Superman's End Manual
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This is what Ke Mingye values most, and it's also the reason why he hasn't revealed his identity to Qingya yet: he knows that since brain imaging helmets are gradually becoming popular in official organizations, it's only a matter of time before Blue Owl, as a rookie hero, undergoes brain imaging testing.
Furthermore, at home, he couldn't use the trick doll to hide his tracks, given his older sister's sharp eyes. So, if he were to be fitted with a brain imaging helmet at home, it would essentially be an unsolvable predicament.
Therefore, he had to convince his father that he could not possibly be a player before revealing his identity to him...
Once Dad confirms through the test results submitted by the association that he is not a player, then when Ke Mingye removes the Blue Owl mask and reveals his identity to Qingya, there shouldn't be any more horror movie-like scenes like him working all day and just wanting to rest when someone suddenly enters his room in the middle of the night and puts a "brain imaging helmet" on his head.
Just thinking about it makes Ke Mingye want to wet his pants.
"The preparations have been almost completed, so now it's Gastro's turn."
That morning, Ke Mingye stood on the second-floor corridor, glanced at Bai Ziling's tightly closed door, and thought to himself.
"The deadline she mentioned is fast approaching. Either she was lying to me from the beginning and doesn't actually have a 'vampire oath' on her, or she's still hiding, waiting for an opportunity to expose me."
"Let's see how long she's going to hide before she makes her move."
July 20, at dusk, inside a private underground bar.
Under the dim light, Flint gently lifted Steller's body from the wheelchair, helped her to a chair in front of the bar, and then sat down beside her.
The two accepted the drinks from the waiter; Flinx drank spirits, while Stroll drank milk.
The waiter's eyes were empty and lifeless; he served the two like a puppet.
“Is that really a good idea?” Flinks said. “Those players are very likely to take this opportunity to leave the area around Beijing.”
“The Book of Prophecy says that the player who is hiding a vampire in his house is restricted for some reason and will not leave the city for at least the next month,” Stroll said calmly. “According to the prophecy, he won’t run away. It doesn’t matter if the other players run away; I can find them later and take care of them one by one. The most urgent thing now is to find that white-haired vampire so that I can live a little longer.”
“Hmm.” Flinx nodded. “When is the next time the Book of Prophecy will be unsealed…”
“Six days later. But I can’t wait that long,” Stroll said. “In four days, I will die because of the vampire oath I have, so I won’t be able to use the Book of Prophecy to find him.”
She paused, took a sip of milk, licked her lips, and continued.
"It's strange, really. After receiving my hint, that vampire didn't seem to be thinking about escaping the city at all; instead, it just stayed hidden. Otherwise, we should have caught it long ago."
Flinx thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps it's not as complicated as you think. It's simply afraid, so afraid that it doesn't even have the courage to leave the city, so it found a place to hide."
Sterling put down her cup, rested her chin on her hands, and said with a smirk.
"So, my actions actually had a negative effect?"
As the two were talking, a blonde woman wearing a green raincoat walked over from the entrance and sat down next to Strow.
She said, "It was a bit too casual. It's not a good thing to alert the enemy. Your act of revealing your identity was too hasty, which had the opposite effect on both finding those players and finding that vampire."
“Link said the same thing,” Stroll said, tapping the ground lightly with her cane. “It seems to be my fault; I looked down on those players too much. Since we have no other choice, let’s take this last resort.”
"A bad idea?" Link asked.
“That dice monster. He seems to know a lot, and he might be connected to the players.” Stroll smirked. “He said he wanted me to kill that superhero called Blue Owl, and then he would tell me who the player with the vampire in his house is and where he is hiding.”
“This could be a trap.” Link paused. “It’s just my gut feeling.”
“It’s alright. Even if it’s a trap, let’s catch the Blue Owl first,” Stroll said. “Once we catch him, the Dice Monster will appear in front of me, and then I can ask it some questions and confirm if my guess is correct.”
"So... what we need to do next is... capture that superhero?"
Flinx asked thoughtfully as he drank his strong liquor.
“That’s right. It should be quite simple for you,” Sterling smiled. “Of course, we won’t do it at the Superhero Tower. We’ll just wait until he comes out to carry out his mission before we strike.”
"I understand."
July 20th, 7 PM.
As the sun sets in the west, the towering buildings are enveloped in a hazy twilight woven from the afterglow and neon lights.
On his way home from the Superhero Association, Ke Mingye sent a message to Bai Zini, from which he learned that his second brother and father were still at home. Confirming that he was alone, he placed a magic doll in an inconspicuous corner.
Then, using a spare phone, he opened the "Spider Man's Flirting App" and sent an encrypted text message to Bai Qiuwu's phone.
The text message reads: "Miss Sun Wukong, if it's convenient, let's meet at 7 PM tonight, at the usual place—your good friend, dear Mr. Strange Thing."
After sending the text message, Ke Mingye instructed the doll to take a spare phone, equip it with a web-shooting device, and send it flying through the city on its webs towards the No. 7 overpass.
When the doll loosened its grip on the spider silk attached to the bottom of the viaduct, swung diagonally upwards and landed at the top of the viaduct, it turned its head and looked around. In the gradually darkening twilight, there was no one in sight.
The strange thing pursed its lips, squatted above a street lamp, and opened its spare phone. The "Spider-Man's Flirting App" had not received any messages.
Although Bai Qiuwu did not reply to his message, he felt that Bai Qiuwu would definitely come.
So, after Ke Mingye took off his battle uniform at the abandoned train station and went home, he walked around the house and soon found that Bai Qiuwu was nowhere to be seen.
I asked my other siblings, and they all said that Bai Qiuwu was going to meet with friends and had gone out recently.
Ke Mingye shrugged, sat down on the sofa, and checked his personal panel while drinking his beverage.
From July 13th to July 20th, over these eight days, he completed eight "Daily Tasks One," which provided him with a total of 16 attribute points that he could freely allocate.
Of the eight spins he received as a reward for completing "Daily Task Two", he drew "Shop Coins" in the first four spins without exception, totaling 9000 coins.
The fifth spin of the wheel yielded "2 attribute points that can be freely allocated"; the sixth spin yielded a B-grade magic card "Elf's Lament" (healing effect).
The last two spins yielded a crafting fragment for a low-level skill enhancement card and a 30% off shopping coupon.
Ke Mingye distributed the 18 attribute points he had acquired during this period evenly across the three attributes, focusing on steady development.
【目前玩家属性如下——身体素质:74点(↑6点);神经反应:44点(↑6点);精神力量:38点(↑6点)】
[Total number of in-game currency currently held by the player: 9100]
Before long, after Ke Mingye had idly checked his personal information, a figure slowly walked over the No. 7 overpass in the strange thing's eyes.
Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief, finished the last sip of Sprite in the bottle, and waved to her while controlling the strange thing.
At the same time, at the top of Viaduct No. 7.
An uninvited guest, dressed in a long silver and black metallic trench coat, was slowly walking towards them from the road in the distance.
The newcomer wore a monkey mask and carried a dark gold staff behind her shoulder. As dusk faded, the last rays of the setting sun fell upon her, highlighting her cold and aloof figure and casting a long, long shadow on the road.
"Hey...isn't this our Miss Sun Wukong? Long time no see."
The strange thing perched on the streetlight, waved to her, and said while reminiscing, "The last time we met was probably about half a month ago. Did you miss me? I missed you terribly... So today I couldn't stand missing you, so I sent you a text message to call you out. By the way, I was very happy to see you."
Upon hearing this, Black Wukong took out his phone from the pocket of his metal trench coat, opened the memo app, and typed rapidly before turning the screen towards the strange creature.
The memo read: "Enough with the small talk. What brings you here this time?"
The strange thing pursed its lips, glanced at the words on the memo, and then looked up at the sky: "It's only been half a month, and you won't even speak. You've gone back to communicating by phone... Is our relationship really that fragile?"
He paused, shook his head and sighed: "It seems what they said on Weibo is right. Women really are like this: if you don't treat her well for three days, she'll forget about you."
"Are you even human?"
As Black Wukong put his phone into his pocket, he asked indifferently.
"If you put it that way, it doesn't count," the strange thing said, poking its chin with its finger. "Of course, if you want me to be a person, I can be one too."
"What do you mean?"
As Black Wukong spoke, he crossed his arms, tilted his head, narrowed his scarlet eyes, and stared at it from behind the mask.
"Do you prefer cute little boys, teenagers, muscular men, or blond heartthrobs?"
As the strange creature spoke, it changed its face, sometimes appearing as a handsome little boy, sometimes as a sunny young man, sometimes as a sinister blond man, and sometimes as a dashing, muscular man with a buzz cut.
"Stop right now..." Black Wukong said, covering his eyes with his hands, lowering his head, and sighing softly, "I'm about to throw up the dinner I just ate."
"Well, it seems that seduction isn't working. I guess I'll have to use something else to get your attention."
As the strange creature spoke, it curled its lips downwards, and a red and black die suddenly appeared in its right hand.
Black Wukong remained silent, staring at it in bewilderment.
The strange thing flipped off the street lamp and landed on the overpass. As it walked towards Black Wukong, it stretched its right hand over the bridge railing, then released the dice, letting them fall into the city.
Just then, the sun completely disappeared below the horizon, and the entire city was suddenly shrouded in night. The overpass was pitch black, except for the bright flames flickering in Black Wukong's fiery eyes.
At the same time, as the calamity die fell from the overpass hundreds of meters above and crashed to the ground, two numbers appeared consecutively on its top surface.
"⑥".
In the darkness, the strange thing muttered a number.
Event "⑥" has been selected from events with the numbers "⑥" and "③".
[Event 6: A magnificent firework rises in the sky.]
The next instant, from the bottom of the dark sky, a beam of fire, like a shooting star, suddenly rose upwards, tearing through the night with a "whoosh," and then exploded completely after reaching its peak.
With a loud "bang," rose-shaped fireworks burst open in the night sky, scattering shimmering halos of light across the city. The world was ablaze with lights, the illuminated sky and the dazzling fireworks swaying in a mesmerizing display.
Gasps of alarm and the honking of car horns came from below the city.
On the empty overpass, dazzling light from the night sky suddenly broke the deathly silence of the darkness, rendering the figures of Black Wukong and the strange creature the same color.
Black Wukong paused for a moment, then slowly raised his face and gazed at the fireworks in the distance.
Do you like the birthday present I gave you?
The strange thing, with its back to the fireworks and its face turned to the night sky, called her by her name.
Happy birthday, Miss Bai Qiuwu.
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