Superman's Ending Manual

On June 19, at night, the branch building of the Superhero Association.

Qing Ya walked out of the lounge and boarded the specialist elevator that was only used by members of the Round Table. He took out an ID card from his cloak and swiped it through the card slot. Then, the silver-white car slowly moved upwards with a buzz.

Soon, the elevator stopped at the 99th floor, where the most confidential and secure conference room in the entire association building was arranged.

He left the elevator and walked for a while in a corridor that seemed to have no end. A door-shaped opening slowly opened on the metal wall on the right, and the cold-toned light came over his face.

Qing Ya walked into the conference room and sat down at the high-tech round table in front of him, silently waiting for the arrival of the guests.

According to the news, the three giants of the magical girls of the Alliance have arrived at the 79th floor of the branch and are waiting for him downstairs. But the executive of the Abnormal Control Bureau said that he wanted to talk to him alone, so he waited alone in the conference room.

The official status of the Abnormal Control Bureau is slightly higher than that of the Superhero Association. Their work is different from that of the Superhero Association. The former is responsible for investigating some abnormal phenomena, while the latter directly responds to disasters and superhuman crimes.

But this is only said on the surface. In fact, the fundamental purpose of the United Nations is to completely curb the possibility of riots in the Superhero Association, so the "Abnormal Control Bureau" was created.

The experts in the Abnormal Control Bureau study the abilities and characteristics of each superhero day and night, and formulate a large number of countermeasures against them. Once they show a tendency to lose control, the Control Bureau will implicitly warn them. If it is ineffective, they will directly intervene.

Most of the time, they deal with some "out-of-control superheroes" and "violated superheroes". There are hundreds of superheroes who died in their hands or were imprisoned in the Abnormal Control Bureau. However, to the outside world, these superheroes are either dead or missing.

So they will only take action in two situations, one is when there is a major strange incident that is difficult to explain, and the other is when there is a superhero who needs to be warned or dealt with.

Ke Youqing hopes it is the former.

Because if it was the latter, then the fact that the executive officer of the Control Bureau, "Black Judge", came to visit him personally this time meant that the Control Bureau was not far from taking action against him.

But he also knew in his heart that as the character of "Blue Crow", he had been fighting criminals by any means for nearly decades, so it was not surprising that he was targeted by the Control Bureau.

At this moment, footsteps were heard slowly in the corridor outside the meeting room.

Blue Crow's eyes, which were closed behind the mask, slowly opened, and a door-shaped opening appeared on the wall where his eyes touched, and a tall and narrow figure slowly walked into the meeting room.

The other party was wearing a black swallowtail windbreaker and a sharp-edged mask on his face. The middle part of the mask was a prominent blood-red "V", and the rest was covered in black. Just by this unique and eye-catching V-shaped mask, Blue Crow was enough to identify the other party's identity.

"Black Judge", a new monster of the Abnormal Control Bureau.

In just two years, his rating in the Control Bureau rose from E-level to the highest S-level, becoming a well-known figure in the Control Bureau, and almost everyone knows him.

The Black Judge approached the metal round table, pulled a swivel chair and sat down without hesitation, resting his elbows on the table, with his fingers slightly crossed at his chin.

His V-shaped mask was facing Qing Ya, and he said jokingly: "Wow, it's an honor to meet the famous 'Qing Ya'. I thought the Chinese branch of the association would send 'Mo Xie Jia', 'Taiji Ke', 'Jiu Jian Feng' and other people with empty names to see me."

"No, I will come here only because you specifically asked to see me." Qing Ya said slowly.

The voices of the two people in the conference room were transformed by each other's masks. Qing Ya's voice was hoarse and gloomy, and the voice of the Black Judge had a metallic magnetism, like a machine.

"Yes, but I didn't expect to see you." The Black Judge smiled.

"Time is precious." Qing Ya stared at him with a sharp gaze, "Why did the executive of the Control Bureau come here specially?"

"You misunderstood, I didn't come here for you." The black judge tilted his head, and the blood-red V on the mask tilted with it, "Mr. Qing Ya, have you ever heard of the term 'player'?"

"Player?"

"Yes." The judge smiled, "Just in the early hours of yesterday morning, I was shopping in a chain supermarket in New York, and I happened to run into two armed robbers. I was in a bad mood, so I cut off their hands and feet, arrested them and tortured them, guess what they confessed?"

Qing Ya was silent, staring at the judge's mask quietly.

The Black Judge sneered with a metallic magnetism, and raised his voice and said: "They actually think that this world is a game, and we are all NPCs, so we can do whatever we want without being bound by the law. So the first thing they did when they came here was to try the taste of armed robbery. It's ridiculous, isn't it?"

"Are they suffering from paranoia?"

"No, don't worry, you will understand."

Judge Black shook his head and said with a smile: "Originally this was just an ordinary robbery case. As you said, others would probably regard their confessions as the nonsense of schizophrenia or paranoia. It was nonsense, but I was very interested in what they told me, so I asked people from the Control Bureau to use the latest brain imaging equipment to reproduce the world in their eyes into images. Guess again, I found out. What?"

"What did you find?" Qing Ya asked.

Judge Black reached out and pressed the button on the table. Suddenly, a groove opened, and a pen-shaped metal projector slowly rose from it.

He picked up the projector, slowly loaded a memory chip into it, and then said:

"I discovered that in the perspective of these two 'players', there is a row of icons similar to game functions, just like... uh, those cheesy online games. Not only that, they can touch these icons , open the game mall, shop there, or open the task panel issued by the game system. As long as they complete the panel, they will upgrade and get rewards, and the ultimate goal they get from the system is..."

He paused and continued in a solemn tone: "Exterminate superhuman beings within one year."

"Are you kidding me?" Qing Ya was silent for a moment and then asked.

"No, I'm not joking." The judge said calmly, "Based on the information I got from those two players, there are currently a hundred players in the world. Will the number increase in the future? Growth is another story. Apart from the two players I captured and the one who died, there are still ninety-seven players left on the planet, lurking all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and India. Players may appear."

After speaking, he pressed the button on the pen-shaped projector and projected a picture on the wall of the conference room.

Qingya turned his head and stared at the image projected on the wall by the black judge.

On the screen, the scene of a certain character as seen by human eyes is presented from the first perspective. The man stared blankly at a blank ceiling, with seven tiny "icons" arranged vertically in the upper right corner of his field of vision.

Soon, a bright red warning panel popped up in front of his eyes, which read in big black letters: "Warning, please do not disclose information about 'players' to any superhuman beings. Your actions will seriously affect the lives of other players." The mission progresses and directly endangers their personal safety! Warning, you are violating the taboo treaty! You are violating the taboo treaty! The warning is invalid, and your body and soul will be forced to die in five seconds."

The next moment, all the panels and function icons in the player's field of vision disappeared together, and instead a huge blood-red number "5" appeared, decreasing with every second.

Accompanied by a burst of horrified roars and wailings, the countdown numbers went from "5" to "4" to "3", and finally only "2" remained...

The lower the number, the more violent his resistance became.

But when the number reaches "1", the player completely stops resisting. Moreover, his brain imaging screen gradually turned black.

The video ended here. Judge Black pressed the button on the projector, and the projected image on the wall disappeared.

Qingya was silent.

The conference room was briefly enveloped in dead silence, and the two of them reached a consensus and generally remained silent.

"This is the brain imaging picture of that player." Judge Black took the lead to break the silence. He turned the projector pen with his index and middle fingers and said, "The technical staff of the Anomaly Control Bureau spent a lot of time to meet my needs. It took a lot of effort, and they also used some neural decoding technology to barely realize this idea.”

He spread his hands and said, "It's a pity. Before I had a chance to do it, they were hit by that thing called the 'system'. Otherwise, I would have wanted to torture them again."

"When did they start to appear?" Qingya asked.

"Four days ago." Black Judge put down the projector pen. "Although they currently only have the combat power to rob a supermarket with guns, they are very dangerous. According to my current guess about this system, there is a high probability that it can allow these players to In a short period of time, they have achieved an incredible improvement in combat power, so even though they are still weak, after a year, they may already look like...a human-shaped nuclear bomb."

"You told me this because you want me to assist the Control Bureau and help you find these 'players'?"

"That's right."

"How can you find ninety-seven people out of ten billion people..." Qingya sarcastically said, "It's really fantastic."

"Originally, this should be a task belonging to the Superdimensional Management and Control Bureau, but the 'players' are not time travelers in the traditional sense. Their souls moved to this world and directly occupied the body of a certain resident of this world as a disguise, so The general methods of the Superdimensional Management and Control Bureau couldn't work on them... so this matter fell to our Anomaly Control Bureau. "

The judge paused and said, "But I think this matter is far more important than they imagined. That's why they came to seek your help."

"Then, why should I help you? This is not my job."

"Because even you, Mr. Qingya, and everyone around you may have been quietly replaced by players, but they disguised themselves very well without letting you notice."

"Isn't it the same for you?" Qingya snorted coldly, "First worry about the people around you."

"Of course, I don't deny it." Judge Black smiled, "It's even possible that at this moment, you, or me, sitting between the two of us, have been replaced by the so-called 'players'."

Qingya stared at the black judge's mask, was silent for a moment, and said with a sneer: "Are you treating our world as a game? You are so arrogant..."

The black judge rested his elbows on the armrests of the swivel chair, interlaced his fingers, and a burst of mechanical laughter came from behind the mask.

"It seems that we have reached a rare consensus."

After speaking, he slowly stood up from the swivel chair and said, "Then, please tell the three magical girls next door what you just said. They should also understand this matter."

"Won't you meet them in person?"

"No, I'm not very good at dealing with these vain people." Judge Black said, "That's why I specially selected you as my meeting partner. I respect you very much, Mr. Qingya, you are a real hero, but You have to know that the Anomaly Control Bureau has been watching you in recent years. If one day in the future you truly lose yourself and cross that line, we will be on the opposite side."

He said and suddenly laughed: "Of course, I will be very excited then, because I can finally tear off your mask with my own hands and see who you really are..."

"You are not worthy of being my opponent." Qing Ya looked directly at him and said coldly.

"Who would know if you haven't tried it."

"It's time for you to go."

"Yes, then goodbye, Mr. Qingya."

Saying his goodbyes without haste, Judge Black turned and walked towards the conference room. He walked along the corridor for a while and boarded the elevator at the end.

Soon, he reached the 45th floor and entered the special guest room prepared for him by the Super League Association.

Judge Black first used the instrument on his wrist to confirm that there were no monitors in the room, then took off the V-shaped mask on his face and took a breath.

He stood by the window, opened the curtains, and lifted the leaves of the blinds.

Looking towards this brightly lit city, the train rumbled past the viaduct, and the traffic rushed on the road like an endless wave.

"Then, I'm almost tired of fighting and killing this year. It's time to go home and enjoy the vacation in two days."

Ke Yinzhi raised the corners of his mouth and murmured softly. He lowered his head and glanced at his phone.

The lock screen cover of his mobile phone was a family portrait. He still remembered that summer, six younger brothers and sisters crowded on the sofa. He and his parents stood behind the sofa. With a clicking sound, every child's face was filled with tears. A smile appeared.

"I hope those maggots... don't get into my house."

He whispered to himself, a deep light flowing in his pupils, and the smile at the corner of his mouth gradually faded.