Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Laurent, how about we be normal? There are ghosts there." Chen Zhao grabbed Laurent's shoulders: "Wouldn't it be better to just stay at home and enjoy a quiet life?"

"Okay, if you don't go, I can go by myself."

"..."

…

"You were so loud just now, you must have said it to Fali." Chen Zhao drove the car with a black look on his face.

His words were not meant for himself at all, but for Fali.

Fali didn't worry about what kind of ghost Laurent was looking for, so she could only let Chen Zhao accompany her.

Laurent was quite proud, and Chen Zhao had the urge to crush him to death.

It is said that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure.

Chen Zhao felt that this old man was just a loser.

A complete loser.

"Laurent, you were scared to death last night, have you forgotten?"

"I wasn't mentally prepared yet."

"So are you ready now?"

"It's okay. If I encounter a ghost, won't you still be with me?"

Chen Zhao had a dark look on his face. He was not afraid of ghosts, but he was just disgusted by Laurent's thoughts.

"Then do you want to meet a ghost, or do you not want to meet a ghost?"

"I want... I want to see her again."

"Tell me the truth, have you ever had a relationship with that girl?" Chen Zhao started gossiping again.

"Are you ready to snitch on Whinip at any time?"

Arriving in that desolate neighborhood, Laurent began to shrink again.

"How cowardly." Chen Zhao rolled his eyes at Laurent.

Laurent immediately retorted loudly: "You haven't seen a ghost, that's why you have the courage to say this to me. If you also encounter a ghost, you might be more cowardly than me."

Chen Zhao looked around slowly. Although this community was desolate during the day, it was normal.

When he came to the small bungalow, Laurent was scared again.

"Aren't you afraid? Stopping like this again?"

Laurent looked hesitant, but finally opened the door.

Chen Zhao touched his nose and saw the smell of rotten wood.

Entering the room, Chen Zhao looked around.

I saw a book on the table and picked it up to read.

Suddenly, Chen Zhao raised his eyebrows.

Many contents of this book are recorded in demonic writing.

Laurent saw Chen Zhao holding the book: "Can you understand that book? The words in it are so strange, I have never seen them before."

Chen Zhao flipped through the book, and there was a faint aura of magic in it.

Its previous owner should have been a psychic.

But maybe it’s been too long since I’ve read it, so the breath is very weak.

Chen Zhao's hand paused and he turned to the page with thirteen keys.

At the bottom of this page, there is also a passage written in devilish language:

Every civilization has an ultimate goal, the pursuit of eternity.

Each key corresponds to a door, try to open that door, and there will be the answer you want to know behind the door.

Maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong.

Maybe in your mistakes, you can be sublimated.

Maybe in the opposite direction, you will lose everything.

This passage was very obscure, at least Chen Zhao didn't understand what it meant.

Chen Zhao hated this kind of pretending to be profound.

Is there something you can’t say properly?

Why do you have to be so mysterious?

Are you bullying yourself for being uneducated?

"Hey, where did you throw the book?"

Laurent saw Chen Zhao who was still holding a book in front of him, but when he turned around, his hands were empty.

"Put it back on the bookshelf." Chen Zhao said, "It's almost done, let's go."

"Chen, I just saw a basement inside. Let's go down and have a look."

Chen Zhao covered his forehead: "Are you so not afraid of death?"

He is obviously too cowardly to die and must seek his own death.

"If you're scared, just go back by yourself and I'll go down by myself."

"Okay, just go down by yourself."

"Wait...Chen, I'm giving you a chance to show off and improve my impression of you."

"Don't change, otherwise you will no longer be you." Chen Zhao interrupted Laurent: "In my mind, you are just a cheap old man. Just as you are unhappy with me, I am also unhappy with you. , don’t make changes unilaterally.”

Laurent's face turned red with anger. If he couldn't beat Chen Zhao, he would have really wanted to punch him.

A man stood at the entrance of the basement. After several hesitations, he finally made up his mind and bravely took the first step towards the darkness.

Snapped--

"Ah..." Laurent looked back and saw that it was Chen Zhao: "You want to scare me to death."

"It's a pity that he didn't die."

With Chen Zhao as his companion, Laurent also took courage.

The basement has long been covered with cobwebs and piled with miscellaneous things.

"Ah..." Laurent suddenly screamed.

Chen Zhao turned his head and saw a skeleton behind a flap that Laurent had opened.

"Is this Pamela?"

"He's not your Pamela."

"Why?"

"Judging from the shape of the bones, this should be the skeleton of a male, at least 1.85 meters tall."

After all, Chen Zhao's main job is as a doctor, so he still has some discernment.

"Did Pamela kill someone here?"

Chen Zhao couldn't answer this, but so far, Chen Zhao has not seen Pamela's soul.

Generally speaking, ghosts can only appear at night.

However, from Laurent's previous statement, Chen Zhao inferred that Pamela should have been a witch during her lifetime.

And after a witch dies, if her soul still exists in the world, she may even be more powerful than she was in life.

So being able to come and go during the day is not surprising.

However, Chen Zhao was not very concerned about this.

The witch did not harm Laurent, which means that she had no intention of harming Laurent.

Chen Zhao is more concerned about the thirteen keys.

That paragraph kept turning over and over in Chen Zhao's mind.

If there are thirteen keys in total, then I should have four keys now.

Do we need to collect thirteen keys to solve the mystery?

But where to find the other keys?

No clues at all, what a headache.

Chen Zhao didn't know why, but he had a vague feeling that he should look for other keys.

But let’s not say it’s a clue to find the key.

I don't even know the purpose of these keys now.

Why should I look for it myself?

But why are you just looking for it?

Chen Zhao is very contradictory now, rational and impulsive.

Suddenly, Chen Zhao turned around suddenly.

At the entrance to the basement, a figure flashed past.

It’s the figure of a woman!

Is she Pamela?

Chen Zhao didn't see clearly, and he hadn't seen Pamela either.

So Chen Zhao didn't know if what he saw was Pamela.

"Let's go. It seems that Pamela doesn't want to come out to see me, or she has already left here." Laurent said disappointedly.

When Chen Zhao left the basement, he looked back at the dark basement again.

She reappeared in the darkness of the basement.