Superman's End Manual

[Blue Owl: I was on my way home just now, I didn't have time to answer.]

[Che Zhengchen: I really didn't expect the Dice Monster to appear suddenly. I should have anticipated it. This accident is all my fault.]

[Blue Owl: No, nobody knows what that thing is thinking. It's definitely not your fault.]

[Blue Owl: Commander, let's talk again tomorrow when we get to the association building. I need to take care of my wounds, so I'll hang up now.]

After sending the message, Ke Mingye tucked his spare phone under his pillow, turned off the light, and slowly closed his eyes.

Then another night passed in silence.

July 11, 5:00 AM.

Ke Mingye trembled slightly as he opened his eyelids, taking in all the text on the notification panel.

Good morning, player. Today is July 11, 2028. There are 342 days left until the deadline for completing the ultimate mission, "Exterminate Superhumans."

The current number of surviving players worldwide is 94.

"It's good that no one died..."

He yawned, got out of bed, and walked out of the room.

Then, he took out the anchor sunglasses from his bag, approached his second brother's room, and pressed the button on the sunglasses to confirm whether his second brother was in the room and to lock his location information.

[Within an eight-meter radius of you, the characters are: Ke Xiaomo and Bai Qiuwu. Would you like to set anchor points on these characters?]

Seeing that his second brother was still resting in the room, Ke Mingye put on his sunglasses, felt relieved, and left the house. At the same time, he took out his spare phone and sent an email to Ke Xiaomo.

[Mr. Strange Thing: The time has been confirmed. It's noon today, at the cafe in Hongge Food Street. The player controlling the parasite will meet another player there.]

After sending the email, he started running along the outskirts of the old Jingmai neighborhood, quickly accumulating enough steps for the mission. He then did a hundred push-ups.

Daily Task 1: Run 3000 meters (one chance to use the reward wheel) (Completed)

[Daily Task 2: Do 100 push-ups (2 attribute points can be freely allocated) (Completed)]

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

Ke Mingye raised his finger and allocated the two attribute points he had just acquired to the "Mental Strength" attribute.

Your "Mental Strength" attribute has changed from 28 to 30 points (up 2 points)

[Congratulations! Your "Mental Strength" attribute has successfully surpassed the minimum attribute standard for F-level superhumans (30 points).]

[I have claimed the reward for Daily Task 1, "Run 3000 meters," and have been awarded one chance to spin the prize wheel.]

As the notification box disappeared, the reward wheel slowly unfolded in front of him, revealing text in six sections.

[I. 3000 Mall Coins;]

[II. Tier C Equipment - Sheep Rocket Launcher;]

[III. Magic Card Bundle;]

IV. A fragment of a divine disc;

5. One random equipment card;

[VI. 2500 experience points.]

Ke Mingye extended his finger and pressed the start button on the turntable. Immediately afterward, the pointer began to spin rapidly, eventually coming to a slow stop above area 2.

[Congratulations! You have received the reward for Area Two: Grade C equipment – ​​Sheep Rocket Launcher (fires a homing missile; targets hit will not be harmed, but will temporarily transform into harmless sheep).]

"A homing missile," Ke Mingye thought. "It doesn't seem very useful, but let's try it out in actual combat before drawing conclusions. This kind of quirky equipment can only be used by the 'Dice Monster' persona."

After completing his daily tasks as usual, he sat down on a public wooden bench. He picked up his spare phone and opened the Superhero Association's app.

As soon as I opened the app, a window popped up, saying that he had successfully completed the E-level mission determined by the association: preventing a workplace riot by superhumans, and thus received 100 points as a reward.

"I got points and kills again, this was pretty profitable."

Thinking this, Ke Mingye glanced at the association's app store.

Leaving aside all that nonsense, I scrolled straight to the section on "Gene Enhancers for Superhuman Races".

The display above shows that a bottle of low-level gene enhancer costs 500 points, meaning that at least 5 of these tasks need to be completed to purchase one bottle of low-level gene enhancer.

“The conditions aren’t too difficult; I can get the enhancement agent by completing a few more missions.” He thought to himself as he stood up from his chair. “So next… it’s time to prepare to meet Gastro.”

July 11, noon, Hongge Commercial Street, Red Paris Café, in the Beijing metropolitan area.

Ke Mingye controlled the trickster puppet to sit on a table in the museum, gently tapping the tabletop with his fingers while resting his chin on his hand and looking out the window.

Before long, a girl in a wheelchair came into view from outside the café. She slowly turned the wheels and pushed the wheelchair into the café.

He looked around, then sat in his wheelchair and went to the side of the trickster doll.

"We meet again... Spider-Man," Gastro said with a smirk.

Ke Mingye paused for two seconds, carefully examining the face in front of him. Her appearance was exactly the same as the wheelchair girl's face that Che Zhengchen had replicated using the brain imaging helmet.

Then he thought, "How is this possible... She actually came to see me in her true form?"

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Chapter 188 The Deathly Meeting with Gastro (Part 3)

His gaze fell upon the girl who was slowly moving her wheelchair towards him, and his thoughts suddenly became chaotic, causing Ke Mingye to freeze for a moment.

"Gastro actually met me in her true form? Really? Isn't she worried about being surrounded by players, or... is this body not her true form at all?"

Thinking of this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the girl in the wheelchair even more closely.

The girl in front of me was about 1.6 meters tall and was wearing an off-the-shoulder spaghetti strap dress. The skirt completely covered her legs.

What's most striking is her long, flowing red hair and the beauty mark at the corner of her eye. The beauty mark adorns her eyes, which are as bright as fire, as if they could see right through people's hearts.

“Apart from your hair, you look quite different from when I last saw you?” Gastro pushed his wheelchair to the table and turned to look at Ke Mingye.

“Aren’t we in the same boat?” Ke Mingye sighed. “It’s as if you’re the same person you were when we last met.”

The reason he didn't use the face he usually showed to other players was to prevent his second brother from taking a picture of that face.

After obtaining the photo, and using the elder brother's authority in the control bureau, they can find footage of the face appearing in the surveillance cameras scattered around Beijing, and quickly track down the player's whereabouts.

After all, no matter how secretive his and the anti-dogs' actions were, given the density of surveillance cameras around Beijing, they were bound to be caught by the cameras sometime during their journey to the dungeon.

"It looks like you're wearing a human face mask?" Gastro asked curiously.

“Yes.” Ke Mingye nodded, explaining casually, “Because you said you would bring some vampire hunters, I’m sorry, I don’t really trust them…” As he spoke, he turned and looked around. Apart from him and Gastro, there were no other customers in the café. “Where are they?”

"They haven't arrived yet."

After saying that, Gastro cupped his face in his hands, rested his elbows on the armrests of his wheelchair, and stared intently at Ke Mingye. "I'm very curious, what exactly is your purpose?"

"What do you mean?" Ke Mingye asked.

“You should have passed on what I told you to the other players,” Gastro said. “And they reached a consensus with you to stay hidden for now, so I saw you again at this ‘player meeting,’ but I didn’t see anyone else.”

“They’re not avoiding you, they just don’t trust you enough,” Ke Mingye said. “I think I mentioned it before, we need to get to know the vampire hunters behind you to make sure you’re harmless to us.”

He paused for a moment: "Think about it another way, if those vampire hunters take control of your body and then threaten you to contact me, luring other players out to wipe us out in one fell swoop, wouldn't we be finished?"

"You're really thinking things through."

"So, this is your true form?" Ke Mingye asked tentatively.

“That’s right.” Gastro nodded. “This is my true form.”

Ke Mingye shrugged: "Then can I send you a friend request?"

"of course."

Ke Mingye was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, and was at a loss for words.

He thought to himself that his current situation was unexpectedly a bit awkward. Players could only add each other as friends when they met in person. Trickster puppets could not add each other as friends, nor could Gastro's puppets.

To say that you cannot add someone as a friend is tantamount to admitting that you are just a puppet.

Actually, taking a step back, he could have his main body wear a night-walking belt to quickly approach the cafe and add the wheelchair-bound girl as a friend outside the window.

But Ke Xiaomo had just received intelligence from the Dice Monster that he was already lurking near the café. How could such a commotion escape his notice?

In conclusion, if his second brother were to catch him, it would be a huge loss, so Ke Mingye would never do such a thing.

"Why don't you send me a friend request yourself to prove your innocence?" he asked.

Upon hearing this, Gastro calmly teased him.

"Answer one: As a girl, I prefer boys to take the initiative;"

"Answer two: I actually added you, but failed. You didn't come here in person, but controlled someone else as your puppet; or you are not Spider-Man at all, but a plant he hired. After all, you even changed your face, so who knows if you are really wearing a human face mask?"

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye took the lemon water handed to him by the waiter, took a small sip, and then said, "You really know how to twist the facts. I just tried to add you, and it failed. I wanted to see how long you could keep up this act."

"That's interesting. Since neither of us is willing to believe the other is telling the truth, perhaps we're both imposters, testing each other out of thin air?"

"Gastro said with a smile."

"If you find it funny, then keep pretending."