Wutu Gang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Wutu Gang (乌图帮)
Alias(es)	Utu Gang 15
Organization Type	Refugee mutual-aid organization turned criminal gang 1 6
Origin	Survivors of Wutu City, destroyed during a monster rampage twenty years before the story 1 2
Base of Operations	District 9 of Yero City’s outer city, within the Ninth Public Security Office’s jurisdiction 6 19
Leadership	An unnamed gang leader; Chen Wansen serves as deputy leader and manages daily affairs 47 48
Status	Active but declining; its last Public Security Office mole is detained, while its leader remains in seclusion 36 48
First Appearance	First mentioned during Lu Zhan’s hospital interrogation 1

Background / History

Formation and Settlement

The Wutu Gang formed when survivors of Wutu City banded together after monsters destroyed their home twenty years before the story. They fled to Yero City, where refugee organizations competed fiercely for limited outer-city admission quotas. Hundreds of orphans became part of the price the gang paid to establish itself there 1 2.

The gang settled in District 9 and assumed responsibility for raising those children. Upon reaching adulthood, many were sold to alchemy factories rather than accepted as gang members 1 19.

Former Influence and Decline

At its height, the Wutu Gang had members inside the Inspection Office as well as the Public Security Office. Seven years before the current events, it gathered more than ten thousand people around the Public Security Office and secured the release of its planted agents despite evidence against them 47 48.

Its influence subsequently weakened as District 9’s authorities attempted to absorb outside factions. The gang lost officials and informants until Wang Yang became its only remaining man in the Public Security Office. Chen Wansen privately considers the organization weaker than it has ever been 36 37 47.

Organization and Members

Member	Position	Responsibilities / Notes
Unnamed gang leader	Gang leader	Remains in seclusion, attempting to overcome an unspecified power barrier. Chen hopes a successful breakthrough will give the gang breathing room 48.
Chen Wansen	Deputy gang leader	Manages daily affairs, chairs leadership meetings, and directs the response to Wang Yang’s detention 36 47 48.
Wei Tong	Official liaison	Handles dealings with the authorities and assesses the risks posed by the gang’s detained mole 36 48.
Hall Master Yin	Head of the Disciplinary / Law Enforcement Hall	Questions Ma Yancheng over the loss of Wang Yang and analyzes whether the authorities are targeting the gang 36 37.
Ma Yancheng	Helmsman / branch leader	Oversees efforts to reclaim Lu Zhan. Although he presents himself as an Armored Warrior, Lu later identifies him as an Armored Warrior apprentice 8 9 27.
Lin Kexian	Enforcer	An orphan raised by the gang; serves Ma, tracks Lu Zhan, and carries out retrieval orders 6 23 35.
Wang Yang	Public Security Office mole	Supplies official access and has erased records of certain people on the gang’s behalf 36 48.
Baluk / Baruk	Gang-backed Armored Warrior apprentice	A senior Training Center student sent to intimidate Lu Zhan; refuses to risk expulsion over Ma’s grievance 26 35.
Li Dakui	Gang-backed senior trainee	Accompanies Baluk during the confrontation with Lu Zhan 26.

Membership Rules

• Upbringing does not guarantee membership. Children raised by the gang lose the right to call themselves members if they do not become brawlers upon reaching adulthood 1.
• Enforcers receive preferential treatment. Lin Kexian joins at adulthood, while laborers such as Lu Zhan are expelled from gang housing 6.
• Talent can restore a person’s value to the gang. After learning of Lu Zhan’s Armored Warrior aptitude, the gang seeks to bind him to a new contract despite having already sold him to a factory 6 9.

Activities and Methods

Orphan Labor and Wage Extraction

• The gang raises orphans and sells many of them to alchemy factories when they become adults 1.
• Lu Zhan is sold to the Black Star Steam Locomotive Factory shortly after turning eighteen, under a twenty-year indenture 5.
• Half of his monthly wage of 500 yuan goes directly to the Wutu Gang 5.
• Even after excluding him from membership, the gang continues to regard him as its property 6.

Talent Sponsorship and Debt

The gang uses access to aptitude testing and Armored Warrior training to create financial and labor obligations 7 9.

Arrangement	Terms	Outcome
Lin Kexian’s aptitude test	A discounted test arranged through Ma Yancheng	No aptitude detected; Lin still owes the gang 30,000 yuan 7.
Lu Zhan’s proposed training loan	Funding for a 100,000-yuan training fee, with 1% daily compound interest	Lu recognizes that the debt is designed to keep him under gang control 9.
Post-repayment service	Twenty years of unpaid work, reduced to ten years during negotiation	Signing is postponed after Lu raises the Inspection Office’s interest in him; he never signs 10 9.

• The gang’s latest Talent Assessment produces no recruits for the Training Center’s current Basic Class, increasing the importance of Lu Zhan’s unexpected aptitude 26.
• Ma assumes other city factions will not sponsor someone raised by the Wutu Gang because they would suspect him of being a spy 11.

Intimidation and Information Control

• Ma orders Lin to retrieve Lu Zhan within a day after discovering that he has disappeared 23.
• Gang-backed senior trainees demand compensation for Lu’s supposed betrayal, but retreat when he invokes the Training Center’s disciplinary rules 26.
• Wang Yang has helped erase files and records establishing certain people’s existence. He does not know the underlying secret, but his testimony could expose the concealment 48.
• Chen orders reassurance sent to Wang Yang while also preparing to have him killed if he appears likely to betray the gang 48.

Resources and Constraints

• Guarded residences: Ma’s private compound has armed guards, checkpoints, and inspections. The guards carry melee weapons; Yero City’s firearms restrictions apply even to criminal gangs 8.
• Armored personnel: Ma possesses Growth Armor on his left arm, which can reshape into a scaled beast’s claw. The gang also sponsors apprentices at the Training Center 9 26.
• Official connections: Its former network included agents in both major security institutions, but Wang Yang is its last remaining Public Security Office mole 36 47.
• Military protection limits its reach: Lu’s enlistment makes retaliation risky, while the Training Center’s rules and Lu Guanhong’s protection deter the gang’s senior students 26 35.
• A ceasefire limits local conflict: The gang has a ceasefire agreement with other District 9 gangs. Hall Master Yin rejects the idea that rivals would involve the Inspection Office, since doing so could endanger all parties 36.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Attempt to Reclaim Lu Zhan

After Lu Zhan survives the Mutant Beast attack and tests positive for Armored Warrior aptitude, Ma sends Lin Kexian to collect him from the hospital. Ma stages an affectionate reunion, claims friendship with Lu’s late father, and offers training sponsorship through a coercive loan contract 6 8 9.

Lu’s Blood-Red Antenna detects predatory signals from Ma’s armored left hand, leading him to conclude that it has eaten people and wants to eat him. This is Lu’s assessment, not proof that the entire gang practices cannibalism. A later comparison with Baluk’s controlled cellular hunger strengthens his belief that Ma is abnormal 10 27.

Lu escapes the proposed contract by enlisting through District 13, deliberately choosing an area whose gangs oppose the Wutu Gang. He then enters training immediately. Ma’s subsequent intimidation attempt fails when the senior trainees prioritize their education over his orders 13 14 26 35.

Wang Yang’s Detention

Xin Ya isolates Wang Yang and Wesker because they saw Lu Zhan’s original antenna drawing. Wesker is associated with Wang Yang but is explicitly not a Wutu Gang member 36 37.

Unaware of the drawing’s significance, the gang first interprets the detention as retaliation connected to Lu Zhan. Its leaders speculate that Xin Ya either has feelings for Lu or wants to exploit his talent. Attempts to negotiate and bribe her fail; she insists that she will enforce the law impartially 37 46 48.

The leadership then fears that the Inspection Office may blame the gang for the unresolved massacre. That remains their speculation. Chen’s more immediate concern is that Wang Yang could reveal the erased records and expose a secret serious enough to get the gang wiped out by Yero City 47 48.

By the latest documented events, Chen is trying to buy time for either upheaval in District 9 or the gang leader’s breakthrough, while keeping assassination available as a contingency against Wang Yang 48.

Relationships

• Lu Zhan — Raised by the gang, sold to factory labor, and later targeted for renewed recruitment. His military enlistment breaks the gang’s expected control over his future 1 5 11 14.
• Ninth Public Security Office — The gang’s local jurisdiction and former source of official protection; Wang Yang provides its last surviving internal connection 6 36.
• Inspection Office — A longstanding counterpart in corrupt dealings and now a feared threat. The gang’s leaders admit that its current weakness prevents the open pressure tactics used in the past 47 48.
• Xin Ya — Refuses the gang’s offers to release Wang Yang. Her actual objective is suppressing information about the Blood-Red Antenna, not avenging Lu Zhan 46 48.
• District 9 gangs — Local competitors bound by a ceasefire and a shared reluctance to attract Inspection Office scrutiny 36.
• District 13 gangs — Oppose the Wutu Gang, making their district Lu Zhan’s preferred enlistment route 13.