Luye and Polunarev looked at each other in bewilderment.

Seeing their puzzled looks, Jing asked, "Joseph Joestar, aren't you here to see him?"

"Yes."

"That's right, come with me."

A girl named Jing walked ahead.

Lu Ye and Polnareff, who were behind them, both started to have doubts.

"Excuse me for asking, how old is Joseph?" Lu Ye muttered to himself.

“When I met him, he was probably in his sixties, now he must be in his eighties…” Polnareff said after thinking for a moment.

"Ke Jing looks only eleven or twelve years old..."

"Mr. Joseph is really... still going strong for his age..."

“Hey, you guys,” Shizue turned around, “even if you’re going to talk about other people behind their backs, please keep your voices down. By the way, I’m an adopted daughter, and my name is Shizue Joestar.”

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

So she was an adopted daughter... Lu Ye and Polnareff both breathed a sigh of relief.

After a security check, Lu Ye, carrying Polnareff, followed Jing into the mansion. Jing recounted Joseph's past deeds as she led Lu Ye forward, and finally, in a room on the top floor, Lu Ye met Joseph Joestar.

The white gauze curtains fluttered gently in the sea breeze, and the elderly man in the wheelchair gazed quietly at the sea, wearing a fluffy felt hat.

"Dad, that man named Polnareff has come to see you."

The old man remained unmoved.

Jing lifted the old man's hat: "Dad, that man named Polnareff has come to see you."

"Huh?" the old man said in a trembling voice, "The pineapple and egg messenger has come to see me? I want Chinese-style beef stew with potatoes for lunch!"

"It's not a pineapple egg pie, it's Polnareff, and you can't chew the beef anymore, so let's have an easier egg pie for lunch!"

“Oh, Polnareff…”

The elderly man wanted to turn his wheelchair, and Jing helped him.

When he turned this way, Lu Ye saw an old man who was already very old.

Although some elderly people are over eighty years old and still in good health, the people around them are clearly not in this category, with loose skin, age spots, cataracts, and difficulty moving around...

During the journey, Lu Ye heard Jing tell Joseph's past stories.

Defeating three undead creatures and sending them into outer space is so cool.

Later, Lu Ye also learned about Joseph's story of rescuing his daughter in Egypt with his grandson.

No matter how glorious this Jojo was in the past, he couldn't withstand the ravages of time.

"Huh? Where's Polnareff?"

Upon seeing Lu Ye, the old man wiped his glasses, thinking they were fogged up. Where was that familiar face?

"Dad, have you forgotten? The SPW Group people said he's a tortoise now."

Lu Ye readily stepped forward, reached out, and placed the turtle in Joseph Joestar's hand.

When Polnareff's soul emerged from the gem behind the tortoise shell, his eyes were slightly moist.

"Long time no see... Mr. Joseph."

The dazed look in Joseph Joestar's eyes faded slightly.

"You've changed so much in all these decades, Polnareff..."

She quietly poked Lu Ye's lower back.

Lu Ye took a few steps back and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"Let's leave the space to them now; this isn't the time for us to stay here," Jing whispered sensibly.

Looking at Joseph talking to Polnareff, Lu Ye nodded: "Hmm, you're right. Anyway, the baby's been missing for so long, waiting a few more minutes... shouldn't make a difference, right..."

Chapter 741 Departure

While waiting for Polnareff and Joseph Joestar, Jing sat downstairs with Lu Ye for a while, had some tea, and chatted.

Although it was called a chat, Jing was actually just pestering Lu Ye to tell her about what happened in the Green Dolphin Prison and what life was like there.

"Big brother, so you're a prison guard?"

“Yes, but I only served as a priest for less than a month,” Lu Ye said. “I came out after defeating Father Pucci.”

"So that woman named Jolyne has completely given away Jotaro's DVDs?"

"Well, in about a day, the special department of the SPW Foundation will receive the disc, and Jotaro should be able to wake up by then."

“Phew…that’s great.” Shizuka breathed a sigh of relief. “When I first heard that Jotaro-san had an accident, I was terrified…”

Looking at the teenage girl in front of him, Lu Ye suddenly thought of something funny.

Wait a moment.

Joseph Joestar is Jotaro's maternal grandfather.

And you are Joseph's adopted daughter...

In other words, besides his steak-headed uncle in Morioh who is more than 20 years younger than Jotaro, Jotaro now has another aunt.

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A short while later, a butler appeared on the upstairs platform and gestured for Lu Ye to come upstairs.

It seems the matter has been resolved.

Lu Ye returned to the room he had just been in, where only he, Polnareff, and Joseph remained.

However, unlike before, there was now a camera on the table in the room.

The camera is brand new, it's a Nikon brand, and it's quite expensive.

“First of all… I need to clarify something,” Joseph adjusted his reading glasses, “You don’t need to guess about DIO’s resurrection; I’ve already sensed it. I’m probably the only person besides DIO’s offspring who is closest to him by blood, because DIO has taken over the body of my grandfather, Jonathan Joestar.”

“You want me to use my Stand, ‘Hermit Purple,’ to find him, but I must warn you beforehand that this method might fail. Jotaro didn’t come to Florida from Africa; he arrived in New York long ago,” Joseph said. “I called him here. I tried to locate DIO using ‘Hermit Purple’s’ abilities, just like before, but I failed… and Jotaro even said my dementia had worsened…”

"Why did it fail?" Polnareff asked, puzzled. "Mr. Joseph, your Stand ability shouldn't malfunction over time!"

"I don't know. I only had this reaction to DIO for a short time before. But I'm sure it wasn't an illusion because DIO said he would come back to me when the time was right. For safety's sake, I had the butler take Suji Q on a trip to the Maldives. Shizue verbally agreed to go with me, but she secretly stayed behind using her Stand ability... However, this feeling reappeared briefly a few days ago! I sensed DIO again!"

"Wait a minute, you mean a few days ago?" Lu Ye asked.

"About three days ago, around dusk."

"In other words, the moment you sensed DIO was the same moment Father Pucci received the green baby!" Lu Ye remembered and clapped his hands, saying, "I remember Jolyne saying that the green baby also had the star birthmark representing the Joestar family on its shoulder!"

Polnareff was taken aback: "You mean?"

"First of all, Father Pucci initially didn't know that DIO was still alive, otherwise he wouldn't have spent so many years plotting against Jotaro. In other words, he was indeed acting for his own desires at first. However, when the initial results of 'going to heaven'—the green baby—emerged, Pucci actually abandoned the baby and went back to deal with Jolyne..."

"In other words, Pucci must have learned that DIO was still alive through the green baby, which is why he sent the green baby away."

"And because of his bloodline, what Mr. Joestar sensed back then... was DIO, and not the green baby?"

"It's probably a blood transfusion technique."

Just then, Jing Joestar appeared at the door.

"If it's due to bloodline issues, then all you need to do is replace your own blood. Modern medical technology is perfectly capable of doing that."

Her words seemed to awaken the others present.

Joseph and Polnareff didn't pay much attention to medicine. The former didn't need to worry about medicine because he had the best private medical team. The latter didn't need treatment at all since he lost his physical body. As for Lu Ye... he hadn't even been to the hospital since he got the panacea!

"That's it! A blood transfusion!" Polnareff's eyes lit up. "If that's the case, it explains why DIO was able to evade Hermit Purple's pursuit!"

"Judging from the conclusion, DIO should have only recently been resurrected and his power is still very weak," Lu Ye said. "Otherwise, he would have joined forces with the remaining remnants and taken advantage of the information gap that you didn't know he had been resurrected to catch you off guard. He would cleanse his bloodline because he was afraid that Mr. Joseph would find him and send Jotaro to confront him!"

“You’re right, but we still don’t know how to pinpoint his exact location,” Polnareff said. “Even if we knew his general location, and even if we didn’t care about the time it would take to investigate, we would still alert him.”

“Don’t worry…” Joseph spoke up at this moment, his mind clear and his eyes no longer clouded. “Now that I think about it, I realize that I was a little panicked before. DIO can’t exchange blood multiple times in a short period of time. Even if his vampire physique can withstand multiple blood exchanges, his blood-drinking characteristics do not allow him to do so… because he is a vampire who lives by drinking human blood. If he exchanges blood before converting other people’s blood into his own, the blood will contain impurities.”

“DIO has just awakened and hasn’t had time to gather his subordinates yet. He will definitely need to go out to find food, which means he will need to undergo a blood transfusion. I just need to use the Hermit’s Purple to probe him at regular intervals to find his trail.”

With that, Joseph stood up, leaning on his cane, went to the table, took off his left glove, revealing the metal prosthetic limb underneath.

His eyes sharpened for a moment, and purple thorns appeared from various parts of his left palm. He raised his hand as if to chop it with a knife, and then slashed it down at the Sony camera on the table.

The camera was smashed into a pile of scrap metal in an instant.

Although he was over eighty years old, the strength of his metal prosthetic limb was enough to destroy the camera.

"This Stand is fine, but it's a bit of a drain on the power supply." Joseph glanced at Lu Ye and said, "This is my Stand—'Hermit Purple.' Hermit Purple has the ability of 'psychic writing,' which can be used as a medium to guide out many clues. The most common use is... to print distant scenes on film to create psychic writing."

As Joseph finished speaking, the destroyed camera automatically developed a photograph.

Joseph flipped the photo to the front, and there was a blond, muscular man with his back to the camera, his profile hidden in the darkness, and a star-shaped birthmark on his left shoulder, representing the Joestar bloodline.

"Is this DIO?" Shizuka came over to watch the spectacle.

“Yes… Even after so many years, no, even if I live a lifetime, I will never forget this figure.” Polnareff’s voice was heavy.

Through Jotaro's memory disc, Lu Ye already knew DIO's appearance, Stand, and Stand abilities.

“Looks like we got lucky this time…” Joseph Joestar said. “Judging from the background of the photo and that familiar fly, DIO didn’t leave Egypt.”

“Cairo?” Polnareff said.

“To be precise, it’s the Grand Castle district in Cairo. Dio is there, but we need to narrow down the search,” Lu Ye said. “This is the intelligence I have. After all, what I need is in Dio’s hands.”

"Why don't we start the investigation from the nearby hospitals?" Jing said at this moment. "You said that the guy called DIO just woke up and wants to hide himself. In that case, if he wants a blood transfusion, he can only get the medical equipment for blood transfusions from a large hospital nearby, right?"

“Yes, young lady, what you said makes a lot of sense. We can start our investigation from this angle.”

"Well, we can just leave it to the SPW Foundation," Jing said.

“That’s right.” Joseph nodded. “If you want to defeat DIO, you need to get to Egypt now. Although we don’t know what he’ll do with that green baby, something terrible is bound to happen… I’ll prepare the plane for you. You can set the time.”

“Let’s do it now,” Lu Ye replied immediately. “If possible, let’s do it now.”

“Okay…but I can’t go with you anymore, and Jotaro hasn’t woken up yet…” Joseph said, looking somewhat disappointed.

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