Special Affairs Bureau

Biodata

Background

As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth recovers and anomalous incidents multiply, the Bureau faces a shortage of personnel and actively recruits experts from cultivation sects and independent backgrounds. Established sects such as Emei, Qingcheng, Wudang, Longhu Mountain, Laoshan, and Maoshan already have institutional ties to the state through land, funding, policies, and meeting quotas. 87

Independent practitioners are more difficult to incorporate. The Bureau therefore uses external-membership arrangements, contract work, reward points, equipment access, and administrative assistance to secure their cooperation without immediately requiring full formal enrollment. 88 90

Organization and Operations

Recruitment and External Personnel

• The Bureau registers qualified non-staff specialists as external or unofficial members, allowing them to take assignments while retaining greater independence than formal personnel. 88 149
• External members can receive points, bounties, procurement access, and authorization to purchase regulated materials through the Bureau. 88
• Shen Le is recruited primarily for his ability to restore and communicate with spiritually active artifacts; he later identifies himself as an External Expert. 90 292
• The Bureau maintains reward listings for criminal demons, monsters, and human practitioners. Bounties can reach 15 million points for exceptionally dangerous targets. 88

Anomalous Incident Response

• Field personnel investigate supernatural attacks, contain unstable artifacts, evacuate civilians and researchers, and coordinate with local authorities, sects, military units, and research institutions. 449 649 653
• Standard field equipment includes spiritual-energy detectors, protective talismans, specialized firearms, coin swords, peach-wood swords, drones, surveillance gear, and containment cases. 449 496 712
• The Bureau uses layered responses against powerful threats, combining cultivators, formations, drones, armored support, missile strikes, rockets, and conventional military assets when necessary. 88 206 207
• Its monitoring stations track major spiritual disturbances and attempt to identify their source, nature, and range. 485 877

Demon and Nonhuman Policy

• The Bureau generally favors communication and management over immediate extermination. Even demons that have not fully awakened their intelligence are regarded as potential citizens and potential sources of strength. 590
• Personnel are trained to communicate with nonhuman entities that cannot speak or understand human language; the Bureau also employs specialists such as Mr. Jin for direct demon communication. 590
• Registration status and risk assessment affect official intervention. The Bureau declines to prioritize the rescue of Old You, an unregistered demon trapped near the Mountain Lord, due to the anticipated cost and danger. 164
• It does not publicly encourage private rescue bounties, but permits individuals to post them using their own resources. 164
• The Bureau avoids openly treating demon corpses as materials, considering the political consequences for human–demon relations. 170

Research and Development

• The Bureau studies recovered artifacts, formations, talismans, Secret Realms, spiritual materials, Artifact Spirits, and anomalous energy phenomena. 279 389 784
• Researchers scan Shen Le's teleportation talismans and make progress toward teleportation research after he manifests one for study. 389 419
• It maintains specialized scanners capable of functioning through powerful illusions and resisting Ghost King-level attacks. 527
• The Bureau develops and tests equipment for spiritual detection, artifact containment, talisman scanning, communications, camouflage, and low-altitude or sword-flight operations. 421 636 720
• It also studies traditional combat methods and Artifact Spirits such as Li Xingtang to adapt historical weapons and tactics for modern use. 626 628

Information Control

• When supernatural incidents become public, the Bureau suppresses trending topics, removes coordinated misinformation, produces cover material, and uses AI-generated or staged footage to frame events as fiction or special effects. 593 876
• It can requisition archaeological sites as national key projects, remove records and personnel, establish restricted zones, and assume control over dangerous discoveries. 472

Facilities and Resources

Binhai Office

The Binhai office is concealed within a dense artificial forest. Its separate buildings are surrounded by high iron railings and rooftop electric nets, reflecting its role in containing dangerous entities and phenomena. 90

Warehouses

• The Bureau stores confiscated items from criminal demons and monsters, as well as objects recovered from Strange World incidents. 91
• Many stored artifacts are spiritually contaminated, hostile, or dangerous to ordinary people and require purification before circulation or study. 91
• High-risk objects are kept in talisman-covered, temperature-controlled, humidity-controlled, light-shielded cases and assigned to specialized containment zones. 91
• Its Imperial Capital warehouse holds a substantially broader collection of historically significant and spiritually active artifacts than the Shanghai warehouse. 458

Exchange and Supply System

• The Bureau operates a points-based exchange system for bounties, talismans, Magic Artifacts, and restricted equipment. 88
• Points convert to money at a 1:10 rate; Shen Le’s external-membership incentive is stated as one million points, or ten million RMB, tax-free. 88
• Some supplies, especially firearms, remain inaccessible without sufficient clearance or formal status. 88
• The Bureau can provide or arrange specialized equipment, laboratories, isolation arrays, body-tempering resources, protective gear, teachers, regulated materials, and research support for valuable external experts. 390 566

Relationships

• Shen Le — External Expert and recurring collaborator. The Bureau recruits him for artifact restoration, relies on his supernatural expertise, and repeatedly provides equipment, research support, protection, logistics, and compensation. 90 390 421
• Gu Yulin — Maoshan disciple and Bureau operative who helps recruit Shen Le, serves as a liaison, delivers materials, and coordinates many of Shen Le’s requests. 88 611 755
• Zhang Bingxin — Gu Yulin’s fellow Maoshan disciple and Bureau operative; assists with Shen Le’s recruitment and later monitors incidents around Shen Le’s residence. 88 383
• Alloy Master — A longer-established Bureau collaborator whose daily supplies and research communication depend on the Bureau’s support. 279
• Li Xingtang — Newly awakened Iron Armor Artifact Spirit registered by the Bureau, retained away from the front lines, studied by scholars, and employed to teach cold-weapon tactics. 625 627 628
• Sea demons — Potential allied nonhuman population. The Bureau begins formal outreach, trade, and communication after Shen Le repairs the rifts between heaven and earth. 728 729

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