An Ke

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

An Ke survived six Death Exams before encountering the Mirror Ghost in her seventh. Six teammates died in less than half an hour, leaving her and one companion hiding inside a wardrobe. They found a letter there, but avoiding ordinary mirrors did not protect them: when their eyes met, An Ke saw her own headless body reflected in her companion’s eyes. She remembers apparently dying, then waking outside the exam; her recollection of the final moments remains hazy 31 37.

An item left by the only examinee known to have escaped allowed her to withdraw forcibly. Her survival came at an enormous cost: she lost her previous strength and entered a punishment exam. She also obtained a second letter and a ghost-possession hair tie connected to that examinee’s belongings 35 36.

An Ke wanted to recover the remaining letters to understand why their author had committed suicide after learning the system’s truth. Her concern was not simply escaping, but avoiding whatever revelation or mistake had driven him to that decision 35 36.

Appearance

• Slight build: Small enough to enter ventilation ducts easily and move through them quickly 15.
• Ponytail: Frequently tightens or adjusts it; uses its elastic in an improvised distraction device 7 15.
• Clothing: Wears a jacket and short-sleeved shirt over a white tank top during the acid escape. Later wears loose-legged school trousers that conceal her bullet wound 5 38.
• Dance training: Years of training contribute to her bearing, making her appear slightly more mature than others her age 45.

Personality

An Ke is quiet, guarded, and reluctant to reveal information before she is certain of it. She initially maintains the appearance of a newcomer, concealing both her experience and the possessions she fears others might covet. Her willingness to help is tempered by self-preservation: after completing her punishment task, she considers letting the others finish the exam without her rather than risking exposure 7 18 31.

She remains practical under immediate danger, improvising protection against acid and organizing supplies around survival rather than firepower. Her restraint does not make her harmless; she proposes poisoning the hostile team through its supply route. At the same time, she protects Lin Ya and urgently intervenes to save the critically injured He Zheng and Huang Liang 5 17 30 40 45.

The Mirror Ghost leaves her with lasting fear. Recalling the seventh exam makes her tremble, and she questions whether surviving repeated exams would leave the examinees human—or turn the outside world into another hell 37 45.

Abilities & Skills

Exam Analysis

An Ke identifies meaningful environmental details and uses them to test the group’s assumptions.

• Recognizes the Fire Axe as the first round’s central clue and advises watching for unusual objects deliberately placed by the system 7.
• Argues that the base’s defenses were meant to fight the Species, suggesting that “God” might have left an item rather than being a literal rescuer 8.
• Notices that the Species have fixed, fishlike eyes and limited forward vision. This observation does not guarantee safety when multiple creatures can see from different angles 11.
• Understands Ye Lin’s suggestion that their encounters were deliberately arranged to remain survivable 29.

System and Enhancement Knowledge

Her experience makes her a source of rules that the less experienced examinees do not know.

• Explains that Simple Repair can save critically injured examinees, while unaffordable Perfect Repair can create a negative balance and cause erasure 31.
• Knows that ratings above Grade C normally require special-type exams 34.
• Explains that a Grade B rating can raise access and fuse two bloodlines 36.
• Recommends combining the experimental Tyrant Gene with Observer to counter the former’s loss of control while improving perception and resistance to interference 37.
• Explains that weaker teams enter Free Mode scenarios earlier to compensate for the strength gap 44.

Survival and Logistics

An Ke prioritizes inexpensive tools that remain useful across different scenarios.

• Wraps clothing around her soles and face during the sulfuric-acid escape, warning the others about corrosive aerosol 5.
• Uses a steel rod, elastic, broken wires, and ventilation access to draw Species away from the group 15.
• Advises buying lifesaving supplies before expensive firearms, since later exams can limit technological weapons or introduce enemies immune to them 40.
• Supplies translation earpieces and prepares gemstones for trade, water purification tablets, a fire starter, and other utility items 41 42.

Temporary Physical Power

The paranormal hair tie allows a ghost to possess An Ke and grant her power briefly 36.

• During the punishment exam, she covers a hundred meters in a few breaths and shatters a thick tempered-glass door with one kick 18.
• She is described as capable of overwhelming He Zheng one-on-one, but cannot handle several Species without a suitable weapon 18.
• Her constitution limits how much ghost power she can withstand. Before strengthening herself, another use could be fatal 36.
• Her later stat purchases do not establish that she can safely reuse the hair tie 42.

Paranormal and Memetic Knowledge

An Ke’s experience helps her recognize threats that ordinary physical strength cannot solve.

• Identifies Buddha’s chanting as an infrasonic attack after it injures her internal organs from roughly a hundred meters away 21.
• Warns that terror can break examinees in paranormal scenarios and that anti-ghost items may only delay a ghost for a few seconds 37.
• Explains that information can trigger a meme already present inside a victim’s body, helping expose the danger of broadcasting warnings about zombies 47.
• Notices that a mutant is still alive after Ye Lin’s apparent killing blow 49.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Paranormal hair tie — Allows temporary ghost possession; its power is dangerous to her poorly strengthened body 36.
• Second letter — Part of the escaped examinee’s trail of letters and belongings, which An Ke treats as a route toward the truth and possible escape 35.
• Extra-exam key — Can force entry into an additional exam containing the third letter and more belongings. It does not allow unrestricted scenario selection 36.
• Forced-exit item — Previously used to survive the seventh exam; left behind by the escaped examinee 35 36.
• Self-replenishing handgun — Given to her by Ye Lin; generates twenty-four rounds per hour 42.
• Examinee watch and mirror — Uses the watch for system information and communication, and the mirror to inspect passages from ventilation ducts 18 25.
• Logistics backpack — Contains gemstones for trade, a thousand-use fire starter, universal key, miniature camera, water purification tablets, and other essentials. She also carries Ye Lin’s belongings 42 50.
• Translation earpieces — Purchases and distributes devices that translate ninety-nine percent of languages; ten cost one point 41.
• Communicator — Entrusted to her when Ye Lin leaves to stop the rival team from spreading zombie-related information 47.

Relationships

• Ye Lin — A wary, unequal partnership. He exposes her hidden experience, shoots her leg, and threatens further injury to obtain information. They later agree to pursue the letters together; he pays for bullet removal, lends her ten points, and gives her a handgun. She continues to believe he would strike first if she threatened him 31 36 38 40 42.
• Lin Ya — An Ke looks after her throughout the base scenario and helps her physically. Lin Ya comes to rely on An Ke for almost her entire sense of safety 8 17.
• He Zheng — Initially suspicious of her silence and withheld deductions. An Ke later challenges his reckless spending plans and demonstrates how much more thoroughly she understands exam preparation. His suggestion that she and Ye Lin have become romantically involved earns an immediate rebuke 7 38 40 42.
• Zhang Tie — Initially impressed by her composure, then furious after learning that she concealed six exams’ worth of experience. His anger gives way to fear when Ye Lin shoots her 5 31.
• Unnamed escaped examinee — His abandoned possessions save her from the seventh exam and provide her remaining source of extraordinary power. His suicide motivates her search for the system’s truth 35 36.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Punishment Exam and Underground Base

• Helps the group survive the sulfuric-acid trap and contributes deductions about the exam’s clues and the Species 5 7 8 11.
• Volunteers to lure monsters away, using the separation as an opportunity to pursue her private punishment objective 15 18.
• Finds and injects the Antidote, completing the punishment test for zero reward points. Her candidate number changes from red to white 18.
• Discovers that the apparent Gods are monsters. Pursued by Buddha, she escapes through a maintenance tunnel despite severe internal injuries 20 21.
• Scouts near the Repair Zone and suffers an abdominal wound from a Species 25.
• Urges immediate return with He Zheng and Huang Liang while they still have a breath left, then prevents an unaffordable repair choice 30 31.

Exposure and Cooperation

• Admits to surviving six exams after Ye Lin challenges her supposed newcomer status 31.
• Reveals the letter’s connection to the only escaped examinee and ultimately discloses his suicide 34 35.
• Agrees with Ye Lin to complete one regular exam before using the key to pursue the third letter and remaining belongings 36.
• Guides his bloodline selection and assumes a logistics role for the next exam 37 40 42.

Zombie Meme and Ancient Stone Tablet

• Explains Free Mode’s staggered team entry and helps assess the hostile team’s military advantage 44 45.
• Contributes to the investigation of Carlton’s cannibalism-based evolution theory and the zombie meme’s information trigger 47.
• Takes responsibility for contacting the rival team while Ye Lin attempts to prevent a wider outbreak 47.
• During the tablet investigation, Ye Lin abruptly adjusts her ponytail and promises a new hair tie. Rather than reading this as romance, she suspects he has discovered something and is communicating indirectly; the scene ends with a warning that a ghost is on a car 50.

Notable Quotes

“The system won't put things there for no reason.” 7

“The primary objective of a survival exam is survival. Staying alive matters more than anything else, not running around with nothing but killing on your mind.” 40