Shall we go to the exhibition together?"

August put his hands in his pockets, and looked at the two of them casually: "Are you dating?"

"No, no!" Roman hurriedly denied, "Cesar took me to buy a sword, and then we just went to the solo exhibition!"

"Oh! That's good! I was going to say that if you guys were dating, I wouldn't be a light bulb. Since you're not in that relationship, then let's hang out!"

August took a guide map from the guide platform familiarly, glanced at it quickly, and pointed to the exhibition hall on the left: "This is the armor exhibition, let's take a look at this first." After that, he took the lead immediately Walking over, the bright blue hair is more conspicuous than the small flag in the guide's hand.

Roman followed him step by step.Although August is a bit arrogant, he is quite reliable.Roman is most afraid of complex buildings like museums. If he were to come alone, he would probably get lost in the maze of exhibition halls and corridors the moment he stepped into the museum door, unable to find his direction in life.But August looked like an expert at first glance, he was familiar with it, and he was full of confidence, so he was definitely right to follow him.

"Do you often come to this kind of exhibition?"

"Hmph, it's okay, anyway, I have more experience than you."

None of them noticed that Cesar, who was at the end, was staring at August with gritted teeth.He was obviously the one who asked Roman to come to the exhibition, but he killed a punk boy halfway and took away his companion. Now it's as if Roman and August are good partners, and he is the bodyguard!Why is this happening!Obviously he was the first...

"Cesar?" Roman turned around, looking for his figure in the crowd, "You are here, I almost thought you were lost."

As he spoke, he slowed down, and after Cesar followed, he grabbed Cesar by the cuff and pulled him closer to him. "There are so many people here, follow closely."

Cesar's ferocious expression disappeared in an instant, and a peaceful smile like a saint appeared on his handsome face.

"Then don't go so fast." He jumped off the donkey, jumped to Roman's side, and happily squeezed August's place.

"This is a typical Gothic armor, produced in Nuremberg, which is also a famous armor production place. The Gothic armor is based on Italian armor, but it is more adapted to the local requirements of the Holy Roman Empire. It is designed to improve mobility. Part of the defense is sacrificed. See, this type of armor is characterized by highly ornamented edges, and a left-right symmetry—which is very different from Italian armor..."

There are guides in the museum to introduce the origin and characteristics of each exhibit to tourists.But at this moment, it is not the narrator who is explaining the Gothic armor, but Cesar.

He goes on and on about the age and characteristics of each piece of armor, to the point that some tourists mistake him for a museum worker.Before he knew it, a large group of people quickly gathered around him.The real narrator was left alone with an embarrassed look on his face.

August noticed it, and laughed a few times: "Hey, Cesar, you are going to take away his job."

"I just think his introduction is not detailed enough." Cesar shrugged.

The docent looked like he wanted to crush his microphone.

The onlookers soon realized that the silver-haired man was just an ordinary tourist, so they gradually dispersed and gathered around the decent guide.A handful of people still hang around Cesar, secretly taking pictures of him, presumably in his face.

This scene made Roman laugh. "I didn't expect you to know so much about armor, don't you dislike these?"

"I've participated in botn anyway, so it's okay if I don't understand it. And the 'half-sword' technique that pawns hit is specially used to deal with armored enemies. When learning the half-sword, of course you have to learn the weakness of the armor."

"Half sword?" Roman vaguely remembered Cesar mentioning this word before, but he hadn't learned this technique yet.

August said: "It's the fighting posture of holding the hilt in the right hand and the blade in the left hand. It is specially used to stab the gaps in the armor. You haven't learned it? Cesar, how did you teach it?"

"Maybe it's because you couldn't learn anything before, which caused me to lose my confidence in teaching." Cesar said sarcastically.

Roman asked, "Won't that cut my hand?"

August glanced at him in distaste: "So it is used to deal with armored enemies. Usually you wear armor yourself in this kind of battle. How can you cut yourself with the protection of hand armor?"

"In other words, this is a special combat skill for botn? But I don't think I've seen anyone do it on botn."

Cesar explained: "botn is forbidden to attack the gaps in the armor, the half sword can only be used to block or hook the opponent's neck, and some people use weapons other than swords, it's normal for you not to notice. "

"Eh? But botn is simulating a real martial arts fight, right? Why is half-sword attack forbidden?"

"It will kill people."

"Aren't the weapons used in competitions all improved for safety?"

"It's still very dangerous. The gaps in the armor are generally located at the most vulnerable joints of humans. In order to ensure flexibility, the joints cannot completely cover the armor. Even stabbing with a blunt sword may cause injury. This is one of the reasons why I don't like botn one."

"Because it's dangerous?"

"Because it's unreal." Cesar said, "botn was created to restore real fighting. In principle, all techniques in martial arts literature should be allowed to be used. But in order to ensure the safety of players, modern sports have to prohibit some too Dangerous techniques. It’s okay to ban such things as slapping legs and inserting eyes, but half-sword stabbing skills are also not allowed. And this technique is exactly what the literature recommends. This creates a contradiction ——It is necessary to restore history and ensure safety, and it is often impossible to have both. People who like botn think that fighting in armor is very handsome and interesting, and those who don’t like it think it is purely macho fighting, which is no longer comparable to the real medieval martial arts Far from it."

"I just like it," August said.

"That's one of the controversies about botn - and even other sparring competitions. Bombing is a retro sport that is different from modern fencing. Fencing has all kinds of rules, ancient duels didn't. With rules, there are rules." There is a way to take advantage of the rules, and in order to avoid this, the Bing Strike competition will minimize and simplify the rules, encouraging players to fight with the content of martial arts literature instead of playing with the rules to win. But too few rules will make it difficult to win If there are too many rules, it will gradually turn Bingjian into a competitive sport like fencing and deviate from the essence of 'historical combat'."

Cesar pointed to August, "For example, in the match between you and him, the swordfish rule was used, which supports counterattacks, because in real battles, the side that is hit often does not die immediately. It is possible to counterattack. However, the rules of some games rule that the counterattack is invalid to prevent players from using the counterattack rules to engage in suicidal tactics, which violates the original intention of the combat sport.”

Cesar's tirade soon attracted some ignorant onlookers.Although they couldn't understand what he was saying, but he looked very professional, so they pretended to listen with gusto.

Finding himself trapped in the sea of ​​crowds, Cesar quickly clarified that he was not a commentator, pulled Roman and August away quickly, and went to the next exhibition hall.

"Why do I get surrounded every time?"

"If you don't say a few words, it won't be like this..."

The next exhibition hall is the unearthed cultural relics exhibition, displaying various weapons and armors unearthed by archaeology.They passed rusty Scottish broadswords, scarred Saxon knives, mutilated Welsh arrow clusters, and finally came to a mutilated booklet.

The pages of the booklet are yellowed, and it looks like it has been torn apart and bound together again, so that many pages are missing.This booklet is quite inconspicuous compared with the previous exhibits that are full of heavy sense of history. Many tourists pass directly in front of it, and they don’t even bother to give it alms, but Cesar and August rushed over hungry, They scrambled to jump up and down in front of the glass display case, wishing to use their tongues to clean the dust on the display case.

Roman broke into a cold sweat: "What are you doing... What kind of precious exhibit is this?"

"Roman! Are you really a swordsman!" August was shocked by his ignorance, "This is a priceless treasure in the military world, the origin of all things, the famous 'Taman manuscript' - "i.33" ah!"

"...what is it?"