The vehicle slowly stopped in a relatively secluded corner of the Hospital's side entrance.
Jotaro glanced at the old man 'embedded' in the passenger seat, who could only widen his eyes and make muffled sounds. After confirming he was no longer a threat, Jotaro pushed the door open and got out.
"Stay alert. According to the original plan, we'll play along and pretend to be controlled. Josuke, you and Koichi disguise yourselves first. The two of us will drag the two of you along."
Jotaro pulled down the brim of his hat, his voice steady, "Okuyasu, you and I will be ready to guard against enemies at all times. Josuke, be ready for treatment at any moment. Koichi, scout with Echoes Act 2."
"Understood!"
The three nodded. Jotaro carried Josuke towards the Hospital's side entrance, while Okuyasu carried Koichi directly inside. The air in the Hospital was filled with the scent of disinfectant, but faintly, there seemed to be a sweet, drowsy aroma as well.
As they stepped into the Hospital corridor, the lights flickered a few times, neither bright nor dim.
The surrounding scene subtly changed in an instant. The walls seemed older, a few pots of colorful plants appeared in the corners, and the sweet aroma in the air suddenly intensified.
"Something's wrong..."
Okuyasu's eyes widened. Even with his intellect, he realized this was a trap, but as soon as he spoke, he felt a wave of dizziness.
"It's Past Recall! This is still an illusion!"
Jotaro immediately realized, "That old man's Stand ability hasn't completely disappeared, or... he was faking it just now. He's recreating a past scene!"
At the same time, in their car, the old man whose mouth was fused with a pipe suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke, then broke free from the seat, and then reformed into human shape on the side.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough. This is the first time in all these years I've made a mistake. If they had really tried to kill me just now, I would have been finished.
Thankfully, thankfully, I'll leave the rest to Whitesnake. I've already led them to the Hospital and tricked them. Lord DIO, my mission is complete!"
But after a burst of wild laughter, the old man coughed violently a few more times, spitting out large mouthfuls of smoke and blood. To avoid exposure, he had been enduring the smoke raging inside his body.
After swaying a few times, he leaned against the armrest and sat down, feeling a sharp pain in his chest. His lungs were probably ruined.
Even if the plan succeeded, he probably wouldn't live for many more days. No, his vision was already blurring. 'No, I can't die yet. If I die, the illusion will disappear. I have to wait a bit longer, it's almost time, it's almost time...'"
Almost simultaneously, in the Hospital, a doctor in a white coat, mask, and surgical cap walked out from around the corner.
Behind him appeared a blue Stand resembling a giant syringe combined with countless hands. His eyes were extremely calm, like two unfathomable pools of water.
"Welcome to the 'Sinking Clinic.' You can call me Connie. I am the one who will perform your upcoming anesthetic surgery. This is my Stand, Black Cloud Overwhelms the City."
The doctor's voice, muffled by the mask, and his hands, each holding a scalpel, seemed heavy and eerie. "Your symptoms are very severe. You need treatment. Sleep now."
As soon as he finished speaking, the deep needle behind him suddenly shot out several almost invisible thin lines, like anesthetic tubes, instantly coiling around Jotaro and the other three!
What was more troublesome was that, with the continuous influence of Past Recall's ability, the corridor's appearance became increasingly bizarre, and at the same time, a sweet gas permeated the air.
"A gas leak incident once occurred here in the past. It's the grave Whitesnake specifically chose for you. Experience it well, this sweet hydrogen cyanide gas! Even if you aren't attacked by me, you will die within a minute!
This means I've already won. Prepare yourself, Jotaro!"
"Tsk! The Hand!"
Okuyasu tried to use his ability to erase the tubes, but the tubes were extremely fast and their trajectories in the air were tricky. At the same time, under the toxic gas, his perception was somewhat blurred, and with one swing, he actually scraped off a large section of the nearby wall!
"Dora-ra-ra-ra!"
Seeing that he couldn't pretend any longer, Josuke also jumped down. Crazy Diamond behind him shattered a few tubes, but more tubes coiled around them. Once they touched skin, a strong sense of numbness immediately followed, and movements became sluggish.
Moreover, what was even more terrifying was that this numbness was spreading, acting on him along with the toxin, mixing to produce another yellow gas that began to diffuse from him.
"Echoes ACT3! Freeze!"
Koichi tried to use gravity to suppress the opponent, but the moment Echoes ACT3's fist touched the yellow gas emanating from Josuke, its speed actually slowed down, as if it had fallen into an invisible, viscous liquid!
"It's useless. Within the range of my Black Cloud Overwhelms the City, all attacks and movements will 'slow down' until they fall into slumber. Anesthetic is naturally generated within your bodies, and the breaking of the tubes will accelerate this process."
The doctor calmly declared, his eyes as calm as water as they were at the beginning, "Combined with Past Recall's gas dispersal, you won't even be able to touch me. This is an ability combination that even Lord DIO praised."
Jotaro, however, was unhurried. He just looked around. He could feel that this wasn't an illusion this time, but a genuine relocation of past events. He was truly being poisoned now, and he would die soon.
However, as long as he defeated the opponent, Crazy Diamond could quickly heal all of them. Therefore, although he was nervous and serious, he felt no fear.
He noticed that when the yellowish-green gas from Josuke touched Echoes 3, Koichi also began to produce anesthetic gas, but the gas from him was green.
And it was constantly trembling and vibrating, like sound waves.
"Is the enemy's ability to touch others with those tubes, and then generate anesthetic gas corresponding to their personality and abilities?"
Jotaro frowned. At this distance, he was confident he could deliver a punch and directly kill the opponent, but such an enemy shouldn't directly appear in front of him unless... Just then, another anomaly occurred!
A shadow from the ground suddenly attacked, heading straight for Jotaro, but Jotaro had already paused time. He looked back, and a familiar person appeared before him, while the same shadow on the ground was still crawling towards him.
"So it's you. Using the anesthetist to attract attention, using anesthetic to slow us down, using toxic gas to harm us and make us fall into fear and panic, and then using your ability to ambush.
A good combination, but why me, not Josuke? If you want to kill us, shouldn't the optimal solution be to take out Josuke?"
Jotaro pondered for a moment, but he couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it. Star Platinum behind him casually raised a hand, and two fingers directly extended and shot out, piercing through the opponent's body.
Then, swinging the opponent, he threw the entire person next to the anesthetist, directly shattering a few tubes, and the shadow also fell on the anesthetist.
"Never mind, this should be fine, right? Star Platinum: The World! Time resumes flow!"
The moment time flowed, the power of Toth fell upon the anesthetist. In the anesthetist's shocked eyes, he continuously shrunk and instantly became a child, and his Stand ability disappeared with him.
Alessi also looked shocked and immediately withdrew Toth, barely avoiding killing his own teammate.
"Anesthetist, are you alright?!"
His teammate, the anesthetist, had now turned into a baby, completely unaware of what he was saying, just lying there in confusion. He had previously worn a gas mask, but now he had lost it.
As a baby, he inhaled a large amount of toxic gas, and then his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed.
But before everyone could rejoice, before Crazy Diamond could heal everyone and beat up that scoundrel opposite them,
A hand covered in curses had already reached out from the shadows, heading straight for Jotaro.
"Jotaro, you still fell for it! Toth's prophecy was indeed correct!"
Whitesnake suddenly lunged out from the shadows, a look of wild ecstasy on his face. His hand directly grabbed Jotaro's head.
At the same time, a silent man jumped out and directly attacked Josuke and the other two. Weather Forecast appeared behind him.