My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1048 Hard Mode
Having shaken off Venerable Kasyapa, Yun Zhongzi felt somewhat conflicted. From the perspective of a disciple of the Chan Sect, he was unsure whether his refusal to cooperate with the Western Sect was right or wrong.

Secretly capturing a female insect, suspected to be a transformed demonic mosquito, and then dissecting it after interrogation, would undoubtedly be the fastest way to find evidence of Wen Rui's collusion with the Blood Sea Demon Clan.

As for paying a price...

There was no cost whatsoever.

It's just the life of a monster; it's gone. Over the years, Yun Zhongzi has killed at least eight or ten thousand monsters, one more or one less.

If one is too soft-hearted for a moment, one might miss the opportunity to expose Wenrui, just as Venerable Kasyapa said. No matter what conspiracy he is hiding, it would take countless immortals and gods to sacrifice to stop him in the future.

But he couldn't be so decisive. After a month of living in this demonic city, his views had been subtly changed.

Only Western religious followers would be so shameless as to indiscriminately kill innocent people and then brazenly claim that sacrificing oneself for gods and Buddhas is a blessing earned by the victims.

Just like back then when they extensively arrested disciples of the Jie Sect, took them back and treated them as slaves and beasts, and claimed that this was to convert these wicked beasts, to show compassion, and to give the Jie Sect wicked beasts a chance to repent and achieve enlightenment.

Yun Zhongzi decided to use his own methods to find out the truth, even if it would take a lot of time and energy and require great patience. He would never let any innocent person suffer in vain and die in vain.

As he entered the neighborhood and joined the crowd, Yun Zhongzi found himself surrounded by many men hoping to find love, mostly humans, but also including many from other races.

These immigrant insect girls have a very broad preference for males, and they are equally blind to any type or race of male intelligent beings.

Even if it's a fat, clumsy pig demon that faintly smells bad, there will always be insect girls who are obsessed with smells and body shapes and find beauty in the eye of the beholder, and they will inexplicably develop a special liking for it.

Yun Zhongzi even spotted an old human man with white hair and beard in the crowd, leaning on a cane and staring intently at the young and beautiful insectoid female shop assistants on both sides of the commercial street, revealing his true nature as a lecherous old man.

However, this old lecher, whose neck was practically buried in the ground, approached a young girl who looked old enough to be his granddaughter and struck up a conversation with her. He received a warm response as well. Even though it was obvious to everyone that the old man was taking the opportunity to grope her, the girl was completely oblivious to his groping. She even let out innocent giggles when he tickled her.

The scene, resembling a crime scene, made Yun Zhongzi extremely uncomfortable. Unable to bear it any longer, he stepped forward and shouted, "Let go of that girl! You old man, how can you be so disrespectful? Doing such a filthy thing in public, aren't you afraid of damaging your karma? You don't have many years left to live. When you die and go to the underworld, aren't you afraid that Yama will settle accounts for your sins?"

The old man who blatantly harassed the shop assistant was reprimanded in public. The arm that was holding the insect girl shop assistant's wrist involuntarily withdrew, and he turned his head to look in the direction from which the shout came, his eyes meeting Yun Zhongzi's.

Upon seeing Yun Zhongzi's appearance, the old man, who had initially felt somewhat guilty, suddenly regained his confidence and angrily said, "How dare you talk to me like that? You should look in the mirror. You have more wrinkles on your face than I do, and you have a pointy mouth and monkey cheeks, looking rather sleazy. You don't even have my kind and gentle face!"

"You think you're so high and mighty? You're here to look at pretty girls too, aren't you? What gives you the right to talk about me like that?" The old man got more and more excited as he spoke, attracting the attention of passersby.

"Yes, I'm old and don't have many years left to live, but I'm not dead yet. As long as a person is alive, they have the right to pursue their dreams! When I was young, I also contributed my efforts and shed blood for the Demon Alliance. I dedicated my whole life to raising my children and grandchildren, teaching them to become successful and continue to contribute to the Demon Alliance, putting my own needs last."

As he spoke, the old man became aggrieved, his eyes reddening as he muttered, "My wife passed away last year. I'm so lonely and isolated that I've almost lost the meaning of life. Can't I even pursue the purest love one last time in my old age?"

Yun Zhongzi was speechless for a moment after being rebuked by the righteous old man. He never expected that the old man would be so confident for no reason, as if he was not wrong, but the worldly and vulgar perspective and the prejudice of the world were wrong.

"Don't say that. You look like you're only in your eighties. You're not that old."

The insectoid girl he had harassed was immediately overcome with sympathy. She embraced the weeping old man and softly comforted him, "Eighty years old is the perfect age for adventure. Isn't the Demon Alliance's longevity potion about to hit the market? You deserve a second spring..."

While comforting the old man, the insect-woman politely but slightly displeased said to Yun Zhongzi:
“Sir, please mind your own business. This old gentleman has known me for a long time and often comes to see me. I can actually feel his feelings for me. I... I also quite like this old gentleman's touch. If I feel uncomfortable, I will not let him get close. No one can force us New Insects to do anything we don't like.”

Passersby, drawn by the argument, began to whisper among themselves: "Another old man arguing over a girl? That sharp-tongued, ugly old man with the face of a thunder god must be jealous of Grandpa Zhao's good fortune. He's probably staging a hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress drama somewhere. Little does he know that Grandpa Zhao has been coming over every day with his cane to talk to her for over a year before he finally melted the ice in the girl's heart."

"Judging from his clothes, that old man looks like a tourist from the countryside. Could he be a member of the ethnic minority from the autonomous region?"

"That must be it. That's why they don't understand anything. The new insectoid race isn't too picky about appearance, but if they encounter someone they don't like, even if it's a handsome and celestial dragon prince, they won't give him a second glance. If he dares to lay a hand on them, the girl will immediately call the police to arrest him."

"When you're jealous, you start spouting morals and benevolence all the time. Aren't you a shameless old man yourself, coming here hoping for some romantic luck, and then you start criticizing others first? Do you really think it's so easy to marry a girl from the new insect race?"

……

They thought they were stopping old perverts from harassing young women, but instead they ended up disrupting their dating lives.

They are in love, what right does this demon have to ruin their relationship?

Yun Zhongzi's face immediately turned red, and he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into. He quickly covered his face and left.

Amidst the disdainful gazes of the crowd, Yun Zhongzi walked a distance before finally letting out a long sigh of relief. He increasingly felt that his chosen method of investigation was definitely a difficult one compared to Venerable Kasyapa's simple and brutal kidnapping, torture, and murder.

The local customs and culture are too complicated. Yun Zhongzi, who has only lived in the Demon Alliance city for a month, knows very little about it. How could he possibly find a girl who is willing to cooperate with him and extract clues about the demon insects from her in a non-violent way?
(End of this chapter)