我是小鑽風 I Am Little Bore Wind
即把手摸摸，對老怪道：「我怎麼是孫行者？我是小鑽風，大王錯認了。」老魔笑道：「兄弟，他是小鑽風。他一日三次在面前點卯，我認得他。」即把手摸摸，对老怪道：「我怎么是孙行者？我是小钻风，大王错认了。」老魔笑道：「兄弟，他是小钻风。他一日三次在面前点卯，我认得他。」
逐句解 Line by line
He gave his face a rub and said to the old monster, "How am I Sun Wukong?
The hand to the face is the tell and the fix at once — he is checking whether the disguise slipped, and covering the check by making it look like a gesture of indignation.
I'm Little Bore-Wind. The Great King has got the wrong man."
Addressed to the first chief, not the third. He has already worked out which brother he can still persuade, and it is not the one who caught him.
The old fiend laughed. "Brother, he is Little Bore-Wind.
And it works. The chief laughs, which means the room's temperature has dropped, which is all Wukong needed.
He answers the roll in front of me three times a day. I know him."
點卯 is roll call, named for the 卯 hour, roughly five to seven in the morning, when an office opened and clerks answered to their names. The demons run a sign-in sheet. It is also the chief's undoing: he is not vouching for a face, he is vouching for a routine, and Wukong has the routine.
Wukong's counter is not magic, it is jurisdiction. He cannot beat the roc's reasoning, so he appeals over the roc's head to the brother with rank and a personal stake in having been right. It is the oldest move in any organisation.
And the chief's evidence is genuinely bad, in a way that would look familiar to anyone who has worked anywhere. He does not know the scout's face. He knows that somebody with that badge stands in that spot three times a day. The roll call was supposed to be the security check, and it has become the thing the impostor hides inside.