Not far away, Giorno and Mista were staring at him; the former was smiling, while the latter leaned against the wall, fiddling with his revolver.
"What's going on..." Lu Ye stared at his empty right hand, which should have been holding the Silver Dancer. "From the very beginning, I didn't do anything. Everything that just happened was just a hallucination caused by my mental outburst?"
“Not entirely. To be precise, everything that just happened was real. I was just temporarily preventing you from reaching the reality of ‘being able to kill us,’” Giorno Giovanna said. “This is my Stand, ‘Gold Experience Requiem.’”
As he spoke, Giorno released his Stand, a golden figure that exuded an invincible aura. It could reset all of an opponent's activated abilities or death to zero, turning them into a state of "having done nothing from the very beginning".
Although Lu Ye couldn't see it.
However, he has already gained a basic understanding of the role and meaning of a stand-in.
From this perspective, the fact that the other party did not fight to the death indicates that they did not want to engage in a life-or-death struggle.
“I’m sorry I shot you earlier, but there was a reason,” Mista said. “I don’t allow anyone to insult my comrades. You were in the wrong first, so put down your gun. Even if you resist, you have no chance of winning. I didn’t intend to kill you anyway. The shot I fired wasn’t just driven by my personal feelings; it was also to find out if you are a Stand user.”
The other party's sincerity was already quite evident. The known facts, coupled with a detailed explanation, made Lu Ye understand the current situation.
So this is what a Stand ability is.
"Investigating me?" Lu Ye put away the Silver Dancer.
“We rushed over after receiving intelligence from our informant and drove to track the target… the guy who was initially tracking you. After he followed you into the alley, we got out of the car too. The time difference was about twenty seconds. By the time we arrived, you had already taken down so many people. There’s no other explanation besides the possibility that you’re a Stand user.”
Lu Ye was stunned for a moment.
Thinking about it this way, it really makes sense in the eyes of a Stand user.
Afterwards, Lu Ye understood the whole story.
Giorno and Mista were indeed there for these thugs.
For nearly a decade, under the leadership of a newly appointed gang boss, drug trafficking in Naples has virtually disappeared.
But once you get hooked on drugs, it's very difficult to quit.
Where there is demand, there will be trade.
Recently, an outside force has set its sights on Naples, causing a resurgence in drug-related crimes, although this is considerably smaller than it was ten years ago.
But the current gang boss would never allow such a thing to happen.
And so Giorno and Mista appeared here.
Their task was to interrogate these people to find out where their goods came from, and to trace the source of the goods.
"Combating drug crimes? In that case, the leader of the 'Passion' organization is quite something."
“Yes, he’s a pretty good person.” Mista glanced at Giorno.
Chapter 708 Gangster Substitute
"You guys are really cautious. Do you also have the responsibility of managing Stand users, and all Stand users are recorded in some kind of list?"
“No, we only record Stand users within the gang, each Stand user’s name, gender, age, and of course, most importantly, their Stand ability…” Mista said. “However, we’ve also been keeping an eye on outside Stand users lately, regardless of their identity, including tourists like you.”
"Could it be because of drug trafficking?" Lu Ye quickly figured out the reason.
Since Giorno's gang has several Stand users loyal to the organization, and they can still commit crimes in Naples, it means that the gang's forces may also have Stand users.
“That’s right,” Giorno said. “That’s the reason. The greatest heroes hide in plain sight. They could be hiding in any corner of this city, living as ordinary people. However, Stand users are attracted to each other. A friend of mine told me in a letter from Japan that there is a mysterious force that brings Stand users together… Sooner or later I will find those people. These thugs you just took down are the first step.”
"Doesn't your organization have any Stands that can track and search for enemies?"
Upon hearing this, Giorno and Mista were silent for a second.
“We’ve had this before; he was our friend.”
“If that guy were still around…we would have dug him out long ago.” Mista’s voice was low.
“I have another question,” Lu Ye looked at Giorno, “You said before that ‘the attack is complete,’ what did that mean?”
“You probably haven’t met any other Stand users, have you?” Giorno tilted his head slightly and said, “Everyone’s Stand ability is different, and sometimes the conditions for triggering the ability are also different… Do you remember the business card I gave you before?”
business card?
Lu Ye took out the business card, and suddenly it flipped over, turning into a finger! And it looked like the little finger!
Giorno took the little finger from Lu Ye's hand. The next instant, his left little finger automatically turned into a lighter and fell off. Giorno then attached the little finger, which had been transformed from the business card, to his own hand as if assembling a toy.
“Don’t be nervous, it’s part of your ability,” Giorno said. “Now you understand.”
It turned out to be the case.
Lu Ye understood.
When and how Giorno activates his ability.
When I first met him, from my perspective, Giorno's body was slightly turned to the side, not facing me directly.
It was probably around that time that Giorno used his Stand ability to turn his left pinky finger into a business card, then turned a lighter back into his pinky finger, and then threw the card back to himself, thus completing the physical contact!
From that moment on, I was already infected!
"In short, we have a general understanding of your Stand ability, which should be 'teleportation'. Judging from your performance just now, you can teleport yourself to a marked location and then teleport," Giorno said. "The evidence is that the locations you teleported to were fixed, the direction of the exit of that dark alley, and the location you were in when Mista fired the first shot."
Giorno knew the true power of the Imperial Arms simply by observing it...
He looked to be only a few years older than me, but he seemed to have experienced countless battles with Stand users, which is why he had such keen insight.
Looking at the two people in front of him, Lu Ye felt even more strongly that mastering a Stand was the most important thing right now... Otherwise, he might end up like before, not even knowing how he died once he faced a Stand user.
Perhaps we can get some information about "arrows" from them.
“Although I have this ability, you are wrong. I do not have a Stand,” Lu Ye said. “I am not a Stand user either.”
"What?" Mista frowned. "You think you can play dumb now?"
"It wouldn't do me any good to lie to you."
Lu Ye said, "Think about it, I was initially targeted by these thugs. After dealing with them, I wanted to squeeze some money out of them, and then I met you guys."
Giorno saw that I had defeated so many people in such a short time and suspected that I was a Stand user, so he used his Stand ability as a precaution. Then, I offended one of your friends and was shot by you...
If I were a drug dealer's henchman, luring you here to set a trap, then without knowing your doubles, I wouldn't have been the only one who attacked just now.
These guys are drug addicts, you can take them away and torture them if you want, I don't object, and it's none of your business anyway, I've already taken most of their stuff.”
"But the ability you just demonstrated is definitely that of a Stand!"
Mista was speaking when he suddenly stopped.
Because in his eyes, Giorno had already released his Stand – “Gold Experience Requiem”.
Golden Experience Requiem threw a punch, aiming straight for Lu Ye's face.
However, at the last moment, it stopped. The powerful fist was less than 0.1 centimeters away from Lu Ye's face, while Lu Ye's gaze focused through the golden Stand and fixed on Giorno.
“Mista, this guy… he really doesn’t seem to be able to see my Stand,” Giorno said. “That last moment didn’t lie. The human eye might ignore stationary objects, but it pays more attention to moving things.”
Even a true Stand user would not be able to remain unresponsive to my attack, because the speed of my Gold Experience Requiem was so fast that it was invisible to the human eye.
Even a Stand user would only think that it was a mosquito that had just flashed by, and wouldn't associate it with a Stand attack. However, he didn't notice it at all.
"Really? This fishing tactic is quite effective against ordinary people who want to disguise themselves," Lu Ye said. "So, where is your Stand right now?"
"Right in front of you."
Giorno said this, and silently withdrew his Gold Experience Requiem.
“But… how is that possible?” Mista was still puzzled.
There are people in this world who can use Stand abilities but cannot see their Stands.
“He is currently… perhaps in a state where his Stand is not fully awakened.” Giorno pondered and said, “I heard from my friend Koichi in Japan that there are three types of Stand users in this world: those who are born with Stand abilities, and those who awaken their Stands after reaching the pinnacle of a certain skill.”
“Is there such a person, Giorno?” Mista asked.
"Yes, a few summers ago, I went to Japan to inquire about some things. In a small town called Morioh, there was an Italian man named 'Tonyo Torrasadi' who ran a restaurant. He was a Stand user, and his Stand ability was related to cooking."
"Cooking?" Lu Ye was also stunned.
To his current level, he had never imagined that his Stand ability would be related to food; it was a bit strange.
“Yes, when Tony cooks, he mixes tiny Stands into the ingredients. Once inside the human body, the Stand heals ailments and pains through destruction and regeneration, and the eater feels nothing, focusing only on the deliciousness of the food itself,” Giorno said. “My stiff shoulder muscles were greatly relieved after eating that kind of food… Tony wasn’t a born Stand user. According to him, he developed his Stand ability because he couldn’t survive in the highly competitive Italian culinary world and traveled the world training in cooking.”
Giorno said to Lu Ye, "You are probably like Tony, a Stand user who was born later. Because you are still in the awakening period, you don't have a Stand yet... This is normal. When my hair started to turn gold, the first thing I noticed was the abnormality that started to appear on my body, that is, my ability, rather than the Stand itself."
"As for why you can't see my clone yet, it can only be attributed to the fact that you haven't fully mastered your mental power yet."
"Wait, you said there are three types of Stand users in this world: those who are born with Stands, those who awaken Stands by honing a certain skill to its extreme, and so on. What about the third type?"
Lu Ye asked the question knowing the answer already.
The third type is probably a Stand created through the power of the "arrow".
Giorno believed himself to be a Stand user acquired later in life and knew nothing about the "Arrow," so he did not mention it.
But he was wrong.
I know what an "arrow" is.
Moreover, he is not a Stand user who is "not yet fully awakened".
Before this, I only knew that Stand users were activated by arrows, but I didn't know that the birth of Stands was divided into "innate" and "acquired"... because Xiaobai didn't say so.
However, whether you say it or not is irrelevant.
Because Lu Ye was born without the ability to use a Stand, and was unable to comprehend the Stand on his own.
Therefore, for him, the only way to obtain a substitute is to get the "arrow".
Seeing Lu Ye's puzzled look, Giorno suddenly asked, "Are you short of money?"
"Well, why do you ask that?"
Giorno pointed to the thugs on the ground who had already passed out from the pain.
"How about this, consider it an apology. I'll treat you to dinner. I know a restaurant nearby that's pretty good."
"When Mista's face changed immediately upon hearing that he was going to treat Luye to dinner, "Hey, Giorno, you wouldn't...
"Wait, what about these people on the ground?"
"I've already notified the people in the neighborhood, and they'll be here soon."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the sound of brakes came from the direction of the alley's exit.
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