The sage was determined to die.

"but."

Ji Bai suddenly glanced at her and said, "Do you really want her to come out again?"

"Um?"

The girl gave him a strange look, and asked in confusion, "Is this something I can actually control?"

Ji Bai stared at her without blinking, then suddenly pursed his lips and said seriously, "Don't you feel like there's anything wrong with your body?"

The girl shook her head.

Ji Bai brushed a strand of her hair aside and suddenly said, "No, you have. I didn't want to say it... but don't you think you've changed a lot?"

The girl let out a blank "Ah".

Ji Bai snatched the stone from her hand, pointed to the formulas on it, shook her shoulder, and said, "Look at what you wrote, trigonometric functions? Is this your field of study?"

Ji Bai wanted to say that you're almost a middle school student, but after thinking about it, he didn't say anything.

The girl lowered her head, her gaze shifting to the stone. She then reached out and slapped the stone out of Ji Bai's hand, looked up at him, her eyes somewhat dazed.

"...Have I become a middle school student?" she asked.

"I suspect that your alternate personality will harm you."

Ji Bai reached out and shook her shoulder, saying seriously, "To use a middle school analogy, if you and she were having a tug-of-war with this body, wouldn't she take over this body when you regress to a certain point?"

"I have no idea."

The girl blinked, her eyes clear: "What did she say to you?"

"I don't care about her."

Ji Bai initially intended to leave on his own, but then changed his mind and suddenly said, "Why don't you come with me while you're still sober?"

"Oh, in that case, what about your undercover plan?"

The girl said somewhat embarrassedly, "It was already difficult enough for you to pretend."

"Idiot," Ji Bai said, "You could follow me, or even kidnap me if necessary."

"If your personality switched."

Ji Bai's voice deepened, and he suddenly said, "I'll know immediately too."

Perhaps because writing about junior high school knowledge was really boring, she thought about it and agreed.

"I had originally agreed to cooperate with you."

She rubbed her face, put on a fierce expression that wasn't particularly intimidating, and said, "Then I'll follow you."

Ji Bai nodded and thought to himself, "Plan works."

……

The tailing plan collapsed before it even began.

"How about I follow you when there are other people around?"

The two were initially quite far apart, but after seeing the mountain of corpses, she quickly and silently closed the distance between them.

The stench of decaying corpses wafted through the air. The girl covered her mouth, her eyes darting around, a look of bewilderment on her face.

She leaned against Ji Bai, surprised, and asked, "Aren't you scared?"

"I'm scared," Ji Bai said dismissively. "These corpses all have faces just like mine. You have really strange tastes."

"No two faces are the same."

The girl glanced furtively at the corpses, squinted, and muttered softly, "They're all different."

Ji Bai suddenly turned around and looked at her: "What's different?"

The girl swallowed and said, "Face, all faces are different."

"However, I am indeed very incompetent."

Thinking about her dereliction of duty, her face flushed slightly, and she said somewhat awkwardly, "This does seem to be the area I'm responsible for, but I really haven't been here."

Ji Bai's mind was still immersed in her words, "Their faces are all different."

He suddenly grabbed her arm and said, "Can you find my face in there?"