Song Zhixia

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Personality

Song Zhixia is blunt, authoritative, and unimpressed by either Xu Zhihan’s power or Lu Wenchuan’s rank. She orders examinations over their objections, reprimands both for ignoring injuries, and makes them sign movement restriction notices. Her dry humor is equally direct: she dismisses Lu Wenchuan as the loudest person in the room and questions whether Ji Heng’s dangerous reverse-pull method accounts for postoperative recovery 28 60 106.

Her severity is rooted in concern for her patients. She challenges the use of Xu Zhihan’s deteriorating body on missions, limits visitors while he recovers, and openly describes the Bureau’s proposed “meeting” as an attempt to confine and study him. Smaller gestures include protecting his paper flower from medicine spills and warming Xu An’s Soul-Sealing Casket when he feels cold 30 36 37 40 54 92.

She also notices the changing relationship between Xu Zhihan and Lu Wenchuan without always commenting on it. She deliberately gives them privacy after the Fate Line regression and quietly adjusts her treatment when Xu Zhihan asks her to be gentler with Lu Wenchuan 64 117.

Abilities & Skills

Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

Song Zhixia treats ordinary wounds alongside injuries involving mental fluctuations, soul flames, divinity fragments, and Fate Lines 28 54 92 123.

• Identifies the contrast between Xu Zhihan’s dangerously weakened body and his exceptionally stable, unmeasurable mental core 28.
• Administers medicine to stabilize mental fluctuations and treats repeated episodes of divine spark backlash 50 79 100.
• Cleans and debrides Lu Wenchuan’s recurring hand and wrist wounds, applies Line-Sealing Patches, and identifies damage to the edge of his Fate Line 103 104 123.
• Establishes that Xu Zhihan needs improved physical health, removal of lingering drug effects, replenishment of his soul flame, and a suitable vessel to suppress returning divinity fragments 54.
• Warns that treatment alone cannot make repeated ability use safe: Xu Zhihan’s depleted body risks collapse, while Lu Wenchuan’s damaged Fate Line limits his use of blood 36 123.

Anomalous Evidence Analysis

Song Zhixia uses examination reports and instruments to connect medical findings with the Bureau’s investigations.

• Reports that drug traces in an Old Gods Society mark resemble an ingredient in Xu Zhihan’s long-term medication. She treats a shared source—and the possibility that the medicine was marking him—as a hypothesis rather than an exact match 36.
• Cross-references the Green Gate list with Zhao Huaide’s testimony, identifying Zhou Yu’s mother as the only remaining local family contact among seven missing children 96.
• Confirms that a scrap of skin bearing “thanks” contains traces of the real Shen Cheng’s soul 110.
• Determines that the Sixth Layer recognizes Lu Wenchuan’s blood and can gradually draw his Fate Line toward it even if he stays outside 128.

Containment and Soul Support

Song Zhixia operates containment equipment and devises ways to transport vulnerable souls without exposing her patients to direct contact.

• Seals the impostor Shen Cheng inside the Containment Chamber after his attack in the Isolation Ward 79.
• Places Xu An in a Soul-Sealing Casket, with Xu Zhihan and Lu Wenchuan each holding one end of a guide thread 81.
• Checks Xu An’s soul flame and warms his casket after his remains return to the Bureau 92.
• Takes custody of the fourth divinity fragment and reinforces its containment. The fragment later breaks through the seals at the Return-to-God Layer 122 124.
• Operates a suppression control during the destruction of the Residual Bell and confirms that its signal finally reaches zero 156.

Operational Risk Management

Song Zhixia translates medical limits into field procedures, often insisting that equipment enter dangerous spaces before personnel.

• Reworks the Bell-Listening Chamber plan seven times. The final version allows three minutes inside, requires retreat at the second chime, and demands departure before the third 115.
• Designs the well-retrieval plan using a tether, robotic arm, and Xu An’s casket, allowing Xu Zhihan to suppress the blood seal without descending to the bottom 91.
• Sets a one-minute limit for Anchor Reverse-Pull and monitors both participants as the formation becomes dangerous 106.
• Sets a seven-minute maximum for the Final Layer operation, warning that she will forcibly sever the line and have Xu Zhihan dragged out when time expires 153.

Equipment / Items

• Medical instruments — Uses bedside monitors, scanners, portable examination equipment, syringes, and IV treatment 28 50 105 123.
• Stabilizing medicine — Administers oral medicine and injections for mental instability, backlash, and field recovery 50 91 115.
• Line-Sealing Patches and talismans — Applies patches to Lu Wenchuan’s injuries and remotely guides the use of thread-suppressing talismans 100 104.
• Soul-Sealing Casket — Uses it to carry Xu An safely and support his weakened soul flame 81 92.
• Containment and isolation boxes — Handles hazardous threads and divinity fragments, including the fourth fragment recovered during the Oracle Tower investigation 100 119 122.

Relationships

• Xu Zhihan — Patient whose fragile body and returning divinity repeatedly require her intervention. Although he resists her orders, he recognizes that she has no malicious intent and sometimes yields when she is genuinely angry 30 49 50.
• Lu Wenchuan — Colleague and patient whom she frequently reprimands for taking risks with his damaged Fate Line and bringing Xu Zhihan into danger. She continues treating him through the Final Layer crisis 36 68 123 155.
• Xu An — Provides care for his soul flame, arranges safe transport in a casket, and responds when he complains of cold 81 92.
• Impostor Shen Cheng — Attacks her with a Black Nail during the Isolation Ward incident. Xu Zhihan stops it half an inch from her eyes, after which she completes the containment 79.
• Deputy Captain — Coordinates evidence checks, remote treatment, and suppression work with her. In the finale, he promptly agrees to move the plant pots she nearly trips over at Headquarters 96 100 156 158.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“The Special Investigation Bureau can still solve cases without him.” 36

“Dead people generally don't have to consider postoperative recovery when they come up with ideas.” 106

“Then let the equipment die first anyway.” 119