Superman's End Manual

The cold night wind whipped against Bai Yi's cheeks, as if mocking his incompetence. He stared at the towering buildings, swallowed hard in frustration, clenched his fists slightly, and growled through gritted teeth, "Damn it!"

"Hey, hey, hey... The nun is poisoned. Only you can fly here. Stop staring and get her back to the Superhero Association right away, or she'll die."

Blue Owl, clutching his injured chest, called out to White Wing, who was hovering in mid-air, from inside the office.

"I'm here, I'm sorry!"

Baiyi paused for a moment upon hearing this, then quickly folded his wings and entered the office. He strode towards the dying nun and held her in his arms.

"Vanguard, are you alright?" Just as Zhenyi was about to leave, he turned his head and glanced at Vanguard.

The mechanical vanguard collapsed to the ground, sprawled out, its metallic body crackling with electricity as if short-circuited. Its wide-open prosthetic eye stared motionlessly at the ceiling. Scattered fragments of its severed right arm remained on the floor beside it.

Bai Yi froze for half a second, then bit her lip hard, almost drawing blood.

“Damn it——!!!”

He roared hysterically, his unwilling voice echoing in the messy office.

"Don't look around. Vanguard will be fine. Cyborgs are generally very resilient. As long as the brain is intact, he should be able to be saved."

As she spoke, Blue Owl groaned, clutching her chest, before continuing, "The Association has already sent reinforcements... Someone else will take the vanguard back to the Association building. Just keep an eye on the nun; if you don't leave soon, she's really going to die."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yi lowered his head and hesitated for two seconds before saying deeply, "I will come back to find you. I don't know if the Dice Monster is still nearby. Be careful."

"Don't worry... I'll be fine." Blue Owl nodded, speaking in a hoarse voice.

"I promise... this will not happen again."

Bai Yi spoke in a deep voice, his face twitching slightly.

After saying that, he carried the nun and walked towards the broken window. Suddenly, he spread his huge wings and, amidst the howling wind, shot into the night sky like a cannonball, disappearing into the clouds in an instant.

"I'm so tired..."

Seeing this, the blue owl took a breath, muttered something, and lay sprawled on the ground, staring blankly at the ceiling.

He slowly closed his eyelids.

"Get a good night's sleep..."

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Chapter 186 The Deathly Meeting with Gastro (Part 1)

July 10th, 7 PM.

Street No. 7 in the old Jingmai neighborhood is deserted and pitch black.

Even so, Blue Owl simply moved along the shadows of the street corner, silently observing its surroundings. After confirming that no one was around, it slowly walked into the abandoned train station, clutching its chest.

Because he was playing Blue Owl in his true form today, the wound on his chest that he had inflicted on himself earlier had not fully healed. Now, he had just experienced a high-intensity battle at KQA Trading Company, which was like adding insult to injury, directly causing his chest injury to worsen slightly.

Fortunately, he took out a "resurrection medical bottle" from his bag and slightly alleviated the injury, preventing it from worsening.

Of course, it also prevented the wound from fully healing. It only kept the chest injury at a level that I could still tolerate, so that I wouldn't be caught off guard by my family during a surprise examination and wouldn't be able to explain why my wound had suddenly healed.

Ke Mingye thought that he couldn't very well explain to his family that "my self-healing ability is just that amazing, and I can wake up after a good night's sleep and everything will be fine"—that wouldn't explain why his leg was lame for four or five days after the battle with the cyborg Lester, and his second brother and father wouldn't be that slow to understand.

As he walked into the train station, he found the platforms deserted, with moonlight streaming across the floor like watermarks. He followed the swaying moonlight, feeling as if he were walking on a shimmering lake, and soon arrived at Platform 7.

Just when it should have been a moment to finally catch its breath, the blue owl paused slightly, raised its head covered by a beak-shaped helmet, and looked ahead through the visor.

On a public wooden bench on the platform, a figure sat with his back against the backrest, his eyes lowered, quietly turning the pages of a yellowed ancient book by the moonlight.

The two were silent for a moment, and then the person sitting on the public wooden bench spoke first.

"I just saw on the news that you and those superheroes encountered the Dice Monster while on a mission. Your teammate was seriously injured?"

"Yes, but I was lucky, it didn't really hurt me..."

Ke Mingye hesitated for half a second before answering while taking off his bird-beak helmet.

"Why is it targeting you?" Ke Xiaomo asked after a two-second silence.

"I don't know, I just got harassed by it for no reason. As far as I know, it seems that the city's superheroes and vigilantes have all been harassed by it to some extent, like Black Goku, Magical Girl Ash, and... Blue Raven."

When he read the last name, Ke Mingye lowered his voice slightly.

"What's so good about the crow that makes you so obsessed with it?" Ke Xiaomo asked slowly.

"He is a hero, yet he never seeks fame. Despite bearing the infamy, he still silently protects this city... Moreover, he saved my elder brother."

After speaking, Ke Mingye opened the old locker at counter number 7. The locker door made a loud "bang" sound, which was particularly loud on the silent platform, like raindrops falling into a calm lake.

"He saved my older brother?"

Ke Xiaomo asked the question knowingly, unsure how Ke Mingye knew about it.

“I overheard my mom and dad talking about this at the dinner table,” Ke Mingye said. “You and your older brother are so close, he must have mentioned this to you before… It was when he was in junior high school. A fugitive criminal took an entire classroom of students hostage to threaten the police into leaving the school.”

He paused, lowered his eyes, and his gaze shifted slightly: "Back then, my brother was held at gunpoint by a thug, and it was Qingya who descended from the sky and saved him. If it weren't for Qingya, perhaps we would only be able to visit my brother's grave in the cemetery every year."

Ke Xiaomo remained silent, simply closing the ancient book and taking a shallow breath.

He really didn't know what Ke Yinzhi would think if he told him about this.

Is it supposed to be said that his good younger brother, Mingye, unknowingly awakened his superpowers and became a superhero in a daze? Moreover, his motivation for becoming a hero was that Qingya saved Ke Yinzhi a few years ago, so he admired Qingya and wanted to make a name for himself by imitating him and making a name for himself in the Huanjing area.

Upon hearing this, Ke Yinzhi would probably first ask, "Are you kidding me?", and then, after Ke Xiaomo explains, he would likely be so angry he'd laugh...

He never imagined that his accidental kidnapping as a hostage would trigger such a chain reaction: paving the way for his brother's superhero journey.

It's absolutely absurd.

Ke Mingye also remained silent.

He took off his slightly damaged red and blue combat uniform in front of the locker, leaving only his underwear on. The wound on his chest was clearly visible: although it was bandaged, the outline of some bruises and swelling could be faintly seen from the edge of the bandage.

Ke Xiaomo caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of her eye. Her face twitched slightly, and a hint of violence flashed in her lowered eyes.

Ke Mingye folded up the Blue Owl combat suit and put it into compartment number 6 of the locker.

He stared at the damage to his battle suit, thinking that he would have the Superhero Association's technical specialist fix it in a couple of days, and while he was at it, he would see if Commander Che could pull some strings to get his battle suit modified.

"So, second brother, when did you discover my secret base?"

Ke Mingye asked as he took a T-shirt and shorts out of the locker.

“At noon, I happened to see you walk into that train station,” Ke Xiaomo replied.

"Wow, I thought I was well hidden. How could you run into me like this? Maybe it's because I wasn't careful enough."

As he spoke, Ke Mingye put on the clothes he had just taken out, and then sighed slightly: "To be honest, second brother, I think you are no longer suitable to be a Taoist priest."

"why?"

"I suddenly feel that you're more suited to be a private investigator; it's a waste of your talent not to do so," Ke Mingye mocked.

Ke Xiaomo was silent for a moment, not taking up the topic, but instead asked, "Is the injury on your chest anything serious?"

"No. It will heal in a couple of days. I'm an esper, you know how powerful I am."

How did you join the Superhero Association?

“White Wing. That superhero said his commander admired me and then gave me a business card,” Ke Mingye said. “I called the number on the business card and told him I wanted to hide my identity within the association. The commander agreed, and then I arranged to meet him and got the association’s ID card from him.”

As he spoke, he took out the Superhero Association ID card from the pocket of his Blue Owl suit, showing Ke Xiaomo the front of the ID card while closing the locker.

"impossible."

Ke Xiaomo stared at the ID card, frowned slightly, and said decisively, "How could the commander of the Superhero Association allow someone whose identity has not been publicly disclosed to officially register as a superhero?"

Ke Mingye was silent for a moment before saying, "His son is Grey Dove. Do you understand now?"

Ke Xiaomo was taken aback, but quickly understood the meaning behind Ke Mingye's words.

"So that's how it is..." he murmured to himself.

"I'm going home to rest. Second brother, don't sit here either. You're not planning to secretly take my battle uniform and burn it, are you? Let me make this clear: if my battle uniform is lost, you'll be the first person I come looking for tomorrow."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he turned around and walked towards the stairs at the platform exit, his figure slowly swallowed by the darkness.

Before returning to the train station, he summoned another magic doll, transformed it into a magical girl, and then slipped the spare phone into Little Red Riding Hood's magic book.

So there's no need to worry about your second brother finding your phone in the locker; otherwise, he wouldn't dare leave the train station like that.

"Che Zhengchen has probably been calling me non-stop by now. He never expected that I would leave without saying a word."

As Ke Mingye walked home, he looked down at the road surface bathed in moonlight that seemed to be sprinkled with salt, and thought to himself.

After walking for a short while, we arrived at the front of the duplex apartment building. We took the elevator to the 12th floor, where we saw Bai Wenna standing aggressively at the entrance of the building, holding a feather duster.

Ke Mingye clicked his tongue slightly and walked out of the elevator shakily.

She asked, "So now you know to not reply to messages for half a day?"

Ke Mingye said, "My second brother took me out to fool around. You can ask him if you don't believe me."

Bai Wenna smacked him hard on the head with a feather duster. "Fine, brat, I'll let you off this time. We'll settle the score when your second brother arrives."

Ke Mingye nodded, scratched his head, quickly passed by Bai Wenna, took off his shoes, and walked into the living room.

Bai Zini, sitting on the sofa, asked, "Brother, why have you been coming home so late lately?"