Demons Beside You

All of a sudden, Kelly felt a shiver run up her spine. It’s here!

That thing is here…

Kelly smelled a bloody odor. At once, she lifted her gun and pointed behind her.

An enormous beast stood on the trunk lid. Because it was dark, Kelly could not see it clearly.

“Lion? No way… How can there be lions in Los Angeles?”

Bang! Bang!

Kelly fired two shots consecutively, but the thing was even faster and dodged the bullets in one move. At the same time, it pounced at Kelly.

Horrified, Kelly struck the beast’s head with the gun stock.

The thing was only momentarily staggered. In the next instant, its fully opened mouth bit onto her arm.

In severe pain, Kelly started to struggle wildly, but she was much weaker than the monster before her.

Although she had had intense, special training before, she was still a human after all. There was no way she could fight against a beast that was at least 2.5 meters long and weighed over 200 kilograms.

To make things worse, this beast also had terrifying teeth and razor-sharp claws. Soon, Kelly’s left arm became weak.

Kelly was dragged out of the car. She felt that she was about to be swallowed.

However, the monster did not eat her yet. It bit onto her neck and dragged her towards an unknown place.

After running for perhaps more than ten kilometers, the monster began howling at the sky.

Howl!

Is this a wolf?

Clearly not. Its size doesn’t match, and it’s way too ugly.

Maybe it’s a biochemical monster… Kelly had already started imagining things.

Suddenly, Kelly vaguely saw a person walking towards her.

She shouted right away, “Help… Help… Help me…”

Seeming to have heard her voice, that person walked closer to her.

“Are you calling me?”

“Help… There’s a monster… Save me…”

Kelly was not hoping that the person could save her, and she also did not think about why the person would be on the outskirts at this time.

Nevertheless, she was confident that she could escape when the monster started attacking the incomer.

As the person approached her, Kelly felt more and more excited.

To her great puzzlement, however, the monster beside her neither hid nor attacked the intruder.

The person had definitely already seen her and the monster beside her, but he did not seem to realize that something was wrong. Instead, he continued walking forward.

Closer and closer…

Kelly smelled something fishy. How could he not see the giant beast beside her?

Finally, Kelly saw the incomer clearly.

“You… No way… Chen…” Kelly’s expression changed drastically.

She had just used a sniper rifle to blast his body into pieces. She saw it with her own eyes and there was no way she could have mistaken it.

However, Chen Zhao was actually standing before her at the moment, unharmed.

“Surprise!” Grinning, Chen Zhao stood before Kelly. “You seem to be injured, gravely injured.”

Chen Zhao glanced at the monster beside him and petted its head gently. “He’s my friend. Seems like you’ve already met.”

Finally, Kelly could no longer remain calm. She flung herself up from the ground in an attempt to seize Chen Zhao.

However, the Bloody Hunter struck its claw out and sent Kelly flying.

Chen Zhao stood still. In fact, he was hesitating.

How should he handle Kelly? Kill her?

No way. He was a doctor, not a killer.

Chen Zhao had never thought about killing someone. He had summoned the Bloody Hunter only because of temporary fury.

After calming down, he fell into a dilemma instead.

Stop saying something like “a tooth for a tooth.”

After all, Chen Zhao was still a mere human.

But to let her go?…

That seemed to be inappropriate as well. What if she comes back again and shoots me?

Chen Zhao only had one substitute coin, and he used it before it even got warm in his pockets.

If he was shot again, he would surely die.

What do I do now?

“Hunter, do you eat humans?”

“No. I only eat human souls.”

Kelly could understand Chen Zhao’s question, but not Bloody Hunter’s answer.

Therefore, she was scared out of her wits when the Bloody Hunter turned its head and stared at her.

It’s so frightening…

I should just grit my teeth and kill her directly.

‘Bloody Hunter, I don’t really want to kill anyone now, but I’m afraid of her revenge. Is there a way for her to never harass me in the future?”

Howl!

Kelly had absolutely no idea how Chen Zhao communicated with the monster before him, the so-called Bloody Hunter.

He seemed to be able to understand the monster’s words, which caused Kelly to be even more creeped out.

“Yes, but I can’t cast it. You need Blood Brand.”

“What’s Blood Brand?”

“It’s a type of Demonic Sorcery. To prevent subordinate demons from betraying, a superior demon will apply Blood Brand on its subordinates. If the superior demon dies, so will all the inferior demons under it.”

“What if the subordinate demons die?”

“The superior demon will not be harmed at all.”

“So who knows this demonic spell?”

“You can ask Raz. Perhaps he sells this kind of spell scrolls.”

After consideration, Chen Zhao touched the ring on his hand.

Then, Kelly saw a green monster walk out from the shadows. The green-skinned beast was not heavily built, but it had many sharp teeth in its mouth, a pair of protruding horns on its head, and a tail behind it.

“Raz, do you have a spell scroll for Blood Brand?”

“Is this the human world? It’s my first time here…”

“Quick. Do you have a scroll for Blood Brand?”

“Yes. Please wait.” Raz took out a scroll out of nowhere and gave it to Chen Zhao. “Thank you for your purchase. One month worth of demonic crystals please.”

Kelly watched as Chen Zhao talked to the monster which was giving off weird noises. She had no idea what it was saying.

“Err… I forgot to bring any. Can I owe you first?”

“Of course, but you need to pay me interest.”

“That’s troublesome.”

“The respectable living, I have a spatial ring. Do you need it?”

“Spatial ring? The kind that can carry many items?”

“Yes, its interior is about the size of a room. I have traded it from a demonic dragon at a high price, so it’s not going to be cheap.”

“How much does it cost?”

“100 years worth of demonic crystals.”

“So expensive?”

“Of course, but the price is definitely reasonable. You can ask Lord Vito.”

“I don’t have that much demonic crystals at the moment. I’ll buy it in the future when I have enough.”

“You can owe me first. Pay me within a year with an additional ten years worth of demonic crystals.”

“Let me think about it.”

100 years worth of demonic crystals was not a small amount.

After all, so far Chen Zhao had only obtained about twenty years worth of demonic crystals in total.