I am an insect

"Only you? Where is Tian Cang?"

As Ji Ye spoke, he glanced at the seven men and women in white hats behind him, fearing that Tian Cang, like the man in sunglasses, had also changed bodies and was hiding among these seven men and women in white hats, ready to launch a sneak attack that would be impossible to defend against.

Previously, whenever he saw these white hats, he only thought about how to escape. He had never really looked at these people carefully. Tonight, he was determined to fight them. As he looked at these people, Ji Ye suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon.

The man in sunglasses was followed by seven people, five men and two women, all wearing matching white hats. Everything seemed normal, but what puzzled Ji Ye was their ages.

Normally, these people have a large and powerful force, unlike him who needs to constantly flee and hide. They have plenty of time to slowly select the youngest and strongest bodies so that they can exert their strongest combat power.

But what he sees now is not like that.

Of the five men and two women, only one was in his twenties, most were between thirty and forty, and the most outrageous was a man who looked to be over fifty with many wrinkles on his face.

Although once a mental entity takes over a human body, it can continuously strengthen and improve that body, even a body that was originally very weak can eventually become very powerful after being continuously modified by the mental entity.

However, no matter how much a human body that is already in its fifties and in a period of decline is strengthened, the final effect it achieves will never be comparable to that of a young person in their twenties or thirties who is also constantly strengthened.

"Strange, they don't need to hide themselves like I do, so why would they choose such a body?" Ji Ye thought of the white-hatted man he first saw at the funeral home, who was also a middle-aged man.

"Could it be that they can't choose their bodies freely? Are there some kind of restrictions or conditions when choosing a body? Otherwise, it's incomprehensible that anyone would choose such an aging human body." Ji Ye's mind raced, and this was the only possibility he could think of.

Upon hearing Ji Ye's words, the man in sunglasses frowned slightly, reached out, and gently stroked the weasel on his shoulder, saying, "Ji Ye, you're very confident that I can't handle you?"

Ji Ye remained silent, glancing at the weasel perched on his shoulder, already calculating in his mind how to kill it by surprise.

For him, neither Tian Cang nor the man in sunglasses was as troublesome as this weasel.

Seeing that Ji Ye remained silent, clearly acquiescing, the man in sunglasses felt a surge of anger. He chuckled and stretched out his hands, revealing four snow-white claws on the back of each hand.

He was incredibly fast. He brandished his claws, lowered his body, and with one claw above the other, grabbed at Ji Ye's throat and genitals.

Although Ji Ye had previously severed one of the man's left arms by taking advantage of the man in sunglasses' distraction, his success at that time was largely due to luck. Facing the man in sunglasses again, he dared not be careless.

As the man in sunglasses made his move, the seven men and women in white hats who had come with him quickly surrounded him. Three of them targeted Lin Ya, while the other four cooperated with the man in sunglasses to attack Ji Ye.

They already knew about Ji Ye and Lin Ya's current strength. Ji Ye was in the second stage of adult insects, just entering the sub-state, while Lin Ya was only in the initial stage of the first stage. Although she was at the limit of the initial state, any one of these white-hatted men and women was also at the limit of the initial state.

The three men and women in white hats working together could easily kill Lin Ya.

If it were the Lin Ya of the past, she would have panicked when she saw the three men and women in white hats surrounding her. But at this moment, she was very calm. Her eyes glowed slightly in the darkness, her hands hung at her sides, and she felt the earth-shattering changes happening inside her body.

The difference between the "initial state" and the "substate" of an adult insect seems to be only one step, but this one step is a world of difference.

As the three men and women in white hats pounced on her, Lin Ya also moved. She stomped her foot, swayed her body, and took the initiative to rush towards the three men.

These white-hatted men and women have all undergone professional training, including grappling and fighting, as well as teamwork. Compared to ordinary adult insects, they are much more formidable.

Although they didn't take Lin Ya seriously, in order to finish the battle quickly and avoid casualties, they still attacked together, hoping to eliminate Lin Ya in one fell swoop.

One of the men, wearing a white hat, let out a low shout, and a weapon resembling an insect's foreleg, covered in serrations, appeared in his right hand as he slashed at Lin Ya from mid-air.

With a "whoosh," his sure-fire strike missed. Lin Ya's movement speed suddenly increased, and the instant his serrated weapon missed, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. A yellow spike had pierced his abdomen, piercing through his body and the mental entity hidden within.

These yellow spikes contain a potent poison. Once they pierce the mind-body, they release a strong toxin that is fatal to the mind-body.

Without stopping, Lin Ya raised her right hand and pulled out the yellow thorn that had just pierced the abdomen of the white-hatted man, then lunged at another white-hatted woman.

While Lin Ya was being attacked by three men and women in white hats, Ji Ye was also being attacked by a man in sunglasses and four other men and women in white hats.

The man in sunglasses was the quickest to act. As his two claws reached out, Ji Ye didn't defend himself but instead retreated violently. With a "bang," he collided with a man in a white hat who was surrounding him from behind.

The man in the white hat didn't expect Ji Ye to move so fast. Before he could react, Ji Ye hit him. He then felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and a spurt of blood gushed out. His body spun around and fell to the ground, leaving a bloody hole in his abdomen.

Just as Ji Ye struck him, the hook in his right hand pierced his abdomen, penetrating the mental entity within, and then, with a spurt of blood, pulled the hook out.

The hook went in and out in the blink of an eye, and a man in a white hat was killed.

The man in sunglasses saw this and showed a hint of anger. He stomped his foot, and a faint mist suddenly appeared around his legs. This was mental energy that could attach itself to his legs.

His speed suddenly increased again.

Ji Ye had already realized that after the man in sunglasses grew to the "sub-state", he also gained some kind of special ability, similar to the "resonance" that he had mastered. The man in sunglasses' special ability was to instantly accelerate.

His original speed was already astonishing, and as smoke appeared around his legs, his speed increased again, so fast that even Ji Ye felt dizzy.

Knowing something was wrong, Ji Ye used both hooks together, and with a hum, activated "Resonance".

Affected by the "resonance", the thoughts and reactions of people around him will slow down. Although it only lasts for a moment, it is enough for Ji Ye.

He knew the man in sunglasses was powerful and couldn't be dealt with quickly, so Ji Ye's plan was to first eliminate the seven men and women in white hats, and then join forces with Lin Ya to kill the man in sunglasses, which would be much easier.