Chapter 65 [Immortal] Jack Baldo

"Leah will take Vivian to pray. The two of them have a very good relationship, almost becoming...well, sisters."

Johnny Murgwen chuckled twice.

"This metaphor is not exact, but...it is the fact."

"I'm very pleased that Leah treats Vivian so well. I think she will be an excellent guardian after I die."

Speaking of death, Johnny Murgwen fell silent.

There was fear in his eyes.

"I don't want to die so early, I have to do something... I believe in Leah, but after all, Leah is Vivian's stepmother... If Vivian loses her father, she will... definitely be very sad.

"

He faced the camera, his eyes gradually becoming firmer.

"I want to live."

His tone became more serious.

"My memory is getting worse and worse. I don't know how long I can hold on."

He seemed to have mustered up the courage.

"I have a secret."

His voice gradually lowered.

"I know a person... When I was doing business in Xiacheng District, I once met a strange person. He... he was different from normal people.

His name is Jack Bardo."

When he heard this name, a memory suddenly popped into Chen Yan's head.

Due to huge cultural differences, Asians are not sensitive to the names of imperial people, and they usually cannot distinguish the similar names of imperial people.

But the name Jack Baldo left a deep impression on Chen Yan.

He remembered clearly that he had heard this name before - he had heard it mentioned by Jerrock Siff in a public phone box at the zoo at night.

【Immortal】Jack Baldo.

Vivian’s father actually knew this guy!

"That's an old story... Jack Baldo was a strange man, he made a living by incense..."

Johnny Murgwyn lowered his voice.

"He lives on incense tainted with human ashes!"

When Chen Yan heard what he said, he immediately remembered that in the story Jeroque Siff told his third uncle, the undead Jack Baldo once asked a corner girl to help him light a cigarette.

It turns out that that cigarette was contaminated with human ashes...

Chen Yan felt that the air in the basement was getting colder.

"Jack Baldo... he seems to be dead, but not quite.

He exists alternately in two states: [living corpse] and [normal person], and I don’t know how long he has been alive.”

"In a sense, he is almost immortal - as long as he smokes incense in time, he can escape from the state of a living corpse, return to a normal human state, and continue his life."

Jack Baldo does have a zombie-like state.

The more Chen Yan thought about it, the clearer it became, and he even remembered the scene described by Geralt Sif:

[Jack Baldo's entire 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...]

Johnny Murgwen spoke firmly.

"He can die this way, and so can I."

His confidence was soon overtaken by fear, and his speech became incoherent:

"I'm not trying to survive, but I just can't let go of Vivian.

I think I need to at least do something.

Father's love is very important, isn't it?"

"At least... at least wait until she reaches adulthood before I die..."

Johnny Mogwen looked lonely, stretched out his hand, and turned off the camera.

Chen Yan saw the white screen in front of him turn black and lost the image.

He put down his phone in silence.

Immortal... Immortal, what exactly is it?

Turning into such a living corpse and surviving on incense stained with ashes, is this really the so-called "immortality"?

What is the meaning of such "immortality" - such a living?

The projector continued to run, and the picture appeared again soon.

This time, when Chen Yan saw Johnny Mogwen in the picture, he was shocked!

In the picture, Johnny Mogwen has completely turned into a zombie-like thing!

His entire face was completely dry, like a dried zombie.

The skin is ulcerated, there are no lips, and a mouthful of white teeth and gums are exposed in front of the screen - almost exactly the same as Jack Baldo once described by Geralt Sif!

He was terminally ill.

He has become an immortal!

The only difference is that his eyes are not white like Jack Baldo's.

His left eye was already filled with white clouds, while his right eye still had a human round pupil.

That round pupil seemed to prove that he still had human sanity.

The scene behind him also changed.

Chen Yan could vaguely see that behind Johnny Mogwen, there seemed to be a dark alley in a back street.

The dark alley is cold, narrow and cramped. The bricks on the wall are badly damaged and have been eroded by wind, rain and time.

There was no one behind Johnny Murgwyn.

The trash cans on the street obscured his figure, so that when looking in from the back street, he could not be seen at all.

He was holding a cigarette in his hand, with white tobacco in it.

Is this... the kind of cigarette that is stained with ashes and can prolong the life of the undead?

He raised his trembling hand in front of the camera, holding a ignited match, and lit the tobacco.

He took a greedy puff, as if the tobacco was his entire life.

White smoke came out of his nostrils, ears, eyes, and ulcerated skin.

The expression on his face gradually turned doubtful.

He was stunned for a long time, then quickly put the cigarette into his mouth and took a long drag.

As the light from the cigarette butt flashes, a cigarette burns out in a few seconds.

The expression on his face became more and more confused, and the emotion in his only normal eyeball became more and more frightened.

Chen Yan understood something from his expression——

Cigarettes that worked for Jack Baldo had no effect on Johnny Morgwen!

Johnny Murgwen sat down on the ground, his mouth wide open, but no roar came out - his tongue was rotten.

He wanted to shout, but no sound came out;

I want to cry, but my tear glands are completely dry;

I want to die, but ordinary suicide is of no use to this body that has become a living corpse.

White shadow gradually filled all his pupils.

"Bah..."

There was a dull sound from the mobile phone microphone, which was the sound of the camera falling to the ground.

The camera's distorted footage recorded Johnny Murgwen's next astonishing move:

He lowered his head and staggered out of the dark alley like a drunkard.

A girl in cool clothes saw him and wanted to strike up a conversation and do his business, but he hugged her and bit her on the shoulder.

The girl at the corner let out a scream, struggled desperately in his arms, and even took out a knife and stabbed him in the neck.

But that doesn't help.

He dragged the corner girl into a dark alley.
To be continued...