My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1056 Worrying about gains and losses
Yun Zhongzi stepped forward and used his divine sense to investigate. Sure enough, he found the mechanism on the picture frame.

With a gentle flick of the switch, the picture frame opened, revealing a built-in safe hidden behind it.

After such a long investigation and countless hardships, Yun Zhongzi finally saw a glimmer of hope and couldn't help but feel secretly delighted. However, when he saw the fingerprint lock on the safe, the corners of his mouth that had just turned up fell back down.

For a deity, there should be no lock in the world that can stump him, but with Wen Rui triggering the rapid development of the times, many problems have emerged that even immortal magic cannot solve.

High-tech locks are one such example.

If this safe were to use a mechanical lock, Yun Zhongzi could simply tap his finger and it would open instantly under the remote control of his immortal power, no matter how complex the internal lock cylinder was.

However, electronic locks equipped with smart chips and controlled by computers are not something that can be easily cracked by lock-picking magic.

While Yun Zhongzi was lurking in the government affairs hall setting up his fortune-telling stall, he once tried to sneak into the archives room in the government affairs hall office building at night, attempting to steal some secret documents from the archives to see if those documents contained secrets about Wen Rui's conspiracy plan.

As a result, his supernatural powers and magic were taught a lesson by the anti-theft system of the government affairs hall. Not to mention the archives, even the access control to the internal office area left him helpless despite his best efforts.

Gravity sensors, laser grid corridors, 24/7 surveillance with no blind spots, and even a mystical energy detector...

Computer-controlled door locks, unless they pass facial recognition, fingerprint or iris scanning, can only be broken by force, even if the magic of telekinesis is used to its fullest extent.

If the electronic lock is subjected to abnormal external force, it will transmit an alarm to the guard room and the nearby police station via the network, and patrol personnel will arrive immediately.

Yun Zhongzi was stopped at the entrance of the office area by the police officers who arrived. If he hadn't lied and said that he had taken the wrong way to find the restroom and that he had a temporary job in the government affairs hall, he would have barely managed to get away with it. He was only given a verbal warning and then released.

Of course, this is also because the municipal government office area in a third-tier city is not really of great importance in terms of confidentiality. Yun Zhongzi only triggered the electronic access control alarm and did not catch him stealing anything on the spot, so he was not arrested and interrogated.

Taking a deep breath, Yun Zhongzi hesitated whether he should use his divine power to try and crack the electronic lock on the safe.

This is a difficult choice, and if the wrong one is chosen, the consequences will be enormous.

After nearly being arrested for failing to pick the lock last time, Yun Zhongzi did a lot of research. It wasn't that he planned to sneak into the government affairs hall's office area a second time, but rather that he was unwilling to accept his failure and wanted to figure out why he had failed.

Yun Zhongzi is now a self-taught lock-picking expert, greatly improving his understanding of electronic locks. Although he still cannot crack the access control system in the government office area, he has figured out how the system works.

If this electronic lock is equipped with the same kind of mystical energy detector as that access control system, this attempt will inevitably trigger an alarm, just like last time.

The result of triggering the alarm was that he had no choice but to give up the opportunity to stay by Xiao Jie's side, flee to another city, find a girl who was suspected to be a demonic insect, gain her trust, and start over.

She stayed at someone's house, ate and drank their food, and even took a large sum of pocket money from them. In the end, while they were out at work earning money, she even stole their safe.

If the police arrest him, even if Xiao Jie chooses not to prosecute, Yun Zhongzi will lose face and will be too ashamed to face her again. He will have no choice but to cover his face and run away.

Using magical techniques would be detected by the detector; without them, given Yun Zhongzi's new level of electronic science knowledge, it would be impossible for him to hack into the safe and unlock it using purely scientific methods. It's like a gamble—the only hope is that the safe isn't the latest model and doesn't have a mystical energy detector installed.

If the wrong choice is made, the alarm will be triggered, and Yun Zhongzi will have to run away immediately. This friendship between people of different ages will then come to an abrupt end and be completely severed.

It was precisely because of this that Yun Zhongzi hesitated and was reluctant to make a hasty decision.

It wasn't that Yun Zhongzi had developed any special feelings for the little demon insect girl, but he felt that parting forever in this way would be a devastating blow to her soul, which would violate Yun Zhongzi's principle of compassion for all living beings and cross his moral bottom line.

Compared to Wen Rui, Yun Zhongzi's moral standards are on a completely different level, and the difference in their personal qualities is quite obvious.

Confucianism had not yet flourished in this era, and the concept of a gentleman had not yet been formed, but Yun Zhongzi's character had already reached the standard of an ancient gentleman.

He wasn't some immortal who had lost his humanity; otherwise, he wouldn't have disregarded the overall situation of the Chan Sect and tried to subdue Daji in advance, nipping a catastrophe in the bud and preventing the Shang-Zhou war from causing immense collateral damage to ordinary people.

Apart from him, even Nuwa, the mother of humankind who instigated the plan to destroy the Shang dynasty, never cared whether the gods' battles would harm mortals, and had no compassion for the lives of all living beings.

After spending these past few days together, Yun Zhongzi was truly reluctant to part ways with Xiao Jie without saying goodbye.

Even immortals feel lonely at the top and have few friends they can truly confide in.

Yun Zhongzi's relationship with his fellow disciples was quite cold because his beliefs differed from those of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect.

Although that little demon was a mortal being with a cultivation level of only Foundation Establishment, the thoughts and knowledge contained within its small body were enough to make it equal to Yun Zhongzi, and even showed signs of surpassing him.

Conversing with her, Yun Zhongzi not only did not feel particularly brilliant, but he also gained something every time. Listening to her insights and remarks, Yun Zhongzi felt refreshed and enlightened.

This is a feeling that Yun Zhongzi has never experienced in the past century when communicating with people.

However, once the alarm is triggered, Xiao Jie, who went out to work full of anticipation, will find a group of police officers at her home when she returns. She will then be told that the old man she was keeping was insatiable and, after cheating her out of money and sex, was still not satisfied and tried to break into the safe and run off with all her assets.

What a blow this must be to a pure-hearted girl who has given her all!

In the future, they may all develop PTSD from being "bad boys," and dare not express their feelings to any man again, perhaps even ending up alone forever.

In this way, the sins committed by Yun Zhongzi are truly immense.

Because he had considered such consequences, even though the safe did indeed contain very important clues, Yun Zhongzi hesitated greatly and dared not rashly use his immortal techniques to break the lock.

(End of this chapter)