Superman's End Manual

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Chapter 147 The Clockmaker, Yuriko, and Bai Wenna

"Three bombs in a row, game over."

Ke Mingye lowered his eyes and, as he spoke, slammed all six playing cards in his hand onto the floor with a "thud".

He then looked up at Bai Zini with a smug expression, noticing that she was so angry she was about to crumple up the playing cards. So he began the classic post-battle smirk.

"Hey sis, you've been bragging for ages but it doesn't seem like you have any real skills. How come I feel like I won so easily?"

You Minglu stared at the playing cards on the ground for a while before belatedly realizing what was happening. He then turned his head and leaned close to Bai Zini's ear, whispering, "What are you doing?"

"Senior, we've lost again, what should we do?"

"I feel like... I've been played again?"

Bai Zini lowered her head, her brows furrowed, her eyes twitched slightly, and she clenched two playing cards limply in her hands.

She thought to herself, "If only the two people sitting next to me were criminals, like imagining them as that damned monster!"

She could have just picked up Cinderella and shot those two men twice, instead of having to put up with this humiliation!

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. One of them was her brother, and the other was her junior, so she couldn't vent her anger on them...

If only that dice-throwing punching bag were on the TV screen right now, she would immediately ride her umbrella to find it and vent her anger—it's her daily essential stress reliever.

The episode where I miss the weird stuff the most.

"This is infuriating! This is infuriating!" Bai Zini gritted her teeth in anger.

“Here we go again,” Ke Mingye looked up at her and said sarcastically, “Losing means you were thrown by your teammates, right? You’re so classic.”

"No, we need to do a post-mortem analysis, we absolutely must!"

Bai Zini muttered to herself as she recalled the card game she had just played.

Although You Minglu didn't do anything as outrageous as Ke Mingye did last time, which resulted in her teammate's downfall, she mostly just played cards randomly, like she was playing a BBK e-reader version of Dou Dizhu online, clicking on whatever was lit up.

But just as she was about to turn to say something to You Minglu, he began to defend himself, his tone pitiful.

"Senior, we poor little match girls living in garbage dumps have never played Dou Dizhu (a card game). You can't expect too much from me."

"Holy crap, where did you put those buffs?"

Ke Mingye muttered to himself, genuinely taken aback by the string of words. He then turned to Bai Zini and asked, "Teacher Bai Zini, are all your classmates so abstract? No wonder they get along so well with you."

"Get lost, she's the only one like that."

“Indeed, I’m the only one among my senior’s friends who collects trash.” You Minglu said sadly.

Bai Zini sighed and rubbed her forehead: "You really shouldn't say anything, or I'll get high blood pressure from your two punches."

"So where's my red envelope? A bet's a bet, I can't just renege on it, can I?" Ke Mingye asked while tidying up the playing cards on the ground.

"Tch, I'll pay it off for her."

While sending red envelopes on her phone, Bai Zini spoke indignantly.

"Bro, you wait. You bomb my teammates on my side, but you're killing everyone on the other side. You're obviously throwing the game, aren't you? Wait until Xiaoling comes and we'll beat you up."

"Hey, after you gave me a good scolding yesterday, I suddenly had an epiphany. This is what a genius in the card game looks like. I think I'll have to fly to Macau tonight to film 'God of Gamblers 007'."

"Get lost! If my teammates weren't so bad, I wouldn't have lost so many games to you!"

After sending the red envelope via her mobile phone, Bai Zini was still verbally dissatisfied.

"Yes, yes, you'll be stubborn until you die."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he was about to look down and click on the red envelope when a bubble suddenly appeared on the communication icon in the upper right corner of his field of vision. Without making a sound, he popped the bubble with his mind.

The chat panel popped up and came into view.

[Anti-Dog: I advise you to stay away from that player with the ID "Gastro" for now. We don't know much about him yet, and he might not be on our side.]

[The Failed Man: What do you mean? Wasn't he after my little sister?]

[Anti-Dog: It's hard to say. Anyway, keep your distance from him until you figure out his background. Judging from his abilities, he's probably a player specializing in mind control skills, and these skills likely have a way of spreading contamination; otherwise, it's hard to explain why he could control so many ordinary people in a march.]

[The Failed Man: Judging by appearances, this must be at least a B-level skill; the effect is so exaggerated.]

[Anti-dog: Maybe. Anyway, be careful, I can't get away these next couple of days.]

[The Failed Man: Where have you been?]

[Anti-dog: I have to help that gun-smuggling father with some things. Killing him now would only compromise my secrecy, so I'll have to cooperate a little.]

[The defeated man: Oh well, keep going!]

[Anti-Dog: I've discussed it with Cai Bing, and we'll keep that white-haired vampire's identity a secret. Don't make any rash moves for now. Wait for me to return, and we'll find out more about this newcomer.]

[The defeated man: Okay.]

Just then, Bai Zini was playing on her phone with a look of utter despair when You Minglu suddenly said, "I'm not playing anymore, senior, you're being mean to me, I'm going home."

"Where did I yell at you? You beat me like that, even a pig would be angry."

"They've been putting pressure on me all along."

Ke Mingye put the playing cards back into the box and then asked, "Why are you calling me 'senior' one minute and 'senior sister' the next? Is she 'senior sister' or 'senior'?"

"Aren't they all the same thing?"

You Minglu asked in return, his face expressionless.

"It seems so."

Bai Zini breathed a sigh of relief. "Fine, then you can go back. Do you need me to take you?"

“I know the way, so there’s no need for you to personally escort me.” You Minglu paused for a moment, then suddenly said, “By the way, senior, can I add your brother on WeChat?”

Ke Mingye looked up and gave the other person a surprised look: "Huh?"

Bai Zini paused for a moment, then asked, "Why add him? To see if he can go any further? But there's nothing on his WeChat Moments, and he'll just pretend to be dead if you send him a message."

You Minglu said in a low voice, "Because he is a senior's family member, I want to have a better relationship with him."

"If you want to get along better with me, then stay away from this annoying person."

As they were talking, Ke Mingye looked down and fiddled with his phone for a moment, then casually tossed it to You Minglu, saying, "This is my WeChat QR code."

"Thank you."

As Yu Minglu spoke, he took the phone, opened WeChat, scanned the QR code, and added Ke Mingye on WeChat.

Bai Zini opened her mouth, intending to stop her, but realizing she didn't seem to have a reason, she closed her mouth and instead lowered her face to ask Ke Mingye.

"Dude, you wouldn't harass my friend with messages, would you?"

"That's enough. I have so many games I haven't played yet. What kind of person do you take me for?"

Ke Mingye rolled his eyes at her as he spoke, thinking to himself, "I still have to fight criminals. It would be great to have another connection. In the future, I can legitimately call Little Red Riding Hood over with just a text message."

If Senior Blue Owl can't solve it, then let Blue Crow solve it;

If that's not enough, then call on Little Red Riding Hood, the rising star of magical girls, and have Little Red Riding Hood send a text message to summon the great Buddha Xi Ziyue.

If things still don't work after all this, then we'll use the Dice Monster's connections to bring over the entire Perkins family, whose main purpose is to live off their wives.

If such a combination of connections and tactics could leave any villain standing, then that person would either be the out-of-control Zeus or his alien mother; their defeat would not be unjust.

"I'm going home now, see you next time," You Minglu said.

"Let me walk you downstairs." With that, Bai Zini opened the door for her and followed her down the stairs.

Seeing that the two had left, Ke Mingye left Bai Zini's room and went to the bathroom.

He sat on the toilet seat, thinking to himself.

"Looks like there's nothing much to do today. Let's just destroy Little Red Riding Hood and then take a break..."

He yawned, casually opened his phone, and clicked on Weibo. The first tweet that caught his eye was a speculation by a superhero blogger.

"The last superhero who imitated Blue Raven and made a name for himself was 'Grey Dove,' but Grey Dove was brutally murdered by Watchman, who came after hearing the commotion, less than a year after his debut. Many people believe that a large part of Grey Dove's death was due to Blue Raven's fault. If Blue Raven and Watchman hadn't had a feud, Watchman wouldn't have attacked Grey Dove."

—"Because of the death of the Grey Pigeon, the Blue Raven faced unanimous public resistance for a long time afterward. Its reputation was extremely bad all over the world, and it was met with a barrage of insults."

"And now, after several years, a superhero named 'Blue Owl' who imitates the Blue Crow has appeared in the world again... Oh no, he can't be considered a superhero yet, just a vigilante, but I believe it's not far from him joining the Superhero Association."

"Given the precedent of Grey Pigeon, whether the recently debuted near-superhero 'Blue Owl' will attract the Watchman's pursuit remains to be seen..."

There is a poll below this tweet.

The first option is: "The Blue Owl will be killed by the Clockmaker";

The second option is: "The Blue Owl will not be hunted down by the Watchman."

Scrolling further down, there wasn't even an option stating "Blue Owl will be hunted by the Watchman, but won't die." This is because everyone assumes that once the Watchman targets him, he's finished.

Ke Mingye remained silent, slowly moving his finger to tap the voting results.

As the screen refreshed, it became clear that the vote for "Blue Owl will be killed by the Clockwork Man" had reached a staggering 98 percent, completely overwhelming the votes for the other option.

He sighed softly, scrolled down the page to look at the Weibo comments, and saw that the content was almost entirely one-sided.

[Netizen A: "The Blue Raven is at it again, wreaking havoc on young superheroes."]