"A Kindhearted" Promise
Anyone who has been to Los Santos knows the consequences of recklessly flying planes over US Military bases.
So, after realizing that he could barely fly the helicopter, Li Qing quietly adjusted its course, heading towards the naval base where the sounds of fighter jets taking off and landing could be heard.
Sure enough, they got into trouble.
Outside the transparent glass window, a jet-black missile trailed a fiery red tail, leaving a white smoke trail against the azure sky.
The aroma of seed oil is irresistible.
"Aaaaaah!"
Chocola let out a terrified howl.
He stared intently at Li Qing, who was sitting upright in the driver's seat, his eyes filled with shock and anger:
"You're insane! You're completely insane!"
"If we lure this thing here, we'll both die!"
Helicopters are rarely equipped with parachutes.
He was in such a hurry to fly here to kill people that he didn't have time to think about what escape tools to prepare before he left.
Now that the missile is coming, Chocola can't run away even if he wants to.
"So what?"
Li Qing smiled softly, as if he wasn't the one about to perish together with Chocola:
"I was never going to survive anyway."
"Isn't it great that you can take one person with you before you die?"
"You bastard!!" Chocola glared, his eyes bloodshot and filled with despair. "I haven't had enough fun yet. I don't want to die!"
"Don't panic."
The situation reversed again, and the initiative was unknowingly transferred to Li Qing's hands.
He gazed at the approaching missile and, seizing the moment, spoke to Chocola:
"I'm not doing this because I want to die here with you for no reason, but to gain leverage in negotiations with you."
"Negotiation?"
Chocola was slightly taken aback, but eventually calmed down a bit.
"That's right, it's for the purpose of negotiation."
"You know I have remote teleportation capabilities; as long as I lock onto a ground target, I can land without taking damage."
"But."
Li Qing sighed helplessly:
"I also have your fungus on me."
"If they simply move to 'lower elevations,' causing a rapid fungal outbreak, the result will definitely be certain death."
This is indeed a potentially fatal problem.
He had very little health left, making it impossible for him to move downhill while infected with the fungus.
It's also impossible to wait until Chocola dies and his Stand ability expires before jumping out of the plane.
If Li Qing had stayed on the helicopter, he would have only perished with Chocola under the missile attack.
Therefore, the solution he came up with was...
"I want to shake hands and make peace with you."
Li Qing was still smiling, but there was a hint of wickedness in his smile:
"Those citizens who were murdered were just passersby who had nothing to do with me. There was no real conflict between us."
"I did this to survive the Passion Organization, while you're just a hired hand under the boss."
"We have no grudges against each other, so why fight to the death here?"
"This"
Hearing Li Qing's persuasive words, Chocola actually became somewhat interested.
With the missile about to hit his door, he didn't have time to think:
"So how do you want to cooperate?"
How can you guarantee that I'll survive with you?
"It's very simple."
"If you deactivate your Stand ability, I'll jump off the plane with you."
Li Qing spoke in a persuasive tone:
"You may not know this, but I can actually move with my companions."
"If you're willing to relinquish your Stand ability, I'll take you with me."
"Take me down?"
Chocola was conflicted:
"How can I trust you?!"
His face was taut and distorted, as if he wanted to see through Li Qing's soul with his bloodshot eyes:
"I don't fully understand your abilities either; who knows if you're hiding any tricks up your sleeve!"
"Putting everything else aside, if you want me to relinquish my abilities and take me down with you, I have to hand over my true form to you without any defenses."
"In that case, you can kill me anytime you want!"
Chocola said excitedly:
"You think you can just get me to give my life to you? It's not that simple!"
"So what do you want?"
Li Qing adopted a nonchalant attitude, as if he were a dead pig unafraid of boiling water. "Are we all going to stay here and die together?"
"I need you to provide insurance!"
Chocola offered his own suggestion:
"If you want me to give my life to you, you have to give your life to me first."
"How do we do it?" Li Qing raised an eyebrow and readily agreed to Chocola's request, "If we're going to do it, let's get started quickly."
"It's very simple!"
Chocola said the same line as Li Qing.
He casually opened a box in the cabin, his "treasure trove" of torture and amusement:
Inside were bloodstained knives, scissors, saws, tweezers, and axes; bottles and jars containing strong acids, strong alkalis, and chemical reagents; and various medicine bottles carefully labeled.
Chocola casually picked up a small glass bottle containing a suspicious colorless liquid:
"This is a very special kind of poison."
"It takes 20 seconds to take effect after entering the body."
"Moreover, there is no antidote for this poison. Only the fungus I control can completely cure it."
He glanced at Li Qing's nearly depleted health bar:
"You drink it first."
"After I land safely, I'll let the Green Day heal the poison in your body."
"Cut"
"If you have something like this, bring it out sooner rather than later. You're wasting time!"
Li Qing seemed genuinely eager to cooperate and survive.
Without hesitation, he took the small glass bottle from Chocola and drank the poison inside in one gulp.
"Are you satisfied now?"
"Now that we all have each other's Achilles' heel, we can cooperate to escape, right?"
At that moment, the whistling anti-aircraft missiles were almost right in front of the two of them.
Driven by an intense will to survive, Chocola finally let down his guard and chose to cooperate with Li Qing.
"Green Day, unleash your abilities!"
The green humanoid stand vanished from in front of Chocola in an instant, and the fungal spores that filled the air immediately lost their activity.
The light green fungal carpet covering Li Qing's body was also rapidly disappearing at a visible speed.
"Very good."
Li Qing nodded in satisfaction.
He stepped forward as promised and locked Chocola's arm with one hand:
"Hold on tight, I'm taking you away now."
"Okay!" Chocola replied with a smile.
Seeing that Li Qing was indeed going to help him escape as promised, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, he couldn't help but let out a cold laugh in his heart:
Hehe
You actually believe that a poison that can only be cured by fungi is something you can't believe?
That venom was originally a toy he used to torture his victims, so how could he have prepared a cure for it?
Li Qing now has very little health left, and he has been poisoned with an incurable toxin.
Once he's safely brought to the ground, Li Qing will rot and decay in the filthy toilet water, like used toilet paper.
Chocola was thinking this.
Li Qing suddenly grabbed him and jumped out of the cabin without any protection.
The moment they escaped from the cabin, anti-aircraft missiles struck the helicopter.
The helicopter was reduced to dust in the bursting orange-red fireball, and Li Qing and Chocola were also uncontrollably falling to the ground like the scattered debris.
"Ah!!"
Chocola was quite terrified by the intense weightlessness of freefall.
Gazing at the approaching ground and feeling the oncoming gale, he couldn't contain himself and roared:
"Damn it! Didn't you say you were going to use your Stand ability to escape?"
"Why did you just jump down!"
"Hehe."
"A teleportation ability that allows you to fly with your companions? You actually believe that?"
Li Qing grabbed Chocola by the throat and crushed his fragile throat bones:
"I only said those things to trick you into disabling your Stand ability so I could move to a 'lower' place."
"From the very beginning, I never intended for you to return to the surface alive!"
"You"
Chocola has completely fallen into Li Qing's hands.
Faced with this sudden attack, he could only hoarsely curse through his bleeding, leaky throat:
"Didn't you just say that as long as I cooperate, you'd let me live with you?"
"Hehe."
Even the dim, white shadows couldn't extinguish the raging fury burning in Li Qing's eyes:
Ask yourself the truth.
Do you really believe there are such kind-hearted agreements in the world?
"Especially for trash like you!!"
"Damn it!"
Chocola struggled and cursed:
"You are utterly shameless, but don't forget that if you kill me now, no one will be able to cure your poison."
"With your current health, there is absolutely no way you can survive the effects of the poison."
"Yes."
"With my current health points, I really can't survive."
Li Qing smiled with a mocking expression, his expression one of indifference and calmness:
"But if I kill you, I can 'level up and regenerate health'!"
"Huh?" Chocola couldn't understand Li Qing's words at all.
But none of that matters anymore.
At this moment, under this blue sky, during that brief period of free fall.
Li Qing stomped Chocola under his foot and then unleashed a fierce gust of wind:
"I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you!"
"I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you!"
"I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you!"
"I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you! I'll hit you!"
"I'll hit you!"