stand-in creed

Nero asked directly: "Do you know Dio's ability?"

"I-I really don't know about this!" Hall Hess immediately became nervous and shouted in a hurry, "Don't kill me! I know a lot of information, but I really don't know about this! Dior paid me to do things, how could I Can you get in touch with his substitute?"

"And you know that, Darby?"

Nero felt that Hall Hess was telling the truth, and then looked at Darby again.

However, at this time Nero found that Darby's expression became very strange.

Pupils constrict.

Put your arms around yourself.

From head to toe every pore seems to be trembling.

"I-I can't say..."

"Ok?"

Nero didn't understand.

Looking at Darby's appearance, Nero couldn't help reminding: "If you don't say it, I will kill you. On the contrary, if you are willing to say it, I will..."

"Kill me!"

Darby widened his eyes and shouted so loudly.

Darby, who was trying to get Nero to spare his life just a moment ago, turned into a warrior who dared to die at this moment?

What is it that makes Darby change so much.

"You...would rather die than reveal Dio's stand-in ability?"

"You don't understand anything, Nero A. Zeppelin! You know nothing about the greatness of Lord Dior, the horror of Lord Dior! That Lord is supreme, and his "world" is truly A substitute who can rule the world!

"Your meager stairway to heaven, compared with the rainbow-like brilliance of Lord Dior in the dark night, is even paler than a single firefly!"

Said so.

Darby, who was slumped on the roof of the car just now, stood up slowly.

His whole body was trembling with tears on his face, but there was a weird smile on his face.

"I don't want to die..."

Darby muttered to himself.

Nero was even more puzzled: "Then you... hello!"

However, before Nero finished speaking.

Darby in front of him opened his arms, closed his eyes, and moved to the edge centimeter by centimeter.

"I really don't want to die..."

Saying this, Darby fell backwards.

The gambler is like a cross, falling straight to the ground a thousand meters below.

Darby's stand-in is a stand-in for plundering souls, and all basic abilities such as strength and speed are extremely weak. In such a thousand-meter-high free fall, there is no second possibility other than falling into meat paste.

Although Nero was a little confused, Nero was fully capable of stopping Darby from committing suicide just now.

But probably the idea of ​​"this kind of person dies when he dies" is at work, Nero didn't stop him, just stood there quietly watching Darby's body gradually go away, gradually turning into a small grain The black dot finally disappeared in his field of vision.

Wait for a while.

When Nero and the iron lumps under his body fell leisurely on the ground, what caught his eyes were the broken limbs and arms scattered all over the place.

These, are Darby.

"..."

Nero snapped his fingers, dismantled the iron lumps of four cars, and released the imprisoned cowboy.

Hole Hess stepped onto the ground cautiously, his eyes widened after seeing the bloody scene in front of him.

"That gambler...he jumped off?"

The cowboy listened to the conversation between Nero and Darby from beginning to end, and knew that it was not Nero who pushed Darby off, but Darby himself jumped off.

The cowboy, who was finally not so ignorant, is now ignorant again.

Nero asked back, "Do you have any idea?"

The cowboy shook his head, and could only guess casually: "Probably fear? Although I couldn't see it just now, but listening to your conversation just now... This guy's fear of Dio has surpassed death? He would rather die than reveal the identity of Dio's double." secret."

Nero was silent.

Nero recalled the Dio he had glimpsed in the crystal ball in Rome.

Even if it was only a few seconds of contact, Nero must admit that he could feel a suffocating sense of oppression from Dio's knotted body with a star-shaped birthmark on the nape of his neck.

But even so, Nero didn't think Dior could be so scary.

What kind of stand-in ability is it that can scare people like this?

Looking at the sky, Nero shook his head.

"Hey, cowboy."

"Ok?"

"Going southeast, it's Damanhur, right?"

"Yes! I came from that direction!"

"Let's talk about the information you mentioned earlier while walking. Tell me about "Jostar"? "

"……Then?"

"Roll as far as you can. Do you think there will be a time bomb around me that may betray at any time?"

"it is good!"

Hall Hess nodded quickly. At this moment, this unscrupulous cowboy just wanted to leave quickly.

That's it, Hole Hess told all the information he knew, everything about Joestar and the information about the stand-in messenger he knew, and was accepted by Ni Lu Zai wrote it down carefully in his little notebook.

It was not until they arrived in a city called Damanhur, the capital of Bahira Province in the northwest of the Nile Delta, that the cowboys who had nothing in their stomachs were driven away by Nero.

As for Nero himself, he found a hotel and fell asleep quietly.

Chapter 17 Goddess Bast One

11 month 29 day.

Egypt, Damanhur.

When the first rays of morning light shone through the window and into the hotel bed, Nero opened his sleepy eyes.This was the first sleep he slept after leaving Rome, and it was also the most restless sleep in this life.

If possible, Nero would like to drink a latte, eat two steaming paninis or croissants, and then take a comfortable shower to clean up the messy hair caused by turning around in sleep Clean, go out leisurely and arrive at the classroom a few minutes before class, find a seat in the second row near the middle.

When there is no class in the morning, Nero will give up breakfast, and instead ride to a morning tea shop in Chinatown at around ten o'clock to order a basket of chicken feet, a basket of money belly, a basket of shrimp dumplings, and a basket of barbecued pork buns. With a bowl of salty bone porridge and a pot of green tea, sit leisurely for a long time.

Unfortunately, this is not Rome, but Egypt.

Nero can only choose packaged food and drinks bought in supermarkets.

"... Joestar."

Eating bread bought in the supermarket and drinking Coke in a glass bottle, Nero flipped through his notebook, looking through the confession and six photos he asked yesterday from the cowboy named Hall Hess.

In addition to Nero's own photo, the other five photos belong to five people——

"The Purple Hermit" Joseph Joestar.

"Platinum Star" Jotaro Kujo.

"Magician Red" Mohammad Abdel.

"Green Emperor" Noriaki Kakyoin.

"Silver Chariot" J.P. Polnareff.

"Intelligence gathering capabilities, wide-area arson capabilities, mid-range field control capabilities, plus two stand-in messengers with short-range output capabilities... This configuration and a nanny, wouldn't it be heaven?

"It's really detailed information. As expected, the intelligence gathering ability of Dior's subordinates is first-class. Then the question comes, can this old guy named Joseph Joestar's double "Purple Hermit" read and write Dio's double ability? "

Darby's death still lingers in Nero's mind.

It’s not some urban novel like dreaming about Darby’s life in a dream. It’s just that Nero is wondering how terrible Dior’s stand-in ability is, so that a person’s fear of him can override death. above.

Could it be the substitute ability to torture the soul?

Nero thought for a few seconds, then gave up this clueless question, and turned to review Hall Hess' other statements.

"Jostar and his party got off the plane yesterday in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and headed overland to Cairo, passing through Israel...about 2000 kilometers? If the road is unimpeded, it can take two or three days at most, but according to the information of Hol Hess From the looks of it, their [-]-kilometer journey was bound to be sniped by stand-in envoys.

"One week? Two weeks? No one knows when they will be able to arrive in Cairo. Instead, I am only 100 kilometers away from Cairo. If I set off now, I can arrive in two hours at most.

"So, should I go find these people and join them first?

"Unrealistic.

"I don't have Dior's intelligence capabilities to get their 'exact' itinerary.If you go directly to Israel, even if you are lucky enough to be in the same city as them at the same time, it will be difficult to find them in the crowd... So in Cairo, wait for them at the intersection of the highway?

"That's Dior's lair, I can't do this kind of thing unless I have a cerebral hemorrhage for ten years.

"It's not realistic to go to them.

"It's not realistic to wait for them in Cairo.

"Then there is only one choice left for me - to go directly to Dio."

Nero made a decision.

This is not a multiple choice question.The more he thought about it, the more Nero realized that he had no other options to choose from.

But it doesn't matter.

From the day he set off, he didn't expect anyone to help.

Now that Joestar and his group suddenly appeared, it was a great thing to be able to help him share the pressure from Dior's stand-in messenger.

"...just take a shower and go.

"After sleeping all night, no one came to attack me. I don't want to miss these few minutes."

Nero fell asleep after checking the room last night, and didn't even bother to take a shower.

At this moment, Nero is not only unkempt, but even his clothes and body are stained with dried blood, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

The sound of running water echoed in the bathroom.

After a while, Nero, who was shirtless, wiped his hair with a towel, walked out of the bedroom, went to the sink, looked at the hair dryer, picked up the plug and inserted it into the socket——

--Bilibili!

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

Intense electric current spread to Nero's body along the socket in an instant.

Nero, who was numb from the electric shock, took two steps back tremblingly, leaned against the wall behind him, and calmed down with big mouthfuls.

"...the socket is leaking electricity?

"It's not that you get an electric shock when you touch the "hole", but you get electrocuted just by touching the "panel". The quality of this socket is too outrageous, right?What if the child is electrocuted?Not everyone has a body like mine that can jump up and down after being shocked..."

Nero muttered cursingly, and missed life in Rome more and more.

At this time, the door was knocked.

"Guest! What happened?"

"..."

Although it sounded like a hotel guest, Nero went straight to the corner and carefully created several "ripple lenses" to magnify the cat's eye image and transmit it into the room through the refraction of light, showing it in front of him. .

Why not just look at the cat's eyes?

Who will be responsible if you are shot and collapsed while looking at the cat's eyes!

"Wait a mininute!"

Nero shouted.