Apocalypse Survival Stories Focused on Building Up a Base and Upgrading a Wooden Cabin 全民求生 基建 小木屋升级 为主的小说

1. 51 航 Seafaring: From the Start, I Contracted a Whale 航海：开局契约一头鲸 Mu Zi Ao Feng木子傲风Urban522k WordsOngoing At twenty-eight, Gu Qianfan became the youngest captain in all of Hong Kong. He accidentally activated the Ocean Module System and had to form a pact with a guardian beast within 72 hours. Following the route his grandfather logged thirty-five years ago and the clues his father left twenty years ago, he transmigrates across the world's oceans and discovers that the sea is conscious. The fragments of myth swallowed by the ocean have all settled in the “Eye of the Tide”: Jingwei's stones, Icarus's 78Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This one is pretty good.

2. 52 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 73.1kReads8.3Score5.6kShelves

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   These are the ones I'm currently following. Some others were good at the beginning, but I dropped them midway because the updates were too slow and the quality wasn't great. These are currently just sitting in my "fish pond" (a term for reading a lot of books on the internet). You can check them out by looking at the titles; I'm too lazy to explain further.

3. 53 全 Global: Surviving on a Floating Island, I Can See the Hints 全民：浮空岛求生，我能看见提示 What Should I Do Tomorrow?明天该干嘛呢Sports1.9M WordsCompleted [Farming + building + progression + tower defense + multiple heroines] Synopsis: All of humanity transmigrates to a world of floating islands. One person, one island, an unknown sky. There is no food or water here, only a floating island that can be steered through the air. Everyone is an island lord. Nobody knows whether death or opportunity will come first, and all they can do is develop their islands as best they can while facing storms, torrential rain, scorching heat, and bitter cold. Zhou 35kReads7.4Score6.5kShelves
4. 54 全 Global Age of Exploration: Who Touched My Land? 全民大航海：就是你动了我的地？ Clear Skies over Jiuzhou九州清晏Sports2.0M WordsCompleted [Survival]+ [High-Seas Adventure]+ [Adventure]+ [No Female Lead]+ [World-Building]+ [Ensemble Cast] After working himself to death playing a farming game, Xu Ye found himself inside an ocean survival game. With a max-level survival talent and a profession that should have been perfect for the game, all Xu Ye wanted was to lie flat and do nothing. While everyone else fought desperately to earn points so they could leave, Xu Ye spent every point he got on lotteries. [You obtained a blueprint for a 1.7kReads7.9Score166Shelves
5. 55 国 National Fate: A Biological Aircraft Carrier Still Counts as an Aircraft Carrier, Right? 国运：生物航母也是航母吧？ Not Yet, Not Yet, Future未未未来Urban1.5M WordsOngoing [Raft Evolution] [Seafaring] [Parallel Universes] [Infinite-Flow] [Team] [No CP] [Mystery] (The world unfolds as the protagonist explores it, rather than following familiar tropes) A comic adaptation is out! This isn't a traditional national-destiny survival story, so please give it a few more chapters ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ Renyi transmigrated from the apocalypse. "Wait, what do you mean, an apocalyptic national-destiny game set in a parallel world? (눈‸눈)" "Wait... you're saying all I have to do is fish? 112.3kReads9.2Score13.2kShelves

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   These are all survival-themed videos I've seen that are pretty good.

6. 56 禁 Attacks Are Forbidden? I’ll Slaughter All Races with Passive Skills 禁止攻击？我靠被动杀穿万族 Invincible Little Train无敌小火车Sports875k WordsOngoing The battlefield for the ascension of the myriad races has arrived. Humanity is forced to fight, and countless lives are lost. Liu Xuan, a top-tier gamer, volunteers to join the battle. He plans to crush the opposition with his skill, only to receive the hidden class [Pacifist]. He cannot attack or use active skills. Thankfully, he gains a passive ability with every level. And so, Liu Xuan cuts through the battlefield of the myriad races with nothing but passives! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You rec 2.4kReads7.9Score153Shelves
7. 57 边 Edge: A Beast Girl Collection Game That Starts with a Mouse Girl 边缘：从鼠娘开始的兽娘收集游戏 Mound Fox冢狐Anime Fanfiction1.8M WordsOngoing [Beast-Eared Girls] [Lots of Beast-Eared Girls] [Loli from the Start] [Multiple Heroines] [Science Fiction] [Slow Burn] [Colony Development] [Raising and Nurturing] [RimWorld] [Edgeworld] When he woke up, Jiang Ling found himself lying in a hibernation pod, having been taken to a planet on the very edge of the galaxy. He had also been brought to the year 5500 AD. It was a lawless, chaotic place without order or government. On a planet like this, Jiang Ling, an ordinary person from the 21st centu 75kReads9.2Score8.8kShelves
8. 58 末 Apocalypse Survival: I Stock My Safe House Full of Divine Blind Boxes 末世求生：神明盲盒囤满安全屋 Tutu the Big Monster图图大怪兽Sci-Fi & Apocalypse789k WordsCompleted The rating just came in! It’ll slowly go up! A heads-up before you start: lots of female characters! The heroine isn’t evil, and the protagonist doesn’t have much plot armor. If that bothers you, don’t read. (Post-apocalyptic survival + safehouse building + stockpiling and farming + no romance + multiple-instance Infinite Flow) After wishing for “a place of my own” at Yonghe Palace, I was “assigned” somewhere that very night: dumped into a post-apocalyptic survival game. From the start, I had o 10.7kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves
9. 59 社 Surviving as a Socially Awkward Shut-In: I Win by Predicting What Customers Want 社恐求生：我靠预知顾客需求躺赢 Pepper Cheese擂椒芝士Sports1.4M WordsCompleted [Survival Game] + [Business Management in the Early Game, Infrastructure in the Late Game] + [No Romance, All Ambition] + [Uncontested No. 1] Everyone transmigrates into a survival game where supplies are scarce and danger lurks everywhere. To stay alive, everyone has to scrape by running market stalls. The moment Ren Hongdou arrives, she looks up at the starting game ID floating above her head: [Socially Anxious Mangosteen]. She falls silent. Socially anxious? Not a chance. Only her name is soc 7.3kReads7.5Score1.2kShelves
10. 60 公 Road Survival: From the Start, All I Have Is a Bed? 公路求生，开局一张床？ Rain, the Evening Grows Dim雨亦阑珊Sports688k WordsOngoing (The rating system just opened, so the score will gradually rise. Feel free to check it out.) [Loads of wild ideas! No romance + Infrastructure Building and Stockpiling + Food and Secret Identities + Road Survival + A Touch of Mystery] A road-survival game, and from the start, you're bound to a bed! Mu Xi looked at everyone else's speeding off-road vehicles, then glanced at her own “personal vehicle,” piled high with snacks and pillows, and fell into thought. Why does my road-survival game fe 3.1kReads8.2Score421Shelves
11. 61 魔 The Witch's Farm: Build a Home in a Survival Game 魔女的农场：生存游戏建造家园 Nanbei Yuan南北鸳Fantastical Romance1.4M WordsOngoing [No Female Lead] [No Romance] [Everyone Survives in a Western Fantasy World] [Building and Farming] [Lone Wolf] Su Mo opened her eyes and found herself in a massive Western fantasy survival game. From the start, she had a 2x2 patch of soil, an axe, and a fishing rod. She needed to obtain building blueprints and establish her own territory. With a Strength stat of 1, even carrying a crate of water was exhausting. It was a nightmare start to a survival game. After killing a slime, she obtained a s 99.1kReads8.5Score13.9kShelves
12. 62 无 Endless Icefield: Three Toolboxes from the Start 无尽冰原：开局三个工具箱 King of Grape Mochi提子麻薯大王Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsOngoing [Survival Game] [Game Invasion] [Frozen Apocalypse] [Building Maniac] [Cute Pets] [Stockpiling] [Game Dungeons] The countdown begins, and the frozen apocalypse descends. Everyone is instantly teleported to an endless ice field. From the start, all they have is a campfire on the verge of going out. The only supplies they have are “what they’re wearing” and “what they’re holding.” The wealthy hoarders who’d stockpiled mountains of rice, flour, cooking oil, and even monopolized entire supermarkets 9.3kReads8.4Score730Shelves
13. 63 木 Raft Survival: I'm Determined to Build a Mouse Utopia 木筏求生：我致力打造鼠托邦 Little Seven Sounds七小音Sports1.8M WordsOngoing [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Farming] [Infrastructure Building] [Satisfying Survival] [Growth] [Leveling Up] She wakes up to find the world submerged beneath the sea. Everyone is forced to take part in a “maritime survival game.” From the start, all she has is a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Everything she needs must be caught. Hunger, monsters, natural disasters, betrayal... People struggle to stay alive in this game. The beginner’s gift pack grants a mutation to one item you carry, turn 32.4kReads8.6Score6.3kShelves
14. 64 在 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 Ice Cola Drink Substitute冰可乐代喝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 96.8kReads9.4Score14.1kShelves
15. 65 领EN Lord: God-Tier Traits, Recruiting the Fallen Angels of Original Sin 领主：神级词条，招募原罪堕天使 Old Five of Fleeting Life浮生老五Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsOngoing (The rating just came out, so it’ll rise later. Definitely a satisfying read: no toxic drama, no frustrating angst, and at least a little logic!) [Lord] + [Troops] + [Conquest] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Building] + [Hoarding] Su Ye transmigrates to a world where everyone is a Lord. Here, Lords rule everything, and becoming a Lord is the path to godhood. From the start, he awakens the talent Supreme Sovereign, with the first trait: Echoes of Good Fortune. Echoes of Good Fortune: Whenever the Lord’ 32.9kReads7.9Score898Shelves
16. 66 求 Survival Game: I Own a Lake Island 求生游戏：我有一座湖心岛 Just One Bowl of Winter Melon, Corn, and Pork Rib Soup恰一口冬瓜玉米排骨汤Fantastical Romance728k WordsOngoing [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Cute Pets] [The heroine never falls behind other survivors and eventually reaches the top] While conducting field research in the mountains with her advisor, she is caught up in the global event that drags everyone into a survival world. There's no time to mourn the modern life she's lost. Jiang Lanyue zips up her sturdy shell jacket and decides to start by finding the perfect spot to place a shelter for herself. No one k 77.2kReads9.3Score8.9kShelves
17. 67 末 Apocalypse Game: From the Start, I Have a Bed 末日游戏开局一张床 Qian Chengtu千乘土Sci-Fi & Apocalypse380k WordsCompleted [Ordinary people + no golden fingers + leisurely pace + funny everyday moments + stockpiling, stockpiling, stockpiling + maybe just a tiny bit of luck] Ordinary people venture into an apocalyptic game world: three people, one dog, and a double bed. No System, no inventory space, no golden fingers of any kind... Fine, then what's our goal? Si Te: “Survive! Stock up! Take care of my wife and kids!” Ma Lisu: “Get eight-pack abs!” Si Te: ????? Sima Jianguo: “Drink milk and grow tall!” 301Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    The story of a family of three entering the game while asleep and building their little home.

18. 68 全 Everyone Transmigrates: From the Start, One Island, with All Supplies Drawn by Lottery 全民穿越，开局一座岛物资全靠抽 Old Corpse of Green Mountain青山老尸Eastern Fantasy158k WordsCompleted [Full transmigration] [Ocean exploration] [Island upgrades] [Faction conflicts] After transmigrating en masse, Yang Wei, a 996 worker, gains an SSS-rank talent: the Lucky Prize Wheel. The ocean is home to all kinds of unknown creatures, while the land is occupied by various factions. He must gather supplies, upgrade his island, and survive. Along the way, he will also encounter eccentric merchants and terrifying Lovecraftian creatures. I, Yang Wei, keep spinning and spinning, but why do I always 1.5kReads—Score169Shelves

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    It looks nice; you could add a bookshelf to it.

19. 69 全 Everyone's Duo Survival: Upgrade the Cabin and Get Close to the School Belle 全民双人求生：升级木屋校花贴贴 Super Little Yellow超级小黄Sports620k WordsCompleted [No System + Natural Disasters + No Goody-Two-Shoes Hero + No Formulaic Plot + Cthulhu + Rules-Based Horror + Age of Chaos + Infinite Flow] Everyone on Earth transmigrates to an unknown planet to take part in a two-person survival game. Every pair starts with a small wooden cabin. They must constantly gather resources and upgrade it to defend against unknown dangers. And Fang Han’s partner turns out to be his gorgeous junior from school, the campus belle. The planet is home to all kinds of creat 28.1kReads8.1Score3.1kShelves

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    I've already read and am recommending the Little House Survival series of books.

20. 70 从 From a Little Cabin to the Top 从小木屋开始走向巅峰 Lazy Old Master懒大爷Sports1.0M WordsCompleted Overnight, billions of people from Blue Star transmigrate to another world and are swept into a brutal selection game. From the start, they get a small wooden cabin, and everything else has to be earned through hard work. While everyone else is freezing and starving, Wang Kuan is already enjoying a spread of eight dishes and a soup... As he stays ahead of the pack, he also gathers a crew of underlings. Zhao Daqiang: “With Strong Bro around, you'll never be short of even a single piece of wood!” 1.8kReads7.0Score100Shelves
21. 71 全 Global Survival: What Do You Mean, Crook? Get on Your Knees and Call Me Boss 全民求生：什么奸商？跪下叫老板 I Have Two Swords我有两把剑Sports622k WordsCompleted [Global Survival] + [Power fantasy] + [Leveling up] + [Comedy] + [No female lead] Su Bai woke up to find himself in a world of Global Survival. From the start, he had a small wooden cabin, a battered stone axe, and a randomly acquired [Greedy Merchant] talent. The talent’s grade was low, but fortunately it could be upgraded continuously, and he could gain a new trade-related ability every day. On the first day, everyone was desperately begging for fire. Su Bai seized the opportunity and made a f 670Reads7.9Score119Shelves
22. 72 别 While Everyone Else Risks Their Lives to Survive, I’m Delivering Food Like Crazy 别人玩命求生，我送外卖杀疯了 Colorful Pure White五颜六色的纯白Sports137k WordsOngoing [Ocean survival + delivery System + raft-building + farming and development + faction-building + leading humanity to success + no female lead] [After a lifetime of hard work as a food courier, he becomes a tycoon in a survival world] Ten billion people from Blue Star are thrust into a mass raft-survival game. Chen Xiaocong starts with no tools, but luckily he awakens the “You Delivered?” food delivery System. While others fish for treasure chests in the ocean and rejoice when they get a bottle o 6Reads—Score102Shelves

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    [Nationwide Survival + Food Delivery System + Raft Building + Farming and Development + Building Power + Island Conquest and Modern Industrial City + No Female Lead] Billions of people on Earth are involved in a nationwide raft survival game. Chen Xiaocong starts without any initial tools, but luckily activates the "Delivery" food delivery system! He gets a rider's three-piece set: a wooden paddle, a permanent insulated delivery box, and a rider's uniform! Returning to his old trade in the survival world, the rewards for each delivery are much higher than the few dollars he used to earn! [Delivery Reward: Motorboat] [Extra Reward: Attribute Points +1 +1 +1] [Express Order: Large Space Shell] ... The food delivery system is upgraded, and he can recruit riders. Chen Xiaocong passively earns various resources; the more riders he has, the higher his income. From then on, he leads the seas, conquers islands, and transforms them into livable automated industrial cities. ... What? Mermaids are using humans to forge weapons and as fertilizer for their crops? Sea creatures are stealing five thousand years of human culture? That's a question for the humans on the surface of the sea—whether they agree or not! ...

23. 73 全 Global Survival: The Heavenly Dao Targets Me from the Start 全民求生：开局被天道制裁 Cheng Xi Is So Hard to Write澄曦好难写Eastern Fantasy65k WordsOngoing [Apocalyptic Disaster] [Global Transmigration] [Survival] [Upgrade Your Survival Base] [Disaster] [Mobile Survival Base] Everyone transmigrates. On New Year's Day, Blue Star explodes, and humanity appears on the perilous Qiyuan Continent. Before transmigrating, Mother Blue Star grants every human a golden finger using her own vital essence. Feng Fan's golden finger shrinks the length of objects by a hundredfold. When he uses it for the first time, its power is detected as too outrageous, so the —Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 74 末 Doomsday Game: I Get Stronger Just by Staying Home! 末日游戏：我宅在家里就变强！ It's Adam是亚当呀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Shelter] [Management and Construction] [Rotating Apocalypses] [Cautious Male Lead] An apocalyptic game descends, and people across the globe are randomly assigned shelters. The disasters rotate every month! Extreme heat! Absolute cold! Falling meteorites! Plant mutations! Monsters on the rampage! Extreme disasters sweep the globe. People have to keep venturing out to explore and gather resources, frantically upgrading their shelters just to cling to life amid countless catastrophes. Su Yi is ju 28.8kReads7.9Score1.9kShelves
25. 75 万 Surviving Across the Myriad Worlds, I Can Bestow Power Upon Worlds 万界求生，我能赋予世界之力 Won't Fade into the Ordinary不会湮于平凡Sports185k WordsOngoing [Farming + Growth + the Myriad Worlds + Survival for All + Not a Saint, but Has a Conscience] [The protagonist may not be the strongest, but is definitely among the very best] Zhao Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated into a game fraught with danger. At regular intervals, everyone was sent to different worlds, where they faced different disasters. Blood mist blanketed the land, a domain of mutated corpses, frozen soil beneath an endless night, the eerie resurgence, a barren was 13.5kReads—Score2kShelves

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    I wrote this myself, and I hope you experts can give me some feedback.

26. 76 领 Lord Survival: Starting from a Deep-Sea Base 领主求生：从深海基地开始 I Have a Sea我有一片海Sports1.3M WordsCompleted [Lord] [Survival] [Doomsday] [Eerie] [Disasters] [Construction] [Farming] This is the graveyard of civilization, where the remains of countless worlds lie buried. The death of a civilization is as natural as the rising and setting of the stars. In this world surrounded by apocalyptic despair, staying alive has become an impossible wish. Hunger, darkness, chaos, monsters, eerie forces, ancient gods, the supernatural, mist, deities, sparks of hope, the deep sea, holy cities, and endless apocalypti 21.3kReads8.2Score1.9kShelves

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    The last one is a dual male lead story. The first two are male-centric stories without a romantic pairing. I'm quite picky, so I won't make you feel uncomfortable. Don't worry, remember to give me a like! (^_^)

27. 77 两 Two Deities, Saving Each Other 两个神祇的互相救赎 Autumn Waters and Cool Bamboo秋水竹凉Two Male Leads284k WordsCompleted A socially anxious young man had muddled through life for nineteen years, thinking things would stay that way. Then a blind System dropped out of nowhere, forcibly bound itself to him, and dragged him to another world to become a sect leader. Looking at the barren wasteland before him, devoid of spiritual energy. Shen Mingji: …? System: “This place is just waiting for you to build a sect!” Shen Mingji: I’m socially anxious. System: “That’s fine. You just have to stay here and check in. Leave the 1.3kReads9.3Score189Shelves
28. 78 宿 Dorm Survival: Please Stay Alive! 宿舍求生，请活下去！ Crane Ering鹤儿ingMystery604k WordsCompleted [No Romance + Growth + Survival + Tower Defense] Bai Xiao transmigrates into a dormitory survival game. Once night falls at six o’clock, the dormitory is the only safe place. Outside the dormitory corridor, heavy footsteps and monsters’ roars draw closer. They could break through the door at any moment and devour everyone inside. The only way to survive is to upgrade the dormitory door, the turrets, and the little beds. Bai Xiao wants to live. She has to survive. Current members of the main 12.9kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves

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    I wonder if anyone has played "Haunted Dormitory"? It's similar to that, a tower defense survival game! It's really fun. Each player chooses a room and a bed, and every night ghosts will knock on the door, giving you items to equip your room. 🍄‍🟫

29. 79 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score183.1kShelves

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    Survival and infrastructure building stories can be written like this! The protagonist upgrades his cabin by tricking the gods, the plot twists are so numerous that you can't guess the ending, and the ensemble cast is incredibly intelligent, making for a super enjoyable read.

30. 80 第 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 Wei Jie伪戒Urban6.1M WordsCompleted After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.6kReads9.6Score22.9kShelves
31. 81 全 Nationwide Train Survival: I Have a Full-Map Navigator 全民列车求生：我有全图导航 Monocyte Pudding单核细胞布丁Sci-Fi & Apocalypse312k WordsOngoing (Just got its score) [Everyone’s Survival + Train + Lone Wolf + Information Advantage + Decisive Combat + Everyone Awakens Abilities + One-Man Army + From Falling Behind to Taking the Lead] Hundreds of millions of people were dragged into an underground train survival game. From the start, each person got one train. Ahead lay endless dark forks in the tracks. Players had to use the train’s core to choose a stop or a nearby track. Would they blindly pick high-level stops to maximize their gains, 2kReads6.0Score146Shelves

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    (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Give it a little push.

32. 82 诸EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted 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 519.5kReads9.7Score69kShelves
33. 83 无 Surviving in an Endless Forest: I Can Extract Any Item's Attributes 无尽森林求生：我能提取万物词条 Potato-Filled Bun土豆馅包子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsOngoing [Global Survival]+ [Endless Forest]+ [Everyone Gets Traits]+ [Lordship and Base-Building]+ [Faction Wars] Everyone woke up to find they had transmigrated into an endless forest. To survive, they had to keep the campfire in their territory burning. The day it went out would be the day they died! From the start, everyone randomly awakened a trait. Some awakened [Iron Stomach (White)], letting them ignore mild toxins and eat dirt to tough out the initial famine; Others awakened [Lush Body Hair (Gre 84.6kReads6.7Score9.4kShelves
34. 84 御 Beast Taming: I'm a Veterinarian, Not a Fighter 御兽：我是个兽医，不打架 Flowers Drift Away on a Summer Night夏夜花离Urban379k WordsCompleted The ninetieth year after the spiritual qi revival. The whole world entered the "Beast Taming Era": school admissions, employment, warfare, and city rankings all depended on pet beast strength, the hardest currency of all. Beast tamers were the mainstream profession. Combat beast tamers held the highest status, breeders came next, and pet beast doctors were the least respected, third-rate profession. They couldn't make money, had no social standing, and were mocked as "people who treat livestock. 9Reads—Score109Shelves
35. 85 航 Sailing for Survival: Building an Empire from a Raft 航海求生：从木筏开始建造帝国 Ye Shang Mumu叶上木木1.7M WordsOngoing One morning, billions of people wake up to find themselves scattered across isolated islands, forced to take on a survival challenge. From the start, each person has a rickety boat and can only gather resources from nearby islands! No one knows what the next island will hold: supplies or monsters. My name is Mu Mu, and I have survival prompts. This era is mine to command! [Head west. There's a small island rich in resources.] [Strong winds are blowing from the south. They'll make you lose at lea 26.2kReads8.3Score1.9kShelves

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    This book is very interesting, from the plot to the setting.

36. 86 我 There Are a Bunch of Undying Old Folks Inside Me 我的体内有群老不死 Flowers Drift Away on a Summer Night夏夜花离Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing In this world, immortality is a curse that devours everything. The higher a cultivator's realm, the faster they are assimilated by the laws of Heaven and Earth. “Ascension” is nothing less than self-destruction. Chen Xuan, born with a “Pure Body,” was branded a good-for-nothing because he couldn't sense spiritual energy, and was cruelly offered up as a sacrifice by his sect. On the brink of death, he discovered that he was the only sanctuary in all of Heaven and Earth. When dying patriarchs and 135Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 87 屯 The Foolish Hunter from the Village 屯子里的傻猎户 The Ticking Keyboard键盘上的滴答Rural Life1.8M WordsOngoing [Pocket dimension, multiple women, widows, 1950s, providing for the family, logical, true to the times] The story begins in the summer of 1955, in Kaoshantun, a village in northern China. The protagonist transmigrates into the body of a simple-minded man, starts from the very beginning by chatting with a widow as part of his daily routine, and awakens a hunting radar System. With it, hunting is a piece of cake for him. Settle scores with those who wrong you, make money when you can, provide for 19.3kReads7.5Score1.7kShelves
38. 88 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival: My Sequence Can Evolve Without Limit 灵气复苏：我的序列能无限进化 Flowers Drift Away on a Summer Night夏夜花离Urban191k WordsCompleted In 2026, a global event known as the "Spirit Calamity" brought about a spiritual qi revival and rewrote the laws of the world. Some people awakened and became "Awakened Ones," gaining supernatural powers. At the pinnacle of power lies the path to the "Sequences," an evolutionary ladder that allows people to gradually master the laws of the world. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 89 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 book is still being updated; the remaining three books are complete and available for reading.

40. 90 废 Wasteland Ocean Survival: From the Start, I Bound a Synthesis System 废土海洋求生，开局绑定合成系统 Peach Banquet蜜桃盛宴Sci-Fi & Apocalypse161k WordsOngoing [Global Survival] [Infinite Synthesis] [Wasteland Ocean] [Beast-Eared Girls] Everyone transmigrates to a dark red wasteland sea. Everyone else starts with a plank and has to scavenge for all their gear. Xiang Qi starts with two rusty knives, and his golden finger arrives! The Infinite Synthesis System activates! Synthesis begins! [Synthesis successful! Obtained a refined steel knife!] Scrap steel plates become an alloy fortress, and low-grade potions synthesize into miraculous gene elixirs. From 1.8kReads—Score223Shelves

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    New book is now available! Welcome to read! Regular updates! Please give me your feedback and encouragement!

41. 91 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 22.8kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves

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    1. *Island Survival: Everyone's Fishing, I Alone Gain Epic Talent* This one is amazing! In a nationwide island fishing frenzy, the protagonist alone gains an epic talent. While others struggle to survive, he uses his superior talent to fish up all sorts of rare resources, easily dominating the island. His rise to power is incredibly exciting, so be sure to check it out! 2. *Apocalypse Game: Buying the Whole World from the Subway Station* Highly recommended! With the apocalypse upon us, the protagonist can magically shop from the subway station, acquiring everything from supplies and weapons to technology. A thrilling and suspenseful journey through the wasteland, full of imaginative scenarios, not to be missed! 3. *Apocalyptic Tycoon: I Really Didn't Want to Collect Too Many Goddesses (Energy Planet)* With the apocalypse upon us, the protagonist becomes a tycoon with an energy planet, surrounded by high-tech gadgets and goddesses. A captivating story, combining the thrill of post-apocalyptic survival with a lighthearted and humorous romantic subplot. Completed, so read with confidence! 4. "What's it like to survive on an island with three female gamers?" A lighthearted and humorous island survival story. The protagonist teams up with three female gamers, resulting in constant laughs and heartwarming, fun daily moments. A must-read for stress relief. Come and witness their amazing island adventure!

42. 92 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 50.2kReads8.8Score3.3kShelves
43. 93 全 Global Island Survival: I Can Hear the Thoughts of All Things 全民海岛求生：我能听到万物心声 Old Elephant Smokes老象抽烟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted Everyone transmigrates to an island, embarking on a thrilling fight for survival. Han Feng gains the ability to communicate with all things from the start. Any object he speaks with can gain sentience and begin to evolve. The thatched hut devours straw and evolves into its ultimate form: a fortress among the stars. The engineer's shovel devours metal and evolves into its ultimate form: the Chaos Mountain-Cleaving Shovel. The magnifying glass devours glass and evolves into its ultimate form: the 18.4kReads7.9Score1.2kShelves
44. 94 全 Global Wasteland: I Synthesized a Top-Tier Shelter 全球废土：我合成出了顶级避难所 Half a Pickled Fish半只酸菜鱼Sports1.1M WordsCompleted [Female-Oriented] [Surviving Natural Disasters] [Late-Game Infrastructure Building] [Growing System] [High Combat Ability] [No Romance] Everyone transmigrates to a wasteland continent, where a survival System ushers them into a grueling struggle to stay alive. On this chaotic wasteland planet, disaster seasons alternate with mild seasons, while terrifying beasts and calamities are never far away. Survivors start with nothing but a thatched hut and a survival System. Freezing cold that can numb y 3.6kReads8.7Score368Shelves

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    The first two books are finished. The female protagonist in the first book has a synthesis system; the female protagonist in the second book has strong hands-on abilities; the female protagonist in the third book is the only one with dual attributes; the female protagonist in the fourth book randomly shares talents every day; the female protagonist in the fifth book is sent into a survival game ahead of time.

45. 95 全 Global Survival: My Territory Is the Only Pure Land 全民求生：我的领地是唯一净土 Sang Zhi Ming桑枝明Modern Romance371k WordsCompleted [Global Survival] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Strong Female Lead] [City Lord] The entire world is transported to another realm. From the start, everyone gets a small wooden shack, and they have to earn all their own resources. Some people are on islands, some in deserts, and others in primeval forests. They chop down trees to upgrade their wooden houses and stave off hunger with wild grass and berries. Those who survive for a month can summon their families to join them. While others ar 8.4kReads9.1Score814Shelves
46. 96 让 You Asked Me to Open a Repair Shop, So Why Am I Starting a Mecha War? 让你开维修店，你掀起机战风暴？ The Road to a Flipped Salted Fish咸鱼翻身路Urban5.9M WordsOngoing "Sonny! Mom and Dad are leaving. Don't miss us!" The young man stands at home, staring at the letter in his hands, completely frozen. "Sonny! Mom and Dad aren't that heartless. We got you a little repair shop. You'd better work hard!" Young man: ... "You call this rundown warehouse a repair shop?" Just then, the System awakens, and the dilapidated warehouse before him transforms into the best mech repair shop on the planet. "Boss... isn't your price for repairing mechs a little too high? It's ju 72.8kReads8.9Score8.5kShelves

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    I think these are all pretty good.

47. 97 海 Island Survival: Why Does the Real Heiress Always Top the Leaderboard? 海岛求生：真千金她为何总是霸榜 New Snow on Cangshan苍山新雪Sports1.0M WordsCompleted [Everyone for themselves + natural disasters + infrastructure building + dungeon realms + magic elements + fake and real heiresses + no saintly heroine + no romance] After cutting ties with the wealthy parents who had only just acknowledged her, Qin Zhen is pulled into an island survival game. When the System asks if she wants to be matched with her parents, Qin Zhen says, “Of course not! I just made a clean break with them!” When Qin Zhen first enters the game, all she has is a spatial backpack 15.1kReads8.4Score2kShelves
48. 98 末 Apocalypse Survival: A Safehouse from the Start 末日求生：开局一个安全屋 Enlightened Dimension悟维空间Sci-Fi & Apocalypse420k WordsOngoing [Tags: Dark Wasteland + Racial War + Careful Step-by-Step Progress + Vast World] The world was torn into isolated islands by gigantic mutated plants, while deadly gray fog loomed like a countdown to death. Humanity thought this was a fight for survival at the end of the world, unaware that to a higher civilization, they were merely lambs waiting for slaughter in a "testing ground." Here, there are lofty enforcers of the Night Demon race, swarms of Blood-Year Spiders that feed on humans, and eve 427Reads6.6Score102Shelves

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    From zombie apocalypses to Night Demons, Blood Spiders, underground bases, and illusionary conundrums, the world-building expands ever larger, and the sense of crisis intensifies. The novel not only delivers the oppressive feeling of post-apocalyptic survival but also introduces various alien forces, factional conflicts, and the intricate rules of trials, keeping the story fresh at all times. The protagonist progresses from maintaining a safe house to becoming a lord-like figure capable of directly confronting high-level monsters, making the story increasingly thrilling as it unfolds. Yyrd

49. 99 公 Highway Survival: Sign In for the King of Fortune from the Start 公路求生：开局签到气运之王 Fine Days and Warm Sun良辰暖日Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Everyone transmigrates into a road-survival game. Each person starts with a tricycle and speeds along an endless road. Along the way are supply crates, treasures, and unexpected encounters, as well as countless dangers. Disasters shift without warning, strange beasts swarm, people’s hearts are impossible to read, and killing never ends! The players seem trapped in a hopeless situation… Fortunately, the game gives everyone a chance to draw a talent skill. On her very first day, Ji Xinghan gets a 8.1kReads8.0Score946Shelves
50. 100 废EN Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers 废土藏身处，从下水道开始升级 The Chasm of Desire欲望鸿沟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted [‘Wasteland: Fortress of Civilization’ loading complete! Survivor status activated.] [Survivor Yu Yuan, starting area selection complete! Selection result: Riot District] After accidentally entering a wasteland world, Yu Yuan was forced to begin a hardcore struggle for survival. Threatened by urban thugs, extreme disasters, player raids, and invasions of civilization, he had only one choice: do everything in his power to build and fortify his shelter. Fortunately, Yu Yuan obtained fate cards and 90.5kReads8.4Score9kShelves

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    The novel setting allows each person to live in their own world, with interesting achievement paths, invasion and counter-invasion, where the loser loses everything, and the future clashes between civilizations are something to look forward to!

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