Chapter 323: Encountering the Platinum Star Again
Jotaro hadn't been angered like he was today in a long, long time.
He had just learned that his long-lost best friend, Polunarev, had been in danger all along.
A minute ago, he had even heard Diablo's insolent roar on the phone after cornering Polunarev.
A minute had passed, and Polunarev was still in the Colosseum against a powerful enemy, and his life and death were still unknown.
Jotaro blames himself, is anxious, and angry.
This man, who has always been as steady as a mountain, is rarely confused.
He hurriedly got out of the taxi, summoned the platinum star, and walked briskly towards the Colosseum with a cold face in his heart.
But before Jotaro could take a few steps, he bumped into a pink-haired middle-aged man in a black silk see-through bodysuit.
And this guy doesn't know if he's in a trance, or if he's just busy with something...
Jotaro walked five meters to his side before he finally noticed Jotaro's presence.
Then, Jotaro looked calmly and directly, and the pink-haired middle-aged man turned his head to look back.
As soon as the eyes of the two sides met...
The pink-haired and black-haired middle-aged man's gaze immediately shrank back as if he had been electrocuted.
"Jotaro?"
"When did this guy come out!"
Diablo was shocked:
He just thought about things for a moment, this big evil star had already approached him unconsciously?
Is this another bad joke that fate played on him?!
Diablo's body stiffened and he didn't dare to move.
And Jotaro tentatively took a step forward:
"You... Know me? β
Diablo's face changed:
It's too close, it's too close.
Although the Crimson King, after being awakened by the arrow, his strength and speed have been strengthened to an extreme strength.
But in the face of the Platinum Star, which can stop time, with such a close distance, no matter how strong the Crimson King's strength is, it can't ensure the safety of the body.
What to do... Do you want to just cut the time and run away?
But this will definitely expose his identity and make him think that I am the current Diablo.
This could trigger a series of pursuits and battles.
Will this have an impact on the past, and will it create a time paradox?
Because Diablo had no memory of himself at all during this time period, he didn't know what to do to make sure he didn't change the past.
And he had to deal with it carefully, after all, the paradox of time would definitely be more terrifying than the platinum star that struck his face.
"By the way, I thought about it..."
"This guy has just arrived in Rome now, and he hasn't joined up with Polunarev yet."
"He should only know my name, not what I look like."
"I just have to pretend to be a passing tourist, a righteous person like him, who is subject to morality and principles, will not do anything to me if he is not sure."
The Colosseum is so famous that even when it is closed at night, it is not uncommon for tourists to come outside the Colosseum at night to take photos.
This is not surprising at all, and it makes perfect sense as a reason.
So Diablo hesitated a little, then forced himself to calm down:
"I... I don't know. β
"It'sβit's just that your expression is a little scary, so..."
He also has more than ten years of hidden experience, and his acting skills are not inferior to actor Kira Yoshikage.
"Ohβ" The hostility surging in Jotaro's eyes suddenly eased.
It's as if he just regarded Diablo in front of him as an ordinary passerby, and he didn't doubt it at all.
However, the next second...
"Platinum Star!"
The burly figure behind Jotaro flashed out:
βThe World!β
Time stood still, and the Platinum Star swung his fist upward.
"Do you think I won't be able to hear your voice?"
"Will anyone who harmed my companions be forgotten by me?"
"I still remember that phone call, the sound of you shouting in front of my best friend... Diablo! β
Jotaro's extremely suppressed anger erupted at this moment.
"Eula, Ola, Ola, Ola, Ola!"
"Eula, Ola, Ola, Ola, Ola!"
β......β
Finally, the time stop is over.
Diablo's body was like 10,000 time bombs stuffed into it, and it began to explode wildly in that tsunami-like punch.
Bones shattered, skin shattered, blood spilled out.
"Damn... And so it is again! β
Diablo thought of grief and indignation in the midst of severe pain:
He had only been pulled by this once yesterday afternoon at the entrance of the Toocho tram stop, and he had experienced it again today.
Why do I have to pay my debt to your best friend over and over again?!
The pain came like a tidal wave, and Diablo's spirit could barely hold it up.
At this time, the platinum star deceived himself and got up towards Diablo "Ola Ola", who was still in a stiff state.
"I'm going to die if I go on like this..."
Diablo was horrified.
As a strong man who has been beaten by the platinum star with all his strength but has not yet died, he knows the limits of his body.
This is actually a good thing, fortunately this March 27th Jotaro is only 2 seconds off, unlike later after a week of workouts to recover to 3 seconds.
If he had been beaten by Ora for 3 seconds in the time stop like he had done yesterday, Diablo might not even have the strength to save himself at this moment.
But fate still left him with such a glimmer of life after all:
"Crimson, Red, Of, Kingβ"
"Cut through time!"
Stimulated by that strong desire to survive, Diablo finally found the last trace of clarity in the endless pain.
He instantly entered that timeline that was his own, and got rid of the deadly iron fist of the Platinum Star.
While Jotaro was still unconscious, Diablo hurriedly dragged his broken body and fled into the distance.
After more than ten seconds, the time cutting ended.
Jotaro stood blankly in place, and the Platinum Star was throwing his fist at the air.
Only a mottled trail of blood was left on the ground.
In the distance, the sound of rare and messy footsteps could be heard on the street.
"Did you flee in that direction?"
Jotaro frowned slightly.
But after a moment of silence, thinking of his best friend, whose life and death were still uncertain, he finally withdrew his gaze.
....................................
About 55 minutes later.
A gloomy alley in the heart of the city of Rome.
Seriously wounded, Diablo fled here to rest in disarray.
He knew that at this time, Li Qing had already taken control of the science and technology group, and indirectly took over the powerful intelligence capabilities that once belonged to him.
The tech team is monitoring Italy in general, and Rome in particular tonight.
Therefore, even if Diablo was seriously injured, he could not go to the hospital for treatment in an open manner, let alone mobilize the organization's logistics medical personnel.
He could only flee like a lost dog to this dark alley where no one was around, leaning against the cold wall, and lingering in the stench of garbage:
"Damn... I actually met Jotaro and Platinum Star there. β
"And that hasn't led to a time paradox yet..."
"In other words, am I destined to get a fight here?"
Diablo suddenly felt a deep malice from fate.
Although he has never been the darling of fate, he often shouts that he wants to change his life against the sky.
But this time, he really felt that he had been targeted too much by the goddess of fate.
"Ouroboros aren't useless."
"Without this ability to travel through time, I would have died on March 27."
"But... But this ability still can't meet the dilemma I'm facing now! β
Diablo's mood became heavier and heavier:
You can participate in the past, but you can't change it.
So how exactly can he use this ability to solve the dilemma he faces in the future?
Ouroboros' abilities only last for 1 hour at a time, and that hour is almost over.
He was about to return to the evening of April 6, to the avenue of despair.
And that evening, Li Qing, Jotaro, and Dongfang Suke... These uneasy guys are still guarding there with murderous vigour.
"I'm definitely going back to the next moment after my crossing."
"For Li Qing and them, I just disappeared for a short moment."
"That is to say..."
Diablo carefully recalls the scene before his crossing:
At that time, he had just awakened with an arrow.
Li Qing found that he was unusually loud and shouted.
Jotaro turned on and stopped, and "teleported" to his eyes with the platinum star.
Now... Now?
"'Now,' Jotaro is crouching in front of me."
"Then when I go back, won't I be the platinum star Ora again?"
Thinking of this, Diablo's face suddenly became as ugly as the one he had just woken up from the sewer.
1 time yesterday, 1 time today, do you have to do it again when you go back?
Even an iron man can't help but toss like this!
Diablo has the heart to die.
That one hour is almost up.
He was about to drag this body that had been badly damaged in the past, back to the future he wanted to escape, back to Jotaro and Shirokane.
"Ouroboros..."
"Did this ability awaken in order to torture me to death?"
Diablo's face turned pale, and his badly injured body trembled.
But he could still feel that the one-hour time limit was coming to an end.
A powerful and esoteric force was dragging him towards the indescribable river of time, and he would soon be able to see the last people he wanted to see.
"No... I'm going to die if I go back now! β
"Gotta run for your life! Gotta find a way to survive! β
Diablo instinctively wanted to escape the fate of death in his panic.
But the one-hour crossing time limit has finally arrived.
Diablo's form quickly became transparent, and his presence was quickly erased from this point in time, irretrievably sent back into the future.
And at this moment of despair, when he was trying in despair...
He was surprised and shocked to discover...
His new ability, Ouroboros, seems to be available again all along.
That's right... In the past March 27th, Diablo was able to use Ouroboros.
It's just that he's been trapped in despair, confusion and pain before, so he never thought of trying.
"I see..."
"Ouroboros' cooldown is 10 minutes."
"Every time I use Ouroboros, I'm able to move around an anchor point at a certain time in the past for 1 hour."
Diablo's body is being quickly pulled back into the future by the force of time and space.
But a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and time seemed to freeze at this moment.
Thoughts suddenly became clear, and many troubling questions were solved in a split second.
Diablo suddenly found that his awakened third ability didn't seem to be so wasteful.
"Ouroboros' cooldown is calculated based on my timeline."
"Even in the past, it would return to a usable state 10 minutes after I crossed over."
Although he would be sent back to Jotaro in the next moment, Diablo had no fear in his heart:
"I can now use the 'void' effect of activating the Ouroboros to protect myself in front of Jotaro."
"By the time he reacted, I was already crossing into another past."
"No, Ouroboros can do more than that..."
Ouroboros has a cooldown of 10 minutes.
The cooldown of "Epitaph" is about 10 seconds.
The cooldown time of "Time Slash" is about a few seconds.
Diablo, on the other hand, can go back to the past 1 hour anytime and anywhere.
1 hour allows him to refresh all his skills.
This means...
"In the future, to my enemies."
Diablo's seriously injured red and swollen mouth grinned in an arc:
"I'm going to have unlimited firepower."