Do Apocalypse Settings Really Not Need to Consider Reality or Logic? 末日的设定真的不考虑现实和逻辑吗?
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Zombie Apocalypse: Our Road to Survival 丧尸末日:我们的求生之路
Zombies, the apocalypse, realism, survival. No special powers, no womanizing, no power fantasy, no System. A portrayal of how ordinary people truly fight to survive. This is my first novel, so the early chapters may be a little rough. I hope you’ll give it a chance and keep reading. It gets really exciting later on. Thank you, and please don’t let the rating put you off. If you enjoy realistic stories, give it a try. The protagonist, Lin Chen, is just an ordinary car salesman when the apocalypse
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The Outbreak: A Road to Escape 尸变,逃亡之路
(Classic zombie story + road trip + no System + no pocket dimension + no golden finger + cautious, step-by-step survival + two female leads) Su Zhe is an ordinary man who happened to survive the outbreak of the zombie virus. With exceptional composure and ruthlessness, he seizes the fleeting chance before the troops seal off the city and escapes. He's no savior, and he has no System golden finger from the heavens. His only goal is to survive, no matter what it takes!
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The Apocalypse Rules: The Seven-Day Transformation 末世规则之七日之变
A zombie Doomsday story with no superpowers, a focus on logic, and a realistic feel. It may touch on pets, so read with care. “A novice author's novel, pure beginner writing. Please be patient and bear with me.” The male lead is an ordinary man who, through a twist of fate, brings a mutated rabies virus back to China. It wasn't intentional, but it leads to a catastrophic disaster. On his journey to find his daughter, he faces all kinds of hardships and dangers. Only belatedly realizing what he h
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The Forged Doomsday Journal 被伪造的末日笔记
A realistic zombie apocalypse, a complete timeline of the outbreak, multiple points of view, tons of detail, no System, no bindings, and no mindless wish fulfillment. A terrifying plague upends life as we know it. An ancient virus is evolving, turning people into monsters driven only to feed and spread the infection. A journal records the real lives of ordinary people in the apocalypse, but who knows what kind of conspiracy lies behind this terrifying virus...
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Surviving the Zombie Horde: Our Whole Family in the Apocalypse 尸潮求生:我们全家在末世
[Zombie Apocalypse, Ordinary People Ensemble, No Do-Gooders, No System, No Evolution] Straight into hell from the start! Earthquakes, toxins, and zombies unleash a chain of three disasters! A subversion of feel-good power fantasies, this story follows only the ingenuity and courage of ordinary people under the pressure of survival at its limits. An incredibly immersive look at growth and destruction from a realistic perspective on the apocalypse. {The novel has only just started receiving ratin
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Apocalypse: From the Start, I Inherit a Mutant Zoo 末世:开局继承变异动物园
(The rating just came out and is a little low. Give it a couple of chapters to see what you think.) [Not reborn, not transmigrated + no pairing yet + ensemble cast + mutated animals + play the pig to eat the tiger + satisfying face-slapping + scheming heroine] A month before a meteorite hits Earth, Shen Zhiyi inherits a rundown zoo left to her by her grandfather. But things are far from simple. The regularly arriving text messages, “a group of children” in a cryogenic pod, and three tons of bott
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Mechanical Hell 机械地狱
[Humanoid robot version of The Walking Dead + To Live, not a power fantasy] In 2035, humanoid robots were widespread throughout human society. Then, suddenly, they turned into mechanical killers, and the world became a living hell! Was this a deliberate rebellion after robots developed independent consciousness, or was something else going on behind the scenes? How will the survivors make it through the apocalypse? What fate awaits the human species? [No transmigration + no rebirth + no special
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A Century of Upheaval 百年丧乱
[Zombies + no saintly protagonist + decisive and ruthless + multiple narrative threads + ensemble cast + apocalypse fortress + war + survival + slow-paced] No rebirth, no supernatural abilities, no System or pocket dimension, no plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a power fantasy. It focuses more on realistic portrayals, particularly the story of humanity's resistance in an age overrun by zombies, and accounts of people trying to survive the apocalypse from multiple perspectiv
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Dust of the Plague-Worn Land 疫土遗尘
[Zombies + apocalypse + ensemble cast + realistic + no special abilities + Western characters + shared human destiny] This is not a power fantasy. The writing style leans toward traditional literary fiction. Told from multiple perspectives and across different timelines, this story follows the zombie pandemic from beginning to end: how it spreads from isolated outbreaks to cover the entire globe. It describes how different countries respond to the crisis, as well as the pandemic's historical ori
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Star Ring: King of the Doomsday Tanks 星环,末世坦克王
Synopsis: Meng Bing is an ordinary person who unexpectedly gains a System after the apocalypse breaks out. Using it, he upgrades a Type 59 tank and fights to survive in the post-apocalyptic world.
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The Walking Dead: No Way Out 行尸走肉之无路可退
[The heroine grows over time + transmigrate + no golden finger + crossbow guy as love interest + ensemble cast + original story] This book focuses on logical storytelling and detailed battle scenes. It's not a power fantasy: there is no System, inventory space, superpower, or other cheat. This is a realistic, slow-burn story of surviving the apocalypse, grounded in reality. The early chapters mainly follow the two leads' perspectives, gradually shifting toward the ensemble cast. The plot is full
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Apocalypse: Wilderness Survival from the Start 末世:开局荒野求生
The survivors of the apocalypse endure a grueling stretch of time. As they struggle to fill their stomachs, they search the wilderness for the dignity they've lost, piece together the memories of civilization, and press on toward hope.
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The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏
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The Ordered Wasteland 秩序废土
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
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Hotel Survival: I Become a Chosen of Slaanesh 酒店求生:我成为色虐神选
[Tower Defense] + [Survival] + [Werewolf] + [Loot, Fight, Extract] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Celebrities] + [No Goody-Two-Shoes Protagonist] Humanity is thrust into a deadly Survival game, only to discover that every game has different rules. Upgrading their rooms to fend off monster attacks isn’t their only concern. There are other threats, too. From the start, Song Heng takes an unconventional route, claiming an elevator and turning it into his own safe house. While other players are still stuc
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Deliveries Across the Firmament 苍穹投递
(An invasion by extraterrestrial life. No golden finger, no special abilities. Hard-core survival, a realistic tone, an ensemble cast, conspiracies, and an exploration of human nature.) Humanity has always yearned endlessly for the vast universe. What unknown things drift in the depths of darkness? Opportunity or disaster, survival or annihilation? Perhaps only when that moment arrives will the truth emerge...
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Tales of the Zombie Doomsday 丧尸末日那些事
This is a collection of stories that will shake you to the core, each set in an apocalypse overrun by zombies. Every story runs hundreds of thousands of words, and together these independent tales weave a portrait of the end times, revealing both its cruelty and its hope.
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A 996 Wage Slave's Diary of Escaping the Apocalypse 996社畜末日逃生日记
[Zombies & Apocalyptic Disasters + Female-Oriented + Dark, Unhinged Ensemble Cast + Everyone Is Evil + Time Travel Across Multiple Eras + No Golden Finger from the Start] Protagonist: Wan Qing. An inspiring story of growth, as she transforms from a naive novice into a calculating female lead! @ No golden finger from the start. She struggles to survive, only to be betrayed by the best friend fighting alongside her! @ She stockpiles supplies and prepares to lie low through the apocalypse, only to
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The Zombie Horde: Walking Alongside Despair 尸潮,与绝望同行
[Zombies]+ [No Stockpiling]+ [A Realistic Apocalypse]+ [Multiple Storylines]+ [Ordinary People Fighting to Survive]+ [No Harem]+ [No Special Abilities]+ [No System]+ [No Evolution]+ [No Rebirth] On a sunny afternoon, an ordinary traffic jam turns out to be the beginning of a terrifying crisis. Within hours, Ningcheng, a city of over a million people, is plunged into an unprecedented catastrophe. The streets teem with man-eating zombies, and the despairing cries of humanity echo overhead. This is
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Doomsday: The Story of How I Became the Villain 末日:关于我成为反派这档事
(I've dropped this book. I've been exhausted lately, so I'm taking a break. Wait for my next new book. Thanks for all your support.) Villain protagonist, apocalypse, one heroine, ruthless, sharp-minded, ice ability Slow burn A bioweapon made by Company X is accidentally released. An apocalyptic disaster descends upon the world, and nobody can be sure they'll survive until tomorrow. The apocalypse isn't the only thing to fear. People themselves are a threat, too. What is the truth behind the apoc
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Apocalypse Asylum: I Can't Believe I Ran Into Jinx 末世疯人院:我竟然遇到了金克丝
[Black Comedy + Multiple Personalities + Zombie Frenzy + Ruthless Protagonist + Unhinged Beauty] When a mysterious virus breaks out in an underground laboratory, I wake up on an operating table to find the world has become a living hell! I'm Wang Qin, an ordinary truck driver who was kidnapped and taken to an underground biological research facility. But after I was injected with a green serum, four completely different personalities split off inside me! Each personality has a unique ability: N
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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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Land of the Radiant Dead: Earth's Trial Ground 灿烂尸生之地球试炼场
No transmigration, no rebirth: he turns into a zombie from the start. No revenge, no betrayal: he only wants to survive. Go abroad, hold nothing back: kill humans and zombies alike. Superpowers that level up, with no class restrictions. No System, no favoritism toward the protagonist, and keep yourself in check. The apocalypse arrives, and Earth becomes a trial ground for a higher civilization. Wei Xinwu turns into a zombie from the start. Under the human army's purge, ordinary zombies have no h
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse 丧尸末日普通人的求生之路
Hardcore sci-fi meets a zombie apocalypse! No System, no invincibility, no harem, no female lead, and no mindless plot! A global zombie virus outbreak erupts all at once! What caused it? Is it revenge by people from beneath the earth, or an alien invasion? Why was Long Tianhao reborn? What really happened to the world? How will Long Tianhao’s team find the answers?
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Black Rain Descends: I Rebuild Civilization with Plant-Based Powers 黑雨降临:我靠植物异能重建文明
[No System, supernatural abilities] [No rebirth] [Steady pacing] [Fighting zombies] [Collecting pets] [Surviving the apocalypse] [Farming and building] Black rain fell, and zombies ran rampant. After another failed blind date, I stayed cooped up in my sixth-floor apartment, playing games and reading novels. As it turned out, that let me escape the initial disaster. By the time I realized something was wrong, my family had vanished and their whereabouts were unknown. Order had collapsed, and mons
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Improving Milk Tea Efficiency in the Deep Freeze Apocalypse 极寒末世,提高奶茶利用率
Making the Most of Milk Tea in an Icebound Apocalypse
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In the Flooded Apocalypse, I Have a Floating Island 暴雨末世,我有一座浮空岛
A Floating Island in a World Ended by Torrential Rain
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Ling Yuan and You Yue's Fantasy Journey 凌原与由月的奇幻之旅
[Post-apocalypse + supernatural abilities + Cthulhu Mythos + ancient civilizations + fantastical journey] People know less about the world than they did five hundred years ago. Over the course of a long and turbulent journey, Ling Yuan and You Yue gradually uncover the truth about the world, and the origin and destination of humanity. It turns out that the beginning is also the end, and everything is caught in a cycle…
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Doomsday Awakening: I Rule the Stars 末世觉醒:我无敌星宇
The Age of Declining Dharma, modern science, immortal cultivation, the laws of Heaven, and dazzling spiritual arts combine to paint a magnificent picture! As humanity faces a calamity that will decide its fate, the apocalypse arrives, spiritual qi revival begins, and supernatural abilities awaken. Humanity seems to grow stronger, but is actually heading toward extinction. Lu Cheng, the world's greatest physicist, uses his knowledge to grow stronger and tries to reverse humanity's inevitable doom
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It's Doomsday, and I'm Still Delivering Takeout 都末日了,我还在送外卖
[No System + No Superpowers + A Zombie Apocalypse Where Everyone Is Infected] My name is Lu Ye, and I’m a software engineer who got laid off. That day, I was making food deliveries as usual. When I saw a customer raise the tip to thirteen thousand just to get a bag of rice delivered, I knew the apocalypse was coming. This book may be unlike any apocalypse story you’ve read before, because the protagonist is a normal person, not a dumbass.
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Doomsday Doppelganger: This Reclusive Noble Has Turned to the Dark Side 末日分身:这个死宅贵族黑化了
A funny transmigration-and-System novel featuring high-level magic and combat, leveling-up zombies, leveling-up clones, and an invincible main body. Wang Dahai, a corporate drudge, finds his soul in another world inside the body of a minor noble named Cade Nicola. The original owner was a good-for-nothing who couldn’t use magic or battle aura, but lucky for him, I’ve got a golden finger!
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There's a Fat Guy in the Cultivation World Who's Ridiculously Cautious 修仙界有个胖子超苟
(Beast-taming cultivation, unlimited leveling, power fantasy, stronger against strong foes and stronger still against the weak) Zhang Baiwang is a very fat young man from a small frontier city in the Xia Kingdom. His father is a merchant who had him late in life and spoils him, so Zhang Baiwang is both ignorant and uneducated. However, having grown up around his father's business, he's picked up some knack for reading people. By a stroke of luck, he obtains an ancient divine artifact, the Demon-
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The Trillionaire CEO’s Beloved 千亿总裁心尖宠
The real heiress, Ye Wanwan, is manipulated by the fake heiress and ends up pregnant with President Fu's baby. After learning the truth, President Fu marries Ye Wanwan first, and they fall in love later, each choosing the other. With President Fu backing her, Ye Wanwan dishes out face-slapping to a whole crowd of green tea rivals.
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Endless Devouring: The Unseen Laws 无尽残噬:未见的法则
[Trapped-room opening + survival adventure + graphic gore + unknown creatures + mechanical engineering + contamination + mutation] ~When Zhang Huan wakes up, he finds himself with several strangers in a sealed apartment with no doors. They have all lost their memories. Also trapped with them is a mysterious female corpse in the basement. They decide to find a way out of the carefully designed apartment. The red fog outside the windows grows thicker, and the corpse’s eyes are slowly opening...~ (
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Apocalypse: My Pocket Master’s Pokémon Are a Little Unorthodox 末世:口袋大师的我精灵不太正经
The rating has just been posted. Readers, please give it a look. [Apocalypse] [Superpowers] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Pokemon] [Invasion by Otherworldly Races] [Multiple Female Leads] [Decisive and Ruthless] The Apocalypse arrived and Spiritual Qi revived. Two-thirds of Blue Star's eight billion people turned into zombies. Liu Yang, a wage slave in the northwest of the East Alliance, obtained the Pokemon Master System. However, there were no Pokemon in this world for him to catch. Just then, his R
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A Lifetime: The Lone-Wolf Agent's Gray Eden 一生:孤胆特工之灰色伊甸园
The story of Lin Tianming’s growth from boyhood. Please also read this book’s companion novels, Second Life: The Bracelet Across the Universe and Third Life: Love Bewitches the Mortal World. Each of the three novels stands alone, yet together they form a series, with interwoven plots that let you experience the life journey of “two worlds, three lives” and the rise of the century’s dragon, Long Teng!
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Second Life: The Bracelet That Conquers the Universe 二生:手环之纵横宇宙
What lies behind the world-shaking, epic rescue mission to avert a crisis across the multiverse, where the fates of three individuals are entwined? While so much science fiction still focuses on starships, journeys across light-years, and time travel, a mysterious bracelet appears. It can teleport its wearer, control people’s minds, and switch between eras. When consciousness, rather than matter, determines reality, these intertwined destinies lead not only to battles across the multiverse and t
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Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生,,之情惑人间
A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be
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Dust and Smoke in the Apocalypse 末世微尘烟雾之徒
The protagonist is a smoke-wielding ability user. Before the apocalypse, he was a gloomy, insecure boy. By a stroke of luck, he fulfilled a smoke spirit's dying wish and gained its power. He can control a domain that takes shape as smoke, and uses various smoke bombs and concussion grenades to boost his abilities. This book tells the story of a war between three sides: the anomalies of the Old World, the rebels of the New World, and humanity. The anomalies of the Old World are called impostors.
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Doomsday: A Survival Manual for Society's Outcasts 末日:社会边缘人的生存手则
(No System, no invincibility, no saintly heroine, no special abilities, no harem, no formulaic plot, not a power fantasy, natural disasters, dark apocalypse) The old order ended with the howls of the undead hordes. Humanity's hope was ground to dust beneath a towering tree of flesh and blood. Among these shattered ruins, struggle and rebirth are the only laws left to all living things. With every rule and shackle rendered meaningless, people on the fringes of society like me no longer have to hi
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Apocalypse Farming: From One Acre to Invincibility 末世种田:从一亩地到无敌
A sudden apocalypse descends, with zombies roaming everywhere and human civilization teetering on the brink of collapse. Zhang Yi unexpectedly awakens the ability to control plants. In the depths of despair, he mutates an ordinary Venus flytrap into “Crimson Vine.” It devours zombies and guards his base, becoming his most dependable line of defense. But that isn’t enough. To survive in this brutal world, Zhang Yi turns his attention to two more Venus flytraps. He takes the risk of guiding them
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A Biochemical Apocalypse Without Superpowers 没有异能的生化末日
[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
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Apocalypse Game: Extreme Survival 末世游戏之极限求生
[Transmigration + apocalypse + everyday life + survival] This is a story of survival in the apocalypse, with no superpowers and no overpowered golden finger. The heroine, Shen Xi, is an ordinary girl. Clever and kind, she is also somewhat timid and meek. In the brutal conditions of the apocalypse, Shen Xi cannot survive on her own, so she joins forces with her companions to begin their struggle for survival. In the apocalypse, the law no longer holds sway, and the good and evil in human nature g
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Doomsday Squad: Starting in a Maximum-Security Prison! 末日连队:从重型监狱开始!
This is a parallel world, seen through the eyes of a single company, reflecting the world as a whole. Against the backdrop of the apocalypse, people's good and evil, their virtues and vices, all change as time passes and events unfold. Wars between nations have never been civilized. As long as a nation still clings to its inherent flaws, it can never be forgiven! This story uses a parallel world to recreate reality as faithfully as possible: no exaggeration, no golden finger, and no saintly prot
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Apocalypse: Outbreak 2077, Mad Disease Runs Rampant 末世:惊变2077,狂病横行
[Madness]+ [Manic Laughter]+ [Blood Cross]+ [No System]+ [No Superpowers]+ [Realistic]+ [No Harem]+ [Ensemble Cast] (Not cyberpunk, the story simply takes place in a fictional 2077) If the infected person next door could understand your pleas for help and use them to lure you to your death, what would you do? Han Gang is trapped in a fully sealed quarantine hotel, with a newly mutated infected person just on the other side of the wall. They have human intelligence but the cruelty of beasts. They
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