Li Jun
Names: Li JunJun
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 42 (42)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 42Li Jun, a warehouse worker, refuses to choose who gets saved, insisting he and Zhang stand together.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 24Li Jun is a level 28 human Street Monk who fights unarmed and has fallen off the top 10 list.
- Ch 24Li Jun's sister and Zhang are safe in the cargo cars; his group now numbers twelve, and he thanks Carl for saving them again.
- Ch 25Li Jun leads over 1,000 survivors to station 36, where they join Meadow Lark defending chokepoints against ghouls.
- Ch 32Li Jun, Zhang and Li Na all chose acid immunity after their experience with Brindle Grubs on the second floor.
- Ch 32Li Jun fights like a kung fu master, shattering a mantaur's leg with a glowing-fist buff.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 50Li Jun had secretly been turned into a vampire and was cured when Miriam died.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 12Li Jun and Li Na are hunting a dragon from Chinese myth.
- Ch 13Li Jun's team found a Desperado Club and is buying supplies for Carl's group.
- Ch 73Shi Maria, in Carl's body, stabs out Li Jun's eye with the tattoo needle and eats it; the eye won't regenerate.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 7Li Jun doesn't answer Carl's message apologising for what happened to his eye.
- Ch 9Li Jun and Li Na are seeking a healer who might regrow Li Jun's eye.
- Ch 49Li Jun regained Walk on Air by buying a book, but his eye has not been healed.
- Ch 67Li Jun's new eye, the Engine of Tomorrow, lets him see muscles tense and briefly slow his perception of time.
- Ch 78Li Jun lures Harpocrates away from Donut using a speaker on a cart, sending his sister a farewell message.
- Ch 78Li Jun has died; in a dreamlike moment the creature took his face and thanked Carl for more time with his sister and best friend.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 42Li Jun and Zhang sent back
Goaded by Carl, the Maestro angrily returns Li Jun and Zhang to their fight, but Carl's advice lets their group slip past the troglodytes to a safe room.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Recap and leaderboard changes
The recap shows Elle's team killing a goat boss and Lucia Mar finding stairwells; Quan Ch replaces Li Jun in the top ten.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Plan to rescue station 101
Hekla recruits Carl and Donut to rescue a thousand trapped crawlers using a subway train with Katia as a living cowcatcher; Carl reluctantly agrees.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Reunion with Li Jun
Carl and Donut, covered in gore, greet Street Monk Li Jun among the rescued crawlers.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Planning the stand at station 36
Carl teaches Li Jun to drive the train, sends the rescued crawlers to reinforce Imani at station 36, and resolves to save those at the end of the line.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Collecting the hats
At station 75 Carl hands the rescue train to Li Jun and gathers 700 hats from crawlers to save those stranded at the Abyss.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Ride to the trainyard
Carl's group reaches the portal cart, teleports a neighborhood-boss Krakaren at station 24, and stops at the edge of the monster-filled trainyard cavern.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Mantaur pushed into the portal
The group lures two mantaurs into the tunnel; as Carl's gauntlet triggers Grull's summoning, they shove the dying mantaur into the portal, but it drags Carl in with it.
- Book 3 · Ch 33Rescue and Grull's banishment
Katia and Elle decoy Grull while Donut, Li Na, Li Jun and Mongo come through the portal; they trigger a second summoning and throw the mantaur torso into the abyss portal, pulling Grull away.
- Book 5 · Ch 76Katia kills Eva
Katia and Li Na find the wounded Eva, strip her escape ring, and Katia runs her through after Eva begs for her life.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Friends arrive in Cuba
Imani leads over twenty crawlers, including Elle, Katia, Louis and Li Jun, out of the church via a Doggie Door to help Carl with his plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Lucia Mar's gift and threat
Li Jun recounts the Battle of Beijing, where Lucia Mar slaughtered crawlers, then gave them five Doggie Door upgrades and threatened to kill Donut and Mongo.
- Book 6 · Ch 67Death of Sister Ines
Climbing to the 32nd floor, Carl knocks out the charging Sister Ines and Louis stabs her to death, drawing her patron Ysalte into the realm.
- Book 6 · Ch 69The final card battle
On the ruined 32nd floor, Carl's team battles Amayon's demon totems and Ysalte's deck while the building collapses, quickly emptying Amayon's hand.
- Book 6 · Ch 69Ysalte's Raid Stash
Ysalte steals cards from every crawler and summons stolen totems including Zhe and Frank Q against them, as Tran kills Amayon's last totem below.
- Book 6 · Ch 73Li Jun loses an eye
When Li Jun approaches, Shi Maria uses Carl's hand to stab out and eat his eye.
- Book 7 · Ch 24Enemies prepare an early assault
Prepotente, Elle and Florin report enemy troops and tanks moving on both borders despite the ceasefire; Carl orders a code red and tells Louis to launch the bomber.
- Book 7 · Ch 36Toyotomi joins the Posse
Carl frees the inherited Sai mercenary Toyotomi from Rend and, learning of his building shield magic, sends him to help Li Jun fortify Shanty Town.
- Book 7 · Ch 36Warning about Agatha
Li Jun reports Agatha came looking for Carl, and Zev passes on a direct order from the Syndicate's prime minister that Carl must not interact with her.
- Book 7 · Ch 59Infiltrating Club Vanquisher
Carl and Prepotente take aura potions and pass through the Temple of The Dagda while Bautista distracts the cleric and Li Jun and Zhang trail wire.
- Book 7 · Ch 60Breaking into Club Vanquisher
Katia's fake demon alarm and Bautista's pyxies sow chaos; Carl hits Mork with Black Nimbus and the team kills the guards and holds the portals open.
- Book 7 · Ch 62Temple Battle Grudge Match
The AI declares a boss-style temple battle against Khepri and six naga, drags in Li Jun, Bautista and Zhang, and opens betting.
- Book 7 · Ch 64Carl meets Milk
Prepotente leads the team into a hidden guild where Carl finds Milk, the sixth-edition cookbook author, and breaks down in her embrace.
- Book 7 · Ch 67Carl visits the brig
With an hour until chaos begins, Carl, Li Jun and Zhang go to the brig and find only one prisoner left; Carl realises Li Na has been using the Ring of Divine Suffering on the others.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Li Jun draws off Harpocrates
As Harpocrates marks Donut for death, Li Jun lures the god away with a speaker so Donut can finish moving the ball, and sends Li Na a goodbye.
- Book 7 · Ch 78Li Jun dies
Carl receives a message from the deceased Li Jun thanking him for more time with his sister and best friend.