Infinite Horror Bulk Players

Chapter 282 I'll take the good reputation, you take the blame.
After a brief hesitation, Lin Hao decisively dropped the arrow.

Done!

If not the interlude mission, when should we do it? During a team battle?

Besides, it's useless to use arrows now, as the Central Continent Team doesn't have anyone with a fourth-tier gene lock.

However, there's a risk of failure if you focus on the main storyline, so you can't be reckless and need to think things through carefully.

Just imagine how the three pillar men, even after being ambushed in the newbie village by Lin Hao and his group, were able to perfectly replicate Ming Yanwei's Meteor Shower and Battle Continuation the moment they revived.

If you follow the storyline and wait until Jotaro has a Stand before approaching him, you'll have a 100% chance of triggering the main god's mission.

However, this also means we won't be able to stop Dio's starting area.

If we allow them to expand their power, we will eventually face monsters with the original version where each bud is a life and each body shares an upgraded, top-tier flesh system with a fourth-order gene lock.

It's still the super-enhanced version with the Light of the Soul.

I don't know if the original method of letting it consume too much energy and exhaust itself still works.

In addition, there are vampires' weaknesses to Ripple and the sun, as mentioned in the original JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, which can be targeted.

There's no doubt that we'll be beating up the Fourth Middle School.

Having determined the difficulty level, Lin Hao and the others went back to the timeline of the second part to learn about Ripple, and also to check if Joestar had successfully met Lisa Lisa.

It turned out that this guy had just appeared in New York and before he could figure out what was going on, he was knocked to the ground by a gold brick that Lin Hao had teleported him to.

Then a little kid snatched the gold bricks too.

With a twitch at the corner of his mouth, Lin Hao flew over and pulled the little brat back, casually tossing the gold brick back to Joseph and giving him a bottle of powder, finally saving Joseph from the dementia that had almost been prematurely developed.

"Damn it, you brat, you almost killed me!" Joseph, now fully awake, revealed his true nature with a furious expression.

With his parents not around, this kid simply stopped pretending.

“Your dad said you didn’t bring any money, so I gave you a gold brick. If you don’t want it, give it back to me.” Lin Hao waved to Joseph.

Upon hearing this, Joseph subconsciously reached into his pocket and realized that he had indeed forgotten to bring his wallet. His previous disdain for the gold immediately changed.

He decisively stuffed the gold back into his pocket, which sank so heavily that his clothes made a snapping sound as if they couldn't bear the weight. Didn't he find it heavy at all?

Seeing Joseph's expression, Lin Hao shook his head helplessly. "We just went to the future, and the difficulties your grandson will encounter are more serious than we imagined."

"If you don't want your whole family to die suddenly, you'd better practice your Ripple skills properly, and while you're at it, teach all your younger relatives."

"What do you mean?" Joseph frowned as he looked at Lin Hao, feeling as if the other party was trying to fool him.

In just a short while, the other party had already mentioned the threat from the future to him countless times.

Is his future life going to be filled with so much suffering?

"That's a long story," Lin Hao said, then suddenly remembered something and his tone slowed down.

However, Joseph became even angrier at his appearance. "Then get to the point!"

"This brings us to your grandfather's generation. In the future, something called a substitute will appear. If one person obtains it, all their close relatives by blood will also possess this ability."

However, some people are physically strong and can successfully obtain a Stand, while others are physically weak and their life force is drained by that thing.

In the future, the vampire Dio, whom your grandfather killed, will take over your grandfather's body, causing your whole family to acquire Stands.

So if you don't want your descendants to die suddenly because of this Stand, then teach them all the power of Ripple.

"I don't even need to defeat vampires, at least I should stay healthy and not have my life force drained by my Stand."

“Dio?” Joseph frowned. He had heard the name before; his grandmother had told him stories about his grandfather’s generation.

It's not good news that your grandfather's body has been taken over by a vampire.

"Can't I deal with the other party beforehand?"

“Sure, but what about after that?” Lin Hao spread his hands, looking at Joseph with a mischievous grin.

"The appearance of the other side is just the beginning; there will be more enemies coming to cause you trouble."

You've dealt with this wave ahead of schedule, but how do you plan to deal with the waves that follow? You'll have to make up for the lessons you skipped someday.

But you'll definitely start the fight early, right?

Joseph, feeling uneasy from Lin Hao's laughter, was about to ask something when the scenery before him changed, and he found himself standing next to Lisa Lisa's training ground.

The other party clearly had no intention of giving him another chance to answer the question.

"Damn brat!" Joseph angrily slammed his fist on the railing, unaware that Lin Hao and the others were hiding right next to him.

Zheng Zha was somewhat confused, while Ming Yanwei glanced at Lin Hao, and seeing that Lin Hao didn't care, she didn't bother with it either.

There are still nine days until our return. Although I don't know if the plan will work, I'm sure I'll be able to train my Ripple skills.

Ripples, a kind of breathing power, absolute positive energy, have the same effect as the exorcising rune. Zheng Zha was able to learn it directly after trying to unlock the second-tier gene lock, but Ming Yanwei was not so good at it.

As a pure numerical monster, she has never unlocked her genetic potential, and her zombie bloodline conflicts with the power of Ripple.

Lin Hao could achieve an effect similar to a second-order gene lock through vector manipulation, thus directly learning Ripple, but its power was too weak. This ability is determined by physical strength, but unfortunately, Lin Hao is an intelligence-based player.

Therefore, in the end, only Zheng Zha could use this ripple.

Seeing that Zheng Zha had learned the ripple technique, Lin Hao led the two of them away from there.

Zheng Zha, who was getting used to his new power, looked even more confused.

"So why are we training this? The strength of Ripple is completely inadequate for our current strength. And looking at Dio's strength in the JoJo anime, even if it were a hundred times stronger, I feel like I could kill him with a single Ki Blast."

"Just a quick study session, I'm free anyway, might as well consider it insurance." Lin Hao floated in mid-air, casually fooling Zheng Zha the gorilla, while watching Joseph's actions through the monitor. After all, he couldn't explain how he knew about Dio's strength changes; the previous Pillar Men all died instantly upon appearance, making it impossible for Zheng Zha and the others to sense their strength.

"Okay, then why did you tell Joseph about Dio?"

"Won't he cause trouble?" Seeing that Lin Hao didn't want to talk about this, Zheng Zha simply changed the subject and asked.

"You actually figured it out?" Lin Hao turned to look at Zheng Zha in surprise.

Is this still Zheng Daxingxing?

"It's just that after unlocking the third-order gene lock more often, even if I don't unlock the gene lock, I can sometimes vaguely sense the other party's thoughts."

When you were talking to Joseph about Dio taking over his grandfather's body, I could sense that he was getting agitated.

He can't possibly wait until the third installment.

"Goodness, are you about to reach the peak of the third-order gene lock?" Lin Hao couldn't help but click his tongue as he looked at Zheng Zha.

Zhang Jie is going to be upset again~
But it doesn't matter, we can just endure the hardship of Luo Gandao.

With a smile playing on his lips, Lin Hao began to explain to Zheng Zha, who was unusually thoughtful.

Zheng Zha's habit of using his brain is good and should be cultivated; he can't be easily fooled anymore.

"When I was explaining the plot to Joseph, a question suddenly came to mind."

The tasks issued by the main god take into account our strength rating, but does it also take into account the local forces we can rely on?

If we weaken the NPC forces that our side can utilize, will the triggered quests offer higher rewards due to increased difficulty?

For example, triggering the plot of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 before Jotaro is even born.

By reducing the proportion of intelligence and increasing the proportion of strength, and ensuring that the task can be completed while reducing the need for mental effort, how will the main god determine the difficulty?
To prevent the main god from thinking that Lin Hao had deliberately weakened himself and thus withholding the reward, Lin Hao deliberately kept his distance from Joseph.

All of the other party's subsequent actions stemmed from his own inner thoughts and had nothing to do with Lin Hao.

However, with the information from the original work, Lin Hao was able to indirectly influence the other party's actions and manipulate him to do what Lin Hao wanted him to do.

For example, if you told someone who greatly respects their elders that their grandfather's corpse has been possessed by a vampire and is causing harm everywhere, what would you do?

Seeing the smile on Lin Hao's face, Zheng Zha felt a chill run down his spine for no reason, and then silently mourned for Joseph.

The other party was truly outmaneuvered by Lin Hao.

Intelligence is indeed a terrifying thing; relying on a few animated films, it lays out all the choices in life before other people.

Even the most intelligent sages, as designed, can be easily manipulated.

Fortunately, I'm not a character from an anime.

Feeling a mix of emotions, but having no way to stop Lin Hao, he could only turn his head and continue practicing his Ripple technique, hoping to mix the Ripple with his aura and launch it before Lin Hao could say he would make a move.

Lin Hao had already completed his task, and killing Dio was the task he needed to complete.

On the other hand, just as Lin Hao had predicted, Joseph couldn't sit still after only two days of training and left the United States ahead of schedule to find the place where Big Joe's ship sank.

He wanted to start the third part of the game ahead of schedule.

The moment Lin Hao and his companions realized this, the Supreme God also sent them a mission.

[The third part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is triggered ahead of schedule, increasing the difficulty of the mission to the maximum and doubling the rewards for the main mission.]

Current task: Help Dio obtain the "arrow".

Each person will receive 500 reward points upon success, and 1,000 reward points will be deducted from each person upon failure.

"Such a meager reward, this must be a prerequisite quest." Looking at the quest prompt, Lin Hao couldn't help but complain.

"What should we do?" Zheng Zha glanced at Lin Hao, then gave up thinking.

"Equip the arrow with bomb runes. If the main god wants Dio to wield the arrow, he has to see if Dio is worthy of it."

Lin Hao chuckled.

Red Queen continued to monitor Dio's location, while Lin Hao and the others teleported directly to Granny Enya's house again. With illusion runes activated, even if Lin Hao took out the arrow and engraved runes in front of the old woman, she wouldn't be able to see it.

Evil-repelling, penetration, explosion—they gave Dio a complete set of all the runes they could.

Leave one arrow here, and take the other four with you. We'll have Red Lady fire them later, according to the plot.

Now that the story has begun, there's no need to go through Grandma Enya's hands again.

Meanwhile, as Joseph began searching for a boat to reach the location of Big Joe's sunken ship, a group of people inexplicably went out to sea to begin salvage operations.

Almost exactly as in the original story, the group of people who didn't want to wait until morning and insisted on opening the box at night ended up being fed a lot by Dio.

Once he confirmed that Dio was heading to Egypt, Lin Hao teleported back to Joseph's side on the salvage ship he had rented.

When Joseph saw Lin Hao and the others suddenly appear, he was startled and his hand trembled for a moment. Then he pretended to be nonchalant and continued eating. "Yo~ Good morning, you three. Have you eaten yet?"

"Thanks to someone's act of changing history, we've been so busy we haven't even eaten yet." Lin Hao floated down onto Joseph's table, sat cross-legged, and unhesitatingly shifted the blame for Dio's early appearance onto him. "Any explanations?"

"..." Joseph clicked his tongue, looked at Lin Hao and hesitated for a moment, "I can't watch my grandfather die without peace. I will find a way to make up for the lack of training in other places."

But my grandfather is the only one I wish to see laid to rest.

"Yes, what a filial son." Lin Hao nodded as if he had expected it. After all, Er Qiao cared most about his grandmother's opinion. He could be a thug in front of others, but he would try to act like a gentleman in front of his grandmother.

So it was unexpected that Er Qiao, who grew up listening to his grandfather's stories, would hesitate for two days. Lin Hao thought he would leave that very day. Although if he didn't leave within five days, Lin Hao would have to send his grandmother to visit him.

"Have you ever considered that something like fate still exists in your world?"

(End of this chapter)