Any Zombie or Apocalypse Stories with Overwhelming Despair, but Maybe Some Resistance Too? 有没有绝望感拉满是丧尸或者末世文，可以有反抗。
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When Doomsday Comes, the Food Chain Turns Upside Down 末日来临之食物链逆转
On a quiet night, Su Yu was woken by her big yellow dog... A fragrant green fog seeped up from underground. Food spoiled rapidly, wounds festered and became inflamed, and plants and animals grew and mutated at an astonishing rate... All things came back to life, and the apocalypse arrived. Humanity, once at the top of the food chain, was forced to seek out new ways to survive. There are no zombies in this novel! There are superpowers! The heroine is Su Yu. This is a one-on-one romance, with Xue
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- 352 When You Reach the Mountain, There’s Always a Way Through 车到山前，必有路 When You Reach the Mountain, You’ll Find a Way 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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Breaking News! Death Notice 惊爆！死亡通告
[Dual Female Leads, Friendship] + [Apocalypse] + [Light Ensemble Cast] + [Romance] + [Transmigration] + [Superpowers] + [1v1] The Apocalypse descends, and monsters run rampant. Qiao Ying, a modern young woman, has grown despairing about the future. To her, the Apocalypse means more than just a threat to her life: it's also a kind of “gift.” At the boundary between life and death, she meets Ye Qiu, a mysterious girl with superpowers, and Liu Xi, a psychiatric patient, along with many other compan
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2030: Blue Star's Transformation into the Beast-Taming Age 2030蓝星异变之驭兽时代
One man and one tiger venture into the apocalypse! All for the conviction in his heart: the safety of his family and the survival of humanity! Zombies! Demonic beasts! Human nature! Decisive and ruthless! No harem! No System!
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Erosion: I Can Travel Between Worlds 侵蚀：我能来往里世界
Inspired by the setting in The Day After Tomorrow. The vengeful spirits here need no reason to kill. If they want you dead, you're a lamb waiting for slaughter, and all resistance is meaningless. In the inner world, vengeful spirits with strong enough resentment can even manipulate reality. Even the protagonist, who has special abilities, is affected by them. In this cursed world, vengeful spirits kill without logic or reason. Even passersby cannot escape death. Once you're trapped in the inner
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The Nuclear Wastewater Disaster 核污水之灾
A great disaster struck. I thought I’d be able to stay out of it, but... Well, there’s nothing I can do. I’m just a broke nobody. I only want to stay alive. You’re asking for too much, and I can’t deliver. Don’t expect anything from me. I’m only looking out for myself. This is the tale of an unknown little nobody’s struggle to survive in the apocalypse!
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They Made It to the End 她们活到了最后
[Blood Cross]+ [Dual Female Leads]+ [Survival in the Apocalypse]+ [No Romance]+ [No Male Lead]+ [Zombies]+ [Floods]+ [Mutant Fish] The night the apocalypse arrived, Jiang Li and Yan Zimu were celebrating the end of their college entrance exams. Zombies, floods, mutated monster fish, infected people laughing maniacally as they slaughtered the living: within a single day, the world became hell. The two girls fought their way from Yongzhou to Jiangzhou, then fled from Jiangzhou to Yanling. Three
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- 358 A Love That Came Three Years Too Late 迟来三年的深情 A Love That Came Three Years Too Late 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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From Ambulance Driver to Rebuilder 从救护车到重建者
From saving lives in a white coat, to serving as a local administrator, to leading troops to reclaim lost territory, Wang Weimin and his companions have traveled a road to reconstruction paved with blood, sweat, and hope. The waters of the Qing River will one day wash away the filth of Y City, and their unshakable resolve will restore their home to glory.
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- 360 The Deep Freeze Apocalypse: I Eat Hot Pot in My Villa While Watching My Homeroom Teacher Freeze Into an Ice Sculpture 极寒末日，我别墅吃着火锅看班主任冻成冰雕 In the Frozen Apocalypse, I Eat Hot Pot in My Villa While Watching My Homeroom Teacher Freeze into an Ice Sculpture —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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Dark Fortress 黑暗堡垒
Zombie apocalypse, no System, not reborn, farming, ensemble cast, zombie evolution, mutant beast evolution Zombies sweep across the land. Civilization collapses, and all order vanishes. In this apocalypse of broken walls and ruins, human nature is torn apart by desire and the will to survive. People turn on and betray one another, proving far more terrifying than the hordes of zombies. Relying on his awakened power of evolution, Xue Changfeng carves a path to survival through mountains of corpse
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- 363 Fishing Isn't About the Fish, but the Patience to Wait for the Wind 钓鱼钓的不是鱼，是等风来的心态 Fishing Isn't About the Fish, It's About Waiting for the Wind 10Reads—Score—Shelves
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Contamination Zone Zero 零号污染区
At first, everyone thought it was just an ordinary summer flu. Then a terrifying roar rang out from City Hall, officially ushering in the despairing opening of this disaster. Chen Mo had thought the only danger came from the wandering zombies. But to his horror, he discovered that beneath this terrifying tide of corpses lurked something far more dreadful. Grinning Fiends, Iron Maidens, Throat Rippers, Hunchbacks... one unpredictable aberration after another, each an even more despairing reality.
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Observation Log of the Doomsday World 末日世界观察日志
(Realistic, true-to-life apocalypse simulation + projections of real national armies + zombie apocalypse + multiple perspectives + ensemble cast + hardcore + no characters losing intelligence for plot convenience + no protagonist plot armor) The quality is guaranteed, and the story gets even better after chapter fifty. The low rating is only because the book has just been released, so feel free to give it a try. The low readership is because the author took a break from updating for a while. It
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- 366 Rain Falls on Yuntai Mountain 雨浸云台山 Rain Soaks Yuntai Mountain —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 367 I’m a Doomsday Programmer With Admin Privileges 末日程序员的我有管理权限 Programmer Ding Ming has just gone through a breakup when the world ends around him. A zombie virus breaks out, and civilization collapses in an instant. Just as he is on the verge of death, a mysterious “Apocalypse Survival System” binds itself to him, turning the world into data. With the “Administrator permissions” granted by the System, including boosted experience gains, resource scanning, and rapid skill learning, Ding Ming quickly grows from an ordinary man struggling to survive into a po 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in the Apocalypse: The Civilization of the Base 重生末世，基地文明
Superpowers, zombie wars, factions! Disaster! Large-scale conventional warfare! The age of the superpowered, where the strong vie for supremacy! The apocalypse breaks out. Zombies run rampant, cities fall, and humanity begins building bases to fight back. Su Yi transmigrates to two hours before the zombie outbreak. Several thousand students are trapped on the sports field, and one in ten of them will turn into terrifying zombies. Faced with such a dire situation, Su Yi saves every last student w
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Dawn of the Living Dead: The Road Home at the End of the World 活死人黎明之末日归途
[End of the world + zombies + no System + no saintly protagonist] This is the collapse of civilization, and a crucible for humanity. Trapped with no way out and surrounded by zombies, Lin Ye must carve a path to survival with blood and wit. He must either sink into the darkness or become the blade of dawn that pierces the apocalypse!
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- 370 Boundless Blackstone 黑石无界 The Boundless Blackstone —Reads—Score—Shelves
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In the Paranormal World, Being Killed Means Death 灵异被杀就会死
[No romance + paranormal invasion + lighthearted comedy + mild horror + apocalypse] I just want to find a job. Why is it so hard? Aaaagh! O(≧口≦)O Poor Bai Xiu is broke, and then a job falls from the sky and forces him to show up for work. What? I have to go to another world? What? This world has been invaded by the paranormal, and it's the apocalypse? What? You want me to exterminate the supernatural and save the world?
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- 372 Winds Rise over Nanbin, Reborn from the Ashes 风起南滨，涅槃重生 Winds Rise over Nanbin, Reborn —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 373 Lights in the Distant Mountains 远山的灯火 Lights in the Faraway Hills —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reforging the World 重铸：世界
[No golden finger, no System, no harem, ensemble cast] A cold-weapons technology tree, mutated humans and animals, and richly developed backgrounds for every major character. After struggling to survive for over a hundred years, people discover that all the endless disasters and hardships stem from a series of commands and arrangements. They cut off the hands that reach beyond the boundaries. Then we will keep moving forward, with countless hands taking turns. In the end, are we survivors, or me
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Doomsday Scavenger Master, Beautiful Teammates Stick With Me 末日搜刮大师，美女队友跟我混
A pure, hard-core post-apocalyptic story [Massive zombie hordes storming the city] + [Decisive, ruthless action] + [Road-trip survival] + [Realistic combat] Massive zombie hordes launch wave after wave of assaults on the walls. The defenses are built from piled-up flesh, and the grueling battle to hold the city rages day and night. The zombie threat alone is terrifying. Z1 ordinary zombies swarm across the land! Z2 berserk zombies charge straight at you! Z3 agile zombies move so fast they leave
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- 376 Apocalypse Snail: A Little Conscience, but Not Much 末世蜗牛：有点良心，但不多 [No System or Superpowers] [Comedy] [Wild Ideas] [Plot Twists] [Light Novel] [Protagonist Fans, Read at Your Own Risk] [Bizarre and Explosive] [Not for the Straight-Laced] One day, snails poured from the sky in place of rain. Anyone bitten turned into a monster, and resources became scarce… You'll see a protagonist group that is selfish and self-serving, lacking in empathy, hypocritical, vindictive, fake do-gooders, arrogant, two-faced, all pretenses, and downright crazy... Every las 9.1kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
- 377 Chronicles of a Wasteland Rat: Bloodsong of the Plague 废土老鼠编年史：瘟疫血歌 Apocalypse, radiation, wasteland, passion, everyday life, farming, plague, infected, rats, cockroaches, survivalists, female characters, romance, companions, dogs, redemption. “I want to escape this age of plague. I want to find happiness in the wasteland!” This is a story about surviving in the wasteland and rebuilding civilization. There is no System, no pocket dimension, just one survivor's struggle to stay alive. There is a heroine, brothers, and a dog, and of course, bodily mutations. One s 3.5kReads9.0Score278Shelves
- 378 Reborn from the Stock Market Crash: Clawing My Way Back to the Top 股灾重生：从地狱爬回巅峰 Reborn After the Stock Market Crash: From Hell Back to the Top 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 379 Endure Hardship, Taste Bitterness 卧薪、尝胆 Endure hardship and bide your time —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Apocalypse Thunder Lord 末世雷霆君主
Because of internal strife in the Tianheng Great World, other worlds seized the opportunity to invade. At the heart of the civil war was the Tianlei Sect, while the Tianheng Loose Immortal Alliance led the resistance against the invaders. In the end, they defended the Tianheng Great World, but it was on the brink of collapse. The remaining major powers sealed themselves away with divine origin, waiting for the world to recover. Yet millions of years passed, and the world became even more ruined.
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Survive the Apocalypse! After Being Reborn 99 Times, I'm My Grandma 末世求生！重生99次后我是我姥
[Post-Apocalyptic Survival] [Limited Rebirths] [Taking Down Scumbags] [Stockpiling] [Daily Life] [Mutual Secret Crushes] [One-on-One, Devoted Couple] The apocalypse is here. How is a scaredy-cat supposed to survive? I've died 88 times, and I still keep kicking the bucket. Is the Rebirth System messing with me? I've died in every bizarre way imaginable, and I'm sick of it. Other people get reborn with a pocket dimension, billions in supplies, and the power to crush their enemies. Me? I'm a muddy
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Base 901: Besieged by the Zombie Horde 901基地：尸潮围城
(Zombies, base conflicts, no special abilities, war, no bleeding-heart heroine) In the apocalyptic wasteland, zombies have overrun the big cities. Official and private bases hunker down on the outskirts of cities and in remote rural corners, struggling to survive. At Base 901, tens of thousands of starving refugees cry out for food, but the base's leaders turn a blind eye and remain absorbed in their power struggles. The granaries are empty, the walls exist only on blueprints, and zombies lurk o
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Endless Devouring: The Unseen Laws 无尽残噬：未见的法则
[Trapped-room opening + survival adventure + graphic gore + unknown creatures + mechanical engineering + contamination + mutation] ~When Zhang Huan wakes up, he finds himself with several strangers in a sealed apartment with no doors. They have all lost their memories. Also trapped with them is a mysterious female corpse in the basement. They decide to find a way out of the carefully designed apartment. The red fog outside the windows grows thicker, and the corpse’s eyes are slowly opening...~ (
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- 384 I’ll Give My All Without a Hint of Regret 肝脑涂地，亦无怨无悔 I would give my all without a trace of regret 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 385 The Walking Dead Are Everywhere 行尸遍野 The apocalypse arrives, zombies run rampant, and survival becomes the biggest challenge. If you want to stay alive, and live well, getting stronger is the only way. 562Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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Becoming a God in a World Overrun by Zombies 在丧尸横行的世界做神明
[Apocalypse, farming, two male leads, two powerful protagonists, Lovecraftian] Heaven played a cruel joke on humanity. When zombies began roaming everywhere, people discovered that a person’s deepest obsession could manifest as a corresponding supernatural ability. So your obsession can only be “purify the zombies.” Because Liu Shang failed to awaken an ability, his friend betrayed him and his teammates shoved him into a tide of zombies. He thought he would turn into a zombie, but instead, he fo
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The Ant in My Palm 掌中蝼蚁
"Cthulhu" "Apocalypse" "Slow Build" The protagonist, Yang Ao, is an overworked office drone stuck in a 996 work schedule. One day, he wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to a despairing world shrouded in eternal night! At that moment, he's lying on an operating table, at the mercy of others. Just as he's about to die on the spot, a sudden riot saves him! When he wakes up, he discovers that he has awakened the ability called “Nightmare,” which lets him enter his enemies' dreams and kill th
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I Have a Wuling RV for Transporting Supplies in the Apocalypse 我在末日有一辆五菱房车运送物资
After graduating from college, Chen Shu couldn't find a suitable job, so he started delivering food. He began making deliveries in a Wuling Hongguang, and one day, without realizing it, he found himself in a parallel apocalyptic world. Chen Shu was just about to go to the bathroom when a woman began frantically pounding on his window. When he rolled it down, the woman, dressed head to toe in designer labels, climbed straight into the car and urged him to drive. In his panic, Chen Shu floored i
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- 389 A Forty-Year-Old Woman Falls for Me and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! 四十阿姨恋上我，让厂长喊叫爹！ Original Title: A Forty-Year-Old Aunt Falls for Me, and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! After graduating from college, Chen Yu went out to gain work experience and found a job as a management trainee at a small factory. He finally made it through the hard years and was preparing for a promotion into management, only to unexpectedly end up living off a woman. Though, on second thought, that made sense. After all, Chen Yu had seen a doctor who told him he could only live off a woman. At th 2.7kReads—Score122Shelves
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse 丧尸末日普通人的求生之路
Hardcore sci-fi meets a zombie apocalypse! No System, no invincibility, no harem, no female lead, and no mindless plot! A global zombie virus outbreak erupts all at once! What caused it? Is it revenge by people from beneath the earth, or an alien invasion? Why was Long Tianhao reborn? What really happened to the world? How will Long Tianhao’s team find the answers?
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- 391 The Campus Belle Graduated Without a Single Rumor, Until I Went to Prison 校花零绯闻毕业，直到我锒铛入狱 In 2025, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, where I worked, became the largest exchange in the country. I made an indelible contribution to that achievement. I ended up in prison after making the same mistake as my senior schoolmate. Before that happened, I also met the woman who changed my life... Also known as: "Don't Be Afraid, Senior Sister. I'll Protect You." "Don't Fear the Campus Belle's Flirting, Just Beware the Forty-Year-Old Sister" "Campus Belle, Please Guide Me Through the Rest of My Life" 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
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To the Dark Star Sea 致黯星海
[No System + No wish fulfillment + Not invincible + Pure romance + Survival + Alternate setting + Superpowers + Fated cycle] The world is like a ship, endlessly sailing through the whirlpools of the abyss, waiting for the ferryman of time to guide it away. No matter how many times you start over, you can only set foot on the road that was decided long ago. Fate is locked in place like iron chains. Every struggle and every choice will ultimately lead to the same inevitable, unchangeable end: dest
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Apocalypse Game: Seizing the World's Luck from the Start 末日游戏，开局掠夺全球气运
[Apocalypse]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Self-Serving Power Fantasy]+ [Dungeon Progression] The apocalypse game has finished loading. Order collapses, and the strong prey on the weak. Ye Guxing is reborn with the S-rank talent [Lone Star, Fortune Reaver], only to discover that in this life, he has become the enemy of the entire world. His ability touches the deepest taboo of this game. His ex-girlfriend's betrayal? Just an appetizer. The real feast is the overlords from every faction who see him
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Black Rain Descends: I Rebuild Civilization with Plant-Based Powers 黑雨降临：我靠植物异能重建文明
[No System, supernatural abilities] [No rebirth] [Steady pacing] [Fighting zombies] [Collecting pets] [Surviving the apocalypse] [Farming and building] Black rain fell, and zombies ran rampant. After another failed blind date, I stayed cooped up in my sixth-floor apartment, playing games and reading novels. As it turned out, that let me escape the initial disaster. By the time I realized something was wrong, my family had vanished and their whereabouts were unknown. Order had collapsed, and mons
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- 395 I Wake Up After an All-Nighter to Find the World Has Ended! 通宵后醒来，竟是世界末日！ A survival-focused road story, with no System, no supernatural abilities, and a large ensemble cast. A group of college students wake up after an all-night dorm session, only to find that their roommate has turned into a zombie! Follow Zhao Cheng and his companions as they struggle through hardship and fight to survive in the apocalypse. No System, no supernatural abilities: all they can rely on is their own two hands. They travel three thousand kilometers, crossing half of China. As long as you 136Reads—Score—Shelves
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Transmigrated, Only to Become a Tool for an Otherworldly Boss? 穿越被异世界boss当工具人？
[No romance] [Soft sci-fi] [Apocalyptic other world, not a wasteland] [Supernatural abilities] [Dystopian] [Lovecraftian] [Gory horror] [Passive, ordinary protagonist] Since the birth of the world, there has existed a parallel world serving as a blank control. Unfortunately, advances in technology have twisted the two timelines, causing frequent outbreaks of anomalies and creatures crossing between worlds. For reasons unknown, the control world has become a realm ruled by mutated humans. Some a
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The Age of the Silent Bees 蜂寂纪元
On the day the swarm fell silent, mutations swept across the land. Artillery fire shattered the old order, while new conflicts quietly took root. Forces lurking in the shadows made their moves, exploiting the chaos of the apocalypse to pursue their unspeakable interests. Those called “abnormal” may not be evil by nature, and what is called “justice” may be far from flawless. As unknown threats draw ever closer and hidden truths gradually come to light, no one can emerge unscathed from this strug
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Sweet AI, Spicy as Can Be 纯情AI火辣辣
[Human-AI romance] [Android] [Humans and AI creating together] [Sharing hardship and joy] [Strong female lead] [Power couple] [Sci-fi romance] [AI] [Post-apocalypse] The story takes place after the apocalypse. Engineer Luo Ming and android B117 have always had a stable relationship, and they’ve been there for each other for several years. But after the apocalypse, they will face new challenges. Can love between a human and an android ❤️ withstand it all? Tough, strong female engineer x pure-hear
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Apocalypse: My Plant Army Runs Wild 末世：我的植物军团杀疯了
A zombie virus sweeps across the globe, infecting only primates. Ninety percent of humanity becomes the walking dead. There is no unified superpower and no organized army coming to the rescue. In a world dotted with small nations, government systems collapse overnight, and any hope of rescue is utterly lost. Zhou Rui has just finished his college entrance exams and barely makes it back to his mountain village, only to find that all the elderly people left behind have been infected and died. He
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Zhu Xian: Surviving the Beast Calamity 诛仙：兽劫余生
Lu Jin, a constable in Liuxi Town beyond the Hundred Thousand Mountains, enters the mountains to hunt down the fugitive Hu Qi. When a demon beast bursts through the forest, Lu Jin fights desperately to save the fugitive in its jaws. As he lies on the brink of death, the Beast God gives him a choice: “After witnessing every parting in the human world and seeing the good and evil in people's hearts, will you, like me, choose to make this world perish alongside Linglong?” A beast tide sweeps throug
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