Superman Termination Manual

Chapter 050 The Number One Person

"Damn, big brother? No, how could he be here..."

Ke Mingye's eyes twitched fiercely as he looked up from his phone, puzzled.

Before him was the wooden door of his home, with a penguin ornament still hanging on its ring. He then realized he had been standing at his doorstep playing with his phone for almost ten minutes.

During this time, he had been pretending to play with his phone while intently manipulating the Deception Puppet and having a conversation with Bai Qiuwu on the elevated bridge.

He stood frozen in place for a full two seconds, his thoughts slowly transitioning from their stunned state.

Ke Mingye, while controlling the Deception Puppet, reached out with a hand dripping with cold sweat and pressed the doorbell.

Soon, Bai Ziling opened the door for him.

She lifted her red eyes and stared at him motionlessly, "Why have you been in the bathroom for so long?"

Ke Mingye ignored her question, and, while taking off his shoes, he scanned the living room, "Didn't you say big brother was back?"

"Big brother said he's got something to take care of and would be back later," said Bai Zini, who was playing with her phone on the sofa. "Mom and dad have kept the dinner warm, just waiting for the two of you to come and eat."

"Oh, big brother always likes to stand us up, not surprising."

With that, Ke Mingye took off his shoes, slipped into a pair of slippers, and slowly walked through the entryway to sit down at the dining table in the kitchen.

"It's also not surprising..." as he picked up chopsticks and put them in his mouth, he thought, "Was it the text I sent to my older sister that blew my cover? But at the time, I really had no choice but to do so, did that mean I screwed over my sister?"

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Half an hour ago, Old Jingmai Cafe.

Ke Yinzhi sat in a private room on the second floor of the cafe, holding a cup of coffee, and studied the event footage collected by the Anomaly Control Bureau from the public — which was about "the ten naked men running in front of Yandai Cinema City and the Dice Monster who threw dice from atop a traffic light."

He soon noticed that the grey, humanoid figure that swung to the top of a traffic light on a spider's thread was wearing a high school uniform, a jarring sight.

He looked at the uniform in the footage and raised an eyebrow, "This uniform looks like it's from Huanjing Third High School, which is... the high school that Mingye and Qiuwu are attending." Experience tales at empire

Ke Yinzhi pondered for a moment and requested from the technical department of the Management Bureau all of Bai Qiuwu's text and social media messages from the past month.

He sipped his coffee, set down the cup, and quickly skimmed through the documents, finding all the text messages from the previous month to be normal.

It was not long before he found an anonymous message sent to Bai Qiuwu through a prank app today.

— Anonymous User: Classmate Sun Wukong, guess whether I could be right across from Yandai Cinema City now?

— Anonymous User: The spaghetti at this Western restaurant is really good. The movie you're watching must also be great, but don't forget our secret rendezvous on the elevated bridge tonight. Of course, if you're free now, we could also meet up earlier.

— Bai Qiuwu: I'm at the Western restaurant, where are you?

——Anonymous user: Received, will you wait for me there for a moment?

"…Sun Wukong, my dear?"

Ke Yinzhi gazed at the text on his phone and silently repeated the name in his mind, quickly associating it with a character who had been active in China for three years as a superhuman vigilante—"Diviner Black Wukong".

He had a profound impression of this person because on the Anomaly Control Bureau's top-secret list of dangerous individuals, both "Diviner Black Wukong" and "Diviner Zeus" were included, which meant the Management Bureau had been watching them for more than just a day or two. They shared a common trait—they were both "Divine Communicators".

After years of research by the Anomaly Control Bureau, they concluded that "all Divine Communicators would inevitably spiral out of control after reaching the sixth stage; this trend was unavoidable." Any Divine Communicator would sooner or later become uncontrollable.

They were too powerful; for humankind, they were akin to human-shaped nuclear bombs ready to detonate any second, representing a tremendous threat to human civilization.

Therefore, they had to be dealt with before they lost control.

But Zeus was a world-renowned superhero now, ranking No. 3 among the top-tier figures of the Superhero Round Table. His name was almost synonymous with the "Superhero Association," so naturally, the association went to great lengths to protect him.

Consequently, because of Zeus's status, the Anomaly Control Bureau had refrained from taking action against him, waiting instead for an opportune moment, a chance to pull him down from his pedestal.

However, the situation was different for "Diviner Black Wukong". He didn't have the same powerful background as Zeus, which naturally placed him at the top of the priority list for handling.

In other words, there would eventually come a day when the Anomaly Control Bureau would initiate an anomalous extermination operation against "Diviner Black Wukong", and even against "Diviner Zeus".

And as one of the five S-class agents of the Anomaly Control Bureau, Ke Yinzhi would, of course, participate in this operation.

At this moment, seeing the words "Sun Wukong" here, a trace of disbelief inevitably flitted across his eyes.

Ke Yinzhi lowered his gaze, brushing his fingertip across his lips while shifting his focus, with his attention locked on the phrase "a covert meeting on the elevated bridge".

"Elevated bridge."

He knew without having to search that among the elevated bridges around Huanjing, there was only one currently out of commission.

That was Ring 7 Elevated Bridge.

The official reason given for the decommissioning of this bridge was structural safety issues, but in fact, it was because of a paranormal event that had occurred there two years ago and remained unsolved to this day.

In that event, five superheroes died; the Anomaly Control Bureau took over the investigation and eventually suspected that the supercriminal "Timekeeper" was involved, but lacking evidence, they temporarily closed the operation of Ring 7 Elevated Bridge. To this day, it has not been fully reopened as the incident remains under investigation.

"Ring 7 Elevated Bridge, huh…"

Ke Yinzhi rose from his seat at the table and walked down the spiral staircase, a profound light swirling in his pupils, "Let's see with my own eyes what little Qiuwu from my family is up to."

Shortly after, he changed into his agent uniform and personally arrived above the Ring 7 Elevated Bridge.

It was there, above that bridge, that his view penetrated a blazing curtain of flames, revealing two figures encircled by fire.

They looked into each other's eyes, speaking words to one another.

The former was the "Dice Monster" who had made an appearance earlier that afternoon on Yandai Commercial Street, the same individual who had inexplicably blown up a traffic light post;

The latter was the world-renowned superhuman vigilante—"Black Wukong", also one of the top individuals on the Anomaly Control Bureau's highest classified dangerous individuals list.