I am an insect

Ji Ye suddenly realized that after emerging from the cocoon and breaking free from the shackles of human corpses, he had evolved into an existence completely different from these ordinary humans; he was now a life form of another dimension.

"Perhaps this is what people call ghosts... but a more accurate term is not ghost, but adult insects, life forms more advanced than humans..."

With almost a thought, Ji Ye stood up completely from his own corpse, passed through the ice coffin, and hovered in mid-air above it.

Feeling the energy surging through his body, Ji Ye felt an unprecedented sense of fulfillment. Looking down at his body, he saw that his naked body was absolutely perfect. Every muscle and every line was a masterpiece of God in his eyes, full of youth and vitality, and overflowing with powerful energy.

He could even sense an invisible magnetic field surrounding him, a field that existed because of him.

He lived to be 101 years old, and the entire century combined did not equal the wonderful and fulfilling feeling he had at this moment.

"Is this the adult insect described in ancient books?"

Even if Ji Ye lived to be a hundred years old, he would still be as excited and thrilled as a child who had suddenly received a beloved toy.

With a thought, he floated down to the staff member next to the ice coffin, making sure that the staff member really couldn't see him.

"Hey..." He greeted the staff member in front of him, somewhat anticipating the staff member's terrified reaction if he suddenly heard his voice but couldn't see him.

Seeing that the person did not react, Ji Ye understood that he could not see or hear his voice.

He is now unable to communicate or interact with anyone.

He frowned, reached out and grabbed at the face of the staff member in front of him, wanting to see if he could touch him.

Just as he had guessed, his five fingers pierced right through the man's face. The man felt nothing, but Ji Ye could feel blood flowing through his fingers and even sensed a faint, elusive thought hidden within the man's body.

However, compared to his current self, this thought was so weak that it was almost negligible.

Ji Ye understood.

"I see. I've essentially abandoned my physical body and become an independent entity of thought. To communicate with this world, I need to rely on the body of a living person."

"The so-called adult insect is actually a thought that transcends life and death. The ordinary human body is just a tool for communicating with this world. Once it is damaged or old, it can be replaced at any time. As long as humans exist, I can live forever."

Ji Ye withdrew his hand. Now he could easily erase the pitifully weak and fragile will within the staff member in front of him and take over his body.

However, since he could freely choose his body, he naturally wanted to choose a young and healthy one. He didn't find the body of the middle-aged man in front of him, who was already in his forties and had become overweight, appealing.

Turning around, Ji Ye prepared to leave the hall and go outside to select his ideal young human body. Suddenly, he heard a strange wailing sound coming from the crematorium, as if someone was crying.

The sound wasn't just audible to him; the funeral home staff in the hall could also hear it.

For these staff members, they often hear this sound, and there are many reasonable explanations. For example, during the cremation process, the gases in the body may expand due to the high temperature and be expelled from the body, causing a sound similar to crying.

It could also be the sound of bones breaking, or the sound of muscle fibers, fat, bones and joints on the body burning.

So when they heard this crying-like sound, they were already used to it and no one paid much attention to it.

But Ji Ye was drawn by the sound and turned to look at the crematorium. He suddenly opened his eyes wide and showed an expression of disbelief.

He saw an old man, completely naked and somewhat transparent, passing through the crematorium and floating outwards.

Like him, the old man's body could pass through physical matter without any hindrance, indicating that he was also a form of will. However, compared to his own almost substantial will, the old man's body was nearly transparent, and his will was much weaker.

Ji Ye immediately understood that the old man was the consciousness that was currently cremating the corpse in the incinerator.

Unlike the one who had been stored for forty-nine days to form a pupa, this old man must have just died and was quickly sent for cremation. He did not complete the forty-nine-day pupa transformation process, so his mental form was very weak, and even his physical appearance remained that of an old man before his death.

The old man was passing through the crematorium and floating outwards, his face showing extreme weakness.

"So, even if a corpse hasn't gone through the forty-nine-day pupal stage, its spirit will still appear once it's cremated, though it will be extremely weak. Wouldn't the world then be filled with these kinds of dead people's spirits?"

Just as Ji Ye had this thought, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a white hat with his arms crossed suddenly spit out the cigarette he had smoked most of, and his arms, which had been crossed, fall down next to the several funeral home staff members who were busy outside the crematorium.

Something suddenly burst forth from his body, a giant tentacle resembling a squid. With a "snap," the giant tentacle lashed out at the old man's mental form like a whip.

The old man's mental form was already extremely fragile, and when it was struck by this giant tentacle, it immediately shattered and vanished like smoke.

Ji Ye vaguely heard a scream from the old man's mental form, which then dissipated into the air like a wisp of smoke and ceased to exist.

Meanwhile, the funeral home staff continued with their work, seemingly oblivious to what was happening before them, seeing and hearing nothing.

"How is this possible?" Ji Ye stared at the scene in shock, when he suddenly noticed that the middle-aged man in the white hat had turned around and was looking at him, with a cigarette in his mouth again, which he had lit with a lighter.

A giant tentacle, over a meter long, coiled around his waist, resembling a giant python, wriggling and slithering back and forth inside his body.

Clearly, this giant tentacle is also similar to a mental entity, which allows it to disregard the material world and move freely.

Ji Ye was certain that the middle-aged man in the white hat could see him.

After taking a long drag on his cigarette, the middle-aged man in the white hat strode towards Ji Ye.

Ji Ye sensed a strong hostility, and his instincts told him that he was in danger. Combined with the scene of the giant tentacles that had just appeared in the white-hatted middle-aged man's body and destroyed the old man's mental body, Ji Ye immediately understood that the white-hatted middle-aged man was going to attack him. He could not only see the mental body, but the giant tentacles that appeared in his body could also kill the mental body.

Could it be that he is specifically here to hunt down the mental entities that appear after the cremated corpses?

Terrified, Ji Ye immediately turned and rushed out of the hall, trying to escape.