Superman's End Manual

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The afternoon classes were pretty meaningless; it was mostly just the teachers of each subject announcing the final exam results.

Ke Mingye had memories of his previous life and had experienced the college entrance examination once, so he was naturally good at it. He deliberately kept his grades in the middle to upper range, around the top 100 in the whole school, maintaining his original level so as not to attract his mother's attention. Although Bai Wenna would not be able to do anything to him even if she noticed his abnormality, he was still most wary of Bai Wenna at home. No one could predict what kind of methods an alien might have.

During this time, Ke Mingye also opened his bag and checked the web reserves of the "web launcher." After last night's excessive use, the web reserves were now down to only 30%.

[Should I spend 140 Shop Coins to purchase "Spiderweb Liquid" in the Shop to fill the "Spiderweb Liquid Quantity" of the Spiderweb Launcher to the maximum value?]

"Seventy percent of the spider web liquid cost 140 store coins, so every one percent of the spider web liquid requires 2 store coins to purchase. Fortunately, it's not as expensive as I imagined."

With this in mind, Ke Mingye used 140 mall coins to buy spider web liquid and refilled the spider web launcher to saturation, in preparation for any emergencies.

Thank you for your patronage. You currently have 860 Mall Coins remaining.

During the third and last period in the afternoon, my second sister, Bai Ziling, sent me a message.

She said they were going to the movies together later and asked Ke Mingye if he wanted to come along. If he did, he could just walk to the movie theater after school and wouldn't have to go home.

Through this message, Ke Mingye confirmed that his second brother, Ke Xiaomo, was at home, so he decisively raised his hand and asked the teacher if he could go to the toilet.

In the toilet, he took out a spare school uniform that he had stuffed into his schoolbag that morning, as well as a pair of cheap children's shoes that he had bought last night. Then he summoned the trickster doll, and after adjusting its size, appearance, hairstyle, and voice to be exactly the same as yesterday, he ordered it to put on the school uniform and the canvas shoes, and then made it sit on the toilet waiting.

Ke Mingye returned to the classroom and opened the discussion group on the communication panel.

[Failed Man: I'll come straight here after school and arrive at Yandaipiao Commercial Street around 4:30. Time is tight, so I'll just start the dungeon then, okay?]

[Anti-dog: No problem. The three of us will wait for you here.]

After completing a series of preparations, Ke Mingye looked at the blackboard, calmed his breathing, and quietly waited for the school bell to ring.

He had to ensure that the Trickster Puppet would not die during this raid.

Otherwise, according to the rule that "players will respawn in reality after dying in the instance", he will directly expose the fact to other players that he is deceiving them and trying to use the puppet to maintain long-term contact with them.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 38 Meeting Announcement

June 20, afternoon, Huanjing No. 6 Middle School.

As the school bell rang in the school building, the two-month summer vacation was officially announced. The students, who could hardly contain themselves, dragged their schoolbags out of their drawers and ran noisily out of the classroom, the joyful sound of desk legs scraping against the floor echoing in every corner of the school building.

Ke Mingye slung his backpack over his shoulder and stood in front of the table. While ordering the dolls squatting in the toilet stalls to get up, he sent a message to Bai Ziling on his phone.

"Where is the movie theater you're talking about?" he asked.

“Yandai Street, show starts in half an hour,” Bai Ziling replied quickly. Her writing style was as concise as her speaking style.

Ke Mingye was taken aback, thinking to himself, "Why do you guys have to come to Yandaipai Commercial Street to watch a movie? Are you here to supervise our dungeon run?" But he still calmly replied to the message.

"Is your whole family coming?" he asked.

“Besides Mom and Dad,” Bai Ziling typed, “you and your older sister go to the same school, so take the bus.”

The message had just arrived when Ke Mingye turned his head and noticed someone staring at him from outside the classroom. It was Bai Qiuwu, who was wearing a school uniform.

She looked down at her phone and tapped the window lightly with her finger, signaling him to hurry up.

Ke Mingye pursed his lips, walked out of the classroom, and walked out of the teaching building side by side with Bai Qiuwu. He received many stares along the way, but he didn't care because he was busy controlling the trick puppet to follow behind the two of them.

The three of them walked to the bus stop outside the school in fairly even steps, with the mascot blending into the crowd the whole time.

Before long, a bus heading towards Yandai Commercial Street arrived. Bai Qiuwu and Ke Mingye boarded the bus one after the other, and the charlatan doll boarded the bus with the group of students.

In the slightly swaying carriage, Bai Qiuwu stretched, her school uniform billowing out the curves of her body.

The afterglow shone through the car window, gilding her cheeks with a faint golden edge, and the downy hairs around her ears swayed gently like bird feathers.

"Finally, it's a holiday," she said.

"Yes, we're liberated."

Ke Mingye responded, but his gaze was subtly drawn to the doll in the corner of the carriage.

He suddenly had a whimsical idea: to see if Bai Qiuwu could see the doll's original appearance. So he manipulated the doll to take two steps forward and grab the hanging ring next to Bai Qiuwu.

Bai Qiuwu turned her head and glanced at the doll's face.

As the doll drew closer, she seemed to realize something, and a barely perceptible red tinge flashed across her pupils.

Immediately afterwards, the doll's face transformed in her eyes into a bizarre face completely different from ordinary humans, with the corners of its mouth curving upwards almost to its ears.

Is having sharp eyes really that powerful?

Ke Mingye noticed Bai Qiuwu's change in expression out of the corner of his eye, and could basically confirm that she had seen through the doll's original appearance. He secretly broke out in a cold sweat and lowered his head to open a short video app.

Bai Qiuwu glanced at the doll, paused for half a second, and then spoke to him: "You..."

"What's wrong?" Ke Mingye asked, manipulating the puppet to turn its head to look at her.

"Your shoelace is untied, classmate."

As Bai Qiuwu spoke, she brushed a strand of hair from her forehead and calmly lowered her gaze, gesturing for him to look at the large children's shoes.

"Oh, thanks."

The doll squatted down and slowly began tying her shoelaces. Ke Mingye deliberately used a different way of tying her shoelaces than usual, so as not to make her older sister think of herself.

He wondered, puzzled, why the reward for contacting Bai Qiuwu hadn't been triggered. Was it because Bai Qiuwu was using her normal identity instead of her hidden identity, "Black Wukong"...?

He was somewhat disappointed after reaching this conclusion.

Since the dungeon location and the place where his family watched the movie were both on Yandai Commercial Street and not far apart, he originally planned to wait until he finished the dungeon with the puppet, then have it run from Meiyijia into the movie theater, into the No. 3 IMAX theater, roll around in front of his five brothers and sisters, jump on the stage, act cute, and introduce itself.

In this way, you might be able to collect all the rewards for the "contacting family members" tasks.

But now it seems unlikely.

Moreover, he felt that if Bai Zini saw the doll do two tumbles on stage, she would probably be so shocked that her jaw would drop, and she would transform and chase after it without caring about anything else, which wouldn't be a good idea.

"You're welcome."

Bai Qiuwu stared at the doll's face for another moment, then looked away and said to Ke Mingye beside her, "I suddenly remembered I have something to do later. Why don't you go to the movie theater by yourself?"

"No."

Ke Mingye knew what she wanted to do and decisively rejected it.

He looked up at Bai Qiuwu and sighed, "If you're not coming, then I won't watch it either. I'll just follow you, whatever you do, I'll do. It's rare for us all to watch a movie together, can you please stop standing us up every day? It's such a downer."

Seeing his expression, Bai Qiuwu asked with amusement, "But at home, aren't you the one who stands us up the most?"

"This is about you, don't change the subject. Look, even my second sister told me to keep an eye on you. She said you always disappear suddenly and stand us up."

Ke Mingye persisted in his unreasonable demands, turning his phone screen towards her to show her his previous chat history with Bai Ziling.

"Okay, then I won't run away this time, and you're not allowed to run away either."

As Bai Qiuwu spoke casually, she turned her face away, pretending to look out the car window, and glanced almost imperceptibly at the school uniform-wearing youth standing in the middle of the crowd.

At that moment, she noticed that the man was holding up a piece of paper with a blank expression.

The sign, written in black and white, read: "Black Wukong, meet me at 8 PM on the Huanjing No. 7 overpass. Don't come near me, and don't make any noise, or the people in this car and your brother will be in danger."

The moment Bai Qiuwu saw the words, her gaze turned icy, like that of a wild beast ready to devour its prey. She frowned slightly, and a crimson glow spread through her pupils, as if a fire were burning within them.

Just then, Ke Mingye's voice came from beside her, interrupting her attention.

"We're in the same boat, neither of us should run away."

Bai Qiuwu turned her head, not looking at Ke Mingye's profile, but lowering her head and covering her wide-open eyes with her hands. Her pupils, which were sometimes dilating and sometimes contracting, emitted a burning sensation like being roasted by fire.

She has experienced this situation many times; once she loses control of her emotions, her sharp eyes will uncontrollably reveal themselves.

At this moment, her face was shrouded in shadow beneath her bangs, but the blood-red color in her pupils could not be erased.

Bai Qiuwu tried her best to calm her breathing, her trembling eyes staring at the ground, her lips moving slightly as she muttered to herself in a way that was almost inaudible.

"Calm down... calm down... calm down."

She took deep breaths, again and again, and slowly closed her eyes. When she opened them again, the flames burning in her eye sockets had quietly disappeared, and the color of her pupils had returned to normal.

Ke Mingye noticed her unusual behavior and turned to look at her: "Sis, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, I'm just not used to wearing contact lenses."

Bai Qiuwu brushed it off lightly, lowered her right hand that was covering her eyes, and slowly raised her head.

She took a literary magazine out of her bag and quietly flipped through it in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Seven minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the bus slowly pulled up to the platform at the entrance of Yandai Commercial Street. Amidst the bustling street, Ke Mingye supervised Bai Qiuwu as they got off the bus and walked towards Yandai Cinema.

Bai Zini shouted and waved at the two from afar. Ke Xiaomo, Ke Yongzhu, and Bai Ziling stood beside her.

Meanwhile, the trickster mascot also got off the bus in the crowd and walked for a short while before arriving at the most secluded corner of the commercial street, heading to the video game store near Mei Yi Jia.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 39 Supermarket Copy

Upon reaching the second floor, we opened the sliding door and entered the first private room. Under the warm orange light, the doll raised its eyes, revealing the same three familiar faces.