I’m Out of Books to Read! Looking for Great Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Novels! Please, I’m Begging You! 书荒啦!!!求废土文!!!好看的废土文!!跪求
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Lost Land 惘土
[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
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The Seven Sources of the Otherworld 异世七源动
A new story is out! You’re welcome to read my work 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! A nuclear war unleashed doomsday, and waves of mutant beasts swept across the land. In a desperate attempt to control world-shattering power, humanity extracted energy from the beasts and sealed it inside seven extraterrestrial iron cards. The Beast Emperor awakened and crushed the laboratory in a thunderous assault, but it
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Dawn on the Wasteland 废土上的黎明
On the scales of balance in the dark-matter nebula, the memories of light and darkness have never truly been in equilibrium. As the Alliance fleet's memory-erasing missile tore through the nebula, the fragment of the Cosmic Heart in Chen Yu's chest suddenly grew hot. The seventh point of light on the Mother Lode Ring blazed to life, blasting the buried truth into a storm of shimmering particles: desperate screams from inside a black hole, footage of recordings destroyed in a secret chamber, wea
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Ten Thousand Paths Return to the Void: The Hidden Sect of the Primordial Era 万道归墟:荒古隐门
A thirty-thousand-year deception. Twenty thousand cycles of reincarnation. In a wasteland ruled by logic, cultivation is merely a monitored “program overflow.” Shen Yanchen, the Su family’s strongest killing sequence, destroys the Black Tower with his own hands and turns against his family to save a mysterious girl. Beneath the Leviathan orbital cannon, he tears out the sword bones forged over ten thousand years, then reshapes them into dark-red “causality bones” within his spine. When an outc
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To Stay Alive, I Have to Keep Lying to Her Today 为了活下去,今天也要努力欺骗她
[Pure Yuri + Yuri Flavor + Girls' Love + Apocalypse + Yandere + Corruption + Fake Sisters + Reborn + Soft Sci-Fi] In the wasteland, I successfully brought home a "little sister." In my memories of the game from my previous life, she would become one of humanity's greatest enemies in a few years. But now, she has lost her memory. I lied to her and became the older sister who takes care of her. To survive in this world, I have to max out my "good little sister's" affection for me. What she doesn't
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Code Name: Qitian 代号:齐天
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,
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The Broken Stele of the Northern Frontier 北境残碑
Twelve years ago, during Operation Northwind, three thousand Federation brothers were betrayed by their superiors and left to die in the northern wasteland. Reconnaissance platoon leader Lu Chen crawled back to the land of the living from a pile of corpses, only to become an outlaw in a lawless gray zone. Here, there is no law, only guns, black markets, and survival. Thirty-two-year-old Lu Chen carries the lives of eighty-seven of his brothers in his hands and guards a checkpoint on North Sevent
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This Wasteland World Feels So Real 这个废土世界很真实
[Radiation] [Underground Shelter] [Developing a Base] [Mutated Contaminated Creatures] [Apocalypse] [Wasteland] [Fourth Calamity] [Superpowers] [Civilization Ruins] In this apocalyptic wasteland blanketed by radioactive dust, a dormant supercivilization shelter becomes an unexpected refuge for Qiu Feng, a stranger who has arrived in this world by accident. When his only sister, Yue Er, mysteriously connects with the shelter’s core System, her consciousness is swept into a torrent of information
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I Devour Without End in the Wasteland 我在废土无限吞噬
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
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A Wild Ride 一路狂欢
Their son, Liang Liang, passed the imperial examinations with flying colors. The family of three went on an outing in the countryside and discovered that a reservoir was at risk of bursting its banks. They took emergency measures and called the police. Their actions earned praise from the authorities, and they were also interviewed by reporters. The family of three instantly became online celebrities, admired by everyone. A witty, humorous story brimming with positive energy…
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I Want to Run Away So Badly 好想逃
The orphan Qing Wa made a living by working for wealthy households. Later, he successfully predicted the rain based on his experience, earning people's respect. After that, he used his luck to help his neighbors solve their problems and became a half-immortal in everyone's eyes. The emperor later summoned him and bestowed on him the name Dongfang Shuo. He repeatedly relied on luck to help the emperor solve problems at court, through a series of twists and turns that were both hilarious and absur
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The Guide to Getting Rich Through Farming Outside the Base 基地外的种田暴富手册
[Special powers + golden finger + farming + adorable pets + infrastructure + post-disaster reconstruction + spatial storage] Lin Taotao had finally managed to hang on until the disasters ended. When she heard the base broadcast announce that the apocalypse was over and a new era had begun, Taotao couldn't help bursting into tears. Who could blame her? She'd already resigned herself to spending the rest of her life holed up in the base until she died. She did have special powers, but her combat a
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Wasteland: One Survival Gadget a Day 废土:每天一件生存小道具
[Zombies + mutated beasts + the uncanny] [magical treasures + abilities] The protagonist, Li Si, transmigrates to a wasteland world. Every night at midnight, a small survival item appears, but it can only exist for 24 hours. The glasses worn by Gintama's good-for-nothing protagonist, Shinpachi; shoes that never stop dancing; the Dragon Ball radar modified by Bulma; Yato's battle robe from Noragami; the crowning achievement of the greatest noodle master on land, a work of high school physics... W
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Wasteland Survival: Busy Scavenging, Do Not Disturb 废土求生,正在拾荒的路上,勿扰
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
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Bones and Dogs Living on the Wasteland 骨头和狗在废土生活
After Gu Tong was murdered, her body rotted away until only a skeleton remained. Fortunately, her family had passed down a secret technique that could let her cultivate herself back into human form. No one had ever succeeded before, though. As she cultivates, she and the mountain dog Dahuang constantly clash and make up. Once she finally regains her human form, she and Dahuang descend the mountain, only to find the land below deserted. Moss and vines cover the buildings, as if no one has lived t
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Earth Expands Ten Thousandfold, and My Family and I Survive in the Wilderness 地球膨胀一万倍我和家人荒野求生
A global earthquake shattered the prosperity of the modern world. When the dust finally settled, people were horrified to discover that the mountains had grown taller, the land had expanded, and the rivers had widened. The technology that had accompanied humanity at every turn had vanished along with the old world, and mankind had returned to a primitive age. People began struggling to survive in the wilderness, until several years later, someone made an astonishing discovery...
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The Dimensional Ascension from Wasteland Cultivation to the Interstellar Fengdu 从废土修行到星际酆都的升维之路
There was once a world where even breathing could kill you. More than a thousand years later, I became the last cultivator in the wasteland. I set up a Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Array in the radiation zone and raised mutated beasts into spirit beasts to guard the mountain. At last, the stone stele of the Five Spirits Immortal Sect stood tall upon the earth. Everyone thought this was the end of the apocalypse, unaware that sleeping beneath our feet was a Heaven-Stealing Array laid out among
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I’m Building a Home in the Apocalypse 我在末世建设家园
[Apocalypse + business management + land reclamation + no romance] The mission System inexplicably brings Shu Lin to the apocalypse and tells her she can’t go home until she’s finished building a homeland. Starting from the start with just a hoe and a plot of land, she somehow turns herself into a food supplier for all the major bases. Yet those bases still keep pestering her to send more goods. “Boss, please send more supplies! We don’t have enough to eat!” “Boss Shu, money’s no problem. I can
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Reborn in the Wasteland: I'm the Fool of Our Family of Three 废土重生,一家三口我最傻
A silly girl transmigrates into a wasteland world and, in a case of two negatives making a positive, becomes smart. From the start, she has a foolish younger brother, then the base assigns her a frail partner. She has no choice but to roll up her sleeves and work hard to keep her whole family well-fed and plump.
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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
[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
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Picked Clean in the Wasteland 在废土里被拾荒了
She was once the backbone of a hunting squad in the safe zone. She never had to worry about food, drink, or clothes. She was once spirited, carefree, and full of confidence. Then, out of nowhere, she developed radiation sickness. She became a patient whose mother insisted, “It’s for your own good,” while denying her the right to decide her own life. To escape being forcibly taken by someone, she fled to a wasteland scavenging ground. An old acquaintance found her scavenging and cured her radiati
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Doomsday Game: It Begins with Awakening Healing Powers 末日游戏游戏,从觉醒治疗异能开
Heads-up: The heroine isn't invincible or a savior. She has support abilities and grows over time. There are no scenes of her slaughtering everyone. The pace is slow and focused on daily life. [No romance / everyday life / leveling up and fighting monsters / kindhearted but not cold-blooded] A survival game from the Apocalypse merges with resource-depleted Blue Star. Chu Ling awakens her superpower. To survive better in the Apocalypse, she works hard to level up by fighting monsters and secretly
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I Told You to Awaken an Ability, Not to Start Cultivating! 让你觉醒异能,没让你修仙啊!
In a modern city where spiritual qi revival has brought rampant monsters, Ye Bufan is rated the lowest possible F rank at the awakening ceremony, going from the undisputed top student in theory to the laughingstock of the whole school. But what he truly awakens is a mythic-level ability that the instruments cannot measure: [Hongmeng Dao Treasury]. To activate the System, he challenges the SSS-rank ice-cold beauty of the school to a duel from the start, staking a maid contract and shocking the en
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Wasteland Card Crafter: I Become a Demon by Playing Cards 废土插卡师:我靠插卡成妖
[Beast Taming + Unique Card Insertion + Dark Evolution + Ruthless] I'm in the late stages of radiation sickness, with only three days to live. I can't afford the outrageously expensive medicine, and I can't contract a legendary war beast. At the brink of despair, I discover that the game skills in my mind can actually be turned into physical cards! While everyone else is begging for the protection of war beasts, I ram my homemade [Iron Shirt] card into my rotting arm. “Crack!” My skin turns to
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Apocalypse Escape: From Analyzing Weaknesses to Ascension 天启逃杀:从解析弱点到封神
Blue Star has become a testing ground for a higher-dimensional civilization. The “Apocalypse Game” forcibly draws 18-year-olds into play; those who fail become data feed, and 37% of the world has already collapsed beyond recovery. On the night of his birthday, ordinary high school student Lin Ye awakens the “Void Analysis” ability. When his silver eyes open, he can see the weaknesses in supernatural abilities and loopholes in the rules. He only wants to stay alive, but during a bloody hunt throu
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Wasteland: I Am the Legion 废土:我即军团
On this forgotten wasteland, the embers of the old civilization have long since grown cold. Su Zhe, an ordinary man struggling to survive against all odds, accidentally activates a mysterious base known as Genesis. He gains the forbidden ability to split off versions of himself. Whether it's Wrench, a mechanic with extraordinary skills; Ghost, a scout who appears and disappears without a trace; or Iron Fist, an undefeated fighter, each is just one of his countless projections. Su Zhe is no longe
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You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 你是别样的风景
You Are a Different Kind of Scenery
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Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸
Across the Ocean
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The Compass of Time 时光罗盘
The Time Compass
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Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境
A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove
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The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫
The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers
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A Hilarious Tale of Immortals and Heroes 仙侠笑传
A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work 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!
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A Reborn Life in the Siheyuan 重生之四合院人生
A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work 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!
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The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元:金星之路
An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans.
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Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候
Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later
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The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记:星尘之战
Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree.
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The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车
Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter
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Wasteland Farm Chronicles 废土农场物语
After dying from overwork, I transmigrated to a wasteland. From the start, I had only three acres of barren land, 120 gold coins, and a farm System that had to be upgraded within 30 days! Other transmigrators level up by fighting monsters. I get rich by growing vegetables. Ding! Radiation peas are ripe. Yield doubled! Ding! Farm upgraded. High-pressure water buffalo unlocked! Ding! Genetic devouring complete. Partial armor unlocked! Mutated creatures are attacking? My hens lay explosive eggs! Ra
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The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌
(This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles
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The Myriad Worlds Clan: My Wives Are All War Gods 万界家族之吾妻皆战神
Multiple heroines. The protagonist travels through all kinds of worlds: apocalyptic, fantasy, xianxia, modern urban, and more... The protagonist's soul transmigrates to a wasteland and he gains a Mount & Blade-style interface. Getting married and consummating the marriage unlocks his family. Practicing summoning magic unlocks troops, while practicing spatial magic unlocks a space for his troops and an inventory. In the cultivation world, he conquers a small country to serve as the foundation for
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In the Wasteland, Even the Lucky One Has to Take the Kids Out for Wild Greens 废土之上,锦鲤也得带娃摘野菜
Su Luo drowned while saving someone. When she woke up, she had transmigrated into a wasteland apocalypse. In the shantytown, she struggled to survive on an empty stomach. Her former brother-in-law abandoned his wife and daughter, leaving her sister and niece to depend on each other. Just when all seemed hopeless, she was deceived by the villainous Yan Yan and unexpectedly activated the [Trickery System]: every time someone schemes against her, she earns points that she can use to upgrade her spa
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Wasteland Radiance 废土辉光
The story takes place in a world plagued by war and social instability. The government launches a large-scale war, and when the situation spirals out of control, nuclear weapons are used... From that point on, new organizations and forces begin to emerge across the continent, including in Historie. They cooperate and wage war in pursuit of resources, profit, and survival. "Now I live only for a trivial goal that is difficult to achieve. I've already paid the price, and I don't care if it costs m
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I Am the Cold Wave 我,即是寒潮
Synopsis A catastrophic cold wave wipes out the world. Ling Han descends like a god, freezing thousands of miles with a wave of his hand and building a city of eternal silence atop the ruins. The world sees him as a demon, yet when the extraterrestrial civilization known as the “Purge Protocol” arrives, he bears a divine nature in a mortal body and uncovers the cruel truth: the apocalypse was, in fact, an attempt to save the world. But when the ruins of an ancient civilization awaken and the vei
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The Max-Level Expert's Lie-Flat Life in the Apocalypse 满级大佬的末世躺平日常
Synopsis Lin Xian, a max-level expert, is reborn in the apocalypse and wants nothing more than to lie flat and take it easy. Unfortunately, the zombies are too noisy, his teammates are too useless, and the gods are always peeking at him. He casually stuffs zombies into closets, wins over the team healer with instant noodles, takes down burly men with toothpicks, and whenever he feels like it, makes the zombie horde line up for a number before sending them packing on the spot. When higher-dimensi
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Emotional Forbidden Zone: Emotional Plague 情绪禁区:情绪瘟疫
Synopsis In the post-apocalyptic world left behind after the “Emotional Plague” destroyed the old world, the young Lin Qi lives in the prison city of Jingdu, where absolute rationality reigns. He serves as an elite soldier known as a “Cleaner.” An accident awakens his power to control emotions, sending him down a thorny path in search of the truth. He escapes the cage and joins the resistance group Heartfire, meeting companions such as Su Qian, a technological genius, and Feng, a tribal warrior.
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Wasteland: My Mechanical Arm Can Slay Gods and Crack Jokes 废土:我的机械臂能屠神也能吐槽
[Synopsis] In a wasteland where civilization has collapsed, Lin, an amnesiac cyborg, wakes up with a mechanical arm that only starts when he tells a terrible joke. Alongside Xiao Ling, a sharp-tongued hacker; Pang Hu, a gluttonous mechanic; and Leng Yue, an expressionless bioengineered girl, he forms the “Wasteland Comedy Troupe.” While uncovering the truth behind the “Day of Purification,” they get caught up in a three-way struggle between cyborgs, bioweapons, and pureblood humans. When the fl
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Wasteland: Echoes of the End 废土:终末回响
This is the story of Chen Mo, an ecology researcher, and Lina, a military medic, struggling to survive in a wasteland where civilization has collapsed. Faced with insect swarms and zombies spawned by an out-of-control genetic weapon, they place their hopes in the mysterious Garden of Eden, only to uncover the horrifying truth that it feeds humans to its insects. After escaping, they join forces with the resistance and gradually discover that the apocalypse began when the old world's “Nirvana Pro
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Doomsday: Echoes of a Lost Era 末日:残响纪元
A bizarre virus called “Memory Silence” erases humanity's procedural memories, and civilization collapses overnight. Chen Mo, a former brain science researcher, wakes from an isolation pod to find the world in chaos. Relying on the knowledge he has left, he forms a survival team with Lu Xue, a nurse whose instincts remain intact, and Da Xiong, a combat specialist. They use a library as their base and establish a “Lighthouse.” As they struggle to survive, they encounter Gear City, which believes
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Doomsday: The End of the Data 末日:数据尽头
Two hundred years after the world collapsed because the “Data Extractor” went out of control, a lone wanderer named Kai saves Ellie, a girl from the virtual paradise of Eden, and the two are forced to join forces. They gradually uncover the cruel truth beneath Eden's dazzling facade: it feeds on human emotions. In their search, they also come face-to-face with the shocking secrets of their own identities: Kai is actually a copy of Eden's core AI, while the soul of an old-world scientist's daught
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Douluo Dalu: The Dark Age 斗罗:黑暗纪元
Lin Fan, a transmigrator, arrives in a Douluo apocalypse ravaged by dark laws. Soul beasts have turned demonic, civilization has collapsed, and humanity struggles to survive among the ruins. After awakening the unique Martial Soul, the Eye of God Devourer, he sets out on a thorny path to survival. From the ruined stronghold in Nuoding City to Dawn City, where hope gathers; from devouring soul beasts to confronting the darkness in the human heart. He joins forces with the surviving factions, stan
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