Looking for Survival Novels with Real Survival Challenges, Not an Overpowered Protagonist Right Away 求求生小说。要真求生，不要主角很快无敌的

1. 1 求 Survival: Defending My Cabin Against the Cold Wave 求生：从小木屋开始抵御寒流 Shan Xun山寻Sports3.5M WordsCompleted [Survival] [Shelter Building] [Disasters] [Stockpiling Supplies] Everyone transmigrates. When Qi Yuan wakes up, he finds himself in a fog-shrouded world full of danger. Cold, hunger, wild beasts, and torrential rain become the daily lot of everyone. Rising with the sun and resting at its setting become the way of life for all! 140.7kReads8.2Score10kShelves

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2. 2 迷 Surviving the Mist: I Can See Hints 迷雾求生：我能看到提示 Chen He Guai陈何乖Anime Fanfiction9.1M WordsOngoing Everyone transmigrates into the world of Mists. Fog stretches in every direction. From the start, all you have is a ramshackle thatched hut, and you must search the dangerous wilderness for supplies and wood, keeping your campfire burning to survive! While everyone else is still struggling to stay alive, Ye Qianfan has already used divine-level guidance to obtain equipment and an estate! [East: The outskirts of the Misty Forest. There's a silver treasure chest!] [West: A hungry lightning leopard 45.2kReads8.3Score3.8kShelves
3. 3 震 Shocking! I Started with a Patch of Land and Struck It Rich with Critical Hits 震惊！开局一片地，暴击出奇迹 Feng Qingyang风轻阳Sports6.6M WordsCompleted As eras turn and the Heavenly Dao creates a new world, every race across the Myriad Worlds transmigrates into it. From the start, each person gets a plot of land and nothing else. They must build houses, farm, tame beasts, mine, and defend against attacks... Every living being must work hard to build a base of their own and stay alive. Luo Yu obtains the divine skill [Primordial Critical Hit], which can trigger a critical hit on anything in the world! [Gather ordinary strawberries and trigger a 38.6kReads8.9Score3.1kShelves
4. 4 求 Survival: Starting from a Thatched Hut to Fight the Flood 求生：从茅草屋开始对抗洪水 Gong Shiye弓石叶Sports2.1M WordsOngoing [Disaster Survival] [Shelter] [Farming and Development] [Golden Finger] [Stockpiling Supplies] [No Saintly Hero] Everyone transmigrates to a world shrouded in mist. Zhang Chi wakes up to find himself in a thatched hut leaking from all sides, and learns that a flood will strike soon. The rain outside keeps falling, growing heavier and heavier. Everyone can only struggle to survive amid the threats of torrential rain, floods, wild beasts, and monsters... 17.9kReads8.4Score1kShelves

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   Survival, all people, the world,

5. 5 迷 Surviving the Fog, Starting in a Thatched Hut 迷雾求生，从茅草屋开始 Stars Fall, Awaiting the First Sun星落约初阳Sports1.0M WordsCompleted The bad news: Our whole group has been “kidnapped” to a trial ground to face trials of life and death. This is the end~~ The good news: Our friends are incredibly dependable~~ One person can travel fast, but a group can travel fast and far! The expedition of Yanhuang: May glory belong to everyone who worked hard for it! [Expedition] [Survival] [Ensemble Cast] [Summoning] [Pets] [Heroes] [Mystery] [Choices] [Tower Defense] P.S. This is a new book, also featuring an ensemble cast: [Bow to Civiliza 6.9kReads9.1Score515Shelves
6. 6 黑 Dark Survival Game 黑暗生存游戏 Cao Cao Is Never Late曹操不迟到Sports1.6M WordsCompleted You wake to find darkness engulfing the world outside. A storm rages, strange bloodstains seep into the corners of the walls, mournful cries ring in your ears, and a figure outside the window never leaves. You and countless other survivors huddle in fear inside your own ten-square-meter shelters. Starving, you open the door a crack and peer outside. [Chance of catching a cold from the rain after going outside: 100%] A cold isn't a disease. It just lowers your immunity and increases your chance o 1.3kReads8.7Score148Shelves
7. 7 木 Raft Survival: Send Supplies to Goddesses and Get a Thousandfold Return 木筏求生：送女神物资，万倍返现 Little Frog Walking on Thin Ice如履薄冰小青蛙Sports1.4M WordsCompleted [Everyone + Survival + Natural Disasters + Myriad Races + Power Fantasy + Unlimited Supplies + No Saintly Hero] Everyone wakes up to find they’ve transmigrated into a raft-survival game. From the start, each player gets one raft and one fishing rod. All supplies must be fished up. While everyone else is scrambling for supplies and struggling to survive, Lin Bei already has more food and drink than he needs, and his raft keeps leveling up at a ridiculous pace. That’s because he awakened a System: 16.6kReads7.8Score1.5kShelves
8. 8 游 Game Era: Awakening an Infinite Critical Hit Talent 游戏纪元：觉醒天赋无限暴击 White-Haired Rascal白头顽童Sports1.1M WordsCompleted The Myriad Worlds have become a game world. Defeat monsters to level up, and start everything anew. The myriad races: “The world has changed! Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to their stations? We will vie for supremacy, and I will be king!” Humanity: “We will reclaim our place at the pinnacle of the world!” All creation strives for freedom beneath the frosty skies. Tell me, on this boundless earth, who will rule its fate? 2.9kReads8.3Score171Shelves
9. 9 百 You Need a Combat Rating of 100 to Break 100 Million. Am I Qualified Yet? 百级战力才破亿，请问我合格了吗 Salty Fish Chen咸鱼晨Sports4.8M WordsOngoing Also known as: A 100% Drop Rate for Killing Monsters, and You Think You Can Beat My Luck? [Game Stats + No Female Lead + Power Fantasy + Building a Faction + War Between a Hundred Nations + Battle of the Ten Thousand Races] Seven billion people from over a hundred countries were transported to the world of gods and demons, embarking on a journey of evolution. In his previous life, Ye Chuyun spent ten years struggling in that world. Now he has been reborn on the very day he first transmigrated. Y 50.2kReads8.4Score4.5kShelves
10. 10 三 The Three Kingdoms: Forging a Heavenly Court from the Bronze Sparrow Terrace 三国之铜雀铸天庭 Six Liang Tangerine Cat六两橘猫Sports2.2M WordsCompleted [Feel-Good Fiction] [Historical Beauties] [Generals] [Conquest] [From the Start] [Infinite Flow] [Invincible] Set against the historical cultures of various nations, Dynasty became a special online game in an era of upheaval. From the moment Lin Han obtained the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, the course of Dynasty changed. Zhang Jiao: “The Azure Heaven is dead; the Yellow Heaven shall rise. I can see that you have an extraordinary bearing and the makings of a hidden dragon. Would you be willing to beco 56.7kReads9.0Score6.2kShelves
11. 11 宇 Cosmic Online Game: I Can Choose What Drops 宇宙网游，我能指定掉落 Ten Tons in Three Days三天吃十吨Sports2.0M WordsCompleted A universe-wide online game has arrived. The rewards players earn in the game can be brought back to reality, and monsters can appear in the real world too. Everyone is anxious as they stand at the crossroads of a new era, except Lu Kong... Because he can choose what items monsters drop. Whether it's a monster or a treasure chest, he always gets the rarest loot! 38.5kReads8.4Score2.7kShelves
12. 12 列 Train Survival: From the Start, I Get an Unbelievable Reward! 列车求生：开局获得逆天奖励！ Big Snail大蜗蜗蜗Sports1.3M WordsCompleted All of humanity is drawn into a game called Train Survival. The tracks stretch endlessly in every direction, with no one knowing where they lead. Various cars sit along the tracks: supply cars, trap cars, weapons cars... and perhaps cars containing... things of terrifying horror. Zhou Yun discovers that his rate-of-return golden finger still works. [Rate of Return]: 4,900% to positive infinity. [Risk]: Low [Recommendation]: Low risk, extremely high returns. Strongly recommended. As a merchant, a 25.6kReads7.4Score1.5kShelves
13. 13 在 Surviving the Nightmare World 在恶梦世界惊悚求生 Lu Jianyi路剑一Mystery4.2M WordsCompleted In the Nightmare World, chosen candidates arrive to face a brutal elimination game where the last one standing wins. Here, you'll encounter all kinds of monsters and demons, strange and beautiful scenery, and heartwarming little stories. You'll walk on the edge of life and death. You'll face all sorts of trials and tribulations, but also gain talents, skills, equipment, bloodlines, pets, fortuitous encounters, legacies, and more... You'll even have a little wooden cabin. Develop it carefully, an 32.5kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
14. 14 全 Global Survival: Starting from a Shack, I Defy Heaven and Break Through Worlds 全民求生：破木屋开局，逆天破界 Deep White深白Sports1.1M WordsCompleted [Global Survival] [Upgrade Your Shelter] [Disasters] [Scavenge Supplies] [Grow Stronger] [Neither Sanctimonious Nor Grim] [Clashes Between Different Civilizations] Before their home planet entered its destruction cycle, humanity "accidentally" discovered a hyper-realistic evolution System preserved in the ruins of an ancient civilization. After experts organized to decipher it, all of humanity entered a post-apocalyptic world on the brink of destruction to fight for survival as their home planet 6kReads6.6Score280Shelves

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    Darkness] The mother planet is destroyed, and all the people enter the apocalyptic world of destruction to survive. When Lin Chuan woke up, he appeared in a dangerous rainforest. He started in a broken wooden house, collected supplies, constantly improved himself, and faced various challenges that came one after another, including poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, tropical rainforests, monstrous floods, frozen apocalypse, and scorching natural disasters... Everyone will struggle to survive in the apocalyptic world...

15. 15 全 High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 Newly Bought Peaches新买的桃子Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 288.5kReads9.4Score32.3kShelves

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    The male protagonist is crazy and the female protagonist is crazy

16. 16 全 Global Survival: I Survive by Getting Close to the Campus Belle 全民求生：从跟校花贴贴开始求生 Super Little Yellow超级小黄Urban643k WordsCompleted [Survival + Global Transmigration + No System + Disasters + One Female Lead + No Saintly Savior + No Clichés] Everyone on Earth transmigrates to a mysterious planet to take part in a two-person survival game. Wang Fan's teammate turns out to be the campus beauty, with fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. The planet is home to all kinds of strange plants and creatures, prehistoric beasts... terrifying monsters... and extreme weather. Cold snaps, heat waves, insect swarms, monsters... lightni 5.2kReads8.2Score462Shelves
17. 17 冰 Surviving on the Frozen Sea: Sign-In Rewards a Pet Shark from the Start 冰海求生，开局签到宠物鲨鱼 The 55th Card第55张牌Sports1.7M WordsCompleted [System + sly schemer + comedy + easygoing + no goody-two-shoes nonsense = frequent daily updates] Everyone wakes up to find they have transmigrated to a frozen-sea survival world. Here, ice and snow blanket the land, and sea beasts are everywhere. Everyone starts with a raft, and all their resources have to be fished up. Qin Feng binds himself to the Ocean Overlord System and gets a pet shark through sign-in rewards. While everyone else is still worrying about food, Qin Feng sends his shark to 7.4kReads8.6Score866Shelves
18. 18 求 Survival Game: Struggling to Stay Alive in the Amazon Rainforest 求生游戏我在亚马逊雨林挣扎求生 Burnt-Out Cigarette燃尽的香烟Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Wilderness survival + building with bare hands + no special powers or System + thrilling and intense + exploring a primeval rainforest + danger at every turn [Take a journey into the real Amazon rainforest and experience the most authentic wilderness survival] This is a trade-off between life and profit. To raise the money for his seriously ill grandmother’s surgery, Ye Feng risked his life by joining a wilderness survival show produced overseas. He would compete alongside more than a hundred pe 20.6kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
19. 19 回 Returning to Primitive Times to Conquer the World 回到原始时代征战天下 Mysterious Sheep神秘的羊Historical544k WordsCompleted He arrives in a cruel, savage prehistoric world where beasts from different eras roam the same land. Fierce beasts prowl the mountains, giant pythons lurk in the jungles, raptors shriek across the sky, and enormous crocodiles rule the deep pools. Red-haired, green-faced cannibals dominate the mountains, while hulking giants wreak havoc across the skies. Watch as Jiang Yuan leads a weak tribe that lives off raw meat and blood, teaching them to make fire, hunt, plant crops, weave nets, raise lives 2.8kReads8.4Score135Shelves

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    The bag looks good, trust me

20. 20 十 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves

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    Is there any masterpiece that you can recommend for an afternoon? The main character is not stupid, but rational, in the early stage of the end of the world, or very poor, and is depressed first and then later. Basically, I have read all the great stories. Good people live a safe life.

21. 21 天 Natural Disaster Strikes: I Can Strengthen Everything 天灾降临：我可以强化万物 Autumn Has Come to the Mountains and Rivers山河已是秋Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted Natural disasters strike and monsters run rampant, plunging the world into famine and catastrophe. Humans assign them ranks and risk their lives to learn the rules for killing them. They, meanwhile, lick their scarlet lips and stare with glowing red eyes, wanting nothing more than to devour every human. The outside world is dangerous. I just want to hide in a safe house. Lin Yu is determined to build himself an absolutely secure domain. Until one day, when Lin Yu decides to go out for a stroll, 35.8kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves

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    Strong faction, lone wolf

22. 22 序 Sequence Highway: Starting as a Fake Artificer 序列公路：从假装炼器师序列开始 Dugu Cang Hu独孤沧虎Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.7M WordsOngoing #Mysterious Apocalypse #Road Migration #Sequence Powers #Ruthless and Decisive #Survival Story #Team Adventure #Wild Imagination A tide of apocalyptic horrors sweeps the world. The migrating convoy is the only hope for survival. Wang Ying is the blade, Cao Xianming is the brains, Zheng Xiaofeng is the shield, and Yang Yong... pretends to wield sequence powers. He’s called crafty and accused of being a coward, but when the convoy is wiped out, he swallows a fragment of the source of the uncanny 19.4kReads6.0Score1.4kShelves
23. 23 国 National Fate Survival: My Whole Family Transmigrates Together! 国运求生：我全家一起穿越！ Peaceful and at Ease舒心自在Urban1.4M WordsOngoing [An original all-family national-fortune survival story. The rating just came in and will rise!] In a national-fortune survival game, Dragon Kingdom draws the “Death List”: Lin Chen’s family of seven, with the old and young, men and women all thrown into the fight! Blue Star is certain Dragon Kingdom is doomed, and the country is filled with despairing cries. Only Lin Chen grins wildly as he looks at the awakened [Strongest Family Survival System]. “You think my grandma’s too old? One word from 8.1kReads7.5Score545Shelves
24. 24 直 Livestreaming an Exploration: The God-Tier Dad Goes on an Adventure 直播探秘：神级奶爸在冒险 Clouds Flow for Thousands of Miles流云万里Urban809k WordsCompleted Please look forward to the new book, Totem Era: Awakening an Elite Azure Dragon from the Start. Hope all you big shots will stop by! Tu Nan had achieved success in his career, but when his daughter came down with a terminal illness, he sold his company and became a streamer who explored forbidden zones in hopes that the unknown might hold a cure for her. After binding to the God-Tier Livestream Exploration Check-In System, he checked in at Kunshan's Valley of Death, Shennongjia, the Amazon, th 2.7kReads8.6Score183Shelves

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    Survival novels with an average of one million words, wilderness survival masters, adventure survival for all, survival of non-human beings

25. 25 水 Survival in a Water Droplet: I Can See Hints 水滴求生：我能看到提示 Rainy Day下雨天了Sports969k WordsCompleted [Beep!] [You have entered the Water Drop Survival World. You are now a drop of water.] [Your goal is to survive, but remember:] [Do not touch any species or elements associated with fire, or you will be instantly killed.] [All things counter and complement one another. Pay attention to every detail around you, and you may gain unexpected rewards.] [Do not stop moving, or the earth will absorb you.] [This world is full of danger. Every step could bring the end of the world.] Fang Bai, one of the 34Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 从 Proving the Dao Through Science from Scratch 从零开始科学证道 Xiao Bizai Zhi小俾宰智Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted PS: This is hard sci-fi in a fantasy cultivation disguise! The early stages focus on steady development, followed by a technological explosion later on. There are no sudden acquisitions of powerful weapons, so this isn’t a power fantasy. It’s closer to sci-fi farming. PPS: The author’s skills are limited, so the early chapters may be hard to get through... There are also long sections explaining the principles, as I try to build a coherent “cultivation + science” system and world. If that sounds 1.9kReads8.3Score190Shelves

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27. 27 修 Cultivating Immortality Begins with Eternal Life 修仙从长生不死开始 Little Crispy Veggie小蔬脆Eastern Fantasy3.4M WordsCompleted A short drama with the same title is now available. If you're interested, go check out Cultivation Begins with Immortality. System + transmigration + keeping a low profile Lin Jiang transmigrates to the world of cultivation and gains a longevity sign-in System. Sign in for one day, gain one year of lifespan. Lin Jiang: “Cultivation doesn't seem all that urgent after all. I'll take my time.” (Not a dark, overpowered power fantasy. If that's not your thing, proceed with caution.) 35.4kReads8.2Score3.5kShelves
28. 28 奇 Planet of Wonders 奇遇星球 Wald Beast of Zhengyang Palace正阳宫的瓦尔德兽Urban422k WordsOngoing A twist of fate brings a retired soldier an astonishing power. Facing a world ruled by a nation of tigers and wolves and overrun by demons, he rises up without hesitation, wages war, unites the nations, and transforms the world. From then on, beautiful women from every country compete to profess their love for him... … 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Come and take a look. The game starts with Desert Island Survival and takes you to experience life in ancient times. It teaches you how to drill wood to make fire, boil saltpeter by local methods, make steel by local methods, make gunpowder, build bases, make weapons and other survival skills, and then enter the world of Earth Hegemony and Interstellar Hegemony. You won't regret watching it.

29. 29 走 Stranded: Making a Living on a Deserted Island 走投无路之荒岛谋生 Shut the Door and Leave Early闭门早車Urban665k WordsCompleted This is a very realistic deserted-island survival novel. The protagonist has had a difficult life. He grew up poor and went through a failed business and a broken marriage. Determined to give his parents and children a better life, he takes out a loan and sets off to work as an ocean-going sailor, a dangerous profession. His cargo ship is wrecked at sea, and he is the only survivor. With just a lifeboat and its supplies, he makes fishing tools and gathers fresh water. After ten grueling days at 38Reads6.9Score—Shelves
30. 30 恐 Horror on the High Seas: I’m Trying Every Way to Get Myself Killed 恐怖大航海：我疯狂作死 Arctic Roasted Sweet Potato北极烤地瓜Sports165k WordsOngoing [Seafaring] [Survival] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [Decisive Killing] [Shipbuilding] [One Heroine] Two hundred million people around the globe are forcibly dragged into a Cthulhu-themed Age of Sail game. Black fog devours everything, and monsters infest the seas. Lu Yuan, a brain cancer patient, awakens the one and only talent from the start: [Cognitive Anchor]. His sanity floor is locked at 30 points, and the crazier he gets, the stronger he becomes! While other players are lured to their deaths by the 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This could have been a try. It's a very beautiful, exciting and magical version of Cthulhu's Voyage. Introduction to the book: [Navigation] [Survival] [Talent] [Cthulhu] [Decisive Killing] [Building a Ship] [Single Female Protagonist] 200 million people around the world are forced into the Cthulhu version of the great navigation game. The black mist swallows everything and monsters run rampant everywhere. Lu Yuan, a brain cancer patient, awakens his only talent at the beginning [Cognitive Anchor Point] - Sanity is locked for 30 points, the crazier he becomes, the stronger he becomes! While other players were being lured to death by the cries of Ama and eviscerated by parasitic monsters, he was turning the rusty anchor into the talkative foodie "Chew Chew", letting the black goat-headed wooden sculpture take the helm with a poisonous tongue, and frantically harvesting secrets on the edge of sanity collapse. [Mysterious Fusion of World Views] Global myths, monsters, and fairy tales are reconstructed through "Cthulhuization" - Little Red Riding Hood is a cannibal monster in human skin, and Athena is the "weaver of reason" who drives all living beings crazy with logic. The deeper the understanding, the more serious the intellectual pollution. [Lone Wolf's Cool Article] Refuse to form a team, do not accept crew members, one person, one boat and one anchor head, fight from the Sea of ​​Despair to the Court of Azathoth! [Crazy Aesthetics] When sanity reaches zero, it is death, and when you are a madman, you are sane - "I am staring into the abyss, and the abyss dare not stare at me." [Mutual System Conflict] The poisonous tongue rudder spirit, the foodie anchor, and the shady administrator are all talkative and high-energy complaints! The speed of the black fog increases by 1 knot every 7 days, and the countdown has started. To become nourishment for the deep sea, or to make the Old Ones dinner? Welcome aboard and may your sanity survive.

31. 31 全 I’m the Only One in the World Without Powers 全世界只有我没有异能 Do Not Speak of Immortality莫道长生Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsCompleted The apocalypse arrives, and after destruction comes new life. Everyone gains special abilities, while Li Chang'an, who has none, lives like a beast. Some teach him to be kind to others; others teach him to fight his way to a better world. Little by little, he comes to believe that there is light even in the darkness. Though the road is hard, he still wants to become one of the strongest, standing at the very top. But one day, the light vanishes before his eyes. 4.7kReads9.4Score625Shelves

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