Lone Pursuit

Secco's death was extremely gruesome, but it was still far worse than the suffering of the innocent victims.

Li Qing felt absolutely no pity in killing such a guy.

"Almost there."

He muttered to himself as he withdrew his Riot Games, which was stained with hot, wet blood, and looked up at the distant sky:

The helicopter was still hovering high in the sky, intermittently spewing deadly fungal spores over the city.

"Too high."

Giorno was also looking up at the sky.

He briefly estimated the helicopter's hovering height:

"That helicopter was flying at an altitude of at least 130 or 140 meters. Among us, I'm afraid only Li Qing could reach it."

The range of a stand-in is often limited to a relatively short firing range.

Even the long-range attack-type Aerosmith can only move within fifty meters of its own body.

However, its miniature machine gun has too little firepower; the bullets lose almost all their killing effect after traveling only a few dozen meters.

Therefore, at this moment, the only one who could possibly attack the culprit is Li Qing, whose Sonically Enhanced Wave has a range of up to 300 meters.

"But."

Giorno's tone carried a hint of hesitation.

He was familiar with Li Qing's fighting style and knew that his best combat method was to use spatial terrain and displacement abilities to directly attack the opponent's main body.

However, in that helicopter more than 100 meters high, there were no teammates to Golden Bell Shield him, and the space to move around was so cramped. Such a combat environment was actually very disadvantageous for Li Qing.

"Let me go."

Li Qing, on the other hand, showed no sign of worrying about himself.

Although team battles suit his abilities better, he has never been afraid to face enemies alone.

"I fought my way here from Sicily all morning, this is no problem for me."

"Furthermore," he clenched his Riot Games, staring coldly at the helicopter in the sky, "Now that things have come to this, I absolutely cannot let that culprit leave alive!"

Given the urgency of the situation, and since Li Qing had made his decision clear, Giorno and the others no longer tried to stop him.

They decided to split into two groups:

Li Qing boarded the helicopter alone to pursue the enemy, while Giorno and the others on the ground were tasked with quickly stealing a new car for their escape.

And so, Li Qing carefully moved along the edge of the building, quickly slipping away from the helicopter's blind spot.

Once he got close enough, he stopped and listened intently.

Various sound waves converged in his ears, and after using that inexplicable "sixth sense" to eliminate the loud noise of the helicopter rotor, the outlines of objects in the cabin began to vaguely emerge in his mind.

"Found it"

Li Qing locked onto the target in the driver's seat:

That guy seemed completely oblivious to the death of his companion.

He sat leisurely in the automatically hovering helicopter, turned his body to look out the window, and waved something at the ground in his hand.

Judging from its outline, it looks like a camera?

"To create such a horrific hell on earth, and then record it as a memento?"

Li Qing felt an unprecedented anger:

"Such scum deserves to die—"

"Sonically Enhanced Wave!"

A dazzling white light shot into the sky, directly striking the helicopter hovering high in the air from a blind spot where Jokulrat couldn't see it.

It quickly hit its target.

"Echoes Act!"

Li Qing's figure rose from the ground and soared into the sky.

The city blurred beneath his feet, and he soon found himself standing a hundred meters above the sky.

Finally, Li Qing passed through the helicopter's metal shell and entered the cabin, then threw a punch from below at the target locked by the Sonically Enhanced Wave.

However.

He didn't hit a person, but a foot—a foot that had been removed from the driver's seat and left there.

The severed leg was blasted apart and its bones shattered by the immense force of the Echoes Act, but its owner was nowhere to be found.

"To survive by amputating a leg?"

Li Qing recalled the tricks Amor had used against him that morning.

He hurriedly turned his head to face the rear of the cabin.

The voice told him that the owner of the severed leg was standing there, staring at him menacingly.

That was Chocola.

He has now lost a foot, but the amputated area is covered with a thick layer of green fungus.

Unlike others, these fungi did not gnaw away at Chocola's flesh; instead, they helped stop the bleeding, seal the wound, and alleviate the pain, allowing him to almost be unaffected even after severing his own leg.

But this sudden attack still terrified him:

"Damn it! If I hadn't decisively cut off his leg, I probably would have been entangled by this bald guy's body."

"But... how did he get here?"

Chocola stared intently at Li Qing in front of him, and said in disbelief:

"Has Secco already failed?"

Where is my fungus?

He then noticed the greenish-white fungal carpet clinging to Li Qing's body, and the undiminished health bar above his head:

Why isn't my fungus working?

"Damn it! Am I really going to be defeated like this?!"

The situation reversed so quickly that Chocola was somewhat caught off guard.

Those who habitually brandish their knives at the weak are never warriors; they are merely cowards disguised with violence and cruelty.

Seeing Li Qing, who was already right in front of him and had a fearsome reputation and brilliant achievements, Chocola not help but feel fear.

Li Qing didn't waste any words with him.

The fungus continues to spread rampantly in the city. Only by eliminating the culprit as soon as possible can this tragedy be ended.

"I'll hit!"

Li Qing leaped forward and unleashed a powerful punch.

"Ahhh, no!"

Chocola screamed in panic and had no choice but to summon his Stand to fight back.

Then, Li Qing's Riot Games, which he threw with all his might, was blocked effortlessly by the strange humanoid stand covered in green and white fungal spots.

The air was somewhat quiet.

"Huh?"

Looking at Li Qing, who was firmly blocked out by "Green Day," Chocola was slightly taken aback at first, then realized what was going on:

"Is Li Qing all the power that even the boss fears?"

He tried to order his double to push Li Qing away, but...

Li Qing really was like a weak and powerless old man, helplessly pushed away inch by inch by the Green Day.

What's going on?

The panic on Chocola's face vanished in an instant.

Instead, there was a triumphant laugh, a sudden liberation from fear:

"Hahahaha. You... you've only got this much skill?"

Chocola clutched his stomach and laughed wildly, all trace of tension gone from his eyes:

"With such a weak force, how dare they come here to die?"

"To deal with a weakling like you."

"I don't even need to use my Stand ability!"

The situation reversed instantly.

After figuring out Li Qing's true power, the green humanoid Stand guarding Chocola completely unleashed its full power.

It clenched its Riot Games, which were covered in thick green fungal patches, and unleashed a fierce storm at Li Qing without hesitation.

Li Qing was struggling to keep up with the Riot Games from his stunt double, whose strength far exceeded his own, and his situation suddenly became precarious.

No way.

In addition to releasing large-scale deadly fungi, Jokulrat's Stand "Green Day" also possesses powerful A-rank strength.

Although panel data can only be used as a reference, there are still huge power differences between Stands of Power A rank.

But no matter what, as long as it's a Strength A, it's definitely stronger than Li Qing's only level 2 right now.

"Damn it."

Li Qing struggled to cope with the onslaught of her Green Day.

Because the cabin was cramped, he had no way to maneuver or jump to avoid it, and there was no advantageous terrain to take advantage of.

In a fistfight, all he could do was passively exchange blows with the stand-in called "Green Day."

Although there were no physical injuries and it seemed that the attack had been barely withstood, the constantly decreasing health bar did not lie.

But then, something even worse happened.

As Li Qing engages in a close-quarters battle with his Green Day, the "mold armor" he wears is steadily deteriorating.

The harmless greenish-white Penicillium flora disappeared at a visible rate, replaced by a pale green, deadly fungus contracted during Green Day.

"Hahaha, I get it!"

Chocola's laughter grew increasingly arrogant:

"You actually transplanted other fungal species into your own body, using antagonism to block fungal invasion?"

"That's certainly clever, but..."

"This method can only block free-floating bacterial spores in the air, but it can't withstand direct contact with 'Green Day'!"