Demons Beside You
chapter-129

“Dell, do you still recognize me?” Chen Zhao had to confirm if Dell was still fully conscious.

“Chen… Help me… It’s so painful…”

“Where?”

“My whole body…”

Standing beside them, Fali said, “Looks like epilepsy.”

Chen Zhao shook his head and said, “It’s abnormal heart rhythm caused by electric shock… Tsura, did Dell consume anything before you started playing?”

After slight hesitation, Tsura nodded.

“What drug is it?” Chen Zhao was unsurprised by Tsura’s response. In fact, he had found out that Dell had been consuming illegal drugs in his previous visits. In addition, he knew it was not weed, but something more intense.

“Highly concentrated MDMA.”

MDMA stands for 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, the main ingredient for ecstasy.

In fact, the amount of MDMA in ecstasy is relatively low. Consuming pure MDMA would produce more intense hallucinations and pleasure, but also have higher toxicity.

It was almost equivalent to death after enjoyment. Chen Zhao really could not understand this kind of person’s mentality.

Of course, as a doctor, Chen Zhao was not obliged to urge Dell to fight his drug addiction. Dell would not listen to him anyway.

After some examination, Chen Zhao confirmed that Dell was suffering from complications due to abnormal heart rhythm, which thereby caused his convulsions.

To be more direct, his own body was sending him an alarm.

Chen Zhao turned his head and instructed Tsura, “Go fill the bathtub with water, warm water… the kind that you can still put your hand in.”

A few minutes later, Tsura ran out from the bathroom.

“Done.”

Chen Zhao carried Dell into the bathroom, which was really easy given his current strength.

Putting Dell into the bathtub, Chen Zhao turned his head and said to Fali, “Bring me my toolbox.”

Tsura and Fali both stood outside the bathroom so as not to disturb Chen Zhao’s work.

Fali knew some first aid, but she could not understand what Chen Zhao was doing.

“Chen, why did you put him into warm water?”

“The human body is very sensitive, especially to temperature. Warm water can relieve his contractions, but he still needs acupuncture. I don’t think you know much about acupuncture.”

In fact, most Americans are not unfamiliar with acupuncture. It often appears in films too.

“But can you see his acupoints clearly in water? Wouldn’t you insert the needle into the wrong spot?”

Chen Zhao did not doubt himself for a second. His other medical skills might be questionable, but he had been practicing acupuncture since young.

Acupuncture requires more than just the eyes. Chen Zhao also needed to feel the spots with his hand.

Dell was partially submerged in water at the moment. Although light would be refracted, Chen Zhao could confirm the acupoints by just touching and without even looking.

Dell’s body calmed down gradually and the convulsions also stopped.

Chen Zhao had managed to ease Dell’s abnormal heart rhythm with acupuncture.

Then, he carried Dell back into the bedroom and began to massage his muscles.

“Chen… be gentler… it hurts…”

“It’s good that you can still feel pain.” Chen Zhao was massaging the softer areas with a lot of force.

Apart from his abnormal heart rhythm, Dell was also poisoned by the illegal drug.

Chen Zhao still had to help him detoxify, that is, make him vomit the toxic substances.

…

Under the night sky, a car was racing towards Mountain Town.

David was driving at full speed, while Sienna was sitting on the front passenger seat.

Chris who was sitting on the rear seat seemed to be behaving unusually. She had been holding the mirror all this while.

“Chris, can you keep that mirror?” David said, glancing at the rear mirror.

However, Chris continued to look at the mirror with her head lowered, as if she had heard nothing.

Sienna’s expression became serious. Chris seemed to be asleep.

“Chris!” Sienna turned her head and attempted to wake Chris up.

There was no response. David and Sienna both felt rather anxious.

Suddenly, David saw Chris from the rear mirror. No, it was not Chris, but an unfamiliar face!

David was so shocked that he could not even hold the steering wheel properly. The car rocked on the road.

“David, drive properly. What are you doing?” Sienna complained.

“No…” David turned his head and looked at Chris. It was still Chris and nothing had changed.

“What’s wrong?” Sienna realized that David’s expression was somewhat strange.

“I’m not sure,” David muttered, uncertain. “When I looked at Chris from the rear mirror, I realized that… she’s someone else…”

Sienna also looked at the rear mirror, but she did not find anything unusual about Chris.

Nevertheless, she did not think that David was mistaken.

Anyhow, she also did not know what was happening. Nervousness crept up her spine as time passed by.

“Are we not there yet? I don’t think it took this long the last time I came here!” Sienna asked impatiently.

David tried his best to contain his fear. Although he was a cop, his identity and the gun in his pocket were of little help to their current situation.

“David, you see that billboard ahead?”

“Why?” David indeed saw a billboard at the side of the road.

“I remember we’ve already passed that billboard…”

“Maybe there are several of them. Sometimes there are identical billboards on the road…” David explained, but only as an attempt to comfort himself.

“No!” Sienna suddenly shouted. “I remember clearly that the light at the center of that billboard was flickering. We’ve indeed passed that billboard already!”

“It’s just coincidence…” David continued to drive forward.

However, an identical billboard appeared before them soon.

In the row of lights above the billboard, the one at the center was also flickering.

David could feel all his hair rise up instantly.

“We’ve been driving on the same section all this time,” Sienna confirmed.

“Why… Why would this happen…”

Suddenly, a figure bolted in front of the car. David stamped on the brake in panic.

“Did we hit?” Sienna’s face turned pale as well.

The two quickly rushed out of the car. However, they realized that the person lying on the ground before the car was Chris.

“What? What’s happening?” David looked at Chris in puzzlement.

Chris was before them, so who was in the car?

With a serious expression on her face, Sienna also turned her head and looked into the car. Because of the headlights before them, they could not really see what was in the car.

Sienna walked to the car door and looked inside. It was empty.

There was no one.