Looking for Good Wasteland Novels, Recent Ones Have All Been Boring 求好看的废土文，最近这些废土都没意思。

1. 401 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. They're newly released and hopefully will help you overcome your reading slump. The other two are highly recommended masterpieces; check them out if you haven't read them yet.

2. 402 冰 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Sea of Memories记忆的海Sci-Fi & Apocalypse7.4M WordsOngoing Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 359.9kReads8.7Score17.8kShelves
3. 403 废 Wasteland Survival: Just a Little Scavenging, No Problem! 废土求生：小小拾荒，拿捏！ Ink-Colored South Mountain墨色南山Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse] [Wasteland] [Scavenging] [Foraging] [Farming] [Superpowers] [System] [Spatial Storage] Jiang Nian somehow transmigrates to Blue Star 600 years in the future, a world reduced to a Wasteland! History has been lost, civilization has collapsed, life is hard at every turn, and danger lurks everywhere! Food is scarce, plants and animals have mutated, and radiation levels are extreme! Humanity has fallen from the top of the food chain to the very bottom! Oilseed lettuce more than two meter 3.3kReads7.3Score285Shelves

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   It's still being serialized; you can check it out.

4. 404 废 Wasteland: Restarting Civilization 废土：重启文明 Winter's String Embers冬日弦烬Sci-Fi & Apocalypse951k WordsOngoing The rating just opened. It’ll go up later. Wasteland + No CP + System + Farming + World-Building + No Pocket Dimension + No Shop + Team Development + Ensemble Cast (Please note: The heroine isn’t a lone wolf or a villainess. She has her own moral code, but she isn’t a saint who saves people unconditionally. The team will be split evenly between men and women, with new members joining over time. Please be gentle.) Lin Yu, an overworked project manager who died from exhaustion, was reborn in the 850Reads8.9Score101Shelves

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   This is the best one yet. It has no romantic pairing, is logically sound, and has a vast world-building. It's really great, and I'm urging for more updates every day.

5. 405 崩 When the Collapse Overlaps 崩坏重叠时 Chili Peppers Are Addictive辣椒会上瘾Sci-Fi & Apocalypse241k WordsOngoing A little stockpiling, plot-driven, a heroine who grows! No CP Chen Chen, an ordinary saleswoman, woke up one day to discover that her refrigerator had become a daily self-refreshing "supply point." Before she could investigate this supernatural phenomenon, the cold countdown on the refrigerator's display announced a cruel future: Blue Star was about to overlap with a collapsing otherworld and become prey to be plundered. Chosen as a "pioneer," Chen Chen was forced to transmigrate to a fragment o —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Anyone want to give this a try? It's a light read, featuring a female protagonist who grows and develops.

6. 406 废 Wasteland: I Scavenge With a Calico Cat, Stockpile Food, and Get Rich 废土，与三花猫拾荒屯粮暴富 Splendor Awaits风华可待Sci-Fi & Apocalypse477k WordsOngoing Post-apocalyptic wasteland + transmigration + scavenging and stockpiling food + mutant animal companions + psychic abilities Heroine: Qin Xinyu Hero: Gu Qingchuan, captain of the security team This is mainly the story of Qin Xinyu and her mutant animal companions scavenging and stockpiling food in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, awakening her psychic powers and growing stronger step by step. It has a farming and homesteading focus. The heroine isn’t weak or timid, and she isn’t a bleeding heart. T 363Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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   These five novels are post-apocalyptic stories of different styles. I've read them recently, and they're all very good. I recommend them.

7. 407 废 Wasteland: From Runaway Slave to Emperor 废土：从逃奴到皇帝 The Past Never Enters Dreams往事并不入梦Sci-Fi & Apocalypse327k WordsOngoing This is not a System novel, a hoarding story, or an invincible power fantasy. In the apocalypse, on the wasteland, a series of circumstances turns Chen Er and Li Sha into slaves of the Western Trade Alliance. Then, during a slave revolt, they flee their prison alongside a group of others. For the sake of survival and a better future, the runaway slaves explore the unknown, defeat organizations such as the Alliance, the Empire, and the New Human Corporation, and gradually grow stronger. In the en 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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   You can give it a try.

8. 408 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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   This book is worth checking out. Although it's just started, the premise is quite interesting. There's no time travel or system. It's the story of a modern person who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

9. 409 在 Above the Red Earth 在红土之上 Master Liang Who Loves Fish and Peanuts爱吃鱼花生的梁师Sci-Fi & Apocalypse131k WordsOngoing My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This book is a great ensemble piece; each member of the main cast has their own shining qualities. It's a rather unique post-apocalyptic novel, with very detailed and engaging fight scenes!

10. 410 全 The Whole Class Transmigrates, and I Become the Best Support by Relying on My Toolbox 全班穿越，我靠工具箱当最强后勤 Flowers Fill the Green Robe花满青衣Sci-Fi & Apocalypse142k WordsCompleted [Mecha] [Ensemble Cast] [Multiple Heroines] Jiang Nanfeng was goofing off in class when he transmigrated to a terrifying otherworld along with the entire school building. Outside, endless sandstorms and dense fog stretched in every direction. Inside, killer mecha beasts burst into the classroom. His classmates awakened laser cannons, energy swords, and alloy armor. So why did he awaken... a toolbox? 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A freshly baked mecha post-apocalyptic wasteland novel

11. 411 随 Random Survival 随机存活 Flying Little Star会飞的星星子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse116k WordsOngoing (No System, no power fantasy, no harem. Cheating warning. Not a strong female lead. The early pacing is fairly fast. A little mischievous, a little pretentious. The protagonist grows over time and is rather weak at first.) (I don't write anything tragic at all. Really.) "Want to survive? Remember these three ironclad rules: 1. Don't trust sudden acts of kindness. 2. Stay away from those whose eyes have turned black. 3. Above all... don't trust the light." Welcome to a world of rigid ranks and ra —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In this book, the protagonist is the toughest in the whole body and cannot beat others in a fight, but the world view is quite strange. It's a bit of a group portrait, and a bit funny.

12. 412 下 The Sewers: A Scrap-Picking Life for Plastic Siblings 下水道：塑料兄妹的捡破烂人生 Little Mistress Is Blessed小主超有福Modern Romance1.3M WordsOngoing Not a wish-fulfillment story: ordinary people struggling to survive in extreme conditions, young ones helping one another, and tiny glimmers of hope amid hardship A slow-burn survival story about the everyday struggle to stay alive in the sewers On the surface, the gambling city glitters in gold all night long. Neon weaves an endless night where revelry never stops. Fine dining is whisked away as soon as it reaches the silver platter. A tomahawk steak with barely a few cuts taken from it is toss 19.5kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves

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    It's good, but it's not finished yet.

13. 413 被 After a Mad NPC Set Its Sights on Me, I Took Control 被疯批NPC盯上后，我直接拿捏 Cactus Heart仙人掌心Mystery813k WordsCompleted [Female lead grows over time] [Male lead is thoroughly rotten] [One-and-only relationships] [Games include survival, horror, and rule-based mysteries…] A strange bus travels through time and space, crossing into another dimension… Jiang Song never imagined that her life as an overworked office drone would end on the day she finally clocked out. To survive the terrifying games, she must complete every mission without making a single mistake. The games are already perilous, but then an NPC s 35kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves

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    It's kind of funny that there are couples in the wasteland [laughing and crying emoji]

14. 414 灾 After the Cataclysm: I Trade Scavenged Goods for Power Armor 灾变后：我靠拾荒换战甲 Bu Chi Xiaoye不吃潇夜Urban233k WordsOngoing (No System, not invincible, plot-focused, centered on human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (Growing protagonist whose personality changes as the story unfolds) (Ensemble cast; supporting characters aren’t one-dimensional, and their emotions shift naturally with the world around them) After the cataclysm, the world lay barren for thousands of miles, all life extinguished. Steel monsters rampaged across the land, and the civilization of old had become scorched earth. The orphan Qin Li and 7Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    He's here, he's here! It's the book you've been looking for.

15. 415 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 4Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    🔥Hot Selling Item [Smirking], Reborn in the Apocalypse, I, the Deputy County Head, am coming clean! No more pretense, I'm taking over the entire county, starting with an armored division. In my past life, I fiercely protected the people; in this life, I'm directly rebooting civilization! Don't ask why, it's all about red faith and Chinese speed! Watch as I, a mere deputy county head, rebuild China from the wasteland.

16. 416 废 Wasteland: Scavenging to Feed the Family 废土：拾荒养家糊口 Soft Peach Blossom浅浅桃夭Sci-Fi & Apocalypse539k WordsCompleted [Wasteland + personal growth + romance + scavenging + adventure + supernatural abilities + mutated plants and animals] No transmigration: the everyday survival of a native of the wasteland. In this wasteland world, a hundred years from now, don’t be surprised by any kind of mutant. That’s perfectly normal. The only real dangers are people who lose their reason and become Fallen after excessive contamination or attacks by mutated plants and animals. The wide variety of mutants exists partly becau 4.7kReads8.6Score400Shelves

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    New book, a slice-of-life survival story, about three people supporting each other.

17. 417 人 Man-Made Myth 人造神话 Did You Tease Big Brother into Eating Fish?逗哥哥吃鱼了吗Sci-Fi & Apocalypse347k WordsOngoing Welcome to my novel. Here is the synopsis: Year 9527 of the New Era. The sky was torn apart like a sheet of ragged cloth, and countless bizarre monsters poured through the terrifying fissures. Humanity was forced to unite against them, but still suffered one defeat after another, leaving the world in ruin. Driven to the brink, humanity unleashed forbidden power: genetic modification. They enhanced themselves through extreme means to fight the alien invaders. An external genetic System, created —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    ᰔᩚ/•᷅•᷄\\୭ Highly recommended

18. 418 穿 Transmigrating to the Wasteland: Mutant Beasts Run When They See Me 穿越废土：异兽见我躲着走 Pomegranate Loves Sweet Potatoes石榴爱番薯Sci-Fi & Apocalypse538k WordsCompleted [Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland + Scavenging + Hearing Inner Thoughts + Female Lead's Growth + No Romance] After a sound collector transmigrates to the wasteland, she gains an innate ability related to hearing. The neighborhood gossip! The base's top-secret affairs! The whispers of wild mutated beasts! Nothing escapes her ears... But in this world, people who know too many secrets never live long. Faced with one desperate situation after another, she grows stronger step by step through bloody battle 1.1kReads8.7Score114Shelves

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    The first book features a female protagonist who doesn't gather much scavenging, but as she grows stronger, she primarily focuses on killing monsters to upgrade her abilities. As she becomes more powerful, she gradually approaches the truth of the wasteland world – a very addictive and satisfying story with a strong female lead. The second book features a female protagonist who mainly gathers plants and possesses superpowers and a spatial ability (she can store soil that can be upgraded, grown, and planted). The plot also includes elements of the survival of the fittest in the wasteland, with the female protagonist slowly growing stronger and ultimately becoming the sole heroine. 💗💗💗

19. 419 都 I’ve Already Transmigrated Into a Book, So Who Still Wants to Be a Nobody? 都穿书了，谁还当路人甲呀 Jiangnan Asks the Willows江南问柳Sci-Fi & Apocalypse375k WordsCompleted Livestreaming + post-apocalyptic mutation + Infinite Flow. A max-level expert returns to the beginner village, and a coolheaded, clever heroine carries the whole team! After transmigrating into a book, Ye Mansheng goes from being a genius agricultural student at a top university to an insignificant background character in a story. In this wasteland world, plants have mutated, and the Background Character System that comes with her is a clingy crybaby that can only talk to her three times a day. 463Reads8.6Score132Shelves

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    This is the best post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read. Don't be fooled by the title; just read the content, it's definitely worth it.

20. 420 废 Wasteland: I Open Mystery Boxes on Earth 废土：我在地球开盲盒 The Melancholy Little Snake忧郁的小蛇Sci-Fi & Apocalypse112k WordsOngoing [Post-apocalyptic wasteland + transmigration + blind-box System + resistance + brotherhood] (I just graduated from college. How did I end up transmigrating to a wasteland?) Year 139 of the Earth Calendar. The ozone layer has been destroyed, and people eke out a living in underground base bunkers beneath the wasteland. But inside the bunkers, red and black stand opposed! Those in red wield privilege, while those in black are treated as expendable. Liu Yunchu, a recent college graduate, transm 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The author himself is recommending this book! All readers are welcome to offer their guidance and feedback. [Kissing emoji]

21. 421 废 Wasteland: The Scavenger Girl Buys an Apartment Building 废土：拾荒姑娘买楼了 Listening to Words on a Gentle Breeze清风听语Sci-Fi & Apocalypse645k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + farming] Wulala, a seasoned agricultural researcher from the apocalypse, transmigrates only to have her permanent job stolen from her, along with her fiancé. Any man who can be stolen isn't worth keeping, and she doesn't care about a job other people don't want. While others look down on scavenging, she sees a bright future in it. What are all these plants that look familiar but somehow aren't? Wait, this melon attacks people and grows enormous clubs. It's a sweet potato vine 442Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    This is also acceptable.

22. 422 我 In the Wasteland, I Sign In for an Endless Water Supply from the Start 我在废土，开局签到无限水资源 Peach Blossom Sprite桃夭仔Sci-Fi & Apocalypse245k WordsOngoing [Wasteland + natural disasters + strong heroine + System + inventory space + food + no romance] Su Li woke up, opened her eyes, and discovered that she had transmigrated to the wasteland era, arriving in this world with nothing and becoming an unregistered resident. No matter how hard she thought about it, she couldn’t understand why she had to be the unlucky one. In this wasteland, the soil had long since dried up, plants and animals had mutated, and supplies were scarce. Human civilization had 594Reads—Score101Shelves

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    I think this book is pretty good; it has some kind of cheat-like advantage, which is quite satisfying.

23. 423 秩 The Ordered Wasteland 秩序废土 I Want to Be a Secretary我想当书记Sci-Fi & Apocalypse502k WordsCompleted I don't know when I woke up. Everywhere, there was the sound of panting! It was somewhat grating, along with cries for help! Metallic electronic sounds! Mixed with shrill alarms! I fell asleep again. The spellbinding sounds gradually faded away! The enormous underground laboratory fell silent! Inside a dozen containers made of metal and glass, a dozen well-built men floated naked, encased in pale green liquid! Only electronic beeps sounded from time to time! “Disaster in the laboratory. Isolatio 88Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Interstellar civilization is a thing of the past; alien species have taken over this place, and machines and mutated zombies fight each other in the ruins.

24. 424 烬 New Life in the Ashen Wasteland: I Travel It with an AI 烬土新生：我与AI共行废土 Big Goose Strike Force大鹅突击队Sci-Fi & Apocalypse210k WordsOngoing [Growth-Focused Story · Multiple Factions · Ensemble Cast · No System · No Mindless Power Fantasy] Don't panic in the Wasteland. My AI will help me roam the eight corners of the world. A wave of immortality sparked an apocalyptic catastrophe. Genes spiraled completely out of control, nuclear radiation devoured the land, and rampaging mutant beasts terrorized the world. In a single day, humanity's dazzling civilization crumbled, leaving behind a desolate wasteland of endless ashes. In this chaoti 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New book recommendation, please support it! Not mindless, but detailed! A story with two souls in one body!

25. 425 原 Prisoner of the Original Codex 原典囚徒 Meng Li Qing梦黎QingSci-Fi & Apocalypse175k WordsOngoing This was just practice, so there’s no need to read it. If you’d like to support the author, you can wait for my next book. The following is just to pad out the word count… —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    What if someone watches? 👀

26. 426 末 The Lone Tower in the Apocalypse 末世孤楼 Qing Qing Ting倾卿听Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsCompleted [Sci-fi apocalypse + survival + no System + no pocket dimension + no heroine + no saintly protagonist + no showboating] In a global apocalypse, a towering building is both the survivors' refuge and their entire world. But ordinary people aren't the only ones inside. There are also power brokers, researchers, intelligent robots, mutated creatures, and... Chi Yu, a maintenance worker on one of the lower floors, struggles to climb higher in the building to survive. What secrets are hidden in the up 3.6kReads8.7Score406Shelves

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    This is beautiful.

27. 427 仙 The Path to Immortality Is Broken, So I’m Starting Over as a Food Delivery Rider! 仙路断了，靠送外卖的我重开！ Shh7嘘7Urban100k WordsCompleted My name is Wu Yan, a homophone for “speechless.” I deliver food in the urban villages and don't talk much. In this world, spiritual energy has been depleted for a thousand years, and the road to immortality has long been cut off. Cultivators fight over spiritual veins and gulp down pills. Nobody reads anymore. I do. Inside a battered book I picked up at a secondhand stall, I found a fragment of an ancient scripture. It contained only half a line: “Heaven and earth possess righteous qi.” N 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a good book, it has potential.

28. 428 泥 The Quagmire 泥沼地 Welcoming the Blade迎刀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse293k WordsCompleted Also known as: “I Miss Home Amid a Mountain of Corpses” [Apocalypse + zombies + strong female and male leads + no supernatural abilities or golden fingers + ensemble cast + romance, but not much of it] The apocalypse arrives, and zombies run rampant. The dark hand of disaster has reached Liyang No. 1 High School on the outskirts of the city. A piercing announcement over the school PA wakes all the students on their lunch break. When they open their eyes again, they no longer see their teacher wa 1.5kReads8.9Score199Shelves

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    I really enjoy survival novels about ordinary people. 1 Is about high school seniors surviving a post-apocalyptic world, with a great female lead character. 2 Is a heartwarming story about a socially awkward female lead who becomes a zombie and travels to various places, encountering both humans and zombie followers. 3 Features a fantastic female lead; Earth is actually a game, and the female lead is the boss who unexpectedly awakens, giving her the chance to find the truth in other games—unfortunately, it's unfinished. 4 Is a survival story with a bit of a cheat code; it has a romantic pairing, but not much romance, and the second male lead is quite funny. 5 Is the most captivating of these; the protagonist's abilities are top-notch, but it gets increasingly childish later on, relying entirely on the female lead's powers. We'll see how the author writes the ending! 6 Isn't a post-apocalyptic novel, but I really like the theme; both boys and girls can read it and find it insightful. There's also another one that's been taken down by the author due to slow updates; it's about college students with a romantic pairing, I'll talk about it in the comments later.

29. 429 丧 A Zombie's Hiking Diary 丧尸的徒步旅行日记 Li Jiu理久Sci-Fi & Apocalypse296k WordsCompleted [Leisurely Travels + Everyday Storylines + No Romance] [Content note: No fighting or drama, and the protagonist isn't cold-blooded, going on killing sprees, or antisocial. This is purely a story about taking walks!] When the apocalypse broke out, Yu Qingxian chose to die. But her attempt failed, and she became a zombie. She had been socially anxious and depressed in life, so she decided to travel on foot. Since everyone was a zombie anyway, she didn't feel so afraid anymore. 24.2kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves
30. 430 我 I Become the Mother of the Xenomorphs in the Wasteland 我在废土世界做异形之母 Rong Cheng容橙Sci-Fi & Apocalypse597k WordsCompleted [No romance] Li Yang, a lazy engineering student, transmigrates into a world of wasteland elements and alien creatures, becoming a low-level cannon-fodder nobody. Her physical fitness is below zero, she has no special abilities, her looks are passable but her figure isn't, and her wallet is empty! Did she really have to transmigrate? To stay alive, Li Yang has no choice but to sneak out with a team and collect scraps to make ends meet. After half a month of sneaking around and scrounging, a sudd 1.2kReads7.4Score213Shelves

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    These are mostly post-apocalyptic stories, and I've removed some from my bookshelf. These few are alright, especially the high-rated ones [eating melon emoji]. There aren't many, since I'm currently experiencing a reading slump [almost crying emoji].

31. 431 她 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反 Warfires Stain All烽火尽染Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 108.1kReads9.5Score12.4kShelves

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    The female lead is truly exceptionally intelligent and resourceful; she's practically at the pinnacle of intellect. It's so good, I've already watched it three times. You absolutely have to watch it, or you'll regret it!

32. 432 荒 Wasteland: The Little Lucky Star of a Scavenger 荒土，拾荒小锦鲤 Zhang Yunjuru張筠筎Sci-Fi & Apocalypse442k WordsCompleted This book is complete, so enjoy without worry. [Wasteland + Space + Farming + Sweet Romance + Lucky Star + 1v1 + Couple] Chen Chen accidentally transmigrates to the wasteland, into the body of a little girl who was beaten to death in a robbery. She gets a handsome husband for free. Lu Qi: “My wife is always right. Listening to her makes you rich.” Scavenging, gathering seeds, planting. She fills the space to the brim with crops. But why has her lucky-star luck mutated? Oh, the mutant beast big b 3.5kReads7.3Score292Shelves
33. 433 当 When an NPC in the Infinite Apocalypse Awakens 当无限末世NPC觉醒后 About to Ascend即将飞升Sci-Fi & Apocalypse140k WordsOngoing [No CP + Infinite Apocalypses + Strong Female Lead + Superpowers + No Saintly Goodness] In the year 2000 of the Earth Era, a summer blizzard heralds the apocalypse. All life is wiped out, and black sand blankets the earth. Ye Xueqing should have died in that fatal blizzard, but fate played a cruel joke on her. She comes back to life, returned to the month the blizzard struck, and trapped at the age of twelve. In the 3,650th month of being twelve, she triggers an Easter egg left behind by the aut 1Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 434 风EN Dragon City: Winds of Change 风起龙城 Wei Jie伪戒Urban3.4M WordsCompleted Sixty years after global disaster, the Little Freeze has ended. Governments across the living zones begin reclaiming large stretches of unadministered land awaiting development, reorganizing resources and ushering in a full-scale recovery. These twenty years are also known as the “Golden Twenty Years.” It's a dazzling new age: new zones rise one after another, politics sets the stage while capital puts on a show, and ambitious schemers are everywhere. Heroes and strongmen, treacherous warlords a 33.4kReads9.5Score3.9kShelves

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    Do you want to read a purely realistic post-apocalyptic novel? Those of you experiencing a reading slump can confidently check it out.

35. 435 废 After Farming in the Wasteland, I Rule the Safe Zone 废土种田后，我在安全区横着走 Mozi Says墨子说Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Post-apocalyptic wasteland + farming + upgradeable pocket dimension + stockpiling food] Agriculture student Bai Xia transmigrates into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where she can barely scrape by scavenging. A sickly little sister, a ramshackle house, and never knowing where the next meal will come from? Then she’ll save up points to buy medicine and trade for materials to repair the house! She can identify plants with ease, upgrade her pocket dimension, grow crops, and stockpile food. After al 1.9kReads8.4Score162Shelves
36. 436 全 Everyone's Survival Game: Did I Get Lucky Today? 全民生存游戏：今天欧了吗？ One Little Orange一只橙橙橙子Mystery410k WordsCompleted There’s a CP, a dungeon-based story, and a growth arc. During an ordinary summer vacation, Su Nian suddenly enters a strange realm. A third of the world’s population is now trapped in a survival game. Survival or death: it’s a question worth thinking about. To survive in the endless forest, everyone must take part in a dungeon once a month. Otherwise, they lose their safe house and shelter, and the monsters in the night will give anyone without one the chance to be reborn. Dungeons: Evil Spirit 1.2kReads8.2Score143Shelves
37. 437 穿 I Transmigrated to the Wasteland and Decided to Give Up Completely 穿越废土，彻底摆烂 A Kun阿坤啊Sci-Fi & Apocalypse146k WordsOngoing The news says solar activity may cause a geomagnetic storm over the next couple of days, sometimes affecting mobile phone signals. But how could that affect my life? I'm not a signal! It's the apocalypse, and we're so hungry we're digging through garbage for food! We're all stick figures now, and someone is still cultivating immortality? Damn heavens, are you messing with me? I believe in science! Everyone, believe with me! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A completely new type of post-apocalyptic style, a combination of nuclear weapons and cultivation, absolutely amazing!

38. 438 末 Apocalypse Journal: The Flames of War Are Coming, Head West! 末日笔记：战火来袭，一路向西！ Chen Jisihan陈挤死汗Sci-Fi & Apocalypse188k WordsOngoing [No rebirth, no revenge, no superpowers, no pocket dimension, no zombies] A realistic apocalypse story! On an ordinary weekend, you're relaxing with a beer. Then disaster strikes, reducing the city you live in to scorched earth. You return to your hometown, only to find its streets completely deserted! Order gradually collapses, and the darkness of human nature comes to light! Amid the devastation of a nuclear wasteland, how will you struggle to survive... And stay alive!!! 413Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 439 你 What Gives You the Right to Ignore What I Want? 你凭什么忽视我的意愿 The Legend of the Sunflower向日葵传说Modern Romance331k WordsOngoing Song Shiwei is an ordinary student from an ordinary family in an ordinary small town. She used to be quiet, unable to say no, and endlessly patient. One day, a remark from her cousin Huang Yutong suddenly opened her eyes: nobody cared about what she wanted. So she started watching debates and livestreams, learning all kinds of communication skills and breaking free of the limits of her old way of thinking. After going from the good girl everyone praised to a sharp-tongued lunatic, she finally go 449Reads9.2Score—Shelves
40. 440 终 The End of Tokyo 终末的东京 Writing Like Drinking Water码字如喝水Sci-Fi & Apocalypse260k WordsOngoing The neon lights, blanketed in ash, have long since gone dark. Tokyo has become a twisted graveyard of steel and a surreal forest of silver. A nightmare known as the “Great Cataclysm” crushed human civilization into dust a century ago and gave rise to the bizarre “New Humans.” Deep in these apocalyptic ruins, ruled by the inhuman, Hoshino Tsukasa, an engineer from the old world, struggles to awaken from his icy underground slumber. What greets him is no road home, but a hellscape transformed beyo 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    No cheat codes, male protagonist makes gradual progress, single female lead

41. 441 灰 Beneath the Gray Sky: An Alien Virus 灰穹之下：天外病毒 FlysVjSci-Fi & Apocalypse100k WordsOngoing About Under the Gray Dome When the eyes of the deep cosmos turned toward Earth, humanity finally realized it had never been the planet’s only master. The story doesn’t begin on the day the apocalypse arrived, but with a two-kilometer-wide black meteor core: the Esolmis Core. At the edge of Jupiter’s orbit, it abruptly veered from a course it had followed for billions of years and turned straight toward Earth. It did not crash to the ground with a thunderous impact, as disaster prophecies foretol —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    There are no superpowers in this book. No systems. No cheat codes falling from the sky. There are only a group of ordinary people—an engineer, a female journalist, an old welder, a veteran, and a medic—who, on the 30th day after the collapse of the old world, decide to build a wall themselves. But to explain why this wall is important, we must first explain how the old world died. A meteorite self-destructed in near-Earth orbit. It didn't hit Earth. It simply exploded, releasing something scientists named **"pheromones"**. This thing isn't a virus. It's harmless in itself. It only does one thing—rewrites the expression sequence of every virus on Earth. The varicella-zoster virus in your body, which was originally quietly dormant in your nerve ganglia, became something else after the pheromones passed through. The tuberculosis bacteria in your lungs, the EB virus in your blood, those pathogens you thought were gone forever after contracting them in childhood—all were reactivated, re-edited, and re-weaponized. Within three days, the first infected appeared. It wasn't a case of mutation caused by being bitten. The symbiotic relationship within their bodies was torn apart overnight. By the seventh day, 60% of the global population had completed their transformation. They weren't zombies. They were living beings—another species—with instinctive aggression, dulled by pain, and still retaining a trace of memories from the old world. The army collapsed within 72 hours. Not because of insufficient firepower. Because the most trusted comrades in the barracks would sit beside your bed while you slept, looking at you with an expression you still recognized…and then pounce. Civilization was reduced to nothing within 30 days. Under this gray-shrouded sky, Junyi—a structural engineer who had spent half his life in a workshop—set off with four survivors. He had no superpowers. He had no system panel telling him "+1 experience point for each kill." The only things he possessed were a well-worn copy of "Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics" and a pair of calipers. They found an abandoned service area. The service area was surrounded by water on three sides and backed by a cliff; its only advantage before the apocalypse was its proximity to the highway exit. The only advantage after the apocalypse—Junyi said—was that this place could be defended. The first wall was only 3 meters high, pieced together from scrap steel frames and precast concrete slabs, barely enough to stop a horde of rampaging zombies. But something was better than nothing. Later, the wall grew to 10 meters. Then 30 meters. Then 60 meters—six layers of compartments, seventeen gates, fire vents, ejection pods, rat-nail tunnels—a self-sufficient fortress rose from the ground. Every centimeter of the wall was bought with blood and welding rods. But the monsters were also evolving. In the first year, the enemies were just zombie variants that could pounce and bite. In the second year, war behemoths covered in bone armor appeared—ordinary bullets hit them like they hit granite. In the third year, the Howling Lord appeared—four to five meters tall, capable of emitting low-frequency sound waves to control the movements of thousands of zombies, able to predict the impact point of artillery shells thirty seconds before they were fired and order them to disperse. In the fifth year, living plants sprouted from the gray curtain—the Spore System began to reshape the terrain, turning the earth into a breathing, sentient, and hostile living ecosystem. In the seventh year, the sky was torn open. The Shadowwing System—the Mist Dwellers with a wingspan of twelve meters, the Silent Gliding Spore Bag Demons, and the aerial overlord known as the Mist Dome Banshee—made the 60-meter-high wall a joke. Every victory was merely the prelude to the next, even more brutal war. Someone asked Junyi: "You're just a blueprinter, how dare you fight against gods?" Junyi didn't answer the question. He simply did a few things "blueprinters do" in that city besieged for ten years: He used the wreckage of an old cannonball to make a makeshift siege cannon. On the night the zombie horde pressed in, he precisely calculated which section of the wall should be deliberately blown up—the collapsing wall killed more than four hundred Bone Armor Beasts. After the city wall was torn open by the Shadowwing System, he led the entire city underground. To dig from scratch. A tunnel. An underground fortification. An underground transportation system called the **"Earth Arrow Network"**. If the surface can't be defended, go underground. If the underground can't be defended either? Then dig another layer down. Humanity's talent has never been strength—it's being able to come up with a second option after being sentenced to death. This isn't a hero's story. Junyi never considered himself a savior. The thing he was best at in his life was squatting in the ruins, using calipers to measure how much effective load a steel beam still had, and then looking up and saying: "We can add another layer." This is the story of a species on the verge of extinction, using concrete, welding rods, rat-pile tunnels, and hand-loaded bullets to buy itself a forty-year reprieve. The book contains the chaos and disorder of an apocalypse—looting, car accidents, plane crashes, the military radio station's final death broadcast. The book contains the heroism of mortals fighting against gods—some tied themselves to anti-aircraft gun mounts and fired their last round of ammunition, some went down into the depths of plague wells to shut off the valves and never came up again, some traded their lives for the collapse of a wall. The book also contains long winters in ruins, the silence when the gray curtain never dissipates all night, and the moment when seeds sprout anew in mutated soil.

42. 442 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 54.7kReads7.1Score3.9kShelves
43. 443 我 I Work as a Cleaner in a World Overrun by Contaminants 我在污染物横行的世界当清洁工 Please Let Me Learn Advanced Math让我学会高数吧Modern Romance472k WordsCompleted [A Corrupted World + System + Silly Ensemble Cast + Strong Female Lead (there is a male lead, but he has little presence early on)] (Chuunibyou male lead × quirky female lead. If you like quiet, brooding types, this may not be for you.) The rating just came out ⸝⸝ ᷇࿀ ᷆⸝⸝ When Yan Zhao wakes up, she realizes something is off about the world. She checks her phone and finds nothing but outrageous headlines: “What?! An R-country passenger ship has been attacked, and its leaders’ fates are unknown.” 1kReads9.2Score207Shelves

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    Does "Contaminated World" count? This one is great. The world has mutated due to nuclear contamination. Don't be fooled by the rating; the writing style is mostly lighthearted and humorous, but there are also tear-jerking moments. I just finished reading it and couldn't wait to recommend it.

44. 444 代 Code Name: Qitian 代号：齐天 The Grinch's Pale Green格格巫的浅绿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse112k WordsCompleted Code Name 037, the strongest combat-modified warrior in the wasteland! She once used a single alloy staff to pierce the “Mechanical Heavenly Court,” only to be imprisoned deep underground for a hundred years, with a “Golden Headband Curse” on her head that made her wish she were dead. When nuclear radiation swallowed the surface, an Authority opened her cell. “Retrieve the ‘Spark Source’ for me, and unlock the death chip in your brain!” She returned to the world above on a personal flying craft, 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The short story "Wasteland Journey to the West" is now complete.

45. 445 废 Wasteland Farming: I Build a Home with My Wood-Type Ability 废土种田：我用木系异能建家园 Finding Joy in a Joyless World作乐无乐世Sci-Fi & Apocalypse402k WordsCompleted Wasteland scavenging + imaginative plot + a space that purifies radiation + a heroine who grows stronger + plenty of humor Feng Xiaoji awakened an ability at the end of the world. After her teammate's space self-destructed, she transmigrated into the wasteland world as Diwu Ji. A cannon-fodder character reborn as cannon fodder. Even her wood-type ability has fallen to Rank Zero. A father who died young, a mother on the run, and a family too poor to afford food. Just when Diwu Ji finally got rid 1.9kReads8.4Score132Shelves

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    A super hilarious post-apocalyptic novel. The female lead has a spatial ability for purification and uses her wood-based powers to grow durians to attack people. It started with low ratings, don't let that deter you! [Laughs]

46. 446 末 Apocalyptic Wasteland: The Jiang Family’s Little Dumpling Insists on Scavenging 末世废土：江家小团子闹着要拾荒 More Than a Fish多余不是鱼Sci-Fi & Apocalypse369k WordsCompleted [Wasteland scavenging + Pocket dimension + Spiritual qi revival + Cultivation + No romance] Jiang Youyou completes her mission and returns from the cultivation world. When she left, the streets were bright and bustling. When she comes back, all she sees is devastation. Her System, her companion of a hundred years, wants to run away, so it has her reborn in the body of a little girl not yet five years old. She has no cultivation left, and no pocket dimension. How can she survive in this wasteland 1.5kReads8.3Score148Shelves

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    After completing her mission, Jiang Youyou returned from the cultivation world to a wasteland, where she was reborn as a 5-year-old toddler. She leads her family in cultivation and scavenging—it's super cute! [Admiring]

47. 447 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 9.1kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves

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    This is a post-apocalyptic story I've never seen before; it's very novel, and the characters feel very realistic.

48. 448 末 The Apocalypse: I Turned My Safehouse into a Super Restaurant 末世，我把安全屋打造成超级餐厅 Granny Cat猫姑婆Sci-Fi & Apocalypse692k WordsCompleted Apocalypse + safe house + gourmet food + special abilities + farming + trading, no romance. A global catastrophe strikes and gray mist spreads. Jiang Shiyi is reborn and gets a head start by claiming an absolutely secure shelter: the White House. What? Stockpiled food is useless because it’s all been contaminated by the gray mist? While everyone risks their lives scouring the wilderness for food and fighting mutated beasts, Jiang Shiyi and her friends live safely in the White House, growing muta 942Reads8.7Score102Shelves

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    🔥🔥🔥 Highly recommended! Great post-apocalyptic novels! Female-oriented novels!

49. 449 废 Wasteland Continent: Infinite Evolution 废土大陆：无限进化 Wilderness Stand-In山野凑数员Sci-Fi & Apocalypse83k WordsOngoing [Superpowers] + [Wasteland Survival] When disaster struck, I, Lin Bei, was lucky enough to awaken the power of evolution. By hunting exotic beasts, I could grow stronger without limit as I struggled to survive alone in the wasteland. By chance, I met Anna. She possessed the rare power of summoning and was also the daughter of Sunset City’s lord. Lost in the wilderness, she was in grave danger. We made a pact, and I escorted her all the way back to Sunset City. All I wanted was a chance to surviv 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Tired of farming, infrastructure building, shelter survival, and formulaic system novels? Why not try this traditional post-apocalyptic wasteland story? A cruel wasteland descends, the male protagonist hunts monsters and constantly evolves, while the female protagonist is the daughter of a city lord and possesses the special ability to summon magical beasts. The two protagonists struggle to survive side by side in the crumbling apocalypse.

50. 450 序 Sequence: Three-Second Tough Guy, I'm the God of Wealth 序列：三秒真男人，老子是豪神 The Horn on the Road马路上的喇叭Urban102k WordsOngoing [Post-apocalyptic Wasteland]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Invincible for Three Seconds]+ [Feel-Good Fiction]+ [Another World] Synopsis: On the first day of freshman year, Chang You and his three roommates from Chuancheng University were unfortunately sent to another world by the Dump Truck, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In this world, people cultivate blood energy, mutated beasts roam, and there are sequence-based supernatural abilities. In a desolate desert town, the four of them each awak —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This post-apocalyptic novel looks really good; it has a bit of an ensemble cast feel to it, and it's still a new book, so don't let the title fool you. It has a bit of a One Piece vibe.

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