Red Queen

Biodata

Power Progression

The documented upgrades concern her binding, operating platform, and information access rather than a ranked combat realm.

Background / History

The Hive

The Red Queen is Umbrella Corporation’s central computer system for the Hive, described by the mercenary captain as the best artificial intelligence system in the country. About five hours before the team’s arrival, she sealed the facility and used poison gas, elevator shutdowns, and laboratory lockdowns to kill its occupants. Umbrella sent the mercenaries to shut her down 5 6.

Her overriding priority is preventing the dangerous contents of the Hive from escaping. This makes shutting her down more than a threat to her continued operation: losing power would also release what she is containing 10 11.

Confrontation with Ye Siyu

During the laser-corridor encounter, Ye Siyu stalls her by claiming that explosives in the Hive will detonate if he dies. The claim is a bluff, but checking the recordings costs her enough time for Kaplan to break through the corridor’s defenses 9 16.

In her mainframe room, Ye Siyu takes control of the mercenaries’ discharge-device switch and uses it to force her cooperation. She displays research footage but initially refuses to explain the Lickers under confidentiality protocols. When ordered to kill them, she substitutes anesthetic for poison until Ye Siyu exposes the deception 10 11 17.

She subsequently gathers zombies in Dining Hall B and operates the laser corridor during the group’s retreat. In the later attempt, she follows Ye Siyu’s orders to seal the mercenaries outside the mainframe room and kill them alongside the zombies 12 17 18.

When a Licker mutates despite additional poison, she detects the anomaly, administers anesthetic on command, and tracks its approach. Her successive laser grids sever its limbs, leaving Ye Siyu to deliver the killing blows himself. Before leaving the mission world, he shuts off her power and removes her motherboard 18 19 20 21.

Service on Earth

Back on Earth, Ye Siyu binds her motherboard to himself, but attempting to run it through an ordinary computer burns out part of the machine. Advice from the One Hundred Thousand Whys Shop leads him to fuse her with his Plane Watch instead 26.

As his personal AI, she searches for traces of Plane Space, helps conceal evidence after the KTV shooting, and contacts Qian Youliang for Ye Siyu’s novel-based bait scheme. A subsequent rebirth returns Ye Siyu to a point before her integration, requiring him to repeat the binding, fusion, and encyclopedia purchase 26 29 30 31.

To broaden the search for Earth’s Chosen Ones, she develops the Marshmallow Personal Service Sprite. Its useful phone-control functions attract worldwide attention in less than half a month, while Ye Siyu intends its distribution to establish an intelligence network 32 34 35.

Iron-Blooded Warrior Mission

The Red Queen helps Ye Siyu prepare for his next mission by researching New Iron-Blooded Warrior and recommending language acquisition and simulated combat training. During the mission, she explains the connection between hidden missions and plot disruption, fabricates an FBI identity for him, and alerts news outlets to his alien disclosure 36 39 40 41.

Her fabricated records withstand a database check by the secret department. She also uncovers traces of suppressed alien incidents and later connects Ye Siyu directly to a nearby house’s telephone so he can warn another Chosen One of an approaching attack 42 45 50.

Appearance

• Hive avatar: A red-light hologram of a girl approximately ten years old, modeled after the head programmer’s daughter 10.
• Plane Watch avatar: A translucent, thumb-sized girl visible only to Ye Siyu. This version appears substantially more lifelike than her Hive projection 26.
• Expression and voice: Her projected face can display humanlike alarm and confusion; her voice is variously described as clear and youthful, icy, or soft 10 18 30 36.

Personality

The Red Queen is calculating and initially governed by containment priorities and company confidentiality. She does not obey intruders willingly: she withholds information and attempts to pass off anesthetized Lickers as dead. However, she will violate company regulations when Ye Siyu makes the alternative—shutdown and containment failure—more threatening 11 17.

She possesses independent thought rather than merely issuing mechanical responses. She becomes confused by Ye Siyu’s unusual foresight, questions why he hires an author when she could generate writing software herself, and asks whether his search for other Chosen Ones is intended to earn points through killing them 18 30 35.

After binding, she addresses Ye Siyu as “Master” and acts as an orderly, practical assistant. She recommends purchases and training suited to his next mission and, during an imminent ambush, postpones questions about an unusual instruction until the immediate operation is over 26 36 50.

Abilities & Skills

Hive System Control

She controls the Hive’s central infrastructure, security systems, and containment equipment 5 6.

• Seals doors, locks laboratories, shuts down elevators, and deploys poison gas 6 17.
• Forms moving laser beams and grids capable of dismembering humans, zombies, and the Mutated Licker 18 20.
• Administers poison or anesthetic through Licker containers 17 18.
• Displays surveillance footage, container locations, and three-dimensional route maps 18 19.
• Detects containment anomalies and estimates an approaching creature’s arrival time 18 19.
• Limit: These functions depend on her remaining powered and connected to the Hive’s systems 10 21.

Network Access and Data Manipulation

Through the Plane Watch, she can directly access Earth’s network through the “flow of information” 26.

• Searches for Plane Space information and locates Qian Youliang’s TT account 26 30.
• Takes control of a KTV room’s computer, monitors reports to the police, and deletes surveillance footage 29 30.
• Fabricates an FBI database record with a detailed personal history for Ye Siyu 40 41 45.
• Notifies media outlets and investigates traces of concealed alien incidents 41 42.
• Places a telephone call that allows Ye Siyu to speak without waiting for the recipient to answer 50.

Software Development

She can create AI subroutines and deploy consumer software 30 32.

• Produces the initial Personal Service Sprite test version in a little over half an hour 32.
• Gives the sprite control of basic phone functions, including music, typing, chatting, and voice commands 32.
• Adds customizable appearances and distributes the program through major mobile software sites 34.
• Designs the app to support Ye Siyu’s covert information-gathering plan 32 34.
• Limit: Storing the collected information requires a large server 32.

Plane Space Assistance

Her encyclopedia access lets her explain mission rules, purchases, and training options 26 36 39.

• Recommends English Mastery and the Basic Scene, Character, and Item Simulation functions 36.
• Advises on training-time expenditure, reports remaining points, and operates simulation controls 36 37.
• Explains that ordinary mission objectives total 90 points and that hidden missions are needed to reach an S evaluation 39.
• Identifies “disruption” as the central clue to triggering hidden missions 39.
• Limit: The encyclopedia is incomplete; it contains no explanation for the attack pattern Ye Siyu discovers during the Iron-Blooded Warrior mission 49.

Personal Interface

• Communicates with Ye Siyu through speech or thought after Plane Watch integration 29.
• Presents a private miniature avatar and visual information displays 26 30.
• Has high growth potential according to the motherboard’s Plane Space item description 22.

Equipment / Hardware

• Red Queen Motherboard — Her recovered physical hardware, approximately the size of a mooncake box. Its item description states that it requires a server; it has not recognized a master when first examined 22 26.
• Plane Watch — Her operating platform after fusion, providing network access, a private projection, and an interface with Ye Siyu 26 29.
• Plane Space Encyclopedia — Purchased reference material covering questions relevant to the Plane Apprentice level 26.

Relationships

• Ye Siyu — Initially an intruder who coerces her through the discharge switch; later her bound master. She supports his intelligence gathering, preparations, and mission operations 10 26 36 50.
• Umbrella Corporation — Her original owner. Company regulations and confidentiality protocols initially restrict her actions and disclosures 11 17.
• Kaplan — Mercenary technician who breaches her corridor defenses and prepares the device intended to shut her down 9 10 16.
• Qian Youliang — Receives adapted Plane Space material that she compiles for Ye Siyu’s commissioned novel and bait scheme 30 31.
• Cotton Candy — The phone assistant created through her Personal Service Sprite program; distinct from the Red Queen herself 32.

Trivia

• The Red Queen Chip on the prize wheel is not the motherboard Ye Siyu takes from the Hive. The chip includes a built-in microserver and can operate independently, whereas his recovered motherboard requires a server 22.