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Chapter 252 Joint Examination Schools
Pei Zhaoye's words made Jiang Xingni laugh in anger.
It's as if Pei Zhaoye has treated himself unfairly for the sake of his teammates.
However, Jiang Xingni clearly knew that the only people Pei Zhaoye could buy this kind of information from were students like them.
Students who are able to take the midterm exam, in other words, are their competitors.
Although Pei Zhaoye didn't care much about the rankings within Taixu Academy, he also had no need to provide any information to his competitors.
They're just characters taking midterms now. What if we get a detailed introduction to their supernatural abilities later?
Pei Zhaoye shrugged innocently, pretending not to see the speechless look in Jiang Xingni's eyes.
"Do you still want to hear it?" Pei Zhaoye grinned, feigning ignorance.
Of course, I want to hear it.
If it were just a participating school, then Pei Zhaoye wouldn't have made a fuss if he said it on the spot.
This isn't a secret; it'll be made public sooner or later.
Pei Zhaoye must have other information to suggest that they should move their group to a different location.
"Superpowers?" Jiang Xing narrowed his eyes and silently asked Pei Zhaoye with his lips.
Then, she saw Pei Zhaoye give her a harmless smile and nod at her.
Okay, it really is news about superhumans from other schools.
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The group randomly found an empty classroom and sat down.
He Jingtong silently made a hand seal, acting as a tool to prevent others from spying and eavesdropping.
Once He Jingtong had finished setting up the barrier, Pei Zhaoye finally spoke.
He first introduced the format of the midterm exam.
—Of all these people here, only Jiang Xingni hasn't systematically studied this knowledge. It's obvious who Pei Zhaoye is introducing it to.
But no one objected to Pei Zhaoye's decision.
After all, it was Jiang Xingni.
"After all, it's an exam held by the school, so the college naturally has to ensure the security of the exam."
So the whole exam isn't like the tasks they've done, which require spending time and money—although the academy will reimburse them in the end—going somewhere, finding a place to stay, slaying monsters, and so on.
"To be precise, the exam uses technology to reconstruct previously occurring anomalies."
Each copy represents an anomaly that has been resolved.
The anomalies resolved by the superhumans were brought back to the academy and then handed over to professionals for analysis. Once the analysis was successful, they could be used by the academy to nurture the students' growth and to test their abilities.
"Every mission we complete, every anomaly we bring back, will eventually become a copy used by the academy to train students," Song Juexiao added.
However, their current abilities are not considered very strong, and the abnormal events they can solve cannot compare with those of professional superhumans. Therefore, the copies created from their abnormalities are generally used for teaching and exams in junior and senior high schools.
It's practically impossible for them to encounter tasks they've previously experienced during university midterms.
"Did you all grow up in this kind of environment?" Jiang Xingni raised an eyebrow with some curiosity and asked.
Song Juexiao nodded.
Taixu Academy's student training is quite conventional. Although those with superpowers are ultimately meant to fight monsters, it's impossible to send underage children to the battlefield under such circumstances.
What could be safer or more suitable for their growth and development than fully understanding and analyzing abnormal information?
Su Yanzhi shook her head vigorously, like a rattle drum.
—That makes sense. Su Yanzhi, who became an outlaw in the world of superpowered individuals, could not possibly have grown up in a safe place like a virtual instance where there is little danger to life.
Jiang Xingni rested his chin on his hand and stared at Su Yanzhi for a while.
A question suddenly popped into her mind.
How many people like Su Yanzhi, who are above the law, are there in the world of supernatural beings?
She knew exactly where the conflict lay between the authorities and the superhuman community.
The community of people with supernatural abilities has always maintained its stance, preventing ordinary people from learning about any abnormalities, even if that "ordinary person" is an official, they dare to tell outrageous lies.
This leads them to disregard the lives of ordinary people, giving rise to outlaws like Su Yanzhi who treat the law as nothing, and believe that laws meant to punish ordinary people are incapable of punishing those with superpowers.
The law enforcement agencies behind the scenes had no idea how many people Su Yanzhi and his group had killed.
If one day the curtain breaks and human laws extend to the world of superpowered individuals, Su Yanzhi, as a member of the main characters, cannot be punished by the writers. The most direct way to prevent him from being punished by law is to prevent the curtain from breaking in the first place.
This contradicts Jiang Xingni's purpose.
If the curtain had to be torn apart, Jiang Xingni already had an idea in mind.
In short, you have to follow the screenwriter's line of thought and go along with her ideas.
Pei Zhaoye explained the midterm exam mechanism to Jiang Xingni before he began to explain the question his teammate had asked: since it was a joint exam, how many schools were taking the midterm exam with them?
"All Things Academy"
As Pei Zhaoye spoke, he pulled up detailed information about the schools participating in the joint entrance examination.
Like Taixu Academy, Wanxiang Academy is a school in China that trains people with supernatural abilities.
The difference is that Taixu Academy has official backing, while Wanxiang Academy is merely an officially certified school.
Jiang Xingni pondered for a while and came to an answer—it's like the difference between universities directly under the Ministry of Education and public schools.
The strange occurrences detected are mostly assigned to students at Taixu Academy, except for those assigned to professional supernatural beings.
However, this does not mean that the students of Wanxiang Academy are less powerful than the students of Taixu Academy.
After all, not all of the strange and supernatural resources in the country are monopolized by the government. Although there is the Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena, there are also non-governmental organizations like VOID.
The advantage of the Academy of Myriad Phenomena lies in their particular skill in detecting strange signs.
Lacking officially assigned tasks, they had no choice but to search for traces of the monsters on their own.
"Huiming Academy"
The Academy of Obscurity has always been shrouded in mystery.
It is said that their academy is more adept at training support-type superhumans, deducing the possible traces of monsters, or eliminating them before they are even born. In a sense, this can be considered a form of "prevention before disease."
"Xie Yungui transferred from Huiming Academy."
"The description in words is still too weak," Pei Zhaoye said, pointing at Xie Yungui.
Xie Yungui, who was suddenly mentioned, was stunned for a moment, and then slowly nodded.
He searched through his memories in the endless cycle of reincarnation before he remembered that this incident did indeed happen.
"He's right."