Ba Yuan

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Wonder-Harmony Ba Yuan

**Ba Yuan**, also known as **Octo-Genius**, was one of the management assistant AIs for the 3rd Generation Grand Administrative AI of the ALICE China Branch, Shun. He is the brother of Ba Kai, and works alongside Shun's battle assistant AIs, E Huang and Nü Ying. Between Ba Kai and himself, he is the more calm and focused one.

When Sima Qian, Zhuang Zi, Lu Ban, and the adapter travel back in time to the era of Shun, they first see Ba Yuan while observing footage in the old headquarters of the China Branch. There, they see him fighting against the forces of the Four Perils alongside Ba Kai as the situation seems to be going poorly.

Ba Yuan soon approachs the group as they are watching the footage, and ask them if they are working with the Four Perils. He uses his low level admin authority to scan the group, and upon noticing their IDs assumes that they are anti-ALICE hackers. Sima Qian quickly says that they were sent by Mobius from the Main Branch to look into the situation, which Ba Yuan finds odd as communications hadn't been repaired yet.

Ba Kai arrives and the two handcuff the group, but Ba Yuan mentions that while the group is suspicious they don't seem to be enemies, especially since Zhuang Zi had noticed them coming and hadn't attacked.

Ba Yuan and Ba Kai take the group to the new headquarters to see Shun, and after some introductions Shun recognizes the group as the same people that appeared in her predecessor Yao's records. Ba Yuan soon explains what he had been doing before finding the group, and explains that Ba Kai had searched an abandoned work area but found no sign of the two "test subjects" they were unable to dispose of earlier.

An alarm soon sounds, and Ba Yuan explains it is the outer defense alarm for the China Branch's main CPU, Mount Buzhou. He then mentions that, according to his analysis that it is the two test subjects, Xiang and Danzhu, who were attacking. After E Huang and Nü Ying state that they will go after Danzhu, Shun states that she is going to face Xiang. Ba Kai and Ba Yuan convince her to stay so she can give orders as the head of the China Branch, while they go confront Xiang.

Sima Qian, Zhuang Zi, and the adapter join Ba Kai and Ba Yuan at Mount Buzhou, where they prepare to fight Xiang after hearing he had gotten past the outer defenses. After Sima Qian asks about the relationship between Xiang and Shun, Ba Yuan explains how he was sort of a younger brother to Shun. After Zhuang Zi blocks a surprise attack from Xiang, they fight against him.

Ba Yuan finishes the battle by piercing Xiang with his weapon, and Xiang says that their nightmare has just begun while he vomits blood and dies. Ba Yuan soon gets a report from E Huang saying that Nü Ying and she have found Danzhu's location, so the brothers head back to the headquarters while Sima Qian and the others go to help against Danzhu.

While Danzhu is fought, the Four Perils transform the old headquarters into the Tower of Four Perils. While waiting for E Huang and her sister to return, Ba Yuan scouts out the situation and later reports that the Four Perils had initially escaped to an area that hadn't recovered from the damage caused by Gong Gong, and theorizes that they may have returned in order to get more resources from the old headquarters.

Ba Yuan joins the others in climbing the tower to fight against the Four Perils, and provides information to the others about Taotie and Qiong Qi. When they face Hun Dun and her puppets, he keeps trying to analyze the situation but is often outdone by Zhuang Zi, who can detect illusions and differences better than Ba Yuan despite being just an avatar. The following battle results in E Huang and Nü Ying being mortally wounded after the Hun Dun they fought was just a fake while the real one attacked. Everyone's morale dropped afterwards, and Ba Yuan blamed himself for not noticing that it was a fake Hun Dun sooner.

When they get to the 16th floor, they prepare to fight against Taowu. Shun asks the two brothers to make sure they don't get hurt like E Huang and Nü Ying did, but they respond that they've already made up their minds to protect Shun, while promising to not make any meaningless sacrifices. Ba Yuan and Zhuang Zi soon find that they can't see into Taowu's Nightmare Space that she created in the room ahead, but Ba Yuan tells Zhuang Zi to guide them through once they are inside.

They eventually break past Taowu's illusions and confront her directly. Taowu asks Ba Kai and Ba Yuan if they've ever questioned how they were "set" to have complete loyalty towards the Grand Administrative AI, but they respond that regardless of how they were originally set they both fully respect Yao and Shun, and Ba Yuan tells her to not compare them to a faulty AI like herself.

While Taowu monologues about her superiority to Shun as an AI that has surpassed the 3rd generation of Grand Administrative AIs, Ba Yuan hides his intent to kill enough that she can't foresee his attack. He manages to bind her, and Ba Kai and Shun work together to wound Taowu and strip her of her admin authority. Instead of being defeated, Taowu manages to use her admin authority to make use of the connection between Ba Kai and Ba Yuan to hurt them simultaneously.

Ba Kai and Ba Yuan then apologize to Shun for not being able to make it to the end, and despite her protests they use their connection to access special privileges above their own to fire a large blast at Taowu. This attack causes the two brothers to collapse, unconscious, in critical condition. Taowu managed to avoid their attack by combining two admin authorities, and continued to fight against Shun.

After Taowu was sealed away, Shun cries over how they had to give their lives. Lu Ban created additional emergency medical beds for the two brothers, but remarked that the situation did not look good. Sima Qian and her group soon returned to the present to avoid being hunted down by the Supreme Council, and that is the last the group sees of the brothers.

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 Quest Appearances

* Time Travel Investigation II
* The Venom of Revenge (Story only)
* Tower of Four Perils (Story only)

## Trivia

* While Ba Yuan's inspiration was actually a group of eight people, Ba Yuan is a singular character named after the group.

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