Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

The mire monster took Chen Zhao to his dilapidated cave as a guest. The mire monster lived here alone.

A few miles outside the ruined cave is a swamp, in which some low-level demonic beasts and some hellish creatures live.

Chen Zhao had seen records about hellworms in demon medical books. To put it bluntly, they were a kind of parasite.

The former God of Death once conducted experiments on humans and demons, and hellworms could parasitize both of them.

However, hellworms are not fatal to demons, but are very deadly to humans.

Fortunately, there are no hellworms in the human world, and the human world is not suitable for hellworms to survive. Unless the hellworms can find a host in the human world in a very short time, it will be almost impossible to survive.

And because of the environment in the human world, even if one or two hellworms appear, at most one or two people will suffer, without causing a large-scale spread.

In hell, being parasitized by hellworms is a common disease, just like roundworms parasitizing humans in the past.

Some little demons and low-level demons are miserable because although the hellworms can't kill them, they are very painful.

In the notes of the former God of Death, he proposed two treatment options, one is physical expulsion, and the other is surgery.

The other is to get rid of it through drugs, which is similar to how humans get rid of roundworms. The former God of Death also discovered this plant in hell, poison ivy.

Poison ivy is a common poisonous weed in hell. It contains a toxin that is fatal to both demons and humans. Therefore, poison ivy cannot be taken directly and must undergo certain processing.

The antidote made after removing the poison from poison ivy can make the hellworm leave the host's body in a short period of time.

"Bloody Stalker, go get some poison ivy."

"Okay, Your Excellency."

It wasn't long before the Bloodstalkers found a bundle of poison ivy.

Chen Zhao began to extract the medicinal properties of the poison ivy leaves. He used a beaker filled with the devil's blood and put the poison ivy leaves in. The toxins in the poison ivy leaves would be absorbed by the devil's blood, and then took out the poison. The toxicity of kudzu grass has basically disappeared.

Afterwards, Chen Zhao asked the mire monster to take the prepared herbal medicine.

Of course, the mire monster is very reluctant. After all, in his eyes, poison ivy is extremely poisonous and will kill the devil.

However, the Blood Stalker was obviously also deadly, so he reluctantly took poison ivy.

It didn't take long for a hellworm to come out of the mire monster's vomit.

It was a creature that seemed to be three fingers thick, about one meter long, with suckers on both ends of its head and tail. It was dark red and still looked very energetic, trying to get close to Chen Zhao.

After Chen Zhao took two steps back, the bloody stalker crushed the hellworm with one kick.

After excluding the hellworms, the mire monster was obviously much more energetic.

This is the first demon he has cured, but being parasitized by hellworms is not a difficult disease in the first place. The treatment process and medical theory are very clear, and there is no difficulty.

"Dear living beings, this is the soul I caught in the River Styx yesterday. Please accept it."

The mire monster held two souls imprisoned in a fist-sized crystal ball. Although they seemed to have shrunk a lot, Chen Zhao could still see the fear on their faces.

"Uh...I told you, I don't need the medical fee."

"No, this is not a medical fee, this is me expressing my respect to you."

"It's really not necessary. It's useless for me to hold it."

Chen Zhao really doesn't need it, so what should he do with it? He doesn't eat souls.

"These two souls look very complete. You are so lucky. Where did you catch them?" The bloody stalker looked at the two souls in the crystal ball.

After most souls fall into hell, they will drift along the River Styx, and demons are like fishermen, catching these fallen souls.

Some souls are relatively intact and can remember most of their life. Such souls have a relatively high value and can be divided into more than a dozen soul fragments. Some souls are more incomplete. Their memories have long been fragmented, and their value is naturally relatively low. It would be nice to be able to extract one or two soul fragments.

As subjects of the territory, they also have to pay certain taxes, which are soul fragments, to their lord.

For example, a small lord like Beelzebub can probably harvest thousands of soul fragments every year.

Although Beelzebub's strength was not strong, his territory was in a good location, and there was a section of the Styx River flowing through the territory, so Beelzebub's life was pretty good.

The Blood Stalker helped Chen Zhao find a few demons who were sick. The diseases suffered by these demons were all common diseases.

Chen Zhao's treatment was quite easy.

Through several practical cases, Chen Zhao has a deeper understanding of demon healing skills.

Reading books for ten years is not as effective as doing it yourself once.

In half a day, Chen Zhao returned to the human world.

Knock knock——

As soon as Chen Zhao came out of the basement, he heard a knock on the door.

Chen Zhao opened the door and saw a fat woman in her fifties standing outside the door, holding a piece of pizza in her hand.

"Hello, I am your neighbor. I live in the third house on the left opposite. I heard that a new neighbor has just moved here, so I came over to say hello. I just made this."

"Thank you, my name is Chen Zhao, you can call me Chen."

Chen Zhao did not refuse. After all, this was his first visit to the neighborhood. Pizza was not the focus, but the heartfelt intention.

As long as Chen Zhao wants to live here, he must have good relations with his neighbors.

Chen Zhao had no intention of pretending to be aloof, and had no intention of being a stranger who should not enter.

"I'm Mary and my husband's name is Bant. I think you'll become friends."

"I won't bother you anymore. Goodbye."

"goodbye."

Chen Zhao, Beelzebub and other demons gathered together to eat pizza, when there was another knock on the door.

Another uncle in his fifties. He is about the same age as Ethan, but he and Ethan are two completely different models. Ethan is the middle-aged and decadent version, while this uncle is tall and burly. He has a strong back and strong waist, and he is very imposing.

"Hello, I am Mary's husband. Mary said just now that a cute boy came here."

"Um...I'm not a cute boy..." Chen Zhao was very suspicious of how Mary described him when she came home, but he was definitely not cute.

"Well, anyway, Mary said you look quite pleasing to the eye, so we are having a bonfire party in town tonight, will you come?"

"Okay, thank you for the invitation. By the way, can I take my children with me?"

"Of course...are you married?"

Chen Zhao stepped aside, and a few little heads inside were eavesdropping in the corner.

"They are my children."

"Of course, I'll pick you up tonight."