The System Rewards the Protagonist with a Train from the Start, Then He Arms It 系统开局奖励一辆火车，然后主角给火车装武器。

1. 1 全 Metro Survival for All: I'm Seriously Lucky! 全民地铁求生：我真的超幸运的！ Chestnuts from the Fire林中取栗Sports2.1M WordsCompleted [Survival] [Stockpiling Supplies] [Building a Subway] [Entities] [Eerie] [Single Female Lead] [Infinite Flow] [Every station and every leg of the journey has its own unique style] An endless tunnel, tracks stretching into infinity, a subway world where daylight never reaches. Everyone must embark on their own journey through the apocalypse... Fortunately, Zhao Kuo can see his own luck stat. No one can be lucky forever, but he can. When his luck stat is maxed out, wealth comes rol 17.4kReads7.9Score1.2kShelves

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   The second masterpiece

2. 2 从 Train Survival Begins as My Home Planet Explodes 从母星爆炸开始列车求生 Feng Qiumo风秋莫Sci-Fi & Apocalypse4.6M WordsCompleted [Supernatural evolution] [Civilization collection] [Theism] Their home planet explodes, and humanity escapes into the depths of space aboard interstellar trains. Chen An becomes a train conductor, carrying passengers through the struggle for survival among the stars and creating a unique civilization of his own: the Fuyao Civilization. Under his direction, the passengers sweep across the stars like locusts. They develop technology, plunder species, destroy empires, and trample civilizations. Cou 36.2kReads8.9Score3kShelves
3. 3 末 Apocalypse Train: I Can Upgrade Without Limits 末世列车：我能无限强化 Muttering Immortal呓语仙人Sci-Fi & Apocalypse234k WordsCompleted The virus mutates, zombies run rampant, and mutated beasts roar. Zhen Jingbai awakens the Infinite Enhancement System and starts with an RV, transforming it into a train. “Vehicle body enhancement successful. Congratulations, you’ve obtained a vibranium chassis!” “Onboard system enhancement successful. Congratulations, you’ve obtained a super artificial intelligence!” “Powered armor enhancement successful. Congratulations, you’ve obtained nan-alloy armor!” In the dark, freezing apocalypse, Zhen 3.4kReads8.3Score148Shelves
4. 4 列 Train Survival: Activating the Foresight Module from the Start! 列车求生：开局激活预知模块！ Grape-Flavored Yogurt葡萄味酸奶Urban1.7M WordsOngoing Qi Xiao wakes up in a world where people must survive aboard trains. Every day at eight, the train stops at a random station. You can get off and explore, or stay aboard and wait for it to depart. There are endless treasures here, along with unknown dangers. Explore stations, gather supplies, upgrade your train, and do your best to survive. Qi Xiao's newcomer gift isn't food like everyone else's. Instead, he gets a module card that activates a special module: Station Forecast. Whenever the train 69.5kReads8.3Score5.2kShelves

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   This book is the one you mentioned where the protagonist starts by being given a train, and then upgrades the train with various fake weapons.

5. 5 我 I Take My Whole Family on an Airship to Survive 我带全家飞艇求生 Young Lord of the Northern Frontier塞北小郎君Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.7M WordsOngoing Survival + lordship + family + devoted dad A global catastrophe strikes, leaving 8.2 billion people trapped aboard rickety airships, fighting to the death over a single piece of bread. I’m one of them, but my cheat has finally come through! [Ding! Open a supply crate and trigger a hundredfold reward!] While others get a bottle of water, I get a whole lake! While others chew on rations, I’m eating hot pot and singing with my wife and daughter! A deadly freeze? I’ll turn my airship into a three-st 12.6kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves

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   It's alright, I recommend it to you.

6. 6 公 Highway Survival: S-Rank Mechanical Mastery from the Start 公路求生：开局S级机械掌控 Seven Praying Mantises七匹螂Sports637k WordsCompleted [Mutated Creatures + Technology + Superpowers + Telekinesis + Wasteland + Hoarding + Survival + Mobile Shelter + More] Everyone transmigrates into a world of road survival. It’s a twisted, collapsing world. Mutated plants and animals rule the day. They are known as [Visible Dangers]. Night Fiends of every shape and size rule the dark. They are known as [Unknown Terrors]. People transmigrate into this world, one person and one vehicle each, beginning a survival migration along a road of light and 3.1kReads6.9Score226Shelves
7. 7 海 Ocean Survival: From a Raft to Ruler of the Seas 海洋求生：从木筏开始到海上霸主 Yi Di逸帝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsCompleted [Everyone in an ocean world + raft survival + game world crossing + System + survival + invincible protagonist + stockpiling supplies + farming + campus beauty.] After transmigrating into a game world where everyone must survive at sea, Zhao Fan starts from the raft, surrounded by danger. He awakens the ability to foresee fortune and misfortune. With eight directions and three kinds of hints, he can see at a glance whether danger or good luck lies ahead. While everyone else timidly chooses safe 8.9kReads7.0Score734Shelves
8. 8 公 Highway Survival: I Have a Daily Shop 公路求生我有一个每日商店 Without a Trace, Without a Trace, Without a Trace, Without a Trace无痕痕痕痕Sports559k WordsOngoing [The new book’s rating just came out. Maybe it has a chance to go up…] [Global Survival]+ [Vehicle Upgrades]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Overpowered]+ [Multiple Female Leads]+ [Only Women Allowed in the RV]+ [Survival Across Multiple Worlds] From the start, one vehicle, one person, and a rotating struggle for survival across countless worlds. While everyone else was still searching for supplies, Lu Feng was already worrying about having nowhere to store his. Thanks to the daily shop, he could buy 268Reads6.4Score122Shelves
9. 9 全 Survival for All: From the Start, I Strengthened Everything to Resist the Extreme Cold 全民求生，开局强化万物抵御极寒 Seasoned Old Bookworm陈年老书虫虫Sports2.6M WordsOngoing [Everyone Transmigrates] [Wooden Cabin] [Golden Finger] [No Romance] [Not a Saint] [Stockpiling Supplies] Xiao Tian, a miserable author who had just broken his leg, woke up to find that everyone had transmigrated to a land of slaughter. With one broken leg and a shelter cobbled together from three branches, he was at a loss when a mysterious prompt suddenly appeared! With the mysterious prompt's help, he gained the talent to strengthen anything. He found his family and used this talent to easily 45kReads7.3Score3.3kShelves
10. 10 宇 Cosmic Lord Selection: I Can See Through Lottery Chests 宇宙领主选拔：我能透视抽奖宝箱 Bookworm for Ten Years十年书虫Urban2.2M WordsCompleted The myriad races of the universe wage endless wars. To govern and develop their territories, humanity establishes a feudal system, giving rise to one of the universe’s five greatest powers: the Cosmic Lord Academy. The Cosmic Lord Academy, a cradle for training humanity’s Star Lords, suddenly arrives on Blue Star to hold a recruitment trial, upending the planet’s established order and ushering it into a new era. Everyone: A life-or-death trial? Every wild civilization in the Primordial Star Doma 50.7kReads7.6Score7.2kShelves
11. 11 丧 Zombie Express 丧尸专列 Bei Bei Bei Fu北北北馥Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsOngoing [Apocalypse, hyper-realistic, no System, hardcore, trains, heavy trucks, slow-paced, road-trip novel] [This book has a complete, independent world. Please don’t confuse it with similar works.] [The protagonist grows over time. If you want a protagonist who never makes mistakes, is invincible, and handles every situation perfectly from the start, please move on. This book isn’t for you.] A new virus spreading around the world was only the beginning. After infecting most people, it began causing m 59.3kReads9.2Score5.2kShelves

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    Just look at the synopsis; it blows all other post-apocalyptic novels out of the water.

12. 12 序EN Sequence: Ascension 序列：升华 Listening to Peacocks听孔雀Sports3.6M WordsOngoing [Train Survival + Lone Wolf + Always One Step Ahead + Ascension and Evolution + No Saintly Heroine + No Spineless Hero] The moment Ye Qiyan opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of train survival. Everyone had to get off at a series of stations and explore to stay alive. The lucky found treasure; the unlucky lost their lives. Opportunity and danger went hand in hand. Gather supplies, upgrade your train, and build a train world of your own. As for Ye Qiyan, he possessed a one-of-a-kind asc 248.6kReads8.3Score22.8kShelves

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    Why doesn't it count?

13. 13 地 The Hell Train Conductor's Journal of the Future 地狱列车长的未来笔记 The Immortal's Knee不死人的膝盖Sci-Fi & Apocalypse285k WordsOngoing When the world becomes “hell” and the old rules turn into terrifying “entities” that prey on people, Lin Mo holds the “Future Diary” in his hands. On this perilous wasteland, he drives a mobile train-city, cleverly exploiting conflicts and loopholes in the entities' rules to overcome one deadly crisis after another. Guided by the diary, he analyzes entities, brews potions, upgrades train technology, and advances through the ranks of knighthood. From an ordinary man struggling to survive, he grow 4Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    These are some of the better ones.

14. 14 全 Global Train Survival: I Start with a Death Train! 全民列车求生，我开局死亡列车！ The Divine Doctor’s Pig神医的猪Sports920k WordsOngoing The whole world transmigrated into a train survival game. Everyone started with a train that ran along a set track, and had to gather resources to survive. Jiang Chen got the Death Train from the start! [Your train can run without electricity!] [You should charge your passengers a satisfactory fare. How about a kiss?] [Your train can recruit attendants. Current applicants: a princess from a fallen kingdom, a ghost bride, the Queen of Juejue] While everyone else was still worrying about survival, 1.5kReads6.4Score143Shelves
15. 15 从 Starting Out as a Space Junk Scavenger 从太空垃圾佬开始 Harvester Ant收获蚁Sci-Fi & Apocalypse4.0M WordsCompleted [Space Opera] [Exploration and Frontier Development] [Interstellar Trade] [Dreadnoughts and Big Guns] [Interstellar Colonization] A modern man transmigrates to the interstellar age, but can't handle future technology? No problem, Emperor Gaozu of Han already showed us the way. I'll start my own business, offering benefits with one hand and dangling promises with the other. I don't need to master everything; the talented people will take care of it for me. From the start, my unreliable parents di 66.3kReads9.4Score6.6kShelves

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    All three of these books are really good.

16. 16 末 Apocalypse: Miss, Don't Panic. I Have Enough Supplies for a Hundred Years 末世：姑娘莫慌，我物资够用百年 Peng Buyi彭不易Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.5M WordsCompleted Synopsis: [Zombies + Natural disasters + Superpowers + Divine pets + Beautiful women + Pocket dimension + Ruthless hero + Building a faction] The Apocalypse arrived, bringing a super cold wave that froze the entire world. After the cold wave came a zombie virus outbreak. Then came a super tsunami, flooding the globe and turning it into a world of water. Before long, global temperatures soared again. The water evaporated, leaving the planet completely dry. Think that's the end of it? No. Humanity 49.7kReads8.8Score3.3kShelves

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    So far, this seems to be one of the best post-apocalyptic novels I've seen in recent years. The protagonist isn't a saint, and he's intelligent. From various clues, the story seems to have a fairly large framework.

17. 17 列 Train Survival: Surviving Without Cheats 列车求生：无挂求生 Azure Hymn苍蓝圣歌Sports1.5M WordsOngoing [Survival] [Small Team] [Travel Between Multiple Worlds] [No Cheats] [Multiple Female Leads] When Su Li woke up, Blue Star was gone. Fortunately, the people of Blue Star had arrived in an endless train Survival game. Everyone got a train of their own. They had to travel through countless fragments of other worlds, gather supplies, and struggle to survive. Su Li was thrilled. “Isn’t this a survival novel? I know what to do. Come forth, my sign-in System! My hint System! My critical-hit enhancemen 7.1kReads8.6Score380Shelves

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    Book #1: Starts with a train, then travels through multiple worlds!! No sign-ins, hints, critical hit boosts, luck… none of that!! A super novel survival story, breaking away from the traditional overpowered protagonist trope, no cheat systems!!!

18. 18 列 Train Survival: I Can Ascend All Things 列车求生：我能升华万物 Health, Peace, Joy, and Long Life健康平安喜乐长寿Sports1.6M WordsOngoing [Apocalyptic disasters + the paranormal + the Ruins + ascension + train upgrades + power fantasy + ruthless decisiveness + shelters + using the false to seek the true] The world was destroyed, and all realms fell into the Ruins. Blue Star exploded with a roar. Wang Ge blacked out and found himself in the Ruins alongside more than ten billion people from around the world. Everyone had only a single Void Train. They had to search for materials, strengthen themselves, and upgrade their trains. But 835Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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    I think it's great [laughs]

19. 19 我 I Drive a Train in the Apocalypse 我在末世开火车 Sailboat帆舟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse256k WordsCompleted The apocalypse arrives, and zombies run rampant. Trains become the best means of transport between the cities where survivors have gathered. Li Tianheng is a track maintenance vehicle driver, tasked with repairing and maintaining the railways, but the zombies keep mutating and growing stronger, threatening both rail traffic and the survivor cities. After receiving a tip from a mysterious person, Li Tianheng repeatedly helps the guards and military wipe out mutated zombies, growing stronger himse 47Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first book is about driving a train, and the second one is also about driving a train in the apocalypse. The third one, which rewards you with an iPhone 14, is the second to last and highly recommended, although it's not the last one on the train, it's still okay.

20. 20 从EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.1kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves
21. 21 浮 Surviving on an Ice Floe: Everything I Salvage Comes to Life 浮冰求生：我打捞的物资全成精了 Carrot Hater拒绝胡萝卜Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsCompleted [Sneaky schemer] [Comedy] [Apocalypse] [Survival] [Everyday life] The whole world enters an icy sea survival game. From the start, all you have is a floating chunk of ice, and supplies can only be fished up! [Host detected to be facing an apocalyptic threat!] [System descending!] [System under attack from the game’s firewall!] [System has taken down the game’s firewall!] Chen Mo can’t access the System, but the world has started acting strangely, as if some rule has changed… The chunks of ice in 16.3kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
22. 22 丧 Zombie Horde: I'm a Train Conductor at the End of the World 丧尸狂潮之：我在末日当列车长 Gu Demaoning谷得猫柠Sci-Fi & Apocalypse200k WordsOngoing Apocalypse + zombies + System + superpowers When the sun loses its light and law and morality crumble, the darkness brings out the worst in people. The most terrifying thing in the apocalypse isn’t the zombies, but human nature. Watch as train conductor Jiang Ze and his team take command of the Starcore Train, rise to power in this apocalyptic wasteland, and reach the very top! 47Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist is on a picnic with friends when a zombie apocalypse suddenly breaks out. He accidentally awakens a train system, uses zombie cores to upgrade the train, builds his own team, and ventures into the post-apocalyptic world.

23. 23 末 Apocalypse: More Children, More Blessings, Starting with the Aloof Class Belle 末世：多子多福，从高冷班花开始 Ate a Lemon吃了柠檬Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.2M WordsCompleted [Invincible + zombie apocalypse + more children, more blessings + tons of female characters + ruthless and decisive + profits above all] When the apocalypse arrived and zombies broke out, Liu Yang and the aloof class beauty were trapped in a room together. The girl who used to barely give Liu Yang the time of day could now only kneel and beg to cling to him! That's when Liu Yang awakened the more children, more blessings System and gained powerful abilities. From then on, he rose to the top of t 52.6kReads8.5Score4.6kShelves

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    This is a super-powerful, fast-paced novel. The author is very generous, updating two chapters daily. So far, there's no female lead, and the plot is interesting and full of references. Overall, the book is excellent, with clear character progressions. It's definitely worth following.

24. 24 末 Doomsday: Watch and Learn, This Is How You Handle the Campus Beauty 末日：看好了，校花是这么用的 Master Tian田师傅Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Torrential Rain, Ocean, Noah's Ark, Mecha, Goddesses, Stockpiling Supplies] A world-ending downpour flooded the entire planet. In his previous life, Chen Che was taken aboard a ship by the campus belle. He thought he had been saved, but she kept him like a dog and eventually kicked him into the sea to die. Reborn seven days before the apocalypse, Chen Che bonded with Noah's Ark. Population rewards included full-body exoskeleton mecha, heavy piloted mecha, biological external armor, and the firs 9.2kReads7.7Score1.4kShelves

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    Good read, the first book was great, the second one was okay.

25. 25 序EN Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路：不要掉队！ Roaring Mountains and Seas山海呼啸Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing [Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e 624.8kReads8.5Score42.5kShelves
26. 26 魔 A Magic Mecha War? No, an Iron Tide! 魔法机甲战争？不，钢铁洪流！ Quietly Watching Maple Snow静望枫雪Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsCompleted In a world of magic and battle auras, the goblin race rises to power with colossal combat mechs! Every race rushes to follow suit, and war rages without end! But the natives of this otherworld have been blinded by the aesthetics of violence! Now and in the future, let me teach you what kind of mecha embodies a man's romance! Let me teach you what kind of propulsion brings a flood of steel! Let me teach you what kind of weapon delivers the deterrence of nuclear peace! Let me teach you what a full 17.5kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
27. 27 从 Industrialization in Another World: Starting from Scratch 从零开始的异世界工业 As a Child, I Was Like a Cat儿时像只猫Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsCompleted [The Rise of the Red Demon] [Germany] [Soviet Union] [Magic] [War] [Tech Tree] [Beast-Eared Girls] No System, no wise old mentor, just the memories of a mechanical engineer who loves technology. My name is Leon. I’m from Earth, but a truck sent me to a world full of magic, where I became a lowly lord exiled to the legendary wasteland known as the Land of Sin. I thought that was the end of it, until the moment I arrived in the Land of Sin. That was when I realized: an era that belongs to me, that 8.6kReads8.3Score826Shelves
28. 28 末 Apocalypse Game: Buying the Whole World from a Subway Station 末日游戏：从地铁站购买全世界 The Chasm of Desire欲望鸿沟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsCompleted [Apocalyptic survival + cities + upgrading hideouts + no female lead + decisive and ruthless + disaster survival] The apocalyptic game has arrived. Disasters are striking all over the world. Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, extreme heat, viruses, bitter cold… In just six months, Blue Star's population has fallen by 80 percent, and civilization has nearly collapsed. With no other choice, humanity must enter the apocalyptic game and take on survival challenges in the hope of staying alive. Fortunat 22.3kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves
29. 29 全 Survival in a Vehicle-Borne World: I Have Unlimited Bestowal Powers 全民载具求生，我有无限赋予能力 Mo Ran, Who Loves Sesame Seed Pastries爱吃瓜子仁酥的墨染Sports683k WordsCompleted (Infinite worlds + invincible protagonist + no female lead + mechs + multiple worlds and timelines + vehicles) Mo Ran transmigrated to the parallel world of Blue Star, where he and all of humanity were dragged into a so-called survival game. Just as Mo Ran was utterly despairing, the golden finger he’d been granted as a transmigrator finally arrived. Once a day, he could give any object the ability to have an infinite number of properties. And he was incredibly lucky, even managing to get a M 4.1kReads7.9Score263Shelves
30. 30 求 Survival: Endless Rails 求生：无尽铁轨 Fish Children's Drawings鱼儿童画Sports698k WordsOngoing [Stockpiling Supplies + Train and Track Survival + Fog Mode + Disasters + The Supernatural + Multiple Civilizations + One Female Lead] When An Bai woke up, he discovered that he had transmigrated. Before him stood a train on the tracks, nearly ready for the scrap heap. A familiar mechanical prompt sounded in his mind: Train survival for three billion people begins now! Fierce beasts, eerie fog, violent weather, and terrain that constantly changes as the train moves forward. Just as An Bai was pr 3.9kReads6.4Score284Shelves
31. 31 全 National Tank Survival: The Type 59 Is Upgraded into a Star Destroyer 全民坦克求生：59式爆改歼星舰 Wang Si Guozi王四果子Sports672k WordsOngoing [Wasteland] [Post-nuclear war] [Disasters] [Modified tanks] [Heavy firepower] [Combined arms] [Extreme modifications] [AI crisis] [Mecha girls] Original title: Everyone Survives in Tanks, the Type 59 Is Modified into a Star Destroyer Everyone transmigrates to a post-nuclear-war wasteland, and Quan He has no choice but to join them as a player. Everyone gets their own starter tank and can collect all kinds of modules to keep upgrading it. Some lucky players get special tanks. For example, the Sai 676Reads9.0Score102Shelves
32. 32 从 Colonizing the Sea of Stars from an Abandoned Planet 从废弃星球开始殖民星海 I Am a Melancholy Wanderer in This World我是人間惆怅客Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.2M WordsCompleted [Interstellar farming + lighthearted + planetary survival + leveling up + infrastructure building + humor + everyday life] From the start, everyone gets a planet to build their own ideal civilization... Yeah, right! Why do we have to develop from the Stone Age? It'll take until the end of time to build anything. To gain great power, everyone chose to unlock the magic and cultivation tech trees. The price was starting in the Stone Age. But our protagonist, Su Jie, unexpectedly gains the skill “Ap 4.8kReads8.4Score456Shelves
33. 33 占 Conquering an Alien Planet Through Mining 占领异星从挖矿开始 Meat-Eating Panda吃肉的熊猫Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.5M WordsCompleted On a desolate planet, Jiang Ye opened the chat channel for the "Interstellar Colony." His fellow colonists were chatting away: "We all arrived empty-handed, so why is Jiang Ye so rich now?" "What I want to know is, how does Jiang Ye upgrade his base so fast? I’ve reached level ten, while he’s at level forty. That makes no sense!" "He sells a ton of gold every day! Does his family own a gold mine?" "They must have a mine at home. How about we..." Jiang Ye gave a cold laugh and posted in the cha 7.7kReads8.8Score641Shelves
34. 34 震 Shocking! My Inventions Have a Ten-Thousandfold Boost! 震惊！我的发明都有万倍增幅！ Lingren Liyu玲人利语Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted Gao Yang, a light weapons engineering major, obtains a ten-thousandfold enhancement System. As long as he charges it by reading, any product he designs can be enhanced ten thousand times! To charge it, Gao Yang squeezes every spare second out of his day to read nonstop: on the toilet, while eating, even while walking. He reads like his life depends on it! Everyone thinks he's lost his mind and calls him a “man of the gods.” Then the System finishes charging! The laser gun's power is enhanced ten 8.9kReads8.9Score717Shelves
35. 35 说 You Said It Was a Battle for All, So What Do You Mean by Setting Up a Monopoly? 说好全民争霸，你搞垄断什么意思 World-Destroying Emperor灭世大帝Urban1.9M WordsCompleted (The print edition has been published under the title The Final Ownership Era) [The Ultimate Owner] [Synopsis: The stars are my candlelight, the orbits my sash, and civilization my game board. It is my mercy that lets all life flourish in my garden, where no one has to measure each breath in money.] Like millions of others, Ling He was unexpectedly pulled into a war game. Outside, countless races watched hungrily. Within, humanity schemed against itself. Some wanted to become emperors, standing 55.5kReads8.8Score6.4kShelves

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    Enjoy reading survival stories from all walks of life; most of the must-reads are here.

36. 36 全EN Survival for All, Obtaining the D-Class Personnel Simulator 全民求生，获得D级人员模拟器 Dream Tea Turns Cold梦茶凉Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.7M WordsOngoing Everyone transmigrates into an apocalyptic world, where each person starts with a shelter and a unique talent. Lin Ye gains the D-rank Personnel Simulator ability, which lets him enter other worlds and simulate being D-rank personnel. Lin Ye: ??? 146.7kReads8.9Score11.2kShelves
37. 37 开EN A God-Tier Hidden Skill from the Start! I've Seen Through Everything 开局神级隐藏技能！我已看透一切 Thin Porridge Shizhou稀粥世洲Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow] [Lighthearted and Funny] [No Female Lead] [Livestream] [Feel-Good] Left Cheng'an was pulled into a world survival game and awakened the game's only god-tier skill, "True Sight"! From then on, he could see the other side of the game! A branch lay by the roadside. Ordinary players: "What's this thing underfoot? Get it out of the way!" What Left Cheng'an saw: [A locust branch loved by the imprisoned Eight-Legged Countess. Give it to her and you can get the quest item, "Secret Room K 70kReads8.7Score7.6kShelves
38. 38 冰 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Sea of Memories记忆的海Sci-Fi & Apocalypse7.4M WordsOngoing Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 360kReads8.7Score17.8kShelves
39. 39 全EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 Newly Bought Peaches新买的桃子Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 272.1kReads9.4Score27.8kShelves
40. 40 从 Starting at the Cheater's Tavern, I Deceive the Gods! 从骗子酒馆开始，欺诈诸神！ No Admiring at Dusk日暮不赏Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing [A satisfying power fantasy + mind-bending twists + reversals + slow burn + battles of wits + nonstop thrills] When people all over the world were “kidnapped” and locked in a prison, they were forced to take part in a game of death. In this game, only the winners had the right to survive. Su Yang received the talent “Call Your Enemy Dad” from the start. [Call Your Enemy Dad: After activation, if you make another “player” call Su Yang “Dad,” you can control their actions.] But when the talent fai 47.5kReads8.6Score4.1kShelves
41. 41 冰 The Ice-Cold Giant Fish 冰冰巨鱼 Uncontrollable Cloud失控云Sports3.2M WordsCompleted [No System + no heroine + a touch of golden finger + farming + raising and developing + slow-burn survival + not a saint, but still compassionate] All of humanity transmigrates to a strange ocean world, where they must survive inside the stomach of a giant fish called the Illusory Leviathan. Humans must help the Illusory Leviathan clear harmful creatures from its stomach. In return, the Illusory Leviathan finds supply crates for them and helps them develop. The creatures in this ocean world are 44.9kReads8.9Score3.7kShelves
42. 42 全 Global Survival: The Outlaw of a Magic Wasteland 全民求生：魔法废土世界的暴徒 The Wooden Cabin Keyboard Warrior木屋键盘侠Sports3.3M WordsOngoing [Signed for print publication, new setting, no golden finger, no heroine, pets, expansive worldbuilding, disasters, construction, transmigration, game, apocalypse] Everyone transmigrates to a magical wasteland. At the start, all they have is a drafty magic tent. Chopping wood at sunrise and building walls at sunset becomes the fate of billions of survivors. Tent → wooden cabin → stone fortress... Jiang Xun thinks that’s all there is to a shelter. Until he discovers another way to upgrade: powerf 65.9kReads8.4Score5.7kShelves
43. 43 暴 Critical Hit Loot Boxes! Critical Hit Fishing! Critical Hit Survival! 暴击开箱！暴击垂钓！暴击求生！ Laid-Back Youngster平躺小青年Sports2.9M WordsCompleted [Disaster survival] + [farming and development] + [supernatural elements] + [no harem] + [stat-focused] + [not a saint] Everyone transmigrated to an island world. Some landed on deserted islands from the start, while others were forced to flee across the sea. They had to fish for all their resources and food with a single resource rod. Under a dark sky, white mist descended. People could only huddle inside wooden huts on their islands. As terrifying natural disasters and endless monsters came, e 38.9kReads8.3Score2.9kShelves
44. 44 求 Survival: Starting from a Thatched Hut to Fight the Flood 求生：从茅草屋开始对抗洪水 Gong Shiye弓石叶Sports2.1M WordsOngoing [Disaster Survival] [Shelter] [Farming and Development] [Golden Finger] [Stockpiling Supplies] [No Saintly Hero] Everyone transmigrates to a world shrouded in mist. Zhang Chi wakes up to find himself in a thatched hut leaking from all sides, and learns that a flood will strike soon. The rain outside keeps falling, growing heavier and heavier. Everyone can only struggle to survive amid the threats of torrential rain, floods, wild beasts, and monsters... 22.1kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
45. 45 震 Shocking! I Started with a Patch of Land and Struck It Rich with Critical Hits 震惊！开局一片地，暴击出奇迹 Feng Qingyang风轻阳Sports6.6M WordsCompleted As eras turn and the Heavenly Dao creates a new world, every race across the Myriad Worlds transmigrates into it. From the start, each person gets a plot of land and nothing else. They must build houses, farm, tame beasts, mine, and defend against attacks... Every living being must work hard to build a base of their own and stay alive. Luo Yu obtains the divine skill [Primordial Critical Hit], which can trigger a critical hit on anything in the world! [Gather ordinary strawberries and trigger a 30.9kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
46. 46 求 Survival: Defending My Cabin Against the Cold Wave 求生：从小木屋开始抵御寒流 Shan Xun山寻Sports3.5M WordsCompleted [Survival] [Shelter Building] [Disasters] [Stockpiling Supplies] Everyone transmigrates. When Qi Yuan wakes up, he finds himself in a fog-shrouded world full of danger. Cold, hunger, wild beasts, and torrential rain become the daily lot of everyone. Rising with the sun and resting at its setting become the way of life for all! 119.2kReads8.2Score8.4kShelves
47. 47 全 Cards for Everyone: I'm a Red Card Player from the Closed Beta 全民卡牌：我是内测红卡玩家 Vow to the Light誓约光明Urban2.6M WordsOngoing [Everyone Thinks Strategically] + [Cards] + [Heroes Vie for Supremacy] + [Yu-Gi-Oh!-Inspired] + [Twelve Talismans] + [Game Invasion] + [Fishing] + [One Heroine] A rain of cards ushered humanity into the Age of Cards. On top of a building, a young man fiddling with a red card spreads his arms to welcome it. Welcome to the age of Card Masters! The next moment, countless white cards and a handful of green ones rain from the sky. A voice rings out above them. “[Card Domain] has officially logged in 115.9kReads8.6Score6.8kShelves
48. 48 我 I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌 Azure Company蔚蓝公司Urban2.2M WordsCompleted They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52 157.4kReads8.9Score24.5kShelves
49. 49 逆 The Reverse Maze 逆位迷宫 Peng Pai彭湃Urban1.7M WordsOngoing On the day of his eighteenth birthday, Bai Ze's life begins a countdown. Survive or perish: that is the choice. // Three lives, six paths, a mist-shrouded maze. Nothing is harder than choosing one's fate. 92.1kReads9.5Score7.2kShelves
50. 50 公 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Sports2.9M WordsOngoing Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 428.2kReads9.4Score40.7kShelves

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