Chapter 339 Back to the Future
April 6, 1999, 18:24.
Dongfang’s house, on the second floor, in a room covered in blood.
"Ouroboros, change the time anchor point!"
"Target--"
"March 26, 1999, 16:53."
Under Diablo's silent roar, he and Li Qing were sent into the long river of time by the power of time and space.
At this moment, both Diablo and Lee Sin completely disappeared from this world.
Higashikata Jousuke struggled to walk back here with his broken body.
He happened to see the scene where Li Qing and Diablo disappeared together.
This scene was shocking and tragic enough to make Josuke Higashikata realize that Li Qing's desperate plan had succeeded.
And after Lee Sin and Diablo disappeared...
The next moment, they did not reappear.
"Mr. Li Qing!!"
An indescribable complex emotion surged in my heart.
Higashikata Josuke couldn't help but let out a deep roar for Li Qing.
Although he had just figured out Diablo's abilities from Lee Sin, he had also seen many movies and read novels about time travel.
So Josuke knew very well that if the journey through time went smoothly, the time traveler should reappear the next moment after they left.
Just like what Diablo had shown many times before.
But this time...
Neither Lee Sin nor Diablo came back.
There is no doubt that Lee Sin succeeded, as he defeated Diablo in the past.
At the same time, Li Qing may have failed:
He couldn't come back from the past either.
Most likely dead.
Thinking of this, Higashikata Josuke couldn't help but feel very heavy:
To be honest, he didn't know much about Li Qing.
Before this, his impression of Li Qing was just a few simple labels:
Jotaro's friend, an experienced fighter, and a foreigner who speaks Japanese very well.
But now, when he saw Li Qing chop off his own head with a knife for a glimmer of hope, Higashikata Josuke was deeply touched.
It was such a dark and hopeless situation, but Li Qing used his life to open up a path to light and hope for everyone !
So this is death, this is sacrifice.
This small town youth who had been living a peaceful life finally came into contact with the cruelty of the world.
"Li! Qing!"
Higashikata Josuke once again shouted out Li Qing's name in pain.
There were even tears in the corners of his eyes.
"Why are you yelling so loudly..."
"Save your energy. There are a lot of injured people waiting for you to save them."
Li Qing's voice suddenly sounded from behind Josuke.
He is like Prime Minister Cao, who comes when called.
"Ah, ah?"
Higashikata Josuke was startled and thought he was hallucinating.
But when he turned his head away in shock...
Li Qing was really standing there, alive.
And it wasn't just Li Qing. There was an unexpected guy standing next to Li Qing:
"Kishibe Rohan?"
"Why are you here?"
Higashikata Josuke couldn't help but feel a little confused:
"Well..."
Kishibe Rohan put down his brush and sketchbook and said with a playful look:
“I’m here to enjoy the story.”
"I wrote the script, so of course I can't miss this magnificent finale."
As before, he started talking in a way that was hard to understand.
Higashikata Josuke was confused by what he heard, and cast a look of surprise and doubt at Li Qing:
"Mr. Li Qing, didn't you die... and go back to the past?"
"Why are you here with Kishibe Rohan?"
"Well..."
"It's a long story."
Li Qing did not answer, but unceremoniously picked up Higashikata Jousuke:
"Now is not the time to answer questions."
"Your eldest nephew and second grandfather are still lying there..."
"Hurry up and follow me to rescue people!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qing's figure suddenly turned into a phantom.
Higashikata Josuke's fluffy hair fluttered wildly as he galloped, gradually turning into the shape of the wind.
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April 5, 1999, morning.
Kishibe Rohan walked out of the Dongfang family with unsteady steps.
Although he looked fine and was actually very healthy, his face was filled with fear, as if he had just crawled out of hell.
All this was because he had just entered the Dongfang family to test the situation.
And Li Qing, that damn bastard, actually used a set of crazy stick skills on him even though he knew he was his teammate.
"Demons... these guys are all demons!"
Kishibe Rohan sighed with lingering fear.
Li Qing’s “physical education” is actually bearable, but when Giorno uses gold experience to give him physical treatment... that will be a real nightmare!
Whenever he thought about the pain, Rohan Kishibe couldn't help shivering.
"But... the information is indeed correct..."
A wild smile suddenly appeared on Rohan Kishibe's face, which was full of pain.
He carefully checked the watch on his wrist, then looked up at the sky of Morioh Town that seemed to remain unchanged:
"The real story is about to begin."
"Alright, alright..."
"Don't say such pretentious lines."
A slightly anxious voice suddenly sounded beside him:
"Let's go quickly, I don't want to stay here any longer—"
"If I'm this close to myself, I'll be doomed if my past self finds out."
As he spoke, a man wrapped tightly in a hat, sunglasses and a mask quietly flashed out from the side of the road.
And underneath that almost fully covered outfit, was Li Qing's face:
"Rohan, you should believe me now, right?"
"I have been standing outside the house all the time, and there is another 'me' in Dongfang's house."
"We are not twins, you can probably tell that."
“I believe it.”
Kishibe Rohan nodded excitedly:
Li Qing contacted him via a cross-border phone call 11 days ago.
After that, Li Qing found that he had stayed in the past for a full hour and was not sent back by the power of time and space.
Because the driver of the space train had been killed by him.
As a stowaway passenger, Li Qing could only stay in the past.
If he wants to go back to the future, he can only rely on his own lifespan to survive day by day, just like Yi Xiaochuan in "Myth".
12 days is not a long time at all.
On the first day of his stay, Li Qing smuggled from Italy to Japan by holding on to the landing gear of a passenger plane. After getting off the plane, he borrowed some Japanese yen cash from an enthusiastic Japanese friend for his travel.
Finally, he arrived at Morioh Town quietly and hid in Rohan Kishibe's house.
In the past two weeks, Li Qing has been hiding in his home on the shore and dared not go out, for fear that he would accidentally trigger the paradox.
At the same time, he was explaining his experience .
After nearly two weeks of getting along, Kishibe Rohan has actually already implicitly recognized Lee Sin, otherwise he would not have been judged as Lee Sin's teammate by the system.
However, regarding the touching time-travel story told by Li Qing, Kishibe Rohan always reserved his own opinion and did not choose to believe it completely.
Rohan Kishibe just showed strong interest and asked Li Qing to produce evidence that he was a time traveler.
Li Qing first accurately predicted several important international news events in the past two weeks.
Then, he asked Rohan Kishibe to come to the Higashikata family in person on April 5 to conduct a trial investigation and verify the information he had provided.
"You are quite right."
"What I experienced after entering the Dongfang family was basically the same as what you said."
"This kind of 'prophecy' that is accurate to the minute and second is almost impossible to fake, so I believe you."
Kishibe Rohan and Li Qing quietly left the Dongfang family, and said excitedly:
"But there's no need to make things so complicated."
"If you had allowed me to read your experience with [Heaven's Gate] from the beginning, it would have directly proved your statement."
As he spoke, his eyes almost glowed red as he looked at Li Qing.
It's like a hungry wolf seeing fresh meat.
Rohan Kishibe instinctively felt that there must be more wonderful stories in Li Qing's past.
Li Qing couldn't help but shudder when he was looked at:
"Stop daydreaming!"
"There is no way I'm going to let you use Heaven's Gate on me."
"Your interest in looking at people's past is really bad... Even teammates need to keep their privacy!"
Although he had no doubts about Rohan Kishibe's character, Li Qing did not want to expose all his memories and privacy.
To be honest, Kishibe Rohan's hobby of hacking people's brains apart when he's interested is really not a good thing.
"All right…"
Kishibe Rohan looked away in disappointment.
Then, he straightened his expression and said seriously:
"I accept the time travel story, and I will also help with dealing with Diablo."
"But, Li Qing, some things seem to be a little different from what you predicted..."
“The future didn’t quite turn out the way you said it would.”
"What?"
Li Qing's heart skipped a beat.
Kishibe Rohan's words frightened him greatly:
"What's different?"
"Doesn't this trigger the paradox?"
"You didn't mention that I would be beaten at Dongfang's house."
Kishibe Rohan covered his chest, which still seemed to be aching, and said solemnly:
"But just now, when I was about to leave safely as predicted."
"In the past, you beat me up with a stick and asked that horrible curly-head to treat me. What a golden experience! It was a terrible experience."
"Why is this happening? Is there something wrong with the time cycle?"
"this…"
Li Qing's expression suddenly became a little subtle:
"Well... Actually it's because..."
"I remember that you seemed quite surprised when you saw that I was going to beat you up. That panic was definitely not fake."
"If I had told you in advance that you were going to be beaten, you wouldn't have been so surprised at the time, which would have likely led to a paradox."
"I see…"
Kishibe Rohan nodded seriously.
But something suddenly seemed wrong to him:
"Wait... so you deliberately made me come to the Dongfang family to get beaten?!"
"Ha ha ha ha…"
Li Qing scratched his head a little embarrassedly:
"How can you say I did this on purpose?"
"Although you always try to pry into my privacy and you deserve a beating, but Kishibe Rohan, don't make the mistake..."
He sighed deeply and said seriously:
"It's not me who's going to beat you up this time."
"It's fate!"
“This…” Kishibe Rohan’s expression froze.
The writer of the script thought about it over and over again in his script, but in the end he still couldn't figure out who beat him.
