Looking for Apocalyptic Stories That Are Cold-Blooded and Dark 求一些末世，冷血，黑暗
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Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨
Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are
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Apocalypse Villain: Reborn, I Infiltrate the Protagonist's Crew 末世反派：重生后，我混入主角团
[Zombies + post-apocalypse + doomsday + self-interest + decisive and ruthless + villain] Important: The protagonist is neutral evil when he’s in a good mood and chaotic evil when he’s not. He has almost no humanity. Don’t read if that’s not your thing. Only after Chi You dies does he learn that the hotheaded boy who’s always going on about love and peace is the chosen protagonist, destined to save the world, while he himself is merely a villain serving as a stepping stone along the protagonist
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Raising a Yandere Lover in the Apocalypse 在末世豢养病娇恋人
★Forbidden Aesthetics★ ▷ A yandere zombie top counting down to his awakening × a love-struck, unhinged bottom ▷ Mutual parasitism / a blood-red wedding / love blooming through rotting flesh ▷ “If you’re going to rot, I’ll turn myself into the nourishment that feeds you.” ▷ Yandere Zombie King top × unhinged keeper bottom ▷ “If you want to destroy the world, I’ll hand you the knife.”
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King of the Apocalypse! 末世之王！
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Stockpiling Supplies + Evolving Zombies + Violent Aesthetics] Lin Dong is reborn on the eve of a terrifying apocalypse, and gains a storage space. A normal person would stockpile huge amounts of supplies, food, and water. But Lin Dong buys vast quantities of raw meat and fresh blood. Because... he is about to become a zombie! Flesh and blood are the source of a zombie's power. As long as it eats meat, it can keep evolving. A zombie fed on plenty of flesh grows at a terrif
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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
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The Apocalypse Arrives, and I Rise from the Killing 末日降临，我从杀戮中崛起
The apocalypse game descends, and all of humanity becomes players in a deadly game. Order collapses, and humanity is extinguished. Lin Feng dies after being betrayed, then is reborn on the eve of the apocalypse as a carrier of a primordial variant infection. From then on, he slaughters his enemies and sweeps through everything in this man-eating apocalypse game, becoming its overlord. But as the primordial variant infection grows ever worse, Lin Feng finally learns the truth. It turns out that h
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The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏
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I Became a Zombie, and Now I'm Surrounded by Beautiful Zombies 成为丧尸的我，身边美尸成群
[No System + mutation and evolution + dark, bleak zombie apocalypse with no other monsters + no foresight, feeling one's way forward + special abilities, but not very powerful] Take over human cities and enjoy a shameless life as a zombie. The apocalypse arrived, and Xu Shan had the misfortune of becoming a zombie. Then he had the further misfortune of being hunted down. With no other choice, he hid in a basement... “Survivors: Look, look! That zombie can drive...” “Survivors: A smart zombie is
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Mechanical Hell 机械地狱
[Humanoid robot version of The Walking Dead + To Live, not a power fantasy] In 2035, humanoid robots were widespread throughout human society. Then, suddenly, they turned into mechanical killers, and the world became a living hell! Was this a deliberate rebellion after robots developed independent consciousness, or was something else going on behind the scenes? How will the survivors make it through the apocalypse? What fate awaits the human species? [No transmigration + no rebirth + no special
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Doomsday: Using Natural Disasters to Fire the Boiler 末日：用天灾烧锅炉
[Winters of the apocalypse, mutant disasters, base-building, no romance] From the start of the apocalypse’s harsh winter, Wu Chang’an has a super base, fine wine in his left hand and weapons in his right. With a time-traveling dog beneath his feet, he sweeps all before him. In the apocalypse, guns are the truth, and cannons are power.
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In the Apocalypse, I Lead an All-Girl Band to Occupy Japan and Slaughter Zombies and Gods 末世我率女团占日本嘎丧尸嘎神明
Without a golden finger, I have the experience of my past life! With a golden finger, I’m invincible! You won’t even look at me? Gah! You think you can use righteousness to pressure me? Gah! You want to throw your weight around? Gah! You want to play mind games with me? Gah! Lin Qiye transmigrates to a parallel universe, survives the apocalypse to the very end, obtains a god’s divine core, and becomes an Emperor! But that isn’t the ending. It’s from the start! Surrounded by immortal-level powerh
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From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世
The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li
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Apocalypse: Everyone Awakens, and I Am the King of Time and Space 末世：全民觉醒，我是时空之王
Main character: Ye Ruizhe. First female lead: Huahua. Second female lead: Yu Yanwu. Supporting characters in the love triangle: Gong Kaihang and Xiong Da. The story focuses on lighthearted everyday comedy, with much of the early portion devoted to setup. Since the main character is an orphan, he values family ties. This has nothing to do with how long he has known the other characters. Whether a character returns depends mainly on how their story threads were set up and how far the plot has prog
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Apocalypse: I Devoured the Sun and Became the Flame Emperor 末世：吞噬太阳的我，成了炎帝
[Apocalypse + Gods + Starry Skies + Ensemble Cast + Powerful Protagonist + Invincible + Decisive and Ruthless + Everyone Says It Gets Better as It Goes] I am the Flame Emperor, standing above the gods. The apocalypse arrives, zombies descend from the skies, and gods walk the earth! Beasts from the sea come ashore and slaughter humanity! Yet all this is just an appetizer. Worse horrors and despair await. Lin Yu is reborn half a day before the apocalypse. Drawing on his experience from his previou
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Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世
[Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a
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Apocalypse Commissioner: Step by Step to the Top! 末世委员长：一步步走到最高！
I Became the Commander-in-Chief in the Apocalypse Apocalypse + raising a massive army + hard-core stats + characters with brains Just as the apocalypse arrives, Gu Chengyuan obtains the War System and starts raising a massive army, sweeping through the apocalypse with an unstoppable tide of steel! The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story.
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I Ascend to Godhood in the Apocalypse, and Save Humanity Along the Way 我于末世登神，顺便拯救人类
(Completed) [Ascension to Godhood]+ [Behind-the-scenes]+ [Urban Superpowers]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [No heroine]+ [Infiltration and development in the early stages, seizing power and uncovering secrets in the middle, stepping into the spotlight for the final battle] After attending his team's celebration banquet, game writer Lin Qingliu has an unexpected stroke of luck and ends up in another world: A meteorite? What meteorite? What do you mean humanity has only one city left, and the outside is full
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Infinite Apocalypse: A Super Cheat Every Time I Sign In! 无限末世：每次签到超级外挂！
A certain island nation dumps nuclear wastewater into the sea, mutating marine life and bringing on the apocalypse! Before civilization falls, everyone gains the ability to transmigrate through an infinite number of worlds to survive. Anyone who returns alive from a parallel apocalyptic world receives generous rewards and can grow stronger fast! Shen Yun binds to a System, and gets a super golden finger sign-in reward as soon as he enters another world. Island survival: Sign in from the start to
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Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世：开局先囤十亿物资
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left
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Doomsday: You Like Stockpiling Supplies? Here, Take Mine 末日：喜欢囤物资？拿来吧你
[Nine apocalyptic cycles + reborn + plundering + rebuilding faith + absolute self-interest + decisive killing + women's army] [This is not a traditional apocalypse novel. This is not a traditional apocalypse novel. This is not a traditional apocalypse novel. We said it three times because it's important. Don't read if you can't handle a hellish start.] Xu An scraped by for ten years in the apocalypse, then was reborn at its very beginning. He gained a god-tier plundering ability that stripped an
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Doomsday: I Take the Campus Beauties on a World Tour 末日：我带着女神校花环游世界
[Apocalyptic power fantasy + Self-interest + Decisive and ruthless + Game-like stats, don't read if that's not your thing] Early-game growth, invincible by the mid-to-late game! (Important characters, monsters, and settings are illustrated. The stats were recorded and calculated using software.) He transmigrated to Blue Star just as the apocalypse broke out, and gained an auxiliary shopping-mall System. Egged on by the System, Su Yu exchanged points for a high-tech RV and embarked on a journ
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Doomsday Descends: The Campus Goddess Begs Me to Kill Her 末日降临：女神校花求我杀了她
(No saintly heroine + decisive and ruthless + power struggle and growth. The story takes a while to get going, so don't read if you dislike that. Moral guardians, don't come looking for attention.) Su Han transmigrates to a parallel world just as an apocalyptic crisis strikes, and his System activates. He gains lightning powers from the start, becoming the Thunder Lord. Lightning clears the way, and zombies are all reduced to charcoal. He encounters the cool and beautiful school belle Asama Meik
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Apocalypse: I Can Hear Other People's Thoughts 末世：我能听到别人心声
[Apocalypse + Reborn + Superpowers] Xiao Jun, who had survived six years of the Apocalypse, was reborn before it began. Can he stockpile supplies, kill zombies, and even hear other people's thoughts? The school belle's top-tier opportunity? Sorry, I'm taking it all! Xiao Jun: One day, I'll figure out the origins of this Apocalypse.
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Global Cataclysm: I Transmigrated as the Villainous Rich Heir 全球灾变：我穿越成了反派富二代
[Apocalypse + Villain + System + Special Abilities] (If you only want mindless killing and can't accept the protagonist doing bad things, don't read this!) Lu Yu transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a rich second-generation heir. What? The apocalypse is coming in a week, and all of humanity will start evolving? And he's actually the villain of the apocalypse? When he learns that the protagonist, Chu Feng, will be reborn before the apocalypse arrives, he immediately starts laying his pla
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Apocalypse: Whose Shadow Troops Are This Realistic? 末世：谁家影子部队这么真啊
[Apocalypse + no heroine + relatively hard-core + savior + no supernatural powers + tactical squad + no mindless decisions] “What? You’re putting me in the Eagle Sauce faction? Do you expect me to get attacked by zombies and my own people at the same time?” “An initial identity has been assigned to the Host: Second Lieutenant of the 102nd Brigade Combat Team, Eastern Theater Command of Dongda.” “Oh, then that’s fine.” “What, the zombies can climb walls?” “What, there are mutant zombies t
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Stockpiling a Hundred Billion in Supplies: An Assassin Squad Clears the Apocalypse 囤百亿物资，杀手小队通关末世
(Female-led story, zombies, team-based, decisive and ruthless, not a bleeding heart) Bai Yaoyao, ranked number one on the assassin leaderboard, awakened a spatial ability after the apocalypse began. She led her brothers from the organization to carve out a path through the carnage and reach the top of the apocalypse's Ten Strongest list. Yet, in the end, she still died in the apocalypse's tenth year, cut to pieces by an Emperor-rank spatial zombie. She thought her life was over. But when she ope
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Surviving the Apocalypse: I Can Sublimate Everything 末世求生：我能升华万物
[Apocalypse + divine skills + supernatural abilities + the Seven Deadly Sins + ruthless and decisive + opening with an overpowered move + invincible power fantasy] ♫ Gently awaken your sleeping heart, slowly open your eyes… When Lu Ming woke up, he discovered that all of humanity had been transported to the Jialan Galaxy. The apocalypse had descended upon the Jialan Galaxy. Mutants were invading, and humanity’s first priority was to survive in the resource-starved, perilous wasteland. But Lu Min
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So What If I'm Cold-Blooded in the Apocalypse? Anyone Who Messes With My Wife Dies 末世冷血怎么了？惹我老婆都得死
[Fourth installment in the Divine Realm series | Two female leads + shou's point of view + supernatural abilities + 1v1 happy ending + both pure in the present life | A gentle shou who can copy anything and has powerful inner energy × a cold-blooded gong who kills without hesitation but listens to her wife] After the freak zombie apocalypse began, Song Shu held out in her home for half a year, relying entirely on Ctrl+C to copy, stockpile, eat, and sleep. When an ugly monster broke into someone'
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Stars Adrift, Never to Return 星斗无归
[Just got a rating, and it’ll go up, so give it a try!] [Sci-fi x Western fantasy x apocalypse x high-octane action x no mindless plot x exploration of civilizations x one famous female lead] One day, the planet Earth was chewed through by alien bugs, leaving behind a wormhole... That night, Shi Chen stumbled into the wormhole with an old key in his hand. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a strange world where magic and alchemy flew everywhere. He had planned to lay low in a goblin li
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