Yin Ge willed it, and the Sage's power instantly concentrated around her wrist.
She took a deep breath. The bracelet on her wrist flickered in and out of sight as countless tiny blue particles gathered together, shining toward the soldier like a flashlight beam.
The instant the soldier's entire body was enveloped by the Sage, his pupils contracted before his personhood directly dispersed.
Fear vanished from his eyes, replaced by dullness and numbness.
At the same time, a scarlet mass resembling dense fog drifted out.
Its color was exactly the same as Yin Ge's pupils when she used the Observation Persona!
She immediately realized that this was the personhood!
Looking closer, the dense fog was actually writhing and struggling, as though trying to escape.
But it was all in vain!
The Sage wrapped around the fog and swiftly retracted into the bracelet.
The bracelet gradually turned transparent until it could no longer be seen.
Yin Ge instinctively gripped her wrist. There was nothing there.
The Sage's power in her mind had vanished as well.
She knew she had succeeded!
The personhood inside the soldier's body had been successfully bound by the Sage!
The Sage was incredibly powerful, and it required both points and money to exchange for.
Yin Ge had originally wanted to directly identify the Beasthood. That would end the game while saving the Sage for when she truly needed it.
But on the way to the mall, Qin Li had repeatedly told her that if she could use the Sage to bind a personhood, she should do so rather than identify it.
Because the Neutrino Persona Order Center needed those bound personhoods for experiments and analysis to find a solution to the Son of Heaven Game.
Although identifying a Beasthood could also end the game, special circumstances could arise.
For example, people like Yin Ge, who accidentally obtained personhoods and brought them into reality, posed major risks themselves.
Obtaining a personhood did not mean one could resist its erosion or control it.
After all, people like Yin Ge, who could control their emotions and did not depend on personhoods, were few.
That was also why personhoods had spread on a massive scale while White Nighters remained scarce.
Most people who obtained personhoods either could not control their emotions or became heavily dependent on their powerful abilities and used them frequently.
Both behaviors could cause a person to be directly consumed by their personhood in a short time, triggering a new Son of Heaven Game. They were extremely unstable.
If scientists and researchers were simply allowed to observe and analyze these people's bodies—
What if a new Son of Heaven Game erupted halfway through the observation? Wouldn't all the scientists and researchers be caught up in it?
Of course, unstable people like this could also be gathered together and confined in uninhabited skies or beneath the sea.
That would prevent personhood transfer to a certain extent.
But even if they could lock up one person, a hundred people, or ten thousand people, they could not keep up with the rate at which a new batch of personhood carriers appeared every five seconds. It could not solve the problem at its root.
That was why the Neutrino Persona Order Center used the Sage to bind personhoods, keeping them under control as much as possible.
This could both eliminate the possibility of personhood transfer and solve the problem at its source, while also making observation easier for scientists.
That was why Yin Ge had used the Sage.
After the brief joy passed, Yin Ge looked at the soldier standing there blankly, and an indescribable ache and bitterness welled up in her heart.
Qin Li had previously said that once a Beasthood was bound, its bearer would die at eight that night, ending the game.
During that time, the Beasthood bearer would become a walking corpse until night fell.
It was truly cruel.
Yin Ge sighed and could not bear to look at the soldier's profile any longer.
"Fuck, are you sick in the head?"
A furious curse suddenly rang out, drawing Yin Ge's attention. She stepped out from the group's blind spot.
The "soldier" also walked out with vacant eyes and began wandering aimlessly like a robot.
Looking over, she saw the School Bully cursing at the School Beauty. "Are you addicted to playing princess? Everyone else is looking for clues, so why are you the only one resting off to the side?"
"I think you're the Beasthood, aren't you?!"
"No, I'm not." Tears shimmered in the School Beauty's eyes, making her look incredibly fragile.
Seeing this, the sports committee member seemed unable to bear it. He stepped forward and shielded the School Beauty behind him.
"Try to be considerate toward girls. It's fine if she rests for a while when she's tired. There aren't any clues here."
"Heh." The School Bully sneered. "Of course there aren't if you don't look."
"What, you're proud of not looking for clues now? Are you so used to being a simp that you're still licking her boots at a time like this?"
"Why do you have to talk so horribly?" The School Beauty hid behind the sports committee member, looking as though she were about to cry.
The sports committee member's face had turned red from holding himself back. He was clearly angry too. "Yeah, that was way too harsh."
"Harsh? Heh, hahaha." The School Bully looked as though he had been angered into laughter. "I haven't even said the harsher things yet."
"If you want to flirt, can you go somewhere else? I just want to find clues and get out of this hellhole!"
"Exactly. Who doesn't want to get out?" The Head Teacher, delighted to watch the drama unfold, added fuel to the fire.
"Well said! Why should people who don't do any work expect anyone to treat them nicely?!"
The Grade-Level Head, one of the soldiers, frowned and looked at the Head Teacher. "Stop talking. Arguing does us no good right now. Don't fight among yourselves. We'll definitely end the game and get out."
The Head Teacher pursed her lips. "I wasn't the one stirring things up. That woman was obviously the one being unreasonable. We're all women, so why am I the only one constantly looking for clues while she gets to rest?"
"What, do you want to play the hero and save the beauty too?"
The Grade-Level Head's face darkened, but he held back and said nothing more.
Seeing that, the Head Teacher grew even more arrogant. "Hmph, a bunch of people who only care about looks. You all practically want to cling to that woman. Disgusting."
"Exactly." The School Bully chimed in disdainfully.
The Grade-Level Head could not take it anymore and looked at the Head Teacher. "That was too much."
Seeing the conflict between them about to escalate, the other soldier, who had become the Principal in this scenario, immediately stepped between them to mediate.
"What's the point of arguing like this? Do you all still want to end the game or not?"
At those words, everyone fell silent.
Yin Ge stood off to one side without saying anything.
At a time like this, saying too much would only draw attention and make it easy to offend people.
Besides, the Beasthood had already been bound, and the game was about to end. It was enough to just listen to this meaningless argument.
At that thought, the face of the sacrificed soldier flashed through her mind, weighing heavily on her heart.
She looked up at the clock.
It was seven fifty. Soon. It would be over soon... Yin Ge thought.
Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
When the hour hand pointed to "8," Yin Ge's gaze fixed on the soldier who had lost his personhood.
It was finally over... Just as Yin Ge was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a familiar wave of drowsiness suddenly surged through her, instantly putting her on guard.
What was going on?
Hadn't Qin Li said that once it was eight, the soldier would die and the game would end without entering Godhead Time?
Then what was this drowsiness?
Didn't sleepiness only come when they were about to enter Godhead Time?
Before she could think further, Yin Ge could no longer resist the drowsiness and completely lost consciousness...
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