Chapter 28 Using oneself as bait
"Wood big wood big wood big wood big!"
In the bus that had almost turned into a hell of flesh and blood, the mighty battle cry of Golden Experience resounded.
This gorgeous stand, which was emitting a faint golden light, had been "stuttering" intermittently for nearly half a minute under Giorno's command .
As long as the piece of meat shows any signs of shifting its target to attack ordinary people, Golden Experience will use its magical substitute ability to infuse life energy into the dead object, turning it into bait that can attract the attention of the piece of meat.
Finally, with Giorno's strenuous protection and Li Qing's harsh urging, those frightened ordinary people finally escaped with their injuries.
They escaped far enough to be out of the meat's attack range.
Even if Giorno didn't create more swift bait, the twisted hunk of meat didn't turn around and chase his classmates.
However…
Li Qing and Giorno remained where they were, in that hell on earth that was almost covered by tumors and tentacles.
Moreover, I don’t know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, there were no other pedestrians or vehicles passing by on this empty road.
They helped those students attract the monsters' hatred, but now, no one can help them attract hatred.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
"Don't act anymore... Golden Experience."
Giorno gasped and ordered his stand to stop, sweat dripping down his forehead.
The huge consumption brought by excessive use of the stand ability made him mentally exhausted to the extreme, and it was only because of his strong willpower that he did not stumble and fall to the ground.
At this moment, the monster that had expanded to the size of a car also lost its target.
It instinctively perched on the bus, which had been half eaten, and slowly and unconsciously extended its wriggling carpet of flesh in all directions, constantly eroding everything around it.
"Hello…"
"Mr. Baldhead."
Giorno tried his best to remain still and gasped:
"Have you figured out a way to escape?"
"At this rate, even if we stand still like rocks, we will eventually be sucked into the monster's ever-expanding body."
"A way to escape?"
Li Qing also maintained his funny posture of "one, two, three, wooden man":
"Of course."
"Otherwise, am I staying here just to wait for death with you?"
He gave Giorno a confident look, and suddenly asked:
"Kid, you should be able to control the animals you created, right?"
"this…"
Giorno tried to cheer himself up and stay calm in front of the slowly approaching piece of meat:
"The animals I created are all self-aware and truly alive."
"It's impossible to manipulate them as I please. The best I can do is give them a simple command."
"That's enough."
Li Qing's expression became much more relaxed.
Even though the disgusting giant piece of meat was about to approach his body , his voice was still very calm:
"Then please create another bird."
"Don't use brown swifts. It's better to use a bird that takes off very slowly, slower than the maximum running speed of humans."
"After creating it, you can just command it to fly directly into the sky."
"Slower than the maximum running speed of humans?"
Giorno was a little confused, but he didn't ask any more questions.
He knew that he could only trust the mysterious bald man now: "Okay, shall we start now?"
"etc."
Li Qing stopped Giorno from trying:
"Wait until I say start, then you start moving."
As he spoke, he frowned slightly and listened attentively to everything around him.
"this…"
Giorno didn't know what Li Qing was listening to, nor did he know what opportunity he was waiting for.
The only thing he knew now was that at the slow yet steady pace of the piece of meat, he could only survive for ten more seconds at most.
In another ten seconds, he and Li Qing would be trapped in the quagmire of flesh and blood, never to be able to escape.
10…9…8…
The pieces of meat were getting closer and closer, and the distance between them was less than one meter.
7…6…5…
Li Qing still didn't shout "start", but the tentacles of the meat had slowly stretched to Giorno's feet.
The squirming sound so close and the disgusting stench are enough to turn any brave and fearless warrior into a coward who flees in panic.
4…3…2…
Li Qing still didn't move.
The tentacles extending from the piece of meat have already touched Giorno's shoes.
"What on earth is he waiting for?!"
Giorno couldn't help but raise such questions in his heart.
For a moment, he even suspected that Li Qing had no other options left and just wanted him to wait for death with a false hope.
However, facing the breath of death, he finally chose to believe Li Qing.
1…
The piece of flesh that touched Giorno's body was stimulated by the fragrance of flesh and blood and woke up.
It squirmed its bloated body rapidly and pounced on Giorno's delicious body like a hungry wolf.
At this time, Li Qing finally shouted:
"start!"
“Golden experience!”
Giorno had already prepared and called upon his Stand, and the agile Golden Experience immediately burst out with a burst of punches:
“Mudamudamuda!”
Its golden fist was filled with powerful vitality, and in an instant it "beat" the seat next to it into a... fat pigeon.
Yes.
In order to meet Li Qing's requirement of "slow take-off", Giorno specially added some food to the pigeon.
“Coo-coo!”
As soon as the fat pigeon was born, it started cooing.
Without Giorno giving it any orders, just by sensing the invisible aura emanating from the giant piece of meat, it desperately began to fly into the sky .
Although its speed was slower, it was still much faster than Giorno who was standing still.
Therefore, the piece of meat, which acted completely based on a rigid program, immediately ignored Giorno and turned to attack the fat pigeon that had just flown out not very high.
"Heavenly Sound Wave!"
At this moment, Li Qing suddenly waved his hand and shot out a dazzling ball of light, leaving a white positioning mark on the fat pigeon.
"Coo, coo, coo!"
The fat pigeon felt so much pain after being hit by the Tianyin wave that it couldn't help but fly faster and harder.
The piece of meat suddenly contracted its strange and tough body, trying to jump up from the ground like it did before to catch the brown swift.
However, Li Qing stopped it:
"Let go of that pigeon, come at me if you have any problem!"
He shouted suddenly, bursting out with all his strength in an instant, and ran quickly towards the empty road outside the car.
That piece of meat is a mindless, instinctive creature.
It was like a monkey being toyed with by a few bananas. It immediately gave up on the fat pigeon that it was about to kill and turned around to chase Li Qing who was running faster.
Because of its own characteristic of "definitely faster than the target", this bloated monster, as big as a car, suddenly burst out with a terrifying speed that was two points faster than Li Qing who was running at full speed.
"really…"
"He wanted to use himself as bait to allow the pigeon to fly high into the sky smoothly."
Giorno understood Li Qing's intention.
Seeing that Li Qing was about to be caught up and swallowed by the hideous piece of meat, his mood calmed down instead.
"If an ordinary person ran away recklessly like this, he would definitely be caught up by the meat in a few seconds."
"But since he dares to use himself as bait to attract fire, he must have something to protect himself."
The facts were just as Giorno expected.
The piece of flesh that would kill or injure an ordinary person if touched by it did not succeed in devouring Li Qing after catching up with him. In fact, the monster could not even bite off a piece of flesh from Li Qing's body.
It could only wrap tightly around Li Qing and continue to drain his blood.
"Huh?"
Giorno then noticed something was wrong:
"On the head of this bald man..."
"When did a green strip appear?"
