Novels like The Empty City
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Empty City, best match first.
- 151 Evolution Descends 进化降临 Rats the size of adults gnaw on corpses in the ruins, savoring their feast. Giant pythons coil around towering buildings, their cavernous jaws devouring the humans inside. Feral lions race across the land, leaving corpses strewn in their wake. The apocalypse came without warning. This is a world where order has collapsed! This is the opening chapter of humanity's despair! This is the journey of a young man who steps over endless bones to ascend the throne! 59Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 152 Civilization Blackout 文明断电 On the seventh day without water, a stench began to spread through the stairwell. On the fifteenth day without power, all the meat in the refrigerators had rotted. On the thirtieth day without power, the first people began to starve to death. Civilization did not fall in an explosion. After the water, power, medicine, and food ran out, it died little by little. No System. No supernatural abilities. No savior. Only ordinary people. And a city on the verge of collapse. Chen Mo had been a 314Reads5.3Score149Shelves
- 153 Reborn in the Apocalypse: Selling My House from the Start 重生末世之开局先卖房 [Natural disasters + stockpiling supplies + no zombies + no System + no superpowers] All I have is three years of experience in the apocalypse. To survive earthquakes, storms, tsunamis, endless nights, extreme cold, endless daylight, scorching heat, floods, acid rain, and famine, Lin Dong spends six months racing against the clock to prepare for the disasters. This time, I won't leave anything to regret. 354Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 154 Apocalypse: Watch Out for the People Around You 末世：小心身边的人 No superpowers + zombies + blood zombies + no romance + strong female lead + team escape In a world overrun with zombies, a new kind of creature appears: blood zombies. They are cunning and vicious. They can disguise themselves as people, think for themselves, and shed their skin to reveal raw flesh. When they die, they turn into pools of blood. They come in all shapes and forms. Because they can infect every living thing! Tremble, humanity! Can you imagine waking up to find your husband lying b 1.2kReads8.8Score170Shelves
- 155 After Evening Study, an Extra Floor Appeared at School 晚自习后，学校多了一层楼 After Evening Study, the School Had Gained Another Floor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Apocalypse: Starting With an Escape From Campus 末世：从出逃校园开始 [No System + No Golden Finger + Not a Saint + Smart Protagonist + Students Surviving the Apocalypse] College student Chen Fei and his roommates are exercising on the sports field when an unknown zombie virus suddenly breaks out. The people around them slowly turn into flesh-eating monsters. Surrounded by zombies on all sides, how will they break through and find a place where they can survive? The students who manage to stay alive band together and flee the campus, only to discover that the outs 244Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 Doomsday: The Road to Survival Begins at School 末日：从校园开始求生之路 [Apocalyptic campus chronicle] [Multiple heroines] [Talent plundering] [No saintly heroine] Global catastrophe struck, and the apocalypse arrived. The densely populated campus instantly became a living hell. Hordes of zombies swept through, slaughtering everyone, while survivors struggled to stay alive. Order collapsed, supplies ran short, and electronic devices stopped working. The evil in people’s hearts grew without limit, while the zombies continued to evolve. Lava zombies, corrosive zombies 38.7kReads6.8Score4.4kShelves
- 158 Jiangcheng Red Zone 江城红区 A realistic ensemble story set in the apocalypse. This isn’t a conventional zombie novel. It focuses on ordinary people struggling to survive under quarantine and the System. Everyone is smart, and nobody is a goody-two-shoes. They face nothing but difficult choices about morality and human nature: a father who ignores pleas for help outside the door to keep his family safe, and a mother who risks using herself as bait to set a trap and protect her daughter. Everything they do is for the sake of 30Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 159 Apocalypse: A Hundred Billion in Supplies for Free from the Start 末世：开局白捡百亿物资 [Natural disasters only + multiple abilities + unlimited space + invincible safe house + stockpiling supplies + building a faction + decisive and ruthless + no harem] In this life, what others spend their entire lives striving for is merely Ling Shu's starting point. He transmigrates back to the time before the disaster with max-level spatial abilities. The moment he opens his eyes, he already has everything he needs. How should he live out this life? He only wants to build high walls, stockpile 41Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 160 City of Peril in the Apocalypse 末世危城 The apocalypse has come, and humanity is treated like dogs. If you want to survive, you have to become a demon! The secrets of his twin wives, the arrival of the Sword of Xuantian, passion, suspense, joy, and thrills: it’s all in this book! 46Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 161 The Apocalypse’s Enigma 末世迷焉 Zombies, radioactive rain, dense fog, blizzards, mutated creatures. A string of disasters has descended upon Earth. Where can humanity find a way out? What secrets is the military hiding? What's beyond the ice wall? Are there worlds beyond our own?! Do strange and legendary creatures walk side by side?! Join the protagonist in uncovering the truth beneath this rotting world. Can they find a path to salvation through the layers of fog? Is there no way back, or are we trapped here by our own doing 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Qingchuan Ghost School 青川鬼校 Ordinary high school student Su Bei takes shelter from the rain one day and discovers he is trapped in the abandoned grounds of Qingchuan Middle School, a place rumored to be haunted. It is no longer an empty ruin, but a living hell where time is warped, space behaves strangely, and real, terrifying ghosts lurk everywhere. There are no superpowers, no talismans or magical artifacts, and no apocalyptic technology. The only things Su Bei can rely on are his cool head, keen powers of observation, a 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 Doomsday Game: From the Start, I Was Born in a Garbage Dump 末日游戏：开局出生在垃圾堆 [Gets better as it goes + Doomsday Game + Lone Wolf + Decisive and Ruthless + Invincible] Qin Shou transmigrated into a game called Siege of the Dead. How did I start as a beggar in a garbage dump? What do you mean I got here on the first day but was a whole week later than everyone else? I, Qin Shou, refuse to accept this. I'm taking back everything that belongs to me! 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Doomsday Fortress 末日堡垒 By connecting points into lines and building a fortress as his foundation, Wang Yi returned from a world in turmoil knowing just how terrifying zombies could be. To survive the Apocalypse, he took his beloved wife and his subordinates north in a desperate flight. To make life in the Apocalypse more bearable, Wang Yi advanced technology, forged steel into a unified whole, and built a doomsday fortress to hold back the zombie hordes! Terror does not mean fear, and a powerful enemy does not guarant 710Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 165 The Doomsday Bus 末日大巴 No superpowers, no System, no transmigration, no rebirth. Every blade draws blood, every bullet hits flesh. This isn’t a power fantasy, and it moves at a measured pace. An ordinary person’s road escape through the apocalypse. Luck favors the prepared. Two men, two women, and a dog begin their escape from the apocalypse. 2.7kReads8.2Score133Shelves
- 166 A Tale of Elegance in the Apocalypse 末世风华录 [No System, no rebirth, not a pure power fantasy] A strange, dense fog blankets the globe, transforming the world beyond recognition. Zombies roam everywhere, mutated beasts run rampant, and humanity falls from the top of the food chain to the very bottom. In this world full of danger, what fate awaits humanity, once fallen from its former glory? 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 In the Apocalypse, My Wife Is the Future Empress 末世之我的老婆是未来女帝 Ten years into the apocalypse, Yang Lin died on a mission. When he opened his eyes, he found that he had somehow returned to the moment the apocalypse began. He knew the future secrets no one else knew and had ten years of battlefield experience and combat skills. Now was his chance to change his fate and reach the peak of his life! For his first stop, Yang Lin set his sights on the place where a mysterious white lotus, capable of changing human genes, had fallen from the sky... 94Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 168 Surviving the Cataclysm 惊变生存 After five years of service, I, Liu Mingkai, had finally reached the day of my discharge, only for disaster to erupt uncontrollably on the very last day. When my former comrade contacted me, he gave me the wrong address, leading him into the worst-hit area! Unable to reach him, should I go stop him from entering the disaster zone, or put my own safety ahead of our friendship? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Laws of the Apocalypse: Live by Embracing Death 末世法则：向死而生 [Post-apocalypse + zombies + sweet romance + strong heroine + scheming + slaughter] Four college students encounter zombies in their dorm room. They band together, hide out, and try to outwit the zombies, facing betrayal and death along the way before discovering that the zombie virus is actually the result of a human conspiracy... As emotions and society collapse around them, the heroine, the second-oldest girl, gradually sees the world differently. The second heroine, A Lai, is strong-willed, 5Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 170 I Really Did Return to Three Days Before the Apocalypse 真的回到末世前三天 Synopsis: Chen Shuo is reborn on the eve of the apocalypse, carrying the memories and regrets of his past life and vowing to change his fate. He forms a team of survivors and searches for a way to stay alive amid the zombie-infested ruins. Facing betrayal, sacrifice, and powerful enemies, Chen Shuo plans every move carefully and leads his companions against both the zombies and the evils of human nature. This is a battle for survival against the clock, as well as a journey of redemption and reve 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 Alone at the End 最终孤独 An apocalypse story with no special abilities, no System, and a protagonist who grows over time. I only hope to portray human nature in the apocalypse as realistically as possible. In the apocalypse, people’s hearts grow chaotic, and everyone fights to rule alone! But Ning Mo only wants to protect one person, even if it means turning his back on the world! Can he get what he wants? What kind of loneliness awaits him? After forsaking immortality and crossing a thousand years, what will he have g 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Midnight Entry: Clear the Dungeon to Survive (Season 4) 午夜入场，副本通关才能活下去(第四季) Midnight Entry: Clear the Dungeons to Survive (Season 4) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 Disaster Journal 灾变日记！ My name is Lin Wen, and I'm a doomsday survival enthusiast. Over the years, I've stockpiled every kind of supply I could think of. While other people might have a wall lined with sneakers or collectible figures, I have an entire wall stacked with dozens of pounds of compressed biscuits, hundreds of cans, medical supplies, gas masks, and hazmat suits. I even have a homemade crossbow. I often fantasized about doomsday arriving and zombies laying siege to the city. That supply-packed storeroom woul 731Reads6.8Score102Shelves
- 174 The Apocalypse System: Raising Kids Is So Hard 末世系统之养娃好难啊 Mo Jiuqing had finally made it through the gaokao, gotten into college, endured the torture of writing her thesis, and graduated to start working. Then the heavens played a cruel joke on her: she transmigrated! Fine, she could deal with transmigrating. But before even a day had passed, the apocalypse began. Fortunately, she got a survival game System that let her live carefree. During her lonely struggle to survive the apocalypse, she even picked up a little nephew for next to nothing. Hey, you! 58Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 175 Song Corpses 宋尸 Also known as A True Record of Song Dynasty Zombies Have you ever wondered what it would look like if the virus from Resident Evil broke out in ancient times? What sparks would fly when a million soldiers clashed with a virus from Resident Evil? Could five thousand years of Chinese history really be wiped out by this Western virus? Settle in and read carefully. Zhang He, a transmigrator, will tell you the ultimate answer. Welcome to the Great Song dynasty. 4.1kReads6.7Score477Shelves
- 176 The Doomsday Zombie Tide: I Use a Thieving System to Show Off 末日丧尸潮：我靠偷窃系统装大逼 [System + zombies + no saintly do-gooder + superpowers] (The events in this synopsis happen later in the story. At first, the System only provides support.) In 2025, the zombie virus completely overruns Planet Earth. Years later. “Lin Deng, you vile scoundrel! Today is the day you die! I’m an SSS-rank Crimson Flame Lord...” [Beep, beep-beep. Congratulations, Host. Successful theft! Obtained the SSS-rank superpower, Crimson Flame.] “Next!” “I have powers beyond your imagination! Lin Deng, you’re 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Doomsday Game: With the System’s Help, I Slay Monsters and Become a God 末日游戏：系统加持，我打怪封神 In 2077, the entire world is suddenly dragged into the “Starfall Apocalypse Game.” Humanity becomes a population of players, and survival depends on leveling up by fighting monsters. The game's rules are the very limits of survival: reaching level zero means death, failing a dungeon means elimination, and the struggle for resources is a fight to the death. The moment the apocalypse begins, overworked office worker Lin Ye activates the [All-Domain Analysis System]. He can see every monster's weak 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 Land of the Living Dead 活死人之地 [A word of caution] No System, no golden finger, not reborn, no stockpiling supplies, and no collecting crystal cores. A first-person zombie-apocalypse survival story. What would you do if you woke up one day and found that the world around you had changed beyond recognition? When disaster struck, I was just a college student slacking off at school. Faced with the sudden upheaval, the authorities activated the S-rank Red Emergency Plan and moved some survivors into underground shelters. With zo 242Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 179 The Zombie Apocalypse: I Bought an Island with Online Loans 丧尸末世，我用网贷买了个岛 Driven to the rooftop by loan sharks and about to end it all, I hear screams from below: a zombie has bitten through my beautiful landlady's neck! Screw it, I'm fighting back! I take out a loan in seconds and buy a deserted island on Yunze Lake! With my parents and our mutt by my side, I fence off a safe zone with steel railings, light up the apocalypse with solar power, and use tunnel warfare to take down the bastards who come to steal my island! My ex-girlfriend comes crying and begs me to tak 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Dead City: Seventy-Seven Days 死城，七十七天 A quiet life is shattered by an unknown virus. The living are turning into infected who eat people. Trapped in a high-rise with no power, no internet, and barely any food, how can you rely on the courage to risk your life and the clearheaded resolve to survive against all odds to save yourself and others from the infected surrounding you...? 1.1kReads8.3Score123Shelves
- 181 I Just Want to Survive 我只想活下去 The biohazard outbreak began, and zombies invaded. I was on the edge of the fallen zone on a business trip. To save my wife and daughter, I resolutely stepped into the zombie quarantine zone. When I reached the home I knew so well, all I found was a room in disarray. My wife and daughter were nowhere to be seen… 2.6kReads7.5Score229Shelves
- 182 Crossing the Apocalypse: Zombies Besiege the City 穿行末世之丧尸临城 [Zombie apocalypse + chance encounters + adventure + military + superpowers + defending the nation + sweet romance] A biological attack by an enemy nation triggers a zombie outbreak. The heroine and her friend enter the space where the outbreak began, instantly transforming from children into adults, and embark on a story of extraordinary encounters and adventure. Along the way, the heroine picks up a lovesick, obsessive stalker. (What kind of prize is that? Don’t worry, the hero’s no slouch: h 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 I’m Writing a Thesis? The Zombies Are Knocking! 我在写论文？丧尸在敲门！ [Zombies + no supernatural abilities + realistic + team + escape] At the start of the autumn semester, Lin Long, an eccentric loner, is frantically working on her thesis in her dorm when someone suddenly knocks on the door. A horde of man-eating monsters surges in. The corridors, landscaped grounds, and freshman military training field all become zombie territory. With fake sweethearts, sanctimonious do-gooders, bullying upperclassmen, self-serving survivors, and authority figures unworthy of be 382Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 184 The Apocalypse? No Problem, I Can See the Future 末世？不怕，我能看透未来 [Apocalypse + Superpowers + One Heroine] After a rain of blood, the world is plunged into catastrophe. Zombies swarm, and animals run wild. Humanity is lost, and survival faces an immense test. But when the apocalypse began, Lin Fan awakened a powerful ability. He can see the future. With his power, Lin Fan has escaped one major crisis after another. A zombie horde? I dodge! An attack by a superpowered foe? It’s not a homing skill, so I’ll dodge again! Want to be the ultimate schemer in the apoc 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Global Zombie Outbreak: Awakening 全球丧尸：觉醒 The apocalypse arrived. Zombies ran rampant, order collapsed, and morality crumbled. Xiao Ke, a refugee struggling on the brink of death, was starving and freezing when he stripped a combat uniform from a corpse and put it on. As a result, people mistook him for an Imperial soldier. From then on, the Empire had one fewer lowly refugee and one more God of War, a soldier who had risen from the very bottom. 1.6kReads8.5Score102Shelves
- 186 Global Black Rain: I Awaken Time-Based Powers 全球黑雨：我觉醒了时间系异能 [Doomsday + zombies + special abilities + no System + not reborn + no harem] At the end of 2038, a black rain quietly fell for three days. The entire Blue Star was blanketed by the rain. Countless people were infected by the virus it carried, transforming one after another into bloodthirsty monsters that attacked anyone still alive. The biohazard crisis erupted in full force. Zombies ran rampant, and the world fell. After getting soaked by the black rain, Su Qin suffered a high fever for two and 816Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 187 Apocalypse: The Reborn Tycoon System Rewards Me with Ten Billion in Supplies 末世：重生神豪系统奖励百亿物资 [Doomsday + reborn + supernatural abilities + laying low + plundering + decisive and ruthless + no saintly heroine + building a faction + spatial storage + System + multiple heroines; if that’s not your thing, don’t read] [This is not a traditional doomsday novel. This is not a traditional doomsday novel. This is not a traditional doomsday novel. The important things must be said three times. It’s way more than just satisfying.] Only after living through the apocalypse did he realize how preciou 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Apocalypse Rebirth: A Powerful Big Shot Who's Far Too Cautious 末世重生：大佬超强却过分谨慎 [Reborn + no supernatural abilities or pocket dimension + male lead, short romance with a fast pace + growing female lead + team missions together in the middle and later stages + nonstop killing] [Special Forces captain x college student] When the zombie virus hit, Jiang Ru spent a year in the apocalypse saving countless people, but still couldn't escape Qingtian City. In the end, she was betrayed by her teammates and met a horrible fate. When she opens her eyes again, she's back two hours befo 47Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 189 My Girlfriend Is a Zombie 我的女友是只丧尸 [Classic Apocalypse] [Coming-of-Age] "If you can live off someone, you should!" Ten years into the apocalypse, Lu Feng is betrayed by his most trusted companion, who shoves him into a tide of zombies as they fight over a Level Six genetic serum. When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to before the apocalypse began, to the very day Zuo Ting confessed her feelings for him. In his previous life, afraid of holding her back, he chose to run away. Later, Zuo Ting became a Level Nine genetic war 148Reads—Score119Shelves
- 190 The Zombie Apocalypse: Survival at Sea 丧尸末日，大海里的求生之路 When the world order falls apart, home is the only beacon guiding the way. (Second book in the series: The Infernal Game: An Unfinished Heart) No awakened powers, no magical storage artifacts, and no chosen-one halo. They are simply ordinary people struggling through the apocalypse. The catastrophe tears the continent apart, cutting off their way home. A foreign land means certain death. Amid the ashes of collapsed civilization, the one thing that refuses to go out is their longing for home. An 18Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 191 Blood Calamity: The Dead Rise on Campus 血灾：尸起校园 [Zombies]+ [Apocalypse]+ [Team]+ [Survival]+ [BL]+ [School]+ [Military]+ [Hardcore (the war follows the worldbuilding of Arena Breakout)]+ [Guangdong]+ [Hong Kong Island]. An ordinary student from the start, with no System, special abilities, or rebirth. A realistic Apocalypse seen through an ordinary student's eyes. Starting in Volume Two, the story follows survival in the military. The Bible once said: "One day, the waters of the Nile will turn to blood, and God will punish the world." The Eb 3Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 192 Project Zomboid: Apocalypse 僵尸毁灭工程：启示录 Project Zomboid, a zombie survival game set during the apocalypse. How do you survive in Kentucky, USA? That's the question. How will Lin Xin struggle to survive in the world of Project Zomboid? 3.4kReads9.0Score329Shelves
- 193 Doomsday: The Saintess Terminator 末日之圣母终结者 Have you ever imagined that one day, the zombie scenes from movies might spill into reality? When the world has been utterly devastated, will you have the courage to face it? When the apocalypse really comes, what will this world have to offer? No supernatural powers, no spiritual qi revival, and no high-level martial arts. All that remains for humanity are hordes of the walking dead, mutated beasts and birds of prey, extreme weather, and one forbidden zone after another left behind by nuclear w 242Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 194 The Apocalypse's Qin King: Ruling the World 末日秦王之君临天下 [Supernatural powers + zombies + building a faction + crystal cores + no System + interstellar + sci-fi + from the start + invincible + spatial powers + lightning] After the apocalypse erupts, countless creatures turn into zombies. But some survivors awaken supernatural powers and gradually take control of their own fates. See how a lone wolf of the apocalypse changes things after dying and being reborn. Qin Mo dies in the fifteenth year after the apocalypse, then is reborn before it begins. In 154Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 The Mysterious Countdown 诡秘倒计时 The Greenest Uncle on Earth After the Apocalypse is a gritty, dark novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. It realistically portrays how human nature becomes twisted and reveals its darkest side under extreme conditions. The male lead endures hardship after hardship, rising from the very bottom of society. His story is passionate, ruthless, and bloody. At the beginning of the novel, before disaster strikes, the male lead is already at the very bottom of society. He embodies poverty and pathetic h 95Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 196 Apocalypse: One Step from Making It to the End 末世：差一步苟到最后 Tower after tower crumbled to the ground; city after city was reduced to ashes. Humanity huddled in the cracks, trembling in fear. Only Zhao Guanren stood up and said, “If you just hide and do nothing, you're sure to die. Hide well and you'll be covered in dust; hide badly and you'll end up in an urn. Hiding is an art of deception…” 127Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 197 You Were Supposed to Survive the Apocalypse, So Why Are You Dating the Zombie Queen? 让你末世求生，你和丧尸女皇好上了？ [The next top-tier classic after Zombie Cockroach. Veterans of apocalypse novels can read with confidence!] That day, the zombie horde sealed off everything. That day, on his 101st transmigration, he once again faced a world where human civilization had been utterly overturned and left in ruins. The rules and morals of old were gone, and the various nations had become the last sparks of civilization. The entire apocalyptic world had turned into a brutal game of evolution! But for Gan Ze, an ordi 3.8kReads8.2Score522Shelves
- 198 Apocalypse Disaster: The Reborn Heroine Has a Space 天灾末世：重生女主有空间 (Reborn + apocalypse + spatial storage + growth + evolution) A zombie outbreak marks the beginning of the end of the world. Then come extreme cold, acid rain, endless nights… and mutations among plants and animals. In the apocalypse’s second year, Li Su doesn’t die at the hands of zombies or mutant beasts. Instead, her own father brutally cuts open her head to take her crystal core. When she opens her eyes again, Li Su is back one week before the apocalypse begins. This time, she will make sure 1.3kReads8.0Score121Shelves
- 199 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
- 200 What Would You Do If Zombies Suddenly Broke Out? 如果突然爆发丧尸你会怎么做 The laptop's motherboard burned out, and the original manuscript has been lost, so I can't continue updating the story. I wrote this book many years ago, and the complete manuscript was already finished. There's no way I can reconstruct it from memory. The only solution is to cut the whole thing and make major revisions. I plan to start rewriting it from the beginning once I finish my other book. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
