My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1001 The Nature of the Demon Race

After careful recollection, Yun Zhongzi realized that it was indeed true.

In the Lion Camel Ridge, a demon kingdom that has devoured countless people, the majority of the monsters are starving.

The three great demon kings would eat hundreds of people every day, while the lesser demon kings below would be lucky to get an arm or a leg.

As for the tens of thousands of lesser demons, licking the splattered blood and gnawing on a couple of discarded bones was considered a full meal.

The demons, who did not engage in production, plundered the cattle and sheep raised by humans, but there was simply not enough to eat, which led them to plunder humans themselves to eat.

“Immortal, I am not an expert or scholar, but I did graduate from junior high school in my lifetime, and after death I studied many books on politics and economics.”

The green-clad youth spoke eloquently: "With the production capacity of regions outside the Demon Alliance, the amount of grain produced is not even enough to feed the people, and it simply cannot support a large-scale cattle and sheep breeding industry. Even in the Xiniu Hezhou grassland and Gobi region, where grazing is the main practice, the natural carrying capacity is also severely insufficient."

"Blood is a basic necessity for the demon race. When the supply of meat cannot be guaranteed, preying on human flesh is an inevitable result. This has nothing to do with good or evil, because they must survive. They eat in order to survive, regardless of good or evil, it is a cold and hard law of nature."

Yun Zhongzi frowned and said, “Hunger is instinct, but how to deal with hunger is the choice of intelligent beings. When people encounter famine, would they exchange their own children to eat? Even in the most desperate times, the wise know that ‘eating one’s own kind is a crime punishable by heaven and earth.’ This is the dividing line between humans and beasts: use reason to suppress instinct and use benevolence to control selfish desires.”

"As expected of an immortal, your insight is indeed profound."

The boy was refuted to his face, but instead of being angry, he was pleased and laughed, "This is exactly how the Creator God taught the demon race, but he didn't just talk about 'benevolence and reason,' because benevolence and reason can't be eaten."

The boy said with admiration, "He taught the demon race how to make a living, to obtain the blood and food necessary for survival through labor. Humans and demons joined hands to farm and raise livestock, producing an abundance of food. The demon race had no reason to eat people anymore, and naturally abandoned this bad habit that had lasted for tens of thousands of years."

At this point, he asked in bewilderment, "Immortal, after all these years, why can't you high and mighty gods think of this and help the demon race solve this problem? Instead, you just accuse them of being evil for eating people. If you had taken action earlier and helped the demon race learn to raise cattle and sheep and create their own food, wouldn't many humans have been spared from being eaten by demons? That would have been equivalent to saving countless lives."

"Uh……"

Yun Zhongzi was stumped by his question and couldn't answer it.

Since ancient times, the immortals of the Chan Sect have believed that beings "with fur and horns, born from eggs and moisture" are inherently evil and should not exist in the world. These monsters' cannibalistic and evil deeds have continuously confirmed this concept.

One important reason for killing monsters is that they eat people. Monsters that eat people "disrupt the way of heaven" and "go against the natural order," so they deserve to be killed.

Therefore, no immortal from the Chan Sect would ever stand in the shoes of a demon, put themselves in the demon's shoes, or think of their needs; they would simply kill them one by one.

As a result, after tens of thousands of years of killing, they still couldn't wipe them all out. Instead, the immortals of the Chan Sect accumulated boundless karma of killing, which led to the great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods.

Yun Zhongzi had also slain countless demons. While killing them, he felt no guilt whatsoever, believing that humans were the most intelligent of all beings, and that eliminating demons to protect them was a righteous act, so he never hesitated. But the young man pointed out a crucial issue: if the demons' food supply could be resolved, and they stopped eating humans, wouldn't that also protect humanity from demonic harm?

Demons create karma by eating humans, and killing demons also creates karma. Slaying demons and eliminating evil has not reduced the evil karma in the world, but rather doubled it. The number of humans saved may not even be as many as the number of humans who have been eaten by the demons who have escaped the net over the years.

A busy undertaking that lasted for tens of thousands or even thousands of years, in the end, when the accounts were settled, the gains from good deeds and the losses from bad deeds canceled each other out, resulting in a net loss.

Is the idea of ​​slaying demons and monsters fundamentally flawed?
This shook Yun Zhongzi's moral foundation as a Chan Sect immortal. He began to doubt his own righteous nature, and his once rock-solid Dao heart began to waver slightly.

"In the Demon Alliance, cannibalism is a serious crime, and once verified, it will be punished with the death penalty."

The young man calmly stated, "Statistically speaking, there hasn't been a single case of cannibalism in the Demon Alliance for over thirty years. Demons who can't get meat, even if they commit crimes, will only choose the less serious crime of theft. They can easily solve their meal by stealing some meat coins, so why would they risk their lives to prey on humans?"

"Although I am a god of human origin, I have lived and studied with the demon race since I was a child and have made many demon friends."

The boy looked nostalgic and said, "The more I interacted with the demon race, the better my impression of them became. They are simpler than humans, and more resilient and hardworking. Although they can be stubborn at times, they are not unreasonable."

"After becoming a specialist in urban livelihood and rule of law, I have a better understanding of the temperament of the demon race from a macro perspective. Many employers in the city prefer to hire demon employees even more than human employees because demons are obedient, hardworking, diligent and honest, and can often tolerate lower pay."

"In contrast, human employees make many unreasonable demands and like to cheat and shirk their duties. As a result, the employment rate of demons is often much higher than that of humans. Instead of repenting, unemployed humans like to think of crooked ways, which greatly increases the crime rate in cities."

This boy was born during the time when Wen Rui was implementing the Dandelion Project. He was among the first batch of human students to attend school with the demon children. He was a new generation of the Demon Alliance and did not have the prejudice and fear of the demon race that the older generation had.

From the perspective of the city's guardian deity, during the initial years when a large number of immigrant demons poured in, the foreign demon races did indeed cause a lot of trouble for the city's security.

However, after many years of resettlement work for the demons, some of the demons' natural strengths have gradually emerged, and they have shown many qualities that are even better than those of humans.

For example, they are hardworking and don't have high salary expectations.

Many demon kings exhibit ferocious, cunning, and vicious evil characteristics, but only one demon king appears in a large area, and more than 99% of the demons in the demon's lair are just a bunch of small demons.

These lesser demons are the true nature of the demon race. Even if the lesser demons can't even get a sip of soup while following the demon king, they still obediently follow orders and patrol the mountain year after year, day after day.

Human employers who hired demons were initially worried about the demons' unruly nature. However, under the community government's policy of immigrating demons, they were forced to hire demon employees in proportion to their workforce, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise.

These monster employees are practically born to work hard; they're far better than those human employees who don't do their jobs very well but are always thinking about taking advantage and getting a raise.

(End of this chapter)