Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 335

Chapter 335: Chapter 199 Big Event Two: Blood Clan Hunter (Part 3)_2

The voice had hardly faded away when Qing Ya’s figure vanished amidst a booming sound like the flapping of giant wings, leaving behind only a few crow feathers accompanied by the strange thing.

The strange thing raised its right hand to its chin and quietly looked up at the sky as the wind blew the distant dark clouds closer, gradually shrouding the air. The first raindrop fell upon its cheek.

“Looks like it’s going to rain…”

The strange thing tilted its head back, its hollow eyes reflecting the gloomy sky.

After a while, as the rain curtain grew heavier and the torrential rain enveloped the city, its mouth corners faintly curled up.

….

….

Twenty-five minutes earlier, Hongdeng Commercial District.

Ke Xiaomo, wearing a grey T-shirt and sweatpants, and donning a duckbill cap, was hidden behind a street corner billboard, quietly gazing at the silhouette of the blue owl.

Watching him enter the Superhero Tower, Ke Xiaomo retreated to the back of the billboard, taking cover in the shadows to think.

“He’s entered the Superhero Tower, so he shouldn’t be in danger for the time being. With his skills, the tasks the Superhero Association is currently assigning him are low-level. His teammates are fairly capable, too. As long as they don’t encounter any unexpected situations, the chances of something going wrong are slim. Looks like it’s about to rain, should I keep following him? Probably not necessary…”

Having thought this, Ke Xiaomo did not continue to track the blue owl but instead stepped out from behind the billboard and pulled over a chair to sit down at a nearby outdoor beverage shop.

He ordered a cup of hot tea from the server and casually picked up a fashion magazine from the shelf beside him, sitting there for a moment. The clothing styles showcased in the magazine had him frowning repeatedly, so he closed the book.

Ke Xiaomo sighed and was thinking of maybe just going home when sudden activity from the distant Superhero Tower caught his attention.

The entire building was bathed in alarming red. The massive drone of the alarm bell echoed through the air, like an airplane passing overhead, drawing the attention of passersby who stopped to look up.

Ke Xiaomo was startled at first, then rapidly lifted his gaze, peering at the crimson high-rise from the open-air cafe. The high-rise’s glass curtain walls were gradually being engulfed by metal bulwarks. From a distance, it looked like the skyscraper had turned into a colossal iron box, striking fear into onlookers.

“What’s going on… the Superhero Tower just activated its defense system? Something seems to have happened inside, and Mingye is still in there.”

With that thought, Ke Xiaomo didn’t hesitate to put down his cup. Taking advantage of the pedestrians around him all looking up at the building, he slipped into the shadows at his feet from a blind spot in the surveillance, vanishing without a trace.

Then, he swiftly navigated the streets and infiltrated the metallic curtain wall of the Superhero Tower, climbing from the first floor to the forty-fifth with the speed of a storm, circling each floor to roughly survey the situation inside.

Along the way, on the tenth floor of the building, Ke Xiaomo glimpsed a figure inside a moving glass elevator.

It was a woman in a green raincoat, hugging her shoulders, her expression calm.

“The archer?”

Ke Xiaomo paused, quickly recalling that she was one of the three Blood Clan Hunters he had seen at Hong Ge Food Street the other day.

Could this be the work of the Blood Clan Hunters? He wondered.

Although he saw Lin Ke, he didn’t see the blue owl in the elevator, and thinking that ensuring Mingye’s safety was the primary objective, he temporarily ignored the Blood Clan Hunter and continued ascending.

In the end, he found a man struck by an arrow in an office on the forty-fifth floor.

“This is… Mingye’s commander.”

Ke Xiaomo observed the unconscious Che Zhengchen from the shadows, frowning slightly and murmuring softly.

Intending to leave immediately with the thought that the Superhero Association’s medical staff would soon arrive,

he glanced at the amount of blood Commander Che was losing and felt that the man would die from blood loss before help arrived. Thus, he cloaked his face and body in shadow, shaping himself into a figure akin to the Dice Monster, then stepped out from the shadow on the wall and approached Che Zhengchen rapidly.

Bending down, he reached out his right hand and wrapped the wound in a layer of shadow to prevent further blood loss.

“This should hold for a while, long enough for him to receive treatment. So… where exactly is Mingye?”

He rose from the floor, pondering this when suddenly there was a commotion from outside the door.

Accompanied by a series of urgent and heavy footsteps, an armed police squad burst in, aiming the muzzles of their AK-47s at Ke Xiaomo, who was shrouded in shadows.

“It’s the Dice Monster!” The leader was taken aback, then barked.

“Fire!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the people behind him squeezed the triggers of their rifles in unison. Bullets streaked from the barrels, pouring down like rain on the grey-black figure they saw before them.

Ke Xiaomo solidified from shadow to substance, protecting his body with shadow as he stepped back twice through the hail of bullets, careful to distance himself from Che Zhengchen so the latter wouldn’t be hit by mistake.

Then, the moment his back touched the wall, Ke Xiaomo’s form seemed to dissolve like a puddle of black water into it, vanishing into a whirlpool of condensed shadows.

“Should I look higher up? No, at the time of the incident, Mingye should have been with his commander. Yet now he’s gone. It seems the problem lies with that Blood Clan Hunter, I need to find her fast.”

Ke Xiaomo plummeted down the metallic exterior of the Superhero Tower, his shadowy form swooping like a raptor, stirring up pitch-black gusts.

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