Chapter 1: Home with Kids

Chapter 1: Home with Kids
"There have been a lot of superhuman crimes recently. Try to be careful on your way to and from school, and keep in touch with your brothers and sisters. Also, don't wander around the streets after school, go home as soon as possible."

The middle-aged man sitting across from the table picked up a pair of chopsticks and gave instructions calmly.

Hearing this, Ke Mingye looked up from the phone screen and gave the man a helpless look, "I know, Dad, you've told me so many times." He said in a long voice.

The moment his eyes fell on the middle-aged man, he saw a panel appear above the man's head.

【Name: Ke Youqing】

[Age: 45 years old]

【Sex: Male】

[Strength: A+ level (possessing top combat power far exceeding 90% of superhumans in the world)]

[Hidden identity: Yixia Qing Ya (ranked No. 7 in the Super Hero Association, one of the five giants of the Super Hero Round Table)]

[Note: Only in China do people use "Yixia" to refer to extraordinary people who work for the government; this profession is generally called "superheroes" in other countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.]

"Is your eldest brother and your second brother's university on vacation?"

As Ke Youqing took the meal handed to him by his wife, he looked up at Ke Mingye.

"They've all been released. My eldest brother sent me a message saying he'll be back by high-speed train in two days, and my second brother said the same thing."

Ke Mingye picked up the braised pork with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. While chewing the braised pork, he answered vaguely.

Ke Youqing was silent for a while: "Since it's holiday, let them come back early. It's not peaceful outside recently, but it's safe at home." After saying that, he picked up a piece of spicy tofu and put it into his mouth with rice grains.

"Row."

Ke Mingye responded casually and lowered his head to continue playing with his phone.

"Lao Qing, you are just too neurotic. Can you please stop scaring the children?"

The sound came from the kitchen sink. A woman wearing gloves and a kitchen apron tied around her waist was washing dishes while sighing and scolding.

Ke Mingye glanced at her. This was his mother, or to be more precise, the mother in this body. Just like his father, a panel slowly appeared above his mother's head.

【Name: Bowenna】

[Age: 43 years old]

[Gender: Unknown (non-human species, no fixed sexual characteristics)

[Strength: Unknown (suspected to have exceeded the upper limit of Earth species)]

[Hidden identity: An alien spy from the "Fangongta Star", disguised as a human, has been lurking on Earth for a long time, continuously providing the basic data needed for the Fangongta Star people to invade the Earth. ]

[Based on your current situation, an extremely important emergency side mission has been planned - "Approach Bowenna in disguise and conceal your identity, and try to delay the time for the 'alien colonists' to attack the earth."

(The difficulty of this side quest is initially estimated to be SSS level)]

[Warning: Whether this task is completed or not will seriously affect future development, please act with caution. ]

"It's so fucking scary. It turns out that women are not easy to mess with..."

Ke Mingye held the chopsticks in his mouth, secretly complaining in his heart, and didn't even dare to glance at Bai Wenna who was washing dishes.

Ke Youqing turned his head and said to Bo Wenna, "Don't just keep nagging me. You should come over to eat. Otherwise, the food will get cold and the children can just wash the dishes."

Bowenna sneered: "Wow, I don't know who said to wash the dishes yesterday, but when I went out, I found all the dirty dishes piled in the sink."

"It was an accident," Ke Youqing paused, "I'm old and my memory isn't very good."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Ke Mingye shrugged. He knew it was not an accident. Last night, a superpowered crime broke out in the central urban area around Beijing. At that time, Ke Youqing was washing dishes in the kitchen. After hearing the news, he immediately put down the dishes, wiped his hands, and went out without saying a word.

No one knew what he was doing. His sister "Bai Zi Ni" even said with contempt that dad must have a craving for cigarettes. He was halfway through washing dishes when he ran downstairs to the supermarket to buy cigarettes. He was not like a normal person.

Anyway, Ke Mingye only knew that the incident last night was resolved by a "superhero" who arrived in time. No one was injured, and all the superhumans involved in the incident were sent to prison.

Ke Youqing thought he had hidden it well, and when he came back, he was still holding a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth. This made his sister point at him and yell, "Look, I knew Dad must have gone out to buy cigarettes."

But in Ke Mingye's eyes, the identity of everyone in the family is completely transparent to him, so this concealment is meaningless.

"Okay, okay, it's an accident, an accident." Bowenna washed her hands, took off her apron, picked up a pair of chopsticks, walked to the dining table, sat down on Mingye's right, and said to him, "Go and ask your sister to come down for dinner."

"Those who can't be called down are playing with their phones. They will come down by themselves when they are hungry."

Ke Mingye put a piece of meat into his bowl and replied dejectedly.

"You have to call them down even if you can't." Bowenna became angrier and angrier. She turned to Ke Youqing and shouted, "Look at you as a father. This is what happens when you spoil them. They are spoiled beyond belief. When it's time for dinner, you can't even see them. They have to wait until the food is cold before they come down to eat!"

Ke Youqing sighed and put down his chopsticks on the table: "Okay, I'll go call them both." As he said that, he slowly stood up from the chair and walked towards the stairs.

Bai Wenna snorted, supported her chin with her hand, and picked up a piece of pork ribs with chopsticks with her other hand and put it into the bowl.

Something is wrong. Should I remind the two girls upstairs...

Ke Mingye glanced at Ke Youqing's back and thought so.

Then, while his mother wasn't paying attention, he quit the short video app he was using on his phone and opened WeChat. He clicked into a family group called "Helping each other as a family", which had seven people in total - except for their parents, all the other brothers and sisters were in this group.

He held the chopsticks in his mouth, lowered his eyes, and used his other hand to send a message in the group: "Dad is calling you guys. If you don't want to be scolded, take the initiative to order down to eat."

Just after sending the message, a series of "crackling" and "ding-dong" sounds came from the second floor.

Then, his two sisters tumbled down the stairs, as if they hadn't seen anything, and ran straight past their father standing at the stairs, then took a pair of chopsticks and a bowl from the cupboard and gathered around the dining table. Each one was quicker than the other, like two little rabbits running with carrots in their mouths.

Ke Youqing stood at the stairs with his hands on his hips, looking at the two little bastards, rubbing his stubble helplessly, "You guys are smart."

Ke Mingye put away his phone and looked at his two younger sisters who were squeezed next to him, one on each side.

Sitting on the left is his older sister, Bai Zini, who has short shoulder-length hair, a pretty face, and is still wearing a middle school uniform. Every year when it comes to visiting relatives, Bai Zini always gets comments like "Our little girl is getting smarter and smarter, she will definitely be a beauty in the future."

[Name: Bai Zini]

[Age: 14 years old]

【Gender: Female】

[Strength: B+ level (the absolute elite among superhumans)]

[Hidden identity: As "Magical Girl Ashes", she has been active in China for a long time, and is also one of the core members of the "Magical Girls Alliance". ]

Bai Zini bit a grain of rice, lowered her head to type on her mobile phone, and spoke quietly in the "Family Group for Mutual Help".

"Thanks for the help, bro," she typed.

Ke Mingye typed in the group chat and responded: "No thanks, just help me with my legs later and go to the supermarket downstairs to buy two bottles of drinks."

Baizini replied with an emoticon of an angry panda with puffed cheeks.

Ke Mingye put away his phone, turned his head slightly, and glanced at his second sister, "Bai Ziling", who was sitting silently on the right. The face he saw was very similar to "Bai Zini", or rather, their facial features were exactly the same, as if they were carved out of the same template by God.

Yes, they are twins.

But apart from the facial features, there are many differences between Bai Ziling and Bai Zini, for example: the light white hair draped behind Bai Ziling's head looks like a white fir in winter; her pupils are also a strange red, different from those of ordinary people; her pale skin color is like a specimen, without a trace of blood.

"Albinism" is the biggest difference between Bai Ziling and Bai Zini. Also affected by albinism, her personality is much more indifferent and less active than her sister. [Name: Bai Ziling]

[Age: 14 years old]

【Gender: Female】

[Strength: A-level (possessing top combat power far exceeding 90% of the world's superhumans)]

[Hidden identity: "Vampire", also known as "Blood Clan". ]

Bai Ziling suddenly touched Ke Mingye's shoulder and whispered, "Brother, can you sign for me?"

"sign?"

Ke Mingye held a piece of tempura shrimp in his mouth and looked at his sister in confusion.

"If I fail the physics test and ask my mother to sign it, she will scold me." Bai Ziling answered immediately.

As soon as she finished speaking, a panel popped up in front of Ke Mingye.

[Event Analysis: The "Blood Clan" possesses an extremely special talent in the "spatial cognition" level, but in the early stages of growth, this talent will cause them to be unable to normally recognize some spatial structures.]

"Get lost, don't get me into trouble. If mom knew I signed for you, she would definitely teach me a lesson as well."

Ke Mingye whispered, looking away from the panel above her head and shaking off her elbow in disgust.

Bai Zini, who was sitting next to Ke Mingye, heard the conversation between the two and hurried over, bravely volunteering: "I'll sign for you, I'll sign for you!"

"No, your handwriting doesn't look like my mom's." Bai Ziling decisively rejected her.

"Tsk, if it doesn't look like it, then I'll use magic to create one for you." Baizini said jokingly.

Don’t really use magic to change her... Ke Mingye looked at the "magical girl" identity on the panel above Bai Zini's head, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

To be honest, Bai Zini and Bai Ziling have such a good relationship, he is also very curious whether these two people know that one is a magical girl and the other is a vampire, and they keep each other's identities secret at home.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the clock hanging on the wall kept ticking.

The sun was setting in the west, falling below the horizon, and the last rays of light burned the clouds brightly. The warm orange light fell into the house, coating every figure in the kitchen with a light golden edge.

His parents and two younger sisters were eating dinner around the dining table, chatting and laughing, but Ke Mingye didn't seem to be in the mood to joke with his family. He just held his chin and glanced out the window nonchalantly.

The background color of the sky was a mixture of rosy red and silver-grey, with a spiral of airplane clouds stretching across the crimson sunset glow. A child from some unknown family released a kite, which swayed and rose into the sky in the dim dusk, like a lonely martyr.

The cool evening breeze blew into the house through the floor-to-ceiling windows, gently blowing on his cheeks.

Ke Mingye took a bite of the chicken in front of his mouth with chopsticks and turned his gaze back to the house. While looking at his family, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

No matter how many times he watched it, Ke Mingye would always feel that the scene before his eyes was too bizarre and absurd - the father whose potential identity was a "superhero", the mother whose real identity was an "alien spy", the eldest sister who secretly played the role of a "magic girl", and the second sister who looked like an albino but was actually a "vampire".

They are an excellent family no matter where they are, even more like Mr. and Mrs. Smith than the Smiths. But the most important thing is that except for the alien mother, the other people in the family seem to be unaware of each other's identities.

So, what sin did I commit...

Ke Mingye sighed deeply in his heart.

Three days ago, Ke Mingye was reading in the library. When he closed the book and took a nap, he traveled through time.

In this world where superhuman beings such as psychics and mutants emerge in an endless stream and are countless, he replaced the soul of this unfortunate person with the same name and surname and became a member of this Chinese middle-class family.

As far as I can remember, Ke Mingye's family consisted of nine people - two parents and seven children.

It sounds weird, but it is very reasonable in this parallel world. According to the policy of this parallel world, Chinese families can have a maximum of four children. As a result, when the parents were planning to have a fourth child, they happened to be pregnant with twins Bai Zini and Bai Ziling, so they had to give birth to them.

By this time there were five children in the family.

Then the alien-acted mother proposed to adopt a child.

According to the policy, families with children can only adopt one child, so they adopted "Ke Mingye", the predecessor of this body. At this time, the family already had six children.

Then, in the orphanage, the mother felt that there was a weak and sickly child who had no one to adopt him, which was particularly pitiful.

According to the policy, if one wants to adopt a child in such special circumstances, it can be considered on a case-by-case basis, so in the end she successfully adopted the child and named him "Ke Yongzhu".

So far, there were seven children in the family.

Ke Mingye was the fourth child in the class, and due to his neither-than-normal position, he was often bullied.

But after more than a decade, life has been warm and ordinary. Although my father is usually busy with work like an invisible man, my mother still raised seven children with great difficulty.

Referring to these memories in his mind, Ke Mingye, who first traveled through time, actually thought that this was an ordinary, happy family that had not changed in more than ten years.

But the player panel in Ke Mingye's eyes did not tell him this. He even slapped his predecessor's face hard, saying that you are an idiot and you didn't realize that there are a lot of monsters in your home.

It was not until Ke Mingye saw his family with his own eyes that he saw the panels above each of his family members showing extremely bizarre data - aliens, superheroes, psychics, young dragons, magical girls...

Only then did he realize that the predecessor of this body had been deceived by this family full of superhumans for sixteen years.

Yes, after living together for sixteen years, the predecessor of this body did not realize that the seemingly ordinary family members actually had their own secret identities.

You should know that according to China's policy, all family members must undergo "transhuman genetic testing" twice a year to prevent genetic mutations.

If someone is diagnosed with having extraordinary genes, they must be separated from ordinary people, go to different schools, or do different jobs.

The results of the tests that Ke Mingye's family took twice a year were very consistent. Without exception, every time, all the family members were normal people, without any extraordinary genes in their bodies.

It seems that because of this, except for the alien mother, other members believe that there are no other superhumans in the family except themselves.

However, whether every member is so weird remains to be discussed.

After all, Ke Mingye had only been here for three days, and he had only seen his parents, his older sister, younger brother, and two younger sisters. As for his eldest and second brothers, he hadn't seen them yet - because his eldest and second brothers usually went to college in other places and would only come home during holidays. They were truly contemporary college students.

Summer vacation is almost here, so they will be back in two days, and then Ke Mingye will be able to fully understand the whole picture of this family.

To be honest, he's already under enough psychological pressure.

Although he didn't hold too many expectations, he still earnestly hoped that his eldest and second brothers who were about to return home would be ordinary people like him, rather than magical girls, strange heroes, vampires, aliens, and so on.

Thinking of this, Ke Mingye was suddenly stunned. He took a mouthful of hot rice with a spoon and teased himself in his heart.

"That being said, I'm actually not an ordinary person now... I'm a player. But what exactly does this system want me to do? After three days, I still have no idea."

Just at this moment, a black and red panel suddenly popped up in front of his eyes, almost occupying his entire pupil, causing his whole body to shudder slightly.

On the panel, words made of gurgling blood were jumping.

The text is still being updated.

[After surviving in the parallel world for 3 days, the player's ultimate mission has been updated - exterminate superhumans. ]

[Please exterminate all superhumans in this parallel world at any cost and by any means necessary until only ordinary people are left on Earth. ]

[Task time limit: 365 days. 】

(End of this chapter)