The Supervisor's Backup Plan

At the same time.

In an unassuming farmhouse on the outskirts of Naples.

Diavolo is hiding here.

While Li Qing and his team launched their attack on the technology group in Pisa, he never left Naples.

Because his injuries were too severe, the Meat Chunk tentacles wrapped around and crushed the bones in his chest and back, while the scorching magma wrapped around the tentacles burned away nearly half of his skin.

Yesterday afternoon, he still had some strength left and managed to escape on his own while Li Qing was away.

However, as time went on, due to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, Diavolo was unable to receive timely treatment in the city, and his burns developed into a very serious infection.

He doesn't even have the strength to walk now, and he can't withstand the pressure of a long journey.

Under these circumstances, going after Li Qing alone would be suicidal.

Having learned a lesson from the heavy losses suffered by his Royal Guard yesterday, Diavolo no longer dared to use the piecemeal tactics of sending his remaining precious forces to their deaths one by one.

At the same time, he couldn't even mobilize other departments within the organization to hunt down Li Qing.

Because once news of Li Qing's attack on the technology group leaks out, all the leaders and cadres within the organization, big and small, will understand:

The traitors have become so arrogant that they have attacked the crucial technology team, and the boss and his Royal Guard are not only unable to stop them, but also have to rely on the power of other departments to eliminate them.

What does this tell us?

This means the boss is no longer viable; the invincible Dark Emperor is no longer invincible.

Once such thoughts take root in the minds of those cadres and leaders, the Passion Organization, which relies entirely on Diavolo's personal prestige, will truly be finished.

No way.

Even when critical technology groups are under attack, Diavolo is forced to remain inactive.

He could only hide like a stray dog in a farmhouse in the countryside of Naples, praying that the technology team could defeat the enemy that he and his Royal Guard had failed to defeat, while waiting for the organization's medical personnel to come and heal his injuries.

Due to traffic congestion caused by the volcanic eruption, the medical personnel did not arrive in Naples until the next morning.

Your injury is quite serious.

"What happened?"

The doctor, whom Diavolo couldn't even be bothered to remember, looked at Diavolo with such curiosity.

No, it was directed at Tonio.

He is a doctor belonging to the medical team of the logistics department of the Passion Organization, and also Stand User whose Stand ability is simply to accelerate the regeneration of animal bodies.

Diavolo urgently summoned him to help him heal because of his Stand ability, which has healing effects.

Of course, the doctor had no idea that the young man he had traveled all the way to treat was the organization's boss.

He assumed that the severely injured pink-haired youth in front of him was a member of the boss's Royal Guard, a rookie gangster named Tonio.

Therefore, the doctor showed no fear of Diavolo; on the contrary, he used his Stand ability to treat Diavolo while muttering to himself:

"His ribs and spine were deformed and fractured, and he also had such severe burns on his body."

What exactly beat you up like this yesterday?

In order to better disguise himself, Diavolo's main personality did not appear.

However, his alter ego, the frail Tonio, didn't seem to be very good at dealing with such frequent questioning.

"This..." He scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, and then, prompted by Diavolo, said to the doctor, "I was hit by a rock ejected from the volcano."

"Hit by a rock?"

While using his Stand ability to accelerate Diavolo's physical regeneration, the doctor said with some suspicion:

Don't lie to me.

"The bones in your chest and back all deform and shrink inward; a stone cannot achieve this effect."

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Tonio fell silent.

But the gossipy doctor just wouldn't stop:

"Hey, are you new here?"

"I have treated the injuries of a few members of the Royal Guard before, but I've never heard of anyone named Tonio in the Royal Guard!"

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Tonio remained silent.

The doctor, however, kept talking non-stop:

"By the way, I see that Li Qing's wanted notice hasn't been withdrawn yet, which means they're still alive."

"Some people in the organization speculate that the boss himself might be in Naples."

"If he was really in Naples yesterday, and Li Qing and the others are still alive, doesn't that mean the boss failed to deal with those traitors?"

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Tonio remained completely silent.

Unbeknownst to him, and without the doctor even noticing, his gaze subtly changed.

"Hey, if the boss really got defeated by Li Qing, where would he be right now?"

"You're definitely not dead. After all, I was urgently summoned here by his orders to treat your injuries."

"It's strange, really."

"Tonio, although your injury is serious, it is not impossible to heal it if you go to a regular hospital to recuperate for a period of time."

"But the boss actually gave me an emergency order to come and treat you, saying something like 'you must be cured as soon as possible,' as if the organization can't do without you. Just who are you to be valued so much?"

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"Tonio" stood up from his sickbed.

He didn't answer the doctor's barrage of annoying questions, but simply moved his newly healed body silently around.

Then, in a voice that had unconsciously changed tone, he asked:

"Is the treatment completely finished?"

"Yes, it's over." The doctor nodded with a hint of pride. "You're like brand new now, I guarantee you'll be even more energetic than before you were injured."

"That's good"

"Tonio" closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, those eyes, a blend of yellow and green, were now brimming with murderous intent.

"King Crimson!"

The lean, wiry body swelled up like an inflating balloon, and a burly human figure with equally bulging muscles instantly appeared beside him.

The next instant, the King Crimson suddenly threw a punch.

The doctor didn't even realize what had just happened before his heart was shattered into pieces by that incredibly powerful Riot Games.

"You're talking too much nonsense."

"Besides."

Diavolo expressionlessly wiped the blood from his face and casually tossed the doctor's corpse to the ground.

"I have never been defeated by Li Qing— "

Never!

He raised the sole of his shoe high and stomped hard on the doctor's lifeless face.

"No, no, no!"

It seemed as if he wanted to vent all the pain and humiliation of being forced to stay in bed for a night.

Diavolo stomped on the corpse, stepping on it until his feet were covered in blood and the flesh was mangled.

Finally, the email notification from the computer next to him saved the poor doctor from a gruesome death.

"Um?"

"Any news from the technology team?"

Diavolo gradually calmed down, but the restlessness lingered in his mind.

Over the past night, while his injuries were still healing, he had been anxiously monitoring the situation remotely with the technology team.

The situation was that Li Qing and his team broke through the ambush with unstoppable momentum, and finally entered the technology group's headquarters in the countryside of Pisa not long ago, as if there were no obstacles at all.

This is terrible, absolutely terrible.

Diavolo's only hope now lies in the "unsolvable" trap-type Stand of the head of the technology team.

Pity

Diavolo hadn't even had time to rejoice at his fully healed body when he eagerly opened his email to find a will from the head of the technology team:

"I'm sorry, my respected boss."

"Li Qing's abilities have exceeded my expectations; I have failed to live up to your expectations."

"I am now seriously injured, and those traitors will soon storm this base."

"Of course I will not betray you, nor will I utter a single word to the enemy."

"But among the enemies is a Stand User named Abbacchio whose Moody Blues can read memories left behind at a location."

"I am so badly injured that I can hardly move, and I have no way or time to erase the important information I left in this place."

"The administrator password will definitely be leaked, and control of the internal network will definitely be taken over by someone."

"Therefore, while I was initiating data overwrite, I also secretly installed a hidden program on the intranet server."

"This backdoor program shouldn't be discovered anytime soon. You can use it to do many things, such as remote monitoring, data modification, and information interception."

"While it can't help you regain control of the internal network, it can at least help you gather more intelligence to deal with Li Qing."

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A long string of ellipses suddenly appeared in the email.

They seem to be telling the story of the sender's incredibly complex feelings:

I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry.

"This is the only thing I can do now."

"By the time you receive this email, I will have already ended my own life."

"I have never betrayed my loyalty to you and the organization. I hope you will spare my family after my death."

"My wife and daughter"

"I hope they can live freely in the future."

"—Head of the Technology Group, your loyal servant, Anzo Angelo."

Diavolo finished reading the suicide note, which was filled with a sense of resignation.

Faced with his loyal subordinate's heart-wrenching dying pleas, he clenched his Riot Games tightly, and then...

He slammed his fist on the table.

"Useless! This piece of trash!"

"You couldn't even defend your own base, and you still want to bargain with me with this kind of nonsense that's cheaper than toilet paper?"

"You bastard—"

"Just wait until you're reunited with your family in hell!"

The thought that the technology team had been completely overrun and that Li Qing had seized control of the organization's internal network made Diavolo want to tear everything in front of him to shreds.

This was a humiliation he had never experienced before, and it also filled him with unprecedented anger.

To make matters worse, there was absolutely no outlet for this anger.

Now he's just like those weaklings he used to despise—unable to change anything, yet always liking to yell.

"No, calm down, stay calm. I haven't lost yet. No."

"My injuries have healed now. If it happened again, Li Qing would definitely be the one to die!"

Diavolo let out a long sigh of relief.

He forced himself to calm down and obediently sat back down in front of the computer.

Then, Diavolo activated the backdoor program that his supervisor had left him before his death:

"Then let me see what Li Qing and the others are doing right now."