Chapter 229: Ke Mingye's Contracted Beast, the Dice Monster and the "Watchmaker Alliance"

[Good morning, Mr. Player, today is July 2028, 07. There are 24 days left until the deadline for the ultimate mission "Exterminate Superhumans".]

[Current number of surviving players: 93 (no deaths occurred yesterday)]

Hearing the system notification, Ke Mingye woke up from his bed. He was stunned for a while before he came to his senses. He thought to himself, didn’t I set an alarm? How come the alarm has now become a daily notification? But it does save him some trouble.

He opened his eyes, yawned, and lazily got up from the bed, scratching his messy hair while closing the panel.

Turning my face to the side, I could see the slightly bright sky through the curtains fluttering in the breeze. The mottled morning light fell into the room, and the viaduct in the distance was still shrouded in a hazy curtain.

Ke Mingye looked up at the clock on the wall, threw back the quilt and got out of bed, then walked into the bathroom while checking the messages on his spare phone.

There was no screen flooding today. There was only a simple message from the Super Hero Association's official APP on the screen.

[Octopus Man: See you at the Superhero Association at 8: in the morning. This is the only time I’m free. If you don’t want to come, forget it.]

[Blue Owl: Okay, I’m here, don’t stand me up, or I’ll post you on Weibo.]

【Octopus Man: Childish.】

"I have an appointment with Octopus Man today, so let's go to the Superhero Association early... We have to try to pry some information about his brother from him. After all, his brother is related to the Clock Man."

Thinking this, Ke Mingye quickly washed himself in front of the mirror.

Even though he had traveled through time almost two months ago, he still felt an inexplicable sense of strangeness when looking at this slightly depressed face, and he always got goose bumps when he looked at it closely.

Thinking back to what Xiziyue said yesterday, he felt it was a bit magical.

Xiziyue knew Ke Mingye when he was young, and she had the same idea as Huijin. The Little Red Riding Hood he played had the same eyes as Ke Mingye at that time.

But why?
Ke Mingye knew that when his nerves were connected to the trick puppet, he would unconsciously affect the puppet's micro-expressions and eyes. Does this mean that he was unconsciously revealing the expression of Ke Mingye when he was a child?
Has he been assimilated by the memories in his brain to this extent, or is there something fishy about this?

Ke Mingye spit out the mouthwash with a "gurgle", raised the back of his hand to wipe his mouth, put down the cup, put on his sneakers and went downstairs. His second brother was not at home, and now he was the first one to get up in the family, while everyone else was sleeping like a pig.

It's not their fault. After all, these monsters have a very rich nightlife. They are either fighting criminals, holding meetings, or patrolling the city. It would be strange if they could get out of bed.

As usual, I went for a morning run around the Laojingmai district, stopped by the lake to exercise, and soon completed today's daily tasks.

[Received the reward for daily task 2 "One Hundred Push-ups", and obtained 2 attribute points that can be freely allocated. ]

[Your "Physical Fitness" attribute changes: 91 → 93 points (↑2 points)]

[Received the reward for daily task 1 "Run 6000 meters" and got a chance to win a lucky draw. ]

The reward wheel slowly unfolded before his eyes, and the texts in six areas came into view.

Ke Mingye originally thought that he had become disenchanted with the reward wheel. What he usually got were either some useless rewards that were not even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth, or some fictitious Pinduoduo-style fragments that he had no idea when he would be able to collect.

However, after Wang Qing swiped the turntable this time, he opened his eyes slightly.

"What the hell?"

[3000. 5 mall coins; 1. Unique equipment - Magic City Light Sword (the probability of appearance is extremely low, less than 1000%); . Unique reward - a magic contract beast (the probability of appearance is extremely low, less than %); . A low-level lottery ticket; : A set of auxiliary magic cards; . experience points. ]

"Come on, two. Come on, two."

Ke Mingye prayed silently in his heart, then pressed the start button of the turntable.

Then the pointer began to rotate at high speed, but the result was not as he wished. Finally, the pointer slowly stopped above area ③.

[Congratulations, you have obtained the reward of area ③ - a magical contract beast (unique level). ]

[Hint: You have obtained a magical contract beast. The contract beast does not have a mind. You can use your own thoughts to make the contract beast disappear or appear at any time, and you can control the contract beast's behavior and words with your will. ]

[Next, please give your contracted beast a suitable nickname. 】

Ke Mingye was stunned, thinking what was going on, how come my buddy suddenly had a contracted beast? Do I have to act as the contracted beast to deceive an ignorant girl into becoming a magical girl? Isn't this forcing a good girl into prostitution?
Even though he thought this in his heart, he was still honest with his hands.

He typed two words on the small keyboard that popped up on the system panel - [Kirby].

The origin of this name can be traced back to the beast contracted beast Kyubey in a popular two-dimensional masterpiece in the previous life, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

Ke Mingye hoped that when he played the role of a contracted beast, he could be as beastly as Kyubey, abandoning all sense of shame and focusing on abducting magical girls. So he took out his own surname "Ke" to replace "Qiu", and thus got this name.

But on second thought, he felt that the "Ke" in Kobe's name was too revealing, so he changed it to the homophonic word "Ke", and then clicked Submit.

[Congratulations, you have named your contracted beast "Kobe." ]

[The item "Magic Contracted Beast - Kobe" has been added to your bag. ]

"I really don't know what this contracted beast looks like. Will it be kicked away by a beautiful girl when it goes out on the street?"

Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the name, but he still found it a little hard to believe that he had inadvertently paid tribute to a legendary basketball player from his previous life.

To be honest, he felt that the magical contract beast thing was a bit like selling insurance. One had to adopt the attitude of a gold medal salesman to convince those customers.

Fortunately, the target customers of contracted beasts are generally underage girls, and few will choose to contract with those middle-aged women. However, magical middle-aged women do exist, and some contracted beasts will do anything to achieve performance.

As he walked towards the abandoned train station in the Lao Jingmai district, he checked the information of the magical contracted beast in his bag.

[Item Name: Magical Contract Beast-Kobe]

[Item Rarity: Unique (One of a Kind)]

[Item Level: B+]

[Item Description: This is a watery magical contract beast, and its appearance can be changed into three categories: "dog", "owl", and "pig".]

[Contracted beast level: Lv.1 (This contracted beast has a total of 3 levels. Each time a level is unlocked, you can create a contracted beast clone and use the clone to contract a new ordinary girl to make her a magical girl)]

[Current level of authority: Currently can create 0 contracted beast clones, can contract at most 1 magical girl. ]

[Note: Depending on the qualifications of the contracted magical girl, there is a certain chance that a "mutated magic wand" holder or a "rare attribute magic power" holder will appear.]

Ke Mingye said "Oh——" and thought to himself that he was familiar with this. After all, Little Red Riding Hood was the holder of "snow attribute magic power", and Ashes, Kokonoe Sakura and others were the holders of "mutated magic wands".

This means that when choosing an ordinary person to sign a contract, one must also consider whether the other person has the qualifications to become a magical girl. Otherwise, wouldn't it be useless if one signs a few Muggles?

Thinking so, he continued to look down.

["Magic Contract Beast-Kobe" can check the qualifications of ordinary girls twice a day. Please use this ability to find out the qualifications of the other party before signing a contract with the other party. ]

["Magic Contracted Beast - Kobe" can extract the magic power of the contracted magical girl and use it for your own benefit. (If necessary, you can even take out the comet fragments in the contracted magical girl's body, which can turn her back into an ordinary person, but there is also a certain probability that she will die directly)]

Ke Mingye was slightly stunned when he saw this: "Wait, so I am using the contracted beast to sow seeds and cultivate an artificial magic pool for Little Red Riding Hood?"

He suddenly understood the role of the magical contracted beast.

Sign a contract with an ordinary girl and grant her magic power. After that, as the girl becomes stronger, the magic power contained in her body will increase, and the contracted beast can recycle this exponentially increasing magic power.

For the contracted beast, it is equivalent to loan sharking, and for the ordinary person, she has gained super powers that she has never had before. It is obvious that this is a fair deal that benefits both parties.

Apart from this, as long as the comet fragments in the other person's body are not forcibly extracted, their lives will not be endangered.

Comet fragments cannot be directly converted into magic power, nor can they be directly inserted into the body of a person who has become a magical girl. Therefore, it is impossible to ask the contracted beast to insert those comet fragments into Little Red Riding Hood's body to double Little Red Riding Hood's qualifications.

I have to say, it was not as dirty as he imagined. Since he had given power to others, it was only natural to take it back from them.

Of course, the annoying thing is that this will turn these three unlucky guys into superhumans and make them the target of annihilation by the players. This is equivalent to giving the girl a one-year magical girl experience card, and the price is that they will die when the experience card expires.

However, if necessary, one year later, Ke Mingye will try to let the contracted beasts take back the fragments in their bodies: the ending is death anyway, so it is better to take a gamble. If the fragments are successfully taken back, they will become ordinary people again and will not have to become enemies of the players.

Ke Mingye thought as he walked into the Laojingmai Street District.

He raised his hand to open the cabinet and saw the upgraded combat suit. The metallic texture of red and blue was pleasing to the eye. If he had to describe the difference from the original one, it would be that he had progressed from a tights monster to a Kamen Rider.

After changing into the Blue Owl uniform, he arrived at the Superhero Association building not long after. The time was very accurate, it was exactly 8 o'clock in the morning as agreed with Octopus Man. At this time, the flow of people in the association building was not large, and the whole building was unusually empty and quiet.

Blue Owl and the Octopus Man used software to meet in the bathroom on the 7th floor - they chose this place because there were no surveillance cameras inside the bathroom and their conversation would not be heard.

Apart from anything else, the toilet environment of the Super Hero Association is still very good, and the cleanliness is no less than that of other companies' offices. There is not even any bad smell in the air, only the smell of perfume.

Blue Owl and the octopus man stood with their backs against the wall. Blue Owl slightly bent his legs and stepped on the wall, nonchalantly drinking a cup of American coffee he had just bought on the road - he couldn't drink bitter coffee, so he added sugar cubes and milk.

"Why did you choose this damn place?"

The octopus man with dark circles under his eyes rubbed his eyes.

"Because I need to talk to you about something private."

"What topic?" The octopus man paused and added cautiously, "First of all, I'm not gay."

"Come on, man, even though there are a lot of gay superheroes and those sluts can no longer get satisfaction from the opposite sex, it doesn't mean that every superhero is gay..."

Blue Owl shook his head and sighed.

"I have something else to do later. If you have anything to say, just tell me." The octopus man had no expression on his face. "If you want to cancel the competition because you are afraid of losing face, then I don't mind. But I will publish the fact that you begged for mercy on the Internet, so that everyone will know that you are a coward."

"Okay, even though you sound arrogant, I'm not here for this... After all, I won't lose to you. No matter how you look at it, I always get all the good things."

Blue Owl yawned and said in a leisurely tone, then changed the subject: "Actually... I want to ask about your father. I asked around in the association before, and someone said that your father once died while saving a drowning person. Is this true?"

The octopus man frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice: "Who did you hear this from?"

"I heard it from my commander, and I asked him your name this morning. If you don't believe me, you can ask him for confirmation." Blue Owl paused, "So can you answer me... or if this question is too offensive to you, then I apologize in advance and leave now."

Having said that, he raised his arms in surrender and turned his head to glance at the octopus man's profile.

The octopus man was silent for a while: "There is nothing to hide. The reason why I became a superhero... is to let more people see my father's name."

Upon hearing this, Blue Owl breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself, Brother, our central ideas are exactly the same. I debuted to help Blue Crow clear its name, and you debuted to promote the name of your heroic father. We are of the same roots, so why are you so eager to hurt me? Do you have to fight and ruin my reputation?

"I checked the news," he said. "Your dad is great."

"My father was an ordinary man," the octopus man said softly. "He was just an ordinary man, but he died in the lake while trying to save a few drowning children. After that, my brother and I lived together and had a very hard time."

Blue Owl thought for a moment, "Are you angry that he abandoned you and your brother for a few strangers?"

"No, I never blamed my father. You know what makes me angry."

At this point, the octopus man's voice sank slightly. "After my father died, the parents of the rescued children came to my house at first to give me some condolences, holding my hand and saying some hypocritical words, but soon I never saw them again... I thought it didn't matter. Even if they were ungrateful, there would be other people who saw the news and remembered my father."

He paused. “At first, people on the Internet praised him hypocritically, but after a few days, no one on the Internet paid attention to what he did... At that time, a new superhero who had just debuted gained overwhelming attention through marketing methods. His news was everywhere, and no one paid attention to who my father, such a mediocre... boring person, saved and for whom he sacrificed his ordinary life.”

Blue Owl hugged his shoulders and was silent for a moment: "Isn't this normal? Everyone likes superheroes."

"So I don't think it makes sense." The Octopus Man said, "Not long after, the hero who gained attention through marketing quickly left the Superhero Association after making a lot of money and popularity, and started a live broadcast on the Internet. To this day, I can still see the 'Weekly New Star Superhero Review Column Video' he created... Haha, do you know what the funniest thing is?"

"Uh...what is it?"

"In his column, he made fun of me for being a hero with a funny appearance, disgusting abilities, and some low-level skills... He also said that the most basic thing about a superhero is the image, but my uniform is a mess, and I don't even bother to wear a mask, which will only put people around me in danger. But what he didn't know was..." The octopus sneered at this, "The people around me have already died... All dead. If I don't wear a mask, it won't affect anyone, and it won't put anyone in danger, except myself."

Blue Owl was speechless and rubbed his Tianming acupoint, thinking to himself that you kid has a bit of self-destructive tendencies, you'd better not turn into a villain any day.

After a long silence, he sighed and said:
"Uh... now I understand. So this is why you have such strong malice towards those superheroes who rely on marketing to rise to fame?"

"Even if you say that, you can't extricate yourself from this group."

"It doesn't matter. I will prove myself sooner or later."

Blue Owl shrugged and continued in a flat tone, "To be honest, I haven't forgiven you yet. After all, your malice towards me is boring and narrow-minded. You can't put such a hat on my head just because your experience is miserable. But I am a very fucking generous person, so I won't take it too seriously, understand?"

"funny……"

The octopus man said with disdain.

The blue owl lowered its beak, stared at the floor, and asked slowly, "So, I remember that in the news I searched, it was mentioned that the hero who died while saving someone from drowning had two children, one is you, and the other is..."

Before he could finish his words, the octopus man took a deep breath and interrupted him: "The other one is my brother."

"So...is he okay?"

Blue Owl asked tentatively, thinking that he could finally ask about his brother's background. If the Octopus Man's brother was not related to the Watch Man, he didn't want to stick with this guy.

Hearing this, the octopus man was silent for a while: "He disappeared many years ago."

"disappeared?"

"Before he disappeared, he was discussing something with me."

"What are you discussing?"

"I think my father is great. He sacrificed himself to save the lives of others." The octopus man lowered his head and said hoarsely, "But my brother is different... He thinks it was those people who killed my father. It's all their fault."

Blue Owl was stunned for a moment and thought, your brother's idea is good, no wonder he became a villain, he has a future. A villain with this kind of background will have to reach the level of a watchmaker in the future. It's a pity that he is still not as good as us star-destroying aliens.

"After that, I never saw him again." The octopus man took a deep breath, "But I met a criminal whose ability was very similar to his. His name was 'Death Star'."

He paused for a moment and said, "Then one day, the people from the Super Hero Association found me and showed me a photo."

"Photos?" Blue Owl frowned.

The octopus man lowered his head and his eyes gradually dimmed.

He said: "In that photo, Death Star was with Clockman. Clockman was teaching him how to dissect the body of an A-level superhero. They took a series of photos of the process and sent them to the official email address of the Superhero Association as a provocation."

Blue Owl tilted his head: "Is this true?"

"Do you think I'm kidding?"

"You really don't look like a joker."

"Anyway, after that... I took the initiative to seize this opportunity, accepted the association's training and became a superhero." The octopus man looked at his palm, "I want to know if the criminal next to the watch man is my brother, or... my brother has actually died a long time ago, and the man in the photo is just a beast with similar superpowers to my brother."

As he spoke, his tone gradually became gloomy: "Also, I want to reach the top of superherodom, so that my father can get the attention he deserves, instead of letting those unworthy idiots occupy everyone's attention..."

Upon hearing this, Blue Owl shrugged his shoulders, then took a deep breath, muttered, "It's really bitter and vengeful," and then said slowly:

"Then let's be honest. You're being so honest with this unworthy idiot you're talking about. Aren't you afraid that I'll use some despicable means to expose what you said?"

"That's exactly what I want. The association has always forbidden me from telling anyone about these things, otherwise they will revoke my superhero qualification."

The octopus man said calmly, "If I tell you and you leak it, we will all suffer. Not only me, but you will also not be able to be a superhero. Do you understand?"

"Wow...then I would rather not know about this." Blue Owl said hypocritically.

"You shouldn't have asked me."

"You should be happy that I didn't avoid the friendly match a month later, which made you lose the opportunity to use my traffic." Blue Owl paused, "Also, my traffic is actually brought by the Dice Freak. I hope you can also attract the attention of that idiot."

As he was speaking, a panel suddenly popped up in front of him.

[The main quest has been opened - "You are the only ones who are called super villains?": Kill the super villain "Watchman" and all the super criminals under his command, and completely destroy the Watchman Alliance. ]

[Mainline Node 1: Join the Watchmakers Alliance as a "Dice Freak".]

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