[JOJO] Corinne's Wonderful Journey

The stone brick wall of the big house in front is slightly yellow, which looks quite old.

In the center of the courtyard stood three towering towers with pointed tops, and the thick walls blocked the whole view of the big house behind.

Every window is dark, without any light coming through, like an empty house that no one lives in.But when they approached the iron courtyard gate, the iron gate opened automatically.It seemed that the people inside were ready for their arrival.

"Just like I know Dio is here, Dio also knows we're here." Joseph said.

He frowned, and looked at the main entrance of the big house behind the wall with extreme vigilance.

Jotaro and Kakyoin followed closely behind him, stopping with him in front of the garden gate.

Kelin was about to follow, but she heard Polnareff's voice before she stepped forward: "Why is this stupid dog here? You must have fallen asleep in the car, right?"

Kelin looked back, and it turned out that it was Izzy who somehow appeared in the driver's seat of the car.

No wonder Polnareff was surprised. Although Izzy hadn't been running away at the break as he had been lately, he still seemed indifferent to the ultimate purpose of their trip.

Izzy bared his teeth at Polnareff. He lay half prone on the leather seat and glanced at Polnareff with his eyelids up, as if to show that he was not interested in their final battle.Maybe he just came to see it on a whim.

"Just wait for us to come back."

Polnareff waved his hand to Izzy and didn't linger any longer.

Abdel took out two sticks of coffee-flavored chewing gum from his pocket and put them in front of Izzy.

"We don't know when we will be able to come back, so be careful yourself."

His words reminded Colleen.She knelt down and said to Izzy, "The aid workers from the SPW Foundation are two streets away. You can go to them when you want to leave."

After finishing speaking, she pointed Iqi in a general direction with her hands.Izzy is smart enough to know how to find someone from SPW when the need arises.

Izzy moved his ears, and pawed at the gum with his front paws, instead of eating it immediately as usual.

Until Abdel and Kelin left one after another, he just watched their backs, not knowing what he was thinking.

On the side of the big house, when Joseph stepped into the courtyard, the main door opened.

Inside the door is an endless corridor, with countless arches on both sides extending into the shadows in the distance, and outside the door there are rays of light similar to sunlight.

The length of the promenade far exceeds the length of the house they have visually measured from the outside, and it is clear at a glance that it is not a real thing.

"Before entering the door, there is one more thing to remind you. Dio is a vampire, and it is difficult to cause him harm in general methods. There are three ways to kill a vampire. The first is sunlight or strong ultraviolet rays. The second is It is ripple energy, the third, and the only method that can physically kill a vampire." Colleen said, "Break his head, disturb and destroy his brain tissue, and the vampire will die completely."

While she was speaking, a figure appeared from the shadows at the other end of the corridor. In a posture that normal people could not do, with both feet suspended in the air, he rushed towards them at a high speed, and stopped in front of them in the blink of an eye.

The person who came was a young man in his early twenties, dressed in a white coat, with short hair tied around his forehead, and with strange dark lines on his face.

Kelin and him were barely old acquaintances, and it was the first time that Kelin saw such a gloomy expression on his face since she knew him.

Terrence D. Darby is a substitute emissary named "God Atum".

In Kelin's impression, he is a dead house who rarely goes out, and at least one of the three sentences in the chat is to bring his brother.Although he always deliberately showed that he looked down on his brother and didn't care about him, in fact he cared very much at all.

Looking at his expression now, it seems that he knew the news of his brother's death.

"I have been waiting for you for a long time, Mr. Joestar." Darby bowed to them with a cold face, "I am the housekeeper of this mansion, Darby."

"Darby, your brother was killed by Dio..." Colleen said.

"To shut up!"

Darby's expression cracked for a moment. After he roared, he seemed to regret his gaffe, and pursed his lips.

"Of course I know about my brother. Of course, I can't blame Master Dio for this matter. In the final analysis, my brother's failure is because he can't give up his old and outdated concepts. My brother is a man who has the ability to win with tricks and gambling skills." Old-minded people, he can win only people who are as outdated as him. It was his failure that made Lord Dio have to take his life."

"You bastard, are you talking in a human language?" Polnareff couldn't help saying angrily after hearing half of it, "That's your brother."

"Did my brother mention my name before he died?" Darby asked.

Polnareff was taken aback by his question.

Kelin looked away, and said in a regretful tone: "He called your name, but he was killed in an instant, and there was no time to say anything."

Darby's expression froze for a moment, and his double immediately appeared beside him.

"you are lying."

After speaking, Darby's expression became very complicated for a moment, as if there were anger and disappointment.

"It's not surprising. My brother has always been afraid of me. Maybe in his mind, he would have preferred that my brother never existed," he said.

Darby seemed convinced that Colleen was lying.

Colleen paused for a moment before saying: "You care about your brother very much, Darby, your feelings for your brother are not what you said yourself."

"Shut up, Corinne." Darby gritted his teeth, "Don't pretend to understand me there, and I won't be provoked by you to resent Master Dio."

"We don't have time here to hear about your family relationship." Jotaro interrupted Darby, "Take us to Dio."

Darby's gaze stayed on Kelin for a few seconds before turning to Jotaro and the others.

"Master Dio has been waiting for a long time." Darby turned sideways, posing a gentlemanly posture, "Everyone, if you must fight me, please come in. Excuse me, who is going to be my number one?" What about an opponent?"

"This kid is really annoying." Polnareff clenched his fist with his right hand, stretched out his thumb and pointed down, and made a contemptuous gesture to Darbi, "Jotaro, just hit him flat."

Jotaro took a step forward, and the Platinum Star appeared beside him.He carefully observed Darby's actions, Platinum Star raised both fists, and did not attack immediately.

"Let's gamble... I guess Platinum Star will attack me with the 'left hand' for the first punch." Darby pointed at Jotaro with a double finger, provocatively, "You will attack me with the left hand for the first time , Come and gamble."

"Jotaro, don't care about him so much, anyway, your strength will be useful to beat him! Let's do it!" Polnareff shouted.

"Calm down, Polnareff." Corinne said.

Although standing at the gate of the enemy's base camp, all of them were nervous and alert.But Polnareff was without a doubt the one who showed the tension the most.

They still don't know what Darby's stand-in ability is.Jotaro seems to take the initiative to attack, but he is actually holding a tentative attitude.

Platinum Star took a step forward, and quickly punched his right fist, heading towards God Atum's face.

Yatum's body moved slightly, and before the Platinum Star's fist arrived, he turned sideways to avoid the attack, and at the same time reached out to grab Platinum Star's right arm.

A look of shock flashed across Jotaro's face.

With Platinum Star's speed and strength, unless Darby's stand-in can keep up with Platinum Star, it is impossible for him to dodge... Perhaps, there is another possibility.

"He knows. He knows that I lied about his brother just now, and he knows that Jotaro was planning to throw a right fist just now."

Darby glanced at Colleen, but made no response to her statement.

A dark cave appeared under his feet without warning. The cave expanded rapidly from the bottom of Darby's feet, and spread to Jotaro's feet in the blink of an eye.

Darby fell straight into the cave, and his body double dragged Jotaro down with him, who hadn't expected this unexpected situation.

Joseph and Kakyoin threw out the hermit's purple and the emperor's green together, entangled Jotaro's arm and tried to pull him out.

"It's really helpless, please come in, both of you."

Darby suddenly emerged from the cave and grabbed the hands of the two of them. The black hole suddenly expanded to Joseph's feet, pulling them into the cave together.

"Jotaro!"

The incident happened suddenly, and it happened after Kelin realized it.

"Joseph! Dianming!"

She ran towards the black hole, and wanted to jump down, but she heard Izzy's urgent cry from behind, as if warning them.

The moment he turned his head, the hole on the ground had disappeared.

Kelin, who turned her head, also saw the crisis on the other side.

"Get out of the way!"

Abdel, who also found danger, yelled at her and Polnareff.

Behind them, dozens of icicles floated in mid-air, shining white in the sunlight, with their sharp points aimed at the three of them.

Petsia flapped her wings in the air behind the icicles, her curved beak open as if mocking them.The bird never appeared, and it turned out that it was hiding and trying to plot against them.

They were standing exactly at the door frame of the main entrance of the big house, and there was nowhere to hide on both sides.Kelin, Abdel and the others had no choice but to rush into the door, and the icicles immediately rained down on the place where they stood just now, smashing the ground into a spider web of damage.

Petsha let out an angry shriek in the air, and the second icicle attack concentrated again, but this time it was directed towards Iggy outside the courtyard gate.

Kelin and the others can only see this.

Because the moment they entered the main entrance of the big house, the scene outside the house was distorted, as if a mirage in the fog was blown away by the wind and disappeared.All that remained in front of them was a long corridor with no end in sight.

"Izzy!"

Polnareff ran a few steps in the direction of the original gate, but the corridor remained unchanged, and the gate that should have been in front of him seemed to have completely disappeared.

"Polnareff! Don't act rashly, we are now in the enemy's illusion trap." Abdel reached out and grabbed Polnareff's shoulder.

"Izzy is very strong, he won't get into trouble easily."

Corinne bit her lip and said to Polnareff.That's all she could say.

She was worried and uneasy when she was separated from Joseph and Jotaro as soon as she entered the enemy's base camp.

But this is the emotion they least lack and is the most necessary right now. She tried her best to maintain her calm appearance.

Polnareff stopped his futile actions, gritted his teeth and turned his head.

Abdel withdrew his hand from Polnareff's shoulder.

"Polnareff, Miss Ke Ruiwen, let me say something before going in..." Abdel said, "In this big house, no matter who is injured or missing, the rest should not be rescued He should prioritize his own safety and avoid annihilation in order to save one person."

"..." Polnareff was silent for a moment, then nodded, "I see, Abdel."

"Very well," replied Corinne, "and you, Abdel."

At this time, several of them heard a boom.It was the main entrance of the big house just now, and now it is in the direction of the endless corridor. A wall appeared not far away, and it became a dead end.

The other side is telling them that there is only one way for them to go.

"Everyone has to be careful and don't be careless."

Abdel looked at Corinne and Polnareff, and exhorted with a serious expression.

Polnareff called out the chariot and faced the depths of the endless corridor.

"Okay, let's go in!" he said loudly, as if to cheer himself up.

After a period of time that could not be accurately perceived, the corridor finally came to an end.

At the end of what Kelin and the others saw was a maze-like huge building.Countless thick stone pillars and staggered steps are scattered in the dark space.

The area displayed by this maze is much larger than the size of the big house they saw outside.The scenery they saw along the way, without exception, was all an illusion caused by the enemy.

Abdel motioned for them to slow down.He made a three-dimensional flame frame in the hands of the magician's red, with clusters of dancing flames in the six directions of east, west, north, up, and down.

"This flame is a biological detector. It can sense the breath or skin breath of humans and animals, as well as the breath of moving objects. It can also detect the energy activity of the substitute. Let's follow it into the maze." Abdel said.

After hearing this, Kelin shook off her long scarf and said, "My scarf is a corrugated weapon made of special materials. If an enemy sneak attack us, it will react immediately. Let me walk behind."

Polnareff opened his mouth and found himself speechless.

"Mr. Joestar and the others were pulled into the ground, let's go down first." Abdel suggested.

Both Colleen and Polnareff nodded.Abdel led the way, using his flame detector to open the way.

They stepped down the stairs, step by step carefully.

The surroundings were quiet and empty, and their footsteps could even be heard echoing repeatedly in the dim space.

Kelin tried to touch the wall. In this illusion, even the rough and cold touch of the stone bricks was extremely real.

They now feel that they are going down, but what the real situation is, they have no way of knowing.The substitute messenger who created the hallucination must be found.

After they walked up two flights of stairs, another empty hall appeared in front of them.The thick stone pillars are connected to a series of arches, and the end is submerged in the deep darkness.

When they stepped down the last step leading to this hall, Abdel's flame detector suddenly made a crackling sound, and the flame on the left stretched out in a straight line, pointing to their left front.

"Reaction so soon?"

Abdel cautiously looked in that direction.In the straight direction where the flames point, there is a stone pillar about one meter long and wide, with an arch next to it.

They stood there for a while, not daring to act rashly.

Yet they did not move, nor did the other party, nor did they attack them.

"I'll go over and have a look." Kelin waited for a while without any results, and decided to take the initiative.

"Let's go there together." Abdel said.

Colleen nodded at him.

When the three of them approached the stone pillar cautiously, the flame trembled, and the direction deviated a little.

Abdel stretched out his hand to signal them to stop and observe the flame carefully.

I saw that the flame trembled slightly again, and the direction deviated a little.

Kelin took the scarf off her neck and quickly wrapped it into a ball in her hands.The scarf she injected with ripple energy rolled fine golden energy streams on the surface like a lightning ball.As long as an ordinary person touches a little corrugated ball, the energy on it is enough to temporarily paralyze his whole body.

Her substitute appeared, took the ball of energy from her hand, and smashed it quickly and precisely in the direction of the flame.

Hallucinations can affect their senses, but not inanimate objects.

The scarf ball sank into what appeared to be the wall of the archway before their eyes.Then there was a loud bang, and a heavy object fell from above and fell to the ground in front of their eyes.

When the thing fell, it revealed its original appearance, a short and thick man.He shook his head dizzily, as if he still didn't understand how he was attacked, and planned to stand up.

"Have you been playing tricks since just now?"

Polnareff pressed the rapier of the silver chariot to the man's throat.

The man woke up immediately, stretched his neck and dared not move.

"You bastard, answer my question, is this hallucination your substitute ability?" The rapier stretched forward again.

The man rolled his eyes, pointed at the sword with his finger, and waved his hand again, as if to express that the sword was pressed too tightly and he dared not speak.

"Cut." Polnareff retracted the sword a little.

When Polnareff interrogated the man, Colleen was on guard against the man's every move.After Polnareff retracted the sword, the man's expression changed subtly.

The ground suddenly started to shake, the ceiling above them shattered and fell on them, and the ground where the man was was also separated from them.But once you realize that these are all hallucinations, it becomes much easier to ignore them.

Ke Lin, who had been prepared for a long time, used the substitute to carry the man back to her side in time, and raised her fist to transport the ripple energy to punch him on the head.The man fainted instantly.

At this moment, the collapsed ceiling, the cracked ground, and the dark labyrinth of the old castle all disappeared.

The space where the three of them were located revealed its original appearance.

This is a hall with an area of ​​about fifty or sixty square meters, without windows or lights.

Judging from the direction they walked just now, it is likely to be an underground floor.

"Don't bother with this man, he's going to sleep for at least a day."

Even if he woke up, the sequelae would make him need to lie down for ten and a half months.

Corinne took back the scarf, stepped over the man on the ground, and walked towards Abdel and Polnareff.

They left behind the defeated enemies whose names they did not know, and continued to walk inside.

"The flame detector has also returned to normal. There is no one else here except us." Abdel said.

There is no light or sunlight, everything is shadowy.They seemed to be walking in hell, surrounded by gnashing ghosts and ghosts, only their position was illuminated by Abdel's flame.

A certain oppression in the air became clearer, familiar to Corinne, as well as to Polnareff and Abdel.

That's Dio's breath.He was undoubtedly somewhere in the big house, peering down at them from the darkness.

Joseph and the others were swallowed into the ground by the black hole. Presumably, they were actually led to the underground floor by a trap.I just don't know how the battle is going on on their side and whether it's over.

Kelin also carried a walkie-talkie with her, as long as she took it out to contact Joseph, she would be able to know their situation.

When she was planning this, Abdel somehow fell behind her and Polnareff.

Suddenly he shouted: "Polnareff! Miss Craven! Be careful!"

Then Kelin's back was pushed hard, and she fell forward without any defense against Abdel.

Her corrugated scarf was always on guard, wrapping around Abdel's arm when Abdel pushed her suddenly.As a result, he pushed her away and she pulled him forward.

Kelin staggered for a few steps before she stabilized. She turned her head to ask Abdel what was going on, but what she saw made her pupils constrict and her heart beat faster.

Abdel's right arm was grabbed by Kelin's scarf, and he fell at her feet.

His entire left shoulder and left arm seemed to be neatly cut off by an arc-shaped blade, but there was nothing left of the cut part.Blood was pouring out from the wound that could be seen into the chest cavity.

Abdel moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something to her, but he couldn't say it, and he lost consciousness.

"Abdel!"

Just now Polnareff was pushed to the other side by Abdel.

When he looked back and saw Abdel's appearance, his eyes were so red that they were about to ooze blood.

"... Abdel!"

This weird wound reminded Kelin of the invisible substitute messenger they met on the streets of Cairo.

That elusive attack made her feel strongly threatened at that time, and even made her feel scared at one point, fearing whether she could really let Joseph and the others go home safely.

And now, without a doubt, he's at it again.