Chapter 145: Strange Costumes
Adam couldn't imagine why Li Qing, a layman, suddenly had an idea.
What's worse, he no longer has time to think about this problem.
As Adam himself said, the challenge hosted by [Knowing] is absolutely fair.
Even his original will cannot change the operating rules of this substitute.
“No…No!”
As Adam screamed in disbelief and fear, the chain of light that penetrated his brain suddenly became brighter.
His translucent soul, which was glowing with a faint golden light, was pulled out of his body by the light lock and exposed to the air without the protection of the body.
"How is it possible... How could I lose!?"
Adam's soul clawed and bared its teeth madly at the body, looking like a stranded shark trying to jump back into the sea but unable to do so.
But he could not resist the rules he set himself after all - the Stand reflected the inner world of the Stand user. In a sense, this rule was exactly the life creed that Adam believed in:
People who are short-sighted and ignorant have no right to live in this world.
“Aaaaaaah!!”
With a shrill roar filled with unwillingness, Adam's soul was sucked into the book floating in the air.
His soul was like a key to open a lock. The ethereal spirit had just merged with "Do You Know?", and the book that contained the souls of countless losers suddenly trembled.
As it trembled, a dense spider-web of cracks gradually emerged on its surface, and behind the cracks overflowed wisps of brilliant golden soul light.
Finally, the book shattered in mid-air.
Nearly a hundred souls broke free from the broken pages of the book, and in an instant they flew into the air and returned to the sky.
There is only one soul left in the world, he is Fugo.
Before his body had cooled down completely, Fugo returned to his original form in an instant and came back to life.
At the same time, Adam's body slumped back heavily into his seat, dying completely and silently .
"Win..."
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
As a third-rate student who graduated from a second-rate university with very limited knowledge, he had to thank the goddess of luck who had just favored him.
Then, Li Qing helped Fu Ge, who had just recovered and was still a little dizzy, up:
"How is it, are you okay?"
“Nothing is wrong…” Fugo muttered to himself with a pale face: “Soul leaving the body… Another new way to die… As expected… I shouldn’t have betrayed the organization from the beginning…”
"It looks like nothing happened."
Li Qing nodded with confidence, then turned to Buccellati and the others and said:
"Let's go quickly and take these things to the car to eat."
"Since this Adam can find us, who knows what other cats and dogs may come to find us."
"Um."
Bucciarati nodded:
Although Stand users are often accustomed to fighting alone, it is indeed difficult to say whether Adam came with any companions this time.
Moreover, Adam died silently in this restaurant (at least silently in the eyes of ordinary people). If they don't stay away from the crime scene as soon as possible, they will probably get into a lot of trouble again.
"But..." Bucciarati still pointed out an objective : "Our car needs to be refueled, and we have to go to the gas station in the service area before we leave."
"Um..." Mista interrupted silently, "I still want to go to the bathroom."
"We're going too."
We stayed in the car for six hours, and many of our companions needed to change clothes.
After seeing this situation, Bucciarati thought about it:
"Okay then. You guys go to the bathroom together, Li Qing and I will go refuel the car."
"Um."
In order to save time, everyone was temporarily divided into two teams.
Bucciarati and Li Qing were responsible for packing the food into the car and going to the gas station to refuel, while Giorno, Fugo, Narancia, Mista and Abbazi went to the toilet as a group.
Then, they quickly left the restaurant before Adam's "sudden death" caused public panic.
All roads lead to Rome. As Italy's transportation hub, the highway service area outside the city of Rome is also unusually grand.
Auto repair, catering, shopping and leisure facilities are connected in a long line, while the gas station and toilets are built at the two ends of the service area, about seven or eight hundred meters apart.
"Be careful ."
After noticing this subtle distance, Giorno immediately said to his companions around him:
"We are now too far away from Li Qing and Bucciarati."
"If one side encounters an enemy attack, the other side may not be able to provide support in the first time."
"clear!"
Everyone nodded seriously.
What just happened in the restaurant has proved that their whereabouts have now been completely exposed.
Crisis can strike at any time, and even going to the toilet should not be taken lightly.
Just like that... the five men stood together cautiously, observing the surrounding environment attentively, and walked shoulder to shoulder towards the toilet built at the edge of the service area.
Fortunately, nothing happened along the way.
Everything was normal in the toilet, clean and bright.
There were only a few passers-by entering and leaving the toilet, and there were no signs of any enemies nearby.
Giorno and his five companions quickly completed the main task of this group operation. The next step was to prepare to go to the gas station to meet up with Li Qing and Bucciarati.
However, just as everyone was about to leave the toilet, a man suddenly walked in from outside the door.
The man was different from ordinary passers-by. He was dressed strangely and at first glance he looked like a walking human-shaped penguin.
To be precise, he was wearing a penguin suit:
He has a white belly, a black body, red webbed feet, and is covered in fur. If he weren't wearing a mask on his head, he would look just like a penguin.
“This guy…”
The moment the "penguin" stepped through the door, the atmosphere in the bathroom suddenly became a little subtle.
Giorno and the others looked at each other, and saw a strong sense of vigilance in each other's eyes:
“There must be something wrong!”
There is nothing strange about wearing puppet costumes. After all, people handing out flyers on the streets and holding events in shopping malls all wear puppet costumes, and a set of puppet costumes doesn't mean anything at all.
However, the time now is almost midnight.
In the middle of the night , at this highway service area, who would be handing out flyers or holding an event?
There must be something wrong when something is abnormal. Giorno and others who had just suffered an attack immediately smelled a scent of danger.
"Do it?"
"Well, control it first!"
Everyone communicated silently with their eyes.
Then, seeing the man in the penguin suit taking another step closer to them, Giorno and the others suddenly attacked:
“Golden experience!”
A golden humanoid substitute appeared in front of him and punched the oncoming person with lightning speed.
"Aerosmith!"
The small plane circled under the ceiling and pointed its machine guns at the approaching people along the bright light.
"Sexy Pistol!"
Mista drew his gun and pointed it at the newcomer. The six substitute figures took their positions, ready to perform the magic of "gun fighting" for the enemy at any time.
Apache and Fugo haven't made a move yet.
One of them can't do much damage, but the other can kill someone with just one attack.
"What?"
Looking at Giorno and others who suddenly cast hostile glances at him, the man in the penguin costume was slightly stunned.
The next second, he was hit hard in the face by Golden Experience.
Before the cry of pain could spread in the air, he was pinned against the wall without any resistance, just like those criminals caught on the spot by the police in the TV news.
At the same time, two miniature machine guns and a revolver were pointed firmly at his head.
“W-What is this?!”
The man in the penguin suit pressed his face against the wall and yelled in panic:
"What's pressing on me from behind?"
"Help...Help...This toilet is haunted!"
He was like an ordinary person who couldn't see his stand-in at all, and showed a kind of horror that was completely incomprehensible to the current situation.
"Hmm?" Giorno frowned.
He relaxed the Golden Experience's grip a little, but still carefully held him against the wall.
Then, while carefully observing the other person's expression, Giorno asked tentatively: "Sir, can't you see it?"
"What?"
The man in the penguin suit turned his head with difficulty and looked at Giorno and the others who were waiting for battle.
"What are you talking about...I have no idea!"
“Hello…”
He yelled at Giorno in panic, "Is this a prank played by you guys? Stop it! If you keep going like this, I'll call the police!"
The man in the penguin suit was screaming hysterically, behaving just like an ordinary person who was frightened by an unexpected incident.
No matter how you look at it, there are no flaws, but everyone still does not let their guard down.
"Don't act stupid!"
Abbazi used his old tricks when he was a policeman, half-threatening and half-deceiving to play the villain:
"No matter how much you pretend, there's absolutely something wrong with you!"
"Otherwise, why are you hanging around outside in the middle of the night dressed like this?"
"ha?"
The man in the penguin suit was stunned at first, then he glanced at the fashionable clothes worn by Abbaki, Fugo, and Naranja:
"What's wrong with me wearing this--"
"Are you qualified to criticize me?!"
