Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

Qin Huanyu also liked gold, but not much of it; she was more interested in technology.

Those White Eagle officials and capitalists were ruthless enough to get rich by going to the Holy Zhou Kingdom.

They sold off all the technology that the White Eagle government and military could sell, and for those they couldn't get the technical data from, they simply kidnapped the technical personnel.

Anyway, when Qin Huanyu asked for the technology related to soul datafication, the White Eagle officials and capitalists gave her several different kinds of computer hard drives and a bag of paper research notes, as well as three scientists who were tied up and blindfolded.

Qin Huanyu didn't want to casually display her ability to forcibly connect to the brain and read memories, so she entrusted the three scientists to the soldiers of the Yaoguang ship and started looking at the data herself.

The research notes on various hard drives and paper contained a lot of information. If other scientists were to study them all, it would probably take them several months just to read them all, but Qin Huanyu did it very quickly.

Once the hard drive and alloy tentacles are connected, the data can be copied within seconds. Paper research notes, on the other hand, take about half a second to read a page; sometimes, even flipping through the pages can't keep up with Qin Huanyu's reading speed.

By the time dawn broke, Qin Huanyu had almost finished reviewing the information.

There were some gains, but not many, at least not as many as the gains from the first encounter with the mechanical spider.

These materials are indeed related to the field of soul datafication, but Qin Huanyu had already deduced most of the results using the mechanical spider. Moreover, these materials are mostly from a year ago, with very few recent findings, and absolutely no information about brainwave enhancers.

Qin Huanyu felt that the three scientists who were arrested were perhaps more important.

So she washed her face, tidied up her slightly unsightly appearance after staying up all night, and carried a few cups of coffee on a tray to the room where the three scientists were being held.

As soon as Qin Huanyu reached the door of the room, she heard arguing.

When the three scientists were delivered earlier, they were all injected with sedatives, but now all three are awake and are yelling at the soldiers on the Yaoguang.

The soldiers of the Yaoguang followed Qin Huanyu's orders and did not use force against the three scientists, but they also did not answer any of their questions, leaving the three scientists anxious and angry, causing quite a commotion.

Fortunately, Qin Huanyu arrived just in time.

A beautiful woman with a certain level of charm can be considered to have a magical effect. At least, the three male scientists couldn't muster any anger after seeing Qin Huanyu's smiling face.

Qin Huanyu gave each of the three of them a cup of coffee, without even asking their names. After a few simple pleasantries, she got straight to the point and began discussing technology.

At first, the three men wanted to show off in front of the beautiful woman. After all, they could be considered the top scientists in the White Eagle, and they had the right to be arrogant and boastful.

But soon, the three men were surprised to find that this beautiful woman was no ordinary person—they didn't know as much about the topics they wanted to show off as Qin Huanyu did, and they actually benefited a lot from what the beautiful woman said.

The anger of the three scientists who had been ambushed, kidnapped, and imprisoned dissipated during their conversation with Qin Huanyu, and the two sides got along very well.

Qin Huanyu originally intended to treat these three scientists as human hard drives, forcibly accessing their memories and then discarding them.

However, during the technical exchange, Qin Huanyu had to admit that these three scientists were exceptionally talented. Of all the people she knew, the only one who could surpass them in scientific research talent was Qin Hai.

So Qin Huanyu changed her mind and bluntly invited the three scientists to join the Holy Zhou Kingdom—letting them continue to use their talents to study science was much more valuable than reading their memories and then throwing them away.

Another reason is that Qin Huanyu discovered during technical exchanges that these three scientists did not possess the bad habits of most White Eagle people. Apart from being slightly arrogant, they were basically no different from the researchers Qin Huanyu had encountered since childhood; they were all science and engineering men with a deep passion for science.

Faced with Qin Huanyu's invitation, the three scientists hesitated only slightly before agreeing.

People aren't stupid. If the officials and capitalists of the White Eagle Federation want to move to the Holy Zhou Kingdom, others naturally want to live in a safe country as well. They just don't have the means or the guarantee that they won't be bullied by the locals once they arrive. After all, the relationship between the White Eagle Federation and the Holy Zhou Kingdom is really bad. In the past, people from both sides would often hurl insults at each other online over some trivial issues.

After the incident in the White Eagle Federation, the three scientists actually considered moving to a safer country to continue their research, but they were unable to leave and were immediately taken into custody by the White Eagle military.

Now that they have the opportunity to spread their influence to the Holy Zhou Kingdom, they naturally will not refuse.

However, after accepting Qin Huanyu's offer to recruit them, the three scientists also made a request.

They are scientists, but they are also normal people with wives, children, and parents. They want to bring their families to live in the Holy Zhou Kingdom.

This request is reasonable, and their families, once they arrive in the Holy Zhou Kingdom, can both allow them to stay there and conduct their research with peace of mind, and also become a handle for the Holy Zhou Kingdom to control them. There is no reason to refuse.

Qin Huanyu readily agreed. After finding out the addresses of the three scientists' families, she greeted Yuan Qi and personally put on her armor and flew to Jinshan City on the west coast to pick up all the scientists' families and bring them aboard the Yaoguang.

Watching the three scientists reunite with their families and dream about their bright future, Qin Huanyu felt a sense of satisfaction, believing she had done a good deed.

But this seemingly trivial matter in Qin Huanyu's eyes triggered some unexpected events.

Those White Eagle officials and capitalists who wanted to enrich themselves in the Holy Zhou Kingdom were only a part of the White Eagle's upper echelons. There were still true patriots among the White Eagle's upper echelons, and they would never abandon the country and take their wealth to other places.

The leader of these White Eagle Patriots is General Ron, the current highest-ranking military commander of the White Eagle government on the West Coast.

General Ron has a strong grip on the White Eagle government on the West Coast. Those White Eagle officials and capitalists who wanted to profit had gone to great lengths to deceive General Ron.

The technical information that Qin Huanyu wanted was unavailable to those officials and capitalists because White Eagle's advanced research system was almost entirely controlled by General Ron's personal guards.

Those officials and capitalists went to great lengths, bribing many people, before they finally managed to kidnap the three scientists.

But the officials and capitalists were powerless to do anything about the families of the three scientists, who had been living under General Ron's surveillance all along.

When Qin Huanyu went to pick up the families of the three scientists, General Ron's agents saw her. They considered stopping her, but the high-tech armor Qin Huanyu was wearing intimidated them.

So Qin Huanyu's process of receiving the person went smoothly, but General Ron was alarmed.

General Ron had long suspected something was amiss with the Yao Guang, but the officials and capitalists who wanted to profit from it were well-prepared and had bribed many people beforehand, which prevented General Ron from realizing their intentions in the short term.

With the lead that three scientists' family members had been taken away, General Ron and his agents followed the clues and quickly uncovered the Run people's conspiracy.

He was furious.

It's not surprising that these good-for-nothings and unscrupulous merchants want to make money off him. He even vaguely feels that it's better for these people to get out of here sooner rather than later, because there's no way that the White Eagle Federation can become great again by staying with those people.

But it was intolerable that those people would also take away all of the Federal Bank's gold reserves and the Federation's most important scientific research personnel.

General Ron took decisive action.

So when the Yaoguang was preparing to return with a ship full of White Eagle gold and people, it suddenly found itself surrounded by the White Eagle army on the west coast.

During the negotiations, General Ron presented a great deal of evidence from the Runren people and insisted on detaining the Yaoguang.

It's impossible for General Ron to detain them, but now that relations have soured, the chances of the Yao Guang leaving the White Eagle's west coast peacefully are almost zero.

So the captain of the Yaoguang, along with Yuan Qi and Qin Huanyu, briefly discussed the matter and held a short meeting with the other officers on board for less than five minutes. They decided to ignore General Ron's warning and force a breakout.

Seeing that the Yao Guang ignored the warnings and took off to escape, General Ron did not hold back and ordered fighter jets from the West Coast military airfield and the White Eagle Fleet aircraft carriers to take off simultaneously to shoot down the Yao Guang.

The scene from the first combat test of the Yaoguang was recreated, showing that the performance of the White Eagle Federation's most advanced fighter jet was similar to that of the Saint Zhou Kingdom fighter jet that participated in the test that day.

The fighter squadron of Saint Zhou Kingdom was no match for Yao Guang. The dozens of fighters of White Eagle Federation were also helpless against Yao Guang. Before they could get close to the effective range of an air-to-air missile, they would be locked on by Yao Guang, and the missiles they launched would not be able to penetrate its defenses at all.

The Yaoguang initially showed some leniency, only locking onto the White Eagle fighters with its fire control radar and not actually attacking them with missiles.

But the White Eagle fighters were unmoved. Even though they couldn't break through the Yao Guang's defensive light barrier, they kept buzzing around the Yao Guang like flies and refused to leave.

So the Yaoguang stopped holding back and launched over a hundred air-to-air missiles in one go, shooting down almost all of the White Eagle fighters.

However, Yao Guang did not finish them off. The missiles did not directly target the cockpit, giving the White Eagle pilots a chance to parachute, and did not finish them off.

The failure to stop the Yao Guang and the loss of dozens of fighter jets enraged General Ron, who ordered all anti-aircraft weapons to concentrate fire on the Yao Guang.

Hundreds and thousands of anti-aircraft missiles crashed into the Yaoguang's defensive light screen once again, causing the Yaoguang to explode in flames, which frightened the people of Run to turn pale and their hands and feet to turn cold.

The officers and soldiers of the Holy Zhou Kingdom remained calm, and the Yao Guang remained unmoved amidst the concentrated fire of various anti-aircraft missiles, braving the attack to break through the western coast and quickly fly westward.

Even with the light screen activated for defense, the Yao Guang can maintain a speed of around 400 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than surface ships at sea, and the Eagle Union Navy simply cannot catch up with it.

Carrier-based aircraft can catch up, but even if they do, it's useless; they'll still be shot down.

"...Use a mental storm!"

Seeing that if things continued like this, the Yao Guang would really have to flee, General Ron's face, as black as a tea egg, remained grim for a long time before he gritted his teeth and made a decision:

"Use a mental storm to sink that ship! We can't let it get away like this!"

“It would be too wasteful to sink it directly, General… It’s already at sea, and if it’s sunk, all that gold will be scattered across the ocean.”

A young man standing next to General Ron suddenly had an idea and quickly advised:

“I have a better way. Perhaps we can not only stop those bastards from escaping and get back all our gold and technology, but also seize this ship.”

"any solution?"

General Ron stared at him and asked.

"We'll still use the mind storm from the brainwave enhancer, but not to destroy it. Instead, we'll hack into it—hack into the ship's control system."

The young man's tone grew increasingly excited, and he was very confident in his brilliant idea:

"I am your chief hacker and cybersecurity advisor, General! As long as those psychic individuals cooperate fully with me through the network of the brainwave enhancement device, I will definitely be able to help you reclaim that gold and obtain that ship!"

"it is good!"

The young hacker's words were logical, and General Ron was indeed very impressed with the technological capabilities displayed by the Yaoguang and wanted to possess it.

So General Ron agreed to the plan and quickly gathered the psychic ability users he had hired, activated the brainwave enhancement device that had already been used once, and set out to take down the Yao Guang.

The young hacker lay on a mechanical chair, wearing a headphone-like connection device. He quickly immersed his consciousness into the network through human-machine direct connection technology. With the help of the brainwave enhancement device and the psychic, he sent his consciousness out like radio waves, instantly arriving above the Yao Guang.

"What a beautiful and powerful ship..."

As his consciousness surveyed the Yao Guang, protected by the light barrier, the young hacker in the mechanical chair licked his lips, his expression gradually turning sinister.

"I love entering such beautiful and powerful things and then possessing them... Hehehehehe, beautiful ship girl, I'm coming in!"

"Wow! As expected of a beautiful ship girl, your system is amazing... Hmm? How come you have this kind of technology too?"

A hint of surprise and doubt appeared on the young hacker's twisted face, but before General Ron could ask him what he had discovered or gained, that surprise and doubt turned into horror, and finally despair.

"What...what is this? This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could such an outrageous existence exist? No!!!"

Bang!

With the young hacker's final desperate scream, his eyeballs suddenly exploded like light bulbs, splattering blood all over General Ron and other nearby officers.

"Disconnect! Turn off the brainwave enhancer! Quickly!"

General Ron reacted quickly, not even bothering to wipe the blood off his face, and immediately gave the order.

But it was still a step too late.

"Ah~~~~!"

Those psychic users who used the brainwave enhancement device also screamed in agony. Unlike the young hacker, whose eyeballs exploded and who died on the spot, they were all pale and in pain, clearly having suffered serious injuries.

What made General Ron even more desperate was that the technicians in charge of operating the brainwave enhancer also quickly panicked—the brainwave enhancer had gone out of control! They failed to gain control of the Yao Guang's system and instead lost control of the brainwave enhancer the moment they connected.

"Hehe~~"

Accompanied by a melodious, bell-like laugh, a hot and beautiful anime girl appeared on all the display screens of the brainwave enhancer. She was dressed in a classic witch outfit, wearing a long robe, riding a broom, and wearing a tricorn hat.

"General Ron, you're such a good person~~"

The anime witch, with a sweet smile, sat sideways on a broom, her hands clasped in front of her chest, making a heart shape with her hands:

"Seeing that they were about to leave, you even gave them the complete set of brainwave enhancement technology that they wanted most. You're such a good man, so generous. Thank you!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

General Ron's face turned a deep liver color. Extreme anger caused him to lose his composure. Amidst the horrified expressions of the technicians, he pulled out his pistol and fired a burst of shots at the display screen of the brainwave enhancement device, emptying the magazine.

The mocking laughter of the two-dimensional witch finally disappeared, but the brainwave enhancement device also malfunctioned and would need at least one major overhaul before it could be used again.

"Hahahahaha..."

On the bridge of the Yaoguang, Qin Huanyu burst into laughter, genuinely overjoyed.

If General Ron were to launch a mental storm attack on the Yao Guang directly using the brainwave enhancer, it would indeed be quite troublesome. Qin Huanyu would have to take over the Yao Guang's mothership defense system and personally control those drones to defend against them, but that would only be enough to defend against them; there would be no way to retaliate.

General Ron, however, chose to use a hacker's brainwaves to infiltrate the Yao Guang's system, which was like a monkey trying to slide tackle a tiger.

Qin Huanyu not only easily defended against and counterattacked to kill the intruder, but also followed the intruder's path to infiltrate the brainwave enhancement device, directly seeing all of its technologies!

This gain was quite significant for Qin Huanyu, because the brainwave enhancement device could be considered the pinnacle of the White Eagle Federation's achievements in the field of soul datafication. Now, all these achievements belonged to Qin Huanyu, and they came without any effort at all—like an online game player killing a chicken but gaining the experience and rewards of defeating the highest-level BOSS!

Chapter 209 The Final Power of Lightning

This trip to the White Eagle's West Coast was a great success.

Qin Huanyu obtained all of the White Eagle Federation's research results in the field of soul datafication, and also recruited three very talented scientists.

Although the Yao Guang brought back a lot of people from the White Eagle Federation, and these people will likely cause some trouble after arriving in the Holy Zhou Kingdom, the nearly 2000 tons of high-purity gold that went into the Yao Guang's warehouse with them still made this a huge profit.

The return journey went smoothly without any incidents. After all, the Yaoguang is an aerospace carrier capable of cruising at 800 kilometers per hour, and no ground or surface weapon can catch up with it. Simply chasing it with aircraft would be a complete waste of time.

The Yaoguang did not return directly to its base near the capital of the Eastern Divine Continent, but instead landed at an air force base in Sakura Province.

After negotiations and discussions, the officials and capitalists who had come from the White Eagles all chose to stay and live in Sakura Prefecture.

During the previous rivalry between the two countries, they did a lot of underhanded tricks. If they didn't fight militarily, they would infiltrate each other economically and culturally. This was something everyone tacitly understood.

Sakura Province has always been a key target for infiltration by the White Eagle Federation. Many large businessmen here have received covert funding from the White Eagle Federation. Now, it is clear that the White Eagle's people will be more comfortable settling down in Sakura Province than in Dong Shenzhou.

The Holy Zhou Kingdom did not stop them, allowing the White Eagle Runners to land in Sakura Province. They could continue doing business or something else as they pleased, but they had to abide by the laws of the Holy Zhou Kingdom.

The methods used in the White Eagle Federation to manipulate legal provisions and control the courts to evade legal sanctions will not work in the Holy Zhou Kingdom, because when you cross the line in the Holy Zhou Kingdom, someone will simply ignore all legal procedures and kill you.

If these wealthy officials and capitalists who have come from the West were smart enough to behave themselves, abide by the law, and conduct business honestly, they could easily continue to live comfortably as rich people, given the wealth and business acumen they have brought with them.