Superman's End Manual

"How childish you all are."

Muttering to herself, Qingmeng successfully assembled a pistol, inserted the magazine, and pulled the slide to chamber a round.

"If you don't want to join, then don't. There's a discussion group anyway." Orange Peel glanced at the countdown on the panel, waved, and said, "The countdown is almost over. Goodbye, everyone."

"See you next time, Orange Bro." Ke Mingye waved to him as well.

"bye."

Qingmeng bid them farewell, putting the three pistols into her backpack and slinging it over her shoulder.

"We'll let you know when we find the next suitable copy. See you then."

The dog left behind a lukewarm remark, and then the four of them disappeared into the supermarket.

After a brief period of darkness, the trickster puppet regained its senses and found itself standing in an empty alleyway on Yandai Commercial Street.

The location in reality after leaving the instance is chosen by the player; the system provides several "unmonitored" locations as options. Ke Mingye chose an alley behind the Yandai Cinema, while the other three chose different locations, so they were not seen around.

At this moment, the blood-stained school uniform on the doll was cleaned up, just like it was before entering the dungeon.

"Well, now that the dungeons are all finished, hopefully the movie will be over too."

With that thought in mind, Ke Mingye had the doll wait in the alley for the time being, while he opened his eyes from the movie theater.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 42 Cinema Crisis

Ke Mingye raised his eyelids and slowly "woke up" from the dimly lit movie theater.

He raised the back of his hand to block the light from the screen, and deceptively pinched the bridge of his nose with his index and middle fingers, intending to tell his family that he had really taken a nap.

Looking around, the IMAX screen was showing "Spirited Away," a Miyazaki Hayao animated film. This movie was released twenty years ago, and it was being re-released these past few days, so Bai Zini asked her father to reimburse her for the tickets and excitedly dragged everyone to see the movie.

The light from the giant screen sometimes dimmed and sometimes brightened, and for a moment it illuminated several faces beside me.

Ke Mingye sat in the middle of this row, Ke Xiaomo sat to his right, and the four people on his left were Bai Zini, Bai Ziling, Ke Yongzhu and Bai Qiuwu.

Bai Qiuwu was resting her chin on her hand, deep in thought, her mind completely elsewhere than on the movie.

Without even thinking, Ke Mingye knew she was probably thinking about what had just happened on the bus.

Bai Zini nudged him lightly with her elbow and whispered, "Brother, you came to the movie theater to sleep, didn't you? You're something else."

“Exactly,” Bai Ziling echoed softly.

"Do you expect me to tell you that I was actually focused on playing a dungeon?" Ke Mingye pouted and said, "I was so sleepy after school, and you guys dragged me to watch a movie. How can you blame me?"

"Once I wake up, I'll focus on watching it," Ke Xiaomo said.

"Row."

As he spoke, Ke Mingye turned his head and looked around.

The theater was practically empty; it was practically empty for the six brothers. After all, the re-release had been over for several days, and the cinema here was newly built, so it wasn't very popular.

Just then, he noticed a young man wearing a hat and a cinema staff uniform walk in from the entrance of the theater and put up a sign at the door that read, "As a lucky screening, guests watching the movie in this theater will receive a free 'brain imaging helmet' experience."

Then, the young man closed the theater entrance door, placed his hands on his stomach, and hid his eyes in the shadow of his hat brim. A slight smile played on his lips, as if he were quietly waiting for someone.

Brain imaging helmet, what is this thing?

Ke Mingye glanced at the text on the sign and felt something was off, so he stared at the staff member for a couple of seconds, and his information panel gradually appeared in front of him.

[Name of Person: Ke Yinzhi]

[Age: 21 years old]

【Sex: Male】

[Strength: A++ (Possesses top-tier combat power far exceeding 99% of the world's superhumans)]

[Hidden Identity: Black Judge (A key figure in the Anomaly Control Bureau, one of the five S-level Enforcers)]

"……what?"

"what?"

Ke Mingye had two big question marks in his mind.

He suspected he was seeing things, or that there was a bug in the system, so he glanced at the unassuming staff member again, trying to find another way to access the information.

But the result is still the same.

[Name of Person: Ke Yinzhi]

Ke Mingye paused for half a second, then quickly looked away. "Big brother? Why is he here?" he wondered, cold sweat pouring down his back.

He had imagined a thousand times what it would be like to meet his older brother at home, but he never thought that his older brother would appear in front of him in this way.

In a movie theater, someone even dressed up as a staff member?

Judging from that sign, his goal is to get us to wear this brain imaging helmet, but why?

The various thoughts in Ke Mingye's mind rolled on the ground like a ball of yarn, scattering into countless lines.

Brain imaging...

The biggest difference between players and ordinary people is that the images we see are processed by the system in our brains, and we can see the prompts given by the system.

Ke Mingye's face gradually turned pale, his eyes darting around.

He thought for a moment and quickly came to a conclusion: his older brother wanted to use the helmet to confirm whether any of them had been replaced by the "players".

No, if I just sit here like this, he'll have a million reasons not to let me leave. And if he puts this helmet on, I'm really done for...

Thinking this, Ke Mingye said, "I'm going to the restroom, I'll be back in a bit." After saying that, he was about to get up from his chair.

"Wait a moment."

As Ke Xiaomo spoke, she suddenly reached out and pressed down on his arm.

"What's wrong, second brother?"

As Ke Mingye asked the question, he slowly turned his head and met his gaze with a blank expression.

"Don't wander off. Come back after you're done using the restroom," Ke Xiaomo said.

Ke Mingye was slightly taken aback, cold sweat dripping down his forehead. He thought to himself, "A second brother and an eldest brother, damn it, they teamed up to mess with me in the movie theater, didn't they? Did you two plan this in advance?"

“Oh yeah, I remember now,” Bai Zini said. “Last time, you were watching a movie with us, and halfway through, you said you needed to go to the bathroom, then left and went to the arcade next door to play games!”

Please, stop finishing me off, sis. If we don't run away soon, I'm going to die right here!

Ke Mingye felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and glanced at the staff guarding the entrance of the theater out of the corner of his eye.

"Who cares about him?" Ke Yongzhu said impatiently, resting her chin on her hand. "If you want to leave, then leave. Don't disturb my movie."

"No, Ni and I went through a lot of trouble to get Dad to reimburse us."

As Bai Ziling spoke, she turned her head and stared at Ke Mingye expressionlessly.

Her red eyes stood out starkly in the dim light.

Hearing them talking interrupted Bai Qiuwu's thoughts, so she glanced at him and said, "By the way, someone just told me on the bus, 'Let's go see a movie, no one is allowed to slip away.'"

Ke Mingye was shocked. He thought to himself, "If this really doesn't work, I'll just have to fight you guys. Why do you have to gang up on me, a small player, with a vampire, a magical girl, a ninja, and Sun Wukong?"

Even with these thoughts in mind, Ke Mingye remained calm.

He yawned, his eyes brimming with tired tears, and said in a muffled, listless voice, "Okay, okay, you win. I won't run away. I'll just go to the bathroom and come right back."

“You said it,” Bai Ziling stared at him for a moment, “You’re not allowed to lie to me.”

"Second brother, let him go," Bai Zini said with satisfaction.

Upon hearing this, Ke Xiaomo released his arm: "Go and come back quickly, you've slept most of the time, watch the rest carefully."

"You guys are so troublesome."

Ke Mingye glanced at them disdainfully, shrugged casually, then got up from his seat and walked towards the cinema exit.

He walked step by step into the dimly lit theater, getting closer and closer to Ke Yinzhi at the door. His heart was beating faster and faster, as if a thousand little people were kicking and pounding on his heart.

What will the eldest brother do...?

If I just walk past him like that, will he stop me?

What if he just picks up that helmet and puts it on my head? With his strength, I wouldn't have a chance to resist. But sitting there and waiting for the movie to end would be like waiting to die.

But even if we take a step back and my older brother didn't stop me, and I really did run away from the movie theater, my second brother's suspicions about me would only deepen.

Damn it...

It's better to take a gamble than to wait and die.

Thinking this, Ke Mingye deliberately rubbed his shoe against the leg of the seat, causing the shoelaces to come undone. Then he squatted down, pretending to tie his shoelaces, and manipulated the trickster puppet outside the cinema to change its appearance, rushing out of the alley, shooting out a spider silk that stuck to the traffic light sign on the street, grabbing the spider silk and jumping onto the top of the traffic light.

The doll crouched down, looked up at the Tobacco Pipe Cinema in front of it, and used its skill – "Calamity Dice".

Immediately afterwards, a black die appeared in his hand, each of its six faces engraved with blood-red numbers. At the same time, the events corresponding to the six numbers were entered into Ke Mingye's mind.

The doll stretched out its hand and threw the dice forward. The dice tumbled in the air above the street before finally landing, bouncing, and coming to a stop.

Soon, the corresponding event occurred.