Superman Termination Manual

"How does it feel to wear this?"

Ke Mingye, sitting on the bench and leaning against the backrest, turned his face to the side and asked Yuri, who was squatting on the ground. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Barely acceptable, this boss will just put up with it for now."

Yuri raised a paw, scratching at the dog-head mask and squinting the eyes.

"Okay, then you can roll back home. No problem running back on your own, right?"

After speaking, Ke Mingye yawned widely, languidly bending forward, pressing a button on his suit.

Immediately the doggy battle suit inflated again, allowing Yuri to escape from it. It dashed away, disappearing into the dimly lit passageway overgrown with shrubbery, out of his line of sight.

Ke Mingye glanced at the daily tasks, then stood up straight from the bench and took care of it right there on the platform.

[You have received the reward for daily task 2 "One hundred push-ups," earning 2 freely assignable attribute points.]

[Your "Physical fitness" attribute has changed: 138→140 points (↑2 points).]

[Congratulations, your "Physical fitness" attribute has successfully reached the minimum standards for "C-grade Superhuman" (140 points).]

Ke Mingye looked at this data, thinking to himself.

"I guess I’ve broken through to C-grade now. With this pace, in 10 months, my three attributes should at least reach A-grade. But I wonder if a balanced development won’t be as powerful as players who specialize in one attribute. But no matter, I have the Deception Puppet, so I’m guaranteed to have the power of three A-grades later on; if not by strength then by numbers."

Thinking this, he clicked on the second task on the task panel to receive the reward for daily task 2.

[You have received the reward for daily task 1 "Run 5000 meters," earning a chance to spin the lucky wheel.]

The reward wheel gradually unfolded before his eyes. The text of the six areas came into view.

[One, 3000 Mall Coins; Two, A-grade Equipment Fragment (collect 6 A-grade Equipment Fragments to exchange for a random A-grade piece of equipment); Three, One-time Skill Card—Somersault Cloud; Four, a low-grade lottery ticket; Five: A set of auxiliary Magic cards; Six, 1000 experience points.]

"Somersault Cloud made the list." Ke Mingye thought, "If I get that, I’m definitely going to ride the Somersault Cloud around the overpass with big sis."

He pressed the start button, and the pointer began to spin slowly. Unfortunately, the outcome was not as he wished. In the end, the pointer stopped at the area marked ②.

[Congratulations, you have received the reward from area ②—An A-grade Equipment Fragment.]

[The A-grade Equipment Fragment has been added to your inventory.]

"Just gathering pieces again. I haven’t even assembled my Divine Communication disc, and even if I did, I can’t leave Huanjing right now to search for divine relics."

Ke Mingye thought to himself and quickly closed the series of panels.

He checked his phone, there was still plenty of time before his meeting with Fan Quan, so he headed home and took a nap.

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Around noon, at Yandai Commercial Street, inside a less-popular game store.

Ke Mingye wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand, greeted the store owner casually, and then headed to the second floor.

As usual, he walked to the corner room in front, slid the door to the right, and a rumbling sound came from the door scraping the floor.

Lifting the fancy curtains, there were three figures waiting for him inside the room. Scanning the room, they were "Top Bull," "Ju Zipi," and "Fan Quan."

"Spider Man, you’re pretty early today."

Ju Zipi sat on the couch, with both hands on the hilts of his swords, greeting him while sheathing the blades slightly revealed.

"Why do I feel like if I had a different face, you would have already drawn your sword on me?"

Ke Mingye spoke as he rested his head against the door frame, lifting his eyes from the phone screen to look at the katana in Ju Zipi’s hand. The reflected gleam from the blade was a bit dazzling.

He always felt that at the moment the door opened, he seemed to have felt a killing intent and thought: This kid hasn’t just cultivated the ability to please wealthy ladies in the Host Club, but also developed the temperament of a killer.

"Not to that extent." Ju Zipi shook his head, "It’s just that after doing tasks in Japan, one subconsciously maintains vigilance."

"Hey, stop babbling about random stuff. The air conditioning is on, close the door."

Top Bull grumbled with a cigarette in his mouth. Wearing the translation badge given by Fan Quan, he spoke Chinese naturally, like someone from the northeast of China.

"How about you go outside to smoke, it really affects my mood for reading." Fan Quan pushed up his glasses, looking down at "An Era of Nonsense."

"Everyone here is an adult, what’s wrong with smoking a cigarette?"

"Wrong, age isn’t a reason to smoke." Fan Quan calmly said.

Top Bull looked at him in surprise through his sunglasses: "You don’t usually drink or smoke?"

"I don’t drink, and I don’t smoke." Fan Quan said, "I think both smokers and drinkers should die out sooner, preferably by painless lethal injection."

"Looks like your family background must be pretty awful."

Top Bull said dismissively, just making a sarcastic comment.

Ke Mingye leaned on the door frame, looking down at his phone, finishing up the ongoing game of Minesweeper while saying, "I get it, a mom addicted to cigarettes, a dad who’s a heavy drinker, a brother who rides a ghost-fire bike, and a broken him."

"Alright, can I come in now?" Ju Zipi snapped the sheath closed, making a "clang" sound.

"If I don’t come in now, you’d probably cut me already. How could I not?"

Ke Mingye said as he sat down on a chair, casually closing the sliding door, and looked up at their Dog-headed Strategist: "So what’s the plan?"

"The plan is already set." Fan Quan said, "Me, you, plus Ju Zipi, the three of us will infiltrate Bedlam Asylum together. We can’t do it with one person less."