Chapter 17: The Origin of the Stone Ghost Mask
"What, you're kicked out again?" Ye Ye sat on the windowsill and chuckled as he looked at Spit, who had an indignant face.
"That woman, reallyβ" Spit, who was hanging his arm, shook his head in anger and helplessness, "I just talked to Mr. Joestar for a long time, and she coldly kicked me out." β
"Do you know that there is a proverb in an island country across the sea in our country - 'disturbing someone to fall in love will be kicked by a horse'." Ye Ye looked disdainful: "Miss Alina and Jonathan reunited after a long absence, you just want to join in the fun at this time, you don't want to dislike anyone." β
After the last accident, Spit sent the unconscious Jonathan to the hospital, but happened to meet Jonathan's childhood sweetheart Alina, the girl who was forcibly kissed by Dior. In that incident, Dio, who had been bullying Jonathan, saw the power of JOJO explode in complete anger for the first time, and was defeated by Jonathan's fist for the first time. After that incident, Alina moved to India with her father, who was a doctor, and only recently returned to London to work as a nurse at the hospital her father owned. The re-encounter of fate made Alina devote all her love and passion to Jonathan, and naturally did not shy away from Spit, who often disturbed the two of them.
"It takes a hundred days to break his muscles and bones, even if Jonathan's strong physique, the injury of his arm bones and three broken ribs will take several months to recover, you better let him rest more."
As he spoke, Ye Ye casually tossed the stone ghost face in his hand with great interest, which made Spit frown.
"This damn thing, it should have been destroyed a long time ago, why are you still keeping?"
At the beginning, this mask fell outside the window when Dio turned into a vampire, but fortunately it was not destroyed by the later battle but buried in the ruins, and was found by Ye Ye after the fire was extinguished.
"Wait, when Jonathan recovers a little more, we'll talk about what to do with it." Ye Ye said perfunctorily: "Don't forget, Dio is not dead yet, since he turned into a monster with this thing, then maybe he can also rely on this thing to find out his weaknesses." β
Hearing Ye Ye mention Dior, Spit's face couldn't help but change, there was fear but more anger in his expression: "That monster who will take revenge has ruined everything for Mr. Joestar, and I can't forgive him when I think of it." β
Looking at Spit, who clenched his fists and looked angry, Ye Ye looked a little strange: "Mr. Spit, I have a question for you, I hope you don't mind." β
"What's the problem?" Spit looked at Ye Ye blankly.
"You're not going to do that to Jonathan, are you?"
Ye Ye said and made a gay gesture, Spit was inexplicable at first, and then immediately became angry after reacting: "Ye, are you insulting a man's friendship and dignity?" β
"Just kidding, just kidding." Seeing Spit's reaction, Ye Ye hurriedly snorted.
"Hmph, I just admire Mr. Joestar's personality, and I hope you won't make such jokes again in the future." Spit stared at Ye Ye deadly.
"Okay, okay, I apologize."
"Humph!" With a cold snort, Spit left angrily.
"Whew, guys in this era are really rigid." Ye Ye wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and sighed.
There was no one next to him, and Ye Ye shifted his attention to the stone ghost in his hand.
The rough texture condenses the heaviness of history, and the long years have left traces of wind and frost on this rock mask, which is not finely carved, but has an ancient charm.
Ye Ye stroked the surface of the mask, his thoughts racing.
This mask was created by the prehistoric mystical creature "Kaz", who can transform any human into a creature similar to them, commonly known as a vampire. Whether it's a dying old man with thinning hair and lost teeth, or a skinny sick man with no power to do anything, they can all turn into immortal monsters that tear apart tigers and leopards when they wear this mask, although for the people in the pillars, this function is only due to the fact that humans are a more delicious and nutritious food after being transformed into vampires.
[Plot item discovered: Stone Ghost Face.]
Status: Achieved
Dear Pioneer Apprentice, the system has detected that you have obtained one of the iconic items of this Metaverse, the Stone Ghost Face, and you can now perform the following operations:
Option 1: Decompose the stone ghost surface to obtain 8000 source points.
Option 2: Keep the stone ghost face, and you can bring it out of this metaverse when you leave. (Note: When using this item in other dimensional worlds, different essentia points need to be consumed depending on the rules, and it cannot be used in the real world temporarily)
Option 3: Analyze the stone ghost face, consume 5000 points of source points to obtain the vampire rules contained in it, and after obtaining the rules, you can load them into the projection body at any time (Note: After the rules are taken out, this item will disappear)]
[Hint: In the dimensional world, due to different evolutions, various magical secret treasures are often born, and plot items are treasures cultivated by the rules of a dimensional world, which are condensed by a large amount of void energy]
"It's getting more and more interesting."
Ye Ye touched his smooth chin thoughtfully, when he first saw the information of the system, what he thought of was not the stone ghost face in front of him, but all kinds of more famous treasures: the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, Loki Mask, Devil Fruit, Sun Golden Sutra...
"It's heart-pounding." Retracting his flying thoughts, Ye Ye looked at the light curtain in front of him and sighed.
Standing in the shoes of a squirrel party who collects all items when playing games, he would love to collect the stone ghost face, but after thinking about it for a few days, he finally decided that it was best to choose the first one.
Choosing to decompose the stone ghost surface to get essentia points is not a loss anyway, after all, essentia is the most scarce thing for Ye Ye at present, he has not forgotten that his system is still in the most primitive state, and a large number of essentia points are needed to upgrade.
Although it is not bad to keep the stone ghost face as a prop, Ye Ye has tried it, and the stone ghost is just an ordinary torture instrument in the face of the projection body, and even if it is collected, it can only be used by others.
As for choosing the last one, it looks good to be able to transform into a vampire at any time, but if you put in so many essentia points, you will be back to the pre-liberation period overnight; What's more, the vampire template positioning in this world is not high, compared to Alcatel's immortal blood river or the true ancestor of the moon world, it is just a chicken rib for the projection body that also has the ability to repair instantly, and it is really worth the loss to bear the weakness of being afraid of the sun and not being able to cultivate the ripple skill.
However, Ye Ye was not in a hurry to deal with the stone ghost mask immediately, after all, as the trigger for this disaster, the whereabouts of this mask had to be explained to others after all.
Rare good weather, the bright sunshine dispelled the haze that shrouded this famous "fog capital" all the year round, and a large area of bright gold sprinkled on the corridor of the hospital, shining warmly.
Alina accompanied Jonathan, who had been lying in the ward for a long time, to bask in the sun on the lawn of the hospital and speed up the healing of the injured bones.
"Looks like you're recovering well?"
Ye Ye looked up and down at Jonathan, who was already able to walk on his own, and said with a smile.
"Ye, hello!" Alina said hello to Ye, and Elina's attitude towards Ye Ye, who 'accidentally' told her the truth about the whole thing, was much better than Spit.
"Ye, thank you this time!" Jonathan thanked Ye Ye with a solemn face, he would not forget the kindness of the other party who had adhered to the way of a gentleman since he was a child.
"You're welcome, but unfortunately I let that guy escape in the end."
Ye Ye sighed regretfully, and then turned to Jonathan: "You have to be mentally prepared, that guy will definitely not let go like this." Next, it's a fierce battle! β
"Since this incident was caused by the Joestar family, it is my responsibility to put an end to this. I'm not going to let Dio go unpunished, neither for my father nor for the innocent people who died. Jonathan's eyes flashed with determination, and he faintly felt that the fate that was entwined between him and Dior was destined to have a life-and-death duel between the two "brothers".
"I've come to you today for another thing."
Ye Ye changed his words and took out the stone ghost mask from his arms: "This is your family's thing, how to deal with it still needs to ask for your opinion." β
Staring at the source of the accident, Jonathan remembered the previous tragedy, and a trace of pain appeared in his eyes: "This kind of thing, staying in the world will only cause more pain, let me destroy it!" β
Just as Jonathan was making his decision, an unfamiliar voice interjected.
"A few teenagers, can you let me see this old friend first."
A middle-aged man wearing a tall hat, a mustache, a tie, and a dress sat silently on the wall at some point.
"Mr. Jonathan Joestar, Miss Elina Banderton, and, the mysterious Oriental Boy, Ye!"
Although he read the names of several people present word for word, the middle-aged gentleman's eyes did not fall on them at all, but stared closely at the stone ghost face in Ye Ye's hand, with nostalgia, hatred, solemnity and relief in his eyes, and all kinds of feelings were intertwined into a complex gaze.
"Is it Baron Shepili?"
Ye Ye didn't seem surprised by the appearance of the middle-aged gentleman, and bowed to the other party slightly: "I've admired the name for a long time." β
"You know me?"
The middle-aged gentleman, that is, Baron Will A. Shepili, finally withdrew his gaze at the stone ghost face and looked at Ye Ye with some surprise.
"Of course, in a sense, your name is thunderous." Ye Ye smiled and said the 'truth': "In fact, from the time the news of this mask spread, I guessed that you would appear here. After all, it's our common goal. β
was aroused by Ye Ye's words, and he didn't see any movement from Xie Pili, who was sitting on the wall, and suddenly the whole person rose into the sky, as light as a feather floating like a cloud, and kept a sitting posture and slid over a distance of more than ten meters and landed lightly in front of everyone.
"Ah~"
Taken aback by this unexpected situation, and with a brief exclamation, Alina subconsciously protected the injured Jonathan.
Looking at Alina, who was like a frightened mother beast protecting her cubs, Jonathan, who was protected, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but he was very moved in his heart, and called in a low voice: "Alina! β
Facing the warm scene of the young man in front of him, Shepili couldn't help but look at Jonathan with a knowing smile: "It seems that your injury will take some time to heal." β
Before Jonathan could reply, Shepili's cold hand struck out, and a pinky finger stabbed into Jonathan's chest with lightning speed, sinking deep into his chest. Caught off guard, Jonathan snorted, feeling all the air in his lungs being forcibly emptied, and fell to his knees as if he was suffocating.
This is the Ripple Immortal Dao?
Ye Ye's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned on the system to scan and record every change on Jonathan's body.
"What are you doing?" Alina hurriedly helped Jonathan up.
Shepili withdrew his hand and said leisurely to Jonathan, who was suffocating, "You can't breathe right now, but don't worry. β
Before the aftermath fell, Jonathan, who was in pain, suddenly felt an unprecedented warm current from his lungs to his whole body, and the pain in the original fractured place disappeared after this warm current, and his weak body was more energetic than ever after the effect of this warm current. Standing up and clenching his fists, Jonathan looked at the powerful fists in disbelief: "I'm alright?" β
"That's right, the pain is gone, my friend, that's the power of breathing." Shepili smiled and spread his hands: "Although you must have a lot of questions, please suppress your curiosity a little - at least until I finish talking to this mysterious oriental teenager." β
Shepili's sly gaze turned to Ye Ye and looked at it carefully. For more than a decade, he has been tracking the whereabouts of Stone Ghost Face, covering almost all of Europe, and when he learned about the tragedy at Joestar's ancestral house not long ago, although others thought it was just an accident, Shepili was keenly aware of the smell of clues he was looking for. It's just that while investigating the matter clearly, he also discovered that Ye Ye, the oriental boy who participated in this matter, suddenly appeared not long ago, as if he appeared out of thin air.
"So, my friend, can you tell me where you come from?" Shepili spoke, he was now full of curiosity about Ye Ye.
"Of course." Ye Ye looked around at Jonathan and Alina, who also flashed curious eyes, and began his mouth with a smile: "As you can see, I am a Chinese. β
"But I didn't grow up in China." Ye Ye recounted his "origin" in a low tone: "More than two hundred years ago, there was turmoil in my country, and a people living on the border at that time invaded my country and established the current regime, the Qing Dynasty. β
Shepili nodded, having lived in Tibet, China for decades, he naturally knew this history.
"At that time, my ancestors, unwilling to live under alien rule, left what was then China with their families, took advantage of the earlier route opened by a eunuch to India, and later traveled to several countries, eventually settling in a small town in southern Europe. During that journey, he saw some strange things, some things beyond ordinary people's imagination, such as Baron Shepili, you just used..."
ββ¦ Ripple Fairy Road"
Ye Ye spit out these four words in his mouth and looked at Shepili without blinking.
"That's right, the power of this kind of operation **, the Orientals call it [Immortal Dao]," Shepili nodded: "This is the magical power that I learned after decades of penance in ancient Chinese Tibet." β
"After my ancestor settled down, he recorded what he saw during his travels, and it has been passed down to our family. By my grandfather's generation, he was very interested in these mysterious phenomena, traveled to many places in the world, and learned many secrets that no one knows. Under his influence, after all my loved ones died, I also embarked on an adventurous journey to follow those untold stories. β
Ye Ye touched the stone ghost mask in his hand: "Among them, it includes the information about this mask with a long history. Because I am also chasing this mask, I have heard your name on my previous journeys, Baron Chepili. β
"Do you know where this mask came from?"
Shepili's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stared at Ye Ye attentively. Feeling the slight pain in his skin like a pinprick, Ye Ye secretly smacked his tongue, and his interest in the power of ripples became even stronger.
"As I said earlier, my grandfather had been to many unknown people, and on one occasion he lived for half a year in a hidden ancient tribe in Mexico, and learned from the elders of that tribe that they had been passed down for a long time. This mask, which transforms humans into vampires, was created by members of a mysterious race in ancient times, immortal, possessed magical powers, and fears only sunlight. The vampire they created is a creature similar to a mysterious race, created by them for the purpose of using it as a high-energy food. Ye Ye told the information he knew.
Shepili and Jonathan were shocked by Ye Ye's words, the powerful vampire was actually just made by this race as food, and the scene fell silent for a while.
"Later, my grandfather searched everywhere for information about this legend, and it seems that the last members of this race disappeared after fighting the human warriors, who were known as the Ripple Emissary."
As if digesting the information Ye Ye said, Shepili pondered for a long time before he sighed, "It turns out that a long time ago, the power of the ripples fought against these monsters?" It's unexpected! β
Then Shepili began to tell his story.
Born into a family of scholars, Shepili joined his father's university archaeological team as a young man, exploring the lost ruins of antiquity in various countries. During an excavation of the ruins of Asdiga in Mexico, the archaeological team found this stone ghost mask and brought it out. Tragedy struck, on the way back to the sea, the captain of the archaeological team inadvertently activated the mask, was transformed into a vampire, and slaughtered the entire ship under the bloodthirsty rage**, just as the last Shepili was about to be poisoned, just as the morning sun rose from the sea level, and the captain of the vampire, that is, Shepili's father, was reduced to ashes in the morning light of the morning sun.
Shepili, who was lucky enough to save his life but lost his father and friend, vowed to destroy the stone ghost face, so he wandered around the world chasing the news of it. Once, while in India, he met a man who used magical ripple powers to heal patients, and was immediately attracted to this power, which was the exact opposite of that of a vampire, and he intuitively concluded that this power was none other than the nemesis of the stone ghost. Introduced by an Indian man, Shepili trekked along the Nu River to Tibet, where he practiced for decades before finally developing this rippled immortal path.
"After tracking for so long, I've finally seen this old friend again!" Aking up from a long memory, Shepili's glaring at the stone ghost.
"So many people were killed by this mask before the accident caused by Dior?" Jonathan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"In that case, then Baron Shepili, please finish up with this thing here!"
Ye Ye put the stone ghost noodles on the stone table in the garden, took two steps back and made a gesture of inviting Shepili to spread his hands.
Without the need for tools, Shepili took a deep breath, and the air entered the body through the trachea, forming ripples in the lungs and traveling throughout the body.
Make a fist and smash it down.
Under the power of the ripples, the power of the fist was like a sledgehammer, and the stone ghost face disintegrated and shattered at the moment of contact, and the fragments lost their original strange luster, as if they had turned back into ordinary rocks.
[Plot Item: The decomposition energy of the stone ghost face has been absorbed, and 8000 essentia points have been obtained]
Only a hint that only one person could see appeared in the eye mask, and the corners of Ye Ye's mouth quietly curled.
"This time, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting an end to this long-standing nightmare."
After years of tracking, Chepili seemed to have put down a boulder that he had been carrying for a long time, and easily thanked several people.
"However, it's not over, that guy's name is Dior, right? He's not dead. β
As he spoke, Shepili stared at Jonathan and Ye Ye and asked a question: "In order to end this, are you willing to follow me to learn the Ripple Immortal Dao?" β
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