My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1055 Getting Closer to the Truth
Yun Zhongzi possesses numerous magical treasures, the five of which are of higher quality: the Golden Cudgel, the Demon-Revealing Mirror, the Water and Fire Flower Basket, the Heaven-Reaching Divine Fire Pillar, and the Withered Pine Giant Sword.

With the Demon-Revealing Mirror as his magic weapon, Yun Zhongzi is second to none in distinguishing the types of demons. Even the professor of demon taxonomy at Free City University would have to think twice before claiming to be number one.

Despite his experience in slaying countless demons, and combined with the Demon-Revealing Mirror—a magical artifact for identifying demon species—he still couldn't uncover Xiao Jie's true form. Yun Zhongzi became increasingly convinced of Venerable Kasyapa's theory of demonic insect transformation.

The demon-revealing mirror couldn't detect it because Xiao Jie wasn't a demon transformed into a human, but was born with a human-shaped demon body.

Despite making this judgment, Yun Zhongzi still lacks conclusive evidence and cannot draw a conclusion yet.

If this female demon is essentially a female demon, the most illogical thing is that she doesn't have any demonic energy on her.

Even the demon immortals of the Jie Sect, who followed the Tongtian Sect Master to cultivate the orthodox Xuanmen methods and developed authentic immortal energy, would still carry a trace of original demonic energy and could never escape the racial imprint that the Heavenly Dao had etched on them.

However, there wasn't a single trace of demonic energy on Xiao Jie's body, which ironically proved that she wasn't a demon.

If she's not a demon, and not a monster, then what is she?
Are they strange-looking humans?
Everything contradicted Yun Zhongzi's accumulated common sense and experience over thousands of years, making him feel that there must be something fishy about this matter, which strengthened his determination to continue investigating.

The demon-revealing mirror failed to be appraised, his experience in close contact was useless, and his divine sense failed to detect any demonic energy. Having exhausted almost all his mystical methods, Yun Zhongzi had no choice but to resort to the investigative skills of a mortal constable and criminal investigator to continue his investigation.

Yun Zhongzi once casually inquired about Xiao Jie's species, but unfortunately, Xiao Jie answered all his questions without reservation, except for that one.

Even if it's a trade secret of the large company she currently works for, worth billions of meat coins, Yun Zhongzi can ask her anything, and she'll tell him.

When asked about her race, she insisted that she was an insectoid, a human formed from mayflies.

As she spoke, her eyes flickered and her face was full of guilt. It was obvious that she was lying and was very unwilling to lie to the man she truly loved, but she had no choice but to keep a very important secret.

As for whether her claim of mayfly transformation was a lie, Yun Zhongzi didn't need to think about it too much, because the lie was so poorly told.

As the saying goes, "born in the morning and dying at dusk," and there is also the saying "a mayfly is but a fleeting moment, a drop in the ocean." Cultivators often use the mayfly as an example to describe the short lifespan of living beings.

Anything in the Three Realms has the opportunity to transform into a demon. Even a broken umbrella, a broken broom, or a broken teapot, if it is old enough and has absorbed the essence of the sun and moon, has the chance to develop intelligence and transform into a demon.

Yun Zhongzi knew that in a world called Yingzhou Little Thousand World, there were many strange and wonderful monsters, such as the Umbrella Demon Monk, the Broom Demon God, and the Teapot Demon Monk.

Mayflies are known for their short lifespan, living only half a day and dying in the morning. They can't even survive until nightfall to absorb moonlight, so how could they possibly transform into a small insect, which is close to the highest level of transformation?
However, judging from its appearance alone, the little worm does indeed have some remaining traces of incomplete metamorphosis, making it somewhat similar to a mayfly.

In the eyes of the ancients, although mayflies have short lifespans, the moment they transform and take flight is magnificent and splendid.

Mayflies have light wings and soft, delicate bodies; they are fragile yet beautiful.

If it weren't for Yun Zhongzi's extensive knowledge, judging solely from Xiao Jie's light, soft, and easily pushed-over appearance, he would have truly been fooled. Xiao Jie refused to speak, and Yun Zhongzi was unwilling to force her. After spending a few days with her, he had come to regard Xiao Jie as a true friend and was unwilling to harm her under any circumstances.

Unable to get answers from her, they could only search around on their own, hoping to find some documents from Xiao Jie's home that proved her origins.

During his month-long stint setting up a stall at the New Binhai City Government Affairs Hall, Yun Zhongzi did not come away empty-handed. At least through quiet observation, he gained a general understanding of how the Demon Alliance society operated.

Citizens of the Demon Alliance must obtain numerous certificates throughout their lives; their birth, education, medical treatment, marriage, employment, and death are all recorded and documented.

The government of the Demon Alliance possesses detailed personal information on every citizen, which allows for more refined management and better meets the needs of each citizen.

Xiao Jie is clearly a formal citizen of the Demon Alliance, so she must have kept many important documents, such as her birth certificate, household registration book, ID card, and graduation certificate. Once these documents are found, one of them, such as her birth certificate, will record her true race.

Alternatively, one could find Xiao Jie's medical records from the Demon Alliance Hospital, and also find a lot of her physiological information from the medical records, such as her blood type, heart rate, etc.

Her medical records are also most likely to record her true ethnicity, otherwise doctors would not be able to make an accurate diagnosis and treatment.

Yun Zhongzi had some understanding of the Demon Alliance's highly developed medical system of wounded healers. This system was completely different from the cultivator's alchemy system. It was not a single pill that could cure all diseases, but rather it made the most precise analysis of specific lesions and formulated a treatment plan based on the patient's specific symptoms and lesions.

In this way, the patient's racial information is very important for doctors' diagnosis. For example, some demons are born with a body temperature of 60 or 70 degrees Celsius and a heart rate of 200 or 300. If such physical characteristics appear in a human, then treatment can basically be abandoned.

Yun Zhongzi's deep understanding of the Demon Alliance's medical system stemmed from his consideration of opening a small clinic instead of a fortune-telling stall to earn rent. This led him to conduct a small investigation into the Demon Alliance's medical industry.

The investigation revealed that the Demon Alliance has a highly developed medical system and implements universal health insurance as a social welfare system. Citizens of the Demon Alliance can obtain basic medical care by paying only a small amount of money each month, so they do not have much need for miracle doctors or elixirs.

Of course, the Demon Alliance also allows the opening of small clinics, but practicing medicine requires passing a qualification exam, and selling medicine requires clinical trial reports and applying for a drug sales license.

Even if Yun Zhongzi is a celestial-level alchemist, he still has to take the traditional medical practitioner qualification exam. He cannot demonstrate his alchemy skills to bring people back to life and then be allowed to practice medicine without a license.

Furthermore, Yun Zhongzi had nowhere to gather the spiritual herbs and immortal herbs needed for alchemy. Nowadays, most of the mountains and forests in the mortal realm have been contracted out to forestry enterprises, and spiritual herbs and immortal herbs have begun to be scientifically formulated and planted.

That's when he gave up the idea of ​​making money by practicing medicine and could only open a fortune-telling stall that no one believed in.

After searching through Xiao Jie's bedroom, including the bookshelves and drawers, Yun Zhongzi found a lot of company documents, but couldn't find Xiao Jie's personal files.

Once again risking being monitored by Skynet, Yun Zhongzi spread his divine sense, his powerful mental energy sweeping across the room, covering every crevice without blind spots. Under this intensity of detection, like a high-powered radar scan, nothing could be hidden.

Sure enough, the divine sense locked onto a decorative painting on the wall, and in the vision of the divine eye, there was a hidden compartment behind the painting.

(End of this chapter)