Chapter 81 The Disappearing Flame

Still keeping alert, Yao Yan also approached the black shadow with the sound of Karina's footsteps.

Without any hesitation, he aimed the cutting knife in his hand at the fallen black shadow and stabbed it hard.

The cutting knife pierced through the black shadow's body, which felt more like stabbing into cotton fabric than flesh and blood.

Without relaxing his vigilance, Yao Yan pulled out the cutting knife and stabbed the black shadow twice more fiercely.

There was still no movement, so it should be dead.

But

When Yao Yan's eyes fell on the cutting knife, his thoughts paused slightly.

Because the back of the blade of the cutting knife had some traces of melting on the surface.

Karina's hand holding the handle also felt a little heat.

Fire? Heat?

In his vigilant thoughts, Karina took a step back and moved away from the location of the black shadow's body.

Yao Yan, who wanted to tie up the body with some cloth or rope, gave up the idea.

Even if you want to tie it up, you have to use it.

Is there anything here that is not affected by the temperature that instantly melted the cutting knife?

Tentatively taking off the scraps of paper hanging on the muzzle, Yao Yan threw it on the black shadow.

Almost the moment it landed on it, the scraps of paper burned and turned into ashes.

Although the faint flames quickly extinguished, they also made the shape of this thing clearer.

But, as confirmed just now, there are no details.

The whole is black, like charcoal, and a bit like a shadow, without substance.

However, the more important feature is

Karina's lips opened slightly, and with a slight blowing sound, the outline of the whole body swayed.

Like a flame.

And after the swaying stopped, the outline did not look like a cat, but more like a bird.

A bird with four legs?

No, Yao Yan changed his position several times and tried to take a closer look. Its shape felt a bit like a reptile, but with feathers.

It's just that the head is too strange, not like a lizard or something like that, he can only think of a bird.

Looking at this black thing, Yao Yan was speechless.

It probably can't be handled with ropes or something like that, so what about water?

While letting the crow stare at the body, he walked to the bucket placed in the kitchen, picked up the bucket, and poured it on the body.

The evaporated water vapor rose instantly, showing the high temperature of the black shadow body.

After pouring the remaining water, the steam rising from the body also seemed to be much less.

Will the temperature drop?

But, unfortunately, there are no other containers filled with water in the kitchen.

After putting the flintlock pistol and cutting knife that he had been holding in his left hand into his pocket, Yao Yan took a look at the body, then picked up the fire tongs placed by the wall and directly clamped the charcoal, black shadow-like body.

Water? It was raining outside, there was plenty of water.

Yao Yan planned to drag the body directly out the door.

But

At this moment——

Bang bang bang! ! !

Dongdong! !

Dongdongdong! ! !

"Miss Karina! Miss Karina!? Are you there?"

A rough male voice sounded along with the sound of raindrops hitting the umbrella.

Upon hearing the voice, Yao Yan immediately found the owner of the voice from his memory. He could only choose to let the fire tongs leave the body, then put down the fire tongs, imitated Karina's tone, and shouted-

". Is it Mr. Stable? What happened?"

After Yao Yan shouted in response, the rapid knocking stopped, and then came a much calmer male voice:

"I just heard gunshots, so I came to see."

"Miss Karina, please open the door."

Hearing this, Yao Yan took a look at the body, used the burning fire tongs to clamp a few pieces of coke from the stove, clamped the body into the strange stove, and then picked up the lantern and moved towards the door immediately.

While crushing a small piece of coke and smearing it on his hands, Yao Yan responded with a slightly doubtful tone:

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment."

Amid the response and footsteps, the three crows that had poked their heads out all retracted into their coats.

Arriving at the hall, Yao Yan did not delay, and went directly to the door and opened it.

A middle-aged man holding a black umbrella and wearing a somewhat old sheriff's uniform appeared in Yao Yan's field of vision.

Sheriff Stebol.

Looking at her, the middle-aged man seemed to smell something, sniffed, then narrowed his eyes, looked up and down at Karina, and asked at the same time:

"Miss Karina, what were you doing just now?"

The man was already alert.

Yao Yan immediately judged that Mr. Stebol, the only police officer in this town, might have become suspicious of the sheriff through the smell of gunpowder.

Is the nose so good on rainy days?

Now, there are only two choices.

One is to lie and lead the other party to think that there is gunpowder hidden in the kitchen stove.

The second is to hint at the other party in various ways, so that the other party can think from the perspective of "hiding the identity of a gang member".

Of course, the second method is still a backup - it can be used as a replacement plan after the first one fails.

Imitating Karina's personality and tone, Yao Yan pretended:

"Preparing dinner."

Karina showed an awkward smile on her face:

"But William's kitchen is a little strange, different from what I am familiar with, Mr. Sheriff, can you help me fix it?"

As she said, the awkward smile on Karina's face was a little shy under the light of the lantern.

Although she was a female worker in a sewing factory, Karina's appearance was not bad.

After speaking, Yao Yan turned around and walked towards the kitchen with a lantern.

Stebol, the sheriff's face showed a little bit of vigilance and seriousness, and because of Karina's words, it turned into doubt:

"Did I make a mistake?"

But he did not deny his guess so quickly. He put away his umbrella, stepped into the house, followed the direction of the lantern light, and walked towards the kitchen.

Soon, Stebol entered the kitchen and stopped not far from Karina.

Stebol looked at the red charcoal blocks outside the stove and a puddle of water on the ground not far away. The vigilance and doubt in his eyes soon turned into understanding.

Grabbing the red end of the fire tongs next to him, he clamped the charcoal blocks back into the stove:

"Miss Karina, the stove made by William is indeed not very easy to use. You may need a few more days to adapt."

However.

For Yao Yan, this is not something to be thankful for.

In the field of vision, the sheriff's action of stuffing the red charcoal blocks outside the stove back was not important.

The important thing is that the shadow that was supposed to be in the stove has disappeared.

Yao Yan could only respond to the sheriff's words in Karina's tone:

"Really? I was almost burned by the flying fire. This kitchen is not easy to use, Mr. Sheriff."