I'm in a Reading Slump, Guys. Please Recommend Good Apocalypse Survival Novels 书荒了,兄弟们求末日生存类好书
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After I Handed Everything Over in the Apocalypse, the System Worked Harder Than I Did 末世上交后,系统打工比我都积极
Synopsis [Apocalypse + No Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Wild Imagination] Lin Xuanxuan is an ordinary office drone. She looks delicate, but has the heart of someone who could yank a willow tree out of the ground. Her life’s dream: inherit her mother’s pork shop. One day, she woke from a nightmare and found herself bound to a System. She learned that an apocalypse would break out in three days. Lin Xuanxuan: What are we waiting for? I’m reporting this to the government right away! An
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Surviving the Apocalypse: Stock Up on Food and Weapons 末世降临不要慌,先囤粮食后囤枪
[Apocalypse rebirth + stockpiling supplies + space + no romance + infrastructure building + ruthless heroine] Jiang You never dreamed that she would evade the zombies’ claws only to be betrayed by the very family she had protected. Years later, she destroyed the research center where she’d been imprisoned. Everyone who betrayed her? Dead! The base that turned against her? Wiped out! Who waits until the next life to get revenge?! With her revenge complete, Jiang You ran out of her supernatu
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Seeing the Future: Rising to Success from the Grassroots 洞彻先机:从基层开始平步青云
As the saying goes, officialdom is all about power and intrigue, where deception and danger far surpass anything in the martial world. Liu Fusheng believes that a career in public service is about balancing laws and principles, distinguishing right from wrong, upholding integrity throughout one’s life, and working for the people’s welfare. Once, he was timid and overly cautious, and his attempts to play it safe only backfired. He was wronged and his ambitions went unfulfilled. Now, he sees what’
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Reborn in 2000: My Childhood Sweetheart, the School Belle, Is 18 重生2000,青梅校花18岁
[Reborn + Childhood Friend and School Beauty + Everyday Romance + Sweet Couple Moments + One Heroine] Yi Feng, who is terminally ill, is reborn in the year 2000. That year, his childhood friend and school beauty, Gu Muxi, is eighteen. “Yi Feng, lend me a pen!” “...Didn’t you borrow one yesterday?” “Yesterday was yesterday, today is today. Things have changed, get it?” “...You win. Fine, here.” “Yi Feng, tear off a sheet of paper for me!” “...Why tear mine? Don’t you have your own?” “I do, but I
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Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世
[Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a
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Busy Stockpiling for the Apocalypse: My Neighbors Hoard Guns, I Hoard Food 天灾末世囤货忙,邻居囤枪我囤粮
Apocalypse + rebirth + spatial storage + stockpiling supplies Disasters struck without warning, transforming the world. First came scorching heat, then bitter cold, followed by earthquakes, dense fog, endless night, and acid rain, one after another. Su Nian struggled to survive alone in the apocalypse for ten years, only to die in the torrential acid rain. When she opened her eyes again, Su Nian discovered she had been reborn, with three months left before the apocalypse. After discovering a vas
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From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世
The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li
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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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Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生:大佬从百万囤货开始
[Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot
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Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾,我靠囤百亿物资躺赢
[Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世,我囤积了百亿物资
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
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The Dark Movie Emperor 黑暗影帝
After his parents mysteriously disappeared, Yao Tianjun went looking for them and stumbled into the Yellow Springs Show. It's a bizarre reality show. You have to play one of its characters and improvise. As the plot unfolds, chilling curses and ever-present terrors will descend upon you. Wandering among the dead, I am the movie star of the darkness.
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Apocalypse: God-Tier Zombie Synthesis System 末世之神级丧尸合成系统
[A million-reader apocalyptic masterpiece] After transmigrating into the apocalypse, he gains a zombie-fusion System. Two Level 1 zombies can be fused into a Level 2 zombie, and fused zombies are one hundred percent loyal. The higher a zombie's level, the better-looking it becomes. Zombies have exclusive skills, such as the Heaven-Shattering Earth-Splitting Fist and the Deadly Chain of Three Ghost Swords. They also produce zombie treasure chests every day, which can contain all kinds of valuable
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Doomsday Evolution: The Zombie Overlord 末日进化:丧尸大魔王
A blood-red sun hangs high in the sky, and the world is transformed! An utterly ordinary little zombie faces countless perils in the apocalypse, evolving again and again until it becomes the Zombie Demon King!
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Apocalypse Wardrobe: I’m a Girl Who Loves to Show Off 末世衣橱:我是一个很装的小女孩
Completed [1v1, both pure and devoted + pure romance + strong male lead, even stronger female lead + special abilities + zombies] Wen Qiao loves staying at home. Her hobbies are reading novels and dressing up. She works as a novelist, and she's recently planning to write an apocalypse story. After much thought, she decides to give her precious daughter, the heroine, an absurdly powerful cheat: a special ability called the Universal Wardrobe. It contains all kinds of outfits, complete with access
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Reborn as an Apocalypse Dorm Supervisor, I Command a Top-Tier Safe House 末世重生当宿管,坐拥顶级安全屋
[Natural disasters + zombies + stockpiling + reborn + no romance + System pocket dimension + strong female lead + ruthless, not a saint + everyone has unrequited feelings for the heroine] In her previous life, Ji Chaoyun was exploited and persecuted by her uncle’s family. Then she was reborn one month before the apocalypse. She teaches the wicked a lesson, stockpiles supplies, reinforces her defenses, and unlocks an unlimited shop and a gigantic pocket dimension. She also has a top-tier dormitor
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Reborn, She Takes Her Nine Brothers by Storm in the Apocalypse 重生,她带着九个哥哥霸服末世
[Reborn + Apocalypse + Cherished by Everyone + Adorable Pets + Decisive and Ruthless + Stockpiling Supplies + Special Abilities] A rookie survives in the apocalypse for ten years, only to die at the jaws of alien beasts and zombies. Selected by the Main God System, she gets a new lease on life, along with a bonus super-space. Reborn one month before the apocalypse, she gathers supplies, clears out other countries’ military bases, and begins a new chapter in the apocalypse. By some twist of fate,
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A Cultivation Master Stumbles Into the Apocalypse: I’m Invincible, So Do as You Please 修仙大佬误入末世,我无敌你随意
[Invincible Female Lead; if you don't like high-pressure stories, please don't read! No romance, no romance, no romance!] Good news: Yan Yue ascended to immortality. Bad news: It might as well not have happened. On the first plane Yan Yue had to repair after ascending, the Chosen One ran off before Yan Yue could send her back to be reborn. She fled! Faced with a sobbing Heavenly Dao, Yan Yue could only roll up her sleeves and do the job herself! What? Someone who transmigrated into a book? Strik
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Doting on Her in the Apocalypse: I Became the Moonlight in the Hearts of Many Big Shots 末世强宠:成为众多大佬的白月光
The rating just came out, so it's a little low [Light ensemble cast + everyone loves the female lead + weak to strong + romantic rivalries + from Volume 2 onward, she has handsome men at her side as she takes on the apocalypse] As a new employee at the Transmigration Bureau, Ji Yu struck it lucky and drew a beauty System. By tradition, a beauty System Host should transmigrate to a Mary Sue world and spread the gospel of beauty. But Ji Yu never expected a transmission error to send her straight i
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How Ridiculous! Who the Heck Wears a Dress to Escape the Apocalypse? 离谱!谁他喵末世逃亡穿洋装啊
[Zombies + natural disasters + spatial storage + special abilities + no romance and no betrayal + adored by all + Mary Sue wish fulfillment + an insanely powerful golden finger + limitless imagination] In the chaos of the apocalypse, A woman in a dress strolls leisurely across the ruins, holding a flowered parasol. Behind her are heaps of rotting corpses. She is clean, beautiful, and utterly composed. The domineering ability users mistake her for someone’s caged songbird and try to take advantag
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I Bound the Wrong Baby Host, but My Golden Thigh Is Thick and Strong 绑错幼崽宿主,小金大腿粗又胖
“Qiqi, what is this Doomsday survival game? I don't understand!” A three-year-old accidentally binds to a Doomsday Survival System, but she still can't understand a thing!! No problem. If Dudu can't understand, Grandpa and her brothers will help. The country will have her back, and the soldiers, aunties, and big sisters will charge in with her wearing helmets!! If there are too many zombies, we'll kill them. If we don't have supplies, we'll buy them. If we don't have a base, we'll build one. In
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In the Apocalypse, I Lied to the Male Lead and Told Him I Was His Girlfriend 末世,我骗男主说我是他女朋友
[Post-Apocalypse + Transmigrates into a Book as a Villainous Supporting Character + Male Lead with Amnesia + Spatial Power + Sweet, Delicate Beauty + Unhinged Male Lead] Qi Jinnuo transmigrates into a book and becomes the unhinged male lead’s gold-digging, villainous first love in a post-apocalyptic novel. She dumped him back when he was poor. After he became a wealthy young master in the capital, she shamelessly begged him to get back together. When he rejected her, she drugged him. He fought b
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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Global Lord: Am I the Only One with a Fallen Empire? 全民领主:唯独我是堕落帝国?
This is a cruel age. When the War Game descended, it decreed that every race across countless planes must become a game lord upon reaching adulthood and join the meat grinder of the war between races. Yet Gao Qiang stares at the type of territory he’s been given, lost in thought. [Fallen Empire] [This empire stood at the pinnacle long before any known nation. They once possessed everything. They once knew everything. Until they grew tired of it all, becoming lazy and decadent. But! They are powe
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Surviving the Nightmare World 在恶梦世界惊悚求生
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
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High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海,我开局一条幽灵船
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
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All Hands at Sea: Survival Begins with the Hades 全民航海求生,开局一艘冥王号
[Everyone’s survival + a little golden finger + nautical exploration + sequences + Cthulhu + one female lead] Contains many Cthulhu elements. This isn’t a breezy power fantasy: the protagonist must face trials to gain great power. The true masters of this ocean have never been humans, but the endless horrors... Everyone on Blue Star wakes up in the middle of a vast ocean and is forced to play a survival game. Qin Ze finds a massive bone ship that can be repaired to restore its durability, and be
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Train Survival: Surviving Without Cheats 列车求生:无挂求生
[Survival] [Small Team] [Travel Between Multiple Worlds] [No Cheats] [Multiple Female Leads] When Su Li woke up, Blue Star was gone. Fortunately, the people of Blue Star had arrived in an endless train Survival game. Everyone got a train of their own. They had to travel through countless fragments of other worlds, gather supplies, and struggle to survive. Su Li was thrilled. “Isn’t this a survival novel? I know what to do. Come forth, my sign-in System! My hint System! My critical-hit enhancemen
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Conquest of the Star Sea: Am I the Only One Choosing to Ascend Through Natural Disasters? 星海争霸,只有我选择天灾飞升?
[This book is the sequel to "Cultivating Immortality Is Hard? I Can Just Rewind Infinitely"!] [StarCraft + Warhammer + Fourth Calamity + Scheming and Hilarious + Rivers of Blood + No Female Lead] When human civilization broke free of gravity and reached the sea of stars, a brutal yet dazzling game of war began. Every powerful lord was a precious beacon of hope for all of human civilization, bringing blessings that would lead it forward. Just as civilization was flourishing in every direction, te
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Lord's War: The Civilization Game Descends into Reality 领主争霸:文明游戏降临现实
(Maybe this isn’t quite a lordly novel, but it is one, too... Well, maybe it’ll be an interesting story.) Sometimes I wonder what a lordly novel would be like if it were more realistic, a little more “sci-fi,” and a little more different. This is that kind of book. Welcome to my story (crossed out). Welcome to the story of a super mash-up. Note: The first 120 chapters aren’t very well written, so feel free to skip them! If you like reading dungeon arcs, you can just read those! The “lords compet
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Survival: Starting from a Thatched Hut to Fight the Flood 求生:从茅草屋开始对抗洪水
[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...
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Global Age of Exploration: Who Touched My Land? 全民大航海:就是你动了我的地?
[Survival]+ [High-Seas Adventure]+ [Adventure]+ [No Female Lead]+ [World-Building]+ [Ensemble Cast] After working himself to death playing a farming game, Xu Ye found himself inside an ocean survival game. With a max-level survival talent and a profession that should have been perfect for the game, all Xu Ye wanted was to lie flat and do nothing. While everyone else fought desperately to earn points so they could leave, Xu Ye spent every point he got on lotteries. [You obtained a blueprint for a
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Unnameable Debt: Awakened Prepaid Island from the Start 不可名状的债务,开局觉醒预支岛
[Brand-New Setting] [Island Building] [Decisive and Ruthless] [One Heroine] [Survival] [Supernatural] [Lovecraftian] Everyone transmigrates into a game where they must survive on islands, and Luo Tian joins as a player. Some people with unusual personalities receive special islands. The Vortex Island, where gathering supplies is as easy as taking something from your pocket. The Dark Shark Island, where its occupants appear and disappear without a trace. The Sea Emperor Island, where the more rec
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From Mecha Pilot to Starfleet Commander: I Rule the Stars 从开机甲到星海舰队,我统御群星
(Modern warfare + mechs + starships + galactic scale + farming on a colonized planet + decisive combat + exhilarating battles. The author has a highly rated previous novel with 2.4 million words. Read with confidence.) Standard version: Li Xin wakes up on the colonized planet Guansuo IV. Guns, cannons, tanks, fighter aircraft, mechs, starships. Together, they forge a future of blood and fire. Tens of thousands of interstellar warships stand ready, along with countless void mechs. Dense beams fro
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Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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The Mirrorbound Immortal Calamity 镜相仙劫
Unlike fantasy cultivation, the methods of the arcane sect have never succeeded. Cold reality does not answer people's desires. But not every world remains unresponsive. Cultivation requires both practice and travel. In an age when travel was difficult and communication unreliable, those seeking to overcome their death tribulations had no choice but to practice on the road in search of a way through them. Hard work paid off. After countless generations had carried on the endeavor, they succeeded
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The Apocalypse Arrives, and I Go on a Frenzied Stockpiling Spree, Amassing a Million Tons of Supplies 末世降临我疯狂薅羊毛囤货百万吨
[Apocalypse + Reborn + Pocket Dimension + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless + Building a Faction + Cute Pets] Betrayed by his family in the apocalypse, Lin Yang struggled for three years before dying in a siege by a tide of zombies. When he opened his eyes, he had been reborn one month before the apocalypse, bringing back the pocket dimension he awakened in his previous life. At the time, his aunt and cousin were still scheming to trick him out of the inheritance his parents had left him: a large
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