Superman's End Manual

[Not Ashes: Who would watch that kind of stuff?]

[Not Little Red Riding Hood: Sigh, I'm so pathetic. I've never read many romance novels in my life; I'm busy picking up trash every day.]

[Not Ashes: Let's not talk about that now, how did you change your QQ name so quickly?]

[Not Little Red Riding Hood: Isn't it nice to listen to?]

[Not Ashes: Ugh, so annoying, can you change your name back?]

[Little Red Riding Hood: Oh, so you don't like being imitated. I thought you'd be happy.]

[Not Ashes: Chatting with you will really give me high blood pressure.]

[Little Red Riding Hood: I think we're in the same boat. After all, the little match girl can't appear in the same fairy tale as Snow White.]

[Not Ashes: Please, you're even starting to get sentimental by quoting scriptures, aren't you?]

[Little Red Riding Hood: (Seal crying emoji)]

[Not Ashes: Are you free to come over tomorrow?]

[Little Red Riding Hood: I'm free, but I'm unemployed.]

[Not Ashes: You're too self-aware. But you're not even an adult yet, how can you call yourself unemployed?]

[The Little Red Match Girl: Not going to school, not working, what else could I be but an unemployed bum? I understand, my senior thinks I'm a homeless person, I'm leaving the area around Beijing right now.]

[Not Ashes: Stop with the drama, okay?]

Ke Mingye put his hands behind his head, sighed, and thought to himself, "You're usually the one who acts the most at home, but now it's the other way around. The tables have turned."

[Not Ashes: Tomorrow I'll introduce you to your two teammates. You'll be working together, patrolling and stuff like that.]

Little Red Riding Hood: I'm very shy.

[Not Ashes: I'm here, aren't I?]

[The Little Red Riding Hood: The older folks protected me. I was afraid they would look down on me, a country bumpkin, and call me an orphan and a good-for-nothing. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to resist picking up trash and throwing it at them.]

[Not Ashes: You have quite the imagination. It would be a miracle if someone like that could join the Alliance.]

[Not Ashes: Forget it, I'm logging off. Talking to you will keep me up at night.]

With his final words, "It's not ashes," the QQ profile picture went gray, like a black and white portrait at a funeral.

Ke Mingye tucked his spare phone under the mattress and stared at the blank ceiling, lost in thought.

"The two teammates she mentioned should be Magical Girl Rainbow and Magical Girl Maple, whom I saw that day... They're quite strong. It seems I can't beat them. It wouldn't be bad to rely on them."

"New magical girls have to form teams, so logically, new superheroes should also be forced to form teams after joining the association. I'm really curious what kind of monsters and demons will be in my hero team after Blue Owl joins the association?"

"Sigh, I hope it doesn't turn out to be some kind of superhero with mind-reading abilities, or I'm doomed."

As he was thinking, an information bubble suddenly appeared in the upper right corner of his field of vision.

Reach out and pop the bubble, and the chat panel pops up.

[Cai Bing: The face mask you requested has been made overnight and is in a cabinet at the train station in the old Jingmai neighborhood.]

[Cai Bing: But you need to be careful. Your older brother seems to be a master of disguise as well. I suggest you don't get too close to him, or you'll easily be discovered.]

[The Failed Man: Wow, that was fast! I'll be careful.]

[Cai Bing: Who do you think you're talking to? I'm asleep, do not disturb.]

Ke Mingye closed the chat panel, thought for two seconds, and then immediately opened QQ to send a message to Ash.

[Little Red Riding Hood: Senior, after you introduce me to your two teammates tomorrow, I'd like to visit your house.]

The profile picture of "Not Ashes" lit up quickly.

She hesitated for a full ten seconds before replying to the message, and immediately went offline after replying.

[Not Ashes: We'll see how you perform.]

"Do I have to be judged on my behavior when I go home? Are you really that strict?"

Thinking this, Ke Mingye shrugged, turned off his spare phone, and tucked it back under the mattress. He then slowly closed his eyes and soon drifted off to sleep.

A night of silence.

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Chapter 142 The Witch's Night

July 7th, the Bai Ke family residence.

After being calibrated by the system alarm clock, Ke Mingye's biological clock is now as accurate as a machine, always waking him up precisely at six o'clock in the morning before dawn.

Good morning, player. Today is July 07, 2028. There are 346 days left until the deadline for completing the ultimate mission, "Exterminate Superhumans."

As usual, the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a system pop-up message about a high blood pressure booster.

Whether or not superhumans were wiped out a year later is unknown, but there will definitely be quite a few players suffering from high blood pressure a year from now.

However, Ke Mingye didn't take it seriously. He might have felt anxious in the past, but after so long, he had already gotten used to it.

The mental fortitude he developed while living in the Bai family is evident.

He scratched his messy hair and closed the notification panel as if rubbing away sleep from his eyes.

After washing up in the bathroom, I left home, went for a run along the old Beijing-Mai neighborhood, did a hundred push-ups, and that was the end of that damn daily task.

[I have claimed the reward for Daily Task 2, "One Hundred Push-ups," and received 1 attribute points that I can freely allocate.]

Your "Mental Strength" attribute has changed from 12 to 13 points (up 1 point).

[I have claimed the reward for Daily Task 1, "Run 7,000 meters," and have been awarded one chance to spin the prize wheel.]

[The reward for area four has been drawn – 1500 experience points.]

[Your level has increased to Lv.14 (500/8000 points), and you have gained one attribute point that you can freely allocate.]

Your "Mental Strength" attribute has changed from 13 to 14 points (up 1 point).

To gain a foothold and achieve some success among magical girls, one must quickly elevate their spiritual power to a superhuman level; otherwise, their current magical power is still too weak.

Ke Mingye thought it was quite good. After all, "Little Red Riding Hood" was a transformation ability brought by a near-A-grade item card, so the system had set a pretty high talent for this magical girl character. His mental strength was still so low, so the magic that Little Red Riding Hood could unleash was already quite effective.

Looking at it this way, the cost-effectiveness of increasing the "spiritual power" attribute is definitely not low. Just two or three points of spiritual attribute can greatly increase Little Red Riding Hood's magic power.

This rate of progress far surpasses that of ordinary magical girls; it's practically cheating.

"No wonder Xi Ziyue took a liking to me. Could it be... that I'm some kind of genius magical girl who appears only once every five thousand years?"

As Ke Mingye pondered this, he walked to the front of the Old Jingmai Cafe. Looking up, he saw that the cafe was already open early in the morning, with the sign hanging on the wooden door facing out to people with the "Open" side facing them.

He walked forward, pushed open the wooden door of the café, and the wind chimes swayed, making a light and melodious sound.

He heard from his older brother that the owner of the coffee shop had returned in the past two days, so the coffee shop would be open much earlier than usual.

Moreover, the owner not only brews excellent coffee, but also prepares sandwiches every day, which taste great, so I came here to try it.

Ke Mingye found a corner to sit in the store, which was bathed in orange-yellow light. Then, a calm voice came from the room behind the counter.

"what do you want to drink?"

Ke Mingye glanced at the menu on the wooden table, hesitated for two seconds, and replied, "Uh, I don't drink coffee, just a glass of milk and a sandwich?"

"Row."

Ke Mingye put down the menu and heard the shop owner's voice. He thought to himself, "This shop owner is really young."

Just then, a tall, thin figure emerged from the room behind the counter. He leaned against the café counter, his arms resting on it, head bowed, fiddling with his phone.

Judging from the sound effects, he was probably playing Minesweeper.

Ke Mingye thought this person must be a shop assistant, so he didn't even look up and just quietly checked the daily news on his phone.

Recently, there have been increasing reports of witches committing crimes around the world.

Many magical girls have met with terrible fates, with the situation being most dire in London, where a total of seven magical girls have gone missing.

The magical girl Lily, one of the three leaders of the Alliance, was deeply troubled by this matter. Just last night, she represented the London branch of the Alliance and publicly stated at a press conference that she would find the witches hiding in the city as soon as possible and bring them to justice.

During the press conference, a reporter asked Ke Mingye a question that he was very concerned about: "Does the 'Witch's Night' really exist?"

Magical girl Lily remained silent on the question, her brows furrowing slightly as she offered no answer.

Ke Mingye searched online for the term "Witch's Night" and only heard that it seemed to be the witches' strongest trump card. If they collected enough fragments of the Kiamat Comet, then Witch's Night would return to the mortal world.

But nobody knows what "Witch's Night" is, and every netizen has a different comment on this claim.

Some say it is the witches' ultimate weapon; others say that Witch Night is the world's strongest witch, sealed in an Egyptian pyramid by the first witch girl.

Some say that Witch's Night is a natural disaster, originating from the Tower of Babel in the Bible. They say that people angered the gods by building the tower, so the gods sent down "Witch's Night" to punish humanity.

Anyway, as Ke Mingye browsed through the information, it was almost impossible to find a single viewpoint that matched his own, so the credibility of this information was frustratingly low.

To find out what Witch's Night is, he'll most likely have to pry it out of the three leaders of the Magical Girl Alliance, so it's essential for him to get close to Nishizuki.

Ke Mingye was surfing the internet intensely when the "clerk" who was leaning against the counter playing Minesweeper suddenly walked over and sat down opposite him.

The shop assistant put his phone into his coat and said in a relaxed tone, "Coming here so early, it seems you're like me, wanting to try the manager's cooking after hearing he's back?"