Zhang Tie

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Zhang Tie (張鐵) 21
Alias(es)	Bear Dunce; Black Bear; Bone Crusher Black Bear 25 297
Species/Race	Human Awakener; later resurrected using the Undying Asura's energy 496 499
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Lin An's Savior Squad; Dragon An 22 1624
Occupation/Role	Front-line tank and melee vanguard 164
Status	Active; Fourth Order combatant 1535 2093
First Appearance	Chapter 21

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
0th-Order Awakener	39	Exhausts his Mental Strength and stamina after forcing Bear Transformation open while carrying the unconscious Lin An through the hospital. 39
First-Order Awakener	78	Defeats two Lin Jiang College Awakeners through Bear Transformation, Rampage Charge, and overwhelming close-quarters force. 78
Second-Order Awakener	296	Advances after defeating the Second-Order Wailing Banshee alongside Gao Tian. 296
Bone Crusher Black Bear	297	Reveals his evolved talent and its new Earthquake skill after reaching Second Order. 297
Temporary Third-Order power	383	Uses the Key to forcibly reach Third-Order power against 700 million Second-Order Zombies; the forced breakthrough later destabilizes his body during resurrection. 383 497
Post-resurrection talent evolution	499	His talent is remade into a combination of Beyond Death, Bear Spirit Form, Energy Absorption, and an upgraded Earthquake. 499
Physique Limit Value: 40	548	Reaches the physique cap and becomes nearly impervious to conventional weapons, including heavy artillery and tactical missile bombardment. 548
Rule manifestation: Live and Die Together	1280	Awakens a Rule that can reflect damage, transfer pain, and share death with a selected target. 1280
Fourth Order	1535	Fights Deserter Fourth Orders as a same-rank combatant; his Rule makes direct engagements exceptionally dangerous for opponents of his level. 1535

Background

Zhang Tie initially leads a group of survivors, including his younger sister You Wei. After Lin An saves his life, Zhang Tie openly credits him before the survivors and accepts an invitation to join Lin An's Savior Squad without examining the team information first. 21 22

During the emergency-center operation, Zhang Tie reveals his Bear Transformation and serves as Lin An's pathbreaker through a packed elevator shaft and zombie horde. When Lin An later collapses from exhaustion and infection, Zhang Tie carries him out of the hospital despite exhausting his own transformation, stamina, and Mental Strength. 25 39

Lin An invests heavily in Zhang Tie's growth, giving him special extracts, Stitching Thread, Rampage Charge, Flesh Healing, Steel Skin, and the Stitcher's left arm. Zhang Tie's loyalty reaches its maximum after Lin An tells him that becoming stronger is necessary both to protect You Wei and to fight beside the team. 30 58 75 164

Appearance

Zhang Tie is a rugged, bald, heavily built man standing approximately 1.9 meters tall. His imposing physique is apparent even before transformation, while his bear forms magnify him into a battlefield-scale monster. 21 75 835

• Rugged face and a massive, muscular build. 21 75
• Often described as bald or bear-like in appearance. 541 715
• His original transformation produces a large black bear covered in dense black fur. 25 74
• His later Bear Spirit Form manifests as a silver-black or silver-white giant bear; during the Weihai battle, it exceeds thirty meters in height. 548 1834
• Uses combat suits because ordinary clothing is easily destroyed when he transforms or fights at full strength. 232

Personality

Zhang Tie is blunt, loud, and straightforward. He admires strength openly, tends to ask simple questions others consider obvious, and often acts before fully considering a situation. His optimism persists even when he is aware that Lin An surpasses him in every basic attribute. 22 97 136

He is intensely loyal to Lin An, whom he calls Team Leader Lin and regards as a benefactor and brother. This loyalty is not passive: he repeatedly volunteers for dangerous roles, accepts being used as the team's shield, and refuses to believe claims that Lin An has abandoned or betrayed him. 58 375 1834

Zhang Tie is compassionate toward victims of cruelty but can be merciless toward those he judges as abusers or enemies. He reacts with fury to the treatment of survivors in Bolaka City, kills hostile Awakeners without hesitation, and later struggles with guilt after killing inhabitants of a Sub-World Instance. 78 322 2041 2042

Lin An's apparent death in the Desolate Village forces Zhang Tie to think independently. While initially panicked and reckless, he begins observing clues, testing possibilities through time reversal, and attempting to reconstruct the events that led to Lin An's death. 541 542 543

Abilities & Skills

Bear Transformation / Bear Spirit Form

Zhang Tie's original talent transforms him into a black bear specialized in sustained combat, endurance, and direct physical suppression. After resurrection, it evolves into Bear Spirit Form, combining transformation with Steel Body-like defenses. 25 30 499

• Clears zombie crowds by charging through them like a heavy vehicle. 25
• Can withstand gunfire that would kill ordinary humans; bullets lodge in his body and fall out without stopping him. 67
• Later takes the form of an alloy-like giant bear that can deflect bullets and crash through armed formations. 341
• Bear Spirit Form gains extreme damage reduction; repeated attacks become progressively less effective at breaking his defense. 499
• Poor mobility remains a major weakness against opponents able to kite or trap him at range. 1834

Beyond Death

A post-resurrection trait derived from his original talent and the Undying Asura's power. 499

• Grants two lives and three seconds of invincibility. 499
• Allows Zhang Tie to remain an effective combatant in battles where trading his life for an enemy is tactically viable. 1235 1535

Energy Absorption

Energy Absorption lets Zhang Tie become stronger through combat rather than relying solely on ordinary advancement. 499

• Converts sustained combat and incoming force into continued growth. 499
• Was intended to let him overcome the Third-Order barrier that conventional growth could not reliably bridge. 387 499
• Supports his role in prolonged battles, where his defense and power improve as punishment accumulates. 499 1114

Live and Die Together

Zhang Tie's manifested Rule, derived from his energy-absorption talent and Immortal Set position. 1280

• Reflects damage received. 1280 2093
• Transfers pain to a chosen target. 1280
• Can share death with a selected target, making capture or direct confrontation with him highly dangerous. 1280 1535
• Its effective range is a documented limitation. 1280

Earthquake

An area-of-effect skill gained through Bone Crusher Black Bear and later upgraded after resurrection. 297 499

• Creates destructive ground-shaking impacts. 297
• Addresses Zhang Tie's former lack of ranged or wide-area offensive options. 499

Rampage Charge

A C-rank mobility and impact skill that turns Zhang Tie into a high-speed melee projectile. 58 78

• Grants rapid gap-closing speed despite his heavy build. 78
• Carries resistance to slowing effects, allowing him to ignore minor interference while charging. 80
• Combines effectively with Heavy Punch Strike for finishing blows. 75

Super Realm Bear Roar

An A+-rank skill received as an SSS-grade mission reward. 740

• Produces a sonic attack and group stun. 740
• Scales with Strength and Constitution rather than Willpower, making it particularly suited to Zhang Tie's build. 740

Equipment

• Stitched Hand: Left Arm — A graft from a top-tier Second-Order Mutant. It grants Strength +10 and the Heavy Punch Strike effect, which produces a high-speed, stamina-consuming impact. Zhang Tie used it to destroy a highway billboard and pierce Huang HaiTao's defense. 75 80
• Steel Skin — B-grade defensive skill that improves durability at the cost of movement speed; Lin An selected it specifically for Zhang Tie's tank role. 164 297
• Catapult Giant Foot — Epic footwear from the System lottery. It enables leaps of dozens of meters and impacts comparable to a small earthquake. 609
• Curse of the Lingchi Executioner / Ling Chi War Hammer — Epic heavy weapon granting Strength +9, persistent self-damage, and effects including Bleeding, Bone Shatter, Skin Peeling, and Increased Injury Severity. Its skills can ignore physical defense or deal 70% of a target's maximum health as damage. 740 1834
• Daywalker Blade - Left — Epic weapon given to Zhang Tie after Lin An judged it more suitable for him. 1025
• Immortal Set — Two-piece set equipment providing extensive resistance, thermal-weapon reduction, Spiritual Energy damage reduction, weightlessness, high-speed movement, and Giant Strength. Its set effect briefly multiplies defense tenfold while severely reducing movement speed. 1113 1114
• Tentacle Cloak — Epic equipment that grants high-speed flight and creates flesh tentacles for attacks. 1113 1114
• Blood Soul Necklace — Epic equipment that stores blood and rapidly restores vitality after injury. 1113 1114

Relationships

• Lin An — Team leader, benefactor, and brother figure. Lin An recruits Zhang Tie, equips him for the vanguard role, retrieves his severed arm after his sacrifice, and prioritizes Zhang Tie's life over forcing a dangerous Third-Order resurrection. 22 58 384 497
• You Wei — Younger sister. Zhang Tie is fiercely protective of her and accepts Lin An's aid partly because he needs strength to keep her safe. 21 58
• An JingTian — Teammate and sworn brother by association with Lin An. Zhang Tie forgives their early sparring conflict and considers An JingTian family. 74 75
• Gao Tian — Teammate and frequent battlefield partner. Gao Tian's arrow helps Zhang Tie defeat the Wailing Banshee, and the two later intercept Fourth-Order enemies together. 296 1533
• Chu An / Senior Colonel Chu — Architect of Zhang Tie's resurrection plan and a researcher interested in developing his potential. Zhang Tie distrusts Chu An's experiments but recognizes his dedication to Dragon An. 387 499 1605
• Huang HaiTao — Former opponent at Lin Jiang College. Zhang Tie critically wounds him after Huang HaiTao dismisses the warning about the Zombie Riot; Huang later provides Zhang Tie information about Deserter propaganda. 80 1624

Story Role / Major Arcs

Hospital and Lin Jiang College

Zhang Tie establishes himself as Lin An's primary melee ally during the hospital crisis, where he clears zombie formations, protects Lin An during his collapse, and receives the supplies that define his early combat style. He later helps force Lin Jiang College to take the Zombie Riot seriously by overwhelming its strongest student Awakeners. 25 39 58 78 80

Second-Order Vanguard

After receiving the Stitcher's arm, Zhang Tie fills his main offensive weakness with Heavy Punch Strike and becomes the team's designated front-line berserker. He reaches Second Order after defeating the Wailing Banshee and gains Bone Crusher Black Bear and Earthquake. 75 296 297

Sacrifice and Resurrection

Against the Third-Order Corpse Tide, Zhang Tie temporarily forces himself to Third-Order power with the Key, then allows himself to be eaten alive so that the zombies collapse and die. Lin An retrieves his remaining arm, and Zhang Tie is eventually revived through the Causality Sequence and Undying Asura energy. 383 384 496 497

His resurrection fundamentally changes his potential. Instead of remaining blocked below Third Order, he gains Beyond Death, Bear Spirit Form, Energy Absorption, and an upgraded Earthquake. 499

Secret Realm and Rule Awakening

When Lin An appears to die in the Desolate Village, Zhang Tie becomes the one forced to investigate, repeatedly reversing time to uncover Chu Renmei's involvement. In the Secret Realm, he reaches the physique cap of 40 and later manifests the Live and Die Together Rule. 541 543 548 1280

Fourth-Order Battles

Zhang Tie receives the Immortal Set and multiple Epic items from the Corpse Emperor's stockpile, greatly increasing his battlefield durability and physical power. He later disrupts the Asia Alliance during the Confrontation Tournament, fights Fourth-Order Deserters, and remains defiant even when Fifth-Order beings threaten Earth. 1113 1114 1204 1535 2023

Notable Quotes

“No matter what, Zhang Tie will only die before you, Team Leader Lin!” 375

“You should be grateful I’m a good person.” 80

“We Zhangs don’t go in for crying!” 21

Trivia

• Despite his intimidating appearance and Black Bear talent, Zhang Tie prefers fruit cans—particularly yellow peaches—to meat cans. 137
• He frequently uses the Stitcher as his personal benchmark for judging whether he has become stronger. 608
• He was excited enough by a new combat suit to pose repeatedly in front of a screen. 232
• His enthusiasm for weapons is strong enough that he loudly announces interesting guns and equipment whenever he finds them. 232 237