JOJO, The Escape from Real Diavolo

Chapter 90 Earth Arrow Crack Begins

Chen Miaowen was unable to sense Rongrong's exact location, and the other party was able to track the clones without any restrictions. There were also too many clones. These were some of the biggest limitations of the plan.

Chen Miaowen could never figure out what this ability was like.

Since Huang Zhen's screen time in the original work was insufficient, the upper limit of this ability may be ridiculously high, or even unlimited.

For example, if he is prevented from achieving the true size reduction, this ability would be permanently disabled, or it is not impossible for it to cease to exist.

But even if that's the case, Chen Miaowen has a way to deal with it.

He'd already run so far, probably seven or eight kilometers from the accident site. With his speed dramatically increased, escaping Rongrong's pursuit for now would be a piece of cake.

Furthermore, the clones can share vision. Once they discover that one of their clones is about to meet Giorno, they should run as fast as they can. If they can't escape, they can cancel the ability and reassemble themselves. Although there is a cooldown period for reactivating the ability, it is only one minute, which they can withstand.

Third, he also has the ability to foresee danger with his earth arrows, and the ability to create a crack when he is in danger.

Whenever a crack appears, he immediately uses the epitaph to observe future threats and then escape or even fight back. This method is enough to allow his clone to predict the future.

"Your clones can be controlled without limits? Wherever the main clone, wielding two arrows, goes?"

"Yes, I will send 400,000 clones northward to attract most of the Stand users coming from that direction, mainly to draw Giorno's attention. The remaining 100,000 will follow my main clone. After all, there will definitely be Stand users escaping from the southeast. We can use both abilities to avoid them... In short, the ultimate goal is to reach a seaport and then escape Egypt."

In short, it's all about running away. That's how Chen is in the comics, and Diavolo has nothing to say about it, because running away is indeed the only option at the moment.

"But in the process, we need to understand the true purpose of this arrow. Otherwise, if we get possessed by the earth arrow and are chased down, and we still can't figure out how to use the arrow, that would be too frustrating."

The two arrows remained motionless. The earthen arrow was incredibly tough, and even with Little Chen's extremely sharp and hard spider silk, it was impossible to shake the intimate relationship between his hand and the arrow.

"How about trying a curse on the clone? See if it can turn into a single monster form, and whether it will affect the entire group?"

Diablo had a sudden inspiration, and Chen Miaowen also had this spur-of-the-moment idea.

"It shouldn't affect everyone. All the clones are me, and each clone is a single entity... Except for Giorno, I will only truly die if I kill all 500,000 clones. The same goes for the transformations. The monster transformation situation... will definitely be singular, but currently, there is no need to use the monster transformation, and that would cause me to lose my mind, which might be beyond my control."

But actually, it doesn't really matter if we do an experiment, right? After all, this is a curse that is linked to the earth arrow. If the curse were to descend upon us again, the earth arrow would change to some extent, which is indeed a possibility.

"But let's give it a try anyway, Little Chen, get ready."

"...Xiao Chen..."

Xiao Chen was right next to him, spinning his spider silk. Upon receiving the command, he ran over like a spider.

"I'll use him for experiments, but I think I need a clone to wait next to him, preferably the main clone, so that even when he transforms into a monster, I can always poke him back to his original form. I might not be able to do that... Actually, it doesn't matter if I poke him to death."

After a pause, Chen remembered what his boss had done and couldn't bring himself to say it.

"Come on, we can't worry about that now. It's possible the earth arrow will pierce through the monstrous clone!"

Xiao Chen picked up the arrow and stabbed it into his own body without hesitation. Then, as expected, he transformed into a monster, leaving only his clone.

This monster seems to have emerged from Xiao Chen Shiyi's Diablo body, revealing its true nature of having its physical form discarded.

Moreover, unlike the tentacle monster we encountered before, this monster is a small, black and red spider with eight legs.

Then, as Chen expected, the little Chen Eleven behind the monster did break free of control and began to attack the other clones.

However, these spider silk clones were extremely agile, and the monster couldn't even touch them. It was even being toyed with by the clones. It seemed very angry, but could only watch them escape easily and roar in resentment.

At this moment, the earthen arrow truly changed. The change was the same as before: a small crack appeared, a crack that was difficult to see unless you looked closely.

They simply mistook the crack for a potential threat, because the threat was so small that the crack was also small.

"Let's try it and see if it can penetrate the body."

This time, we used the clone again for the experiment, but the earth arrow still couldn't be inserted. The experiment ultimately failed, and we could only regretfully deal with this monster.

"Go ahead, stab him to death."

Following the instructions of the main clone, the clones all surrounded and attacked, skillfully manipulating spider silk and using arrows according to the methods already in their minds.

In less than two seconds, Xiao Chen was pierced into dust by the other clones. There were simply too many clones, at least a whole group of them. Even without the effect of the arrows, being surrounded by so many arrows would only result in death.

However, during the process of planting the arrows, some of his clones were still devoured by the monsters, which Chen Miaowen found a bit of a pity.

"No, that's not right, Chen. Look at that clay arrow. It doesn't seem to have been restored, but the danger is gone..."

The clay arrow in his hand had a small crack that appeared to have appeared due to the sense of danger. Even after the danger had passed, the crack had not closed and seemed to be permanent.

"Is this...is this considered an experimental result?"

It still cannot penetrate the body, but there has been a noticeable change, which is undoubtedly related to the curse.

"Then let's continue. Let's conduct an experiment on all the nearby clones. This gap might get bigger and bigger, who knows?"

"Um..."

The arrow hidden in the soil contains something special—this is the theory that Chen Miaowen finds most acceptable.

Once the soil on the surface of this arrow is removed, what's inside will be revealed, exposing the real arrow.

Enlarging the crack is equivalent to digging the contents out of the soil, which is the same as removing the soil. Therefore, continuing the experiment is the right choice.

"That's right, once the cursed arrow is made and kills a monster, the earthen arrow will crack, but the crack will be extremely small."

After killing a dozen, or even a few hundred, the cracks in the earth arrows increased, but the extent was too small. Even the cracks caused by the hundreds of clones added later were not as large as the cracks caused by Xiao Chen 11 alone.

But he doesn't care! His clones are inexhaustible.

With his next target in mind, escaping no longer seemed so daunting. He conducted his experiments while simultaneously summoning 100,000 clones to move closer to him.

"After 100,000, there should be a noticeable crack, but it's a bit unexpected... Why didn't we predict or encounter Rongrong for the remaining 400,000?"

Mr. Chen had a bad feeling.