Li Moxiao

Biodata

Background

Two months before the zombie-virus outbreak, Li Moxiao met Shen Jin at a parent-teacher conference. Shen Jin initially mistook the student for an adult before learning that she was his acquaintance's daughter’s classmate, creating an embarrassing first impression that both remembered after the apocalypse. 2

During the apocalypse, Li Moxiao survived by following an unusual intuition toward food. She and Yang Ao previously encountered each other while sneaking out to find supplies; Yang Ao learned that accompanying her meant he would never return empty-handed. 14 33

When food in her former settlement became scarce, Li Moxiao followed that instinct to Shen Jin's villa. After being pursued and tied outside the property, she was rescued by Shen Jin and brought into his basement shelter. 2 14 Although she calls him “Uncle,” their relationship is not a close blood relation, and she repeatedly insists on being called by her name instead. 2 12

Her initially unexplained appetite and intuition later prove to accompany an extraordinary capacity to absorb, store, and redistribute energy. Unlike ordinary Superhumans, she possesses both Gene Lock abilities and a special ability. Shen Jin eventually connects this anomaly to evidence that the two paths once coexisted among ancient cultivators, but her own origin and the nature of the energy in her heart remain unresolved. 414 628 629 666 672

Appearance

Li Moxiao is a youthful-looking minor with a delicate face and long, slender legs. When Shen Jin first shelters her, she is dirty, malnourished, and pale from surviving without reliable food or water; regular meals, bathing, and new clothes gradually restore her complexion. 2 12 25 43

• Slightly messy bangs when first rescued. 2
• A clear, youthful face revealed after washing. 2
• Fair, long legs noted after her health improves. 43
• Often wears clothes supplied by Shen Jin from his stored supplies. 12 13
• Tall and slender, with a relatively mature-looking face despite her age; Shen Jin initially mistakes her for a parent, and later compares her appearance to that of a college student. 2 178 541 639
• Her hair turns gray when she exhausts herself killing the horde's leader. During subsequent travels with Yang Ao and Fu Wei, it is described as half white and half black; a later description gives her glossy black hair. 80 140 303
• Her activated second-stage Gene Lock can enlarge her entire body into a small giant or selectively swell her limbs. Her final attack against the horde leader produces arms approximately three meters long. 78 80
• Frequently wears themed pajamas at home, including cartoon bear and Pikachu designs. 249 629 666
• At Tier 4, her transformed combat appearance includes colorful sacred armor and a powerful Light of the Mind; the latter turns blazing red during her confrontation with the Zombie Left Guardian. 677 678 691

Personality

Li Moxiao is candid, dramatic, and difficult for Shen Jin to ignore. Her immediate priorities are usually food and safety, and she is unafraid to plead, sulk, or act pitiful when she wants more to eat. 8 10 13 Her behavior can seem naïve, but she also understands how to use Shen Jin's concern for her to secure better meals. 25

She has a playful, argumentative dynamic with Shen Jin, often responding to his teasing with sarcasm or exaggerated indignation. Her interest in romance novels and movies feeds her imagination and leads her to misread his intentions on several occasions. 8 10 31 43

Despite her dependence on the villa's supplies, Li Moxiao is resilient. She survived independently before reaching Shen Jin, adapted quickly to the household, and forms friendships with both Yang Ao and Shang Qian. 3 31 33

Although she initially rejects the idea of risking her life for strangers in Shen Jin's survival quiz, her attachment to him brings out exceptional courage. During the early horde battle, she repeatedly places herself between him and powerful zombies, then spends her remaining strength attacking the horde's leader so that everyone else can survive. 10 75 78 80

Her romantic feelings for Shen Jin become explicit in her private thoughts. She traces them to his distress and tenderness during her apparent starvation death, believing that beneath his stinginess and cowardice he has an exceptionally kind heart. These feelings also produce jealousy toward women who approach him, particularly Xing Lingmin and Li Moxuan. 42 247 259 541

Gaming becomes one of her main hobbies. She plays Civilization, Overcooked, and Civilization VI, often using games as a way to spend time with Shen Jin or cheer up Miao Shubai. She prefers direct action to strategic meetings, but takes serious threats seriously despite her complaints. 230 249 290 546

Later chapters emphasize her consideration for Shen Jin. She quietly follows his activities, refrains from interrupting his cultivation, and conceals her envy of Shang Qian's Quantum Armor rather than pressure him. Her outwardly sulky manner coexists with a persistent desire to protect him and wait for him to have time for her. 521 629

Abilities & Skills

Food-Sensing Intuition

Li Moxiao possesses a strange intuition that directs her toward food, including supplies hidden by other survivors.

• Followed the sensation of food from her former settlement to Shen Jin's villa. 14
• Could locate food during nighttime scavenging trips; Yang Ao relied on her ability when accompanying her. 33
• Its status as a formal supernatural ability is unconfirmed. Shen Jin considers whether it might qualify as one. 33
• Remains effective during her travels with Yang Ao and Fu Wei, especially when she is starving; she can find carefully concealed food in only a few attempts. 140
• Detects a particularly strong sensation reminiscent of finding Shen Jin and leads her companions back toward the area they previously left. Her intuition is not infallible: Yang Ao recalls an earlier occasion when it led them to a whale. 200 213
• Shen Jin later regards her broader sixth sense as so strong that it is practically supernatural. 395

Exceptional Appetite

Li Moxiao consumes unusually large quantities of food and becomes severely weak when she goes too long without eating.

• Ate six large mooncakes and two bowls of milk powder in one meal. 13
• Fainted from hunger after Shen Jin failed to feed her for much of the day, briefly appearing to have died. 25
• Ate ten half-pound steaks and two cornbread buns after recovering. 25
• Her appetite is large enough that Shen Jin estimates she eats as much as three people. 31 33
• Later eats approximately six kilograms of cooked noodles in one sitting while complaining that noodles provide quantity rather than quality; she recalls eating the same weight in steak when Shen Jin fed her. 200
• By her Tier 4 advancement, Shen Jin estimates that she alone has consumed enough Energy Crystal Cores to supply a thousand-person Superhuman team. 666

Vocal Versatility

Li Moxiao can switch between several vocal styles and uses this ability in conversation and games. 10 33

Energy Absorption, Storage, and Transfer

Li Moxiao can absorb energy from food and Energy Crystal Cores, retain energy she does not immediately need, and channel it into another person. Her awakening reveals that this stored energy can also force open her Gene Lock and repair damage caused by overexertion. 78 80 414

• Directly consumes Super M-Type Zombie cores despite Shen Jin's warning that swallowing cores is usually lethal. The cores liquefy within her and release energy that her unusual constitution can process. 78
• Uses stored energy to suppress bodily disintegration and repair herself during her forced second-stage breakthrough. This protection initially has limits: she estimates that maintaining the state beyond two minutes would cause fatal genetic collapse. 78
• Absorbs a Giant Zombie's core to replenish herself and forcibly sustain the second-stage Gene Lock beyond its previous limit. 80
• Discovers, through testing with Miao Shubai, that she can transfer stored energy to others. 414
• Replenishes Shen Jin through direct contact with his chest, supplying energy that blends smoothly with his own and allows him to continue producing special ability food. 414
• Reports having already eaten over one hundred Tier 1 Energy Crystal Cores and countless ordinary cores by the time she demonstrates energy transfer. She carries cores in a candy jar and eats them like sweets. 414
• The red energy concentrated in her heart repeatedly fuels her breakthroughs and explosive attacks. Even after reaching Tier 4 himself, Shen Jin cannot fully analyze it. 80 629 666
• At Tier 4, she describes her principal exceptional traits as nearly unlimited energy and regenerative power, rather than a newly awakened named ability. These are treated as effectively inexhaustible in combat, not as proof that the nature of her power has been fully understood. 666

Her ability to combine a special ability with Gene Lock cultivation contradicts the contemporary Heavenly Net understanding that the two paths are mutually exclusive. Ancient records later establish that such coexistence once existed, prompting Shen Jin to seek a biological explanation rather than treating her case as impossible. His suggestion that she may have absorbed energy left by ancient cultivators remains speculation. 414 628 629 672

Gene Lock and Combat Instincts

Li Moxiao first unlocks her Gene Lock when Shen Jin is about to be struck by a Giant Zombie. Her physical strength doubles, her sense of pain shuts off, and inherited combat instincts and techniques flood her mind. 75

• Uses instinctive footwork, joint attacks, and precise sword strikes to compensate for the Giant Zombie's size and reach. 74 77
• At the second stage, can alter the muscular development of individual body parts, enhancing strength, speed, or durability as needed. She hardens her lower limbs enough that a Super M-Type Zombie's bite removes only a layer of skin. 78 79
• Defeats Giant Zombies through dismemberment and decapitation, using both an energy-enhanced Diamond Sword and unarmed strikes. 78 79
• Her all-out final attack against the horde's leader breaks the sound barrier, smashes through intervening zombies, and leaves a large crater. The attack exhausts her body and turns her hair gray. 80
• Retains combat awareness and techniques developed during her earlier high-stage awakening. Even before recovering stable Tier 2 strength, she can fight five Tier 1 Superhumans and displays skills exceeding elite special forces soldiers. 213
• At Tier 3, instinctively predicts an opponent's evasive move and redirects her punch toward his expected destination. Her analytical ability also helps her search for traces while flying at low altitude. 475 476
• Can overpower an Intermediate Tier 3 strength-specialist puppet despite being only Initial Tier 3 herself. 526 527

Her strength does not make her immune to unusual abilities. The Compound-Eyed Zombie's sonic attack briefly stuns her, and Lanpite's blood control repeatedly overrides her movements despite her efforts to repair and regulate her body through her Gene Lock. 79 477

Tier 4 Abilities and Light of the Mind

Upon reaching Tier 4, Li Moxiao gains independent flight and retains the basic characteristics of a Gene Lock Superhuman. Her advancement is unusually easy and produces pressure that Shen Jin judges to originate from energy comparable to much higher Tier 4 strength. This assessment concerns the energy within her, rather than a confirmed advancement directly to Tier 4 Advanced. 666

• Her Light of the Mind is exceptionally strong and combines with her colorful sacred garb to enhance her physical attacks. 677 678
• Under Sun Can's enhancements in the Nether, she overwhelms an Intermediate Tier 4 Zombie Tyrant in direct combat. Her punches ripple space and repeatedly send the opponent flying. 677 678
• Absorbs a Tier 4 Energy Crystal Core while the Power of Faith around her merges with part of her Light of the Mind, advancing to Intermediate Tier 4, Level 8. 687
• During the guardian battle, her heart emits blazing red energy and her Light of the Mind turns red, bringing her power extremely close to Tier 4 Advanced. 691
• Her red Light of the Mind restricts the Zombie Left Guardian's ability to evade, clashes with its Black Flame of the Mind, and produces a collision that shatters space and its rules. 691
• Shapes the Light of the Mind around her fist into a huge mouth that devours the guardian's blood-red shield before the punch strikes through. 691
• Sustains relentless close-range pressure against the Left Guardian, allowing the other fighters to concentrate on its counterpart. 692

Equipment

Power Progression

Relationships

• Shen Jin — Rescuer, shelter provider, and self-proclaimed “uncle.” Their relationship is built on constant bickering, food-related negotiations, and growing trust; Shen Jin ultimately entrusts her to watch over him while he takes the Gene Optimization Agent. 2 25 42 Li Moxiao develops romantic feelings for him and repeatedly risks her life to protect him. Her apparent sacrifice haunts him, and their reunion prompts an unusually emotional embrace. She later keeps track of his cultivation without disturbing him, while he promises to spend time playing with her once their struggles are over. Their relationship remains shaped by her being a minor and his awareness of her age. 42 75 80 214 354 521 629
• Yang Ao — Former food-scavenging companion from Li Moxiao's previous settlement. He credits her food-sensing intuition for helping him find supplies. 33 Later travels with her and Fu Wei, carrying snacks and frequently complaining about her appetite. Despite his Tier 1 strength, he cannot resist her when she lifts and throws him. 140 200 213
• Shang Qian — Initially regarded with jealousy and hostility after Shang Qian joins the villa, but the two later bond over romance movies and become friends. 26 31 Their friendship coexists with tension over Shen Jin: Li Moxiao's late-night gaming visits disrupt Shang Qian's time with him. Shang Qian nevertheless helps her prepare for combat, counsels tolerance over Xing Lingmin, and later permits her to share Shen Jin's bed while watching over his recovery. 230 249 546
• Fu Wei — Traveling companion alongside Yang Ao and a witness to her early awakenings. He encourages Yang Ao to let her eat and later conducts a confidential examination of her blood and unusual physiology at Shen Jin's request. 140 200 629
• Miao Shubai — Initially becomes the focus of Li Moxiao's jealousy when she finds her holding Shen Jin's arm. They later become close gaming companions; Li Moxiao cheers her up with Overcooked, and the two discover Li Moxiao's energy-transfer ability while playing together. 213 214 290 414 521
• Xing Lingmin — A romantic rival whom Li Moxiao strongly dislikes. After Xing Lingmin mocks her chest, Li Moxiao carries her outside and threatens to bury her using her own former gravestone. Her hostility continues through sulking, arguments with Shen Jin, and a cake decoration symbolizing Xing Lingmin as a green tea leaf. 247 249 259
• Li Moxuan — A similarly named but unrelated woman who also approaches Shen Jin flirtatiously. Li Moxiao regards her as a rival and accuses her of copying her name; their argument escalates until Shen Jin tells them to focus on the approaching battle. Li Moxuan previously states that she has never heard of Li Moxiao and knows of no extended family connection. 178 541
• Abbas and Lola — Meets them during the overseas expedition and plays with Lola. Abbas's death and Lola's capture provoke unusually focused anger, leading Li Moxiao to join Shen Jin in pursuing their attackers and confronting Lanpite. 473 476
• Sun Can — Tier 4 combat ally who accompanies her and Shen Jin abroad and enhances their fighting ability in the Nether. His barriers and support powers are important to the battles against Zombie Tyrants and the two guardians. 666 677 692 693

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arrival at Shen Jin's Villa

Li Moxiao reaches Shen Jin's villa while fleeing danger and is rescued from outside the property. She identifies herself through her convoluted connection to Shen Jin and becomes the first person he chooses to take in after months of isolation. 2 12

Life in the Basement Shelter

Her presence changes Shen Jin's solitary routine. Their daily life centers on meals, radio broadcasts, romance novels, and Shen Jin's attempts to teach her his survival rules, while Li Moxiao repeatedly demonstrates that hunger is her most urgent concern. 3 8 10 11

Hunger Collapse

Li Moxiao's apparent death from starvation forces Shen Jin to confront the consequences of his stinginess. When she revives, he promises to stop letting her go hungry and begins providing her significantly more food. 25

Formation of the Villa Household

After Shang Qian and Yang Ao join the villa, Li Moxiao becomes part of a four-person household. She reconnects with Yang Ao, develops a friendship with Shang Qian, and participates in the group's board games and question games. 26 31 33

She also helps fill the loneliness left by Shen Jin's months of isolation, washing his clothes and playing his favorite games. During his later biscuit-distribution scheme, she avoids having her portion reclaimed simply by eating it before Yang Ao can collect it. 61 62

Shen Jin's Gene Optimization

Shen Jin chooses Li Moxiao's room as the place to take the Gene Optimization Agent and asks her to guard him while he undergoes the process. Her embarrassment over the misunderstanding turns into frustration when she realizes he only intends to take medicine. 42 43

Gene Lock Awakening and the Horde Leader's Defeat

During the battle against a Giant Zombie, Li Moxiao initially draws it away from the shelter protecting Shang Qian and Fu Wei, but is injured by flying debris. When the weakened Shen Jin is threatened, her anger forces open her first-stage Gene Lock. She uses its combat instincts to fight beside him, then consumes Super M-Type Zombie cores to unlock the second stage. 74 75 77 78

After killing one Giant Zombie, she intercepts another and a Super M-Type Zombie while Shen Jin attempts to evacuate the injured. A sonic attack from the evolving horde leader stuns her long enough for the Super M-Type Zombie to bite her calf. Shen Jin turns back rather than abandon her, and together they create the opening for her to kill the second giant. 78 79

With the group surrounded, Li Moxiao charges into the horde to kill its leader. She consumes another core to sustain her failing transformation, concentrates her energy into enormous arms, and delivers a final supersonic strike that crushes the leader. She collapses after saving the group, with her body withered and her hair turned gray from the expenditure. 80 81

Travels and Return to Her Own Memorial

Li Moxiao survives and travels with Yang Ao and Fu Wei, using her intuition to obtain food and recovering formidable combat strength. Her enormous appetite remains a constant concern, while her power lets her overwhelm ordinary settlement defenders. 140 200 213

When the three reach Shen Jin's base, they discover a memorial service being held for them. Shen Jin's eulogy credits Li Moxiao's apparent sacrifice with saving his life and making the base's later achievements possible. Guards initially treat the returning trio as impostors, but Li Moxiao activates her Gene Lock and leaps to the villa, where she angrily confronts Shen Jin over Miao Shubai. 213

Shen Jin's emotional embrace dispels her aggressive transformation, and the reunion confirms to the household that she is alive. She subsequently restores her Tier 2 strength after consuming cores and receiving a Senzu Bean. 214 219

Domestic Rivalries at Home No. 1

After returning, Li Moxiao resumes gaming with Shen Jin and becomes increasingly possessive of his attention. Xing Lingmin's flirtation provokes a particularly severe confrontation in which Li Moxiao threatens to bury her. Later, while claiming to practice baking for Yang Ao's birthday, she secretly has another girl make a cake whose decorations express her wish to exclude Xing Lingmin from their household circle. 230 247 249 259

Her domestic role also includes supporting others: she brings a despondent Miao Shubai to her room to play Overcooked, restoring her friend's laughter. 290

The Million-Zombie Defensive Battle

Li Moxiao participates in Home No. 1's defense against the horde threatening the H Province Heavenly Net Branch. After the first TNT defensive line, she suggests recovering Energy Crystal Cores, but Shen Jin orders the group to withdraw to the next position. She later leads a group of lightly injured personnel away on an assigned task. 377 395 396

During the continuing battle, she reveals that her stored energy can be transferred to another person. By replenishing Shen Jin while he creates special ability food, she becomes an important support resource as well as a frontline fighter. Her demonstration also forces Shen Jin to reconsider the apparent incompatibility of Gene Locks and special abilities. 414

Overseas Expedition and the Fight with Lanpite

Li Moxiao insists on joining Shen Jin's overseas expedition because she wants to protect him. In Afghanistan, she helps control fleeing villagers, demands fresh meat and milk, and later destroys a P2 Zombie's head with one punch. 454 459 464 468

After befriending Abbas and Lola, she joins the search for Lola and seeks revenge for Abbas's death. Now a recently advanced Tier 3 Superhuman, she displays predictive combat analysis, but Lanpite's blood-control ability prevents her from using her strength effectively. Shen Jin and Shen Tu intervene repeatedly before Shen Jin's hidden ally arrives on a golden sword and kills Lanpite. 473 475 476 477

Battles Against the Divine Assembly

Li Moxiao joins Shen Jin in the assault on Kato Yin's search ship, helping break its energy shield and overwhelm its defenders. 497

Against Ibe, she uses her Manyullyn Sledgehammer and transformed limbs to crack the puppets' shared shield. She then overpowers an Intermediate Tier 3 muscle puppet and crushes several more, helping break the enemy formation. 526 527

During the decisive confrontation with Murata's forces, her jealous argument with Li Moxuan briefly interrupts preparations. Once the battle begins, she returns to direct combat, hammering Raven into the ground. Following Shen Jin's later incapacitation, she waits beside him, playing Civilization VI on a tablet while monitoring his recovery. 541 543 546

Investigation of Her Unusual Physiology

After ancient records reveal that Gene Locks and special abilities once coexisted, Shen Jin considers Li Moxiao a possible clue to the lost relationship between the two paths. Discovering that she has reached Tier 3 Peak, he takes her to Fu Wei's laboratory for confidential blood testing and asks that every unusual aspect of her body be investigated. 628 629

The examination is motivated particularly by the energy in her heart, which Shen Jin suspects is responsible for her repeated explosive power increases and apparently limitless consumption. The supplied developments do not establish a definitive result for this investigation. 629 666 672

Tier 4 Advancement and Nether Campaign

Li Moxiao advances to Tier 4 during a visit from Shen Jin, apparently prompted by learning that he has already reached that tier. The red energy within her heart surges without warning, damaging her room, and she gains independent flight. Shen Jin remains unable to identify the source or limits of her power. 666

She joins him and Sun Can, then reaches Intermediate Tier 4 after taking a single bottle of potion. During the Nether expedition, a Tier 4 Ghast is obtained as her partner. In subsequent combat, her strength, sacred garb, and Light of the Mind let her overwhelm an Intermediate Tier 4 Zombie Tyrant under Sun Can's enhancements. 666 672 674 677 678

Battle Against the Zombie Guardians

Before the confrontation with the hundred-million-strong horde, Shen Jin identifies Li Moxiao as the strongest of their six-person group. She consumes a Tier 4 core and advances to Intermediate Tier 4, Level 8. 687

Against the Zombie Left Guardian, her anger triggers another red-energy surge. Her Light of the Mind approaches the characteristics of Tier 4 Advanced, and she devours the guardian's defensive shield with a mouth-shaped manifestation before punching it away. She continues pressing the guardian closely enough to let her allies concentrate on the other enemy. 691 692

After Sun Can summons five strategists to contain the guardians, Shen Jin sends Li Moxiao into their formation. She attacks the Zombie Right Guardian alongside the avatar formed from the allies' combined Light of the Mind and strengthened by Earth's Power of Faith. 693

Notable Quotes

“Call me Li Moxiao!” 12

“Shen Jin, I think I have a chance to unlock my gene lock.” 11

“Uncle... I’m so hungry... Can you give me some more food down here?” 10

“I won't let you hurt Shen Jin!!!” 75

“Shen Jin, stand behind me. I've been eating your food for over two weeks. It's about time I protected you for once.” 78

“Relax, relax. This is enough to protect you!” 666

“Was I eating? I was cultivating! Give me another Tier 4 Energy Crystal Core!” 687

Trivia

• Shen Jin jokingly introduces Li Moxiao as a human-form Taotie, citing her ability to find and consume food; she strongly objects to the comparison. 33
• She calls bottled water “life spring,” having initially treated scarce water as especially precious. 8
• During Shen Jin's absurd multiple-choice test about identifying feces, she selects the option to taste it purely out of frustration. 11
• She attends a memorial service being held for herself, alongside Yang Ao and Fu Wei. 213
• The gravestone prepared during her presumed death later becomes a prop in her threat to bury Xing Lingmin. 247
• Her supposed homemade birthday-practice cake is actually baked and decorated by another girl whom she secretly recruits. 259
• Her candy jar contains Energy Crystal Cores rather than ordinary candy. 414
• Shen Jin repeatedly compares her effortless advancement to that of a story's chosen protagonist, but these comparisons are his speculation rather than a confirmed explanation of her abilities. 414 526
• When Shen Jin questions whether she is nearly an adult, she specifies that she has thirteen months and three days left. 521
• Her gaming habits become so closely associated with her cultivation that Shen Jin marvels at her ability to grow stronger while staying home, while she later insists that eating itself is cultivation. 414 666 687

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