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- 1 Everyone’s an Inventor, but My Identity as a Master of Black Tech Is Exposed 全民发明，我黑科技大师身份曝光 In an age of technology for all, scientists have become idols to the masses. Jiang Feng, who failed the college entrance exam, unexpectedly became bound to the Black Technology Master System and joined I Love Inventions, a nationwide competition created through a global collaboration. He starts with a miniature controllable nuclear fusion device! Complete missions to earn generous rewards: [Gain 1,000 fans to receive “Perfect Human-Machine Interaction System + Zero-Latency Motion Capture System” 59Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 2 The Divine Mecha Has Activated: Keep Out of Huaxia 神明机甲已启动，来者止步华夏 Beyond Earth, a silent black hole lit up. When the interstellar invasion began... Pioneers from beyond the stars piloted terrifying biological warships across countless billions of light-years to destroy this beautiful planet. That day was named the Arctic Catastrophe. Wang Chen, the reborn guardian deity of Huaxia, piloted the divine mech Northern Azure Dragon alone, standing before Huaxia's Barrier to face the Pioneer army single-handedly. Behind him, a cold electronic voice rang out. “Yaochi 8Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 3 Reborn and Transmigrating with a System from the Start, I Make Nuclear Fusion by Hand 开局重生穿越带系统，手搓核聚变 [Moving words, a movie frozen in time] This book takes you on an extraordinary journey through time and space, as Dragon Nation’s technology explodes into life! Has human history ever been influenced by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations? How might such civilizations make contact with humanity? Why is the universe so empty? Does the so-called “dark forest” theory really exist? Kong Bai transmigrates to another Earth in a parallel universe and acquires a so-called “black technology System”! 528Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 4 After Failing the College Entrance Exam, I Unveiled Nuclear Fusion Technology 高考落榜后，我公布核聚变技术 [Academic prodigy + technology + controlled nuclear fusion + interstellar travel + aliens + god-tier civilization] Also known as: “After Failing the College Entrance Exam, I Revealed My Controlled Nuclear Fusion Technology” Su Yu scored just over 200 on the college entrance exam and was mocked by the entire internet. They called him a poor student. However... When his diplomas were revealed, the whole world was stunned. More than 300 diplomas from top universities all over the world... Su Yu's i 184Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 5 Gravity Fruit from the Start, and Planetary Devastation Shocks the World 开局重力果实，地爆天星震惊世界 [Invincible + never takes abuse + no fake saintliness + decisive and ruthless + fun + serious but not really] With spiritual qi revival and the invasion of myriad races, humanity teeters on the brink of disaster. Liu Fei, an F-rank talent, gets a Super Treasure-Digging System and digs up a Gravity Fruit from the start. At the awakening contest, one Super Gravity Fist shatters an S-rank flame shield. In a real-combat secret realm, Gravity Blade: Raging Tiger, kills a monster in one hit! When a cu 5kReads8.1Score42114d adds
- 6 I'm Just a Mechanic, Is Building a Sixth-Generation Fighter Really So Unreasonable? 我一修车的，造架六代机很合理吧 Chu Yang is just a roadside mechanic. The moment fixing cars starts earning him knowledge points, the world goes crazy. First, he builds an 800-kilonewton adaptive-cycle engine to test the waters. Then he builds a mere two-kilometer-long star-destroyer, giving his enemies a taste of what despair means. 37Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 7 Technology: I Can Synthesize and Upgrade Anything 科技：我能合成升级一切 Ye Tian had hit rock bottom when he accidentally activated a mysterious interface. It had only a few options: Shop, Inventory, and Synthesizer. Put any item inside, and a matching item would appear in the shop, where it could be bought and duplicated endlessly. That wasn’t even the best part. Put ten identical items into the Synthesizer, and they’d combine into a higher-level item. With this at his disposal, making any scientific breakthrough was a breeze. In a world where technology had stagnat 6kReads8.5Score43114d adds
- 8 My Thesis Was Exposed? My Research Shocks the World! 论文被曝光？我的科研震惊全世界！ Also known as: My Paper Was Exposed? My Research Shocks the World! [Tech-focused] [Top student] [Leveling up] Lin Feng comes from a poor family. After doing poorly on the college entrance exam, he ends up at an ordinary second-tier university. But once he starts college, his brain keeps developing. As long as he accumulates enough knowledge, he can work out the future of related technologies. During his four years at university, he neglects sleep and meals, spending almost all his time in the la 862Reads8.2Score11114d adds
- 9 I Change Systems Every Three Days 我每三天换个系统 [Also known as: Shocked! I Have Tens of Millions of Systems; lighthearted; satisfying read; one female lead; wild ideas about entertainment and technology; no angst for the protagonist] Meng Fan thought he had merely stumbled upon a System. But instead, he got an endless stream of all kinds of Systems: The God of Songs System, The Tycoon System, The Technology System, The Smooth-Talking System, The Cross-Dressing System. Could there be a Cultivation System too? Meng Fan was rather looking forwar 751Reads8.7Score10414d adds
- 10 Building Iron Man Just to Enter a Tech Expo? 拍摄钢铁侠，就为了参加科技展？ [No Female Lead + Entrepreneurship + Movies + Item Draws] Lu Bai transmigrates to Blue Star, where making movies lets him draw items? He films "Iron Man" and draws an item: the Make3 mech! The science and technology museum is stunned! He films "Transformers" and draws Bumblebee! Will he usher in the pinnacle of intelligent driving? He films "Jurassic Park" and draws dinosaur DNA. Will dinosaurs return to Blue Star? Comments from netizens: “Lu Bai's vanity is out of control.” “Right? These aren't 1.8kReads8.6Score13914d adds
- 11 The Most Miserable Top-Tier Star Risks His Life to Invent, Bringing the Entire Internet to Tears 最惨顶流，拿命搞发明泪崩全网 Cancer, and diagnosed as dead right from the start? When Ye Chen opens his eyes and finds himself in a morgue, he panics like crazy. [Ding! Host’s life is in critical danger. Requirements for binding met. The Life-for-Tech System is now bound!] He designs mechanical prosthetics, benefiting disabled people all over the world. Then... Controlled nuclear fusion! High-precision lithography machines! Miniature solar batteries! Exoskeleton armor! One world-shaking scientific breakthrough after another 645Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 12 In the Apocalypse, I Copy Others’ Powers and Loot for Free 人在末世，复制他人异能，零元购 Seven days remained until the apocalypse. Jiang Bai was reborn. From the start, he gained the ability to copy other people’s powers. What? You have a spatial ability? I’ll take it. What? You have mind-control powers? I’ll take those too. What? You’re the Dragon King, with tens of thousands of mercenaries at your command? Come on over. I’ll show you the army I can summon with my summoning ability. Enemies from my past life, are you ready? I’ll show you what cruelty means through sheer force. Fro 15.2kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 13 Skill Draws: I Got Ultra Instinct from the Start! 技能抽奖，开局获得自在极意功！ Su Feng transmigrates to a world where spiritual qi has revived and foreign races run rampant! Fortunately, he awakens a lottery System that can draw from all kinds of anime worlds and grant him their skills. Right from the start, he draws the Dragon Ball world and obtains Ultra Instinct! After that, he gets the Kaio-ken, the Spirit Bomb, and even the Super Saiyan transformation. He thinks he has reached the limit, but one day, he draws a new world! The Marvel Universe: draw the power of Thor an 9.8kReads8.1Score83214d adds
- 14 Oh No! I Was Caught Secretly Building Mechs! 糟糕！偷偷制造机甲被发现了！ What do children do when their parents aren't home? The production team chooses six-year-old Zhao Xiaoyu as their subject. Viewer A: I bet this little kid will sneak off to play video games! Viewer B: I bet this little kid will bring his little girlfriend home! Viewer C: I bet he'll watch TV all day! As viewers make all kinds of guesses, six-year-old Zhao Xiaoyu begins making special alloys, developing artificial intelligence, and creating new battery materials. A red mecha slowly takes shape... 1.7kReads7.5Score15614d adds
- 15 Technology: From the Start, I Livestreamed Building a Spaceship 科技：开局直播建造宇宙飞船 Bai Hui transmigrates to a parallel world and obtains a cutting-edge technology System. To his surprise, the System’s very first mission is to livestream the construction of a spaceship! Six months later, the ship takes off, shocking the entire nation! “What? Longguo has built an antigravity spaceship, and it’s already been launched into space?” “Where’s our spaceship?” Antigravity spaceships, the Longteng System, Longteng chips... From now on, no one will be able to hold our technology hostage! 1.4kReads8.4Score10414d adds
- 16 My Hand Can Reach into Movies? I Built a Tech-Fueled Path to Immortality 手能伸进电影？我打造了科技永生 [Cutting-edge technology] [Artificial god] Just how far can a cutting-edge tech company go? While watching a movie, Lu Xingye accidentally discovers that he can break through the fourth wall and take objects out of movie worlds. From then on, an uncontrollable ambition takes root in his heart. He establishes Tunnelfire Technologies, manufactures smartphone chips, and breaks free from the technological stranglehold. He develops AR virtual reality, creates a second world, and enters the gaming ind 257Reads7.0Score21614d adds
- 17 Population Census: My Mecha Research Was Exposed 人口普查：研制机甲的我被曝光了 Synopsis: Su Ming, a top student, transmigrates to a parallel world and activates the Future Technology System. Three years later, during the nation’s seventh census, news breaks that he has secretly been developing mechs, shocking the world! Just as humanity is about to leave the Milky Way, a furious shout rings out: “I am Meng Tian. Without the First Emperor’s written order, no one may pass through the Milky Way frontier!” The Dark Forest theory of the universe threatens Earth! Crimson pathoge 863Reads7.8Score11114d adds
- 18 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Got the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from the Start 灵气复苏：开局奖励响雷果实 [Slaying Demons + Relaxed + Comedy + Devil Fruit] In an age of spiritual qi revival, everyone has a chance to awaken supernatural abilities and gain godlike power! In a city roiling with hidden currents, the strong rule their own domains while the weak are treated like ants! Chen Feng awakened an F-rank ability, [Weak Electricity], and by a stroke of luck, awakened the "Otherworldly Blind Box" System. The System keeps bringing him all kinds of divine treasures! [Ding! Congratulations, you've obt 5.3kReads8.0Score39014d adds
- 19 Students Race Mechs and Fighter Jets: How Should They Be Punished? 学生开机甲与战机飚速，怎么罚？ “Professor Tang, one of your students was racing a mecha against a fighter jet. He’s here with us now. When you have a moment, please come and deal with this.” The phone call left Tang Li stunned. Students? Mechas? He rushed back to the university overnight, traveling hundreds of miles. When he saw Xiao Feng and a group of underclassmen researching mechas, he froze on the spot. “I asked you to cover my class, not to lead them in building a mecha!” A staff member pulled out a ticket. “Professor T 1.7kReads8.3Score13714d adds
- 20 National Fate: I Said Use a Cheat, Not Start Serving the Feast! 国运：让你开挂，没让你直接开席 [National Fortune Survival + Patriotism + Livestreaming + Gourmet Food + No Female Lead] With resources depleted, Blue Star is on the brink of collapse. At this critical moment, the National Fortune Survival Arena makes a dramatic entrance! While all the other survivors are struggling just to stay alive and have no time to worry about the countries bound to them, Wang Yang has already conquered the National Fortune Survival Arena with the help of his cheat System and begun investigating its deep 9.2kReads8.6Score53914d adds
- 21 Pride of Chinese Manufacturing: The Engine I Built Shocks the World 国货之光：我造的发动机震惊全球 Su Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over a car factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Just then, ding~~~ The Light of Domestic Industry System activates! The Neon Country has blocked our access to engines? No problem. My own factory can make them. The Beautiful Country won't supply us with chips? No problem. I've already made them, using a one-nanometer process that leaves everyone else in the dust. The whole world is facing an electricity shortage? No problem. I have the full suppo 4.7kReads8.4Score23714d adds
- 22 A High School Slacker Wins the Nobel Prize: Can He Even Get Into High School? 初三学渣获诺奖，能上高中吗？ “Professor Chen, how many points did you get on your high school entrance exam and college entrance exam?” “Whenever this comes up, I feel a deep pang of regret. I was about to take the high school entrance exam, and then, guess what? I won a Nobel Prize! I never even took the exam and went straight to high school. Then I was in high school, and of course there was still the college entrance exam. Guess what happened then? I won another Nobel Prize and got recommended straight into college. You 7.1kReads8.3Score35314d adds
- 23 Infinite Missions: From the Start, I Have to Bring an Aircraft Carrier Home 无限任务：开局就得开艘航母回国 The orphan Zhao Chen was a diligent and outstanding student. After three years of college, he earned excellent grades and a full scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University. Just as it seemed he was about to thrive in the sea of knowledge, a strange task suddenly landed in his hands. 2.6kReads8.0Score30214d adds
- 24 Xuanhuan: After My Death, I Became the Primordial True Demon 玄幻：我死后，化身原始真魔 [Ultimate villain + dark + ruthless + nearly invincible + slaughters his way through the world + no female lead] My name is Zhao Wumian. I'm an ordinary person with little cultivation, yet a lofty divine son falsely accuses me of being a fiend who slaughtered hundreds of millions. Before long, my body will be crushed, my three souls and seven spirits ripped out, and I'll suffer in a soul lamp until I die. My name is Ye Baiwei. I'm the Holy Maiden of Qixia Sacred Land, and I have another i 3.1kReads7.7Score17814d adds
- 25 Black Tech: Building a Lightsaber for My Graduation Project 黑科技：从毕设开始造光剑 [Technology drives national strength in the early stages] [Mechs and interstellar warfare in the middle and later stages] After Xu Teng unlocked the System, he built a lightsaber. Then he posted a question on a website: “Would building a lightsaber for my graduation project and getting an outstanding-project award help me get into grad school?” The commenters joked in response: “Not only will it help, but your professor will personally come to recruit you.” “What are you talking about, my esteem 3.5kReads8.5Score19614d adds
- 26 EN Global Survival Game: I'm Playing a God 全民求生游戏：我在扮演神灵 The world turned upside down, and heaven and earth underwent a cataclysmic change. Every resident of Blue Star was forcibly transported into the game Tianji. In this game, monsters, hunger, and natural disasters all claimed lives. But when Li Xuansheng opened his status screen, he was stunned. What did this divine godhood mean? If he tossed down a chopstick, his followers could obtain a divine weapon called the Profound Rod? If he offered up a sprouting potato, his followers would get golden spi 7.2kReads8.9Score61714d adds
- 27 Throne of the Mecha King 机甲王座 In the world of the future, impoverished boy Xia Xingchen is caught in a cave-in while mining. Trapped underground, he stumbles upon an ancient laboratory and discovers a crystal pyramid and the history of the ancient ape people's wars. He learns that gods truly exist in this world, and from then on, this ordinary boy sets out on the path to the pinnacle of power. 5.6kReads8.5Score59314d adds
- 28 You Sent Me to College, and I Became a National Treasure of China? 让你上大学，你成了华夏国士？ The protagonist, Su Lin, transmigrates to another, similar world and becomes a high school senior. A few days before the college entrance exam, his homeroom teacher, Sun Xue, calls him to her office. “Su Lin, you’re the first student in our school’s history to be recommended for admission to Huaqing University. Sign here, and you’ll be admitted without taking the exam.” Just then, Su Lin awakens a God-Tier Choice System. Choice One: Turn down the recommendation and receive nanometer-scale lithog 14.2kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 29 Black Technology: Building Controlled Nuclear Fusion by Hand from the Start 黑科技：开局手搓可控核聚变 Chu Ge awakens the Military Industry System. As it continually upgrades and improves, its cutting-edge technology lets him sweep all before him, successfully turning Huaxia into the world's leading military-industrial power! One astonishing military technology after another emerges, leaving the traditional powers trembling with fear and green with envy! Controlled nuclear fusion: successfully developed, mass production ready... Prism defense towers: successfully developed, mass production ready. 9kReads8.9Score59314d adds
- 30 Give It Up, Eagle Sauce. Outside Are All Huaxia Star Destroyers 收手吧鹰酱，外面全是华夏歼星舰 [Technological Superpower + Hawkish Patriotism + Strategic Intimidation + South Heaven Gate Project + Cold Nuclear Fusion + Interstellar Civilization + Multidimensional Universe = ?] Lin Mo, formerly chief engineer of the South Heaven Gate Project, transmigrates to Blue Star’s Huaxia and becomes Professor Ai’s student. He awakens a strategic intimidation technology System: by targeting hostile forces such as the Eagle Nation with strategic intimidation, he can continually unlock future technolog 17.5kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 31 In Prison: Developing Mechs to Win My Freedom 人在监狱：为了出狱研发机甲 Framed and thrown into prison, Zhou Yang awakened the All-Purpose Technology System at the very moment he was locked up. It took Zhou Yang two years to complete the System's first mission. Who could have guessed the first reward would be the technology to build mechs? The first-generation mech took to the skies, ushering humanity into the age of mechs. Then interstellar warships arrived, taking humanity into the age of space travel. Zhou Yang declared, “My goal is the stars and the sea.” 808Reads8.7Score18614d adds
- 32 From the Start, I Break Through Nuclear Fusion and the Nation Assigns Me a Campus Beauty Girlfriend 开局突破核聚变国家分配校花女友 [One Female Lead + Sweet Romance] [Couple Moments] [No Shocking Twists, Read with Confidence] Under Jiang Yi's leadership, the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully broke the ten-minute record for sustaining an artificial sun! Since the country cannot reveal Jiang Yi's identity or his contributions, it assigns him a girlfriend. But Jiang Yi never could have imagined that his girlfriend would be the aloof campus belle at his very own university! What he could never have imagined was that the c 8.3kReads9.3Score73514d adds
- 33 I Took a Temp Job, Only to Be Classified as a National S-Level Secret 当个临时工，竟被国家S级加密了 [Cutting-edge technology + disasters + interstellar adventure + war + passion + bandits + System + supernatural abilities] Lin Luo, an intern on the verge of being fired, gains a Super Gene System that can modify human genes. When Eagleland is proudly developing its eighteenth-generation supersonic aircraft, people in Huaxia are flying through the sky on swords, overtaking them and shocking the world! When aliens from a Level Nine civilization arrive on Earth, swaggering with supreme arrogance, 8.7kReads8.9Score63814d adds
- 34 Making Titanfall from the Start: Players Worldwide Lose Their Minds 开局制作泰坦陨落，全球玩家破防 [Game Design + Livestreaming + Everyday Life] Game designer Gu Yang transmigrates to a world with advanced technology but a stagnant, underdeveloped gaming industry. His predecessor had planned to make a fortune in business, investing heavily in the development of a new-generation motion-sensing pod. But a major corporation shut him out, and now he is on the verge of losing everything. Fortunately, the System awakens at the crucial moment! By collecting players' joy, anger, sorrow, and fear, he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Reborn: Back in the 1980s to Make My Fortune 重生：回到八零当富翁 A rebirth story set in a bygone era, with no mindless wish fulfillment, a single heroine, no courtyard-house drama, and a warm, everyday feel. Xu Erlong is reborn, returning to the eve of the day his family forced him to haul bricks at a black kiln to pay for his cousin's university education. Why should his cousin get meat while he has to make do with bran? Why should his cousin go to university while he is forced to haul bricks? Xu Erlong refuses to put up with it any longer and decisively 18.4kReads9.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 36 Earth's Space Force 地球天军 Earth’s military forces wipe out the Zerg beyond the Milky Way and establish a new calendar. As technology advances and the population booms, major corporate conglomerates aggressively expand their off-world businesses, extracting resources from planets across the galaxy. Humanity officially enters a great new era of interstellar civilization. But in the end, they open Pandora’s box... The Zerg return! Star beasts descend! Tian Xiao dies on the battlefield, then is reborn three years in the past 24.5kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 37 At This Moment, I Am China's Guardian Deity 此刻，我为华夏守护神 On Christmas Eve, December 24, 0260, a large horde of sea beasts appeared in Old Copper Mountain, Mi Nation. Not a single person in the city survived! On April 23, 0261, Level 6 sea beasts appeared in North Bear Nation. The entire country fell! On New Year's Day, January 1, 0262, a Level 10 sea beast appeared in Huaxia, codenamed [Taotie]. Huaxia fell! In January 0260, Huaxia's God of War, Chen Feng, was reborn eleven months before the sea beasts emerged. He won the trust of the country's 1.3kReads9.0Score51014d adds
- 38 EN I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧 [Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity 89.9kReads9.6Score7.9k14d adds
- 39 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5k14d adds
