Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

Qin Huanyu, who always liked to assign tedious investigation tasks to her subordinates, has finally gotten her comeuppance. She now has to personally investigate all 22 tunnels within this 600-kilometer stretch.

After all, these tunnels may very well conceal an evil entity capable of wielding the power of realms, and ordinary police officers would only be throwing their lives away if they encountered it.

There was nothing more to say, so Qin Huanyu started working overtime.

On the first day, Qin Huanyu investigated seven tunnels, then went home to sleep and rest. On the second day, after recharging, she investigated eight more tunnels.

The investigations of the past two days yielded no results, especially the tunnels closest to the valley. Qin Huanyu had investigated them repeatedly, but the tunnels were all safe, with very low concentrations of spiritual energy.

It wasn't until the third day, when they were investigating the 17th tunnel, that they finally made a discovery.

The concentration of spiritual energy in this tunnel is not high; on the contrary, it is very low, and can even be described as pure.

This is actually a bit abnormal. Tunnels are generally places with heavy yin energy, and even if the concentration of spiritual elements is within a safe range, it will be slightly higher than in other places.

However, the tunnel named "Golden Copper Ridge" was so sparsely populated with spiritual energy that it looked as if it had been cleaned up, which seemed a bit like trying to hide something obvious.

So Qin Huanyu patiently searched the tunnel bit by bit, not letting go of any suspicious places.

Hard work pays off.

In these mountain tunnels, there are usually one or more small rooms built into the tunnel walls on both sides. These rooms are mainly used to store various maintenance tools and to allow workers inside the tunnel to avoid passing trains.

The small rooms that Qin Huanyu had seen in other tunnels before were all locked.

The small room in the Jin Tong Ling tunnel was no exception, but Qin Huanyu, who was observant, noticed the difference at a glance.

The locks are different.

The locks on the other small rooms were all ordinary large iron locks, but the lock on the door of this small room was shaped like a Bagua (Chinese octagonal) plate.

If that were all, it could be dismissed as the personal preference of the room's user. The problem is that you can faintly smell incense through the door of this small room, the kind of smell you get when burning incense and making offerings in temples or Taoist monasteries.

Burning incense and making offerings is the most traditional folk way to dispel negative energy and suppress evil spirits. Although there is no scientific basis for it, it is quite effective in many cases.

There's definitely something wrong with this little room!

Qin Huanyu acted decisively, took out the master key she possessed as a police officer, and tried to open the iron chain on the small room door.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the master key was inserted into the keyhole, it made a sound like a firecracker exploding, and actually broke the master key.

Qin Huanyu's expression immediately turned grim, and she became even more cautious.

Look away.

This was indeed no ordinary lock, but a real divination plate, a magical artifact, and a very powerful one at that, capable of deceiving even technological methods of spiritual element detection.

...No, perhaps it wasn't a lie either.

Qin Huanyu took two more breaths of the incense smoke wafting from the small room, and seemed to understand.

This small room must be an extremely ingenious seal, sealing almost all the spiritual energy within the tunnel inside.

This divination plate should have two sides, an inner and an outer one. The outer side will not be detected by spiritual energy due to the seal, but the concentration of spiritual energy on the inner side must be very high.

There's no need to hesitate, let's break down the door and take a look.

Qin Huanyu flipped her hands simultaneously, releasing the seal on the tattoo that Linglan had made for her, and the Dragon-Slaying Mace and the Arc Rifle appeared in her hands respectively.

First, the Bagua compass was fired at with an arc rifle. Three strong arcs were fired before the compass’s luster dimmed noticeably, indicating that it had lost its effectiveness.

So Qin Huanyu raised the Kanglong Mace again, gently turned it, and then smashed it down with force. The resonant impact easily shattered the iron door of the small room.

Behind the door was indeed not a tool storage warehouse, but a statue of a deity. On the altar in front of the statue were fruits, pieces of meat, and incense that had not yet burned out.

More importantly, as the door was smashed open, Qin Huanyu's spiritual energy field of vision on her goggles changed. The originally very safe spiritual energy value instantly jumped to a very dangerous area.

"Jie!"

Almost simultaneously, the statue let out a strange cry and came to life, scratching Qin Huanyu's face like a nimble monkey.

Qin Huanyu remained calm and collected, her eyes sharp and her hands steady. She raised her arc rifle and unleashed a powerful arc of electricity, illuminating the tunnel with its silvery-blue light.

"what?"

Qin Huanyu was very confident in her shot. She had aimed very accurately, and her Mathematical Magic Eye had perfectly observed and calculated the movement trajectory of the statue. No matter how she thought about it, it was impossible for her to miss.

But the shot missed, and in a very strange way.

It wasn't that the statue was particularly agile, but rather that Qin Huanyu suddenly felt the target was extremely blurry the moment she fired, as if she were hallucinating, rendering all her previous calculations useless.

A powerful electric arc shot past the side of the statue, illuminating its face clearly.

This is a very strange thing, it looks like a monkey in a latex suit.

Its size, movements, and pointed snout and monkey-like appearance are very similar to a monkey, but you can't see a single hair on its body, as if it's wearing a full-coverage rubber suit.

The rubber-clad monkey, having dodged the powerful electric arc, reached out to grab Qin Huanyu's face.

At this point, it was too late to use the Dragon-Slaying Mace. Qin Huanyu could only use her wrist guards to block, and she was even prepared to be slightly injured.

Unexpectedly, this latex-clad monkey's strength is just as weak as a monkey's... If an ordinary woman were suddenly attacked and had her face scratched by a monkey like this, she might actually be hit, but after Qin Huanyu had her spine replaced, her physical abilities have surpassed those of humans.

Qin Huanyu simply swung her left arm, which was covered by a wrist guard, and easily sent the rubber-clad monkey flying.

"Jie Jie!"

The lamellar monkey, enraged by the failed surprise attack, realized the disparity in strength between the two sides and, having no intention of continuing the fight, turned and ran.

Qin Huanyu naturally wouldn't let it go, and quickly chased after it, raising her electric arc rifle once again, ready to fire.

Then that strange feeling returned. When Qin Huanyu aimed at the monkey in the latex suit, the monkey's figure would become blurry and unpredictable, and no matter how she shot, she would always miss... just like an enemy that cannot be locked on in a game.

'What kind of weird ability is this? It can't be used as a target?'

With a bitter curse in his heart, Qin Huanyu could only put down the Arc Rifle and quicken his pace, intending to defeat the enemy with the Dragon-Slaying Mace.

The rubber-clad monkey looked agile, but its straight-line sprint speed was actually slower than Qin Huanyu's after her body was enhanced, and it was caught up in no time.

But just as Qin Huanyu was about to smash the monkey's head with the Dragon-Slaying Mace, the figure of the rubber-clad monkey suddenly became blurry again... Its strange ability was actually effective in close combat as well.

How do you fight enemies that can't be locked onto?

Do not select the target!

The alloy tentacles on Qin Huanyu's lower back were also unsealed. She closed her eyes and stopped using them to lock onto the latex-clad monkey. Instead, she relied on her memory to calculate the monkey's next move. Then, the alloy tentacles unfolded into chain alloy blades and swept them across the latex-clad monkey.

Just when I thought it would work, the attack missed again... It seems that the ability of the latex monkey to be untargetable is not only limited to vision, but also to the inability of any sense to lock onto it. Memorizing its location in advance and then calculating it doesn't work either!

Taking advantage of Qin Huanyu's missed attack, the glue-clad monkey ran away again.

Qin Huanyu was so angry she wanted to stomp her feet, but there was nothing she could do. She couldn't just watch the clues she had obtained escape, so she had no choice but to continue the pursuit.

This time, Qin Huanyu also sprinted at full speed, but unexpectedly, she had only taken a few steps when a very strange spiritual energy fluctuation erupted.

Qin Huanyu's expression changed drastically. She tried to react, but having just sprinted to full speed, she had no time to stop or dodge and collided with the spiritual energy fluctuation.

Then Qin Huanyu's surroundings changed completely, from a dark cave to a bright and sunny place, where she could even smell the aroma of cooking smoke.

More importantly, Qin Huanyu was currently about 20 meters in the air, with nothing beneath her feet, and was in freefall.

A fall from a height of 20 meters is enough to kill an ordinary person, and Qin Huanyu would also be injured if she fell like that without any warning.

Fortunately, with urbanization, many villages now have high-rise buildings, such as the 10-story building in the village in front of Qin Huanyu.

She quickly shot out the steel cable from the bracer in her left arm, first securing it on the rooftop, and then using her alloy tentacles to entangle a tree branch just before landing.

Thanks to the combined force of the steel cable and alloy tentacles, Qin Huanyu felt a tingling sensation in her feet upon landing, but thankfully she was unharmed.

But this is a village, and there are people here.

At this moment, the children standing by the tree were stunned, staring blankly at Qin Huanyu, their eyes meeting.

A few seconds later.

"Wow!"

One of the children suddenly started crying, turned around and ran away:

"Such a beautiful woman must be a monster in disguise! She even has a tail! I've heard that monsters love to eat children, I don't want to be eaten, Mommy, save me!"

The child's cries quickly alerted the adults in the village, and within minutes, several strong men arrived with farm tools.

Fortunately, Qin Huanyu usually wears a police uniform when she is at work, and she carries her identification and service weapon, so there was no misunderstanding.

As for the fact that children saw the alloy tentacles?

This is simple. Qin Huanyu insisted that there was no such thing, that the children had seen it wrong, and the adults easily believed her.

The credibility of the Holy Zhou Kingdom's official authorities is still very high. Qin Huanyu is a police officer, and the oldest of those children is only 7 years old. The adults will definitely believe Qin Huanyu and not the children.

So the children cried even harder, and then their parents took them home and spanked them.

Qin Huanyu took the opportunity to ask the villagers for information. She claimed that she and her colleagues were chasing a suspect in the nearby mountains and forests, but they got lost and wandered into this village.

The villagers were quite hospitable and told her the name and location of the village.

Qin Huanyu quickly opened her phone's map to check, and then couldn't help but gasp... That latex-clad monkey, through a breakthrough, had actually thrown her more than 200 kilometers away in an instant!

Chapter 119 I'll Nag You to Death!

That monkey in the latex suit isn't actually that strong.

Qin Huanyu had fought it head-on once and made some rough guesses about its strength, speed, and vitality.

This evil creature's physical strength is probably not even as good as a real monkey; it's more like a human baby, and is extremely fragile.

If you can hit it, let alone weapons like the Dragon-Slaying Mace and the Arc Rifle, Qin Huanyu felt that he could crush it with a single stomp of his boot.

The problem is that I can't hit it.

That ability to avoid being targeted or locked onto is quite troublesome. The power of the boundary activated through the tunnel is even more formidable, with an effect equivalent to spatial magic, capable of throwing a person hundreds of kilometers away in an instant.

It's fragile but you can't hit it; it can't leave the tunnel but can throw you out—that's roughly what the Lacquered Monkey is like.

That's quite tricky.

Anyway, Qin Huanyu rested in the village for a while and ate three big bowls of rice cooked by the villagers, but she still couldn't come up with a good solution.

She could only return to Baiguang City first and report the matter to her superiors.

The lamellar monkey has been in the Jin Tong Ling tunnel for who knows how long. Although it hasn't attacked anyone else yet, only the illegally transported carriage, that doesn't prove it poses no danger to others.

The Jin Tong Ling Tunnel is a necessary passage on the Yinzhou Railway, which is also the only railway connecting Yinzhou County and the entire Dong Shenzhou. Whether or not to stop passing trains to remove the glue-clothed monkey is no longer a decision that Qin Huanyu can make... Making a decision by force could easily lead to taking responsibility.

Therefore, Qin Huanyu chose to write a report immediately, handing over the decision-making power to her superiors. She was only responsible for execution; if she won, she would receive a reward, and if problems arose, her superiors would take the blame.

After some consideration, the authorities responded.

The section of the Jin Tong Ling Tunnel will be temporarily closed for three days. During this period, delayed transportation can be transferred by road from the nearest cities on both sides of the tunnel. At the same time, flights from East Shenzhou to Yinzhou County will also be temporarily increased to alleviate the pressure on logistics and passenger flow.

However, this time, the authorities also put pressure on Qin Huanyu.

Three days.

The Investigation Bureau gave Qin Huanyu three days to resolve the evil entity in the [Golden Bronze Ridge] tunnel. If she failed, an inspector would be dispatched to handle the matter. However, the reward for the entire case would no longer be relevant to Qin Huanyu, and a negative record would be added to her resume.

Given Qin Huanyu's pride, she was certainly unwilling to have too many negative records on her resume, so she was eager to take down the latex-clad monkey again.

But before that, we must first find a way to break the strange ability of the Lacquered Monkey.

Qin Huanyu first checked the Investigation Bureau's database and found that there were indeed records of this strange ability, which had appeared three times in the extraordinary cases solved by the Investigation Bureau.

However, the database did not specify how to break this ability; it only recorded who dealt with the three evil or bizarre creatures that possessed this ability... all of them were inspectors, and one of them happened to be Ling, who had a good relationship with Qin Huanyu.

So Qin Huanyu immediately called to get the change, and asked for details in a coquettish tone.

"Sister Zero, Sister Zero, please listen to me..."

Qin Huanyu recounted in detail how she discovered the latex-clad monkey and fought it, then asked:

"I saw in the Investigation Bureau's records that you, Zero, have dealt with one of these monsters before. Do you have any tips to share?"

"An enemy that can't be locked on... Hmm, I have encountered one."

Zero thought for a moment on the other end of the phone and said:

"However, the enemy I encountered is probably different from yours. I encountered a bizarre creature known as the Majestic Monster, born from the thoughts of a group of card players, a natural monster. As for the latex-clad monkey you encountered... well, judging from what you found on the spot, it should be a little devil that has been raised by someone."

"A child raised by humans? Indeed..."

Qin Huanyu also agreed with this conclusion:

"It's receiving offerings of incense and is hidden by a rather powerful seal. Its owner must be a powerful sorcerer... Tsk, when I go to deal with it again, will I run into its owner?"

"It's possible, but the probability is low."

Zero thought for a few seconds and said: