stand-in creed

Watching the ambulance roaring outside the window to send the wounded away, Nero casually threw the driver's license found from Risut's body back to his corpse, neither interested in mutilating the corpse nor planning to collect it for burial.Let him be in this stronghold of the assassination team, rot together with the building and turn into a pile of loess is his end.

"--metal products."

Don't be nervous, the speaker is not the dead Risut, but Apache.

After Apaki finished searching the building with "Melancholic Blues", he sat down on the sofa with a little relief, and sat across from Trish: "Risut Nero's alias is "Metal Products", that awesome heavy metal band. "

Trish looked up: "I know, it's the band that sang "The Unforgiven" and "Fade to Black"! I like it too!"

Suzumi Sugimoto murmured, "Who started the matter of naming a band or a song by a stand-in messenger?"

Nero said uncertainly: "...It's definitely not me anyway. But having said that, the only thing that can reach a consensus among the stand-in messengers is probably the taste of listening to music—Apaki, continue to report your findings."

Apache nodded.

Immediately Apache said: "When I played it back, you all saw it—the reason why the assassination team betrayed Passion and Trixiu's father, on the one hand, two members of the assassination team tried to find out the reason for Passion two years ago. The whereabouts of the boss were slaughtered, and the body of one of them was sliced ​​and sent back as a specimen. As for another reason, they were trying to monopolize the passionate drug channel.

"But in the final analysis, the conflict between them and enthusiasm has nothing to do with us, and there is no need to delve into it in the future, after all——

"Assassination squad, all wiped out."

"In other words, the next shot will be the "passionate" person. " Nero said so.

"..."

Hearing Nero's words, Trixie was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent.

Ever since Trixiu fell into his hands, the enthusiastic pursuer has never appeared again. Obviously, the other party has been borrowing a knife to kill people and watching from the sidelines.Now that it's finally decided whether you live or die, I'm afraid the other party should also come with a praying mantis, a cicada, and an oriole.

Nero knew this well.

Naturally, Nero will not be afraid and shrink back. After all, including the body of "BIG", Nero has killed 11 people in a row during his trip to Italy.It is not Nero who should be afraid, but the enthusiastic boss.

At most, it was the little girl Trixie who made Nero feel a little bit emotional.

"..."

Nero opened his mouth to say a few words of relief, but he didn't know how to word it.

Just like Nero couldn't cope with the scene between Joseph and Dongfang Josuke, Nero always kept a respectful distance while remaining curious about such things that would make the scene awkward.After thinking about it, Nero simply spoke.

"Get ready to go, Trish."

"……Um."

Trixie, who was in a complicated mood, rarely asked where he was going next.

Apache then asked: "Boss, what is the next itinerary...?"

Nero said: "This is Sicily, and a little to the east is Calabria. Tonight we will investigate all the things that need to be investigated in Calabria, and then leave for Milan early tomorrow morning. Now it is At [-]:[-] p.m. on March [-]th, and the time and place agreed upon by Jotaro and I are at noon on March [-]th, at Milan Central Station——

"Fifteen hours.

"From now on, we still have about fifteen hours. After these fifteen hours, we will no longer be fighting alone!"

Nero said loudly.

Apache nodded expressionlessly.If reinforcements came from such an isolated and helpless situation, Apache would probably jump up excitedly.But the reinforcements that came after the assassination team was wiped out by Nero...isn't it really a tour group?

"Jotaro?"

It was the first time for Trixie to hear this name, and he couldn't help being a little curious.

But Nero thought for a while: "That's... a substitute messenger stronger than me."

"...?!"

Trixie looked at Nero in surprise for a moment.

Having witnessed so many battles between stand-in envoys, even though Trixie herself still has no combat experience, she can be sure of one thing, that is, Nero is too strong.And such a guy would say so seriously, someone is stronger than him? !

Before Trixie could ask, Nero had already waved.

"It's time to go."

"Ah."

People leave.

As we all know, the country of Italy is shaped like a boot on the map, and Calabria is located at the toe of the boot.Although it is the most economically backward region in Italy, it also has a [-]-kilometer coastline, clear sea, soft sandy beaches, and rolling mountains.

Long before the ancient Roman civilization, the Greeks brought their splendid civilization here from Athens, so there are many ancient Greek temples and world-famous bronze relics in this region.

The next place Nero and his party will go to is the capital city located at the westernmost point of Pointe, across the sea from the more western Sicily——

Reggio Calabria.

It was by no means a big city like Rome with a population of 300 million.The entire Calabria region had a total population of less than 200 million this year, and Reggio Calabria, the capital city, had only a handful of tens of thousands of people.If there's anything special about this city, it's the hospital where Trish's mother, Donatella Una, died.

Nero is gone.

It wasn't until a while after walking that the Sicilian police surrounded Risut's villa.

After identifying Risut's body, the police chief pulled out his phone.

"Boss, Risut Nero's death has been confirmed."

The chief of police is respectful.

"I see."

pat.

Diablo hung up the phone.

Immediately, Diablo looked at the map of Italy and quickly dialed his subordinates.

"Jocolat."

"boss!"

"The assassination team is all wiped out, and it's finally your turn to take action. Nero Zeppelin, if nothing happens, will go to the Red Cross Hospital near the Calabria Museum in Reggio to inquire about Donatella. Una's past—you should be in place, right?"

"Yes, boss."

Chocolat casually threw three sugar cubes at Seko like bowling balls.

Seeing Seke happily catching the sugar cubes like a dog and eating them with ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, , 饰克拉特 showed a distorted smile.

"I will kill Nero Zebelin and the others, and then send Trish Una to your boss..."

"unnecessary."

"……what?"

Chocolat was taken aback.

Diablo looked at Trish's photo on the wall, and threw a dart that hit the center of the eyebrow with precision.

"Don't worry about Trish Una's life, just do it, Chocolat."

"...Are you sure, boss?"

"I probably understand your concerns, Chocolat. Are you worried that I will trouble you if you hurt Trish? If that's the case, let me correct this ambiguous order a little bit——

"—killed them.

"—Including Trish Una. "

Chapter 80 Youth and Oasis Part [-]

March nineteenth.

Reggio Calabria.

In a few minutes, it will be eleven o'clock in the evening, and the sea breeze blowing from the Tyrrhenian Sea blows into the car, which slightly makes Trixie feel a bit chilly.

"Give."

Nero casually threw his coat to the back seat.

Trish glanced at it, hesitated a little and nodded.

"……thanks."

Ever since he set foot on the land of Calabria, Trish felt his heart pounding more and more.There are many reasons, such as thinking of the dead mother, being curious about the father he has never met, and being entangled in the entanglement between Nero and his father.

Father is a drug dealer.

She is the daughter of a drug dealer.

Trish Una has fully understood this fact.And once she understood this matter, the girl's rationality made it impossible for her to hate Nero who was leaving to kill her father.Ordinary anti-narcotics policemen can't defeat the substitute messenger, so it is very reasonable and reasonable for the substitute messenger with a sense of justice to step forward and kill her father at this time.

But she is just a 15-year-old girl after all.

Even if he has never seen his father since he was born, Trixie will always take it for granted that "that is my father after all", "my father just didn't know his existence in the past" and "didn't my father still send his own bodyguards?" Did you protect me? He must be in love with me" or something like that.

What should I do?

Trish has little knowledge of Chinese culture, and has never heard of the saying "the dilemma of loyalty and filial piety".But this common saying is just right for Trixie.

"..."

That's it, Trixie stared out the window blankly.

At this time, there are no pedestrians on the streets of Reggio Calabria.Most people have already turned off the lights and gone to sleep, and the major shops have already closed, only the Chinese restaurants in Chinatown are still lit.In Trixie's eyes, a drunk man was standing by the window on the second floor of the restaurant, bragging loudly with his friends—probably the drunk was showing off his courage?The drunk man jumped out of the window frame and jumped downstairs.

However, at a height of three to four meters, unless it falls directly to the head or neck, it will not die. At most, the spine will be broken and a high paraplegic will end up.

But in the eyes of Trixie, an extremely terrifying thing happened.

What caught the girl's eyes was that the drunk's flesh and blood seemed to be eaten by something during the fall, and he didn't even have time to scream, and when he landed, there was only a pile of bones and rotten flesh left.

"It's a stand-in attack, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Trish's mind instantly cleared up.

Just as Trish was about to tell Nero and the others what she had seen and heard, Nero had already stepped on the brakes and opened his mouth.

"I see, Trish—

"—Suzumi!!!"

"--my heart Will Go On!"

The map unfolds.

Sugimoto Suzumi immediately confirmed the movement around her, her face gradually changed.

"There's no one around, but...the black spots are shrinking. The "life" of the city is dwindling, Nero! "

The voice fell.

Squeak!

On the uphill road ahead, a car coming from the opposite direction roared like it was out of control. Apache slammed into the direction to avoid it, and saw the car slamming into other cars parked on the road with a bang. on the vehicle.

At that moment, Apache also saw the driver who was left with only a pile of rotten meat and bones in the driver's seat.

The peaceful town fell into chaos at this moment.

People who knew nothing about the danger died one after another. Vehicles driving on the street at night lost control one after another, or collided in two, or crashed into the wall on the side of the road.Quite a few people seem to have suffered from seedlings at home. They just bent down to pick up some garbage that fell on the ground while heating supper, and then they couldn’t get up again.

In an instant, such a disaster spread to the entire small town.

Feeling the chaos around him, Apache took a deep breath: "Hey, boss! Could it be that they want to..."

"Slaughter the city."

Nero spoke for Apache what he dared not say.

Nero's eyes were very serious: "The enemy's range is very wide, enough to cover the city! They don't need to come to us, what they have to do is very simple, that is to destroy people and the city together - use them The "fungal" attack! "

"...fungi?"

Suzumi Sugimoto was puzzled.

However, at the next moment, Suzumi Sugimoto's eyes gradually widened: "Nero, your hand!"

Hearing the sound, Apache and Trish looked at Nero together.What caught the eyes of several people was the wriggling green substance covered on Nero's right hand!

Nero looked at his hands: "Just now, I pulled the socks a little bit, because the socks I wore today were a bit uncomfortable and would fall down. Then after I finished pulling the socks, my hands felt Infected with this thing--

"Fungi.

"Recall what happened just now, Apache.