Lin Xue

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Lin Xue worked as a teacher before becoming a member of Liu Tie’s convoy leadership. At her introduction, she is already one of its three Sequence Transcendents, alongside Liu Tie and Zhou Ping 6 25.

Following Fan Shang’s killing of two supply thieves, she redirects the leaders’ attention toward planning their next route. She warns that remaining on the same stretch of highway could attract uncanny entities. When Liu Tie detects an approaching entity, she immediately reaches her vehicle and escapes with the convoy 6.

Appearance

• Build and apparent age: A woman with a good figure who appears to be in her twenties 6.
• Hair: Worn in a high ponytail 6 23.
• Glasses: Silver-rimmed, giving her an intellectual air likened to that of a university lecturer 6.
• Expression and voice: Usually expressionless, with a cool speaking tone 23 25 30.

Personality

Lin Xue is blunt, restrained, and strongly practical. Zhou Ping describes her as excessively rational after she dismisses discussion of the thieves’ deaths and focuses instead on the convoy’s survival. She also interrupts the men’s bickering when it distracts from business 6 23.

Her reserved manner does not prevent her from being considerate. She gives Fan Shang an ice sphere to cool his car and defends the usefulness of his supposedly unimpressive House Guard Sequence. Her patient explanations of Liu Tie and Zhou Ping’s relationship lead Fan Shang to wonder whether she is warmer-hearted than she appears 25 26 30.

She accepts lethal violence in the convoy’s survival-focused environment, silently approving when Fan Shang kills a woman who had demanded protection and compensation from the Sequence Users. Nevertheless, her composure is not absolute: she pales during the ghost attack and briefly shows sorrow while watching the corpse-filled tornado of the rain calamity 36 40 47.

Abilities & Skills

Ice Mage Sequence

• Condenses moisture in the air into ice, providing both offensive attacks and practical supplies 25.
• Possesses the enhanced physical capabilities of a Sequence User, demonstrated by her rapid escape during an uncanny attack 6.
• Her Grade C Sequence can threaten anomalies, but has limited effectiveness against their protective and regenerative black mist 43.

Ice Projectiles

• Forms multiple sharp or conical ice crystals around herself and launches them at high speed 34 35.
• Her crystals are powerful enough to pierce rock, according to Zhou Ping’s previous observations 34.
• Repeated hits thin a Grudge-Crying Ghost’s black mist, opening it to Liu Tie’s attack 35.
• Cannot strike the ghost while it is incorporeal; effective attacks require exploiting its physical form 34 35.
• Uses two chunks of ice to draw a second ghost’s attention as Fan Shang intervenes to rescue Liu Tie 36.

Area Freezing

• Spreads ice crystals and frost across the ground, then freezes a creature that touches the affected surface 36.
• With Zhou Ping’s food enhancement, immobilizes a Grudge-Crying Ghost long enough for Liu Tie to kill it. Its flesh tears when it struggles against the ice 36.
• Heavy use lowers her body temperature. The enhanced freezing attack leaves her radiating much stronger cold and sinking weakly to one knee 34 36.
• Cannot safely intervene when Liu Tie is fighting too close to the ghost without risking injury to him 36.

Cooling and Water Supply

• Creates ice spheres that will not melt for three days and can cool a vehicle in hot weather 25 28.
• Gives introductory spheres to her companions; subsequent spheres cost half a packet of instant noodles each 25.
• Replenishes cooking water by dropping ice into a hot pot and allowing it to melt 41.

Relationships

• Liu Tie — Convoy leader and combat partner, whom she calls “Brother Tie.” She helps plan routes and combines her ice attacks with his hoe strikes against the Grudge-Crying Ghost 6 35 36.
• Zhou Ping — Fellow convoy leader. She frequently checks his ill-judged remarks, while his enhancement food strengthens her freezing ability during battle 23 26 36.
• Fan Shang — Fellow Sequence Transcendent recruited into the convoy. She welcomes him with a cooling sphere, defends his stated Sequence, and follows his plan for attacking the ghost. She later recognizes that his House Guard explanation is a cover story, without exposing him 25 26 35 38.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Fan Shang’s recruitment: Helps keep the leaders’ first meeting with him focused on business. After he joins, convoy affairs become the shared responsibility of all four Sequence Transcendents 23 26.
• Jinghuai Town and the Grudge-Crying Ghosts: Escapes the town, then fights the ghosts that pursue the survivors. Following Fan Shang’s discovery of their brief physical vulnerability, she helps save Zhou Ping and assists Liu Tie in killing the first ghost 30 34 35 36.
• Division of the Yin Objects: Receives a thirty-percent share of the first ghost’s eyeball for breaking through its black mist. She refuses a share of the ghost skull Fan Shang obtained himself. The group decides to have Zhou Ping use the eyeball to make Rune Meat Porridge 45.
• Rain calamity: Watches the tornado with visible sorrow, escapes its range with the convoy, and agrees to stop for the night 47 48.
• Provincial Highway decision: Explicitly chooses to accompany Fan Shang and Liu Tie when they propose seeking stronger enemies and Yin Objects to advance their Sequences 50.

Notable Quotes

“If you have time to meddle in this nonsense, you'd be better off planning where we should go next.” 6

“Every sequence has its uses. Isn't Brother Tie a [Farmer] too? And isn't he stronger than all of us now?” 26

“I'm planning to go with Fan Shang and Brother Tie, anyway.” 50