Chapter 222 Upgraded Blue Owl Combat Suit, Gene Enhancer

Ke Mingye stared at the line of text reflected in front of him and almost bit off the chopsticks in his mouth.

He was stunned for a moment, thinking: "What is the Dimension Fighting Conference? Is it a large-scale gathering stage for players?"

He had just finished a fight outside and had a good appetite, but when he saw the notification panel, he lost all his appetite.

So, he sighed softly, picked up a small bowl and sat down at the dining table. He lowered his head, pretending to stare at the screen of his mobile phone, and looked at the introduction on the panel.

[The basic rules of the first "Dimensional Fighting Tournament" are as follows. 】

[This martial arts competition will be held in a different space that is independent of the real world. When the martial arts competition is held, the speed of time in the different space will be 2:1 compared to the time in the outside world. The speed of time in the outside world is slower than that in the different space.]

[Players need to consider whether they have enough time to participate in a full round of fighting competition on September 9st.]

[Basic Rule 2: Players who are successfully selected for the martial arts competition can freely form a team with other players from all over the world. The player team that fights to the end in the martial arts competition will enjoy the most generous rewards awarded by the system.]

[Basic Rule 3: The martial arts competition will be held three times a year. Except for the first one held in September this year, the dates of the other two will not be announced yet.]

[When the subsequent fighting competition officially begins, the system will introduce the remaining rules one by one. ]

[There are still 38 days until the official opening of the "Dimensional Martial Arts Tournament". ]

"Come on, how can this be handled: I already started school on September 9st."

Ke Mingye took the borscht handed to him by Bai Ziling and thought to himself.

"It seems that I have to place a puppet to go to school on my behalf on September 9st, and then go to participate in the martial arts competition myself. There will be a few magical girls transferring to the school by then, so I hope nothing will go wrong."

"By the way, what is this 'Martial Arts Tournament'? Isn't this the World Tournament? Logically, there shouldn't be many players who can fight me at this point, but I can't use the Trickster Doll or the Magical Girl Transformation Card. There are so many restrictions that it's annoying just thinking about it. If it's a team battle, then I'll just have to wait for Orange Peel and Anti-Dog to lead the way."

As he was thinking, a bubble popped up from the player list in the upper right corner of his vision.

[The players' discussion group in the same city received a new message. ]

Seeing this, Ke Mingye joined the discussion group.

[Anti-Dog: Have you all read the notice about the 'Dimensional Fighting Tournament'? ]

【Orange peel: Got it. 】

[Failed Man: I have to watch it. I have to watch it.]

[Failed Man: So, on September 9st, we can see players lurking around the world, and we don’t have to go through all the trouble to find them.]

[Anti-Dog: That's right. I can't imagine any player would miss this internal meeting, unless they are a traitor, or someone who is determined to be a lone ranger.]

Seeing this, Ke Mingye suddenly remembered the red-haired girl sitting in the wheelchair.

If Stro were still alive, she would probably clap her hands with joy when she saw the invitation to the "Dimensional Fighting Tournament", tapping the ground with her scepter and revealing a sly curve at the corner of her mouth.

Because as long as you participate in the martial arts competition, you can more or less obtain information about other players. A shrewd person like Gastro can directly win over most of the players.

Then, when the time is right, she will target them one by one based on the intelligence at hand.

Fortunately, Gastro is dead. But is it possible that among these 100 players, there are other rebels besides Gastro?
Then these rebels may also get clues about other players through fighting.

Especially Ke Mingye, once his identity is exposed, he will face an irreparable end. Moreover, there are a lot of family mainline tasks that have not been completed yet, and it would be a big loss to just flee and wander as Spider-Man.

Ke Mingye gnawed on a piece of black pork belly and thought silently. Several new lines of information popped up on the discussion group interface.

[Cai Bing: If I have to say... if there is any shameful player, it must be our red-named player 'Failed Man'. ]

[Zai Bing: He won't be like a rat crossing the street and be chased by everyone as soon as he enters the fighting scene, right? ]

[Anti-Dog: It's not impossible. I suggest we keep a distance from him and observe the situation.]

Ke Mingye's eyes twitched slightly, and he typed and sent it with his mind.

[Failed Man: When disaster strikes, everyone flees, right? Can we show our cohesion and team spirit? For example, "Spider-Man, we will not give up on you. Even if other players want to siege you, we will fight the whole world together with you." ]

【Cai Bing: It’s a bit awkward. 】

【Anti-dog: What do you mean everyone flees when disaster strikes? You fly, but we don’t. You are the one with the problem, why are you involved with us?】

[The failed man: Hey, you guys are really invincible, is this how human nature works? ]

[Failed Man: Loneliness is a kind of loneliness, and I have been alone in the world for a long time. ]

[Paranormal: Hehe, can you pay me before stealing Mr. Paranoid's quotations? ]

[The player "Failed Man" sent a red envelope of "1 mall coin" to the player "Paranoid". ]

[Failed Man: To be honest, I feel unfairly labeled as a red-named player. The real red-named player should be someone else.]

[Unexplainable Dream: Let me guess, every time we talk about this topic, someone will start to summon the spirit of Gastro. ]

[Failed Man: It's unlucky. Please don't mention this name in front of me. I was almost killed by her before. How can I summon her spirit? ]

[Paranoia: Gastro does not admit that Mr. Paranoia is handsome, and actually thinks that the Black Judge is more handsome than Mr. Paranoia. I think she is a player who has no value in cooperation... Humph, she might as well die. ]

Ke Mingye laughed dryly twice and closed the panel.

Under Bowena's death gaze, he had no choice but to put down his phone, finished his lunch quietly, then walked to the living room and sat down leisurely on the sofa.

He turned on the TV with the remote control and unfolded the copy guide. On the page of the Beijing copy, he checked the cards he got in copy No. 4 this morning.

Card Name: Pac-Man

【Card serial number: NO.004】

[Card source: Defeat the 4th copy of Huanjing—"Pac-Man Game".]

[Card Effect: Players can sacrifice 10000 mall coins to Pac-Man in exchange for a one-time skill card "Pixel Body" (maximum number of exchanges: 1). ]

"Isn't it too expensive? A one-time life-saving card is so expensive, it's like stealing money."

Ke Mingye secretly smacked his lips in amazement. Maybe one day when his life is at stake and he happens to have 10,000 gold coins on hand, he can exchange this "pixel body" from Pac-Man to see if he can get away with it.

While he was sitting on the sofa, Bai Qiuwu suddenly pulled him to sit at the table in the living room, saying that she wanted to help him prepare for his second year of high school.

She will be a senior next year and Ke Mingye will be a sophomore. While helping him prepare, she also reviewed the sophomore courses herself.

It was mainly for the sake of pretending, so that Bowena wouldn't say that they were playing all day long and get annoyed by her nagging.

The fan facing the two of them was turning slowly. Ke Mingye supported his chin with one hand and kept pressing the button of the ballpoint pen with the other hand, causing the pen core to pop out and retract.

Time passes quietly with the sounds of "click" and "click".

Bai Qiuwu looked at her from the side and asked unhappily, "Can you pay attention a little? Do superheroes not have to study?"

"I heard that Qing Ya dropped out of school at the age of 17. Superheroes generally have low educational qualifications. There is a joke on the Internet that 'a superhero team can't even get a graduation certificate.'" Ke Mingye said, "I think it doesn't matter whether I have a graduation certificate or not. It makes me look more sociable."

"Qing Ya is Qing Ya, can you please follow your two brothers' example, or your father..."

Bai Qiuwu lowered her voice and leaned close to Ke Mingye's ear, "Dad also went to a prestigious university. If you really want to get his permission and become a superhero openly, then you have to keep up with your studies, right?"

Ke Mingye whispered, "Are you kidding me? If I really told my dad about this, he would definitely not let me be a superhero, regardless of whether my grades have declined or not. Just wait and see if you don't believe me."

"Oh... so my sister's opinion isn't really an opinion?"

Bai Qiuwu raised his eyes from the test paper as he spoke, and glanced casually at Ke Mingye.

After a while, she suddenly lowered her eyes and said softly, "I may not be able to accompany you for a long time."

"What do you mean?" Ke Mingye was stunned.

Bai Qiuwu was also slightly stunned. After thinking for a while how to make up for what he said casually, he said, "When you are in your third year of high school, I will have to go to college. I will be in another city by then, and I won't be able to help you with your homework. You want me to bother you, but I can't bother you. Do you understand..." Ke Mingye was silent for a while, and sighed softly, "Okay, then I will concentrate."

"So how far have you gotten in memorizing the words I asked you to memorize this morning?"

"Abandon."

"You..."

As the two talked, the clock on the wall unknowingly moved to 1:30 in the afternoon.

Ke Mingye stretched, stood up from the table, sat on the sofa and played Street Fighter with Bai Zini for a while. Then, when the clock struck two in the afternoon, he threw down the game controller and hurried out.

As expected, as soon as he stepped out of the door, a follower came up to him, shouting "Brother!" But this time he did not lie to Bai Zini, he just said that he was going to the Super Hero Association to collect his merits. He could not work for nothing without getting paid, otherwise he would be a serf for the association.

After hearing this, Bai Zini was willing to let him go. She leaned against the door frame and watched him walk into the elevator car. She waved to him through the slowly closing elevator doors and opened her mouth to speak silently.

"Be careful on the road."

Soon, Ke Mingye changed into the Blue Owl uniform and went to the Super Hero Association, taking the elevator directly to the 45th floor.

The office door was open as usual, and one could see a silent and pragmatic man working behind the desk. It seemed that the commander did not like to close the office door when he was working, or perhaps he was certain that he would come, so he left the door open.

Blue Owl walked in and closed the door. Then a warm voice came into his ears: "You are here. I put the new ID card on the table. You can pick it up yourself."

Hearing this, he walked silently to the desk and found the black and blue ID card among the documents on the desk. He held it in his palm and took a closer look. He saw that the photo and name on the ID card had not changed, but the hero level column had been upgraded from E to D.

"Your personal data on the official Super Hero Association APP has also been updated. As your hero level increases, your salary will also increase: the guaranteed monthly salary for E-level heroes is 25000, and the guaranteed monthly salary for D-level heroes is 50000. In addition, more items are available for you to purchase in the Super Hero Points Mall. Of course, don't be happy too soon, because the price is that the association will issue you more difficult tasks in the future, but the corresponding points you get from the tasks will also be higher."

Che Zhengchen introduced it slowly and calmly.

Blue Owl pocketed the ID card while checking the official app of the Super Hero Association, "I see."

In the personal data column of the APP, it is shown that to be promoted from a D-level hero to a C-level hero, a total of 1500 points are required, which is three times the data required to be promoted from E-level to D-level.

However, this data is still within his acceptable range.

He fantasized about it and felt that he should have a chance to join the Round Table within a year. As long as he followed his father to participate in a few major events and obtained key points, the title of Round Table hero would be easily achieved.

Just as he was checking the data, a cold female voice like AI suddenly sounded in his ears.

[Congratulations, you have completed the goal of the first branch route of the second node of the main mission "Destroy the Superhero Round Table": "Not a superhero, but a super villain driven by justice" - disguise yourself as a superhero, enter the Superhero Association, and raise your own superhero rating in the association to D level (the lowest level superhero is E level). ]

[You have received node rewards: 8 attribute points, 5000 experience points, 5000 mall coins, and a % discount shopping card.]

[The next target node of this branch route has been updated: Pretend to be a superhero and raise your superhero rating in the association to C level. ]

[Congratulations, your level has been raised to Lv.19 (2500 points/10500 points), and you have obtained an attribute point that can be freely allocated. ]

Blue Owl opened his personal panel and added all the 9 mission points he had gained from upgrades and missions to "Physical Fitness". The reason was that now that he had spider sense as a supplement, he didn't need to improve his nerve reaction in the short term.

[Your physical attributes have changed: 78 points → 87 points (↑9 points)]

He closed the panel and was about to ask Che Zhengchen if there was anything else he needed to tell him, but if not, he would just leave.

At this moment, Che Zhengchen suddenly opened the drawer of his desk.

He said, "By the way, regarding the new suit you mentioned earlier, I sent a request to the designers at headquarters. They responded to me. As of today, the production of the new Blue Owl suit has been completed. This is a sample of that suit. You can try it out in the laboratory."

As he spoke, Che Zhengchen took out a packaging bag, inside which was a set of neatly folded red and blue combat uniforms.

Blue Owl was slightly stunned, then took the combat uniform and held it in his hand.

He asked: "Is it so efficient?"

Che Zhengchen put down his pen, put his hands together and rested them on his chin, smiling and saying, "Of course, you have been so eye-catching recently, but you are wearing a tattered uniform, like a makeshift team. Because of this, many designers are interested in you. So many people took the initiative to make a preliminary upgraded version in a short time."

He paused and said, "Go to the testing room and check the goods."

"Okay." Blue Owl raised his lips, "This is the first time I feel that I'm treated differently after becoming a superhero."

"That's right. I have things to deal with, so I won't accompany you."

"It's okay. I can do it myself."

After saying that, Blue Owl took a deep breath, turned around and walked out of the office, and took the elevator to the metal testing room on the 15th floor.

He took out a card from his pocket and swiped his ID card on the card slot. Suddenly, a cold female voice came out: "Welcome, D-class hero 'Blue Owl', the door to private testing room No. 5 has been opened for you."

Blue Owl walked in holding the combat uniform.

He opened the bag and took out the helmet and combat suit. This suit had a mercury-like red and blue color all over it. Compared with his previous cheap suit that looked like the latex suit worn by Cosplayers at comic conventions, the overall metallic feel was much stronger. As a price, it gave people a stronger inhuman feeling after putting it on.

Especially the helmet, the bird's beak is as sharp as a knife, and its aggressiveness is visibly strong to the naked eye.

However, the designer seemed to have received his advice, so he added a hidden button near the bird's beak, which can be extended and retracted freely by pressing it.

"Oh, now Mommy doesn't have to worry about the screen being pierced by a bird's beak when I'm playing with my phone."

Blue Owl muttered to himself, but he didn't put on a new helmet immediately. Because there were monitors in the test room, if some dangerous person in the association saw his true face, it would be harmful to him.

However, it is still possible to change into a new suit under the monitor: there are many people with similar body shapes to him, and it is difficult to find out his true identity just by judging from his body shape.

So Blue Owl quickly put on new combat uniform.

He pressed every possible place on his body and found the following differences.

First of all, the arm blade of the Blue Owl suit has been enhanced. Now it can be extended by pressing a button to adjust the length and width of the arm blade, which may have an unexpected effect in battle.

Secondly, the lenses have added map positioning functions, search engines, and highly intelligent AI dialogue functions, so that information can be received from the Super Hero Association headquarters at any time.

However, this is not good news for Blue Owl, as it means that the designer may also be able to find the location of his new suit through the map positioning function.

To be honest, although this can be considered a layer of insurance, it is like installing a locator on the combat uniform. Whenever the hero is kidnapped by the villain, he can be found through positioning.

But Ke Mingye is not an ordinary superhero, he really doesn't want to be found.

"Well, then I can keep one of my original combat uniforms."

He scratched his beak and thought.

After experimenting with the differences in the new combat uniform, Blue Owl walked out of the metal testing room, put on a new helmet in a toilet without monitors, and tested the positioning capability.

He then left the toilet, walked along the corridor, opened the official app, and exchanged 500 points for the coveted item in the points mall.

[Congratulations, D-level hero Blue Owl, you have successfully used 500 points to exchange for a "Gene Enhancer". Please go to the front desk on the 10th floor to collect the reward from the staff.]

“It’s so cool.”

Blue Owl shook his head and sighed, and at this moment, he met the nun in the aisle.

The nun frowned, crossed her shoulders and said, "Are you high, owl?"

Hearing this, Blue Owl shrugged and said, "Haha, I'm a D-class hero now. Miss Sister, let's get to know each other again."

As he said this, he extended his right hand towards the telekinetic nun in a rather pretentious manner.

The nun sneered and was about to reach out to touch the blue owl's beak to replicate the "handshake" scene from last time.

As a result, Blue Owl was quick-witted and raised his left hand, silently pressing the button on the helmet. Then, under the stunned expression of the other party, the bird beak on the mask retracted.

The nun's hand froze in mid-air, not touching anything.

Seeing this, Blue Owl shook hands with her with a smile, then walked away under her dull gaze.

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