Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

With less than half an hour left until midnight, Qin Huanyu, who was whispering jokes to Yi Youyou, suddenly changed her expression and immediately found Wu Xiqun, whispering in her ear.

Wu Xiqun quickly showed surprise, then became serious. Without delay, she put down her wine glass and snacks and went to find the Empress with Qin Huanyu.

Although Nangong Yue and Yi Youyou were also very curious, they knew better than anyone that they absolutely could not go with them at this time. Staying behind to stabilize the situation and appease people was what they should do, and that's exactly what they did.

On the other side, Wu Xiqun quickly led Qin Huanyu to the Empress and immediately dismissed all the palace maids serving her, leaving only the three of them at the scene.

"...It's information from Senior Lei."

Qin Huanyu took a deep breath and said with a complicated expression:

"Just now, Senior Lei took the initiative to leave me a message through the source of arrogance that I left for her, saying that she would present the most magnificent fireworks display for the Holy Zhou Kingdom at the moment of the arrival of the New Year."

"I don't think the fireworks she's talking about are really fireworks. She's probably up to something big again... I wonder if Your Majesty is aware of the situation?"

"...I don't know what Mingming has been up to lately."

The Queen shook her head with a wry smile:

"In order not to leave any loopholes that might give us cause for gossip, Mingming never contacted us again after that day, and never told us about her complete plan... We don't even know as much about the White Eagle Fall Plan as you do."

"Is that so?"

Qin Huanyu's expression was solemn, one hand pressed tightly against her chest:

"I have a feeling that Senior Lei is going to make a big splash... Perhaps the entire world situation will change dramatically after tonight."

"No matter what she's up to, it's too late for us to support or stop her now, so we might as well relax and wait for the outcome."

The Queen, however, remained quite calm:

"I believe in Mingming. No matter how crazy the methods she uses, she would never do anything detrimental to the Holy Zhou Kingdom. The dramatic change she is about to trigger might actually be an opportunity for us..."

Beep!

Before the Empress finished speaking, a sound rang out simultaneously from her and Wu Xi's skirts—a long, piercing shriek.

"This is……"

The Empress quickly pulled out a small information transmission device, glanced at it, and her usually indifferent expression finally changed:

"All of the White Eagle Federation's nuclear missiles are ready to launch? What... what on earth is Mingming up to?"

Chapter 192 The Most Dazzling New Year Fireworks

"Has the White Eagle Federation completely gone mad? Or is it something Mingming did?"

The Empress looked at the message coming through the communicator, her expression grim. After a moment's thought, she asked Qin Huanyu in a very urgent tone:

"Haven't you contacted Mingming at all during this time? Can't you contact her anytime using the power of arrogance?"

“I could have, but I didn’t.”

Qin Huanyu patiently explained:

“During the palace battle at Qunqun and Yuebao’s wedding last time, I discovered that the White Eagle Federation also researched soul datafication technology, and many of their ideas are even worth learning from. My method of controlling the Church of Pride is based on soul datafication technology. Given the White Eagle Federation’s research level in this area, they definitely can’t compete with me for control of the power of pride, but they might be able to detect the existence of the power of pride, or they might discover that I’m contacting Senior Lei through the power of pride. I don’t dare to take the risk. So I haven’t taken the initiative to contact Senior Lei during this period, and I haven’t even dared to pay too much attention to that area. This time, it was Senior Lei who took the initiative to leave me a message.”

"She left you a message..."

The Queen nodded thoughtfully, her anxious expression calming down once more.

"It seems that it's not that the White Eagle Federation has completely gone mad, but that Mingming has successfully caused trouble again. The New Year fireworks she mentioned in her message might be these."

"So, does that mean we don't need to immediately enter a state of nuclear war?"

Wu Xiqun also breathed a sigh of relief and gently patted her belly:

"Thank goodness... I don't want the world to turn into ruins before my child is even born."

"No, we still need to enter a state of emergency nuclear war."

The Empress shook her head, her expression serious:

"This must be why Mingming risked exposure to leave us this message. She wanted us not to panic, but also not to act too strangely—otherwise, the international community would once again suspect that Mingming was our front man. Although they are still very suspicious, at least they don't have any concrete evidence yet."

"...Understood." x2

Wu Xiqun and Qin Huanyu exchanged a glance, both regretting that the banquet had not yet been able to welcome the New Year's bell, but the Empress's consideration made more sense.

Soon, piercing air raid sirens blared throughout almost every city in the Holy Zhou Kingdom, and everyone's cell phones rang with calls that would be forcibly answered, directing people to the nearest air raid shelter for refuge.

After the end of the Patriotic War, the Holy Zhou Kingdom never gave up its war prevention measures. The construction of air-raid shelters in the cities was not abandoned, but instead made deeper and better, and each air-raid shelter contained a large amount of wartime supplies.

Every citizen of the Holy Zhou Kingdom has learned relevant knowledge in school, and knows how to find the nearest air-raid shelter when the war alarm actually sounds.

Now, as the air raid sirens sound on New Year's Eve, people are somewhat alarmed, but not panicked. They quickly grab some necessities and head out of their homes to take refuge in air raid shelters.

At the same time, all of Saint Zhou's nuclear missiles were ready to be launched at any time, so that they could immediately retaliate if the enemy launched a nuclear missile.

All air defense radars and weapons were activated, fighter jets took off urgently, and superhumans with flight capabilities or long-range attack capabilities came out to prepare for enemy missile attacks.

Just as most people had stepped out of their homes and hadn't even begun to enter their air-raid shelters, all 2000-plus nuclear missiles deployed by the White Eagle Federation were launched. Upon receiving this news, world leaders turned pale, realizing that the world was truly doomed.

Before they could even give the order to launch all the nuclear missiles and celebrate, they received another piece of information that left them speechless—all of the White Eagle Federation's more than 2000 nuclear missiles were launched vertically into space, and none of them were aimed at the ground.

People didn't believe it at first. Why would the White Eagle Federation launch all its nuclear missiles into space all at once? There was no alien invasion, after all.

It wasn't until almost the moment when the New Year of the Holy Zhou Kingdom truly arrived, when fireworks lit up in succession at a distance of about 2 kilometers above the entire White Eagle Continent, visible to most of the Earth, that people believed the White Eagle Federation had indeed launched all its nuclear missiles into space.

People all over the world who were preparing to hide in air-raid shelters to avoid nuclear war stood on the streets, staring blankly at the sky over the far west, watching the fireworks that nearly scared their hearts out.

"These fireworks are really beautiful. As expected of Senior Lei, only she could come up with the idea of ​​using nuclear bombs as fireworks to celebrate the New Year."

Qin Huanyu had already donned her armor and flown into the sky, with Yi Youyou hovering beside her, holding the Youyu Umbrella.

Having already guessed the truth, they weren't nervous at all, and even seemed to be watching fireworks while holding snacks and drinks.

"These fireworks are beautiful, but they're also terrifying."

Yi Youyou shrugged, then opened her mouth and took a sip of the yogurt Qin Huanyu fed her:

"Everyone must be having a hard time sleeping tonight... I'll be swamped too. Even if the royal family doesn't participate in national governance, they still have to get involved in such important matters. As the Luantai Siming, I'll definitely have to work overtime all night... Sigh, I hate working overtime the most."

After confirming that all of the White Eagle Federation's nuclear missiles had been detonated as fireworks, the government sent another mass message to the public, informing them that the emergency alert had been lifted and that everyone should go home immediately.

When the fireworks first started, many members of the Free Alliance did suspect that this was a conspiracy by the Holy Zhou Kingdom, especially the Anglo-Chinese and Aryan Republics, who contacted the Holy Zhou Kingdom through diplomatic channels to sound them out.

The Queen's decision was a great success; the seemingly genuine state of emergency preparedness in the Holy Zhou Kingdom left no room for criticism from the member states of the Free Alliance.

If the Holy Zhou Kingdom truly has the ability to make the White Eagle Federation unleash all its nuclear missiles like fireworks, it should take the initiative to start a war and seize the advantage, instead of scrambling to seek refuge first.

Therefore, the diplomats of Saint Zhou, England, and Aryan quickly reached an agreement: all three countries would lift their nuclear war alert and see what madness the White Eagle Federation was going through.

In the Holy Zhou Kingdom, the royal family, the Phoenix Pavilion, and the court officials held a meeting all night to discuss how to deal with the situation.

Qin Huanyu cannot currently participate in such important meetings concerning military and national affairs, but she can attend the smaller meetings convened by the Empress after the main conference.

There were very few participants in this small gathering. Of the nine Grand Secretaries from the Phoenix Pavilion, only two attended, along with a Minister from the Ministry of War. The rest were all members of the royal family and their close female friends.

On the Empress's side were Yi Qiushui and Yuan Qi, while on Wu Xiqun's side were Nangong Yue, Qin Huanyu, Yi Youyou, and Yuan Tingxue.

Wu Xi first gave a brief overview of the results of the meeting to the close friends of the two generations of empresses who had not attended.

Tonight's fireworks event is top secret. Currently, apart from members of the royal family and their close associates, the vast majority of ministers do not know the truth, nor can they be allowed to know.

After all, the intelligence agents of the White Eagle Federation are very capable. Ministers in the Holy Zhou Kingdom's court have had important information leaked for various reasons many times before, so the most important information must be kept from them as well.

With most ministers unaware of the truth, the meeting concluded that the Holy Zhou Kingdom would remain inactive until it understood what had happened and what the situation was in the White Eagle Federation, before deciding whether to seize the opportunity to restore the glory of the empire.

This small meeting is basically about whether to actually implement the decisions of the general meeting, or to seize the opportunity to strike first.

After all, although the royal family no longer participates in the governance of the country, it has always controlled the military and can launch military operations directly without going through the Fengge and the Ministry of War.

However, before discussing these matters, it is most important to find out exactly what Lei Mingming did in White Eagle Continent and the current situation there.

The only one capable of figuring all this out in the shortest amount of time was Qin Huanyu, which was also her main task last night—to browse through the recent activity records of the arrogant cultists of White Eagle Continent, filter out useful information, and summarize it.

Qin Huanyu has now completed this task, but as she recounts it, a look of amazement and admiration for Lei Mingming still appears on her face:

“That’s right, last night’s fireworks were indeed Senior Lei’s masterpiece—to eliminate the White Eagle Federation’s nuclear deterrence as much as possible is the third phase of the White Eagle Fall Plan.”

Did you contact Senior Lei directly last night?

Wu Xiqun asked curiously.

"No... At this time, Senior Lei must be under close surveillance by the White Eagle Federation, so contacting her proactively would be too risky. However, Senior Lei was prepared for the worst, and she had already designed a very ingenious message, telling me about her plans and actions."

Qin Huanyu shook her head, sighed, and continued:

"The message was hidden in the daily activities of those arrogant cultists. The action records of a single arrogant cultist are not revealing anything. Even if the action records of 10 or 8 arrogant cultists are combined and carefully examined, there will be no results... Even if their identities are discovered by the White Eagle Federal Intelligence Agency and a few are captured, there is no need to worry about the plan being exposed."

"To see Senior Lei's message, one must obtain more than 100 records of the recent actions of the arrogant followers of White Eagle Continent, and also be proficient in the culture, history and internet jokes of Holy Zhou Kingdom in order to solve the puzzle cleverly set by Senior Lei and get the message... In fact, even I spent a lot of effort to see those messages."

"Despite being incredibly strong, he is also extremely cautious. This is one of the reasons why Mingming was able to fight countless enemies on the battlefield during the War of Resistance against Japan..."

The Queen sighed with a touch of nostalgia:

"So how exactly did Mingming manage to launch all the nuclear missiles that the White Eagle Federation had deployed into space?"

"...It was a normal procedure."

Amidst the incredulous gazes of everyone else, Qin Huanyu spoke in a strange tone:

"No powerful superhumans infiltrated the White Eagle Federation's military bases, nor did any super hackers control the White Eagle Federation's military network... Their nuclear missile launch this time followed all normal procedures, that is, the Presidential Palace gave authorization and passwords, and then the generals in the Hexagram Building carried out the operation."

"This is impossible! Are those people crazy? Or have they really discovered aliens hiding near Earth's orbit?" The others were even more surprised.

Qin Huanyu continued in a strange tone:

"The Secretary of State invited the President out for drinks last night, got him drunk, and stole his cipher device to give orders to the Hexagram Building. The Hexagram Building could have detected and refused, but the Deputy Secretary of Defense also got the Secretary of Defense and other generals drunk and accepted and carried out the orders."

"Ah this..."

The others were speechless, but they all understood a bit of what was going on.

The Empress asked directly:

"The Secretary of State and the Deputy Minister of Defense have been controlled by Mingming? Are they followers of the Pride Cult?"

"That Minister of State is one of the cultists of Pride, and a long-time member who has been corrupted and controlled by the embodiment of Pride. But the Deputy Minister of Defense is not; he was lured into an ambush by the Minister of State and then captured by the bizarre members of the Truth Society."

Qin Huanyu chuckled softly and continued:

"During the Battle of the Imperial Palace, didn't the White Eagle Federation sacrifice their previous Secretary of State in an attempt to sever ties? At that time, they already had candidates for the new Secretary of State, and the current Secretary of State was one of them. Although his original ranking wasn't high, after other candidates withdrew for various reasons or even died mysteriously, he had no choice but to take the position. Sending this arrogant cultist to the position of Secretary of State to find an opportunity to obtain the nuclear code device from the Presidential Palace was the second phase of Senior Lei's White Eagle Fall Plan."

"This……"

The group exchanged glances, and finally one of the elders spoke with a hint of worry:

"But the supernatural realm generally doesn't participate in internal political struggles. The White Eagle Federation Intelligence Agency has comprehensive laws prohibiting any candidate for government official from using supernatural powers to attack opponents during the election campaign... How did that Secretary of State manage to remain undetected?"

“If it were the old White Eagle Federal Intelligence Agency, he really couldn’t have done it.”

Qin Huanyu's smile deepened:

"But Your Excellency, have you forgotten? In the battle of the Imperial Palace, more than 4% of the elite special agents of the White Eagle Federation Intelligence Agency were left here forever... Our 404 Investigation Bureau has always been short-handed, and the White Eagle Federation Intelligence Agency is probably not much better off. Losing 4% of their manpower will only make their human resources situation even more strained in the near future."

"With a severe shortage of manpower, coupled with the recent frequent activities of the Truth Society and the attacks on multiple high-tech research facilities and top technical personnel by supernatural forces, the White Eagle Federal Intelligence Agency's resources are even more insufficient."

"Without a doubt, the period before last was the time when the White Eagle Federation government had the weakest control over the supernatural forces in the country, which gave that Secretary of State the opportunity to succeed."

"...The whole thing was meticulously planned, from luring the White Eagle Federation's elite super agents into the ambush to eliminating the White Eagle Federation's nuclear deterrent. Mingming really succeeded."

The queen murmured, her tone and eyes growing increasingly excited:

"Plus, Qunqun's bloodline awakening and outstanding children like Ayu... indeed, destiny is in our Holy Zhou Kingdom!"

"Your Majesty, please reconsider."

Seeing that the Empress's fighting spirit was almost impossible to conceal, and that she seemed ready to order the troops to march at any moment, another Grand Secretary quickly and cautiously advised:

"Senior Lei's move was indeed brilliant, but depleting the nuclear missiles already deployed by the White Eagle Federation does not mean completely eliminating nuclear deterrence. With their industrial and technological capabilities, they can definitely replenish a large number of nuclear missiles in a short period of time. The only result of rushing into war would be the destruction of the world."

"This...it's really not necessarily true."

Before the Empress could speak, Qin Huanyu interjected, once again displaying an expression of admiration:

"It will be very difficult for the White Eagle Federation to replenish its nuclear missiles in a short period of time... Do you remember that during the second phase of the White Eagle Fall Project, a large number of top talents of the White Eagle Federation died in accidents, and many high-tech research facilities and factories were destroyed?"

"This……"

The old minister's eyes widened:

"Could it be that the top talents who died and the facilities that were destroyed were all essential personnel and equipment for the rapid production of nuclear missiles? How could the White Eagle Federation not be alarmed by such a large loss in a short period of time?"

"The White Eagle Federation is certainly not stupid, but Senior Lei is even more powerful."

Qin Huanyu sighed, thought for a moment, and said: