Monkey

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Origin and upbringing

Monkey received his name because a macaque delivered him to Master as an infant. The animal blocked Master’s path in the mountains, placed the baby on the ground, and stayed nearby until Master carried him down the mountain. Master believed the macaque had kept him alive and named him in its honor 51.

Monkey grew up alongside Bai Yaoyao and the other companions. Their arguments and sparring were longstanding habits rather than signs of a broken friendship. Master specifically assigned him the responsibility of keeping everyone’s spirits up 12 152.

Previous life

In Bai Yaoyao’s previous life, Liu Mengyuan was Monkey’s first love. Despite his frequent talk about pursuing women, he was deeply devoted to her. After an ambush left Peiqi dead, Stone missing an arm, and their companions badly wounded, Monkey learned the truth and killed Liu Mengyuan himself. He grieved for a long time afterward 8.

Bai Yaoyao also remembers him taking an intact suit jacket from a zombie and admiring himself in mirrors for days because he was in a relationship 73.

Personality

Monkey deliberately plays the fool to lift the group’s mood. He dislikes seeing his companions unhappy and readily makes himself the target of a joke if it earns their laughter. After Bai Yaoyao’s prolonged unconsciousness, he considers a humiliating tumble into the sea worthwhile simply because everyone smiles again 12 589.

His cheerful manner conceals a calculating streak. He excels at acting, provoking opponents, and steering conversations, whether infiltrating a base as a powerless laborer or negotiating with officials. Chen Yixuan recognizes that his friendly appearance makes him look much easier to handle than he actually is 170 172 346 355.

Monkey is boastful, competitive, and notoriously unable to keep his mouth shut. His teasing repeatedly earns punishment, but his affection for his companions is genuine: he celebrates A-Cong’s growth even after winning their match and breaks down in tears while pleading for Bai Yaoyao to wake 342 395 396 563.

Abilities & Skills

Water and Ice Manipulation

Monkey’s awakened water ability develops from weak jets into powerful ice-based attacks. Shi Nian later describes his ice techniques as a mutant ice-type ability 14 22 546.

• Frost Spear: A newly learned technique requiring time to form; completing it delays his retreat during the psychic-zombie encounter 115.
• Mass ice blades: Condenses and launches numerous blades simultaneously, decapitating rows of zombies. The attack initially leaves him completely drained 197.
• Ten Thousand Miles of Frozen Land: An ultimate freezing technique used to trap A-Dai and A-Cong during their mounted duel 342.
• Water Mist Bomb: A low-damage attack that drenches a group of opponents; the Hurricane Special Ability Team’s leader avoids it 464.
• Defensive applications: Wraps his body in water while dodging Spatial Blades and later seals himself inside ice to refuse another sparring match 511 512.
• Utility applications: Supplies water to mutant plants and creates a water column capable of supporting his weight 355 589.

Blood Manipulation

After Bai Yaoyao criticizes his outdated techniques, Monkey experiments with controlling the water within blood. He successfully manipulates a Level 9 zombie’s blood and bursts its body apart 531.

• Develops the technique during battle rather than continuing to rely on familiar ice attacks 531.
• Its effectiveness is demonstrated against a zombie; use against living humans is not established in the provided passages 531 532.

Combat and Mounted Coordination

Monkey combines ranged ability attacks with tactical positioning and close-range pressure 342 350.

• Assigns Monkey Fur to protect him and dodge while he concentrates on casting 342.
• Targets A-Cong to restrict A-Dai’s options during their mounted duel 342.
• Defeats Ouyang Ning by combining ice attacks with pressure that forces him off the Dueling Platform 350.
• Rejects two Level 7 crystal cores because he wants to attempt a stronger, battle-earned breakthrough; no successful breakthrough is documented at that point 314.

Acting, Infiltration, and Persuasion

Monkey uses convincing performances to obtain access, gather information, and influence others 170 172 355.

• Registers himself, Bai Yaoyao, and Lulu as people without abilities while infiltrating City L Base 170.
• Shares food with laborers, gains their trust within a day, and encourages them to recruit supporters for resistance 172.
• Helps ignite the revolt against the overseers, then uses arriving allies to rally the workers against armed reinforcements 175.
• Performs exaggerated exhaustion alongside Bai Yaoyao to deceive mutant plants 355.
• Broadcasts accusations against the Li Family over a megaphone during the confrontation at their restaurant 103.

Vehicles and Technical Work

Monkey handles transportation and is entrusted with vehicle-related preparations 6 145 462.

• Bai Yaoyao asks him to modify RVs and collect repair tools before the apocalypse 6.
• Flies the borrowed Zhi-136 helicopter, demonstrating low flight and a full loop before landing safely 145.
• Works out the submarine’s controls with Great Sage, although Great Sage must stabilize it after Monkey nearly loses control 462.

Instruction

Monkey teaches water-ability users how to freeze water into ice. His patience and genuine instruction impress Bai Yaoyao, who asks him to give Song Yuxi additional attention 202 205.

• Song Yuxi later seeks his assessment of an ice shield that her brother cannot break 235.
• Bai Yaoyao eventually criticizes Monkey’s own shortage of new techniques and combination skills, prompting his blood-manipulation experiment 531.

Limitations and Vulnerabilities

• Psychic attacks: Mental Control immobilizes him during the Antique Market battle. A Level 7 Zombie King also strikes him with its final psychic attack 115 387.
• Time abilities: Shi Nian warns that time manipulation completely counters his water ability, particularly his mutant ice techniques 546.
• Spatial abilities: Bai Yaoyao defeats him at Level 10 using Position Swap and Spatial Barriers 496.
• Ability disruption: He cannot activate either water or ice while attempting to attack a Zombie Infant 315.
• Carelessness: A zombie pretending to be dead scratches him, an incident Bai Yaoyao repeatedly reprimands him for 200 205.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Small Jade Piece — Borrowed from Bai Yaoyao while deploying his mass ice-blade attack; she allows him to keep using it afterward 197.
• Zhi-136 helicopter — Lent by Wang Jingyu for the group’s onward journey and piloted by Monkey 145.
• Submarine — Operated jointly with Great Sage during the search for an invisibility treasure 462.
• Padded coat — Purchased with pooled funds by nineteen former laborers. Monkey immediately replaces his own jacket with it despite its old-fashioned, cumbersome design 192.
• Complete Deyun Tongue-Twisters — Given to him as punishment for excessive talking; Bai Yaoyao makes the recitation substantially harder with mental attacks 395 396.

Relationships

• Bai Yaoyao — Childhood companion, leader, and “Sister Yao.” He anxiously wants to search for her when she fails to return and later begs her to wake from unconsciousness. Their bond includes frequent teasing, discipline, and sparring 152 351 496 563.
• Long Zhan / Master — The master who received and named him as an infant and tasked him with maintaining morale. Monkey’s remarks continue to earn special attention—and punishment—from him 12 51 479 496 529.
• Great Sage — Adopted “little brother,” not the same character as Monkey. Monkey advocates taking him into Dark Night, offers to care for him, and gives him his name. Great Sage later suffers severe injuries while saving Monkey from a psychic zombie 55 67 75 115.
• Monkey Fur — Wolf companion and combat partner. Their coordinated division of protection, movement, and casting allows them to defeat A-Dai and A-Cong 341 342.
• A-Dai — Childhood companion and persistent sparring rival. Monkey is normally outmatched one-on-one, but wins their mounted match through teamwork; their rivalry includes bets involving laundry and dirty socks 152 341 342.
• Lulu — Companion whom he fears provoking. After she secretly poisons him unconscious, he vows revenge and trains harder, only to lose his nerve when meeting her gaze 271.
• Peiqi — Teasing companion and healer. Their familiar behavior leads Song Yuxi to mistakenly believe they are romantically involved 235 351 375.
• Song Yuxi — Student with romantic feelings for him. She trains for a year hoping to fight beside him and remains concerned about his advancement; a mutual romance is not confirmed 205 235 375 511.
• Liu Mengyuan — First love in Bai Yaoyao’s previous timeline, whom he kills after learning the truth surrounding the disastrous ambush 8.
• Qin Jun and Du Ningde — Laborers who befriend him during the City L infiltration. They later thank him for helping free them from Yuan Hongguang and present the workers’ gift of a coat 172 192.
• Doggie — Companion and frequent source of comic retaliation. After becoming airsick during Monkey’s helicopter tricks, Doggie later obstructs him in a race that determines laundry duty 145 179.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Apocalypse preparations and awakening: Receives Bai Yaoyao’s RV-modification assignment, then awakens his water ability and begins practicing with the group 6 14.
• Zoo recruitment: Appeals for the monkeys to be spared and becomes Great Sage’s strongest advocate for joining Dark Night. He later comforts Great Sage after the massacre of his troop 51 55 67.
• Antique Market battle: Is immobilized by a psychic zombie while forming Frost Spear. Great Sage abandons his own fight to rescue him and sustains severe injuries 115.
• City L infiltration and revolt: Poses as an ordinary laborer, builds support among exploited workers, and helps turn their resentment into an uprising against Yuan Hongguang’s regime 170 172 175.
• Dark Night training: Instructs water users and mentors Song Yuxi before developing coordinated mounted combat with Monkey Fur 202 205 235 342.
• Level 10 and renewed development: Loses his celebratory challenge to Bai Yaoyao, then later responds to criticism of his stagnant techniques by discovering blood manipulation 496 531 532.
• Bai Yaoyao’s prolonged unconsciousness and return: Tearfully urges her to wake. After her return more than two years later, he resumes the group’s familiar joking and sparring, while reflecting on how painful losing companions must have been for her in her previous life 563 585 586 589.

Notable Quotes

“They were companions, and they would care for and accept one another...” 55

“Sure! Hurry and wake up, Sister Yao. You can hit me as many times as you want. I won't dodge. Just wake up!” 563