At noon, New York Cemetery.

A yellow man in a white shirt, black trousers, walks alone among the tombstones.

He had a tall nose that looked different from those Asians, and only on closer inspection could he tell that he was mixed-race.

The handsome Asian-looking man was Alex, who was dressed in disguise, his hair was blackened with a special dye, his skin was coated with a yellow potion, and his black eyes were due to contact lenses. From head to toe, he became completely indistinguishable from the Oriental. Whether it is walking posture or speech and behavior, there is no flaw.

Alex finds that his fake identity is more suitable for him, and instead of impersonating other people, he plays his previous self. Of course, his image and appearance must be different from his previous life, he has such good hardware conditions, and he looks more like Wu Yanzu after his disguise.

After learning that his abilities were strong, he became more eager to improve his abilities. After so many years of training, he only improved the fastest after killing Kane.

"Is it really to fight monsters and upgrade?" Sometimes, Alex laughs at himself when he thinks about it.

For the unknown, it is always necessary to go to the fear first, and then to become familiar with it and understand it.

At first, he was still a little worried that absorbing Kane's soul energy would have side effects.

If Kane's soul was stirring in his head, would it be schizophrenia if he continued like this?

With such worries, he groped carefully.

After many days of observation and understanding. He slowly understood. Kane's soul energy had long since disintegrated, and had been absorbed by his mental space, leaving no trace at all.

He speculated that after death, the soul remained in the body for a while and was not exposed until seven days or when the body was incinerated. Without the protection of the body, the soul will soon be eroded and decomposed, and then integrated into nature and become a part of the universe.

At the beginning of life, the soul has only a little spiritual light, and it has not yet grown up. As the body grows. It is not only necessary to draw nutrients from the outside to supply the body. It is also necessary to draw the energy of the universe for the soul to grow.

This process is also a process of self-formation, and children who have just been born have not yet formed a "self", nor can they distinguish themselves from others.

When a person dies. The body decays and decomposes and returns to nature. In the same way, the soul has an influence. It loses the shelter of its body and undergoes a series of changes. The specific changes, Alex is also half-understood now, in short, the soul energy will become another form.

A strong soul may have a different outcome. They can be sublimated into another form. The soul of an ordinary person can only be eroded, decayed, and decomposed like a fruit that falls into the mud, and finally becomes the energy of the universe, and then completes the last part of reincarnation.

It happened at the moment of Kane's death, when the fruit fell to the ground, and was intercepted by Alex's ability halfway. Kane's soul did not return to nature, but was absorbed and transformed by the spiritual space, and finally became the nourishment for the growth of the space.

Only in this way will Alex's ability be greatly improved. You must know that the growth of the space usually depends on Alex alone, but now there is another person's soul energy, and there is a great change immediately.

At least Alex can now activate two figures at the same time, which is a bit more expensive, but almost doubled. This kind of promotion, for him, is like flying.

In order to speed up the ascension, Alex repeatedly confirmed that there were no side effects, and he immediately found the nearest cemetery near New York, the Greenwood Cemetery in Manhattan, Brooklyn. The cemetery is over 100 years old and was built in the mid-19th century.

The cemetery is surrounded by highways, residential areas, factories and other construction facilities, and there is also a Newton River nearby, which is not very remote. The cemetery has been a tourist attraction for decades, with 500,000 visitors a year visiting the site, ranking alongside Niagara Falls.

In addition to large and small tombstones, there are several tall Gothic buildings in the cemetery, which were built with the funds of certain celebrities. From the outside, it looks like an ancient temple, and it has an elegant and heavy feeling.

This path is empty.

He chose a good time, and few tourists would visit the cemetery at this time. Even at noon, when the sun is fierce, standing in the cemetery, you can clearly feel the coldness of the whole body, as if the whole person is soaked in water.

After absorbing Kane's soul energy, Alex's perception ability has greatly increased, and he is very sensitive to all kinds of energy. When I first entered the cemetery, the feeling was not very strong, and the longer I stayed, the clearer the feeling became.

I may have felt something similar before, but it was flickering and vague.

Now he could clearly feel that around his body, there was a kind of negative energy, like water and fog, slowly flowing in the cemetery.

The reason why this energy is called negative energy by him is that in addition to feeling cold, it can also calm people's emotions and clear their brains. On the other hand, that kind of heat, excitement, eagerness, desire, etc., when they come to this environment, they are quickly neutralized and dissolved.

Alex wanted to absorb this negative energy into the mental space, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't absorb it. Soon, he discovered that his body exuded energy that was the opposite of this feminine energy, not only for him, but also for living people.

It felt like water and oil, not mixing with each other, and he tried for a while to no avail. In the end, Alex determined that he had no way to absorb the negative energy in the cemetery.

At the same time, he also observed some peculiar phenomena.

In the cemetery, I happened to meet someone who was buried, and the hearse carried the coffin slowly into the cemetery. He could clearly feel that a ball of energy had followed this coffin to the cemetery. This mass of energy is not the same as the negative energy in the cemetery, at least it is a group of energy that does not disperse.

Alex had wanted to touch the energy. It's a pity that I couldn't find a chance, so I had to give up. He studied the energy of the graveyard for a while, but he couldn't absorb it.

"Maybe it's because the energy around the cemetery has long since decomposed and deteriorated, and if someone just died, then there shouldn't be a problem." Alex thought to himself, and he immediately turned away and found a nearby hospital.

As soon as he walked into the hospital, Alex immediately felt that there was an energy similar to a cemetery surrounding him. After all, there are often dead people here, and the soul will slowly leave the body after the death of a human being. Once exposed. The soul energy will change, decay, and deteriorate.

Now he was finally able to be sure. This energy is left behind by the dead, but the negative energy in the hospital is much less than that in the cemetery. What's more, there are still living people walking around in the hospital to dispel and neutralize this energy.

And there is. He could feel it clearly in the hospital. There were clumps of energy wafting back and forth around them. I sensed it slightly. This mass of energy was similar to the one he encountered in the cemetery.

There may be different shapes, sizes, and energy levels, but in essence they are the same.

These clumps of energy are like unconscious gelatinous objects. There is a regular drift in the space of the hospital. Even if they encounter a living person, they will not dodge it. However, as the living passed through them, each mass of energy changed slightly, as if a small part of it had been taken away.

Maybe it's not taken away, but it's broken down and a part of it is gone.

Whenever he passed through this mass of energy, he immediately felt that this energy was exactly the same energy he was exposed to when he copied the information of other people's souls.

"It seems that this is the soul energy that has just died! It hasn't been completely corroded, decomposed and deteriorated, and I don't know if I can absorb it. ”

Alex was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately found a way to incorporate this mass of energy into the spiritual space, and then let it decompose in the space and become nutrients for the growth of the space.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get in.

This made him feel a little strange, and soon he thought again, maybe he didn't know what this group of soul energy looked like in his lifetime. So he went out of his way to find out how to capture the soul energy.

It is necessary to observe what kind of changes will occur at the moment of death.

There are often dead people in the hospital, but unfortunately Alex has no way to reach them. He tried several ways, but he couldn't find a chance to meet the dying patient. Under the noses of doctors and nurses, he could not get close to the patient no matter what.

In desperation, Alex had no choice but to leave the hospital and head out into the streets. He pondered whether to look for the "Kowloon Society" people again and kill one or two to verify his conjecture.

After returning home and removing the disguise effect, Alex thought about it for a while. He knew that the people of the "Kowloon Society" must have been on guard now, and they could only wait for a while.

If he wants to find the dying person, Alex still has a way, he calls Chuck and asks the other party to find such a person.

"Huh? Top dog! Why do you suddenly want to find someone who is dying? ”

Chuck was puzzled by this request, and let him find a woman to be able to understand, find a dead man? It's a strange hobby.

Alex didn't answer this question, he just urged Chuck again to find a way to find someone who was dying. No matter how he died, as long as Alex was present when he died.

"It's very simple, you can find a lot of elderly people who are dying in a place like a nursing home."

"I want to find the kind that doesn't have to wait, is there any way you can help me find it?"

"Well, that's pretty easy to do. I have a friend who works in hospice care, and several people die every day. ”

"That's great, you can help me ask. It would be nice to be able to get me to be there a few minutes before someone dies. ”

After saying that, Alex hung up the phone, and after thinking about it, he thought that this method was quite good. Try it and see if you can capture other people's souls.

Chuck is quite efficient, and quickly arranged it for him, after all, people leave the world every day in this kind of place, and there is no need to make an appointment or anything.

With the help of Chuck's friend, Alex arrives in a room where an elderly man, who has been terminally ill for many years. It's been a long time, and I just recently moved out of the hospital because the doctor has made it clear that I can't continue the treatment.

The old man's family no longer cared about his life or death, signed the agreement, paid enough fees and left.

In addition to Alex, there was a young black woman who was Chuck's long-time friend and specialized in nursing.

"Hello! I was introduced by Chuck......." Alex whispered, for fear of alarming the old man lying on the bed.

The young black woman nodded to him, and ignored it, but continued to sit in front of the old man's bed, whispering comfort.

Alex stood and listened as he looked at the old man and modeled each other in the mental space. After the puppet model was built, he also stepped forward to touch the old man's hand, which was a crumpled hand.

After confirming that the old man's soul information had been copied, Alex immediately discovered that the puppet in the mental space had come to life, and it was also an old man's puppet that was healthy all over. The doll was a little surprised at first, wondering whether she was dead or alive, and thought she had come to heaven or hell.

At this time, Alex did not have time to instill various ideas into the puppet, nor did he control its activities in the mental space, but continued to focus his attention on the old man in the real world.

After almost half an hour, the old man on the hospital bed finally swallowed his last breath, and at the moment of his death, Alex clearly felt that the energy of the other party's body changed from light to dark, from yang to yin. But even so, the energy still did not come out of the body, and still stayed in the body.

"What's going on?"

Alex felt a little strange, it stands to reason that at the moment when the old man died, this energy would be captured by the puppets in the mental space.

Unexpectedly, this mass of energy was unmoved, and it still stayed in the body.

At this time, the puppets in the mental space are still the same as they were, and nothing has changed. Alex thought about it, and he decided to try again, so he pretended to say goodbye to the old man, and stepped forward again to touch the old man's body.

With the help of his own ability, he tried to pull the old man's soul energy out of the dead body. First, he let his own positive energy invade the old man's corpse, and then suddenly exerted force.

This time, the old man's energy was really pulled out of his body by him, forming a cloud of negative energy floating in the house. Sensitive people may be able to notice at this time that the temperature of the room has suddenly dropped a little.

Even if Alex tried to pull out the old man's soul energy, he still couldn't absorb this energy into his spiritual space.

Faced with such a situation, Alex was finally able to determine that two conditions needed to be met for the spiritual space to be able to absorb soul energy.

The first condition is to copy to the target puppet, in other words, to build the puppet and touch the target.

The second condition is to kill the target with your own hands, so that the target's soul can be locked in the spiritual space through the resentment generated by the killing.

Only by meeting these two conditions can Alex be able to absorb the other party's soul energy into the spiritual space and make it the food for the growth of the space.

These two constraints are quite harsh, and may change further in the future as the ability grows.

After thinking about it, Alex felt a little difficult, after all, he was not born a murderer, and he ran to kill people and intercept the other party's soul energy for no reason, which became the growth experience of his own ability. This has violated his principles of life, and unless there are targets with grudges like Kane and Crazy Eight, it will be really difficult for him to start.

"How can we solve this problem? Is it possible to really run to be a killer? ”

Alex thought to himself, he thought about it, but he couldn't think of a good solution. After the worst, I can only put it aside for the time being, and then I will get this when I figure it out. (To be continued......)