Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

"Although I'm practically on my deathbed, I can still give it my all before I leave to create a better situation and more opportunities for you young people... You don't need to worry too much about what happened last night. All you need to do is focus on improving yourself, understand?"

"……Understood."

That was the only answer Qin Huanyu could give.

Lei Mingming brought Qin Huanyu to see the Xuan Turtle of Zhishi Nuo, seemingly wanting Qin Huanyu to experience the most powerful level of grotesque creature up close. Now that their goal has been achieved, it's time to leave.

Qin Huanyu had long wanted to leave this place that made her feel uncomfortable, so naturally she wouldn't refuse to leave.

The two returned to the car by the same route and drove out of the tunnel. However, the place where they left the tunnel was no longer the underground parking lot in the city, but a tunnel in the Mangling area on the outskirts of the capital.

The tunnel is not long, and outside is a regular road. At this time of day, the traffic is still quite heavy, and there are villages or towns every 3 to 5 kilometers on both sides of the road.

After driving north for about half an hour, the car suddenly turned onto a dirt road and soon arrived at a place where there were no village lights or passing vehicles, and the surrounding mountains and forests became dense.

After another 10 minutes or so, the ground was clearly no longer suitable for driving, so Lei Mingming finally stopped the car.

After Qin Huanyu opened the car door and jumped out, she looked around curiously. She saw that there were very obvious tire tracks on the road she had come from, and it was definitely not something that could be formed by just one or two cars passing by. The low trees and weeds where she parked had also been clearly cleared by someone.

Lei Mingming must come to this place often; it's likely one of her residences or a secret hideout.

"Come."

Sure enough, after getting out of the car, Lei Mingming walked into the forest with ease and waved to Qin Huanyu to follow her.

The journey wasn't long; the two walked for less than five minutes through the woods before they saw a small wooden cabin and a small courtyard surrounded by a plow and harrow, much like an ordinary farmhouse.

Besides a vegetable garden of about 100 square meters, the small courtyard enclosed by plows and harrows also had a chicken coop with several plump chickens inside. As a cook, Qin Huanyu could tell at a glance that these were all free-range chickens, never fed any commercial feed, and would be very fragrant when stewed.

Next to the chicken coop, there was a simple animal trap, which proved very useful at this moment, breaking the leg of a wild boar. The wild boar is neither running away nor dead, and is just groaning by the chicken coop.

"Wow, another extra meal! That's great!"

crackle.

Upon seeing this, Lei Mingming didn't hesitate for a moment. He raised his hand and shot out a bolt of lightning, mercifully ending the wild boar's suffering.

Then, to Qin Huanyu's rather surprised look, Lei Mingming skillfully used electromagnetic force to simultaneously control four hoes to loosen the soil around the vegetables, then added some millet to the chicken coop, and then grabbed the fattest rooster and swiftly killed and bled it with a knife.

She didn't look like a top expert from the Holy Zhou Kingdom at all; she looked more like an ordinary peasant woman.

"...What, are you surprised?"

Lei Mingming glanced at Qin Huanyu, who was looking somewhat dumbfounded, and pointed to several small stools scattered around the courtyard:

"Please make yourself at home... I heard you're also good at cooking? I happen to know a little bit about it too, how about we exchange tips later?"

"Then I won't be polite."

Qin Huanyu nodded, picked out the most comfortable-looking stool to sit on, and did not offer to help prepare the ingredients, but waited patiently.

Lei Mingming was very skilled. She filled a steel basin with water, then used her palm to hold the bottom of the basin and heated it with an electric current. The water boiled in less than a minute. She then removed the feathers from the drained rooster, cleaned its internal organs, applied sauce, placed it on the grill, and then directly turned on the power to the grill.

Seeing the large rooster gradually emitting an enticing aroma amidst the silvery-blue electric current, Qin Huanyu couldn't resist her curiosity:

"Deputy Director Lei, you... are very good at this kind of farm work?"

If Lei Mingming were just a village girl, that would be one thing, but according to records, her family was one of the old noble families of the Holy Zhou Kingdom. Unfortunately, she is the only one left now, as all the other family members were killed in the war more than 70 years ago.

"Surprising?"

Lei Mingming was clearly telling these stories before; she continued roasting the rooster leisurely, a nostalgic expression on her face.

"Actually, there was a time when I really wanted to quit all my jobs and just be an ordinary farmer with him in the village, but unfortunately... Haha, little girl, would you like to hear this old woman's love story from her youth?"

"I want to listen, I want to listen."

Qin Huanyu nodded quickly, her face full of gossip:

"There's very little information about your husband in the records, and it's unclear how he sacrificed his life... He must have been a hero, right?"

"Then you're very wrong, girl."

Lei Mingming burst into laughter, though a trace of moisture welled up in the corner of his eye:

“My husband is just an ordinary person, the kind of simple-minded country boy.”

"what?"

Qin Huanyu's mouth dropped open.

A noble-born battlefield Valkyrie x a simple-minded farm boy?

Are there really such outrageous couple stories?

"Surprised? Haha... Actually, it's nothing. The inspiration for those artistic creations all comes from reality, and some are even less exaggerated than reality."

Lei Mingming smiled again:

"The way we met is pretty cliché, almost like a third-rate romance drama."

"Simply put, I was overconfident at the time because my strength had greatly increased. I relentlessly pursued the enemy and ended up falling into a trap, almost resulting in defeat and a complete collapse."

"Fortunately, I was strong enough to finally twist off the enemy commander's head, tear apart their traps, and break out of the encirclement. However, I was also seriously injured. After flying a few hundred kilometers, I lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss and fell from the sky."

"You can probably guess the cliché plot that follows, right? That's right, I was taken in and carefully cared for by that simple-minded farm boy. It took me almost half a year to finally recover... During this time, I also developed feelings for him and we became husband and wife."

"I was quite young back then. The experience of almost being captured alive by the enemy on the battlefield still left me with a bit of fear... Moreover, the years of war had already exhausted me, and then I suddenly felt the beauty of ordinary love. So I had the idea of ​​quitting and just wanted to ignore everything and live a farm life in the mountains with that silly boy."

“I wrote a letter to Tianyi, who was still a princess at the time…that is, His Majesty. After briefly explaining my situation, I settled down with the silly boy and stopped asking about the war. Almost three years passed, and I had a son and a daughter with him.”

"However, it wasn't until people from the government came to me with bad news that I realized how naive I had been back then."

“Although our family wasn’t considered a major noble family at the time, we were still nobles. As nobles, while enjoying power and wealth, we also had to fulfill corresponding responsibilities and obligations… such as war.”

"After nearly being defeated and captured alive, I was terrified and went into hiding in the fields with my foolish son. My father and brother were to take my place in the war to uphold the family's honor... But they did not have the extraordinary power I possessed. Their lives were fragile, and it would be difficult for them to protect themselves in the brutal war."

"They all died in battle because of my naivety and fear... They sacrificed their weak lives so that my strong daughter and sister could enjoy nearly three years of comfortable farm life..."

As Lei Mingming spoke, his hands, which were roasting a rooster in the electric oven, trembled noticeably, and his clenched fists almost dug his fingernails into his flesh.

"This devastating news devastated me, but it also made me stronger... I took that silly boy and our children back to Shendu and entrusted them to Tianyi's care, and then I went back to the battlefield."

"This time, it's a complete rout. Apart from a very few strong individuals, none of the enemy can even stand a chance against me... Moreover, even those strong individuals who can face me head-on can't keep up with my speed or simply don't have the ability to fly. I can completely ignore them and tear people apart with the power of thunder in the enemy ranks at will."

"The following years were the years when I had the most fun killing... I loved finding the enemy's command post, descending from the sky, tearing their commander to shreds in the helpless and fearful gazes of many, then casually killing a few lucky ones before laughing and walking away."

"My reputation strikes fear into the hearts of my enemies, who have tried every trick in the book to contain me, but none of those underhanded tactics work against absolute power. I have shattered their countless traps."

"However, those damned, despicable people, after realizing they couldn't do anything to me, turned their attention to my family."

“An enemy ace spy who had been lurking in the capital for many years was activated. He originally wanted to kidnap my husband and children, but fortunately, the intelligence personnel in the capital reacted quickly and successfully rescued my children.”

"However, my husband was still kidnapped by them. Those bastards used my husband as a hostage to force me to give up resistance and even wanted to humiliate me on the battlefield."

"Unfortunately, the enemy underestimated my husband's courage... Although he was just a simple-minded farm boy, he was a man who would risk his life to protect his wife! In order not to be a burden to me, he took advantage of the enemy's inattention and deliberately bumped his neck into the enemy's blade, dying with a smile."

"At the time... I didn't really feel anything. Maybe I had a premonition of this when I learned that he had been arrested."

"In short, I was pretty numb at the time, and I only had one thought in my mind—kill!"

"After that, I went even crazier, almost like I was possessed. I couldn't eat or sleep unless I captured a few enemy officers and tore them to pieces every day... Tianyi was very worried about this and issued 18 orders to send me back to the front line to recuperate for a while. She also arranged for me to have many psychologists."

“But why would I obey? I only want to take my revenge, and I don’t care about the means or morality.”

"To avoid Tianyi's orders, I stopped returning to the camp and spent the night in the wild. When I was hungry, I ate fruit and wild game, and when I was thirsty, I drank mountain spring water. I went wherever there were many enemies to kill, and even went deep behind enemy lines to carry out infiltration and directly attack their cities and civilians."

“Don’t blame me for being uncivilized… My husband was also a commoner, and the enemy struck first. I destroyed enemy factories, granaries, roads and bridges behind enemy lines, assassinated their administrators, and even poisoned their water sources with plague and curses. In this way, I even wiped out three small countries in the enemy alliance, the kind of annihilation that almost wiped out everyone, leaving only evil creatures and undead wandering in their land.”

“The enemy naturally became increasingly fearful and resentful of me, and repeatedly organized teams of top experts to hunt me down. But I am no longer the fool I was in my youth. I will not charge into their traps, but will target their weak points. If things go wrong, I will retreat immediately without lingering.”

"My innate power is the ability to manipulate lightning, and my maximum flight speed can exceed the speed of sound. In that era, my maneuverability was unmatched by any superhuman or weapon. Early air defense radars had difficulty detecting me, and the enemy couldn't even provide advance warning of my attacks... Back then, I was the biggest nightmare of the enemy alliance."

"I thought I could keep killing like this until one day our country completely defeats the enemy, leaving no other human government on this planet except for Holy Week."

"Then I suddenly received more bad news."

"Ah."

When Lei Mingming finished telling her story, her eyes held no trace of a smile, only murderous intent—the kind of chilling murderous intent that made Qin Huanyu instinctively tighten her legs—yet she laughed out loud:

“My son and daughter also sacrificed their lives.”

"By then, it was near the end of the war, and my children had all grown up."

“They are my flesh and blood, and naturally inherited some of my power. However, because their father was too ordinary in terms of bloodline, their power is far less than mine.”

"But they grew up hearing about my glorious military achievements and knew how their father was killed by the enemy in a despicable way. Naturally, they, young and ambitious, wanted to kill the enemy and avenge their father just like me."

"Tianyi didn't want to dampen their enthusiasm, but she also didn't want anything to happen to them, so she came up with a solution that could be considered the best of both worlds...Tianyi made them the commanders of the inner guards and kept them by her side."

"At that time, Tianyi had already inherited the throne and was serving as the Empress's bodyguard. It should have been very safe... at least much safer than going to the front lines."

"However, the despicable enemy actually planned a decapitation operation... They intercepted intelligence about one of Tianyi's trips, dispatched a strong force to assassinate Tianyi, and even managed to lure away the powerful figures of the Holy Zhou Kingdom, including myself, before the operation."

"The enemy almost succeeded... The entire inner guard protecting Tianyi was wiped out, and even Tianyi herself was seriously injured, suffering lifelong aftereffects... If it weren't for Linglan, Tianyi would have died long ago."

As she spoke, Lei Mingming's body crackled with electricity, and the rooster on the grill in her hand was cooked, emitting an enticing aroma.

It seemed that this aroma was what brought Lei Mingming back from her reverie. She quickly calmed herself down, tore the fragrant roast chicken in half, and gave one half to Qin Huanyu:

"Come on, try my cooking... I learned this from my days living on the farm and eating wild game in the mountains."

Qin Huanyu didn't stand on ceremony. After taking the roast chicken, she tore off a leg and started gnawing on it. Then, her eyes lit up and she gave Lei Mingming a thumbs-up.

"Haha... I'm glad you like it. I'll bake you more later if you don't have enough."

Lei Mingming laughed heartily twice, then sighed and continued telling the story:

"With your intelligence, you should be able to guess what happened next, right?"

"After my last remaining family member died at the hands of the enemy, I became completely unrestrained and used all sorts of means to take revenge."

"Plague, curses, evil magic, Soul Refining Banner, Ten Thousand Poisons Formation... I've used every means that can effectively kill the enemy! Those bastards killed my whole family, so naturally I'll exterminate their entire clan!"

"The enemy followed suit, no longer caring about moral bottom lines, and used all sorts of dirty tricks and inhumane tactics one after another."

"Those were the last two years of the war, and also the darkest two years... The number of people who died in those two years was almost the same as the total number of people who died in the previous 30 years, and the vast majority of them were civilians."

"Even in our Holy Zhou Kingdom, only the core territory of the Eastern Divine Continent is relatively good; the rest of the country is in a terrible state."

"Both sides are locked in fierce combat. On the side of the Holy Zhou Kingdom, not only me, but Tianyi even brought out some demonic and evil arts that the royal family had sealed away, and trained a special army of evil cultivators, just to kill the enemy more effectively."

"The same goes for the enemy alliance. They make all sorts of deals with devils, demons, and evil gods, implanting alien insects into their bodies to modify themselves, selling their souls and bodies, all for the sake of gaining greater power."

"This situation only came to an abrupt end on that day...".

As they were talking, Lei Mingming suddenly gave Qin Huanyu a complicated look:

"This involves a very important secret, which I cannot tell you right now... In short, you can think of it as a very powerful entity suddenly intervening in the war."

"Her way of intervening in the war was strange. She did not use any force to coerce us, but instead forcibly endowed the high-ranking officials of both sides in the war with a calmer mind and better wisdom."

"Even I, who had been completely blinded by hatred and went mad with killing, miraculously regained my composure under her intervention and began to think about what would happen if things continued like this."

"The answer is obvious."

"The Holy Zhou Kingdom and the enemy alliance will suffer heavy losses, or even be destroyed together. The civilians are likely to be wiped out by the increasingly efficient killing methods of both sides, and human civilization will come to a complete end."

"The source of the bizarre existence is the overflowing thoughts of humankind. Without humankind, those bizarre beings similar to creatures of faith will also quickly weaken and disappear completely... In the end, all that will remain on this land are the undead and evil creatures that were created in large numbers by the tactics employed by both sides in the war."

"Once this is realized, the war will naturally cease... Human beings' desire for survival can overcome everything, including hatred."

"And so, the shitty peace came... This brutal war that almost took everything from me ended in this way. The two sides negotiated and agreed to coexist peacefully. The irreconcilable ideological contradictions transformed from bloody battles on the battlefield into a war without gunpowder in the business world and diplomacy."

“I actually want to keep fighting, even if it means dying together with the enemy… but I can’t just think about myself, I also have to think about Tianyi.”

“Tianyi is my best friend who I grew up with, and she’s the only person I still care about after my whole family died… I can’t make things difficult for her.”

"So what else can I do? I can only pretend to forgive and forget, and even clink glasses with those despicable high-ranking officials of enemy countries at diplomatic banquets... Ha."

Lei Mingming, having finally finished telling his story, fell silent and began to devour the roasted chicken in his hand. He seemed to regard the chicken as an enemy, chewing the bones along with many of his bites.

Qin Huanyu silently followed along and ate.

Only after the plump rooster had completely turned into a pile of broken bones did Qin Huanyu hesitate for a moment before finally asking the question:

"So, Deputy Director, you mean...?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to tell you my story... many of the details of which can't be found in the Bureau of Investigation's files."

Lei Mingming first shrugged indifferently, then asked seemingly casually:

"By the way... if it were you, Yu'er, would you choose to fight for your country or to fight for humanity?"

"This……"

Qin Huanyu frowned, hesitating as she didn't know how to answer.