Cross five times and join a professional team

(I should say I borrowed from you. After all, this is my original tower climbing session, and it’s all my own idea.)

Chapter 163 The protagonist group is recruiting

Oh, now I see it, there are a few people in maid outfits lying not far away, they look like they are playing a game of human defeat, with their limbs in different directions, all spread out in a pile.

"Jotaro! Help me! Polnareff is being controlled by the enemy and keeps jumping on me!"

"Uh, JOJO, I can explain."

After pinning Joseph down, Bobo's brain cooled down from its overheated state. He looked at the scene of corpses all around him and awkwardly got off Joseph's body.

"Ah! It's all your fault, really. You had to get close to me. Now I stink all over. Hey, I need to take a shower."

After Bobo released Joseph, he got up from the ground, pinched his sleeve with his orchid finger and put it to his nose, sniffed it gently, and suddenly shuddered, and his whole old face was covered with a mask of pain.

"I did all this?"

Ignoring the old man who was strolling off to take a shower, Bobo looked at the tragedy in the secret room around him and pointed his finger at himself with trembling hands.

"Go take a shower first, or I don't think they'll wake up."

Jotaro threw the key to Popo and made a little joke.

Although Popo doesn't know whether Jotaro is joking with him or not...

Popo went to take a shower. Jotaro looked at the corpses lying all over the floor and held his forehead with his hand in pain. Finally, he pulled out a chair and sat on it, quietly guarding everyone's safety.

"Oh, that's really exciting."

When the smell dissipated a little, Hakimi shook his dizzy head, controlled his soft limbs, and was the first to get up from the ground.

"Oh, you haven't gone to rest yet. Oh, you must be hungry. I'll ask the waiter to send food to your room later."

Hakimi just finished speaking and turned his head, and saw the maid group playing Snake over there.

"Uh, I think you might be hungry for a while. I vaguely remember that after you left, two bastards attacked us. Damn, the smell is so unbearable. My brain is preventing me from recalling that time. I can't even remember the faces of those two bastards, otherwise I would definitely make them pay!"

Hearing Hakimi's nagging, Jotaro coughed awkwardly twice and started to change the subject.

"I want to know what this place is."

"Which do you mean? This tavern or the dungeon outside?"

Hakimi was easy-going. He moved his four legs, walked in front of Jotaro, jumped onto the seat opposite him, picked up the teapot with his claws and poured himself a bowl of tea.

"This is an inn, a safe house for adventurers exploring dungeons. Don't just stand there. If you want some tea, pour it yourself."

Jotaro helplessly picked up the teapot and teacup, poured himself half a cup of tea, but didn't drink it. He just put it in front of him and continued to listen to Hakimi telling him stories.

"There's nothing much to talk about in the tavern. We're all old comrades. Even though they look like ordinary people, they're all good people and are often willing to lend me money to go out and have fun."

"Although there aren't many new people here, there are still some. For example, a while ago, a guy wearing green clothes came here. Come to think of it, his clothes are quite similar to yours."

Hakimi looked at Jotaro pretentiously, observing his reaction, and then continued.

"As for the outside..."

"As for this dungeon outside, it's an ancient battlefield where time and space are in turmoil. My apologies, Mr. Hakimi, but could I please explain the situation to these old friends?"

Before Hakimi could finish his words, he was interrupted by a voice coming from behind Jotaro. When Jotaro heard this familiar voice, he couldn't help but stand up. He could no longer remain calm and turned to look in the direction where the voice came from.

"It's you, KaQin."

"Well, it's me, JOJO. I know you have a lot to say to me, and I also have a lot to say to you. There's still plenty of time, so let's talk slowly."

Hakimi watched Noriaki Kakyoin pull out a stool and sit next to Jotaro, and he asked in a pretentious manner.

"Do you know?"

"Well, Mr. Hakimi, this is one of the people I've been talking about before, Mr. Jotaro."

"Oh, these are the people you kept asking about the day you came, wanting to go back and help. You guys can chat, I won't disturb you. I'm leaving now."

Hakimi jumped off the stool and rolled his eyes.

"Hey! Since you guys are meeting today, it's a great day. Jotaro, you must be starving too. I decided to cook for you guys myself and make you a delicious meal!"

Hakimi walked away on all four legs, skipping and jumping, which made Kakyoin chuckle. Jotaro, who was sitting opposite him, was also observing him and comparing him with the Kakyoin in his memory.

The actions and behaviors all match, could it really be him?

Facing Kakyoin's gaze, Jotaro couldn't help but reach out for the teacup and take a tactical sip.

"Mr. Jotaro, you don't have to be like this. I understand how you feel when you see me. If I were in your position, I would also be the first to doubt myself. Since you doubt it, then just look at it openly."

Kakyoin looked at the embarrassed Jotaro and chuckled slightly. In order to ease the atmosphere, he even made a little joke.

"Look, your lips are not even wet."

"Ahem, KaQin..."

Jotaro fell silent as Kakyoin cut him off with a hand.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you, Mr. Jotaro, but may I ask if your journey went smoothly?"

"Well, it went smoothly. We completely killed Dio under the sun, and my mother recovered."

"Huh, that's good. So how did you get here?"

Jotaro looked at Kakyoin and saw that he was relieved. He immediately understood what he was worried about and told him everything that had happened since he left.

"I see. I didn't expect Mr. Joestar to have such a past."

After listening to this, Kakyoin nodded seriously.

"Thank you for all the trouble you've given me. Please forgive my earlier excitement. Now, I should get back to my somewhat incompetent role as a guide and share with you, Mr. Jotaro, what I've learned since arriving here."

"Hey! JOJO, this is across from you, this is! This is!"

At the same time, Bobo and Joseph, who had just finished taking a shower, walked out from the passage behind them. When they saw Kakyoin, they both looked very shocked.

Seeing Kakyoin smiling and waving at them, Popo was so shocked that he couldn't even stammer a complete sentence.

(KaQin is real. There is a heaven in the JOJO world, and Bai Ze and Lucifer both have the ability to go to heaven. They felt that the protagonists were too weak and had no power, so they returned KaQin to them. In addition, I have hinted at this many times in the previous article, including pictures.)

(There is a surprise. After all, KaQin actually went to heaven. Isn’t this a bit of a hell joke?)

Chapter 164: Bobo is deeply persecuted by Kejiacai

"...This is the situation here. I came here after that. Mr. Hakimi has been taking care of me during this time. He is a werewolf and can be trusted."

"Oh, really? It seems this place wasn't built by Kaz and the others. But how do we explain the mysterious man we met along the way?"

After listening to what Kakyoin said, Joseph touched his chin with his reattached metal arm and looked at Jotaro, who was standing aside with his eyes lowered, wondering what he was thinking.

"That guy who's hiding his head and showing his tail can obviously control the mechanisms here."

"Well, even if this ruins wasn't created by Kaz and the others, they definitely have some control over it now."

After listening to Joseph and the others' experiences in the ruins, Kakyoin quickly analyzed some of his own views.

"First of all, the trials you and Jotaro went through, the key search and the painting, were definitely not inherent to this space. This is an ancient battlefield, and the time and era don't match."

"According to what you said, Mr. Joestar, the enemy named Kaz is extremely ancient, a powerful creature who has lived for nearly the entirety of human history. Could he have known of this battlefield in ancient times and gained some information on how to manipulate these ruins?"

"If I follow this line of thought, then Kaz suddenly disappeared in outer space and regained his freedom and returned to the ground. He most likely borrowed the sacred object carried by this relic itself."

"The power of the Philosopher's Stone! One cold, one dirty thing IX"

Hearing unfamiliar words, Popo and Joseph were both intrigued by Kakyoin.

"Magic stone?"

"Well, Philosopher's Stone. This is what I read from the historical scrolls in some books Mr. Hakimi lent me after I came here and had some free time."

"Wait, KaQin, do you want to..."

Joseph stretched out his hand to stop Kakyoin from saying anything. He glanced at everyone in the hall with a subtle look, and Kakyoin also understood Joseph's hint.

"It's okay, Mr. Joestar. What I'm going to say is no secret here. Some of these people were even witnesses of the war back then, such as this elf lady, the vampire over there, and..."

"And me, hahahaha, I heard you guys discussing me right after I got here, what a coincidence."

Speak of the devil, and he appeared. Hakimi stood up, pushing a food cart with his front paws in front of his chest. Large silver plates were placed on it. He also thoughtfully covered each dish with a thermal cover.

"Come, come, you must be starving, come and try my cooking."

"Oh, Mr. Hakimi cooks himself. This is the first time I've seen that."

Seeing Hakimi approaching with a cart, Kakyoin stopped talking and stood up to help Hakimi put the dishes on the table.

"Wow, there's food! I'm tired of those chocolate nuts and jerky."

When Bobo saw that there was something delicious to eat, he was so excited that he started rubbing his hands together. Joseph, who was standing by, saw that Bobo was so useless and started to tease him.

"You guy, you can't stand it after just eating a meal of dried meat? But I didn't expect to have a sumptuous meal here."

Joseph rubbed his hands happily like Bobo did, then lifted the silver heat-insulating lid on the plate.

"Uh...this..."

When Joseph saw the dish, he immediately looked embarrassed. A dark blue transparent slime was spinning in the plate. It was like a living thing, wriggling constantly in the plate.

Through its transparent body, Joseph and others could even see several pieces of undigested purple meat, strange eye organs, and even some insect remains in its stomach.

Everyone was surprised to see that the old man's dishes were so... surprised that they quickly opened the lid in front of them to check.

Suddenly, there were things like dried cockroach cakes, dark green soup with lizard tails, a platter of seafood corpses with their eyes open, and small cookies made from moldy moss.

There are so many immortals.

"Uh...what is this?"

After all, it was Kakyoin who recommended it, a trustworthy person... Joseph didn't intend to yell "No!" and then throw the dish in the waiter's face.

"Eat, the dishes are all here, why aren't you eating yet?"

After Hakimi finished speaking, he was stunned for a moment. Why did he feel this familiar feeling?

"Oh, I watched this video in school. Isn't this your modern popular food style?"

Hakimi reached into his waist, picked out a mobile phone from his hair with two paws, unlocked it with his fingerprint, and showed them the cooking tutorial on the screen.

"My cooking shouldn't be that bad, right? Take these squid tentacles, for example. I caught them right from the Deep Sea Labyrinth. They're super fresh. The beetles were also caught and grilled right from the Desert Temple."

Hakimi pointed at the video on the screen and explained to the people who dared not speak.

After these days of contact, Kakyoin still believed that Hakimi would not let them down. He made up his mind, picked up a piece of worm cake from the table, hesitated for a moment, and then opened his mouth and took a bite.

"Well, although it doesn't look good, it still tastes good."

After chewing for a while, Kakyoin swallowed the biscuit in his mouth and nodded under the admiring gaze of Bobo and the old man.

"The cookies are baked perfectly crispy, with a hint of meaty flavor and no off-flavors. There's no insects at all. However, the black sesame seeds you sprinkled on them, Mr. Hakimi, didn't really enhance the flavor."

In response to Kakyoin's comments, Hakimi responded...

"Oh, those aren't sesame seeds. I'm sprinkling insect eggs to add saltiness."

"Oh, I see. I was wondering why I couldn't taste the sesame aroma."

"Hey, hey, hey! Is this how you two start chatting?"

Facing the ghost and the dog who started to comment on this delicacy, Bobo watched Kakyoin chewing the insect biscuits, swallowed his saliva, and his stomach growled.

"It doesn't look like there's any problem."

Bobo picked up the soup spoon beside him, reached out and scooped a large spoonful of slime meat jelly, and couldn't wait to open his mouth wide and stuff it into his stomach.

One second passed...

Three seconds passed...

"Hello! Polunaev?"

Looking at the motionless Bobo, the old man watching beside him immediately realized that something was wrong. Why didn't he put down the soup spoon for such a long time? Even if the food was really delicious, he wouldn't do this, right?

Joseph reached out and shook Bobo's shoulder, but the shake didn't matter. Bobo was affected by the external force, and he fell to the ground with a bang, foaming at the mouth, his expression as ferocious as it could be.

Chapter 165 KaQin officially joins the team

"Is it the enemy's stand attack?!"

Seeing Popo fall to the ground with such a miserable look on his face, almost bleeding from all seven orifices, Hakimi was also shocked. He moved to the side for a distance and looked around vigilantly.

"Damn it! I didn't expect them to come specifically during mealtime. Has the Holy Land's protection of this place also failed?"

"No, he's fine, don't worry, he just passed out from eating too much because of the terrible food you cooked."