Chapter Twenty-Eight: An Unexpected Encounter
The streets and alleys leading to Yinchao Avenue are full of pedestrians and vehicles of all kinds, small carts pulling all kinds of vegetables, and farmers carrying cages of chickens and ducks, simply setting up small stalls at the corners of these streets, and temporarily starting business, making the already crowded alleys even more crowded.
Lucy took Carl to change roads several times in a row, only to find that all the alleys leading to Silver Tide Avenue and the city gate were crowded.
"Uncle, what's going on? Why are so many people suddenly blocked on the road, can you still get out of the city now?" The first time I helped someone lead the way, I encountered this situation, and little Lucy couldn't help but get anxious, and hurriedly asked passers-by.
"I don't know!"
"The road to the city gate was sealed a long time ago, and everyone was going to go out of the city, but they were all blocked here. ”
"It seems to be to welcome some big man, in the morning before dawn, the mercenaries of the silver dawn called people from house to house, and all the people near the silver tide avenue were shouted to clean up, not only the dust and garbage of the silver tide avenue were swept clean, but the walls of the houses against the avenue should also be cleaned, and flags should be planted, and silk ribbons should be put on the trees......
Hearing the inquiry, several passers-by who were setting up stalls and watching the excitement couldn't help but answer.
"I don't know what kind of big man it is, such a big pomp, it's almost time to catch up with the last cardinal archbishop and temporary pomp!"
"No, no, I heard that the last time you came, the cardinal was very pompous, and it is said that not only the local church and the archbishop will come to greet you, but also the mayor and the lords of the council, and even those foreign nobles will also participate!"
"Is it? What kind of big man is bigger than the pomp of the cardinals, is it the great Pope, or is His Majesty the Emperor of the Holy Hyrule Empire coming?"
"It's not clear, it's a big guy anyway!"
Soon, Carl and Lucy learned the reason for the congestion from the discussions of the people around them, because they had to welcome a big man to the Silver Tide City, so the Silver Tide Avenue leading to the city gate was blocked early, and they could only be allowed to go after welcoming the big man.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Karl, it's all my fault!"
Lucy couldn't help but apologize to Carl with great guilt, feeling that it was entirely her fault.
"It's okay! It's not your fault!"
Looking at little Lucy, who was even more anxious than himself, Carl couldn't help but smile and gently comforted her: "It's okay, isn't it just a little late, I believe that the grandmothers in the convent are reasonable, not to mention my little lateness." ”
"No, no, it's the first time you go to work, you must leave a good impression on the master's family!"
Little Lucy looked even more anxious than Carl, she stood on tiptoe, found that the height was not enough, jumped a few more times, and tried to look deeper into the alley, trying to see the end of the crowd. However, I was disappointed to find that everywhere I looked, there were surging human heads.
"Mr. Karl, please follow me!"
Little Lucy bit her lip, suddenly took Carl's hand, and slammed into the crowd.
Caught off guard, Carl was pulled by little Lucy and squeezed towards the surging crowd involuntarily.
Carl always knew that little Lucy had a lot of strength, but he never thought that her strength would be so great. As if pulled by ten horses, little Lucy dragged Carl on a rampage through the surging crowd. Everywhere she passed, whether it was a tall strong man or a cargo blocking the road, she was easily pushed aside like a building block toy.
"Ouch, whoa, tap!"
"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!"
"That's a lot of strength!"
Little Lucy rushed forward with her head bored, and everywhere she passed, people turned on their backs.
With little effort, Carl was pulled by little Lucy through the turbulent crowd with ease, and even had time to feel the touch of little Lucy's palm holding him.
Little Lucy's fingers are slender and slender, soft and warm, Carl thought that the perennial labor would leave a few calluses on Little Lucy's hands, but to his surprise, Little Lucy's palms were smooth and soft, without the slightest trace of roughness, and it must be said that this is a miracle.
Combined with little Lucy's huge strength beyond ordinary people, Carl very much suspected that little Lucy may have begun to awaken the knight's bloodline, and the increasing and huge strength, smooth and non-calloused skin, is obviously an external manifestation of the transformation of the human body in the process of the knight's bloodline awakening.
"Stop!"
Carl followed little Lucy forward, suddenly feeling empty in front of him, and then was blocked by a spear.
It turned out that before he knew it, Karl had followed little Lucy through the surging crowd and came to the Silver Tide Avenue at the gate of the city, and they were stopped by a young soldier wearing a silver helmet, a shiny silver half-body armor, a spear, and a silver sword piercing the Dawn insignia.
"We are ......"
Little Lucy was about to explain, when she suddenly saw the faces of the soldiers blocking the way, and suddenly called out happily: "Big brother Abel, it's you!"
The young soldier blocking the road also recognized Little Lucy, couldn't help but smile, and was about to speak, but suddenly saw Little Lucy and Carl's hands clasped tightly, and suddenly couldn't help but stiffen.
"Great, Big Brother Abel, let us go quickly, Mr. Karl is in a hurry to go to the Suramel Monastery......" Little Lucy met an acquaintance, and immediately quickly pleaded excitedly.
Soldier Abel's face stiffened for a moment, then he returned to his original state, straightened his face, and said in a serious tone: "No, there is an order from above, at this time, Yinchao Avenue is forbidden to pass." ”
"Brother Abel, you can be accommodating, let's sneak out of the city, just get off at once!" This is already at the foot of the city wall, close to the city gate, as long as Abel lets them go, they can run out of the city in one go, and it won't take much time.
"No way!"
In the face of Little Lucy's request, Abel once again sternly refused, but he couldn't keep a cold face, and could only explain helplessly: "Today, there is a big man who is going to come to the City of Silver Tide, and the captain has given a death order, and no one can be let out of the city before the VIP enters the city." ”
As he spoke, Abel shifted his gaze from Lucy to Carl, but his gaze was no longer the tenderness of looking at little Lucy, but a sharpness full of scrutiny.
As a man, Carl was familiar with the looming hostility in his sharp gaze, the hostile instinct of males when they saw other hunters in their territory.
Karl smiled and showed a very personable smile to the soldier, but instead of letting go of the hand holding Lucy, he used a slight force, carefully feeling the warmth and softness of the palm of the little Lucy's hand.
Little Lucy seemed to feel the strange atmosphere between the two, and then she realized that she was still holding Mr. Karl's hand, and suddenly she couldn't help but blush, and quickly let go of her hand.
"Big Brother Abel, this is Mr. Carl, a guest of Uncle John......"
Little Lucy's face was red, and she was about to introduce Karl's identity to Big Brother Abel, but she heard a melodious bell ring throughout the city, and then hundreds of horns sounded at the same time, and the desolate and majestic horn sound pierced the sky, breaking the peace of the Silver Tide City.
The flag is like a forest, and the armor is bright!
In the desolate and majestic sound of the horn, the gates of the aristocratic district, the inner city, the upper city, and the civilian district were opened one after another, and countless knights in full costume galloped out of the slowly opening city gate with a neat queue and a neat drum beat.