Superman's End Manual

He lowered his eyes, scrolling through social media for related information. He quickly found the video of the atmospheric nuclear explosion on Weibo.

He was on the scene at the time, and his eyesight was almost completely impaired, so he couldn't see what was happening in the sky. Now he finally has the chance to see what happened.

Raise your finger and tap play.

On the narrow screen, a dark beam of light pierced through the falling nuclear bomb from the sky above Beijing. Immediately afterwards, a flock of crows, like dark clouds, screeched in unison, weaving through the rain and flapping their wings upwards.

As the camera zooms in, it becomes clear that each crow carries a strip of metal in its beak. They envelop the nuclear bomb from all sides, their bodies gradually disintegrating, then transforming into countless crystalline blue ripples that spread across the lake called the sky. Finally, these ripples coalesce, forming an oval-shaped crystalline blue barrier that almost covers half the sky. It's as if the giant hand of God has enveloped the exploding nuclear bomb within it.

Even so, it could not completely block the power of the nuclear explosion. The polar day-like white light showed a faint tendency to break through the barrier. At this moment, a dark barrier suddenly overlapped the outer layer of this crystal blue barrier, and the two together blocked the power of the nuclear explosion.

The world was reduced to only three colors: red, black, and blue.

Although the two barriers eventually collapsed one after another, the power of the nuclear explosion was now almost gone, leaving only a mushroom-shaped plume of white smoke shooting into the sky.

Then the sky cleared up, and the scenery over Beijing was so peaceful, it was like the beautiful ending scene after the protagonist of a shonen manga has fought his way to defeat the villain.

It makes you want to Photoshop in some big English words: "Happy End!"

"Seriously, Dad and Big Brother are really something... They actually managed to stop that nuclear bomb. I thought at least one of them would die, and we'd have to have that epic, heroic sacrifice."

Ke Mingye watched the nuclear explosion video several times, thinking to himself.

To be honest, when he carried Bai Ziling home and looked back at that nuclear missile, his heart sank. He had thought his father would be able to stop the launch, but in the end, he had to call his older brother.

However, at the time of the incident, the only ones in the entire city surrounding Beijing who were capable of stopping this nuclear missile were probably these two monsters. If he were Qingya, he would have called Black Judge over immediately.

By now, Ke Mingye had finished showering and changed into a black long-sleeved T-shirt and athletic pants. His hair, which wasn't completely dry, smelled of lemon-scented shampoo. Because his right arm had suffered a comminuted fracture after playing rock-paper-scissors with ten times the force, he had to wear a bandage and was now only able to conceal the wound by wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt.

According to his tests, he only fractured his right arm if he accumulated more than 15 rotations of the rock-paper-scissors technique and landed a "fist" during the game. This did not happen if he landed "paper" or "scissors"—presumably because "fist" not only further enhanced his strength, but also required a direct hit on his opponent to be effective, making it difficult to avoid being affected by the recoil.

Fortunately, it was only a broken right arm. Ke Mingye was really afraid that if he had punched Folins, he would have knocked his right hand off. In that case, one of his older sister, second brother, or younger sister would have to go into berserk mode and tear Folins apart.

As for primary school students...

The elementary school student didn't know he was Blue Owl, so even if he had been slapped to death by Flinx, the student wouldn't have felt anything. They would just think that this cannon fodder hero was so weak and had no self-awareness whatsoever.

What's a bit funny is that after the battle with the vampire hunter, when Bai Zini saw that his right arm was injured, she kept asking Little Red Riding Hood to ask the monster for another bottle of resurrection medicine.

Upon hearing this, the three personalities of Blue Owl, Little Red Riding Hood, and Strange Thing stood awkwardly in place, looking at each other in bewilderment. They suggested that one of them go to the store and buy some healing potions to tide them over. However, Strange Thing glanced at the store and found that there were no healing potions available today.

So the strange thing shrugged and put on an acting show: "Oh, sorry, I'm racist. I only save my healing medicine for cute magical girls. If I saw this owl using my medicine, I might throw up my dinner from last night."

Magical Girl Ash gritted her teeth in anger, intending to lift Cinderella up and shoot it, but then thought better of it, since the strange thing had really been a great help this time.

In the end, she just helped Ke Mingye back to the abandoned train station in the old Jingmai neighborhood with a pained expression. As he took off his battle uniform and changed into normal clothes, she turned her back with a red face and kept asking him about Bai Ziling and the other family members to divert his attention.

Ke Mingye gave her a disdainful look and said, "If they weren't good, would I have put on my battle suit and come out to fight for you? Protecting them is definitely the priority..."

Time returns to the present.

Bai Zini had also finished showering, her long, black hair hanging down her back. She came out of the bathroom wearing a floral dress that resembled a pajama. She sat down next to Ke Mingye, watched TV for a while, and then turned her head to quietly stare at him.

"What are you looking at me for?"

Ke Mingye felt a chill run down his spine from her gaze and couldn't help but turn his head to meet her eyes and ask.

“I was just thinking…” Bai Zini said, pausing slightly, “So you’re that amazing, brother?”

She kept replaying the final scene of that battle in her mind: Ke Mingye, dressed in the Blue Owl battle suit, rushed out from around the corner of the street and threw a golden punch at Flinx's chest, shattering his heart.

You have to understand how resilient that big guy is. The ninja, the master, and the elementary school kid beat him up for so long, and they still hadn't managed to pin him to the ground.

"Please, what's so great about that? He just came out to finish off the culprit. You guys crippled that big guy, didn't you see he was reduced to bones? If I can't even crush him, what kind of superhero am I?" Ke Mingye retorted.

“Then let’s leave it at that.” Bai Zini shook her head and asked again, “What do you think Xiao Ling really is…”

Ke Mingye interrupted her question, saying calmly, "I don't know."

Why would those vampire hunters target her?

"We still don't know. Let's ask her ourselves later, she'll tell us..."

Ke Mingye fiddled with his phone, speaking casually.

"Hmm... what about my sister?" Bai Zini was silent for a moment, then turned her head and looked around before asking in a low voice.

"She went back to her room to rest; she seemed quite frightened," Ke Mingye said. "Let's not disturb her for now."

After saying that, he casually asked, "But what about my eldest and second brothers? They haven't returned yet?"

“My second brother said he was shopping for clothes in the mall when he got trapped outside and is currently being investigated by the police,” Bai Zini said. “My eldest brother said he received a message for help from a friend when the zombie crisis broke out and ran to rescue his friend… He said he would be back after taking his friend home, and he should be back soon.”

Ke Mingye rolled his eyes at her.

"The TV said they were 'parasite victims,' not bio-zombies. Can you stop joking?"

"What's the difference?"

As the two were talking, Ke Yongzhu came downstairs, took a bottle of drink from the refrigerator, and then sat down on the other side of Ke Mingye, unscrewing the bottle cap while picking up the remote control to change the channel.

The television screen switched to a Hong Kong television station, which was showing the animated series "Ben 10".

“No, we’ll have the meeting as soon as Xiaoling wakes up.” Bai Zini frowned and suggested, “A meeting…we must have a meeting.”

"What the hell? You guys aren't tired, but I am. Anyway, I'm going to sleep now..."

Ke Yongzhu spoke listlessly, found a pillow on the sofa, lay down, and closed her heavy eyelids.

“Then we won’t call him a primary school student at the meeting later. He definitely won’t be curious about what’s going on with his little sister Ling. He definitely won’t be curious at all…” Ke Mingye said.

Upon hearing this, Ke Yongzhu's eyes twitched, and she suddenly opened them, sitting up straight from the sofa while hugging her pillow.

"Then I'll go upstairs and wait for you. The meeting can start now." With that, he went upstairs.

"Brother, come to my room later," Bai Zini said.

"Okay, okay, check if Ziling is awake yet. If she is, call me," Ke Mingye said. "I'll watch TV here for a while."

“Okay.” Bai Zini paused for a moment, then suddenly said softly, “...reach out your hand.”

"what?"

"Just reach out your hand." Bai Zini wrinkled her nose.

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye sighed helplessly, then freed one hand for her and turned to look at her.

Bai Zini lowered her eyes, reached out her hand, and gently shook his palm like a kindergarten child making friends, feeling the warmth from his palm.

"No, you..."

Ke Mingye was interrupted by her halfway through his sentence.

“You’re still alive…that’s good.” Bai Zini suddenly said, then paused for half a second, released Ke Mingye’s hand, and walked upstairs without looking back.

Ke Mingye paused, picked up the Coke bottle on the table, took a sip, and watched her figure disappear around the corner. Just then, bubbles appeared in the upper right corner of his vision.

He raised an eyebrow, clicked on the bubble, and thought to himself that if the ID "Gastro" posted a message in the discussion group at this moment, he would faint from fright.

Fortunately, it wasn't Gastro.

[Anti-dog: Still alive?]

The defeated man: is dead.

[Anti-dog: I was thinking of coming back to help you.]

[The Failed Man: Heh, I was actually thinking of going to Japan to become a male escort. Thank goodness Gastro didn't flip the table.]

[Anti-dog: So, you're saying your identity hasn't been exposed to your family yet?]

[The Failed Man: No... or rather, not for now. It's possible Gastro has a backup plan: she wants me to slip an email into my family's inbox with the subject "Evidence that your brother is a player," in which case I'll still die.]

[The Failed Man: But that woman shouldn't have gone that far.]

[Anti-dog: Is she dead?]

[The Failed Man: I killed her myself. You'll see the news of her death when the system notification refreshes tomorrow morning.]

[Anti-Dog: As expected of you. I just got back from the Black Tengu Club, and I had something to tell you.]

[The Failed Man: What's wrong?]

[Anti-Dog: In two weeks, we need to go to London, England, to find someone at Bedlam Asylum.]

[The Failed Man: Dude, how come you've been working all over London in just two weeks?]

[Anti-dog: Let's talk when we meet, bye.]

Ke Mingye pursed his lips, about to send a message to complain about this person, when suddenly the doorbell rang in his ears.

He glanced at the back of the sofa and saw a young man wearing a black overcoat with messy long hair draped over his shoulders.

"Mom, I'm back..."

Ke Yinzhi yawned, mumbled something as he walked into the entryway and took off his shoes.

No sooner had he finished speaking than Bai Wenna pulled him aside and gave him a lecture, roughly saying, "The situation was like that, how could you still have the nerve to abandon your mother to save your friend? Don't you have any conscience?", or something similar.

Ke Yinzhi didn't argue, but simply shrugged and listened to her rant with a smile. After getting her permission, she walked to the sofa in the living room and asked Ke Mingye, "Hasn't Xiao Mo come back yet?"

"They're not back yet," Ke Mingye said, turning off the TV and heading upstairs.

"So busy?"

"We need to have a meeting."

"Whoa... what kind of meeting is this?"