Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 268

Chapter 268: Chapter 179 Do you want to meet with Qing Ya alone?_2

Ke Mingye switched to the “China Huanjing” page.

He saw one hundred card slots, each marked with a serial number from NO.1 to NO.100. Inside the card slots with serial numbers NO.5, NO.7, NO.10, and NO.14, a card was each contained.

He poked the NO.14 card.

The image on the card front depicted the Spider Prince, slumbering in the deep darkness, quietly rubbing his bone blade, which was transformed from his arms, against his spider legs, the blade gleaming brightly.

[Card Name: Spider Prince]

[Card Serial Number: NO.014]

[Card Source: Victory over Huanjing NO.14 instance — “The Spider Prince in the Basement”.]

[Card Effect: Summons 10 small toxic spiders to attack one target (Cooldown: one day)]

[Current Huanjing instances cleared: (12/100).]

Seeing this data, Ke Mingye couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows slightly. From his memory, he had only cleared four instances himself. There was no need to mention who cleared the rest.

Of course, Gastella might have cleared one or two instances. But she had no teammates and could only fight alone, so at most she might have cleared one or two.

From the leaderboard, it appeared Gastella had not slaughtered superhumans en masse; rather, her superhuman kill count was only 10. This suggested that her bug skill was probably acquired with the initial permissions gifted by the system store.

Moreover, its level must be high; Ke Mingye guessed it had to be at least a C-grade skill, with a B-grade skill being more likely;

As for an A-grade skill, well, as the number one player himself, he’d never even seen a hint of it, let alone other players.

Ke Mingye said, “So it seems, during the time I couldn’t leave, you guys had already cleared so many instances behind my back, huh?”

“That’s right. At that time I even asked the Dog-headed Strategist why we shouldn’t bring S” >pider Man. He said we had already isolated Spider Man.”

He paused for a moment and stroked his chin, “Now it seems, Spider Man, that there was a reason you couldn’t come with us on long journeys. Heh heh heh, the detective has seen through everything.”

“That’s enough,” Ke Mingye said, “It was all Fan Quan’s doing. I was just his henchman.”

“I figured it out. I was wondering why you would deceive us. Turns out… it was all Fan Quan’s fault.”

The voice of the paranoid suddenly deepened.

“Having said that, don’t go assassinating any cultured man.”

“I understand… I also want him to experience the taste of betrayal. Killing him so simply would be too kind.”

As the paranoid said this, his expression indifferent, he licked the blade like a husky.

“Okay, good luck.”

Ke Mingye spoke, then suddenly everything went dark before his eyes. When he came to his senses, he and the paranoid were back in the underground labyrinth.

They walked the same way out of the underground labyrinth and after spotting the stairs leading up, they went straight up, not long before they returned to the cramped, damp alley.

Ke Mingye casually closed the iron door, leaned against the wall, and took a deep breath before asking, “Well… having accompanied you on a trip to the instance, how do you feel, have you asked everything you wanted to?”

Back against the wall, arms folded, the paranoid said, “Spider Man, even though I don’t know your secret troubles, when you need the great Paranoid, I will definitely be there.”

“I will need you.” Ke Mingye lifted his head, looking towards the fragmented sky cut by the edges of the apartment buildings and the iron fence, “By the way… are you really foolish, or just pretending?”

“What do you mean? With Paranoid the Great so smart, you actually think Paranoid the Great is foolish?”

“It seems you truly are foolish.”

“Hehe, it seems you have been influenced by the hacker girl. Paranoid the Great forgives you, after all, you’re not on a level to understand… the wisdom of a god.”

“Goodbye, I’m off to eat, see you next time.”

Having said that, Ke Mingye stepped away from the alley. He walked wearily on the street, the somewhat dim sunlight falling on his face, when suddenly his pocket vibrated with a notification from his phone.

He took out his phone and glanced down.

The caller ID displayed “Che Zhengchen.”

“That was quick…”

Ke Mingye stared at the name on the screen, raised his eyebrows, and then walked into a public restroom inside KFC, answering Che Zhengchen’s call in the last stall.

“Commander Che, you’re awake already?”

“My body’s fine, I’ve already returned to the Association Building. What about you, everything okay?”

The warm voice of Che Zhengchen came through the phone.

“No, Witch Black Rose injured a bone or two, but with my constitution, it’ll heal in a couple of days.”

If Ke Mingye wanted, he could drink a few sips from the Rebirth Medical Bottle to immediately heal the chest injury, but that would be too fake. It was better to leave the injury and deal with it in a couple of days. After all, the physique of a superhuman was there, it wouldn’t cause much harm.

“That’s good.” Che Zhengchen paused, “Actually, I wanted to ask if you could come over to Superhero Tower now?”

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye said without hesitation, “I’m on my way. I’ll be there in half an hour.”

….

….

Exactly half an hour later, on the forty-fifth floor of the Superhero Association Building, in the office.

Che Zhengchen sat behind the office desk, lightly tapping the back of his hand with a pen.

He was thinking about something after being captured by the Dice Monster; he suddenly remembered that a few days ago at the underground bar, he seemed to have arranged a meeting with someone.

It seemed to be a very important person, but he couldn’t remember who it was.

“How strange…”

He put down the pen, resting his right hand against the side of his head, and murmured to himself.

A moment later, a notification sound from the desk phone interrupted his thoughts.

“Commander, a superhero codenamed ‘Blue Owl’ requests to meet with you. Should I grant him access?”

Upon hearing this, Che Zhengchen breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appearing on his face, “Let him up.”

“Received.”

After a short while, accompanied by the slow opening of the elevator door opposite the office, a figure dressed in a red and blue uniform walked out and directly entered the office.

“I am here, Commander.” Blue Owl, ever the familiar one, said and immediately pulled up a chair in front of the desk and sat down, facing Che Zhengchen.

He looked up at Che Zhengchen from behind his glasses. The Commander’s attire was no different from usual: a suit and a slick back hairstyle, only the glasses had been swapped for rimless ones.

He actually took the advice, changed from the gold-rimmed glasses, huh? Blue Owl thought amusingly.

Che Zhengchen said, “I called you here today mainly for two things.”

“Is it about the Dice Monster?”

Che Zhengchen shook his head, smiling, “No, there’s surveillance in this office, so there’s no need for your explanation. The Association has seen your actions. You jumping off the building to save me was touching, but don’t be so impulsive next time; after all, you don’t have flying abilities like Platinum Wing and the others.”

“Oh, what’s the matter then?” Blue Owl asked.

“Let’s put aside the first matter for now;”

Che Zhengchen said, pausing for a moment, looking up at Blue Owl, then asked deeply.

“For the second matter, would you like to meet Qing Ya alone?”

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