Doctor

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Doctor belongs to a succession of artificially created individuals. Shadow explains that Lu Xi grows a new body roughly every fifty years, timed to reach adulthood when the Doctor working outside approaches the end of his life. Each replacement is sent out and educated to become a containment-facility leader. The Director had been selected to mentor the next replacement, although Lu Xiao’s arrival disrupted these arrangements 221.

Doctor Li designed the prototype from which Doctor originated. Shadow confirms that every Doctor receives a Thought Imprint of devotion to humanity, intended to prevent his exceptional intelligence and personality from becoming a threat to civilization. Doctor eventually deduces his artificial origins independently while living in his Dreamscape 294 297.

The current Doctor studied under Warden, who taught him the Warden Regulations and promoted him to C03’s leadership. Warden originally intended him to succeed him at C01, but Doctor’s deteriorating condition later led Warden to train Jailer instead 40 69 287 1078.

Appearance

• Usual presentation: A white lab coat and monocle are his most consistent identifying features. He carefully polishes the monocle before formal meetings and habitually reaches to adjust it even in virtual settings where it is absent 14 31 40.
• Palm eye: Has a bloodshot eye in the center of his palm. At one point, he places his monocle over it before crushing the lens in his hand 70 89 146.
• Forehead eye: His altered appearance includes a scarlet vertical eye on his forehead. During his unstable period, it radiates an evil aura while his facial muscles visibly writhe 176 210.
• Changing bodies: Returns to the Present World in a body with three legs, surprising even Warden 935.
• Later human-form appearance: Appears before the Hidden Beings as a somewhat short man, neither tall nor burly, wearing a gold-rimmed monocle and white lab coat 1191.

Personality

Doctor is usually calm, analytical, and difficult to unsettle. He can maintain an even tone while negotiating with hostile administrators, conducting dangerous experiments, or confronting vastly more powerful beings. That composure does not prevent a sharp temper: early in Lu Xiao’s containment, he abruptly curses at a staff member over a proposed ability entry 5 31 1191.

His defining obsession is finding a technological path for humanity’s survival. He accepts professional ruin, physical mutation, and madness as possible costs, refusing to abandon his research even when Warden offers him a future leading C01. He also refuses to shift all responsibility for his actions onto a Sacrificial One 69 70.

His pragmatism can be callous. He values abilities that can be mass-produced, threatens to eliminate Driver before discovering his usefulness, and initially considers concealing Cage’s side effects. Nevertheless, he decides that humanity must choose its own fate and later promises to protect Nini from research 38 100 609 697.

Doctor recognizes limits in his own judgment. He explicitly allows that both his theories and Doctor Li’s may be wrong, and admits that he does not understand art 609 978.

Abilities & Skills

Scientific Research and Anomaly Analysis

• Investigates anomalous properties through controlled testing, tissue analysis, operational records, and mathematical models 5 20 41 1393.
• Identifies Lu Xiao’s blood as more damaging to anomalies than his flesh and proposes culturing hematopoietic stem cells for a renewable supply 20.
• Infers that the Gate may be failing by comparing Lu Xiao’s account with ten years of increasing anomalous incidents 41.
• Proposes flesh machinery and sequence god-making as emergency routes through humanity’s technological limitations 146.
• Uses system-assisted modeling to identify the cause of Zhang Chu’s memory problems and directs him to Prison Doctor for treatment 299.

Dreamscape Creation

• Controls the environment of his own Dreamscape, including its materials, energy, and rate of time flow 294 295.
• Creates wormhole-like passages by folding a plane and opening a connection between corresponding points 294.
• Reconstructs scenes from another person’s descriptions to investigate past events. Unlike Black Cat’s dream-weaving, these reconstructions depend on the information supplied to him 297.
• Experiments with transferring emotions to identical copies. Even a greatly reduced share eventually drives a recipient mad, demonstrating that duplication alone does not solve his emotional burden 295.

Digital Consciousness and Parallel Processing

• Maintains backups and replaceable bodies so research can continue after a body becomes unusable 502.
• Distributes work among thousands of doubles, allowing projects in different scientific fields to advance simultaneously 932 1012.
• Uses his Main Consciousness Entity as a supercomputer, allocating only a small fraction of its processing capacity to routine government administration 1079.
• Generates false surveillance footage through the system, controlling what hostile observers believe they are seeing 976.
• Fights another digital lifeform through competing data floods, analyzing incoming information for concealed viral code 1146.

Spatial Technology

• Uses a Beast-Skin Bag as the starting point for his research into space 1072.
• Proposes combining independent cargo spaces into a larger storage space accessed through a Teleportation Gate 935.
• Identifies the missing warp bubble in Qi Shangqing’s Curvature Engine research, explaining its necessity for protecting living occupants from changing space 935.
• Opens passages into subspace. His search there requires oxygen equipment, while Cage allows him to extend his consciousness through the lightless environment 1052.

Biological Engineering

• Collaborates with Shuns on clones of himself, Shuns, and Doctor Li 611.
• Oversees a factory producing his doubles and a new body for Daimon 1129.
• Screens a gene bank and constructs a gene chain compatible with Spiritwood’s consciousness. Human genes prove unsuitable, so the resulting design uses a humanoid life-form instead 1355.
• Calculates that Spiritwood’s printed body could retain strength at the level of the Gods, but would cost as much as an entire Star System 1355.

Strategy and Negotiation

• Uses containment regulations, formal proceedings, and compensation claims to protect C03’s interests 31 40 41.
• Bargains for assistance from anomalies that the facility cannot reliably restrain, including securing a future service from Prison Doctor in exchange for access to 09 86.
• Develops military models that estimate arrival times, survival windows, and the Swarm’s growth from consuming enemy forces 1531.
• Studies authorities, rules, and assimilation, while distinguishing hypotheses from established facts 609 708.

Limitations

• His control over his Dreamscape does not establish equivalent power in the Present World. Shuns interprets his dream-world creation as a transformation toward a “Creator,” but Doctor later points out that possessing Creation Authority has not visibly raised his level of existence 290 473.
• Some doubles are only as physically durable as ordinary humans. One suffocates after entering subspace without accounting for its lack of air 1052.
• His earlier use of 012, 013, and 306 leaves him in a fragile balance that can collapse if disturbed 210.
• Digital warfare can push his computing core to full load, and hostile information must be checked even when it appears useless 1146.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Monocle and white lab coat — His customary attire; the coat also carries emergency supplies such as Cage 40 175.
• 012-Pen and 013-Parchment — Used together to record future events and write an intervention during Niclade’s breakdown. Their effects expose Doctor to severe physical and mental consequences 79 176.
• 306-Cage — Artificial anomaly developed jointly with Prison Doctor to unlock the human body’s “cage.” Prison Doctor supplies much of the pharmacological expertise 100 425.
• Main Consciousness Entity vessel — A rectangular metal block resembling a half-person-height coffin, carried by a double when Doctor travels to study the Time Convergence Point 1072.
• Biological Printer — Used to manufacture specially designed bodies from stored parameters and compatible genetic material 935 1355.
• Number One: Yao Ling — A bodyguard capable of upgrading herself using scientific knowledge stored in her Biochip 1129.
• Number Two — A fully mechanized bodyguard with greater conventional firepower than Yao Ling 1129.

Relationships

• Lu Xiao — Initially contains him as Serial 292, then makes his anomalous properties central to research and containment operations. Refuses to trade him to the Director and later relies on his deterrent power to retain the Omniscient Mirror 5 14 40 162.
• Warden — Mentor and former superior. Their disagreements center on Doctor’s willingness to take extreme risks; Doctor later stages a seizure of Warden’s authority without actually intending to harm him 40 69 1079.
• Director — Close collaborator in dangerous experiments and Dreamscape research. Doctor later secretly shelters a consciousness within the Director’s consciousness space, provoking his anger but ultimately receiving his forgiveness 145 147 1169.
• Prison Doctor — A separate individual, anomalous physician, and frequent collaborator. Helps develop Cage, performs Doctor’s eyeball transplant, and negotiates services with him 86 210 425.
• Shuns — Scientific partner whose technology enables Doctor’s backups. Collaborates with him on cloning, biological engineering, and countermeasures against mental contamination 425 502 611.
• Shadow — Knows the arrangements behind Doctor’s creation and confirms the humanity-serving Thought Imprint. Also supplies intelligence that leads Doctor to overhaul his sacrificial-operation plan 149 178 297.
• Doctor Li — Designer of Doctor’s prototype and an intellectual predecessor whom Doctor wants to meet. Doctor considers recreating him, but Lu Xiao discourages transplanting Li’s brain 297 611.
• Lu Qian — A potential solution to C03’s contamination crisis. Doctor attempts to redirect the prediction that she will control the facility, eventually using her commands to return contaminated staff to work 162 175 326.
• Black Cat / Little Black — Initially creates the therapeutic dreams in which Doctor fights his madness. Doctor’s own Dreamscape eventually exceeds its control and realism 210 290 627.
• Liuguang and Nini — Doctor questions Liuguang and offers him imprisonment or death. When Liuguang chooses death, Doctor agrees to protect Nini from research and says he has a plan to restore her 693 697.
• Antie — Strategic ally who accompanies Doctor to the Time Convergence Point. Doctor anticipates his interest in meeting another version of himself 1072.
• Technology and Time — Higher beings whose contest draws Doctor into a digital confrontation and a political gambit. The Recorders identify him as a thief of both beings’ domains 1146 1192.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Lu Xiao’s Containment and the Gate Investigation

• Assigns Lu Xiao Serial 292 and a provisional Safe classification after he accepts containment in exchange for food and shelter 5.
• Studies his regenerative tissue, anomalous blood, and ability to physically injure Weird Life, while considering ways to use those properties for humanity 5 17 20.
• Conceals updates to Lu Xiao’s data while investigating the Gate’s suspected deterioration. At the Round Table Conference, he resists transferring the Omniscient Mirror and obtains compensation when the council forces the issue 41.

Technological Breakthroughs and Niclade’s Sacrifice

• Pursues 012-Pen despite warnings that his actions could cost him his leadership position or reduce him to a Consumable 69 70.
• Uses 012 and 013 to record the coming rise of R’lyeh, then develops Cage and proposals for flesh machinery and sequence god-making 79 100 146.
• Replaces the original sacrificial-operation plan after receiving Shadow’s secret intelligence. During Niclade’s collapse, Doctor intervenes with Cage, Pen, and Parchment at the cost of his own sanity 149 175 176 178.

Madness and the Dream World

• Enters a treatment regimen that occupies half of each day, using Black Cat’s dreams to fight his madness and strengthen his mind 210.
• Remains inside his self-created world after recovering awareness because it offers research without material or energy shortages 290 294.
• After C03’s contamination crisis, discovers that Lu Qian’s speech can command the affected personnel even though her singing cannot fully purify them 326.

Hell and Humanity’s Expansion

• Plans to investigate Hell’s Post Office through a clone and recreate it within his Dreamscape 606.
• Supports humanity’s military foothold in Hell, advising coordination before a nuclear strike and explaining that additional warheads can arrive once a Gate to the Present World is built 753.
• Returns with advanced spatial technology and expands scientific work through mass-produced doubles 935 1012.

Time Research and Mechanical Tyranny

• Takes his Main Consciousness Entity to Chernobyl’s Time Convergence Point despite Warden and Antie’s objections 1072.
• Returns demanding power, then forcibly broadcasts his seizure of authority worldwide and centralizes government and military command 1078 1079.
• Explains that portraying humanity as enslaved by digital life allows him to approach the planet’s World Will as an enslaver, while making himself the target of punishment for prying into Time 1083.
• His tyranny is ultimately revealed as a staged arrangement with Military Headquarters. Humanity retakes the Present World, leaving Doctor to shoulder the blame for its mechanical domination and the intrusion into Time 1192.
• Before the Hidden Beings, proposes restoring balance by allowing Time access to part of Technology’s domain—an initiative outside Technology’s original plan 1193 1194.

Later Research and War Planning

• Designs Spiritwood’s rebirth body while investigating how an outsider might integrate into the universe 1351 1355.
• Investigates an unidentified Authority Weapon and the secrets beneath Earth’s ocean, personally returning to the trench through a stand-in protected by Kula 1393 1404 1405.
• Supplies the calculations behind plans to sustain the Swarm against the Allied Forces until the Human Legion arrives 1531.

Notable Quotes

“Technology is the only path humanity can take.” 70

“Humanity’s fate should be left to humanity itself to decide.” 100

“A single powerful combatant might play a decisive role, but what matters most is still having a large backbone of capable people. They’re the key to supporting a civilization.” 609