Li Jun
Volunteers with Zhang and his sister Li Na to help Carl retrieve a spare interdiction cart and fight past a pair of mantaur guards. Fights like a trained martial artist, flipping through the air, grabbing and throwing monsters, and shattering a mantaur's leg with a single charged strike. Carl realizes from an offhand comment that Li Jun has made some version of the game's top ten crawler ranking, though no exact number is given.
System message
[ NOT YET ENCOUNTERED ]
You haven't met this one yet, crawler. Records unseal as you read. The dungeon appreciates your impatience but does not reward it.
Stats
System message
Stats unknown. Rest assured the dungeon has precise figures on exactly how underwhelming they are.
Level
28B3C24
25B3C3
25B2C26
7B1C42
Race & Class
Physical
Deep acne scars on his cheeks that didn't go away with the transformation, though his smile still lights up a room, gore and allB3C24
Location
Stands off to the side in trainyard E with Li Na, talking between themselves, while Carl finishes rigging the Nightmare ExpressB3C34
Fights through Krakaren-infested tunnels to reach Carl's parked cart, then helps subdue a pair of mantaur guards at trainyard E's employee line entrance, shattering one's leg with a single charged strikeB3C32
Stays put at station 36 with Imani rather than move on to the free descent point at station 72, as the monsters approaching the stop trickle to a stop against the crawlers' defensible positionB3C28
Sent to the second engine at station 75 once it's disengaged, taking charge of driving the freed crowd onward toward station 36; leads them successfully as far as the stairwell platform there, meeting up with the exhausted team Meadow LarkB3C25
Boards the Vermillion engine cab once it's safe, leading a group of twelve survivors now, including his sister and Zhang, held elsewhere on the trainB3C24
Reportedly among the roughly thousand crawlers boxed in at station 101 on the Vermillion line, per Hekla's account; not shown directlyB3C21
Unknown; shown on the recap show alongside Zhang and Li Na, not on Carl and Donut's mapB3C3
System message
No data on this one yet. It either hasn't mattered, or it is about to.
Stats
- Strength:
8, which Carl reads as some sort of enhancement rather than a coincidence, since it matches Zhang's ownB1C42
System message
Stats unknown. Rest assured the dungeon has precise figures on exactly how underwhelming they are.
System message
No spells or skills on record. Punching things very hard is not a skill until the dungeon says it is.
History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 42
- TAG Crawler: A "lame guest" on Death Watch, plucked mid-ambush alongside Zhang, his sister Li Na, and their unnamed manager
- LEVEL Level: 7
- STAT Strength: 8, which Carl reads as some sort of enhancement rather than a coincidence, since it matches Zhang's own
- TAG Boss Stars: A single bronze star shown over his head on the Maestro's floating stat display; no kill shown on the page
Book 2
Chapter 26
- IDENTITY Race: A Human, stayed human, per the leaderboard
- IDENTITY Class: A Street Monk, a monk class, per the leaderboard
- LEVEL Level: 25 (Up from 7 at his last confirmed appearance)
- TAG Leaderboard: Ninth place on Odette's tentative first draft of the Book 2 leaderboard
- TAG Bounty: 100,000 gold, per the same draft leaderboard
Book 3
Chapter 3
- IDENTITY Race: A Human, stayed human, per the leaderboard and per Carl's own observation that he looked the same as before
- IDENTITY Class: A Street Monk, a monk class, per the recap show and the leaderboard
- LEVEL Level: 25 (Up from 7 at his last confirmed appearance)
- TAG Leaderboard: Ninth place on the floor 4 leaderboard, per its own header
- TAG Bounty: 100,000 gold, per the leaderboard
- LOCATION Location: Unknown; shown on the recap show alongside Zhang and Li Na, not on Carl and Donut's map
Chapter 13
- TAG Leaderboard: Fallen off the floor 4 leaderboard, replaced by Quan Ch; the top five stay unchanged
Chapter 21
- LOCATION Location: Reportedly among the roughly thousand crawlers boxed in at station 101 on the Vermillion line, per Hekla's account; not shown directly
Chapter 24
- LEVEL Level: 28 (Up from 25 last confirmed at book 3, chapter 3)
- PHYSICAL Appearance: Deep acne scars on his cheeks that didn't go away with the transformation, though his smile still lights up a room, gore and all
- LOCATION Location: Boards the Vermillion engine cab once it's safe, leading a group of twelve survivors now, including his sister and Zhang, held elsewhere on the train
Chapter 25
- LOCATION Location: Sent to the second engine at station 75 once it's disengaged, taking charge of driving the freed crowd onward toward station 36; leads them successfully as far as the stairwell platform there, meeting up with the exhausted team Meadow Lark
Chapter 28
- LOCATION Location: Stays put at station 36 with Imani rather than move on to the free descent point at station 72, as the monsters approaching the stop trickle to a stop against the crawlers' defensible position
Chapter 32
- TAG Leaderboard: Confirmed for the first time as belonging to some version of the game's top ten crawler ranking, per Carl's own realization watching him fight; no exact rank number given on the page
- LOCATION Location: Fights through Krakaren-infested tunnels to reach Carl's parked cart, then helps subdue a pair of mantaur guards at trainyard E's employee line entrance, shattering one's leg with a single charged strike
Chapter 34
- LOCATION Location: Stands off to the side in trainyard E with Li Na, talking between themselves, while Carl finishes rigging the Nightmare Express
Book 4
Chapter 33
- TAG Objective: Finishes off his own last castle, then keeps watch with his sister Li Na over a neighboring bubble holding a screaming, tentacle-covered monster, still intact but no longer moving much
Book 5
Chapter 50
- TAG Cured: Miriam's death cures the vampirism he had concealed from most of the group
Relationships
- Carl:
- Li Na:
- Zhang:
Checks in with him by chat right at the six-hour mark, reports Agatha passing through their stairwell unremarked, and heads down himself moments laterB4C33
Volunteers alongside Zhang and his sister Li Na, ahead of Imani even asking for help, to retrieve a spare interdiction cart and fight through to trainyard EB3C32
Reunites with him in person, fist-bumps him into his chat, and gets briefed on the plan to detach the car at station 75 and continue on to station 36B3C24
Spotted alive and ranked on Odette's draft leaderboard; Carl is glad to see him and hopes Zhang and the rest of his group made it through as wellB2C26
Whispers him an escape plan moments before the Maestro forces him back into the frozen ambush: run through the distracted troglodytes rather than fightB1C42
Watches her amputate and heal the second mantaur vessel to make him easier to control; looks ill but says nothingB3C33
Confirms his sister is fine, riding in the train's cargo section near the front; they can't reach each other until the train stopsB3C24
His sister; grabs her wrist and shouts for her to run once Carl's whispered escape plan is underwayB1C42
Confirms he's fine, riding in the train's cargo section near the front; the two of them can't reach each other until the train stopsB3C24
Coworker at a warehouse on Earth; refuses to let the game split them, insisting they "die together" rather than spend a point to save just one companionB1C42
System message
No known associates. Loners have historically excellent odds. That was sarcasm.
History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 42
- RELATIONSHIP Zhang: Coworker at a warehouse on Earth; refuses to let the game split them, insisting they "die together" rather than spend a point to save just one companion
- RELATIONSHIP Li Na: His sister; grabs her wrist and shouts for her to run once Carl's whispered escape plan is underway
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Whispers him an escape plan moments before the Maestro forces him back into the frozen ambush: run through the distracted troglodytes rather than fight
Book 2
Chapter 26
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Spotted alive and ranked on Odette's draft leaderboard; Carl is glad to see him and hopes Zhang and the rest of his group made it through as well
Book 3
Chapter 24
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Reunites with him in person, fist-bumps him into his chat, and gets briefed on the plan to detach the car at station 75 and continue on to station 36
- RELATIONSHIP Zhang: Confirms he's fine, riding in the train's cargo section near the front; the two of them can't reach each other until the train stops
- RELATIONSHIP Li Na: Confirms his sister is fine, riding in the train's cargo section near the front; they can't reach each other until the train stops
Chapter 32
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Volunteers alongside Zhang and his sister Li Na, ahead of Imani even asking for help, to retrieve a spare interdiction cart and fight through to trainyard E
Chapter 33
- RELATIONSHIP Li Na: Watches her amputate and heal the second mantaur vessel to make him easier to control; looks ill but says nothing
Book 4
Chapter 33
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Checks in with him by chat right at the six-hour mark, reports Agatha passing through their stairwell unremarked, and heads down himself moments later
Leaderboard
No rank revealed yet at this position.