Enemy of Fate

A few kilometers away.

Chocola crashed to the ground before the helicopter wreckage hit the ground.

His battered body left a dense spiderweb pattern on the concrete road, and his bones and flesh shattered into mud just like the road surface.

"I'll hit you!"

Li Qing descended from the sky, stepping onto Chocola's corpse.

The corpse, almost crushed into mud, sank with a thud under the heavy impact, forcibly pushing the human-shaped crater down several centimeters further.

In this way, Li Qing used the Chocola as a springboard to complete a hard landing from high altitude.

However, after such a perilous 100-meter freefall, his life force not only did not decrease, but actually recovered to full:

"Bite!"

"Successfully killed Royal Guard member Chocola, gained experience."

"You have reached level three, and your health has automatically recovered to 100%."

"You have gained new skill points. Please allocate them as soon as possible."

An indescribable warm current instantly filled my entire body.

Although there was no change in appearance, Li Qing could clearly feel the powerful force hidden within his body.

His strength became abundant, his movements became agile, his skin became tough, and his bones became strong.

Human physiological limits can no longer be his shackles; he has broken through those limits and become a being beyond humanity.

"Finally upgraded!"

Li Qing let out a long sigh:

In fact, it only took him a little over eight hours to level up from level 1 to level 3, but for some reason, those eight hours felt longer than half a lifetime.

He stopped sighing and focused his attention on the extra skill points he had gained.

Unlike in the game, Li Qing's skills are fully upgraded with a single skill point, leaving no room for further enhancement.

Therefore, he now only has one choice:

[Heavenly Thunder Break]: "Li Qing strikes the ground, releasing a shockwave that deals minor damage and reveals the hit unit for 4 seconds. If Heavenly Thunder Break hits an enemy, Li Qing can cast Bone Shattering Strike for the next 3 seconds."

[Bone Shattering Strike]: Reduces the speed of enemies detected by Heavenly Thunder Break Strike by 50%, and keeps them in place.

(Cooldown: 10 seconds)

(Range: 2 meters)

As the level increases and skill points accumulate, the unknown poison lurking within the body also begins to take effect.

But Li Qing was not worried.

After reaching level three, his health was fully restored, and his maximum health also increased significantly.

Moreover, based on his previous experience of inhaling toxic gases in that underground cavern, Li Qing knew that his digitized body actually possessed a certain "self-cleaning and detoxification" ability.

It's like stepping on Teemo's poisonous mushroom in a game.

Aside from viruses and fungi that can continuously multiply and proliferate on the body, ordinary poisons are simply judged by the system as "magical damage" lasting for a few seconds after taking effect, and will not cause any permanent negative effects on Li Qing.

As long as you can withstand those few seconds of continuous damage, the poison status will disappear on its own.

Therefore, the poison left behind by Chocola before his death has no effect on Li Qing, whose health has now returned to 100%.

His health dropped sharply after the poison took effect, but soon, as the damage over time ended, the lost health slowly recovered with the 0.5%/s health regeneration.

"We're safe now."

"We need to find a way to reunite with Giorno and the others as soon as possible."

Li Qing turned to leave, but then inexplicably stopped.

He first touched the equipment on Chocola, but in the end he only found a broken cell phone.

Then he looked again at Chocola's ugly corpse, an eyesore that marred the city's appearance.

After a brief moment of thought, Li Qing picked up its bloodied and mangled body and casually tossed it into a nearby large trash can.

Then, he finally left, completely satisfied.

"Cellphone, cell phone"

Li Qing recalled the phone number Bucciarati had given him not long ago. He ran along the unfamiliar streets in the direction he had come from, looking around to find a passerby to borrow a phone to contact his companions.

Unfortunately, there was no one around.

News of the biological attack in the city had been circulating for a while, and nearby residents who had received the alert had already fled in panic.

The wide road was deserted and silent, making one feel as if they had entered a deathly wasteland.

Just as Li Qing was searching for passersby without success and was about to change his approach and rush into a roadside shop to look for a landline phone, a convoy of cars appeared on the road ahead of him.

That is...

"American armored vehicles?"

Li Qing observed with curiosity and caution:

On that empty road, several armored personnel carriers that he had only ever seen on television were parked haphazardly.

With its angular metal body, simple and elegant camouflage paint, sturdy and thick bulletproof armor, and menacing vehicle-mounted machine gun, it looks menacing and menacing, making people want to keep their distance.

However, the current situation of this US Military convoy is quite dire.

Those armored personnel carriers had clearly come to an abrupt stop due to some unexpected event. They were parked haphazardly, and two of them even crashed out of control into roadside trees.

As Li Qing drew closer, he witnessed the horrific scene inside the car:

The car was full of corpses, and the smell of blood was overwhelming.

Clearly, these poor young people had just been caught up in Jokulrat's fungal attack.

The raging fungus devoured their internal organs and corroded their bones, leaving them powerless to die in this despair.

After Chocola died, the fungus disappeared.

But this not only failed to save the poor people, but also caused them to experience the intense pain of having their flesh gnawed away because the anesthetic effect of the fungus was gone.

The seats and windows were covered with horrific bloodstains left by their agonizing struggles.

Those once spirited US Military soldiers rotted away in their own broken flesh and blood.

"Well"

Li Qing sighed deeply and turned his head away with some reluctance.

He certainly didn't recognize these soldiers.

He even had no liking for these Americans who went to foreign lands to wage war.

Even so, Li Qing couldn't bear to see such a scene.

No human being should die such a tragic and powerless death.

At that moment, from within the pile of corpses, a faint groan could still be heard:

"Someone's here?"

"Is this a rescue operation? Has the base's rescue team arrived yet?"

Yes, there was one survivor in the car.

Half of his body had been eaten away by fungi, and his torso below the abdomen had disappeared.

Although he was still clinging to his last breath, just by listening to his weak and feeble heartbeat, one could tell that unless Giorno could teleport here, this poor soldier would surely die within half a minute.

No one can save him.

His consciousness was fading, his breathing was almost stopped, and death was imminent.

In his final moments, he clung to hope even in despair, stubbornly calling out, "Has the rescue arrived yet?"

Li Qing couldn't do anything.

He glanced with pity at the surviving soldier's empty, blurry eyes, then noticed the identification tag on his chest—which read the poor man's name, "Jimmy Collint".

"Sorry, Jimmy."

"I couldn't have ended all of this sooner."

Li Qing silently mourned for the soldier, and also for all the victims in the city.

Then, he looked away, composed himself, and stopped looking at the horrific scene inside the armored vehicles.

The faint, persistent groans of pain continued.

But Li Qing had already put the poor soldier, who had no hope of survival, out of his mind and ran several dozen meters away.

Because the battle was not over yet, he had no time for sentimentality:

The culprit who caused this tragedy is dead, but the person behind the scenes who ordered Chocola to commit this heinous act is still at large.

Li Qing finally felt an unprecedented killing intent towards Diavolo.

He was no longer simply trying to survive, nor was he just playing a game; he genuinely wanted to kill, to send that inhuman guy to hell.

Anger simmered within him, brewing and then erupted like a volcano!

"Diavolo!"

As Li Qing ran back the way he came, he vented his inner turmoil with uncontrolled roars:

"Get out here!!"

As soon as he finished speaking

A shocked voice suddenly rang out behind him:

"This?!"

"Even though I wasn't paying attention, they still managed to spot me getting so close by using the Time Erasure."

Diavolo, with his long, bright pink hair flowing freely, appeared behind Li Qing like a phantom:

"As expected of you."

"My foe!"