Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 430

Chapter 430: Chapter 229: Sign a Contract with Me to Become Monkey Wine_3

“That’s right,” nodded the owl.

“Oh, where’s my magic wand?”

“It’ll appear when you transform. Do you want to transform here?”

“No, I’ll do it later. Can you go away now?”

“What do you mean ‘can I go away’? I am your Contracted Beast, I’m sticking with you.”

“Is that so?”

“What else?”

“Fine…” said She Neian, sighing with a slump as she hugged the owl in her arms, “You’re so big and so fat, how am I going to take you home?”

“Kobe can become invisible.”

“Oh, go invisible. Let me see.”

No sooner had she finished speaking than the owl’s body became a transparent mass, yet its touch still lingered in her arms.

“Impressive,” said Shi Neian, “I’ll take you home, but before I let you speak, don’t say anything.”

The owl didn’t speak.

Soon, Shi Neian, holding the owl, arrived at the vacation resort on Wine Reflecting Coast, walked through the resort, and came to a seaside villa.

“Is this your home?” the owl thought to itself it had latched onto a rich lady.

“That’s right.”

Shi Neian whispered, unlocking the door with her cell phone keycard. A minimalist-style living room came into view as she listlessly announced, “Mom, Dad, I’m home.”

“Xia’an, you can get ready for breakfast,” a woman’s voice came from the kitchen.

“Okay, I’ll be there in a bit.”

Shi Neian casually shut the door, climbed the stairs with the owl, and entered her own room on the second floor.

The room was furnished with a soft, white bed. The balcony offered views of the azure sea, and the seagulls brought in bright sunlight, throwing mottled shadows on the floor.

“Your family is really rich,” remarked the owl in her arms.

“We are quite wealthy,” she admitted, sitting on the bed with a lack of energy and rubbing the dark circles under her eyes.

“When did you start living here?”

“A few days ago; our family has a villa both in Huanjing and Lin’an. I’m going to school here after summer break, so we moved over,” she explained.

“How old are you?” the owl continued to inquire.

Shi Neian retorted, “Are you checking my household registration?” Although she protested, she still honestly answered, “Junior high, going into ninth grade soon. I’m going to attend Huanjing No. 5 Junior High School.”

The owl was taken aback, wondering if this was the same middle school Bai Zini and Bai Ziling attended. Perhaps Shi Neian might transfer to their class in a few days?

Seeing the suddenly dumbstruck owl in her arms, Shi Neian looked down towards the transparency and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”

“Are you interested in joining the Magical Girl Alliance?” the owl changed the subject.

“No.”

“You must join.”

“Why?” asked Shi Neian helplessly.

“Because you’re a Magic Girl, you need to interact with your fellow Magic Girl compatriots,” the owl stated earnestly, “Huanjing has many outstanding Magic Girls worth learning from, like Xiaohongmao… and also Xiaohongmao, and again Xiaohongmao.”

She Neian propped her chin with her hand, sighed, and asked, “Who is this Xiaohongmao? You seem to like her a lot. Why not become her Contracted Beast?”

“Because she’s a Comet Seed Magic Girl and doesn’t need a Contracted Beast.”

“Oh…” Shi Neian asked indifferently, “I’m suddenly a bit curious, why did you choose me?”

“Because you have the potential to be a Magic Girl,” the owl replied.

“Uh… You can see my potential?” asked Shi Neian.

“Yes, just like those pay-to-win card games, you’re SSR and others are R. SSRs glow; I spotted you right away,” the owl said matter-of-factly.

“How does a Contracted Beast know about card games?”

“I learned from other Magic Girls.”

“The more I hear, the more I feel like a backup option. I’m deflated, lying flat,” sighed Shi Neian listlessly.

“Comrade Shi Neian, can you not be so defeatist? You’re only in junior high.”

“I can’t help it…” Shi Neian mumbled, and then suddenly asked, “Why is your name Kobe?”

“It’s a name bestowed upon me by the heavens,” the owl said, “Sacred, noble, gorgeous.”

“Uh… your name reminds me of someone I used to know.”

“A friend?”

“It’s complicated. You don’t have to stay invisible anymore, my door’s locked.”

Shi Neian said as she placed the owl on the bed, then sat down herself and, for some reason, started lifting her fingers towards the void.

It was as if… she was operating something on an invisible panel.

“Wait a minute… what are you doing with your fingers?” the dumbstruck owl asked, seeing this scene.

“It’s none of your business,” she replied.

Shi Neian spoke dejectedly, with one hand propping up her chin and the other manipulating something in the air.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute, that gesture is…”

The owl realized this and then thought of what Shi Neian had just said, about how its name made her think of someone she knew. But in this parallel world, sports were not well-developed, and Kobe hadn’t become famous, so it was quite shocked…

“Could she be… a player?”

The idea suddenly popped into the owl’s mind. It lifted its blue eyes, staring intently at Shi Neian, as cold sweat began to trickle down its round head.

At this moment, a crystal blue panel was displayed in Shi Neian’s eyes, the “Thought Sketch” that comes with the system.

She was writing in her diary on the Thought Sketch.

….

….

July 20th:

My name is Shi Neian.

A month ago, I traversed to another world.

After traversing, I’m still called Shi Neian, exactly the same name as this person here, quite a coincidence.

The good news, my family is very rich.

The bad news, I’ll die within a year if I don’t exterminate the superhumans.

Heh, humorous, living in such a big villa yet I’m asked to exterminate superhumans? Not even dogs would do that.

I decided to just lay low for a year, eat what I want, drink what I want, and avoid contacting other players as much as possible, so I don’t get dragged into their schemes, and just lay low for the coming year.

I registered a player ID called “All-Nighter Poppy”, and when I have nothing else to do, I just browse the leaderboard to see if other players have made any moves.

I want to laugh,

Continue grinding, everyone else.

I,

am laying low.

By the way, since up till now I’ve done nothing but eat, drink, and have fun, if they manage to exterminate the superhumans, maybe I won’t even have to die after a year, that would really be too funny.

To be honest, this world isn’t much different from the one I came from, spending every day at home gaming and watching anime, leading a parasitic life.

But the one difference is…

This world has no abstract culture, no chaotic internet, the internet environment isn’t chaotic enough, and the forums are just not my cup of tea.

Ah, I’m starting to miss my Cheese Snow Leopard, and my dear Ding Zhen, and the ever-clear Emperor Xiaochuan, the forums here are relying on defenses, full of canyons of super-hero magic girls, the fellow netizens are too high-quality, not abstract enough.

This is not the forum I want, not the internet I want…

But thankfully, aside from that, other things are still pretty acceptable, the standards for animation and games in this world are even higher than those I’ve seen in my previous life, especially VR games – absolutely thrilling.

As long as I can be a homebody for one more day, I definitely won’t let anyone find out about my gamer identity.

I will just live out this year in this manner.

July 24th:

Can this be real? I was actually noticed by a Contracted Beast.

Initially, sticking to my principle of waiting for death, I wanted to reject it.

But it’s called Kobe… it’s nostalgic, its name reminded me of Ding Zhen.

My dear Ding Zhen, my lost abstract internet culture, I couldn’t refuse…

Perhaps, this was Ding Zhen reaching out to me in another way…

It must be fate.

Who could refuse a Contracted Beast named “Kobe”?

But now I’m having second thoughts, what should I do? It seems I can’t keep laying low.

Do I have to become a Magic Girl and climb to the peak of life? But what if, after a year, when those players have developed, they treat me like a superhuman and discard me like a stray dog on the roadside?

This is so annoying…

I should just give up.

…

After writing today’s morning diary entry on the Thought Sketch, Shi Neian clicked save and then closed the panel.

“What… what are your fingers doing?”

The owl was staring at her in shock at that moment.

“I’m practicing the piano,” Shi Neian said languidly, lifting her listless face and pointing towards the piano in the corner of the room.

“Really?”

“Really, we piano students like to review our music pieces by air-playing the piano when we have nothing else to do,” said Shi Neian.

As she said this, she heard the call for dinner coming from downstairs and sighed, “Time for dinner, just stay in your room and turn invisible if my parents come in.”

After speaking, she got up from the bed and left the room, leaving the owl with a puzzled look on its face, watching her back until she walked out of sight.

It thought: “Is she really playing the piano? That clearly looked like… the finger movements of a player operating the system panel, right?”

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