Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 037 Preparation Time

Ke Mingye, as usual, bought breakfast at the supermarket and then headed towards Huanjing Third High School.

On his way, he casually added the attribute point he gained from leveling up to his physical fitness.

[Congratulations, your "Physical fitness" attribute has been raised to 17 points.]

With a backpack slung over his shoulder, having finished his soy milk and pineapple bread, he arrived at the high school. Today was the last day before high school vacation began, and the students he saw on the street looked a lot more spirited than usual, not so listless.

After Ke Mingye sat down in the classroom, he used his thoughts to click on the new icon that appeared in the upper right corner of his vision, and a rectangular black panel popped up immediately.

[The current global player superhuman cumulative kill rankings are as follows.]

[First place: 9 kills——ID: Ripper Z (Serial No.002)]

[Second place: 7 kills——ID: Top Bull (Serial No.025)]

[Third place: 5 kills——ID: A Zhe (Serial No.098)]

[Fourth place: 3 kills——ID: Fan Quan (Serial No.039)]

[Fifth place: 2 kills——ID: Dark Blade 01 (Serial No.021)]

[Sixth place: 1 kill——ID: Cai Bing (Serial No.009)]

[...…]

[Your ranking: Currently tied with a total of 93 players for 7th place overall, with 0 kills.]

[Note: Other players' English IDs have been automatically translated into Chinese IDs for you.]

"Are they really that fierce?" Ke Mingye thought, surprised, "The first place has already killed nine superhumans. But it's the beginning of the game, maybe the ones he killed are superpower users with rather weak abilities..."

In his mind, some lower-level superhumans and harmless superhumans weren't much different from ordinary people, and to kill them, all you needed was to shoot them in the head.

So, for players born in the United States, as long as they got their hands on firearms, they could basically start aiming at some weaker superhumans; if one shot wasn't enough, then two would do.

Ke Mingye quickly skimmed and found a familiar name on the leaderboard—Fan Quan from Huanjing, the young man who clutched a Bible and whose father was an arms smuggler.

This guy had also already killed three superhumans, though it was unknown whom he targeted.

However, from what Ke Mingye had seen, Fan Quan didn't seem like the kind of player who acted without thinking and likely took perfect precautions before making his move.

Since killing superhumans could yield experience points, and players could receive rewards based on their ranking on the leaderboard each month, those with a higher kill count had a more significant advantage over other players; however, they also faced greater risks. After all, it's only the early stage of the game, and their abilities to hide their presence are limited.

If, in order to develop quickly, they recklessly target weaker superhumans, it could very well bring about their own demise.

It would be one thing if regular superheroes were to investigate the case, but with bad luck, running into a rare zealot like Qing Ya, even if you did a great job cleaning up the clues, you could still get caught by the tail.

Therefore, Ke Mingye was definitely not in a hurry.

His thought process was very clear; his current task was steady development because if other players took action first and disrupted their rhythm, they couldn't be considered steady anymore.

"Compared to them, my advantages are not small," Ke Mingye rested his chin on his hand as he gazed at the writing on the blackboard, thinking, "For instance, that main quest where one gets rewards for approaching family members with a disguised identity, the reward for getting close to Bai Zini has already been secured...

Among the rest of the family, I'll avoid Dad and Mom, those two monsters, and in the short term, I can approach Bai Qiuwu and Bai Ziling with my second identity to claim the node rewards. It'll add up to a decent amount."

On this day of June 20, Ke Mingye still, just like the day before, managed to complete the hundred "pull-up" activities during the break between classes, and just finished his second daily task at noon.

[Daily Task Two Completed: Perform a hundred pull-ups.]

[Reward Obtained: Gain one attribute point to be added to "Physical Fitness".]

[Congratulations, your "Physical Fitness" attribute has increased to 18 points.]

The afternoon classes were also insignificant, mostly about the teachers from different subjects announcing the final exam results.

Ke Mingye, with the memories from his previous life and having already gone through the college entrance examination once, handled things naturally and adeptly.

He intentionally kept his grades in the upper-middle part of the class, around the top hundred in the whole school, maintaining his usual standard so as not to draw his mother's attention—although Bai Wenna might not take action against him even if she noticed something was amiss, he still feared her the most in the family, as one could never predict what means an alien might possess.

In the meantime, Ke Mingye also opened his knapsack to check the web fluid level of the "Web Shooter". After a spree of misuse the night before, it was down to 30%.

[Would you like to spend 140 Mall Coins to purchase "Web Fluid" from the mall and refill your Web Shooter's "Web Fluid Volume" to the maximum?]

"Seventy percent of web fluid costs 140 Mall Coins, so each percent of web fluid costs 2 Mall Coins, not as expensive as I imagined," Ke Mingye thought to himself, using 140 Mall Coins to buy web fluid and refilling the internal web fluid of the Web Shooter to full capacity, ready for any emergencies.

[Thank you for your patronage, your current balance of Mall Coins is 860.]

In the third period of the afternoon, which was also the last class, his younger sister Bai Ziling sent him a message.

She said she was going to the cinema to watch a movie later and asked if Ke Mingye would like to join. If he was coming, they could head straight to the cinema after school without going back home.

Through this message, Ke Mingye confirmed that his older brother Ke Xiaomo was staying at home, so he decisively raised his hand and asked the teacher to go to the bathroom.

In the bathroom, he took out a set of spare school uniforms and a pair of cheap trainers, which he had tucked into his backpack in the morning, and then summoned the Deception Puppet. After adjusting its physique, appearance, hairstyle, and voice to be the same as yesterday, he ordered it to put on the school uniform and the canvas shoes and then to sit on the toilet and await orders.

Ke Mingye then returned to the classroom and opened the discussion group using the communications panel.

[Failed Man: I'll come straight after school. I should arrive at Yandai Commercial Street around 4:30. Tight on time, so we'll start the instance right away, OK?]

[Fan Quan: No problem. We three will wait for you here.]

After making all the preparations, Ke Mingye looked at the blackboard, steadied his breath, and quietly waited for the school bell to ring.

He had to ensure that, in this instance battle, the Deception Puppet wouldn't die.

Otherwise, according to the rule that "players will be resurrected in reality after dying in an instance", he would immediately expose a fact in front of the other players: he was deceiving them and attempting to maintain long-term contact with them using the puppet.