Chapter 9: Foresight of the Future
"Diablo..."
Li Qing whispered this somewhat inexplicably familiar name, and couldn't help but think of the strange scene of the 'time jump' just now:
"Could it be... You're the 'boss' that Amor mentioned before he died? ”
"After you killed someone, you didn't leave from the vicinity of this inn at all!"
"That's right."
Diablo replied in a flat tone:
"I never leave a trace, so I have to make sure that stupid woman disappears from this world 'completely'."
"I didn't expect you to be able to appear here silently without me even noticing."
"Heh... That's amazing! ”
He praised Li Qing on his lips, but his eyes were full of disdain for the dead.
Diablo is now guilty of a big taboo that a smart person shouldn't do, despising his opponents.
In other words, he didn't regard Li Qing as an opponent at all.
In Diablo's eyes, the current Li Qing is like a fly that accidentally broke into his house - annoying is annoying, but he can be killed with a wave of his hand.
It's not that he's arrogant, but that he has enough confidence to kill Li Qing:
Putting aside his invincible stand-in ability, just relying on the strength and speed of his "Crimson King" itself, it is enough to crush the current Li Qing.
According to the power system of the JOJO world, the attributes of the Crimson King are:
Force speed double A.
It's powerful enough to easily pierce through steel plates, and it's so fast that it's hard to see with the naked eye.
And now Li Qing is only at the limit of the human body, and according to JOJO's power system, he is only a "force speed double C" at most.
In addition, the blood bar suspended above Li Qing's head exposed his brittle and thin blood, and the "stand-in ability" he showed before was still biased towards unpretentious melee physical attacks...
This means that the Crimson King can beat Li Qing with only a flat slash.
This sheer power gap alone is enough for Diablo to have a 100% chance of winning.
Therefore, his gaze at Li Qing now is very calm:
"Say it!"
After realizing that he had completely dominated his opponent, Diablo was no longer in a hurry to send Li Qing to death:
"Why are you here?"
"Do you have a grudge against me, or is someone behind you?"
The Passion organization is doing a lot of business.
They import the "Golden Crescent" region from West Asia and transport it to Italy in the Mediterranean Sea by land and sea routes, and finally sell these West Asian products throughout Europe through Italy's sales channels.
It's a huge business, earning hundreds of billions of lira a year.
Because of this eye-popping stake, Diablo, as the leader of the Passion organization, faces extremely difficult challenges every day:
Some of them are organizational cadres who are trying to subdue themselves, some are gang peers who want to eat black, and some are elite agents who come to law enforcement agencies around the world.
It is impossible for Li Qing to come to investigate him alone for no reason, killing Li Qing can only solve the temporary crisis, what Diablo wants most is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and never suffer in the future.
Therefore, it was rare for him to try to restrain his killing intent.
"Say it!"
"Tell me the real purpose of your coming, and I may be able to get you back alive."
Diablo asked condescendingly in an unquestioning tone.
"Huh."
Li Qing was unmoved: "Don't laugh!" ”
"Just now, Amor and his party were beaten to death by me, and you didn't show up to save them."
"That's because you know in your heart that anyone who has seen your real body will die—including your men."
"So, how did you let me survive?"
Hearing this, Diablo immediately stopped his insincere smirk:
"You're not stupid."
"So, is that your last answer?"
"I..."
Li Qing pursed her lips tightly and tried her best to think:
With that kind of monster-level speed and strength, he simply can't fight against it.
Not to mention, Diablo also has an invincible stand-in ability that can "cut time".
The so-called cutting time, simply put, is the time that can be "leaped" and then "deleted" for a maximum of about ten seconds.
During this time, Diablo can see in advance what others will do in the future, and only he can move freely.
He cannot be attacked or attacked at this time, but he can move freely and move objects.
And after cutting time, all the creatures in this world will not experience the passage of time, and of course they will not have any memory.
A little more colloquial:
It's like everyone playing lol together, as long as Diablo releases his ability, the other players will collectively fall into a high-ping stuttering state.
During this time, all other players can only act unconsciously in the stutter, and only Diablo can manipulate the character to move freely.
What's even more terrifying is that Diablo's main body and double are completely independent of the timeline during the time of "Time Slashing" - which means that nothing can harm him in the process.
It's like a vampire who opens W, and when he opens a skill, he is "not pickable" and immune to all attacks.
"Invincible..."
"This is simply an invincible stand-in ability..."
After the personal experience just now, Li Qing has a clear understanding of the strength of Diablo:
"The strength and speed of his stand-in are far above me, and he can easily crush me without the ability of a stand-in."
"Even if I can find a way to attack his body, I won't be able to crack his invincible skills."
"It's... How to fight? ”
The more Li Qing thought about it, the more he felt that he was now like a shrimp toad in a small grass patch, and he had just bothered to eat two small insects, and he was whipped with a whip by the bear child who suddenly killed next to him.
Not only unfortunate, but also desperate, desperate to the point of being unable to resist.
So far, he can only ...
"Don't kill me!"
Li Qing directly put down his fist and shouted "sincerely":
"You may not believe it, but I'm really just an ordinary citizen passing by!"
"I'm here because of an accident."
"You... No... Will you spare my life? ”
"Huh?"
Diablo frowned tightly:
Beg? Could it be that he had lost his mind in despair and thought that begging for mercy was useful?
No, Diablo doesn't believe this claim.
He knew that Li Qing must be stalling for time and finding a way to fight back.
As for what is the other party's plan?
Scold...
Diablo didn't bother to guess, he preferred to "see" directly:
"The Crimson King - Epitaph!"
Li Qing only knew that Diablo had the invincible meaning of "cutting time", but he didn't know that he also had another stand-in ability that could be called a BUG - predicting the future.
This "foresight of the future" is easy to understand without explanation:
Diablo can activate Epitaph, the Crimson King's second ability, to predict the future in about ten seconds, knowing in advance what the enemy will do in the future.
At this moment, he activated the mysterious and inexplicable ability of foreknowledge.
In the next ten seconds, the future that has not yet happened is all in Diablo's eyes:
At first, Li Qing pretended to be desperate and begged for mercy.
After some unnutritious pleading, at about the 8th second, Li Qing suddenly burst out and shot a "mark light cluster" towards his body.
Sadly, Li Qing's speed is really not fast.
There was no need for a stand-in Crimson King to make a move, and he himself dodged this "marker light cluster" with a slight tilt of his head.
In the 9th second, the Scarlet King fought back on the spot, and a hand knife slashed through half of Li Qing's shoulder.
Li Qing's data-transformed body healed instantly under such a terrifying attack, but the red blood bar floating above his head plummeted down in an instant.
However, at about 10 seconds...
Bang!
A terrifying bloody hole suddenly opened in his head.
"Oh?"
Diablo's pupils shrank:
"His plan was not to run away, but to find a way to fight me to the death."
"Oh, what a daring fellow..."
"It's a pity..."
He pursed the corners of his lips dismissively:
"I've already predicted the future!"