MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 117 The Attraction Between Stand Users
On Singapore's coastline, sunlight shone on the shimmering sea, and under a cloudless sky, the voice of the head of the Speedwagon Foundation's public relations department came through a phone booth.

“Mr. Joseph, leave the rest to us,” the person in charge said calmly.

"We will negotiate with the relevant departments and have already begun to guide public opinion. We will try our best to avoid any major news events, so you can leave with peace of mind."

"However, Mr. Joseph, you should still be careful."

The person in charge pointed out, "In the past ten years or so, the number of Stand users worldwide has been growing explosively every year, and many non-governmental organizations composed of Stand users have emerged around the world."

"In a regular Stand battle, no matter how many casualties there are, those organizations won't care. But if it's a large-scale restoration of youth, it might bring you some unnecessary trouble."

The person in charge said with a hint of worry, "Please be extremely careful!"

Joseph nodded and said, "Thank you for your help."

He added somewhat helplessly, "As for being mindful of the impact... we will try our best to be careful, but sometimes there's really no other way. The enemy's Stand is just too powerful, and it's really difficult to deal with without causing a big commotion."

The person in charge said calmly, "Mr. Joseph, it's good that you know. Goodbye then."

With a click, the phone call ended.

Outside the phone booth, a square-faced figure walked over and asked curiously, "By the way, although we've known each other for over a day, I haven't really looked into what your stand-ins are. And what about that thing you just mentioned about guiding public opinion and grassroots organizations? Could you tell us about it?"

As Fang Zheng raised his question, Jotaro Kujo and Noriaki Kakyoin also cast curious glances at him. One of them had only recently awakened his Stand, while the other, although he had awakened his Stand since childhood, had never had a very detailed understanding of it.

Joseph glanced at his watch and said, "Well, according to the weather forecast you provided, Fang Zheng, there's still a while before it's the right time for us to set off. Let me explain it to you now."

Joseph said, "Did you know that there's a kind of gravitational pull between Stand users? They attract each other." Fang Zheng asked curiously, "Oh? What does that mean?"

Joseph slapped the ground, and Hermit Purple spread out numerous purple vines, drawing a complex network pattern on the ground.

Among them are figures with overlapping shadows, representing Stand users, and ordinary figures without Stands, just simple, single shadows. The different figures are connected by delicate vines of Hermit Purple.

Joseph pointed to the drawing he had made and explained, "You see, there is indeed a kind of attraction between Stand users."

He then pointed to one of the figures representing a Stand user and another ordinary figure, saying, "There is also some kind of connection between a Stand user and their ordinary family members."

Joseph sighed, "My Stand only started to awaken in the last few years, after that damned Dio was pulled from the sea."

"After slowly awakening my Stand, I finally discovered that Stands actually exist in the world. It's an extremely strange phenomenon."

"Before this, I have experienced quite a few crises, to put it bluntly."

Joseph said, "I, Joseph Joestar, consider myself a chosen one. Since birth, I have inherited a vast conglomerate and the ability from my grandfather. I was born with the superhuman power of Ripple."

"When I was young, I defeated vampires who fed on humans, and I also defeated the Pillars who fed on vampires. I even fought against the ultimate creature that evolved from the Pillars, and used the power of a volcano to banish it into space."

However, a serious look appeared in Joseph's eyes, and he continued, "However, absolutely not! Before officially awakening my Stand, I had never heard a single rumor about Stands! Not even the slightest one!"

"There is an attraction between Stand users!"

Joseph emphasized, "Before I awakened my Stand, even though I was the heir to a vast fortune, neither I nor the Speedwagon Foundation had ever heard any rumors or come into contact with any information related to Stands."

Joseph glanced at Avdol, who was standing guard nearby, and continued, "However, after I started to have a Stand, all sorts of strange things began to happen."

"A certain kind of attraction, a certain kind of attraction between Stand users, allowed me to begin to come into contact with Stand users and related events."

"I began to gradually discover traces between certain Stand users in my daily life."

“I began to encounter different Stand users one after another in my daily activities. For example, Avdol met me under this kind of attraction.”

"According to the statistics of the Speedwagon Foundation, although there are quite a few Stand users, they are surprisingly few on a global scale."

Joseph paused, then continued, "Theoretically, a Stand user, even in their entire life, would rarely encounter another Stand user."

However, a strange force of attraction connects Stand users who would otherwise have been hard to meet, allowing them to encounter each other.

Those Stand users who should never meet, scattered across the world, and often never even interacting in their entire lives, are somehow drawn together by a mysterious force, always encountering each other and sharing related events. Joseph has tested this, and this strange force truly exists.

When one Stand user enters the same city as another, fate will inevitably lead them to meet and come into contact with each other through a series of coincidences.

They might clash, form friendships, or quietly drift apart after discovering each other's secrets...

However, unlike the attraction between Stand users, there is a strange barrier between Stand users and normal people.

Normal humans often find it difficult to realize that Stand users exist in the world, and even if they do know about it, it is very difficult to investigate and find any trace of them.

Joseph once met a man who became an archaeologist as an adult because of some kind of paranormal event he experienced in his childhood, or an event related to a Stand.

He has been searching all over the world for traces of Stands and supernatural powers, but to no avail.

Even though both are extraordinary powers, there is a certain barrier between Ripple and Stand.

Joseph trained with Ripple under his mother's guidance to fight the Pillars, eventually increasing his power and defeating them. Later, after a brutal battle and defeating Kars, Joseph was severely injured and was propelled into the sky by the power of a volcano. If he hadn't been lucky, he would have been killed when he fell.

His family and friends all thought he was dead, but he miraculously survived in the sea.

Some time after being adrift at sea and rescued, Joseph traveled to Tibet to resolve some inner doubts and at his mother's behest.

Go and find the Tibetan Ripple practitioner, Master Dopeti, to deliver the message that the Pillar Man has been completely annihilated.

At that time, although he was no longer very interested in Ripple and no longer practiced it, he witnessed Master Nadope's astonishing level of mastery over Ripple.

It was as if a small sun had risen on the top of the snow-capped mountain.

After sharing the good news, the Tibetan ascetics warmly invited Joseph to pay homage to the historical events of the battles between generations of Ripple warriors and the Pillars over thousands of years.

However, as time went by, and after Joseph himself awakened his Stand ability because of Dio, he became increasingly puzzled by it.

Because after awakening his Stand ability, Joseph continued to learn about various historical events related to Stands.

At least according to the information he had, although the number of Stand users was slowly increasing in modern times, there had never been a shortage of them in ancient times.

Those gods in myths and legends may even have been powerful substitutes from ancient times.

Faced with the unreasonable power of Stands, the so-called Pillars, vampires, and even ultimate beings are ridiculously weak.

However, the Pillars and Ultimate Life Form Kars, whom they had once defeated, seemed to have never fought against the so-called Stand users.

Even though they have lived for tens of thousands of years, and even though they have been asleep most of the time, they have also had thousands of years of waking time.

In those thousands of years of lucidity, how exactly did those pillar beings and vampires disappear into history?

Are they constantly battling against generations of Ripple users? Or are they being destroyed by those powerful Stand users from history?
But why can't we find any records of it? Why don't those extremely powerful Pillars pursue the power of Stands?
Furthermore, in the wars throughout history, even in the more recent World War I and World War II, why have those Stand users, who possess terrifying power and could easily overturn the course of the war, never been found to have participated in these brutal wars?

It's as if there's some kind of barrier that constantly separates the social circles of "ordinary people" and "standers," preventing them from influencing each other.

"Do you know that although we just had an incredibly fierce battle in that small town, such a battle will absolutely not be known to the world!" Joseph's voice carried a hint of helplessness.

Even if this is a mass outbreak involving more than 1200 people, and hundreds of people regaining their youth.

But such a huge news story, enough to grab the attention of all news media in all countries, will absolutely not be subject to any large-scale investigation!

Even the local government doesn't conduct much investigation into it.

There is a huge gap between ordinary people and Stand users.

Ordinary people who have experienced Stand control, despair and grief, and strange events such as regeneration and regaining their youth will live on in silence.

A strange barrier will ensure that everything they experience will forever remain only within a very small circle, and will be difficult for ordinary people who are not Stand users to notice.

(End of this chapter)