Pang Jun

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Pang Jun lost his parents at a young age and was raised by his aunt. After her death, he inherited her inn and converted it into a love hotel. He had graduated from high school without clear prospects 16.

Awakening shattered his understanding of the world. He began secretly recording hotel guests to investigate whether Beasts maintained their human behavior even in private and to search for other Awakened. His observations indicated that Beasts acted human around the clock and did not proactively test or attack people who had not awakened 16 20.

Appearance

• Build: Short and very fat, weighing over ninety kilograms 23.
• Face: Plump, with a pronounced triple chin 16.
• Clothing: Wears a dingy gray T-shirt during the alley encounter following the white cat’s bite 23.
• Mutated features: His right palm can sprout a blood-red eye before swelling into a huge, semiliquid mass of tumorous flesh 23.

Personality

Pang Jun is openly fearful and strongly motivated by survival. He cries during Aunt He’s attack, repeatedly begs his companions not to kill him after his mutation, and seeks the protection of stronger fighters. His fear sometimes makes him act rashly: fleeing the ancestral hall despite Gaoyang’s warning leads directly to his capture by the hair emerging from its well 17 24 25 39 40.

He is also curious about Beasts and eager for human companionship. Despite grieving the loss of his uninsured hotel, he accepts its destruction as a worthwhile exchange for gaining companions. He responds to Gaoyang’s protection with gratitude, calling the younger man his “real big brother” 16 17 18.

Pang Jun interprets unfamiliar dangers through superstition. He cites a fortune-teller’s warning about attracting “unclean things,” fears that reading spirit-tablet names will summon restless spirits, and describes the village’s invisible boundary as a “ghost wall” 40 42.

Abilities & Skills

Healing

Healing manifests as green energy around Pang Jun’s hands, with particles flowing into the injured area 16.

• Stops bleeding and accelerates wound closure 16.
• Treats Wang Zikai’s gunshot wound after Qingling removes the bullet; the emergency treatment takes approximately five minutes 16.
• Heals Gaoyang’s injured arm and treats Qingling after the fight with Aunt He 17 18.
• Can heal himself, making an injury for the hotel cover story comparatively manageable 18.
• Causes substantial exhaustion: saving Wang Zikai leaves him drenched in sweat and barely able to move 16.
• Has limits based on the patient’s condition. Pang Jun says he could not have saved Wang Zikai from that injury if Wang Zikai had been human 16.
• At level 2, primarily accelerates external wound repair and offers little help against apparent poisoning 44.

Beast-Mutated Right Arm

The mutation appears after a white cat bites Pang Jun’s finger. Officer Huang distinguishes it from a human Talent, stating that he knows no Talent Sequence ability that produces this kind of bodily change 24 25.

• Strength and expansion: Grabs Gaoyang by the neck and engulfs his head in swollen flesh 23.
• Independent behavior: Supports Pang Jun’s body after he is kicked backward, then attacks Gaoyang again. Pang Jun insists the hand is acting against his will 23 24.
• Regeneration: Returns to normal after Wang Zikai crushes it; later transforms to expel a bullet 23 25.
• Combat limit: Is decisively overpowered by Wang Zikai’s bronze Beast arm 23.
• Uncertain progression: The group considers killing Pang Jun if the mutation spreads throughout his body. No further episodes are reported during Officer Huang’s subsequent observation period 25 39.

Covert Observation

• Installs cameras and listening devices in hotel rooms to study Beasts and identify other Awakened 16.
• Claims that he does not place cameras in bathrooms 16.
• His findings inform Gaoyang’s argument that conspicuous cooperation between Awakened can attract Beast suspicion 20.

Relationships

• Gaoyang — Protector and trusted companion. Saves him from Aunt He’s initial strike, prevents Wang Zikai from killing him, and argues for observation rather than execution after the mutation 17 23 24 25.
• Qingling — Fellow Awakened and patient. Threatens him over his surveillance equipment, later receives treatment from him, and attempts to cut him free from the well’s hair 16 18 41.
• Officer Huang — Companion and monitor of his condition. Organizes the hotel cover-up, shoots his mutated arm, and subsequently permits him to live under observation 18 25 39.
• Wang Zikai — Patient, captor, and rescuer. Pang Jun initially considers him too dangerous to keep around; Wang Zikai later defeats his mutated hand, supervises his confinement, and shields him during the well attack 16 18 23 25 41.
• His aunt — Raised him after his parents died and left him the inn he converted into a love hotel 16.
• Aunt He — Hotel cleaner who reveals herself as a Slayer-type Wrath Beast and attacks Pang Jun and his companions 16 17 18.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Hotel Attack

• Saves Wang Zikai after he is shot, then reveals his Awakening and surveillance operation to Gaoyang and Qingling 16.
• Throws a quilt over Aunt He to obstruct her sight, but slips while attempting to escape. Gaoyang and Qingling ultimately kill her 17.
• Accepts Officer Huang’s plan to destroy the hotel and disguise the battle as a gas explosion, despite having no insurance 18.

White Cat Mutation

• Approaches a small white cat with green eyes on his balcony, believing it may be a lost pet. Its bite causes him to lose consciousness 24.
• His right hand attacks Gaoyang in an alley. Wang Zikai crushes the mutated appendage and carries the unconscious Pang Jun to his villa 23.
• Undergoes Gaoyang’s adult-video test for distinguishing humans from Beasts and recounts the bite during questioning 24.
• Survives a shot to his right arm. Gaoyang persuades Officer Huang to keep him alive because a localized mutation would leave him useful as the team’s healer 25.

Gu Family Village

• Joins Gaoyang’s third-test expedition after a period without further mutations. Already knows the village’s history through a high-school classmate whose father reported on it 39.
• Panics in the ancestral hall and is captured by hair from the dry well. His companions attempt to rescue him, but the ground collapses beneath all five 40 41.
• His insistence on leaving prompts the discovery that the village has an impassable boundary 42.
• Notices that the funeral photograph contains only four people despite the massacre having five victims. Avoids the feast’s food and unsuccessfully attempts to treat Wang Zikai afterward 43 44.
• Reluctantly supports a plan to attack the village’s inhabitants if investigation fails, then accompanies the group when they secretly reopen the family’s coffin 47 49.
• Remains inside Hua Zi’s house when the village begins repeating the massacre and its inhabitants surround the group 50.

Notable Quotes

“Burn it, then! One building in exchange for a few companions. Worth it!” 18

“I can heal! I’m the team’s only healer! I’m valuable!” 25