My brother is so cunning

Chapter 927 My Student Might Be a Facehugger
Is fifty years a long time?

Wen Rui curled his lip and said, "It's clearly very short. Look, you're only 28 years old now, and you'll be 78 in fifty years. That's the age for adventure. Lifespan is two hundred years, and you won't finish your prime until you're one hundred and sixty. You still have more than eighty years of good time to do as you please."

Zhao Mingcheng said with a wry smile, "But for the past fifty years, I haven't been able to be by her side. It must have been very hard for her to raise the children alone."

"You still don't understand the situation, do you? Right now, your cat demon live-in girlfriend and her child are in a state of dehydration and dormancy, and they may not wake up for another fifty years."

Zhao Mingcheng was taken aback, then realized what was happening and quickly asked, "Am I the only one who was awakened?"

"Sigh, no wonder you never managed to summon me during your student days."

Wen Rui couldn't help but rub his forehead, but he still patiently said, "In this batch, only the volunteers who participated in the life extension experiment were awakened. After the life extension is successful, you will undertake an important mission that will last for fifty years. After the mission is completed, it will be time to awaken all members of the Demon Alliance and end this farce of demonic calamity."

"Oh, I see..."

Zhao Mingcheng nodded repeatedly in realization, but soon he asked curiously, "But I am just a low-ranking official in the Demon Alliance, at the bottom of the list, only one level higher than a new recruit. Is it appropriate to entrust such an important task to a mediocre person like me?"

"The task is not difficult; it's similar to teaching in a remote area, just with harsher conditions and a longer duration."

Wen Rui smiled and said, "Although your education is a bit lacking, your work ability is average, and your overall qualities are mediocre, you are still a college student, so you have reached the passing grade for fulfilling your duties."

The mention of the words "college student" fills Zhao Mingcheng with pride and gives him renewed confidence.

"There's no way around it. People who are too talented are wasting their talents on this job, and people who are too incompetent can't do it either."

Wen Rui shrugged and said, "Someone like you, who has experience working with the grassroots and is neither outstanding nor terrible, is just right."

Although the words were harsh, Zhao Mingcheng still felt fortunate to have such a good opportunity. He and the cat demon Puna had been together for a long time, and they had done everything they should and shouldn't have done. Although they were of different races, their relationship had always been very good.

Logically speaking, since the man is unmarried, the woman is a single mother raising a child, and they have been living together for many years, they should be at the point of discussing marriage. However, when Zhao Mingcheng brought up this topic, Pu Na always deliberately avoided it.

It took Zhao Mingcheng a lot of effort to gradually understand Pu Na's thoughts. Fortunately, the minds of demon women are not complicated, otherwise Zhao Mingcheng would never have been able to figure it out even if he tried his whole life.

It turns out that what Pu Na was worried about was Zhao Mingcheng's lifespan.

Even if a mortal lives in an organization like the Demon Alliance with its advanced medical technology, he can only live to be 100 years old at most. After 70, he will be very old and have difficulty taking care of himself.

In Zhao Mingcheng's eyes, the cat demon Puna was already a Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator with a lifespan of at least three hundred years. The difference in their lifespans meant that their companionship would not last long.

What Zhao Mingcheng didn't know was that the cat demon Puna was already a celestial-level great demon with a lifespan of at least a thousand years.

Despite having ten times the lifespan, Zhao Mingcheng was merely a passerby in Pu Na's life. The happy times were too short, and Pu Na simply couldn't bring herself to fully commit to this relationship.

"I will participate in the life extension experiment. I will serve for fifty years. I do not seek the highest reward. I only hope to obtain the pill that will allow me to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage. I beg the Heavenly Venerable to grant my request!" With this in mind, Zhao Mingcheng solemnly cupped his hands to Wen Rui, making the gesture of praying to the statue of the Creation Emperor for good exam results when he was a student, and formally submitted his application to participate in the experiment.

Wen Rui nodded, pressed the confirmation button on the tablet, and said, "OK, you are now officially registered. Your new position is a rural teacher, and your specific job is to provide enlightenment education to the young members of the new race who have just joined the Demon Alliance."

"A new race joining the Demon Alliance?"

Zhao Mingcheng was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Although I'm not a high-ranking official, I'm still a staff member within the system, so I know more than the ordinary people in the Demon Alliance. Wasn't it said that the demon army from the Netherworld Blood Sea on the border of Hell was about to invade the mortal realm? Shouldn't they have already implemented a complete hibernation operation? The vast majority of creatures in the mortal realm have already been incorporated, so how can a new race still join the Demon Alliance?"

Wen Rui said matter-of-factly, "Our Jie Sect teaches without discrimination, and we don't distinguish between good and evil, demons and monsters. At this time, those who can join the Demon Alliance are naturally the Blood Sea Demon Clan who have invaded the mortal world."

"Eh?"

Zhao Mingcheng was stunned again, and said incredulously, "I've heard that those demonic insects from hell are incredibly ferocious, covered in fangs and carapaces, utterly irrational, violent and vicious, feeding on human flesh and drinking human blood to quench their thirst, vowing to kill all living beings in the mortal realm and turn the human world into a demon realm. Aren't the juvenile forms of those monsters just a bunch of small poisonous insects? Can they be tamed?"

"Whether or not they can be educated can only be known by trying. My ancestor, Master Tongtian, could teach a centipede to be refined and cultured. What difficulty would it be to educate a mere group of little demonic insects?"

Wen Rui shrugged and said, "You think it's so easy for you to get a two-hundred-year extension of your life? If it weren't difficult, wouldn't you feel guilty when you live an extra hundred years?"

"This...this is way too difficult. As a college graduate from an ordinary university, teaching children is not difficult at all, but teaching a bunch of little bugs, especially little monster bugs that eat human flesh and drink human blood, is something I never learned when I was in school..."

Zhao Mingcheng said aggrievedly, "How about we don't register me? I'm afraid I'll have two hundred years of lifespan, but I won't live past two years!"

"It's too late to regret it now. Just now when I announced the official registration, the nanounits in your body had already completed the gene telomere remodeling surgery."

Wen Rui put away his good temper and said with a stern face, "Didn't you read the volunteer application form carefully? If you complete the life-extending gene modulation surgery but then back out, the reverse surgery will damage your telomeres, causing a significant reduction in your lifespan. Either you choose to extend your life by two hundred years and teach the demon insect larvae for fifty years, or I will deduct one hundred and fifty years from your lifespan, reducing your lifespan to fifty years."

"If your final lifespan is reduced to fifty years, then at 28 you're equivalent to a normal person in their forties or fifties. Your bodily functions will decline rapidly, and the remaining twenty-two years will mostly be old age. Are you sure you want to withdraw from the experiment and reverse the gene modulation results?"

"Huh? No way! You're the god I've worshipped since I was a child. How could you cheat your believer like this?"

Zhao Mingcheng was dumbfounded, as if he had been tricked into a certain industrial park, beaten up, and then discovered that the promised easy and lucrative job was actually a hundred times worse than being a beast of burden.

Did I cheat you?

Wen Rui frowned and said, "It was all your own choice. I didn't force you. Oh, by the way, among the juvenile demonic insects you are in charge of teaching, a few individuals have congenital defects, specifically an abnormally strong reproductive desire. They have a chance of forcibly initiating mating behavior with male intelligent beings. You should be careful to protect yourself."

"Huh? Am I supposed to teach those facehuggers from the Alien movie? No way, this job is way too dangerous!"

(End of this chapter)