Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

Chen Zhao and Ella Gonzalez stood in front of a Chinese restaurant.

Chen Zhao wanted to say to her: Are you fucking kidding me?

However, Chen Zhao still maintained his rationality.

"Miss Ella, do you know where I am from?"

"I know, Chinese."

"What I want to eat is local food in Mexicali, not Chinese food. If I want to eat it, I can make it myself."

"But the most famous food in Mexicali is the Chinese restaurant." Ella Gonzalez shrugged at Chen Zhao.

It’s true, the most famous food in Mexicali is Chinese food.

Visiting Mexicali without eating Chinese food is like visiting the Chinese capital without visiting the Great Wall.

"This Chinese restaurant is really delicious." Ella Gonzalez emphasized.

"Okay, I know it's delicious." Chen Zhao scratched his hair: "Okay, let's go in and give it a try."

The waiters in the Chinese restaurant include Chinese and local aborigines.

After seeing Chen Zhao and Ella Gonzalez come in, a Chinese waitress came over immediately.

"Hello sir, madam, what do you need?"

"Please serve some of your signature dishes." Chen Zhao said in Chinese.

The Chinese waiter looked at Chen Zhao and said in Chinese: "Are you traveling in China?"

"That's right." Chen Zhao responded.

Chen Zhao also heard that this waiter was not of Chinese descent, but a Chinese himself.

There are still some differences between the Chinese language of Chinese and Chinese people. Foreigners may not be able to tell it, but Chinese people will certainly be able to tell it.

This woman also recognized Chen Zhao's Chinese, so she spoke to Chen Zhao in Chinese.

"Hello, I'm Zhang Yi."

"Hello, Chen Zhao."

"I won't disturb you anymore. I'll go and help you place your order first." Zhang Yi finished the order.

After a while, Zhang Yi brought a plate of plain-cut chicken to the table.

"Are you free? Let's sit down and chat." Chen Zhao had not communicated with Chinese people for a long time.

Not counting Zhang Tianyi, Chen Zhao and that old bastard had never had a serious exchange of words.

It only makes sense to talk to ordinary people like Zhang Yi.

"Sorry, I still have work, and I'd better not disturb you and this beautiful lady."

"Okay." Chen Zhao didn't intend to force anyone into trouble.

For a moment, Chen Zhao really wanted to slap a few thousand dollars on the table, and then said to Zhang Yi, I'll buy it for you in thirty minutes.

"Mr. Chen, what do you think of the taste here?" Ella Gonzalez looked at Chen Zhao expectantly.

The taste here cannot be said to be bad, but it is still somewhat different from that at home.

After all, after Chinese food is exported to other parts of the world, it will undergo a certain degree of localization.

Even in Mexicali.

"Not bad." Chen Zhao replied, "You should eat some too."

To be honest, the taste here is still a lot worse than Chen Zhao's own taste.

If he wants to eat Chinese food, Chen Zhao would rather eat it at home.

After leaving the restaurant, Zhang Yi chased him to the door.

"Mr. Chen, this is a Chinese knot from our restaurant."

"Oh, thank you." Chen Zhao took the Chinese knot and said, "Are you studying here?"

"Yes, yes." Zhang Yi nodded.

"I'm leaving, goodbye." Chen Zhao said.

"goodbye."

Chen Zhao and Ella Gonzalez left, and Ella Gonzalez also planned to get off work.

"Mr. Chen, I will come to your hotel at 9:30 tomorrow morning."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

Chen Zhao returned to the hotel and found that the door of his suite was opened.

This door lock is a fingerprint lock, and judging from the condition of the door lock, it is not opened by force.

Nowadays, hotels all have alarm systems. If the door of any room is forcibly opened, the alarm will be triggered.

Chen Zhao entered the room and checked his luggage.

The suitcase was also opened, and the clothes and daily necessities inside were thrown everywhere.

Almost everything was destroyed.

The tablet was lost.

Chen Zhao picked up the internal phone and dialed the hotel customer service.

Not long after, the customer service manager came to the door. Seeing Chen Zhao's messy suitcase, his heart skipped a beat.

Chen Zhao is a black card customer, and he was already marked when he checked into the hotel.

Now Chen Zhao's luggage has been ransacked, which is like a disaster for their hotel.

"I need to check the surveillance before I return to the hotel at 5pm." Chen Zhao said calmly.

"Of course, no problem, Mr. Chen, do you need to call the police?" the customer service manager asked cautiously.

"not needed for now."

The customer service manager took Chen Zhao to the monitoring room.

He said to the security guard on duty in the monitoring room: "Immediately retrieve the surveillance video from the 20th floor, starting at 5 p.m."

The security guard on duty vaguely realized something was wrong by looking at the customer service manager's tone and expression.

I quickly retrieved the surveillance at that time, but after some operations, the security guard on duty suddenly turned his head pale and looked at Chen Zhao and the customer service manager.

"Manager...the monitoring was not recorded..."

"What? No recording? How do you work?"

Generally, surveillance videos of banks or financial institutions are retained for at least three months.

The hotel has been open for at least a week, but now Chen Zhao wants to check the video from a few hours ago, but he can't find it.

Chen Zhao obviously couldn't accept this explanation.

"Why wasn't it recorded?"

"I...I don't know...I haven't done it before." The security guard on duty said in a panic: "I have been working normally. How come there is no recording? It's strange...it clearly shows continuous recording. ."

Chen Zhao looked at the surveillance screen. After a few minutes, he said, "These surveillance cameras are connected to an outside line, and they give a constant picture."

The security guard on duty didn't have any skills. He couldn't do anything other than press a few buttons, so we could rule out that he had done anything.

But the security guard on duty was still panicking: "How could this happen? Why is this happening?"

Chen Zhao turned around and left the monitoring room. Such professional technical work was not something a petty thief could do.

Chen Zhao probably knew who did it.

Because Chen Zhao has already found the stolen goods.

These people probably thought that Chen Zhao couldn't find any evidence, so he was so unscrupulous.

Chen Zhao knocked on Ham's door. When Ham saw Chen Zhao, the corner of Ham's mouth curved.

"Mr. Chen, have you just come back? Is Mexicali fun?"

"Give me my stuff back and I'll pretend it never happened."

A look of teasing appeared on Ham's face: "Mr. Chen, what are you talking about? I don't understand what you mean at all."

"You just need to answer me, pay it back or not." Chen Zhao still looked at Ham calmly.

"I don't understand what you mean. If it's okay, please leave. I'm tired. Goodbye."