Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Fali, did you just pay your salary?"

"No."

"Then you buy so many things? Don't expect me to pay for those cosmetics."

Fali rolled her eyes: "I don't plan to let you give it to me. I'll pay for it myself."

"The items in here cost more than a thousand dollars, right? I asked you to borrow money the day before yesterday, but you still said you had no money."

"I swiped a credit card." Fali rolled her eyes at Chen Zhao: "My father gave me this card."

"You have been working for several years, and you are still using your family's money?"

"I can't help it. I'm used to being lavish. My father also knows that my job cannot sustain my life."

"So, your family is very rich?"

"It's quite rich. At least my father's income should be considered high."

When I came out of the supermarket, the trunk was full of stuff.

…

University of Los Angeles——

"Smith, it's so late, why don't you go home?"

"No, I still need to sort out the data obtained today." Smith raised his head and lifted his eyes.

Smith is a historian who also received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He is now a doctoral lecturer at the University of California, focusing on research on the Mayan and Inca civilizations.

He has led many teams deep into the Amazon rainforest to examine the traces left by the Mayan civilization.

And they also brought back many ancient cultural relics with very important historical value and research value.

It can be said that Smith has a successful career and a happy family.

But twelve years ago, Smith divorced his wife in a flash.

At that time, Smith's colleagues were shocked and didn't understand how the two people, who were in a stable relationship, could get divorced inexplicably.

And since the divorce, Smith has become decadent.

The handsome and charming tutor who was once the darling of the girls in school has disappeared.

What replaced him was a decadent man with unkempt appearance, stubble on his face, and a smelly body.

After the last colleague left the laboratory, Smith stood up and took out a gold coin from his pocket.

Regarding the gold coin in his hand, Smith's eyes flashed with complicated expressions.

This gold coin was found from the ruins of a Mayan civilization. At that time, there was a rich man who hoped to obtain such a gold coin and contacted him.

And Smith was moved because he was really short of money at that time.

The price offered by the rich man was also very high, so he secretly took it out from the ruins without reporting it to the archaeological team at the time.

But this was a cursed gold coin. From the moment he got it, bad luck began to surround him.

The first victim was the rich man. The rich man died suddenly at home the day after they completed the transaction.

The gold coin mysteriously appeared in his pocket, and then his pregnant wife unexpectedly miscarried.

Because of this miscarriage, he and his wife eventually parted ways.

At that time, Smith had already sensed the strangeness and ominousness of the gold coin, and he tried to destroy the gold coin.

He took the gold coin to the past teaching building and dissolved it with sulfuric acid.

The gold coins were completely dissolved in front of him, but disaster happened again.

That day, a dozen students wanted to go to the warehouse to steal something, but Smith happened to have just taken sulfuric acid out of the warehouse and forgot to lock the door, so a dozen students successfully entered the warehouse.

By the time others found out, the dozen students had died in the warehouse, poisoned by chemical substances.

But the gold coins that should have been destroyed returned to his hands again.

Smith did not realize the seriousness of the problem at the time. He tried several more times, and all the gold coins returned to his hands in a strange way.

No matter where it is lost or completely destroyed, the gold coin will return to his hands.

Moreover, he discovered a pattern. The more seriously he damaged the gold coins, the more serious the accident would be.

And all these things happened around him.

But he also discovered something. Every time someone died, he would gain corresponding wealth.

Starting from the first rich man, he got a lot of money from the rich man, and then the rich man died.

Then came the dozen students. After their deaths, Smith won the second prize of the Powerball lottery, which is the American lottery, worth a million dollars.

This money is like a reward for him.

Smith felt excited at first, but then he started to shudder.

Although it seemed that all his income was legal, every time this coincidence would keep him awake at night.

So later, he started trying to get other people to take over the gold coin.

However, the gold coins will still return to his hands, and depending on how long it takes for the gold coins to come back, the other party will also receive varying degrees of surprises.

Six months ago, he went to Hawaii for a vacation and left gold coins on the cruise ship.

The next day, he received a total of 20 million US dollars from his grandfather, whom he had not seen for many years.

Then, he heard that the cruise ship he had been on had been lost in a storm.

At that time, there were more than 2,000 passengers on that cruise ship!

At this moment, the gold coin trembled slightly in Smith's hand and made a buzzing sound.

"Is it coming again?" Smith looked at the gold coins in his hand, and then walked towards the abandoned teaching building.

Over the years, Smith has been studying gold coins.

I also know more or less some characteristics of gold coins. Gold coins seem to feed on souls.

This gold coin has two special situations, one is hunger.

If it does not kill anyone for more than a week and remains in Smith's hand, it will randomly cause disasters to the people around Smith, and at least one person will die in each accident.

Another situation is the satiety state, just like now, the gold coins will make a buzzing sound and vibrate slightly.

At this time, it is necessary to find a place for the gold coins and release the excess soul from the gold coins.

The abandoned teaching building also became a place for Smith to release those souls.

Over the years, Smith doesn’t know how many souls have been released in the abandoned teaching building.

The abandoned teaching building has also become a veritable haunted house. Many students who broke into it have had more or less accidents.

The school once tried to demolish the teaching building, but several accidents occurred as a result.

On one occasion, the school planned to demolish an old building by blasting, but the explosives prepared by the engineering company blew up the people in the company.

Another time, there was an accident involving construction machinery. An excavator dug down a wall and crushed four people to death.

Since then, the abandoned teaching building has never been touched.

After all, the school's compensation was enough to buy several pieces of land like this.

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