Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 288: Chapter 187: A Deadly Encounter with Gastella (Part 3)_2

But on the other hand, if this person really were Gastella, then she could indeed detect by simply sending a friend request that the person sitting across from her was not Ke Mingye himself.

If their meeting was like before, still a fake facing another fake, then their conversation was like two people with blindfolds on their eyes testing each other verbally to see if they could see anything.

One fiercely testing by saying, “I see your eyes are covered, you cannot possibly see me”;

while the other replied, “I just saw your eyes are covered, how can you possibly see me with a blindfold on? You’re completely bluffing.”

But in reality, both could not see the true face of the other and could only probe through verbal words behind a dark cloth. Neither trusted the other.

Last time, because the Black Judge was there, Gastella did not dare make a rash move, so Ke Mingye could let paranoia replace himself in sending a friend request to Gastella to confirm if she was really who she claimed to be;

this time, their meeting was a matter of life and death. If paranoia had come, it would mostly end up being captured for interrogation, so he had to take matters into his own hands.

“You know, a person feigning sleep can’t be woken up, let’s not discuss who is fake for now,”

she said, lowering her eyes, glancing at the coffee names on the menu, before continuing.

“I should have told you I want you to collaborate with me to expose the player hiding a vampire at home, but you hide other players’ information from me and even refuse to let me meet them, why is that?”

She paused and said, “Didn’t you say you also wanted to know the details of the player called ‘Fan Quan’, but your actions seem to contradict your words.”

“I also wanted to trick him into meeting you, but he has disappeared these past few days, and I cannot contact him,” Ke Mingye explained.

“Why?” Gastella said, “Is it because Paranoia overheard our conversation and secretly told him, since, apart from you and me, only Paranoia was there, even though you asked him to leave first?”

“That’s possible,” Ke Mingye said, “but more likely, you let slip in the discussion group that you were mingling among Blood Clan Hunters, looking for a white-haired vampire.” He paused, “Fan Quan felt guilty, so he didn’t come to meet you, and has been avoiding other players during this period.”

“Alright,” Gastella still held her chin in both hands, her tone even, “then let’s change the perspective. How can I be sure, actually, you haven’t secretly contacted Fan Quan, tipping him off, telling him to stay away from Huanjing a bit?”

“You’re right. I can’t prove that,” Ke Mingye said, “but…”

Before he could finish, a sharp explosion suddenly rang out next to his ear, as if the air was being torn apart.

Immediately afterward, an arrow, shot from nowhere, pierced through the glass of the cafe, streaking like a light and piercing Ke Mingye’s shoulder, pinning him to the ground.

Soon after, a numbing sensation spread out, starting from the arrow that entered his body, like a giant worm burrowing through him, making his whole body limp, unable to move.

He was poisoned.

Ke Mingye concluded this instantly.

The body of the Deception Puppet lay on the ground, twitching slightly, while barely opening its mouth to say hoarsely to Gastella in the wheelchair: “You tricked me?”

“Didn’t you want me to bring Blood Clan Hunters here?”

Gastella, looking down at him with a superior gaze from her wheelchair, said jokingly like a little girl, “Well… here they are.”

“You’re right… but I certainly didn’t want to meet them this way.”

Ke Mingye joked aloud, but deep inside he thought: he couldn’t let the puppet die here. If the puppet’s body exploded, releasing that eerie laugh in the cafe, it would not only alert Gastella but also raise doubts in his elder brother.

Gastella said, “This arrow is coated with a poison that even vampires can’t resist. Once hit, you will be unconscious for a long time, unable to move. So I suggest you stop thinking about resisting, get some good sleep, and after that, I’ll slowly chat with you to find out if you are really that player involved with the vampire…”

Her words were cut off as a look of surprise appeared in her eyes.

In that very second, Ke Mingye’s body along with the arrow suddenly vanished from the spot.

In its place appeared a blue, bird-shaped tiny mechanical device on the floor of the cafe.

“He vanished?”

Gastella was stunned for half a second, muttering to herself, and quickly raised her walking stick and pressed the bird-shaped machine attempting to take flight down to the floor.

Without half a second’s thought, seeing it still fluttering its wings struggling, she decisively smashed it to prevent this bird-shaped machine from concealing any tricks, causing her trouble.

Amid the shattered pieces and sparks, the bird-shaped machinery slowly became nonresponsive, closing its eyelids, its fluttering wings drooping to the ground.

“If he is still nearby, he shouldn’t have gone far, given that his body is poisoned.”

Gastella thought to herself, without any hint of panic.

“Let Lin Ke help me look for him.”

…..

Meanwhile, on Hong Ge Food Street,

Ke Xiaomo had already carefully searched the nearby buildings not long ago to ensure there were no suspicious individuals, then rapidly vanished into the shadows.

The shadow he transformed into hid on the surface of a residential building directly facing the cafe.

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