Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 353: Chapter 204: Major Event Two: Blood Clan Hunter (Eight)_4

“Gastella is hiding behind those last two mirrors…”

As he thought this, the Dice Monster had already grabbed a web and flew towards the two mirrors suspended in mid-air. Its body spun around, and it used the sharp ends of its Mechanical Spider Legs to shatter both mirrors at the same time.

Bang!

Bang!

However, as the last two mirrors shattered, with glass falling all over the floor, Sisteruo’s voice still echoed in the clothing store.

She said, “If possible… I don’t want to hurt you.”

All the mirrors were broken, but she was still alive.

Had she never been hiding in those mirrors from the start, just a deception?

Ke Mingye paused for two seconds, then looked up to the throng of puppets before him, unable to find Sisteruo among them right away, so he bit down on his bloodied teeth.

“Lies,” he said.

[Answer incorrect; the statement is not a lie. The response time was 2 seconds, you will receive damage worth 2 seconds X 5% of your maximum health, and the skill user’s cooldown for this ability will be reset.]

A cut opened up along Ke Mingye’s temple, from which blood spread, staining his right eye red.

His head spun.

In a flash of lightning, the Dice Monster fell from the sky, its empty eyes scanning the area.

It could see the puppets densely clustered in a corner, as if they were concealing someone’s figure. It raised a Mechanical Spider Leg and kicked against a bookshelf, propelling itself forward violently, ramming through the puppets in its way.

Soon, it found Sisteruo hidden behind one of the pillars.

Retreating, Sisteruo said, “The reason I didn’t expose your identity was to keep it as leverage to threaten you into letting me go.”

“Truth.”

As soon as the words fell, a chasm opened up in Ke Mingye’s right leg, and blood gushed out.

At this moment, he had become a bloodied figure from head to toe, not a single part intact.

[Answer incorrect; the statement was a lie. The response time was 2 seconds, you will receive damage worth 2 seconds X 5% of your maximum health, and the skill user’s cooldown for this ability will be reset.]

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As the Dice Monster rapidly approached, Sisteruo, while controlling the puppets to obstruct it, said,

“Actually, I quite like you, in various ways.”

In his dazed state, Ke Mingye, supporting his bloody forehead, said slowly,

“Truth.”

[Answer correct; punishment for the user: lose half of stamina and 30% of health.]

As the system notification sounded, half of Sisteruo’s face split open instantly, revealing stark white bone underneath, with blood splashing through the air and scattering everywhere.

She covered her cheek, the other half of her face still calm, and whispered,

“What a pity, you guessed it right. You did that on purpose, didn’t you? I made it so obvious, yet you acted as if you didn’t want to accept my goodwill…”

At this moment, Ke Mingye, nearly out of breath, was surrounded by parasitic puppets with no way out. He knelt down, holding Bai Ziling in his arms.

If it had been a second later, he would have been the one to die.

But… on the other side of the clothing store, the Dice Monster had already swooped down like a tempest onto Sisteruo. It raised a Mechanical Spider Leg to her throat.

The sharp tip traced a bloody line across Sisteruo’s neck.

She calmly raised her neck, her red hair waving in the wind and rain blowing in through the window, her gaze fearless.

In that instant, in the entire clothing store, and even throughout Huanjing, all parasitic puppets ceased their movements. It was as if time had abruptly stopped, though the clock on the wall kept ticking steadily.

“I left a clue to your identity. Once I die, someone will send the evidence to your family’s email.”

In the silent world, Sisteruo spoke slowly.

“It doesn’t matter…” Ke Mingye said expressionlessly, “I came to you under the assumption that my identity had already been exposed. I could not let you go.”

Upon hearing this, Sisteruo lowered her eyelids and chuckled softly.

“Ke Mingye, we really are the same,” she said.

Then she paused for a moment before continuing, “So, this is my request: I won’t expose your identity, and I will destroy all evidence. And you… will you bury me and my family’s bodies together?”

Ke Mingye was stunned for two seconds, then he lowered his eyelids and thought for a moment.

Finally, he nodded slowly.

“Yes.”

“A lie,” Sisteruo stated flatly, “You didn’t actually plan to do it, just giving me lip service, right?”

Ke Mingye remained silent, not lifting his eyes to look at her.

Sisteruo turned her head and stared at his face from across half the clothing store, whispering, “I didn’t leave evidence. I think I am Sisteruo, and you are Ke Mingye… There’s really nothing to expose. For your family, you are you; for my family, I am me.”

“Then what… what exactly do you want to do?”

Ke Mingye took in a deep breath, his lips twitching slightly.

“The moment you appeared, I knew I had already lost,” Sisteruo said, “We were never your match to begin with. My only chance of winning was to use you and that nuclear bomb to divert some of your family, take the chance to steal your sister’s heart, and then make a quick escape. But, it’s too late now…”

As she spoke, she glanced out the window at the fallen Azure Flame Steed and Howard, who was kneeling on the ground.

Sisteruo fell silent. She mustered a smile, her hand covering the intact half of her face. But tears couldn’t stop trailing down from the half that was only bones.

“What about you, what will you choose in the end?” she asked, her gaze returning from Howard, whispering.

“What are you talking about…”

“Will you stand with your family, or will you stand with the players?”

Sisteruo asked further.

Ke Mingye lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while before saying, “I am a player. You want to kill all the players, so you are my enemy…”

“A lie,” Sisteruo interrupted him, and continued, “You are Ke Mingye, I want to kill your family members, so… that’s why I am your enemy.”

“You’re kind of funny…” Ke Mingye, leaning against the wall, looked down at the white-haired girl in his arms and said deeply, “A dead person. What you say has no meaning.”

“You’ll have to make a choice sooner or later anyway…” Sisteruo lowered her eyelids and said casually, “Self-deception is never a choice, just a display of cowardice.”

She paused and then said: “Are you a coward, Mr. Spider Man, or is it more fitting… to call you Ke Mingye?”

At these words, Ke Mingye fell silent for a long time.

After a while, he lifted his blood-red eyes, reflecting the darkened sky outside in his pupils.

“You say… is there a chance I could find another way?” he asked.

“How would you find it?” Sisteruo asked, “Do you plan to use the power given by God to defy God? You know how foolish that sounds.”

Between their words, a torrential downpour was still falling outside the window, the rushing waters on the streets as if wanting to drown the entire world. Thunder roared, abruptly splitting the world into black and white.

“You’re right…”

At that, Sisteruo withdrew her gaze from the window, looking down at the tip of the Mechanical Spider Leg pressed against her neck.

She went quiet for a moment, then softly said, “Kill me before I have to watch them die… as a return for my not exposing your identity, can you do that?”

Ke Mingye slowly lowered his face, his eyes hidden under his bangs.

The next moment, the Dice Monster raised the tip of the Mechanical Spider Leg, instantly piercing through Sisteruo’s jaw. Blood splattered out, staining the pillar.

Sisteruo’s body tilted, slowly falling to the floor. Her red hair spread out like blooming petals, her hollow eyes reflecting the spattered ceiling.

Ke Mingye took a deep breath, knowing that Gastella was not dead yet and that the play he had been performing within the clothing store with her was about to come to an end.

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