Chapter 41: The Third Question
"In addition to hearing the tremor of the Mi Army's convoy just now, I also heard a 'sound of the earth'."
Li Qing pointed to the solid ground under him and explained carefully:
"Because of the geological movements that occur all the time in the earth's interior, there are actually countless extremely faint sound waves in the earth."
"These sound waves pass through geological structures of different densities and materials, and the waveforms they exhibit are also different."
"With this property, I can roughly probe the geological structure of the shallow surface with sound waves."
"And I just heard..."
"More than a hundred meters underground, there is a huge underground cavity - there is nothing there, just right for sealing this piece of meat!"
The Earth has never been a solid ball of dirt, and it's not uncommon to find a naturally occurring hole in the ground once in a while.
"I see..."
Giorno understood Li Qing's intentions:
"That underground cavity is just over a hundred meters above the surface, beyond the perception range of the meat block."
"As long as we can bring in pieces of meat, it can no longer perceive objects on the ground."
"When the time comes, it will be sealed forever in the dark underground."
"But..."
He couldn't help but say a but.
Because there are too many loopholes in this Plan B proposed by Li Qing -
How do you lure a monster to a depth of more than 100 meters?
The hole that could hold the monster into the ground would have to be at least five or six meters wide, so how could they plug such a big hole in two minutes?
Of course, in addition to that...
There is also one most critical issue, which Giorno is very concerned about.
"I know what you're thinking."
"But it's too late to say anything more."
"Waiting for those Mi soldiers to come over, under so much interference, no matter which plan we take, it will fail."
Li Qing didn't give Giorno room to question at all.
He commanded in no uncertain terms:
"Now, please make a bug that burrows into the ground, and let it burrow into the ground with my Celestial Wave marker."
"My displacement ability can pass through the barrier and go straight to the ground, and as long as that piece of meat senses my high-speed movement, even if there is a hundreds of meters of dirt barrier, it will desperately dig through the ground and chase down."
Li Qing gave a way to lure the monster into the ground, which was an answer to the first question that came to Giorno's heart.
"Well..."
Giorno no no longer hesitated.
He had already recognized Li Qing as a companion.
Since Li Qing's attitude was so firm, he simply handed over his trust.
"Wood is big, wood is big!"
A brilliant golden humanoid double emerged from behind Giorno and slammed his fist into the crushed asphalt blocks on the ground.
Soon, the crushed asphalt block that gained vitality changed its form and gave birth to a worm with an oily black sheen all over its body.
"Skysound!"
Li Qing didn't hesitate to mark the insect with a celestial sound wave-
This journey needs to cross a distance of hundreds of meters, and the range of the golden bell jar is not enough, so you can only use the sound waves.
However, after using the Sky Sonic Wave on the bugs, he immediately noticed that something was wrong:
"Wait... This bug..."
Li Qing sensed the outline of the object with the help of sound waves: "How does it look a bit like a cockroach from the outline?!" ”
"This is a cockroach."
Giorno replied without changing his face.
“......”
As a southern resident who has been plagued by cockroaches, hearing this name that has brought him countless nightmares, Li Qing couldn't help but snort:
"Cockroaches... Why choose cockroaches!! ”
"There are so many bugs to choose from... When will cockroaches still be able to burrow into the ground? ”
"Of course cockroaches can't burrow into the ground."
"I created cockroaches just because this little thing has strong vitality and is not easy to die."
"In fact..."
Giorno rubbed his eyebrows helplessly:
"There is no bug in the world that can drill more than 100 meters of soil in two minutes!"
"Do you have any misunderstanding about my stand-in abilities..."
"I can only create the creatures that exist on Earth, but I can't meet your strange requirements."
"That?" Li Qing waited for the next words very tacitly.
Sure enough, Giorno added unhurriedly:
"Maybe it's because 'souls' require a lot of energy, and I'm more powerful at controlling plants than I am at creating animals with consciousness."
"I can infuse a lot of life force and make the plants that have been created grow at an exaggerated rate and in the shape I want."
"So..."
"Big wood, big wood, big wood!"
"Big wood, big wood, big wood!"
The golden experience began to hammer the ground frantically, and the shadow of a golden fist appeared all over the body.
At this point, they are still within the perceptual range of the meat cut.
Such a continuous high-speed boxing soon attracted the attention of the huge mass of flesh and blood dozens of meters away.
However, the road to the underground was opened before the meat pieces arrived:
Under that massive amount of vitality, an asphalt block quickly deformed and transformed, forming a small sapling.
The root system of the sapling enveloped the cockroach marked with the celestial sound waves, and then like a drill bit that would automatically stretch and spread indefinitely, it quickly grew into the deep underground.
"The fig tree..."
Giorno duly explained:
"In the deep cave near Oristad, South Africa, there is a plant with the longest and deepest root system in the world."
"Its root system can go 120 meters underground, enough to help us send that cockroach with your ability marker into the hollow underground."
"Hmm..."
Li Qing's face was extremely pale.
"How?" Giorno asked puzzled, "Are you scared?" ”
"Of course I'm afraid..."
The huge shadow of the piece of flesh had already shrouded Li Qing's body, and the disgusting and terrifying sound of flesh and blood wriggling was almost close at hand.
Li Qing was so frightened that his face turned white:
"That's a cockroach!!"
He mustered up a hundred thousand courages, and forced himself not to imagine the terrible feeling when his fist came into close contact with the cockroach:
"Echo, echo strike!"
Li Qing's figure suddenly turned into a phantom of nothingness, following the trajectory of the cockroach brother who had just entered the ground, and went straight into the solid ground.
The pieces of meat are immediately too high.
Li Qing's swift speed in the Echo Strike state was the fatal switch that turned on its rampage mode.
This irrational monster completely ignored the barrier of heavy rock and soil, and in a violent and swift attitude, followed Li Qing and crashed into the ground.
This collision is the shaking of the earth and the mountains.
It's like it's completely outside the rules of the world... No... It may be a "world rule" in itself.
The rule is:
It must always be faster than its prey, no matter what stands in its way.
The solid earth was easily separated by the unreasonable force of the flesh, and the buildings and trees within a radius of 100 meters trembled violently.
In this way, it relied on brute force to move through the hundreds of meters thick soil, and its speed was not hindered at all.
Finally...
The earth stopped and the all-devouring monster sank underground.
The world is quiet.
Giorno walked over to the huge passage that the flesh had dug out with his body, and looked down at the unfathomable darkness of the underground:
Li Qing is below this, and the meat piece is also below this.
"The plan worked."
"But..."
Giorno's expression was extremely solemn.
The first question in his heart has been answered by Li Qing with actions.
For the second question of "how to fill the hole", he himself came up with an emergency solution:
First, a large number of plant roots are born to form a giant "wine bottle cork" several meters long to completely block the hole, and then add a thick layer of soil to cover it.
Both of these questions have been answered.
But the third, and most critical, problem has not yet been resolved.
"You just said... There was nothing in the hollow of the earth. ”
"That means there's nothing in the underground to help you attract hatred."
"As soon as you try to climb up, the lump of meat will climb up; And if you don't climb up, you'll be trapped in the ground with that piece of flesh and waiting to die. ”
"Li Qing..."
Giorno pursed his lips tightly and muttered to himself the third question:
"How are you going to survive?"