I am an insect

Ji Ye chose to move sideways and instantly passed through the wall at the side of the corridor.

For Ji Ye, who exists as a thought form at this moment, without any extension like a hook, he can ignore all physical objects, whether concrete walls or impenetrable fortresses, and pass through them directly. Of course, he cannot affect the real world at this time.

Passing through the wall, Ji Ye floated into the outpatient hall, where the hospital's largest and most diverse group of people had gathered. There were doctors and nurses rushing in and out, patients coming in to register, and relatives or friends accompanying patients. Almost none of these people had ever seen Li Hao before, and countless people had come and gone throughout the day. The difficulty of investigating all of them was unimaginable.

Ji Ye took a liking to one of the young men and was about to pounce on him when he suddenly stopped.

This hospital is under surveillance everywhere. Although many people come and go every day, they cannot escape the surveillance. With enough manpower and time, it is not impossible to find out.

He didn't know the extent of the power behind the man in the white hat, and with everything unknown, he had to be cautious.

After a moment's hesitation, he gave up.

Since he wanted to completely cut off the other party's trail, he decided not to choose anyone in the hospital.

He decided to leave the hospital area and choose another person. He believed that no matter how powerful the white-hat man was, he couldn't possibly trace someone who hadn't appeared in this area at all today.

"It's sunny outside now, so we can't leave. We can only hide here for a while and leave after the sun sets."

Ji Ye considered going underground, traveling through the ground where sunlight could not reach.

But for some reason, as soon as the mental body entered the ground, before it was fully inside, a great fear arose in its heart, as if something far more terrifying than sunlight was hidden in the earth, and that once it was fully inside the earth, it would be its death.

This eerie and terrifying feeling made him completely afraid to go underground.

The presence of underground facilities, including underground parking lots and sewers, filled him with fear, making him hesitant to enter in his mental form.

Ji Ye looked around the outpatient hall and saw that no one was paying attention to him floating in mid-air. However, he quickly left the hall, went up through the ceiling, and then through a wall to a room where medical supplies were stored. The room was empty and quiet, which suited him perfectly. Due to his inexplicable fear of the earth, he chose to hide as high up as possible.

He decided to stay there until sunset, then leave the hospital when it got dark, and then find a suitable body away from the hospital area.

His mental form fears sunlight and can only move freely when the sun sets.

Ji Ye sat down, stretched out his right hand, and watched his mental body change. He extended his right hand forward, and soon the extension of his mental body, the black hook, reappeared.

"Unlike mental entities, which cannot interfere with physical matter, this black hook has undergone a change and can now influence physical matter. Of course, this influence is not strong yet..."

Just like when he used the sharp edge of the hook to cut across the white-hatted man's waist and abdomen, if the hook were a physical object, the white-hatted man would have been disemboweled immediately, and his body would probably have been cut in half at the waist. But in reality, only his clothes were torn and he suffered some minor flesh wounds. The real fatal injury was to the white-hatted man's mental form hidden inside.

This indicates that the black hook can damage real-world objects and has limitations; at least compared to real objects, it falls short.

After studying it for a while, Ji Ye realized that the giant tentacles of the white-hatted man should be like his own hooks, both being extensions of his mental entity.

"If this guy is an adult insect like me, why is he killing other adults? Don't they want more adults to appear?"

"Nowadays, cremation is the norm. People are cremated after death, and the body isn't preserved for forty-nine days, so it's rare for adult worms to develop fully metamorphosed. But in the past, people were buried in the ground, and the bodies weren't cremated, so the possibility of adult worms appearing was much higher... What happened to those adult worms that appeared back then?"

Ji Ye felt increasingly uneasy as he thought about it. Throughout history, how many people have died? And since the ancients were mostly buried in the ground, how terrifying must the number of adult insects be after forty-nine days when they emerge from their cocoons?

But the question is, where did these adult insects go? And where are they now?

The more he thought about it, the more chilled he felt. Ji Ye had originally thought that as long as humanity existed, he could live a good life forever.

But now, upon closer reflection, the truth may be far more terrifying than I imagined.

"Could this be... the real reason for cremation...?"

Ji Ye shook his head, somewhat unable to imagine it, and then he thought of Li Hao.

After so much time and effort, we should now know whether Li Hao survived or not. However, based on his estimation, Li Hao has a high probability of surviving.

"Kid... I'm the one who dragged you into this mess and made you suffer like this... When the opportunity arises in the future, I'll definitely make sure you don't lose out..."

Ji Ye thought that if he had the chance in the future, he should make it up to Li Hao.

If it weren't for the fear of the earth, it would be best to escape underground, but for now, we can only wait until dark to leave.

Lost in a jumble of thoughts, Ji Ye slowly closed his eyes and began to rest in the medical supplies room.

Suddenly the door to the medical supplies room was pushed open, and a nurse in a nurse's uniform pushed in a small cart filled with a large number of medicines.

The nurse had just entered when she suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked in Ji Ye's direction.

Ji Ye felt a chill run down his spine. Could she see him?

The nurse's mouth was slightly open, as if she wanted to make a sound. Ji Ye didn't have time to think, and instantly retreated, passing through the wall behind her and disappearing into the medical supplies room.

"What's going on? She can see me? Is she with that man in the white hat? And now she's come to the hospital?"

Ji Ye had originally planned to wait until dark before leaving the area and slowly find a suitable body. Now he realized something was wrong. He was afraid that the other party had already discovered that the man in the white hat had an accident and had now found the hospital. If he stayed here any longer, it would be dangerous.

"Leave immediately." Ji Ye instantly passed through several walls and rushed out of the hospital building. The speed of his telekinetic movement was terrifying, and he was gone in an instant.

He chose the side of the building that was away from the sun, a shady spot where people were coming and going, hurrying about. There was a street right in front of him, bustling with people and cars.

Ji Ye wanted to get as far away from here as possible, find a suitable candidate, and make it harder for the other party to find him, but apart from the shadows behind this building, the outside was bathed in sunlight, and he couldn't see anything in the sunlight.

There were nine people walking in the shadows behind the building: four women, two patients, an elderly person, and a child. Only one middle-aged man in his forties seemed to be in the best physical condition.

Ji Ye immediately pounced on the seemingly ordinary middle-aged man, instantly taking over his body.