The sage was determined to die.

"strangeness."

The girl seemed to suddenly remember something, looked at Ji Bai with a suspicious gaze, and said, "How do you know what 'professor' means?"

Ji Bai sighed.

That's why he didn't want to bring anyone else along; with those two people there, there were many things he simply couldn't say.

He replied ambiguously, "Your grades were very good before, weren't they?"

"certainly."

The girl's attention was quickly diverted by Ji Bai's words. Her clear black and white eyes narrowed slightly, and she looked like a clever cat, unable to contain her pride as she said, "When I was in college, my GPA was..."

She had only spoken halfway when she suddenly stopped speaking, like a record player that had jammed. Her eyes, as if the lights had been turned off, became dull and lifeless.

Just as Ji Bai was puzzled, she suddenly squatted down, picked up a stone at her feet, and tapped it on her forehead twice. The stone, covered with formulas, shattered into pieces, and she then stood up unsteadily.

"I'm sorry." The girl's tone calmed down, and her expression became polite but cold. "I had another episode."

Ji Bai pursed his lips.

If he wasn't mistaken, the rules of the Book Mountain should be coming.

No longer mentioning her dream of becoming a professor, the examiner kicked aside a pebble in the road, rubbing her forehead as she moved away from the three of them. Her voice wasn't loud, but it was completely different from when she first appeared: "The three of you think you can win Wenxin's heart?"

She turned her head, her gaze vacant as she looked at the three of them, and spoke as if it were a pre-programmed script: "So, what level of literary talent test do you wish to undergo?"

Wang Zhixuan glanced at Ji Bai and replied, "Naturally, it's top-grade."

"Yeah, there are still so many people who overestimate their abilities."

Without asking the other two, the girl nodded to herself and muttered, "Do you know Schrödinger's cat?"

Before the three could speak, she quickly answered her own question: "Forget it, how would you idiots know?"

"My rules are very simple."

The girl walked around, picked up a pitch-black box from the ground, and smiled in a chilling way: "There's nothing special in this box. If you can survive in this box for a certain amount of time, you can obtain Wenxin?"

"How is it?" she asked herself again, "Pretty good deal, right?"

"How can a person fit inside a box?"

After Wang Zhixuan instinctively spoke, he suddenly remembered that this was a mountain of books, and quickly tried to salvage the situation, saying, "Isn't the competition between the three of us to see who can stay inside the longest? The other two have literary talent, and I have no chance of winning."

As a member of a collateral branch of the Wang family, he was certainly not a fool.

The girl glared at him, making no attempt to hide her sarcasm: "You want everything without giving anything in return?"

Ji Ying spoke up at the right moment: "I already have a Wenxin. I've come here again to find a Wenxin that can heal my wounds."

The girl slowly looked at him, stared at his mask for a while, and then said, "I think I've seen you before, but I only know physics here. Shouldn't I go to a medical school to heal my wounds?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, she tapped her head with the box in her hand and muttered, "Why am I talking nonsense again?"

"You can keep trying, what if it works?"

After hitting her head, the girl reverted to her previous demeanor, turned her eyes to Ji Bai, tilted her head, and asked, "And you? What do you want?"