Chapter 174: Searching for a Pig in the Crowd

The dust and fog have dissipated rapidly.

What appeared before Thomas were pig pens that emerged from behind the fog, and fat pigs that were frightened by the loud explosion.

They are all fat and big-eared, with broad bodies and chubby bodies. They are huddled together stupidly and look almost the same.

A quick look revealed that the total number of these fat pigs was as many as fifty or sixty.

"Where the hell is he?"

Thomas looked at everything in front of him in a slightly stunned manner:

But Li Qing had obviously become friends with those fat pigs very naturally.

He didn't know which pigpen he was hiding in. He disabled the digitization mode, causing the health bar above his head to disappear. Then he stood there stupidly like an ordinary fat pig.

Just looking at it from a distance, it is impossible to tell the difference.

Thomas hesitated for a moment, but finally walked over there cautiously.

While cautiously guarding against Li Qing's sudden attack, he walked slowly in the aisle with bated breath, carefully observing every pig in the pigpens on both sides of the aisle.

The gazes of the people and the pigs collided one by one in mid-air.

There was a natural intimidation in Thomas' eyes as a hunter, but the pigs' eyes were always dull, blank, and ignorant.

No matter how Thomas tried, they remained motionless.

Can't tell the difference, not at all.

"So, are we going to kill all these pigs?"

"No... I don't have enough ammunition to kill so many pigs."

"If we run out of ammunition before we find the real person, the situation will become very difficult."

Thomas's eyes flickered:

Li Qing has turned into a pig, but he can still come up with such a method to deal with a hunter who has stand abilities and modern weapons.

Sure enough, just as he thought, these guys who could make the boss helpless were not simple at all.

If it's this kind of guy, maybe there's hope...

There were some waves in his heart, but the roar coming from the wireless headset interrupted his distraction:

"Idiot, what are you doing?!"

"Hurry up and find that Li Qing... otherwise, you'll be his companion in the pigsty!"

The supervisor's voice was very angry.

Obviously, the difficult situation of the enemy's direct attack on the base camp made his heart not as calm as it seemed.

Thomas had no doubt that if he was not needed to deal with Li Qing now, his supervisor would definitely send him to the pigsty for his poor performance.

"I'm sorry, Director..."

The supervisor was annoyed and uneasy because of the unfavorable change in the battle situation, but Thomas, who had been cowering, became calm instead.

He apologized in a dignified manner, and then said:

"I think I don't need to rush to find Li Qing now."

"What do you mean?" The supervisor's voice choked.

He habitually wanted to insult his subordinates who showed slight disrespect to him, but then he reacted in an instant:

"Yes... that's right, there's really no need to rush."

As he spoke, the supervisor's disturbing noise finally stopped temporarily.

"Li Qing."

Thomas calmed the supervisor down, then shouted Li Qing's name loudly in the large pig farm.

He did not find where Li Qing's real body was, but continued to walk slowly along the aisle, and then shouted loudly to the circles of stupid fat pigs beside him:

"You can continue to hide for as long as you want."

"But let me tell you a secret, which you should have almost realized..."

Like an actor performing a one-man show on stage, Thomas recited the lines aloud:

"This pig farm, this entire building, is actually a stand-in for our head of the technology team."

"As long as you step into the gate of this pig farm for more than two minutes, a living person will be turned into a pig by our supervisor's thoughts, just like what you just experienced."

"So, maybe you can just hide here and not show your face."

"But what about your companions?"

Thomas continued to put pressure on Li Qing with words:

"They have already walked into the gate of the pig farm, and the minions are desperately trying to delay them."

"Two minutes, just two minutes... and all your companions will turn into fat pigs without any intelligence!"

"Li Qing——"

"Do you still want to keep hiding?"

The panic was gone from his voice.

Because the facts are just as he said, even if Li Qing temporarily concealed his tracks with unexpected tricks, the advantage is still completely on the side of the technology team.

After the phone call was lost and the explosion was heard, Giorno and the others would definitely break into the pig farm to look for Li Qing.

So, without any warning, can they see through the true face of this [pig factory]?

In those short two minutes, can they successfully uncover the trap?

Li Qing didn't dare to gamble.

In other words, his hiding skills were meaningless from the beginning.

What if he hid ? Unable to break through Thomas' blockade, unable to meet up with his companions and send out a warning, the only purpose of him hiding here was to extend his remaining life by a few more minutes.

“Come out!”

Thomas gripped the butt of his rifle tightly and continued his simple yet effective psychological warfare tactics:

"Give it a try, you might still have a chance."

"If you keep hiding, you'll just have to wait in this pigsty for your friends to come and keep you company."

All he got in response was a meaningless squeal of pigs.

Li Qing didn't seem to be convinced by what he said. The pigs still behaved like pigs, and none of them behaved like humans.

And Thomas is in no hurry.

As long as Li Qing did not escape from this area and failed to run to the front of the pig farm to meet up with his companions, he would still have an absolute advantage.

He paced slowly between the pig pens, quietly waiting for time to pass.

Finally, Li Qing seemed unable to bear it anymore.

When Thomas passed by a pigsty, he saw a large, fat boar inside that looked restless.

It was breathing heavily from its nostrils and its front hooves were stomping heavily on the ground.

The next moment, the huge boar weighing several hundred pounds jumped out from behind the low door of the pigpen, and then rushed towards Thomas with its nose raised menacingly.

“It’s finally here…”

Thomas suddenly turned his head and locked his eyes on the attacker behind his orange eyepieces.

After millions of years of domestication, pigs have become very docile animals.

These fat pigs that have always lived in pig farms have long lost the wildness of their ancestors and would never attack humans for no reason.

So, in this case, the pig that suddenly attacks him...

"It can only be Li Qing!"

Gunshots rang out, and dense rain of metal bullets shot out in an instant.

They did not disperse naturally during flight like normal shotgun pellets, but were condensed into a ball and converged into a line in mid-air under the influence of a mysterious force, and then the impact force focused on attacking the target point.

The metal projectiles concentrated in this way have terrible penetrating power.

The boar that suddenly jumped out of the pigsty towards Thomas had no time to stand on the ground before its left front leg was smashed and eroded by the dense impact of bullets.

Blood gushed out and the joints were shattered into foam.

The front leg that was almost severed by the bullet could no longer support the body, and the fat boar fell to the ground with a painful roar.

“Hehehe——”

The boar let out a sharp howl like a pig being slaughtered.

It was no longer able to move and could only collapse in a pool of its own blood, wailing helplessly.

"Um?"

"Is the bleeding this time because you didn't use your Stand ability?"

Thomas stared cautiously at the fat pig that was beaten without any ability to fight back, and he was fully prepared.

"idiot!!"

The supervisor's scolding voice rang out again from the wireless headset.

He had been monitoring everything around him, so he helped Thomas detect the problem immediately:

"You got the wrong pig!"