Chapter 225: Different Paths
It was indeed a fishhook, but it could penetrate solid cement and floor tiles.
When the fishhook emerged silently from under Li Qing's feet, the solid floor tiles there immediately began to ripple like liquid.
At this time, Li Qing finally heard the extremely faint movement under his feet.
But it was too late.
The fishhook dragged the almost transparent fishing line, dancing like a nimble snake and pouncing towards Li Qing's calf.
The hook penetrated the clothing and pierced the skin without any resistance.
The sharp hook penetrated into Li Qing's calf in an instant, cutting the tendons and nerves in his body wantonly.
Just like the alien beetle in a horror movie, it broke into the body and began to move upwards, tearing Li Qing's flesh and blood while slowly approaching his heart.
Then, Li Qing immediately realized the horror of this fishhook:
"It turned out to be like this..."
"This level of damage..."
The corners of Li Qing's mouth twitched slightly:
"If it's any lower, it won't be as fast as my blood recovery speed."
The advantage of a digitized body is that it has no weak points and damage is calculated entirely by numbers.
If an ordinary person had a fishhook piercing his thigh and cutting his tendons, he would probably have staggered to the ground in pain and disability.
However, for Li Qing who is in data mode...
Just a small fish hook slowly drilling into the flesh would probably do less damage than a random punch to the face.
"There are indeed enemies here."
Although he was slapped in the face just after he made a harsh remark, Li Qing did not show any embarrassment or surprise.
The temptation of the boss's inheritance is so great that even if it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity and is extremely risky, there will always be some brave ones among so many strong people in the organization.
He had long expected that some rebellious person who was unwilling to be lonely would show up this morning.
However, he did not expect the enemy to act so quickly and decisively.
What I didn't expect was that the other party's stand ability...
It seems that he is restraining himself.
"Is it really that simple?"
The situation was good, but Li Qing became cautious instead.
The first thing he did was to pull out the fishing line that had penetrated into his flesh for dozens of centimeters, and then tentatively pulled it out with force.
The power beyond human limits was all poured onto the thin fishing line. Not to mention pulling such a thin line, even if you tried to pull an adult man, you would be knocked to the ground.
And then...buzz!
The moment Li Qing exerted force, the entire fishing line began to tremble abnormally.
But the fishing line itself, the fishhook that had already penetrated Li Qing's body, showed no sign of moving backwards.
His strength seemed to be absorbed by the thin fishing line.
The absorbed power gathers in one place in the trembling fishing line and is finally released at the top hook.
Li Qing's health bar suddenly dropped a little.
"this?"
His expression suddenly became serious:
"All the force applied to the fishing line will be concentrated on the hook that has already penetrated my body, and finally rebound to me."
"That is to say..."
"There's no way I can pull this hook out of my body!"
He was now like a fish with a hook piercing its gills; the more he struggled, the faster he would die.
It is obviously impossible to free oneself from the restraints by brute force. Once this hook enters the body, there is no escape.
Fortunately, there is always a universal solution to the Stand ability——
Solve the ontology directly.
Thinking of this, Li Qing immediately gently grasped the fishing line.
He maximized his perception and listened carefully to the vibration of the fishing line.
Following the faint vibrations on the fishing line, Li Qing effortlessly found the other end of the long line, the enemy that attacked him:
"Is it you?"
Li Qing turned his head and directed his lifeless eyes towards a man hiding more than ten meters away.
That guy is very different from ordinary people:
His neck and head were connected as one, and with his avant-garde vegetable hairstyle, the outline of his head looked like a thick carrot.
It was the first time that Li Qing sensed such a strange outline.
"Hey, carrot head!"
He opened his mouth very impolitely and gave someone a nickname:
“You’re the one fishing here?”
Li Qing's voice was extremely calm.
Even though the fishhook had already reached his thigh and was causing him a huge amount of damage of less than 1% per second.
"Yes, that's right, it's me."
Even though she had been educated in Big Brother ideology , Bessie's voice was still very weak.
There was no way. He had just joined the assassination team for two months and had only completed a few missions following Proshutter. He was still too inexperienced.
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Bessie gritted her teeth and said something threatening, but her pretended fierceness was not intimidating at all:
"Throw the box over here!"
"Otherwise, I...I will kill you!"
"Kill me?"
Li Qing raised his eyebrows.
He had seen through the other party's true colors, so his tone became nonchalant:
"Carrot head, let me give you a piece of advice."
"This kind of 'I'll kill you' is just like Riasso's dog tag in League of Legends. It's best to use it after you have successfully killed the enemy."
"Otherwise, this behavior is likely to come back and hit you in the face."
Li Qing seemed too calm.
This calmness unconsciously aroused the panic that Bessie had barely suppressed.
His heartbeat began to accelerate uncontrollably, his breathing became heavy and irregular, and even his arms, which were tightly gripping the fishing rod, began to tremble in an imperceptible manner.
All of this was heard by Li Qing's extremely sharp ears:
"You didn't come here alone."
He made a decisive judgment:
"For someone like you who is afraid of fighting, there is no way you would risk coming here alone."
"You must have a companion. He should be right here at the scene, secretly preparing to attack me."
"Am I right, Carrot?"
Li Qing questioned the other party word by word.
Bessie's performance became worse and worse.
He didn't even dare to look the blind man Li Qing in the eye. He just stepped back unconsciously, holding the fishing rod tightly in his hand with his unsteady fighting spirit.
Looking at such a weak opponent, Li Qing's killing intent faded:
"Put the hook back."
"To tell you the truth: neither you nor your companions can kill me."
"I can leave here at any time, and my companions are waiting outside the station door now - we have been keeping in touch, and they already know what happened here."
"So, Carrot Head, there's no way you can win."
Li Qing gave up the idea of killing monsters to level up.
He is a principled gamer who only craves thrilling battles and does not want to abuse weak and incompetent opponents.
Otherwise, if Li Qing just learned the behavior of a scum like Jokrat, he could easily become powerful .
And now, the kid in front of him is scared.
There was absolutely no murderous aura about him, which made people wonder whether this guy had ever killed anyone or seen blood before.
"I can give you a chance."
Li Qing rarely wants to solve the problem through conversation:
"If you lay down your weapons and surrender with your companions, I will not kill you."
"Not only do you not have to fight, I can also give you a large amount of cash dividends and let you become the new cadres of the organization."
Controlling an organization definitely requires cultivating a certain size of confidants.
A mysterious guy like Diablo has a personal guard to command. Now Li Qing also wants to find an opportunity to recruit more thugs for Giorno who wants to be a boss in the future.
Anyway, the other party doesn't look like the kind of scum who kills people without any bottom line. Instead of fighting, it is better to try to recruit him and the rebels.
"How about it?"
"Are you willing to cooperate? If so, I can make the decision..."
As he was speaking, Li Qing's voice suddenly stopped.
His expression changed.
Because during the brief confrontation just now, Li Qing discovered something strange happening to him:
He is old.
His skin began to dry and wrinkle, and his flesh became soft and weak.
The heart beats less powerfully, movements become sluggish, and strength continues to fail.
Even his hearing, which he was so proud of, began to weaken at an irreversible trend.
And on Li Qing's system interface, there clearly appeared an icon representing a negative state - aging.
“This… Damn it!!”
His expression suddenly changed drastically.
An irrepressible anger quietly emerged on the face that was already beginning to show wrinkles.
But this anger was not due to the changes in Li Qing himself, but because he suddenly discovered:
All the living people around him, even in the entire station, aged rapidly at this moment.
The enemy's stand ability is range-based, just like the Jocrat we encountered the day before yesterday.
Moreover, he was not much better than that scumbag Joekrat. He also did not have the slightest concern for the innocent passers-by around him.
At this moment, in Li Qing's ears, which were still much better than ordinary people's even after their decline, there were waves of terrifying wails.
Someone was touching his own wrinkled and yellowed skin and screaming, but he watched in horror as his skin became increasingly dry.
Some people are trying hard to replace their aging and falling teeth, but they find in despair that more and more teeth are falling out.
As the baby aged, he became shrunken and shriveled, and grew into an ugly, prematurely aged monster.
As the mother aged, she became demented and weak, and could only rely on instinct to hold tightly to the deformed baby in her arms.
And Li Qing can hear everything.
He could hear the people's hard-beating hearts, the slowing flow of their blood, their slow footsteps as they approached death, and the gradually extinguishing flames of life.
Li Qing took a deep breath:
"This is obviously your world, but you seem to be playing games more than I do."
"You guys are almost turning Italy into Los Santos. No wonder Giorno and Bucciarati are so eager to seek change."
"In that case..."
He closed his eyes, then slowly opened them again:
"Carrot head, come and fight!"
"Huh?" Bessie was slightly stunned.
Seeing that Li Qing suddenly changed his attitude and stopped trying to persuade them to surrender, he actually looked a little disappointed:
"You, you don't want to cooperate with us?"
"No."
Li Qing clenched his fists tightly, murderous intent surged in his lifeless eyes:
"If we don't share the same ideals, we can't work together!"
