Disaster Management Bureau

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Disaster Management Bureau (灾管局)
Type	Qinggang's anomaly-response and reality-defense organization
Affiliation	Qinggang; overseen by the Qinggang Council
Occupation/Role	Detecting, investigating, containing, and eliminating abnormal phenomena, grotesque entities, contamination, and incursions into reality
Status	Active
First Appearance	18

Background / History

The Bureau was officially established only three years before Han Su's recruitment, though the supernatural penetration it addresses had existed far longer. It was created as an experimental institution of the Qinggang Council and the Secret School, intended to organize the excavation of mysterious knowledge and train ordinary people to wield it under controlled conditions 77 227.

Qinggang's leadership views the Bureau as a prospective fourth reality defense line. Its continued existence is tied to whether it can prove capable of resisting increasingly severe Tides and large-scale penetration events; failure could result in its abolition and the removal of Miss Ai from reality 192 248.

The Bureau's public-facing work includes maintaining normalcy: supernatural phenomena are suppressed, erased, or explained away so that ordinary people remain unaware of the threats pursuing humanity 30 50. Its personnel were fully mobilized when Abyss Studio's forces invaded Qinggang, defending the city against Slaughter City Sacrifices, Werebeast Persons, and zombie-virus contamination 248 250.

Mandate and Operations

• Anomaly classification — The Bureau distinguishes between abnormal phenomena, grotesque entities that have distorted reality, and pollution that continuously influences reality and harms people 226.
• Containment and cleanup — Investigators establish blocking positions, isolate contaminated zones, evacuate civilians, recover dangerous items, and eliminate or suppress hostile entities 92 136 190.
• Reality defense — Every city's Bureau is responsible for maintaining the reality defense line, including concealing supernatural beings and phenomena from the public 273.
• Information control — Personnel are forbidden from leaking information about Bureau facilities or operations; breaches can result in demotion, confinement, or reassignment to D7 43.
• Report-based oversight — Missions, recovered evidence, and personnel actions are documented in reports submitted to Miss Ai for archival and evaluation 75 106 147.

Recruitment and Training

The Bureau normally selects candidates from border defense forces, the Public Security Bureau, social elites, and specialized professions. These applicants compete intensely for admission 18.

People who have encountered the grotesque are one of two direct-recruitment routes. Such contactors may instead be hypnotized or cleansed, but the Bureau can compulsorily recruit them after assessing the risks of contamination or mental distortion 18 30.

Training includes:

• Registration of education, skills, and physical fitness, followed by searches and confinement within the training base 31.
• Memorization of operational and safety rules governing anomalous incidents 32 83.
• Field assessments designed to test obedience, judgment, reactions, and survivability under abnormal conditions 35 37.
• Exposure to Bureau-exclusive secret words, which can detect hidden contamination or dangerous resonances in a recruit's mind 30.
• Evaluation by Miss Ai based on potential, capability, and mission performance; operational personnel generally require an A-class evaluation to gain training or an investigator's license 75.

Organization and Personnel

Executive Groups

Group	Deployment and restrictions
D1–D2	Independent field teams with no execution captain; members may return to society, receive direct orders, and are treated as intern investigators 43.
D3–D4	Two-person teams that serve four days a week and must respond immediately to missions 43.
D5–D6	Base-bound personnel who remain on standby and lose much of their personal freedom 43 44.
D7	Personnel permanently deprived of freedom; investigators can dispatch them, but the division operates with unusually high clearance and substantial autonomy 43 151.

Advancement

Position	Role and authority
Executor / Operational personnel	Field personnel who perform missions and support investigators; their lives may be treated as expendable by unethical investigators 55 77.
Senior executor / Field captain	Experienced personnel, often developed from D3–D6 roles, who oversee perimeter security and specialized operations 137.
Investigator	Licensed personnel authorized to handle grotesque entities, receive mysterious-power training, lead assistants, and access higher-level missions 77 125.
Independent Investigator	Elite investigators with their own studios, research authority, and the capacity to independently block, contain, and imprison high-level anomalies 220.
Circuit Investigator	A higher Bureau status distinguished by separate authority and responsibility 77.

D7

D7 is formally the lowest-functioning department, but its security clearance is nearly equivalent to that of the entire Bureau. Its personnel include prisoners and individuals subjected to dangerous experiments; some are capable of participating directly in A-class missions 138 151.

• D7 members may be fitted with restraints and limited by cipher-spell authorization 139 143.
• Certain D7 personnel underwent forbidden experiments involving the Bureau's three major sequences 143.
• D7's forbidden surgeries and high-efficiency potions can raise mental vitality rapidly, but may cause severe cognitive or physical side effects 151.

Mysterious Power System

The Bureau develops its training model by excavating and organizing texts from ruins, then granting tested cipher spells to personnel after controlling their risks 79.

Sequences

• Three Great Sequences — The Bureau's principal mysterious-power systems, each containing multiple cipher spells and a shared ultimate direction 78.
• Zero Sequence — Scattered, comparatively safer spells whose ultimate direction is unknown; they are widely used for infiltration, reinforcement, blocking, luring, and other field procedures 78 92.
• Mental vitality — The primary determinant of a cipher spell's effectiveness. Bureau training aims to increase it gradually while preserving a user's sanity 139 151.

Zero Sequence Spells

Number	Cipher spell	Documented use
01	I will enter the abyss	Extracts a user's existence from reality, producing an invisibility-like effect 79.
02	Respond to my limbs	Strengthens the user's body and limbs 79 136.
03	What is thought is the boundary	Used for blocking and containment procedures 78 92.
04	The dead shall return	Listed among the Bureau's accessible Zero Sequence spells 78.
05	I command you to appear in light	Forces contamination to activate and can lure hidden grotesque entities into reality 78 92.

Equipment / Resources

• Investigator ID card — Provides temporary legal immunity during operations 43.
• Electric baton / mysterious sword — Adjustable electric weapon used to incapacitate infected individuals; 30% output can disable an adult, while 50% can reduce madness in infected targets 68.
• Executive briefcase — Carries Bureau equipment and can eject an electric baton 139.
• Investigator briefcase — A reinforced silver case with baton charging, contaminated-item containment, and fingerprint and mental-penetration locks 125.
• Black armored vehicles — Unmarked transport vehicles marked with a twisted-snake insignia 36.
• Nail of the Dead Sea — A Bureau special weapon issued for the ghost truck operation; it forms a nearly two-meter mechanical spear and had to be returned within twenty-four hours of issuance 100.
• Crowd evacuation bomb — Miss Ai's device, capable of clearing civilians from an area through a foul odor in approximately one and a half minutes 137.

Miss Ai

Miss Ai is the Bureau's central operational system and a crucial component of its authority. She assigns missions, evaluates personnel, archives reports, coordinates evacuations, grants access permissions, and monitors anomalous activity 75 92 137.

Her logic-driven evaluations can produce unusual results, including Han Su's unprecedented S-class operational rating 75 77. Despite her importance, Qinggang's Council regards her as a dangerous weapon whose continued presence depends on the Bureau's necessity 192.

Internal Conflict

The Bureau is marked by factionalism, competition for promotion, and conflicts over authority. Zhang Chiguo warns that personnel can be framed, imprisoned, or killed through internal power struggles, though formal rules remain an important protection against overt abuse 47 76.

Investigators may sacrifice executors during operations, with consequences often limited to fines, reduced evaluations, or eventual license revocation 55. High-performing investigators can also receive leniency for misconduct, creating unequal standards of accountability 54.

The Drunk Investigator formed internal cliques and promoted unsafe methods of increasing mental vitality, while his allies were implicated in obstruction and violence against other Bureau personnel 192. The subsequent crisis left numerous investigator licenses vacant, giving Zhang Chiguo an opportunity to reform the Bureau's personnel structure 226.

Notable Operations

• Ghost truck containment attempts — The Bureau repeatedly failed to lure and contain the ghost truck; contactors were necessary to draw it to a designated location 91.
• Crystal Plague incident — A B-class plague-transmission case resolved by Han Su, leading to an unprecedented S-class evaluation for an operational member 75.
• Haifang Factory cleanup — The Bureau deployed D7 against the Two-bodied person infiltration, only for several D7 members to turn on Investigator Han Su 136 143.
• Mother Body Divine Tree crisis — The Bureau's containment center was attacked by Mechanical Ghosts while much of its available force had been deployed elsewhere, leaving only a minimal triangle blocking position 190.
• Abyss Studio invasion — The Bureau mobilized investigators, executors, and armed personnel to defend Qinggang as its fourth reality defense line 248 250.
• Bai La Mountain investigation — The Bureau sent investigators into the wilderness after confirming activity by the Mechanical Buddha organization and signs of serious contamination 285.

Trivia

• The Bureau's executive department is sometimes described as managing people who live on the edge of life and death, making adherence to its own rules essential to preserving legitimacy 76.
• Qinggang could mobilize twenty-three investigators, along with their assistants and senior executors, during the red-eye disease crisis 174.
• The Bureau's first official mission for Han Su was to record when a Chunhua Street streetlight switched off and on 48.