"Who are you?"
Alex looked at the man in front of him warily.
His keen senses were constantly warning him of the danger this man was in.
"A passerby who heard the noise and ran over to watch the fun." Colin waved his hand and threw away the hunter whose vitality had been sucked dry. Looking around, Colin smiled and asked, "Do you need help, buddy?"
Alex narrowed his eyes and said nothing for a while, but the hunters around him did not give the two a chance to talk and swooped over from all directions.
"A bunch of annoying bugs!"
Colin looked up, frowned slightly, and raised his hands towards the many hunters who were attacking him.
The next moment, a series of bone teeth were constructed out of thin air, creating dozens of air waves in the air.
Bang bang bang bang!
Brain matter and blood splattered all over the sky. The hunter who was alive and kicking before turned into a headless corpse piled up on the ground in the blink of an eye.
As Alex was extremely alert, Colin took two steps forward, picked up the only hunter that had passed through his chest and was still breathing, and threw it in front of Alex, "I think you might need it."
Alex is obviously still at the early stage now. Absorbing a hunter should make him stronger.
Alex glanced down, his eyes still wary.
He is a cold-hearted person and finds it difficult to trust others. This is even more so after his body was reconstructed by the virus.
Although Colin showed kindness to him at this time, both his strength and his understanding of him made him extremely wary.
"What is your purpose in helping me?"
Alex asked this question, but he devoured the hunter without any hesitation.
No matter what, it's always a good idea to improve your own abilities.
"My purpose, well, is to help others when I see injustice... Okay, okay, don't look at me like that. I just saw that you have great potential, so I'm going to make a good connection with you in advance. There's nothing else..."
"Tsk... It seems that the noise I made earlier attracted attention. Let's talk about it somewhere else?"
Colin said, pointing to the roof of a nearby building.
Alex, who had already swallowed the hunter, clenched his fists when he heard this, feeling the stronger power surging in his body, and without saying much, he went in the direction Colin pointed.
Colin smiled and didn't care, and followed closely.
…
Colin had been here for a while before the action took place.
However, during this period of observation, he discovered some things that ordinary people could not see.
From a biological point of view, Alex's existence is the result of the Blacklight virus devouring Alex's body and using it as a basis to reconstruct a being with extremely similar memories, personality, and appearance.
From a biological point of view, the current Alex and the previous Alex are two different individuals.
He had thought so before, but now, he has overturned his previous view.
In his understanding, a person's life is a combination of soul and body, among which the soul is more important.
As for Alex, he had to say that this was a miracle he could never have imagined. His soul, which was supposed to belong to the underworld, had completely merged with his body!
Although dying in this way is equivalent to the destruction of the soul, the benefits it brings are beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
First of all, the power of all abilities, spells and curses that target the soul will be reduced by 99% when used against him. Even if the remaining attacks cause damage, it will directly hurt the body that is a combination of spirit and flesh, rather than the soul.
Furthermore, his soul and body are completely united, so many things that ordinary people cannot defeat, such as evil spirits and demons, are no different from other enemies to him.
Coupled with the potential of the Blacklight Virus itself and the faction he has fixed as a result, they are natural allies, so he naturally would not be stingy in showing some goodwill and building good relations.
Of course, he has been too enthusiastic so far. Whether he will be an enemy, a friend, or an indifferent stranger in the future depends on Alex's own temperament and choices.
On the rooftop, the wind was howling.
The sun had already set and the lights in bustling Manhattan were turned on, illuminating the night.
Under the warm moonlight, Alex looked at Colin's kind face and asked tentatively: "You seem to know me very well."
The man in front of him could kill dozens of difficult monsters with just a wave of his hand. Even though he had become much stronger after absorbing a monster, he was probably still no match for this man.
Fortunately, the other party didn't seem to have any ill will towards him, so he wanted to take this opportunity to test him.
"I can't say much, I can only say a little." Ke Lin smiled, "If you have anything you want to ask, you can ask. I will tell you what I know."
"Who am I?" Alex wanted to test how well Colin knew him, but soon he felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to change his words, he heard Colin's laughing reply: "Of course you are Alex Mercer. Forget it, let me tell you. What you want to know is why your body has become like this, right?"
Alex hesitated for a moment and nodded. Colin looked at him, thought for a moment and asked, "Have you seen the news about him being shot?"
Alex nodded.
"That's easy to say. I don't know why you were killed, but your resurrection was caused by the Blacklight Virus."
"Blacklight virus?" Alex muttered, covering his forehead, as if recalling something.
"Yes, the Blacklight Virus, a powerful virus that is constantly evolving. Ordinary people infected will only turn into zombies without any reason and will only pursue flesh and blood. But you are extremely lucky. The Blacklight Virus devoured your body and rebuilt the you of today based on your body."
"You mean I'm just a conscious virus now?" Alex quickly realized what Colin meant, his face gloomy.
“No, no, no.” Colin shook his head. “In that case, I wouldn’t say you’re still Alex Mercer.”
Alex listened and couldn't help asking, "What do you mean?"
"Do you know what the soul is?" Colin asked, and without waiting for Alex to answer, he continued, "Modern technology believes that the neural response of the human brain is the source of human thinking, but in the eyes of mages like me, the soul is the source, and the brain is just a processor."
"You have died. Theoretically, your soul should have returned to the realm of the dead, but the miracle is that your soul has not left your body. On the contrary, perhaps under the influence of the blacklight virus, your soul has completely merged with your body. To be honest, this is simply incomprehensible to me. However, I am absolutely at a loss as to the fact that you are still Alex Mercer."
As he spoke, he looked at Alex, who looked much better and thoughtful, and reached out his hand to Alex's head and said, "I'll give you a gift."
Alex looked at the finger pointing at him, moved his body slightly, his eyes flickered slightly, but he did not dodge.
(End of this chapter)