Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 370

Chapter 370: Chapter 210: The Third Week of the Family Meeting (Part 2)_3

Immediately, several people turned their attention to Ke Yongzhu.

“I’m a dragon. There’s nobody who doesn’t know that.”

He sighed and said, “Why are you looking at me? Is the air conditioning too cold and you want me to breathe some fire to warm up your hands? Careful, or I might just roast you all.”

“I think a performance would be good.” Ke Mingye opened a box of chocolate bars on the table. As he spoke, he said, “You can be a clown, a lion, and a fire-breather all at once. Don’t waste your talent; you could totally start a circus and be all the performers by yourself. How convenient would that be?”

“Get lost, who could snatch the clown job from you?”

Ke Yongzhu glared at him.

“Big bad dragon… I’ll emphasize it again, just don’t eat your classmates.”

Bai Qiuwu said calmly, rubbing Yongzhu’s hair.

“They don’t deserve it?”

Ke Yongzhu said grumpily, hanging his head down, letting her mess up his hair further.

Bai Zini coughed twice, then said, “Next up is big brother.”

“Wait, Mingye has a secret identity too?” Bai Qiuwu asked suspiciously, looking toward Ke Mingye.

“If he does, I’ll eat my phone,” Ke Yongzhu mumbled, playing with his phone unconcernedly.

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“I do, why wouldn’t I?”

Ke Mingye lifted his right hand to his chin, bit a chocolate bar, and said calmly.

“You have nothing,” Ke Yongzhu retorted.

“Then just pretend I don’t…”

Ke Mingye said nonchalantly, chomped down the chocolate bar, and then performed a phase transfer to swap places with Ke Yongzhu.

As the two switched places, everyone in the room was momentarily stunned, seemingly unable to react.

Ke Yongzhu paused for half a second, glanced at Bai Zini sitting beside him, and then realized he had swapped places with Ke Mingye.

He squinted his eyes and looked sideways at him: “…Huh?”

He paused for half a second, then let out an even louder puzzled exclamation: “Huh?”

“I’m Blue Owl,” Ke Mingye said. “One of my superpowers is swapping places. Just check out the videos online; there are bloggers analyzing my abilities, no need for me to introduce them, right?”

“Just so you know, I was the first in the family to find out.”

Bai Zini spoke indifferently, emphasizing this point for some reason.

“My brother is… a superhero.”

Bai Ziling spoke with pride, flipping over the sketchpad in her arms to show her cartoon drawing of Blue Owl.

“Really… are you serious, no joke?” Bai Qiuwu took a deep breath, covered her mouth, and widened her eyes.

She spoke sporadically: “Ming, Mingye… the Blue Owl on TV, the one that’s been really popular lately?”

Truthfully, she regretted her overreaction right after acting it out, thinking her response might have been too exaggerated…

So her ears turned slightly red, but she was still trying her best to look surprised.

“It’s true,” Bai Zini said softly. “Sis, you have to keep it a secret from dad and mom, okay?”

Bai Qiuwu was stunned again, glancing at Ke Mingye and then at Bai Zini.

Ke Yongzhu said sarcastically: “No way, I was wondering why that superhero was so lame and mouths off so much, not afraid of death at all… turns out it’s you. That makes sense now.”

Ke Mingye retorted, “What’s wrong with mouthing off? That’s called tactical harassment to confuse the enemy and make them lose their minds and make mistakes. What do you know, you elementary schooler?”

“I can slap them to death with one hand, no need for trash talk. Clearly, the strong ones are the silent ones.”

“You don’t know anything, the ability to trash talk in battle is the mark of a real expert. Ever heard of being effortlessly proficient?”

As they bantered, Bai Qiuwu’s pupils flickered with light, her expression complex. She fell silent for a moment, then suddenly said, “I heard online that Qing Ya wants to use Blue Owl as bait to lure out the Timekeeper… Is that true?”

Saying this, she looked worriedly at Ke Mingye, her gaze burning.

Ke Mingye opened his mouth, at a loss for what to say for a moment.

Silence briefly enveloped the room.

“That detestable Crow Man is just vile, doing something like this… If he dares use my older brother as bait, I better not find out who he is… or I swear I’ll bite him to death!”

Bai Zini lowered her face, her expression darkening.

“Indeed, he’s a beast.”

Ke Yongzhu said calmly, getting straight to the point.

“I hate him…”

Bai Ziling lifted her drawing board, which depicted a smelly crow being kicked away by a little white rabbit.

“Please… He’s never spoken about me like that, never made a stance, and has hardly ever acknowledged me a few times, how can you guys think he’s using me?”

As he spoke, Ke Mingye picked up a glass and took a disinterested sip of water.

He shrugged his shoulders and continued, “Besides, the Superhero Association has developed so fast, it’s no longer what it used to be, not easily manipulated by a criminal anymore. So… even if I were to be captured by the Timekeeper, there would certainly be someone to save me.”

Though he said this, he believed more in his own two hearts, the Blood Clan Oath left on him by Bai Ziling, and the ultimate card of Bai Ke’s home — Comrade Yuri; these were his real confidence against facing the Timekeeper.

“But…”

Bai Qiuwu hadn’t finished speaking when Ke Mingye cut him off.

“Anyway… Let’s leave it at this for today, I’ve said all that needs to be said, time to rest.”

With that, Ke Mingye stood up from the table, turned, and walked towards the door, pausing slightly at the threshold, “Don’t come knocking on my room door… I revealed my identity to you not to hear you pointing fingers at me, and… no matter how many times you say it, I don’t think Qing Ya is using me.”

After asserting his persona with these words, he turned the doorknob, exited the room, wiped his face with a towel, and returned to his bedroom.

He closed the door behind him, locked it, and sprawled onto the bed.

He yawned, thinking how stiff his older sister’s acting was, probably the stiffest in the family, a downside of being too earnest… At least his second brother has a bit of sly charm, so his acting is passable.

His older sister truly had no acting skills, fortunately, no one else could possibly guess she was Black Wukong.

Ke Mingye called up the mission panel in his mind.

[Completed Main Quest: “Destroy the Vampire Hunter Organization” — Using Bai Ziling as bait, lure all vampire hunters to this city and kill them all (Click here to claim reward).]

“The next node couldn’t be exterminating all vampires, could it? Though it seems all the vampires are already dead, except for Zi Ling alone.”

Ke Mingye thought this and tapped on the text, claiming the node reward.

[Node Reward Acquired: 6000 Experience Points, 10 attribute points, 5000 Mall Coins.]

[Current total Mall Coins: 17,100.]

[Attribute points allocated, your neurological reaction attribute has been increased: 44 points – 49 points (|5 points); your mental strength attribute has been increased: 40 points – 45 points (|5 points)]

[The next milestone of this main quest is the final node: Kill the world’s last vampire “Bai Ziling”, ending the legacy of the Blood Clan Oath.]

Ke Mingye stared at the mission content for a few seconds, then silently closed the panel.

“Time for sleep.”

He muttered to himself, turned off the bedside lamp, and closed his eyes. In his mind, the mocking smile of Gastella and her ghostly words began to emerge.

What will you choose in the end…

Do you want to use the power of a god to defy God?

Don’t be a coward, Ke Mingye.

Ke Mingye took a deep breath, lightly lifted his finger, directing all his strength to his fingertips, and pointed it at his head. Immediately, his body passed out.

A night passed without a word.

The next morning, when Ke Mingye opened his eyes, he saw exactly what he least wanted to see.

[Obituary: Yesterday afternoon, the player “Gastella” located in Huanjing City was killed by another player “Failed Man”, and the system has now marked that player as a red name. All players, please be cautious.]

“Please, it was clearly Blue Owl who did it, what does this have to do with Spider Man…”

Ke Mingye ruffled his messy hair, sat up from the bed, yawned, and murmured.

“This is bad… I wonder if there are any restrictions for red name players, hopefully it won’t attract a bunch of locals to hunt me down?”

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