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1. 151 关 How I Summoned the Fourth Calamity 关于我召唤了第四天灾这件事 Half a Pickled Fish半只酸菜鱼Sci-Fi & Apocalypse685k WordsCompleted [Wasteland Survival] + [Infrastructure Building] + [The Fourth Calamity] + [No Romance] The Fourth Calamity refers to players whose thoughts, actions, and goals in the game are all unpredictable. Luo Zhi transmigrates to Blue Star after the great cataclysm, becoming a noble young lady in a shantytown with a radiation level of 90 percent, on the verge of death. The original owner had no family, no friends, and not even any memories, but she did have a System that claimed it could summon The Fourt 3.9kReads8.9Score494Shelves

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   [Almost crying] ✨✨ The first book, "A Little Bit," was so good! The female lead is cautious yet humane, neither cold-blooded nor a saint, and incredibly proactive. I love her personality so much!!! I devoured it in one go 🍀 The second book, "Wasteland Infrastructure," offers a different wasteland experience.

2. 152 天 Natural-Disaster Apocalypse: A Card-Drawing Game for All 天灾末日，全民抽卡游戏 Meow Emperor喵大皇Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.2M WordsCompleted [Natural disasters + stockpiling + lifespan as currency + cards + no romance] When the apocalypse arrives, lifespan becomes the currency of exchange... It began with nothing more than a gentle drizzle, yet it felt like a declaration that the end of the world had come. One disaster after another followed. Gray fog, scorching sun, bitter cold... Bacteria, radiation, famine... Blue Star, long at peace, entered the apocalypse... the Age of Lifespan. Yun Xi had struggled to survive in the apocalypse 3.7kReads8.7Score380Shelves
3. 153 废 A Wasteland Girl’s Scavenging and Foraging 废土少女拾荒采集 Orange Mama Loves Foraging橙子麻麻爱采集Sci-Fi & Apocalypse271k WordsCompleted Orange, a girl from the 21st century, transmigrates into a 12-year-old orphan in the wasteland. There’s no time to wallow in sorrow! To stay alive, she heads out to forage and scavenge, stocking up on supplies so she won’t go hungry or freeze. A note: This is a wasteland survival story aiming for a realistic, immersive feel, so the heroine won’t use her pocket dimension openly all the time, and she never underestimates anyone. It may not be quite as satisfying as some stories, but the author is 1.3kReads6.7Score101Shelves

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   I highly recommend this book! No romance! It's not the typical get-rich-quick scheme, and there's no invincible female lead. The entire story revolves around scavenging and stockpiling, a true survival story. **Note:** This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment novel!

4. 154 我 We're Fighting for Our Lives in Another World, While You're Farming and Retiring? 我们异世厮杀，你却在种田养老？ A Graceful Swan Enters a Dream惊鸿入梦Sci-Fi & Apocalypse518k WordsCompleted [Farming + Everyday Life + A Little Wish-Fulfillment] This is a slow-paced story. The heroine isn't a powerful, independent female lead, but a rather silly little darling everyone dotes on. [Content Warning: No romance. The heroine is very dumb, with intelligence a little below average.] Blue Star was destroyed, and all of humanity was transported to the Qishi Continent, a hellish arena disguised as a game where people are forced to fight one another. The floating islands had no food or water, a 465Reads8.8Score103Shelves
5. 155 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
6. 156 横 Sweep Away the Contamination, Rebuild the Wasteland 横扫污染，废土新生 Yao Ji Is Not Snow垚吉不是雪Sci-Fi & Apocalypse618k WordsCompleted The rating just came out, and it'll rise as more chapters are released! [Strong female lead, no romance + wasteland + reverse pollution + ensemble cast elements + resistance] In 3035, the wasteland era has begun. Fallen creatures run rampant, and the number of highly polluted humans keeps rising. Xie Anyi unexpectedly transmigrates and binds herself to a pollution-recycling System. Faced with “the Fallen,” creatures that have grown armor but still retain their humanity, she tries to help them. T 2.2kReads8.4Score296Shelves

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   The setting is quite different; it features more female characters, a small ensemble cast, and the female lead grows up very quickly.

7. 157 废 Wasteland Scavenger's Journal 废土拾荒日记 A Little Salted Fish一条小小咸鱼呀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse600k WordsCompleted Li Nuo transmigrated to a wasteland world. Li Nuo was picked up, and the person who found her seemed to be a big shot. Li Nuo panicked. It looked like her identity as an outsider was about to be exposed. Li Nuo relaxed. The big shot became her strongest backer. Li Nuo threw herself into the struggle, determined to make her mark in the wasteland world. 1kReads6.1Score—Shelves

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   [Wasteland + Scavenging + Romance] 🍄Family, this book is super good! 🍁Stranded in the wasteland, she was picked up by a powerful figure at the beginning, so she has to stick close to him! 🍁The powerful figure isn't a pure good person; he's stingy and prioritizes profit.

8. 158 公 Turning the Tables in the Civil Service Exam: Climbing the Ladder from the Interview Onward 公考逆袭：从面试开始一路攀登 Yuanming Xiaoyang元明小阳Urban3.3M WordsOngoing People's affections are as thin as paper, and the world changes like a new chess game with every turn. Li Xiuyuan starts at the grassroots level, driven by a desire to get ahead. He takes one steady step after another, climbing higher with every move! 742.1kReads9.2Score59.8kShelves
9. 159 全 Global Wasteland: I Become a God by Scavenging Trash 全球废土：我靠捡垃圾成神 Tianyin Mobai天音墨白Sci-Fi & Apocalypse371k WordsCompleted [Growth-focused heroine + scavenging + daily life + technology + 1v1 romance] Among the steel ruins, there are no kings or saviors, only scavengers and her sharp-tongued teammate. Jiang Li's daily routine: scavenge, fight mutated beasts, and feed Old Man Lu. Lu Jin's daily routine: repair weapons, calculate probabilities, and complain about Jiang Li. Until they stand at the edge of the abyss. It turns out the wasteland is nothing but a certain madman's petri dish. “This time, we're not changing 9Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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   This post-apocalyptic female-oriented novel is very good. The female protagonist transmigrates at the beginning, her body is rotten in many places due to radiation, and she later develops considerable fighting power. There's also a male protagonist.

10. 160 天 Natural Disaster Strikes: I Can Strengthen Everything 天灾降临：我可以强化万物 Autumn Has Come to the Mountains and Rivers山河已是秋Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted Natural disasters strike and monsters run rampant, plunging the world into famine and catastrophe. Humans assign them ranks and risk their lives to learn the rules for killing them. They, meanwhile, lick their scarlet lips and stare with glowing red eyes, wanting nothing more than to devour every human. The outside world is dangerous. I just want to hide in a safe house. Lin Yu is determined to build himself an absolutely secure domain. Until one day, when Lin Yu decides to go out for a stroll, 33kReads8.2Score2.3kShelves
11. 161 诡 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 Young Master Yanque燕雀大公子Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43.7kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
12. 162 登 The Godhood Game: Starting by Kidnapping All of Humanity 登神游戏，从绑架全人类开始 Lu Ershi San陆贰拾叁Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Not mindless wish fulfillment] [Decisive and ruthless] [Smart protagonist] [High-martial-apocalypse setting] See injustice on the street? Kidnap a vicious bandit and rob him blind. Be even more ruthless than the bandit himself. The world is in chaos? Kidnap a foolish emperor and trade him for a divine martial art, then kill him once you have the technique. Save the Blue Star? Don’t get the wrong idea. I just happened to be passing by. The truth is, I want to kidnap all of humanity! 21.5kReads7.8Score1.7kShelves
13. 163 窝 Pathetic? I Became the Wasteland’s Richest Man by Keeping My Head Down 窝囊？我在废土苟成了首富 Zhen Linglong枕玲珑Fantastical Romance840k WordsCompleted Original title: Wasteland: I Helped the Disabled Big Shot Thrive Surviving in the harsh wasteland is no easy feat. Once a good-for-nothing, she now takes care of her little brother and her disabled neighbor, a cute little guy, while gathering all kinds of precious food and beating up beast kings as she roams between the major bases. 5.4kReads8.5Score523Shelves

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    1️⃣ The male and female protagonists are transported to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The male protagonist becomes a mercenary, while the female protagonist is an ordinary resident of a shantytown. They possess a spatial ability, but their cheat-like abilities aren't particularly powerful; they still have to survive by scavenging. The story leans towards slice-of-life. 2️⃣ The female protagonist is transported to the post-apocalyptic wasteland. She has a younger brother in a resilient group who is incredibly lucky. The female protagonist awakens her own ability to absorb radiation and also develops a storage space. After the powerful elite next door collapses, the three of them live together. The main theme of the novel is still gathering and scavenging. 3️⃣ The female protagonist is reborn as a wasteland native with a half-brother who is a mercenary. She uses her precognitive abilities from her previous life to earn points and change her fate. 4️⃣ The protagonist's family is transported to the post-apocalyptic wasteland. To hide the female protagonist's abilities, the family decides to sign up for a wasteland farm construction project, thus beginning their farming life in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. 5️⃣The female protagonist already possessed a spiritual spring and a spatial ability before transmigrating to the wasteland. Each time her spatial ability is upgraded, she receives rewards and gift packs. The main storyline after transmigrating focuses on farming and improving combat abilities. Later, she can trade with various worlds and travel to different worlds. 6️⃣A zombie apocalypse boss transmigrates to the wasteland with wood-type superpowers. Not long after transmigrating, she finds an amnesiac male protagonist. The current main storyline involves scavenging and gathering. 7️⃣The protagonist's family transmigrates to the wasteland. The parents and two older brothers work together to gather edible plants, earn points to buy land and build houses, striving to improve their family's survival in the wasteland. 8️⃣The female protagonist possesses the ability to synthesize trash, allowing her to create various items. While scavenging for supplies, she finds the injured male protagonist. Later, she and Lan Zhifu struggle to survive in the disaster-stricken wasteland. 9️⃣ The female protagonist transmigrates to a wasteland world and has a check-in system. As soon as she transmigrates to the base, she is assigned a marriage partner. The male protagonist is also a transmigrator, but he was reborn. They get married and live together in the house they were assigned. It can be considered a marriage of convenience that develops into love.

14. 164 末 Doomsday Scavenger Master, Beautiful Teammates Stick With Me 末日搜刮大师，美女队友跟我混 Please, Qiushui拜托了秋水Sci-Fi & Apocalypse467k WordsOngoing 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 256Reads—Score—Shelves

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    There are no fancy embellishments, just a pure road movie where the Japanese protagonist travels along the way, encountering teammates and experiencing many stories. It only features firearms, making it feel like playing an RPG game.

15. 165 重 Reborn in the Spirit Seed World: Every Opportunity Is Mine! 重生灵种世界，机缘全是我的！ Starlight Sword星辰剑光Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted In the boundless ocean, spirit fish are born, and spirit seeds form within them. Spirit seeds are divided into nine ranks. When ordinary people fuse with one, they can become spirit cultivators. Li Changsheng, a seventh-rank spirit cultivator, happens upon a ninth-rank Longevity Spirit Seed. He dies in a self-detonation while fighting his way out, then is reborn in his youth. Fish for spirit fish, obtain spirit seeds, and roam the seas. In this life, he will kill his former enemies one by one, p 5.9kReads8.0Score528Shelves
16. 166 废 Scavenging in the Wasteland to Give Mom a Better Life 废土拾荒带着妈妈过好日子 A Homebody Who Loves Cats, Flowers, and Good Food爱猫爱花爱美食的宅女Sci-Fi & Apocalypse500k WordsCompleted Lu Yao gets into a car accident. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a wasteland, and gains a golden finger in the form of a pocket dimension just as she faces life and death. From the original owner’s memories, she learns that the family has nothing, and she must scavenge to provide her mother with medicine and pay the rent. When Lu Yao gets home, she discovers that her mother has lost the will to live. She can only do her best to rekindle her mother’s desire to survive. From then on, she w 4.6kReads8.9Score417Shelves

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    #Recommending a few post-apocalyptic novels I'm currently reading: In short: Great! 🌵① The female protagonist transmigrates to a post-apocalyptic world, awakens a spatial ability, and spends her days scavenging and gathering. Watch how this lucky girl thrives in this world! 🌴③ Transmigrated into a stay-at-home mom, looking at her adorable son, she vows to make the most of every day with him!

17. 167 重 Reborn in the Wasteland, I Scavenge My Way to an RV 重生废土，我靠拾荒买房车 Sesame Is a White Tangyuan芝麻是个白汤圆Sci-Fi & Apocalypse740k WordsCompleted [Wasteland scavenging + sci-fi fantasy + female lead reborn + ensemble cast + romance] In her previous life, Jiang Yu failed to understand Xue Shen’s good intentions. Thinking he hated her, she did as he wished and left him, then adopted two orphans to fill the void in her heart. She never imagined that after the children grew up, they would join forces to kill her in order to steal her supernatural ability! When she opened her eyes again, she decided to live a different way. A warehouse full of 9.9kReads8.5Score1kShelves
18. 168 废 Wasteland Foraging and Gathering 废土拾荒采摘录 Mo An Ya墨安呀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse257k WordsCompleted Meng Zhen was an ordinary college student who never expected to transmigrate one day into a slum-dweller with nothing to her name, struggling even to get enough to eat. Her parents and older brother are all alive, but in this dangerous wasteland, it’s incredibly difficult for ordinary people to survive in peace. The author isn’t good at outlining, so take your time and enjoy. The heart of this book is family. No matter the circumstances, I’ve always believed people can’t completely cast aside th 611Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    A post-apocalyptic novel where the female protagonist survives by gathering and farming in the wasteland.

19. 169 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
20. 170 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 103.4kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves
21. 171 星 Star Core Reboot: I Rebuild the Interstellar Empire with Players 星核重启：我用玩家重铸星际帝国 Dark Heartflame黑暗心焱Sci-Fi & Apocalypse764k WordsOngoing [Interstellar Civilization + Fourth Calamity + Behind-the-Scenes GM + Exosuits + Mecha + Livestreaming + Dual-Civilization Ensemble Story] When Lin Yuxi woke up, his consciousness had crossed 980 light-years, and he had become the last Keeper of the Flame of a fallen interstellar civilization. There were only 30 days of oxygen left, the satellites were on the verge of failure, and an unknown threat capable of wiping out an entire interstellar empire still lurked in the depths of the star sea. Wi 278Reads7.8Score196Shelves

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    A hardcore interstellar story about the Fourth Cataclysm, featuring players' daily antics, a closed-loop ecosystem for Earth players, and parallel storylines of mech battles and dual-civilization warfare. The ultimate goal is to merge and build a Dyson sphere system to withstand a cosmic-level omnic crisis. [Evil laugh]

22. 172 废 On the Wasteland, a Mom Builds a Fortune with Her Child in Tow 废土之上，宝妈带崽发家成首富 No Desire to Vie for Spring无意苦争春Sci-Fi & Apocalypse137k WordsCompleted Shen Chu, a woman from the apocalypse, was surrounded by zombies. With death closing in, she used up all the luck points in her System to find a way to survive. When she woke up, she found she had transmigrated to a wasteland world and become a mother. A three-year-old child, a ramshackle home, empty pockets, and not even enough money to buy purification medicine. Fortunately, her luck points could recover, and she still had her wood-element ability. In this world without zombies, she would rais 535Reads8.1Score102Shelves
23. 173 我 I Devour Without End in the Wasteland 我在废土无限吞噬 Bouncy Eyes眸弹弹Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.7M WordsOngoing Tang Ao is reborn in a wasteland apocalypse with a rusty kitchen knife from the start, and binds himself to a devouring-and-upgrading System. While other people get treasure chests from killing monsters, he can plunder attributes, abilities, and even memories just by searching corpses. On the first day, a beauty squad mistakes him for a beggar scavenging for trash. By the seventh, they’re all fighting to warm his bed. While everyone thinks he’s just a useless guy with good luck, Tang Ao quietly 269Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommend the post-apocalyptic novel [Sparrow Eater's Masterpiece], it's incredibly good! The protagonist starts with just a kitchen knife and must level up and fight monsters.

24. 174 辐 Radiation: Steel MCV on the Surface 辐射：大地上的钢铁mcv The Fourth Calamity, on a Bad Mental Health Day精神不好的第四天灾Male-Channel Fanfiction676k WordsOngoing When I woke up, I, a proud Soviet Construction Vehicle AI, found myself dumped in an America with a bizarre aesthetic, a wasteland full of atom-punk scrap heaps and mutated giant cockroaches. It’s even more outrageous than capitalism’s own lair! To restore order (and have a little fun along the way), I “recruited” a tribe of natives who could barely figure out how to wear pants. What was the top priority? Teaching them to speak the great Chinese-style English, of course! After all, who could put 459Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    This cheat ability isn't that great, but the protagonist isn't human. As for scavenging, does picking up people count?

25. 175 死 After the Death Trial, I Awakened an Ancient Civilization 死亡考核后，我唤醒了旧文明 Su Yichen718苏亦辰718Urban137k WordsOngoing During a death exam, Lin Yuan is pierced through the chest by a Tier Two demon beast while saving a classmate. Nineteen seconds after his heart stops beating, an ancient civilization support system called DAWN-01 appears in his field of vision. It can predict risks, retrace routes, and calculate the odds of survival, but it cannot heal injuries, fight in his place, or control any device without authorization. From the competition at the martial arts academy to the ruins of an old defense zone, f 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    To share my honest reading experience, the pacing was well-controlled. It captured both the tense survival moments of monster attacks and the growth trajectory of the training camp assessments. The protagonist didn't suffer from forced lapses in judgment during crises; he also got injured and miscalculated situations, often escaping death through on-the-spot decisions, making the reading experience very immersive.

26. 176 丧 Year One of the Zombie Apocalypse: The Gray Mist Laws 丧尸元年：灰雾法则 FlyHsuehSci-Fi & Apocalypse317k WordsCompleted Deep down, everyone longs for the end of the world. A zombie apocalypse story that explores our own lives as the walking dead. To our bodies, destined to rot, and our immortal souls. The first book in the Year of the Zombie trilogy. 72Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Then I must recommend this book.

27. 177 废 A Family Portrait in the Wasteland 废土之全家福 lMo Shou ll末首lSci-Fi & Apocalypse264k WordsOngoing [Wasteland Survival + Natural Disasters + Daily Life + Stockpiling + Foraging + Farming + Romance] Her whole family transmigrates to a wasteland, where they farm and struggle to survive. They venture out to scavenge and forage, working hard toward a comfortable life, with just a little more luck than everyone else. To stay alive, her father and two older brothers scout the way with thick branches to fend off mutated beasts. Su Yue checks the radiation levels on her wristband as she slips into th 394Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 178 废 Wasteland Wizard: Devouring Taboos from the Start 废土巫师：开局吞噬禁忌 So Many Feathers Falling羽落那么多Eastern Fantasy257k WordsOngoing Magic has run dry, and the gods have abandoned the world. On the wasteland, wizards rule by bloodline, while ordinary people are forever beneath their feet. Lin Mo transmigrates into this world as an experimental errand boy for the Black Witch sect. With no magic power, he's branded “spiritless” and sentenced to be sacrificed alive in three days. At the brink of despair, he awakens [Forbidden Devouring]: Devour curses and turn them into magic; devour sorcery and master it instantly; devour forbi 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Wasteland Wizarding Novel

29. 179 废 Wasteland Survival: My Trash Can Synthesize Anything 废土生存：我的垃圾能合成万物 Bingyao Taotao冰瑶桃桃Sci-Fi & Apocalypse330k WordsCompleted [Romance] [Talented but levels up very slowly] [Picking up the male lead in the apocalypse is necessary for the plot. If you don't like it, don't read!!! (Important)] Other people's end-of-the-world abilities can lay waste to the heavens and earth, but Lin Yiyi's ability is... picking up trash and combining it? Then she picks up Ling Chuan, a devastatingly handsome man with off-the-charts combat skills and serious injuries (she brought him home on impulse in the apocalypse (╥﹏╥)), and the diffic 24Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 180 灾 Age of Cataclysm: Dragon and Phoenix Unite to Rule the Wasteland 灾变纪元龙凤合鸣雄霸废土 Purple Firmament Wandering Dragon紫霄游龙Urban157k WordsCompleted In the Calamity Era, a time of catastrophe, a dragon pearl changed Ling Xiao’s fate and awakened him as a Golden Dragon. His younger sister, Ling Xue, awakened as an Ice Phoenix. Together, dragon and phoenix took flight. In an era overrun by mutated beasts, where gods and demons were returning and human nature was complex, Ling Xiao and Ling Xue fought their way through the apocalypse to protect what mattered. They became a God of Slaughter and an Ice Goddess, ruling the wasteland. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Cataclysm, wasteland, awakened ones.

31. 181 废 Wasteland Survival from Scratch 废土，从零开始求生 Song Yuan宋缘Sci-Fi & Apocalypse436k WordsOngoing [Wasteland + Survival + No Romance + Scavenging + Gathering + Stockpiling Supplies + Spatial Storage + Mutant Creatures + Gourmet Food + Traveling Across the Wasteland...] After waking from a deep sleep, Xiyan unexpectedly transmigrated into a perilous post-apocalyptic wasteland. It was hell difficulty from the start: she had no background, no memories, and no idea who she was. Worse, a letter she found revealed that the body she now occupied had belonged to a mindless idiot who had been abandon 687Reads—Score101Shelves

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    This is a new post-apocalyptic novel, and so far I haven't seen any special advantages (maybe it's the kangaroo at the beginning; they all help each other). The female lead's main task is to scavenge and hoard resources every day; all she cares about is stockpiling supplies and living a good life. [Learned something new]

32. 182 废 Wasteland Scavenging, and I Still Have to Clock In 废土拾荒我还要打卡 Chi Hua Yao Yao赤华夭夭Sci-Fi & Apocalypse284k WordsOngoing Mo Yu is dragged by the System into a wasteland, where she meets Yang Rui, who has also transmigrated. In their previous lives, one was a wage slave and the other a ruthless capitalist. In the wasteland, one is a scavenger girl nearly starved to death, while the other is a scavenger boy poisoned by a snake and not long for this world. Taking advantage of the base's favorable policies, they marry and get assigned a home. She wants him to die soon so she can become a young widow with a house; he i 407Reads6.2Score—Shelves
33. 183 没 A Biochemical Apocalypse Without Superpowers 没有异能的生化末日 The Hot Sun Shines on Me火热太阳照我身Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsOngoing [No Superpowers + No Golden Finger + Highly Intelligent Protagonist + Realistic Apocalypse + Military Style + Large-Scale Troop Operations + Epic Battles] The apocalypse arrived. Zombies ran rampant, and the world stood on the brink of destruction. See how Zhong Kui uses his military and strategic brilliance to save a collapsing world, turn the tide, and rescue humanity from disaster, composing an epic saga amid the apocalypse. “No awakened powers. No System cheats.” “This isn’t a mindless pow 30Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    A fantastic zombie apocalypse story! The army and zombies are locked in a brutal battle, leaving behind piles of corpses. Take a look, you're welcome. [Salute][Salute]

34. 184 废 Wasteland Survival: Busy Scavenging, Do Not Disturb 废土求生，正在拾荒的路上，勿扰 Flower Sunset花夕阳Sci-Fi & Apocalypse693k WordsCompleted A slice-of-life story about ordinary people at the bottom of society struggling to survive in a wasteland. Amid intense radiation, polluted water, and mutated animals, see how the heroine manages to stay alive. The heroine only has a tiny bit of a golden finger and a little good luck. This isn’t a power fantasy. She’s a bit weak at first, but gradually grows stronger. Bai Xinran transmigrated to a wasteland world with dangerously high radiation and nowhere near enough food or water. How was an 7.5kReads8.6Score523Shelves
35. 185 钱 Chef Qian's Wasteland Survival Diary 钱大厨的废土生存日记 The Pig Who Loves Sunny Days酷爱晴天的小猪Sci-Fi & Apocalypse602k WordsCompleted 1v1, both leads are pure and faithful, wasteland scavenging, sci-fi apocalypse, gene warriors, mutant beasts, special abilities, sweet romance, farming Qian Duoduo, a modern Chinese chef, saves a kitten from drowning during a torrential downpour and unexpectedly ends up in a wasteland world a thousand years in the future. Her miserable scavenging life begins. Luckily, Qian Duoduo has a good attitude. Since she has been given another chance at life, she decides to make the most of it and surviv 1.3kReads7.6Score100Shelves

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    1⃣️ The female lead is Sang Li, and the male lead is Li Chenyi. In the early stages, the male lead might not be very friendly to the female lead, after all, one lives in a shantytown and the other in the city center, so the difference is definitely huge 🌿🌿. Later, it's the female lead's special abilities that make her stronger! PS. The original female lead often acted innocent in front of the female lead 🌸, and the female lead would just beat her up!

36. 186 废 Wasteland Valkyrie 废土女武神 By the Shore of the Sea of Stars星海的岸边Sci-Fi & Apocalypse312k WordsCompleted [Not a fast-paced power fantasy + wasteland farming + technological upgrades + heroine's growth + no tragedy + no side plots + anime watched in her head] Enter at your own risk A girl who scavenges through a wasteland gets captured by slave traders, chased by beasts, and cuddled by a female gang boss. By chance, she acquires an AI pet containing the technological essence of an ancient civilization, along with a mysterious chip inside her body. She begins to grow stronger step by step in this law 62Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 187 废 Wasteland Ashen Realm 废土烬界 Literary Writing in the Evening Breeze晚风书文艺Sci-Fi & Apocalypse210k WordsCompleted [Sci-Fi Apocalypse, Wasteland Adventure, Factional Power Struggles] A meteorite shatters the barriers between worlds, and strange energy sweeps across the land, bringing a prosperous civilization to total ruin. Mutated beasts roam the wilderness, runaway machines hunt everywhere, and humanity retreats to camps to struggle for survival. Enhanced bodies, awakened elemental powers, and mechanical modifications become the keys to surviving these chaotic times. Orphan Lu Chen puts down roots in Rockh 22Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Read this wasteland story!

38. 188 黎 Dawn Tower 黎明塔 Wise Little Star智哆星Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsCompleted They're here! They're here! A shocking conspiracy is looming over the entire world! Natural and man-made disasters, with zombies everywhere! Please don't lose yourself in the darkness! May the dawn's light shine forever! 54.8kReads9.3Score4.1kShelves

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    As the sun dipped low in the west, crimson, fluffy clouds stretched for miles. The wind howled, whipping up stones and sand across the cracked, salt-laden Gobi Desert. In the vast northern wilderness, beneath a sheltered cliff, three modified vehicles were arranged in an arc, serving as a makeshift enclosure for two tents. Four mercenaries, clad in khaki combat uniforms, helmets, and filter-type gas masks, patrolled the area around the tents, guns at the ready.

39. 189 死 One Hundred Thousand Deaths: From Getting One-Shot to Conquering the Wasteland 死亡十万次，从被秒杀到横推废土 The Bright Moon Crosses Pine Smoke明月渡松烟Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [High Martial Arts] [No Romance] [Death Rewind] [Ensemble Cast] [Tight Logic] (Some readers have been worried in the first few dozen chapters that the Trickster's Eye, this alien god, is up to no good, and have been scared off. Here's a clarification: don't worry, the logic is sound and there are no pitfalls. The twists come quickly, and there's no way the protagonist is a puppet. Absolutely impossible!!) The sun went dark, gray mist swallowed the world, and abyssal worms tore human civilization 4.2kReads9.1Score393Shelves

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    Don't mess with this man who can infinitely reload his save file! (High-level martial arts + unpredictable plot twists + wasteland + no romance) The wasteland world is fraught with danger, and the protagonist roams freely using his ability to rewind time, leaving anyone who crosses him questioning their existence. Dark and thrilling, it's incredibly addictive! #DarkFuelingNovel #InfiniteReload

40. 190 废 Wasteland Scavenger: Feng Qingqing 废土拾荒采集之风清清 The Fresh Breeze Is Queen清风最女王Sci-Fi & Apocalypse297k WordsOngoing In her forties, Feng Qingqing spends every day in front of her computer and phone. Life is dull and uneventful, with just a bit of chaos thrown in. After arguing with her daughter, a high school sophomore, she falls asleep and wakes up in a wasteland. She starts her life over and begins scavenging and gathering supplies every day. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 191 穿 I Transmigrate into a Composite Wasteland Novel as a Nobody 穿越在综废土文里当路人甲 Passerby A Still Awake路人甲未眠Fantastical Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Li Le transmigrated from the modern era to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, only to discover that she had landed in a wasteland novel. Worse still, it was a crossover of several wasteland novels. She was completely dumbfounded. There were so many chosen ones, and she couldn't compete with any of them. Better to lie low and play an anonymous passerby, quietly enjoying the show. 5.1kReads6.4Score383Shelves

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    These three books are what I've been reading recently, and they're all very good. Although some of the reviews aren't as high, they are genuinely excellent.

42. 192 废 Ashes of the Wasteland, A Strange Pot Falls from the Sky 废土之烬，天降奇锅 Luo Xi Yue箩兮悦Sci-Fi & Apocalypse423k WordsCompleted This is mainly about scavenging, hunting, clearing land, and gathering. It’s an everyday-life kind of story. What’s that flying down from the sky? It’s a giant pot! One person and one pot arrive in a wasteland hundreds of years in the future. With a harsh environment, scarce food, and terrible luck, the only way to win is through sheer numbers. Hiss, that pretty carnivorous flower has grown a brain! A giant, mutated python, tens of meters long, is chasing me! Hiss, hiss, hiss! Ye Tiantian: What 938Reads8.3Score104Shelves

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    [Wasteland + Female-oriented] 🍁This one is also good, check it out if you're looking for something to read! 🍁A giant cauldron falls from the sky, and the protagonist is transported to the wasteland after being hit by it!

43. 193 七 Seven River Estuaries 七道河口 The Long Night by Your Side漫漫长夜伴随着你Ancient Romance377k WordsOngoing Ye Xiangyun is a traveler on a journey of the soul, passing through endless rifts in space and time and experiencing all kinds of lives. Each cycle feels like a trial carefully arranged by fate. Her soul was once like a broken puzzle, scattered across the vast universe. Yet it is these journeys through storm and hardship in different worlds, where she lays old obsessions to rest, that gradually draw the fragments of her soul together, piecing out magnificent scenes from her past-life memories. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ye Xiangyun travels through various worlds, eliminating the obsessions of abnormal souls who cannot reincarnate on their own. In the process, she recovers her memories of her past life and together with the Dao King, she writes a legend in another world.

44. 194 灰 Gray Ice 灰冰 Big Yu Eats Little Yu大宇吃小宇Sci-Fi & Apocalypse941k WordsOngoing Extreme-cold dungeons + light sci-fi + decisive, ruthless action + no female lead + mildly dark + not overpowered + revenge The apocalypse arrives, and a brutal winter is on its way. Warlords carve up the land while bandits block the roads. How can an orphan born in a battlefield hospital survive in a frozen post-apocalyptic world? In the soil of the apocalypse, good and evil blur together. At the boundary between black and white, who is that delicate shade of gray? 188Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In the aftermath of nuclear war, during the Little Ice Age, bandits, conglomerates, and warlords rose and fell in a dazzling display. The protagonist, a fugitive, climbed his way up to become a resource tycoon.

45. 195 末 Doomsday Road Rage: My RV Is Packed with Mutant Hunks 末日狂飙：我的房车塞满变异男神 Little Seven of the Mo Family莫家小七Sci-Fi & Apocalypse572k WordsOngoing [Post-apocalyptic road survival + decisive female lead + extreme, radically reimagined base-building + players in shock + a battlefield of divine beings] Everyone is forcibly thrown into an endless road-survival game. They start with a wrecked car, while behind them lies a gray fog that devours everything. In her previous life, Su Li was softhearted and let others use her as a human shield. But her scumbag boyfriend and his scheming mistress betrayed her, smashed her skull, and abandoned her bes 198Reads6.4Score101Shelves
46. 196 靠 Rising to Fame in Another World by Scavenging the Wasteland 靠废土拾荒，在异界叱咤风云 Ba Ba魃芭Sci-Fi & Apocalypse290k WordsOngoing Transmigrate into a book + wasteland scavenging + another world + romance + ensemble cast + a 40% minor golden finger + leveling up and fighting monsters After finishing her sanda training, Sang Li went to a bar to unwind. Who knew she wouldn’t even get to touch a male model’s hand before everything went black and she transmigrated into a book set in another world, a wasteland? She looked at the desolate thatched huts around her and her own skin-and-bones body. Sang Li: ??? “Seriously, is orderi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 197 脂 Fat as a Shield: A Plump Chef's Survival Road with a Succubus 脂肪为盾：胖厨与魅魔的生存路 Cai Cai from Stinky's Household臭臭家的菜菜Sci-Fi & Apocalypse165k WordsCompleted ...Wasteland Era, Year Two. While out scavenging, Shen Juan of the Shengjing City settlement found a beautiful woman, impossibly beautiful... The mysterious woman also had numerous seals on her... Curiosity doesn't just kill cats. It can kill chubby guys, too... And that's how the story that followed began... 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Wasteland setting, shark-themed, male lead is cowardly yet reliable. Female lead is alluring and aloof. Currently, it seems to focus on the male and female leads, but the story seems to be getting a bit off-topic. Some parts are genuinely funny, enough to make your abs hurt from laughing.

48. 198 末 Apocalypse Descends: I Carry My Safe House in My Pocket 末世降临：我把安全屋揣兜里 Radish Sprouts萝卜秧子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse677k WordsCompleted At three in the morning, Lin Wan was lying in bed scrolling through short videos when she casually typed a comment: “Only kids have to choose. I want every one of these safe houses.” As soon as she finished speaking, a crisp System notification rang out in her mind. [Ding! Apocalypse Safe House System successfully bound!] [Urgent warning: Global chain disasters will erupt in full force in five days!] [Initial unlock: Safe house space, current stay duration: 11 hours.] [System prompt: The Ho 4.4kReads6.2Score512Shelves
49. 199 废 Surviving in the Wasteland: The Lucky Scavenger 废土求生：拾荒幸运星 Chai Chai Pony柴柴小马Sci-Fi & Apocalypse702k WordsOngoing (Comedy, wild imagination, transmigration, coming of age, supernatural powers) [Reader’s guide: Funny but intense, slow growth, requires some brainpower, but not much. Completely absurd! Read with caution.] Main storyline: The heroine scavenges alone at first, then upgrades her supernatural powers later on. Xu Xin, a modern-day chef, transmigrates to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Things are tough from the start, but she works hard to scavenge, awakens her powers, overcomes obstacles, and keeps g 5Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 200 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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    I'd like to recommend my science fiction novel, which features a dual storyline of a post-apocalyptic wasteland and reality. The premise is novel, the plot is intricately woven and avoids clichés, and I update regularly with two chapters daily.

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