Superman's End Manual

"From the moment I transmigrated here, my body has been marked with the 'vampire mark'," Gastro said.

What is the vampire mark?

"That's something a vampire left on me many years ago. It didn't kill me, but left this mark on me. Every month thereafter, this mark would regularly draw fresh blood from me and give it to the vampire. It might only stop drawing blood from me when I die."

Then, Gastro paused for a moment: "In short, this body was branded with the vampire mark by that nameless vampire when I was 3 years old, and it has been thirteen years now."

She rested her chin on her hand and said calmly, "In my memory, every year this body has been continuously supplying fresh blood to the owner of the brand. To it, I am like an automatic blood-drinking machine. No matter where it is or how far away it is from me, it can draw a mouthful of fresh blood from me every month."

“Although it may seem to you as ‘memories that don’t belong to me,’ it is still painful to recall, and my body still bears the marks of years of torture.”

Ke Mingye remained silent, quietly waiting for her to explain the whole story.

"Then, just half a month ago, the vampire hunters killed that nameless vampire... But despite that, the mark on my body has not disappeared, and its power is even growing stronger every day."

Gastro lowered his eyes and spoke calmly.

"If I don't find a way to remove the brand, I'm very likely to have my blood drained by the brand in a month and die inexplicably."

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye slowly asked, "Then what is the connection between this white-haired vampire you are looking for and the mark on your body?"

Gastro replied, "Two weeks ago, I found a notebook in that vampire's stronghold. The notebook said that to remove the vampire mark from me, I had to collect the hearts of three different kinds of vampires."

"Now we have two types of vampire hearts, and we are only missing the last one, which is the most important and rarest one."

She paused, then emphasized, "This last heart must come from a white-haired vampire—the rarest type of vampire, numbering only a handful, and possibly the last white-haired vampire in the entire world. But we can't locate her yet because we don't have a method for tracking this type of vampire."

What she wants is a heart?

If what the player with the ID "Gastro" said is true, then without Bai Ziling's heart, she would die. No wonder she seems so persistent.

Without a heart, even a vampire can't be reborn... So if Bai Ziling's heart is taken by a vampire hunter, she will definitely die.

Ke Mingye lowered his head, thinking as he asked, "Then how did you confirm that the white-haired vampire is in this city?"

"Those vampire hunters gave me a book, which the system classifies as a near-A-grade item. Its effect is that once a month, I can use the book to make a prediction about a specific thing. So I used the book's ability to predict the location and whereabouts of that white-haired vampire."

At this point, Gastro slightly raised his eyes and met the gaze of the trickster doll.

"According to the illustrations in this book, the white-haired vampire is hiding in this city; and the prophecy also told me that there is a player next to the vampire. This makes the clues clear—I need to find that player, have him lead the way for me, and help me lure the vampire out so that I can take her heart."

Ke Mingye pondered for a moment.

"I understand. So, if you don't get this heart, you really will die?"

“Of course,” Gastro said calmly. “Believe it or not.”

She lowered her voice and continued.

"In short, based on what I understand, it's not just the 'anti-dog' you mentioned. Every player in this city could be the person I'm looking for, or even... that person could be you."

In the end, Gastro's eyes remained fixed on Ke Mingye, observing his expression.

The puppet remained calm. He said, "I can't fully trust you yet, especially since you're meeting us with a puppet. What if you're actually being threatened by the authorities and want to lure all of us players out to wipe us out?"

"Then what will it take for you to believe me?"

“Let me meet you in person, and the vampire hunters behind you,” Ke Mingye said.

"Are you sure?"

"very sure."

"Okay, let's meet up another day."

"Actually, I still don't quite understand what benefits we get from helping you," Ke Mingye asked. "Would you really have your vampire hunters cooperate with us to exterminate superhumans? Or rather, aren't these vampire hunters superhumans themselves?"

"So first, I'd like to ask a question."

"what is the problem?"

"How can you be sure that the player who has a vampire in their home won't betray you?"

Gastrox paused for a moment, then said calmly, "Moreover, he has been lying in wait among you for a long time without telling you that there is a superhuman in his family... Doesn't that just show that he might have taken pity on you and want to protect his family from you players?"

After saying that, she lowered her voice slightly: "It will be good for both of us if we work together to find him."

Ke Mingye lowered his head, remained silent for a long time, and then calmly said, "As far as I know, based on my familiarity with these players... no matter who the player you are talking about is, he should not harm his own companions for feelings and memories that do not belong to him."

“How can you be so sure?” Gastro sighed. “Human nature is very complicated… He has a superhuman in his family, and memories of living with that superhuman in his mind… Do you really think he can distinguish between them? When other players are about to harm his family, can he really stand firm on his side?”

She took a sip of lemonade and then asked.

"Don't you think someone like that sounds dangerous?"

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(End of this chapter)

Chapter 153 Strange Thing: Help me kill someone, his name is Blue Owl

"I've said all this, I hope you can understand just how dangerous that player is."

After saying this, Gastro lifted his eyes from the glass and stared quietly into the eyes of the trickster doll.

Ke Mingye was silent for a moment before speaking: "What you're saying is quite funny. The memories are fake, the identity is fake, so why would this player betray his teammates who are on the same side for the sake of his fake family?"

He paused for a moment, then added.

"Besides, if he doesn't wipe out the superhumans, he'll die on his own. That vampire is certainly considered a superhuman too, so surely he wouldn't develop feelings for a superhuman, would he?"

Gastro lowered his eyes, gently stroking the glass in his hand, a mocking smile on his lips: "No one can say for sure. As long as you're human, you're likely to make different choices under various circumstances and factors."

"Since it's only a 'possibility,' there's no need for you to speculate. There are many possible things in the world."

"Then tell me, even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance that you've worked so hard to get to the very end, only to be betrayed by a despicable person and lose everything, wouldn't you be furious then?"

"How could he possibly stop more than ninety other players by himself?"

“No, that’s assuming a direct confrontation,” Gastro said sarcastically. “Think about it another way: he’s hiding among you, he has your complete trust, he shares all your intelligence, and he only needs to manipulate a few key steps to sell you all out and leave you with nowhere to bury your dead.”

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye remained silent for a moment before controlling the trickster puppet to speak: "In short, since you've said so, I will do my best to cooperate with you to find this player."

He paused for a moment, then said, "No need to thank me. I did this for my own safety. It would be a real pain if I got betrayed by a teammate."

"It's great that you understood so quickly, Mr. Spider-Man. Hopefully, we can find this player soon to prevent future trouble."

As Gastro spoke slowly, he cupped his face in his hands and smiled.

"Since we can't add each other as friends, let's leave a separate contact method first, a mobile phone number will do."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he reached into the pocket of his athletic shorts, using body language to pretend he was taking out his phone.

At the same time, he took out the anchor-point sunglasses from his bag and held them in his right palm. He quickly pressed the button on the top of the anchor-point sunglasses.

[Within an eight-meter radius of you, there are the following characters: Cai Bing (player), He Jiali, Ma Haoping, and Zheng Jiajie. Which character should you set the anchor point on?]

Ke Mingye glanced at Ke Yinzhi out of the corner of his eye and saw that Ke Yinzhi was sitting about eight meters away from him, so he was not included in the list of people searched by his sunglasses.

Two men were sitting at the table to his northwest. Based on their masculine names, they should be "Ma Haoping" and "Zheng Jiajie" on the list.

Therefore, if we remove Cai Bing, Ma Haoping, and Zheng Jiajie, He Jiali should be the name of the young woman controlled by Gastro.

"He Jiali".

Ke Mingye responded in his heart.

Anchor points have been set on the character "He Jiali". Simply put on the sunglasses and press the button on the edge of the sunglasses again to obtain the character's coordinates.

As the system notification sounded in his ear, Ke Mingye put the anchor sunglasses from the trickster doll back into his bag.

He then released a second swindler from the windowsill of his room, equipping it with anchor-point sunglasses, a web emitter, and a night-walking belt in preparation for the next tracking operation.

As for the outcome of this pursuit, if we look at it in a positive light, it would mean that we would be able to capture Gastro's true form.

Even if we think about it from a slightly less sophisticated perspective, at least we can find out what kind of person this puppet, who has been controlled by Gastro using mental skills, is, and how she will be dealt with.

Right now, in an open-air café.

The charlatan took out a spare phone and slowly recited a spare phone number to Gastro.

When he has nothing to do, he puts his spare phone into Little Red Riding Hood's magic book, which is like locking it in another dimension, so he doesn't have to worry about the phone number being traced.

Upon hearing this, Gastro knew that Ke Mingye had not given him any room to refuse, so he calmly recited a string of phone numbers.

Ke Mingye quietly wrote down the number in his phone's memo app.

He was certain that the number belonged to one of her puppets, not Gastro's own—because she knew that if the phone was located and tracked, it would be troublesome.

"How long will you stay here?"

“I only have about a month to get that heart. If I don’t get it, I’m dead.” Gastro smirked. “I think only one player will think this is good news.”

“It’s the person who’s hiding a white-haired vampire in his house,” Ke Mingye said. “I’ll keep your situation a secret for now and try not to alert him before we find him.”

"Thank you." Gastro put down his glass. "That's all for now, goodbye." With that, she got up from the table and left the open-air café.

Ke Mingye watched her leave, seemingly sitting still, but in reality, he quickly manipulated the second trick puppet to move, pressing the button on the frame of his sunglasses.

The next moment, He Jiali's location appeared on the map.

She didn't walk very fast, but instead circled around several alleys before stopping at a corner of No. 5 Street in the Yandai Commercial Street.

This corner used to be used for selling cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and engaging in illegal prostitution, but now, after a sweep by the urban management officers, the place is empty, leaving only a mess.

The strange thing used its web-shooter to traverse the city's skies, finally stopping above the eaves of an abandoned tavern, looking down at this damp and cramped corner.