Superman Termination Manual

Ke Mingye feigned the awkward gait of someone trying to walk normally despite a leg cramp as he brushed past Ke Xiaomo and made his way to the refrigerator.

He glanced around, unable to find the Black Cat called "Yuri" in either the living room or the kitchen.

"Just now, second brother and eldest brother seemed to be watching the news about the Hongdeng Commercial District; they must have noticed Blue Owl's leg injury. Luckily, I wrapped a bandage around my leg before coming back, so even if second brother is perverse enough to secretly observe my legs, I shouldn't give myself away."

"Since eldest brother and second brother are currently sharing intelligence, if second brother knows, it's as good as telling eldest brother too."

Ke Mingye thought this as he reached into the freezer and pulled out two bottles of cola, then closed the refrigerator door.

"Speaking of which, would revealing my identity now be premature? It feels better to wait a bit longer, but if second brother could watch over me, I'd be able to get personally involved."

"With a Sect Master of the Ninja Sect watching my back, any criminal who comes across me is really in for a treat."

"It's such a loss that superheroes can't kill openly. Should I wait for Blue Owl to cripple the opponent before letting the strange thing finish the job? That way, I could snag the milestone reward."

"But that would probably disgust my older sister and the others; all the goodwill I've carefully built up could just vanish."

Ke Mingye pondered, holding the colas as he passed the sofa and went up to the second-floor corridor.

Under the orange glow of the pumpkin pendant light, Bai Ziling was squatting on the floor, playing with Yuri. Yuri rolled over on the floor, acting coquettish and meowing.

Ke Mingye approached, offering her one of the colas, "Fair trade, I give you cola, you tell me what you were talking about just now."

"Secret," Bai Ziling whispered, "besides, the drinks were bought by eldest brother, not by you."

Saying so, she ruthlessly took Ke Mingye's cola, lowered her head to continue petting the cat, with her light white hair draping over her shoulders.

"Was the kid's injury serious today?"

"Not bad, he'll be full of life after a night's sleep."

"Oh, I saw he's been in his room all this time and hadn't come out, I thought he was about to die. I guessed you were discussing arranging his funeral just now," Ke Mingye sighed, "our family has never encountered a superhuman crime like this for so many years, and it's those weird ninjas, really bizarre."

"It is bizarre."

Bai Ziling said casually.

"Can I take the cat for a while?" Ke Mingye asked, "Let me bond with it. Since it arrived last night, I haven't even touched it."

"Don't eat it."

As she said this, Bai Ziling picked up Yuri expressionlessly, tilting her head slightly as her red eyes stared at Ke Mingye.

It's not like I'm a dragon, or a vampire... Besides, this guy looks harmless but is actually a danger level B. It's good enough that it doesn't eat me alive, let alone me eating it.

Ke Mingye grumbled internally, then spoke up, "Can you not joke? A cat this skinny wouldn't even sell at a cat meat shop."

"Here, just remember to put it down on the first floor later."

Bai Ziling lowered her eyes and handed Yuri over to Ke Mingye.

He took the cat and ran to his room, locked the door, sat on the bed, and then looked at the cat in his arms as he activated his E-level Skill — "Animal Communication Skill."

[Successfully cast E-level skill — "Animal Communication Skill," for the next five minutes, you can communicate freely with any animal.]

"Moshi moshi, konnichi wa, do you understand what I'm saying?"

After casting the skill, Ke Mingye cleared his throat and spoke to Yuri in a mishmash of Chinese, Japanese, and English, testing the cat's cultural knowledge.

Yuri stared at him in baffled silence for two seconds, then meowed twice. As soon as the sound reached Ke Mingye's ears, it turned into human speech.

It said, "Damn, humans are speaking cat language."

Ke Mingye replied, "Damn, the cat's speaking human language."

He paused, "Okay, actually, I have a superpower that lets me communicate with animals, get it?"

The Yuri in his arms asked, "Then why can't I steal your superpower, human, you think I'm easy to deceive?"

"I'm not a Superpower User, actually, I'm... a mutant, get it?"

"Idiot."

Yuri meowed disparagingly and kicked him in the chest.

"Heh, don't think you can bad-mouth me just because you're a cat."

"Moron."

Yuri meowed again, kicked him in the chest once more, and then licked its paw.

"Dude, can your standards get any higher? You won't find a girlfriend like that."

"Idiot."

Yuri meowed and scratched at his chest, but Ke Mingye reached out with his palm and blocked it, grabbing its paw pad.

"Great, now I'm even less than a cat or dog at home."

Ke Mingye sighed and quickly accepted the cat's foul mouth setting, then said, "How about we cooperate, Yuri."

"What the heck is Yuri?"

"The name my sister gave you."

"Why would she give me such a feminized name? Is there something wrong with her brain?"

Ke Mingye ignored it: "Let's cooperate. My old man will be back home in a couple of days, he's a superpower user. Steal his superpower, and then I'll pretend to take you for a walk. You show off his superpower outside for me, okay?"

"What's in it for me?"

"Cat food and I promise not to let anyone else castrate you."

Upon hearing this, Yuri drooped its head and scratched its head with a paw. After a while, it lifted its blue eyes.

"Can you let me go first? Being held by you is very humiliating."

"Okay."

As he spoke, Ke Mingye let go of Yuri.

It jumped from Ke Mingye's arms to the floor and slowly crawled towards the door, then leapt up and used its paw to twist the doorknob downwards.

The door "click" opened.

Ke Mingye was astonished: "What are you doing, performing acrobatics? Can cats open doors now?"
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"Don't compare your intelligence with mine."

Yuri said as it squeezed its head through the crack in the door and crawled out.

"Fine, once I finish cooperating with it, I've got to take it to the vet to get it neutered, then roast it for a nice cat meat hotpot."

Ke Mingye twitched the corner of his eye as he thought to himself, just about to close his room door, when he suddenly noticed Bai Zini standing at the doorway, looking at him with an inconceivable expression.

Yuri was squatting beside Bai Zini, rubbing its head against her fair and delicate leg.

Ke Mingye cocked his head and met Bai Zini's gaze: "What, why are you staring at me?"

Bai Zini covered her mouth, her eyes showing amazement, "Bro bro bro, how come I heard you meowing in the room? Do you have that kind of fetish?"

"Quiet, stud-like kid, that's what he's like."

Bai Qiuwu just happened to be passing by the two, casually dropped a remark, and walked into the bathroom.

"This is the first time I've seen a high school boy who likes to meow. Ew—my brother is really a super repressed pervert."

Bai Zini said as she swiftly bent down, quickly lifted one hand to her chest, and with the other hand picked up Yuri by her leg, sprinting back to her room at a speed that left only an afterimage behind.

"Such a drama queen."

Ke Mingye looked down at her room door closing with disdain, sighed, "Anyway for today, that's it. Just waiting for the old man to come home..."

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.....

At this moment, in England, south of London, in the Brighton seaside area, a beachfront hotel.

Night falls like a curtain over the tranquil beach, crabs scuttle through the pools. Black waves crash against the sand, breaking into white foam.

The sea tosses and turns under the caress of the evening breeze, a distant lighthouse shines with lonely light, and a searchlight beam illuminates a corner of the pitch-black sea surface.

Ke Youqing held a tablet computer in one hand and rested the other on the rail of a rooftop, gazing out at the ocean from the fifth floor of the hotel.

After a while, he hung his head low, lit a cigarette, and logged into the superhero dark web with his tablet, searching the day's trending topics related to "Huanjing."

He focused on the screen which displayed two videos.

One was the Wanxiang City explosion incident, with only one or two passersby's distant recordings of the video showing the silhouette of a dragon appearing and disappearing in the fog;

The other was the YGA Central Bank robbery, with the cybernetically enhanced "Lester" leading a gang of robbers robbing the YGA bank, attempting to escape by car, only to be stopped at a crossroad in the Hongdeng Commercial District by a vigilante self-proclaimed "Blue Owl."