Tang Chuan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Tang Chuan (唐川) 21
Alias(es)	President Tang; Chairman Tang — forms of address used during the factory expedition 23 24 26
Gender	Male 21 22
Age	Appears approximately 27–28 years old 21
Affiliation	New Light Mutual Aid Association 21
Occupation/Role	Association president; formerly chief of surgery at City First Hospital, according to his introduction 22
Specialization	Spirit Arts — Spirit Art: Mire 24 26
Status	Deceased; shot in the forehead by Lin Hui and submerged in his own mire 26
First Appearance	At the barricade outside the abandoned Aviation Parts Factory 21

Background / History

Tang Chuan introduces himself as a former chief of surgery at City First Hospital. After entering the survival world, he forms the New Light Mutual Aid Association with Wang Bin, who serves as vice president. Tang’s specialization and powerful extraordinary item secure Wang’s willingness to remain subordinate despite Wang having enhanced himself with a Basic Gene Potion 22.

Before meeting Lin Hui, Tang scouts the abandoned Aviation Parts Factory and discovers a nest of Tier 1 and Tier 2 White Thorns, along with a Tier 3 female laying eggs. His association has previously hunted Tier 2 White Thorns in open terrain, and he has paid a major guild heavily for information about their waist weak point 22 23 24.

Appearance

• Clothing: A smart, dark gray trench coat 21.
• Accessories: Gold-rimmed glasses, which he frequently adjusts; he carries a spotless silk cloth for cleaning them 21 22.
• Demeanor: Initially refined and courteous, with a carefully maintained smile. His expression becomes openly malicious when discussing betrayal with Wang Bin 22.

Personality

Tang uses professional credentials, flattery, and the language of mutual aid to present himself as a trustworthy leader. He claims that the factory barricade protects other survivors, while privately planning to exploit Lin Hui’s firepower and steal his RV. He also treats Su Qingqian and Liu Xi as women he and Wang Bin can claim rather than independent allies 22.

His confidence rests on his specialization, extraordinary item, and guild backing. He underestimates the Tier 3 female White Thorn despite knowing she is present, then abandons his cooperative façade when his convoy collapses. Faced with retaliation, he alternates between excuses, bargaining, promises of obedience, and a final attack 25 26.

Abilities & Skills

Spirit Art: Mire

Tang transforms solid terrain into sticky, foul-smelling mud, using it to restrict movement and expose enemies to gunfire 24.

• Area: His demonstrated casting affects the ground within a 50-meter radius centered on himself 24 26.
• Activation: He places his hand against the ground; his ambulance has a floor opening that allows him to do so from inside 24.
• Crowd control: Traps Tier 1 and Tier 2 White Thorns, allowing Liu Xi and the surviving association members to shoot them 24.
• Reversal: The mire returns to solid concrete after the first battle 24.
• Mental cost: Casting leaves him pale and sweating. His final attack consumes all his remaining mental energy and produces mud several times deeper and more viscous than before 24 26.
• Limits: The Tier 3 female White Thorn breaks free almost immediately. Lin Hui’s RV crosses even the strengthened mire without slowing because of its Constant Traction trait 25 26.

Medical Expertise

Tang claims to be an excellent surgeon and offers his medical skills when pleading for his life 22 26.

• No treatment or surgery performed by Tang is shown in the supplied chapters.
• His demonstrated specialization is Spirit Arts, not Medicine 24 26.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Lv.3 modified ambulance — A heavily armored vehicle with an ordinary roof-mounted machine gun operated by another player. Its undercarriage opening provides ground access for Mire and serves as Tang’s escape route when Lin Hui targets him 23 24 26.
• Eye of Scapegoating — A rare extraordinary item resembling a transparent, eyeball-sized crystal orb containing three twitching insects 25.
  • Transfers creatures’ hostility toward the user to a designated target within 500 meters 25.
  • Limited to one use per day; it has three remaining uses before Tang targets Lin Hui and two when Lin later examines it 25 35.
  • One hour after activation, the user loses the ability to speak for 24 hours 25 35.
  • Tang uses it to redirect the female White Thorn onto Lin Hui’s RV. Lin retrieves it after Tang’s death 25 27.
• Tracker-equipped walkie-talkie — Given to Lin Hui ostensibly for coordination. Su Qingqian discovers the embedded tracking device 23.

Relationships

• Lin Hui — Temporary raid partner turned enemy. Tang offers him 30% of the factory supplies while secretly planning to seize his RV; Lin recognizes the deception and uses Tang’s convoy to scout the danger. Lin ultimately kills him after the betrayal 22 23 25 26.
• Wang Bin — Co-founder and vice president of the association. Tang’s powers underpin their hierarchy, but Wang refuses to cover his escape and surrenders to Lin Hui instead 22 26.
• Liu Xi — Recruited sniper promised high-strength titanium alloy. Her precision complements Mire during the first battle, while Tang privately includes her in his predatory plans with Wang Bin 22 24.
• Su Qingqian — Target of Tang’s possessiveness. Discovering her rapid vehicle-repair ability intensifies his desire to take her and the RV from Lin Hui 22 24.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Factory Alliance

Tang meets Lin Hui at the association’s barricade and signals his men to lower their weapons. He proposes a joint assault but conceals the Tier 3 female White Thorn, intending to let the monsters exhaust Lin’s ammunition and damage his defenses before attacking him 21 22.

Inside the factory, Lin refuses immediate artillery support by claiming that his fire-control system is rebooting. Tang eventually uses Mire to immobilize the attacking White Thorns, enabling the convoy to win. The battle costs his group fifteen or sixteen people and five vehicles, while Lin’s RV remains undamaged 23 24.

Betrayal and Death

The female White Thorn overwhelms the remaining convoy, and Tang’s Mire fails to restrain her. He retreats and activates the Eye of Scapegoating against Lin Hui, only for Lin to disable the mutant with his autocannon and crush her beneath the RV 25.

When Lin turns his weapon toward him, Tang escapes through the ambulance’s undercarriage hatch. After Wang Bin abandons him, Tang blames the betrayal on his item’s side effects and offers the item, medical expertise, and obedience in exchange for mercy. Lin refuses. Tang casts a stronger Mire, but the RV drives through it, and Lin kills him with an Axe Gun shot to the forehead 26.

Aftermath

Lin recovers the Eye of Scapegoating from its box floating above Tang’s submerged body and salvages the association’s wrecked vehicles. Tang’s powers also prompt Lin to seek information from Liu Xi about specializations and extraordinary items 27.

Notable Quotes

“Brother Lin! It's your honor to die for me!” 25

“This is the apocalypse! Only those who survive deserve to be winners!” 25