Li Muran

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Before the apocalypse, Li Muran was a medical student who had not yet officially graduated. When the outbreak began, she was interning at Zhongzhou Province People’s Hospital. Her rotations included burns and plastic surgery, orthopedics, urology, and a few days in general surgery 23 30.

Her family left her behind during the apocalypse. She later described being pushed into a zombie horde in Qi City, Yunzhou, only to escape through an involuntary teleportation to Zhongzhou 32 33.

Living alone in Wangyang Town’s shantytown, she gathered only enough food and Corpse Crystals for a day or two at a time. She could not earn enough to rent a room and had no secure place to store surplus supplies. When a man entered her shack at night intending to take advantage of her, she killed and castrated him, then threw his body outside. The incident deterred further harassment 19.

Personality

Li Muran is blunt, reserved, and uncomfortable with social interaction. She openly admits that survival is her only ambition and generally accepts the group’s decisions rather than arguing over matters that do not threaten her safety. Her boundaries are explicit: she will not sleep with men or allow the others to send her to her death 20 48.

Her caution includes a determination to remain useful. She volunteers for the hospital expedition because her medical training can help the group, privately fearing that someone who always shelters behind others will eventually be abandoned. After struggling with an unfamiliar weapon, she trains with both her preferred pickaxe and a machete so that losing one will not leave her helpless 23 47.

Although undemonstrative, she is attentive to Zhang Ruiyang. She gives him two scarce braised eggs, gently rocks him when entrusted with his care, and later takes him out to exercise. Her concern for the group is also practical: finding a stockpile does not reassure her that they can stop working when drought, poisoned soil, and growing zombie numbers still threaten their future 20 21 38 47.

Abilities & Skills

Uncontrolled Teleportation

Li Muran’s ability transported her from Yunzhou to Zhongzhou when she believed she was about to die in a zombie horde 33.

• Demonstrated distance: More than a thousand kilometers in an instant 33.
• Lack of control: She does not know how to activate the ability deliberately or choose a destination 33.
• Risk: She fears another attempt could leave her among zombies or in an unfamiliar location 33.
• Black stone incompatibility: During Nan Shao’s experiment, the stone repelled her ability rather than absorbing it. She could not channel energy into it 39.

Enhanced Senses and Recovery

Awakening improves her senses, while Corpse Crystal absorption helps her recover from physical exertion 32 50.

• Hearing and eyesight: Both are keener than an ordinary person’s; she can overhear Zhang Yi and Nan Shao’s quiet nighttime conversation 32.
• Sensory limits: She cannot make out the distant conversation that Nan Shao overhears after his cultivation improves 40.
• Recovery: Absorbing Corpse Crystals quickly restores her stamina and substantially relieves muscle fatigue after hunting 50.
• Physical limits: Despite awakening, she still tires quickly during prolonged fighting and a rooftop escape 42 43.

Medical Training

Her internship gives her practical experience in wound care and surgical assistance, though she is not a fully qualified doctor 23 30.

• Routine procedures: Debridement, dressing changes, surgical knot-tying, and suturing 30.
• Operating-room experience: Served as a third or fourth assistant and occasionally used the scalpel under her supervising doctor 30.
• Gunshot treatment: Sutures Meat Tower Chen’s side wound, removes expanding-bullet fragments from his leg, and inserts a drainage strip 30 31.
• Medical scavenging: Identifies useful hospital departments and selects medicines, disinfectants, dressings, and instruments 24 25.
• Limitations: Chen is her first gunshot patient. Limited anesthesia, one debridement kit, and inadequate lighting prevent normal operating conditions 30 31.

Zombie Combat and Survival

Li Muran can kill zombies independently, but relies on teamwork when facing larger numbers 20 48.

• Preferred weapon: A pickaxe, with which she has become comfortable through repeated use 38.
• Machete training: Initially struggles with strength and accuracy, then deliberately practices to develop a backup weapon skill 43 47.
• Resource extraction: Retrieves Corpse Crystals from zombie skulls and helps move bodies to keep escape routes clear 26 49.
• Threat assessment: Recognizes that the mysterious young man who takes Nan Shao’s Tang sword is beyond the group’s ability to defeat 42.

Equipment

• Pickaxe — Preferred zombie-killing weapon; she declines the Tang sword because she does not know how to use it 38.
• Machete — Secondary weapon used in combat practice and later training 43 47.
• Scavenged medical supplies — Includes disinfectants, gauze, bandages, saline, a debridement kit, needles, and scalpel blades 25.
• Medicine backpack — Used to carry the hospital haul; essential medicines are retained while surplus stock is sold to finance accommodation 25 27.

Relationships

• Zhang Yi — Teammate who trusts her with Yangyang and assists during Chen’s operation. His care while securing her hospital escape moves her, and he later encourages her to cultivate her ability 21 26 30 33.
• Nan Shao — Fellow hunter and training companion. He helps her descend from the hospital, includes her in testing the black stone, and fights alongside her during residential-area hunts 26 39 48.
• Zhang Ruiyang / Yangyang — His encounter with her prompts her decision to join the group. She gives him food, watches over him, shares the bedroom bed with him, and takes him exercising 19 20 21 31 47.
• Meat Tower Chen / Little Chen — Patient and teammate. She operates on his gunshot wounds and later cultivates alongside him 30 31 47.
• Han Ling — Purchases the group’s surplus medicine for six hundred Corpse Crystals. Li Muran notices that Han Ling appears more interested in Nan Shao than in the medicine 27.
• Zheng Kun — Threatens the group’s safety. Li Muran agrees to act against him and volunteers for the nighttime operation, though Zhang Yi and Nan Shao ultimately go without her 40 44.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Joining the Group

After meeting Yangyang, Li Muran decides to stop surviving alone. She directly asks to team up with Zhang Yi and Nan Shao, assuring them she will not hold them back. When the two men leave to rescue Meat Tower Chen, she takes care of the sleeping child without demanding an explanation 19 20 21.

Hospital Expedition and Chen’s Operation

Li Muran reveals her medical training when Zhang Yi prepares to search for medicine. She recommends the old-town county hospital as a less crowded alternative to the new-town facilities and guides the selection of supplies. When zombies overrun the building, the three escape from an upper-floor window using tied bedsheets 23 24 25 26.

She then proposes selling surplus medicine before treating Chen, allowing them to rent a cleaner place and avoid moving him after surgery. Han Ling’s purchase funds the move, and Li Muran prepares the apartment while the others collect their companions 27 28 29.

The operation continues into the night. Working with limited local anesthesia and candlelight, she removes fragments from Chen’s leg and completes the procedure after the electricity goes out 30 31.

Cultivation and Continued Hunting

Once the group settles in, Li Muran discloses her uncontrolled ability and begins cultivating with Corpse Crystals. Her attempt to use Nan Shao’s mysterious black stone fails, establishing that its effect does not extend to her ability 33 37 39.

She continues hunting despite difficulties with stamina and unfamiliar weapons. After further training, she helps Zhang Yi and Nan Shao clear a residential complex and collect nearly two hundred Corpse Crystals. Subsequent crystal absorption lets her recover much faster than Zhang Yi, who must rely on ordinary rest 43 47 48 49 50.