Huang Wei

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Police Career and the Pursuit of Su Chen

Huang Wei attended the same police academy as Zhang Xiaomeng and was her senior. The bureau later assigned him to mentor her. His parents remained in Changcheng when the disaster began, leaving him torn between returning to check on them and continuing his duties 6.

He and Zhang Xiaomeng were dispatched after Gao Yue reported that Su Chen had taken the company’s refrigerated truck. Their investigation also uncovered Fan Hui’s unpaid-deposit dispute with Su Chen. Rather than immediately treating him as a criminal, Huang Wei hoped to find him, explain the consequences, and mediate a settlement 3.

Banyan Tree Village

During the pursuit, Huang Wei stopped to handle a highway pileup. With emergency services unresponsive, he found a doctor, arranged transport for a severely injured woman, and had the wreckage cleared. He wrapped the dead driver’s body in a tarp and placed it beneath the village’s banyan tree while seeking help with cremation 5.

After receiving the police chief’s warning to escape Changcheng, he nevertheless continued dealing with the immediate situation. The body beneath the tree subsequently became a Walking Corpse. Taking responsibility, Huang Wei followed Su Chen’s instructions to illuminate it with the police car’s lights and repeatedly run it over 6 8.

He later collapsed during his Sequence Awakening. Still unconscious when the survivors departed, he was carried into the police car and evacuated with the group 10 11.

Joining the Hope Convoy

Upon waking near a gas station, Huang Wei helped identify a disguised Tree Person through scent. He then transformed into a werewolf and fought both hidden Tree People, using an axe to prevent their escape while Yang Defa burned them 14 15.

His new strength briefly made him believe he could change the world. Seeing a false town that had deceived even his enhanced senses forced him to recognize his limitations and strengthened his trust in Su Chen’s judgment 17.

When the survivors formally organized the Hope Convoy, Huang Wei supported Su Chen as leader on the condition that he respect the law as far as possible and avoid arbitrary killing. Su Chen appointed him to manage communal supplies 18.

Snow Demon Hunting Ground

Huang Wei fought alongside Su Chen and Xiao Zixia against the Giant Bear, wounding it with Yang Defa’s improvised knife and pulling Su Chen out of its path. Afterward, he chose the bear’s high-calorie organs and received a hundred jin of meat, some of which he shared with the communal group 24 25 26.

During the blizzard, he patrolled the convoy and killed Snow Demon Servants to keep them from breaking vehicle windows. Against a much faster two-headed variant, he restrained the creature so Su Chen and Xiao Zixia could trap it in a burning vine net. He severed both heads but suffered extensive burns and could no longer fight 28 29.

Su Chen supplied antibiotics, and Huang Wei remained unconscious through the convoy’s arrival at Hot Spring Village. He eventually emerged with his wounds almost completely healed and his Sequence advanced to Blood Wolf 30 32 35.

Conflict with the Predator Convoy

Huang Wei defended the fleeing convoy against raiders, knocking motorcycles aside, deflecting a heavy crossbow bolt, and hurling a motorcycle at an enemy vehicle 44.

During the later ambush, he engaged the Predator Convoy’s leader, Butcher. Although Butcher’s dagger inflicted deep wounds, Huang Wei’s bleeding increased his speed and strength, allowing him to hold out by throwing motorcycles and rocks. Butcher eventually incapacitated him, leaving him close to bleeding to death 48 49.

After the battle was won, Zhang Xiaomeng rushed to stop his bleeding with strips of cloth. He remained unconscious during the convoy’s recovery efforts 50.

Appearance

• Wolf transformation: His body swells, his muscles enlarge, and his fingernails become beastlike claws 15.
• Increasing body hair: By the confrontation with the wolf pack, his bare upper body is covered in black fur and his build has grown considerably larger 29.
• After advancing: His body hair becomes even more abundant following his breakthrough to Blood Wolf 35.
• Partial transformation: He can fight in a half-werewolf state during the convoy’s escape from the raiders 44.

Personality

Huang Wei is conscientious and inclined toward mediation rather than punishment. He assesses the circumstances behind Su Chen’s actions instead of simply accepting Gao Yue and Fan Hui’s accusations. Even after learning that the police bureau is in danger, he insists on finishing the matter before him 3 6.

His compassion persists after society collapses. He shares meat, allows Gao Yue and Fan Hui to shelter in the cramped police car, and offers to adopt Xu Zihao because he believes the child can still be disciplined. Su Chen considers this last judgment dangerously naive 26 28 37.

He gradually accepts that protecting everyone is not always possible. When Gao Yue’s car stalls during the pursuit, he initially slows down to help, but drives on after Zhang Xiaomeng reminds him that stopping would also endanger her 40.

Abilities & Skills

Enhanced Senses

Heightened smell and night vision are documented Werewolf abilities 14.

• Detects that a skinny woman among the passengers is abnormal, helping expose a hidden Tree Person 14.
• Uses his nose while investigating Su Chen’s disappearance in Xintang Town 18.
• Detects human blood at the Golden Spring Hotel after recovering 35.
• Limit: His senses fail to reveal the false town’s nature 17.

Wolf Transformation

Transformation increases his speed and strength; Blood Wolf adds gigantification and further physical enhancement 14 35.

• Grapples with Tree People and fights the Giant Bear at close range 15 24.
• Overturns motorcycles, throws heavy objects, and deflects a crossbow bolt 44 48.
• Limit: The Giant Bear repeatedly knocks him away, and the two-headed Snow Demon Servant initially outpaces him 24 29.

Super Self-Healing

Blood Wolf grants powerful regeneration, demonstrated when his extensive burn wounds have almost entirely healed after his advancement 35.

• Limit: Regeneration does not prevent incapacitation or potentially fatal blood loss. Butcher’s attacks leave him unconscious and near death 49 50.
• Su Chen considers shots to the heart or brain dangerous even for Huang Wei 49.

Sequence Costs

• Werewolf: Uncontrolled hair growth and occasional bestial thinking 14.
• Blood Wolf: Smelling blood carries a chance of provoking bloodthirstiness; bleeding can strengthen him or cause loss of control 35.
• Confirmed beneficial effect: Blood loss increases his speed and strength during his fight with Butcher 48.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Stun baton — His police-issued weapon during the confrontation at the Yang home; he is explicitly not carrying a firearm 7 8.
• Police car — Used to crush the Walking Corpse and later as transport and shelter 8 28.
• Axe — Supplied by Yang Defa for fighting Tree People, whose wooden bodies resist his claws 15.
• Improvised iron-strip knife — Borrowed from Yang Defa during the Giant Bear fight; Huang Wei later considers it inadequate when searching for better weapons 24 37.
• Roadside sign — Uprooted and wielded as an axe-like weapon against pursuing motorcycles 44.

Relationships

• Zhang Xiaomeng — Junior colleague and mentee who relies heavily on him. He considers her safety when deciding whether to attempt rescues; she tends his critical wounds after the battle with Butcher 6 40 50.
• Su Chen — Initially the subject of his investigation, later his convoy leader. Huang Wei trusts his survival knowledge while insisting on limits against arbitrary killing 3 17 18.
• Yang Defa — Fellow convoy organizer and combat supporter who supplies Huang Wei with an axe and an improvised knife 15 18 24.
• Xiao Zixia — Fellow Sequence user whose vines support his battles against the Giant Bear and two-headed Snow Demon Servant 24 29.
• Gao Yue and Fan Hui — Complainants who initially seek his police assistance and later depend on his protection. He shelters them during the blizzard but ultimately leaves their stalled car behind during the raider pursuit 3 28 40.
• Xu Zihao — A Ghoul child whom Huang Wei offers to adopt, believing rehabilitation is possible; Su Chen rejects the proposal 37.
• Butcher / Tian Yang — Enemy Sequence Two user who defeats and critically wounds him despite his blood-triggered increase in strength 48 49.