Demons Beside You
chapter-53

After Fali and Faur reached Beverly Hills, they left the car and walked in.

“Zola Laurentham’s house should be right in front.”

“This place is so luxurious. The best coastline of Los Angeles, no, of the entire United States is taken by these rich people, and the richest among them took the best part.”

“Since they’re so rich, they’ll naturally try their best to enjoy the best. However, death is fair. Whether you’re rich or poor, you can’t escape death.”

“Faur, look there…” Fali suddenly pointed her finger in front.

“Why? Do you know that person?”

“No. Look closely. Isn’t that the amputated Daniel Laurentham in your files?”

On a road filled with windmill palms, there was a young man in sweatshirt running.

Faur immediately took out her files. “Are they twins?”

“Faur, look at his left leg. Looks like it’s from someone else. Did he find a person who’s willing to denote his leg and do limb exchange?”

“No way. It’s just been nine days since Daniel’s operation. Even if he did such a surgery, and it was successful without any rejection, he would also not be able to run so soon. Moreover… I don’t see any signs of stitching on his leg. It looks like his leg has developed normally.”

“But the color of his upper thigh is clearly different from the rest of his leg.”

Frowning, Faur called, “Daniel.”

Hearing the shout, Daniel turned his head and looked at Faur and Fali. Then, he jogged towards them.

“Ladies, do I know you?”

Daniel did not recognize Faur. After all, he was unconscious during the operation. After that, he was sent to his home directly. Thus, he had never seen Faur and did not know her identity.

“Daniel, weren’t you amputated? How…”

“Ha… That’s just misinformation. Actually I was only mildly injured that time even though everyone thought it was severe. Are you a friend of Riley? Or Joseph?” Daniel answered calmly. In fact, this was what he had been telling his friends over these few days.

“Is it? Have you not been amputated?”

“Of course not. If I was amputated, would I be able to stand in front of you now?” Daniel gave a dry laugh.

Little did he know that while this would work for all his schoolmates, it was completely useless before Faur.

That was because Faur was the person who had cut his leg off.

“Daniel, I forgot to explain. I’m actually a doctor. Nine days ago, I carried out amputation for a patient who had been bitten by a shark.”

“Sorry. I am busy. I have to leave now.” Daniel turned around, ready to run away.

He had just lied to someone whom he should have been afraid to meet. There was already no way he could explain himself.

“Daniel, I have with me your medical report. If you run away now, I’ll publicize the report right away.”

Daniel stopped and stared at Faur and Fali with a gloomy look. “What do you want? How much do you want?”

“We don’t want any money. We’re not blackmailers,” Faur said. “Did Chen connect your leg for you?”

“Chen? Who’s Chen? I don’t know him.”

Faur waved the medical report in her hand. “Are you sure?”

Daniel shamelessly snatched the report from Faur. “I’m very sure. I don’t know the Chen you’re talking about.”

“You can take all you want. I can print as many reports as I want from the hospital.”

“Just tell me a price. How about a hundred thousand dollars? As long as you stop disturbing me.”

“That’s generous, but unfortunately I don’t want any money. I only want Chen’s number.”

“Then just publicize the report. Nobody will believe you anyway, because the fact that I’m standing right now is enough to crush all rumors.”

“What if I add a video of the operation? Do you still think that nobody will believe it?”

Daniel gritted his teeth. “It doesn’t matter what you have. I’m not going to admit that I have any relations with Chen.”

“Why are you even trying to help him hide this? I will be able to find him sooner or later.”

“I don’t care if you can find him. In any case, I’m not going to tell anyone anything about him. As for whether you’re going to publicize my case, to be honest, although it can indeed cause me some trouble, it’ll be nothing serious. I can leave this place first and wait until everything is over. By then, nobody will remember what has happened to me. On the other hand, you’ll be sued for leaking a patient’s information. Then, I’ll make the two of you bankrupt because of the bad impact you’ve brought to your patient.”

Daniel was Zola’s son after all and had undergone elite education. Temporary panic did not mean that he was really at his wit’s end.

After he calmed down, he was no longer scared.

“Mr. Daniel, Chen has unparalleled medical knowledge. If he can use it on more people, he can save millions. God will thank you.”

“Ha… his medical knowledge can’t even be passed around.”

“Why not?”

“Let me ask you: do you believe in sorcery?”

“No,” Faur answered firmly.

No matter where one is, there would always be tricksters who claim that they can heal the sick with magic or something else.

Doctors are the ones who hate these tricksters the most. That included Faur.

She had seen many patients miss their best treatment periods because they believed in the so-called sorcery. Most of them had terrible endings.

“So we’ve got nothing to talk about. Goodbye.”

“Are you trying to say that Chen used sorcery to connect your left leg? Your original leg is still in the hospital now.”

“What if I say that my leg grew out right before my eyes? Do you believe it?”

Faur wanted to say that she did not believe it, but then she looked at the colors of Daniel’s legs. One was clearly the result of long-term sunlight, while the other looked like it had never been exposed to the Sun.

Therefore, she swallowed what she was about to say.

However, her sanity was telling her that it was only the result of something she had yet to understand, and not magic.

Looking at the leaving Daniel, Faur fell silent.

“Faur, are we still going to his house?”

Faur still kept quiet. After a while, she raised her head and stared at Fali. “Fali, do you believe in sorcery?”

“Ah… I don’t know…” Fali did not know what to do.

“You believed him, right?”

“No…”

“You’ve indeed believed his words.” Faur knew her sister way too well. When Fali was lying, she would be too scared to stare at Faur in her eyes.

“Faur, you saw Daniel’s leg yourself. It doesn’t look like the result of surgery. It’s more like his leg just grew out from the wound.”

“I’ll solve this mystery,” Faur said firmly.