Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Dell, do you still recognize me?" Chen Zhao needed to make sure whether Dell was still conscious.

"Chen... help me... I'm in so much pain..."

"Where does it hurt?"

"whole body."

Fali stood aside and said, "He looks like he has epilepsy."

Chen Zhao shook his head and said, "It's the abnormal contraction of the heart caused by the electric shock... Cuila, did Dell take anything before you played?"

Trilla hesitated, then nodded.

"Which type of drug is it?" Chen Zhao was not surprised by Cuila's answer. In fact, Chen Zhao had already discovered that Dell had this hobby during his previous visits, and it was not marijuana, but something more. Intense drugs.

"High-purity MDMA."

MDMA is methylenedioxyamphetamine, the main ingredient in ecstasy pills.

In fact, the amount of MDMA contained in ecstasy pills is relatively low. If MDMA is taken alone, although it can bring strong hallucinations and pleasure in a short period of time, it also means that it is more toxic.

This is completely addictive and will lead to death. Chen Zhao cannot understand this kind of person's mentality.

Of course, as a doctor, Chen Zhao had no obligation to persuade Dale to detoxify, and it was impossible for Dale to listen to him.

After Chen Zhao's examination, it was determined that Dell suffered from functional complications caused by abnormal contraction of the heart, which led to spasm.

To put it bluntly, it is the body’s functional alarm.

"Go fill the bathtub with water. It needs warm water...so warm that you can put your hand into the water." Chen Zhao turned to Cuila and said.

A few minutes later, Trila ran out of the bathroom.

"It's already filled with water."

Chen Zhao picked up Dell and walked to the bathroom. With Chen Zhao's strength, it was relatively easy to carry Dell.

Then he put Dale into the bathtub, turned to Fali and said, "Bring the box over for me."

Cuila and Fali both stood outside the bathroom door and did not go in to cause trouble to Chen Zhao.

Fali knew some first aid techniques, but she didn't understand Chen Zhao's treatment methods.

"Chen, why do you put the patient in warm water?"

"The human body is very sensitive, especially to temperature. Warm water can relieve the symptoms of meridian contraction, but it also requires acupuncture, but I think you don't understand acupuncture."

In fact, Americans are no strangers to acupuncture, and scenes related to acupuncture often appear in movies and TV dramas.

"But, through the water, can you clearly see the patient's body parts? Will they not be stabbed crookedly?"

Chen Zhao has no doubts about his technique, and he can be questioned in other aspects, but he has been practicing acupuncture since childhood.

Acupuncture is not just about seeing with glasses, it also requires touch and feel to judge the location.

Although Dale's soaking in water would refract the light, Chen Zhao could determine the acupuncture points just by touch, even without his eyes.

Dale's body gradually calmed down and the spasms had stopped.

After stimulating acupuncture points with acupuncture, Dell's abnormal contraction of the heart pulse has been relieved.

Chen Zhao sent Dell back to the bedroom and gave him a muscle massage.

"Chen... be gentle... it hurts..."

"It's a good thing to feel pain." Chen Zhao's force was very heavy, and the places he pressed were all soft parts.

In addition to the abnormal contraction of the heart pulse, Dale also had a poisoning reaction, which was obviously caused by drugs.

Chen Zhao also needs to detoxify him and let him spit out the toxic substances.

…

A car was speeding on the road to Dashan Town under the cover of night.

David was driving very fast, and Sienna was sitting in the passenger seat.

Chrissy in the back seat reacted a little strangely, she kept holding the mirror.

"Chris, can you put that mirror away?" David said as he looked in the rear mirror.

But Chris seemed not to hear anything and kept looking down at the mirror.

Sienna's face was a little solemn, and Chris looked like she was asleep.

"Chris..." Sienna turned her head and tried to call Chris.

Chrissy didn’t respond, and both David and Sienna felt very heavy.

Suddenly, David saw Chrissy in the rear mirror, no... not Chrissy, but a completely unfamiliar face.

David was so frightened that he almost lost his grip on the steering wheel, and the car swayed on the road.

"David, drive well, what are you doing?" Sienna complained.

"No..." David looked back at Chris. Chris was still Chris, nothing had changed.

"What's wrong with you?" Sienna saw that David looked wrong.

"I'm not sure." David said with an embarrassed expression: "When I saw Chris in the rear mirror just now, I...I noticed that she had become another person..."

Sienna also tried to look through the rear mirror, but did not notice any change in Chris.

However, Sienna didn’t think David was wrong.

But she couldn't explain what was going on, and she was a little nervous now.

Because she couldn't understand what happened.

"Have you not arrived at Dashan Town yet? I remember the last time I came here, it didn't seem to be this long." Sienna asked impatiently.

David tried his best to suppress his fear. Although he was a policeman, in the event they were facing now, his identity as a policeman and the gun in his pocket were of no use.

"David, do you see that billboard out front?"

"What's wrong?" David saw an agency billboard on the roadside.

"I remember that billboard seemed to have passed."

"Maybe it's placed in multiple places. Some roads will have the same billboards." David explained, but he also said this to reassure himself.

"No!" Sienna said suddenly: "I remember very clearly that the lighting of that billboard, the light in the middle kept flashing, we did pass that billboard."

"Maybe it's a coincidence..." David continued to drive the car forward.

But not long after, an identical billboard appeared in front of me.

Among the row of lights above the billboard, one was flashing.

In an instant, David felt his scalp numb.

"We've been wandering around this section of the road and haven't walked out," Sienna said.

"This...why...why is this happening?"

Suddenly, a figure jumped in front of the car, and David slammed on the brakes in panic.

"Bumped into it?" Sienna's face turned pale.

The two got out of the car quickly, but when they got to the front, they found Chrissy lying on the ground.

"What? What's going on?" David looked at Chris in shock.

There's Chrissy here, who's in the car?

Sienna looked back at the car with a solemn expression, but because of the headlights, they were in backlight and could not see clearly what was going on inside the car.

Sienna walked to the car door in two or two steps and looked inside. The car was empty.

No one.