Chapter 21 Blood-burning cigarettes, the non-existent corner girl, and [The Undead] Jack Baldo

"It was a rainy night, sir."

William folded the fruit knife and put it in his trouser pocket.

"It was two months ago."

The blizzard blew into his collar and clung to his skin, but it seemed that due to high mental stress, William did not feel the cold.

"About two months ago, I had not lost my previous job... I was a cigarette seller. You know, many young people like me do this. It is easy, makes money quickly, and is relatively free...

"

He was nervous and incoherent.

"It was raining lightly that day, and Yanan City always has a lot of weather like this..."

He rubbed his hands, saying something incoherent, and his teeth involuntarily bumped together.

He is very nervous.

"Do you have any cigarettes, sir?"

The third uncle subconsciously touched his leather waistcoat, and soon showed a disappointed expression.

"No, damn it, you'd better finish your words, or you'll never smoke another cigarette in your life!"

William took a deep breath, his voice being isolated within the station by the blizzard.

About two months ago, winter had not yet entered Yanan City, but the weather was getting colder day by day, and many houses were already burning coal.

Whenever the empire enters winter, the amount of coal used in the entire city will increase.

A large amount of smog fills the city, causing a lot of strange scenes where "you can't see the opposite street across the road."

At such a street corner, William met a strange customer.

The customer usually arrives before the sun goes down. He wears a hood and has a strange accent. He seems to be a stranger from nowhere.

Customers would come to William's every night to buy cigarettes, but never fire.

How can anyone buy cigarettes instead of fire?

Could it be that this customer bought cigarettes from him and then went to buy fire somewhere else?

Impossible, that would be very troublesome, not to mention his matches are already the lowest price in the entire Yanan City, and customers cannot be stupid enough to buy matches elsewhere.

William thought so in his heart, but he couldn't ask this question,

This customer was one of his few stable customers, and he couldn't let his curiosity drive him away.

After this continued for a while.

On a rainy day, customers came to buy cigarettes under umbrellas at the same time.

William sold him the cigarettes as usual.

But William did not curb his curiosity as usual.

He followed the customers around the corner, through the dark alley of a bar, and stopped outside the house of a "corner girl."

The door is ajar.

He heard the customer's hoarse voice.

"fire Fire……"

The customer's tone was very strange, like the unobjectionable murmur of a foolish person.

What's even weirder is that he is asking for sex from a corner girl.

Is Corner Girl's fire...better than a normal match?

Or...does it mean something else?

Then came a girl's voice.

"Damn it, Jack, I said it last time, and that was the last time!"

Customers still keep repeating.

"fire Fire……"

The girl in the corner swore about her family's reproductive organs, and the sound of bottles and jars being clattered was heard in the room. They seemed to be having an argument.

There were bad sounds coming from the house.

William couldn't help it, and looked into the house through the crack of the half-open door.

A girl in cool clothes is sitting on a high chair,

The heel of a high-heeled shoe on one foot was stuck on the shoulder of the customer named "Jack".

Those were obviously very thin high heels, and they were almost completely pierced into Jack's flesh, but Jack didn't seem to feel much pain - he held a cigarette, knelt in front of the girl and begged:

"fire Fire!"

William got closer and saw no blood on the ground.

The girl's face was full of impatience, she stared at Jack with a vicious look, and the sound in her throat was like the growl of some kind of beast.

"Jack Bardo."

She called his name.

Then he raised his hand and slapped the customer in the face!

"Snapped!"

The clear sound of the slap almost hurt William's eardrums!

A horrifying scene appeared for William - under the force of a slap, Jack's head was turned half a circle, and his face was facing the door.

His face no longer looks like a normal person - the whole face has rotted and dried up, like a dried corpse, with only the whites of his eyes remaining, very much like the undead in some mythological stories about the Choir...

William was so stunned that he forgot to move at this moment.

Jack's white eyes stared at him, and William felt that he could even smell a rotten smell like a mummy...

The next moment, Jack turned his head - his neck turned his head in a twisted shape, and faced the girl again.

"fire Fire……"

When William reacted, he broke out in a cold sweat, and at the same time he understood that Jack, who had become a mummy, had lost his consciousness.

"fire……"

He longs for girls.

William was extremely nervous, but he did not back down.

His great curiosity made him stay, and he further pushed his face into the crack of the door, trying to get a wider view.

"Jack Baldo..."

The girl stomped on Jack's chest with her stiletto heels, and William even saw the splash of dried flesh.

"Jake Baldo!"

The woman's sharp voice expressed her current anger...and helplessness.

"The last time!"

She gritted her teeth and said this, then picked up a needle on the table next to her.

She took a deep breath and inserted the needle into the back of her hand.

Then the core rod of the needle tube was twitched.

It was obvious that the pull was less than 1 millimeter, but the girl's complexion was aging at a speed visible to the naked eye.

William watched helplessly as at least three wrinkles appeared on her forehead.

The girl quickly pulled out the syringe and said condescendingly to Jack: "Now, Jack Baldo, welcome your gift."

Jack was kneeling on the ground, holding a cigarette in both hands and opening his lipless mouth.

The girl pushed the core rod and dropped the few drops of blood in the needle on the cigarette.

The cigarette burned.

William opened his eyes wide.

The cigarette was ignited by blood!

Jack tremblingly placed the cigarette that was ignited by blood in front of his fleshless nose, which was already two black holes.

He smelled the smell of burning cigarettes, and his whole body trembled violently.

His flesh and blood was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, first his nose, then his face...

In a few breaths, Jack already had a normal appearance.

But he was still greedily sucking the cigarette that was lit by blood.
To be continued...