An Invincible Enemy
11.7 million.
The numbers have reached a despairing level.
"Borrowed a car and a gun, and in less than a minute they want me to pay back 11.7 million?"
Li Qing couldn't help but curse aloud:
"Why the hell don't you just rob it?"
"Hehe."
Fabio was not intimidated by Li Qing's angry shout; instead, he calmly stretched in his chair.
"You were too hasty when you 'borrowed' the items, without reading the terms and conditions or asking any questions."
"The item has already been lent out, and it's too late to back out now."
Don't blame others for high interest rates.
He looked down at Li Qing and the others, and said in a righteous tone:
"It's your fault for not being able to control yourselves and always taking things that don't belong to you."
"You?!"
Li Qing was quite infuriated by such fallacies and heresies:
He had already paid with his Riot Games and a gun before, so how can it be considered a loan?
He stole the items, so how can someone demand interest from a robber?
This makes absolutely no sense!
He felt wronged, but that damned stand-in had already decided that he was a deadbeat burdened with debt:
"Give me back my money, give me back my money, give me back my money, give me back my money!"
The cold, mechanical noise kept ringing in Li Qing's ears, making it impossible for him to have any peace.
Amidst the continuous noise, the three muscular men with computers on their heads began to rapidly approach Li Qing.
Not only Li Qing, but also Bucciarati, Giorno, and everyone else present became targets of execution in the eyes of these Stands.
Whoever is closest to those three "computer people" will be the first to suffer.
Li Qing took the initiative to rush forward and draw aggro for his teammates.
His body is the most resilient to pressure, and only he can confidently perform such dangerous actions to test the enemy.
As expected, the three "computer beings" rushed towards Li Qing without hesitation. As remote-controlled automated substitutes, they only acted according to their instincts.
"Hateful!"
Li Qing felt helpless and had no choice but to try throwing a punch to meet the attack.
His Riot Games were strong and powerful, and his speed was slightly better than that of the "computer man" at this moment.
However, all these skills were of no use.
Because he couldn't hit the opponent at all.
When Li Qing's powerful Riot Games slammed heavily into the "computer man's" chest, the Riot Games, just like the previous Gold Experience and Steel Chain Fingers, passed right through the man's body without doing anything.
It was like hitting a piece of air, a phantom.
But what's terrifying is that the computer character that only shouts "pay back the money" can actually touch him.
The instant Li Qing's Riot Games pierced through its chest, its "ethereal" body suddenly became "solid."
Li Qing felt as if his arm was stuck in a sticky swamp, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get rid of the strong suction pull.
"Fresh blood, recyclable."
"Market price: 220 yuan/200ml, currently being recycled."
"What?"
Li Qing's face froze, and he looked somewhat panicked.
"Hahaha."
Fabio, who was sitting at the villa entrance watching the spectacle, chuckled contentedly, adding fuel to the fire:
"If you don't have money, you can also use your bodies to pay off your debts."
"Unfortunately, my substitute is rather rigid. It doesn't know how to generate revenue from people; it only calculates the value of human bodies according to market prices—if we recycled all the blood and organs from your bodies, it should still be able to cover several hundred thousand in debt."
A few hundred thousand dollars is nothing compared to the enormous debt of a living person.
As soon as Fabio finished speaking, Li Qing suddenly felt the blood in his body rapidly flowing out of his arm.
The computer-generated body was like a bottomless pit, constantly sucking Li Qing's blood and devouring his life.
At the same time, the other two computer characters also stretched out their arms.
Their arms were like powerful water pipes, and as soon as they touched Li Qing's body, they began to frantically draw blood from his body.
The parts of Li Qing's body that were touched by the enemy instantly turned dry and yellow, like a mummy that had been dried in a tomb for thousands of years.
Under the influence of the digitized body, the blood he had lost was instantly replenished, and the withered and decayed parts were restored to their original state in an instant.
But this does not change the predicament he is currently facing.
Although his body was not injured, his health points on the system interface were visibly decreasing as he lost blood.
He couldn't extricate himself from the situation; he was like a pig tied to a rack during the Lunar New Year, forced to watch helplessly as his blood gushed out like a stream.
"Golden Bell Shield!"
Li Qing had no other choice but to use the void state during high-speed displacement to escape the restraints.
He instantly escaped to Giorno's side, while the three computer characters simultaneously turned their heads, staring intently at Li Qing and the others with their expressionless screen faces.
"How about it?"
Giorno tentatively asked Li Qing Sin for his thoughts.
"We can't win."
Li Qing sighed deeply, his tone extremely grave:
"Attacks are completely useless, and there's no way to break free from the restraints."
"Touching them will drain your blood. I should be able to hold out for about 20 or 30 seconds before being drained, but you..."
The rest is self-evident.
If an enemy were to touch them, Giorno and the others, being mortal beings, would be sucked dry and turned into mummies within seconds.
The previous probing had already made them realize:
The stand-in cannot attack the enemy, and neither can Li Qing Sin.
If you don't attack the clone, attacking the main body directly will cause the unkillable computer to multiply out of thin air.
"Then how do we fight this?"
Watching the three computer-generated beings slowly approaching, and considering their current dire situation, Mista couldn't help but exclaim in alarm:
"The enemy is simply invincible!"
"Let's attack the main body directly."
Li Qing reluctantly offered a suggestion:
"That huge sum of money wouldn't even be enough to pay off the debt, even if we sold ourselves."
"Paying back the money is impossible. Maybe if we fight to the death and kill the creditors, there's still hope."
"But."
Mista hesitated:
"Didn't that guy say that debts don't die with a person?"
"Even if he dies now for some reason, these monsters with computers on their heads will keep chasing us."
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Li Qing remained silent for a while.
He didn't know whether Fabio's statement was true or false.
But his previous encounter with the immortal Meat Chunk told him that such a substitute that can continue to function after the original body dies does indeed exist.
Once the main body is attacked, the number of those computer-controlled beings will increase rapidly.
When the number of these monsters reaches a certain point, they will...
There's no other way.
Li Qing tried hard to clear his mind of those distracting thoughts, and said with a helpless but firm voice:
"If you don't attack the main body, do you think you can return the money?"
"I"
Mista was speechless for a moment.
Indeed, they have no other choice but to attack the main body.
"Hehe."
"It's all useless, just a futile struggle."
Fabio, sitting high above the villa entrance, watched all this quietly, a cold smile on his face.
He hadn't lied before.
The only way to escape the pursuit of "Everyone's Finance" is indeed to pay off the debt—and that will not change even if he dies.
If the borrowed items aren't that valuable, the enemy might be able to pay off the debt quickly.
However, what Li Qing and his group borrowed was a car that was quite valuable, and with the handgun, their loan principal amounted to a total of 100,000 yuan.
A principal of 100,000, plus 10% interest per second.
More than fifty seconds have passed now, and the terrifying astronomical figure resulting from the compounding of interest and time is simply unbearable for them.
Fabio thought so, as did Li Qing, Mista, and the others.
But just as Fabio was preparing to watch the enemy be disemboweled by the "thugs" split up by "Everyone's Finance," and Li Qing and the others were preparing to fight desperately.
Giorno stepped forward.
He casually picked up a worthless stone from the ground, and the agile figure of the Gold Experience immediately appeared beside him:
"As long as the loan is paid off, it'll be fine, right?"
"I might be able to do it."