Chu He

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Chu He (楚河)
Alias(es)	“Intelligent Eye Chu He” 659
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Nadu Qu Express Company, 13th Floor 627 673
Occupation/Role	Senior employee and de facto leader of the 13th Floor; later addressed as a supervisor 627 638
First Appearance	Chapter 616 616

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Grave Eye transplant / “Intelligent Eye”	648–659	By this point, Chu He wears a white eye patch over a transplanted eye. When activated, its entirely white pupil exposes Graves that would otherwise remain hidden, allowing him to direct allies against them. 648 659

Appearance

Chu He usually wears glasses and presents himself with a composed, professional demeanor. After acquiring the Grave Eye, he conceals it beneath a white eye patch. 627 648

• Habitually adjusts his glasses while thinking or speaking. 616 627
• The Grave Eye has a completely white pupil. 659
• His white eye patch is compared to the look of an anime “yandere,” rather than a pirate. 648

Personality

Chu He is calm, analytical, and highly cautious when confronting supernatural threats. He favors gathering information, preserving scarce resources, and identifying a survivable route before taking action. 632 633 634

His pragmatism can become ruthless. In Grave City, he uses other Company employees as decoys to divert dangers, regarding their sacrifices as necessary for the group’s evacuation. 665 He also treats capable but unstable colleagues as useful assets, as shown by his calculated handling of Su Nuan. 627

Abilities & Skills

Grave Eye

Chu He possesses a transplanted Grave Eye, which gives him direct perception of supernatural entities.

• Reveals a Grave that normally remains concealed by stealth. 659
• Lets him identify and call out a target’s location for allies to attack. 659
• Its use visibly accelerates his transformation toward the non-human. 648

Investigation and Survival Planning

Chu He excels at assessing supernatural incidents and coordinating responses under pressure.

• Leads the 13th Floor’s discussions, assigns rooms to new employees, and establishes survival-focused priorities. 627
• Recognizes that the Yue Family Old House may be linked to an otherworldly space. 632
• Conserves the group’s ashes, their only means of exposing invisible Graves, until their use is justified. 634
• Keeps a second coin capable of summoning Bus 444 as a concealed escape option. 665
• Attempts to exploit Grave City’s time loop by leaving clues for his past self before his predicted death. 664 665

Firearms

Chu He carries and uses a pistol inherited from Manager Cao.

• Shoots Su Nuan when she threatens the Yue siblings during the Yue Family Old House incident. 638
• Identifies the pistol as part of Manager Cao’s “inheritance.” 638

Equipment / Items

• White eye patch — Covers the transplanted Grave Eye. 648
• Special ashes — A limited-use substance capable of revealing invisible Graves; kept in Chu He’s custody. 634
• Pistol — Obtained from Manager Cao’s inheritance. 638
• Bus 444 coin — A hidden coin used to summon Bus 444 as an escape route. 665

Relationships

• Kui Yi (Zhong Shenxiu) — The Company gatekeeper treats Chu He as a useful subordinate; Chu He organizes the dangerous retrieval of a Grave after Kui Yi requests research material. 627 628
• Murong Hong — His confidante on the 13th Floor after Liu Xin’s death; she assists in arranging new employees and follows his decisions during investigations. 627 634
• Su Nuan — A hostile but useful asset. She threatens to expose Chu He’s knowledge of the gatekeeper, while he regards her willingness to risk death as valuable; he later shoots her during the Yue Family Old House incident. 627 638
• Yue Shan — A newly recruited employee and key ally in Grave City. Chu He relies on Yue Shan’s Grave Hand to suppress supernatural entities. 627 659
• Yue Qin — Yue Shan’s sister and a vulnerable member of Chu He’s team due to her lack of a Grave transplant. 627 664
• Han Bingjie — Fellow 13th-Floor employee who accompanies Chu He through multiple investigations and follows his survival planning. 627 638 665

Story Role / Major Arcs

13th-Floor Leadership

Following Manager Cao Liuyu’s resignation, Chu He becomes the highest-ranking and most experienced employee on the 13th Floor. He introduces new recruits, oversees their integration, and withholds highly sensitive information concerning the gatekeeper and potential escape routes. 627

When Kui Yi asks for a Grave to study, Chu He accepts the dangerous task of arranging its capture and delivery to the Company. 628

Yue Family Old House Investigation

Chu He joins Yue Shan, Yue Qin, Murong Hong, and Wu Qi in investigating the supernatural history of the Yue Family Old House in Blackwater Town. He identifies the estate as potentially connected to an otherworldly space and directs the group’s cautious overnight investigation. 632 633

After Su Nuan disappears and later threatens the Yue siblings, Chu He intervenes with Manager Cao’s pistol. He subsequently learns from an ancient book that the Yue ancestors had made a pact with a Grave. 638

Annual Meeting and Grave City

Using his Grave Eye, Chu He exposes a female Grave during the Annual Meeting and coordinates the group’s attempt to suppress it with Yue Shan’s Grave Hand. 659

He receives a death-prophecy image showing his own corpse with both eyes removed, then enters Grave City with the Yue siblings through Bus 444. There, he discovers that the city’s distorted time repeatedly resets their three-day ordeal. 660 664 665

Rather than surrendering to the loop, Chu He tries to preserve information across resets and searches for a route of survival, even when this requires sacrificing other Company employees as distractions. 664 665