Yuqing

Biodata

Power Progression

Yuqing’s system level is distinct from beast-core levels and Sentinel ranks: she remains Lv0 when last explicitly assessed, despite substantial improvements in strength and control 42.

Background / History

Life Before the Interstellar World

Before the apocalypse, Yuqing undertook a hospital residency and encountered psychology during her training. She later served as a healer in a survivor-base squad, treating injuries and occasionally entering her best friend Yun Qi’s mental world. Although primarily a support specialist, she also received combat training and killed many zombies 2 6 24.

Years of scarcity left her severely malnourished. Immediately before arriving in the interstellar world, she fell into a zombie horde and exhausted most of her abilities; she remembers Yun Qi jumping in to save her before she lost consciousness 1 13 19.

Arrival and Choice of the Federation

Yuqing awakens in Mist Forest surrounded by Federation soldiers, who identify her as a Guide because of her apparent Spirit Entity and Guide Pheromone. Despite having little power remaining, she agrees to treat Ers, an SS-rank Sentinel in a Level Eight Berserk State 1.

Bai Ze guides her through Ers’s concealed mental landscape, allowing her to reach its deepest region. Her treatment restores signs of life to his devastated mindscape and brings him back to his senses, but nearly exhausts her and causes her to collapse 2 3 4.

After a corrupted-creature attack separates her from the group, Yuqing encounters and treats Carlos. He offers to become her guardian Sentinel, but she fears that returning to the Empire will expose her unregistered, unfamiliar identity. When given the choice, she leaves with Ers and the Federation soldiers; Carlos permits her departure after she agrees that he may visit her 5 7 8.

Becoming a Stationed Guide

On Eremos, Yuqing accepts the military district’s bleak surroundings without the disgust its soldiers expect. Her later bout of indigestion reveals severe long-term malnutrition. Han Yu suspects abuse, though Yuqing’s history of deprivation comes from the apocalypse 14 19.

After treating Han Yu, she receives an appointment as the Ninth Military District’s stationed Guide. Her initial schedule requires four hours of work daily, with discretion over routine patient numbers but mandatory acceptance of critical cases assigned by Huosuosi 21 22.

Her growing endurance prompts her to request more treatment slots. Meanwhile, the incident involving Liechuan leads Huosuosi to arrange a candidate list for her permanent personal guard team 40 42.

Game Training and Exploration

01010 introduces Yuqing to a mecha game as a way to strengthen her mental power. She plays as Aili, Viscount Xiersen’s daughter, and discovers that both the training gains and certain crystal-core rewards can genuinely improve her abilities 23 24 35.

During a pollution tide, she helps defend the Xiersen settlement, heals injured children, and supports Shen Que and Xilaier against a Rock-Armored Beast. Ajiasi intervenes and kills the creature. Yuqing subsequently joins all three on an adventure toward Rust Canyon 33 34 35 44.

The team later welcomes Dolly after her former companions abandon her. Following the group’s earnings from her repair work, Yuqing divides 5,000 Federation credits equally among the five members. She then refines a level-five Frost Rabbit core and asks Ajiasi for permission to enter his Spiritual Sea 48 50.

Appearance

• Build and complexion: Slender, with fair skin and delicate features. Removing her apocalypse camouflage reveals a face that strongly impresses Shang Yu 5 16.
• Hair: Black, though prolonged malnutrition has left it somewhat yellowed and dry 16 25.
• Eyes: Slightly upturned at the outer corners 33.
• Original clothing: Her survivor-base combat uniform, camouflage face paint, and a scent-concealing spray intended to prevent zombie tracking 2.
• Work clothing: A work uniform beneath a white coat, carried with a canvas bag 25.
• Guide Pheromone: A jasmine fragrance, often accompanied by the lingering warmth of her spiritual power 8 10.

Personality

Yuqing is compassionate without being unaware of her limits. She attempts to help Ers despite uncertainty about whether her abilities will work, takes responsibility for Carlos’s injuries, and protects children during the settlement attack. Once she understands how severely a Level Eight Sentinel can drain her, however, she sensibly avoids approaching the Dark Prison without sufficient strength 1 7 17 33.

Her attraction to handsome men and love of small animals frequently undermine her composure. She teases Ers but becomes flustered by intimate treatment procedures and by learning that Sentinels share their Spirit Entities’ senses. Her enthusiastic petting therefore embarrasses her considerably in retrospect 11 28 29.

Apocalypse experience has made her resourceful and persistent. Although frightened of heights, she attempts to climb down from an enormous bird’s nest rather than wait helplessly. Finding Yun Qi remains a central motivation for training, alongside her growing ambition to pilot a mecha 6 18 24 41.

She also resists taking unfair advantage of others: she refuses Ers’s enormous monetary gift outright and proposes a shared account instead 31.

Abilities & Skills

Water-Element Healing

Yuqing combines water-element energy with healing and mental power to treat physical injuries and soothe damaged Spiritual Seas 2 7 12.

• Heals bruises and wounds through direct contact, including contact at the wrist or neck 2 7.
• Uses water energy to calm Han Yu’s Spiritual Sea while Bai Ze consumes its toxins 21.
• Can treat Sentinels without auxiliary medication, although she follows the clinical procedure and administers A01 during Jonah’s appointment 29.
• Initially has limited reserves: treating Ers leaves her unconscious from exhaustion 3.

Mental Soothing and Purification

Her mental power can penetrate defensive barriers, enter concealed mindscapes, and remove Spirit Toxins 2 21 42.

• Reaches the deepest part of Ers’s mindscape unusually quickly, surprising Shang Yu 4.
• Uses a single fine mental thread to explore Carlos’s Spiritual Sea while conserving her remaining energy 7.
• Later learns to pass power through gaps in spiritual barriers and strip away accumulated toxins selectively 42.
• Can stabilize dangerously contaminated Sentinels, but stabilization does not necessarily mean complete purification 21 40.

Bai Ze and Spirit-Entity Treatment

Bai Ze is a young auspicious beast and a manifestation of Yuqing’s mind, rather than an ordinary cat. Because she regards it as a kitten, it also understands itself that way 18.

• Guides Yuqing through Ers’s mirrored mental landscape 2.
• Consumes Spirit Toxins and escaping crystal-core energy 21 50.
• Develops through crystals and absorbed toxins 18 21.
• Yuqing can store it in her Mindscape, although forcibly sending it back once releases enough mental power to shatter her bedroom window 18 39.

Yuqing can also condense mental power into treats for other Spirit Entities, including a dog bone and a catnip ball. Through their links to their owners, these creations ease deep contamination and mental frenzy; even a chewed fragment carries energy through Huosuosi’s mental barrier 12 13 14.

Mental Combat and Team Enhancement

Her initially support-oriented abilities also have offensive and tactical applications 24 34 46.

• Forms mental blades, sharp points, and a bow with arrows 24 34.
• Soothes multiple allies during combat, improving their focus, stamina, and reactions 46.
• Identifies weaknesses through close observation, including vulnerable armor and an injured hind leg 34 46.
• Sustaining enhancement on three allies limits her available offensive power; during the canyon battle, she judges that she has only one attack to spare 46.
• Her brief redirection of her teammates’ attention surprises even her; it is not presented as fully mastered control 46.

Ice Ability

Yuqing awakens an initial ice ability by refining an ice-element crystal core 36.

• Can form a tiny ice spike at her fingertip.
• Cannot yet extend it into a larger icicle at the time of awakening.
• Water- and ice-attribute crystals support further development 18 36.

Medical and Survival Training

• Medical knowledge: Hospital-residency experience helps her recognize Ers’s defensive reactions as resembling post-traumatic stress disorder 2.
• Combat experience: Zombie-fighting reflexes allow her to begin attacking game mutants without consulting the tutorial 23 24.
• Survival skills: Applies physical training and careful testing of handholds while escaping the tree-top nest 6.
• Physical limitation: Her endurance is good by her original world’s standards but insufficient for mecha operation. 01010 warns that mental power outpacing physical fitness can worsen her nosebleeds 41.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Identification tag — A survivor-base tag she has carried for ten years. Contains her personal information, access chip, and dormant system 01010; her blood and the new world’s abundant energy activate the system 18.
• Smart terminal — Used for appointments, communication, payments, and learning Federation Guide regulations 22 31 42.
• Game pod and holographic helmet — Connect her consciousness to the game’s mental-world environment 33.
• Medical pod — Restores her after exhaustion; a pod is installed in her room on the marshal’s orders 24.
• Silver self-defense dagger — Given to her by Mrs. Xiersen during the settlement attack; has a leather-wrapped, nonslip hilt 33.
• Crystal cores — Uses an ice-element core and later a level-five Frost Rabbit core to strengthen her abilities 36 50.

Relationships

• Yun Qi — Best friend and former treatment recipient. Yuqing believes she may also have reached the interstellar world and trains to find her. System communication requires both of them to stabilize at Lv5 2 13 18.
• Ers — Her first Sentinel patient in the new world and an early source of security. He escorts and protects her, openly asks to pursue her, and agrees to her shared-account proposal 1 28 31.
• Shang Yu — Initially recruits her help for Ers, later carries her to safety and advocates letting her choose which faction to accompany. He is strongly attracted to her 1 5 8.
• Carlos — Imperial consul whom she heals in the forest. Offers to become her guardian Sentinel and lets her leave after obtaining permission to visit her later 7 8.
• Huosuosi — Ninth Military District commander who arranges her care, oversees her posting, and promises her a choice of personal guards 9 22 40.
• Han Yu — Her physician and a Sentinel she stabilizes by clearing approximately 30% of his Spirit Toxins. His teasing frequently embarrasses her 19 21 40.
• Noi and Duoduo — Noi benefits from Yuqing’s affection and healing through his golden retriever Spirit Entity. She initially does not realize he experiences their shared sensations 11 12 27.
• Liechuan — Seeks her help while close to a Level Eight Berserk State. After treating him, she argues that he needs rest rather than harsh confinement 38 39 40.
• Lin He — An urgently contaminated patient who avoids treatment because he fears her reaction to his venomous python Spirit Entity. Yuqing is angered by his family’s exploitation of him 31.
• Viscount and Mrs. Xiersen — Her parents within Aili’s game storyline. Their affection gives her a sense of familial warmth, and they support her departure to gain experience 24 35.
• Shen Que, Xilaier, and Ajiasi — In-game traveling companions who initially regard Aili as an NPC. Yuqing supports them in battle, and they guard her during crystal-core refinement 34 35 46 50.
• Dolly — A technically gifted teammate whom Yuqing helps welcome after her previous group abandons her 48.
• 01010 — Her system, adviser, and training companion. Its functions develop with the energy supplied by her growth; it also helps her study the unfamiliar world 18 31 38.

Notable Quotes

“It’s all right, take your time... You can depend on me completely. Trust me...” 2

“Bad dog, no biting!” 7

“Call me A-Qing. All my friends call me that.” 28