Superman Termination Manual

Ke Mingye saw that his elder brother had spoken and knew he couldn't quibble, so he sighed and said, "That 'Magical Girl Ash' really has no manners, even the passing dogs get kicked by her."

"She is the idol I support, even if you're my big brother, you can't talk about her like that in front of me," Bai Zini said, glaring at him angrily.

Bai Zini was so frustrated that she gave him a fierce sideways glance.

"Just admit that I'm unlucky, will you? I go out for a morning jog and end up with this mess. If it were any other magic girl, she would have just flown past, but this one has such a weird logic; she stopped for no reason to lecture me, almost spraying spit on my face."

"You!"

Bai Zini and Ke Mingye were about to start arguing when their father, sitting in the living room reading the newspaper, spoke up, "She was only trying to look out for you. Every time there's trouble, you just stand there like an idiot. What would you do if one day you got caught up in it?"

"Exactly, with dad and big brother saying that, look how much the Magic Girl I support cares about the safety of the people. You still say she lacks manners; I think you're the one lacking manners." Bai Zini said.

"Alright, alright," Ke Mingye smacked his lips, "I lack manners, I lack manners. Our 'Magical Girl Ash' really has so much class, are you satisfied now?"

"Aside from that, just honestly tell me, don't you think, even a little bit, that she's pretty?"

Bai Zini lowered her eyes, touching the video on her phone, pausing and playing it while muttering to herself absentmindedly.

"The pixelation in this passerby's shot is so bad, and yet she still looks so good in the frame. Your face was almost against hers—didn't you feel anything?"

Ha, so you came over here on purpose to talk about this?

Ke Mingye finally understood her intentions, thinking dismally to himself.

He remembered the last time he and Bai Zini discussed the news, he mentioned, "That magic girl's looks are just so-so," and to his surprise, Bai Zini had held a grudge until now.

Ke Mingye was unbending unto death, "After seeing her in person, she felt even more average. Online pictures are indeed unreliable."

"Forget it, big brother, you might as well drop dead."

Bai Zini picked up a panda pillow from the couch, stopped talking to him, and focused on her phone with an indifferent expression on her face that screamed, "Let the world be destroyed."

"Please, is Ash your mom or something, that you have to curse me too?" Ke Mingye asked.

Ignoring him, Bai Zini turned to Ke Yinzhi, in a huff, and asked, "Old, old, old brother, what do you think? This Magic Girl is obviously the most popular in China after Xizi Yue, and yet the person beside me speaks so ill of her."

"Hmm, speaking of Magic Girls," Ke Yinzhi said distractedly, flipping through a book, "how about 'Magical Girl Kokonoe Sakura' from Japan? She has quite the style, or Scotland's 'Magical Girl Spirit Bell Child', a nine-year-old magic girl with the power to destroy cities, which seems a lot more interesting than 'Magical Girl Ash', don't you think?"

Bai Zini took a deep breath, put her hand to her chest, and told herself to stay calm, resisting the urge to reach for Cinderella and fire a couple of shots over the heads of her big and third brothers.

Ke Youqing listened to their conversation and interjected with his opinion, "Rather than interesting, it's simply nonsensical to give such power to a nine-year-old child." Experience more tales on empire

"Isn't it, dad?" Ke Yinzhi shrugged.

"You make it sound as if they actually wanted it," Bai Zini said. "Spirit Bell Child is a 'Contracted Magic Girl', and the Contracted Beast that made a pact with her is a dolphin, the only dolphin-type Contracted Beast in the world. It took a liking to Spirit Bell Child; otherwise, she wouldn't have become a Magic Girl at the age of nine."

"Isn't that the same thing?" Ke Mingye asked, confused. "Can Contracted Beasts force people to become Magic Girls?"

Bai Zini's expression grew more serious as she coldly said, "What discernment skills does a nine-year-old child have? Directly tell them, 'I'll give you a lollipop, sign a contract with me to become a Magic Girl,' and maybe they'll just agree to it."

"It seems you have quite the potential to be a Contracted Beast," Ke Mingye nodded and commented.

"How can humans become Contracted Beasts."

"Ah, you're not a dog——"

Before Ke Mingye could finish, he was already under Bai Zini's pillow being smothered and beat relentlessly.

Ke Youqing said, "I think the government should enact policies to eradicate those animals harboring comet fragments within them, or at the very least, isolate them from the human world."

He continued to read the newspaper and added, "The comet-type Magic Girls are one thing; after all, it's not something they can control. But the contract-type Magic Girls can be managed."

"Each Contracted Beast can only pact with up to five Magic Girls, and roughly seventy percent of Magic Girls that come into being each year are through contracts with Contracted Beasts. If we eliminate the Contracted Beasts, then no new contract-type Magic Girls will be born."

Ke Yinzhi sipped his coffee slowly and said, "Dad and I share the same opinion, maybe I should consider becoming a journalist, or take the civil service exam or something. That way, society might actually hear my voice..."

"Don't think about changing the world, just be good at being yourself."

Ke Youqing sipped his tea and spoke.

Ke Mingye listened to the two of them bantering back and forth, thinking to himself how awkward this was. You two could join hands, with Qing Ya pressuring the association and Black Judge proposing to the Management Bureau, and the "Contracted Beast Extermination Plan" could start tomorrow.

And here they are acting like reporters and civil servants, as if they don't have higher status than them—it's just frickin' self-deception...

At this moment, Bai Zini, after the incident just now, had been so angered that she had returned to the second floor.

Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief, the world was finally quiet, and at last, no one was bothering him. He collapsed onto the back of the sofa, summoned his friends panel, and sent a message to his only friend.

[Failed Man: I've got nothing to do, are you free? Let's meet up early, in case I can't get away later.]

[Fan Quan: Sure, I actually need to talk to you about something, there are two players coming to our city.]

[Fan Quan: The usual place, the video game store.]

[Failed Man: Two players?]

[Fan Quan: Yeah, I just got the news, we'll talk when you get here.]

Are players that easy to find? There are only a hundred players worldwide, and some had already died. How on earth did they manage to find each other? Ke Mingye looked at this message, puzzled.

[Fan Quan: Oh, right, I've invited Ju Zipi and Qing Meng, we're going to take a trip to Tokyo, do you want to come?]

[Failed Man: Tokyo? Have you guys lost your minds? Leaving the country at this time, aren't you afraid of being discovered?]

[Fan Quan: Haven't you read the "dungeon atlas"? Open it and check the swag card from dungeon No. 7, then get back to me.]

"Dungeon atlas?"

Ke Mingye looked up at the icon in the top right corner of his field of view, which indeed contained a "Dungeon Card Atlas/Dungeon Detector," something he had glanced at once and never opened again.

Reminded by Fan Quan, he clicked open the icon again.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

A card collection interface opened before his eyes, where currently he had only unlocked the page for "China Huanjing," with slots underneath numbered NO.1 to NO.100.

In slot NO.⑤ and NO.⑦, there was a card in each.

He raised an eyebrow and clicked on card No. 5.

The card depicted a zombie chef with his head thrown back, stuffing an exploding zombie and porcupine together into his mouth, like a hot dog.

[Card Name: Zombie Chef]

[Card Serial Number: NO.005]

[Card Source: Defeating Huanjing No. 5 dungeon—"Zombie Pursuit".]

[Card Effect: Players holding this card will be immune to 30% of neurotoxin virus effects.]

"So these loot cards actually have effects," he thought.

Ke Mingye then backed out and clicked on card No. 7. The card showed a train conductor leaning forward, pulling levers with a crazy expression, controlling the train as it sped forward.

[Card Name: Crazy Train Conductor]

[Card Serial Number: NO.007]

[Card Source: Defeating Huanjing No. 7 dungeon—"Crazy Train Station".]

[Card Effect: Once a week, players holding this card can go to Old Jingmai's 4th Street abandoned train station, board the old train at Platform No. 7, which will take you to other abandoned train stations around the world (Japan, United States, Iceland, Denmark, Norway—as long as there is an abandoned train station, the train can take you there).]

"Holy crap, it's got this feature..."

Ke Mingye understood from the card's effects what Fan Quan had meant by "taking a trip to Tokyo later."

"Now there's hope for a weekly world tour," he thought, "I've gotta go and greet the players from other countries and swipe their dungeon resources while I'm at it."