Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 529

Chapter 529: Chapter 262: Another Ke Mingye Checks In Chapter 529: Chapter 262: Another Ke Mingye Checks In The subway shuttled through the pitch-black tunnel, the wagons inside flickering between light and shadow. Glints and shadows flitted by, the roaring noise pounding the eardrums, and the face of every passenger changed under the shroud of light and shadow.

Suddenly, Ke Mingye heard a faint, indistinct laughter in the darkness.

He was startled at first, then he moved his head towards the source of the sound, glancing sideways at the window behind him with peripheral vision. He saw… there was a figure laughing. In his eyes was a boy.

The boy was naked, enveloped in a faint halo. He held a pale green fire in both hands, positioned right where his heart should be. It looked as though his heart had been replaced by this fire.

The pale green fire flickered tentatively, and Ke Mingye’s heartbeat also quickened.

He couldn’t see the face clearly, but he was very familiar with the face reflected in his pupils–it resembled the young Ke Mingye, or it would be more accurate to say the person was exactly like Ke Mingye as a child.

The boy laughed spookily, his mouth almost splitting to his ears, like a madman, also somewhat like the Dice Monster.

Ke Mingye stared at his face for two seconds, then quickly opened his status bar to ensure he had not inadvertently activated the E-class skill–“Personality Split.”

Looking at “Personality Split” followed by “Not activated,” he took a good while before he dared to slowly lift his head, his gaze somewhat dull, looking towards the boy in the window.

The next instant, an even more incredible spectacle occurred, like moonlight uniformly spreading and enveloping the carriage.

Ke Mingye froze in place. He slowly turned his head to look around and saw that everything inside the wagon was covered in a layer of mercury-like filter, as if frozen in place.

The roaring that had filled his ears no longer came through, the scenery outside the tunnel window stalled at one point.

He carefully avoided waking Bai Zini on his shoulder, then glanced at the other passengers; they were like statues, stiff and immobile as if covered in superglue.

“Who are you?”

Ke Mingye’s voice was a bit hoarse.

“Are you going to bet on winning?” The shadow reflected on the window met his gaze and suddenly asked.

“What are you talking about?”

“Are you going to bet on winning…” The boy cradled the fire cautiously in his arms, tilted his head, and repetitively asked, “Will you…”

“I don’t understand what you are saying?”

After being stunned for a moment, Ke Mingye slightly opened his mouth and squeezed out these few words from his throat.

Of course, he understood that encountering an uninvited guest with the ability to stop time in the cramped environment of a subway wagon, if the other party harbored ill intentions, then he could have been killed long ago, and there was no need to drag it out until now. Naturally, this boy probably didn’t mean to harm him.

Even if the boy did intend harm… he couldn’t escape this disaster.

“Those people will destroy the world, and even if they don’t destroy the world, the outsiders will, the world is doomed to go towards unavoidable destruction. The seed has its own will, a choice, an outcome, this is very fair, only one choice is right, only one choice will lead to the right outcome.”

After pausing for a moment, the boy continued: “Think about it carefully, the loophole hidden in the rules, if you pay attention, it’s very obvious, a loophole that has existed from the beginning.”

Saying that, the boy raised his eyes to Ke Mingye, then lowered his eyes to the fire in his arms; the world brightened and darkened with the flickering flames.

“This gamble is fair to all of us, isn’t it?” he said to the fire.

With the end of his words, the scene in the wagon suddenly changed, emerging from the swamp formed by mercury accumulation, the layer of silver-white on each passenger slowly faded, followed by the carriage’s floor, walls, ceiling.

And finally the tunnel’s external scenery; the moment the lights inside the tunnel lit up again, the roar of the train roared in as if the howling of a wild beast, followed by the sound of a short video, and the long yawns of people around.

At this time, the scenery outside the window was rapidly changing, but…

The figure of the boy was no longer visible.

Ke Mingye stared through the window at the empty tunnel for a long time, his back soaked in cold sweat.

He thought to himself: “What just happened, did time stop…? It couldn’t possibly be the Timekeeper finding out my identity and coming to catch me, could it? No, if it was the Timekeeper who stopped time, who can explain why I can still move, could it be that players have a passive skill that’s immune to time stopping?

Ke Mingye leaned back into the chair, the air conditioning made his already sweaty clothes feel chilly.

“And also… Why does he look exactly like the young Ke Ming when I was a child, and what exactly was that fire in his hands?”

While he was pondering, a cold and alienated voice suddenly sounded in his ear, like a bucket of cold water poured over his head on a hot summer day, completely taking Ke Mingye’s attention.

[Main Quest “Destroy the Superhero Round Table” second branch “The Day of Tyrant Slaying” target node completed: “The Day of Tyrant Slaying”–elevate your wanted level to B-class on the Superhero Association’s official website.]
[Reward for node completion: 10,000 experience points, 5 attribute points, 5,000 Mall Coins.]
[Your level has been raised to Lv.21 (6500 points/11500 points), granting 1 attribute point.]
[Your Mall Coin balance: 43,000 coins]
[The next target node for this branching path is:–Kill an A-class hero, and raise your wanted level to A-class on the Superhero Association’s official website.]