Chapter 327: Weird Scene
Li Qing decisively abandoned his companions and left with Higashikata Josuke, the only one who still had some fighting power left.
Diablo subconsciously took a step forward to chase after the arrow after realizing its presence.
At the same time, his brain was thinking rapidly at an incredible speed:
Li Qing escaped very quickly, but he didn't react in time, so he was half a beat slower.
The Dongfang family was less than a hundred meters away. Even if he ignored the burden on his body and let the Scarlet King move at high speed, he would probably not be able to stop him from getting the arrow before him.
So, is it possible to use the power of [Ouroboros] to stop Li Qing directly in the past?
This thought made Diablo feel a little excited.
But he soon discovered that this seemed unlikely:
First of all, since Li Qing chose to go back to get the arrow, it means that in his understanding:
The arrow was kept in the Dongfang family and was not lost.
At least that was the case before they left Dongfang's house.
This has become an established fact and cannot be changed.
The only loophole Diablo could find was the brief period of "uncertain state of the arrow" that began after Li Qing and others collectively left the Dongfang family not long ago.
During this period of time, no one knew whether Jian was still in the Dongfang family.
Theoretically, Diablo could go back to the past and take advantage of this extremely short gap in time to steal arrows from the Dongfang family.
But the problem is that going back to the past requires an anchor point, and this anchor point is the time that Diablo had erased using the Crimson King.
But unfortunately...
Diablo did not use Time Cutting throughout the entire day, not even in the battle that just took place.
Without an anchor, he would have no way of returning to the time he wanted to return to.
The idea of going back in time to steal arrows has become almost impossible.
So, is it possible to hinder Li Qing's behavior by arranging other means in the past?
Hired killers to ambush here in advance?
Or set a time bomb in the Dongfang family in advance?
These ideas are indeed feasible, but doing such things in a foreign country where you are unfamiliar with the place would cost a lot of money.
The last time Diablo hired gangsters to plant a bomb, he had already used up all of his remaining 500 million yen. He was so poor that he had to steal money when paying at a convenience store.
Maybe he could go back to an earlier time, back to when he was still the boss of the organization.
At that time, he could indeed use his status as the boss to mobilize the organization's funds, and he could also use the small treasury account that he had hidden in the past.
But the monitoring capabilities of the Passion organization are extremely powerful, and Diablo is an extremely cautious boss.
If Diablo wants to steal money from Diablo, there is no way Diablo won't find out.
However, Diablo had no memory of his money being stolen.
If he did something that conflicted with his past memories, it would trigger a terrible time paradox.
All in all, traveling through time and space is always a dangerous thing.
Every time Diablo travels through time, he walks on thin ice and tries not to appear in front of others, so as to avoid causing unnecessary impact on the past.
After all, it was difficult for him to tell whether what he was doing was actually "part of a time loop" or a "time paradox" that would conflict with the past.
"Damn it... Looks like I can only use the dumbest method to chase him."
Diablo was in a bad mood.
He had actually forgotten that there was a force in the world like arrows that was beyond his control.
I saw Li Qing carrying Josuke and running back to the Dongfang family quickly.
Diablo had no choice but to give it his all and catch up:
"King Crimson, full speed ahead!"
He asked the Crimson King to hold him in his arms, then burst into the sky at full speed.
This method of movement can maximize the movement speed of the Crimson King without being dragged down by the main body, allowing Diablo to catch up with Lee Sin as quickly as possible.
But the only drawback is that this ultra-high-speed movement will cause a huge acceleration load on the main body.
The terrifying acceleration can even cause the human body's internal organs to rupture instantly, and the neck may be broken if the posture is not right.
Even Jotaro, who has an incredibly strong doesn't dare to do this kind of thing too often.
Otherwise, there is a possibility that you will die before the enemy catches up.
But Diablo couldn't care less now.
Anyway, even if he is injured, he can use the power of [Ouroboros] to recover in 1 second, so it is not too dangerous to chase him at full speed in this way.
Just like that, Diablo quickly followed Li Qing and rushed into the Dongfang family.
Even taking into account the hesitation and indecision that prevented him from reacting beforehand, he was only a few seconds behind Li Qing.
However, when Diablo rushed into the Dongfang family's gate with great momentum, he did not see Li Qing who had just escaped after entering the door.
All that came into view was a confused-looking woman.
She is Tomoko Higashikata, Josuke Higashikata's mother.
"Hey, hey... who are you?!"
Tomoko Higashikata subconsciously stood in front of Diablo.
She asked in a daze and with caution:
"What are you doing in my house!
"What on earth just happened?"
For her, what just happened was that there was a sudden loud explosion outside, followed by the sudden opening of her door shortly afterwards.
A phantom that was so fast that it was almost invisible rushed all the way to the second floor.
Higashikata Tomoko could only vaguely make out the outline of the phantom, which seemed to be Li Qing who was visiting her home, and her son Higashikata Josuke.
She was still in shock and confused, but within a few breaths, Diablo chased her in with murderous intent.
"Oh... you must be the mother of that cow dung head, right?"
A sudden chill appeared in Diablo's eyes.
"Higashigata Josuke!"
"Li Qing!"
The next moment, Diablo raised his head and shouted coldly at the people upstairs:
"Don't be stupid, hand over the arrow in your hand quickly-"
"Otherwise I will kill the old woman downstairs right now!"
"Old woman???" Dongfang Pengzi wanted to say something with an unhappy look on his face.
But the Crimson King's invisible hand instantly grasped her shoulder, forcing her to let out a sharp cry.
The sound went straight to the second floor, but there was silence on the second floor.
"I'll only count to three!"
Diablo did not need any persuasion, but just said murderously:
"If you don't see that arrow in three seconds, your mother will be dead!"
"one…"
"two…"
The counting voice was cold and firm, but Diablo did not panic.
He knew this trick would definitely work -
Because before he started chasing, he had already used "Epitaph" to peek into the future within ten seconds.
[Epitaph] was once his secret life-saving skill.
Because of the long cooling time, he was reluctant to use it unless it was a critical moment.
But now this problem has been completely solved:
Although "epitaph" cannot be used in the "past", it can still play a role in the "present".
Diablo can go back to the past to rest and recover at any time, so the future is completely under his control.
And it was precisely because he had seen the ten seconds in the future in which the result was considered smooth in "Epitaph" that he had been so decisive in using this stupid method to catch up.
As expected, just as Diablo had predicted...
"etc!"
Higashikata Josuke's weak but excited voice sounded the next second:
"I'll give you the arrows, and you let my mother go!"
"Come down with the arrows!" Diablo escorted Dongfang Pengzi carefully towards the stairs.
There were slow and heavy footsteps coming from upstairs.
Higashikata Josuke walked down the stairs with difficulty, holding an arrow that was already stained with blood in his hand.
"Josuke!" It was only then that Tomoko noticed the horrific injuries on her son's body.
She tried hard to break free and rush to Josuke, but was pinned down by the Crimson King and could not move.
"You actually took the arrow down for me?"
"What about Li Qing..."
"Why didn't he show up?"
Seeing Josuke surrender and show up, Diavolo's vigilance increased instead of decreased.
After all, his biggest worry, Li Qing, never showed up, and he always had a very bad premonition.
"Let's look at the future again..."
[Epitaph] The ten seconds that he had just predicted ended here, and he could not see clearly what happened next.
So Diablo immediately used [Ouroboros], went back to the past after 1 second of vanishing, and then returned to the original place in an instant.
In this way, the cooling time is already good early.
"epitaph!"
The future within ten seconds immediately appeared before Diablo's eyes:
At the first second, Diablo walked up the stairs.
In the second second, under the careful protection of the Crimson King, Diablo took the arrow from the Eastern Assistant.
Higashikata Josuke didn't resist at all, nor did he have the strength to do so.
In the 3rd and 4th seconds, Higashikata Josuke slumped on the stairs, posing no threat at all.
Diavolo ignored the utterly threatening Higashikata Josuke and, clutching the blood-stained arrow tightly, he hurriedly climbed to the second floor.
He was going to look for the "missing" Li Qing and completely eliminate the biggest worry in his mind.
At 5 or 6 seconds, Diablo reached the second floor.
He suddenly discovered a large amount of blood flowing on the floor of the second floor.
Following the bloodstains, I looked into the room...
There was only shock on Diablo's face.
7th, 8th, 9th and 10th seconds.
Diablo walked into the room in great shock, and stood there in a daze with a confused look on his face.
"It turned out to be like this..."
During the entire process, Diablo did not suffer any harm.
He was absolutely safe in the next ten seconds, and what he saw was not only harmless to him, it could even be said to be a pleasant surprise.
It’s just that the scene was very strange and shocking.
Diablo couldn't imagine seeing such a scene.
"Let's go upstairs and take a closer look."
After a brief thought, Diablo finally decided to move forward according to the future he saw.
According to the absolutely safe future he saw, he took , went all the way up to the second floor, and stepped into the room covered with blood.
Just like what we saw in the epitaph...
Lying on the floor of the room was Li Qing's body.
A headless corpse.
