Superman's End Manual

[Bai Zini: (Panda puffed-up face emoji)]

[Ke Mingye: Can you stop with the drama? Even if you're a magical girl, you still have to attend meetings every day. And even if you don't have to attend meetings, you still have to clock in at the Alliance Building regularly, right?]

[Bai Zini: Yes, there's a meeting. But I'm not going to stand you up.]

[Ke Mingye: Oh, I'm sorry.]

[Bai Zini: So what do you want me to do?]

[Ke Mingye: It's simple, just check if my second brother is home and what he's doing. Ever since he found out who I am, he's been constantly waiting for me at the train station in the old Jingmai neighborhood. I'm so annoyed with him, can you keep an eye on him for me?]

[Bai Zini: He's still cooking in the kitchen and can't get away for now, so don't even think about it. Hurry up and put on that owl cosplay outfit and run to the association meeting. Come back and go shopping with me!]

[Ke Mingye: Okay, okay, I don't know how long the meeting will last. My commander is particularly good at rambling on and on.]

[Bai Zini: Anyway, hurry back, I have something to tell you.]

[Ke Mingye: What is it?]

[Bai Zini: It's related to that weird thing. It's so annoying, so incredibly annoying!]

Upon receiving the message confirming that his second brother was still at home, Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly retrieved the Blue Owl battle suit from the locker on the platform, then created a trick puppet, which transformed into his own appearance, put on the battle suit, helmet and mask, and headed towards the Superhero Association.

As for Ke Mingye himself, he took out a night-walking belt from his bag, put it on his waist, and then activated the invisibility function. He carefully withdrew from the old Jingmai neighborhood, remaining highly vigilant throughout the journey and not missing any noise, fearing that he might run into his second brother and have his use of the puppet exposed—then he would be close to death, or rather, already dead.

Soon after, Ke Mingye approached his secret base: the basement of the Rainbow Light Commercial Street.

Entering the alley, I used the key given by the anti-dog to open the door to the basement, and after wandering around the underground maze for a while, I finally found the basement.

As he entered the basement, he manipulated Blue Owl to leap between skyscrapers, using the troll's exceptional and agile body to quickly approach the Superhero Building.

Then, right before the eyes of an old lady hanging clothes to dry on the rooftop, he gracefully slid down a telephone pole, landing on the ground. He patted his shoulder and entered the lowest level of the Superhero Building.

A moment later, on the 45th floor of the Superhero Association building, in the north corner.

The glass-walled elevator doors slowly opened, and Blue Owl stepped out, glancing at the office directly in front of him.

The office door was closed, with a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it.

It's clear that Che Zhengchen has something to take care of and can't get away for the time being.

"What a busy person..."

Seeing this, Blue Owl sighed, put his hands on his hips, and then sat down on a chair in the corridor, quietly waiting for Che Zhengchen in the office to finish his work.

After waiting for a while, he got really bored, so he took out his phone from his battle suit pocket and opened the Superhero Association's official app. He clicked into the Superhero Community Forum and saw a post about the Beijing-based Hero Team that was generating a lot of buzz.

A new recruit codenamed "Autobot" joins the B-class superhero team led by Balloon Man. This newcomer is a superhuman with the ability to summon a car equipped with turrets and to merge with it at any time.

The social butterfly in the Balloon Man team, codenamed "Palm Rose"—"Connie," posted the following on the superhero community last night: [Autobots, assemble! Come and see Optimus Prime!]

In the post, she included a video of the superhero "Autobots" using their powers to summon the vehicle in the testing lab and merge with it.

The scene was so bizarre that by the next day, the post had become incredibly popular, topping the charts in terms of views on the superhero community forum.

Superheroes from all over the world left witty comments about the spectacle, with many female heroes even saying they wanted to be friends with the Autobots on the forum and were willing to pay a large sum of money to get Rose's contact information.

The blue owl wanted to make a joke, but after thinking about it, it decided not to comment.

"They're all tough guys, I'm just a nobody, I don't even deserve to speak."

He yawned, thinking to himself.

The White Wings Squad is currently only a D-rank superhero squad within the association, and its popularity is low. As the lowest-ranking superhero squad, it can't compare to a B-rank team like the Balloon Squad.

Besides, he was only a Class E superhero, the lowest rank. Among the thousands of superheroes on the forum, Class E was a very common and insignificant existence.

Blue Owl browsed the forum for a while longer, and just as he was getting bored, the electronic sign on the office door suddenly changed from "Do Not Disturb" to "Please Come In".

Seeing this, the blue owl got up from the chair and stretched.

He turned the doorknob, opened the office door, walked to his desk, and pulled up a black swivel chair to sit down.

Blue Owl clasped his hands together in front of his belly and asked, "Uh...am I going to see my superpower mentor today?"

Che Zhengchen put down his pen, took a sip of water, and said, "I probably won't see him again."

"Not again?" Blue Owl sighed. "This Blue Raven is too hard to find. Maybe I should just get a different ability mentor."

"There's no need for that. If he's willing to teach you seriously, listening to a few words from him is more useful than having 10 tutors combined."

Che Zhengchen put down his water glass and said with a smile.

Blue Owl drawled, "That would have to be if he's 'willing to teach me seriously'."

He paused, then tentatively asked, "By the way, is it possible that Blue Raven already knows who I am?"

"No, based on my brief conversation with him, he probably doesn't know yet."

Che Zhengchen shook his head in denial.

"Why?" The blue owl tilted its head, its beak tilting accordingly. "Logically speaking, with the raven's tracking ability, it should have been able to easily find out my identity, but why didn't it?"

"Perhaps... even the crow doesn't want to see clearly who's behind your mask."

As Che Zhengchen spoke, he adjusted his glasses.

"what?"

"He was afraid of hesitating, hesitating whether to use you as bait to lure out the watchmaker. He was afraid that if he knew that you were, as he thought, a young man like Grey Dove, his heart would be consumed by guilt once again."

Upon hearing this, the blue owl remained silent for a moment.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this now."

As he spoke, Che Zhengchen raised his eyes and looked at Blue Owl: "The main reason I came to see you today is to tell you about the association's advancement system. The hero level is determined by a points system. An E-level superhero needs to accumulate 500 points to be promoted to a D-level superhero. There are many ways to obtain points, and completing missions is the most common one."

He paused for a moment: "Besides, superheroes who have made significant contributions and outstanding achievements in various fields of the country, such as 'Qingci Hero' who used his superpowers to help the country develop new energy sources, may be promoted to the next level even if they have not accumulated enough points, or even skip several levels."

"I see. So I only need 200 more points to become a D-rank hero?" Blue Owl asked.

"More or less." Che Zhengchen nodded. "But it still needs to go through the committee's evaluation. However, it's just a formality. Unless there are any hidden problems with your background, you'll generally advance without any issues."

"Okay, then..."

As they spoke, the entire office was suddenly bathed in a dazzling red light.

Blue Owl's voice trailed off. He gripped the armrests of his swivel chair, turning to look around. "Could it be like last time, someone else has broken into the Superhero Building again?"

"Something's not right. Normally, if an outsider were to break in, there should be an alarm." Che Zhengchen frowned.

At this moment, the entire Superhero Tower went into red alert mode, seemingly under external attack. Upon receiving the warning, the superheroes flew out of the windows to check the situation.

Meanwhile, Che Zhengchen's office window was slowly being covered by a sheet of iron, and soon the view outside could no longer be seen.

"I can't fly. So what are we going to do?" the blue owl asked.

"wait for me."

As he spoke, Che Zhengchen opened a private app on his phone to check the reason for the alert mode. He was slightly taken aback when he discovered the source.

This time, the red alert mode was not activated because the Superhero Tower's defense mechanism detected external danger, but rather by a high-ranking member of an association using their privileges.

"This defense mode was manually activated by the higher-ups. And currently, there is only one person in the area surrounding Beijing who has the authority to activate this mode: Li Qingyao, the president of the Beijing Surrounding Heroes Association branch."

When the last name was mentioned, Che Zhengchen paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered something.

A few weeks earlier, he had arranged to meet Li Qingyao, the branch president, at an underground bar.

But for some reason, he did not see Li Qingyao at the time, and his memory of the scene in the bar was very vague, with almost no complete memory.

If I didn't meet the chairman, then who was the person I met at that underground bar?

What happened to the chairman back then?

Thinking of this, Che Zhengchen suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, and a figure gradually came to mind: a red-haired girl sitting in a wheelchair, holding a cane.

"I don't know what 'might grow up' means, but someone is taking the elevator up to our floor."

As Blue Owl spoke, he glanced out of the corner of his eye at the glass-walled elevator outside the office. The numbers on the display board were steadily climbing, getting closer and closer to the 15th floor.

"Be careful, something's strange." Che Zhengchen manipulated his laptop, pondering, "The surveillance footage is all black, and it's not because of a hacker attack, but... the higher-ups manually turned off the monitors using administrative privileges?"

Towards the end, his tone became increasingly strange.

Upon hearing this, the blue owl paused for a moment, then asked to confirm if it had misheard.

"Uh...did the higher-ups manually turn off the monitors?"

"Yes."

As the two were talking, the glass-walled elevator reached the 15th floor, and the car doors slowly opened outwards.

The blue owl sensed something was wrong and quickly focused its gaze.

However, before he could even make out the figures in the sedan chair through the tiny gap, a sharp black shadow suddenly appeared with a whooshing sound, piercing through his shoulder in an instant.

The blue owl was sent flying backward.

He was pinned to the corridor wall. Upon closer inspection, he realized that a black metal arrow was embedded in his shoulder. Blood gushed out, and a sudden numbness rendered him unable to move.

arrow?

My second brother mentioned in the text message that one of the three vampire hunters was an archer, so it seems it was her.

Why was she able to board the Superhero Association's elevator even though she didn't have an ID card?