Is Nobody Writing National Survival Stories Anymore? Looking for a Smart Protagonist and Consistent Stats 全民求生没人了吗？求主角智商在线，数据不错乱的

1. 351 末 Apocalypse Survival: A Department Store from the Start 末日生存：开局一栋百货大楼 Bored, Yet Fortunate索然所幸Sci-Fi & Apocalypse203k WordsOngoing [Game Invasion] [Sequence Abilities] [Lighthearted and Funny] [Amazing] [Female Ghost] Everyone woke up to find themselves pulled into a doomsday survival game. Each person was randomly dropped into a different territory, where they had to survive for 30 days! Li Kong, however, was transported from his dormitory bed onto a Simmons mattress, and his territory was an entire department store! While other players searched for trash in public restrooms or gnawed on offerings in cemeteries, he browsed 146Reads—Score131Shelves

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   A post-apocalyptic survival game where the protagonist's intelligence doesn't decrease throughout the entire game.

2. 352 外 Aliens Keep Humans as Livestock, but I Fight Back by Scavenging 外星圈养人类，我靠捡垃圾反杀了 Little Sheep Su En小羊苏恩Sports218k WordsOngoing #EveryoneMustSurvive #Feel-GoodStory #Strong Heroine #No Romance #Ensemble Cast #Loot, Fight, Extract An internationally renowned organization of the world's top aerospace experts issued an official announcement: Do not reply to aliens without permission. Before long, alien spacecraft arrived, and everyone was thrust into a survival game. [The survival game has officially begun.] [Welcome to Zone C07. Starting today, you will survive here.] [The area inside the protective barrier is the only pla 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Check this out! A survival game novel with no romantic pairings and an ensemble cast. An alien civilization suddenly descends, transforming the entire Earth into a brutal survival game, forcing everyone to venture out to explore, search for supplies, and struggle to survive. It's satisfying without being mindless; the female lead calmly grows stronger step by step, leading the way and staying ahead of everyone else. The ensemble cast is also very vivid. ଘ(੭ˊ꒳​ˋ)੭

3. 353 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 [Animated series now available. If you're interested, you can watch it on Hongguo.] [Disaster survival] + [farming and development] + [supernatural elements] + [no harem] + [stat-based progression] + [no saintly protagonist] Everyone transmigrates to an island world. Some land on deserted islands from the start, while others are forced to flee across the sea. They rely on a single resource-fishing rod to catch resources and food. White fog descends beneath the dark sky, forcing everyone to huddl 39.5kReads8.3Score3kShelves

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   The first recommended book is a combination of "Survival on Ice," "Farming and Development," "Transcendent Elements," "King of the Hunt," "Data Flow," "Decisive Killing," and "No Female Lead." The entire population is transported to an Icelandic world, a land of ice and snow, scarcity of resources, and constant hunger. Beasts possess terrifying superhuman strength, and under the cover of night, blizzards rage, with snow demons roaming freely. Every week, a new disaster strikes, forcing humanity to huddle on their own Icelandic islands, lighting fires to struggle for survival. Ice-breaking, fishing, hunting, farming, mining, chopping wood... Dismantling, forging, exploring, suppressing, protecting, sacrificing... Spirit pets, beast hordes, dragons, titans, avalanches, ice fissures... In this perilous transcendent world, graduate student Yang Ning starts with a small subsidy for his studies, and while trying to catch an egg, he successfully finds a fire dragon egg. Living with the fire dragon, Yang Ning relies on his legendary talent—super drop rate—to obtain an endless supply of high-quality resources. When Yang Ning looked back, he found himself sitting on the supreme throne, overlooking countless living beings through the river of time. The fire dragon of yesteryear had become the only eternal sun in the Icelandic world. It's a slow-burn story; the protagonist grows to the strongest but is not invincible. The world is vast, with countless talents and powerful figures vying for supremacy.

4. 354 公 Highway Survival: My RV Can Be Conceptualized Without Limits 公路求生：我的房车无限概念化 Happy Little Bull幸福的牛牛Sci-Fi & Apocalypse637k WordsCompleted [Vehicle Upgrades] [Concept-Level Fusion Talent] [Zombies] [Multiple Heroines] [Mobile Gun Platform] [Invincible] Everyone transmigrated into a road-survival game overnight. From the start, each person got a random vehicle and a random talent. Gu Tu started with a sightseeing RV. Night fell, and zombies began appearing everywhere. All the survivors huddled fearfully inside their vehicles. Some cried out for help, while others started showing off in the chat channel. “Damn, I’m done for. My vehic 6.4kReads5.1Score559Shelves

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   Highly recommended! A great book!

5. 355 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 52 157.1kReads8.9Score24.4kShelves
6. 356 全 Global Survival: From a Thatched Hut to the Mightiest Empire 全民求生：从茅草屋到最强帝国 Wow Oh哇哦哦Sports2.1M WordsCompleted Countless people transmigrate to another world, starting from the start with nothing but a drafty, dilapidated thatched hut. Here, people can obtain various blueprints and cards by chopping trees, gathering grass, and smashing stones. Food and other supplies must be obtained by using cards, but what you get from each card is entirely up to luck. Bai Xiaolin obtains the [Survival Points System] and discovers that he can use survival points to enhance cards and blueprints. "Survival points -1" "Su 8.8kReads7.8Score604Shelves

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   The first book is a survival story, but not particularly awful; it's readable, the writing is decent, the logic is sound, and it's a story with a progression system. The current storylines are quite interesting, and the premise is also quite appealing. It's just too short; you can let it build up over time. Recommendation: 4 stars. The second book starts in a small cabin and progresses to a galaxy; it's very long. However, the writing is decent, the structure is even and rigorous, and the pacing is gentle. Suitable for survival fans looking to kill time. There aren't any super-powerful plot devices, but it fully embodies the principle of "getting ahead in every step." Recommendation: 4 stars. The third book is still being read and hasn't been finished. So far, it's a mediocre work; it's not particularly captivating, but there aren't any major flaws either.

7. 357 地 Cave Survival: From the Start, My Food Supply Is Multiplied Thirtyfold 地窟求生：开局三十倍食物增幅 Black-Switch Keyboard Warrior黑轴键盘侠Sports1.8M WordsCompleted [Slice of Life] One day, billions of people woke up in a world of underground caves. Chen Yu awakened his inner foodie from the start. And so began his adventure of using food as bait to exploit everyone around him. While everyone else in the world struggled to survive, Chen Yu had already amassed a fortune, enjoyed the worship of the masses, and become the great demon king of the underground world, with the kings of its various nations dancing to his tune. 1.1kReads8.0Score105Shelves
8. 358 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. 92.3kReads9.5Score7.3kShelves
9. 359 海 Ocean Survival: Endless Mystery Boxes Are a Blast 海洋求生，无尽盲盒爽翻天 Carrot Hater拒绝胡萝卜Sports1.5M WordsCompleted [Survival, sign-in, instances, comedy, power fantasy] One day, humanity wakes up in an ocean survival game. From the start, everyone gets a wooden raft, and all materials have to be scavenged from the sea. BUG! Lin Feng gets a blind-box System, letting him draw a blind box every day! While other players are short on food and going hungry, Lin Feng draws 50 tuna and eats until he burps! While other players face sharks and see their rafts damaged, Lin Feng draws an expert fisherman's harpoon, kill 4.5kReads7.8Score355Shelves
10. 360 求 Survival Game: I Become a Big Shot with Mom and Dad 求生游戏：带着爸妈成为大佬 Meng Sanke孟三柯Sports254k WordsCompleted [No CP] [Disaster Survival] She'll find her parents along the way. An ordinary female protagonist with incredible luck and no golden finger. Follow her step by step as she builds a shelter amid disaster, progressing from nothing to the age of agriculture and then the age of electricity! Shen Nanchun wakes up to discover that everyone on Earth has been transported into a survival game. Cold waves, acid rain, droughts, scorching heat, thick fog... disaster after disaster strikes. To survive, she h 150Reads6.4Score—Shelves
11. 361 序EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 No Brain, Just Cerebellum不要大脑要小脑Urban4.3M WordsOngoing [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 972.9kReads9.3Score119.1kShelves

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    These books are pretty good, you can take a look.

12. 362 黑 Surviving the Dark Night: Sign-In Rewards from the Start 黑夜求生：开局获得签到奖励 Strawberry-Scented Wind草莓味的风Sports1.1M WordsCompleted [Sign-In System + Survival + Pioneering] Welcome to the Dark Night World! Everyone here has only a wooden cabin and a few primitive tools. Danger lurks everywhere: glowing green eyes in the night, savage tribes, terrifying creatures... To survive, Ye Feng steps out of his little cabin... Ding! Today’s sign-in reward has arrived... While everyone else explores cautiously, Ye Feng is already fully equipped and ruling the Dark Night World. While everyone else is worrying about food, Ye Feng has alr 1.3kReads6.7Score101Shelves
13. 363 迷 Fogbound Survival: From Treehouse to Large-Scale Shelter 迷雾求生：从树屋到大型避难所 Rain Drifting Through the East Gate东门飘雨Sci-Fi & Apocalypse375k WordsCompleted Main content: Surviving in the mist, base building and development, recruiting mercenaries, taming battle pets, awakening superpowers, and dominating as a lord; Genres: Survival, sci-fi, online gaming, chatroom; Tone: Lighthearted and funny 173Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    Surviving in the global fog, starting with a treehouse, every step is a matter of survival. The protagonist is intelligent without any cheat codes, and with a bit of luck and a rock-solid personality, he survives to the end.

14. 364 长 Great Wall Watch: Leading a Global Counterattack in Another World 长城守望：带领全球反攻异界 Not Two, Deep Sea不二深海Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [The counterattack has begun + perfect ending with no loose ends + Fourth Calamity + fight back against player invasions + lighthearted power fantasy + no heroine + no suffering for the protagonist + invincible + national destiny] The Fourth Calamity descends, and the era of the Phantom Realms begins for everyone. Players from other worlds invade, and the national destiny Phantom Realms of one great power after another are defeated. Panic spreads across the globe. Everything changes the day Fang 52.8kReads9.3Score7.5kShelves

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    Everyone here is a lord, starting by summoning the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and the First Emperor of Qin.

15. 365 我 My Doomsday Home 我的末日家园 Xie Aw'u谢阿无Sci-Fi & Apocalypse221k WordsCompleted Freelancer Lin Shu has a strained relationship with her mother, so she moves out and spends all her savings on a small villa on the outskirts of the city. A devoted fan of apocalypse novels, she decides to build her own apocalypse paradise. Little does she know that just after she finishes, the apocalypse really begins. This story has no System, no pocket dimension, no zombies, no one reborn, no foreknowledge, and probably no romance either. It follows ordinary people struggling to survive in an 993Reads8.9Score103Shelves

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    I would call this the No.1 Post-apocalyptic survival novel by Tomato (among all the books I've read). The writing is delicate and realistic, and I highly recommend it.

16. 366 冰 Surviving on the Frozen Sea: Sign-In Rewards a Pet Shark from the Start 冰海求生，开局签到宠物鲨鱼 The 55th Card第55张牌Sports1.7M WordsCompleted Everyone wakes up to find they have transmigrated to a frozen-sea survival world. Here, ice and snow blanket the land, and sea beasts are everywhere. Everyone starts with a raft, and all their resources have to be fished up. Qin Feng binds himself to the Ocean Overlord System and gets a pet shark through sign-in rewards. While everyone else is still worrying about food, Qin Feng sends his shark to 5.9kReads8.6Score649Shelves

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    A twelve-year bookworm! Survival is still a fight to be had! These books can be summed up in a single sentence!

17. 367 今 Surviving Another Day in an All-Women's Apartment Complex 今天也在全女小区艰难生存 Cheng Eats Fish澄吃鱼Mystery674k WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow + Ordinary Protagonist] Ye Cheng got lost and ended up trapped in an all-female residential complex. As a resident, she could only earn money for daily necessities by outsmarting others in strategy games and horror games. Otherwise, death was all that awaited her. (The story focuses on the games themselves. All the players are women, so both the good and bad characters are female. NPCs in the game worlds may be male. The protagonist is an ordinary person, and she wins some games a 20.3kReads8.7Score3.1kShelves

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    This book is absolutely amazing, the kind where the main character is intelligent.

18. 368 海 Ocean Survival: Starting with Building an Island 海洋求生：从建设海岛开始 Flying Snow Meow飞雪喵Sports698k WordsCompleted [Island survival] [Infrastructure building] [No female lead] [No romance] [Pets] [Hardcore grinder + lucky player] [One person, one island] [Slice of life] The island survival game begins. Ye Heng, a handsome 19-year-old who works hard and hates insincere socializing. From the start, each player gets a barren 20-square-meter island with not a blade of grass on it. Players must expand their islands and improve their defenses and soil fertility. Scavenge supply crates, gather resources, build, pla 4.4kReads8.8Score339Shelves
19. 369 全 Global Highway Tower Defense? But I'm a Native Centaur 全民公路塔防？可我是土著半人马 Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Ruthless and Decisive] [System] [Territory] [Hot-Tempered] [Conquest] [Golden Spatula] [Combine and Star Up] [Invincible] [All Races: Fox Women, Succubi, Centaur Women, Elves, Snake Women...] What should a centaur do when he runs out of weapons? Step one: Find a tribe of another race. Step two: Charge in shouting "Gaaak" and loot and pillage. While others stockpile food, I stockpile guns. Other people are my granaries. While everyone else struggles to survive in a highway tower-defense game, Zu 6.1kReads8.3Score553Shelves

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    This one should count too. The protagonist becomes a native centaur, which affects his intelligence. The plot is relatively smooth, and the world-building is quite mature. It's still being serialized. If you mind, you can read the second book by the same author, "Native Ogre," which is also very good.

20. 370 没 Are You Sick? Why Talk About Kindness with a Man-Eating Demon? 没病吧？你和食人魔谈什么善良？ Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + invincible hero + food + farming + keeps his distance from humans + no do-gooder heroine + survival + everyone] How does an ogre usually eat? Step one: Find a desert monster. Step two: Hit it. Step three: Beat it up. Step four: Throw it into a pot. Step five: Simmer it over low heat for two hours. Gorkin had transmigrated to this endless desert world twenty years ago, but he was an ogre with a huge, burly build. He had finally become a chief, and now all the people of Blue Star 31.2kReads9.1Score3.4kShelves
21. 371 全 Global Survival: Starting from the Desert, I Grow an Empire 全民求生：沙漠开局，种出个帝国 Er Jing Tiao Oh二荆条哦Sports1.2M WordsCompleted [Desert Farming + Ancient People Transmigrate + Fresh New Premise + Teamwork + Ordinary People + Growth and Conquest] From the start, he has a tiny oasis and no resources. It could hardly be worse. Fortunately, Lu Chen gains the talent Meticulous Farming, which cuts crop-growing time in half. He then awakens the talent skill Thriving Livestock, which halves the time it takes animals to mature. With two divine farming skills in hand, Lu Chen becomes humanity’s biggest grain merchant, only to 4.9kReads8.4Score328Shelves

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    The current stats in this book are reasonable, though they're still far from the highest combat power. The premise of surviving together across time and space is also impressive. Many plot points are novel and interesting. The female lead is a great help to the male lead; she's not a burden, and there's no lucky female lead at the start. The author is also very active and listens to advice.

22. 372 海 Island Survival: From the Start, I Get a Golden Legendary Reward 海岛求生：开局就得金色传说 Rubbing Up a Fireball搓团火Sports299k WordsOngoing [Survival in Another World] [Hoarding] [Farming] [Infrastructure] [Natural Disasters] [System] [No CP...] Second-year college student Tu Bai was playing a game and drawing cards when he drew himself right into the game. He started with an island, and had to grind for every resource. Still, luck seemed to be on his side. [Congratulations on earning the first-clear achievement: "Legendary Gold"] [Congratulations on earning the first-clear achievement: "A Promising Start"] [Congratulations on earni 17Reads—Score103Shelves
23. 373 公 Highway Survival: I Gain the Upper Hand by Chatting in Group Chats 公路求生：我水群获得先机 Smiling Star微笑星Sports1.2M WordsCompleted Meng Qingyin’s phone got a virus. But aside from being added to a mysterious chat group, her phone worked just fine. The group had an odd name, too: Road Survival Management Group. [Residents can enter the game with whatever they have on hand.] Meng Qingyin immediately put together a wilderness survival kit! [Why won’t these residents take a good look at their surroundings?] Meng Qingyin surveyed the area and spotted a beginner’s gift box hidden in the bushes! [This is driving me crazy. Have the 39.7kReads8.7Score6.3kShelves

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    It's so good! The main character is incredibly intelligent. I couldn't wait to share it after only watching a short while. It's amazing, and every plot point is cleverly designed.

24. 374 宿 The Dormitory Supervisor's Voyeurism 宿舍管理员的窥视 Ye Mengzhi夜梦知Sci-Fi & Apocalypse222k WordsCompleted They enter a deadly school dungeon. Monsters tear into people, classmates scream, and everyone runs. Zhou Qinghe, though, just smiles. His passive skill, [Forgiveness], turns every hit he takes into attribute points and reflects damage back at his attacker. While everyone else gets weaker with every fight, he only gets fiercer. The local alien beauties in the dungeon each have their own special skills, and all he has to do is win them over to add their abilities to his collection. He isn't a ble 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Potential good book

25. 375 惘 Lost Land 惘土 Fallen into a Spiderweb误落蛛网中Sci-Fi & Apocalypse152k WordsOngoing [Wild Imagination + Supernatural Powers + Dual Transmigration + Wasteland + Cthulhu] People often say dreams are the opposite of reality, but I disagree. I’ve seen the same people in my dreams, and the same ruins in real life. In truth, dreams and reality are one and the same. We’re all lost in confusion, and dreams are simply reality made tangible. (This book has no gimmicks, no national-fortune themes, and no idiotic plotlines. It isn’t a slow starter. The opening may not dazzle you, but the j 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New author, everyone's transmigrating to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Those interested can click to check it out.

26. 376 盖 Build Towers to Survive, and All the Women at My Company Beg Me to Carry Them 盖楼求生，全公司女同事求我带飞 Little Green Tangerine小青柑Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsOngoing [Global Survival] [Infinite Flow] [No do-gooder protagonist] [Daily Card Draws] [No poison] [9S talent] [Lots of blessings, not lots of children] The Great Flood is here! Huang Tang and all the women from his company arrive together in a game called [Tower-Building Survival]. To survive, they have to keep building higher! Luckily, Huang Tang awakens the [Daily Card Draw System], drawing conceptual god-tier cards every day until his hands are sore. Draw [Good Luck]: Get possessed by the Goddess o 68.1kReads6.9Score7.9kShelves

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    A massive flood struck! My 24 female colleagues and I built a shelter to survive, but they didn't tell me that they had all awakened the [Hehuan System]! Even the once high and mighty female CEO changed on this day...?

27. 377 诡 Weird Survival: Starting by Bribing SpongeBob! 诡异求生：从行贿海绵宝宝开始！ Slaughter Bread杀戮面包Sports1.5M WordsOngoing [All-Star Crossover] + [Black Myth] + [SCP-Inspired] + [Unbeatable Connections] Everyone around the world awakens a special talent and is confined to a bizarre containment apartment! They must struggle to survive in this endless apartment and pay off their containment fees! Your neighbor might be the sweet, innocent SpongeBob SquarePants, or the long-legged big sister He Guangzhe! But don’t open any of the doors lightly! There are no innocent, harmless anomalies here! Yet Lin Yan awakens a bribe 9.5kReads8.1Score921Shelves

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    You can check the comments first for the second one.

28. 378 服 Seriously?! You Want Me to Drive a Baby Car to Survive on the Highway? 服了！让我开宝宝车去公路求生？ Big-Patterned Little Butterfly大花纹小蝴蝶Sports1.1M WordsCompleted [Highway Survival] [No Romance] [The heroine stays out of the spotlight unless she has to] Everyone is thrust into Highway Survival, a world where challenges and opportunities go hand in hand. You start with a starter gift pack and a System panel. Once you set off, you can only move forward, never back. Chests and stations appear at random along the way, creating a widening gap between survivors. Before coming here, Lu Youyou never knew she was unlucky. The first vehicle she got was a pink ride- 6.6kReads8.0Score775Shelves

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    No romantic pairing, and the female lead isn't a saint or a naive sweetheart! It's the kind of satisfying story I like. The female lead is decisive and clear-headed, doesn't have any special advantages but isn't frustrating either. Although she says she's unfortunate, I think she's still quite lucky. I really like the female lead's personality; she's straightforward and doesn't mince words, and she also knows how to protect herself.

29. 379 永 Stuck at One HP Forever, Yet I'm Still Invincible! 永久一滴血，我照样无敌于世！ Wild Ideas and Scribbles瞎想胡写Sports3.6M WordsOngoing (The comic and print edition are in production, so rest assured and enjoy reading.) [A game that transports everyone to another world, lone wolf, no baggage, ruthless, BUG-level talent, disaster legion, rigorous stats] The Myriad Worlds Game descends, and everyone begins transmigrating. Su Mubai is betrayed by the campus belle he married and left on the verge of death. The Myriad Worlds Game saves his life, but after scanning his body, the stats panel is a disaster. His maximum health is permane 132.9kReads8.8Score9.5kShelves

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    1 And 3 are slightly angsty, but not too sanity-draining; they're quite enjoyable. 4 And 9 are online game-themed, lighthearted stories. The rest are normal survival stories, some with everyone starting from scratch, and some with the protagonist joining later in the story—all quite good. [Smiley faces emojis]

30. 380 海 Ocean Survival: I Kill Sea Beasts to Get Their Eggs 海洋求生：我击杀海兽获得海兽蛋 Sandstorm风沙子Sports850k WordsCompleted P.S. The rating just came out, so it’ll rise later. When Jiang Xuan opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to the Black Sea, a world where everyone had to fight for survival. Beneath the pitch-black waters lurked danger and a path to transcendence. Behind them, the Black Tide swept forward like a deadly fuse, driving countless lives ever onward. In this mysterious world where the supernatural existed alongside the ordinary, building ships and fleeing the Black Tide were humanity’s only options. F 1.2kReads6.9Score115Shelves
31. 381 网EN Online Game: God-Tier Assassin—I Am the Shadow! 网游：神级刺客，我即是暗影！ One for Three Yuan三元一只Sports5.3M WordsOngoing [Online game, assassin, game merges with reality, stats-focused] The mysterious game Godforsaken arrives. Players can kill monsters to gain lifespan, then spend that lifespan to bring their in-game abilities into reality! And so the supernatural descends, and disaster spreads across Blue Star! In his previous life, Qin Feng and his younger sister, Qin Xiaoyou, grew stronger until they were among the world’s top hundred. In the end, though, his star-chasing sister gouged out his eyes to give his 256.1kReads9.1Score30kShelves
32. 382 全 Everyone Transmigrates to a Fantasy World: I Craft Ancient Gods by Hand 全民穿越玄幻世界：我手搓古神 Amber Button琥珀纽扣Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsOngoing [Beast Taming] [Farming] [Cultivation] [Evolution of All Things] [Everyone Transmigrates] [Fantasy World] [Shelters] [Survival] [Ensemble Cast] The sun-chasing star dragon, clad in scales and armor, pokes its head out from the river of stars. The mighty Cangming Naga raises towering waves as it hunts shark-merfolk in the surf. The scarlet terror bird, hunter of dragon beasts, spreads its feathers in the dense forest. The tidal island whale, which bears up the land, roams freely through the ocean 80.5kReads8.4Score9.3kShelves

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    Highly recommended! It's the only survival-themed novel I can actually follow. The world-building is vast, and it's currently over 400 chapters.

33. 383 海 Survival at Sea: The Female Lead's Combat Power Is Off the Charts 海上求生：女主她武力值爆表了 Nannan Who Loves Shredded Potatoes爱吃土豆丝的南南Sports1.4M WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Survival for All + No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Stockpiling + Infrastructure Building] [The heroine is the strongest person in the world, bar none] [She's no self-sacrificing saint. Many choices are made for the benefits they bring] The world changes overnight. A mysterious System descends, and people across the globe transmigrate to a world of survival. You start with a raft, and must fish for all your resources. Your family is nowhere to be found, and loneliness lasts fo 4.2kReads8.9Score342Shelves

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    A nationwide survival adventure at sea unfolds, with the protagonist's rebirth informing the nation beforehand, laying a crucial foundation for Xia Kingdom's powerful rise in the survival world.

34. 384 求 Survival: Don’t Let Me Grow Flowers, or I’ll Pick a Fight with You 求生：不让我种花我就跟谁急 Yu Yichen于一尘Sci-Fi & Apocalypse211k WordsOngoing [Global survival + leveling up + disasters + skills + farming] After transmigrating to a world of survival, the first thing he had to do was choose a shelter. The area was surrounded by endless yellow sand, without a speck of green. After finally finding a relatively safe spot, he planned to settle down, grow flowers, and quietly become a big shot. But the System rated this place as a beautiful, verdant spot ideal for putting down roots? Never mind. He’d just focus on steady growth! 37Reads—Score118Shelves

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    In a post-apocalyptic wasteland where everyone is vying for a good shelter, the protagonist simply wants to find a place to grow flowers and live a peaceful life. He chooses a desolate outpost, but the system says it's a perfect place to settle down, creating a stark contrast.

35. 385 海 Ocean Survival: My Raft Leads to Peach Blossom Sanctuary 海上求生：我的木筏通桃源 Spring Breeze Brings Warmth春风送暖Sports2.0M WordsCompleted When she woke up, the world had turned upside down. Countless people had entered a game called Survival at Sea. From the start, all they had was a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Every supply had to be caught on a line. Sharks, giant beasts, bitter cold, hurricanes, and merciless hunting between people. Survival became incredibly difficult, and supplies were scarce and precious. Lu Xingchen entered the game and obtained a god-tier pocket dimension on her very first day: the Peach Blossom Sanctuar 63.9kReads9.1Score7.2kShelves

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    Amazing!! The first book is already finished, what a master!

36. 386 重 Back to Road Survival: I Went All Out from the Start and Became Number One 重回公路求生我开局猛干成了榜一 Dao Sang道桑Sports586k WordsCompleted [Road survival + raking in supplies + living well + pets] The heroine is clear-headed and independent, plans every move carefully, and isn’t a self-sacrificing do-gooder. When a road survival game arrives, Jiang Li, who has no parents to dote on her and is seriously ill, weeps with joy. At last, she can escape her circumstances and start over. The reality is that she drew a notoriously unlucky constitution from the start and died on the final day of the newbie protection period. She got ridiculo 949Reads6.6Score113Shelves

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    This is a must-read. It's great, exciting, and the female lead is clear-headed, independent, and not a saint.

37. 387 开 A Small Raft from the Start, All My Gear and Materials Come from Salvaging 开局小木筏，材料装备全靠打捞 LK Li GuoLK李果Sci-Fi & Apocalypse140k WordsOngoing [Wish Fulfillment] [Seafaring] [Survival] [Multiple Female Leads] A wish-fulfillment story with brains, and a harem without a womanizer. Everyone takes to the sea, starting from the very beginning on a small wooden raft, upgrading ships, collecting equipment and items, and adding beautiful women to the harem. Become a powerhouse and a shrewd merchant in another world. Li Haiyang woke up to discover that he had transmigrated into an apocalyptic ocean world where he had to fight for survival. With —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Why are all the things I'm retrieving being weird and strange? I'm really not a pervert! Please stop giving me these weird things! Who's in charge of the air force today? Isn't retrieving things easy? Is this a post-apocalyptic survival game? This is clearly a vacation! All I do is eat, sleep, play ranked games, and collect beautiful school beauties. Isn't this much better than the 996 work schedule and being a beast of burden?

38. 388 发 After Going Crazy, I Became a Hot Commodity for Survival in the Apocalypse 发疯后，我在末世求生成了香饽饽 Rich Little Lamb羊暴富儿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse722k WordsCompleted (Infinite flow + wild imagination + space upgrades + an overpowered golden finger) For no apparent reason, Jiang Youmian got bound to a ridiculous, useless System and became an utterly ordinary seller of [useless items]. But as it turned out... Her sales locations were anything but ordinary. Cities overrun by zombies, islands battered by hurricanes, underground passages swept away by floods, desolate deserts, extreme cold and heat, endless earthquakes, viral outbreaks... Jiang Youmian pressed a 4.7kReads8.9Score620Shelves
39. 389 我 I Can Decipher All Things After I Die 我死后破解万物 Die and Wine骰子载酒Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted In his third year of the apocalypse, Chen Bugu finally used his myth-class ability, [Resurrection], for the first time. Yes, he died. But something went wrong. Instead of coming back to life, he was reborn before it all began. When he awakened the [Resurrection] ability again, he was forbidden from using it to resurrect himself repeatedly. This time, the ability he awakened was the unheard-of virus-class ability, [Crack]. “A thief stole a divine power and secretly forged it into the seed of a vi 6.1kReads8.3Score583Shelves

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    The full-name survival game was released in stages, not on the same day. The protagonist is reborn with dual talents.

40. 390 震 Shocking! My Boyfriend Turned Out to Be the Horror Dungeon Boss 震惊！男友竟是恐怖副本BOSS Tuoba Dumpling拓跋饺子Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Supernatural + Two powerful leads + Horror-game instances + Lighthearted and funny + Boyfriend is the BOSS + Devoted husband + Both are virgins] On her birthday, Shen Jiahe’s boyfriend told her that the number of players entering horror-game instances had surged, and as the instance’s big BOSS, he had to work overtime and couldn’t come home. Shen Jiahe laughed in anger. He could have just said he was cheating on her! Instead, he came up with such a ridiculous excuse! She dumped the scumbag that 51.4kReads9.2Score5.9kShelves
41. 391 全 Global Ice Age: I Built a Shelter for the Apocalypse 全球冰封：我打造了末世庇护所 Strolling Through a Sea of Flowers漫步花海中Sci-Fi & Apocalypse243k WordsCompleted In 2030, global temperatures soared abnormally, plunging the world into a scorching heat wave. The heat claimed countless lives in India, while Europeans scrambled to buy air conditioners and fans. People thought it was just a brutally hot summer, unaware that it was only the prelude to the apocalypse. Zhang Qing was an ordinary 26-year-old office worker. His child had just turned one month old, and his wife was a university classmate. He had a secret no one knew: every few days, he dreamed of a 1.1kReads—Score107Shelves

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    A new post-apocalyptic book, with an online IQ.

42. 392 求 Survival: The Top-Ranked Girl Is Making Money Every Second! 求生：榜一她每时每刻都在赚钱！ Peach Frozen Snowman桃子冻雪人Sports1.2M WordsOngoing Overnight, everyone is transported into a survival world. Luo Anning binds herself to a mysterious trading System and draws the chance to use a second account from the start. She thinks she'll be able to dominate the survival world with an alternate account whose stats are maxed out. Instead, the System mistakenly assigns Luo Anning, who has just recovered from a bad cold, to the retirement survival zone. She can only pitifully pick up a fishing rod and fish for crates, planning to fend for hers 18.1kReads8.9Score2.7kShelves

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    The main character in this book is extremely intelligent, while the female lead is a businesswoman who prioritizes profit.

43. 393 谎 Ashes of Lies 谎言烬 Laughter in the Distant Rosy Clouds天边远霞笑Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsOngoing “One day, we will meet again. Once we learn the true secret of the key, we will journey to that mountain-and-sea paradise in our hearts!” In the endless river of time, a mysterious key has no known form or meaning. Could all of this be a lie? What is the Divine Song? What is a Primordial Spirit? Does the Void Song really exist? A continent drained of its vitality has swallowed countless secrets. The mellow fragrance of wine that has aged through a lifetime of reincarnation has given rise to th 1.2kReads9.4Score157Shelves

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    The content is excellent, and everyone's intelligence is on point.

44. 394 全 A Sect for Everyone: I Awaken a Hundredfold Multiplier 全民宗门：我觉醒百倍增幅 Xushan Painting须山画Urban588k WordsOngoing [A sect for everyone + sect-building + tactical battles + cultivation at school + thrilling power fantasy + face-slapping comeback] The age of universal sects has arrived. Anyone can establish a sect and compete for resources, disciples, territory, and fortune. While everyone else is fretting over finding a single odd-job disciple, Gu Ming awakens an ability that multiplies everything a hundredfold. Cultivation techniques are multiplied a hundredfold; resources make his sect's foundations surge; 320Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Gu Ming led his core disciples to establish four major departments: combat, formation, logistics, and medical care, and resolved the crisis of sect division using a "main sect and branch sects" system. Just as the sect system was taking shape and preparing to enter universities, Su Qingxue appeared late at night and handed over the Chen family's blacklist. It turned out that the Chen family's true goal was not to destroy the sect, but to steal the Creation Spiritual Vein within Gu Ming!

45. 395 游 Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵：我称帝了玩家才穿越 Xiao Chu Still Hasn't Slept潇楚还没睡Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing [Transmigrating ahead of time + political scheming + dynastic power struggles + succubus + worlds merging] This book is also known as [I, the Empress's Fiancé, the Strongest Villain Behind the Scenes]. After waking up, Xia Chen finds himself logged into the mysterious game from his previous life ahead of schedule, starting out as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Zhendong. What? I have a younger brother named Xia Hao, who seems to have a mysterious bone inside him? It looks just like the lege 467kReads9.1Score47.2kShelves

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    The first book is highly recommended; everyone who's read it raves about it! [Admiration] The later books are a bit more original and are also highly recommended. Those interested can check them out. [Kiss]

46. 396 异 Another World: That's Too Much! Starting from Scratch to Earn Contribution Points 异世：过分了，从零开始搞贡献值 Raise a Little Blue Cat养只小蓝猫Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [The opening can be read as an NPC being reborn + growing from weak to strong + stockpiling goods in various otherworlds + one-of-a-kind adventures in different worlds + romance + cozy vibes?] An Jiu was reborn in someone else's body. A barren wasteland, a strictly ranked beehive, sixth-class citizens scrambling to get their three meals a day, and a monthly trip to an altered world to gather supplies. Clenching her fists, she knew that if she wanted enough to eat, she had to... Fight! Like! Mad! 8.1kReads9.1Score887Shelves

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    1, 2, 3: Apocalyptic Survival; 3, 5: Game Invasion; 4: Highway Survival. No low intelligence, you have both brains and strength.

47. 397 公 Highway Survival: From the Start, I Had an SSS-Rank Fortune-Telling Talent 公路求生：开局SSS级算命天赋 Qiao Qiao Pickled Vegetable Yu乔乔酸菜瑜Mystery304k WordsOngoing [Road survival + rule-based horror + CP with Bai Junshan, one-on-one romance + a team] [The transmigrate-into-a-book plot in the story is a clue, not entirely real] An endless road chasing the sun, where everyone must fight to survive. Countless unknown supply stations line the road, each one a terrifying urban legend that claims lives. Wu Luo draws an SSS-rank Witch class from the start and gains a talent skill: Divination. She also receives a companion item: a single copper coin. Wu Luo has an 2.8kReads6.8Score439Shelves

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    ✨✨The female protagonist transmigrates three years into a road trip survival game, where she immediately draws an SSS-level wizard talent. This talent can be upgraded; initially, she can only perform divination, but she uses it to avoid many traps set by the rules. There's a male protagonist involved. Soon after the road trip survival game begins, the female protagonist discovers she's transmigrated into a book and becomes a nameless passerby.

48. 398 从 Leveling Up From Wild Monsters 从野怪开始进化升级 Can I Give You My Life?命给你行不行Sports3.5M WordsCompleted The first layer of the nine-layer virtual reality game, Nine Heavens, opened to a spectacular reception, taking the world by storm within a single day. Lu Chen unexpectedly lost his character and began evolving and leveling up from a level-one gnoll? Kill more species to gain new talents! Obtain talent fragments to raise your talent level! As the quality of his prefixes improved, from ordinary to strong to very strong and beyond, his base stats skyrocketed! Player A: That monster's prefix is ove 5.5kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
49. 399 做 Carpentry, Mud Pies, and Roadside Survival: Her and Me 做木工，玩泥巴，公路求生我和她 Silent Clock静音时钟Sports645k WordsCompleted [Everyone’s Survival + Vehicle Upgrades + Treasure Chests + No Romance + Growth-Oriented Female Lead] Features: Broadly speaking, this is a strong female lead novel with no romance. She has teammates and isn’t a lone wolf, and by the end the whole team is female. Content warning: The female lead and supporting women each have growth arcs from multiple perspectives, and their characterizations have flaws in the early stages. In broad daylight, Song Yu transmigrates without warning. The haughty ga 1.9kReads9.1Score350Shelves
50. 400 时EN Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手，邪神也得给我跪下！ Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.7M WordsOngoing [Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov 707kReads9.4Score51.8kShelves

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    Of these, the fourth one is definitely worth watching, the first one is also good, and the others are ones I'm watching myself, and I think they're all quite good.

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