Xiao Zixia

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Before the apocalypse, Xiao Zixia worked at a plant shop, watching the premises and tending its plants. Years of moving plants had given her considerable physical strength 19.

When the apocalypse began, she fled from monsters and was attacked by a man. Mengqi emerged from a fragment of a shattered mirror, touched the attacker, and made him vanish. Xiao Zixia later awoke inside an inexplicable space with a new ability to control plants. Her recollection of these events was initially confused; the memory resurfaced when Su Chen asked for Mengqi’s name 21.

Inside the mirror space, she initially found neither other people nor food and water. Later arrivals brought supplies, and she became the leader of survivors who pooled their resources. Despite repeated attempts, she could not find a way out 19.

Appearance

• Green hair, her most immediately recognizable feature 19 35.
• Wears a fitted jacket and long pants after bathing at the Golden Spring Hotel, giving her a striking, slightly wild appearance 35.
• Develops a Thorn Tattoo on her abdomen after dreaming of being suspended in a thorn forest before a woman formed from thorns. She suspects a curse, but its nature is not established 27.

Personality

Xiao Zixia is cautious around strangers but willing to reconsider her assumptions. During her first meeting with Su Chen, she keeps her gardening trowel raised even after learning that he also has a Sequence. Nevertheless, his observation that the town contains no mirrors persuades her to entertain the possibility that their surroundings are unreal 19 20.

Her leadership combines responsibility with pragmatism. Although reluctant to keep managing the survivors after joining the convoy, she accepts that some have chosen to follow her and plans to share her bear meat with them. She also recognizes Huang Qi’s possessiveness and uses his attachment to keep him under control, feeling no attachment when he disappears 23 27.

She becomes more playful as she grows comfortable with Su Chen, teasing him about Zhou Shufen and his devotion to his sister. Under threat, however, she is capable of lethal action, volunteering to execute the Golden Spring Hotel’s murderous owner with poison 35 36.

Abilities & Skills

Plant Manipulation

Her original Florist ability controls plants to produce combat power; she continues using vines after advancing to Gardener 24 44.

• Seed-grown restraints: Scatters seeds that rapidly grow into vines and bind a Giant Bear. The bear is strong enough to tear them apart 24.
• Vine nets: Creates a net that Su Chen ignites to help stop a two-headed Snow Demon Servant 29.
• Vehicle interference: Uses thick vines against pursuing vehicles, disrupting the raiders attacking the school bus 44.
• Battlefield disruption: Directs vines toward Butcher’s head after Su Chen cripples him, interfering with his counterattack rather than delivering the finishing blow 49.
• Material requirement: The Florist ability requires seeds or suitable existing plant material 24.

Climate and Plant Sensing

As a Gardener, Xiao Zixia can sense climate changes and some memories of nearby plants 28.

• Predicts the blizzard before it reaches the convoy 27 28.
• Warns of an extreme downpour approximately an hour in advance 39.
• Senses surrounding plants’ emotions to identify terrain particularly prone to landslides 44.
• Navigates the school bus through Fog Valley by sensing the environment through nearby plants 46.
• Her plant-sensing ability is poorly suited to the snowbound hunting ground, while plant-filled surroundings strengthen its usefulness 28 39.

Toxins and Antidotes

Her Sequence is sensitive to poison, and advancing to Gardener allows her to control certain toxins 27 36.

• Lethal poison: Prepares and administers the toxin used to execute the Golden Spring Hotel’s owner 36.
• Poisoned vines: Exploits plants contaminated by Fog Valley’s poisonous fog to incapacitate numerous Predator Convoy members 49.
• Antidote identification: Determines which plant can counteract the poison affecting the defeated enemies and offers to cure them 50.
• Detection limit: Does not identify Blue Snow as poisonous through her usual sensitivity; Su Chen must explain its mind-impairing danger 27.

Other Skills

• Low-light vision: Can see inside the dark refrigerated truck when she awakens 27.
• Driving: Drives the school bus through Fog Valley while following Su Chen’s route 46.
• Plant care: Has practical experience tending and moving plants from her former employment 19.

Costs and Vulnerabilities

• Deep sleep: Florist power use leaves her unconscious and dependent on protection. Before joining the convoy, she would find somewhere to hide after using her ability 24 25 27.
• Rigidity: Gardener power use carries a bodily stiffening cost; the narrative continues to describe both sleep and rigidity as combat disadvantages after her advancement 28.
• Limited direct combat strength: Her vines cannot hold the Giant Bear indefinitely, and she lacks the power to finish off the crippled Butcher herself 24 49.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gardening trowel — Carries it defensively when meeting Su Chen and brings it into the Giant Bear battle 19 24.
• Seeds — Supplies the plant material used to grow combat vines 24 44.
• Black bear hide — Chooses it as part of her share of the Giant Bear, intending to use it for warmth 27.
• Fifty kilograms of bear meat — Receives alongside the hide; plans to distribute some among her followers 27.
• Raincoat — Given to her by Su Chen with a warning to avoid direct contact with Blue Snow 27.
• Fertilizer — Confirms she has supplies available for Chen Siwen’s proposed explosives 42.
• Pager — Uses the convoy’s communications network to relay weather warnings and tactical observations 39 44 46.

Relationships

• Su Chen — Convoy captain and her most trusted protector. He conceals her sleep-related weakness, shelters her while unconscious, and respects her reluctance to discuss her awakening. During the final battle, he trusts her to act without waiting for detailed orders 20 25 27 49.
• Su Xi — Entrusted to Xiao Zixia’s care in the women’s baths. Xiao Zixia promises to look after her and later wheels her outside 32 35.
• Mengqi — Rescues her during the apocalypse’s outbreak. Remembering Mengqi’s appearance through a shattered mirror helps Xiao Zixia recover the circumstances preceding her arrival in the mirror space 21.
• Huang Qi — Her former second-in-command. His possessive interest makes him hostile toward Su Chen; Xiao Zixia controls his behavior and feels no attachment after he fails to leave Xintang Town with them 20 23.
• Huang Wei — Fellow convoy combatant. They fight together against the Giant Bear and later help defend the convoy against the Predator raiders 24 44 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Xintang Town and the Mirror Space

Xiao Zixia introduces Su Chen to the survivors sheltering in the supermarket. She stops Huang Qi from confronting him and supports investigating the town’s peculiarities rather than dismissing his dream theory. Her recovered memory of Mengqi supplies a crucial clue about the girl’s connection to the mirrors 19 20 21.

After Su Chen’s encounter with Mengqi, Xiao Zixia and the other survivors leave aboard a school bus and join his convoy. Huang Qi does not emerge with them 22 23.

Snow Demon Hunting Ground

She joins the Giant Bear battle, using vines to create an opening for Huang Wei. Afterward, her ability’s sleep cost takes effect, and Su Chen carries her into the refrigerated truck without exposing her vulnerability to the other survivors 24 25.

During that sleep, she dreams of a thorn forest. Upon waking, she discovers the abdominal tattoo and conceals it out of fear that the convoy might expel her. Her warning about an approaching blizzard leads Su Chen to inspect her and discover that she has reached Sequence Two 27 28.

Although the snowfield limits her plant-sensing usefulness, she helps trap the two-headed Snow Demon Servant and later announces the end of the snowfall 28 29 30.

Golden Spring Hotel

At Hot Spring Village, Xiao Zixia takes responsibility for Su Xi in the women’s baths. After the hotel owner’s murders are exposed, she volunteers her toxin ability as a means of execution and poisons the woman 32 35 36.

Predator Convoy Pursuit and Fog Valley

During the pursuit, Xiao Zixia supplies fertilizer for the explosives plan, assesses possible landslide sites, and defends the school bus with vines. She subsequently drives the bus into Fog Valley as bait, using nearby plants to navigate through the fog ahead of the pursuers 42 43 44 46.

In the final confrontation, she quietly incapacitates Butcher’s men with poisoned vines, then interferes with Butcher after Su Chen destroys his legs. The Metal Insect delivers the killing blow 49.

After the battle, she prevents unconscious enemies from being mistaken for corpses and identifies a plant-based antidote. At Su Chen’s instruction, she prepares the antidote supplies without immediately reviving the captives 50.