Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 53

Chapter 53 – 043 Disaster Dice
[D-level Skill “Catastrophe Dice” has been released, and the six events drawn from the event library are——

Number ①: A whale will fall onto the street;

Number ②: A famous historical band of the deceased will appear on the street to perform songs;

Number ③: A parade of elephants will march through the street;

Number ④: A minor earthquake lasting five seconds will be triggered on the street;

Number ⑤: A team of lion dancers will appear on the street to perform;

Number ⑥: A group of men will streak through the street.]

The Catastrophe Dice slowly descended from above the traffic light, flipping through the air above the street, as Ke Mingye manipulated the Deception Puppet to intently watch the black-and-red dice land.

Thud…

The metallic dice hit the ground with a crisp sound, attracting the attention of many passersby to the Deception Puppet.

The dice rolled a couple of times on the asphalt surface and gradually came to a stop, and in the puppet’s pupils, the upward-facing number of the dice was reflected; the result turned out to be… number “⑥”.

Event number six?

[The event represented by number ⑥ has been triggered: a group of men will streak through the street.]

“Huh?”

Ke Mingye was crouching on the floor of the theater, tying his shoelaces, and paused for a second when he saw the result, belatedly thinking.

“Actually… it seems sort of alright?”

The next moment, the Catastrophe Dice turned into a puff of black smoke and dissipated, followed by a scream from within the congested crowd. The people on the street turned toward the source of the scream, following the gaze of the screaming woman towards a corner of the street.

They saw ten completely naked, muscular men running wildly through the street like bulls. If a vehicle blocked their path, they would leap over it like hurdle runners, jumping with an unbelievable amplitude, clearing the vehicle, and then landing heavily on the ground, punching a deep hole as they ran forward relentlessly under the setting sun.

The Deception Puppet, perched on the traffic light, arched its non-existent eyebrows, observing the scene with interest, muttering to itself.

“Truly amusing…”

Meanwhile, Ke Mingye finished tying his shoelaces, stood up leisurely, and walked forward while playing with his phone, keeping an eye on the staff member at the door out of the corner of his eye.

With Ke Mingye’s hearing, he could hardly hear the noise outside the cinema from inside the soundproof theater;

But it was different for his older brother. Ke Yinzhi’s combat rating was A++ level, and with such a commotion caused by the streaking men on the street, even from the inside of the well-insulated theater, he would definitely not fail to notice the situation outside.

The “staff member” at the door looked up, one hand behind his back, the other hand lowering the brim of his hat, his eyes shifting. After hesitating for half a second, he pushed open the door and stepped outside through the gap.

Seeing that Ke Yinzhi had already left the entrance of the theater, Ke Mingye secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He walked to the door, looked up from his phone screen, and pushed open the door. The auditorium’s exit corridor was dimly lit and deserted, with promotional posters of the newest movies plastered on the walls. In just a blink of an eye, Ke Yinzhi had disappeared inside the cinema, most likely having run outside to check out the situation.

Since he had briefly diverted his brother’s attention, Ke Mingye’s goal had been achieved.

The Deception Puppet’s body rapidly heated up and cracked, the bursting flames engulfed the traffic light signs, and even the six-meter-high traffic signal pole was affected, crashing down onto the street, causing screams from the crowds.

[The “Deception Puppet” has been actively destroyed. It will take 10 minutes before another “Deception Puppet” can be released.]

After leaving auditorium three, Ke Mingye casually walked towards the corner and then entered the men’s restroom next to auditorium four.

He went straight to the last stall, closed the door, sat on the toilet seat, and stared at the door in front of him while thinking.

“You can dodge on the first day but not on the fifteenth, even if I avoid it today in the movie theater, once I get home, big brother will probably use this brain imaging helmet on me, then what will I do?” he thought.

“Moreover, it was not easy to eliminate the suspicions of my second brother, and if I now run away from the cinema, he is very likely to start suspecting me again. This is more uncomfortable than being targeted by big brother, after all, the second brother is a Ninja, being watched by him all day during the summer vacation, no matter how I disguise myself, I will eventually expose myself…”

Ke Mingye sighed gently and, tilting his head back, continued to think.

“Judging by the name, that ’brain imaging helmet’ must be something that captures the brainwaves entering the brain and converts them into images. If my guess is right, once I put on the helmet, big brother would see through my eyes and confirm I’m a player, not his brother.”

“Big brother has already caught two players, I don’t know how much information those two players confessed.”

“In any case, this helmet must have been created to confirm whether there are any players sneaking into the house; otherwise, he wouldn’t need to go to the trouble of disguising as a cinema staff member.”

Thinking this, Ke Mingye suddenly came up with a way to deal with his big brother.

Ke Yinzhi using the brain imaging helmet extracted the scenes he saw, which indeed would show a bunch of game system panels and icons;

But if what is read is the brain of a Deception Puppet, the result would be different—the brain structure of a Deception Puppet is no different from a normal person, usually, the images seen by the puppet’s eyes are shared to Ke Mingye’s brain for data processing to see some system data.

So, if just the Deception Puppet is taken out, it is just a lightweight human template, even if wearing the brain imaging helmet, the images formed in its brain from its eyes would be no different from ordinary people.

But to accomplish this, there was a necessary premise.

That was, Ke Mingye must first divert Bai Qiuwu from the auditorium; otherwise, the outcome would be like on the bus, the moment the puppet got close to her, it would be immediately exposed by Eyes of Golden Flame.

That way, no matter how much the puppet’s appearance and behavior resembled Ke Mingye, in front of Bai Qiuwu, it’s merely an act of futile deception, and Ke Mingye’s identity would also be exposed along with the appearance of the puppet.

Whether exposing his identity in front of big brother or big sister, the nature of it for him was the same—whether “Black Judge” or “Black Wukong,” either was enough to kill him a thousand times over.

Although the likelihood of success was very low, Ke Mingye believed he only had to try. If he couldn’t dispel big brother’s suspicions here, then he would be severely restricted throughout the entire summer vacation.

Moreover, if he escaped today, the situation he would face afterward would be even more dire. There was an opportunity in the cinema for the puppet to take his place, but at home, could he ensure that he was never caught by big brother?

The answer was no.

So Ke Mingye didn’t plan to run, he had to dispel big brother’s wariness today.

Of course, he had also prepared an escape route for himself; if his identity was exposed later in the cinema, he would break the restroom window and flee the cinema, then contact “Fan Quan” through the communication list to see if Fan Quan could provide a hidden residence for him, and then slowly find a chance to leave Huanjing. Continue reading at empire

Since Fan Quan was confident in killing three Superhumans at this kind of times, he surely had plenty of means to mask his tracks, finding a hideout for him should not be difficult.