Superman's End Manual

Comet Kiamat first appeared three thousand years ago, which means... the first magical girl was also born three thousand years ago, so it's not an exaggeration to call her the progenitor of magical girls.

It was that ancestor of magical girls who left behind this record in the world—a magical card with serial number 0, symbolizing the beginning of everything.

Apart from her, no magical girl in the past three thousand years has ever used this card, which means that it is almost a card that only exists in legends.

According to rumors circulating online, a magical girl once appeared in the Mayan tribe that predicted the end of the world.

The magical girl said that this card, named "Kiamat's Day," cannot be crafted; it will only appear on the day the Kiamat Comet arrives, and only on that day can the card's power be unleashed...

Then, with a one in ten million chance, the magical girl chosen by the comet will receive a magic card on that day—"Kiamat's Day".

In the past three thousand years, apart from the progenitor of magical girls, no other magical girl has ever been bestowed this card by a comet.

As for the effect of this progenitor-level card, no one knows for sure. There are only some scattered speculations online, but who could possibly guess what happened three thousand years ago?

Thinking of this, Ke Mingye raised an eyebrow and suddenly remembered something. So he exited the website and entered "the next time Comet Kiamat will pass by Earth" into his browser's search engine.

"The Kiamat Comet will take away all the power of this generation of magical girls, scattering new comet fragments across the Earth. Girls who come into contact with these fragments will become magical girls... So, if the comet happens to arrive this year, could it save some people from death?"

"Also... I don't need to go against Bai Zini anymore."

Thinking this, Ke Mingye hesitated for a moment, then slowly lowered his index finger and pressed the search button.

As the page refreshed, the results suddenly appeared before his eyes.

Comet Kiamat will next return to Earth on the night of June 18, 2029.

Ke Mingye paused for two seconds, then shivered violently, his slightly constricted pupils reflecting the date.

"Isn't this... the day before the extermination mission's deadline?" he thought.

Asking for a monthly ticket!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 88 Two Players on the Smuggling Ship

In the darkness, the glow from the phone illuminated the boy's surprised eyes.

Ke Mingye stared at the date on the screen, lost in thought.

"The comet will return on June 18, 2029, which is the last day of the extinction mission deadline."

"Is it really such a coincidence? Could it be that the so-called system is actually caused by this comet named 'Kiamat'?"

"If not, then this comet is far too late. Arriving on the last night, is it even in time to reclaim the abilities of the magical girls of this era?"

He continued thinking.

"If there's no time, the player will still have to fight the magical girls. Maybe when it sees that the magical girls are almost all dead, it will give the Sequence 0 magic card 'Kiamat's Day' to the comet. What will the player have to fight them with then? That thing is a magic card that only appears once every three thousand years. It wouldn't be surprising if it could destroy a country."

"Whatever, do whatever you want."

Ke Mingye took a deep breath, turned off his phone, and the last glimmer of light in the room disappeared, his face shrouded in pitch-black darkness.

"Rest. I have something to do early tomorrow morning."

Thinking this, he closed his eyes, and his consciousness slowly sank into sleep.

He remained silent all night. The next day, at five o'clock in the morning, a cold notification sound suddenly rang in his mind.

Ke Mingye opened his eyes, and there was a notification panel in front of him.

You received a message from your friend "Anti-Dog".

[Anti-Dog: It's time to get going. Their ship will arrive at the port in the northern part of the Beijing metropolitan area in thirty minutes. You need to come over now.]

As Ke Mingye checked the information, he yawned while rubbing his forehead.

As Anti-Dog mentioned yesterday, two players would arrive around Beijing today on a smuggling boat. One of the players' IDs was "Cut Ice," the hacker who had been colluding with Anti-Dog for a long time, and the other player's ID was "Paranoia."

His "obsessive" mentality seems a bit off; he says he's coming to the area around Beijing to challenge Qingya to a duel...

This was no different from a time bomb, so the three of them reached a consensus and decided to catch the player before he disembarked, then tie him up in a deserted place and let him fend for himself.

"Did the ship arrive so early?"

Ke Mingye muttered to himself, glancing at the clock. It was only 5:30, and it was still dark outside.

He then checked the daily report.

[Obituary: On the night of June 20th, a player born in London, England, with the ID "Kachira," was killed by the supervillain "The Divine Interventionist - Phoenix."]

[Current number of surviving players worldwide: 95/100]

"Fuck your mother...can you at least slow down a bit before you die?"

Ke Mingye covered his face and sighed helplessly.

Only a few days have passed, and there are already only ninety-five players left. "Maybe I should lead the surrender," he thought. "If all else fails, we can offer a couple of bribes to the Anomaly Control Bureau and see if they'll let us survive for another year."

On the bright side, players who can't survive the early stages are either unlucky or not very smart. It's not a bad thing to filter out these players early on, so they don't drag the team down later.

But more than the dead players, Ke Mingye was curious about... the words "Phoenix".

In the system panel, the prefix for the Phoenix, the Divine Interventionist, is "Super Villain," not "Superhero," nor "Vigilante"...

This is quite strange, since in Ke Mingye's mind, the phoenix has always been a superhero and is highly sought after by the American people. The US president once said that if there is no Zeus, then the phoenix is ​​America's Zeus.

This shows just how popular he once was.

However, ever since "The Watchman" captured "Phoenix" and subjected him to extreme torture for several days and nights, Phoenix has completely disappeared. He has never appeared in the public eye since then, and even the Superhero Association and the Bureau of Anomalies have no news of him. For a period of time, the entire United States was searching for Phoenix.

Some even suspected that the watchmaker had thrown the Phoenix into the sea, so the US government used instruments to search the surrounding waters, but still couldn't find the Phoenix.

Unexpectedly, after several years, Ke Mingye saw the name Phoenix on the system panel, and now Phoenix has been identified by the system as a "super villain"...

Simply unbelievable.

"Was the Phoenix driven mad by the Clockworks..." he wondered. "Or was it controlled by the Clockworks through some means, like mind control or something?"

Ke Mingye quickly gave up on delving into it; these were not things he needed to think about right now. He would take it one step at a time and complete his daily tasks first.

Today's daily tasks are as follows:

[1. Run 4000 meters (Reward: One chance to spin the prize wheel)]

2. Purchase a prop at the mall (Reward: A 50% off shopping card)

"Can a 50% off shopping card be used to purchase skills?"

He smoothed his messy hair, closed the control panel, got out of bed, walked out of the room, gently knocked on his second brother's door, and asked in a low voice, "Second brother, do you want to go for a morning run together?"

If Ke Xiaomo were inside, with his keen senses, he would have heard Ke Mingye's calls and would have gotten up and opened the door immediately.

Seeing no response from inside, Ke Mingye quickly deduced that his second brother must have already gone out to train. These past few days, his second brother had been getting up particularly early, and it was very likely that he went out to train at three or four in the morning, in order to make sufficient warm-up preparations before facing the Calamity Dragon.

He moved back to the room, locked the door, took out a set of clothes and pants from the closet, a box containing spare sneakers, and then released the trickster doll from the windowsill.

Ke Mingye ordered the doll to pick up the clothes and the box, and watched its silhouette disappear into the gray line where the sky meets the ground.

Then he turned around and left the room, quickly washed up, and took the elevator downstairs.

Ke Mingye jogged along the edge of the old Jingmai neighborhood while manipulating his mascot to speed through the city.

Finally, the doll stopped in an alley near the port in the northern part of Beijing, put on clothes and shoes, and changed its appearance to look familiar to the anti-dogs and others.

He straightened his hair, turned and walked out of the alley, down the stairs to the ground of the port, where he saw Anti-Dog wearing a brown overcoat and suit pants.

"Ju... didn't Qingmeng come?"

Ke Mingye approached the anti-dog, intending to ask where Orange Peel and Qingmeng were, but then remembered that Orange Peel was already studying the ways of a male host in Japan.

“She’s not fully awake,” said the anti-dog.

"As expected of her."

“That’s the ship,” Antidog continued.

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye turned his head to look into the distance, the sea breeze ruffling his hair.

Where the gray sky meets the sea, the shadows of several fishing boats are scattered across the water. The morning sun shines down from the gray horizon, breaking through the rolling sea fog and enveloping the shimmering surface of the sea.

A cargo ship slowly emerged on the horizon, its bulky hull rising and falling on the sea as it gradually approached the port.

The anti-dog stared at the cargo ship and whispered, "That woman standing on the deck is 'Ice Cutter'."

Ke Mingye stared intently and saw the scene on the deck clearly.

A woman in a black raincoat was standing at the bow of the boat, playing with her phone in one hand. She wore a baseball cap, had shoulder-length curly hair, an indifferent expression, and a lollipop dangling from her mouth.

Anti-Dog continued, "The one sitting by the railing is 'Paranoia,' which is our target. Subdue him as soon as he gets off the ship, and I will take him away in the taxi parked at the port."

"Okay, mission received."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he sized up the person sitting on the deck.

The uninvited guest was wearing a black hoodie and a hooded top, and his face was covered with bandages, revealing only one bloodshot eye.

"Holy crap, what kind of bloodthirsty hunk?"

Ke Mingye gasped, his heart pounding.

With his hands in the pockets of his brown coat, Anti-Dog slowly said, "All the bloodthirsty hunks are here. Their outfits look like those of a chuunibyou psychopath from anime."

"Anyway, they just look like they don't want to mess with you."