Superman's Ending Manual

In the sky, the stage device called "Witch's Night" is completely collapsing, just like the setting sun at sunset, slowly sinking towards the horizon.

At this time, only the huge cross with the Ember Witch tied up and the remaining carriages of the space-time train still stood motionless in the sky.

From a distance, the space-time train is like a Möbius strip, twisted into a strange ring shape, like an Ouroboros made of steel, but the magical girls stand steadily on the top of this ring.

But no matter where they were on the circular train, they never showed a tendency to fall.

Xi Ziyue stood at the front of the car, raising her eyes and staring quietly at the huge cross in the center of the city. Looking into the roaring and turbulent dark blue storm, if you look carefully, you can vaguely see the shape of the sleigh.

Although the whole body was enveloped by a burst of bright aurora, the existence of the sled inside the violent magic storm still seemed insignificant - just like a flickering firefly, emitting a faint light in the deep night.

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on the firefly flying through the storm as much as possible, not to lose sight of it.

Among them, the one who is most nervous and turbulent is naturally the black judge of the Control Bureau.

His two closest relatives are currently in the most dangerous place in the entire city.

If Little Red Riding Hood makes a mistake, either Ke Mingye will die, or Bai Zini will die, or...

Two people died together.

Before this scene happened, Ke Yinzhi had never felt so powerless: he knew that his younger brothers and sisters were right in front of him, but he could only watch indifferently, waiting for a result.

It's like a gambler with a lot of debt rolling the dice on the fateful gambling table and watching it flip over in a cold sweat.

But just a few seconds later, the wind and snow in the storm stopped roaring, and then, the clear arc like an aurora dimmed.

Seeing this scene, everyone felt cold.

They all know what this means...

This means that Little Red Riding Hood's Christmas sleigh was lost in the whirlpool of the Ember Witch's magic. Not long after, the slowly rotating Christmas Eve pattern on the blue sky slowly passed away like drifting clouds. The faint aurora then dispersed without a trace, leaving only the magic power surrounding the cross in my ears. A sound like the beating of a heart came from the cocoon room.

Boom...

Dong Dong...

The black judge stared blankly ahead and blurted out a name hoarsely:

"Mingye..."

While muttering to himself, dark energy continued to overflow from his body like a tide, as if shadows were floating in the air, flickering on and off. At this time, the V-shaped mask was showing a dazzling scarlet color that could not be concealed.

But the next moment, a low shout suddenly came from above the circular train.

"Look at the cross." Qili's eyes widened slightly under the brim of her hat.

Hearing the sound, everyone looked away from the collapsed sled and looked up, only to see a figure on the cross in the center of the storm. The red and blue uniform he was wearing had been eroded to nothing.

Visible to the naked eye, the center of the cross seems to be the only safe haven in this gray-blue world. The magic power raging around him could not be affected at all, but was blocked out.

So what everyone can confirm is... the blue owl is temporarily safe.

Xi Ziyue gently lifted a lock of hair by her ear, lowered her eyes, her expression was unclear whether it was sadness or joy.

Yuffie looked at the blue owl, then looked sideways at the black judge, "He survived."

Judge Black was silent, staring straight at Ke Mingye's tiny shadow.

"He did it..."

Kuzhong Sakura was stunned, then murmured to herself.

"What about... Little Red Riding Hood?" Liu Huazi asked softly, with a slight cry in his tone.

Hearing this, Kuzhong Sakura shook her head silently. Others were silent, with complicated expressions on their faces.

At this moment, there was a loud noise in the sky, and everyone looked up, only to see that a corner of the disintegrated ruins had fallen before Witch Night had completely reached the land.

There was a loud rumble when the huge fragments hit the tall building, which lasted for a long time.

Not long ago, we could still see little paper figures spinning hand in hand at high speed on the periphery of the stage, forming a pale circle. But the ring that symbolized truth had withered at this time, and the little paper people shriveled away one after another.

They swallowed the voice chanting "Erlsung (Salvation)" into their pale bellies, and the next second, an unexpected scene happened. The paper shell bodies of palm-sized paper people suddenly changed from pure white to It turned into a deep black, the corners of the mouth were pulled towards the sides of the cheeks, and the fangs slowly poked out.

Immediately afterwards, their bodies suddenly expanded visibly to the naked eye, turning into giant objects that were hundreds of meters high.

The next moment, the pitch-black paper giants lifted the crumbling stage device high, once again making it higher than the Beijing Tower, reaching the top of the city.

Like emperors surrounding them.

"Rache——! Rache——! Rache——! Rache——! Rache——! Rache——! (Revenge)" they roared, and the stage equipment of Witch Night began to undergo drastic changes, turning into a huge insect. pupa.

The sky suddenly changed color, and the bottomless night covered the city like a curtain, as if the shadow of some giant object that covered the sky and the sun had quietly descended, and the fanatical roars of the black paper people continued to be heard in the night.

The black judge looked up, and the swallowtail windbreaker fluttered in the wind pressure blowing from the sky.

"What is this...?" Kunezakura was startled.

"Miss, they raised the Witch Night?" Ryukako leaned against Kunezakura.

"Those paper people suddenly mutated?" Qili looked at the sky through the brim of her cowboy hat.

"It seems... that legend is true."

Looking at this scene, Xiziyue slightly widened her eyes and muttered to herself.

Lilai stared blankly at the insect pupa held high by the giants in the sky, and whispered: "You mean... once Witch Night is destroyed, the 'Witch of Vengeance' sealed in it will be released?"

"Yes, it is rumored that the 'Witch of Redemption' and the 'Witch of Vengeance' are the right-hand men of the strongest witch in history - the 'Witch of Jealousy', but there is a grudge between them." Xiziyue said slowly, "The 'Witch of Jealousy' created Witch Night as her own tomb, and that is why her statue stands in the center of Witch Night."

She paused, "And after the death of the Witch of Jealousy, the Witch of Vengeance and the Witch of Redemption lost their suppression, and the conflict between them was about to break out. In the end, the Witch of Redemption defeated the Witch of Vengeance, and she used a magic circle to seal the Witch of Vengeance above the Witch Night. That magic circle..."

"That magic circle is the paper figures surrounding the edge of Witch Night?"

Lilai interrupted Xiziyue and guessed softly.

Xiziyue nodded and said expressionlessly: "It seems that because the Witch Night was greatly damaged, the effect of the paper man magic array has also declined. The Witch of Vengeance took this opportunity to erode the subordinates of the Witch of Redemption, that is, those paper men. Because of this... she is about to break free from this seal that has lasted for thousands of years."

Lilai was slightly startled. No wonder those paper men were holding hands and shouting "Erlsung (redemption)" just now. At this time, they expanded countless times. The bodies made of paper shells suddenly turned from white to black, and the words they shouted changed to-"Rache (revenge)".

This also corresponds to the identities of the two witches.

"Then we..."

Utena said while covering her injured arm and holding the hilt of the magic sword tightly.

Xiziyue lowered her eyes and interrupted her, "We just lent our magic power to Little Red Riding Hood, and it will be difficult for us to return to a state that can cope with this battle for a while."

"If it is as you said, then breaking the pupa of the Witch of Vengeance can prevent her from breaking free from the seal?"

The Black Judge said while looking up at the dark pupa transformed from the Witch Night.

"It is possible." Xiziyue nodded.

"Then, I will stop her, and you will be responsible for watching the Witch of Ember and the Blue Owl. I don't know when they will move..." The Black Judge turned his head to look at the Wind Cross in the center of the storm, pondered for a moment, and then stepped on the stairs made of dark matter and moved closer to the group of dark paper giants.

Youfei opened her mouth and wanted to call him.

But with her existing magic power, she couldn't summon the mechanical castle for the second time. Thinking of this, she was speechless.

But at this moment, a sinister voice suddenly came from the back of the train. Although the tone was like this, the voice was childish, so it sounded like a domineering junior high school girl calling someone coldly.

"Hehehe, don't worry, Black Judge, we are still in this city..."

Black Judge looked at the source of the voice and saw a red-haired girl wearing a dark red magic dress and holding a sickle stepping into the sky, flying over in a blood-red arc.

The magic girl Hongyue raised her hand to her chin, slightly raised the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were sinister.

Behind her was a giant dragon covered with black metal, and a figure wearing a red and black battle suit with his feet on the somersault cloud.

At the same time, the center of the storm.

Ke Mingye leaned forward and gently hugged the girl on the cross. Ke Mingye pressed tightly against her warm and cool cheek, whispered something in her ear, and then his consciousness gradually became trance, and his vision closed.

Like being immersed in the deep ocean.

Falling...

Falling...

Falling...

When he came to his senses, Ke Mingye opened his heavy eyelids and slowly raised his head, his expression slightly dull.

Looking around, he found himself sitting in the classroom of Rong's Welfare Home.

"I won't die..."

Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked around. The time period of his spiritual space was still fixed at dusk, and the wooden tables and chairs around were shrouded in a warm light yellow afterglow.

Looking out the window, the setting sun was setting in the west, and the remaining red was like blood.

But at this moment, the strange thing, the blue owl, the dice monster, and Nezha were all gone. The classroom was as abnormal and empty. Instead, a red and black shadow was sitting quietly on the podium. It was slender, like a young girl, with a blood-red mouth corners raised high.

Looking at the shadow on the podium, Ke Mingye was slightly stunned.

Of course he had seen this black shadow before, because before, Bai Zini used this shadow extending from behind her to "eat" the war witch, and then copied the characteristics of the war witch, creating the bloodiest and most violent scene he had ever seen.

At this moment, the shadow of this young girl was unusually calm, like a regular visitor to the orphanage.

"You are..." Ke Mingye started.

Hearing this, the girl's shadow raised her long finger and pointed outside the window.

Ke Mingye moved his eyes and saw that the characters in his mind were gathering on the playground of the welfare home and playing football. The weird things were whistling in front of the referee. Among them, Blue Owl and Nezha were playing the most happily. Each person serves as the forward for both teams.

In a corner of the playground, Gastro and Little Red Riding Hood were sitting on a public wooden chair. The girls were whispering to each other. Kobe was sitting in a wheelchair next to him and mumbling, as if the two of them didn't want to pay attention to it.

The shadow raised its hand and weaved words into words in mid-air with a blood-red shadow:

--【corridor. 】

Looking at the crooked blood-red text, Ke Mingye raised his hand and pointed outside the classroom.

"corridor?"

The girl's shadow nodded.

Following her, Ke Mingye walked out of the classroom. Passing through the door frame and just stepping into the corridor, I caught a glimpse of two figures from the corner of my eye.

The boy with red eyes was hiding in the shadows, lowering his head and looking at the ground; and beside the wall, a boy in a hospital gown was lowering his eyes and silently flipping through a book.

The girl's shadow raised her hand, and the blood-red shadow weaved into words in mid-air:

——[Observer, tell him the truth. 】

"It seems... you brought something strange in." The boy in hospital gown who was reading raised his eyes and looked at the girl's shadow, then at Ke Mingye. After saying such a chilling sentence, he lowered his eyes and continued reading. .

Ke Mingye was stunned for a moment, then tried to ask:

"What is she?"

It was clear that no matter how he greeted him before, the boy in hospital gown outside the classroom had never spoken to him, but this time, he spoke.

The boy in hospital gown closed the book and looked at the girl's shadow quietly.

He said: "This is a shadow left by the Witch of Jealousy. She will only possess the most talented witch and can fulfill the owner's wish. It will not leave until it does its best to realize this wish." . Although it has fulfilled the wish of the Ember Witch, it still has a wish of its own, so it has not left. "

"What does it hope for?" Ke Mingye asked blankly.

"It hopes...that I can tell you some truth."

"The truth...what truth?" Ke Mingye lowered his head, sorting out the chaotic thoughts in his mind, and then asked: "Compared with this, where is Bai Zini? Did I... go find her?"

He thought to himself, there is no way that one of the personalities living in my mind still possesses information that I don't know about... What on earth is this person wearing a hospital gown?

At this time, the boy in the hospital gown sat down silently against the wall, while the girl's shadow was attached to his shadow, and the corners of her blood-red mouth were still grinning high.

"If you don't want to listen, it will save me the trouble." The boy whispered.

Hearing this, Ke Mingye was silent for a moment and slowly walked towards the boy.

Then he sat down next to him.

The two were shoulder to shoulder. They had never been so close in the past few months. Ke Mingye had always consciously kept a distance from this unknown personality, and the boy disdained to pay attention to him. At this time, he was jealous of the witch's shadow. , the two of them did have the opportunity to come into contact.

"I need mental sketches," said the boy in the hospital gown.

Ke Mingye said without hesitation: "Thinking sketch."

After the command fell, a mental sketch suddenly opened in front of the two of them. Ke Mingye adjusted the size of the sketch, stretched it out, and made it as big as an Imax screen in a regular theater, and then made it hover over In mid-air.

The boy in hospital gown looked at the mental sketch, and his thoughts gradually appeared above the sketch.

"In order to fulfill the Witch Shadow's wish, I have no choice but to tell you this in advance."

He stated it again.

"What exactly are you talking about?"

As soon as Ke Mingye finished speaking, a picture appeared on his mental sketch.

[It was a gloomy rainy day. Among the high-rise buildings, under the traffic lights with cracked lampshades, Ke Mingye knelt and sat in the center of the intersection, holding a figure in a red and blue uniform in his arms, lowering his gaze. , staring blankly at his face. 】

"Blue owl?"

Ke Mingye looked at the dying man wearing a bird's beak mask and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"Yes, blue owl."

The boy in the hospital gown said calmly while controlling the mental sketch.

[At this moment, the blue owl is lying on top of a piece of glass shards. The battle uniform he is wearing is in tatters. Under the broken mask is a bloody face. He smiled softly, his pale lips trembling slightly. 】

["It will be fine...right?" Blue Owl asked hoarsely. 】

["You will be fine... you will definitely be fine." In the picture, Ke Mingye held his hand and repeated this sentence over and over again until the blue owl completely closed his eyes and the rain flooded him. 】

Ke Mingye was slightly stunned, turned to the boy in hospital gown and asked: "...What do you mean?"

"You have tried many times so far..."

The boy in the hospital gown said calmly.

"What do you mean you have tried many times?" Ke Mingye frowned.

The boy in the hospital gown did not answer, and then the second picture appeared above the mental sketch.

[It was a snowy night, and a girl in a Christmas dress was nailed to death on a tall building by a thorn spear. Her snow-white face was lowered, and blood slowly dripped from the corner of her mouth. 】

[Ke Mingye landed on an aerial work platform, raised his head, and looked at her silently. 】

[Little Red Riding Hood said intermittently: "Mr. Ke Mingye, tell your sister for me...she is the only one who is willing to be my friend. Also, please don't worry, I have never...never told her your identity , I have been keeping it a secret from you, because... you are a very important person to me."]

[It was Christmas night, with falling snow. The girl in the Christmas dress slowly closed her eyes. The blood flowing from the hole in her abdomen dyed the aerial work platform red. After a while, the aerial work platform she held in her hand The comet fragments slowly broke apart, and her figure also turned into a burst of spiritual light and dispersed. 】

Ke Mingye watched this scene and didn't look away until the screen went dark.

"What do you want to express?" he asked.

"You have tried many times before this, and every time you wanted to meet the requirements of the fire, you failed... Every time, every time, you failed to successfully exterminate the superhuman race, and every time the final countdown ended. Before, you will hold the fire and travel back to the place where the story begins. "

The boy in a hospital gown said slowly, and the girl behind him smiled.

Tinder?

Ke Mingye suddenly recalled the boy he saw on the subway window that day. The boy also murmured "fire".

He said hoarsely: "I don't understand..."

Regardless of his ability to accept it, the boy in the hospital gown continued: "Every time you use fire to jump in time, you will enter a new world line. And every time you do this, some people will disappear quietly. In this world line, they have been erased from history... rather, they have never existed from the beginning. I have heard of the 'butterfly effect', sometimes it is just a step too late, a breath too late, which affects a little bit. With the development of the world, it is not them but others who appear in the world.”

After a pause, he continued: "It's like, Blue Owl failed to become a superhero due to various reasons, or... the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood stayed in that mountain village from beginning to end, and she died of illness there. The person was buried in the soil instead of being brought back to the Tongmenghui by Xi Ziyue who happened to be passing through the mountain village.

"And in the end, these people who disappeared during the changes in the world line... can only exist in your memory. You are extremely desperate, but you can't disobey the adjustments and changes in the world line, so you can only watch. Watching someone you know disappear and accepting that fact."

Ke Mingye's brain was almost shut down.

He gathered his thoughts, was silent for a long time, and then said with doubt in his voice: "So... you mean, the Blue Owl and Little Red Riding Hood are actually real people in a certain world line that I have experienced before. ?”

"That's right."

Having said this, the boy in hospital gown paused slightly and opened the book in his hand.

"When you jump in time for the first time, you find that your best friend, the superhero 'Blue Owl', has disappeared from the world. He and his parents died in a car accident... In the original world , he should have survived the car accident and awakened the power of transposition, but because the world line changed, the operation failed, and he was buried in the ground, so there would be no appearance in the world. The figure 'Blue Owl';

"The second time jump, you find that the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood, also known as You Minglu, died of illness in that damp and dark mountain village before Xi Ziyue accidentally discovered her talent. I haven’t taken a step away from there, so of course my dream of becoming a magical girl has never come true;”

"The third time jump, you find that the weak villain who is very close to you, often provides you with various intelligence, and even lurks in the Clockers Alliance for you - the 'Dice Monster' is missing, and you start to miss him. This weirdo looked a little loveless, but he never appeared in Huanjing City again, and never harassed you to provide you with interesting information. Later, you found out that the dice weirdo was actually dead. In this timeline, He was abused by his parents as a child and committed suicide by hanging, so he never became a 'dice monster', just a corpse forgotten in the old time."

At this point, the voice of the boy in a hospital gown stopped, and instead, a picture appeared on his mental sketch.

[In the live broadcast room of a blogger named "Watch Guest", a figure with a dim halo flowing all over his body is lying on a hospital bed, waiting to be dissected. Clock Guest turned on the live broadcast and told the screen that he wanted a person named "Ke Mingye" to accept the live broadcast, so that maybe he would let the dice weirdo go. 】

[Ke Mingye answered the live broadcast request from Watcher, and his face was exposed to the eyes of the entire network. 】

[The clockman said: "Excellent... I just want to see your expression." He pressed the clock. Half a second later, the two arms of the dice weirdo were already hanging on the ground, and blood was spraying everywhere. The whole operating room was messy and stained red. 】

[Before the final autopsy was carried out, the Dice Monster lay weakly on the hospital bed, because his arms had fallen to the floor, so he could only grin the corners of his blood-stained mouth, and showed a smile to the screen as he was dying, the same smile as before. 】

["Isn't this our Mr. Ke Mingye... Why do you have a sad expression, oh... Are you feeling sad about the death of a miscellaneous villain? What... you said I didn't do anything bad, this is really It’s so embarrassing.”]

["Perhaps you need... to find another intelligence agent. You know things well and someone will cooperate with you. It's just that I didn't do a good job this time. You shouldn't have answered the phone... I'm a little tired. A little tired.”]

["Good night... Mr. Ke Mingye, oh, let's not be so serious, just smile. Weird things like to see others smile."]

The picture on the mental sketch was still showing a grin on the face of the strange thing, and its empty eyes reflected a sad, pale face.

Seeing this, Ke Mingye couldn't open his mouth.

The boy in the hospital gown looked up at the ceiling and explained unhurriedly: "All the pictures I show you are memories of you getting along with those people who disappeared in the past timeline, but you have forgotten... …”

He paused: "The last is the fourth jump, and it is also your last timeline jump..."

"That's enough..."

Ke Mingye interrupted him and said calmly: "I don't remember any of this at all. It's useless no matter how hard you talk, now I understand why you stayed in the corridor with that monster. It seems that you and him are the same." ”

"Of course, you won't remember." The boy said expressionlessly, "Because the memories of several timelines at that time were superimposed, and your spirit had been tortured to the point of collapse, so... before you made the last time jump, Asking Tinder to delete your memory.”

At this point, the boy paused slightly, "So in this last journey, you forgot everything, just like now."

"I'm so damn close to being fooled by you."

Ke Mingye murmured to himself.

After speaking, he was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Since you said that my memory has been deleted, then why did they appear in my mind? It is better to say... why did I create them naturally? This is not Reasonable."

"Your memory has been deleted, but this does not mean that it has not existed. As long as it has existed, it will leave some vague 'impressions', and you rely on these impressions to play their role subconsciously. ”

The boy in hospital gown said slowly.

"It's not until later that they actually separate and stay with you in that way forever. Of course, you don't realize it. It's normal because you think - 'They're all you, they're just you' ”

He paused and then said: "It is worth mentioning that in the second timeline, after the death of the girl in the Christmas dress named 'Little Red Riding Hood', you were depressed for a long time. Later, you desperately When you start over again, you find that she has already died of illness in that remote mountain village. Just like this world line, you almost went crazy at that time, so I suggest you cherish the 'Little Red Riding Hood' in your mind now. '.

"Even if what you're saying is true, they're already dead. It's just self-deception."

Ke Mingye took a deep breath.

He lowered his head slightly, his eyes covered by his falling hair.

"They are dead, but at least you can remember them in this way, instead of just letting them be lost in the long river of time. Those who have left all come back to you and accompany you in this way."

"Since I didn't want to forget it from the beginning, why would I choose to delete my memory?"

"Because you're going crazy."

"Yes, I give you the right to talk nonsense. But not now, I don't have time to accompany you now."

"I know it's hard for you to accept, but this is the truth... The shadow of the Witch of Jealousy is staring at me, so I can't hide any facts from you for the time being. Whether you want to believe it or not is entirely up to you."

The boy in the hospital gown said calmly and looked back at the shadow of the girl behind him.

"Why is this the last time?" Ke Mingye paused and continued to ask: "After my failure, can't I use the 'fire' you mentioned to jump in time again?"

"The reason why this is the last time is because before you made the fourth time jump, the personal will of 'Spark' woke up from its slumber. It is no longer at your mercy, but makes a request to trade with you." Boy He said calmly, "I said before that your spirit was on the verge of collapse at that time. That's why you asked Fire to delete your memory, but in addition... Ke Mingye, you also made another request."

"Another request?" Ke Mingye said carefully.

"That's right." The boy nodded, "This request is to let those who were deleted and abandoned by the world during the previous world line changes come back to you."

He paused: "But unfortunately, if you really do this, it will involve countless things. In the end, Tinder can only realize your needs in the current way - let them take the form of 'personality' Stay in your mind.”

"...What's the point of this?"

Ke Mingye tried to follow his nonsense and asked according to his train of thought.

The boy was expressionless, looking down at the book in his hand, and said softly: "You have to ask yourself, because this is a choice you have made, even if you have forgotten the selection process."

Ke Mingye was silent.

"No matter what the final result is, I suggest you cherish their existence. Because this time, it is very likely that this is the last journey of your life."

Ke Mingye was silent, as if the information was too much to digest.

He turned his head to look at the 'shadow of the witch of hatred' behind the boy in the hospital gown. If it weren't for this shadow, Ke Mingye would never believe anything he said.

"By the way... I suggest you take a look at the situation outside." The boy suddenly said.

"What's the situation outside?" Ke Mingye was puzzled.

"Yes, the situation outside."

After speaking, the boy in the hospital gown closed the book and stood up. He patted the dust on his body, then slowly turned around and walked towards the end of the corridor without looking back, his figure gradually swallowed by the shadow.

"What's going on outside?"

Ke Mingye was muttering, and the picture of the mind sketch opened in the air suddenly changed.

The mental sketch showed the scene of the center of Beijing—the black paper people held up the stage of Witch Night and screamed in unison to the blue sky: "Rache (Revenge) Rache (Revenge) Rache (Revenge)——!!!"

Looking at this scene, Ke Mingye was stunned for a long time.

"How could it be... those witches still have a backup plan after this?" He frowned and thought.

At this moment, the shadow of the witch of hatred slowly got rid of the boy in the hospital gown. She slid along the ground like a small ghost.

Ke Mingye took a deep breath, closed the mental sketch, raised his head, and said to the witch's shadow:

"Take me to see Bai Zini, okay?"