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- 51 The SL Veil Foundation sl的帷幕基金会 Humans have been around for 250,000 years, but only the last 4,000 have meant anything. So what did we do for nearly 250,000 years? We hid in caves, huddled around little campfires, terrified of things we didn't understand: explanations for how the sun rose, monsters with human heads and bird bodies, and stones that were alive. So we called them "gods" and "demons," and begged them for forgiveness and salvation. Then their numbers dwindled, while ours grew. As fewer and fewer things frightened u 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 I Just Founded the Foundation, and Now You Want Me to Join the Chat Group? 我刚建立基金会，让我加入聊天群 My new story is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 53 The Foundation: Destroy Humanity? We’re All You Need 基金会：毁灭人类？有我们就够了 What would humanity do if the Foundation stopped protecting it and instead sought to destroy it? And if the Foundation stopped containing those terrifying entities, where would humanity turn? What does your destruction have to do with me? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Foundation Prequel 基金会前传 A new work is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Summoning Figures from Every World to Join the Containment Foundation 召唤万界人物，收容基金会 Mo Wuyan transmigrated into the Foundation world, only to discover in despair that he seemed to have arrived in the wrong timeline. Before his eyes was nothingness. To save the world and himself, Mo Wuyan decided to use the power of the System in his hands to save the world and himself. He forcibly conscripted members (expendable resources) from the Myriad Worlds to help him carry out containment operations. Mo Wuyan: “This is the God of Evolution. I’m leaving him to you.” FGO’s Lion King: “What 631Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 We Contain, We Fail, We Run 我们收容，我们失效，我们跑路 A new work is here! Welcome to read my novel on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Site Containment Breach site收容失效 This work is based on the broad framework of CB SL. The early storyline pays tribute to the original, while the later storyline, including the new broadcasts, task force, items, and rooms, is original and not a 1:1 recreation. 347Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Apocalyptic Oddities: O5’s Journey 末世异闻：O5的旅程 [Not mindless] [The content may get complicated] I’m Luo Zhu. One second I was yawning, and the next I’d been tossed into another world. Honestly, it felt awful. A cold presence awakened in my mind. It granted me certain permissions and a tool called a Creation Unit. My fear hadn’t faded, but I already had a mission. I’m no hero, but I have to become the cornerstone of a new order. But first, let me see... what does this instruction manual say... 101Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 59 Honkai: Star Rail: The Foundation Agent's Extraordinary Adventure 星穹铁道：基金会特工的奇妙冒险 [March 7th as the sole female lead, with yuri undertones involving other playable characters. Follows the main storyline, but with major changes. The protagonist isn’t invincible, but won’t be constantly beaten down.] [It’s been a long time since I read Foundation stories. I’m returning to them to write this, so there may be errors in the setting and descriptions.] [The writing isn’t great, but I’ll do my best to make the story original. Please bear with me.] I spent the first twenty-odd years 320Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Abnormal Descend: We Will Eventually Return 异常降临：我们终将归来 [Foundation-like setting]+ [pseudo-System]+ [light ensemble cast]+ [supreme divinity]+ [some original anomalies]+ [collaborative creation] You may have heard of us. Or perhaps you haven't. We lost that war, though not a shot was fired. They sealed us away, claiming we would cause memetic contamination. Gradually, we faded from people's sight. But... we left something in reserve. We... will return. We contain. We secure. We protect. My name is Ling Xiu. I transmigrated. (The synopsis fall 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 How Did a Foundation Soldier Like Me End Up on the Korean Battlefield? 我一基金会士兵怎么会在朝鲜战场 I was just dealing with a meme. How did I end up surrounded by the roar of guns and cannons? You can just make me transmigrate like that? Fine, I accept my fate, okay? I was just running with my comrades. How did I end up with only one arm left when I reached the trench? What gives you seventeen countries the right to attack us? What gives you the right to start a war whenever you want? How come you have so much better equipment? How come your food is so much better? Even if you had eight heads 1.7kReads—Score133Shelves
- 62 I Became an O5 Council Member 我成了O5议员 The organization is called the Foundation, anomalies are numbered one, two, three, four, and the Overseers are designated Overseer-1 through Overseer-13. 90Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 63 Anomalies Invade, and I Rebuild the Containment Foundation 异常入侵，我重建收容基金会 (Containing anomalies + supreme divinity + behind-the-scenes focus + ensemble cast + original anomalies and MTF) That day, a set of “Absolute Repulsion Protective Gear” crossed time and space and appeared before Lin An. It was the beginning of all anomalies, and a beacon in the darkness. From then on, anomalies descended upon the world, and bizarre monsters appeared one after another. A zombie virus that had existed only in movies... Meme weapons that could rewrite human perception... Crimson cr 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Occult Containment Company 诡秘收容公司 [This book contains the following elements: Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, SCP, Arknights] When the bright, glamorous day fades away, mysteries emerge in the darkness. They might look like a black cat or an ordinary teacup. But never let your guard down, because they are never beings that ordinary people can understand, even when they look no different from anything you know. Have you ever heard the mysterious whispers in the night? If they are already ringing in your ears... then welco 21Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 65 The Foundation: Containing Reality 基金会：现实收容 [Foundation Universe] + [Hardcore] + [No Brain-Dead Decisions] + [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Hello, newcomer. However you came to learn about the other side of this world, if you are willing to fight for humanity's survival, then I want to say this: welcome. The world we live in is not as safe as it appears. Incomprehensible supernatural events are constantly affecting our survival. Beneath the foundations we rely on, countless cracks have already appeared, revealing an abyss we cannot bear 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 The Foundation: I Can Copy the Abilities of Contained Anomalies 基金会：我能复制收容物能力 In the revised fourth chapter of A Concerto of Containment Breach, the Foundation has not discovered Bei Nian's abilities. (They won't find out until the middle or later part of the story.) The rewritten Hume Exclusion Zone: From D-Class to Creator God. The Foundation's greatest new masterpiece, bar none. 715Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Strategic Conference on Anomalous Phenomena: No Heroes 异常现象战略会：不是英雄 (Anomalous containment, adapted from the Foundation, with elements from the Mad Disease and Rules Horror series. The protagonist is not invincible and has no System. The story has tragic moments, with a light, refreshing tone, some sci-fi, a military style, and cameos by characters from Attack on Titan.) Humanity has existed for nearly a million years, but only the last 7,000 have mattered. Once, we hid in caves, huddled around tiny campfires, afraid of things we did not understand. Then their n 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Data Deleted: Who Wants to Be the Savior? 数据删除：谁想当救世主啊 [No Female Lead] + [Horror] + [Partly Original] + [Fanfiction] + [Transmigration] + [the Myriad Worlds] Ye Chao escapes from the facility, but before he can rest for long, he hears screams, gunshots, and children crying outside. It looks like he won’t be able to live in peace after all. The ordinary life we knew, with its familiar routines and stability, is gone for good. The global population has plummeted from nearly ten billion to a mere eight figures, and more than three-quarters of the gove —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Foundation: From the Start, I Contained a Mahayana Cultivator 基金会：开局收容大乘期修士 [Anomalies + containment + gods + cultivation + wild imagination + rule-based horror] The history we know is a lie. This planet has existed for 4.6 billion years, while human civilization is barely ten thousand years old. On the scale of time, we are like mayflies. The truth is that humanity has never truly “ruled” this world. We just happen to live through their “dormant period.” And now, they are waking up. Contain. Study. Protect. We are not fighting off alien invaders, but “primordial —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Honkai: Star Rail: Taking Stock of the Foundation from the Start 崩铁开局盘点基金会 In the world of Honkai: Star Rail, everything is just beginning. A mysterious sky screen appears, showing containment objects no one has ever seen before. What impact will these objects have on this world? 411Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 71 Little Red Riding Hood from the Abnormal Affairs Bureau's Customer Service Department 异常管理局客服部的小红帽 [Anomaly Management Bureau]+ [Raising a Daughter]+ [I Really Want to Become Human] [Ensemble Cast] [Light Yuri] [There will be occasional chapters about the protagonist handling anomalies] I’m Little Red Riding Hood, a highly intelligent robot in the Fairy Tale Division of the Anomaly Management Bureau’s Customer Service Department. Today is another absolutely wonderful day of learning about humans. “Little Red Riding Hood, come here and let Big Sis give you a pat, heh heh~” This golden-haired 96Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Ranking the Foundation's Supreme Gods: All Worlds Are Stunned 盘点基金会至高神性，诸天震惊 [Wish-Fulfillment Story + Foundation + The Site's Only Ranking of Supreme Divinities] First to appear: [The Supreme God of the Void]. The most primordial driving force behind all things, standing above every layer of narrative. He will show you what supreme divinity means! Second to appear: [Code Name 3812, The Striver]. Is death the final destination? No! It is merely the beginning of truly transcending everything after breaking through the narrative layer! Third to appear: [Code Name 682, The 43Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 73 Red Fire: The Tragic Career of a Containment Specialist 红色之火：收容专家的悲催生涯 “O hero from another world, is this what you dropped...? No, I just picked up the wrong script... Ahem! O user from another world, would you rather be hit by this golden truck or that pink one?” Zhou Ping'an: “The pink one! Wait, no! I just bought a house with a 30-year mortgage, and I haven't even lived there for a few days! I don't want to transmigrate!” “No, no, no... None of that matters.” What monsters? What anomalies? Dissect them! Dissect them! Catch every last one and bring them back fo 5Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 74 A Manager's Retirement Shouldn't Be Like This! 管理员的退休生活绝不是这样！ Foundation + Honkai, with more to come, or possibly other things The Foundation administrator was enjoying a nice vacation in the Honkai Impact 3rd world when the Yellow-Clad Jester came looking for them again. Administrator: Yellow-Clad Jester, how is this any different from the mission you gave me before? Yellow-Clad Jester: Of course it's different. You have teammates to help you now. Administrator: But I retired, and you agreed to it. Yellow-Clad Jester: I know. Isn't this just to keep your 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Death's End 死亡终结 [Apocalypse + wasteland + zombies + vampires + Warhammer + Cthulhu + potion sequences + Foundation universe + some Lord of the Mysteries lore + Death Stranding + Plague Inc. + Shadow Plague + Necroa Virus + The Last of Us] On that day, the Reaper laid down its scythe, gave up its shroud, waved goodbye to everyone, and then quietly departed. In an unknowable eternity, even the god of death can die. And so, everything fell into decay. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Pokemon: Containing Anomalies 口袋妖怪：收容异常 Zombie Pikachu? A slash-mouthed Charmander? A Squirtle with a human head? And a Bulbasaur with tentacles!? Help! What on earth has happened to this world!? Everyone else gets to catch cute Pokemon and challenge Gyms, so why do I have to go around containing terrifying anomalies? We control, we contain, we protect, we run away... Pokemon, Pokemon, Pokemon, Pokémon, containing anomalies, SCP. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Eerie Descent: Exposing the Eerie Factory from the Start 诡异降临：开局曝光诡异工厂 [Behind-the-Scenes Livestream + Supernatural Horror + A Touch of Lovecraftian Horror + No Female Lead] The writing is fairly simple throughout, so I hope you can read it without having to rack your brains, straight through in one go. As supernatural horrors prepare to descend upon the world, Zhang Le awakens a golden finger and obtains a livestream System. All he has to do is educate the public about supernatural entities to earn System rewards! The subject of his first livestream: Anderson Fact 55Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 78 Jianghu Xiaoxiao Sheng's Eighth Book 江湖萧萧笙的第8本书 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Anomalous Creature Containment Facility 异常生物收容所 After his shadow was eaten, Song Wenbo had no choice but to join the Anomalous Biology Containment Agency. From then on, his very concept of the world was turned upside down: an off-site unit commander sharing his body with a demon, a revolver inhabited by the soul of a cross-dressing enthusiast, a tea shop that breaks your heart, the Lucifer sect with its dictionary of prophecies... “Only when everything has completely fallen apart can we see a new world and the light.” 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 A Certain Magical Phase City 魔禁：某魔法的相位香城 [Crossover elements] + [The Foundation] + [A Certain Magical Index] + [Hong Kong · City · River] + [Protagonist has no System] + more Twenty years later, a man known as the “Silver Star” sets foot on land again, gazing in bewilderment at a world transformed. Once, he had stopped at nothing to achieve his goals, even breaking with his former comrades. Though he had withdrawn to the other side of the world, he ultimately failed to escape the vortex that had always revolved around him. Now that 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 National Bureau of Anomalous Containment 国家异常收容局 [Causality + Alternate World + Entirely Original Anomalies and Containment Organization + Series] A plane crash brings Xu Andong's anomalous ability to the attention of the state. Instead of remaining an ordinary college student, he becomes a prisoner of a mysterious organization called the National Anomaly Containment Bureau. Here, he encounters all kinds of supernatural phenomena that defy reality: a valve that reverses time, a dog that can teleport, a bronze cauldron that alters reality, and 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Recreating the Foundation Through Wacky Livestreams 从整活直播开始重现基金会 [System] + [Foundation] + [Cthulhu] + [Meme Shenanigans] + [Livestream] Sent to another world by a meteor, Li Yunluo discovers that the System bound to him is nothing but a pile of defective products. By livestreaming his death-defying antics, he sets out to recreate the Foundation. Gradually, he realizes that this kind of life might not be so bad after all. 260Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Anomalous Creature Containment 异常生物收容 Humans have been reproducing for 250,000 years. Only the last 4,000 have mattered. So what were we doing for nearly 250,000 years? We huddled in caves around campfires, afraid of the things we didn't understand: explanations for how the sun rose, monsters with human heads and bird bodies, and stones that were alive. So we called them “gods” and “demons,” begging them for forgiveness and praying to be saved. Then their numbers dwindled, while ours grew. As the things we feared became fewer, we be 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Anomaly Containment Facility: I'm Immune to Every Anomaly 异常收容所：我能免疫所有异常 [The rating just came in, and it’ll go up later!] [Anomaly containment] [Invincible] [Healing] [Foundation] Voices suddenly echoed through an empty stairwell. Facing armed humans who wielded the truth, Su Qian scratched his head and said, “Isn’t this the emergency exit?” (The first fifty chapters are relatively calm and healing. The fighting and expansion of the world begin afterward.) 343Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 85 Honkai: Star Rail: What If I Were a Reality Warper? 星铁：若我是现实扭曲者 "Honkai: Star Rail: Crumbling in Reality" [One Heroine: Feixiao (I've gotten attached to writing her)] [Unrestricted Reality Warper: Anomaly] [Parallel Worlds] Note: This story focuses on his life in the Honkai: Star Rail world. No debates or arguments. They... gathered around me... and raised me to the throne in the heavens. “What did it say... No... What did they say?” He listened... bore witness... “ THEY said... Let there be light, and... there was light.” “The Hunt... must have cause and ef 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Tales from the Foundation 基金会那些故事 Humanity has existed for millions of years, yet that was only the prelude to an age of ignorance. The civilization truly recorded in history spans no more than the past few thousand years. “We are the silent custodians of history, the shadows behind the curtain of civilization. We walk the boundaries beyond ordinary people’s comprehension, facing absurdities and impossibilities powerful enough to tear reality apart. We contain, we secure, we protect. That is what we have always been taught, and 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Anomalies Descend: From the Start, I Build a Foundation 异常降临，开局创建基金会 Lu Tian was just a foundation enthusiast and a writer of related fanfiction. After updating for his fans every day for a month without a break, his heart stopped one second before he could publish his final article, and he died. But Lu Tian transmigrated to a world three months before anomalies were about to invade, and awakened the Foundation System. Just as countries around the world were falling into despair, that organization appeared. We Contain. We Secure. We Protect. Nothing can protect u 483Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 I Was Contained After Wanting to Die, and Now I'm Invincible 想死的我被收容后无敌了 A top assassin sent by a hostile organization infiltrates the containment room. The assassin pulls out every trick in the book, while Lin Yue strolls through a hail of bullets and even takes a moment to correct the assassin’s shooting stance. After the assassination attempt, Lin Yue’s ability list gains [Gun-Fu Lv. Max]. He is assigned to deal with other dangerous anomalies. Faced with the “Shadow of the Void,” which can devour anything, Lin Yue walks right up to it, hoping to die. But when the 50Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 89 Foundation Star: I’m Really Not a Savior 基金会之星：我真不是救世主 (Requires a certain level of reading experience) (Foundation universe + no female lead + memes + anomalous objects + Zhongfen site + parallel universes + supreme divinity) This is a perfectly ordinary world. Beneath its seemingly unremarkable framework, countless anomalies are thriving... Departments that don't exist in anyone's memory, invisible friends... Giant sandworms disguised as ruins, deep-sea eels that devour memories... Living murder cases, the mournful ballads of emperors who hanged t 586Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 90 I Arrived in Zenless Zone Zero with the Foundation System 带着基金会系统来到绝区零 After an accident kills the protagonist, Li Yifeng gains a System. By a twist of fate, he chooses the Foundation System and arrives in the world of Zenless Zone Zero. With the System's help, he becomes an administrator of the Foundation and quietly develops it in the world of Zenless Zone Zero. (Note: The story contains quite a few comedic sections.) 270Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Cthulhu: Actually, I'm with the Foundation 克苏鲁：其实我是基金会的 Mo Lin thought he would spend his life living an ordinary existence. But by a twist of fate, he was swept up in an operation beyond anything he could comprehend, and the “true face” of the world gradually began to reveal itself to him... In a dim basement, a strange-looking creature hums a nursery rhyme... quietly waiting for the one it is destined to meet. 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 In Marvel: Creating the Anomaly Foundation from the Start 人在漫威：开局创建异常基金会 [Marvel] + [Foundation] After Luo Lan obtains the System, Anomalous Civilization: A Record of Encounters, he transmigrates to the Marvel Universe. Other people’s Systems try every trick to make their Hosts stronger, but Luo Lan’s System delights in dropping anomalous creatures from other worlds into his path and figuring out how to kill him. From the start, Luo Lan draws the Foundation world. Numb and tearless, he is forced to embark on a struggle for survival. Fortunately, the System doesn’t co 98Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 93 A Day of Containment at the Foundation 基金会的收容日 Humanity may not be safe. In the past, we called those things demons or gods, but experience has taught us that we can only protect ourselves. Humanity's pursuit of science is endless. But we have learned too much, and so encountered things unknown that humanity was never meant to know. The deeper we investigate, the more deeply we are drawn in. These supernatural beings, beyond our understanding, are steadily shrinking the space in which humanity can survive. We lack effective ways to deal with 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Foundation: Containment Breach in the Cycle of Reincarnation 基金会【轮回的收容失效】 Multiple playthroughs + multiple endings + no female lead + Containment Objects Foundation “Welcome to the Foundation. Based on your background, you have been assigned to Site-[REDACTED]. You have two days to read the ‘Site-[REDACTED] Facilities Security Department New Employee Handbook’...” 1.6kReads8.4Score218Shelves
- 95 Containment Breach! The Foundation Needs a Class-D to Carry the Team 收容失效！基金会求一个D级带飞 Li Mo is little more than a wreck of a man. Having lost his left arm and leg, he has become a D-rank “expendable” at the CAD Foundation, where lives are worth less than grass. Then, inside the devouring domain of the S-rank anomaly “Web,” he awakens the powers of [Analysis] and [Energy Devouring] as he teeters on the brink of death. The anomalous energy others fear is fuel for his evolution. The core of the S-rank anomaly “Web” becomes his new left arm and leg! From then on, he walks the edge of 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 I'm the Foundation's Mascot 我在基金会里当吉祥物 My name is Liu Mingcun. I always thought I was just about as ordinary as a person could be. Then one day, a mysterious three-eyed weirdo suddenly barged into my life and forced me to join an organization called the Foundation. In that moment, my life was turned upside down. I met cultivators who wielded inscrutable magic and could fly through the sky and burrow underground. I also witnessed mechanical ascension, the power of advanced technology leaving me dumbfounded. And then there was ascensio 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 A Security Guard’s Diary of Slacking Off 安保人员摸鱼日记 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Containment: Reborn in 5K 收容：重生在5K [5K Universe] [Anomalies] [The Foundation] One containment failure and one termination later, Captain Samuel of the Security Department is plunged into a familiar yet unfamiliar 5K universe. The facilities, regulations, and declarations here have not changed one bit, but one thing has been turned upside down: They have begun to exterminate humanity. “Why? (Why?)” 1kReads7.1Score109Shelves
- 99 Arknights: The 5K Foundation 明日方舟：5k基金会 [Terra's dawn needs your guidance. Its stranded lives yearn for your salvation.] [Will you accept the mission, cross the dimensional barrier, and descend upon the continent of Terra?] [Your faithful assistant Amiya and the operators of Rhodes Island are eagerly awaiting your return.] [Note: The world of Terra has detected intense Originium fluctuations and signals of recurring disasters. Safety protocol confirmed: protecting the lives of the “adorable” Rhodes Island operators takes top priori 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Honkai Impact 3rd: The Blessing of Supreme Divinity 崩坏：至高神性的祝福 The Eternal Cycle, the Red King of Destruction, Devouring Flesh, Expanding Fat, Mechanical Gears, the Burning Primordial Flame, the Bell of Death, the Supreme False Emperor, the Eternal Eye, Oren of the Cosmos, the Butterfly God, the Mysterious Doctor, Theorist 3812, the Seven-Horned Devourer of Primordial Energy, Tom Taylor, Lu Murphy, Corrupted Error, the Hanged King, Dr. Calvin, A Lifetime's Story, Anantashesha, Buddha, the Weaver, Don Quixote, O5-1, Old Hymn Lu Murphy, the Hymn Gatekeeper, C 13Reads—Score—Shelves
