My brother is so cunning

Chapter 928 Fighting for a Glimmer of Hope and Education for All
Wearing a brand-new long gown, Zhao Mingcheng walked heavily along the tree-lined forest path toward the rural primary school where he was responsible for teaching.

It was unclear which remote and impoverished place this was, but the surrounding scenery was unique, and the natural environment and ecosystem were completely different from what Zhao Mingcheng was familiar with. Ferns and fungi grew extremely lushly.

The climate is quite pleasant, neither too cold nor too hot, making it feel like spring all year round.

The natural conditions seem to be better than those in the mortal realm where drought has not occurred, and much better than the overdeveloped areas surrounding the coastal city.

Around the densely populated cities of the Demon Alliance, the destruction of forests due to excessive logging and garbage pollution has become apparent. Many immigrant demons, who lack both education and skills, frequently engage in illegal activities such as theft and logging. Many herbivorous demons have turned the forests into buffets. Since they are not allowed to eat the green belts in the city, they go to the mountains and forests outside the city to wreak havoc. Many green mountains and clear waters have been eaten bare by them.

The Demon Alliance had already prepared a response and was about to release a series of environmental protection policies, but before they could be promulgated and implemented, the invasion of demonic insects completely interrupted the process.

The places where they were assigned to teach were obviously remote and economically underdeveloped areas, otherwise the natural environment wouldn't be so good.

Although the environment here is nice, it feels very strange. For example, there is never sunrise or sunset, and all you can see above is a dazzling starry sky. Those stars are much brighter than any stars Zhao Mingcheng has ever seen. Under the starry sky, the light intensity is about the same as that on a cloudy day.

The plant species are also quite strange. Although the vegetation is lush, there are not many varieties, giving it the feel of a deliberately planted botanical garden.

However, it is clear that the people who created this garden put a lot of thought into it. The natural scenery is harmoniously integrated, and it can be considered a beautiful paradise.

Under the shade of the trees in the forest, many small, fluorescent mushrooms grow on the ground, creating a unique and picturesque scene.

Having lived for a long time in the steel jungle of the coastal city, Zhao Mingcheng should have felt incredibly relaxed coming to this uniquely scenic countryside, surrounded by lush greenery.

But he had no intention of appreciating the scenery; instead, he walked each step with a heavy heart, as if he were walking to the execution ground.

Zhao Mingcheng is not a lazy person. Over the years at the Binhaicheng Subdistrict Office, he has been full of energy every day at work. Although he has only been promoted two ranks in the past five years, from clerk to section chief, he has always been enthusiastic and energetic about his work.

He cherished his job within the Demon Alliance system. If he hadn't worked hard and been lucky enough to get into a third-rate university, he would still be like most mortals in the mortal world, tending a few acres of meager land, working himself to the bone every day, with a pitifully small harvest, yet having to hand over most of it to the lord, enduring years of hunger and exhaustion.

But he loved the system so much, yet the system didn't love him!
This time, he wasn't the only one selected as a rural teacher to support the border regions. Before officially starting their jobs, everyone received a very short induction training. The person in charge of training them was obviously an AI android, probably another clone of Jarvis, the AI ​​of the Demon Alliance.

Having spent a long time in the Demon Alliance and seen a lot, Zhao Mingcheng found it easy to distinguish between AI androids and real people; those with overly stable emotions were definitely AI androids.

During the training course, Zhao Mingcheng met many other victims of the life-extending experiments who shared his plight. Most of these people were selected from the grassroots level of the Demon Alliance, including junior staff, street office workers, and auxiliary police officers...

Most of them were young men, all without money, power, or connections, and with mediocre education. They had barely managed to get into the Demon Alliance's system, and their best future was as low as a deputy section chief, a cog in the machine. The Creator Celestial Venerable's tactics for dealing with them were similar to those used to deceive Zhao Mingcheng. Everyone was registered first, boarded the pirate ship, and only then were they told that they might be teaching a bunch of facehuggers.

Mediocre, hopeless cogs in the machine of the system deserve to be used as waste materials, right?
The AI ​​instructor who conducted the onboarding training gave a general introduction to the background and consequences of this teaching assignment, which made Zhao Mingcheng feel less confused, but his inner fear did not lessen at all.

In short, the guardian deity of the Demon Alliance, the Celestial Venerable of Creation, has actually subdued the demons who invaded the mortal realm and quelled this demonic calamity.

Logically, as long as all the demons are killed, everything can return to what it was before the demon invasion, and the mortal world can return to peace.

However, the doctrine upheld by the Jie Sect, which the Demon Alliance believes in, is to fight for a chance of survival for all living beings. Demons are also living beings and must also enjoy the treatment that the disciples of the Jie Sect fight for for them.

However, being subdued does not mean that the demons can live with dignity. The savage and frenzied demons will not be accepted by other living beings, nor will they be forgiven by the gods and Buddhas. If they are only driven back to the underworld, the demons, whose vitality has been damaged, will be hunted down by the gods and Buddhas and completely wiped out on the nearly depleted shores of the Blood Sea.

This then brings up another fundamental doctrine of the Jie Sect, which is that education should be provided to all without discrimination. Even demons and insects have the basic right to receive education.

When these demonic insects are educated to be as compassionate, righteous, law-abiding, and respectful as humans, and have the basic conditions to integrate into the lives of all beings, then if the gods and Buddhas of the heavens still kill them, they will suffer the karmic retribution from the heavens.

At that time, the demon insect race will have the basic right to survival, and the Jie Sect has won them that glimmer of hope.

This is the original intention behind the Rural Teachers Project. The project will last for fifty years, which will be enough to educate a new generation of demon insects. The educated demon insects will then pass on the torch of civilization. A single spark can start a prairie fire, and a civilized race will be established from scratch.

It sounds like a grand and magnificent narrative, but all Zhao Mingcheng could think of was the movie he had seen years ago, and the horrifying image of facehuggers hatching and attacking people's faces.

Perhaps having a cat-demon girlfriend and working in the resettlement of immigrant demons indicates a high degree of acceptance of non-human races, which is the main reason he was chosen.

But the demon race is different from the demonic insects. The demon race that has already transformed into human form at least looks like a human, and at least can communicate with people politely when threatened with force.

The worm's brain probably hasn't even developed yet, right?
Besides eating human flesh, drinking human blood, and reproducing by hugging faces, what else can they learn?
Is this a job even humanly possible?

The onboarding training instructor also mentioned the inherent defects of some demonic insects, and then gave a very unreliable suggestion, saying that demonic insects are generally physically stronger than humans, so when forced, try not to resist to avoid injury. If you can't resist, then try to enjoy it, and there is little chance of life-threatening danger.

(End of this chapter)