Wang Zikai

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Wang Zikai comes from a wealthy, divorced family. His father works in real estate, and his mother is a celebrity who frequently appears on television. He lives alone in a three-story riverside villa with private parking, a swimming pool, and gardens 23.

At school, he is known as a handsome, wealthy bully who drives a sports car. Repeatedly injuring a boy from a neighboring class—on the latest occasion simply because the boy glanced at him—finally gets him expelled 10.

Wang Zikai has singled out Gaoyang as his best and only friend since their freshman year. Gaoyang initially goes along with the friendship out of intimidation, but discovers that Wang Zikai is generally decent apart from his fighting and erratic behavior. Wang Zikai later admits that he immediately liked Gaoyang on their first day of school, despite feeling little affection even for his own parents 10 18.

Appearance

Wang Zikai is tall and good-looking, with conspicuous accessories and dyed hair 10.

• Hair: Dyed golden 10.
• Accessory: Lip ring 10.
• Transformed arm: Enlarged muscles and rough, hard, grayish-blue skin that looks bronze under streetlights; the transformation tears through his sleeve 23.
• Transformed eyes: Turn dark green during his struggle against Pang Jun’s mutated hand 23.

Personality

Wang Zikai is impulsive, violent, and easily provoked. He threatens the Pink Hotel clerk for Gaoyang’s room number and later advocates attacking Gu Family Village rather than waiting to die. He approaches danger through video-game and action-movie logic, expecting a difficult battle to unlock another power boost 14 47.

His bravado does not make him immune to fear. After waking during the fight against Aunt He, he pretends to be dead; when Pang Jun’s hand attacks Gaoyang, he initially runs away. In the latter encounter, however, he overcomes his terror and returns to rescue his friend 18 23.

His attachment to Gaoyang is unusually strong. He fears being replaced as Gaoyang’s gaming partner, readily believes that their friendship is a “bond of destiny,” and refuses to abandon him even when the group is being dragged into a well 16 18 41.

Despite boasting about his romantic experience, Wang Zikai has never had a girlfriend. Gaoyang’s apparent relationship with Qingling makes him intensely jealous, while flattery about his strength and heroic destiny reliably wins his cooperation 14 48 49.

Abilities & Skills

Partial Beast Transformation

Wang Zikai can transform parts of his body while retaining his personality and ability to speak 23 41.

• His first visible transformation occurs when he shields Gaoyang from Pang Jun’s uncontrollable hand 23.
• He calls the transformed right arm his “qilin arm” and interprets it as proof that his cultivation is working 23.
• His arm returns to normal after the fight 23.
• At the ancestral hall, both arms swell and harden as he catches and holds Pang Jun 41.

Superhuman Strength and Mobility

His Beast abilities give him exceptional grip strength, carrying capacity, reflexes, and jumping power 23 41.

• Grip: Reaches 1,000 kilograms and crushes the tumorous hand restraining Gaoyang 23.
• Carrying capacity: Carries Pang Jun, who weighs over ninety kilograms, to his villa without becoming winded 23.
• Reflexes: Catches Pang Jun in midair before the black hair can drag him into the well 41.
• Other feats: Kicks an ancestral-hall door off its fittings and quickly excavates Hua Zi’s grave 40 49.
• Limit: Although identified as the strongest of the five companions, he cannot indefinitely resist the black hair’s pull 41.

Enhanced Durability

Wang Zikai survives injuries and impacts that would be devastating to an ordinary human 16 41.

• A point-blank sniper shot leaves a comparatively small gunshot wound rather than a large hole in his chest. He still loses blood and requires emergency Healing 16.
• Pang Jun’s healer states that Wang Zikai’s Beast constitution is what makes saving him possible 16.
• His body shields Pang Jun from most of the damage while the black hair swings them through doors, windows, beams, and railings 41.
• After eating at the village funeral feast, he vomits living worms and falls into a deep sleep. Pang Jun’s level 2 Healing does little for the apparent poisoning, but Wang Zikai later wakes 43 44.

Anomalous Lost One Behavior

Unlike the Lost Ones discussed by Officer Huang, Wang Zikai neither filters out Beast-related information nor goes berserk after directly witnessing supernatural events. He remembers and rationalizes those experiences while firmly believing himself human 25.

• Accepts Gaoyang’s claim that he is a modified “new human” destined to defeat the lizard people 18.
• Treats his own transformation as a heroic power-up, not evidence that he is a Beast 23.
• Officer Huang suspects he may be a new type of Infatuation Beast; Gaoyang later regards him as too unusual to classify confidently 25 35.
• Gaoyang persuades Qingling that keeping him nearby could help conceal their alliance from other Beasts. This is a proposed use of his identity, not a confirmed supernatural ability 20.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sports car — Drives it to school and is asked to collect Gaoyang and Qingling for missions 10 18.
• Riverside villa — Provides the garage where Pang Jun is restrained and examined 23 24.
• Laptop — Supplies the adult video used in Gaoyang’s test of Pang Jun’s humanity 24.
• Shovel — Uses it to dig up Hua Zi’s grave 49.

Relationships

• Gaoyang — His best and only friend. Gaoyang protects him from being killed by the other Awakened and manages him through invented cultivation instructions and heroic flattery 10 18 20 49.
• Qingling — Classmate and combat companion. She initially insists that he be killed as a Beast, but accepts Gaoyang’s argument for keeping him alive 14 19 20.
• Pang Jun / Fat Jun — Heals Wang Zikai’s gunshot wound. Wang Zikai later defeats his mutated hand, watches over him during observation, and protects him from the ancestral hall’s black hair; the two also frequently bicker 16 23 25 41 46.
• Officer Huang — Accepts his presence after Gaoyang intervenes, entrusts him with guarding Pang Jun, and directs him during the village expedition 18 25 50.
• Gao Xinxin — Tells her that Gaoyang has booked a hotel room with a girl and encourages her to catch him “cheating,” prompting her confrontation outside the hotel 19.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Confession Prank and Pink Hotel

• Sends Li Weiwei a lengthy confession from Gaoyang’s phone as a prank; she accepts two days later 7.
• Unwittingly lends his ID to Gaoyang and Qingling, then books room 601 above theirs to investigate what they are doing 14.
• Climbs down outside their window, convinced Gaoyang has replaced him with Qingling as a ranked-gaming partner. He falls in front of the sniper muzzle and takes the shot intended for Officer Huang’s wife 15 16.
• Witnesses the fight with Aunt He after being healed. Gaoyang invents the “Boy of Destiny” story to prevent him from exposing the group 18.

Supposed Cultivation and Pang Jun’s Mutation

• Returns to school, eager for a mission. Gaoyang gives him invented cultivation principles to keep him quiet 19.
• Abandons the boring training to follow Gaoyang, placing him at the scene of Pang Jun’s mutation 22 23.
• Rescues Gaoyang and manifests his Beast arm, then becomes newly enthusiastic about training because he believes it caused the transformation 23 25.
• Provides his villa for Pang Jun’s examination and accepts the assignment to keep him restrained, fed, and under observation 23 24 25.

Gu Family Village

• Joins the expedition for Gaoyang’s third test and forces open the ancestral hall doors 39 40.
• Protects Pang Jun during the black-hair attack before all five companions fall into the village domain 41.
• Eats the funeral food despite the others’ caution, then vomits living worms 43.
• Pushes for a direct attack on the villagers but accepts an ambush after Gaoyang appeals to his responsibility for weaker teammates 47 49.
• Digs up Hua Zi’s grave during the investigation. When the village’s massacre begins repeating, he takes position at the front door alongside Qingling, with Officer Huang covering them 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Gaoyang! You weren't lying! I really have gotten stronger!” 23

“Shut up, dumbass! Even if I die... I'm not abandoning my best buddy...” 41