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- 1 Welcome to the Zombie Kingdom 欢迎来到丧尸国度 [Catastrophe Fiction, Not an Apocalypse, Humanity Remains, Not Grimdark] Have you ever imagined a zombie outbreak caused by some evil scheme or deliberate leak, leaving my city overrun by the undead? Are you ready to face this biological disaster? Everyone, welcome to the Land of Rot! Also known as "Zombie Apocalypse: Starting with Spatial Storage" "Resident Evil: I Gained Leon's Attributes" "Dead Zone: My Weapons Can Level Up" "The Meeting of a System Host and a Reborn Person" 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Apocalypse: Searching for Your Girlfriend 末世，寻找你的女朋友 New book: [Save the Wrong Person and the Saintess Will Beat You to Death, and the System Finally Arrives] [Reborn + Transmigrate + Smart Protagonist + Future Emperor's Female Master + Beast Taming + Swordsmanship] All lives are equal: ordinary people, ants, and great emperors are each worth just one Lifesaving Point! Save one life to gain one Lifesaving Point. Spend one to draw a random prize and redeem [Divine Weapons], [Immortal Arts], [Holy Beasts], [Miraculous Pills], [Heaven-Piercing Format —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Apocalypse: I Lead All of Humanity in Cultivation 末世：我带着全人类修仙 [Apocalypse + cultivation + zombies + System + divine pets + building a faction + self-interest] Liu Fei, a prodigy of the Seven Stars Sect who had just reached the Golden Core stage, died in an accident. Chosen by the System, he was transported to Earth. A month earlier, Earth had been infected by a mysterious “Blood Night,” causing half of all living creatures to mutate. On Earth, where spiritual energy was absent, Liu Fei fought monsters to level up and practiced the techniques from his previ 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 My Survival Journal in the Apocalypse 我在末世求生记 [The hottest apocalyptic survival novel of 2018] [China's The Walking Dead] After a biochemical disaster, only thirty or forty thousand people in the world remain uninfected. They have P-type blood, rarer than panda blood. But the sudden onset of the zombie outbreak caused many lucky survivors to die in panic. So the actual number of survivors in the early days of the outbreak was likely even lower. But how many of those lucky enough to survive are still alive today?! As he struggles to survi 142Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 5 Alone in the Apocalypse 末日独行 A sudden disaster changed everyone’s fate overnight. No one knew how much longer they had to live. Ling Qi was a nobody, surviving in the cracks of society. Before the apocalypse arrived, he had never dared hope he would live long. All he wanted was to find the one he loved, who had vanished after they had been together for just one day. 94Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 6 Apocalypse Storm 末日风暴 On the day the world ended, I received a doll from the future... A red haze enveloped the Earth. A cosmic fungus triggered the apocalypse, bringing mutation or awakening! An ordinary nobody who never imagined he could save the world was randomly selected as one of ten thousand Awakened. Was it an opportunity granted by heaven? The beginning of an underdog's rise? Or was it a conspiracy? 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Gate of Doomsday 末日之门 When the gates of the apocalypse swung open, the world stood on the brink of destruction and became a wasteland. Yet amid the wasteland, resilient life was reborn. 12Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 8 Apocalypse: Two Dogs from the Start 末世之开局两条狗 Cloud Gates descend with unsettling regularity. A barrier of light that living beings cannot cross. Strange fleshly eggs that can awaken supernatural powers. In this chaotic era, danger and opportunity are everywhere, and nothing can be predicted. With the help of the System, Han Xin grows stronger and stronger, slowly uncovering the reason the Cloud Gates appeared and the trap hidden behind the strange fleshly eggs. And the origins of humanity… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Apocalypse Journal 末日笔记 A live thread on the horror forum that got over twenty thousand replies in a day: The zombies broke out, and I saved a woman. But then my animal instincts got the better of me... The apocalypse began with a sudden outbreak of disease. Surviving isn’t easy, especially when you’re being treated as food. It’s been who knows how long since the zombies appeared, and the government still hasn’t solved the problem. We’re still living in terror. I’m not even sure there’s a government left. Maybe this w 1Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 10 A Practical Survival Guide to the Apocalypse 末世生存指南实操工具书 A detailed guide to survival skills for the apocalypse, offering practical advice to help you make it through. It is highly hands-on, and we hope you will never need to use it. This is no armchair collection of theories, but a genuinely practical survival manual. Survival favors those who are prepared. Delve into the core chapters, and it becomes a "master of scavenging by location," covering everything you need to know about key areas such as supermarkets, hospitals, and factories. It explains 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Survival Handbook for the Apocalypse 末世求生手册 Lin Zhi woke after a car accident to find the world completely changed. Faced with bloodthirsty members of his own kind, his only thought was how to survive in this frozen apocalypse. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid everyone else will die, and I’ll be the only one left alive. 207Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 12 King of the Apocalypse 末世王者 At the final moment, surrounded by an endless tide of corpses, the girl watched as countless zombies lunged at her and could only close her despairing eyes. Just then, someone kicked open the locked fire exit with a tremendous force… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Tarot Divination: The Underworld Calls on Me to Solve a Major Case 塔罗占卜：地府找我办大案 The blood moon descended, the world changed, and vengeful spirits ran rampant among the living. The authorities were forced to acknowledge the return of the supernatural, and some professions that had once been dismissed suddenly became highly sought after. Taoists, mages, mediums, fortune-tellers... All sorts of professions once regarded as charlatans were proven real. Gu Yan was the strongest Tarot fortune-teller, yet he guarded only a cemetery in a corner of the city, where supernatural force 61Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 14 The Second Book by Daba Si 不是大巴司的第2本书 [Apocalypse + family System + spatial bus + survival and development + no self-righteous saint] The apocalypse arrives, and the gorgeous young wife next door comes over to ask Xu Annian for food. What should he do? Of course, take extra good care of her. And not just the woman next door: there's also the career-dressed female manager, the lively and youthful campus beauty... With an upgradable spatial bus, Xu Annian gathers supplies along the way and looks after women who need help! The greater 20Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Doomsday: Taking In Homeless Girls and Beautiful Women 末日：收留无家可归的少女和美妇 P.S. The apocalypse isn’t the main focus! (Female army + illustrations + wish fulfillment!) A rain of blood sweeps across the human world. Anyone touched by it turns into a mindless zombie. A month later, after the final blood rain falls, people gain special abilities, and heroic spirits descend upon the human world. People think they’ve sounded the call to counterattack, unaware that boundless darkness is quietly closing in... Han Yu is reborn on the day before the blood rain falls. With the po 22Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 16 Doomsday: The Rise of a Tycoon 末日之大亨崛起 So what if I don’t have an evolution ability? There’s nothing money can’t solve. Is a sack of Origin Crystals enough? Not enough? Then how about two sacks? 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Heroes of Might and Magic in the Apocalypse 末世之英雄无敌 A rare celestial phenomenon, the Nine Stars Aligned, appeared in the heavens. But no one expected it to bring not peace to the world, but a passage to another realm. Countless powerful creatures from that realm arrived on Earth. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Reborn at the Apocalypse: The Goddess Has a Cheat 末世重生之女神她有外挂 After wandering the mortal realm as a ghost for forty-nine days, Qin Hua's ghostly merits skyrocketed, and she unexpectedly bound herself to an “Apocalypse Cheat” System. From then on, fighting zombies, harvesting cores, and upgrading her powers became part of daily life. A life with cheat abilities needed no explanation. Qin Hua gave a wave of her little hand. A crowd of followers stood behind her, and with a flash of golden light, crystal cores covered the ground. Her followers: Sister Hua is 1Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 19 In the Apocalypse, If I Can't Rely on Women, What Can I Rely On? 末世不靠女人我靠什么 In my previous life, I was a loser. After being reborn, I forced a kiss on the Space Queen and confessed that I had been reborn. She pretended to submit, but after awakening, she turned the tables and only allowed me to stay home and take care of the family. If I acted up, she would pin me down and refuse to give me anything to eat. When I asked why, it turned out she held a grudge because I’d forced kisses on her every day before she awakened? This is the story of a loser of a male lead and Ch —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Reborn in Another Body, I Conquered the World with Tarot Cards 魂穿后，我用塔罗牌征服世界 The rating system is the problem, so the score is low. Please don't let that put you off~ [Ensemble Cast] [Two Male Leads] [Tarot Cards] [Transmigration] [Xuanhuan] A mysterious encounter brings him back to life after death. When he wakes, he finds himself in another world, and the tarot cards in his pocket have given him special abilities. What?! You say I'm only an F-rank spirit companion, too weak to put up a fight? What a joke! Come on, let me show you my wand. What?! You say I'm physically 35Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 21 The Age of Corpse Mutation: From the Start, I Have a Dodo 尸变纪元，开局一只渡渡鸟 Lin Fan transmigrates to the Ark world, but this place isn't quite like the Ark world he knows. There are zombies here! Zombie Tyrannosauruses! Zombie Giganotosauruses! Zombie Carcharodontosauruses! They can control hordes of the undead. With only a dodo from the start, how is Lin Fan supposed to fight them? If you're going to transmigrate me, at least get it right. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Extreme Cold Disaster: The Goddess Kept in My Shelter 极寒天灾，避难所里圈养女神 [Apocalypse + reborn + stockpiling supplies + spatial powers + no saintly self-sacrifice + Cao Cao-style womanizer] When the Apocalypse arrived, global temperatures plunged to minus 50 degrees. Lin Bai kindly took in his girlfriend’s family, only to be brutally murdered and left without a complete corpse. Luckily, he returned to 15 days before the Apocalypse began and awakened spatial powers. This time, Lin Bai would live only for himself! His first move from the start: kick that vicious bitch t 23Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 23 I Cultivated to Invincibility, Then Descended the Mountain to Find the World in Ruins 修炼至无敌，下山后一片末世景象 [Supreme powerhouse + invincible + apocalyptic cultivation + System] Nine thousand years ago, in the Mythic Age, spiritual qi was abundant and cultivation reached its golden age. Spiritual qi revived across heaven and earth, and countless cultivation experts emerged. A supreme powerhouse had already reached the True God Realm a century ago. After more than a hundred years of secluded cultivation, he found that no one in the world could rival him. He had become invincible. When he descended the m —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Doomsday: I Am the Lord of the Infinite City 末日之我是无限城主 [Zombie apocalypse + evolution and awakening + infinite space + starting from scratch] Was this sudden, terrifying apocalypse meant to destroy the world, or save it? A collapsed order, monsters returned from the dead, a mysterious space in his mind, and endless struggles and battles... Yang Yu never imagined that an ordinary college student like him would one day have to face all this. He was at a loss, but he knew he had to survive first. Only by staying alive would anything else remain possibl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Great Doomsday Escape 末日大逃亡 A bloodbath sparked by a stray dog, zombies pouring in like a landslide, and a desperate fight to escape and survive! Wandering, wandering. Either you erupt from silence or perish in a sea of zombies... 48Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 26 The Last Fortress 末世孤堡 Chosen by a mysterious power, a group of ordinary people with families survive a worldwide catastrophe that turns people into beasts and zombies. They begin their struggle for survival in a strange shelter. From then on, supernatural events occur one after another. These ordinary people, who went straight from their nine-to-five lives into the apocalypse, must face chaotic rules of survival and undergo a complete shift in ideology. More than that, they must explore the secret blood curse buried 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Apocalypse Fusion Master 末世融合师 The world changed, the apocalypse arrived, and zombies and mutated beasts overran the land as abyssal outsiders poured in. The Third Planet, now digitalized, gradually became a battlefield where all sides fought for supremacy. Su Yu, an ordinary Silver-rank raider, unexpectedly returned to the start of the apocalypse at the moment his life ended, and gained the power to fuse all things! An ordinary longsword and a chain could fuse into a rare weapon: the Chainblade. A basic Lightning spell and W 85Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 28 Apocalypse: Signing In with a Dog from the Start 末世之开局签到一条狗 The familiar world is becoming strange. The wails of zombies echo through the streets, and shattered courtyards are rife with danger... Listen, rookie, you have no idea what true terror is! Born into wealth? That's nothing compared to starting out with a dog! You get a dog from the start, and there are even more rewards for consecutive sign-ins! Sign in on day one and receive: one doomsday-evolved dog! Sign in on day two and receive: one storage backpack! Sign in on day three and receive: one po 366Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 29 Apocalypse: I Take Care of an Awful Lot of Goddesses 末世：我照顾的女神有亿点多 [Apocalypse Rebirth + Not a Saint + Storage Space + Beauty + Ruthless and Merciless] A deadly virus dealt a catastrophic blow to humanity, turning 80% of the global population into zombies! In his previous life, Chen Luo was kindhearted, only to be eaten alive by his wife’s family and the neighbors! Reborn half a month before the Apocalypse began, Chen Luo still has the spatial superpower he awakened in his previous life. He starts frantically stockpiling supplies! He makes preparations in advan 818Reads6.7Score108Shelves
- 30 The Card World: From the Six of Spades to the King of Hearts? 卡牌世界：从黑桃6到国王K？ [Travel Between Two Worlds + Hidden Trump Cards + No Saintly Idealism + No Mindless Decisions] At the starting point of this game in the Card World, a man wearing a tiger-skin mask hears you open the book and turns his head slightly to look at you: “Predators always walk alone, while cattle and sheep flock together. My friend, are you a predator?” You look at the blue-patterned card in your hand, face down, then at the tiger-skin mask on his face. On your first visit to the Card World, you nervo 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Apocalypse Breeding Frenzy: More Children, More Blessings, and the Goddesses Are Losing It 末世爆缸：多子多福女神们崩坏了 [Zombie apocalypse + invincible protagonist + more children, more blessings + stockpiling supplies + no saintly heroics + dark themes + System + ruthless killing + tons of beautiful women] The zombies broke out, and the apocalypse descended. Zhao Yang and his icy, beautiful landlady were trapped in an apartment, surrounded by zombies. At the moment of crisis, Zhao Yang suddenly unlocked the More Children, More Blessings System. He turned dark, and he grew stronger. The icy landlady who use 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Global College Entrance Exam: Let Me Show You a Magic Trick 全球高考：给你表演个魔术 [No Female Lead] [No Brain-Dead Decisions] [Ability Development] [Lighthearted Humor] [Magic Tricks] [Battles] [Daily Life] [Wild Imagination] [Urban Superpowers] This is a world built on conviction! Different convictions grant people different supernatural abilities. Chen Shen’s conviction is [Magic Tricks]! (Description: A deception, or a sincere heart.) In this wonderful world of endless possibilities, watch the protagonist grow and create one miracle after another! There are abilities like 3Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 33 Apocalyptic Superpowers 末世异能 Black Mandala: Unpredictable Love and Death A clueless college student becomes a nonhuman killing fiend, and a girl who has grown distant from him falls into a heartbreaking romance with him. His ex-girlfriend goes to extremes just like he does, while the brother who shared both hardship and joy with him eventually turns against him. After all this, does this pain still matter to him? 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Tarot Dreamwalker 塔罗入梦人 [Fantasy + urban imagination, tarot elements, dream exploration, not a mindless power fantasy, no harem, don't read if that's not your thing] This is a story connected to the 22 Major Arcana cards For days, Jiang Yanche has been plagued by the exact same nightmare. Every time he dreams, he unconsciously walks to the roof of his apartment building and leaps off as if taking his own life. How can he escape the nightmare, and where does the truth lie? “The Goddess of Fate raises a hand, and the 115Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 35 The Card World of the Players 扮演者的卡牌世界 In the New World, humanity rules on the surface. But hidden from view lies the unknown Nineteenth District, where a horde of evil Void creatures plots to wipe out humanity and seize its place as masters of the Eighteen Major Cities. From ancient times to the present, agents of justice and evil have coexisted in the darkness. The Holy Light Division, the largest organization representing absolute justice, has always done everything in its power to fight the Void Cult and Void creatures, humanity 17Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Apocalypse Survival Master 末日生存大师 Suppose that starting today, the Earth you know transforms into something else. Sandstorms, dust storms, and all kinds of alien creatures destroy every system and law. How will you survive? The apocalypse I’m going through may well become your future... 570Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 37 Reborn in the Apocalypse: I Became the Second Personality of the Virgin School Beauty 重生末世：我成了圣母校花的第二人格 Ning Fan was reborn, only to unexpectedly become the second personality of the school beauty, a self-sacrificing do-gooder. Then... The System arrived and told him: As long as he could change the school beauty’s saintly personality, he would receive rewards and might even be able to reclaim his original self. To get himself back, he had no choice but to keep tricking the school beauty into handing over control of her body. And so... School beauty: “Someone’s threatening to kill the civilians in 23Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 38 The Final Battle of the Apocalypse 决战末世 After the apocalypse, countless mutated monsters emerge. It becomes a fight to the death between humans and humans, and between humans and monsters. The strong prey on the weak. If you don't want to become food for mutated monsters or be at someone else's mercy, then you have to get stronger! 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Apocalypse: From the Start, I Awaken the Slave System 末世：开局觉醒奴隶系统 This is my first novel. The protagonist, Yang Jie, was an ordinary office worker on Earth until an accident transmigrated him to a parallel Earth called Blue Star, where the apocalypse had begun. Yang Jie awakened the Slave System and enslaved the world, dominating the apocalypse, taking the most beautiful wife, and building the strongest base, until he became invincible in the wasteland. 117Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 40 Apocalypse: The Infinite Conquest System 末世之无限征服系统 [Science fiction + System + transmigration + modern city + beauties + divine beasts + struggle for imperial supremacy] Poor student Qin Muyuan was killed by a rich second-generation heir’s revenge after saving the campus belle. He transmigrated to an apocalyptic world overrun with bloodsucking zombies and mutated monsters, awakened the Infinite Conquest System, and gained a pocket dimension and the power to travel freely between two worlds. The apocalypse is full of danger, but it also holds end 3Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 41 Apocalypse: Starting with Building a Base 末世：从建造基地开始 The apocalypse arrives, and zombies and monsters run rampant. Li Fei accidentally awakens a base-building System and begins constructing a base, sheltering survivors, developing technology, summoning all kinds of powerful soldiers, and manufacturing formidable biological weapons. His goal is to bring this damned apocalypse to an end. 5.3kReads8.7Score399Shelves
- 42 Endless Descent 无尽沉沦 Nine enormous craters appeared on Earth's surface. From one of them, someone dug up a stone coffin containing nine neatly dressed, mummified corpses. One coffin, nine corpses: this ushered in humanity's darkest apocalyptic era. Fair faces meet tragic ends, and heroes run out of time. In this absurd age, the world sinks endlessly into ruin. 32Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 43 I Became a God in the Infinite Game with Tarot Cards 我靠塔罗牌在无限游戏封神 [Welcome to the Infinite Game!] [Players will spend this delightful round alongside 333 NPCs!] [Find the true Garden of Eden in the game!] The sobbing heard at midnight in a haunted school, the toothless lady of a medieval castle, the No. 4 subway line that vanishes at midnight, a horrifying nursery rhyme that plays on repeat… [Let’s play a game together!] [Anyone who breaks the rules will be punished, okay~] When it comes to battling NPCs, Qi Yang has never been afraid! One Devil tarot card sum 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Auntie, Don't Be Afraid: From Campus Beauty to Boss 阿姨别怕，我从校花开始，当老板 [Auntie + System + Supernatural Horror Revival + Apocalypse + Hoarding Supplies + Reborn + Not a Single Heroine + No Tired Tropes (Please Don't Read If You Mind)] In his previous life, as myths returned to the world, hardworking wage slave Xu Fan devoted himself to working for his boss, only to be murdered by him. Reborn six months before his death, Xu Fan is determined to make his boss work for him this time and take everything away from him. But his boss begs him to deal with a troublesome mat 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 A Wish Upon a Meteor Shower 流星雨的愿望 [Apocalypse][No Romance][System][Decisive and Ruthless][No Self-Sacrifice] New Year's Eve marks both the end of one year and the beginning of another. On a day when families gather, strange phenomena appeared in the sky. A red moon hung overhead, its crimson light covering the heavens. People took it as an auspicious sign that the sun and stars were shining brightly. Little did they know that the Apocalypse was quietly descending amid their laughter and cheerful chatter. The arrival of the Sprin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Natural Disaster Apocalypse: Goddesses, I’ll Fight Zombies to Keep You Fed 天灾末世：女神们我打丧尸养你啊 [Reborn in the apocalypse + spatial farming + team of beauties + dark revenge, no do-gooder heroine] [Pampering goddesses + apocalyptic domination + superpowers] First came the world-ending floods, followed by earthquakes, extreme heat, extreme cold, and famine... Zombies were everywhere, and monsters ran rampant. After being reborn, Qin Lang stockpiled supplies and killed monsters. He could even hear other people's thoughts. With his spatial farm, Qin Lang built an army of goddesses and unified 1.1kReads8.3Score104Shelves
- 47 I Rob, Kill, and Pillage in the Apocalypse 我在末世烧杀抢掠 [Apocalypse survival, zombies, laid-back pacing, fighting over supplies, territory, and people, building a base, no supernatural powers, no System, no goody-two-shoes, decisive and ruthless, no dragging things out] The hero, Li Bin, returns to the day before the apocalypse. This time, he will find his parents and lead the people around him to survive. He leads his people in fighting for supplies and territory and building a base. See how Li Bin burns and slaughters zombies, and raids for supplie 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Horror System at the End of the World 恐怖之末世系统 Wang Ren is an orphan with no money, no home, and no food. By chance, he obtains an apocalypse System. When a biohazard crisis erupts, he uses the System to rise to the top step by step, establishing an everlasting survivor dynasty, fighting zombies, and killing mutated creatures. But after Wang Ren unites humanity and reclaims all its lost territory, he discovers that it was all a conspiracy: an alien plot to invade Earth. Should he compromise, or fight back? 27Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 49 Reborn Before the Apocalypse, I Flee with a Billion in Supplies 重生末世前，携10亿物资落跑 Apocalypse + rebirth + Spatial Storage + Strong Female Lead + Devoted Couple After ten years of fighting to survive in the apocalypse, Li Qi had finally made something of herself. But her arrogance and conceit led her into her rival's trap, costing her own life and dragging her companions down with her. When she awoke again, she had been reborn before the apocalypse began. In this life, she swore to protect with her life those who treated her well. Those who framed her would wish they were dead. 61Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 50 I Arrived in the Apocalypse: My System Has a Bug 来到末世：我的系统有BUG No saintly do-gooding, decisive and ruthless, no harem What is going on? Seeing zombies wandering nearby, Ye Ming realized he had been transported to the apocalypse. “Ding! You have activated the System!” “The System has encountered a bug that cannot be fixed.” He had actually activated a System? And how could a System have a bug? When he opened his inventory, Ye Ming realized he absolutely loved this bug... 9Reads6.3Score—Shelves
