My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1058 The Truth Gradually Unveiled
Next to the graduation photo are Xiao Jie's graduation certificates. There are three certificates in total, one for elementary school, one for junior high school, and one for senior high school.

While chatting with Xiao Jie, Yun Zhongzi learned that she already had two master's degrees in law and accounting, but in the most important compartment, she only kept her high school diploma.

Yun Zhongzi immediately deduced that the Secret Realm Teaching Support Program only supported education from primary to high school.

Upon careful examination of the three graduation certificates, it was confirmed that the signatory was indeed the same person—Zhao Mingcheng.

Almost without any deduction, Yun Zhongzi matched the name with the unremarkable man in the photo.

Continuing the search of the safe, they soon found the university graduation certificate and master's degree certificate stored in another compartment, as well as various professional certificates that Xiao Jie had mentioned, which were said to be very difficult to obtain.

According to his graduation certificate, Xiao Jie obtained his undergraduate and master's degrees from Liberty City University, Kim Ao Island Campus.

Aside from these certificates, the safe contained only some useless items such as jewelry, bank cards, and cash; there were no other documents that could provide any clues.

There was no birth certificate, medical records, medical examination reports, or other documents.

Besides this safe, Yun Zhongzi has searched every corner of the room over the past few days, and the safe only contained a few graduation certificates.

Does this mean the trail has gone cold?
Yun Zhongzi pondered quietly, then picked up the first photo he had discovered and stared at it intently.

As his gaze swept over the four words "Teaching in a Secret Realm" printed at the top of the photo, a flash of inspiration struck Yun Zhongzi.

Secret realm?

Teaching in rural areas?

The place where these insectoid girls are educated is in a secret realm!

In other words, the homeland of these insectoid girls whose origins are unknown is not in an ordinary location on the surface of the mortal world, but is hidden in a secret realm.

Therefore, the "Demon Alliance" that Wen Rui built up sent teachers there to provide enlightenment education to these so-called new insect people, teaching them until they graduated from high school.

Looking at the photo more closely, this time Yun Zhongzi's attention was not on the people in the photo, but on the background.

The background is a very standard modern teaching building, similar in architectural design to any middle school in the new Binhai City.

It is worth noting that the mountain forest background behind the teaching building and the students lined up to take photos in front of the teaching building mostly obscured the view, with only a small corner of the flower bed visible.

If you look closely, you can see that the trees in the distant mountains are clearly different from the common tree species on the ground.

Yun Zhongzi may not have extensive knowledge, but he has a wide range of experience. He quickly recognized it as a tree fern, an ancient fern species that grew abundantly on the surface of the mortal world in ancient times, but is now rarely seen.

This tree is a semi-shade-loving species, preferring calm, humid, and shady environments.

Looking at the decorative plants in the flower bed, it becomes even more unique. It contains shade-loving, moisture-loving herbaceous ferns like bird's nest ferns and staghorn ferns, as well as mosses that emit a faint fluorescence. The main flowers are orchids such as Cymbidium and lily of the valley. The lighting in the photo is also somewhat unusual; although the environment appears to be outdoors, there is no sunlight. The top corner of the photo, where the sky should be, appears somewhat dim.

Yun Zhongzi's mind raced. The details hidden in this photograph were enough for him to obtain sufficient information for reasoning and analysis.

Soon, another brilliant idea flashed in his mind—underground!
Ferns, orchids, and unusual lighting—although the photo didn't show the full picture of the environment, Yun Zhongzi could already guess that Xiao Jie's birthplace was an underground secret realm based on just these few points.

Conventional thinking would assume that underground caves must be pitch black, empty, desolate, and suffocatingly hot. However, after living in the Demon Alliance city for a month, Yun Zhongzi has gained a fairly intuitive understanding of the Demon Alliance's technological level.

With the Demon Alliance's advanced technology and skills, they are absolutely capable of creating an underground secret realm deep within the earth, with an ecological environment comparable to the surface valleys.

The lighting in the underground secret realm is probably some kind of lamp, which can nurture plant growth, but its intensity is far less than that of sunlight, which is why only shade-tolerant ferns can be grown there.

Once he understood this, Yun Zhongzi suddenly realized something and quickly found his graduation certificate, focusing his attention on the date of issuance of the certificate, which he had previously overlooked.

The Demon Alliance has reformed its calendar, no longer using the sexagenary cycle, but instead taking the day when Wen Rui conferred the title of Emperor Jietian as the first year of the Common Era, and the calendar is now named the Jietian Calendar.

The numbers used to record the calendar have long been replaced with Arabic numerals due to the advanced mathematics of the Demon Alliance. However, in this time and space, they are not called Arabic numerals, but rather the Heaven-Severing Numbers. The person who invented this set of numbers has also been changed to the Heaven-Severing Emperor Wen Rui.

In other words, the Heavenly Court does not currently have a position as the God of Mathematics. Otherwise, Wen Rui's act of taking credit for Heaven's work and impersonating others would have allowed him to obtain a divine position such as the True Lord of Mathematics or the Heavenly Lord of Mathematics.

However, this priesthood is unlikely to attract many worshippers; instead, it will be frequently criticized by students.

The date on Xiao Jie's elementary school graduation certificate is the 121st year of the Jietian calendar, and the date on his high school graduation certificate is the 127th year of the Jietian calendar. This indicates that Xiao Jie studied in the secret realm for six years.

The Heavenly Calendar and the sexagenary cycle can be converted. After a little calculation, Yun Zhongzi found that it was during the period when Wen Rui was using the pretext of eradicating the remnants of the demonic insects hidden underground to create martial arts puppets on a large scale.

Based on the year he graduated from elementary school, and going back further, Xiao Jie was born around the time when the Demon Insect was defeated by Wen Rui and the Mosquito Taoist fled underground.

The answer is obvious; at least chronologically, every step is interconnected.

Following this timeline, Yun Zhongzi was able to basically outline the truth behind the collusion between Wen Rui and the demonic Mosquito Taoist.

That epic battle that nearly turned the Southern Continent into a sea of ​​lava was actually a performance for all the gods and Buddhas in the sky. Wen Rui deliberately let Mosquito Daoist go and even helped her establish a secret ecological zone deep underground for the Blood Sea Demon Clan to recuperate.

While cultivating demons for his own power, Wen Rui secretly stockpiled elite troops and amassed a large puppet army.

The Blood Sea Demon Worm has also changed its appearance, shedding its ferocious and brutal exterior, and transforming into a new, harmless, and righteously beautiful vegetarian all-female race, much like Xiao Jie.

This race is also systematically integrating into the lives of other beings, actively intermarrying and procreating with other intelligent beings, and carrying out a great racial integration.

Venerable Kasyapa's guess was surprisingly accurate. If his plan had been followed, and he had simply and brutally kidnapped a girl from the insectoid sect, taken her to the territory of the Western Tantric sect for interrogation and dissection, he would probably have already obtained the irrefutable evidence he wanted.

(End of this chapter)