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1. 451 废 Wasteland Swordsman: The Unclaimed Blade 废土剑士无主之锋 Ren Zhi仁之Sci-Fi & Apocalypse421k WordsCompleted The old civilization was destroyed, technology regressed, and humanity returned to the age of cold weapons. In this wasteland overrun by ferocious beasts and bandits, the protagonist has no supernatural powers and is no invincible hero. With only a knife and a clear head, he struggles to survive amid the brutal power plays between rival factions. From investigating the truth behind the old world's destruction to building his own faction and restoring order to the wasteland, this is no wish-fulfi 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The background of this one is that after the destruction of high-tech civilization, mankind returned to the wasteland of the cold weapon age.

2. 452 暴 Blizzard Apocalypse: Surviving in a Wasteland Shelter 暴雪末日：废土避难所求生 Shan Xun山寻Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.3M WordsCompleted [Blizzard Apocalypse] [Survival] [Shelter] [Stockpiling Supplies] [Farming and Construction] [Resource Scarcity] Overnight, Lu Shen finds himself in a blizzard apocalypse. Extreme cold, hunger, radiation, mutated creatures... It is a dark, post-apocalyptic world where society has collapsed, laws have crumbled, the climate has gone haywire, and resources are scarce. The only way to survive is to build a life around a shelter: gather supplies, create a safe haven, grow crops, withstand extreme wea 65.5kReads7.1Score5.8kShelves
3. 453 虽 Though Undying, I Am Powerless 虽为不死，却是无力 bmodSci-Fi & Apocalypse675k WordsCompleted Wasteland, post-apocalypse, transmigration, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, and xuanhuan. No female lead. It probably isn't an invincible protagonist story, though in a way, it kind of is. Zhang Sheng, an immortal who cannot die, was sunk beneath the sea in concrete. After a long passage of time, he escapes by chance and discovers that the world has changed beyond recognition. Civilization has collapsed, and the world has become a wasteland. I've borrowed a few ideas from Zhou, but it shouldn't count 169Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Wasteland Highway Article, To You Who Are Immortal

4. 454 重 Reborn in the Interstellar Era: Choosing to Become a Pharmacist 重生在星际选择成为药剂师 Long-Tailed Rabbit长尾兔子Modern Romance3.4M WordsOngoing Chen Fangzi died young from overwork. She had nothing when she died: no house, no savings, no lover. She arrived in the underworld radiating the resentment of an overworked wage slave. A small accident happened when she went to be reincarnated, and she gulped down the Meng Po soup after just one taste. If Chen Fangzi had known she’d be reincarnated on a garbage planet, she would have asked Meng Po for another bowl of soup. If she was going to forget, she wanted to forget everything, rather than 298.8kReads8.7Score50.1kShelves
5. 455 核 Nuclear War Apocalypse: A New Dawn in the Wasteland 核战末世：废土新曙光 Tianshi Kuibiao天豕魁杓Sci-Fi & Apocalypse850k WordsCompleted [Post-apocalypse + Communism + Radiation + Metro + Mechs + Shelters + War + Mutated Animals] [No supernatural powers, no System, one female lead] A purely science-fiction apocalypse novel, and a quality read. The main plot follows the development of different shelters in the wasteland. At its heart are a red sci-fi world, a realistic portrait of post-apocalyptic society, and the ideological currents that surge after order collapses. It depicts a nation and its people working together, still sear 33Reads8.8Score—Shelves
6. 456 浪 Wasting Things Makes Me Stronger? So What If I Waste a Little More? 浪费就变强？我浪费亿点怎么了 Love Cola So Much太爱可乐Urban110k WordsOngoing [Satisfying read + face-slapping + high-martial arts + lunatic + siblings + single female lead + brothers + System + not invincible + please stick with it for a few chapters, my dear readers] Nobody knows why Yu Bao always likes to wreck things. Everyone calls him a lunatic, but their insults help him rise to fame. Yu Bao: I only waste a tiny little bit. Why are you all getting so worked up? Many years later... Everyone: Sir! Stop wrecking things! We can't keep cursing you! A reporter asks: Sir, —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This is a nice book

7. 457 开 Bitten from the Start, How Am I a Skeleton? 开局被咬，我怎么是骷髅？ bmodSci-Fi & Apocalypse254k WordsCompleted When the apocalypse breaks out, Si Wang wakes to discover that he has become a skeleton, completely out of place in a city full of zombies. Oh well. If I can’t be a zombie, being a skeleton isn’t so bad. New book alert! No saintly protagonist, no mindless plot. Please read with confidence, everyone. The story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance… is my fault. The pace may be a little slow, so please bear with me. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 458 末 Apocalypse Snail: A Little Conscience, but Not Much 末世蜗牛：有点良心，但不多 Uncultured, zz有辱斯文zzSci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted [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 8.6kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves

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   It's an apocalyptic theme that I've never seen before, it's very novel, and the characters in it are very real.

9. 459 被 Wasteland: Everyone Who Hears My Thoughts Gets Slaughtered 【废土】被听心声嘎嘎乱杀 Shi Mu十木Modern Romance780k WordsCompleted [Reverse Mind-Reading Book + Beloved Baby + Wasteland Survival + Power Fantasy] Xu Youyou transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character whose own grandmother smothered her to death, and whose identity was stolen so she could serve as a stepping stone for the heroine's entire family. Xu Youyou looked at her mother, who had suffered for years. [Mom, that scumbag dad is busy taking care of his mistress and her child.] Her mother awakened. Xu Youyou looked at her second father, the 729Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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   [Wasteland] 🍁This book is also available, and the book shortage is here! 🍁When you arrive in the wasteland and become a baby, you will be cared for by your grandmother at the beginning. Become a springboard for the heroine's family. 🍁The family could actually hear her voice and started killing her!

10. 460 丧 Zombie Apocalypse: Metal Conquest 丧尸末日：金属征服 bmodSci-Fi & Apocalypse529k WordsCompleted Kill zombies, dig out crystal cores, level up, no System The zombie apocalypse arrives. The virus runs rampant, living things evolve, and humanity struggles to survive. The evolved among humans are humanity’s last hope. Li Mingxian, a withdrawn and timid young man, gradually grows stronger in the apocalypse. Will humanity still have a place to survive? A new writer and a new story, just giving it a try and writing for fun. Please go easy on me, thanks. I’m really asking you, I’m sensitive, and I 180Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 461 世 World Bulletin: The Infinite Train's Master Has Arrived 世界通报：无限列车之主降临 Big Lazy Fish Adventurer大咸鱼冒险家Sci-Fi & Apocalypse99k WordsOngoing [A Vast, Original World] [An Adventure of Blood and Tears] [Dark Humor] [Thrills and Heartbreak] [Awakening] [Not Grimdark] My name is Liming. I’ve survived in this wasteland for a long time. I must not die before I reach the end. After the gods died, the fog descended. It was the remnant divine power leaking from a sleeping Mad God, entwined with the dying obsessions of six billion dead. It covered the continent, eroded reason, twisted flesh, and turned the entire land into a hunting groun 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Treasures discovered by gold diggers

12. 462 末 The Apocalypse's Rules of Survival: Good and Evil 末日善恶生存法则 Lake Toya Already Exists洞爷湖已经存在Sci-Fi & Apocalypse228k WordsCompleted Gritty and dark; a light harem; a light touch of the System. The male lead is usually a bit of a space cadet, but utterly ferocious in a fight. He's kind at heart, yet he grew up eating people. He wants to save everyone, but keeps killing people instead. His priorities: little sister > saving the world > saving others > himself. A note foretells every ending. [You will personally kill everyone you love] [And you will, in the end, become a god] [Worshipped by a swarm of bloodthirsty ants] [They w 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The writing is good, the world view is huge, and there are no logical flaws.

13. 463 红 The Red Moon Opera Troupe 红月戏班 Hello, Mr. Jiang你好江先生Sci-Fi & Apocalypse649k WordsOngoing After the red moon rose, the world became a wasteland. Shen Xigu was an opera singer. With a three-stringed instrument and a blindfolded musician, he walked into the last lights of the Five Great Cities. Every city had an opera stage. Every stage hid a shadow puppet. The Weaver Girl, Zhong Kui, Nezha, Lady Meng… They weren’t props. They had once been alive. Behind every puppet was a life swallowed by the red moon. He collected the puppets. With every one he gathered, he took on more of someone e 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In the apocalypse, eternal night covers the entire land. Red soil and strange shadows threaten all survivors. While the protagonist struggles to collect food rations to survive, he accidentally obtains a mysterious shadow puppet with a beating heart.

14. 464 一 A Deputy County Chief Rebuilds China from the Start of the Apocalypse 一介副县长，末世开局重建华夏 Yaosi Lingjiu Wuyáo妖肆翎酒勿摇Sci-Fi & Apocalypse141k WordsOngoing [Low Martial Arts] [Tower Defense] [War] [National Destiny] [Unapologetically Wish-Fulfilling] [Decisive, No Saintly Mercy] Reborn 24 hours before the apocalypse begins, I, Dong Xingwu, deputy county magistrate of Zhaoyu County! In my previous life, I was torn apart by a tide of zombies while protecting the people, forced to watch civilization fall. This time, when the machinery of the state grinds to a halt because of the virus, I will be the highest authority! While my former colleagues are st 5Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    🔥Breaking news [laughing evilly], rebirth in the doomsday, I, the deputy county magistrate, have a showdown! No more pretending, I take over the entire county and start with an armored division. In my previous life, I stood by the people. In this life, I will directly restart civilization! Don't ask why, just ask about red faith and Chinese speed! Let's see how I, a deputy county magistrate, can rebuild China on the wasteland.

15. 465 血 Blood and Blades: Star Wars Storm 血与刀：星战风暴 A Yu A Yu Ah Ah Yu阿宇阿宇啊啊宇Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted [Mecha] [Farming] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Female Lead] [Everyday Life]“The warfront doesn’t need heroes. It only needs beasts that survive until tomorrow.” But you’re determined to smash that bullshit rule! When your mecha burns, your flesh and blood become your blade. When the world turns its back on you, your lone courage becomes your banner! Amid this raging tide of steel and corpses, only the fire in your bones can rekindle the embers of civilization! Face the apocalypse with nothing but bl 26kReads8.1Score2.8kShelves

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    The mecha wasteland writing is very good [please take a closer look]

16. 466 废 Above the Wasteland, I Build a Billion-Dollar Fortune with My Spatial Realm 废土之上，我靠空间获得亿万财富 You Should Know君须知Sci-Fi & Apocalypse704k WordsCompleted (Everyone has supernatural abilities + one-on-one romance) The apocalypse arrived without warning. Su Yan became an orphan in an instant, awakened a supernatural ability, and was bound to a System. But she wanted nothing more than to die, and refused to complete the System's missions. After she severed the connection, the System threw her onto an abandoned planet. On this wasteland, the longer Su Yan survives, the more strange ability-users she encounters. The road home is like a tightrope: one 1.5kReads7.6Score103Shelves

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    Read this book to survive in the wasteland, it's a new idea

17. 467 废 Wasteland Scalper: I Rebuild Civilization with Yiwu Trinkets 废土黄牛：我用义乌小商品重塑文 June XY六月XYSci-Fi & Apocalypse367k WordsCompleted A thousand years from now, the everyday objects we use today will have become rare and priceless treasures! A backscratcher will be a divine scepter! A washbasin will be a sacred vessel of covenant! People of the future will be endlessly fascinated by the mysteries of the past millennium. In 2025, terminally ill young man Zhang Wei wakes after a failed cryogenic experiment to find himself lying on a conveyor belt headed for an incinerator. The unlikely thing that saves his life is the yellow rub 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can read this book. Although it has just been opened, the setting is quite interesting. There is no time travel, no system. It is the story of a modern man who wakes up in the wasteland after being frozen.

18. 468 重 Reborn in the 1970s: My Hunter Ex Won’t Stop Chasing Me 重生七零，猎户前夫追着跑 Ripples on Still Water静水涟漪Modern Romance142k WordsCompleted Tomato Original + Rebirth + Period Setting + Spatial Dimension + Adopted Daughter + Ex-Husband + Military Officer + Rugged Man + Building a Business and Getting Rich In her past life, Ji Xiaoli, an adopted daughter, was sold to a hunter by the so-called grandparents and uncle she called family. She died in agony during a difficult twin birth, while her adoptive mother was abandoned in a woodshed and died of illness. Even her betrothal was stolen from her! Reborn, Ji Xiaoli tears into the Ji fami —Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 469 末 Apocalypse Theseus 末日忒修斯 Copycat K复制人KSci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsCompleted When a tsunami swallows skyscrapers and civilization is reduced to islands in an endless sea, what is the one thing you can rely on? In 2024, the apocalypse wasn't a prophecy. It was reality. In an age of mass revelry and entertainment at all costs, no one listened to the warnings from the depths of the ocean. Only Su Mingzhou, an ordinary university student obsessed with the history of seafaring, chose to believe in that one-in-ten-thousand chance. He staked all his hopes on a four-meter woode 118Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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    Survive alone in the wasteland of the ocean, while the land is a chaotic war. Let's see how the protagonist stands out.

20. 470 七 Reborn in the Seventies: I Used My Pocket Dimension to Marry the Old Village Chief 七零重生，携空间改嫁老村长 Ripples on Still Water静水涟漪Modern Romance443k WordsCompleted Tomato Originals + period setting + reborn + pocket dimension + devoted to each other In her previous life, Xia Xuqing ignored her mother's advice and gave up her education to marry He Wenhao. Little did she know their marriage had been a scheme from the start. In the end, Xia Xuqing was killed along with her unborn child by the ungrateful wretch she'd raised with all her heart and soul. Reborn, Xia Xuqing swears she won't be the He family's unpaid workhorse anymore. She'll settle every score an 4.1kReads8.3Score598Shelves
21. 471 舍 Too Stubborn to Die 舍不得活 Luan Dao鸾刀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse268k WordsCompleted She woke up in a petri dish, with “Number Zero” carved into her chest. She had no memories, no past, only a fate that left the world hunting her down. They called her the cure, the only key that could seal the rift to the Abyss. They called her hope, humanity’s last answer. But her body was being corrupted. Her left eye had turned the color of the Abyss, and the whispers of the mutated filled her ears: “Take us home.” The Chief wanted her sacrificed. The Abyss wanted her to stay. Everyone was wa 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    When writing about Gu Shen, I always think of the dead tree in the wasteland. It is neither beautiful nor tall, but it grows new leaves every spring. That's who she is.

22. 472 跨 Across Time and Space, I Love You 跨越时空，我爱你 The Long Night by Your Side漫漫长夜伴随着你Modern Romance16k WordsCompleted Across Time and Space, I Love You —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In this complicated world, people are often surrounded by endless flattery and cunning conspiracies, and their hearts long for a trace of purity and sincerity. It is precisely based on this background that this novel carefully constructs a series of love that spans time and space with its wild imagination, aiming to bring an unprecedented spiritual baptism to readers. The lingering and pathos love story depicted in the novel is so sincere and profound. It is not only a compensation for the shortcomings and regrets in real life, but also a deep exploration and praise of the beautiful aspects of human nature. It is like a clear spring, slowly flowing into the hearts of readers. While being moved, people can also deeply appreciate the beautiful truths that may not be noticed in daily life, thus awakening the infinite yearning for innocence, kindness and love deep in the heart.

23. 473 废 Wasteland Survival: The Scavenger Sisters Are Unstoppable 废土求生：拾荒姐妹无敌了 Cola Frozen Lemon Tea可乐冻柠茶Sci-Fi & Apocalypse72k WordsOngoing [Scavenging + Everyday Salvaging + Farming + Slow-Paced Daily Life] She opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated to the wasteland era. After narrowly surviving death time and again, she discovers that she is actually the dimwitted eldest daughter, abandoned by her own father. What kind of hellish start is this? What! This drafty tin shack is my home? Well, at least I have a roof over my head. Later, she meets her neighbor Lin Xiaoyu. The two of them scavenge and fight monsters together, lo 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The wasteland novel I've been following recently, come here!

24. 474 穿 Transmigrated: Thriving as a Single Mother in the Wasteland! 穿越之：我在废土单身生育真香！ Thanatos of the Canal运河的达那都斯Modern Romance373k WordsOngoing [Niche subject, slow pace in the first five chapters. Realistic, subverts tropes] [Groveling ex + single motherhood + female solidarity + unconventional approach + focused on understanding human nature and oneself, never fawning over others] Matriarchal society with female supremacy Yun An of Blue Star never wanted to marry. She enjoyed the good life every day, and after her parents passed away, her only wish was to have a daughter. But before she could make any plans, Yun An transmigrated to a 165Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    🍒It fits the bill. This is a wasteland group portrait novel. It not only writes about the heroine's family, but also other people who have lived together since the end of the world. A large group of people help each other and live together in the wasteland!

25. 475 重 Reborn as Yuan Kongye 重生原空夜 Rain Beneath the Empty Sky原空夜下的雨Urban945k WordsOngoing After dying at the hands of Zhang Yi, the king of playing it safe, Yuan Kongye is reborn at the moment the apocalypse begins and she first gains her ability. Given another life, she resolves to change her fate and take the cautious route, seeing who can play it safer, her or protagonist Zhang Yi. She kills the immortal Phoenix ability user and numerous other powerful foes, gains an ability through the Ice Soul, and finally kills the king of playing it safe, seizing his formidable space-time abil 835Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend these books. The new books have just been released. I hope they can save the book shortage. The other two are recommended masterpieces. If you haven't read them, you can check them out.

26. 476 植 The Vegetative Patient Transmigrates 植物人穿越了 Light-Chasing Beauty追光丽人Ancient Romance331k WordsCompleted An accident leaves a 17-year-old girl, in the bloom of youth, in a vegetative state, though her consciousness remains perfectly clear. She feels that she is not dreaming, but that her consciousness has transmigrated. She embarks on a fantastical journey that feels like a dream. After overcoming countless hardships, she opens several shops, then a factory, and becomes one of the wealthiest merchants in Gusu City. Will she also find a good marriage? Read on to find out... —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This modern time travel book is so interesting!

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