I am a necromancer, and I absolutely love America.

Richard tilted his head back slightly, avoiding the woman's strong, cheap perfume.

He has absolutely no interest in the bio-matrix.

"unnecessary."

The glamorous woman didn't care:

"$40 is fine too!"

Richard decided to try a different way to get rid of her:

"Too expensive, $10."

"FXXK! You poor bastard!" The glamorous woman angrily flung her handbag and swayed away.

Richard shook off the streetwalker, got out of the car, and walked toward the Asian body collector.

From afar, I could hear that the fat man was speaking Chinese.

"Old Chen! You think you can just not come like that? How am I supposed to move a corpse by myself?! Disgusting! We're here to work and earn money! You think it's disgusting?!"

Richard stopped a few meters away and observed the body from a distance, but the mission did not indicate completion.

Is it necessary to handle the corpse with one's own hands?

Hearing footsteps, the fat man glanced warily at Richard, and upon realizing the other was also Asian, he visibly relaxed. He nodded to Richard while continuing to urge him on through his phone:

"Dude! Hurry up! This guy is at least 2 meters tall! How am I supposed to move him by myself!"

Richard stepped forward and said in Chinese:

"Do you need any help?"

The fat man was surprised:

"You're also from the University of Tokyo?"

Richard nodded, pointing to the corpse:

"My name is Richard. I'm an international student at the University of Tokyo. I'm trying to earn some living expenses."

"You're an international student too..." The fat man hesitated for a moment:

"First, load the body into the car and take it to the destination. After that, you might need to help transport it to the morgue. The whole process takes about an hour and a half. $50. Are you in?"

Richard wasn't actually short of money after taking control of Catherine, but in order to touch the corpse, he had to pretend to be an ordinary student who was short of money:

"80 dollars."

The fat man said with dissatisfaction:

"Hey buddy! You're ripping me off. I provided the supplies, the vehicle, and the protective suits and other consumables, and I only get to earn $200. You're asking for $80 for just doing the work? $60 at most."

"$65. You can't find anyone right now." Richard deftly took off his coat.

"Where are the protective suits?"

The fat man breathed a sigh of relief and immediately spoke into his phone:

"OK! Old Chen, you don't need to come anymore."

After saying that, feeling completely refreshed, he hung up the phone, took a new set of protective clothing from his car, and said in a familiar tone:

"Just call me Alex. You're so young, why are you doing this kind of work? A lot of people from Tokyo University are very wary of corpses."

Richard said as he changed into his protective suit:

"Poverty is more terrifying than a corpse."

Alex laughed:

"It seems you're really short of money."

Richard put on gloves and calmly looked at the corpse. Even at such close range, he still hadn't completed the task; he had no choice but to touch it with his own hands.

"Should we wait for the police to check the situation?"

ALEX was very familiar with the process:

"No need to wait for the police. The police sold this body to me. I'll check it again, and if there are no problems, I'll take it away. Don't worry, I've been doing this for a long time, there will never be any problems."

He patted his chest and assured them.

"Okay." Richard raised an eyebrow.

Having lived in the United States for two years, I've gotten quite used to the various messy things that happen to humanity's beacon.

However, the fact that the police were selling corpses still crossed a line in his mind.

Alex glanced at it briefly and quickly said:

"His cheeks and lips were a bright pink, his expression was relaxed, and his joints were completely immobile. No problem, he was just high on drugs, and coincidentally, it rained lightly last night, so this guy froze to death."

"This job was easy. At least we didn't end up with a tent full of mangled flesh. We just need to put him in a body bag. Come on, give me a hand, let's get him into the car."

Richard grabbed the corpse's calf, and the instant he made contact, a flood of information automatically rushed into his mind.

"Brace Jensen, 2.08 meters tall, 95 kg, former professional basketball player, died of hypothermia, with multiple drug residues in his body."

Immediately afterwards, a system notification sounded:

"Ding! You have completed the [First Corpse Analysis] task."

"The [Flesh and Bone] branch is now open! Level: 1, Constitution +3!"

"Knowledge of Flesh and Bones: 0% -> 3%"

Richard felt a warm current flow into his body, as if his internal organs had been cleansed by a hot spring, and he felt indescribably comfortable.

Especially the heart, which surges and roars like an 18-cylinder engine.

Richard's hands were so powerful that he even had the illusion that he could bend steel bars.

He immediately opened the panel:

******

Class: Necromancer

Physical fitness: 12 (average for an average adult male is 10)

Spirit: 11 (average for all humans is 10)

Mana: 12/22

Branches of knowledge:

[Soul and Desire]: Level 1, 5%. Spirit +1.

[Flesh and Bone]: Level 1, 3%. Constitution +3.

[Pain and Plague]: Not yet unlocked

skill:

[Death Sense]: You can sense the aura of death within 500 meters and obtain some information upon contact with corpses. The more well-preserved the corpse, the clearer the death aura and the more complete the information. Passive, no mana cost.

[Resurrection of the Dead]: You can imbue a corpse with the Mark of the Dead, resurrecting it and making it a loyal servant. The more intact the corpse, the higher the success rate of resurrection. If the servant dies, [Resurrection of the Dead] will be forced into a 30-day cooldown. Quantity: 1/2. Cooldown: 1 day. Mana Cost: 10 points.

******

A physical fitness score of 12 is already above the level of an average adult male!

Richard tried and easily lifted the corpse's legs.

But Alex failed him; he tried hard, but couldn't lift it.

Alex blushed a little. He was just a lazy researcher who didn't exercise much. Collecting corpses was his biggest workout.

"Hehe! It's a bit heavy!" Alex laughed awkwardly.

"How about I give it a try?" Richard said.

He walked to the head of the corpse, grabbed the corpse's clothes on its shoulders with both hands, and tested its weight.

The system notification sounded again:

"Ding! New quest issued: [Common Sense of Flesh and Blood], analyze 10 corpses. Quest reward: a large amount of [Flesh and Bone] knowledge."

Richard's eyes lit up slightly.

Another new task!

ALEX said:

"Hey bro, take it easy, this corpse's heavy, don't hurt your back. Let's go together..."

Richard easily lifted the upper body of the corpse.

The effects of mental attributes are subtle, but the effects of physical attributes are immediate.

Aren't warriors much more fun than squishy mages?

Richard also vaguely guessed that the attribute did not grow linearly.

The effect of 3 points of physique is much greater than expected, far more than just increasing strength by 1/3; Richard felt it even exceeded 60%.

Level 1 [Flesh and Bone] provides 3 points of Constitution, so what about Level 2?

Richard secretly began to look forward to it.

Alex was shocked:

"Wow! Dude! I didn't know you were so strong. You're the kind of guy who's got the skills for this job! It would have been really difficult without you today."

"$100," Richard said, seizing the opportunity.

Alex's face looks a bit dark:

"I've noticed that you're a very meticulous person."

Just kidding.

"Pshaw! I don't believe you!"

Perhaps because he had acquired the necromancer profession, Richard was not too averse to corpses, and could even joke around with dead people by grabbing their shoulders.

This impressed Alex.

The two chatted as they worked together to put the body into a body bag and load it into the car.

After resolving a major problem, Alex was in a much better mood.

"Come on, get in my car. I'll take you back after I drop off the body, and you'll save on gas. This is the college's official bus, might as well use it."

"it is good."

More than 20 minutes later, the car stopped outside the back door of the Nancy Health Center.

The two got out of the car and waited.

Nancy Health Centre is a well-known private hospital in the area.

"ALEX, how many corpses are usually here?"

Alex casually remarked:

"About 20 bodies? I'm not sure. Nancy Health Center only accepts 'good stuff' with medical research value; they don't accept bodies from ordinary gunshot wounds. Logically speaking, this body died too normally to qualify, but the police said that this guy was a professional athlete before he died and has some research value, so Nancy Health Center was willing to accept him."

Twenty bodies! Richard looked at the Nancy Health Center building in the night sky, feeling very envious.

If I could sneak into the morgue and touch all the corpses, I might be able to complete the "Common Sense of Flesh and Blood" quest in one night!

A short while later, a kind-looking Black male caregiver came out pushing a trolley.