Superman's End Manual

Ke Mingye walked slowly into the driver's cab, approaching the driver's seat step by step.

At that moment, the train burst out of the tunnel, and the afterglow of the setting sun allowed him to see clearly the figure sitting in the driver's seat—a grinning old man.

The train conductor was still chuckling to himself, his gaze fixed on the hideous, rotting face in the rearview mirror, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his death was imminent.

"Rest in peace, comrade."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he walked over to the train conductor.

Ignoring the roars behind him, he slowly raised the Colt 1911 pistol and pressed the black muzzle against the train conductor's forehead.

The next moment, he pulled the trigger.

boom!

The gunshot ripped through the rumbling engine, echoing in the sun-drenched driver's cabin. Blood splattered on the seat, staining half the window red.

The old man's neck slowly tilted down in the rearview mirror, his head resting against the car window.

[Final Strike!!! (The final blow!!!)]

[Boss Crazy Train Conductor's HP: 100% → 0%]

"Sure enough, he was gone with a single shot."

Ke Mingye looked at the dead train conductor and murmured to himself.

He slowly turned his head and looked at carriage number one behind him, where he saw the five knife-wielding men who had been chasing him lying on the floor, turning into a burst of hot gas that evaporated.

[This dungeon raid is a success. The current damage breakdown is shown below.]

【NO.1——[The Failed Man]★MVP: 100% Damage Percentage】

[NO.2 - Good Orange Peel: 0% Damage Percentage]

[NO.3 - An Inexplicable Dream: 0% of the damage]

[NO.4 - Anti-dog: Damage percentage 0%]

[Congratulations to all players for successfully defeating dungeon number 7 in the Beijing metropolitan area – "Crazy Train Station"! Commemorative cards have been added to each player's dungeon collection.]

[Current progress of completing dungeons around Beijing: (2 out of 100)]

[In five minutes, players will return to the real world. Please prepare accordingly...]

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(End of this chapter)

Chapter 64 The Dice Monster, Isn't that you?

After the train conductor died, the train slowly came to a stop on the old tracks.

The rumbling of the engine disappeared, and the exhaust pipe, which had been working day and night, exhaled its last breath of murky white steam before falling silent, as if it had finally found peace.

In the deathly silence, the train under the twilight slowly rotted like an orange peel.

Five minutes later, they would automatically leave the instance, so the four of them boarded the train and split up to search for any hidden levels or hidden rewards.

The first ten carriages on this train are ordinary carriages, the middle five are sleeper carriages, and the last ten carriages are a variety of types: gourmet carriages, movie carriages, aquarium carriages, botanical garden carriages...

Walking through the train carriages felt like traveling through a microcosm of the world. However, time was limited, so they could only glance at these wonders without stopping to admire them.

Compared to the dignified surroundings, the figures flitting past the car window seemed as thin as blank pieces of paper.

Unfortunately, they didn't find anything of value. Most of the items, such as "film tape," would display a message saying "This item cannot be taken out of the instance" when they looked closely at the information.

"I didn't expect this dungeon to be so easy."

As Qingmeng spoke, the train stopped in the aquarium carriage, gazing at the rotting, mutated fish in the tanks.

Their bodies emitted a strange, flickering fluorescence that faintly illuminated her face.

“That’s normal,” Anti-Dog said. “The difficulty of this dungeon lies in changing your mindset and finding the key. If you really get bogged down in fighting those mobs, you’ll only end up dead.”

"Isn't it because Spider-Man is too strong?" Orange Peel chimed in.

Ke Mingye turned to look at him: "Huh, what does this have to do with me?"

"I'm curious, what are your physical attributes?" Orange Peel squinted at him.

“Not many,” Ke Mingye said. “Everyone only has a few dozen attribute points, what’s there to say?”

After pondering for a moment, Orange Peel smiled and said, "Hmm... it feels like what you're saying is like someone who's 1.99 meters tall saying that everyone is only a little over 1.5 meters tall, so what's the point of asking about height?"

"Then let me put it another way: personal privacy."

"Uh, didn't you just say in the discussion group that we share a common destiny..."

"Stop chatting." Antidog interrupted their conversation. "If you have time, take these four fish out and check if there's anything inside them."

Ke Mingye was about to take out his web launcher to see if he could use the spider silk to pull the fish out, but then he thought that there seemed to be someone more suitable to do this.

The orange peel summoned the wave-wielding knife, manipulating the water flow to pull the fish out of the tank and dissect them.

As the fish's body was torn to pieces, jagged crystals and internal organs scattered on the ground, covered in blood. The light within them seemed to emanate from these crystals.

They bent down and picked up the crystals; there were exactly four, no more and no less, apparently generated based on the number of players entering the instance.

【Item Name: Alienated Fish Crystal】

[Item Level: Unknown]

[Item Description: If you're not afraid of death, try swallowing it. Something amazing might happen.]

[Judgment: This item can be taken out of the instance and can be exchanged for in-game currency in the shop.]

After reading the introduction, Ke Mingye turned to look at his three teammates and asked, "Does anyone want to try swallowing one?"

They remained silent, giving him a look that seemed to say, "Are you an idiot?"

"Why are you looking at me? Maybe eating this will boost your stats?" Ke Mingye shrugged.

“You might as well say that eating it could turn you into a mutant, like a fish-man or something that can breathe underwater,” Anti-Dog said. “I think that’s pretty interesting. Maybe there are dungeons hidden in those sea areas. Leveling up underwater is much faster than leveling up in a big city, and there are no superheroes or vigilantes watching you.”

He paused, then continued rambling:

"Besides, the world is full of wonders. You might stumble upon an underwater ruin in the Aegean Sea or the Mediterranean, where the power of Poseidon, the god of the sea, is hidden. You could then use this to obtain a divine path from Poseidon. Wouldn't that be great? It would leave other players far behind."

Ke Mingye nodded upon hearing this and put his hand on his shoulder: "I think what the cultured man said makes sense. Do you two want to give it a try? Poseidon is still waiting for you at the bottom of the sea."

"Fast forward to the moment he gets swallowed by the whale," Orange Peel said.

"What the hell are mutants? What the hell is Poseidon? You two talk such fancy stuff, why don't you try it yourselves?"

As Qingmeng spoke, she gave the two of them a disdainful look.

“Okay, have the anti-dog team give me a ‘Superhuman Will’ badge, and I’ll try swallowing it in 2.5 seconds,” Ke Mingye said.

"It's anti-dog, not anti-dog."

Anti-Dog paused for a moment: "Also, not every time you release the Gate of Humanities, you'll get Nietzsche. This skill requires you to be more adaptable and choose the appropriate one from the theoretical skills that appear depending on the situation."

"Forget it, let's just use store coins. I don't know if swallowing this stuff will be the end of us."

Despite saying that, Ke Mingye actually really wanted the doll to swallow the mutated fish crystal.

He might actually become a fish-man. When he's being chased, he might dive into the sewers when in doubt. Surely no other superhero can swim in poop and pee like him, right?

Thus, a perfect escape route was born.

"One crystal per person. If there are no objections, get off the train. We'll be leaving the instance in one minute."

After saying that, Fan Quan got off the train first.

Then the four of them sat on the platform, quietly watching the rusty tracks under the setting sun. The train lay there all alone, bathed in the crimson glow of the sunset.

"Exterminate superhumans? Do you really think that's possible?"

"It's orange peel," Orange Peel suddenly asked.

"If it doesn't work out, just treat it as a vacation. Anyway, the world around us is pretty boring."

Qingmeng put all the guns into her backpack, saying nonchalantly as she slung the backpack over her shoulder.

Ke Mingye remained silent for a while, then raised his head and gazed at the enormous sun.

"Compared to this, would you rather kill innocent people?" he asked.

"Your question is meaningless," Anti-Dog said expressionlessly. "To give you an analogy, we are just insects locked in a cage. We have no right to consider what the people outside the cage will do, let alone whether the other insect we are fighting is innocent."

He paused for a moment: "To struggle by any means necessary to survive is the most basic and final right of every life."

Ke Mingye remained silent, his gaze lowered as he looked at the rusty tracks.

He was about to speak when Qingmeng spoke first.

"Come on, can you stop thinking so formulaically?" she said. "This thing called the system says you're a player, so just go with the flow and treat this world like a game. You've played Grand Theft Auto before, right? Do you feel guilty killing people in that kind of game?"

"You know what, I've never actually played this before," said Anti-Dog.

“Me neither,” Ke Mingye said.

"It doesn't feel as good as... Genshin Impact."

Orange Peel looked down and flipped through the book "Tales of the Illusory Realm," saying something.