This body had become extremely stiff. In just a few minutes, it was as difficult to move as if it had fallen into an ice cave and been frozen there for years.
Ji Li could not help feeling as though this had never been his body to begin with.
His mind also began to grow cluttered and chaotic.
Without those messy hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, noisy shouting and urging now flooded in instead.
"You're back."
"Ji Li, you finally came."
"No! You aren't Ji Li, you are... you are!"
Ji Li could not make out a single word. They were like lice and vermin parasitizing this body; no matter how loudly they screamed, only faint sounds reached him.
When the head standing in place opened its eyes, hardly any black and red remained. Vast swaths of gray, like accumulated clouds, were about to swallow the entire pupils.
Even his original clarity was about to collapse under these circumstances.
This was not Ji Li's first time fighting someone for control of the Main Personality, but he had not expected it to be Ruru this time—a Origin Great Ghost with deep ties to him, yet also part of the Manager Mission.
Almost as soon as he reconnected with his body, countless images that should not have existed appeared in Ji Li's mind out of nowhere.
"It entered its brain, it got in! It's inside its brain!!!"
Su Chenghe's strange cry was as crazed as ever, but it contained a trace of rational information.
The first "it" referred to the Black Matter; the latter "it" referred to Ruru.
He did not need Su Chenghe to tell him. The images in Ji Li's mind showed precisely that scene, even more clearly than Su Chenghe's words had.
He seemed to see a boundless, eternal land