Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

Big news, undoubtedly a big event!

It has even surpassed all previous Class A events and could potentially endanger the entire human civilization!

Humanity's leadership also took this matter very seriously and immediately established a special task force, with Empress Wu Xiqun of the Holy Zhou Kingdom personally serving as the task force leader and elite figures from all sides serving as members.

Following the way humans have dealt with large-scale plagues since ancient times, the countermeasures team immediately began to take action in two aspects.

The first aspect is isolation and prevention.

The strange disease that can first turn a person into a pica sufferer and then into an out-of-control superhuman is still unclear in terms of how it spreads, but it is certain that it can be transmitted from person to person.

Based on past experience, this plague-like illness is mainly transmitted through droplets, fecal-oral routes, and bodily fluids.

Considering the circumstances surrounding the infection of several known individuals, including Feng Yong, transmission methods requiring close contact, such as bodily fluid transmission, can be temporarily ruled out. Droplet transmission and fecal-oral transmission are more likely, and there may also be more unusual transmission methods.

The response team quickly decided to address the issue based on droplet and fecal-oral transmission methods.

Although pica is a strange condition, it does exist and is not considered an extraordinary phenomenon. Many ordinary people are aware of it, so there is no need to hide it.

Therefore, the official government of the Holy Zhou Kingdom issued a notice to the public, saying that a strange contagious pica had recently appeared in the world and was suspected of spreading on a large scale. Everyone was advised to be careful, wear medical masks when going out, and wash their hands frequently with disinfectant.

Fortunately, because the Holy Zhou Kingdom had been in a state of war preparedness for the past few years, the government had been guiding people to stockpile wartime survival supplies at home and had also conducted various science popularization lectures in multiple fields. In order to guard against possible biological and chemical weapons used by the enemy, medical-grade protective masks had long been a necessity for every household, and now they could be put to use.

The fact that many people have recently developed pica is known to medical professionals, and there has been a lot of news about it circulating among the public, so the public has not doubted it and has been very cooperative.

Try to stay home as much as possible, and if you must go out, be sure to take protective measures.

To prevent cases like Feng Yong's from secretly disobeying medical advice, the authorities have strictly stipulated that all people suffering from pica cannot be treated at home and must be hospitalized. Hospitals will then take coercive measures similar to those in drug rehabilitation centers to prevent pica patients from eating those strange things.

According to current research, people suffering from pica continuously develop pica genes by eating strange and unusual things until these genes are activated, causing their supernatural abilities to go berserk. Therefore, strictly limiting the food intake of pica patients may prevent the worst-case scenario.

The second aspect of the action is to study this strange disease, find out its true origin and mode of transmission, and develop an effective treatment method.

Qin Hai, who is best at researching spiritual genes, Dr. Linglan, the most outstanding doctor, and Qin Huanyu, who has the strongest brain computing power, are all in charge of this action team. They have also gathered many of the best biologists, medical scientists and researchers of supernatural powers among mankind to overcome difficulties together.

The advantages of a unified, civilized government become apparent at this point. With a single official order, the entire society can operate as efficiently as a machine, without wasting a lot of time on negotiations and coordination between different countries.

With the military mobilized, virtually everyone in the world suffering from pica was isolated and controlled within three days, subjected to forced treatment, and prohibited from eating anything that normal people would not eat.

The research team worked tirelessly, spending almost all their time in the lab except for necessary meals and rest, trying every possible way to solve this strange disease.

When it comes to curing diseases, Dr. Lily of the Valley is naturally the first person on whom high hopes are placed. She is the embodiment of all sorts of fantasies about classical medicine, and theoretically, she can cure any ailment.

But Dr. Lily of the Valley failed.

"This is not an illness."

After treating several patients with pica to no avail, and after carefully reviewing her own treatment process, Dr. Lily of the Valley confidently stated this conclusion:

"What is called disease is an unhealthy state of the human body, whether physiological or psychological... or rather, a harmful state of both physiology and psychology. That is what I can treat."

"But this kind of pica is different. Although people with pica eventually become superhumans with rampaging abilities who cause damage to society, for them, they have actually completed an evolution from ordinary people to superhumans... This can even be considered a beneficial state, and my abilities are ineffective against beneficial states!"

It sounds unbelievable, but upon closer inspection, what Lily of the Valley said is true.

Those who suffer from pica eat stones, wood, and metal indiscriminately, but this does not harm their bodies. Instead, it condenses spiritual genes, making them extraordinary individuals.

If it weren't for the fact that they would definitely lose their minds and go berserk after becoming superhumans, this pica would even become a better method for mass-producing superhumans than witch infestation, and it is also the ultimate pursuit that Qin Hai has been working hard to research throughout his life.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs"... According to current statistics, all those who eventually became superhumans due to pica went berserk without exception.

Even now, those rampaging superhumans have not regained their self-awareness and must be kept in check with drugs or other means to prevent them from causing destruction.

After Dr. Linglan's panacea failed, Qin Huanyu secretly tried another method: using a miracle drug on the patient.

It's no wonder this panacea, made with the essence of the miraculous warrior's power, is so effective. It successfully cured the strange disease, which was temporarily named pica.

Unfortunately, the ingredients for the panacea are too precious to be widely available, so we must find other treatment methods.

Qin Hai did not participate in the research on treatment methods; instead, he studied another topic and quickly came to a conclusion that could be considered good news.

According to Qin Hai's research, each human being can only possess one type of spiritual gene. When two spiritual genes collide in the human body, the stronger one will devour the weaker one. Moreover, the spiritual genes that most people are born with are definitely stronger than the spiritual genes that are gradually condensed through modification.

In other words, all superhumans, or those with the talent to become superhumans, do not need to worry about contracting pica.

This is also why all the Truth Society believers on White Eagle Continent were unharmed. The formal baptism of the Truth Society is to implant the seed of extraordinary power in believers, giving every Truth Society believer the possibility of becoming an extraordinary being, even if they may never awaken to it in their lifetime.

Naturally, after Qin Hai shared this discovery, Yao Ji enthusiastically expressed that Truth would be willing to give all of humanity a free baptism to help them overcome this strange plague.

The humans, of course, immediately refused.

If Qin Huanyu wanted, she could control all the witches who had undergone metamorphosis through the Jade Net. The Truth Society would certainly have even stricter control over its believers.

If truth were to baptize all of humanity, then humanity would indeed no longer need to worry about pica (eating foreign things), but humanity would also be completely reduced to a subservient state to the bizarre, which is equally unacceptable.

The Enchantress didn't mind being rejected; she was in a good mood these days because the Truth Society was developing very smoothly in White Eagle Continent.

Since there is no information control over supernatural powers in White Eagle Continent, the fact that the Truth Society's baptism can grant immunity to pica has 'coincidentally' spread.

Despite General Ron's earnest advice to the people of White Eagle not to act impulsively, many still chose to join the Truth Society and be baptized to avoid contracting pica.

Inspired by this, the Holy Zhou Kingdom instructed Qin Huanyu to focus her research on the Jade Net to see if she could develop a 'baptism' with fewer side effects to make people immune to pica.

Qin Huanyu said she would try her best.

More than 10 days later, two more pieces of bad news suddenly arrived.

The first piece of bad news is that the way pica spreads is indeed very strange. Various prevention and control measures, such as medical protective masks and staying home as much as possible, have not been effective. The rate of increase in new patients has not slowed down at all, but is still rising, and there is even a trend of a major outbreak.

The second piece of bad news was that the forced treatment of the patient also failed.

After strictly prohibiting pica patients from eating things they shouldn't have for nearly half a month, those patients all experienced mental breakdowns, with the most severe cases even resulting in brain death. Finally, the hospital, left with no other option, had to feed the patients some of the foreign objects they craved, which somewhat alleviated their mental breakdowns. However, the spiritual genes in the patients' bodies began to increase with their ingestion of these foreign objects, and if this continued, they would eventually awaken their supernatural abilities and go berserk.

We must speed up the research process.

Everyone is aware of this.

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures; everything is a struggle for survival.

The prisoners captured from the labor camp during the previous campaign to pacify the Western Continent gave him an opportunity.

If they are willing to cooperate with the research and participate in some human trials, they can not only get rid of their status as laborers and become ordinary citizens, but also receive a considerable amount of wealth as compensation.

For many former privileged individuals, being forced to eat communal meals and do manual labor in a labor camp every day was a torment worse than death. Now that they have the opportunity to return to a life of wealth, many of them are willing to accept it even if it means risking their lives.

While human trials are unethical, they are indeed one of the most efficient methods for medical research.

A few days later, the research team made another new discovery—the strange way in which pica spreads was finally deciphered.

The method of propagation is quite surprising—it spreads through a special type of photon.

Simply put, people with pica generate a very special kind of photon when they absorb and reflect light. What the human eye sees is actually the light reflected from the surface of an object.

In other words, a healthy person has a chance of contracting pica just by looking at someone with pica, and no other protective measures are effective.

"...The Light of Evolution?"

This discovery reminded many who had participated in the Allied operations in White Eagle Island of the delusional pronouncements of the alien pope of the Evangelical Church before his death.

It claims to be the victor, that the light of evolution is complete, and that humanity will eventually become like them.

Upon closer examination, this statement may not be mere raving, but rather refers to pica (the consumption of non-food items).

The transformation of humans from ordinary people to superhumans can indeed be considered a form of evolution. However, the superpowers gained through pica involve the fusion of humans with substances such as soil, stone, wood, and metal, making it almost identical to the existence of parasitic life forms.

If a cure for pica cannot be found, all infected humans will eventually turn into various kinds of stone people, earth people, wooden people, or metal people, basically no different from those aliens in the Church of the Apocalypse.

But this raises a new problem.

Qin Hai invented the alien probe. In order to prevent any remaining aliens from hiding in the dark and plotting to cause trouble, there are always a few alien probes on the satellite that are constantly scanning the globe.

If the final form of pica patients is very similar to those aliens, why did Qin Hai's detectors not react to them at all?

Qin Hai quickly solved the problem himself.

According to Qin Hai's report, those aliens from the former Apocalypse Church, although they had human appearances under normal circumstances, were actually in disguise. They were all Nords with bodies fused with substances such as stone, ironwood, and wood.

In other words, the alien detector invented by Qin Hai was not actually detecting the parasitic extraterrestrial aliens of the Gospel Apocalypse Church, but rather the Nord aliens.

The current patients with pica are likely to be parasitic aliens who have fused with human bodies. Since they no longer contain any Nord alien components, Qin Hai's alien detector is no longer of any use.

As for developing a pica detector in the same way, it is also not feasible—because those pica patients are essentially humans who have fused with substances such as stone, ironwood, and wood, and there are many humans and stone, ironwood on Earth, making them very difficult to distinguish. A detector made with the same technology would only detect a red dot on Earth.

Now that we've figured out the origins and transmission methods of pica, the next step is to find a cure.

Qin Hai once again took on a heavy responsibility.

While Qin Huanyu continued to research how to use the jade net for treatment, Qin Hai began to research how to remove the spiritual gene from the human body.

If the spiritual genes in patients with pica can be removed, it may still not be possible to free them from the influence of the Light of Evolution, but it can delay the time for their superpowers to awaken and go berserk, giving them more opportunities for treatment.

As a result, Qin Hai's research entered a stage of complete dedication, to the point where he stopped eating normal food and relied solely on injections of special drugs to maintain his energy, never leaving the laboratory.

Unfortunately, the technology of such an advanced biological civilization as the parasitic civilization is not something that Earth's humans can decipher in a short time. Qin Hai and some top scientists are indeed geniuses, but even geniuses have their limits.

Before a method to eliminate the Lingsu gene could be successfully developed, the researchers ran into trouble.

To study pica, one inevitably has to come into contact with pica patients. However, people did not know the true transmission methods of pica before, and all researchers were at great risk of contracting pica.

Qin Hai was no exception.

After several key researchers had already fallen ill, one day while Qin Hai was conducting an experiment, he suddenly felt a craving and instinctively ate a metal tool he was holding...

Realizing what he had done, Qin Hai immediately tried to hide it, but it was too late.

Qin Huanyu had long suspected that her father might have been infected, and she had been keeping an eye on Qin Hai through electronic devices using a split-threaded approach. Upon noticing Qin Hai's abnormality, she immediately emerged from a monitor in Qin Hai's laboratory and took out a bottle of medicine.

Qin Huanyu still had some of the panacea she had asked Doctor Linglan to make, and now it was coming in handy.

However, just as Qin Huanyu was giving Qin Hai his medicine with an expression that said, "Dad, it's time for your medicine," Qin Hai thought about it seriously for a while and then refused.

"This might be a great opportunity, Ayu."

Faced with his daughter's astonished gaze, Qin Hai's expression became more serious than ever before:

“When I was in college, I was researching Lingsu genes with my senior classmates. She told me more than once that many studies are useless if you only observe samples and test subjects. You have to experience it yourself to face the truth. This is one of the reasons why she used herself as a test subject.”

"In fact, although my senior failed and even lost her life, she left us with very crucial data... I was able to achieve my later results thanks to her sacrifice, which saved me at least 10 years of detours."

"Now, it's time for me to follow in my senior's footsteps."

After Qin Hai finished speaking, he patted Qin Huanyu's shoulder again, his tone softening:

"I'll leave the rest to you, Ayu... This time, I will use myself as a sample to carefully record the entire process of pica from its onset to its final transformation, and use my most authentic feelings to analyze the secrets of the light of evolution and the solution."

"When I arrive..., use your abilities to read my memories, and with all my achievements, go and defeat this disaster."

"This is the last time I will teach you anything, my daughter."

"...No, no! You can't do this! Dad, you can't do this!"

Qin Huanyu was already in tears, and even shouted in a panic.

Qin Hai didn't argue, he just looked at Qin Huanyu with gentleness and calmness.

"Do not……"

Qin Huanyu cried even more bitterly.

Having spent nearly 30 years with her adoptive father since childhood, Qin Huanyu knows him very well.

Once Qin Hai has made up his mind, no one can stop him, not even his daughter.

Qin Huanyu could indeed force Qin Hai to take the panacea, but Qin Hai, having already made his decision, would definitely take the initiative to come into contact with the Light of Evolution the next day, allowing himself to be infected again, and using personal experience to unravel the secret of the alien food addiction.

“You have always been a smart and calm girl, my daughter.”

After patiently waiting for Qin Huanyu to cry for a while, Qin Hai patted her head again:

"You should know... that humanity's time is running out. You might be able to develop a cure for pica in six months, but at most another two weeks or so, pica will cause a massive outbreak in human society."

"You must have already predicted the scene of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of superhumans running rampant in the city and attacking everything indiscriminately, right? That would be a disaster that would wipe out civilization."

"This kind of disaster must be stopped, and someone has to do it eventually. I just did everything a human scientist should do—to save my family, my country, and my race with the most authentic and rigorous research."

"So... don't cry, my daughter."

Qin Hai wiped away Qin Huanyu's tears with his hand again:

"No matter what I become in the end, my wisdom... will always be with you."

"Wow~~~~"

Qin Huanyu cried for almost an entire day at the Lingsu Research Institute; the tears she shed were enough for an ordinary person to take a shower.

But in the end, she did not stop Qin Hai, and watched helplessly as he indulged himself, feasting on a pile of metal materials and making various research records based on his own experience.

This caused the spiritual essence genes in Qin Hai's body to condense very quickly. In less than 3 days, his spiritual essence genes had reached the critical point of activation.