Superman Termination Manual

"You're finished,"

Fan Quan said, adjusting his glasses, as he slowly emerged from the smoke and stood outside the birdcage, watching Ke Mingye.

"We'll see about that,"

Ke Mingye replied, climbing up from the ground. He had no intention of touching the bone cage at all, instead, he used the skill "Phase Transfer" on Fan Quan at that moment.

In the next instant, Fan Quan and Ke Mingye switched places.

"Haha, bet you didn't expect that, Mr. Intellectual,"

Ke Mingye, looking at the intellectual trapped inside the birdcage, was about to curl his lip in mockery when he suddenly realized something was amiss.

One of the paper dolls on Fan Quan's shoulder dissipated into thin air.

"Eternal Return," he intoned.

[Eternal Return: Returns a specific target in the vicinity to its position from 1 second ago.]

A moment later, the skill took effect on Ke Mingye.

"What the hell?"

When Ke Mingye came to his senses, he was back in his position from one second earlier, which was inside the bleak birdcage.

He and Fan Quan stood face to face, and the situation became somewhat awkward.

Only then did Ke Mingye remember that the intellectual had used this skill to save him once in that pirate instance, but he wasn't sure whether the intellectual had just randomly gotten this skill or not, so he hadn't been on his guard.

It seemed like they were both letting each other off easy.

"It's fine, as long as I punch the intellectual's head to explode before the shark can pounce on me, I still win!"

With this in mind, Ke Mingye shot out spider silk toward Fan Quan's black coat, stuck it to his chest with a web, and yanked him hard towards himself.

At the same time, he unleashed a D-class skill — "Solar Punch."

His fist was engulfed in a fiery torrent at that moment, delivering a blow with sudden kinetic and thermal energy.

As expected, the strike would pierce the intellectual's heart.

"Did you really think I pulled you back into this cage so we could both get bitten to death by a shark?"

Fan Quan mocked, as the second paper doll on his shoulder dissipated.

At the same time, he blurted out, "Superhuman Will."

[Player "Fan Quan" is under the effect of the augmentation skill "Superhuman Will" — A player under "Superhuman Will" will enter a state for 2.5 seconds where they will not sustain any injury and will be free from all control.]

Reflected in Fan Quan's pupils was the Solar Punch coming at him, his body shimmered with a layer of golden light.

This halo blocked Ke Mingye's fist and absorbed the fiery flow completely, leaving the intellectual unscathed.

Fan Quan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself.

"Given what I know about Spider Man, aside from the 'Phase Transfer' he has already used, he shouldn't have any means to escape the birdcage instantly."

"With my body still protected by Superhuman Will, as long as the shark kills Ke Mingye first and I die a bit slower, the system will determine that I win."

"I've already won."

Yet, Fan Quan couldn't resist twisting the knife further, "The Middle Way."

As his words fell, the last paper doll on his shoulder disappeared.

[The Middle Way: This skill will affect you and another player at the same time. After use, you and that player won't be able to use any skills for 10 seconds, but your "physical fitness" will be significantly boosted.]

Under this Skill Seal, Ke Mingye would be unable to use any skills—which is to say, Fan Quan had sealed off his last avenue of retreat.

At this moment, their figures were enveloped by the colossal shadow of a shark, as if day and night had suddenly alternated. In just one more second, the shark would swallow them into its mouth and shred them with its sharp teeth.

With the protection of his superhuman will, Fan Quan would die one second later than Ke Mingye—that one second less was enough to declare his victory.

Therefore, at this time, Fan Quan was assured of his win.

He adjusted his glasses, his gaze mocking as he made eye contact with Ke Mingye, who was close at hand.

Ke Mingye had wanted to continue releasing Skills, trying to break free of the cage, but the effect prompt for "The Middle Way" flashed in his mind, prompting a sigh within him.

"Pretty sly, cultured man."

He knew that with the protection of superhuman will, no matter how he pummeled Fan Quan in these two seconds, it would be useless. To win, he would have to find a way to escape the gaping maw of the shark in this moment.

But he was still stuck in the white bone cage with the cultured man, without the help of Skills, it would be impossible to break the birdcage in an instant, let alone the fact that the cultured man would do his utmost to block him.

If things continued this way, he would fall into the shark's mouth along with Fan Quan.
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So...

The only remaining way to survive was one.

"Cultured man, you don't really think you've won, do you?"

As the words fell, Ke Mingye's body was enveloped in a cocoon light at that moment.

His Skills were sealed by "The Middle Way," but that didn't mean he couldn't use "Items"—the "Magical Girl Transformation Card" naturally counted as an Item.

As the cocoon light shattered, he transformed into a girl wearing a Christmas ceremonial dress.

The Top Bull, who had been watching from outside the data wall, froze on the spot, his cigarette slowly sliding out of his mouth and falling onto the bridge: "Huh?"

A Zhe, dressed in a schoolgirl skirt, also froze for a second, mouth agape and unable to speak: "Huh?"

Ju Zipi was sweating for the two of them, but when he saw this scene, his eyes widened, "Huh?"

Qing Meng was quite calm, accustomed to seeing burly men transform into Magical Girls daily, "Spider Man is like this. He still has the nerve to complain to you about being paranoid when he actually enjoys cross-dressing."

At this moment, Magical Girl Xiaohongmao summoned her Magic Book with the utmost speed and pulled out a C-rank card, "Random Flash," from its first page—this was a card she had acquired from the card library of the Magical Girl Alliance yesterday.

This card was once used by Magical Girl Ash in the battle against the calamity dragon.

Its effect was:

—To randomly transport the Magic Girl using this card to a nearby position.

The next moment, as the card shattered with a "crack," Xiaohongmao's figure instantly appeared at a corner of the bridge, distancing herself from the shark's lunging range.

The Magic Girl's ceremonial dress might not change, but the appearance of the Deception Puppet could.

Thus, Ke Mingye didn't forget to adjust Xiaohongmao's appearance in this moment, turning her hair blue and her eyes red—to prevent the two Japanese players from remembering Xiaohongmao's look, lest it raised unnecessary questions once Xiaohongmao made a name in Huanjing.

"Gone?"

Fan Quan, watching Ke Mingye disappear from the cage, stood there stunned.

Before he could ponder on, the shark swallowed the bone cage whole, along with his figure, and then plunged into the sea.

Superhuman will could protect Fan Quan for two seconds, making him die a second later. But it was only a second more, as there was no escape in the shark's mouth, and in the blink of an eye, he was chewed into a bloody froth by the blood teeth.

Magical Girl Xiaohongmao stood at a corner of the bridge, watching the bloody scene from afar, unable to help covering her face: "Damn, that's brutal."

Immediately after, the system's notification sound echoed above the Rainbow Bridge of Tokyo Bay.

[Player "Fan Quan" has died, the winner of this 1V1 match is "Failed Man". Congratulations, Failed Man has earned 1 point.]