Chapter 21: Diablo is really unlucky
Palermo, Punta Raisi Airport.
After making the decision, Diablo packed his luggage in just half an hour and took a taxi to the airport.
"Hello, I want to book a flight to Naples."
"Any cabin is fine. The earlier the departure time, the better."
"It's troublesome."
He spoke politely to the receptionist at the airport, and his tone was so gentle that he didn't seem like the dark emperor who had the aura of a tyrant before.
Because he wasn't.
Now he is not Diablo, but "Tobio".
Diablo is a special patient with split personality. He has two completely different personalities at the same time:
The main personality is "the boss" Diablo, and the secondary personality is "the employee" Tobio.
He can switch between the two personalities freely, showing completely different manners, styles and temperaments.
The most amazing thing is that when switching to another personality, Diablo's appearance and body shape will change with the change of personality.
When he was Diablo, he looked like a middle-aged man with a muscular body and firm features.
When he transforms into Tobio, his body will slowly shrink like a deflated balloon, and eventually become a thin, shy young man with immature features.
In this case, even if outsiders saw Tobio and Diablo with their own eyes, they would not think they were the same person.
Therefore, Diablo usually uses Tobio's personality to travel around, perfectly hiding his evil and terrifying true face under the face of this gentle and kind boy.
And Tobio is a completely independent personality:
He had no idea that he was Diablo, and even considered himself a loyal employee who followed Diablo's lead.
"Please hurry up."
Tobio leaned on the counter, staring at the receptionist with his pure and innocent eyes:
"This is a task assigned to me by the 'boss'. It is very, very important."
"I must get to Naples as soon as possible!"
"OK."
"I'll check flights to Naples for you right now."
The receptionist smiled sweetly, and in her smile there was a natural liking for the shy boy in front of her.
She was busy on the bulky computer, but finally said with some embarrassment:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Tobio."
"There are flights to Naples, but they can't leave yet."
"What?"
Tobio was slightly stunned, and replied: "Well, how can that be possible!"
"I have to go to Naples as soon as possible, otherwise my boss will definitely punish me!"
"Feel sorry."
The receptionist apologized again:
"There is air traffic control over Naples today and most flights to the north are delayed."
"Air traffic control?"
"Why at this time?"
Hearing this, Tobio was so anxious that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
“This is force majeure.”
The receptionist patiently explained:
"You should have read the news these days, right?"
"This is a special period, and it is normal for flight delays to occur."
Seeing Tobio's anxious look, she consoled him:
"How about you wait a little longer?"
"If everything goes well, we can set off in one or two hours."
"this…"
Tobio hesitated.
The master hidden in his mind, Diablo, fell into thought:
It would take at least six hours for Li Qing's speedboat to reach the port of Naples.
If he could leave in one or two hours and then take a flight for another hour, he would still be able to arrive before Li Qing.
Although it's a bit unlucky, but now that it's done, let's just wait...
“Damn it…”
He suddenly regretted that he was too low-key. "It would be nice to have a private jet."
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At 14:48, the speedboat approached the coast of Naples.
The afternoon sun shines on the sea surface of Naples Harbor, and the waves are vast and sparkling.
The symbol of Naples, the majestic Mount Vesuvius, is located outside the harbor city, standing quietly under the sunny sky.
The scenery is colorful and the mountains and seas greet you.
But Li Qing had no intention of appreciating the beautiful sea view.
The beauty of nature failed to win his favor, but the "strange bird" that kept flying across the sky attracted all his attention:
"Oh My God…"
“These things flying in the sky…”
After traveling for seven hours and experiencing three life and death situations, it was the first time that Li Qing showed such a moving and shocked expression:
"That's the F/A-18, the supersonic fighter-attack aircraft 'Hornet'!"
" besides …"
He looked in the direction where the fighter planes took off, and immediately saw a giant underwater beast made entirely of steel on the sea:
"Holy shit... an aircraft carrier?!"
Li Qing muttered to himself, then turned to Andrew with great curiosity and asked:
"Hey... Fatty?"
"Is there some kind of naval exposition going on here?"
"ah?"
Andrew was slightly stunned, and after hesitating for a moment, he explained:
"Sir, don't you know?"
“The Port of Naples…”
"It's the base of the Imperial Navy's Sixth Fleet!"
"The U.S. Sixth Fleet Naval Command and the South European Allied Forces Command are located in Naples, so it's not surprising to see American warships occasionally."
"besides…"
He looked at Li Qing as if he were an alien:
"Haven't you watched the news these days?"
"The Americans have just declared war on the Balkan Alliance across the sea. We in Italy have become the front line of the war."
"The Balkan Alliance is separated from Italy by only a narrow strip of the Adriatic Sea, and the straight-line distance is less than a few hundred kilometers."
"Those bombers that delivered 'seed oil' to the other side all took off from Italy."
"For example..."
Andrew pointed to the steel behemoth floating on the sea: "From that aircraft carrier."
"Forehead…"
Li Qing frowned tightly: "The Rice Grain Fried Empire and the Balkan Alliance?"
As a half-hearted military fan, I don’t…
As a citizen of the Dragon Kingdom, he certainly knew about the unjust war that took place in 1999 .
but…
“Isn’t it 2001?”
Li Qing asked this question with a look of surprise.
In his impression, the story of "Golden Wind" took place in 2001, so the time point when he traveled through must be 2001 when the story began.
However, Andrew gave him a very bad answer with an even more surprised expression:
"What 2001?"
"It's 1999, March 26, 1999!"
"this…"
Li Qing's expression became somewhat awkward:
He came all the way to Naples just to find a way to seek help from the two protagonists of the story.
After all, he knew almost nothing about this world. Even if he wanted to launch a counterattack against Diablo and the Passion Organization himself, he didn't know where to start.
Bruno Bucciarati and Giorno Giovanna, the two main characters of the plot, are the only clues he can think of now.
But now, the time is two years earlier than the original plot.
"Two years... There's no way I can just piggyback on the plot."
"Then we can only find a way to find Giorno and Bucciarati and see if we can get any help from them."
"etc…"
Li Qing suddenly felt something was wrong:
"I remember that the curly-haired guy named Giorno was only 15 years old when he appeared, right?"
"So he is only 13 years old now?"
"13 years old..."
"If he had started school later, he might not even have graduated from elementary school!"
Thinking of this, Li Qing suddenly lost confidence in his plan to come to Naples to find teammates.
