Uplifting Journey

Hermit Purple's ability to read and write is not omnipotent. Joseph does not have specific knowledge or things that are not closely related to him, so it is always difficult to detect detailed information, otherwise Jotaro would not have to hold a I have been looking for a photo of the arrow with very little information for a long time.

But the super-racial Pillar Man who has been indirectly entangled with the Joestar family for a hundred years, especially Kaz, the leader of the Pillar Man who has been in contact with and fought with Joseph several times, can naturally be captured by the Hermit Purple, at least, It can also locate its approximate location.

Therefore, Joseph's vigilance was completely raised - in the previous investigation results, although Katz's life form was incomprehensible, it is certain that he not only came into contact with Polnareff and the arrow, but also A part of life is constantly approaching their current base.

After loudly instructing the base personnel to strengthen their vigilance, Joseph made phone calls to contact all parties while thinking—what attracted Katz? Himself who exiled Katz to space? The arrow that Jotaro brought? Or the guy in the deepest part of the base?

After arranging many affairs, Joseph walked towards the depths of the research base with the somewhat impatient Jotaro.

After passing through several layers of thick isolation doors and an alloy corridor full of deadly weapons, Jotaro, with a puzzled face, finally saw the biggest secret in this research base that was so closely guarded——

A pile of broken stones sealed in a translucent container and illuminated by a strong blue-violet light.

"What is this? Stone?" Jotaro put on special protective goggles when he entered the room, and looked suspiciously at the gravel container that the researchers manipulated the machine to carefully release the outer restraint device.

"Don't be fooled by its petrified appearance." Joseph, who was also wearing goggles, snapped his fingers, and the staff who had already prepared and wore fully enclosed protective suits carried a cage and walked into the area flooded with purple light. .

Several experimental mice were thrown into the double-layer isolation room. After the person carrying the cage walked away quickly, the inner door of the isolation room opened silently, and the mice and gravel were piled up in a space.

The restless little white mice scrambled in the space under the strong light, but when their bodies touched the pile of gravel that seemed to be dead, a mutation suddenly appeared.

As if stained with a strong adhesive, the mouse's limbs touching the gravel were firmly fixed there. No matter how twisted and struggled it was, it couldn't get rid of it, and it could only increase its contact surface with the stone.

Soon, the mouse twisted and half-embedded into the surface of the stone, and the appearance of its body gradually revealed a stone-like color, becoming a vivid relief on the stone.

"This is." Jotaro took a step closer, Platinum Star appeared behind him, and looked at the pile of stones fused with mice with super senses, "...these stones, are they alive?"

Joseph looked at the pile of rubble with a sigh of relief. His mind recalled the scene of his own battle with this pile of "gravel" many years ago, and recalled the German soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defeat it.

After a long sigh, Joseph patted his grandson on the shoulder, and said solemnly to him, "This is the Man of the Pillar."

When Jotaro was stunned, Joseph took a few steps to the console next to him, flipped a few switches deftly, looked at the translucent container whose blue-purple light was gradually dimming, and said to Jotaro in a deep voice: " We call him 'Santana', he is the weakest of the four Pillar Men who woke up and fought with us decades ago, and the only one besides Katz who has not been wiped out."

"Crack——"

The sudden abnormal sound attracted the attention of everyone in the room. In the translucent container that everyone was watching, the crushed stones that had just swallowed several white mice gathered and connected together in the tremor, and the color of the rock on the surface disappeared rapidly. Transformed into a wriggling tissue similar to flesh and blood.

After a violent contraction, the squirming flesh exploded violently like a spring compressed to the limit, hitting the inner wall of the thick translucent container like a hard hammer.

"Boom—"

Seeing that the specially-made container persisted amid the violent tremors, Joseph turned his gaze to Jotaro and continued: "As you can see, electromagnetic waves of special frequencies, or ultraviolet rays, can effectively restrain Hashira no-o's actions. even kill their cells.

"But putting aside this weakness, Pillar Man is a near-perfect super creature. They have an infinite lifespan and can erode all living things from the cell level. Surrounding them can only make them sacrifice part of their surface cells to go dormant, and Katz has even completely overcome this weakness and evolved to another realm."

Jotaro, who saw Bashitaro with his own eyes and felt the terrifying and dangerous feeling brought by the level of life, stared at the twisting flesh and blood in the container and said in a deep voice: "Why do you keep such a dangerous thing? Completely wiped out?"

"After all, Santana has an infinite 'lifespan'." Joseph snorted coldly. "When the risk is controllable, who would not be tempted by the chance of eternal life? If it weren't for the good relationship with the Joestar family back then, Knowing the danger of Pillar Man and those old guys are still alive, it is not so easy for us to interfere with Santana in this country."

Jotaro was at a loss for words—on the other hand, the Joestar family itself is the top member of the ruling class of capitalist countries. If not, their position in the research institution as stand-in messengers is unclear. You know Research on mysterious things such as doubles has never stopped in this world.

"However." Joseph's tone suddenly changed, and he glanced at the surrounding staff with strange eyes, ".Now that Katz is here, we can no longer keep this potential threat—Jotaro, Your Platinum Star, have you memorized the characteristics of the man of the pillar? Experiment reports and so on, sometimes it is really not as reliable as witnessing it with your own eyes."

Jotaro was taken aback for a moment, then he nodded slowly as he was familiar with his grandfather's temperament.

So, Joseph gave a dry cough, and quickly flipped a large number of switches on the console with his hand that faintly extended with purple thorns, and instantly lifted a red button's shield and pressed it down.

Amidst the unbelievable shouts of all the researchers, the container of the man of the sealing pillar sank to the ground in an instant, and a blazing stream of flames erupted, and the high temperature of the molten golden iron completely turned Santana, who was about to wake up, into ashes.

After trying his best to appease the crazy researchers who lost their precious research objects, Joseph, who was sprayed with saliva all over his face, fled with his grandson Jotaro.

Standing outside the outermost isolation defense line, Joseph gasped and said to Jotaro: "The high temperature enough to destroy the most minute molecular structure of the human body can effectively kill the man of the pillar, but Kazu I once knocked him down the volcano Lava, but he can still walk out of it calmly, don't underestimate him, not to mention he has already got the 'arrow'."

After taking two deep breaths, Joseph continued to walk forward and sighed: "I don't know how long it will take to get the test report of your arrow. I hope that the research on the arrow can bring us some help. Before that, we I have to find a way to deal with the part of Katz who is close to here, I hope the helpers I called can arrive as soon as possible."

helper? A stand-in emissary from SPW Operations or something? Jotaro followed Joseph silently, he was still worried about Polnareff who was taken away by "Kaz".

Judging from Santana's situation, Pillarman's ability is quite tricky, and Katz's special life form is even more difficult to deal with. It would be fine if it had a body, but if it didn't.

Jotaro, who sighed inwardly at the possibility of a bad future, suddenly stopped. He was shocked to see someone who absolutely shouldn't be here walking in front of the corridor.

Jotaro, whose face rarely changed drastically, almost couldn't restrain the astonishment and anger in his heart: "Old man, what are you thinking?!"