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- “家族，荣耀。比起整个组织，都不值得一提。因为我们是这个日月无光的世界里唯一的那束光明。”
- ―黑色十字对达利斯·吉福特说，1927。[来源]
艾伯特"艾比"·波登（Albert "Albie" Bolden，1893 – 未知）更广为人知的名称是“黑色十字”，是位活跃在20世纪初的圣殿骑士特工，在巡回夜总会的爵士乐队“艾伯特·波登与哈林热舞者”中担任领导吹鼓手作为伪装[1]，并在世界各地旅行。
波登作为黑色十字，他的任务就是保证任何各分册最高大师遵守圣殿的准则，并根除任何与圣殿价值观不符的腐败行为。他也因其标志性武器而知名，一个圣殿十字状的毒刃别针。
波登也是最后一位已知的黑色十字，直到2016年尤哈尼·奥措·贝格亲自继承了黑色十字的名号。
生平
早期人生
在波登组建家庭以及成为黑色十字之前，他曾是哈林地狱战士的一员，直到他在第一次世界大战中被爆炸所伤。[2]在他离开并前往战争前线前，波登与他的妻子生下了一位女儿。[2]
担任黑色十字
波登对峙撒迪厄斯
1927年2月，波登被派去清理不列颠最高大师撒迪厄斯·吉福特，让他为自己利用组织名誉敛财、贪污组织公款的行为买单。在送去黑十字标记表明自己的存在之后，他一路追上逃走的撒迪厄斯来到一处公共电话，斥责了撒迪厄斯的所为，在驳回他对组织的质疑之后抹了他的脖子，并割下了他佩戴圣殿骑士戒指的无名指。[2]
在中国的任务
一个月后的1927年3月，波登来到了中国浙江省追查背叛组织的尤里·多林斯基。多林斯基占据了一列圣殿骑士建造的装甲列车“万里长城”号，率领白俄军队协助军阀张宗昌来对抗圣殿骑士盟友蒋中正。波登在火车上面对这名圣殿叛徒并与他决斗，最终成功杀死了他，阻止了列车的前行，帮助蒋中正扫清了进攻上海的障碍。[1]
4月，波登和乐队来到上海进行演出，在他表演的舞厅目睹了达利斯·吉福特的到来。他在吉福特装送到上海分册盒子的包被一个叫做茹的舞女偷走之后，跟着达利斯追出门。他从附近的屋顶上看到两名法国人的袭击，他们将达利斯认为黑色十字并企图做掉他。此时波登干预，救下了达利斯。两人之中一人逃脱，波登从另一名已死的人身上发现他是一名法国警督。在了解他的任务之后，两人发现达利斯的联系人已经被那两名法国警督杀死。两人互相扯了几句淡，波登便知道了他便是自己之前杀死的萨迪厄斯的儿子。出于愧疚，他答应达利斯，听命于九人会的自己会给达利斯取回被偷走的盒子。[2]
之后，波登窃听了当地圣殿召开的一次会议，讨论在上海帮派战争和军阀混战的的局势中工作的艰巨。当提到黑十字的到来后，他们被费信惇下令要尽己所能提供帮助。一名圣殿骑士大师霞飞在会后叫了一辆人力车，准备回到住所，但波登伪装的人力车夫将他拉到了另一个人迹罕至的地方（豫园）。黑色十字显示真面目后，向霞飞询问了他之前在腐败法国警察身上找到的一个叫做合和社（Hop Wo Society）组织的线索，霞飞撇清自己的嫌疑，力表对组织的忠诚。在推理自己对该组织的看法之后，他发现线索地点指向上海大世界娱乐场。波登潜入该地，准备审问另一名逃走的法国人时，他发现自己中了埋伏。[2]
“死亡”
波登放出烟雾弹并试图通过娱乐设施逃离，利用环境击退了追击的人。之后他遭遇了火老鸦，在战斗中波登设法用圣殿骑士别针在他身上留下划伤，之后便被打晕失去意识。之后他醒来后发现自己面对着青帮老大杜月笙，杜月笙嘲讽着圣殿骑士目前在中国的活动，而波登试图从他口中套出盒子的下落。当对话转移到他身上携带的武器时，波登透露他刚才使用的毒药是隔一个小时发作，此时之前划伤的毒药正好生效，火老鸦应声倒下。波登本计划是故意被抓住，从而得到更多信息。他迅速拿回自己的装备，从窗户处逃走。[2]
艾伯特摔“死”
波登之后闯入了宋庆龄仆人、上海总会酒保蔡的住所审问他，发现了宋庆龄和盒子失窃一事的关系。他威胁蔡将自己带到宋庆龄的住处后，他们讨论了关于这个盒子的事情以及圣殿组织，最后宋庆龄告诉他盒子已经是空的了。她也向波登透露她这么做的原因是不想让蒋中正的阴谋得以实现。听了宋庆龄推测和建议后的波登派遣蔡先去告知蒋中正自己将会前来处理他，而他在路上发现并绑架了一个青帮的护送车队司机。通过审问，他发现他们是被下令要去杀死达利斯和茹。
他之后抵达了他们所在的城隍庙并及时阻止了花旗阿根结果达利斯， 两人展开近身搏斗，难分难解之际，花旗阿根掏出枪射中了敌人的肩膀。然而当波登将被处决的时候，茹从背后偷袭，用匕首刺中了花旗阿根。这时黑色十字迅速用锁链锁住他并将他踢出窗户，吊在了窗外。当波登准备继续去追杀蒋中正的时候，已经知晓事情前因后果的达利斯拿起枪射向了波登的后背，要为他的父亲报仇。黑色十字试图反驳说他是执行教团的命令，但达利斯还是连续向他开了好几枪。波登脑海中闪现出曾经离开妻女的画面，从楼上跌了下去。[2]
Safekeeping the Koh-i-Noor
Bolden encounters Grosvenor
Bolden survived the fall and was brought to a local hospital, where he was treated. After the incident, Bolden failed to report to his superiors, which led to the Order sending Rufus Grosvenor, a high ranking member to find out what happened to him. A year later in a Chinese opium den in 1928, Bolden encountered Grosvenor, who attempted to blackmail him, threatening to reveal to the Order that he is alive if he didn't gave him the Koh-i-Noor, but Bolden refused and left.[3]
Knowing that Grosvenor would track down the artifact eventually, Bolden travelled to Switzerland and retrieved it from the bank it was secreted in. For the next 9 years, Bolden kept the artifact with it throughout his journey to hid it from Grosvenor.[3]
Pursuing Grosvernor
Sometime in 1937, Bolden returned home to find his family murdered and the Piece of Eden stolen by Grosvenor. Vowing revenge, Bolden tracked the Templar for the next few months, eventually to Spain, where he finds Norbert Clarke, Ignacio Cardona holding the Koh-i-Noor and a group of Spanish Assassins in the Assassin hideout. As Cardona pass out due to the usage of the Piece of Eden, Bolden attacked Nobert Clarke and the Assassins which caused him to suffer several bullet wounds. Unable to get close to Gorsvernor, Bolden took the unconscious Assassin instead and escaped to a unknown location.[3]
Templar and Assassin riding together.
At the hideout, Cardona regained conscious as Bolden was patching up his wounds. Bolden revealed himself as a Templar and the Black Cross which led to the Assassin attacking him. Bolden easily subdued him and explained to him of his 'death' in Shanghai, how he encountered Grosvernor and tracked him to Spain. He revealed that the Assassin Norbert Clarke was actually Grosvernor, who had killed him earlier and posed as him. He also tells Cardona that Grosvernor was planning to use him as a conduit for the Koh-i-Noor and unleash its powers. Bolden asked Cardona to help him track down Grosvernor, in exchange for helping him to warn his cell, which he accepted.[3]
Bolden and Cardona rode along with several Spanish revolutionaries and a while later, they come across Grosvernor, with the Assassins behind him.[3]
传承
In 2013, Juhani Otso Berg watched the memories of Darius Gift in order to learn more about his encounter with the Black Cross. Indeed after Berg's mission in India, the Templars discovered that Bolden was the last recorded individual in contact with the Koh-i-Noor, a Piece of Eden.[2]
After witnessing Bolden fall from a temple roof, having been shot multiple times by Gift in 1927, Berg told Violet da Costa that despite the evidence, he wasn't sure that the Black Cross truly died that day. Bolden's family disappearing from the records after his departure for WWI, Berg put the search for the artifact on stand-by, hoping that the Order would find one of Bolden's descendants to further explore the Black Cross' memories.[2]
The Black Cross' last mission in Shanghai was later used as the template for one of Abstergo Entertainment's games on the Helix platform, "Showdown in Shanghai".[2]
In 2017, Berg relieved Bolden's memories during his time in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in order to locate the Koh-i-Noor.[3]
装备与技能
Albert Bolden was a capable freerunner and climber, able to scale buildings in London and China. He was also a skilled tactician, allowing Thaddeus Gift to get to a phone to reveal his collaborators, and accounting for Yuri Dolinsky's superior sword-fighting skills by cutting the tracks of the train prior to their duel on board, causing Dolinsky to fall and lose his advantage. Bolden was a trained soldier and was a skilled marksman knowledgeable with many firearms.
Albert was also highly skilled in unarmed combat besting many opponents in the crime syndicate the Green Gang, such as the large Fiery Crow, and holding his own against the skilled Flowery Flag. Even while injured, he held his own and outmatched a rage-filled Ignacio Cardona four times. He could take down multiple opponents in close-quarters combat, such as when fighting multiple soldiers at once in the Great Wall or when he faced off against an entire assassin cell, although he was forced to retreat. He was also exceptionally skilled in stealth, constantly sneaking up on those he had to interrogate or execute. He was fluent in Chinese.
In terms of equipment, Albert carried a bladed pin as his primary weapon; he had two poisons for it, one fast and another that took hours or so to set in. He also carried a sword on occasion and possessed what appeared to be a kind of chain dart, along with smoke bombs, grenades, a sub-machine gun and a gas mask.
画廊
Trivia
- He indicated that he has eliminated entire assassin cells more than once.
Appearances
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