Luo Ruzhuo

Biodata

Power Progression

Guide rank and psychic ability level are separate measures: Luo Ruzhuo’s official C-rank classification does not reflect the full strength of her inherited psychic power 1 8.

Background / History

Previous Life

Luo Ruzhuo had barely begun earning money after university when the apocalypse began. She survived for ten years as a psychic ability user before dying amid a zombie horde and a crisis at her base 1 11.

Psychic ability users were hunted by powerful families because healing abilities could not repair mental-attack injuries. Luo Ruzhuo concealed her identity by passing her Mental Blades off as wind abilities 12.

The Original Luo Ruzhuo

The woman whose body she inherited lost her parents at twelve, was adopted by her uncle and aunt, and began living independently at eighteen. After university, she worked in the Feier household for two years. At twenty-three, she killed Phil Rice, the Feier family’s young master and Ankang Pharmaceuticals’ manufacturing director 2.

Her parents had died in an Ankang Pharmaceuticals explosion, in which Phil Rice’s actions trapped workers. She also belonged to an alliance of the company’s victims and had devoted herself to revenge without expecting to survive it 2 36.

The transplanted Luo Ruzhuo awoke tortured and shackled in prison. By searching a guard’s memories, she learned about sentinels, guides, and her new identity. Her recognition as a guide spared her execution and sent her to the frontline Black Tower; she subsequently resolved to avenge the original owner 1 5 16.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and slender, with an appearance others initially describe as thin and frail 5 17.
• Hair: Black; originally waist-length, then cut to her shoulders shortly after her arrival 3 10.
• Features: Delicate, strikingly beautiful features and a pronounced Cupid’s bow. Her current face resembles her previous one by roughly eighty percent 3 10.
• Uniform: Chooses the white trouser-style guide uniform rather than its skirt alternative. The fabric regulates temperature and resists wind and water 3.
• Bearing: Her short hair and unapproachable air cause strangers to mistake her for a high-ranking female sentinel 17 22.
• Scent: After her Mental Entity hatches, sentinels notice a fresh floral fragrance compared to flowers after melting snow 10.

Personality

Luo Ruzhuo is pragmatic about work and fiercely protective of her independence. She negotiates compensation before accepting duties, seeks ways to shorten her five-year service, and refuses to let Xianzhu increase Guide Element extraction beyond her agreed terms 2 21 41.

Years of survival have made her vigilant, calculating, and calmer under immediate threat. She conceals her offensive power, monitors surroundings even while apparently unconscious, and uses deception to draw out enemies. Nevertheless, concealment is not worth letting her protectors die: she prepares to intervene when Cang Yun and Xiao Xue are overwhelmed 25 27 28 30.

She is blunt toward arrogance but warm toward considerate people and animals. She defends Anna against a higher-ranked guide, enjoys sentinels’ affectionate Mental Entities, and abandons the idea of killing the child manifestation of Zhu Rongtian after the girl tries to comfort her 7 11 45.

Her unfamiliarity with sentinel–guide customs initially makes her mistake romantic proposals for requests from long-term patients. Even after learning their meaning, she remains wary of permanent obligations and refuses a temporary marking when she anticipates pressure for a formal bond 19 20 39.

Abilities & Skills

Mental Attacks

Her apocalypse-era psychic ability gives her offensive techniques that ordinary guide training does not teach 4 12.

• Mental Blades: Forms nearly solid, transparent cutting edges capable of destroying contamination and damaging Mental Domains 12 30.
• Forced entry: Concentrates power into a fine needle to penetrate Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain during combat 43.
• Mental Entity interference: Temporarily removes a prison guard’s mouse-shaped entity from his awareness and manifests it in her hand 1.
• Limits: Her blades cannot permanently eliminate the regenerating contaminants in Zhu Rongtian’s reconstructed village, nor can her attack damage the black chip binding Zhu Rongtian’s entity 45 47.

Purification and Pollution Control

She can purify through both the Black Tower’s contactless method and direct attacks on contamination 2 12.

Compatibility and Guide Element

• Compatibility report: Her eighteen-page high-potential match report lists sentinels with 100% compatibility 8 9.
• Effect on treatment: High compatibility makes mental barriers easier to cross and improves purification efficiency 6.
• Guide Element: Her extracted Guide Element helps Xianzhu regain speech and reduces his aberration to 50% 40.
• Treatment limits: Xianzhu’s Dark Sentinel barrier is exceptionally difficult to penetrate. Her first entry into his volcanic domain ends in pain and forced expulsion 34 35.
• Extraction limits: She rejects more frequent extraction because of the strain it would place on her body 41.

Mental Perception and Memory Reading

• Maintains psychic awareness even when her physical senses are impaired, an instinct developed during the apocalypse 1.
• Spreads her awareness through a room to track concealed movements and weapons 30.
• Monitors a fifty-meter radius while attempting to draw out people connected to the original owner 36.
• Searches memories to identify people, understand the new world, and uncover assassination orders 1 30.
• Must work quickly with a dying target: the assassin’s memories begin collapsing after Liu Qing kills him 30.

Mental Entity: Naked Sea Butterfly

• Hatches as an almost transparent speck of light; its adult form is only about fingernail-sized 8 21.
• Shares sensory awareness with Luo Ruzhuo and reacts indignantly when she mocks its size 21.
• Develops through Insect Jade, energy stones, and jade marrow rather than ordinary growth fluid alone 19 38 40.
• Shows affection by returning to her cheek and nuzzling her. Its touch is cool and smooth 49.

Combat and Infiltration

• Uses apocalypse-honed instincts, feints, and joint attacks, though her new body initially lacks her former physical capabilities 30 36.
• Improves through Liu Qing’s combat-experience chip and sparring; on her eighth attempt, she finds an opening and throws him 31.
• Disguises herself as an older cleaner while scouting the Green Ivy Training Center 37.
• Steals rare Mental Entity materials from Ankang Pharmaceuticals using intelligence and access equipment supplied by the victims’ alliance 37 38.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Lightbrain / optical computer — Used for communication, treatment records, research, payments, and compatibility information 4 8 35.
• Guide restraints and bite guard — Safety equipment used during purification appointments, beginning with Heisha Draven 3.
• Mental-power growth potions — Part of her negotiated Black Tower benefits; intended to restore and develop her depleted ability 2 3.
• Insect Jade / imperial green badge — Nourishes her Mental Entity and replenishes mental power. After level six, it no longer provides advancement 19 21 40 41.
• Combat-experience chip — Liu Qing’s compiled combat knowledge, given as an apology 31.
• Two stealth aircraft — Separately supplied by Liu Sui and Liu Qing. She later gives Zhu Rongtian an aircraft key 35 50.
• Compression backpack — Used to carry nearly the entire contents of Ankang Pharmaceuticals’ collection room 38.
• Folding dagger — Given to Zhu Rongtian inside her Mental Domain as a means of resisting her captors 45 47.
• Secure communication tag — Zhu Rongtian’s farewell gift, allowing them to remain in contact 50.

Relationships

• Anna Bolin — Fellow C-rank guide, neighboring coworker, and close friend. Introduces her to guide society and explains the implications of sentinel partnerships 5 8 20.
• Heisha Draven — First purification patient and first lightbrain friend. Sends her sea buckthorn berries and cactus juice, defends her against Luo Xi’s accusation, and seeks a bond with her 3 4 9 18.
• Lin Sheng — Firmament Squad vice-captain and patient. Purchases her Guide Element for Xianzhu and arranges the long-term commission. She initially rebuffs him for directing an apology to her rather than Anna 6 9 16 21.
• Luo Xi — Young Desert Team patient whose Siamese cat wins her affection. Calls her “Sister Luo” and invites her to share food 11 18.
• Chiya — Desert Team captain and S-rank patient. His Mental Domain becomes the source of the pollution sphere she transfers to Luo Xi 12 13.
• Fenrir Talo — SS-rank Wolf Pack leader who pledges his pack’s loyalty. She accepts his permanent-partner proposal in exchange for Insect Jade before understanding its marriage-like significance 18 19 20.
• Liu Sui — Protector, cook, and confirmed temporary sentinel. Provides meals, an aircraft, and support during her commission 31 35 38 50.
• Liu Qing — Liu Sui’s twin, rescuer, and combat instructor. Requests a temporary-sentinel relationship and offers his fighting ability without asking her to purify him 30 31 32.
• Xianzhu — Dark Sentinel and principal commission patient. After she rejects his attempt to renegotiate extraction, he apologizes and accepts her boundaries 21 40 41.
• Zhu Rongtian / Bai Li — Initially attacks her while controlled, then becomes an ally. Warns her about the persecution of attack-type guides and agrees to build a new tower with her 43 47 49 50.
• Fang Yingbai — Black Tower official who negotiates her work and commission. An assassin’s memories reveal Phil White ordering contact with him 2 21 30.
• Phil White and the Feier Family — Enemies pursuing retaliation for Phil Rice’s death. Phil White commissions her assassination and continues plotting after its failure 1 30 38.
• Yuan Xiao and Luo Yongtao — Companions of the original owner within the Ankang victims’ alliance. Help her obtain access to the company’s hidden collection 36 37.
• Big Yellow — Personal robot butler, named after a stray dog she fed before the apocalypse 3.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Black Tower Service

Luo Ruzhuo refuses immediate work until Fang Yingbai offers growth potions, limited duties, reduced hours, double pay, and a shorter service term. Her early appointments expose both her unusually strong compatibility and the effectiveness of mental attacks against contamination, which she takes care to conceal 2 9 12.

Firmament Squad Commission

She accepts a three-month commission to treat Xianzhu for payment, a possible six-month service reduction, and legitimate access to the Central District. Rather than remain confined to passive service while the Feier Family plots against her, she uses the assignment to pursue resources and investigate her enemies 21 22.

During the journey, sabotage disables the ship’s contamination defenses. After being carried away, she escapes a cocoon and discovers captured sentinels being used as breeding grounds for pollutants. A subsequent assassination attempt exposes Phil White’s involvement and Ankang Pharmaceuticals’ rank-enhancing implants, which merge Mental Entities with their hosts’ bodies 23 25 30.

Rare-Material Theft and Breakthrough

Her first attempt to enter Xianzhu’s Mental Domain ends painfully, making the need to develop her entity urgent. She reconnects with the original owner’s allies, infiltrates the Green Ivy Training Center, and steals Ankang’s stored materials. The resulting growth completes her sea angel and enables her level-six breakthrough 35 36 37 38 40.

Zhu Rongtian and the New Tower

Bai Li coerces her into a joint purification, then attacks and reveals herself as Zhu Rongtian. Inside Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain, Luo Ruzhuo encounters a reconstruction of childhood trafficking and abuse. She chooses to help Zhu Rongtian resist rather than kill her to escape 43 45 47.

Afterward, Zhu Rongtian explains that attack-type guides can forcibly implant pollution and are targeted because they threaten sentinels. Luo Ruzhuo concludes that hiding forever is impossible and resolves to create a force that protects guides’ interests. Zhu Rongtian pledges to help build that new tower 49 50.

Return to Xianzhu’s Mental Domain

Following Zhu Rongtian’s departure, Luo Ruzhuo resumes direct purification despite worsening eruptions and heat. She follows the lava to its deepest source and discovers a square gray building standing within the volcano 50.

Notable Quotes

“No one says that something has to be weak just because it looks weak. And no one says a scorpion has to be weak just because it has no venom.” 49

“I’ll help you, but this is your Mental Domain. Whether you can break free of their restraints depends most of all on you.” 47

“They’ll find out one day.”
— Responding to Zhu Rongtian’s warning to hide her offensive abilities 49