Demons Beside You

“Chen…” Ethan walked into Chen Zhao’s room again.

“Can you leave me alone?”

“Business for you.”

“What’s the pay?”

“Two hundred dollars.”

“So little?”

“You have nothing at the moment anyway. If you don’t want it, I will reject it.”

“Fine. Give me the address.”

“Let me drive you there.”

“Wait… Are you going to kill me because I discovered your secret?”

Ethan slapped his own forehead. “God. Can you stop talking about this? I already said: it’s not me.”

“I think I’ll ask Vincent to send me there.”

“Fine. Whatever.” Ethan left in frustration.

“I was joking. You can send me there.”

Ethan stopped the car below Morgan Building. “Do you want me to wait for you here?”

“Are you sure there aren’t dozens of killers waiting for me up there?”

Ethan opened the toolbox beside him, in which there was a gun. “If you keep nagging, I’ll use this gun to blast you head off you bastard… 78th floor, room 7802.”

Chen Zhao went to the 78th floor and found the correct room. Then, he rang the doorbell.

An exquisite lady opened the door. However, there seemed to be bloodstain on her body.

“Err hello, I’m a doctor. Ethan sent me here. Are you injured?”

“Come in first.”

“Can I bring my pets in?”

The lady lowered her head and glanced at Beelzebub who was beside Chen Zhao. Then, she walked to the side to allow Chen Zhao and Beelzebub enter.

When Chen Zhao entered the room, he saw another person lying on the floor.

Chen Zhao wanted to turn around and leave at once. However, he suddenly realized that the lady was holding a bloodstained fruit knife.

“Help my sister and stop the bleeding. Don’t let her die.”

“Is she your sister?”

“Yes.”

Chen Zhao put down his toolbox.

The lady on the floor was stabbed in her abdomen and was gravely injured.

Chen Zhao opened the lady’s eyelids. Her pupils were dilated and her breathing was weak.

Chen Zhao injected a small amount of morphine into the lady’s body. Morphine is a very effective painkiller.

Of course, morphine was a controlled drug. It could only be brought after obtaining a prescription from an official doctor.

Chen Zhao had bought it from Ethan who knew a method to buy such medicine.

Then, Chen Zhao stitched the wound on the lady. At the moment, he did not yet have a way to buy blood of various blood types.

Ethan was also helping Chen Zhao to look for a way. Although Ethan knew many places to buy prohibited drugs, this was not the case for medical blood. After all, every profession had its own threshold.

Chen Zhao could only use a bit of demonic crystal to stimulate the lady’s vitality. At the moment, she was very weak and could not withstand too much demonic crystal. Nevertheless, demonic crystal was an excellent nutrition provided it was used in the right amount.

This was a use of demonic crystal that Chen Zhao had discovered himself.

However, he would only get paid two hundred dollars this time.

It was definitely a loss for him based on market price, but the metallic box would produce one year worth of demonic crystal if he saved a person.

“Wipe the sweat.” The older sister gave Chen Zhao a piece of tissue.

Chen Zhao sat down beside the lady. The outdoor scene viewed from this high-rise apartment was great. Its exterior was covered with floor to ceiling windows through which one could see half of Los Angeles, while its interior was also decorated with modern furniture. However, the living room was filled with broken items, as if there had been a fight.

“Can you tell me what happened?” Chen Zhao was unsure whether to call the police.

This woman stabbed her younger sister, after which she asked for a doctor to treat her sister.

Moreover, she did not seem to be nervous.

She did not appear to be in panic at all after hurting someone by accident. Instead, she was very calm.

Chen Zhao was not trying to be a busy body. After all, this was already considered intentional harm. If something were to happen to the wounded lady after Chen Zhao left, he would very likely be investigated since he was the only person to have entered the crime scene.

“Do you not recognize me?”

“Err… Are you a celebrity?” Chen Zhao was puzzled.

“Right. I’m only a third-class actor. It’s normal that you don’t know me.”

“So what happened between the two of you?”

“Are you willing to hear our story?”

“Yes please.”

“I snatched her character, so we started fighting. In the end, I almost killed her, just like what you’ve seen.”

The lady spoke in a very plain tone. She did not show any self-blame.

“We both came from Texas, and we both longed for Hollywood. After graduating from high school, we came to Los Angeles, trying to find an opportunity here. But my luck was clearly better than Shalian: I’ve already acted a few times. Although they were all insignificant characters, I’m still quite satisfied with my current state. On the other hand, Shalian only managed to get a few characters without any lines. This time, in our competition for the same character, we both entered the last stage, which was audition with makeup. However, I was clearly more experienced, so I won. Shalian felt that since I already have so many opportunities, I should give this one to her. However, in Hollywood, even if I give up the chance, she still may not get it. We have no control over the characters we get. We argued and pulled each other’s hair. Then, I grabbed the fruit knife and stabbed her.”

Chen Zhao glanced at Shalian who was on the floor. She had already woken up, but she was crying silently. She did not argue anything or become noisy.

Their story was not unique. In Los Angeles, there were too many girls trying to become celebrities, just like them.

Hollywood was never short of beautiful women. They did not graduate from a proper college, so they were only non-professional.

They had neither resources nor any background. They did not even have an agency to seize opportunities for them.

Perhaps they could become famous in one night if they were lucky, but it was as unlikely as winning a lottery.

Nonetheless, countless girls came to Los Angeles, to Hollywood one after another just because of such a slim chance.

The older sister was clearly quite lucky. The fact that they could live in such a high-class apartment indicated that they had a decent income.

Such an apartment cost at least ten thousand dollars a month. Even with his recent huge income, Chen Zhao was reluctant to live in such a place.

Thus, the older sister was definitely earning quite a lot. Small roles were certainly not sufficient for their spending.

“Irwan, sorry,” Shalian finally spoke. “I apologize for my unreasonableness.”

“Your name is Shalian?” Lowering his head, Chen Zhao looked at the lady before her. “Later I’ll give you a prescription. They’re all traditional Chinese medicine. You can buy them at a Chinese medicine store.”

Chen Zhao had neither a medical license nor the right to give a proper prescription.

Therefore, even if he wrote down some Western medicine, they would not be able to purchase them from the pharmacy.

“Done. If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first. Oh right, two hundred dollars please.”

“Do you have time to stay for a meal? Right here,” Irwan invited.

“Okay. I have time until the next client calls me.”