Superman's Ending Manual

Chapter 166 A Transaction with the Ninja Clan Leader

July 7, night, Hongdeng Business District.

Beams of searchlights shot from the top of the Super English Building are wandering in the night sky, drifting slowly back and forth, like a huge lighthouse, or like swallowing the ghosts of darkness.

Not far from the building, the strange gray figure appeared on the top of the tower again.

This person is quite mysterious and his whereabouts are unpredictable.

Sometimes it calls itself the Dice Weird Man, saying that this is its full name; sometimes it calls itself the Weird Thing, saying that this is its nickname and only people close to it can call it that.

No matter what, tonight.

The Dice Freak was sitting on the exhibition stand as usual, swinging his long legs, beating drums and gongs while shouting loudly through a loud speaker.

"The Dice Monster is here to launch a terrorist attack. He won't leave unless he sees Mr. Ninja—!"

After such a puzzling and childish declaration, the crowd of tourists surrounding the top of the tower had basically dispersed amid screams.

You know, if it were the usual dice freak, some of its fanatical fans might stop at the bottom of the tower, laughing and shouting: "Mr. Dice, what kind of show are you going to show us today!"

But things are different today.

If you ask what is different, it is of course the big event that the Dice Monster kidnapped the famous commander of the Super Hero Association, "Che Zhengchen".

This incident is currently in the spotlight, and naturally made Dice Man famous, to the point that the official Super Hero Association is considering whether to raise his wanted level from C to B, so that their own public relations staff can spend less effort to whitewash him in the media.

After all, daring to kidnap someone from the Super Hero Building in broad daylight is equivalent to shitting directly on the head of the Super Hero Association, which is as bad as the watchmaker hanging the body of the gray pigeon on the aerial work platform a few years ago.

Even just taking the case of the Clockmaker as an example, the Superhero Association can still explain it by saying that the Clockmaker possesses time-related skills: after all, no superhero can prevent time-related abilities.

If you check the official notification records at the time, you will find that the Super Hero Association also vaguely attributed the cause of the heinous crime to the "Time Management Bureau" in its official notification.

It's very humorous, just like when something happens in the company and several departments are blaming each other in front of the leader.

The association's top brass said that unless the Time Management Bureau took action, it would be a difficult battle to capture the Watchmaker, a criminal who had been at large for more than 20 years.

Since the Watchman's ability involves time, why can't the people from the Time Management Bureau take action? This is a huge question.

The Time Management Bureau is independent of the Abnormal Control Bureau and the Super Dimension Control Bureau. It is an organization with a more mysterious color and even higher confidentiality.

If we rank the four, in terms of international reputation and influence on the public, the Super Hero Association is naturally greater than the Abnormal Control Bureau, the Control Bureau is greater than the Super Dimensional Management Bureau, and finally the almost ignored Time Management Bureau.
But in terms of official status, the Time Management Bureau is slightly larger than the Anomaly Control Bureau. The Anomaly Control Bureau and the Super Dimension Management Bureau are on the same level, and finally it is the turn of the "Super Hero Association".

In other words, although the Super Hero Association is only ranked fourth among official organizations, it is so famous that it has to take on all the public opinion when something happens.

Later they learned their lesson, and whenever they encountered some unsolvable public opinion problems, they would simply make vague statements in official documents and put the blame on the three big brothers above them.

The implication is that these three guys obviously have a higher official status, but they are just occupying the toilet without doing anything. Is this acceptable?

After tasting the benefits of this approach, the top leaders of the Super Hero Association applauded and reached a consensus. In the future, whenever they encounter unsolvable public opinion, putting the blame on the three management bureaus has become a classic solution.

They thought that we all work for the country, and if something goes wrong you should share some of the blame, I should share some of the blame, and he should share some of the blame, so that the country will not collapse.

So, after the Super Hero Association brought the rhythm of the Time Management Bureau to a high intensity, people relied on their strong hatred for watchmakers, as well as their remembrance and love for the rising star Gray Dove.

They almost destroyed the Time Management Bureau on the Internet.

However, the three big brothers at the top of the association were not satisfied. They thought that you, the fourth brother, usually enjoyed all the limelight and took all the good things, while the three of us usually worked steadily and quietly like cows, not caring about fame and fortune. In the end, when something went wrong, we were blamed for everything. Is this what a human being should do?

So under heavy pressure, the Time Management Bureau finally had to make a statement.

The boss of the Time Management Bureau publicly stated that the bureau had clear regulations since its establishment: they are in charge of only one thing, which is to restore everything to its original state and repair the timeline back to its original state when there is serious timeline deviation and time order chaos in the world.

Throughout the ages, the Time Administration Bureau seems to be silent, but in fact it has secretly resolved no less than one hundred cases of timeline deviations caused by powerful time-ability users.

The abilities of these people are either to travel through time and space or to influence the future. The worst ability among them is to write letters to one's past self. However, such an ability alone is enough to trigger a butterfly effect that can destroy the world.

There were even several times when the structure of the timeline was close to collapse and the world was about to be destroyed, but each time it was the Time Management Bureau that turned the tide, silently saved the situation and allowed the world to function as usual.

As for the Clockmaker, his ability is only to stop time temporarily, not to travel through time; or to directly affect the continuation of the timeline in any way.

So it naturally does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Time Management Bureau.

The Time Management Bureau even deliberately belittled the ability of the Watchers in official documents, as if saying that it was not their turn to take action in this kind of situation. It was clearly the Super Hero Association's failure to do its job, but when something went wrong they put the blame on them, which was really disgusting.

After this document containing bitter sarcasm came out, the public's reaction became even more intense, and they once again shifted the target of their attacks back to the Super Hero Association.

At that time, the official media of the Super Hero Association and the Time Management Bureau were competing extremely fiercely. Almost every once in a while, they had to release a document full of innuendos to imply the other side, guide their own fan groups to attack the other side, and try their best to guide the public who were paying attention to the matter to transfer their anger to the other side.

Gradually, people's attention faded from the death of the gray pigeon, and instead they focused more on discussing who should bear the responsibility.

The irony is so funny that it even makes people wonder whether the meaning of Gray Pigeon from its existence to its death is just to attract attention and earn traffic.

Back to the original topic.

Back then, when the watch geeks were causing trouble in the Super Hero Building, the Super Hero Association was able to focus the problem on the "time-related abilities" and then seize on this word to shift the blame to the Time Management Bureau.

But now they are speechless. After all, the Dice Monster has no time-related abilities, and he is just an idiot who cannot be more stupid.

But this thing kidnapped a commander in full view of everyone.

He is the most famous and most beloved commander in the entire Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and even in the entire country: Che Zhengchen.

The association's top leaders were also dumbfounded after receiving the news.

They thought that this was a place where hundreds of superheroes would gather when they had nothing to do. Even the terrifying Crows would stay in the association's high-rise building when they had nothing to do. You are not afraid of other superheroes in the association, but you have heard of the Blue Crow of the Round Table, right?
Therefore, no normal person would have thought that there would be criminals who would dare to approach or even attack the Super Ying Building. This is undoubtedly an act of walking into a trap.

With this kind of confident idea, over time, the anti-enemy defense measures of the Super Hero Building were naturally not so tight, which gave the Dice Monster an opportunity to take advantage.

Even though the association's public relations department tried its best to suppress the heat on various social media platforms, this incident still caused a lot of discussion around the world.

At this moment, the Dice Monster, who had just caused a sensation and topped the popularity charts of major domestic and foreign websites, was not idle, nor did he have any intention of hiding from the limelight and pretending to be mysterious.

It beat drums and gongs on the high towers around Beijing for a while, made a terrorist attack declaration through a loudspeaker, then raised its right hand with a grin and threw down a red and black dice.

Without even watching the result of the dice throw, he had already pulled the spider silk towards the coast of Gujiusicun, using his belt to activate the invisibility function and melt into the night.

As the red and black dice fell to the ground, a beautiful parabola appeared in the air, and a huge whale fell from the sky and crashed into the empty street.

Then, its existence was like a giant fountain that suddenly appeared in the center of the street. Thousands of raging water columns gushed out from the pores on the surface of its body, rising into the sky. After reaching the top, they exploded like fireworks, turning into billions of water splashes that scattered down, and then fell to the ground amid the screams of the crowd.

It was as if a rainstorm suddenly fell over the Hongdeng Business District.

Many passers-by who were fleeing were knocked to the ground by the splashes and were soaked all over.

Fortunately, this chaotic situation did not last long. Soon, the Balloon Man team from the Super Hero Building and the famous A-level superhero "General Winter" came together and arrived at the scene at the fastest speed. They solved the angry whale with lightning speed.

At this time, in the dark sky above the city, a figure stepped on the dark clouds and overlooked the business district from above, and then galloped towards the direction of Viaduct No. 7.

However, there was no one waiting for her there, which was somewhat disappointing.

Not long after, the Dice Man came to the Gujiusicun Coast, removed the invisibility of his belt, walked to a corner of the coast, and stood next to a fisherman. Looking up, the fisherman was sitting on the railing, holding a Dejia fishing rod, concentrating on fishing.

"Hey, I'm Weird." The Dice Weird Man put one hand on his waist and introduced himself to him.

The fisherman ignored him.

Dice Freak held his forehead and sighed, "Oh my god, man. You would rather go fishing than talk to the charming and lovable villain Dice Freak, right?"

The fisherman still ignored him.

The Dice Man tilted his head and waved his hand in front of the other man. "It's illegal for you to fish like this. Didn't you see the sign on the fence that says no climbing? But you're still sitting here fishing."

The fisherman still ignored him and just lowered his eyes, staring intently at the line float on the water.

"I kidnapped the commander." said the Dice Man.

"What does this have to do with my fishing?" asked the fisherman.

"I am a super criminal. To be more precise, I am a trainee criminal who has been training for two and a half years and will soon become a super criminal."

The dice man shook his finger and spoke seriously.

"so what?"

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

"If you don't want to fish, just go away and don't bother me."

The dice man curled his lips downwards when he heard that, tilted his head, looked at him with empty eyes and asked, "You're so cold, can I go fishing with you?"

"The fishing rod is here. But you have to pay me to use my bait." The fisherman paused and added: "But if you catch a fish, you can give it to me and the bait will be offset."

"Oh, thank you. This is my Magical Girl Transformation Card. I'll leave it with you as collateral for renting the bait."

After saying that, the Dice Man took out a card engraved with luxurious patterns from somewhere and placed it next to the fisherman's butt. Then he sat on the railing next to him and raised the Guangwei fishing rod that was placed on the railing.

"Wow, this fishing rod is really heavy."

As the Dice Man spoke, he put bait on the fishhook and threw the fishing line forward. The moment the fishhook hit the water, ripples of light splashed in the moonlight.

"What can this card do?" the fisherman suddenly asked.

"It can turn you into a cute magical girl. Don't be ashamed of it. For example, the magical girl Ashes was transformed from a man. There are many such cases."

"Is she a man?"

"Yes. This is a secret, you must not tell anyone else."

The Dice Freak said this, nodded happily, then freed one hand and raised his index finger to his lips, indicating that he had to keep the secret.

It hummed the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down" while fishing, shaking its head in the sea breeze and shaking its legs from time to time.

Not long after, a figure wearing a pitch-black ninja uniform emerged from the shadows and slowly appeared above the coast. His face was covered in a metal ninja mask, revealing only his dark eyes.

"What do you want from me?"

From behind the dice monster, the ninja asked slowly.

"I was fishing with a good friend I just met. I didn't look for you. Please don't take it for granted."

The Dice Man grinned and spoke without turning his head, his eyes lowered as he stared at the fishing float hanging on the water.

"Then what you said at the Ringjing Tower means nothing. Do you know other ninjas besides me?"

"Well, actually I was going to look for you." The Dice Man said, and suddenly violent ripples appeared near the fishing float, and the weight from the fishing line suddenly increased, "but I suddenly changed my mind."

As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled up the fishing rod suddenly, and a red and black fish jumped out of the water, rising into the sky with a splash of water.

The Dice Man pulled it off the hook and threw it into the fisherman's basket. He said to the fisherman, "Hey, brother, this should have paid for the bait, right?"

As it said that, it took back the Magical Girl Transformation Card and stuffed it into its butt crack, and the card disappeared.

The fisherman took a deep breath and thought to himself, is there an alternate dimension hidden in the dice monster's butt crack? Fortunately, he didn't accept this transformation card just now.

The dice monster knocked the fisherman unconscious with a casual knife, then turned around from the railing and sat on the side facing the shore. He lowered his empty eyes and stared at Ke Xiaomo with a smile.

Ke Xiaomo hugged his shoulders and stared at it calmly: "So if you have anything to say, just say it."

"No, no, no, actually I just came here to ask you to go fishing with me. You ninjas are encouraged to cultivate your character, and I always feel that your fishing skills should be good."

"Since you have nothing else to do, I have a question for you."

"What's the problem?" asked the Dice Man.

"Who is that player who spreads parasites throughout this city?"

"Oh, you mean her?" The Dice Man tilted his head and said slowly, "Let me tell you, what benefit can you give me?"

"Let's exchange equal value. If you need anything in the future, as long as it does not violate my principles, I will help you."

"Forget it, Mr. Ninja. I know you look serious, but you are actually very cunning. You only know how to say such empty words to deceive a good boy like me."

The Dice Man sighed, spread his hands and said, "But I have such a good heart. Since you asked sincerely, I will answer you honestly."

It paused. "The ID of the player who spread the parasite is 'Gastro'. She is a disabled girl with red hair. She sits in a wheelchair and carries a cane with her."

As the dice freak spoke, he raised his spare phone, opened the album, clicked on the first photo, and then turned the phone screen towards Ke Xiaomo.

Ke Xiaomo silently looked at the wheelchair girl in the photo, and after a while asked, "Are you sure?"

"Of course." The Dice Monster said, "There's no benefit for me in lying to you." It spoke slowly, and then swiped to the next video in the album.

Click on the interface and the first-person video will start playing. A girl in a wheelchair will slowly walk into a private tavern, lift her crutch and stuff a parasite into a man's mouth.

After playing the video, the Dice Man turned off his phone and said with a grin, "The video is not very good. But I will find a way to send this photo of Gastro to you, such as your QQ mailbox. Wait for my news, Mr. Ninja."

Ke Xiaomo said: "Okay, I hope you won't lie to me, otherwise our cooperation ends here."

"By the way, as a bonus for this cooperation, I have a piece of information I want to share with you."

"What information?"

The Dice Man slowly lowered his face and said in a quiet voice, "Please guess, Blue Owl, that fledgling little hero, who is his true identity?"

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)