When a certain psychiatrist broke free from her restraints and returned to her nature, Luke was silently watching everything behind her.
As for her swimming at midnight, he could only sigh: This swimming pool is really nice! No, it's really big.
He has been in Tijuana these days.
He has deployed detection devices around the villa, but these detection devices have become passive receiving type.
Because when he was tracking Simon that night, he found that the other party seemed to be able to sense the wave characteristics and record the function of the detection device.
It's always a good idea to pay more attention to this strange and difficult Simon.
Luke was even willing to let his second-level clone stay here and wait for the opportunity, but of course he was not coveting the body of a certain psychologist.
He just covets Simon's ability.
Although he did not defeat Simon that night and could not obtain the other party's ability list, this in itself was a very obvious reminder.
The tall and thin white man who was knocked down in the villa was not Simon Nepper, but Jamie Thomas, a small American rich man with a traceable background.
The life story of this little rich man has been thoroughly investigated in the past few days, and it is 99% certain that he is not Simon.
The only time he overlapped with Simon was that he came to the Tijuana villa for vacation seven or eight days ago.
Although it may seem abnormal not to bring your wife with you on vacation, it is actually very reasonable.
There are cameras in some public places in Tijuana. After this rich man came here, he would change one or two young and hot Mexican girls to play with every one or two days.
This fully proves the rationality of him not bringing his wife on vacation but instead lying about being on a business trip.
On the other hand, the "body" of this small rich man underwent a physical examination in Space No. 2.
There were damages in many areas of his brain, and it would be difficult for him to recover in this lifetime. He is in a 100% vegetative state.
Luke also secretly checked the suspicious targets that appeared on Simon's escape route and found that they all had brain damage, but it was very mild.
Including Harley, who also suffered mild brain damage.
In fact, before Harley woke up in the villa the next day, Luke had already dug deep into her memory of that period.
Simon's journey to Tijuana with her had been analyzed countless times.
The conclusion is: Simon may no longer be an ordinary person on the physical level, but more like a "ghost".
He can quickly enter and control a person's body.
During this period, the controlled person's consciousness may be able to sense the outside world, or he may fall into a completely dormant state.
Harley was the only one who retained her perception of the outside world, while the others were all in a state of sleep.
This would also explain how Simon was able to move quickly from the villa to Tijuana.
He was like a ghost checkers player, constantly shuttling back and forth in other people's bodies.
As long as the time of entry and exit is short enough, an effect close to teleportation can be achieved.
When Luke guessed Simon's abilities that night, he was very skeptical.
When he basically confirmed Simon's ability through various clues, he became even more determined to find this guy.
You know, Luke's "Star of Justice" is a combination of primary spirit body + clone technique.
No matter how you look at it, Simon's abilities seem to be somewhat related to spiritual bodies, so Luke is likely qualified to learn them.
Considering the practicality of the Star of Justice, how could Lu not be tempted by Simon's possession ability, even if he was only qualified to learn it partially.
This is just one of them.
The second question worth exploring is why Jamie, the rich young man possessed by Simon, kept trying to attack Luke with his hands
Later, he suddenly gave up Jamie and possessed Harley, unexpectedly injuring Luke.
After a thorough examination, it was confirmed that Harley did not have any superpowers. It was impossible for her to scratch the nano suit with her fingernails alone, or even pierce Luke's muscle layer.
Therefore, the ability to break armor with bare hands should have been given to her by Simon's possession.
Luke, who is also a master of control, speculated that Simon's possession was not simple mental control, nor was it physical control like pheromone manipulation.
He can use the body of the possessed person to exert super powers, which makes Luke think of more things.
For example, this bare-handed armor-piercing ability is very similar to the bare-handed dissection of Patient No. 3 "Cosmetic Surgeon" in Kings Park Sanatorium.
He took Harley from the sewer of the sanatorium into the sea, and swam for fifty kilometers to New Jersey, which was very similar to the ability of patient No. 4, "Fish Man".
More importantly, Harley was both one of Simon's attending physicians and one of his main research assistants.
Because Simon has a dual identity at Kings Park Nursing Home.
Since he is the researcher of patients 0 to 4, including himself, he is also the main research subject of the entire project.
He is a completely different being from normal people, a monster who enjoys studying himself.
According to Harley's guess, the reason why Simon escaped from the sanatorium was probably because he had serious disagreements with the sanatorium's investors.
What investors want to do is to control Simon and even use him to control other super-powered people, thus forming a team of super-powered people.
Simon, on the other hand, is mainly studying how to control other people with super powers.
For investors, an uncontrolled Simon is more terrifying than an enemy, because at least the enemy does not require them to spend money to support him.
So after more than a year of research, they finally decided to take action on Simon and prepare to make this monster into real research material.
Harley didn't know much about the specific circumstances of the conflict. She was simply led away by Simon.
But from the information she told him and the information he collected from the sanatorium, Luke guessed that Simon should be wary of investors.
In other words, investors have the ability to pose a threat to Simon.
Simon then decisively gave up the sanatorium where he was living and ran to Mexico.
Of course, it is also possible that Simon has learned how to use the superpowers of patients 1 to 4, so he left without hesitation.
Simon's possession is the ability that Luke is most interested in and is determined to obtain.
And the way he obtains other people's super powers is his second goal.
Faced with this buy one get one free good deal, even if the free "one" cannot be used for learning in the end, it will not hinder Luke's determination to catch Simon.
With this in mind, Luke was quite pleased with Harley, who stayed up late at night to go swimming.
If it weren't for the large amount of information provided by this insider, he might have missed out on Simon's "great treasure".
If you knew about Simon's existence two years later, it would be difficult to obtain Simon's abilities at that time.
After all, Simon may have only acquired the abilities of patients 1 to 4, none of which are particularly strong.
Once this guy learns abilities like magnetic field manipulation to make up for his shortcomings, or uses pheromone manipulation and psychokinesis to strengthen his existing advantages, he will become a super troublesome opponent.
Even so, Luke was glad that he was using the Ugly Man's alias this time, otherwise he would really be worried about Simon's counterattack.