Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Professor Carroll, what on earth is that?"

"To be honest, before this, I had only seen photos, and they were female. We didn't even know there was a male in this thing." Professor Carroll said depressedly.

"As you said, how can they reproduce without a male?" Dale curled his lips: "But will you accept the employment? I want to raise a female."

Everyone looked at Dale, and then looked at Dale with perverted eyes.

Well, Dale feels like a pervert too.

Because...he really had that idea.

"You'd better give up this idea, otherwise I will crush your ****, I will definitely do it." Chen Zhao said with a dark face.

"Chen, I think we should break up with him and leave him in the mountains."

"I think so."

"Okay, okay, I was just joking."

Based on Chen Zhao's understanding of him, he was definitely not just joking.

If the operation wasn't a little more complicated, Dell would definitely put his perverted ideas into action.

Professor Carroll continued: "My knowledge of this monster is limited to one photo and the name given to it by a mental patient, the Crypt Devil."

"Do they live underground?"

"Probably." Professor Carroll nodded.

"So, are you here this time just to meet this underground demon? Or are you looking for something?" Chen Zhao asked curiously.

"Haha... do you want to know?"

"Think...if you'd like to talk."

"We have been to various parts of the world, and in many ancient ruins, there are more or less mentions of records about older civilizations, but most of them are indirect evidence, and during my investigation, I found some The evidence points to this place, which is probably a relic left by an ancient civilization.”

"Are you talking about the Mayan civilization?" Chen Zhao asked.

After all, whenever people talk about civilizations in the Americas, the first thing that comes to mind is the Inca, Mayan and Aztec civilizations.

Of course, as a foreigner, Chen Zhao heard more about the Mayan civilization.

The Mayan civilization is also the oldest civilization on the American continent, even earlier than the Egyptian civilization.

Professor Carroll shook his head: "It's not the Mayan civilization. The ancient civilization I'm talking about is more accurately said to be prehistoric civilization, which should be earlier than 10,000 years ago."

"And I suspect that those monsters are the degeneration or mutation of humans."

"You mean those ugly monsters? Are you sure they are the same species as us? Or are they close relatives?"

"Although they don't look like primates, this may be due to environmental factors. This is just like the three major human races of yellow, white and black. In fact, the current human beings in the world should have been 10,000 years ago. Born from one mother, that means these three major human races were born within ten thousand years, so under extreme circumstances, a fourth human race might not be born."

"Do the speculations about these monsters and the so-called prehistoric civilization you mentioned have anything to do with my question?"

"As I said before, we are an expedition team, and of course we are looking for something valuable."

"Is it something from prehistoric civilization?"

"That's right."

"What is it?"

"I don't know, we don't have a clear goal, but if we can confirm and prove the existence of prehistoric civilization through this adventure, then for us, we will have wealth and fame, which is also our pursuit .”

"How are you? Do you understand our work?" Professor Carroll looked at Chen Zhao with interest: "Are you interested in joining us? I believe you will become a very good explorer."

"Are there any weekends?" Chen Zhao explained it very well, why the conversation fell apart in the first sentence.

Curiosity is one thing, but who can bear it, like today, going to the mountains and forests every day and talking about life with these unreasonable monsters.

Chen Zhao would not accept it anyway. He is quite satisfied with his current working situation and pace of life.

This night seemed extremely long. Even though everyone present was very sleepy, they still didn't dare to fall asleep.

After all, no one knows whether he will encounter another monster.

Early the next morning, everyone packed up and hit the road again, leaving the forest.

"Chen, are you really not going to become an explorer?" Professor Carroll invited again.

"What's the salary package you're going to give me?"

"How about two hundred thousand dollars? That's a lot of money."

Indeed, an annual salary of two hundred thousand dollars is already considered a high salary.

But...does Chen Zhao like it?

"goodbye."

…

After leaving the forest, Chen Zhao, Lisfar and Dale parted ways with the expedition team.

"Chen... luckily you are here this time, otherwise, we might have died inside." Lisfar hugged Chen Zhao.

"Let go, I hate being hugged by a man like this."

"It feels so good to come out alive." Dale let out a long breath.

When Chen Zhao returned home, it was already noon.

After Chen Zhao rinsed himself all over, he lay on the armchair and had a good sleep.

Until evening, when Fali came back, she woke him up.

"Chen, you look very tired, do you want to continue sleeping?"

"I don't want to sleep when I see you." Chen Zhao pulled Fali and asked her to sit on his lap: "A, B, and C, you go prepare dinner."

"What's wrong with your hand?" Fali took Chen Zhao's right hand and saw bruises on it and medicine was applied on it.

"Don't mention it. Yesterday I went hunting in the mountains without incident, but I encountered something abnormal."

"Something dangerous?"

"It was a bit fierce, but it didn't pose much of a threat to me. I punched him to death, but he was rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and he also injured himself."

"Are Dale and Johnny okay?"

"They are fine, but they are quite frightened." Chen Zhao said.

"Then next time we go hunting, will we encounter this kind of danger?"

"It won't be so unlucky. There are so many monsters in this world."

"Next time the two of us go hunting, take the princess with us. The princess is the most powerful."

"Then when are you free? Let's go on vacation or camping together."

"I must not be free recently. After all, I only took five days off last time. It must be at least two months apart."

"Okay." Chen Zhao shrugged helplessly.

At this time, a lemur ran over and said, "Master, mistress, dinner is ready."

"Okay, you guys can go eat too."

"Please allow your humble servant to serve you two during your meal."