Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

Qin Huanyu took another sip of iced cola and said with some amusement:

"Is it possible that Xiaohan, you're really overthinking things?"

"Why are you saying that even, Sister Qin?"

Lu Han's voice immediately turned dissatisfied, full of a coquettish tone:

"Sister Qin, you haven't even asked about the details of the case yet~~"

"……Alright alright."

Qin Huanyu shrugged helplessly. She had always liked Lu Han, and after being chosen as the successor to the investigator, she doted on him like a younger sister. At this moment, she spoke in a very indulgent tone:

"Xiaohan, can you tell me about the case?"

"This……"

When it came to discussing the case details, Lu Han started to stammer again:

"The case is actually very simple. Someone suddenly awakened superpowers and went out of control, causing chaos on the street and injuring several people. I finally arrived and stopped him."

"Yes, it's a very common case of ability users going out of control... Many ability users awaken their abilities because of huge emotional stimulation, so it's normal for them to go berserk and lose control after awakening their abilities."

Qin Huanyu gave a brief comment, then asked:

"And then? Xiao Han, why do you think there's more to this than meets the eye?"

"I……"

As a result, Lu Han became even more hesitant, his tone filled with regret and shame, and he couldn't say anything useful for a long time.

Qin Huanyu had guessed what was going on, sighed silently, and said gently:

"Xiaohan, did you make some mistake before? Like, did you use your abilities to bully others?"

"Goo!"

Lu Han immediately let out a scream like a defeated female knight, first admitting her mistake with embarrassment, then saying with some resentment:

"But you can't blame me entirely, Sister Qin~~ Putting aside the facts, isn't that guy completely without fault? He wanted to pursue my girlfriend!"

"Oh? It involves relationship issues? You really bullied a rival in love?"

Qin Huanyu became even more curious and quickly opened another can of iced cola:

"Quick, tell your sister what happened!"

"……Why."

Lu Han knew she couldn't hide it any longer, and since she had chosen to call Qin Huanyu, she hadn't really intended to keep it a secret forever, so she simply told her everything:

"Sister Qin, as you know, because of that incident where the tiger attacked people, I saved the damsel in distress and suddenly got three girlfriends... Over the years, although we've fought and argued, our relationship has only gotten better and better, and we've decided that the four of us will spend our lives like this."

"When we graduated from high school, as we had agreed beforehand, we applied to the same university, which is the sister school of Shendu University that was newly opened in our Baiguang City, and we were both admitted."

"Of course, I was only nominally enrolled at the university and rarely attended classes. I spent most of my time training at the research institute and carrying out investigator duties."

"This gave some people an opportunity. A boy in our year took a liking to one of my girlfriends and pursued her relentlessly, refusing to give up even after being rejected multiple times."

"I had no choice but to personally tell him that my girlfriend was already taken."

"Although he was very shocked to see it with his own eyes, he still respected us and didn't harass my girlfriend again afterward... From this point of view, he's actually a pretty good person, right?"

"Ah."

After Qin Huanyu gave an affirmative answer, Lu Han continued her story:

"But what I didn't expect was that after he dumped one of my girlfriends, he started pursuing another one of my girlfriends, and he was still persistent in that way."

"I couldn't possibly show favoritism... So I made another grand entrance, showing affection with my girlfriends in front of him, hoping to completely extinguish his hopes."

"I didn't expect that this tactic wouldn't work. Not only did he not give up, he also used very strong words to call me a scumbag and said that he would rescue my three girlfriends from my side and lead them back to the right path."

"I immediately got angry too... The way he said it made it sound like my girlfriends were going astray by being with me? So I immediately started arguing with him, but..."

At this point, Lu Han sighed dejectedly again:

"I didn't win the argument... I was having an affair and was juggling three relationships at the same time. It seems that I have no legal standing, both morally and legally. I couldn't win the argument at all."

"So, Xiaohan, you chose to reason with him using your fists?"

Qin Huanyu covered her lower abdomen with one hand, struggling to suppress her laughter.

"...Yes, I was so angry and embarrassed that I beat him up."

Lu Han gave a wry smile, then explained in a coquettish tone:

"You have to understand me, Sister Qin~~ My three girlfriends were all watching at the time, how could I possibly show weakness? If someone were to criticize you with a bunch of high-sounding principles in front of Sister Youyou, wouldn't you also want to punch a few holes in him, right?"

"...Xiaohan, you didn't actually make a hole for him, did you?"

Qin Huanyu frowned slightly:

"Shooting civilians out of personal emotion is the most serious violation of discipline!"

"Of course not, I just beat him up with my fists and feet... Do I need a gun to deal with an ordinary male college student? I could have taken him down with just one foot!"

Lu Han quickly said, then her voice became somewhat hesitant:

"But after beating him up, I also thoroughly humiliated him... First, I asked him what he was best at, then I showed him that I was far superior in that area, and I dragged my three girlfriends along to call him a piece of trash. I also said that the good women in this world would rather have a great woman like me as part of their harem than give a piece of trash like him a second glance... Anyway, I just kept saying things like that, and I really humiliated him. He was lying on the ground with a bruised and swollen face, and his eyes were completely vacant."

"So he awakened superpowers as a result, and even went berserk on the spot?"

Qin Huanyu first made a guess, then denied it herself:

"That's not right... Xiaohan, you said before that he was running wild in the streets... He only awakened his superpowers later? Do you think his awakening of superpowers is related to the way you humiliated him, Xiaohan?"

"I...I don't know."

Lu Han's voice became somewhat bewildered:

"After beating him up and humiliating him, I felt good at the time, but looking back, I actually regretted it a little."

"After all, that guy is actually a decent person, and it's normal for him to be angry when he sees that the girl he likes is just one of the harem members of a scumbag. I shouldn't have gone too far back then."

"So I inquired about him, hoping to find an opportunity to apologize to him and explain my past relationships with my wives... I believe he will eventually understand."

"I didn't expect that after asking around, I found out that he hadn't gone to school since I humiliated him."

“At first I thought he had done something drastic and I was terrified. I even went to the police station to ask Brother Liu to help me contact the school, only to find out it was a false alarm... He is a day student who lives in Baiguang City, and he wasn't attending classes without a reason, but was sick and recuperating at home.”

“I thought this was a good opportunity, so I planned to talk to him again under the guise of visiting him in the hospital. I looked up his home address and phone number and prepared to buy some fruit to visit him.”

"I didn't expect that when I called his family, his parents reacted very strangely, saying that his illness made it inconvenient for him to see people, and they refused to let me visit him no matter what."

“I naturally won’t force him; I plan to wait until he recovers and returns to school before looking for him.”

"Unexpectedly, when I saw him again, he had turned into a stone man and had completely lost his mind, causing chaos in the streets. I had no choice but to knock him down."

"……Um."

Qin Huanyu finished her second can of iced cola, tossed the empty can into the trash can, and tapped the table with her finger.

"So? Xiaohan, what do you think is unusual about his awakening of superpowers?"

"I……"

Lu Han swallowed hard and said with a wry smile:

"Don't many novels have similar plots? After the protagonist's rival fails to win over the protagonist's wife and is severely humiliated by the protagonist, he will go down the evil path in order to gain the power of revenge... So at first I was very suspicious that he might have been deceived, used some supernatural items, or taken some drugs he shouldn't have. After all, there are many young men who are humiliated by their rivals every day, it's impossible that I would happen to meet someone who can awaken superpowers, right?"

"That's true."

Qin Huanyu nodded slightly, acknowledging this, and then asked:

"So? Xiaohan, you conducted another in-depth investigation. Did you find anything?"

"No."

Lu Han's voice became dejected again:

“I knocked him down yesterday morning after he went berserk. I didn’t eat lunch yesterday and investigated the matter until the evening, but I found nothing.”

“I checked the communication records of his whole family during this period, and also watched all the surveillance videos in his neighborhood. I even went to his house to scan with a spirit element detector... The result was that no suspicious people had contacted him during this period, and there were no supernatural items in his house. He seems to have just awakened his abilities after being stimulated and went berserk again.”

"If that's the case, then why do you still feel there are suspicious points about his affairs, Xiaohan?"

Qin Huanyu asked in confusion.

连她都觉得这次大概率是陆涵想多了，这就是一个悲催男大学生遭情敌羞辱后觉醒异能，结果失控了又被揍一顿的故事。

"Because I also checked his medical records from several visits during this period."

Lu Han's voice suddenly became somewhat strange:

"Sister Qin, guess what illness he has contracted while staying home and resting instead of going to school?"

"How could I possibly have guessed that..."

Qin Huanyu shrugged and even joked:

"It can't be lovesickness, can it? But lovesickness isn't really an illness."

"Of course it's not lovesickness."

Lu Han wasn't joking; her tone became serious.

"He has pica! He suddenly developed a craving for stones, and after eating stones, he would get even more high than if he had inhaled special flour... That's why his parents were so against me visiting him! And the superpower he finally awakened was turning into a stone man... I don't think it's a coincidence that someone with pica who craved stones ended up turning into a stone!"

"What? Pica?"

Qin Huanyu immediately stood up from her chair.

She thought of the chaotic scene in the food section of the White Eagle Continent live streaming website lately. If those food streamers weren't just doing it for traffic and money, but actually had pica, and would eventually awaken superpowers and go berserk...

This would be at least a Class B event, or even a Class A event!

"After you defeated that guy, did you examine his body? Can you confirm that his awakening of superpowers was related to pica?" Qin Huanyu asked again.

"He was examined; I even asked Uncle Qin to do the examination himself, but..."

Lu Han sighed again:

"According to Uncle Qin's examination results, his awakening of superpowers was simply the activation of spiritual genes, a natural evolution from an ordinary person to a superhuman, without being affected by external forces... pica is most likely just a coincidence."

"It was precisely because of Uncle Qin's test results that Sister Ling'er, Brother Flower Monk, and the Investigation Bureau denied my suspicions, thinking that I was overthinking it."

"But my intuition tells me that I'm right this time... There's definitely some connection between that guy's awakening of his superpowers and his sudden development of pica!"

"However, this case is now closed. Even if I wanted to investigate, I could only do so privately on my own and couldn't rely on the resources of the Investigation Bureau... So I can only ask you for help through personal connections, Sister Qin."

"...That's it."

After hearing the whole story, Qin Huanyu frowned, paced back and forth a few times, and then took a deep breath before making a decision:

"Xiaohan, where are you now?"

“At school.”

Lu Han replied:

"I want to talk to his good friends at school to see if he has any little secrets that even his parents don't know. Maybe I'll find something."

"Take the medical records you found about him and wait for me at the research institute."

As Qin Huanyu gave the instructions, she also gestured to her assistant:

"After I arrange the work at the Witch Tower, I'll come to White Light City to find you... Maybe this time, Xiao Han, you really will make a great contribution."

Chapter 222 Small Clues, Big Discoveries

Qin Huanyu's words still carry considerable weight in the Holy Zhou Kingdom.

Even in cases that were almost closed and just waiting to go through the case-closing process, when Qin Huanyu expressed her doubts in a formal report and stated that she would also intervene in the investigation, the senior officials of the Investigation Bureau immediately took it seriously and reopened the case.

The stone-man college student, who had been taken away by the Investigation Bureau overnight and imprisoned in the superhuman prison, was immediately sent back to the Spirit Element Research Institute in White Light City.

After arranging the work at the Witch Tower Research Institute, Qin Huanyu also rushed over via the network cable through the Imaginary Space.

This was much faster than Lu Han getting from the school to the research institute. The stone man college student was still on his way, so Qin Huanyu went to find her father, Qin Hai, to ask about the situation and look at Qin Hai's physical examination report on the stone man college student.

Since his university days, Qin Hai's main research focus has been on human superpowers. His ultimate goal is to find a safe and cost-effective way to transform ordinary people into superhumans, thereby promoting the collective evolution of human civilization.

One of Qin Hai's greatest achievements was proposing the Lingsu gene theory.

The core idea of ​​this theory is that whether a person can become an extraordinary being is determined by whether they are born with spiritual genes. In the mainstream ancient cultivation school, these spiritual genes are also referred to as spiritual roots.

The Ling Su gene is not activated at birth. In fact, many people's Ling Su genes are in a recessive state after birth and may never be activated in their lifetime.