Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

"Qunqun, your otherworldly ancestor who is as powerful as a god... Hmm, if it is her, it is not surprising that she can construct her own space, but the laws of the otherworld are different from our world, her technology may not be useful to me?" Qin Huanyu seemed a little hesitant.

"It shouldn't be a problem to use it as a reference, right?"

Wu Xiqun pouted again:

"Our bloodline inheritance power is still very strong. Even if the laws are different, it can still be used in this world, right?"

Just because you can use it doesn't mean I can learn it too! If the special abilities of the hero's bloodline could be acquired through training, the royal family would have already found a way.

Qin Huanyu inwardly complained, but still smiled and accepted Wu Xiqun's kindness:

"Then tell me about the skirt."

"Um... let me make this clear first, I don't understand the specific principles behind this at all. I only obtained some information from inherited memories, which is just for your reference, Sister Yu~~"

Wu Xiqun cautiously gave Qin Huanyu a heads-up first, and only after Qin Huanyu nodded did she seriously recall what she had said:

"In my inherited memories, that ability is called a domain. Logically speaking, I should be able to cultivate it, but I'm a bit slow. I've tried a few times but I still can't figure it out."

"According to the inherited memories left by our ancestors, the ability of 'domain' is to use powerful mental strength to distort reality, release one's own mental world, change the battlefield, and gain power boosts or other favorable factors."

"From what you said before, Sister Yu, it seems that you can already construct a virtual world in your own consciousness, which should be similar to the mental image world... The reason you failed is that you couldn't distort reality and turn the virtual world into reality, right?"

"The world of our ancestors had the power of the mind, a power that was very idealistic and magical. Simply put, as long as you had a firm will, you could have anything you wanted... Our world doesn't seem to have this kind of power, but since our world also has ghost realms, there must be some other power that can have the same effect, some kind of miraculous power that can distort reality."

"A kind of miraculous power that can distort reality..."

Qin Huanyu seemed to be deep in thought.

—Could it be spiritual energy? No, it shouldn't be. Spiritual energy is essentially similar to magic, spiritual power, or divine power from other worlds. In fact, ancient practitioners have always called it spiritual power. Essentially, it's just a special kind of energy, extraordinary, but not quite a miracle power.

Does this world possess its own power of miracles?

The answer is yes, and everyone possesses this miraculous power—the fact that countless bizarre things can be born is the best proof of the existence of this miraculous power.

The power of belief is the strongest magic. Gathered prayers can create miracles, even if the prayer-givers themselves are unaware of it... This is why governments around the world now control information about supernatural powers. Once everyone knows about the existence of supernatural powers and starts to have wild fantasies, no one can predict what kind of monsters will be born from the gathered thoughts.

If it is this kind of power, perhaps it is possible to distort reality and then maintain it with spiritual energy?

Qin Huanyu's eyes lit up as she thought about it; she had a new idea she could try.

"It seems you've come up with a new idea, Sister Yu~~"

Wu Xiqun kept watching Qin Huanyu with her chin resting on her hand. She really liked the way Qin Huanyu was so focused when she was doing her research... It would be even better if she were still wearing a white lab coat. She really wanted to roughly tear the white lab coat off Qin Huanyu while she was focused on her research, and see if that focused face could still maintain its focus.

As she indulged in these thoughts, Wu Xiqun felt her body heat up, and some of the constraints on reason in her mind loosened, allowing her to straighten her body and even wink at Qin Huanyu:

"Sister Yu, do you still want the ingredients for that panacea?"

"……want!"

(Materials being collected)

. . . . .

Carrying the things she had snatched from her daughter's mouth, Qin Huanyu went to Linglan's valley again, asking Linglan to help her refine the panacea.

Linglan's desire for the panacea stemmed mainly from the process of refining it and the sense of accomplishment upon completion. She didn't care much about the panacea itself, giving all the finished products to Qin Huanyu without keeping a single sample.

Actually, the finished product wasn't much; it was less than 150 milliliters of liquid medicine, less than a bottle of yogurt, not even enough for a few sips.

According to Lily of the Valley, this panacea is also a very metaphysical medicine. Drinking it can cure poisoning, heal injuries, cure illnesses, and enhance certain attributes.

After obtaining the panacea and the new ideas, Qin Huanyu returned to the Ling Su Research Institute and began attempting to construct imaginary space once again.

This time, instead of trying to achieve everything at once and abandoning the idea of ​​directly constructing imaginary space, she planned to use the concept of artificial grotesqueness to first bring a virtual existence into reality in a grotesque form, observe the process, and thus find the secret to distorting reality.

To ensure that this artificially created grotesque character was harmless, Qin Huanyu chose a popular high school girl from a large number of slice-of-life anime works. In the work, that character was just an ordinary person with no superpowers or ambitions, and a perfectly normal personality. Her immense popularity was solely due to her long legs in black stockings and her pretty face.

Afterwards, Qin Huanyu selected several hundred anime enthusiasts from among the Jade Network Linkers, mostly students from Baiguang City. She slightly interfered with these Linkers' dreams through the Jade Network, allowing each Linker to date that anime high school girl in their dreams, and the dreams of the second day were connected to those of the first day.

Most anime and manga fans are not good at socializing, and it's even more impossible for them to talk about such a shameful dream of meeting their anime/manga waifus in their dreams. Several days have passed and no strange rumors have emerged.

The selected anime and manga fans themselves didn't really care much about the dream at first, because they had similar dreams before, only to wake up at the most crucial moment due to a lack of certain knowledge.

This time, the dream felt more real and didn't break off at crucial points. The dreamer's lack of knowledge was compensated for by the active role of the two-dimensional wife in the dream. More importantly, the dream plot was continuous, and every night the dreamer could continue their relationship with the two-dimensional wife in the dream.

This situation is rather mysterious. Even if most of these students who are dreaming are quite staunch materialists, they can't help but wonder—could it be that my two-dimensional waifu actually exists in another world? Can I really meet her in my dreams every night?

It doesn't matter if one or two people think this way, but when hundreds of people have this thought, the accumulated longing can give birth to the weakest of grotesque things.

That super popular anime girl high school student has truly become a monster, similar in nature to a dream demon or succubus. In exchange for absorbing a small amount of vital energy, she brings people erotic dreams, making her one of the most harmless monsters.

Qin Huanyu followed the entire process of this bizarre birth, and as she had expected, she discovered many secrets and gained new insights.

Qin Huanyu understood why her previous attempts had failed.

In a normal ghost realm, the XYZ coordinates are all real numbers, meaning it overlaps with the present world and may even share the same matter. Therefore, its L value must be an imaginary number so that it can overlap with the present world yet remain independent of it, and not be overwhelmed by the present world due to the overlap of matter.

The virtual world on the internet does not exist in the real world, and even if you give it false XYZ coordinates, it's useless. These XYZ coordinates may appear to be real numbers, but when translated into real-world spatial coordinates, they would be imaginary numbers, not recognized by the real world; they are merely a set of electrical signal data in a machine.

Based on this, the imaginary value L added by Qin Huanyu is equivalent to making something that is already false even more false, so it is impossible to construct a real ghost realm.

To turn the virtual world into a ghostly realm in the real world, the L-axis of the virtual world should not be set as an imaginary number, but as a real number.

Because the virtual world and the real world are opposites, the real numbers XYZ axes in the virtual world become imaginary numbers in the real world. And the real numbers L axes in the virtual world become imaginary numbers in the real world. Under the maintenance of spiritual elements, they share material resources with the real world, yet they exist independently.

This phenomenon was witnessed by Qin Huanyu herself during the birth of that monstrous dream.

That anime-style high school girl was originally a purely fictional character.

Qin Huanyu didn't understand how to create humans, but she could tell that the life data of that anime girl was originally an imaginary number in the real world. It was the overflowing thoughts of anime fans that distorted reality and gave her an extra real number, L, which allowed her to be born as a monster. After that, she went from being a virtual character to a real monster. Her life data changed from an imaginary number to a real number, while the L value changed from a real number to an imaginary number. She also had no physical existence and could only enter people's dreams.

Whether it's a virtual character or a virtual space, the key to turning it into reality is to give it a real value L in the virtual world and then maintain it with spiritual elements.

Qin Huanyu has the Jade Net and the Church of Arrogance. She has no shortage of the human power of thought that can create miracles. She can easily capture a little bit of the overflowing thoughts every day.

However, for her first attempt, Qin Huanyu chose to be cautious. She did not construct a ghost realm that was about the size of a city, nor did she build a ghost realm castle like Wild Hunt. Instead, she only built a small villa in the virtual world, which was basically a replica of her house in Baibo Huafu.

This size of imaginary space requires very little spiritual energy to maintain and is very simple to construct.

After about three days of calculation and deduction, and after 11 more mistakes, Qin Huanyu finally succeeded on the 12th attempt.

Qin Huanyu constructed the [Imaginary Number. Baibo Huafu], which is exactly the same as the Ghost Realm. It is located at the current location of Baibo Huafu, with the same XYZ coordinate values, except that the L coordinate value is an imaginary number.

Perhaps because this imaginary space was born from the network, although the space of [Imaginary Number. Baibo Huafu] is much smaller than that of a normal ghost realm, its entrances and exits are much more flexible.

The entrance and exit of 【Imaginary Number. White Wave Mansion】 is a monitor screen. After being activated with spiritual essence, people can enter and exit this imaginary space directly through the screen, just like entering a two-dimensional world.

This is also the most powerful feature of [Imaginary Number. Baibo Huafu]: its entrance and exit do not necessarily have to be within the current Baibo Huafu area, but can be any monitor connected to the Baibo Huafu network.

In other words, wherever Qin Huanyu wants to go now, she can first connect to the network there, and then directly jump out of the destination's display screen through the imaginary space, just like a teleportation portal, except that she needs to go through the imaginary space as a transit point.

"Hahaha, it's done!"

Like a child who has just received a new toy, Qin Huanyu ran back and forth through the imaginary space, having a great time.

Initially, Qin Huanyu's mobile network coverage was limited to a certain range.

They conducted tests on various unused monitors at the Lingsu Research Institute, then went to the Cyber ​​Security Division of the Baiguang City Police Department to wake up Duanmu Ling, who was sleeping in late for work, and gave her a lecture. They also randomly scared a few otaku who were playing games, making them think their computers were infected with a virus and prompting them to quickly download antivirus software.

As Qin Huanyu became more and more familiar with the imaginary space and more and more proficient with network mobility, she tried long-distance roaming, with her first stop naturally being the Imperial Palace of the Divine Capital.

When Qin Huanyu first arrived at the palace via the internet, she was somewhat surprised but not entirely surprised to find that the palace also employed extraordinary methods for network defense.

It seems to be some kind of spirit-refining technique used by ancient practitioners. The network firewall in the palace actually has its own consciousness. It is a peculiar creature that is half data and half spirit, and its strength in the network is not weak.

Fortunately, Qin Huanyu was already on the royal family's whitelist, and the strange creature who called himself the "Firewall General" also knew her, so there was no conflict between them.

After entering the palace's network, Qin Huanyu first went to Wu Xiqun's place and saw Wu Xiqun showing her daughter, who was less than a month old, a comic book.

The baby's soft little hands couldn't turn the pages yet, but his eyes were bright and he was watching intently, as if he really understood. Every now and then he would rub against Wu Xi's skirt, indicating to his mother that it was time to turn the page.

Nangong Yue was still not there. It seemed that the Qinglan Research Institute had made great progress recently, and Wu Xiqun had also successfully given birth to her child. Nangong Yue then went to work.

Qin Huanyu secretly observed Wu Xiqun through the computer monitor in her room for a while, and it seemed that Wu Xiqun, with her super strong spiritual sense, sensed it.

"...Is that Sister Yu?"

Staring at the black screen of the computer on the table, Wu Xiqun looked somewhat puzzled:

"I think I can sense your power, but how did you get into the computer? This shouldn't be just a separate thread of thought, right? It feels like you can jump out of the computer at any time."

"Because my imaginary space has been successfully constructed~~"

The first thing to step out of the screen was a boot, followed by long legs encased in black stockings, and finally Qin Huanyu herself jumped out of the screen with a grin, causing the curious baby to stare wide-eyed, and even Wu Xiqun could not hide her surprise.

"So fast?"

Wu Xiqun exclaimed in surprise, then blushed slightly:

"Was it the help I gave you last time, Sister Yu, that worked? Was it the ancestral memories I obtained from my bloodline inheritance? Or was it the ingredients for the Panacea?"

"Yes, it's true that you were a great help, Skirt. Both of those favors were very important, which is why I came to thank you as soon as I succeeded. I haven't even gone to see Youyou yet."

Qin Huanyu said very seriously:

"Queen, your ancestral memories inspired me and guided me in the right direction for research. The panacea enhanced my condition in every way when I took action, allowing me to complete the research smoothly without experiencing many failures."

"...Hehe, I'm glad I could help Sister Yu."

Upon hearing Qin Huanyu's words, Wu Xiqun immediately showed a happy expression.

Especially when Qin Huanyu said that she hadn't even met Yi Youyou yet, she came to see her first, which gave her a unique sense of excitement and pleasure.

"correct."

After laughing a few times, Wu Xiqun suddenly thought of something and quickly pointed at her daughter, saying:

"In a few days, the girl will be a month old. Grandmother is preparing to hold a banquet to celebrate. She will officially bestow a name upon the girl at the banquet and make you the girl's godmother... Only a few of us should know that you are her biological mother. To the outside world, she must be the child of me and Sister Yue."

"Yes, I understand."

Qin Huanyu had anticipated this, and calmly waved her hand:

"Godmother is fine, anyway she calls me Mom in private... As long as she doesn't make me her godfather, it's fine. I always feel that title is a bit dangerous."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Wu Xiqun was clearly familiar with the famous "godfather" joke, and she laughed along with Qin Huanyu.

The two chatted for about half an hour. When the little girl started fussing about wanting to eat again, Qin Huanyu finally went back to the computer screen and left the palace.

Yi Youyou is now almost five months pregnant. She has long since handed over all the work of the Luantai Siming to Hattori Sayo and other subordinates, and spends her days taking care of her pregnancy. She spends most of her time in the palace and a small amount of time at Shendu University with her grandmother.

At this time, Yi Qiushui should be busy with her own things. Yi Youyou is home alone, lying on the bed watching a drama on the projector screen on the opposite wall, with a lot of snacks next to her.

Qin Huanyu secretly observed Yi Youyou's phone, which was placed next to the snacks, for a while, and then began to play pranks on Yi Youyou... She would sneak a snack when Yi Youyou wasn't paying attention, and would also reach out from the phone screen to touch Yi Youyou's legs.

"You're going to die! You idiot, Ayu!"

Yi Youyou was very nervous when her leg was attacked. She thought that enemies had broken into her house. She even took out her Yuyu Umbrella, ready to fight at any time.

Upon realizing that it was Qin Huanyu who had played the prank, she breathed a sigh of relief, while simultaneously stomping on Qin Huanyu's feet twice in anger.

"I could tolerate you playing these pranks on me in the past, but why now? Aren't you afraid that I'll be frightened and hurt our child?"

"...Uh, that's true. Sorry, I didn't think it through."

Qin Huanyu quickly admitted her mistake:

"I'm quite excited because the research was just successful."

Yi Youyou had always been curious about Qin Huanyu's research on constructing imaginary space. When she heard Qin Huanyu say that the research was successful, she immediately asked for more details.

Qin Huanyu first proudly showed off her research process, and then took Yi Youyou to personally experience the magic of the imaginary space—using the imaginary space as a transit point, the two of them traveled from the capital to Baiguang City in just over 10 seconds, which was very fast, very stable, and very safe.

Actually, if the child weren't too young to run around, Wu Xiqun would have really wanted to experience this kind of network teleportation through imaginary space.

How secure is this imaginary space?

Perhaps it was her instinct as a phantom thief, but after experiencing the wonders of the imaginary space, Yi Youyou immediately thought of this:

"According to what you've said, Ayu, your imaginary space is similar in nature to the Ghost Realm, but its entrance and exit are any monitor screen that can connect to the Baibo Hua Mansion's network. So, if a hacker first infiltrates Baibo Hua Mansion in the real world via the network, and then uses the same methods that superhumans use to forcibly open the Ghost Realm, could they forcibly enter this imaginary space without your consent? Or even sneak in without your knowledge?"

"No..."

"Don't rush to say it's impossible."

Yi Youyou anticipated what Qin Huanyu was about to say and shook her finger:

"I know that your computing power is unparalleled, Ayu. As long as you are in charge, almost no one in the world can break through your network security. But you can't always be prepared for the worst, and you can't keep most of your computing power here as a firewall forever, can you?"

"...emmm, that's true."

Qin Huanyu pondered for a while and had to admit that Yi Youyou's concerns were justified.

Putting everything else aside, if someone were to infiltrate the network while she and Yi Youyou were being intimate, she would most likely be unable to defend herself, as she would be completely distracted at the time. The Imaginary Space is undoubtedly one of Qin Huanyu's most important assets and experimental subjects, and she absolutely cannot allow outsiders to intrude.