I'm Out of Books to Read. Any Good Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Stories? 最近书荒了,有好看的废土文吗?求
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My Prairie, My Girls 我的草原我的马子
Hua Jiaojiao, a young woman from the Hua family in Xin Province, rode freely across the vast grasslands, herding horses. By chance, she found a South Sea pearl, and then transmigrated! She landed in a dynasty that had never existed in history, and began a new life.
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Reborn in 1980, I Married a Lovely Wife with Heterochromia 重生80,娶了异瞳小娇妻
[Sweet romance] + [No System in this era] + [Everyday coastal foraging] + [Three chapters daily] Also known as: Coastal Foraging, Fish Filling the Hold, and My Lovely Wife with Different-Colored Eyes, Don't Worship Me! Zhou Chen is unexpectedly reborn on an island in the 1980s. Looking at his once-infamous self, he has barely begun to process things when the village chief shouts, “Zhou Chen, your bride is here! Hurry up and come get her!” Dazed, Zhou Chen steps outside and sees a girl following
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Huarong Wants to Be Twenty Again 花容想重回20岁
When an ordinary 40-year-old woman finds herself unhappy with work, family, love, and life in general, Heaven sends her back to age 20. This time, Huaxiang decides to make up for everything she missed before: going to college, having a college romance, finding love at work, and meeting handsome men. She wants to experience it all, making the most of this second chance at youth!
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A Wasteland Mom-to-Be’s Daily Scrap Runs 废土孕妈拾荒日常
Marathon champion Zuo Shan transmigrates in her sleep to an interstellar apocalypse, becoming a wasteland scavenger who has just been abandoned by her childhood sweetheart. She struggles to survive in the wasteland, where alien beasts often roam. Zuo Shan figures she can run fast, so she’s not afraid of being chased by beasts, or of scavengers with ulterior motives eyeing the mutated wild vegetables she finds. One day, Zuo Shan picks up a lump of scrap metal. She takes it home and soaks it in mu
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Foraging for Leaves in the Wasteland, While My Family Feasts on Fish and Meat 废土拾荒吃树叶,我家大鱼大肉
[Wasteland Scavenging]+ [Romance]+ [System]+ [From Weak to Strong] Leng Xuan accidentally transmigrates into the wasteland and into the body of an idiot. From the start, she is exposed to intense radiation and left on the brink of death. Her disabled mother sells the formula meant for her infant siblings to buy purification medicine and save her life. Her idiot father also gives up his only chance to survive for her. Moved by her new family's love, she swears to survive in this world and find a
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A Hundred-Day Survival Record in the Apocalypse 末世倒计时百日生存录
Mist over the Lonely City In 20XX, the "Red Mist Catastrophe" struck without warning. A blood-red fog swallowed Jinhai City, mutated creatures known as "Mistwalkers" ran rampant, and civilization collapsed. Chen Ye, a former rescue team captain, led survivors including Lin Xi, a graduate student in biology, and Old Zheng, a mechanic, as they fled their shelter and launched a hundred-day survival plan. They crossed the ruins and fought off marauders, struggling between suspicion and trust. After
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From the Primordial Age to the End of Magic, I Push Through the Ages 荒古走到末法,长生的我横推万古
[Longevity + ensemble cast + rise to emperorhood + traditional xianxia flavor + epic style + no System] (Also titled: "Ten Million Years of Life, and I Still Don’t Want to Ascend to Emperorhood") Jiang Mu was the most dazzling prodigy of his era. He defeated every contender favored by Heaven’s Mandate, and should have attained the Great Dao and become an emperor. Yet in the end, the Great Dao did not acknowledge him, and he was denied the throne. Could living forever really be a sin? Unwilling t
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Double Crossing to the Wasteland: I Bring Canned Food to Build a Nation 双穿废土:我带罐头去建国
I'm Fang Mo, an ordinary salesman, forcibly dumped into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. After 12 hours, I automatically snap back. Want to go again? Wait for the countdown. No going it alone: I reported what was happening and got three warehouses of supplies, plus an excavator. I traded canned food for loyalty and built a city with an excavator, founding a nation from scratch in the wasteland; I dug up black-tech blueprints from the ruins, leaving the lab staff dumbfounded and saving the country's
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Reborn with a Black Core, I Rule the Apocalypse 重生后黑核助我在末世横着走
(Side characters aren't props + fully realized ensemble cast + not a mindless power fantasy + vivid battle scenes + reborn + scheming + high-tech + golden finger + adorable pets + decisive and ruthless + spatial powers + teamwork + revenge + no saintly heroine) Long Chen unexpectedly obtains a black core, only to be stabbed in the back by the teammates who once fought alongside him. He dies full of hatred. The black core lets him be reborn, giving him an incredible start. You ask who the protago
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Cyber Cultivation: Awakening an Ancient Sword Spirit Root in the Wasteland 赛博修仙:我在废土觉醒古剑灵根
In the wasteland of 2187, cyborg repairman Chen Jin is exiled by a corporate mogul to serve as a test subject, only to unexpectedly awaken an ancient sword spirit root. His “Code Eyes,” which can analyze alien technology, let him wield a quantum ancient sword, write algorithms with sword intent, and code cultivation techniques, tearing open a rift in this cyberpunk cultivation world. From striking back against his pursuers to battling AI cultivators, from uncovering human experiments to confront
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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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Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路:不要掉队!
[Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e
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I Transmigrated to the Wasteland and Saved a Girl with Distilled Water 穿越废土,我用蒸馏水救妹子
[Heads-up] A wasteland island survival and settlement-building story. The protagonist doesn’t dominate everything from the start. Things begin with shortages of water, food, and boats, and the home is built up little by little. [Heads-up] Focused on everyday life and building a community. This isn’t a dark apocalypse story, and it doesn’t center on people harming one another. Everyone is just trying to survive. [Heads-up] Several female supporting characters, with bonds and mutual support, but n
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Reborn as the Urban Immortal Venerable 重生之都市仙尊
Luo Chen, once a supreme immortal, is ambushed and reborn on Earth. Though he holds an ordinary position in society, he faces contempt from his girlfriend, ridicule from his rival in love, his parents' miserable lives, and threats and provocations from the scions of wealthy families. He swears to change his unfair fate, stand at the pinnacle of the world, and show everyone that he, Luo Chen, was once here.
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I’m Already at the Nascent Soul Stage, and You’re Telling Me It’s Time to Start School? 我都元婴期了,你跟我说开学?
During his summer vacation, Ning Chen went traveling and accidentally stumbled into a teleportation array that opened once every two thousand years, transmigrating to the world of cultivation. After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, he returned, thinking the world must have changed beyond recognition. To his surprise, only one summer had passed... And so, among the incoming freshmen at Qingzhou University was an old monster at the Nascent Soul stage. “You have no idea how powerful a Nascent Soul
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Master of All Skills 全技大师
What? A Supreme Immortal Aperture Physique? I only get one chance, and they made me this useless body? Damn it! No! I'm different from them. I have a hidden quest built in!
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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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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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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 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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Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸
Across the Ocean
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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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Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境
A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove
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Cast Aside as Worthless by a Tycoon, I Become a God in the Wasteland 被财阀当废品扔掉,我在废土成神
[Ultimate wasteland + 100% perfect evolution + decisive killing + insanely satisfying invincibility] Red haze blots out the sky, and human lives are worth less than weeds. When the nobles of the lofty Pure Lands decide to purge the wasteland, sending down mechanized armies as far as the eye can see, they think it will be a one-sided slaughter. But the man who emerges from the depths of the red haze plunges every noble into despair. A nuclear blast to scour the land? He tanks it with his bare bod
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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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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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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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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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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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A Glimmer in the Wasteland: A Story of Mutual Devotion 废土微光之互宠
[Hardcore wasteland + two powerhouse leads + devoted 1v1 romance + post-apocalyptic development + factional rivalry + healing abilities] (Told from both perspectives, so read with care if that's not your thing!) In a wasteland overrun by radiation beasts, Lin Su comes across a badly injured S-rank warrior. She doesn't know that this man, Lu Jin, will lead her through the gates of a new era. When healing light meets a will of steel, two lonely souls save one another in the apocalypse. They bui
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