Chapter 181: Life and death, twin destruction

Behind Frank, all the security personnel who had been shattered by the Holy Spear bullets climbed up from the ground. Their injuries recovered to normal in an instant.

Watching this scene, Frank felt as if he were having a hallucination; this scene seemed to have happened once not long ago.

When? Where? Frank tried hard to recall, and the image gradually became clear. It was in a dilapidated teaching building; he was in a corridor, surrounded by enemies above, below, left, and right. The constantly surging enemies crowded the field of vision completely.

The surging Holy Spear bullets fired continuously, but the pitch-black monsters kept charging like a tide, and the barely constructed defense line was in jeopardy.

What's the situation? How did I escape? What's inside the mirror? Frank continued to recall, but Anxi was already anxious.

Just said one sentence, no need to be like a crashed machine!

Anxi cursed inwardly, looking at the monsters that continued to approach, falling into a dilemma.

If it had been a minute earlier, Anxi would have decisively sold Frank out; it was his own fault for courting death. But now, after Frank showed his ability, Anxi began to constantly weigh things in her heart.

Strange energy surged on the pitch-black monsters. These energies gathered at their hands, condensing into one hideous weapon after another.

No!

He has to live!

That guy doesn't even care about me!

Then he must live even more!

Anxi discovered that all the monsters' attention was on Frank, so she made up her mind and stuffed the whistle into her mouth.

Beep!

A sound much louder than the original swept across the entire Xi'an Academy, and the dormant rules were quickly awakened.

The sunflower disks in the large flower bed lifted up with a "swish," and quite a few sunflowers even walked out of the flower bed, blending into the night.

The sunflower badges on Anxi and Frank's chests lit up with yellow light. After being illuminated by this light, all the monsters around stopped.

Anxi held the small white dog and rushed directly toward Frank. On the way to the charge, the dog's mouth grew like a Venus flytrap, swallowing the monsters blocking the way in one gulp.

Slap slap!

Anxi gave Frank two hard slaps. "Are you stupid?! You!

Run!"

Frank came back to his senses in a daze. The two types of monsters around had already started fighting, but it was obvious that the sunflower side was at a clear disadvantage. Not only was their number small, but they were also relatively weak; it took two of them to barely fight one.

"Follow me when you're awake."

Anxi shouted and took the lead, charging blindly in one direction.

Frank moved his fingers, and the Holy Silver Dual Pistols traced a semicircle along his knuckles, starting to fire and clearing a path.

Breaking through all the way, Anxi took Frank to the third floor of the staff building and hid in a room.

"This is the data room; it should be relatively safe."

Anxi closed all the doors and windows and turned to look at Frank. "Are you an Outsider?"

"Outsider? What does that mean?"

Frank asked back.

"No need to pretend. I'm not an official person. Although they have invited me, I didn't join. I don't have any discrimination against you Outsiders."

Anxi sat beside Frank and said.

Frank tried hard to recall. "Sorry, I'm really not sure. My memory has problems. Two different ways of thinking make me unsure of what is real."

"Fine. Anyway, I've put all my cards on the table. Forcibly overdrawing the power of Xi'an Academy this time has completely broken the tilted balance between the two academies. Shi Ming won't just watch."

Anxi didn't know if her decision was correct for a moment.

"Shi Ming?"

"The original principal of Xi'an Academy. He used to be a pretty good person, but I don't know if he was corrupted by the rules or what. In short, he backstabbed me, took away the control of Rest Academy, and added rules, which led to me being unable to return to Rest Academy."

"My private seal and appointment contract are all in the principal's office of Rest Academy. Not being able to go back means I can't modify the rules. The only person in the whole school who can modify the rules now is him. Fortunately, the underlying rules were set long ago; otherwise, it would be even more chaotic here."

After Anxi put her cards on the table, she didn't intend to hide anything anymore.

"What exactly are the rules?"

Frank asked after being silent.

"In our world, any place, any person, or even a microorganism can give birth to strange rules, but at the same time, there must be a relative hidden path to life. There is no such thing as a dead end here."

Anxi continued, "The twin academies of Rest and Xi'an, one corresponding to the living and one corresponding to the dead souls, are very harmonious and friendly places, at least they used to be. 80% of the original rules here were used to protect students, and the rules added later were basically to prevent danger."

"Most importantly, there are almost no false conflict rules here. It can be said that as long as you strictly follow the rules, the possibility of graduating safely is extremely high. Of course, not necessarily now."

"Such a familiar feeling..."

Frank muttered, "Is there also a rule that as long as you graduate successfully, the graduate will possess twin entries and possess the characteristics of both life and death?"

Just as Frank finished speaking, the fangs of the small white dog were already aimed at his brain.

"Put your hands down!

Don't try to shoot!

Who exactly are you?"

Anxi stared fixedly at Frank. This most primitive rule was also the reason why this academy had been maintained until now.

More importantly, except for the leadership of the Anomalous Incident Handling Bureau, only their principal knew about this rule, and it would only be told to the next principal.

"I really don't know..."

Frank was confused too.

Anxi narrowed her eyes slightly, feeling that the scar on Frank's face was a bit wrong. She reached out and touched it, her fingers hooking onto the scar, pulling forward with force.

With the gushing of blood, this layer of skin was torn open bit by bit.

"Shi Ming."

Anxi looked at that new face, her whole person incredibly shocked.

"What?"

Shi Ming was a bit numb from the pain. "I am Shi Ming? Then who is Frank?"

"This... what exactly is going on..."

Anxi was dumbfounded. If Shi Ming had lost his memory, then who was controlling the school rules now, that Frank? Shi Ming looked down at the gun in his hand and looked up at Anxi. "Have you ever seen Shi Ming have this thing?"

"No... we don't use guns. That thing is useful against people, but ineffective against most strange tales."

Anxi didn't know whether to treat the person in front of her as Shi Ming or as Frank now.

"Then... the problem now is, who am I, and who is Frank?"

Shi Ming rolled up his sleeves, revealing his arms. "And who wrote this line of text?"

Anxi frowned. "It seems to be your handwriting. Try writing it again."

Shi Ming took out a piece of paper and looked at his arm to write it once.

"... Why is it in English?"

Anxi asked.

Shi Ming was stunned. He looked down and confirmed that indeed, looking at the words on his arm, what he wrote was a string of fluent English.

"If, I mean if, I am both Shi Ming and Frank?"

Shi Ming suddenly had a thought.

"What?"

"Because I am Shi Ming, I am very familiar with this place. I know every nook and cranny of the cafeteria, so I can easily find ways to leave and enter."

"Because I am Frank, I know reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, as well as how to use firearms, and that superhero title."

Anxi paused after listening. This seemed to make sense. "There is only one way to determine if this conjecture is correct."

"What way?"

"The principal's office. What's on the table is the principal's journal. If you are Shi Ming, you will definitely be able to open that journal. Maybe I can also know why you backstabbed me."

Anxi looked at Shi Ming and said.

"But I've tried, and I can't open it."

Shi Ming was even more confused.

"Nonsense, you didn't think you were Shi Ming at the beginning, so even if you were Shi Ming, you wouldn't be able to open the journal. Now that you think you are Shi Ming, it's different."

Anxi rolled her eyes at Shi Ming.

"Is it that idealistic?"

Shi Ming complained.

"Idealistic? What does that mean? This is common sense, right? Subjective and objective conflict seriously, how could it pass the permission verification?"

Anxi said.

"Uh..."

Shi Ming scratched his head. "Then when are we going to the principal's office?"

"Wait until daylight comes. Rest Academy will be much calmer during the day. However, because Xi'an Academy's power is severely overdrawn, this daytime might be very short. We can't sleep tonight; just wait for dawn."

Anxi lifted the curtain a little and looked at the dark night outside.

"Fine."

Shi Ming nodded. Currently, this was the only clue he could follow. ===== CHAPTER 182 =====