Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

West looked at Chen Zhao.

Chen Zhao also looked at West.

"Otherwise... your association should be disbanded."

"Actually, there are still a few of us."

"Oh, not here?"

"Properties, logistics, warehouse management, president's secretary, and headquarters security."

"Wait a minute, you just said twelve people, but including you, there are only eleven people, right?"

"Including you, there are twelve."

"What missions have you performed recently?"

"Conquer the evil spirits, vanquish the evil spirits, vanquish the evil spirits, vanquish the evil spirits..."

"Are there so many evil spirits in Los Angeles for you to conquer?"

"No, actually we conquered the same place, but we all failed."

It's hopeless, it's really hopeless.

They're all a bunch of losers.

A combat organization is divided equally between combatants and support staff, and one is the president.

"Let's disband."

"Wait...don't you want to see the president's secretary? She's so beautiful." West took out a mobile phone and opened a photo.

"You think I don't know Hollywood stars? This is a photo of Kidman, right? And it's from when he was young."

"That's right, that's it. How about this one? Isn't it beautiful?"

Chen Zhao looked at the woman in the photo, she was indeed very beautiful.

"Is this really the president's secretary?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Chen Zhao turned around and looked at the five combatants. They all turned their heads.

"Your president didn't lie?"

"No," Jolene Nash said.

Chen Zhao frowned, deeply doubtful about this.

"Well boy, tell me, is this really the president's secretary?"

"Um...it's...the former secretary..."

"What? Former secretary?"

"I resigned because I was harassed by the president."

"..."

West was anxious: "As long as you agree to become the president of the Supernatural Association, you don't have to worry about the tax bureau coming to trouble you in the future."

"Oh? You can guarantee that?"

"We are still considered a government department, so we still have this power."

"Your association usually fights evil spirits, right?"

"Well, that's pretty much it."

"I have my own work on weekdays."

"You don't have to stay at the headquarters all day, just go and report when you have time." West said diligently: "There is also social security and major accident insurance, and claims will be 100% settled."

"An annual salary of two hundred thousand dollars?"

"Yep."

"There won't be any bad things like fighting with supernatural associations from various countries?"

"Absolutely not."

"Is there anything like arresting the psychic for study?"

"This is an absolutely static international convention on the paranormal. Any country, organization, or laboratory that conducts inhumane paranormal human experiments will be sanctioned."

"For example, how to impose sanctions?"

"Relevant personnel will be attacked by supernatural associations in all countries and regions, and their souls will be extracted."

Well, this is very supernatural.

"Then what procedures are required to become such a president?"

"Sign your name on this parchment."

Chen Zhao took the parchment, injected a bit of magic power, and the content was displayed on the parchment.

“The president doesn’t have the right to mobilize association funds?”

"This is to prevent what happened last time from happening again."

"My family is here, are you still afraid that I will run away? Remove this. As the president, of course you must have financial management rights."

“What about our association’s property?”

"If there is any need in the future, let him report to me for approval. Remove this article and replace it with finance, which will be managed by the president."

"All right."

"And this, this, and this must be revised."

In the end, Chen Zhao finally signed the contract.

The American Paranormal Association officially became Chen Zhao's Private Paranormal Association.

"By the way, since the previous president and secretary resigned, should we recruit a new one?"

"No, just let me be the president's secretary." West said seriously.

"You're kidding me?"

"No, I'm serious."

"I don't want it, I want to hire a girl."

"We will run out of funds for this year. Will you have to pay for it privately?"

"..."

Chen Zhao is not that generous, so why should he pay for it personally?

"By the way, does the association have any confidentiality agreement or something like that?"

"Apart from not being exposed in the media, you can do whatever you want."

Chen Zhao sighed. Taking over such an unorthodox position, Chen Zhao always felt that he had fallen into a trap.

"By the way, who am I accountable to? Don't tell me it's the guy in the White House."

"We are not responsible to anyone. Although we are a government department, we are responsible and overseen internally."

"So will the government assign us a mission?"

"Yes, but we have the right not to accept it."

It felt quite free. After thinking about it, Chen Zhao thought it wasn't a bad thing.

"By the way, you said you have a dangerous mission in a few days? What mission is it?"

“We received a task from the government three years ago to rid the Maple Leaf community of evil spirits. However, three years later, we still have achieved nothing, so the government put pressure on us and asked us to complete the task within ten days. , otherwise, our funds for next year’s activities will be gone.”

"Maple Leaf Community? Are the evil spirits there very powerful?"

"It's very scary. There are hundreds of evil spirits gathering there all year round. In the past three years, we have almost been conquering that haunted community, but we have always failed."

"Then call me during the next expedition." Chen Zhao said.

"well."

This may be the most beautiful thing West has heard tonight.

I waited all night just for this sentence.

"By the way, what is your ability?"

"Super fast memory, ten lines at a glance. When I activate magic, my IQ will skyrocket."

Chen Zhao looked at West up and down and said nothing.

…

When Chen Zhao returned home, it was already early morning.

So much happened this night.

As soon as Chen Zhao entered the house, Laurent rushed out with a pan and wanted to have a showdown with Chen Zhao.

Chen Zhao punched the pan in Laurent's hand, and Laurent growled: "Asshole, do you know how long I was tied up today? I wasn't untied until Fali came back."

"Does Fali know?"

"No, I didn't tell her." Laurent had also seen from the news what happened at Hilda's Hotel tonight.

"You know the truth."

"Next time if you dare to do this to me again, I will take Fali away directly." Laurent looked at Chen Zhao angrily.

"I understand. I won't tie you up anymore. If you want to die, I won't stop you anymore."

Laurent turned around with his back to Chen Zhao: "I'm talking about taking risks. Next time you go on an adventure, please consider Fali."

"Don't you often curse me to death?"

"I wish you would die, but Fali would be sad."