Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 341

Chapter 341: Chapter 201: Major Event Two: Blood Clan Hunter (Five)_2

The four of them were proceeding slowly down the middle of the street as if traversing a wilderness. Madmen were everywhere, yet those uncanny figures took care to veer away upon encountering them, parting to create a thoroughfare.

“That white-haired vampire is just ahead,” Sisteruo said from atop a green horse, speaking slowly, “Be careful though, while we need a swift victory, we can still retreat if we bump into a tricky situation.”

“Retreat… You’ve only got a few days left, we have no room for retreat, we must find that vampire this time,” said Flint, clad in a vest and shorts, his voice heavy.

“Isn’t there still a few days left?” Sisteruo smiled, “This isn’t the last chance.”

“Our Lolo is always optimistic.”

Wearing a denim jacket, Howard said as he sat on his horse, wiping his twin guns while steering the animal.

Lin Ke stowed his longbow away and suddenly asked, “That memory device you mentioned, it’s fake, isn’t it?”

Sisteruo nodded, “Yes, to confirm it’s him, he doesn’t need a device at all. As the head of the Superhero Association branch, I used my privilege to search the Human Species Database for residents of Huanjing with the characteristic ‘white hair’.”

Pausing a moment, she continued, “Then I found, well, many elderly people also have white hair… The art of prophecy didn’t tell me the age of that vampire; if he’s an old man, ‘white hair’ wouldn’t be unusual. If that’s the case, there would be too many people of concern.”

“In the end, I blindly hoped and screened out the elderly age group. Still, there were hundreds of people left. Then I began to go through these people one by one, eliminating those who live alone, those who have been out of town during this period, and was still left with over thirty people. Over these past days, we checked more than twenty people in person, eliminating them one by one to find… the target is likely the person I initially dismissed, Bai Ziling.”

“Why did you exclude her at the beginning?” Lin Ke continued.

“Because when I first saw her father’s name, I was shocked. Can you believe it? Her father is Qing Ya, the famous one, yet her mother is an ordinary human,” Sisteruo complained, “The Blood Clan’s genes should be inherited through generations, yet she was born into such a family.”

“So you mean, her mother could be a vampire?”

“Are you suggesting the famous Qing Ya would marry a vampire without realizing one of his children is a ‘player’?” Sisteruo said, “That’s a bit sensational. Thinking this, I dismissed the target, but it turns out after going in circles, the one we initially excluded happens to be the person we’re looking for… That was really an oversight. Logically speaking, Qing Ya should have been aware of the ‘player’s’ existence, and I underestimated Ke Mingye’s strength, not imagining he, as a player, could hide under Qing Ya’s nose for so long.”

Sisteruo smiled, “I kept thinking, Dice Monster and this player are connected, and Dice Monster wants me to kill Blue Owl, what’s all this for… Later, I suddenly realized, there’s a white-haired girl in Qing Ya’s family, and Blue Owl is a superhero who debuted mimicking Qing Ya. This is too coincidental, it seems… everything is connected, eventually all arrows point to this family, particularly when they have a girl with albinism in their midst–it would be absurd to dismiss her as the Blood Clan.”

“How did you confirm who was the player?”

“In the player discussion group, you can see the time when each player joined. That player joined the Huanjing discussion group a month ago. I used my chairman privilege to check, and during that time Ke Xiaomo, Ke Yinzhi were not in this city but remained at the university,” Sisteruo paused, then continued, “So I investigated Ke Mingye a bit. I found out that he was still attending school those days, but I couldn’t access the school’s surveillance footage, even with the chairman’s authority, because the surveillance footage for those days was deleted, all of it, which seems like a cover-up.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know. Maybe Spider Man has a hacker supporting him, and to avoid exposing any clues, he had that hacker delete the footage…” Sisteruo mused, “The critical point is, when Dice Monster first appeared, he was wearing the uniform of Huanjing’s Third High School, which is the strangest detail… It happens to suggest the connection between Ke Mingye and Dice Monster.”

“Of course, in their family, there’s another person who was at that school when the surveillance was tampered with, that girl called ‘Bai Qiuwu’, but as I previously mentioned, she is Black Wukong… so we can confirm she’s not the player.”

“After all these considerations, I was left with only Ke Mingye as the matching candidate, he’s most likely the player, but I’m still not completely certain, because all of it is conjecture, without substantial evidence. But just now, I used two consecutive tests to indirectly make him admit he is indeed that player.”

“I see,” Lin Ke said, “I was wondering what memory device you were talking about; I’ve never heard of it.”

“Just playing with him, you have to use some tricks when dealing with smart people, and his reactions confirmed my suspicions… I really didn’t expect him to have four identities, that’s playing big,” Sisteruo said with a touch of admiration.

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