Director

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

The Director succeeded his father, Bai Suoyi, as C02’s leader and describes himself as the youngest Containment Facility leader China had ever had. When Lu Xiao asks how he obtained the position, he openly credits his father’s connections. His appointment nevertheless follows a distinguished operational career: the Doctor describes him as having been China’s finest Sacrificial One 132 140 251.

As C02’s leader, he keeps the facility running in excellent order through strong management and an ability to learn quickly. His research interests repeatedly draw him toward C03, particularly its unusual contained anomalies and Lu Xiao 40 76 131 922.

Appearance

• Ordinary appearance: A young man whose age contrasts sharply with the white-haired Doctor; his initial smile seems somewhat shy 40 132.
• Research clothing: Wears a white lab coat during field preparations 132.
• Mechanical right hand: Initially conceals the prosthesis beneath a white glove, worn without a matching glove on his left hand 133.
• Mutable body: Can reconstruct his face, height, figure, and hair rather than relying on a fixed appearance 303 977.
• Commerce-era attire: Appears in a suit and polished leather shoes while occupying a lavish executive office 952.

Personality

The Director combines managerial discipline with a casual, teasing manner. He readily admits benefiting from his father’s position, trades barbs with the Doctor and Warden, and later impersonates Shadow to provoke Lu Xiao. His confident presentation does not prevent him from expressing frustration when the Doctor dismisses his abilities or monopolizes talented personnel 132 977 978 1210.

His approach to anomalies is analytical and pragmatic. Inside Black Cat’s Dreamscape, he tests the limits of its understanding while fighting its creations, explaining that confronting unknown anomalous abilities requires gambling with one’s life. He also tells Lu Xiao that Sacrificial Ones must prioritize containment over their own safety 132 140.

His sense of responsibility develops alongside his political experience. By the Technical Assistance Team’s departure, he accepts that personal preferences cannot dictate the larger strategic picture. On Mother Goddess Star, he values his Council position chiefly as a means of obtaining benefits for humanity rather than as an end in itself 1126 1233.

His relationship with his father reverses conventional parental expectations: he complains that Bai Suoyi is “rebellious” for refusing the future he has planned for him. Bai Suoyi does not object to this behavior, and their exchanges are presented as an unconventional expression of their bond 924 979.

Abilities & Skills

Flesh Reconstruction

His independently active organs break down his flesh and reshape it into a new body 303 977.

• Recovery from bodily destruction: After his organs consume his body following an abdominal injury, they reconstruct a humanoid form and restore his intact brain to its place 303.
• Growth of external features: Regrows skin, hair, and eyes during reconstruction 303.
• Redistribution of flesh: Demonstrates increasing his height by feeding a severed arm into his abdominal cavity and reallocating the processed flesh 303.
• Manual correction: His early reconstruction leaves his facial features misplaced; he uses a mirror to rearrange them 303.
• Unconfirmed limits: The demonstrated reconstruction preserves his original brain; the incident does not establish that he can recover from its destruction 303.

Physical Impersonation

The Director’s disguises are physical transformations, not merely costumes or illusions 977.

• Recreates another person’s facial features, build, height, hair, and voice; his later imitation of Liu Ni is visually indistinguishable from her 303 977.
• Can imitate life aura, but cannot automatically reproduce body scent 977.
• Requests Liu Ni’s flesh to address scent and genetic-level imitation of her unusual Authority’s aura 977.
• Cannot thereby exercise Liu Ni’s actual Authority; the Doctor explicitly distinguishes imitation of its aura from possessing its power 977.
• Successfully passes as Liu Ni during extended contact with Weidiya and later imitates Shadow in front of Lu Xiao 999 1210.

Independent Organ-Brains

His organs can think independently and potentially control different regions of an enlarged body 304.

• Repositioning organs into his limbs would reduce the distance control signals need to travel 304.
• This arrangement theoretically permits enormous size without the corresponding loss of agility and reaction speed 304.
• Unlimited growth remains a theoretical capability in his explanation, not a demonstrated maximum size 304.

Combat and Anomaly Analysis

His field experience includes close-quarters fighting and interpreting unfamiliar anomalous effects 140.

• Fights Black Cat’s dream-created children and adult attackers with kicks and evasive movements 140.
• Correctly identifies that Black Cat’s manifestations depend on its understanding of the objects it creates 140.
• Develops the hypothesis that dream injuries can kill subjects who do not realize they are dreaming; joint experiments with the Doctor support it 146.
• Recognizes that Black Cat’s poor understanding of anomalous abilities limits its effectiveness against anomalous creatures 145 146.

Management and Diplomacy

He combines strict administration, incentives, acting, and political negotiation 922 999 1176.

• Rapidly studies finance before taking charge of humanity’s interstellar business initiative 922.
• Enforces detailed regulations while offering genetic upgrades, longevity, and greater strength as rewards for outstanding contributions 922.
• Builds a convincing friendship with Weidiya within two days while impersonating Liu Ni 999.
• Uses indirect conversation and borrowed religious authority to maneuver around the Mother God Elves’ scrutiny 1175 1176 1177.
• Maintains deliberately measured relations with competing factions to preserve room to secure benefits for humanity 1233.

Cultivation Status

• Has not ascended to deityhood or mastered an Authority by the Vol Galaxy expedition 1238.
• His bodily transformations operate through his organs, not through rules or Authority 1238.
• Plans to raise his level of life through accumulated resources; at that point, he cannot absorb the Divinity contained in the flesh he purchases 1238.

Equipment & Research Assets

• Mechanical right hand — A prosthesis with five fingertip gun muzzles. Its apparent weapons become harmless little flags inside Black Cat’s early Dreamscape, illustrating the dream’s imperfect reproduction of technology 133 140.
• System-linked earpiece — A rice-sized communicator supplied by the Doctor for the Liu Ni impersonation operation, allowing live monitoring and instructions through the System Local Area Network 979.
• Pendant — Used to communicate with the Doctor on Mother Goddess Star; the Doctor’s hidden consciousness also takes refuge in the Director’s consciousness space 1169.
• Walkie-talkie — Uses this simple device to assemble the Technical Assistance Team after Mother God Elf surveillance is withdrawn 1171.
• Sequence 121—Chef — Offers this living contained anomaly to the Doctor in exchange for Lu Xiao’s blood and subsequently brings Chef to C03 76 81.

Story Role / Major Arcs

C03 Collaboration and the Orphanage Mission

• At the facility leaders’ meeting, seeks access to the Doctor’s Sequence 292 research, but the Doctor refuses to trade it 40.
• Agrees to investigate the orphanage anomaly in exchange for permission to study 302—Transforming Vehicle, accompanying Lu Xiao and Driver 132.
• Secures Black Cat’s cooperation by promising protection and effective treatment for Nini 142.
• Begins joint research with the Doctor into Dreamscape combat applications and human enhancement 145 146 147.
• After witnessing the danger posed by the Doctor and Lu Xiao together, decides to draft “Terms Governing How to Keep Our Side from Deploying Lu Xiao First” 162.

C04 and Humanity’s Defensive Preparations

• Works with Shuns on a southern-coast facility intended to cover territory C02 cannot adequately defend 290.
• Announces C04’s completion and proposes publicly closing C03 while concealing its continued operations. He takes leadership of C04, while the System Core remains at C03 363.
• At the leaders’ conference, helps draw a wavering leader back from contemplating betrayal, but needs the Warden and Shadow to explain Antioch’s broader political maneuver 373 374.
• Recalls retired Prison Wardens and researchers for clinical prosthetic-combat trials. More than four thousand of the 4,367 people summoned return 427.
• Shows the veterans footage of a modified Sacrificial One destroying mutated marine creatures, while warning that individual results—especially those dependent on the brain—will vary 427.
• Later orders distressed modified veterans to obey instructions despite his own visible sorrow and incomplete knowledge of the plan 441.

Interstellar Commerce and Undercover Work

• Takes charge of the Foreign Ministry of Human Civilization, leading the financial specialists assembled for Lu Xiao’s business initiative 921 922.
• Delegates implementation work to Zhang Ming’s department while he and the Warden handle meetings and document approvals 952.
• Raises concerns that the Doctor’s growing control over technological networks could become catastrophic if he ever betrayed civilization 936 953.
• Replaces Liu Ni in an undercover operation designed to discover the Mother God Elves’ intentions 977 979.
• While disguised, pressures Weidiya to mobilize ten thousand Personal Guard members against abuses committed by visiting races in the Planned District 1040.
• Demands a weapon capable of harming a god for a human victim who has lost both arms 1041.

Mother Goddess Star and the Deliberative Council

• Leads humanity’s Technical Assistance Team to Mother Goddess Star. Bai Suoyi proposed the assignment partly to remove him from the pleasures of his commerce position 1126 1171.
• Organizes the team’s grape-growing and red-wine work in Rheinblue, with Vivian assigned to assist 1169 1171.
• Initially refuses Lan’s Council invitation and a proposed interspecies arrangement, stating that he lacks authority to make such decisions for humanity 1179.
• Reconsiders Council membership after the Doctor explains its value for intelligence, resources, and favorable policies; plans a consciousness backup as a precaution 1180.
• Joins through Liu Ni’s intervention, inadvertently becoming entangled in tensions between the Empress and the Goddess’s faction. The Empress removes him from the wine project, and Council members ostracize him 1232.
• Stops attending meetings. Nearly two Earth years later, the Empress recognizes his independent interests, and the social exclusion of his group ends 1232.
• Faces Mother’s ultimatum: retain benefits for humanity while Liu Ni remains captive, or obtain an Outer God’s Life Authority to free her 1235.
• Remains constrained within the Council; the Warden later discusses helping him become a full councilor 1317 1409.
• Eventually leads a faction with external backing that helps counterbalance both Lan and the soon-to-abdicate Empress, stabilizing Mother Goddess Star’s political order 1505.

Relationships

• Bai Suoyi — Father and former C02 leader. The Director credits him for his early appointment but later complains about having to provide for and plan the future of his “rebellious father” 132 251 979.
• Doctor — Research partner, frequent verbal sparring partner, and coordinator of his undercover work. Their cooperation spans mutation research, Dreamscape experiments, and interstellar politics, despite the Director’s misgivings about the Doctor’s expanding power 145 147 936 977 1169.
• Warden — Senior adviser and administrative partner. Acts as his guarantor, entrusts him with interstellar commerce, and later seeks his support within the Deliberative Council 287 921 952 1409.
• Lu Xiao — Research interest, source of his mutation-inducing blood, and field companion. Their exchanges range from alarm at Lu Xiao’s destructive potential to teasing impersonations 76 132 162 303 1210.
• Shuns — Research collaborator during C04’s establishment. Recognizes the military implications of the Director’s distributed organ-brains 290 304.
• Black Cat / Little Black — Contained anomaly whose cooperation he obtains by promising care for Nini; subsequently studies its Dreamscape with the Doctor 142 145 146.
• Liu Ni — Fellow human whom he impersonates and later attempts to help on Mother Goddess Star. Her effort to secure his Council membership unintentionally exposes him to factional conflict 977 1175 1232 1235.
• Weidiya — Develops a close friendship with him while he is disguised as Liu Ni; he leverages that relationship to demand protection for abused humans 999 1040.
• Lan — Political backer and Council contact. Their interests become linked, although his later faction also serves as a check on her influence 1226 1318 1505.
• Liu Guang — Companion and political adviser on Mother Goddess Star, particularly regarding the Empress’s leverage over human representatives 1230 1235.

Notable Quotes

“How else could I have become a leader?”
— Explaining that his father previously held the position 132

“When facing the unknown, we can only gamble with our lives.”
— Assessing Black Cat’s Dreamscape 140

“Obey your orders!”
— Addressing the modified retired Prison Wardens at C04 441