Crow's Paradise

Still maintaining vigilance, Yao Yan also approached the black shadow amidst the footsteps of Karina's feet.

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

With a feel that felt more like piercing into cotton fabric than flesh, the cutting knife penetrated the black shadow's body.

Without letting down his guard, Yao Yan pulled out the cutting knife and stabbed the black shadow twice more.

Still no movement, he must be dead.

but

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

Because the back of the cutting knife's blade has some traces of melting on the surface.

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

fire? hot?

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

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

Even if it needs to be tied, it still needs to be used.

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

Yao Yan tentatively took off the scrap of paper hanging from the muzzle of the gun and threw it on top of the black shadow.

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

Although the slight glow of fire quickly extinguished, it also made the shape of the thing appear clearer.

However, just like what was confirmed just now, there are no details.

The whole thing is black, like charcoal, and a bit like a shadow, incorporeal.

However, the more important feature is

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

Like a flame.

The silhouette after the swaying stopped didn't 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 weird. It doesn't look like a lizard or something like that. He can only think of a bird.

Looking at this dark thing, Yao Yan was speechless.

It probably can’t be handled with something like a rope, but what about water?

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

The evaporating water vapor rose instantly, showing the high temperature of the black shadow corpse.

After pouring the remaining water, the steam evaporating from the body 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 glanced at the corpse, then picked up the tongs placed by the wall and clamped directly on the charred, black shadow-like corpse.

water? It's raining outside, and there's a lot of water.

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

but

Just at this time--

Boom, boom, boom! ! !

Boom! !

Boom, boom, boom! ! !

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

A rough male voice sounded as the sound sounded like raindrops falling on the umbrella.

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

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

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

"I just heard gunshots, so I came over to take a look."

"Miss Karina, please open the door."

Hearing this, Yao Yan glanced at the corpse, used red-hot tongs to take out a few pieces of charcoal from the stove, clamped the corpse into the strange-looking stove, then picked up the lantern and immediately moved towards the door. .

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

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment."

Amid the echoes and footsteps, the three probing crows all retracted into their coats.

Arriving at the hall, Yao Yan went directly to the door without delay and opened the door.

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

Sheriff Stabler.

Looking at her, the middle-aged man sniffed as if he smelled something, then narrowed his eyes, looked Karina up and down, and asked at the same time:

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

The man was already on alert.

Yao Yan immediately judged that Mr. Stebol, the only police officer in this town, and that Mr. Sheriff might have aroused suspicion through the smell of gunpowder.

Does your nose look so good on rainy days?

Now, there are only two options.

One is to tell lies and lead the other person to think that there is gunpowder hidden in the kitchen stove.

The second is to give various hints to the other party to make the other party think from the perspective of "hiding the identity of the gang member".

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

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

"Preparing dinner."

An awkward smile appeared on Karina's face:

"But there's something strange about the kitchen William made. It's different from what I'm familiar with. Mr. Sheriff, can you help me fix it?"

As she spoke, Karina had an embarrassed smile on her face, and a little shyness under the light of the lantern.

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

After saying that, Yao Yan turned away and walked toward the kitchen with a lantern in hand.

Stabler, the vigilance and seriousness on the face of the Sheriff also turned into confusion because of Karina's words:

"Did I make a mistake?"

But he did not deny his conjecture so quickly. He put away his umbrella, stepped into the house, and followed the direction of the lantern's light to the kitchen.

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

Stabler looked at the red charcoal blocks outside the stove and the puddle of water on the ground not far away. The alertness and confusion in his eyes soon turned into understanding.

Grabbing the red-tipped poker next to him, he clamped the charcoal pieces back into the stove mouth:

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

However.

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

In the field of vision, the action of the Sheriff stuffing back the pieces of red coke outside the stove was not important.

What's important is that the dark figure that was supposed to be inside the stove has disappeared.

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

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