Big Niu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Big Niu (大牛) 2
Alias(es)	Captain Niu; Brother Niu 13 31
Species/Race	Human with a bull-like Transcendent transformation 6 16 42
Gender	Male 2
Affiliation	Lin Lu’s original survivor convoy; later the merged Spark/Starfire Convoy and its Starfire Council 2 10 31 32
Occupation/Role	Combat Transcendent, scavenging expedition leader, and convoy decision-maker 5 10 16
Power Rank	Sequence One Transcendent 16
Status	Critically injured; receiving Su Qian’s treatment during the convoy’s escape from Prosper City 43 44
First Appearance	Chapter 2 2

Appearance

Big Niu is a bald, heavily muscled man more than two meters tall, with bronze skin, thick legs, and enormous, fan-sized hands 4 5 31.

• Bull-like features: His eyes are repeatedly compared to a bull’s; his transformation produces jet-black horns and an enlarged body 5 6 16.
• Transformed height: He exceeds two and a half meters during the fight with the Hairy Savage 16.
• Clothing: He exercises bare-chested and wears only a tank top in snowy Prosper City, where a patch of black chest hair has appeared 31 39.
• Full bull head: Against the Six-Armed Weird, black hair covers his head, his horns thicken, and his entire head becomes that of a gigantic black bull 42.

Personality

Big Niu’s goofy chuckles, habitual head-scratching, and blunt profanity make him appear simple-minded. His encounter with the Eye-Eating Old Woman reveals a more calculating side: he pretends to trust her, keeps his feet in sunlight, and waits for the light to reach the supplies before taking them 5.

His practical cunning does not prevent reckless decisions. He approaches the forbidden store because the convoy is running low on food, believing the creature cannot follow him outside. When that assumption fails, he warns the other scavengers to flee and later admits his mistake to Lin Lu with visible guilt 5 6.

He is deferential to Lin Lu, openly accepting the captain’s council rules. With Chen Mo, he is warm and boisterous, greeting his return with a powerful friendly punch and laughing uncontrollably at his description of Red Hare as a “trusty steed” 31 32. In battle, he repeatedly places himself between monsters and the survivors, although his tendency to charge directly exposes him to stronger opponents 40 41.

Abilities & Skills

Bull-Like Transformation

Big Niu enlarges his body and develops black bull horns, accompanied by earthy-yellow or ocher Transcendent Power. His Sequence One rank is explicitly confirmed during the Hairy Savage battle; Chen Mo suspects that his powers belong to a beastman sequence 6 16 17.

• Physical enlargement: His body grows to roughly one and a half times its normal size during the escape from Sunward Village 6.
• Goring attacks: He pierces the Hairy Savage’s chest while pinning it down and later drives his horns into the Six-Armed Weird 16 42.
• More extensive transformation: He manifests a complete black bull’s head against the Six-Armed Weird; no new sequence tier is stated 42.
• Limit: His transformation does not overcome the Six-Armed Weird’s superior strength. She restrains him by his horns and hands and inflicts devastating injuries 41 42.

Superhuman Strength & Close Combat

Big Niu fights through punches, kicks, grappling, and improvised heavy weapons 16 40 42.

• Shatters a wooden farmhouse gate with a kick 5.
• Performs a spinning flying kick and wrestles the already-wounded Hairy Savage into a pinned position 16.
• Throws shelving, strikes with an electronic scale, and punches the giant catfish 40.
• Destroys attacking mannequins with his fists and throws a sofa at the Six-Armed Weird 41 42.
• Keeps pace behind the convoy’s motorcycles on foot while carrying two loaded sacks in his transformed state 6.

Recovery

His wounds visibly begin healing during the truck ride back from Wugui Village 17.

• Observed recovery: The claw wounds sustained against the Hairy Savage slowly close without treatment being described 16 17.
• Limit: After the Six-Armed Weird crushes his chest and severely damages his internal organs, he must be carried out and treated by Su Qian 42 43 44.

Scavenging & Enforcement

• Supply gathering: Directs Xiao Liu and other assistants to collect food, drinks, and household goods, then leads expeditions into dangerous settlements 5 10 11.
• Situational deception: Uses the Eye-Eating Old Woman’s desire to lure him inside to make her pack supplies into his sack 5.
• Convoy enforcement: Intimidates Brother Dao into controlling his followers and obeying Lin Lu’s rules 7.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wondrous burlap sack — A battered-looking storage item with exceptional capacity. Anything placed inside becomes one and a half times its original weight. Big Niu uses it to carry scavenged supplies and the giant catfish’s corpse; Chen Mo picks it up after Big Niu is incapacitated 5 32 40 43.
• Black modified SUV/off-roader — His convoy vehicle, driven by his assistant Xiao Qi 11 17 31.
• Bent steel bar — Carried over his shoulder while scavenging Sunward Village 5.

Background / History

Sunward Village

Initially the convoy’s only Transcendent besides Lin Lu, Big Niu leads the rush into Sunward Village to gather supplies. Finding little in the houses, he approaches the convenience store despite the captain’s warning 2 5.

He stays outside in sunlight while the monstrous old woman fills his sack. When she grabs his arm, he slaps her, pulls the supplies free, and flees. She creates a sun-blocking cloud of black wind and pursues him, forcing the convoy to retreat. Lin Lu confronts him afterward; Big Niu apologizes and explains that even their own vehicles are running short of provisions 5 6.

Wugui Village

After the convoy merger, Big Niu joins its Transcendent decision-making body and leads the Wugui Village expedition. He initially rushes into the village shop, while Chen Mo searches elsewhere 10 11.

Drawn by the commotion at the Hairy Savage’s courtyard, he arrives in time to rescue Chen Mo and Hu Yaya. He transforms, overpowers the badly wounded creature, and makes the decisive contribution to its defeat. When a black-and-white blur steals the corpse and other village creatures begin emerging, he urges Chen Mo to abandon further harvesting and escape 16 17.

Big Niu later reports the fight to Lin Lu. The report leads to the convoy claiming the recovered claw as shared spoils, with Chen Mo receiving a truck modification as compensation 20.

Starfire Council

Big Niu travels into Apricot Blossom Town with the other Transcendents, leaving ordinary survivors behind. When Chen Mo subsequently returns awakened, Big Niu welcomes him enthusiastically into the leadership circle 22 31.

He feeds Red Hare from a dog bowl before learning that the donkey is a second-tier Variant. Embarrassed by that discovery, he protests Chen Mo’s apparent sale of Red Hare and questions why the plan was concealed from the council 35 36 37.

Prosper City Shopping Center

Big Niu takes the lead in the shopping center expedition. He fights the giant catfish alongside Chen Mo and Xiao Ya’s doll, then stores its corpse in his sack. Upstairs, he helps destroy waves of mannequins before confronting the Six-Armed Weird 39 40 41.

The Weird overwhelms him despite his full bull-head transformation. Her attacks leave him coughing up fragments of damaged organs, with his sternum caved in. Old Yang and Xiao Liu carry him out, and Su Qian begins treating him while the convoy prepares to escape the Snow Corpses 42 43 44.

Relationships

• Lin Lu — Captain and authority figure. Big Niu follows his instructions, accepts his reprimand after Sunward Village, and supports his council rules 6 32.
• Chen Mo — Fellow fighter and later council colleague. Big Niu rescues him from the Hairy Savage, welcomes his awakening, and fights beside him in Prosper City 16 31 40.
• Xiao Ya — Fellow council member who calls him “Brother Niu.” Seeing him gravely endangered prompts her to merge with her Barbie Doll and confront the Six-Armed Weird 41.
• Su Qian — Fellow convoy leader and healer who treats his critical injuries during the Prosper City evacuation 10 44.
• Xiao Qi — Driver and assistant. Big Niu orders him to take Brother Dao and the others back to camp before investigating the Wugui Village disturbance 11 17.
• Brother Dao — Convoy gangster whose behavior Big Niu helps restrain through intimidation 7.

Notable Quotes

“You really think I'm stupid? My captain said these spooky things are scared of sunlight!” 5

“You need to be alive to take anything!” 16

“You little punk! I knew you wouldn't die!” 31