Anthony stopped talking and didn't continue, but Gu Shi knew that he regretted bringing Asher to his home.
But so far, apart from the lingering smell of the devil on his body, Gu Shi didn't see anything wrong with Asher. From the brief contact just now, he didn't think Asher was a bad person.
However, as the saying goes, it is easy to draw the skin of a tiger but difficult to draw its bones, and you can know a person's face but not his heart. Since Anthony said so, there must be some problems with Asher, so it is better to pay more attention to him.
The two of them ended the topic about Asher. In order to verify his guess, in the following time, Gu Shi began to quietly inquire about Anthony's social circle.
While listening to Anthony describe his acquaintances, Gu Shi silently made a list in his mind, preparing to investigate them one by one later.
The two of them were very engrossed in their conversation, and time passed by unnoticed until Anthony's parents, who had gone out shopping, came back carrying large and small bags of things.
When Anthony saw his parents pushing the door open, he hurried forward to help carry the things. Seeing this, Gu Shi felt it was not appropriate to just stand there in a daze, so he stepped forward, pulled the handle, carried the things into the restaurant, and left on his own accord.
After all, Gu Shi was just a tenant he had just met. If he stayed to help pack up, it would feel like he was spying on Anthony's family's supplies. Although they might not think so, he still consciously avoided suspicion.
Gu Shi was extremely busy in the next few days. In addition to observing the movements of Anthony's family, he also had to find time to confirm the list he got from Anthony that day and inquire about Asher's information.
Gu Shi’s efforts were not in vain, and he achieved a lot of results during this period.
First, the observation records of Anthony's family showed that they were busy preparing supplies and went out early every morning. Nothing unusual was found in their behavior.
Then, when exploring Anthony's social circle, Gu Shi focused on two types of people.
One is that Anthony has paid close attention to the other party, but the other party has not paid much attention to Anthony. The other is that the other party knows Anthony very well, but Anthony has only met him a few times.
The first type of people Gu Shi found were several regular customers of Anthony's house. Anthony, who was good at observation, knew their personalities and preferences very well, but their impression of Anthony only remained as the son of the restaurant owner.
Not surprisingly, these characters all have quite lively and flexible personalities.
The other category is completely the opposite. They are relatives and elders about whom Anthony has little impression, but they have a good relationship with Anthony's parents and have always kept in touch with them, so they can be said to know Anthony well.
After Gu Shi's testing, he found that although the behavior of these people was not completely fixed, it still revealed a certain degree of mechanization.
To sum up all these points, the problem indeed lies with Anthony. This illusion should be built with him as the core.
After finding more conclusive evidence, Gu Shi soon had a new guess. With so many years of experience in surfing the Internet, he immediately thought of a possibility: could this illusion be made up of Anthony's memories?
Gu Shi thought about it carefully and felt that this possibility was very high, so he wrote this guess directly on the first line of a separate page in the notebook.
Finally, there was the communication with Asher. Gu Shi racked his brains, but the progress was still very slow.
As one of the tenants invited by Anthony, and because of Asher's own special characteristics, Gu Shi believed that he was at least an important figure in this illusion. It was a pity that Asher was quite difficult to approach.
In the past few days, Gu Shi has been trying every possible way to talk to Asher, but Asher, just as he showed, did not want to have too much contact with other people.
Apart from eating and washing, Asher stayed in his room most of the time. Gu Shi had no contact with him at other times, let alone get closer to him.
Moreover, the two of them didn't have much to talk about. Apart from greeting each other, Gu Shi also tried to talk about other topics at the dinner table, but Asher didn't respond, and it ended in embarrassment.
However, Gu Shi did not gain nothing. During the awkward chats with Asher, he finally had the opportunity to experience the chilling breath that Anthony described.
The incident happened at noon the day before yesterday. Gu Shi was originally sitting next to Asher to have dinner together. Suddenly, Asher's hand holding the bowl of rice paused, and his aura changed without warning.
Gu Shi's hair stood on end. Asher in this state made him feel a strange danger. His instinct was screaming at Gu Shi to leave here quickly.
Gu Shi forcibly suppressed his urge to run away, and instead turned his head, taking the opportunity to observe the expression on Asher's face.
Asher seemed to be stimulated by something, and his expression was extremely ferocious. Coupled with the horrific burns on the left half of his face, it looked like he wanted to eat people.
Gu Shi asked cautiously, "Mr. Asher, are you okay?"
Asher seemed not to hear Gu Shi's question. He sat in his seat, covering his face with one hand and closing his eyes as if he was struggling with something invisible.
Gu Shi didn't dare to disturb him easily, for fear that Asher would suddenly go crazy and start fighting.
He had already found an opportunity to test Asher before. As expected, Asher was a professional, and his level was higher than Gu Shi.
Before knowing Asher's strength, Gu Shi did not intend to provoke him easily.
Gu Shi was somewhat relieved that there were only the two of them here. Anthony's family had eaten early today and went out to buy shopping. If they were here, someone might have screamed.
The two of them remained in a stalemate like this for a long time, and Asher's aura finally calmed down a bit.
After recovering a little, Asher stood up and returned to his room without saying a word. It was obvious that he did not want to explain to Gu Shi what was wrong with him.
It was not easy for Gu Shi to force others to stay at this time. Although Asher had recovered, Gu Shi could feel that his breath was still fluctuating like a time bomb.
If he explodes here because of my recklessness, I'll be doomed.
In this way, Gu Shi was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg beneath Asher's appearance.
What’s interesting is that when Asher was in a bad state, Gu Shi could feel that the originally faint demonic aura on him suddenly became stronger.
It seems that Asher's problems are closely related to the devil.
After realizing this, Gu Shi silently raised Asher's danger level in his mind. From his past experiences, it was definitely not a good thing to be associated with the devil, so he had to be more vigilant.
From that day on, Asher began to actively avoid Gu Shi's approach. Sometimes, as soon as he saw Gu Shi's figure, he would turn around and leave.
Asher's non-cooperation further reduced Gu Shi's efficiency. He had no choice but to temporarily give up the idea of building a good relationship with Asher.
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