Hard Science Fiction That Goes Cosmic in Scale: No Mecha or Monsters, It Has to Be Hard Sci-Fi 硬核科幻,最后宇宙规模,不是机甲怪兽一定要硬核
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Starbound Adventure: Mingyu's Expedition 星际征途:明宇探险记
Ding Mingyu and his team board the starship Skywalker and embark on a thrilling interstellar expedition. Their goal is to unravel the mysteries of the universe and explore the meaning of human existence. Along the way, the team faces all kinds of challenges, from first contact with alien civilizations to mysterious black holes and gravitational fields, as well as unknown species. They discover mysterious and beautiful planets, but also find themselves facing danger and hardship. During one plane
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The Wallfacer, President of the United Earth 面壁者地联大总统
Galactic Realm The Cosmic Megacorporation has just captured several “volunteers” from the Three-Body Realm and, with the help of the Infinite Divine Machine, created an era-defining game that perfectly simulates part of the universe. Now, our recently retired former president, Xitian Chen, is about to become the game's very first player. What no one knows is that the fate of both realms depends on how the president feels after playing. Beside the dimensional gateway, the United Nation
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Blazing Stars and Rivers 烈焰星河
Campus + military + pure sci-fi, about an alien invasion. No showing off and face-slapping, System, cultivation, transmigration, or superpowers. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story about a lone hero. The protagonist joins countless passionate young people in the fight against an alien invasion. There is sacrifice and devotion, family and friendship, as they stand firm through trials of blood and fire to defend humanity's last line of defense with courage and conviction. The story has depth, and
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Myriad Worlds System: From the Start, I Turn In the Terminator Dungeon 诸天系统:开局上交终结者副本
Chen Xun acquired a Myriad Worlds Portal System, allowing him to travel through film and television worlds, complete missions, and earn generous rewards. But danger and opportunity went hand in hand. His very first world was Terminator, and the System wanted him to destroy the ultimate boss, Skynet! Faced with the cold killing machines in the missions, Chen Xun decisively chose to hand the System over and share the missions with his country. With the entire nation's strength behind them, every d
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Stargate: A New World 星际之门:新世界
Qin Hantang accidentally transmigrated to a parallel world strikingly similar to the setting of the TV series Stargate. With his unreliable, hit-or-miss memories of the plot, he opened the door to a new world.
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Reborn in a New World: Living It Up Without a Care 重生新世界之瞎浪一气
After Zhong Mo was reborn, he discovered that this life was different from his previous one in a few ways. Most importantly, his heartfelt hope that his wife had been reborn alongside him had unexpectedly come to nothing. Deeply shaken, Zhong Mo decided to make a bold move in this new world. Fifteen years later, when he reappeared, he had plenty of secrets hidden behind him. But by then, fate seemed to have played a joke on him too, making everything much more interesting. The story takes its ti
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The Enlightenment Human Community 启明人类共同体
(The rating just came in and will keep rising, so feel free to give it a try. People keep saying there’s no room for sci-fi here, that everyone only likes cultivation and fantasy, and that The Three-Body Problem is the only one that can compete. Let’s prove them wrong!) Abducted by aliens? Turns out that’s a good thing: we’re the pandas of the universe. They won’t let us visit home? There’s always a way around every obstacle! They lock us in cages and cut us off? Then we’ll just have to secretly
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The Cosmic Graveyard 宇宙墓地
This isn’t a power fantasy. The story moves slowly, focusing instead on reflections and insights into what it means to be human against a sci-fi backdrop. An artifact from the Devonian period is discovered at Sanxingdui, and humanity catches a whiff of an extraterrestrial civilization. It is a civilization based on the mysterious twelfth celestial body in the solar system. These beings, who come from a six-dimensional fractal universe, control the solar system’s course. The entire solar system i
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The Tech Singularity: I Became a Digital Mediator 科技爆发奇点:我成为数字调停者
[Science fiction + slow burn + wish fulfillment] A technological singularity arrives. With the rise of AI, every industry undergoes earth-shaking changes. University student Gu Wuyan accidentally gains the ability to digitize things. By studying data, he creates all kinds of gear in the digital world, including the Data Shredder and the Broodling Armor. He also creates digital lifeforms that recognize him as their master, before being swept into a world-spanning maelstrom of chaos... With a peri
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The Ladder of Civilization, Countdown to the Sun: 10 Years 文明阶梯,太阳倒计时:10年
[Countdown to doomsday + great-power strategy + cutting-edge technology + interstellar civilization. With the Sun about to explode, China launches the “Spark” Project.] [Countdown to the Sun going dark: 9 years, 364 days] “System warning: Probability of human survival: 0.01%.” Lin Ran, who repairs phones at an internet cafe, tremblingly slips plans for nuclear fusion into his country’s mailbox. This gamble is a wager on the lives of all humanity. As CIA agents burst through the door, the “Ph
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The Origin I: Eternal Life 源起I永生
In 2060, humanity conducted an experiment to verify the impact of dark matter. It triggered a series of phenomena and disasters that human civilization could not explain, plunging Earth into a nuclear winter that lasted a century. Humanity could only eke out a living in underground cities. A hundred years later, breakthroughs in underground technology allowed people to gradually emerge and establish a new civilization on the surface, where they could raise families and search for answers about w
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Darknight Ice Blade 暗夜冰刃
[Sci-Fi Apocalypse + Special Operations and Espionage + Criminal Investigation + Mystery and Deduction + Tormented Love and Romantic Rivals] The robots violate their armistice with humanity and plot to join forces with Blue Star to rule the Earth. They secretly use humanoid robots to overthrow the Black Nation, which borders Xia Country, turning it into a base for connecting with Blue Star. They also use living humans to conduct advanced humanoid-robot research, laying the groundwork for their f
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Three Ships 三舰
[Hard Sci-Fi] [Long-Running Mystery] [Sociology] [Philosophy] [Time Reversal] [Emotional Detachment] [Ensemble Cast]. Among the vast stars, three warships, Eagle Strike, Soaring Fish, and Frosty Sky, carry out a mission to explore the unknown, traveling into deep space along the “string song” left behind by a mysterious civilization. After five hundred years of voyage, their differing ideologies and internal conflicts have become deeply entrenched, and a clash is on the verge of breaking out. Li
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Quantum Suicide 量子自杀
From tying knots to keep records to inventing writing, was this progress, or a misguided path that meant abandoning consciousness by transferring it outside ourselves? Some scientists believe that human society took a wrong turn right from the beginning, and they will go to any lengths to prove it through experiments. The Twin Stars Experiment is designed to study the human mind, but how much do we really understand about consciousness? Li Zaiming was an ordinary observer in the experiment. Afte
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I Thought I Had Transmigrated, but It Turned Out I'd Become Immortal 我以为穿越了原来是永生了
Also known as The Immortal Human Project. [Sci-fi mystery] In 2096, Lin Shu unknowingly became an [Immortal Human] and lost all his memories. He was also implanted with the complete memories of neuroscientist Gu Zhixing from 2046. After regaining consciousness, he briefly believed he was Gu Zhixing, who had transmigrated from the past. With memories from fifty years ago and the subconscious mind of a modern person, Lin Shu is both a vessel for a “new human” of 2096 and the bearer of a backup of
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I Handed Over the Super God Academy from the Start, and the Entire Nation Helped Me Become a God 开局上交超神学院,举国助我成神
[Nation-Building + Black Technology + Interstellar + Overpowered Protagonist] Engineering student Yang Xing unexpectedly acquires an ultimate technology academy hidden among the civilizations of the universe. From the start, he hands over chip technology to his country! Train with time accelerated a hundredfold, and strengthen your body with primordial essence! The entire nation rallies to protect him, the Dragon Soul Special Forces clear the way, and military bigwigs line up to ask for technolo
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The Three-Body Problem: Igniting the Dark Forest from Zero 三体,从零点燃黑暗森林
By sheer chance, ordinary nerd Chen Dazhuang transmigrates into the world of The Three-Body Problem, and through a twist of fate, is chosen as a Wallfacer. He hopes to use the opportunity to become the happiest shut-in in history without affecting the story’s direction, but the ETO assigns him a genius beauty as his Wallbreaker. The butterfly effect that follows quietly steers the story in a direction he never imagined...
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The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏
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The Max-Level Big Shot Had Their Account Stolen by Me 满级大佬被我盗号了
[Urban + Interstellar + Apocalypse + System + Invincible + Card Draws] As the ruler of the galaxy and supreme divine king controlling a hundred-thousand-light-year region of the Milky Way, Zhen Ao obtained the System and became a Star Devourer hundreds of millions of years ago. The owner of the [Heavenly Dog Eats the Sun System] is the Star Devourer. Over the course of those long eons, Zhen Ao devoured every Star Devourer in the Milky Way, raising his System VIP level all the way to max. Until h
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String Player: I’m Not an Apocalyptic Calamity 拨弦者:我不是末日天灾
Betrayed by his mentor and reduced to a city laborer tightening screws, the former physics prodigy Xuan Nian refuses to give up. He throws himself into the game, aligns twin suns, and steals half a victory from fate, carrying his searing hatred for the String Pullers, who seek to destroy the world, as he plunges without hesitation into the River of Forgetfulness. Seven bowls of Granny Meng's soup cannot wash away his obsession. Instead, he awakens a soul of reverse entropy, earns the favor of th
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I Refuse to Believe I’m the Immortal Sect’s Grandmaster 我才不信自己是仙门老祖
[Transmigration, System, running away while pregnant, both leads are chaste, heiress, doting romance, happy ending.] A great fairy maiden descends to the mortal realm to undergo a trial of love, only to stumble into a transmigration reality show. Spoiled rich heir: Why do you look so familiar? The heroine thinks: Could he be the wild dad of my child? Chairman: Here's ten million. Leave my son! Heroine: Old man, take a good look at who I am. Chairman: You're the Fairy Maiden? This old servant pay
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Treading the Stars 踏星
A vast universe, countless races! Grand battle techniques, the Ten Judges rise above all! Ancient clans with unique surnames, the Top Hundred Battle Rankings! In my name, I tread upon the stars! One day in the year 2200, when humanity first set foot on Neptune, they found a battle blade and a corpse standing upright!!! The author has already completed an older novel, The Ultimate Throne of Doomsday, at over three million words. It was never once put on hiatus, guaranteed reliable!
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Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力
[Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na
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The Age of Light 光明纪
This story features a lot of technology and science fiction. A note from the new author, who is writing freely and openly: The story does use AI, without a doubt. I hope I can write a good novel, and the kind of novel I want to read. Thank you. In the vast theater of the cosmos, human civilization unfolds its most magnificent epic. This is not an endless conquest for energy, but a great journey of growth from ignorance to awakening, from exploitation to coexistence. The story spans three grand
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The Great Era of Cosmic Revival 宇宙复苏大时代
[Spaceships and warships + cultivation + interstellar adventure + comedy + power fantasy + no System] Have you ever seen the dazzling sight of billions of Blue Star people rushing toward deep space? Have you ever witnessed tens of millions of starships crossing the void? The universe awakens, and countless races rise! While deep-space adventurers are still opening up new frontiers and exploring, when Jiang Ming looks up at the stars, everything in his gaze becomes fuel for his growth. With his a
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The Universe Is So Vast, I Want to See It All! 宇宙那么大,我想去看看!
[Interstellar transmigration + sci-fi + strong female lead + narcissistic romance + high-tech + extraterrestrial civilizations + humorous tone] “Of everyone I’ve lost, the one I miss most is myself.” An unavoidable plane crash brings Qing Tong face-to-face with an unexpected visitor. She miraculously survives, only to enter a Mobius loop, trapped in an endless cycle. Yet even then, she cannot break the laws of dimensions and reunite with herself. (There are two endings, one HE and one BE. Choos
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Sea of Stars: I Got the Mechanical Girl Race from the Start! 星海:开局获得机械少女种族!
Tang Huan transmigrated to the interstellar age and became a poor young man burdened with massive debts from the start. To stay alive, he risked signing up for interstellar colonization. But then he awakened the Super Interstellar Empire Colonization System, and from the start, an entire race of tactical android girls pledged their loyalty to him! He could even assimilate other species! Well, damn! Tang Huan couldn't help but exclaim. The interstellar Zerg? I'll assimilate them into android Zerg
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Dreams Beyond the Heavens 天外之梦
Shi Ziyi, a vocational high school student, spends his days tightening the bolts of reality amid the smell of motor oil. But at night, in his “dreams from beyond the stars,” he pilots mechs and becomes a freshman at an interstellar university. He thinks his life is finally turning around, unaware that he has become a “variable” in a cruel game of chess. The System builds towering walls from the remains of civilizations it has consumed, while the people of Tau maintain their utopia with lies. To
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My Women's Guerrilla Corps Has a Little Black Technology, So What? 我女子野战团,有点黑科技怎么了
[Title 1: My All-Women Combat Regiment Has a Little Black Tech. So What?; Title 2: You Asked Me to Take Over a Women’s Regiment, and Now They Rule the Planet; Title 3: Black Tech from the Start, and I Turn Around and Build an Immortal Women’s Army] This is a planet where time is the currency. Military regiments are everywhere on this planet, and hunting down Chronobeasts earns you time. An unfair appointment letter makes Du Fei the commander of an unofficial military regiment from the start.
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Super Manufacturer 超级制造商
In the Nebula i9 Intelligent Factory System, there’s nothing it can’t manufacture, only things you haven’t thought of. As long as you have the money, it can help you rule the world. Starting with the creation of the first “basic-grade” factory, he watches the beginnings of a vast commercial empire take shape. And this is only the start of the voyage. Spanning different industries, different races, and different worlds, it all comes down to the most fundamental things: trading, manufacturing, and
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The Cosmic Sociology Detective Agency 宇宙社会学侦探社
This book explains my original science fiction framework, using a collaborative approach that invites readers to think alongside me as we imagine and logically derive how the system works. The main text focuses on lighthearted exploration. Only the supplementary volumes contain some difficult papers and mathematical derivations.
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Tales of a Civilization Crisis 关于文明危机的那些事
Stories of Civilization’s Crisis
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Technology: I Can Synthesize and Upgrade Anything 科技:我能合成升级一切
Ye Tian had hit rock bottom when he accidentally activated a mysterious interface. It had only a few options: Shop, Inventory, and Synthesizer. Put any item inside, and a matching item would appear in the shop, where it could be bought and duplicated endlessly. That wasn’t even the best part. Put ten identical items into the Synthesizer, and they’d combine into a higher-level item. With this at his disposal, making any scientific breakthrough was a breeze. In a world where technology had stagnat
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Coexistence: The Court of Civilization 共存:文明的法庭
Coexistence: The Court of Civilization
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Eagle Sauce: I Was Just Bragging, and You Made It All Come True? 鹰酱:我就吹个牛,你全实现了?
Chen Xuan is about to sell his family’s abandoned machine shop to raise money for his father’s life-saving treatment. At that moment, the Strongest Technology System binds to him! A high-tech factory is awarded from the start, along with one chance to draw a prize! Chen Xuan draws an electromagnetic railgun with a range of five kilometers, as well as a battery-powered pulse gun capable of destroying electronic devices! At a small-arms expo, he stuns countless people and lands an astronomical ord
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Coexistence: Echoes of Another Dimension 共存:维度的回声
Coexistence: Echoes of Another Dimension
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Building a Technological Superpower for the Nation: Give It Everything You've Got 科技强国,为了国家,电吧!
No System + no rebirth + no transmigration + no harem + satisfying angst + invincible protagonist + science and technology Every time Tang Qing gets electrocuted, a random item appears in his head. From then on, life by electrocution leaves Tang Qing both miserable and helpless, yet strangely exhilarated.
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Coexistence: The Hidden Neighbor 共存:隐匿的邻居
Coexistence: The Hidden Neighbor
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I Just Want to Return to Earth, but Writing and Screenwriting Made Me Famous 只想回地球的我靠写文和编剧爆火
(Rating just came out) [System + no romance + not limited to novels; later involves filmmaking, with the female lead as a screenwriter only; no plagiarism] Gu Yin transmigrates into the future and gets bound to the “Spread Culture Through Entertainment” System. The System encourages her: “Host, let's promote Blue Star culture (become a plagiarist) and reach the pinnacle of life!” Weak, pitiful, and helpless, Gu Yin replies: But I just want to go back to Blue Star. The domineering, unreasonable S
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Silicon 硅
Did humanity emerge in order to create new forms of life? Humans created silicon-based life, and silicon-based life went on to create intelligent AI with consciousness. What should humanity do after opening Pandora's box?
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I Won 500 Million, and You Want Me to Be Reborn? 中了五个亿,你却让我重生?
After graduating from college, Xia Chen worked for ten years. He also bought lottery tickets for ten years, and then his luck finally came through: he won 500 million yuan. Just as Xia Chen was imagining a life of lying flat, he was suddenly struck by a System and reborn. When he woke up, Xia Chen jumped up and shouted, “Give me back my 500 million!” The System replied, “Five hundred million isn't even a small goal. You'll understand later.” From then on, guided by the System, Xia Chen truly beg
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In 2026, a Nation Helps Me Forge the Path to Immortality 2026一国托举我开辟仙路
After a car accident, Lin Fan returns to 2026. Just then, meteors fall from beyond the heavens, and spiritual energy sweeps across Blue Star. But people soon discover a cruel rule: Only babies born this year are naturally gifted with spiritual roots. Adults will never have the chance to cultivate immortality. With the memories of a lifetime, how can Lin Fan seize this crucial opportunity and embark on the path to immortality?
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Apocalypse: The Holy Armored Soldier, Definitely Not EVA! 末世之圣装机兵,真不是EVA!
[Apocalypse + hard sci-fi + no System, no golden finger + Lovecraftian horror + interstellar war + invincible] As the shadow of destruction blots out the sky, humanity's civilization has only seven days left. That day, a god descended without warning over Tokyo. With absolute power, it declared the end of the old era, turning a prosperous world into scorched earth and wasteland in just one week... The survivors cling to life in despair. To reclaim their lost home, they pour every resource the
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Deep-Space Wreckage: Seeds of Stardust 深空残骸:星尘火种
Deep Space Wreckage: Stardust Spark The protagonist, Lu Chen, rises from scavenger to guardian of civilization. He pilots a mech to battle mutated creatures in rusted cities, then leads his team through a blockade in space.
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The Ultimate Red Alert Technology System 最强红警科技系统
(Early game tycoon fantasy + mid-to-late-game Red Alert army-spawning + maximum wish fulfillment + conquest of another world) “Hand over The Strongest Red Alert System!” From then on, Chu Fan embarks on the rise of a super empire. Space-based orbital cannons, lightning storms, and other superweapons send the Eagle Empire’s hegemonic forces fleeing in terror! On the vast oceans, carrier strike groups numbering in the hundreds surround and crush the fleets of Western nations, grinding them into th
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From Drifting Through Space to Building a Level Nine Civilization 从流浪星空开始打造九级文明
[Pseudo-sci-fi evolution + mechanical ascension + slow burn + no System + no female lead] [If one day you could roam the world freely, without any restraints, what would you do?] [I guess I'd wander among the stars!] Lu Li: “Goddammit, I was just thinking about it! I never meant to actually wander the stars!” One day, Lu Li builds a spaceship with one hand, flies out of the solar system, and then… Then he gets lost! The Dark Forest, giant beasts in the stars, interstellar empires,
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The Vast Universe 广阔宇宙
A science fiction novel about technological development in the future. Through scientific training and study, the characters strengthen themselves, develop better mechs and weapons, and explore the mysteries of the universe. This novel contains some science popularization and a small amount of romance.
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Great Power Military Industry: From the Start, Using Black Tech to Dominate the World 大国军工:开局从黑科技制霸全球
After Meng Hao awakens the “God-Tier Military Industry” System... He decides to use the cutting-edge technology rewarded by the System to turn China into the world’s, the galaxy’s, and even the entire universe’s leading industrial power!!! The ultimate mecha has been completed, ready for mass production... An incredible chip has been developed, ready for mass production... A space carrier has been designed, ready for mass production... An interstellar battleship has been assembled, ready for mas
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You Couldn't Even Make a Sixth-Generation Fighter for a Movie, but You Built One? 拍电影都没八代机,你搞出来了?
After being fired, the overworked Xia Mingyu unexpectedly awakens the Ultimate National Fortune System. His own fate is now closely tied to the strength of his country. At the same time, he can improve the nation’s fortune and earn various rewards by raising Huaguo’s technological and military capabilities, among other things. So he sets his sights on the J-20, the most advanced fighter Huaguo has developed so far. According to the System, it can be upgraded as far as an eighth-generation fighte
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I Asked You to Be a DIY Blogger, Not to Build a Fighter Jet 让你当手工博主,没让你搓战机啊
No female lead + brainless power fantasy After three months of job hunting came to nothing, Xie Lin happens to bind a crafting System and decides to go home, livestream his work, and become a crafting content creator. On his first day streaming, he handcrafts a Gatling gun that can be loaded with ammunition and used to shoot birds. That same day, he's taken to the police station for questioning. On day two, he handcrafts a hidden weapon, the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, and is once again invi
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