Zhou Gong

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhou Gong (周功)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	First High School, Class Three; Zhou Family; Special Affairs Bureau 8 27 36
Occupation/Role	Student; Bureau mission participant; rear guard of Lin Dong’s three-person team 11 27
Status	Alive; survives the Train to Busan instance and the hospital confrontation with the Bai Family 27 37 39
First Appearance	Chapter 8

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 1 — enhanced attributes	8	Already has 10 stamina, 10 spirit, 10 strength, and 10 speed, exceeding ordinary human limits. This qualifies him for the mutated-instance mission. The method used to raise these attributes is not stated.

Background / History

Zhou Gong is the grandson of Zhou Shan, the Ape King. His family’s standing is attributed to opportunities Zhou Shan obtained through an old ape in the Naruto secret realm. Zhou Gong later explains that the Zhou Family formed a contract with the Ape God, rather than continuing to pursue the realm’s Child of Destiny 8 38.

The Zhou Family is a regular partner of the Special Affairs Bureau, supplying personnel for missions and receiving their rewards through a family account. Zhou Gong participates in this arrangement and returns to the Bureau to report after the Train to Busan mission 27 36.

Appearance

• Height: Two and a half meters, making him conspicuously taller than the other students 8.
• Build: Towering and heavily built; described as resembling Tarzan or an iron tower 8 37.
• Hands and voice: Has fists compared to clay pots and a booming voice 11 19.

Personality

Despite his imposing physique, Zhou Gong is socially perceptive rather than a dim-witted brute. He quickly recognizes Lin Dong’s intention to become captain, accepts his leadership, and enthusiastically praises his tactical decisions. His speech is informal, outspoken, and frequently punctuated by startled exclamations 8 11.

His courage depends on the threat. He is eager to fight ordinary zombies but visibly terrified by the Ghost Bus and alarmed by enemies beyond the team’s strength. Even so, he continues holding a carriage doorway while severely wounded and tells Lin Dong not to worry about him 10 11 19.

Zhou Gong takes his obligations to his teammates seriously. He thanks Lin Dong formally for saving him, agrees to watch over Bai Ruoxue because she also saved his life, and later seeks Lin Dong’s help when her treatment is threatened 27 35.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Strength and Close-Range Combat

His enhanced attributes and large physique make him the team’s close-range finisher 8 11.

• Brings up the rear while Lin Dong attacks from the front and Bai Ruoxue watches the flanks 11.
• Kills surviving zombies by smashing their heads with his fists 11.
• Inspects zombie bodies on Lin Dong’s orders and crushes a still-moving heart 12.

B-Rank Ninjutsu

• Chooses a B-rank ninjutsu from the school’s mission-support supplies 9 10.
• Its name and specific effects are not identified in the provided account 10.

Earth-Based Defense

• Survives being buried beneath zombies with heaps of earth covering his body and holding the horde back 19 21.
• Still needs Lin Dong to clear the zombies away; the defense does not let him escape independently 21.

Spirit Communication Technique

• Uses his family’s Spirit Communication Technique to catch a level-18 martial master off guard 21.
• Credits that surprise with keeping him alive, but warns that neither he nor Lin Dong can defeat the enemy in a direct confrontation 21.

Mission and Secret-Realm Knowledge

• Shares Zhou Shan’s warning that some instances award only fractions of an experience point 11.
• Recognizes the instance’s reward-settlement notification and remains calm as the mission ends 26.
• Explains the danger of Bai Ruoxue repeatedly using Curse Words before changing classes, as well as the Bureau’s family-reward arrangements 19 26 36.

Relationships

• Lin Dong — Captain and teammate. Zhou Gong accepts his command, follows his combat assignments, and remains grateful after being rescued. His admiration grows as powerful institutions compete to recruit Lin Dong 11 19 27 39.
• Bai Ruoxue — Teammate and lifesaver. Returns with her to reach Lin Dong during the zombie assault, monitors her critical condition, and agrees to look after her after the mission 19 26 27.
• Zhou Shan — Grandfather, known as the Ape King. Zhou Gong draws on his advice; Zhou Shan later thanks Lin Dong for saving his grandson and promises to confront the Bai Family over its attack 8 11 39.
• Liu Ruyan — Familiar senior whom he initially calls “Auntie Liu.” She insists on “Big Sis,” threatens to beat him for using the wrong address, and later threatens his legs while arguing with Zhou Shan 38 39.
• Chen Kai — Mission escort and Bureau contact. Transports the students to the instance and brings Zhou Gong and Lin Dong back to school afterward 10 27.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Selection for the Mutated Instance

• Principal Wang Jianshe selects Zhou Gong on the strength of his four enhanced attributes 8.
• Zhou Gong commits to the mission because it offers exemption from the martial examination’s preliminary round, despite dismissing the advertised Devil Fruit as undesirable 9.
• Travels aboard the Ghost Bus with Lin Dong, Bai Ruoxue, and Chen Kai. Lin Dong stops him from boarding the zombie train before clarifying the mission’s circumstances 10.

*Train to Busan*

• Accepts Lin Dong as captain and helps clear carriage 15 in a coordinated formation 11.
• Retreats with Bai Ruoxue when an infected Awakener attacks. Both subsequently disappear from Lin Dong’s reach 13 14.
• Reappears with an arm-thick wound in his lower abdomen and reveals that the Demon-Worshipping Cult is sacrificing challengers to manifest the instance in reality 19.
• Having completed his instance objectives, urges a retreat to carriage 15. Lin Dong identifies that route as an ambush and instead orders him to hold the doorway 19.
• Survives the ensuing zombie pile through earth defenses and is freed by Lin Dong. He warns of a level-18 martial master, though Lin Dong later discovers that the cult’s actual leader is stronger 21 22.
• Alerts Lin Dong to Bai Ruoxue’s near-fatal backlash, reports back to the Bureau, and accepts responsibility for watching over her 26 27.

Hospital Confrontation

• Fetches Lin Dong when the Bai Family threatens Bai Ruoxue’s treatment and explains how concealing casualties can benefit a family’s Bureau assessment 35 36.
• Is forced to his knees by a Bai Family member’s “Kneel” command. Lin Dong breaks the curse with the tiger form of Myriad Forms Chant 36 37.
• Warns Lin Dong to flee when several Curse Words users attack together. Their combined “Die” curse causes him bleeding and bodily distortion before Lin Dong’s dragon form dispels it 37.
• Witnesses Liu Ruyan, Zhou Shan, and other recruiters competing for his captain, leaving him overwhelmed by Lin Dong’s new standing 38 39.

Notable Quotes

“Don’t worry about me! … I’ve got a way to stay alive!” 19

“Thank you for saving my worthless life, Captain!” 27