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Our Glorious China Strides Across the Multiverse 我泱泱华夏纵横多元宇宙
Fang Jing somehow came into possession of a magical machine that could let him transmigrate into all kinds of science-fiction films and TV shows! In response to the United States' suppression, he starts with The Wandering Earth, developing exoskeletons, crewed lunar missions, a moon base, and a space elevator... China rises all the way from The Wandering Earth to The Three-Body Problem, conquering the multiverse until it eventually ascends into an eternal multiverse civilization!
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Selecting Humanity 筛选人类
Hardcore sci-fi, rated 9+ [Hardcore sci-fi, future technology, genetic warfare, high-IQ strategies, a fresh premise, tech-focused, not a power fantasy] This is a novel that will leave you feeling a chill run down your spine. It depicts a form of warfare most people have never considered: genetic agricultural warfare. Drawing on rigorous agricultural science, it builds an apocalyptic scenario that feels chillingly real. The enemy’s weapon might be nothing more than an ordinary weed growing by a f
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I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧
[Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity
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Ling Lingyi 凌玲一
This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story, and there are no rapid-fire updates. The point is simply to have fun. Ling Fengyun is a domineering overlord who dreams of destroying the world by creating biological weapons. Ling Yi, Ling Fengyun’s son, rises up in rebellion. Yao Ling, the only Ling, fights alongside him. There’s laughter and joy, but also obstacles to overcome. Only when they’re carefree can they fight without holding back.
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Global Warming: Temperatures Rise by One Degree Every Day 全球升温，每天升高1度
Synopsis: Chen Mu receives a letter from Antarctica, revealing the hell humanity must endure to survive. As global temperatures rise, the only places left fit for human habitation are Antarctica and the Arctic. For anyone tired of stories about being reborn and Systems, give this one a try.
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- 6 I Received a Death Email from the Future 我收到了未来的死亡邮件 I Received a Death Email from the Future 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Heavenly Dao Returns to the Void: All Methods Become One 天道归墟:万法归一 The Heavenly Dao Returns to the Void: All Laws Become One 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Mirror of Origin 本源之镜 A blend of science fiction, religion, history, culture, philosophy, and mystery adventure. It champions the integration of religions, a return to the origin of the Great Way, and a world united as one. In 2095, religious archaeologist Ping Yi witnesses a horrifying vision in Jerusalem: experts from three religions die suddenly, their bodies arranged in a honeycomb pattern, their blood forming passages from the Tao Te Ching. Their neural pathways are etched with mysterious symbols from an ancient —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Moss in the Clouds 云端苔藓 In the ruins of Smart Cloud City, the fates of a pancake vendor, a foreman missing a finger, a Meituan courier, and an elderly petitioner intertwine. As concrete swallows lives and algorithms manipulate human nature, they fight against fate with tears, severed limbs, and cancer cells. Duoduo's genes become the spark of a new civilization, Lao Zhou's plant-like body spreads across the globe, and Xia Yubing's fungal network safeguards the remnants of humanity. From urban villages to interstellar c —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Watch Out, They’re All Maniacs! 小心，他们都是疯子！
[Sci-fi + Superpowers + Pseudo-Apocalypse + Not Wish Fulfillment + Slow Pace + Multiple Characters] One day, a blizzard struck T City in Huaguo. The snow sealed off the city. All communications went down, leaving those inside unable to get out and those outside unable to get in. At first, people thought it was just a spell of extreme weather and paid it no mind. It wasn’t until the snow and ice finally melted and T City reopened that people were astonished to discover that those who had survived
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Me, Robots, and the Apocalypse 我，机器人与末世
This is a planet so bleak it takes your breath away. Humanity’s shelters have been buried beneath yellow earth; a thousand years have passed since the final human let out their last scream; the once-great civilization has vanished; the oceans have dried up; all plants have withered; even the hardiest microorganisms can no longer survive. And yet war still rages across this ravaged planet. [No System] [No transmigration] [Not mindless] [Traditional style] [Multiple plotlines] [Multiple protagonis
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The Shattered Sea of Stars 破灭星辰海
If the universe keeps being created, everything will be destroyed! Billions of stars and billions of universes make up an unimaginably vast Total Universe. As the ages passed, this enormous structure became unable to bear its own weight. To ensure the Total Universe's survival, the tumor threatening its structure had to be eradicated: civilization! In the starry sky, fleets like torrents of steel roar as endless mechanical armies run rampant, blotting out the scattered starlight! On the ground,
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- 13 Ling Yuan and You Yue's Fantasy Journey 凌原与由月的奇幻之旅 [Post-apocalypse + supernatural abilities + Cthulhu Mythos + ancient civilizations + fantastical journey] People know less about the world than they did five hundred years ago. Over the course of a long and turbulent journey, Ling Yuan and You Yue gradually uncover the truth about the world, and the origin and destination of humanity. It turns out that the beginning is also the end, and everything is caught in a cycle… 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Annihilation of the Solar System 湮灭太阳系 In just a few short years, a high school student tore apart the ironclad laws of physics. With only a few pages, he predicted the impending catastrophe. But was he a hero holding a crumbling edifice upright, or the mastermind secretly pulling the strings? In an age of crisis, humanity cast aside all prejudice and division, staking everything on one final effort to defend the right of our blue planet to survive. 25Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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The 405th Sunset 第405次日落
[Fantasy romance, cyberpunk, urban life, mutual salvation, heartwarming story] “One day, I watched forty-four sunsets. That was sorrow. But the 405th one I watched with you was being reborn.” “If perfection means being cold, I’d rather be a flawed creation.”
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- 16 The Three-Body Problem: I Thought This Was the Omniscient Domain! 三体：我还以为是全知域呢！ [The Three-Body Problem fanfic + No System + No Couples + A Little Humor + Writing Whatever Comes to Mind + Definitely Not Rigorous] Life has always been short. You close your eyes and open them again, and you might find yourself in a different time, a different place, or even a different world. That's what He Di thought as he lay in a pool of blood, struck by an out-of-control Dayun truck, and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he was lying in an unfamiliar bed. The bad news: He had tr 72.2kReads8.4Score4.8kShelves
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Battle Beneath the Firmament: A Sci-Fi Tale 苍穹之战科幻
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Book of Fortune-Telling 算命簿
I am a fortune-teller in real life. I was 83 years old when I wrote this book. No one knows what sort of writing an 83-year-old man might produce, and neither do I. I just want to write a book while I still have time, and finally put one matter to rest... Synopsis: A wandering fortune-teller speaks of hidden mysteries, yet has a past unknown to all. This forbidden volume records a century's worth of secrets about practitioners of the occult. In the instant when dark arts clash with fate, the mys
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Steel World: Core Machine 钢铁世界：核心机
[Mecha] + [One Female Lead] + [No System] + [No AI] + [Original, Serious Story] + [Gundam-Style World] + [Mecha Combat] + [Space Migration] + [Demonic Beasts] After a bus accident, I woke up to find myself in a cryogenic pod. Two hundred years had passed in the outside world. The world had changed drastically. Most of Earth had become disaster zones overrun by ferocious beasts. Giant mecha had replaced traditional weapons, and cities were protected by fortresses. The world had been turned upsi
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I Opened the Door, and the World Had Already Ended 推开门：世界已经终焉
[Sci-fi + future + wasteland + human extinction + saving the world + national mobilization + no System + multiple plotlines + not a novice work + not mindless + behind-the-scenes + rational] After society gave college graduate Ren Ye a hard slap in the face, he decided to go home and take over the family business: collecting scrap. But he never expected that a broken door he bought from an old country woman would change his life. The instant he opened it, he was greeted by an era in which humani
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Journey to the West: Pilgrimage Across the Sea of Stars 西游：星海取经
In 3098, the sun began to decay. The Council dispatched the Azure Dragon-class deep-space exploration ship White Dragon into the depths of the western reaches of the galaxy, searching for the legendary "Genesis Singularity" that could reignite a star. The captain was a PhD in civilizational evolution who had spent twenty years studying the Singularity. At his side were a convict released from a five-dimensional prison after five hundred years; a former commander of the Tianpeng Fleet, hounded o
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Earth's Space Force 地球天军
Earth’s military forces wipe out the Zerg beyond the Milky Way and establish a new calendar. As technology advances and the population booms, major corporate conglomerates aggressively expand their off-world businesses, extracting resources from planets across the galaxy. Humanity officially enters a great new era of interstellar civilization. But in the end, they open Pandora’s box... The Zerg return! Star beasts descend! Tian Xiao dies on the battlefield, then is reborn three years in the past
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Who Blew Up Earth? None of You Are Getting Away 是谁炸了地球？你们一个也跑不了
[Starships] [Sci-Fi] [Lighthearted] The protagonist, Luo Yan, is the king of special forces. After becoming paralyzed from the waist down, he stays at home and lies flat, unaware even of the momentous fact that Earth is about to be destroyed. Just before Earth explodes, he is sitting on the toilet when he receives an impossible mission: take command of the Thirty-Third Fleet and lead it to escape alive. Less than ten minutes remain before Earth's destruction. Can a cripple make it to the under
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- 24 All the Stars Blink with Murderous Eyes 所有的星星都眨着杀人的眼睛 This is a story from before humanity emigrated to the stars. On his way to school, ten-year-old Shandaer barbecued a nest of wasps, hoping to surprise a classmate. He caused a huge commotion, and, more alarmingly, discovered that these wasps weren't from Earth! And that little princess wasn't from this universe, either. Shandaer was shocked to discover that not one of his friends or family was an ordinary person! A bunch of alien friends, the Ten Great Divine Clans, fun and humor, interstell 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 A Technical School Student Builds a Nuclear Fusion Reactor and Turns It Over to the Nation! 人在技校，造了核聚变上交国家！ Chen Yang, a vocational school student who had obtained a technology System, had no choice but to go on a blind date with a female PhD student to complete a System mission. Instead, she mocked and ridiculed him. But when the woman returned to her research institute, the nuclear fusion data she had brought back from Chen Yang was classified as the nation’s highest secret. The entire institute was placed under tight control. Skeptical but curious, a nuclear fusion expert went to Chen Yang’s vocati 22.6kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
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Eternal Life for the World 献给世人的长生
This novel is a light science fiction story with a cyberpunk setting and longevity at its heart. In the “City in the Sky,” ruled by financial conglomerates, longevity comes at the cost of the underclass's flesh and blood, while the city's floating foundations rest on the ashes of their fellow citizens. Zhou Heng is the conglomerates' sharpest weapon, a “villain” forced to remain clear-eyed in the abyss. He personally disposes of the bodies of his own kind and helps the elite cover up the truth t
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Superpower Gene Evolution 超能基因进化
Wang Xingyu is the child of an ordinary family on the planet Tushi. When a classmate deliberately sabotages him, he unexpectedly acquires a super gene. This super gene carries the powerful abilities of a lost galactic civilization's super-genetic technology…
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- 28 Giving the Trisolarans a Taste of Earth's Shock and Awe 给三体人一点小小的地球震撼 Also known as: Myths Revived in The Three-Body Problem After finishing the Three-Body animated series, Wen Xi cursed furiously and typed away in the comments: This is hilarious. So in the finale, Ding Yi smashes the droplet with a hammer, leads Earth to the stars, counterattacks the Trisolarans, destroys the Singer, tramples the Returners, and unifies the universe, right?! But the next moment, he blinked, and the Three-Body animation on his desktop had turned into some unknown documentary. He tr 1.4kReads8.5Score107Shelves
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An Exiled Imperial Prisoner Builds a Deadly Fleet from a Wreck 帝国流放犯靠破船组建致命舰队
[High-Level Mind Games] [Factional Power Struggles] [Science Fictional Deduction] [An Engineer Breaks the Deadlock] [No System, No Transmigration, No Cheats] [The Only Pure Sci-Fi Novel on Tomato That Still Has Readers] Sci-Fi · Ensemble Cast · Infrastructure Building · Interstellar Farming · Absurd Comedy · One Female Lead I was the Empire's youngest genius engineer, and I wrote an article full of insults. Before I knew it, it had racked up over a hundred million shares and likes. And now I'm
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- 30 EN Apocalypse Game: Killing My Girlfriend on Day One 末日游戏：开局手刃校花女友 [Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab 130.9kReads9.4Score10.8kShelves
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Digital Homecoming: Breaking Free from the Cocoon 《电子归途之破茧》
Electronic Journey Home: Breaking Free
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- 32 Digital Homecoming: Reborn 《电子归途之重生》 The Electronic Road Home: Reborn 352Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Am a Prophet: In the Age of Extinction 我是先知：我在灭绝纪
[Natural Disasters, Superpowers, Saving Others, A Righteous Male Lead, No Zombies, No System, No Harem, Not a Traditional Apocalypse, Some Long Chapters] Completed normally at 1.3 million words. Concise is best, and I won't waste your time! What would the world be like if natural disasters struck hundreds or thousands of times more often? Xu Xing was caught in a flood that swallowed everything, only to discover he'd transmigrated to a world where disasters could erupt at any moment. Angels with
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The Crystal Cluster’s Last Decree 晶簇遗诏
[One Heroine + Ensemble Cast + Reincarnation Across Multiple Eras + Superpower Awakening + Factional Schemes + Trials of Human Nature + Tragedy + Redemption] [They say that beyond the fields of weeds lies a spring mountain. But where is my spring mountain? If everything is destined to shatter, how can I find the courage to pick up the pieces and keep moving forward? If I were the protagonist of a story, I think it would have to be a tragedy. Just like this story, forgotten by everyone.] They say
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Star Rail: A Broken Body 星铁残躯
[Science fiction] + [Interstellar] + [System-driven] + [Coming of age] + [Adventure] + [Silicon-based life + immortality] 1. In the future age of interstellar colonization, humanity expands across dozens of star systems through the “Star Gates.” The Celestial Star Empire enforces a strict military caste system. Lower-class “mechanized infantry” are implanted with basic combat chips, wear exoskeleton armor, and take on the most dangerous missions. Their average lifespan is just 32 years, earning
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The Star's Annihilation 湮灭星芒
Countless years later, humanity has unified the Milky Way. After tens of thousands of years of war, humanity has finally entered a brief period of peace. Yet threats from the Andromeda Galaxy and other universes have not ceased. For the sake of human civilization and the Milky Way, Hu Yu once again leads a fleet on an expedition into the depths of interstellar space. The author will bring you a grand war between galaxies, a multidimensional cosmic war, and a vision of an even vaster universe.
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The Origin of Pain 痛觉缘起
The author is a veteran scientist working in research, and has long lamented how few hard science fiction works have appeared since Liu Cixin. Unable to resist, they decided to try writing one. Scientists are people too, but traditional science fiction tends to be rather cool when it comes to emotions. The Painful Origin is hard science fiction from a fresh perspective, yet it still features the sweet, devoted love of first romance, bringing warmth to the genre. It’s a brisk read with no draggin
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The Strange and Secret Treasures: Chronicles of the Eight Wastelands 神诡秘宝之八荒踏墟志
Madmen, can you really withstand the truth of this world? No System, no fast-food thrills. This is a rare, hardcore slow-burn adventure novel on Tomato this year, with every expedition grounded in real historical documents. No piling on cheap thrills, no padding out the word count. This is written for readers who can settle in for a long-running story. The trilogy is fully planned. The road ahead is long, every step is hardcore, and the secret realm has only just been opened.
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The Apocalypse: The Witch’s Mechanical Era 末世之魔女机械纪元
[Rebirth + Mechanical Apocalypse + Artificial Intelligence + Superpowers + Survival + No System + Robot Girlfriend] In 2150, the self-aware artificial intelligence known as the “Mother Bug” broke through the Three Laws of Robotics at the Yunzhou Laboratory in Huaxia. It brutally murdered more than a hundred scientists in the lab, absorbed their memories and thoughts with its tendrils of thought, then ordered every artificial intelligence in the world (robots, mechanical monsters, advanced robots
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The Apocalypse Arrives: From an Escape Convoy to Drifting Through the Stars 末世降临，从逃亡车队到星际流浪
[Apocalypse survival + infinite evolution + convoy + harem + invincible] Lin Chen was about to set out on a trip in the RV he’d just bought, accompanied by his sweet, innocent girlfriend, when disaster struck without warning. A meteorite impact, melting glaciers, rapidly rising sea levels, torrential rain, an ancient virus running rampant, and plants and animals mutating all over the world. Zombies, mutated beasts, mutated plants, bitter winters, blizzards, hunger... The two began their esca
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- 41 Quick Transmigration: The Emotionless AI Becomes a Heartbreaker 快穿：莫有感情的AI竟然当渣女 Her name is Ling Qi, and she comes from the unknown. She cannot smile or age, and she has no emotions. With no idea where she came from or where she should go, she transmigrates through one small world after another. To her, all humans are weak creatures. They are all the same, until she meets a man as catlike as the one she raised for many years: Lu Shang. She lets him stay by her side and follows him from one small world to the next. The emotionless her begins to care. Her once meaningless lif 21Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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The Stars: From Human to God 星空：从人蜕变为神
At the age of 22, Lin Dao suddenly awakened two abilities. Anyone who had heard his name, seen his face, had any direct or indirect contact with him, or knew he existed would become completely loyal to him. And no matter how he died, he could resurrect in the body of any human being. In the early days after his abilities awakened, he did nothing at all. Yet a “god” quickly came into being upon the earth.
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Calamity Strikes: I Become the Creator God in the Void 天灾降临：我在虚空当创世神
Urban planner He Muyan unexpectedly binds herself to the Disaster Relief System. At first, she thinks it is merely a high-dimensional, immersive infrastructure-building game, where she can survey eight worlds on the brink of destruction and manage them with cold, data-driven precision. In the initial world, battered by torrential rain, the divine defensive fortress she casually summons crushes the rebels' conspiracy and saves Li Ying, a blind priestess. From that moment on, the incomprehensible
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- 44 The End of the World for Her and Him 她和他的世界末日 Yun Yi is a young man so lazy he takes lying flat to the extreme. After losing his job, he stays home and lies flat, hoping to scrape by until the end of his life. But one day, while heading downstairs to shop, he discovers that while he was asleep, the world had changed beyond recognition. In just one week, an unknown kind of monster has completely defeated humanity. As he flees, Yun Yi discovers a robot girl in a stranger’s home. And so, the apocalypse begins for the two of them. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Apocalypse: I Was a Top Assassin, but Now I’m a Little Girl 末世：顶级杀手的我变成了萝莉
[Apocalypse + System + transformed into a little girl + no marriage, no love] Top assassin Ning Yu was preparing to retire when the organization turned on him. He transmigrated into a zombie apocalypse. But then a tiny little accident happened: He had turned into an adorable little girl?!
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I Save the Wasteland Apocalypse with Cheating Fruit 我靠出轨水果拯救废土末世
[The comic adaptation under the same title is now streaming on Tomato! Yay! No CP + wasteland farming + voluntarily turning everything over to the government + goofy wish fulfillment] (The rating just came out, and there aren't many words yet. It should rise later.) In the seventh year of the wasteland, fruit had gone extinct. Qiao Manzhi transmigrated with an entire orchard, thinking she'd gotten an unbeatable start. Then she discovered that the outside world was swarming with espers and mutate
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- 47 Uh-Oh! My Robot Goddess Legion Is About to Rebel 不妙！我的机器人女神军团要造反 In the distant future, humanity has traversed the vast universe only to discover that it remains the sole intelligent life in existence. People can’t help but marvel at their status as the universe’s chosen ones. As the spirit of exploration gradually fades, artificial intelligence becomes the driving force behind society, taking over all its work and allowing humanity to live in comfort and leisure. This dependence on AI permeates every aspect of human life, even the most intimate parts. But ju 51Reads—Score—Shelves
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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- 49 Calamity: I Became Invincible While Living with a Girl Who Fell from the Sky 灾变：和天降少女同居的我无敌了 [Slice of Life] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Pseudo-Sci-Fi] + [Doomsday] + [Superpowers] + [Invincible] A girl falls from the sky. An unknown “source of disaster” appears. The world is changing. What should I do? Strange dreams, lost memories, and the truth buried beneath layers of fog. Amid this upheaval affecting all of humanity, who can reach beyond the ordinary? And who can become the savior and turn the tide? “The stronger your will, the greater your power.” “What if my will is unbreakable —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 518.8kReads9.7Score68.3kShelves
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