Bai Lan

Biodata

Appearance

• Hair: Short, reaching her ears 4 9.
• Eyes: Described as sharp and eagle-like 9.
• Uniform: A fitted black uniform with a silver Abnormality Division badge 9.
• Outerwear: Wears a black trench coat during the Sunshine Waterfront and Benevolent Heart Hospital operations 18 33.

Personality

Bai Lan is stern, decisive, and intimidating enough to make school officials visibly uneasy. She distrusts convenient explanations and immediately recognizes Su Bai's claims about “ecological mutation” and magnetic interference as evasions. Nevertheless, she respects legal limits: when the instruments reveal no contraband, she imposes observation restrictions rather than arresting him without evidence 9 10.

Her caution does not prevent pragmatic cooperation. She recruits Su Bai when his contamination resistance offers an advantage, honors the promised reward, and rejects a subordinate's proposal to forcibly dissect him because he has not harmed humanity and has saved Bureau personnel. Her eventual protection remains conditional on his conduct, not on unquestioning trust 12 18 34.

She is famous for “iron-faced impartiality.” Her reputation makes the safety certificate bearing her signature credible even to the Gu Family's lawyer, who initially claims it must be forged 35.

Abilities & Skills

Peak Demigod

• Holds the rank of peak demigod; no subsequent advancement is documented in the provided chapters 9.
• Handles dangerous divine-kingdom failures and pollution incidents professionally 9.
• Declares that she will personally erase Su Bai's divine kingdom if its contamination begins leaking 10.

Anomaly Investigation

• Examines pollution residue, missing divine-power traces, and detector readings to reconstruct incidents 4 9.
• Matches the pollution aura at Red Star Middle School to Su Bai's divine kingdom passage 9.
• Correctly suspects a second-tier Spatial Labyrinth Anomaly at Sunshine Waterfront from the missing agents' condition and movement patterns 12.
• Infers that Su Bai can devour and assimilate Anomalies and false gods after reviewing the evidence surrounding Venomous Bee's death 23.

Operational Command

• Directs inspections, contamination monitoring, covert surveillance, and assault deployments 10 18 23 32.
• Grants external consultant status and access to nonclassified Bureau intelligence within Linhai City 18.
• Orders hospital cleanup, perimeter decontamination, and searches for surviving Anomaly derivatives 34.

Equipment

• Compass-like pollution detector — Measures pollution-source fluctuations; its needle spins wildly when pointed at Su Bai 4 9.
• Sidearm — Carried at her waist and readied during Su Bai's mandatory inspection 10.
• Psionic gun — Used during the armed entry into Benevolent Heart Hospital 33 34.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Red Star Middle School Investigation

Bai Lan first appears shortly after Su Bai leaves the abandoned Red Star Middle School. Investigating Senior Class 2 in Teaching Building No. 3, she finds that an Anomaly which had been gestating for three years has disappeared without signs of combat or residual divine power. The exceptionally pure dark matter residue leads her to classify whoever consumed it as a dangerous variable and order an investigation 4.

After Su Bai defeats Gu Chengfeng, she confronts him at school because his divine kingdom's pollution matches the missing Anomaly's aura. A mandatory inspection detects a contamination index of 99.5%, but no contraband or independent outside Anomaly. Unable to establish grounds for arrest, she designates him a first-level observation subject, requires weekly contamination tests, and restricts his ability to leave Linhai City or open his divine kingdom without approval 9 10.

Sunshine Waterfront Rescue

Bai Lan summons Su Bai for registration and offers him a rescue assignment at Sunshine Waterfront. Three agents have been missing for three days, with their monitors showing unstable mental states and repeated movement through the same area. She selects Su Bai because his heavily contaminated divine kingdom gives him natural resistance to low-level Anomaly contamination, offering 100,000 yuan and external consultant status if he brings them back 11 12.

While waiting outside, she prepares an assault team after the complex's pollution readings fluctuate and then abruptly normalize. Su Bai emerges with Zhang Lei and the other two agents, having eliminated the peak second-tier Spatial Labyrinth Anomaly. Bai Lan confirms their safety, arranges medical examinations, and fulfills her payment and employment promises 18.

Despite her growing suspicions, she refuses a proposal to request Su Bai's forced dissection. Instead, she raises his danger rating to S-rank and orders close monitoring, noting both his lack of crimes against humanity and Chen Tianxing's personal protection of him 18.

Venomous Bee Investigation

Zhang Lei later reports a brief spatial disturbance along Su Bai's route home and the death of Venomous Bee, a peak second-tier assassin who had accepted a contract on him. No body or signs of fighting remain. Bai Lan connects the spatial fluctuations to the Sunshine Waterfront Anomaly and concludes that Su Bai's abilities extend beyond merely surviving contamination 23.

She rejects immediate detention: there is no conclusive evidence, Venomous Bee was a wanted criminal, and an uncertain confrontation would also antagonize Chen Tianxing. Believing ordinary surveillance would only provoke Su Bai, she withdraws the concealed detectors and assigns him a consultant mission at Benevolent Heart Hospital to test his limits 23.

Benevolent Heart Hospital Assessment

Watching the hospital expedition's livestream, Bai Lan realizes Su Bai is systematically consuming its Anomalies rather than struggling to survive. She mobilizes the first and second squads, declaring that the hospital—not Su Bai—needs saving. Her team arrives to find the director dead, the site devastated, and Su Bai collecting rescue fees from surviving streamers 32 33 34.

After receiving the hospital's Anomaly records and the director's duty roster, she confirms that Su Bai has passed his practical assessment. She grants him the highest-level safety certification, preventing the Gu Family, education bureau, or anyone other than herself from forcibly removing his divine kingdom on safety grounds. She also awards him 500,000 yuan for eliminating the forbidden zone 34.

Her support comes with an explicit warning that she will kill him if he uses his power against innocent people. Privately, she recognizes his potential as a weapon against abyssal monsters—and the disaster he could become if corrupted. Her signed certificate subsequently defeats Wang Hai and the Gu Family lawyer's attempt to have his divine kingdom removed 34 35.

Relationships

• Su Bai — Initially a pollution suspect, later an external consultant under her conditional protection. She values his effectiveness while remaining wary of his unexplained abilities 9 18 23 34.
• Zhang Lei — Subordinate and captain of the third squad. He reports surveillance findings, conveys assignments, and carries out her operational orders 18 23 34.
• Chen Tianxing — His protection of Su Bai influences her decisions against forced investigation. After the hospital incident, she comes to understand why he considers Su Bai worth protecting 18 23 34.

Notable Quotes

“Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, we'll know once we investigate.” 10

“Rescue my ass! I'm going to save that hospital!” 32

“He's not just a monster. He's an extremely clever monster who knows how to use the rules.” 34