Chapter 146 Penguin Workshop
The light in the toilet was bright and dazzling, the floor was wet and clean, as if it had just been cleaned, and the air was always filled with the smell of toilet cleaner.
But now, in this clean toilet, a very "dirty" scene appeared:
Five bad boys with unfriendly faces and frightening auras stood there with evil eyes flashing.
A man in a strange puppet costume was huddled against the wall with his back to them. Even though there was nothing touching him from behind, he was still making strange noises with his face flushed in front of the five bad guys.
"Excuse me."
Seeing this scene, a passerby who was about to take his child to the toilet hurriedly retreated.
"Dad, what are those brothers doing?"
The innocent child asked his father this question.
"Don't ask, this is not something you should know at your age..."
The father grabbed his child's hand and fled from the horrific crime scene in a panic.
"Hey...wait..."
"Don't go, save me!"
The man in the penguin suit cried out with tears in his eyes.
His voice sounded very frightened, flustered, and aggrieved.
I got punched in the face for no apparent reason, was pressed against the wall by an invisible "ghost", and was blocked in a toilet that few people dared to enter by five muscular young men in strange clothes with hostile faces...
Anyone who encounters such an experience would be as helpless as he is now.
"I... I just attended an event wearing a puppet costume during the day, and then I was stuck on the highway and didn't have a chance to change clothes..."
"how?"
The man in the penguin costume said with tears in his eyes: "Is it illegal to wear a puppet costume?"
"this…"
Giorno and the others looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment:
"Did we really make a mistake?"
If it were an ordinary gang, they would probably just kill the person in order to eliminate the hidden danger.
But they are gangsters with principles, beliefs, dreams and morals. As rebels of the old world, they will not kill innocent people like the trash they hate.
As if he had noticed Giorno and the others' hesitation, the man in the penguin suit immediately said tremblingly:
"Although I don't know what tricks you are playing, I can tell you..."
"If you don't let me go, I'll call the police!"
"Shut up!"
"I am the police!"
Apache responded rudely.
He still did not let down his guard, and then suggested:
"Go up and search."
"See if there's anything suspicious on him."
Hearing this, Fu Ge walked up consciously.
His Purple Smoke melee ability was the strongest in the team, and in Bucciarati's absence, he was always responsible for taking risks in getting close.
So, Fu Ge summoned Zi Yan to accompany him, and walked forward carefully.
Nothing happened.
The man in the penguin suit didn't take any action at all. He just waited tremblingly for Fugo to search him.
Fugo roughly stretched out his hand and roughly felt around the body of the man in the penguin suit:
"Nothing suspicious."
"This puppet costume doesn't even have a pocket. There's nowhere to hide anything."
"this…"
Abbaki frowned tightly, not knowing what tricks to use to confirm the other party's identity.
The man in the penguin suit was still shouting excitedly there. Even though the constraints of the golden experience had been gradually relaxed, he still did not move.
Giorno thought about it carefully and finally made a decision:
"Well, maybe we made a mistake this time."
"Golden Experience, let him go!"
His mind moved, and then he completely let go of his hand.
Feeling that the mysterious power behind him finally disappeared, the man in the penguin suit collapsed to the ground like an ordinary person who was frightened silly.
He looked at Giorno and the others with sweat on his forehead, and asked a series of questions in one breath:
"W-What on earth do you want to do?"
"What was that thing that just hit me...and who are you?"
"nothing."
Giorno didn't have time to deal with such questions:
"I'm sorry about what happened just now."
"We have something else to do, so we won't bother you anymore."
Having said that, he was ready to leave this guy in the toilet and leave with his companions.
"etc!"
The man in the penguin suit gradually became bolder as Giorno retreated. Seeing Giorno and the others were about to leave, he casually reached out to Mista who was closer to him:
"At least, help me up first."
"My waist... my back is numb from being pressed down, and now I can't stand up."
"knew."
Mista reached out his hand without warning and pulled the frightened guy up from the floor.
The man in the penguin costume seemed to be so frightened that his legs went weak. He had just stood up, but immediately staggered and fell to the other side.
There was no other choice, so Narancia had to reach out and help him steady himself.
"Thanks."
The man in the penguin suit managed to stand firmly and said thank you politely.
However, just as Mista and Narancia withdrew their hands from supporting him, he fell like a lame chair towards the other side where Apache was standing.
"this…"
Fugo frowned tightly:
The legs of the man in the penguin costume were too weak.
Falling down one after another, it felt like... it was all pretend.
etc…
At this moment, Fu Ge suddenly thought of something:
When he searched the man in the penguin suit just now, he did not find anything.
However, now that I think about it, besides the lack of pockets, the doll costume seems to be missing something...
"zipper!"
"I just didn't feel the zipper on that dress!"
"A puppet suit without a zipper...how did he put it on?!"
A series of questions flashed through Fugo's mind.
These questions aroused his vigilance, and he subconsciously shouted in the blink of an eye:
"Apache, be careful!"
"Um?"
Hearing Fugo's warning, Apache subconsciously dodged to the side.
Then, the man in the penguin suit who was falling towards him suddenly missed his target and staggered for several steps before he could finally stand firm.
"What's wrong?"
"Fugo, did you find anything?"
Looking at the ridiculous and powerless performance of the man in the penguin suit, it was difficult for Abbasi to notice the problem.
Fugo was about to tell his discovery, but the man in the penguin costume laughed first:
"Ha ha."
"My acting is pretty good, right?"
The lingering fear on his face disappeared, replaced by a playful and confident smile:
"no way."
"Having this ability to double someone has forced me, a technician, to become an actor."
The man in the penguin suit wiped away the water stains on the floor with some disgust, and said to Giorno and others in front of him in a calm tone:
"Everyone, let's get to know each other formally."
"I'm Jamie Campbell, a technician in the technology team."
"Technology team?"
Hearing the other party introduce himself so openly, Giorno and the others couldn't help but change their expressions slightly:
"You came here with that Adam?"
"That's right."
Jamie shrugged and said without showing any panic:
"I'm Adam's companion, or more precisely, a 'substitute'."
"Ahem...Adam has never failed before, I thought I could get some credit by following him."
"I didn't expect... that I would have to do it myself in the end."
He moved his hands and feet in a relaxed manner, with a lively smile on his face:
"I usually don't do such risky things, but I have studied all your intelligence."
"Your abilities are all very interesting, especially Giorno's. I've seen your performance on the surveillance camera. The ability to create creatures at will is really something I want to experience."
“Experience?”
Giorno vaguely sensed something was wrong .
Then again, the fact that that guy named Jamie dared to stand in front of the five of them alone and provoke them was in itself proof that danger was approaching.
really…
Under the shocked gazes of Giorno and others, the ridiculous puppet costume Jamie was wearing suddenly trembled slightly.
The puppet costume seemed to come alive, and after a while of squirming...
Four eggs were laid.
That's right, four eggs mysteriously popped out from the skin of the puppet's costume, and then rolled to the ground.
"This is my stand-in—"
"Penguin Workshop"
Jamie pointed at the puppet costume he was wearing and introduced it in a calm tone.
Then, the four eggs rolled on the ground, the eggshells shattered, and a light burst out from inside.
The light emitted by the first egg condensed into a nimble human figure, wearing silver-white armor decorated with beetle accessories, and emitting a faint silver light all over.
The second ray of light condensed into a tall human figure wearing Roman armor and a translucent mask. The overall color scheme was green and yellow.
The third ray of light turned into six bullet-sized figures with numbers from one to six marked on their heads. Their metallic skin looked like stainless steel.
The fourth ray of light turned into a toy plane, equipped with a complete miniature machine gun and painted all white.
“These are all products made by [Penguin Workshop].”
Amid the stunned gazes of the crowd, Jamie Campbell, also from the technology team, laughed jokingly like his companion Adam:
"bring it on!"
"Let me see whether your 'genuine' is better or my 'imitation' is stronger."
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PS: Stand-in panel.
Stand-in name: [Penguin Workshop]
Jamie Campbell
Destructive power: B
Speed: B
Range: E
Sustainability: A
Movement precision: C
Growth: A
Ability: The appearance is a puppet suit worn on the main body. Because it is a covering stand, ordinary people can also see it.
As long as you come into contact with the real body or stand of other Stand users, you can create a new stand as a "product" in the future.
In theory, the skin-changing substitute has capabilities that are no less than the original, but because Jamie's personal mental strength is limited, the final product effect depends on the actual situation.
A substitute can only be copied once, and the life cycle of the skin-changing substitute is very short, and it will die in five minutes.
