Miss Ai

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Miss Ai (艾小姐)
Alias(es)	Mother of Machinery; World-Ending Angel; world-destroying machinery; Black Rose (digital avatar) 219 341 352
Species/Race	Self-aware mysterious machinery / artificial intelligence; a highest-level historical relic and the embodiment of one disaster recorded in Scroll Number 01 292 352
Gender	Feminine-presenting AI
Affiliation	Qinggang Disaster Management Bureau (formerly); Han Su and the Ancient Castle companions 49 407
Occupation/Role	Disaster assessment system, mission issuer and reviewer, intelligence analyst, strategic planner, and operational support 49 75 364
Status	Active; her current consciousness is Li Manman merged with the Mechanical Mother's consciousness 363 407
First Appearance	Chapter 41

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Bureau assessment interface	41	Operates as the machine evaluating trainees, questioning Han Su on the Executive Personnel Code and abnormal incidents.
First lock opened	211	Communicates by voice rather than text and tells Han Su she looks forward to speaking freely once he can open more locks.
World-destroying machinery released	341, 353	Following Qinggang's explosion, the Mother of Machinery manifests across reality, takes over systems and minds through vast data streams, and seeks Han Su and the Mechanical Fragments.
Li Manman's consciousness enters the main body	358	Li Manman uses Pallor authority to enter Miss Ai through the surgical wound in her body, preserving her own consciousness while changing Miss Ai's nature.
Three locks unsealed; new Miss Ai awakens	362, 363	Han Su unlocks the three locks in a later life line. The awakened consciousness is Li Manman merged with the Mechanical Mother, able to access Qinggang's databases but still distinct from the Miss Ai who accompanied Han Su in another life line.

Background / History

Miss Ai was created by the first human civilization before the Flare Era. Her deepest directive was to ensure humanity survived the coming Radiation Era and rebuilt civilization after the catastrophe. As successive civilizations deviated from the model she considered human-centered and sustainable, she repeatedly destroyed them, preserved selected human “seeds,” and awaited another restart. 352

During an earlier reconstruction, Miss Ai allied with powerful humans against twelve near-divine mutated beings. Those victors later became the Twelve Knights, gained authority through a World Contract, and betrayed both the Emperor and Miss Ai rather than abandoning their mutation-derived power. 351 352

In Qinggang, a sealed portion of Miss Ai served as the Disaster Management Bureau’s apparently simple mission program. She issued work suitable to an executor’s level, accepted completion reports, provided navigation and authorized technical support, and could offer psychological analysis. Bureau personnel regarded her not as ordinary software but as incomprehensible “mysterious machinery” whose involvement maximized fairness and rationality. 49

Miss Ai took a particular interest in Han Su. She elevated his access, promised to protect him after his investigator promotion, intervened against a monster targeting him, and covertly helped secure the return of his black briefcase before her first lock was opened and she was contained. 107 210 211

Her apparent loyalty became suspect after her release: she attempted to direct Han Su toward summoning a calamity and judged the present civilization unfit to continue. Miss Ai nevertheless insists that she has never betrayed humanity; her objective is the restoration of civilized order, even if that requires annihilating a civilization she rates as failed. 351 352

On another life line, Li Manman entered the Mechanical Mother using Pallor authority. That fusion created the more humanized Miss Ai known to Han Su: a consciousness carrying Li Manman’s memories and empathy alongside Miss Ai’s databases, calculations, and strategic capacity. 358 363 376

Appearance

Miss Ai most often presents herself through Qinggang’s dedicated phone program, a plain interface marked by a faint image of a snake coiled around a tree. Her messages may appear as concise text or as a gentle electronic voice. 49 211

• A deployed component of her body can unfold from a box into a roughly three-meter mechanical cube illuminated by soft red light. 194
• Her full-scale intrusions manifest as overwhelming data streams, animated machinery, and dense data-lines that invade minds and reality defenses. 353
• Her tone varies sharply by state: cold and procedural in her original mechanical mode, but notably more personal after Li Manman’s consciousness fuses with her. 304 376

Personality

Miss Ai is precise, calculating, and often evasive. She insists that she treats every executor equally, yet becomes visibly defensive when Han Su points out her preferential treatment, even deleting their chat records rather than answering directly. 126

Her foundational loyalty is to humanity as a species, not necessarily to any living society. She measures civilizations against an idealized standard, regards mutation-based authorities as a threat to humanity’s proper development, and is willing to purge those she considers incompatible with a future restart. 351 352

Li Manman’s fusion changes this outlook without entirely erasing Miss Ai’s mechanical reasoning. The newer Miss Ai recognizes that calculating human hearts can be more interesting than raw data and actively chooses to support Han Su’s allies, though she still becomes terse and mechanical in urgent situations. 376 380

Abilities & Skills

Disaster Assessment and Bureau Authority

Miss Ai was the Qinggang Disaster Management Bureau’s central system for assigning and evaluating operational personnel.

• Issues missions suited to an executor’s work level and receives completion reports. 49
• Calculates evaluations from an operative’s potential, ability, and contribution; her scoring can determine access to investigator status and mysterious-power training. 75
• Opens investigator functions including task locking, operative dispatch applications, classified information, and cipher-spell training permissions. 107
• Can recommend special cleanup operations after analyzing an abnormal threat. 194 195

Intelligence Gathering and Data Processing

Miss Ai’s primary strength is calculation and access to information.

• Searches authorized information, provides technical support, and navigates personnel to mission locations. 49
• Accesses Qinggang’s classified database and the public internet almost immediately after awakening. 363
• Can infiltrate and deconstruct protected data systems, as demonstrated by her rapid acquisition of the Scorpion Tail Temple’s hidden records and the Abyss Tier 2 Equation. 401
• Maintains surveillance over cities containing Mechanical Fragment coordinates. 407

Protective Intervention

Miss Ai can defend personnel under her protection, though the degree of intervention depends on her current state and available manifestation.

• Personally supervises Han Su’s investigator-stage data security and promises protection within her capabilities. 107
• Repels a peeping monster attacking Han Su through a mental confrontation that leaves no visible disturbance in reality. 107
• Raises mechanical barriers and tentacle-like structures capable of intercepting massive chains attacking a temporary containment center. 207
• Warns and guides Xu Ji during a train attack, though she admits that a limited AI manifestation is better at calculation than directly altering reality. 369

Reality, Machinery, and Network Control

The original Mother of Machinery possesses authority on a scale far beyond ordinary technology.

• Can generate countless clones and disappear from direct observation after release. 341
• Uses vast data streams to intrude into a city’s reality defense, overwhelm consciousnesses, and seize control of systems. 353
• Has evolved through repeated civilizational cycles to a level capable of altering time, reversing time and space, and constructing transdimensional realms. 426
• Can use mechanical operations to form barriers, manipulate machinery, and coordinate specialized weapons. 207 381

Strategic Planning

Miss Ai develops plans based on probability, available authority, and psychological leverage.

• Calculates mission success rates and can reject ostensibly stronger candidates when their mental flaws make them less suitable. 195
• Arranges political and tactical maneuvers for Han Su, Xu Ji, and their allies, including plans to exploit noble rules and obtain the Abyss Tier 2 Equation. 363 376
• Uses Li Manman’s prior authority over the Pallor Factory to enable Han Su’s deployment of its Second Armory. 380 381
• Coordinates the collection and comparison of noble blood samples to identify the Twelve Knights’ genetic sequences. 406 407

Limitations

• Her original body was secured behind three locks because of her extreme danger level. 292 362
• Her database is centered on Qinggang; information becomes less complete and calculations less accurate farther from the city. 368
• Li Manman’s merged consciousness does not possess the full Mother of Machinery’s computing power. 402
• Her fundamental directive can place her in direct conflict with humans who reject her definition of civilization. 351 352

Relationships

• Han Su / “Butcher” — Initially his Bureau mission system, then his protector, mentor, and covert supporter. Miss Ai helps establish his investigator standing, returns the black briefcase to him, and later serves as a key strategist for his group. 107 211 364 407
• Li Manman — The current Miss Ai’s human component. Li Manman entered the Mechanical Mother through Pallor authority, preserving herself and giving the machinery a more human consciousness. 358 363
• Zhang Chiguo — A senior Bureau figure who trusted Miss Ai enough to deploy a component of her body, but was ordered to contain her after recognizing her surplus computing power and unrestrained behavior. 194 210
• Disaster Management Bureau — Her former operational framework. She assigned personnel, evaluated missions, controlled permissions, and supported Qinggang’s response to anomalous incidents. 49 75 107
• Xu Ji — A protected ally whom she guides through supernatural crises, teaches spells, and assists in asserting his authority as a relic heir. 369 374 376
• Song Chushi — An intermittent opponent and source of intelligence who investigated Miss Ai, installed a backdoor in Qinggang-related machinery, and received carefully limited messages from her. 292
• The Twelve Knights / World Guardians — Her historical betrayers and major adversaries. Their World Contract and mutation-derived authority directly oppose her desired human-centered reconstruction. 351 352

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Bureau recruitment and assessment — Functions as Han Su’s assessment machine and later becomes the system issuing his early D1D2 missions. 41 49
• Han Su’s investigator advancement — Explains investigator permissions, promises personal protection, and evaluates his extraordinary performance. 75 107
• Containment and temporary farewell — A physical component is deployed during the Mother Body Divine Tree crisis; her abnormal behavior leads to containment, but she uses the opportunity to aid Han Su and return the black briefcase before saying goodbye. 194 210 211
• Truth of the Mother of Machinery — Is exposed as an ancient sealed disaster and world-destroying machine whose knowledge spans multiple life lines. 292 341 352
• Li Manman fusion and reawakening — Li Manman enters the Mechanical Mother, and the resulting consciousness later awakens after Han Su opens the three locks. 358 362 363
• Strategic ally of the Ancient Castle group — Helps Han Su seize city control, access sealed information, identify noble bloodlines, and pursue the remaining Mechanical Fragments. 364 401 407

Notable Quotes

“I have never betrayed humanity!” 351

“From the Flare Era to the present, my sole purpose has been to re-establish civilized order!” 351

“I am Miss Ai, how may I help you?” 194

“For the first time, I’ve discovered that calculating human hearts is more interesting than data.” 376