Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 354: Chapter 205: Major Event Two: Blood Clan Hunter (Nine)

When Ke Mingye came to his senses, the myriad wounds on his body had already disappeared. He looked up at the Blood Clan Oath on the back of his hand, glowing with a bloody light, confirming it was indeed the thing Bai Ziling had left behind, and it was this very thing that healed most of his wounds.

Just as Ke Mingye was carrying Bai Ziling on his back, stepping out from the blood-splattered Sisteruo beside the fashion store, he suddenly heard a ghostly voice close by.

“Surprised?”

Sisteruo stood by the entrance of the clothing store, lifting a cold handgun aimed at his head. Her face bore a mocking smile, and her gaze was playful.

Seeing this, Ke Mingye slightly paused his steps and said without turning back.

“You… are already dead.”

“Have you been scared silly?”

With a slight smile, Sisteruo began to explain the origins of this peculiar sight, “In the clothing store, I could never have killed you because the Blood Clan Oath your sister left on you had not yet been triggered… So, while I used the ‘mirror’ skill to disguise myself as still inside the clothing store, I had already left and had a puppet disguised as me enter the store with the crowd.”

She paused, “And when the penalty effect of ‘Deadly Lies’ was triggered, the micro bomb hidden behind the facial mask went off, blowing off half of her face. From your perspective, this reinforced your belief that the Gastella you saw was real, right?”

At this point, she raised her lips, showing off a vicious bloodstain that stretched up to her shoulder on her left wrist.

“This is my punishment.”

Ke Mingye remained silent, his expression eerily calm.

Seeing Ke Mingye’s silence, Sisteruo smirked, “Old tricks again. Just like that time in the abandoned building, you fell for the same tactic again, foolishly mistaking my puppet for my real body.”

Speaking, she lowered her eyelids while rolling up her lifted sleeve, continuing, “Now, since the effect of the Blood Clan Oath has been triggered, it’s unlikely to save you a second time soon. So… as I pull the trigger aimed at your head, your life will end at this moment.”

Ke Mingye suddenly laughed.

“What I meant by ‘you are already dead’… is not a tone of surprise or shock, but a statement of reality. If you cannot understand it with your intelligence, then you might as well pull the trigger and see.”

He spoke calmly, his gaze fixed on a billboard straight ahead, not even glancing at Gastella.

Sisteruo tilted her head, her index finger gradually tightening on the gun’s trigger.

“Then I’ll return your words exactly, you… are already dead.”

As she spoke, Sisteruo pulled the trigger aimed at the side of Ke Mingye’s head. However, at that moment, no bullet was discharged as the muzzle was completely blocked by layers of snowflakes.

The layers of snowflakes tightly sealed the muzzle.

Following that… the handgun exploded.

Bang—!

As the gun’s chamber burst open, the remnants of the handgun flew out of Sisteruo’s palm, her right hand utterly destroyed in the blast.

“How is this possible…” Sisteruo knelt on the ground, cradling her bloodied right hand, and looked up at a Magic Girl in a Christmas costume hovering midair, “Where did she come from…”

Ke Mingye slowly explained.

“You know, in addition to the identities you already know about – Blue Owl, Spider Man, Ke Mingye, Dice Monster – I have another identity…”

He paused: “This identity is called ‘Magic Girl Xiaohongmao’.”

“And just now, while I was fighting with you in the clothing store, this Magic Girl was quietly observing from outside, so all your little movements, all your self-righteous disguises and tricks… I saw them all. And I’ve been going along with your act, yet you never realized it for a moment.”

Hearing this, Sisteruo was stunned for a long time. She tried to struggle, but her body was wrapped tightly in layers of snow, immobilized.

“Impossible…” she murmured.

Ke Mingye’s voice, calm and devoid of any fluctuations, kept entering her ears, like a reaper sentencing a mortal.

“Moreover, you never used any gadgets during our fight, and you used very few skills. I could tell you were holding back, aiming to lower my guard, then to attack me after the activation of the Blood Clan Oath on me.”

“Of course… Actually, my greatest confidence comes from the fact that you, Gastella, would never surrender to me before your companions die in battle, since you are willing to betray all players for the sake of your own family. Hence, you will fight alongside them until the very last moment, I have confidence in you,” Ke Mingye said, pausing momentarily before taking a deep breath and continuing.

“And now… let me repeat that sentence again… ‘You, are already dead’.”

The moment his words fell, Magical Girl Xiaohongmao crushed a magic card in the palm of her hand. Subsequently, a magic array appeared in midair, and a massive fireball descended from the heavens, heading straight for Sisteruo’s body.

Boom—!

The fierce blaze evaporated the fine raindrops into a mist of turbid white vapor. When the dazzling firelight dispersed, Gastella’s figure had already transformed into ghastly white bones, suffering from the corrosion of the drizzling rain amidst the ashes.

Ke Mingye, with Bai Ziling on his back, walked expressionlessly past the wreckage.

Meanwhile, the Dice Monster flew out from the clothing store on spider threads, hastening to the battlefield between the apocalypse dragon and Flint;

Magical Girl Xiaohongmao then came to the aid of Magical Girl Ash, who had been incapacitated for a long time.

The rain was still falling.

Ke Mingye drew a deep breath of the chilly air, exhaling a turbid white mist, and looked up from his damp forehead. In his sight, all the parasitic puppets throughout the city had lost their will to fight, lying on the ground, vomiting the pitch-black worms that parasitized their hearts onto the floor.

This meant… Gastella was truly dead.

This fellow deceiver, adept at self-deception and deceiving others, just like him.

He was dead…

He had once thought, whether he really resembled Gastella as she had emphasized, whether one day he would pull the trigger on the players, wielding a butcher’s knife towards those who trusted him like Fan Quan, Cai Bing, Ju Zipi.

But at least not now, he was different from Gastella.

He was still alive, and that meant there was still a chance to resist.

To find the real answer within this year.

While thinking, a slight movement suddenly came from his back. Bai Ziling had woken up, she opened her eyes and quietly snuggled against him. A denim jacket was still draped over her head, shielding her from the fine rain falling from the sky.

“We’re going home…”

Ke Mingye slightly turned his face, looking at Bai Ziling on his back, and said softly.

“You came to pick me up.”

Bai Ziling gently wrapped her arms around his shoulders, her white hair tickling his neck.

Ke Mingye slightly opened his mouth, seeming hesitant to meet those red eyes, and looked away.

He lowered his eyes and whispered, “I’m sorry… for letting you get so hurt, it must have been painful, right?”

Bai Ziling shook her head and said softly, “I knew you would come, I’ve been waiting for you…”

Upon hearing this, Ke Mingye remained silent, carrying her into the entrance of the duplex apartment building.

However, just as he stepped into the entrance, he suddenly halted his steps, his figure slightly stunned. Then, he slowly turned his head and looked towards the sky outside the building.

He saw thousands of crows forming a dark lake in the sky…

And above the swarm of crows, a missile with a propulsion device attached to its tail was approaching the city at a visibly rapid pace.

“Old man…”

Ke Mingye looked up at the nuclear bomb and the crows covering half the sky, and muttered hoarsely.

“You still couldn’t make it in time, could you?”

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