Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 406: Chapter 222: The Arrival of Two Uninvited Guests

Blue Owl, whenever he looked down at his phone, would subconsciously keep a safe distance from the screen to avoid his helmet’s beak piercing the screen protector.

He had already shattered the screens of two backup phones this way. When he took them for repair, the shop owner looked at him oddly and wondered, “How did you manage to do this?”

The first time, he pretended and said, “I accidentally dropped the phone.”

The second time, he simply wore his Blue Owl Battle Suit, hands on his hips, and said, “Bro, we superheroes do it like this.”

But after the battle suit was upgraded, he no longer had this problem. He thought to himself how touching it was not to maintain a certain distance from his phone as he quietly browsed the Superhero Association’s official APP.

Following the guidance of the official APP, he raised his right hand and pressed the 10th floor on the elevator keypad.

Moments later, accompanied by a buzzing sound, the elevator doors slowly opened.

Blue Owl had previously exchanged points for items in advance on the APP. So, he showed his ID card to the staff at the reception and then took a Low-Level Genetic Enhancer.

He then left the Superhero Tower.

He took several deserted curves with his destination being an alley near Pear Drop Bridge; Cai Bing lived nearby, and they had agreed to meet under the bridge.

On his way, he saw a familiar superhero doing charity work at an orphanage.

That hero was Octopus Man.

Octopus Man hung his head low, close to the face of a visually impaired little girl, helping her to read a fairy tale picture book.

Blue Owl stopped in the distance, leaned against the wall of the alley, and crossed his arms as he watched silently for a while. He felt that this guy wasn’t that bad, just that their philosophies didn’t align, which inevitably led to clashes.

He was curious whether Octopus Man had gone through something that made him so adamant about the argument that “heroes shouldn’t just be actors” to the extent of confronting him in front of the media.

Of course, it could also simply be for capturing more publicity to make his life better.

But as he said, society was indeed deformed. It seemed like celebrities and idols were fading from the public’s eye with the changing times, but in reality, it was because the economic roles they played were being replaced by superheroes.

Superheroes could do even better, more eye-catching, more legitimate, and they weren’t as easily criticized as celebrities, so capitalists were now eyeing the money-making capabilities of superheroes, engulfed by one huge investment after another. Consequently, the regulations of the Superhero Association were also being forced to “keep up with the times.”

Eventually, the results of years of accumulation directly changed the face of the Superhero Association.

Under some contracts of the Superhero Association, superheroes had to have a fixed amount of live streaming time each week, participate in charity events and even variety shows.

As this trend continued, the heroes bringing in more revenue and attention for the Association naturally enjoyed higher salaries. Many heroes acted contrary to their roles, focusing more on maintaining their image for the attention of others, thereby fading from their duties. This led to the declining quality of new heroes in the Superhero Association, barely supported by the middle-aged and older generations.

However, the majority of these older heroes had no complaints about this, as most of them believed that these novice heroes, being too rash, were not trustworthy.

They thought it better to let the company package these new heroes for profit-making rather than let them affect their own work.

Yet, there were some who believed that if this trend continued, the Superhero Association would eventually bring about its own destruction.

Regardless of the great debates over the Association’s system by others, Blue Owl didn’t care at all, not to mention feeling any empathy with Octopus Man.

Because after a year, he was going to eradicate the superhumans: with only ordinary people left in the world, no super-villains would be needed, and so no superheroes would be required, ridding him of these troubles.

Soon, Blue Owl arrived at a shack under the Pear Drop Bridge.

“You’re here?” Cai Bing asked, sitting on a wooden chair.

“Help me check the helmet of the new battle suit, see if there’s anything wrong with the map location feature on the lens. I’m worried the executives of the Superhero Association installed a tracker in the helmet. If there’s a problem, just remove that function,” Mingye said, taking off his Blue Owl helmet and handing it to Cai Bing.

“It’ll be done in ten minutes,” Cai Bing said, pulling out a toolbox from underneath the wooden chair.

Hearing this, Mingye sat down on the wooden chair, entered his hero code on the metal cipher box, and immediately the box opened, revealing a syringe filled with deep blue liquid.

The moment his eyes touched the syringe, a panel popped up.

[Item Identification: A Low-Level Gene Enhancer made by the technicians of the Superhero Association using rare resources, which will slightly increase the player’s “Physical Fitness” and “Neurological Reaction” attributes after use.]

[Note: The body will develop immunity to the enhancer, so the effect of each level of gene enhancer will weaken with each injection, as follows.]

[Low-level Gene Enhancer effective up to 4 times (number of injections), Intermediate Gene Enhancer effective up to 3 times, High-level Genetic Enhancer effective up to 2 times.]

“Then no problem,”

With the system’s identification, Mingye was reassured and did not hesitate, pressing down on the syringe, causing a cold needle tip to spring out from the front.

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