Cheng Luoyi

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Cheng Luoyi (程洛伊)
Alias(es)	Shelter No. 001; “gentle girl”
Species/Race	Human; Awakened
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Jiangbei City official shelter; shelter rescue team
Occupation/Role	Rescue operative; combatant
Status	Active
First Appearance	Orphanage photograph 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Awakened — Deadly Agony	21	Became one of the first people to Awaken after the apocalypse. Her ability increases her strength as her body experiences more pain.
Shelter No. 001	20 21	Listed as the Jiangbei shelter’s strongest-ranked Awakened; the top-100 list was based on data analysis rather than confirmed combat results.
Apparent B-Rank state	49	Black Scorpion members perceive her normal aura as only that of an ordinary B-Rank Awakened, causing them to underestimate her.
Pain Level 10%	50	Activates after she catches an alloy dagger barehanded; the wound begins raising her combat power.
Pain Level 15%	50	The dagger cuts deeper as her attacker struggles to pull it free; she snaps the blade and kills him with the broken half.
Pain Level 17%	50	Reached after blocking Song Yang’s metal-enhanced punch.
Pain Level 26%	50	Reached after enduring Yuanyuan’s Brainstorm psychic attack; she immediately overwhelms Song Yang despite his metallic body.

Background

Cheng Luoyi grew up in the same orphanage as Lin Dong and Sun Xiaoqiang. As a child, she was remembered as fair-skinned and doll-like, often carrying a teddy bear. She and Lin Dong were close: they folded paper, drew pictures, and played games together. 2

The orphanage director later identified her as having a mental disorder. At age twelve, Cheng bit off half of another boy’s face and was sent to a psychiatric hospital; Lin Dong did not see her again for ten years. 2 20 During her institutionalization, she developed self-harming tendencies, leaving her right arm covered in scars. 21

After the apocalypse, Cheng Awakened early and became the Jiangbei shelter’s No. 001-ranked combatant. Her past pain became the basis of her ability, Deadly Agony, which converts suffering into greater physical power. 21

Appearance

Cheng is an exceptionally beautiful young woman with long, straight black hair, blunt bangs, very fair skin, and large dark eyes. Her eyes are frequently described as hollow or emotionless, reinforcing her doll-like appearance. 20 46

• Wore a white-and-blue-striped psychiatric hospital gown during an early rescue operation. 21
• Keeps her scar-covered right arm wrapped in bandages. 21
• Uses a wristband that displays her current Pain Level. 50
• Her expression generally remains calm and blank even while injured or killing opponents. 21 50

Personality

Cheng is cold, practical, and unsentimental in combat. During a university evacuation, she leaves behind a fallen survivor rather than endanger the group; when another student protests, she throws him outside to the zombies as an example. 21 She views survival decisions as calculations rather than moral dilemmas.

Her apparent calm conceals a strong attraction to pain, which her ability turns into strength. She shows no visible distress when stabbed and reacts to her old scars with satisfaction. 21 In battle, she is controlled and precise rather than frenzied, even when extracting a Crystal Core from a corpse herself. 50

Despite her isolation and stated hatred of the world, Cheng retains warmth toward her orphanage companions. Seeing Lin Dong again causes her heartbeat to quicken after years of emotional numbness, and she becomes unusually talkative while reminiscing with him. 46 47 49

Abilities & Skills

Deadly Agony

Cheng’s Awakened ability strengthens her in proportion to the pain she endures. Its upper limit is described as extremely high. 21

• Allows her to deliberately accept injuries instead of avoiding them. 21 49
• Raises her physical strength as her Pain Level increases. 50
• Lets her break an alloy dagger after allowing it to cut into her hand. 50
• Enables her to overpower Song Yang’s metallic body after enduring both a heavy punch and psychic assault. 50
• Requires her to suffer real physical or mental pain to build power. 21 50

Combat Ability

Cheng is an experienced close-range fighter who uses decisive, lethal strikes.

• Kills two charging zombies by smashing their skulls with a fire axe. 21
• Snaps Zhang Xu’s neck with one strike after he stabs her bandaged arm. 21
• Uses a broken dagger to kill a Crystal Core Awakened with a strike to the temple. 50
• Extracts Crystal Cores directly from defeated enemies. 50
• Remains composed while facing multiple Black Scorpion Awakened. 50

Equipment

• Fire axe — used during rescue operations against zombies. 21
• Right-arm bandages — conceal extensive self-harm scars and can absorb or expose wounds during combat. 21
• Pain Level wristband — displays the percentage of pain accumulated for her ability. 50
• Alloy blade fragment — taken from an attacker’s broken dagger and used to kill him and retrieve his Crystal Core. 50

Relationships

• Lin Dong — Orphanage childhood friend. They were close before Cheng was institutionalized; their reunion after ten years stirs rare emotion in her. She accepts his food and offers him a Crystal Core as repayment. 2 47 48 50
• Sun Xiaoqiang — Fellow orphanage child, shelter rescue partner, and close companion. Cheng frequently corrects his confused remarks but works alongside him on rescue and supply-recovery missions. 20 21 46
• Chen Ming — Shelter Awakened who accompanies Cheng’s Black Scorpion mission; he is wary of Lin Dong while Cheng chooses to trust their childhood connection. 47 48
• Zhang Xu — Rogue student Awakened who attempts to force Cheng to remain with him; she kills him after he stabs her. 21
• Song Yang — Black Scorpion minor leader whom Cheng confronts during the KTV assault, blasting him through a wall after her Pain Level rises. 50
• Yuanyuan — Black Scorpion psychic Awakened whose Brainstorm attack intensifies Cheng’s power rather than disabling her. 50

Story Role / Major Arcs

Orphanage and Institutionalization

Cheng’s childhood friendship with Lin Dong is established through his orphanage photograph and memories. Her violent incident at age twelve leads to her transfer to a psychiatric hospital, separating the two for a decade. 2 20

Shelter Rescue Operations

As the shelter’s No. 001 Awakened, Cheng leads a rescue mission through a zombie-infested university. She enforces her ruthless survival philosophy, kills the rogue Awakened Zhang Xu, and reunites with Sun Xiaoqiang on the rooftop extraction. 21

Black Scorpion Supply-Recovery Mission

Cheng and Sun Xiaoqiang enter a Five-Star Zombie Nest while searching for the Black Scorpion Organization and the supplies it stole from the shelter. Lin Dong orders Little Eight and the surrounding zombie horde to withdraw, allowing the rescue team to survive. 46 47

Reunion with Lin Dong

Cheng recognizes Lin Dong as her childhood friend and invites him to help search the area. Though Chen Ming’s group distrusts him, she accepts his food and promises to repay him with Brain Cores or Crystal Cores. 47 48

KTV Confrontation

At the Black Scorpion hideout, Cheng confronts a group that mistakes her calm demeanor and “gentle girl” profile for weakness. She uses the pain from a dagger wound to kill a Crystal Core Awakened, gives his Crystal Core to Lin Dong as repayment, and begins fighting Song Yang’s group. 49 50

Notable Quotes

“In the apocalypse, kill the saints first.”
— Cheng Luoyi 21

“I am a gentle girl, afraid of pain.”
— Cheng Luoyi’s shelter profile 21

“Eat it or don't!”
— Cheng Luoyi, echoing Lin Dong’s earlier words 50

Trivia

• Cheng’s “gentle girl” shelter profile sharply contradicts both her pain-based ability and her combat conduct. 21 50
• Lin Dong remembers her childhood smile, in which her distinctive large eyes narrowed into crescent moons. 2
• Her extraction of a Crystal Core reminds Lin Dong of mixing dumpling filling at the orphanage. 50