Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 362

Chapter 362: Chapter 208: Major Event Two: Blood Clan Hunter (End)

July 21, at dusk.

Bai Wenna leaned against the bookshelf in the corner of the living room, tilting her head with the red telephone receiver wedged between her shoulder and ear.

While dusting off the fur left by Yuri with a feather duster, she complained to Ke Youqing on the other end of the phone with a string of curses, “At such a critical time you disappeared for an entire afternoon, completely unreachable, with no sense of responsibility! Mingye’s right arm was injured by those crazed people, his arm is even fractured! It’s lucky no one at home was hurt, otherwise, as a father, you’d have to kneel and apologize…”

Ke Mingye slouched on the living room sofa, rolled his eyes, and silently listened to both the news broadcast coming from the TV and his mother’s endless nagging.

He thought to himself, your husband is busy blocking nuclear missiles, with great responsibility on his shoulders, and it’s just a few missed calls, what’s the big deal? If that nuclear missile had really come down, all of us would have been gone, let alone having the leisure to chat on the phone with you…

Of course… he didn’t rule out the possibility that his alien mother could physically withstand a nuclear explosion, regenerate at a high frequency while under nuclear radiation. But without witnessing it with his own eyes, Ke Mingye absolutely wouldn’t believe it.

He felt that even if the Divine Communicator Zeus himself showed up, taking a nuclear explosion head-on would probably turn him to ashes as well; if his mom truly had the ability to withstand a nuclear blast, she might as well have gone from the Arctic to Antarctica to slaughter the entire world, rather than spending over twenty years in this godforsaken place doing thankless undercover work.

Ke Mingye’s thoughts wandered aimlessly. He yawned, lifting his eyes to the television.

The news anchorwoman sat elegantly, reporting today’s headlines one by one.

[Parasite Chaos in Huanjing Ends, Casualties Yet to be Confirmed]

“The parasite chaos that recently ravaged Huanjing has been fully controlled and has come to an end. At present, the specific number of casualties is still being verified. The Superhero Association and the Anomaly Control Bureau have jointly announced that the chaos was caused by a small superhuman group claiming to be the ‘Blood Clan Hunters.’ The members of this organization have been eradicated, and multiple parties have announced that Huanjing will not experience parasite incidents again.”

[Superhero Blue Owl Safe, Commander Che Zhengchen Receives Medical Treatment]

“The well-concerned Superhero ‘Blue Owl’ has been confirmed safe, and at the same time, Commander Che Zhengchen is receiving necessary medical treatment in the hospital and is out of mortal danger. The Superhero Association clarifies that this incident is not related to the villain ‘Dice Monster.’”

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[Nuclear Missile Crisis Averted, Joint Effort Rescues Out-of-Control Spacecraft]

“At the time of averting the nuclear missile crisis in Huanjing’s airspace, the Superhero Association and the Magical Girl Alliance took swift action and successfully rescued several spacecraft that had lost control due to the EMP from the nuclear explosion. This operation saved countless passengers and crew members from potential aircraft crashes, for which related departments expressed deep gratitude.”

[Superhero Qing Ya and an Anonymous Agent Stop a Nuclear Explosion, Receiving Official High Praise]

“In this emergency, Superhero Qing Ya and an anonymous agent from the Management Bureau stepped forward, successfully preventing the nuclear explosion from further affecting the city. On behalf of the public, officials have expressed the highest respect for their heroic actions.”

[Investigation Into Cause of Nuclear Explosion Ongoing, Li Qingyao Detained by Police]

“Regarding the cause of the nuclear explosion, an in-depth investigation is still ongoing. According to preliminary information, the incident may be related to Li Qingyao, the current president of the Superhero Association. The police have arrested Li Qingyao and will conduct further investigation. According to the Association, Li Qingyao’s erratic behavior may have something to do with being controlled by a parasite. The public is asked to remain patient, and the police will announce detailed results after the investigation is concluded.”

Hearing this, Ke Mingye smirked, thinking why they wouldn’t broadcast the nuclear explosion on TV. But even if they did, it would probably be censored, which wouldn’t be very interesting.

So, he simply turned on his phone.

He scrolled through social media with his eyes lowered, searching for related information. He quickly found a video of the atmospheric nuclear explosion on Weibo.

Being at the scene, he was almost blinded and couldn’t see clearly what was happening in the sky. Now, he finally had the chance to see what it looked like at that time.

He lifted a finger and hit play.

On the narrow screen, a dark column of light from above Huanjing pierced the falling nuclear missile, followed by a cloud-like flock of crows screeching in unison, weaving through the rain, flapping their wings and soaring upward.

The camera zoomed in to reveal that each crow had a strip of metal device clutched in its beak. They enveloped the nuclear warhead from all directions, their bodies gradually disintegrating, then turning into thousands of glistening blue ripples spreading across the lake called the sky, eventually those ripples coalesced into a nearly half-sky-covering elliptical glistening blue barrier. Like the hand of God, it encapsulated the bursting nuclear warhead within.

Even so, it couldn’t completely stop the force of the nuclear explosion, with the daylight-like white light faintly threatening to breach the barrier. At that moment, suddenly, a layer of dark barrier overlaid the outer perimeter of the blue one, together holding back the force of the nuclear explosion.

The whole world was left with only red, black, and blue colors.

Though the barriers eventually dissipated one after another, by that point the power of the nuclear explosion had been greatly diminished, leaving only a mushroom-shaped white smoke rising straight into the sky, lingering on the horizon.

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