Superman Termination Manual

At dusk, above the Rainbow Bridge of Tokyo Bay, two figures stood about twenty meters apart, gazing at each other.

The next moment, the system notification voice unexpectedly rang out from their ears.

[Feature of this match: Every 10 seconds, a giant shark will leap from Tokyo Bay, targeting the central part of the Rainbow Bridge. Players, be very careful!]

"Cultured man, why don't you just surrender?"

Ke Mingye said, curling the corner of his mouth as he began to warm up his shoulders.

"Gate of Humanities."

Fan Quan, expressionless, let the pages of the Bible in his hands tear apart on their own, without any wind.

At that instant, Ke Mingye lowered his right hand and shot a web towards Fan Quan's Bible, yanking it forcefully into his hand.

But even so, one page of the Bible transformed into three tiny paper figures, swooping through the air and landing on Fan Quan's shoulder.

The first paper figure raised its right arm, shouting in German, "God is dead!", "The will to power!", "Eternal recurrence!"

The second paper figure, with a benevolent face, repeated in classical Chinese, "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Benevolence as the root", "Unity of knowledge and action."

The third paper figure, face calm, kept repeating in Romanian, "Sacred time", "Sacred Space", "Eternal return."

Ke Mingye burst forward like a phantom, shooting webs at Fan Quan as he did so.

Fan Quan seemed to anticipate this, immediately started running on the Rainbow Bridge, creating distance between him and Ke Mingye while dodging the webs with quick steps.

His physical fitness was far superior to ordinary people, and although there was a gap between him and Ke Mingye, he could totally dodge the webs early enough if he anticipated them correctly.

Ke Mingye raised an eyebrow; he had thought that beating a weakling like this cultured man would be as simple as sticking him with the web and then giving him a good beating.

From the looks of it, Fan Quan's "neurological reaction" attribute seemed to be very highly developed, allowing his body to respond in time every time and evade the webs shot by Ke Mingye.

Because the sides of the Rainbow Bridge were enveloped in deep blue data walls, their range of movement was limited to a cramped space twenty meters wide and ten meters long.

Being confined to this space was highly disadvantageous for Fan Quan, as his skills were suited to designing, ambushing, rather than close combat.

At that moment, Fan Quan, while retreating, pulled a smoke bomb from his bag and swiftly threw it onto the ground.

As the smoke bomb hit the ground near the deep blue data wall, the smoke rapidly spread, gradually covering the bridge.

Ke Mingye halted his advance, wary of any traps Fan Quan, the sneaky guy, might have set up, deliberately luring him in.

Meanwhile, he took the opportunity to pull out the "Anchor Sunglasses" from his bag and pressed the button on the sunglasses while Fan Quan's figure was not yet completely swallowed by the smoke.

[Within an eight-meter radius centered on you, there is: player "Fan Quan". Would you like to set an anchor on this player?]

"Set it."

Ke Mingye responded mentally.

[An anchor has been set on the character "Fan Quan". Next, just wear the sunglasses and press the button on the edge again to obtain the coordinates of this character.]

Even though Fan Quan's figure was enveloped in smoke, his location still clearly displayed on the lenses.

Ke Mingye, using the sunglasses to track Fan Quan's position, repeatedly shot webs into the smoke. The glowing white webs extended like a palm, piercing through the smoke.

Several times, he nearly captured Fan Quan's figure, but each was narrowly avoided by him.

Ke Mingye could tell, Fan Quan was intentionally leading him towards the middle section of the Rainbow Bridge—the system had mentioned at the start of the match that every 10 seconds, a giant shark would leap from Tokyo Bay and bite towards the middle part of the bridge. Continue reading at empire

"This sneaky cultured guy is definitely setting a trap, trying to take me down with that shark from the game rules. Since I can't catch him, I'll just retreat for now."

As he thought thus, a brilliant eye suddenly swept through the smoke, hovering in mid-air.

This was Fan Quan's D-level skill:

—"Medusa's Eye".

Enemies who made eye contact with Medusa's Eye would be petrified in place, the duration of which, up to 2.5 seconds, depended on the strength of their "mental power".

The moment Ke Mingye saw that eye appear, he tried to avoid its gaze.

If it had been Ke Xiaomo with that kind of reaction speed, he might have realized what was happening the instant he saw the brilliance, and even had time to think about what that eye was for before averting his gaze.

But Ke Mingye couldn't do that; his reactions were not as swift as his older brother's, and thus he naturally made eye contact with Medusa's Eye, becoming petrified on the spot.

During those fleeting 2.5 seconds, Fan Quan further unleashed his D-level skill—"Delayed Bone Cage".

The effect of this skill was to delay for 1.5 seconds before a cage made from extremely tough beast bones descended from a 20-meter radius above a target's head.

It caused some impact damage while entrapping the opponent within the cage.

The next moment, the stark white cage descended from the sky, smashing down on Ke Mingye's petrified body and deeply enveloping him within it.

Simultaneously, the Tokyo Bay, bathed in twilight, suddenly erupted in a massive wave. A terrifying shadow surged upward with the waves, opening its vast maw to bite towards the middle of the bridge.

There, Ke Mingye was trapped within the stark white cage, and just one second before the shark opened its jaws, his petrification was lifted.