Zhang
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 42 (42)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 31Zhang, Li Jun's best friend, is a level-28 human Earth Mover whose shrinking wand gets the portal cart into station 36.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 5Zhang, teamed with Li Na, is the only other crawler besides Prepotente to pick biological.
- Ch 24Zhang, Li Na and Tran faced the only other province boss of the heat and all survived.
- Ch 53Zhang let Tran pass during the race and is now sobbing and in need of help.
- Ch 57Zhang plans to kill their octopus mount Torpedo so the system kills both him and Li Na, stopping her killing.
- Ch 59Zhang puts his target cape back on and goes with Elle and Tran to tell Li Na the new plan.
- Ch 65Zhang is disqualified as a driver after his partner left the party, so he rides behind Bodi in the race.
Connections
- friend ofLi Junbest friends
- ally ofLi Jun
- friend ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
- ally ofLi Nasame team
- enemy ofSammi Harrisonracing rivals
- friend ofLi Na
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 31Portal trap in station 36
Carl, helped by Zhang's shrinking wand and Imani's magical chain, hangs a portal cart over the station's center tuned to 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 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 89Allies thank Donut
Freed allies tell a guilt-ridden Donut she saved them; Zhang comforts her over Li Jun's death.
- Book 8 · Ch 5Prepotente's warning
Prepotente warns in chat that killing more than one opponent per heat could force crawler-versus-crawler races; Zhang hints Li Na may already have killed one.
- Book 8 · Ch 19Zhang reports Li Na's killings
Zhang messages that Li Na killed five teams and her heat's replacements include two crawler teams, including Tran's; Li Na sits unresponsive while Zhang drives.
- Book 8 · Ch 35Friends check in
Other crawler teams report their heat results: most won or placed, while Louis's team survived last again and Zhang fears crawler rivals conspiring.
- Book 8 · Ch 53Li Na's dread in Tran's race
Tran's messages reveal Li Na cast a dread that made racers kill each other, leaving only five surviving teams.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Zhang's despair at the Lollipop
At the Lollipop, Zhang breaks down over Li Na's killings and reveals his plan to kill Torpedo so the system kills them both; Carl says it won't work.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Carl's plan for Li Na
Carl realizes Li Na can be pointed in a useful direction and asks Bodi to jockey for Zhang, announcing Li Na is leaving the dungeon.
- Book 8 · Ch 58The cleaner bot plan is a go
After Mordecai's test succeeds, Carl approves a plan to send Li Na to the Pineapple Cabaret via Herot's cleaner bot purchases.
- Book 8 · Ch 64Li Na sent out of the dungeon
Zhang sucks Li Na into an XL pet carrier, the cleaner bot Suckira stores it, and Donut sells Suckira at the shop terminal so Herot can take her to the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 64Li Na's farewell to Zhang
Zhang apologises for failing to protect her; Li Na tells him he has nothing to apologise for and confesses her feelings.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Farewell gathering in Hungry Eyes
About five hundred crawlers gather in Hungry Eyes as two hundred, including Bautista, Tran, Zhang and Archie, prepare to leave for the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 76Cabaret escape completed
227 crawlers are sent to the Pineapple Cabaret, and the Garden of Deliverance is set up to track whether each has died or escaped.