Lu Zhe

Biodata

Power Progression

Lu Zhe improves individual attributes by spending Potential Points. Ten points represent baseline ability 25.

Background / History

Lu Zhe is a finance student who serves as both Youth League branch secretary and sports representative of Finance Class One. Although his department has few boys, his aptitude for sports makes him the choice for sports representative. He also belongs to the figure skating club, where he partners with Jiang Yao 2 16 22.

He and four female classmates miss a charter flight to an international academic summer camp and take the next available flight instead. All five receive first-class upgrades before the aircraft suffers an unexplained impact and begins descending. Lu Zhe remembers a large hole opening near his seat, violent wind, and the girls screaming before he loses consciousness 1 27.

He awakens on a scorching beach beside a dense jungle. Shortly afterward, he obtains the Desert Island Survival System and discovers his classmate and friend Lin Qianqian lying unconscious on the shore 1.

Appearance

• Build: Initially appears delicate, frail, and scholarly, but has lean, firm muscles beneath his shirt 22 35.
• Height: Stands 1.8 meters tall 30.
• Face: Ning Shu considers him handsome 44.
• Eyesight: Is slightly nearsighted before investing additional points in perception 44.
• Early island clothing: Wears long trousers and a cotton T-shirt, both of which he repurposes while handling the cobra 11 22.

Personality

Lu Zhe is usually easygoing and good-humored. Jiang Yao remembers him as a happy-go-lucky boy who does not hold grudges when girls tease him. He trades jokes with his classmates even during difficult survival work, though his blunt remarks sometimes provoke them 15 17 44 49.

In emergencies, he becomes decisive and demanding. He prioritizes water, fire, shelter, and the group's ability to cooperate over embarrassment or comfort. His confrontation with Jiang Yao's germophobia reveals a forceful side that she has not previously seen 16 17 29.

He is willing to undertake unpleasant work rather than depend entirely on rescue. Despite initially recoiling from the task, he retrieves strawberry seeds from Tang Xiaoguo's feces because they could support future food production. He also volunteers for the first night watch after spending the day caring for the others 13 25.

Lu Zhe openly acknowledges being attracted to all four girls. Nevertheless, he repeatedly restrains romantic impulses when he believes they would interfere with rest, survival, or harmony within the group 28 30 43 44 47.

Abilities & Skills

Desert Island Survival System

• Survival Manual: Provides guidance for challenges including resuscitation, fire-making, trapping, cold protection, and finding treatments for unfamiliar plants 2 18 24 38 45.
• Potential Point rewards: Earned through obtaining resources, crafting useful objects, and completing assistance-related challenges 1 2 10 36.
• Resource detection: Alerts him to nearby important supplies and directs him toward strawberry seeds 13.
• Identification: Supplies information about plants, animals, and materials, including wild persimmons, hermit crabs, volcanic granite, abaca, and aster flowers 10 24 35 39 50.
• Condition monitoring: Displays bodily measurements such as temperature, body-fluid percentage, salt level, and nutritional reserves 25.

Enhanced Physique

• Strength: Carries the large grinding stone, opens coconuts by force, and performs heavy logging work 35 38 49.
• Speed and reflexes: Supplements snake-catching methods remembered from his grandfather with system-enhanced movement 11 22.
• Constitution: Covers fitness and attributes including endurance, bone strength, injury recovery, and disease resistance 19.
• Body heat: His enhanced physique lets him provide warmth to Jiang Yao and help Tang Xiaoguo survive the cold night 27 28.
• Limits: Enhanced strength does not eliminate fatigue; making the stone axe still leaves him nearly exhausted at strength 28 36.

Rescue and Emergency Care

• Resuscitation: Uses the Survival Manual's instructions to clear Lin Qianqian's airway and perform CPR and rescue breaths until she resumes breathing 2.
• Heat emergency response: Moves the unconscious Jiang Yao into shade and directs the group's efforts to cool her 5.
• Injury assessment: Examines Tang Xiaoguo's snakebite and identifies Jiang Yao's severe ankle sprain 11 31.
• Plant identification for treatment: Locates aster flowers and wild mint while seeking relief for Ning Shu's itching 50.

Crafting and Resource Use

• Fire-making: Builds a bow-driven drill and produces fire through sustained effort 18 19.
• Toolmaking: Constructs a handled tin-lid knife, stone axe, chisel, slingshot, and basic floating compass 35 36.
• Shelter construction: Organizes a heated sand-pit sleeping area, then builds a more substantial shelter with wooden supports, cordage, and leaves 25 40.
• Cordage: Recognizes abaca as a useful fiber source and teaches Ning Shu how to extract and twist its fibers 39.
• Trapping: Makes spring-sapling rat traps and a stocking fish trap; the latter catches twenty or thirty small fish by the following morning 38 40 43.

Foraging, Navigation, and Leadership

• Foraging: Collects coconuts, shellfish, seaweed, berries, edible leaves, and medicinal plants 30 41 45 50.
• Food preparation: Cooks the group's first snake-and-kelp dinner and later prepares roasted coconut strips and grilled fish 24 38 43.
• Observation: Records tidal changes, estimates their latitude from day length, and surveys the island from its highest point 17 36 46.
• Rescue signaling: Arranges stone SOS markers and participates in sending messages in bottles 33 37 41.
• Task allocation: Assigns work according to mobility and condition, keeping the injured Tang Xiaoguo and Jiang Yao on camp duties 33 40 48.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Casio sports watch — Survives the crash intact; provides time, date, and alarms 7.
• Survival Manual — System-provided reference for survival techniques and challenges 1.
• Stone axe — Made from volcanic granite, a wooden handle, melted plastic, and bark bindings; used for firewood, shelter materials, and raft logs 35 36 49.
• Stone chisel — Ground into shape to help make the axe handle's mounting slot 35 36.
• Tin-lid knife — A sharpened can lid fitted into a split wooden handle and secured with bark cord 35.
• Slingshot — Built from a forked branch, eight of Ning Shu's hair ties, and a flip-flop sole. Damages bark at twenty meters, but irregular pebbles limit his test hit rate to roughly 30 percent 36.
• Improvised compass — A strip cut from Lin Qianqian's bank card, floated on water 36.
• Stocking fish trap — Supported by branch hoops and tied with abaca rope; baited using his sock and Jiang Yao's feces 40 43.
• Recovered containers — Bottles and cans serve as water containers, warming bottles, and cooking vessels 24 25 33 47.
• Fruit seeds and sweet potato plant — Collects seeds for possible cultivation and carefully digs up a whole sweet potato plant for transplanting 13 21 50.

Relationships

• Ning Shu — Class monitor and frequent exploration partner. She appoints him overall leader and assists with water gathering, toolmaking, signaling, and surveying. They agree to a temporary dating arrangement and kiss, although Lu Zhe privately considers a serious relationship a risk to group unity 7 10 35 41 46 47.
• Lin Qianqian — Classmate and good friend whom he resuscitates after the crash. She supports his plans for growing food and later accompanies him to learn survival skills. She receives an aster flower as a personal gift when he originally intends her to record its medicinal uses 1 2 21 49 50.
• Tang Xiaoguo — Classmate whose snakebite he treats and whom he warms through the first cold night. She develops elaborate romantic hopes about him; he is attracted to her but frequently redirects her attention toward practical work 11 23 28 43.
• Jiang Yao — Figure skating partner and classmate. He helps save her from overheating, confronts her germophobia, and later shares his body heat with her. She expresses attraction to him and competes with Tang Xiaoguo for his attention 5 16 17 27.
• Grandfather — Source of childhood memories of snake-catching techniques that Lu Zhe uses against the cobra 11 22.
• Ruan Bing — Flight attendant from their flight, known to have survived through her message in a bottle. Her description of a larger, better-resourced island helps support his relocation plan; they have not met again in the supplied chapters 47 48.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing the Survival Group

• Rescues Lin Qianqian and reunites with Ning Shu and Tang Xiaoguo before helping the unconscious Jiang Yao 2 3 5.
• Inventories their belongings and establishes a temporary camp between the beach and jungle 6 7.
• Becomes overall leader at Ning Shu's appointment and begins searching for renewable water and food rather than relying solely on rescue 7 8.

Surviving the First Day and Night

• Captures the cobra that bites Tang Xiaoguo, recovers strawberry seeds, and helps Jiang Yao adapt to the island's conditions 11 13 16 17.
• Successfully starts a fire, then clears up the girls' mistaken belief that his drilling motions indicate an indecent habit 18 19 20.
• Organizes the first cooked meal and heated sleeping area, takes the first watch, and helps Tang Xiaoguo survive dangerous nighttime cold 24 25 28.
• Revives the nearly extinguished campfire the next morning 29.

Building a Sustainable Camp

• Finds coconuts and relocates camp after Jiang Yao sprains her ankle near a more resource-rich site 30 31.
• Sets out a large SOS, produces essential tools, and develops traps and abaca cordage 33 35 36 38 39.
• Builds a shelter and broadens the group's diet with trapped rat, small fish, coconut flesh, and gathered seafood 40 42 43.

Surveying the Islands and Planning Relocation

• Investigates a distant object first suspected to be a ship, then climbs the island's highest point with Ning Shu to survey their surroundings 41 44 46.
• The two name their current island Egg Yolk Island and the larger island opposite Volcano Island 46.
• Recognizes that Egg Yolk Island lacks enough freshwater for five people long-term; the remaining coconuts can sustain them for only about two weeks 46 48.
• Proposes building a sturdy raft and paddles within five days, stocking essential supplies, and attempting the crossing against the current within seven days 48.
• Begins logging for the raft and searches with Lin Qianqian for additional materials, medicinal plants, and food crops 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“With a dirty mind, you'll find something wrong with anything.” 3

“If we don't have one, we can make one ourselves!” 33

“Stay alive! I believe a fishing boat will pass by here eventually!” 46