Black Silk Female Police Detective Exorcist

However, this matter itself is very likely to involve supernatural powers, so it is not surprising.

For example, among the people Qin Huanyu knows, Yi Youyou... or rather, Miss [Yun Que] might be able to do something like that. She could use her abilities to drastically reduce the weight of the carriage, making its fall no longer follow the laws of physics. In that case, Qin Huanyu's current calculations would be completely wrong, and she wouldn't be able to pinpoint exactly where the carriage was thrown from.

Thinking of this, Qin Huanyu sighed.

There was no other way but to ask the assistants and local police to search the valley floor separately to see if they could find where the carriage had been abandoned.

The officers, who had been assigned new tasks, immediately began to take action, while Qin Huanyu went to meet with the outdoor livestreamers who were being watched by the local police.

There were four people in the group, all of them young people who looked like college students, three men and one woman. They all seemed very curious and had no complaints about being left behind. They even wanted to stay and investigate with the police.

Upon seeing Qin Huanyu, all four of them had their eyes light up.

"It's Officer Qin! Officer Qin, alive and well!"

"Wow, she's so beautiful! I thought Officer Qin's photos online were photoshopped, but she's actually even prettier in person! She's a real beauty!"

"Could you give me your autograph, Officer Qin?"

It was obvious that these people knew Qin Huanyu, and some were even her fans.

As the title of "Sheng Zhou Kingdom's Number One Policewoman" gained increasing renown online, Qin Huanyu's fame also soared. Despite never submitting any work, she amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on a certain video website… She had no talent, relying solely on her looks.

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Qin Huanyu didn't put on airs and granted autographs to all four people. She even put her arm around the girl's shoulder and took a selfie with her, despite the girl's blissful expression.

After the fan service was completed, it was time to get down to business:

"Tell me, how did you find this carriage? And why did you think of doing a live broadcast in a place like this? Haven't you learned your lesson from that live broadcast team that got eaten by a brown bear at Qingzhao Mountain?"

"Because we don't have your looks, Officer Qin. If we want to become famous, we can only do some risky things to attract attention and traffic."

The girl in the live stream team shrugged, then laughed:

"What was that very clear saying again?"

“The louder the waves, the more expensive the fish.”

Another boy smiled and took over the conversation, continuing to tell Qin Huanyu about their team.

The group consisted of recent college graduates, classmates from the same year, and good friends from a club in school.

After graduation, they didn't want to work for others, so they partnered up to start a self-media business, planning to do some more thrilling outdoor live streams to become internet celebrities and earn money from traffic.

Like the live-streaming team that perished in Qingzhao Mountain, all four members of this team had received professional wilderness survival training. The girl in particular was skilled in using a hunting crossbow and could kill or repel a large brown bear if they actually encountered one.

"As for the lessons learned from the incident at Qingzhao Mountain, we certainly have them too."

One of the boys even opened his backpack to show Qin Huanyu when he got to this point:

"Those who perished at Qingzhao Mountain were hallucinating after eating wild mushroom soup in the mountains, which is why they were wiped out by a large brown bear while armed. We're different. Outdoors, we only eat the compressed biscuits, milk, and purified water we bring ourselves to ensure our health. If a large brown bear really attacks, we'll let it taste the power of a 150-meter-per-second triangular armor-piercing arrow! Who knows, we might even become famous by live-streaming this battle!"

"..."

Qin Huanyu was quite speechless about this.

What could she say?

She said all of this was a lie she made up. Those people in Qingzhao Mountain didn't die from the brown bear and wild mushroom soup. There are things in the wild that are more dangerous than wild beasts.

She couldn't say that, because the Bureau of Investigation's job is to ensure that these things are not known to ordinary people.

The reason this live-streaming team chose to come here is because it is remote enough that the nearest road to the valley is more than 5 kilometers away and the road is quite rugged. The only way to get to this place is to hike through the mountains and forests.

Based on the idea that the bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish, only by broadcasting live in places like this can you attract viewers.

The live-streaming team arrived at the road closest to the valley last night by car. They slept for a few hours in the car and set off at dawn, hiking for several hours to reach the valley, intending to find a scenic spot to start their live stream.

The scenery around this valley is indeed beautiful, and you can even see some small animals such as pheasants and rabbits, which is quite rare for people in the city. It's a great filming location, so they started live streaming.

Unexpectedly, after only a short while of live streaming, the team discovered the dilapidated carriage.

At first, the four of them were very excited, thinking that the carriage was abandoned in the old era, and they even planned to live stream the situation inside the carriage with the mentality of treasure hunting.

The four people were dumbfounded when they entered the carriage.

Although the carriage was badly damaged, some of its interior layout could still be discerned. The four people recognized that it was actually a very new carriage, only severely damaged.

Of course, the most important thing was the bloodstains all over the carriage. As people who had received professional outdoor training for a period of time, all four of them could distinguish between human and animal blood, so so many splattered bloodstains must have meant that many people had died.

The four immediately realized they had stumbled upon a major case. They didn't want to risk their lives, nor did they want to miss this opportunity to gain viewership. So, after a brief discussion, they decided to do something almost no streamer had ever done—live-stream the police being called at the scene of a major crime!

This proved to be a very wise choice. The four people called the police immediately, which meant they wouldn't be punished. They would just give a statement and sign a confidentiality agreement, and that would be the end of it. They would even receive a compensation payment if they signed the agreement.

The fact that they broadcasted the crime scene live to report the crime also boosted their popularity. Their number of followers, which was less than 100,000, has now increased to nearly 500,000, making all four of them extremely happy.

Although she knew it was probably useless, Qin Huanyu still patiently advised the four people to avoid venturing into such dangerous places in the future.

The information provided by the live streaming team also made Qin Huanyu notice another point.

This valley is very secluded, and the nearest road is 5 kilometers away. What about the railway? Where is the nearest railway?

Qin Huanyu immediately checked the map, and was even more surprised by what she found.

The Indian Line railway that the train was traveling on that night was more than 45 kilometers away from the valley at its closest point.

In other words, an empty train car weighing about 60 tons was moved at least 45 kilometers without anyone noticing or leaving any trace along the way.

Who could do something like that? What kind of ability would that be? Even someone with Yi Youyou's superpower to make objects incredibly light couldn't do it, right?

What ability is needed to do that?

Can you fly like Superman and possess superhuman strength? Can you seal objects into tattoos like Suzuran? Or is it the legendary teleportation? Telekinesis?

Qin Huanyu kept thinking to herself.

She had a feeling that once she figured out how the train was dumped in this valley, she wouldn't be far from finding out who the perpetrator was.

And it's not just superhuman strength; perhaps some advanced technology can achieve the same result? Like some kind of large transport helicopter... But a train carriage weighs 60 tons; can a helicopter handle that? Could it be some kind of large transport aircraft?

Chapter 118 Cannot be the target of attacks and effects

The world's largest transport aircraft can carry more than 200 tons of cargo, which is enough to transport a train carriage weighing only about 60 tons by air.

But this is not possible.

Those large transport aircraft don't have the ability to take off and land vertically, nor can they hover in the air.

Qin Huanyu had previously calculated that, without the involvement of supernatural powers, the train would fall from a height of about 5 meters above the cliff in the valley.

No large transport plane would dare to fly at this altitude; it would crash into a mountain.

If it was indeed some kind of aerial transportation that brought this carriage here, then it must meet two conditions simultaneously: it must have a large enough carrying capacity and be able to hover and remain stationary in the air.

Are there such aerial vehicles in current technological products?

Qin Huanyu wasn't really sure.

Of course, there aren't any publicly disclosed ones, but just like the Ling Su Research Institute has many results with test subjects that haven't been made public, many research institutes have similar things. And within the Holy Zhou Dynasty, Qin Huanyu knows of at least four top-tier research institutes like the Ling Su Research Institute, not counting those that are hidden.

The Lingsu Research Institute focuses on the integration of supernatural powers with the human body, and naturally, there are also institutes specializing in aerial vehicles. If they also incorporate supernatural powers into their products, or develop some kind of cutting-edge technology, they might actually create those sci-fi-style spaceships.

Although the possibility is very small, it cannot be ruled out.

Qin Huanyu planned to go back and ask her father, Qin Hai, who, as a top figure in the scientific research field, would likely know some information.

While you're at it, take a closer look at all the bizarre information in the Bureau of Investigation's database to see what kind of bizarre ability could accomplish these things.

About two hours later, the police officers that Qin Huanyu had sent out to look for traces returned.

Unfortunately, no trace of the train carriage was found within a radius of at least 3 kilometers centered on the valley. It seems that the carriage suddenly appeared in mid-air and then fell into the valley, where it was smashed to pieces.

Considering the dangers of nighttime in such a remote mountain area, Qin Huanyu refused the requests of several local police officers to stay and guard the scene, and ordered all the police officers to return to their posts.

As for that dilapidated carriage?

Anyway, it has been lying in the valley for several days, so let it continue to lie there for now... Moreover, Qin Huanyu currently has no way to move this 60-ton object out of the valley, so she can only wait for the civil engineering guys from other official departments to work on it slowly. The Investigation Bureau doesn't care about this.

On the return trip, another group led by Xiao Liu brought back good news.

Some of the railway bureau's grassroots staff couldn't withstand the pressure and confessed everything.

After receiving the information from Zhou Mochen, Qin Huanyu promptly shared it with Xiao Liu and the others, and then Xiao Liu's interrogation efforts intensified.

The police initially asked the railway bureau staff questions in a friendly manner, but the conversation quickly turned into an interrogation. Those who weren't mentally strong couldn't withstand the pressure and confessed all their crimes... even though the police didn't know much about them.

The matter is not complicated, and it is basically consistent with Zhou Mochen's account.

The Indian Express Line, which runs from Indiana to Taichung, experiences serious violations of regulations on almost one out of every three trains.

A group of people using entirely false identities would occupy an entire train car, each carrying several boxes of goods that were never checked by security. Tickets for that car were not sold to the public, and it was always full when ordinary people tried to buy them.

The railway staff working on this line, from drivers to attendants, basically all know about these things, but no one dares to speak out.

It's not that no one wants to report it, but to whom can they report it? Ordinary people simply don't know any safe ways to report it, and their colleagues and superiors have long been complicit in it; they dare not trust anyone.

Of course, those mysterious figures would also regularly give money to railway bureau staff. From Deputy Director Zhou Mochen down to the security guards and loading/unloading workers, everyone had received money from those mysterious people. Often, even lower-level leaders would give this money to their subordinates as bonuses.

Everyone had to take this money; there was no refusing. Those who refused were almost always intimidated by local gangs in various ways.

Ordinary people have very simple thoughts.

Taking money is indeed illegal, but it's only the least serious offense of being an accomplice, at most resulting in a few years in prison.

Offending those gangs could mean the death of your entire family. Given the choice between two evils, most ordinary people have no choice but to go along with them.

This is why no one knew when that carriage disappeared... because the staff on the train all knew that the carriage was special, and they usually ignored it, pretending that the carriage didn't exist at all. They never expected that this time it really didn't exist.

Based on the consistent testimonies of Zhou Mocheng and the grassroots employees of the Railway Bureau, it can be basically concluded that this incident was by no means an accidental indiscriminate attack, but was specifically targeted at those who transport goods.

Of course, people who use this method to transport goods are probably not good people either, and their deaths are not worth pity, but the cause and effect of the case still need to be investigated.

He would secretly kill all those people. This behavior is very much like an act of personal revenge, or the kind of vigilante who works as a scavenger.

Rather than believing the suspect possesses a high-tech aircraft, Qin Huanyu is more inclined to believe that the suspect's abilities are rather unique, which is currently the best clue to track down the suspect's identity.

Upon returning to Baiguang City, Qin Huanyu began investigating the suspect's modus operandi.

She first went back to the research institute to ask Qin Hai, and the answer she received was that there was no such aircraft at present.

The Qinglan Research Institute, which is on par with the Lingsu Research Institute, is indeed developing a super aerial vehicle, but the prototype is not yet complete, and it does not meet Qin Huanyu's requirements—it is a very large aerial vehicle that cannot stop in the small space above the valley.

The possibility that the suspect used technological vehicles to transport the train carriages can be ruled out; there must be supernatural forces involved in this case.

So Qin Huanyu started looking at the Bureau of Investigation's files again, mainly looking for beings who could fly like Superman while holding up train carriages, or those who possessed some kind of spatial teleportation ability.

But they are not easy to find.

Taking a train car into the air for a short time isn't difficult; even Miss Hibari's abilities could theoretically accomplish that. But to fly continuously for over 45 kilometers with a train car, without being detected by anyone... that's very difficult.

In the Bureau of Investigation's database, there is only one superhuman who can clearly do this.

It was none other than Lei Mingming, one of the three deputy directors of the Investigation Bureau, a former first-rank demon-slaying guard, and a superhuman who was born with the ability to control the power of lightning. She could control magnetism with electricity, and her highest recorded achievement was lifting a 2000-ton destroyer from the sea. Transporting a train carriage weighing only 60 tons would certainly be even easier for her.

But the deputy director of the investigation bureau certainly wouldn't do such a thing. Even if she really wanted to kill those people, there would be no need for her to hide it, so it definitely wasn't her.

Apart from Thunder Cry, no other superhuman or freak recorded in the Bureau of Investigation's files possesses this aerial transport ability.

Furthermore, the Indian Line is more than 45 kilometers away from the valley at its closest point, making aerial transport a very easy method to detect, so it can also be ruled out.

The only remaining possibility is spatial capabilities.

Superhumans and freaks with this ability are even rarer. Qin Huanyu carefully read through the contents of the Investigation Bureau's database word by word until her eyes were a little sore, before finally finding the most likely possibility.

A power called Boundary originated in Sakura Province, where many strange or evil creatures once possessed this power.

In the ancient legends of Sakura Province, places like bridges, rivers, and tunnels have special significance in mysticism. Crossing these places at specific times can allow one to transcend realms, appear in the realm of ghosts, or appear thousands of miles away, and some people may even travel through time and space.

More importantly, this ability called "realm" has no barriers or conditions; it appears randomly on all sorts of bizarre beings. Some ancient monsters who have lived for hundreds of years cannot cultivate it, while some vengeful spirits who were just ordinary people in their previous lives can instinctively possess it.

If the suspect possesses such a level of ability, then everything becomes much easier to explain.

The suspect likely knew the train's departure time and ambushed it in advance at a bridge or tunnel, waiting for the right moment to activate his ability and allow the last carriage to enter the area.

Afterwards, the carriage may have been the site of a massacre in the Ghost Realm, or it may have been thrown directly into the valley by the realm before the massacre began.

Regardless, the direction of the investigation can now be determined.

According to the Bureau of Investigation's database, apart from a very few thousand-year-old great monsters in Sakura Province, all evil beings and freaks with the ability to transcend boundaries share one characteristic.

Their existence is similar to that of earthbound spirits, unable to stray far from the place where the realm is opened, which means they must be in those bridges, rivers, or tunnels.

The Indian Railways runs through the southern Kunlun Mountains, with many tunnels of varying lengths along the way. The carriage that disappeared most likely disappeared in one of these tunnels... Of course, the possibility that the incident occurred while crossing a bridge cannot be ruled out.

When the train stopped at the station before Baiguang City, the carriage had not yet disappeared. The railway line between the two stations is over 600 kilometers long and contains a total of 22 tunnels.

This area was actually outside Qin Huanyu's jurisdiction long ago, but since the carriage was found to have disappeared at Baiguang City Station, it was still Qin Huanyu who had to investigate.