The sage was determined to die.

"Right?" Ji Bai looked at Chu Ze and uttered two more words. "Is that so?"

Chu Ze looked at him with some surprise. His instincts told him that Ji Bai was somewhat similar to him, yet fundamentally different.

Like two kernels that look similar, but will produce completely different fruits.

The two did not continue the discussion on this issue. Ji Bai looked down at his hands, which were clearly defined, with well-defined muscles, pleasing to the eye and clean.

He couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

What's clean?

……

After parting ways with the Chu brothers and shaking off his clumsy tail, Ji Bai found a place to hide and soon gave the signal.

The girl followed her very well; as an examiner, she had certain privileges, and she didn't let anyone else notice her presence.

The two men were acting suspiciously, like spies exchanging information.

The girl covered half her face and gave Ji Bai a thumbs up: "They really didn't notice you!"

Ji Bai nodded, his words brimming with confidence: "Of course."

"They're pretty stupid."

The girl reached out and poked Ji Bai, somewhat puzzled, "Your acting is so bad, how could they fall for it?"

Where was my acting bad?

Ji Bai sighed and said to her, "Actually, they don't care about the truth; they only care about whether I'm useful or not."

The girl nodded as if she understood: "Just like I don't care who the second author of a paper is, as long as they can help me."

"...Yes." Ji Bai glanced at her, then changed the subject, "Can you still sense the presence of those two people?"

The girl naturally knew who he was talking about.

She closed her eyes, then slowly opened them after a while, shaking her head in distress: "It seems like their signal is being blocked."

Ji Bai sighed deeply and said to her, "It seems that you've gained even deeper control over your second personality."

The girl opened her mouth, but didn't say anything.

She thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know what use those two people are to her."

Several rings vaguely appeared in Ji Bai's mind, but the rings were not completely interlocked, and the connecting links seemed to be trying to escape.

Ji Bai suddenly asked, "Have you ever set fires?"

The girl looked at him, puzzled: "What fire? I know how to use a lighter."

He paused, then added, "I also know how to use the gas stove."

Ji Bai shook his head, as if some fuse had been lit in his eyes, and flames quickly ignited.

He said, "I always felt that someone was plotting to burn us alive."

"Why burn them to death?" The girl wasn't afraid; she just asked that.

"Just an example," he chuckled, "Isn't there a saying that a fire will destroy everything?"

Is there such a saying?

The girl recalled it in her mind.

Ji Bai had no desire to ask any further questions. He tapped his fingers rhythmically as he looked at the seemingly innocent and harmless person in front of him.

"What if someone wants to burn us alive?"

Ji Bai said, "Do you dare to strike first and set the fire?"

The girl frowned slightly, but this person had been speaking in riddles for quite some time, and she was somewhat used to his way of speaking.

"I don't know," she said, "but self-defense should be fine."

Hearing such innocent words, Ji Bai couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and said, "With your kind of thinking, even if you become an associate professor, it'll be hard for you to get a full professorship, right?"

The girl slapped his arm with a "smack".