Fat Brother

Biodata

Power Progression

His metal ability’s numerical level is not specified in the supplied chapters.

Background / History

Fat Brother and Bai Yaoyao were taken in by the same master on the same day. Their master taught them the skills they used to earn a living and later entrusted their growing organization to Bai Yaoyao. November 1, celebrated as Bai Yaoyao’s birthday, marks the day the master found them 1 9.

His protectiveness toward Bai Yaoyao began in childhood. When she undertook her first mission at eight and became lost on the return journey, he repeatedly waited at the entrance and stayed awake overnight. Their master forbade him from searching for her. When she finally returned after two days, he burst into tears; learning she was unhurt allowed him to calm down and eat six steamed buns 22.

In Bai Yaoyao’s previous life, Fat Brother wielded earth and metal abilities and served as the team’s frontline tank. He was the first of their companions to die, sacrificing himself to protect her during the battle against the Spatial Emperor-Class Zombie. He urged her to run while the zombie cut his body apart, but she instead attempted to take it down with her 1 2.

Appearance

• Heavy build: Weighs over two hundred pounds. Bai Yaoyao leaves him in place when rearranging her unconscious companions because he is too heavy to move 13.
• Small eyes: Normally narrow and slit-like; they widen dramatically when he hears about Bai Yaoyao’s rebirth 2.
• Deceptively approachable expression: Looks honest and simple, despite Bai Yaoyao considering him the most cunning member of their group 2.
• Combat clothing: Receives a black combat uniform and low-cut combat boots when the squad begins clearing zombies 15.

Personality

Fat Brother’s guileless appearance conceals a cautious, calculating personality. Bai Yaoyao describes him as the most cunning of their companions and particularly concerned with staying alive. His caution extends to her safety: after witnessing her spatial ability, he searches the room for witnesses and offers to have Peiqi hypnotize him into forgetting it, reasoning that fewer people knowing would reduce the danger 2.

His loyalty outweighs his concern for his own survival. When told that he died saving Bai Yaoyao, he expresses relief that he did not disappoint their master. He also provides practical reassurance when her knowledge of the previous timeline stops matching events, reminding her that their companions are together and they can proceed one step at a time 2 24.

He is playful and enthusiastic about food. He trades jokes with his fellow disciples, abandons dieting after learning the apocalypse is approaching, and readily joins Bai Yaoyao’s improvised deception of Meng Qilin by making a dinner discussion look like serious mission deliberation 11 14 45.

Abilities & Skills

Earth Ability

His earth ability develops from scattering loose dirt into substantial defensive and offensive constructs 13 27 28.

• Earth Shield: At Level Three, creates shields alongside Stone during the fight against Wang Jianbin’s armed group 28.
• Earthen walls: Cooperates with Stone to intercept a mutant ant and shelter the squad from a metal-type zombie’s spike barrage 32 39.
• Earth projectiles: Smashes open an auditorium door and strikes a sixth-floor window to draw out a zombie 27 39.
• Potential techniques: Bai Yaoyao explains that further development can allow cages for trapping zombies and Earth Escape for protecting the team; these are described possibilities, not demonstrated uses in the supplied passages 13.

Metal Ability

His metal ability supports both combat preparation and utility work 17 32.

• Metal creation: Initially produces a small, nearly powerless needle 13.
• Key fabrication: Makes a key to open the warehouse supermarket’s safe and retrieves its gold bars 17.
• Weapon reinforcement: Strengthens Bai Yaoyao’s large machete. The reinforced blade nevertheless cracks against the mutant ant’s hind leg, showing its limits against tough mutant beasts 32.

Combat and Team Defense

Despite his weight, Fat Brother is a skilled, surprisingly agile fighter 2.

• Frontline fighting: Can both withstand pressure and deal damage; Bai Yaoyao assigns him to initiate engagements and draw zombie attention 15.
• Defensive formations: Guards a flank beside Stone while less-defended teammates remain inside the squad’s protective circle 48.
• Vulnerability to psychic attacks: A Level Three psychic zombie makes him fight A-Dai, leaving his arm wounded until Bai Yaoyao breaks its influence 24.

Procurement and Logistics

Fat Brother has weapons expertise and contacts capable of sourcing medicine 2.

• Weapons stockpile: Purchases nearly two billion worth of weapons and ammunition for the group 23.
• International procurement: Completes the weapons-and-medicine transaction with Bai Yaoyao in E Country through a longtime partner 9.
• Medicine reserves: His purchases exceed the squad’s later hospital haul in both quantity and usefulness; the medicine is intended largely for trading to bases serving ordinary survivors 49.
• Driving: Transports rescued survivors and serves as one of the three drivers on the trip to H City Zoo 44 50.

Equipment / Items

• Black combat uniform and low-cut combat boots — Issued before the squad’s first zombie-clearing expedition 15.
• Dagger — Issued for extracting crystal cores from zombie heads 15.
• First conjured metal needle — Picks it up and declares that he will keep it in his collection 13.

Relationships

• Bai Yaoyao — Fellow disciple and squad leader. She calls him the person she trusts most aside from their master. He waits for her return from dangerous outings and offers to accompany her when she leaves alone 2 20 22.
• Master — Took him in and trained him. Fat Brother measures his sacrifice for Bai Yaoyao against the responsibility their master entrusted to him before dying 1 2.
• Stone — Fellow frontline defender. They occupy the villa’s first-floor bedrooms as “gatekeepers” and repeatedly build earth defenses together 12 28 32 39.
• Monkey — Combat partner whose skills complement his own. Together they nearly finish clearing Building Three before Bai Yaoyao arrives 40.
• Peiqi — Fellow disciple and healer. Their interactions include playful teasing; she heals his wounded arm after the psychic-zombie incident 14 24.
• Lulu — Fellow disciple whose fate in the previous timeline worries him. His unusual willingness to let Lulu take his meat helps Lulu realize that he knows about that fate 12 14.
• A-Dai — Fellow disciple. After Bai Yaoyao disciplines A-Dai for wasting food, Fat Brother tries to reassure her while agreeing that the mistake needs correcting 46.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Preparing for the Apocalypse

• Becomes Bai Yaoyao’s first confidant about her rebirth and the coming disaster. Offers his 360 million in funds and approximately 80 million in movable assets and real estate to support her preparations 2.
• Takes responsibility for heavy weapons and medicine rather than transferring his money to her. Later receives another billion Huaguo yuan specifically for bombs 2 9.
• Notifies their companions to assemble at Peiqi’s home in H City. After the organization becomes the Dark Night Squad, urges everyone to exercise, normalize their sleep schedules, and recover from injuries 9 10 11.

Early Battles and University Town

• Opens the warehouse supermarket’s safe after the squad eliminates its criminal occupants 17.
• Joins a clearing team with Lulu, Xiao Shiliu, and Peiqi 23.
• Is wounded while fighting A-Dai under psychic control. Afterward, reassures Bai Yaoyao about the accelerating changes in the new timeline 24.
• Breaks open the bloodstained auditorium and later helps shield the squad during its confrontation with Wang Jianbin 27 28.

Relocation and Official Rescue Missions

• Helps defend the squad against the mutant ant after leaving the villa 32.
• Supports Bai Yaoyao’s negotiations with Meng Qilin over how troublemaking rescuees will be handled 35.
• Draws a Level Three metal-type zombie out of a residential building, then shields the team from its attack with Stone 39.
• Helps Bai Yaoyao feign hesitation over the Strategic Material Reserve Depot mission. Their apparently solemn discussion is actually about having hot pot and lobster for dinner; she subsequently secures five additional Level Three crystal cores 45.
• Drives on the journey to H City Zoo and spots the mutant rabbit that A-Dai and Big Meow pursue 50.

Notable Quotes

“The fewer people who know about this, the safer you'll be. Ideally, no one should know. I don't want to know what extraordinary thing happened to you. I just want you safe.” 2

“It's all right. We're all here this time. We'll take it one step at a time.” 24

Trivia

• Favorite food: Lobster. Even after repeatedly eating it, he insists he is not tired of it 45.
• Large appetite: Needs three boxes of self-heating rice to consider it a meal 4.
• Thunderous snoring: Xiaomi can hear him from the second floor. Stone later finds it difficult to sleep without the familiar sound next door 12 22.
• Poor cooking skills: Like the rest of the group, fails to cook food through during their pre-apocalypse kitchen practice 12.