Superman's End Manual

"It's hard to give a proper evaluation," he said.

"What do you mean by 'not good to evaluate'?" Bai Zini pressed.

"Uh... it's just so-so," he said reluctantly.

Bai Zini opened her mouth wide, but hesitated to speak. After a while, she organized her thoughts and gently clapped her hands, saying, "Take a closer look. Is she really just average? I think she's the prettiest magical girl among those who debuted recently."

After saying that, she seemed a little unconvinced and continued rambling on, "Besides, a lot of my classmates are her fans! Some people even said she looks a bit like me, bro, what do you think?"

"Oh my god, if she really looks like you, then she's really unlucky, she's had the worst luck in eight lifetimes, okay?"

Ke Mingye casually joked, then lowered his head to continue looking at his phone.

"You!" Bai Zini was so angry that she couldn't speak. She just glared at him, wrinkled her nose fiercely, and ignored him.

She turned to Bai Qiuwu and asked, "Good sister, what do you think? Isn't this magical girl much prettier than that monkey dressed in all black next to her?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Qiuwu tilted her head and looked up at the three photos released in the news—full-body photos of "Blue Raven," "Black Wukong," and "Ashes."

"Hmm... but weren't all three of them dressed in all black in the news?"

She pinched her chin, curled the corners of her lips, and said in a serious tone, "I'm being sarcastic."

Bai Zini was about to retort, but after glancing at the three photos, she could only purse her lips.

“That’s true,” she said.

Ke Mingye chuckled twice, thinking to himself that this was absolutely right. He couldn't understand why this family all preferred dark-colored battle uniforms; it was probably an ancestral aesthetic.

When he first looked up the photos online, he couldn't help but complain—Bai Qiuwu's battle outfit was silver and black; Bai Zini's "magic dress" was gray with black undertones; and his father Ke Youqing's battle outfit was even more outrageous. Apart from the green beak on the mask, it was completely black, and you couldn't see anyone at night.

It's possible that the three of them just happened to have the same idea: since they mostly appear at night, they should design their combat suits to be darker to make it easier to conceal their figures.

"No matter what, I really can't understand why this monkey has fans..."

Bai Zini muttered to herself, picked up her phone and glanced at the message, "I left something at school, I'll go first, bye." After saying that, she got up from the sofa and turned to walk towards the entrance.

"Your junior high school is on summer vacation, shouldn't it be closed by now?" Ke Mingye asked.

Bai Zini's voice came from the entrance: "Mind your own business when it comes to pretty girls."

"I'm sorry, Princess. How about I kowtow to you twice to calm you down?"

Ke Mingye spoke sarcastically, but he was still quite curious about what Bai Zini had to do.

Five minutes earlier, Ke Youqing had said he was going to meet a colleague that evening, put on his coat, and walked out with a cigarette in his mouth, but Ke Mingye dared not follow him;

Not long after, Bai Zini also said that she had left something at school and that the school would be locked if she didn't go back to get it. She then ran out. Maybe they were dealing with the same thing.

Are there any criminals around right now? Ke Mingye checked Weibo's trending topics and confirmed that nothing unusual had happened for the time being.

"Second Brother!" he suddenly called out upstairs.

"What's wrong, Akino?"

Hearing his call, Ke Xiaomo asked him a question as she slowly walked down from the second floor.

“My sister said she needs to go back to school to pick up something. Why don’t you give her a ride on your electric scooter?” Ke Mingye said, getting up from the sofa and heading upstairs, brushing past Ke Xiaomo.

“Okay.” Ke Xiaomo stopped on the stairs and looked at Bai Zini, who was putting on her shoes at the door. “I’ll put on a coat. Wait for me?”

"No need, I can take the bus myself."

As Bai Zini put on her shoes, she glared at Ke Mingye's retreating figure.

As the two were talking, Ke Mingye quickly returned to his room. While his second brother, Ke Xiaomo, was still downstairs, he locked the door, opened the window, and used the "Deception Doll" again, making the doll appear outside the window.

[Successfully activated the skill "Deceptive Puppet". Activating this skill consumes 20% of your stamina. Your stamina currently stands at 80%.]

[The maximum number of trick puppets currently in existence is 1; the maximum duration of existence is 3 hours; each release of a puppet requires an interval of one hour after the previous puppet disappears. If a puppet is actively destroyed, the interval can be reduced to 10 minutes.]

The doll was still entirely gray, with a wide grin that gave it a rather eerie look. But Ke Mingye didn't have time to change its appearance; he simply made it jump off the windowsill, then tumble down onto the rooftop of the neighboring apartment building. Because of its light weight and the fact that the roll cushioned the impact of the landing, it was completely unharmed.

At the same time, another image appeared in Ke Mingye's mind, from the perspective of the trickster puppet.

He closed the window, turned over and lay sprawled on the bed, thinking, "I'll give it a try and see if I can keep up with her speed."

Ke Mingye took out his phone and casually opened a video app. His fingers moved unconsciously across the screen, but his brain was controlling the actions of the con artist.

He ordered the doll to perch on the railing of the adjacent building, intently surveying the neighborhood. Soon, Bai Zini emerged from the first floor of her duplex apartment and came into the doll's view.

"They're here," Ke Mingye thought.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 28 Spider Web Tracking

Bai Zini turned her head and looked around the street. After confirming that no one was around, she walked into an alley without surveillance cameras and took out a folding umbrella from her bag.

In an instant, starting from the tip of the umbrella, a hazy color of gray and black flowed over it like a tide, and then the lower half of the folding umbrella gradually transformed into a magic wand.

Time seemed to stand still as intricate floral decorations grew breathtakingly on the umbrella's surface. Finally, they were linked together by a ring of thorns, and the magic umbrella "Cinderella" was fully formed, unfurling in the night.

The person holding the umbrella was enveloped by the stream of light, as if trapped in a cocoon of light.

Magical Girl Ash brushed the hair from her forehead with her hand, and the cocoon light shattered in an instant, her long black hair cascading down her back like a waterfall, her gothic gray skirt fluttering in the wind.

She tilted her head back, slowly raised her eyes, and her pupils, bathed in moonlight, were as cold as a pool of clear water.

He casually reached up and took out a classic mirror from inside the umbrella. He looked at his face in the mirror, and his features changed slightly.

If it weren't for the fact that the trickster doll's vision was clearer than 1.5, in such darkness, even Ke Mingye himself might not have been able to see her movements clearly. The entire transformation process took less than 3 seconds and was incredibly smooth.

The girl took two or three steps forward and casually lifted Cinderella. As ripples spread across the umbrella, her slender body, along with the umbrella, rose into the night sky.

"Little sister, can you stop moving so fast? How can I keep up?" Ke Mingye was secretly startled.

Nevertheless, the instant the ashes rose into the air, he immediately gave a mental command, causing the treachery puppet to bend its body, gather all its strength in its feet, and leap out, drawing a nimble arc in the air, soaring to the top of another residential building. He firmly grasped the railing of the ninth floor and climbed upwards, continuing his frantic sprint forward after reaching the top of the stairs.

Then, it leaped again, landing tumbling on the top floor of an office building. It raced forward on the solar panels, a metallic groan echoing beneath its feet.

Throughout this time, the doll's gaze remained fixed on the silhouette of Ash, who was flying through the sky, her body as light as a kite as she moved between the tall buildings.

Because this body is incredibly light, it can easily jump several meters high. However, the Ashes' flight speed is increasing. No matter how far or high the trickster jumps, it can never keep up with the speed of flight. If this continues, it will soon be even more lost.

Just ahead lay a steel jungle of towering buildings, with a sea of ​​cars on the city roads. So Ke Mingye ordered the trickster doll to be equipped with a "spider web launcher" and go all out.

[Note: Your summoned creature "Trickster Doll" is equipped with "Web Shooter".]

As the system's voice faded, a futuristic metal device, resembling a watch, appeared on the right wrist of the con artist. Pointing the transmitter towards the tall building ahead, it pressed its hand downwards in a gesture, and instantly a snow-white spiderweb extended from the night, crossing the wide road. The web, like a hand, stuck to the glass curtain wall of the building in front.

Ke Mingye took a deep breath and controlled the trickster puppet to grab the spider silk and leap from the apartment building below.

It gripped the spider silk tightly with its five fingers, swinging in a graceful arc in mid-air. Just as it was about to crash into the building in front of it, it lowered its hand again and shot the spider silk towards another adjacent tall building.

The moment the spider silk stuck to the facade of the tall building with a snap, the trickster puppet dropped the original spider silk, grabbed a new one tightly, and swung forward at an angle.

Despite Ke Mingye's complete concentration, he still couldn't match Ash's speed. Due to a lack of skill, his balance control in the air was not quite up to par.

In contrast, Ash simply gripped the umbrella handle, soaring leisurely through the night sky, not even reaching full speed; it was already difficult to even see her back.

Hey, is this some kind of exaggeration? Now I know why she flies faster than my older sister's somersault cloud. I need to go faster, or I'll lose her immediately.

While Ke Mingye was anxiously thinking, he did not lose any precision in controlling the puppet.

The puppets precisely grasped each spider silk, swinging wildly forward under the neon lights, as if traversing a bizarre and fantastical world, with backgrounds sometimes resembling movie trailers and sometimes beauty advertisements.

The howling wind brushed against my cheeks, and the truck beneath me blared its horn, emitting a deafening roar, but its movements did not slow down at all. Its pupils seemed to focus only on the fluttering skirt of the girl with the umbrella in mid-air.

About thirty seconds later, the trickster doll loosened its grip on the last spider silk attached to the high-rise building, tumbled and rolled onto the rooftop of a hotel, and finally crossed this modern jungle made of neon lights and steel.

Behind him, strands of spider silk crisscrossed in mid-air like intricate function graphs, connecting the glass curtain walls of nearly a dozen skyscrapers; many drivers on the road looked up at the dazzling spider web in the air, got out of their cars to check the situation, and even caused a small traffic jam for a time.

Ke Mingye had no time to control the puppet's head, so he couldn't see the strange image he was creating in his frantic efforts. Soon, he finally saw through the puppet's eyes that the ashes had stopped.

She finally landed on the rooftop of a long-closed primary school on Yandaipian Commercial Street. Holding her umbrella, she slowly descended, her toes touching the ground. She then closed the umbrella and walked into the school building without looking back.

Please, you've finally stopped...

Watching the ashes fall onto the rooftop, Ke Mingye couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Even though he was just lying on his bed at home, his back was already soaked with cold sweat.

He even deliberately turned on a horror movie on his phone to avoid anyone in his family spying on him and noticing the sudden cold sweat on his forehead.

It has to be said that experiencing the feeling of soaring through the city from the first-person perspective of the con artist is incredibly thrilling. Putting aside the visuals, the sounds of truck horns and howling winds on the road are almost deafening. He felt dizzy and lightheaded, like a complete novice trying VR for the first time, his heart pounding as if it were about to burst out of his chest.

Now that they know where Bai Zini left, Ke Mingye no longer needs to worry about losing her.

"Don't panic, we can take it slow. That was fucking nerve-wracking."

Thinking this, Ke Mingye picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip of boiled water.

He commanded the doll to slowly lower its right hand, sending out a spider silk from a nearby residential building. The silk stuck to the railing of the school building's rooftop, then the doll leaped out, swung in the air, and crashed head-on into the rough wall. Fortunately, its body was very light, like a balloon hitting an object, making little noise.

At this moment, the doll's outstretched arm tightly gripped the spider silk, its body pressed against the rooftop railing, slowly sliding downwards.

Ke Mingye had no intention of letting the puppet directly enter the teaching building; that would be tantamount to sending it to its death. He would definitely have it observe the situation from the outside.

Soon, he heard a murmur of conversation coming from a classroom on the fifth floor of the abandoned school building.

Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the trickster puppet to hold the spider silk and hang precisely outside the classroom. At the same time, he prevented its body from getting close to the window, so as not to be noticed by the people inside the classroom.

What is Bai Zini doing? Why did she go to such a place? And who is she going to see?

After calming down, this question slowly appeared in Ke Mingye's mind. But he wasn't in a hurry, because the answer would soon be revealed.

(End of this chapter)