Superman Termination Manual

Bai Zini twisted her head around to survey the street, and after confirming that no one was around, she entered a camera-free alley and pulled out a folding umbrella from her bag.

In an instant, starting from the tip of the umbrella, a haze of interwoven gray and black colors flowed past, like a tide sweeping over the body of the umbrella, and then the lower half of the folding umbrella gradually transformed into a magic wand.

Time seemed to stand still as intricate designs blossomed terrifyingly on the surface of the umbrella, finally linked together by a circle of thorns, and the magic umbrella "Cinderella" was fully formed, unfurling in the night.

The bearer was enveloped in that stream of light, trapped within a cocoon of light.

Magic Girl Ash brushed the hair from her forehead with her hand, shattering the cocoon of light instantly, her black hair cascading down her back like a waterfall, her gothic gray skirt fluttering in the wind.

She tilted her face upward and slowly lifted her eyes, her pupils cold and clear under the moonlight.

Nonchalantly, she reached upward and removed a classic mirror from the inside of the umbrella, looked at her own face in the mirror, and her features subtly altered.

If it wasn't for the Deception Puppet's vision being sharper than 1.5, given the darkness of the night, even Ke Mingye himself might not have seen these actions clearly. The entire transformation process took less than 3 seconds, smooth as flowing water.

The girl took two or three steps forward, nonchalantly raising Cinderella. Accompanied by the ripple spreading from the umbrella, her slender body ascended into the night sky along with the umbrella.

"Little sister, can you slow down? I can't keep up." Ke Mingye was secretly shocked.

Even so, the moment Ash soared into the sky, he immediately ordered the Deception Puppet to crouch down, gathering all its strength in its legs and stomping fiercely, drawing a nimble arc in the air and leaping onto the top of another residential building. Firmly grabbing the ninth-floor railing to climb upward, he continued to dash forward after stepping onto the corridor.

Then, it stepped on the railing again to leap further, rolling onto the rooftop of an office building. It sprinted forward on the solar panels, the metal beneath its feet crying out.

During this time, the puppet's gaze was fixed on the silhouette of Ash flying through the sky, her body light as a kite, running among the towering buildings.

Because this body was terrifyingly light, it could easily jump several meters high, but Ash's flight speed was increasing. Regardless of how far or high the Deception Puppet jumped, it couldn't match the speed of flight. If this continued, they would soon lose sight of her completely.

Fortuitously, just up ahead was a steel jungle of high-rise buildings crowded together, with a sea of traffic on the city roads below. Thus, Ke Mingye ordered the Deception Puppet to equip the "Web Shooter" and give it a shot.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

[Alert: Your summons "Deception Puppet" has been equipped with the "Web Shooter".]

As the system voice fell, a high-tech metal device appeared on the right wrist of the Deception Puppet, resembling a watch. It pointed the shooter toward the high-rise ahead, pressing down with its hand to activate it, and immediately a white spider-thread stretched out from the night, crossing the wide road and sticking to the glass curtain wall of the building like a palm.

Ke Mingye took a deep breath, controlling the Deception Puppet to grab the spider thread and leap forward from the apartment building below.

It clenched its fingers around the thread, swinging in a beautiful arc in mid-air, and at the moment it was about to crash into the building ahead, it again lowered its hand, shooting another thread toward an adjacent high-rise.

The moment the thread snap-stuck to the building's facade, the Deception Puppet let go of the original thread and gripped the new one tightly, slanting its body as it swung forward.

Despite Ke Mingye's intense focus, he still couldn't match the speed of Ash. Due to a lack of proficiency, the balance control in the air wasn't quite right.

Meanwhile, Ash just held the handle of the umbrella, soaring leisurely through the night sky, not even at full speed, making it difficult even to see her silhouette.

"Hey hey hey, does it need to be so exaggerated? Now I know why she flies faster than my older sister's Somersault Cloud—I need to speed up, or I'll lose her right away."

Ke Mingye was frantic, yet his control over the puppet remained precise.

The puppet accurately grabbed each spider silk, wildly swinging forward under the neon lights as if shuttling through a bizarre world of movie trailers and beauty ads.

The howling wind brushed past his cheek, and the horns of the trucks below blared deafeningly, but its movement was unimpeded, his pupils seemingly focused only on the flying skirt of the girl with the umbrella in mid-air.

About thirty seconds later, the Deception Puppet released the last spider silk attached to a skyscraper, somersaulting into the rooftop of a long-closed school hotel, finally surpassing this modern jungle of neon and steel.

Behind him, the strands of spider silk crisscrossed in the air like complex function graphs, connecting nearly dozens of skyscrapers' glass facades; several drivers on the road looked up at the dazzling web, got out of their cars to check, even causing minor traffic congestion.

Ke Mingye had no intention to make the puppet turn its head, so he couldn't see the bizarre spectacle he had woven in his frantic movements. Soon, through the puppet's eyes, he finally saw Ash stop.

She eventually landed on the rooftop of a long-closed school in Yandai Commercial Street, slowly descending with her umbrella, tiptoes touching down, folding up her umbrella, and walking toward the school building without looking back.

"Thank goodness, you finally stopped..."

Watching Ash land on the rooftop, Ke Mingye couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Though he was just lying in bed at home, his back was already soaked with cold sweat.

He even played a horror movie on his phone to ensure no one at home was monitoring him and wondering why he was breaking out in cold sweat for no reason.

It has to be said, following the Deception Puppet's first-person perspective as it flew over the city was thrilling beyond measure. Leave aside the visual bombardment; his ears were nearly deafened by the honking of road trucks and the howling wind. His head spun, his heart racing as if he were a complete gaming newbie experiencing VR for the first time, feeling like his heart might just burst out.

Now that he knew where Bai Zini had landed, Ke Mingye didn't have to worry about losing her.

"No need to panic, you can take your time now. Just now was damn terrifying."

Ke Mingye thought so, picking up the water glass from the desk and taking a sip of boiling water.

He commanded the puppet to slowly lower its right hand, launching a spider silk from a nearby residential building, sticking it to the school building's rooftop railing, then leaping into the air, swinging around, and slamming face-first into the rough wall. Luckily, it was light, hitting the object like a balloon, not making much noise.

At that moment, the puppet's raised arm clung tightly to the spider silk, its body pressed against the surface of the rooftop railing, slowly sliding downward.

Ke Mingye didn't intend to let the puppet directly enter the school building; that would be no different from suicide, so he had it observe from outside instead.

Soon, he heard a faint murmur of voices emanating from the fifth floor of the derelict school building.

Ke Mingye softly exhaled, commanding the Deception Puppet to dangle precisely outside the classroom by the spider silk, making sure to keep its body away from the windows to avoid being noticed by anyone inside.

What is Bai Zini doing? Why did she specifically come to this place, and who is she meeting?

Once calm, these questions slowly emerged in Ke Mingye's mind, but he wasn't in a rush because the answers were soon to be revealed.