Ban Zhao

Oh no, this article is **incomplete!** Please don't stare...

      The content on this page is not fully updated for GL yet! Please be patient.

## Ban Zhao

* 5★
* 6★

## Title(s)

### 6★

Meow Meow Maid Ban Zhao

**Ban Zhao** is a historian within the ALICE China Branch, and is the youngest between her and her sisters, Ban Gu and Ban Chao. After Ban Chao mistakes the actions of Sima Qian and Mo Zi as killing Ban Gu and attempting to hide the evidence, Ban Zhao investigates because she thinks that Sima Qian wouldn't have done this, and finds a backdoor program installed into Ban Gu's lab. She goes and gives herself up to Mo Zi's forces, and hears their explanation which confirms her suspicions. She works with them to defeat Ban Chao who refused to listen. Once Ban Chao was tied up and brought back to the Ink Army headquarters, Ban Zhao tells Ban Chao to listen to what she has to say and to help them or she will never speak to her again. After Ban Zhao's explanation, Ban Chao realizes her mistake and vows to help them find the culprit.

When Sima Qian later tries to time travel to the past to investigate the Four Perils using her Shi Ji device, Ban Zhao creates "lifelines" that would bring Sima Qian and the player back after spending a certain amount of time in the past, and she watches over Shi Ji. When they return however, she has been captured and they are arrested by Nan Hua, and blamed for the escape of Hun Dun due to Sima Qian's machine accidentally rerouting power from Leifeng Pagoda, due to using a key from Zhuang Zi.

They are taken to Illusionary Hell, and manage to escape when it gets attacked by the Four Perils. After being sheltered by the Department of Ethics, Sima Qian says they need to go to the Department of Heavenly Principles to find the person who gave the key in the first place, Zhuang Zi. Ban Zhao mentions that the database they tapped into, the Three Officials System was quite suspicious and even seemed to have pseudo-character data inside.

After they talk with Xun Zi, and head for Zhuang Zi's friend Hui Shi, they come across Zhuang Zi on a bridge. Ban Zhao tries to stop Ban Chao from confronting him so soon, but she fails to do so. Once they confront him, however, Zhuang Zi insists that he has never met Sima Qian before.

After the following incident where Hui Shi tries to arrest them and Zhuang Zi disappears, Ban Zhao and the others contact Xun Zi, who advises them on returning to the Department of Heavenly Principles. Along the way they are escorted by Zeng Zi, and while travelling by boat they are shipwrecked on an island. They are rescued by Mo Zi and the Ink Army, who were in the area to investigate the shipwrecks, although Ban Zhao in particular was saved by Zhuang Zi. Sima Qian then asks Mo Zi to watch over Ban Zhao for a few days, so that Ban Zhao can look into certain matters.

Ban Zhao spends the time working with Lu Ban on improving Shi Ji, and when Sima Qian and the others return she explains the modifications she made and how it won't cause a power outage like last time and can support up to four people travelling to the past. Ban Zhao asks Sima Qian if she is there to use Shi Ji again, and Sima Qian says that she is.

Sima Qian shows some reluctance to use it, however, especially due to all of the people harmed in the process. Ban Zhao reminds her that as historians they can't just turn a blind eye to this part of history, and with approval from the others Sima Qian agrees to go. Ban Zhao gives the adapter, Sima Qian, Lu Ban, and Zhuang Zi emergency lifelines to bring them back automatically if needed, and explains to the latter two what they need to know before using Shi Ji. She then activates Shi Ji to send the four to the past, but when they come back she notices that something is amiss, particularly that Sima Qian and Lu Ban did not return.

Ban Zhao starts looking into the issue, and finds it out that the time travel seemed to have altered history despite Shi Ji being designed to correct it. She makes plans along with Mo Zi to work on upgrading and recalibrating Shi Ji so that they can find and rescue Sima Qian and Lu Ban before history is affected too much. Ban Zhao then points out that they will need a bigger energy source, and Ban Chao later sets out for leads on information for one. After Ban Chao returns with the others after helping Xihai Longwang and Donghai Longwang, Ban Zhao works on the device to incorporate the new energy source.

Mo Zi encourages Ban Zhao to take a break and go shopping in order to get some of the last supplies they need, so she leaves with the adapter, Zhuang Zi, and Hui Shi to go to Shopping Street. During their time there, they end up helping out in a contest between Lu Yu's Yu Yan Tea Garden and Jiao Ran's San Yin Ting in order to get the engine they need. She helps out Lu Yu in particular by wearing a cutesy maid outfit and serving tea to customers. Once they get the engine, she returns back to working on Shi Ji with Mo Zi.

While investigating the logs of the previous time travel investigations, Ban Zhao and Mo Zi notice that code was inserted and removed at a certain point, which was likely what caused Sima Qian and Lu Ban to be sent to a different time period. She shares this information with the others, and notes that while it is similar to what happened when the power for Leifeng Pagoda got redirected, this was far more complex. Mo Zi and herself note that it is possible that something within the Three Officials System was what inserted the code.

Ban Zhao then takes them to the Shi Ji room and explains some of the changes she made, which included using some parts from Ban Gu's Book of Han time travel device. She introduces a navigational wizard AI that she coded based on Ban Gu's notes and personality, known as "Xiao Gu". Using Xiao Gu's help and the upgraded Shi Ji, they are able to identify the time period that Sima Qian and Lu Ban were sent to; they find out that they were actually sent to the era of the first Grand Administrative AIs, one of the earliest time periods in the ALICE China Branch.

The adapter soon realizes that Ban Chao's weapon has changed historically from what it should have been, prompting Ban Zhao to check the history worldline values. She discovers that the values are rapidly starting to reach dangerous levels of difference from the correct values, noting that something must have happened to Sima Qian and Lu Ban in the past that Shi Ji can't correct for. The group quickly gets prepared, including getting devices in order to bring Sima Qian and Lu Ban back, and sets out on another time travel investigation while Ban Zhao stays behind again to monitor Shi Ji.

 Group Units

 Icon

## Quest Appearances

* Wrath of the Warrior (Story only)
* Time Travel Investigation
* The Prestige of China HQ (Story only)
* Endless Escape Routes
* Breakout and Pursuit (Story only)
* A Human Conflict (Story only)
* Survival on the Desert Island -Mushrooms Go wild- (Story only)
* The Painted Skin Ghost
* Time Travel Investigation II
* Tower of Four Perils (Story only)
* The Wolf of the Stars (Story only)
* Mo Zi Challenge
* Not a Cute Maid (Story only)
* San Yin Ting Butler's Treat (Story only)
* The Blooming Flower Case File -Rat- (Story only)
* Time Travel Investigation III (Story only)

## Trivia

* Icons
* Names

 **Hatcher Units** | Wanshan Caishen (Maid ver.) • Heng Caishen (Butler ver.) • Zhang Yi (Maid ver.)