Xia Bing

Biodata

History

Recruitment of Shen Hao

After Shen Hao killed the Ability User Hong Tao on a bus, Xia Bing praised him and offered her contact information. She later sent him a guide to the C-rank Haunted Town dungeon on the condition that he join the Alliance Guild if he survived 9 10.

When Shen Hao joined, Xia Bing offered him a place on her understaffed Field Operations team. He chose an archives position in Internal Affairs instead, although she continued to regard him as a promising recruit 22.

Blood Banquet operation

Xia Bing revealed that Hong Tao belonged to the Blood Banquet and that the organization intended to sacrifice Shen Hao. With his agreement, she arranged to use him as bait, withdrawing his immediate guards while keeping Alliance personnel nearby. She also obtained a Substitute Doll for his upcoming A-rank dungeon and arranged for people to check on him when he returned 23 24.

After Shen Hao cleared the dungeon, Xia Bing checked on him personally, let him keep the doll as a reward, and offered payment for an instance guide. She also warned him not to enter more instances while Blood Banquet was targeting him 38.

Blood Banquet subsequently lured the Alliance’s main forces away from Zhongzhou. Xia Bing called Shen Hao to warn him that Jiang Zhennan was coming for him, but said it would take the team two hours to return 39.

Jiang Zhennan’s death

Xia Bing and Zhongzhou Branch head Sun Wanli arrived at Shen Hao’s school after Jiang Zhennan had died. They found the students alive, and Xia Bing arranged for them to be taken to a hospital 46 47.

Although initially reluctant, Xia Bing agreed to Sun Wanli’s fabricated account that the three of them had killed Jiang Zhennan together. Sun Wanli later ordered a routine background check on Shen Hao and transferred him to her team for development 47 48.

Wu Cheng operation

Xia Bing summoned Shen Hao for an operation after her team’s main fighter, the level 21 Soul-type Ability User Yan Dahai, died in an instance and returned at level 4. She did not know that Shen Hao had killed him in the instance. Because Yan Dahai could no longer participate, she borrowed personnel from other teams 63 64.

Before the mission, Xia Bing warned Shen Hao that both Blood Banquet and Blood Moon had placed him at the top of their wanted lists. She declined his offer to act as bait again, assuring him that the Alliance would not abandon him. She also told him that the two organizations were preparing a major operation involving an S-rank-or-higher instance, though their objective was unclear 64.

Xia Bing commanded the operation to capture Wu Cheng, a level 20 Ability User wanted for numerous murders, and assigned Shen Hao to guard the perimeter of the hotel where Wu Cheng was located. The operation went disastrously when Wu Cheng manifested a blood-colored giant whose domain immobilized those present. After several Alliance members were killed, Xia Bing warned the others about the domain and said Chairman Sun was coming 65 66.

Shen Hao’s Soulfire destroyed the giant and ended its domain, though Xia Bing did not know what had produced the flame. The survivors blamed her for the failed operation and demanded an explanation. She apologized, attributed the disaster in part to faulty intelligence, and promised to report the incident and arrange compensation. Sun Wanli also apologized and promised compensation to the participants 68.

Appearance

Xia Bing is a woman in her twenties with a curvaceous figure and long, slender legs 9 46.

• At her first appearance, she wears a white blouse and black leggings 9.
• Her initially serious expression and somewhat cold voice make the atmosphere on the bus tense 9.

Personality

Xia Bing is conscientious, responsible, and protective of others. She arranged guards for Shen Hao, prepared for his possible return from a dungeon with severe injuries, and checked on the students at his school after Jiang Zhennan’s death 23 24 46.

She is also willing to accept risks to fight Blood Banquet, including using Shen Hao as bait despite the danger to people around him. Normally fair and upright, she finds Sun Wanli’s proposal to claim credit for Jiang Zhennan’s death difficult to accept, but eventually agrees after he argues that it would benefit their branch 23 47.

She expresses strong confidence in the Alliance’s refusal to compromise with evil organizations. After the disastrous Wu Cheng operation, she apologizes to the survivors while also pointing to the inaccurate intelligence she had received 64 68.

Abilities & Skills

Control-type abilities

Xia Bing is a level 19 Control-type Ability User. She describes the type as using mental power to control objects and defend against attacks 23 24.

• Object control: She wounded Hong Tao by driving a steel needle into his heart, giving Shen Hao an opportunity to kill him. The needle split into numerous fine needles inside his body 8 23.
• Levitation: She demonstrated her power by enveloping Shen Hao in an invisible force and lifting him into the air 24.

Equipment & Items

• Steel needle — Used to wound Hong Tao during the bus incident 23.
• Contact phone — Given to Shen Hao so he could report unusual activity directly to her; it also had a location function 23 46.
• Substitute Doll — Obtained for Shen Hao before his A-rank dungeon. It could revive its user after death, though revival left them severely injured; she later allowed him to keep it 23 24 38.

Relationships

• Shen Hao — Alliance recruit whom Xia Bing supports and initially tries to enlist in Field Operations. He later becomes a member of her team, and she summons him to help with the Wu Cheng operation 22 24 48 63.
• Sun Wanli — Head of the Zhongzhou Branch and Xia Bing’s superior. She considers him unreliable but agrees to his cover story about Jiang Zhennan’s death 47.
• Hong Tao — Blood Banquet member whom Xia Bing wounded before Shen Hao killed him 23.
• Jiang Zhennan — Blood Banquet elder targeted by the Alliance. Xia Bing warned Shen Hao of his approach and later found his corpse at the school 39 46.
• Yan Dahai — A Soul-type Ability User and one of her team’s main fighters. After he died in an instance and returned at level 4, Xia Bing called Shen Hao to help fill the shortage for an operation 63 64.
• Wu Cheng — A former Alliance member and wanted murderer whom Xia Bing’s operation attempted to capture. His blood-colored giant’s domain overwhelmed the Alliance personnel 65 66.

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