Chapter 37: Meticulous Analysis, The Truth Revealed

Liu Jun was momentarily dazed.

Multi-Hand Butterfly, Wisdom Angel, Angel Queen... the founding angels of the elder generation had long since perished in that great war. The grudges and entanglements of those years had vanished into the mists of history, the truth buried beneath the dust of ages. Even for the Third Butterfly, Red Fungus, who had remained bitter all these years, the question of who had framed him had become a permanent knot in his heart.

And now, a netizen was claiming that simply by watching a brief fragment of that life, they had guessed the truth—and apparently had ironclad evidence to prove it?

"It can't be just empty boasting or fabrication, can it?" Liu Jun suddenly felt curious.

In this era, scholars often belittled one another, and the cyber-sphere was filled with countless trolls. If this person could garner likes from so many scholarly disciples, they must have some real substance! With his curiosity piqued, Liu Jun’s gossip-fueled fire began to burn, and he decisively clicked on the post.

[Great Dream of Immortality]: "Hello everyone. I am just an ordinary netizen, and I am here to decrypt the history of a dynasty sealed away in the Jurassic period, a billion years ago."

"First, let me state my conclusion: everyone guessed wrong about the two coups from the very beginning. You were misled. The mastermind's goal was never to kill the God of Longevity while they were aged to steal a second life. Their target was to kill the Butterfly Red Fungus!"

[Great Dream of Immortality]:
"Why do I reason this way? I carefully observed the events of both coups and discovered a shocking anomaly: the mastermind’s desire to attack the God of Longevity and the God of Wisdom was far too low. Take the second attack, for instance: why frame Butterfly Red Fungus? If the goal was to kill the gods, wouldn't it have been better to frame the two deities for the assassination of the next generation of angel heirs?"

"There is another obvious phenomenon: the Wisdom Angel, furious at the loss of their child, took an army directly to confront Butterfly Red Fungus to demand an explanation, while remaining respectful toward the two gods. If the mastermind had planned for so long, was it just to have the Wisdom Angel—this furious yet deferential soft-hearted creature—go kill the gods? That makes no sense. Wouldn't the mastermind know the Wisdom Angel's personality? I suspect they never intended to kill the gods at all. In fact, the mastermind was so afraid that the Wisdom Angel might act against the gods they revered and cause an irreversible disaster that they chose the Wisdom Angel as their weapon specifically for this reason."

Huh?

This conclusion was enough to overturn the perceptions of many netizens.

[Great Dream of Immortality]:
"Therefore, I began to suspect that the mastermind’s target was Butterfly Red Fungus from the start; I fear there was a personal vendetta."

"Viewing it from the perspective of that time, the mastermind did not know that the thirty-thousand-strong angel army would fail to defeat the two gods. They believed their army, which had conquered the dragon race across the entire continent, was invincible and would surely defeat—or even kill—the gods. But fearing the actual death of the gods, they chose to exploit the Wisdom Angel’s temperament to execute a plan meant only to coerce the surrender of Butterfly Red Fungus."

"This was a 'conscientious' mastermind. They were 'kind'—they respected the gods and were terrified of implicating them."

"This is the reason why the great detectives of our time haven't found the culprit: because the direction of the investigation was wrong from the start."

The audience found the logic compelling.

***

Thirty thousand troops at the gates—from the perspective of any living being at the time, they were destined to kill the twin gods! Even the Angel King was terrified, believing that the encirclement would lead to a catastrophe and that the God of Longevity and the God of Wisdom were doomed, prompting him to rush to their defense.

Looking at it this way, the mastermind at the time must have also believed that with the army at the gates, the gods could be killed; surely, taking down Butterfly Red Fungus would be a sure thing!

"Then, the next question is: between the Wisdom Angel, the Multi-Hand Butterfly, and the Queen, who had a grudge against Butterfly Red Fungus? And where did that hatred stem from?"

"Following this potential thread, I analyzed the lives of these founding heroes and found their trajectories to be quite simple. All three spent their larval stage hanging around the Angel King and never had the standing to approach those lofty existences atop the Cangwu Tree. Furthermore, the moment they wove themselves into angels, they left the Butterfly Tribe’s ancestral land for the Angel Plains."

"They had no intersection. Could I have guessed wrong? I doubted my own train of thought, but I continued to filter information, searching for clues within Butterfly Red Fungus's own history."

"You must understand, as the Angel King, his information network was vast. Every day, he handled government affairs, with all sorts of data flowing to him. Yet, his information was also thin because he never investigated the truth of the past; it was all just daily administrative data."

"Later, I saw a piece of information: during the Butterfly Tribe’s birthday banquet, Butterfly Red Fungus offered a gift to the gods—the decapitation of a rebel insect. That was where I found the key breakthrough."

At this moment, Liu Jun also remembered that banquet. Butterfly Red Fungus had beheaded a powerful rebel insect as a birthday gift for himself. At the time, insects didn't know how to use telekinetic energy to fly, and Liu Jun had been amazed by this insect that could fly using such energy. He had even thought it was a peer of Rayquaza, a 'Rift-Hair Caterpillar.'

[Great Dream of Immortality]:
"I followed this thread to check if this rebel insect killed by Butterfly Red Fungus was a relative of the four founding kings, but unfortunately, I couldn't find anything. After all, it's impossible to find such blood ties without specifically sending someone to investigate."

"Fortunately, modern technology is advanced. I had a flash of insight and took a different path: the 'Butterfly Pattern Comparison Method.' I used a super-intelligent computer to integrate big data and performed blood-relation comparisons on all butterflies that had appeared in history. I discovered that kinship patterns have similar regularities and compiled a method for blood-relation identification."

"I took the image of the remains of the rebel insect, which had been hung in the Butterfly Valley, and ran it through a data comparison. The result was found."

"Based on the timeline and pattern comparison, the insect killed at the birthday banquet was likely the father of Queen Insect Qi-Qi!"

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

As the analysis reached this point, many felt it was spectacular. The logic was tight, and it was backed by "ironclad proof" brought by modern technology. People weren't stupid. Very quickly, they pieced together a story, the mysterious truth of history slowly unfolding before them.

Insect Qi-Qi, her family destroyed, then fled to Butterfly Valley, longing to become a powerful life form. She had been seeking revenge from the very beginning. She encountered other companions and achieved success. After conquering the world and stabilizing the regime, she tried to probe the Angel King’s stance at court, only to be sternly rejected. Thus, she orchestrated the events that followed.

***

She even killed the Wisdom Angel’s child and framed Butterfly Red Fungus.

"The master is brilliant! Exquisite deduction, bold assumptions, and careful verification."

"Hahaha, cyber-ironclad proof! Butterfly pattern comparison and kinship identification—a major achievement!"

"What a truly mad woman."

"I understand now. Insects can compromise. If you say, 'I want to kill the two gods,' one might be unwilling. But if you retreat and say, 'I want to act against Butterfly Red Fungus,' they might agree!"

"Hatred consumed her rationality."

"Ah, she didn't even spare her best friend’s child."

Of course, some netizens defended her.

"Isn't it only natural to avenge one's father? The goal of this larva from the moment it spun its cocoon was revenge!"

"A broken home and a family wiped out—this was the only motivation for her to keep living!"

"The beauty of revenge is also a kind of beauty!"

"Besides, she might not have actually killed the Wisdom Angel’s child; perhaps she secretly swapped them? Since the other party’s planning was so meticulous, wouldn't a secret 'cat-for-prince' swap be the logical next step?"

...

Liu Jun frowned slightly as he read this. Indeed. If she were a madwoman who had lost her mind, wanting to extend her life at any cost and kill the gods, then killing her best friend’s child would be possible. But she wasn't. Based on her previous style of action, she possessed meticulous rationality—she even deliberately avoided the gods, terrified of leading the angel army to kill them, treating the deities like fragile porcelain.

It was clear that a woman as intelligent and cautious as her wouldn't even offend the gods, let alone harm her best friend’s child. It was highly likely she had faked the deaths of those children.

And back then, the deaths were reported so tragically. If it were truly a case of a secret swap, it was highly probable.

So, where did that batch of young angel heirs go? The current shortage of successors in the angel race was all because the next generation of elites had "all died." But now, it was highly probable they hadn't died at all.

Liu Jun laughed.

"What excellent information."

"Idle and with nothing to do, I browse the net and actually make an unexpected discovery."

"I previously sorted through that mountain of mushrooms—millions of them—I just classified them randomly. They might have actually slipped past me."

Liu Jun prepared to finish reading the comments and then go investigate. The angel race’s succession crisis—was it all an act? There was likely something hidden behind it. This generation of netizens was impressive. They could actually give him such a surprise, meticulously analyzing the true mastermind butterfly ring by ring.