Chapter 54: A Little Accident
Although the other scribes in the carriage were asleep, Karl was still careful to experiment with his new abilities, trying not to be detected - his intimate control of water made it easy for him to feel the presence of water around him, and the beating pulse and flowing blood, which are naturally flowing in the human body, are as clear as the lines of the palm of his hand.
Although he couldn't directly control the water in other people's bodies, the new ability allowed Carl to easily tell if the people around him were really sleeping - those with a smooth pulse and long breaths were obviously already asleep.
Carl also tried to manipulate the wind to speed up the carriage, he wrapped the carriage with the wind, used his knowledge of aerodynamics to make a fairing in front of the carriage, and at the same time created a pressure difference between the front and the body, so that the pressure of the air turned into power, and actively pushed the carriage forward.
Unconsciously, the speed of the carriage increased, and the shadows of the trees on both sides retreated like floating shadows, so fast that the coachman was a little frightened, and he couldn't help but take the initiative to restrain the carriage and horses, trying to reduce the speed.
However, when Carl tried to use the wind to lift the carriage and reduce the friction resistance between the carriage and the ground, he almost got out of the way.
While the fast-moving carriage became lighter, it also lost its stable center of gravity, and when it ran over a slightly larger rock, it almost caused a rollover accident.
Fortunately, the driver was an experienced veteran and handled it properly, so there was no accident. However, this change woke up many passengers, making it impossible for Carl to continue the experiment.
The carriage soon arrived at the post station outside the city gates, and the passengers got out of the carriage and left. Franco and Levi invite Carl to the tavern for a drink, but Carl, who is immersed in testing his newfound abilities, is not interested in this and politely declines the two.
At night, the city of silver tides is a little quieter than during the day, but the bright lights in the shops facing the street, the oil lamps in the front of the carriages passing in and out of the streets, the faint lights from the tavern curtains, and the faint candlelight flickering in the small buildings and courtyards, indicate that the noise of the city has not subsided, but has only moved from the outside to the interior.
Carl wrapped himself in the breeze and walked briskly at Uncle John's restaurant. Since the crossing, his mood has never been happier than today.
Although according to the standards of knights, he is only the initial awakening of the bloodline now, and there is still a long period of awakening and adaptation before he can truly complete the transformation of his body and the awakening of the bloodline spell.
But this insignificant small step on the path of knighthood was a big leap in the meaning of his life. It represents that he has truly mastered supernatural powers and embarked on the path of transcendence.
Carl doesn't know the exact location of Lucy's house yet, so he and Lucy make an appointment to meet at Uncle John's tavern. Now he was hurrying along the path that Lucy had taken him in the morning to Uncle John's tavern.
The roads in the civilian area are far inferior to those in the upper and inner cities, not only are they potholed and uneven, but they are also littered with domestic garbage, and from time to time there are one or two piles of human and animal feces, and the air is filled with the sour smell of rotting food and the faint smell of urine.
This is a great disservice to Carl, who has suddenly become extremely sensitive to sight and smell. He involuntarily quickened his pace, and summoned a film of water to wrap himself all over his body, filtering out all foreign smells, which was a little better.
However, Carl, who had been indulging in experimenting with his newfound abilities, did not realize what a tempting target a solo traveler walking through the gloomy alleys of a civilian area could be on such a dark night.
Just as Carl was crossing a long alley and turning another street to reach the Copperpot Tavern, he was blocked by several dark shadows that suddenly appeared.
The alley was gloomy and dark, very narrow, and as long as two people were in parallel, the entrance to the alley was completely blocked.
Karl calmly stopped, looking at the approaching shadow. More than ten meters ahead, there is a brightly lit street, but the exit is blocked by several men with fierce faces and obvious bad intentions. Behind him was a simple shack sandwiched between two buildings, and from the shack two fierce-looking men also turned out, blocking his retreat.
"Dude, borrow some money!"
A man with a scar on his face, a burly figure, and a fierce aura all over his body, walked over step by step full of oppression: "My brothers and I have just come ashore, we are very hungry and need something to eat!"
"Don't worry, we don't eat people!" Another thin man with a dagger smiled darkly, stared at Carl with the eyes of a butcher looking at a lamb to the slaughter, and said: "Although the Barcelona shipyard likes to drink people's hearts, we really don't eat people, really, although we eat everything when we are hungry, but we really haven't eaten people yet!"
Carl cautiously took a few steps back, distancing himself from the seemingly ill-intentioned men. At the same time, I secretly sighed in my heart that I was unlucky, although I had long known that the security at night in civilian areas was not good, and gangsters and thieves were rampant, but I didn't expect to encounter robbers who blocked the road on the first day.
Carl looked left and right, and there were walls of houses five or six meters high on both sides, which normal people would never be able to climb. In such a situation where both sides are blocked, there is no other way to escape.
If it was before tonight, Carl would have had to raise his hand and surrender obediently, and let the other party sack it. Now, however, having just acquired supernatural powers, he has another option entirely.
"Hey, man, don't be nervous! just borrow some money, you're not the first or the last tonight...... Who made us all unlucky, just lost all the money in the casino!"
The robber with the dagger was still chattering and approaching Carl unhurriedly. But Carl was not interested in cooperating with the robbery script of these robbers, the gentleman did not stand under the dangerous wall, and he did not have the slightest interest in hand-to-hand combat with a few bandits who were obviously armed with murder weapons, and decisively used his newly acquired ability to summon a gust of wind to fly out with him.
"Mr. Karl......"
And at this moment, a call with surprise broke the calm of the alley.
I saw that little Lucy was wearing a white shirt and black skirt in the morning, a kitchen hat on her head, and a white apron tied around her waist before she could be unbuttoned, so she trotted all the way over.