Chapter 260 Meloni
Inside the train station.
Along with the heroic sacrifice of their lives, the fog of aging that shrouded the station finally dissipated completely.
Except for a few poor old men who were already old and frail and could not bear the aging, the remaining hundreds of innocent passengers who were implicated were mostly rejuvenated.
With healthy bodies, they finally have the strength to vent their inner fears.
Many people were frightened by such a horrible and strange experience, and many people were screaming and shouting because their hair was gone forever due to rapid aging. For a while, the station was filled with crying and sorrow.
Amid the endless screams, Li Qing's howl sounded particularly loud.
Every syllable he shouted was trembling violently. His voice was loud, powerful, mournful, and lasting. It sounded like a pig being bled with a knife.
“Ahhh—”
Li Qing's bloodstained body twitched in pain as if it had been electrocuted:
"Why, why does it hurt so much..."
"How did Fugo manage to hold on in the first place...Ahhh! Gently!"
“…”
Giorno's face was full of helplessness.
Bucciarati, Abbazi, and Jotaro, who were standing by, also looked a little strange:
"So you are so afraid of pain... Li Qing."
Tolerating pain can be said to be an entry-level course for a Stand User. No one expected that Li Qing, who has always been "not afraid of pain", would be so bad at enduring pain.
At this time, Huang Jinlian kept picking up a piece of cement from the ground and stuffed it into Li Qing's rotten stomach.
This process of rapidly replenishing blood and flesh and stimulating the body's self-healing is obviously extremely painful.
Li Qing immediately started whining and calling out.
"Hold on a little longer..."
Gold Experience's rough movements did not slow down at all.
Li Qing screamed in pain, but Giorno looked at Li Qing with a hint of emotion:
Even though he is so afraid of pain, he has managed to hold on until now with this body.
You never disappoint anyone...Li Qing.
Giorno sighed softly and intensified Li Qing's treatment.
Soon, with Li Qing's face as pale as paper, his body, which had been almost turned into a pile of rotten flesh, finally recovered.
All his injuries were healed by the golden experience, so he no longer had to worry about dying on the spot due to blood loss after turning on the dataization.
Therefore, Li Qing couldn't wait to start digitization.
The lingering aftertaste of pain finally disappeared.
This nightmare that lasted for several minutes finally came to an end.
Li Qing adjusted himself to his healthy and painless, strong and powerful body, and felt that the previous painful experience was as unreal and vague as a mirage - he himself could hardly believe that he could endure such pain that was worse than death.
"call…"
He breathed a sigh of relief and erased the terrible memory from his mind.
Then, Li Qing suddenly thought of something. He turned around and walked to the edge of the platform, looking down at the bloodstained rails below:
"You're not dead yet, Bessie..."
Li Qing muttered softly.
Giorno and the others entered the station to provide support as soon as the heroic sacrifice was lifted. Even if the time spent treating Li Qing was included, only about a minute had passed since the end of the battle.
Proshout was naturally dead, but since he had not been harmed by any other "characters" before his death, the reward for the head was still pocketed by Li Qing.
Bessie's injuries were relatively minor, and he is still alive today.
At this moment, looking at the enemy who almost took his life, Li Qing couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion:
"It's good that you're not dead, it's good that you're not dead..."
"Otherwise, this head will be taken by Jotaro..."
"What?" Giorno vaguely heard Li Qing's murmur: "Do you want to save this carrot head?"
"Uh...of course not."
Li Qing was slightly stunned, and a hint of righteousness quietly appeared on his face:
"I will not save these villains who regard human lives as worthless."
"But as opponents, I admire their will—"
"People with such willpower should not die so miserably and powerlessly. They deserve a clean ending."
Having said that, Li Qing jumped off the platform amid the sighing and approving gazes of Giorno and the others.
Click——
There was a crisp sound of a cervical vertebra breaking between the rails.
A few seconds later, Li Qing nimbly crawled back from Bessie's body.
Seeing his opponent off seemed to be a very happy thing for him.
On his face was a satisfied smile like that of an old farmer enjoying a good harvest , and he was muttering mysterious words that were difficult to understand:
“Not even close.”
Before anyone could hear clearly, Li Qing quickly turned his inquiring gaze to Giorno:
"Giorno, why are you the only ones here?"
"Where are Fugo, Mista and the others?"
"They haven't come back yet."
"We originally thought that only ice could provide support, so we sent some people to look for ice."
"But, I didn't expect that later, Mr. Jotaro..."
As Giorno spoke, his tone became strange again:
At that time, everyone was blocked at the station entrance. Anyone who tried to go in would instantly be turned into a dying old man.
So there was nothing they could do but wait anxiously outside the station for their companions to return with the ice.
But later, before the ice cube came back, Jotaro couldn't bear it anymore.
He said calmly, "Let me try", and then walked in without changing his expression despite the fog of aging.
As a result…in the end, not only did he not become too old to move, but it was the enemies in the station who suffered bad luck.
"I had known that Mr. Jotaro was so... different."
"We wouldn't have had to let Mista and the others take risks then."
Giorno said with emotion.
"Is that so..."
Li Qing frowned, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart:
"So they haven't come back yet?"
"Several minutes should have passed, right?"
"Indeed...it's been a while."
At this point, the tone of Giorno, Bucciarati and the others also became heavy.
They had just breathed a sigh of relief for Li Qing's successful escape, but now they suddenly realized the danger lurking outside the station.
Just when everyone's hearts sank, a rapid cell phone ring suddenly rang out on the platform.
Giorno and Bucciarati's phones rang at the same time.
"Hello?"
They both answered the phone at the same time.
When the call was hung up, both of them looked extremely serious:
"Fugo and Naranja were seriously injured."
"They are now completely unable to move and are calling us for help."
Bucciarati reported the situation in his usual calm tone.
But his slightly trembling fists quietly revealed his inner anxiety at the moment.
"So does Mista."
Giorno subconsciously clutched his phone tightly:
"He said he was...going to die soon."
Hearing this, Jotaro's expression became heavy.
Polnareff didn't have a cell phone with him, and he didn't think of any other way to call for help.
But since the enemy was able to set up ambushes on two routes outside the station to surround and attack reinforcements, it was impossible for them to just miss this route.
So, Polnareff didn't call back...
It's really hard to say whether this situation is good or bad.
“There’s no time to waste…”
Li Qing sighed deeply:
"Let's go, let's go and rescue people!"
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Outside the station.
A car coming from another place stopped far away several hundred meters away.
There were two men in the car. They were sitting in their seats carefully and low-key, concentrating on observing the situation at the entrance of the train station in the distance.
"Melony."
The core figure of the assassination team, Captain Risut Nero, called out the name of his subordinate in a serious tone:
"Didn't you say that Jiaqiu and his men went to ambush the enemies who were looking for ice?"
"The enemy shouldn't be able to get the ice, right?"
"yes."
Meloni nodded seriously:
"Jiaqiu and the others reported to me almost two minutes ago, saying that they had already made contact with their respective ambush targets."
"There are no new reports yet. Maybe the battle over there isn't over yet?"
Because the time was so short, the usually smart Meloni was unable to judge the correct situation.
But Captain Risut noticed something was wrong:
"No…it's probably 'over' already."
"At least, the battle inside the station...is over."
He emphasized the word "end".
Because the current situation makes it difficult for him to judge whether it is just one or two battles that are ended, or the ambition of their entire assassination team.
"Did you see that?"
“Some passengers have started to be able to walk out of the train station.”
"And the few enemies who stayed at the station entrance mentioned in Jiaqiu's report are also missing."
"This means that the ability to die heroically has been disabled, the enemy has entered the station for support, and Prosciutto and Bessie may have already..."
"No, no way?"
Meloni's heart sank.
Although he knew that the captain's judgment was correct, he instinctively did not want to accept such a cruel result:
"Maybe... maybe Prosciutto has already obtained the inheritance, so he has disabled his ability and is preparing to retreat?"
"Don't fool yourself!"
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
Risotto broke Meloni's fantasy with a calm, cold, yet suppressed voice full of infinite sorrow:
"You should know that, Melonie."
"For Proshute, activating the ability to retreat will ensure safety."
"Now Prosciutto and Bessie haven't come out of the station yet, but the heroic death has been cancelled. This can only mean..."
"They're already dead!"
Risut's calm voice finally began to tremble uncontrollably.
As a leader, such a gaffe is extremely inappropriate.
But Risut couldn't control himself, because he knew very well that there were only two situations that could cause Prosut to lose his ability - victory or death.
“…”
A deathly silence spread in the car.
In the silence, Meloni's emotions seemed to be breaking down:
"how so…"
"The people who were looking for ice have obviously been stopped by Jiaqiu and his men."
"They will never let the ice be delivered to the station... I am absolutely sure of this. What about Prosciutto and Bessie? Will they be defeated by Li Qing alone?"
"There's no point in thinking about this anymore!"
Lisut immediately regained his reassuring composure and calmness:
"Retreat."
"Notify Jiaqiu and the others to retreat if possible..."
"If they are still alive."
He gave a desperate order coldly.
This order means that all their previous efforts will be in vain and all their sacrifices will become meaningless.
But this is the most sensible choice.
After all, the time when they had the best chance of success had passed.
Prosciutto and Bessie clearly failed to complete the task.
Even though everyone in the group firmly believed that they could definitely defeat Lee Sin in a two-on-one advantage, they still lost.
Now that Prosciutto and Bessie were almost confirmed dead, if they wanted to fight for the inheritance, they would have to engage in a head-on battle with an enemy that outnumbered them.
But the facts have proved that these guys who can defeat the boss are not just famous for nothing.
Risut doesn't think the assassination team can win.
"Retreat——"
"If we continue to fight, we might be wiped out."
Risut uttered these discouraging words with difficulty.
"Retreat... retreat?"
Meloni's mood became increasingly broken:
"Our ambition has just begun..."
"It's only been a few minutes... just a few minutes... is it going to end like this?!"
"Merlonie..."
Risut was also silent.
Meloni said even more excitedly:
"I don't want to retreat!"
"If we quit this time, we will be hunted down by the organization for the rest of our lives."
"I've had enough of that kind of humiliating life. We've all had enough!"
"That's why we came to Venice. If that's the case, why would we leave here in disgrace without having accomplished anything?"
Hearing this, Risut's face became even gloomier.
The emotions surging in his heart were even more complicated and difficult to describe.
"team leader--"
"Just let me try again!"
Meloni said unwillingly:
"My baby face is a long-range automatic stand. Even if I'm defeated by the enemy, it won't have any effect."
"If you retreat without letting me try...I will never feel at peace for the rest of my life!"
His voice was as excited as a madman, but he did not lose his reason in his words.
Risut could understand his logic very clearly:
Baby Face is a long-range automatic stand capable of operating beyond visual range. Even if it fails, it will not cause harm to the main body and will not pose a danger to the assassination team.
Since there is absolutely no risk, it won’t hurt to give it a try.
Although the probability of winning may not be high, but what if... just like Proshut's sure-win game would fail inexplicably, there is always a what if in the world.
"All right…"
Lisut finally made a decision:
"Meloni, just try again."
