"Tunaqi?"
Jolyne Cujoh was startled when she heard the name; it wasn't completely unfamiliar.
She had heard some rumors about Tunaqi from Emporio before.
Compared to other prisoners, Tunaqi was like a lamb in a pack of wolves, harmless to humans and animals alike.
Could such a person really be the main body of Pale Snake ?
Despite her doubts, these words came from Cain , so she could only choose to believe them.
"Hmm, since the main body of Pale Snake hasn't been dealt with, let's grab the Baby first," Jolyne Cujoh said, pointing at the crawling Baby.
"Stone Free!"
A blue figure appeared behind her, and one of Jolyne's arms slowly decomposed into threads, wrapping around the Baby's arm.
"Heh heh heh, completely defenseless..."
Looking at Jolyne Cujoh, who was completely defenseless before him, with no guard up against him, Cain 's face curved into a sinister smile.
The figure of Pale Snake appeared behind him, slowly extending an arm towards Jolyne.
But the next second, Jolyne Cujoh cried out in surprise, "What's going on?!"
Hearing the sound, Cain 's arm instantly retracted, and Pale Snake also disappeared behind him.
"What's wrong?" Cain asked, a little confused.
"Look at that thread," Jolyne said, pointing at the thread extending from Stone Free's palm, then added, "Logically, the thread I released should have already exceeded the distance between me and the Baby..."
Hearing this, Cain looked towards the end of the thread.
Sure enough, the thread, at this moment, let alone touching the Green Baby, hadn't even covered half the distance.
"Something's wrong."
Cain pondered for a moment, then bent down and picked up a small pebble from the ground, tossed it a few times in his hand, and then threw it in the direction of the Baby.
If nothing unexpected happened, this pebble would hit the back of the Baby's head.
But the next second, something strange happened.
The pebble, when it flew halfway, suddenly shrank to half its original size.
When the pebble flew to a quarter of the distance from the Baby, its size again shrank to half its original size.
Gradually.
The pebble disappeared from their sight.
"What in the world is going on?! Is it [his] ability?" Jolyne Cujoh was astonished; the ability before her could only be explained by a Stand.
"That's right, [he] should have also awakened a Stand ability, but what that ability is still requires further experimentation."
At this point, Cain looked around and finally found a glass bottle on the ground.
This time, he didn't choose to throw it, but placed it on the ground and gently pushed it.
The cylindrical glass bottle slowly rolled in the direction of the Baby.
At this time, the sun was about to set, and the last afterglow of the sunset shone on the glass bottle; the light refracted and shone on the Baby.
"Gurgle gurgle—"
The glass bottle slowly moved forward, seemingly with no intention of shrinking.
The Baby also heard the movement behind him, turned around, and took the glass bottle in his hand, seemingly very interested in this glowing object.
"The thrown pebble shrank, but the glass bottle didn't..."
Cain murmured.
Just then, some rustling sounds came from the grass behind the Baby; a two-meter-long crocodile rushed out, opening its blood-filled mouth at the Baby's head.
Seeing this, Jolyne Cujoh subconsciously ran towards the Baby, shouting, "Watch out!"
"Eh... ya...?"
The Baby seemed startled, the glass bottle in his hand slipped out, and at the same time, Jolyne Cujoh's body and the crocodile that was continuously approaching the Baby also kept shrinking.
In a blink of an eye, the crocodile's body had become so small it was hard to see with the naked eye, and Jolyne Cujoh at this moment had also turned into a thumb-sized girl.
Seeing this, Cain on the side quickly said, "Jolyne, come back, that Baby won't get hurt!"
"What did you say?" Jolyne turned around, but when she saw Cain 's body, she was stunned.
Cain , who was originally only half a head taller than her, now seemed like a giant.
She didn't even reach Cain 's ankle.
"What, what in the world is going on?!" Jolyne's eyes widened as she looked around; not just Cain , everything around her seemed to have become incredibly huge.
"No, that's not right... I've shrunk!"
Jolyne reacted, then stood still, not daring to make any extra movements.
At this time, Cain spoke again, "Jolyne, now try to move away from that Baby, retreat towards me."
"I understand."
Jolyne Cujoh nodded, then glanced at the Green Baby again, and slowly retreated backwards.
Sure enough.
As she gradually moved away from the Baby, her height also gradually recovered until she returned to her original height.
"I think I probably know what [his] Stand ability is."
Cain squatted down and drew a long line on the ground with his finger.
"Do you know a person named Zeno?"
"He once proposed a very interesting theory, which was later named Zeno's Paradox by posterity."
"A person walking from point A to point B must first walk half the distance, then half of the remaining distance, then half of the remaining distance... If this continues, they will never reach the destination."
"And that Baby's ability comes from this."
Cain stood up, pointing in the direction of the Baby, and said, "When we try to approach [him], every time we walk half the distance, our body shrinks to half its original size, and the remaining distance, for our shrunken body, is twice the original..."
"All in all, if we don't find a way to break the situation, we will never truly reach [him] to touch him."
"This..." Hearing about such a buggy Stand ability, Jolyne Cujoh froze in place, and after a moment, she asked again, "Then we'll never be able to catch [him]?"
Then, as if she had thought of something, Jolyne's eyes lit up, and she subconsciously patted Cain 's shoulder.
This action instantly made Cain 's hair Stand on end, and he took a few steps back.
"Hey, I just patted your shoulder, you don't have to react so strongly," Jolyne said, a little confused.
"I overreacted. The fight with Pale Snake just now made my body subconsciously maintain the highest level of alertness."
...Stand: Green, Green Grass of Home
Ability: Zeno's Paradox. If one attempts to approach the Baby, upon advancing 1/2 the distance, their height and the distance will also shrink by 1/2; the Stand, conversely, will grow larger as it approaches the target.
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