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- 51 Zenless Zone Zero: But It's More Than Just SCP 绝区零：但不仅仅是SCP The male lead, Shuangzi, is totally confused when a beam of white light shines into his eyes. The next thing he knows, he’s in Zenless Zone Zero. (So simple, yet so complicated ⌓‿⌓) What will Shilong, the male lead’s golden finger, know? And what will Dr. A–2084 from the beginning know? The young author hasn’t figured it out either, so readers can use their imaginations! (T▽T) 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Final Cycle 终局轮回 [No braindead decisions]+ [No formulaic tropes]+ [No invincibility]+ [Disaster]+ [Anomalies]+ [Realism]+ [Foundation] Su Ze was once a Level 3 agent for the Foundation. By chance, he transmigrated into the author's world. This world was under attack by contained entities, and his mission was to build containment facilities and secure anomalies. Here, he witnessed the beauty of society and grew from a cold-blooded agent into a true hero. But in the end, it was he himself who killed the person he —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 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
- 54 Myriad Worlds: From the Start, I Gained the Foundation's Technological Support 诸天：开局获得基金会科技支持 (New author) (Partially System-assisted, no female lead, two male leads (not a gay romance!), not written in first person, only the blurb is in first person) [The author has been familiar with the Foundation since 2016. The information is accurate; point out any mistakes and I’ll correct them.] (The early part takes place in an ordinary superpower world, followed by a world of Lovecraftian investigators, an otherworldly Western fantasy and magic world, and possibly other cultivation worlds.) My 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Anomaly Containment: But We're Really an Editorial Department 异常收容：但我们真是编辑部 Chu He had expected to be assigned to some serious, no-nonsense mobile task force. Instead, he pushed open the door to the editorial office of Exploring Science. “So...” Chu He said, camera in hand, murmuring as he faced an indescribably enormous entity. “What exactly should we call this issue's cover story?” 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 The Foundation: I Transmigrated to Another World and Awakened Ability Cards 基金会：穿越异世，觉醒能力卡牌 After an accident, Chu Feng transmigrated to a counterpart world called Blue Star and awakened a set of magical little cards that let him use the abilities of various Foundation containment objects. But he soon realized that something was wrong. This seemingly ordinary world had some serious problems. He quickly discovered that people here were a little strange in the head. By the standards of normal people in his original world, everyone here was basically brain-dead. He had to come up with sol 97Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 I Transmigrated into Zenless Zone Zero and Got a Site System 穿越绝区零获得站点系统 I’m a new author and don’t know much about the story of Zenless Zone Zero. There’s only one councilor in this book, and the contained anomalies will only be familiar or famous ones. I won’t include obscure things nobody’s ever heard of. The System will reward various locations or items from other worlds. 146Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 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
- 59 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 748Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Foundation Files: Defying Fate 基金会档案：逆命 Is the world ever free from turmoil? Is the universe truly boundless? When humanity first raised a torch, did they feel its warmth? Perhaps it was only to face the unknown lurking in the dark. The graceful stage always plays out the mundane, and even beneath the blazing sun, shadows may remain. To yearn for the light on one hand, one must also endure the darkness on the other. The Foundation generously gives the world its brighter side. They face the darkness alone. In their eyes, there are no r 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Inheriting the Family from the Start, I Subdue the Heavens with True Martial Arts 开局继承家族，我以真武镇诸天 Everyone says that drawing spiritual qi into the body is the orthodox path of martial arts. Only Shen Yan knows that this so-called orthodoxy is a ten-thousand-year-old hoax devised by cultivators from another world. After his father dies unexpectedly, the sixteen-year-old is thrust into the role of taking over his family's crumbling estate. With two great martial families bearing down on him and the lives and fortunes of his entire clan resting on his shoulders, Shen Yan glimpses the ancient tr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Dungeons Are Here? Luxury Item Powers, Kid! 副本降临？奢侈品神力，小子！ One night, during a civil war, Snake Kenbi opened his favorite SL, became a rebel D, and secretly killed several Nine-Tails. Kenbi burst out laughing, only to accidentally knock over the Coke on his desk. It spilled onto a power strip, electrocuting him to death. After dying, Kenbi was reborn in a new world with a Luxury Goods System. This world has spawned terrifying dungeons from beyond the dimensions, and players chosen by misfortune are forced to enter them. Inside, every player does everyth 174Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Creating Anomalies to Bring the Foundation Back to Earth 创造异常开始，让基金会重回人间 [Containment Objects] [Sequences] [Dark] [Behind the Scenes] In this Age of Five Turbidities, humanity has perished. The world is rotten, the law is unjust, people burn, kill, and plunder, and the Federation does nothing. Ten special zones, ten kinds of crime. Li Qing is an extreme sister-complex. He became a dog for the powerful to protect his younger sister, only for her heart to be forcibly cut out because of a lawsuit filed by one of them. His limbs were crippled, his Sequence vanished, and 31Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 64 TB Containment Facility: Have I Become a Class-D Personnel? TB收容所：我成为了D级人员？ [Containment + No Harem + Wild Imagination + Mystery] In the dead of night, have you ever wondered why the world is so orderly and peaceful? Are the things found in books really just fiction? Only later did I understand: when the world seems too orderly, you have to question whether it's real. My life should have ended in prison, but everything changed the day a man arrived. When I opened my eyes again, I was in an underground cavern forged from steel. And I had become a D-Class personnel. There 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The Foundation: I Slay Gods in a Mental Hospital 基金会：我在精神病院斩神 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 I Became an O5 Council Member 我成了O5成员 These are two storylines: one follows an O5, and the other follows a nobody beyond the Veil. [Not brainless] + [No System] + [Hardcore] + [The Coldest War] + [Ensemble drama about the Council] + [Original setting and various GOIs] + [Two storylines unfold in parallel] + [Epic narrative] 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Foundation Roleplay System: Abyssal Keeper 基金会扮演系统：深渊守序者 A new work is here! You can 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! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 I Can See Health Bars, So I'll Show You How I Kill Gods 看见血条的我，神也杀给你看 Humanity took billions of years to evolve from single cells into intelligent life. But only the five hundred years under the Federation have truly mattered. A thousand years ago, we hid among forests of steel, curling up beneath our blankets, fearing creatures beyond our understanding. We called them “gods” and “demons.” The sun and moon were blasted apart. The Eye of Heaven watched the world with cold indifference, taking their place! From then on, we had neither day nor night, only an endless 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 A Security Guard’s Diary of Slacking Off 安保人员摸鱼日记 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 I Made Up a Containment Organization, and the Whole World Believed It 我瞎编的收容会，被全世界当真了 [Anomaly containment] + [Worldbuilding made real] + [Official imagination runs wild] + [Narrative contamination] + [No female lead] Lin Yue, a bankrupt game developer, discovers that the anomalous case files he scribbled together in his game's editor become real as soon as enough people believe in them. On a whim, he gives the city-destroying meat mountain a weakness: it's afraid of salt. Pour industrial salt over it, and the monster collapses into foul-smelling sludge on the spot. Even more abs 4.6kReads6.5Score547Shelves
- 71 Safety First 安全第一 Brian is an ordinary security guard at Site-999 Gray Shore, a newly established Foundation site specializing in containing anomalies whose rules are familiar to the Foundation or that are classified as Safe. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 049'S Observation Log 049的观察日志 No CP, mostly leisurely, with some horror elements, plot-focused, slow-paced. The world is set 12 years before 5K. They say death is the end of life, the end of everything. But I don't think so. Death is not the end. It is a greater ordeal, the beginning of eternal torment and pain. By the time the mountains made of diamonds have been worn away by the wind, that pain will have lasted only one second. Death is a shackle around the soul. It cannot break free or escape. It comes for everyone equal 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Special Containment Procedures 特殊收容措施 We control. We contain. We protect. But the greatest threat is a truth that cannot be remembered. The Global Anomalies Containment and Protection Foundation (GACPF) is a secret organization that safeguards human civilization from the shadows. Its creed is to keep everything beyond human understanding out of public view and preserve the illusion of a normal world. Researcher Lin Mo, an idealist who believes that “understanding comes before containment,” is drawn into a series of events that defy 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 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
- 75 The Foundation: From D-Class to Creator God 基金会：从D级到创世神 When a “walking disaster” among reality benders gains the golden finger of being able to steal abilities by touching contained anomalies, his path to godhood is destined to be a chaotic mess. That is, until the System becomes his girlfriend, the anomalies become his comrades, and the entire Foundation trembles in the palm of his hand. 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 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
- 77 Everything Starts at D-Rank 一切从D级开始 Ye Wencheng was the most ordinary person living in an ordinary world. His golden finger was absolute calm, even when the Grim Reaper stood over him, grinning as he swung his scythe... Watch how I use my golden finger to face every opponent. Heh, watch how an ordinary person like me conquers this world of superpowers... 54Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 78 A Rundown of the Foundation's Abnormalities: Seven-Corner from the Start Versus Five-Corner 盘点基金会超常态开局七角对五角 [Power Rankings + Supreme Divinity] The battle between the Seven-Cornered Devourer God and the Five-Cornered Starfish from the start: which one is stronger, the Five or the Seven? Old Celestial Master: “The annihilation of meta-fictional narratives? What kind of outrageous talk is that?” Vegeta: “Stories in the play, reality outside it? Are we all characters in a book?” Emperor Huangtian: “I wonder if you dare to fight me?” But the moment he finished saying that, he was completely dumbstruck. Be 1.7kReads—Score108Shelves
- 79 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
- 80 You Were Asked to Make a Movie, Not an Anomalous Foundation 让你拍电影，你拍异常基金会 Li Yao wakes from a dream to find himself in a parallel world where AI technology has reached its peak. To his surprise, he also activates an “Anomalous Objects” cultural outreach System. His very first project from the start is to make a video about the terrifying anomalous object famous for “twisting its neck.” The moment he posts it, it sets the entire internet ablaze and sparks a phenomenon-level discussion. After that, he goes on to expose more anomalous objects: one that “must not be loo 10Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 81 Anomalous Faith Memes: Creating the Impossible 异常信仰模因，造就不可产生之物 [Cthulhu + Foundation + Faith + Mental Illness] I crossed the Gate of Chaos, bearing the will of all living things. Beneath the city's glittering lights, the end of the world was unfolding! When the indescribable and impossible appeared, the people began to howl in despair! Countless voices cried out, hoping for the gods' protection! Then an organization appeared, and the world found hope of survival! “What is your name?” they asked, their voices full of excitement and gratitude. “I...” “Just ca 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Containment Breach on My First Day at Work 一入职就收容失效 No System, no overpowered protagonist. After graduating from college, Li Wei unexpectedly joined a mysterious organization while looking for work. So more people could live freely beneath the sun, Li Wei resolutely devoted himself to the noble cause of protecting humanity. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Transmigrating into Slaying the Gods as an Administrator at the SCP Foundation 穿越斩神，当Sap基金会管理员 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Trading Across the Myriad Worlds Begins with Contained Anomalies 诸天交易从收容物开始 The disillusioned young man Yang Qi unexpectedly joins forces with the will of the Great World, Xiaotian, to trade across the Myriad Worlds. Who could have guessed that the first world he connected to would be the Foundation’s? Then came the World of Wind and Cloud, a zombie world... When Xiongba wields a Barrett... When Whitebeard encounters the demon Dikui... When aliens use zombies as breeding grounds... When contained entities appear throughout the Myriad Worlds... And so a series of fantast 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 North American Purge: I Founded the Anomaly Control Bureau 北美肃清：我创建异常管控总署 A Foundation fanfic, but the protagonist isn’t part of the Foundation. Corruption runs rampant among North America’s leaders, and Cthulhu is invading. We need a new organization to fight back! We can’t keep battling the unknown from the shadows! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Apocalypse Disaster: I Built a Salvation Foundation 末日天灾，我打造了救世基金会 [Foundation] [Anomalies] [Doomsday] [Savior] [Pan-Human Federation] When the world needs saving what price are you willing to pay? After obtaining a large language model that constantly broadcasts fabricated anomalous objects and supernatural disasters to the outside world, Chu Qiao could no longer live with his conscience. From then on, he embarked on the road to saving the world. Salvation, Prevention, Preservation. “You need never know about us, unless the world needs saving again.”, SPP Foun 7Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 87 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—Score128Shelves
- 88 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 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 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 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Three-Body World: I Contain It 三体世界，我收容 I only summoned a few anomalies, and now the Trisolarans and humanity have formed an alliance? I transmigrated to the world of The Three-Body Problem to show the Trisolarans what true human treachery looks like. The Trisolarans are begging me to stop. The whole world is about to be destroyed! Can you imagine the Trisolarans helping humanity? Making peace at last? Setting off on the journey together? 203Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Impostors: I'm Invincible with the Foundation at My Command 伪人：召唤基金会的我无敌了 [No Female Lead] [Behind the Scenes] On an ordinary day, Jiang Yun is blessed by a falling star and wins the chance to transmigrate. He is ready to make a name for himself in this world, only to discover that impostors are stealing people’s skins. He thinks he’ll spend every day anxious and afraid, but then the System binds itself to him. Everyone knows the world has a hidden dark side, but few realize it is also filled with all kinds of bizarre, supernatural phenomena. Yet when Jiang Yun summon 237Reads—Score107Shelves
- 92 Contained for Having Hands All Over My Body 因为浑身是手，而被收容 [Fan Fiction] [Foundation] [Transmigration] [Multi-Fandom] [Adventure] [Multiple Genres and Styles] [Not an Infinite Transmigration Story] [Containment] [Slow-Paced] [Growth] Currently featuring: [All Hands as One] [Foundation] [Minecraft] [Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights / Lily: A Knight's Redemption] This is a novel that brings together various works. The protagonist is the main character of a game called [All Hands as One]. 21Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 93 Reborn in the Marvel MCU: I Own the Foundation 重生我在漫威MCU：拥有基金会 The MCU is already a dangerous place, filled with peril at every turn. But for a crime boss like me, it's a whole different level of risk, especially with heroes lurking around every corner. As if that weren't terrifying enough, now I have to contend with the added uncertainty of encountering at least one completely random SCP every month. How many anomalies will it take to trigger an XK-class event? Well, I hope I get some favorable ones, so I can not only survive in this treacherous environmen 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 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 122Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 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
- 96 I Founded a Containment Organization, and Five Ha Exposed Me! 我建立收容组织，被五哈曝光了！ This world seems peaceful, but in truth, there is a group of people shouldering its burdens. Xiao Bai had planned to protect the world quietly. He founded a salvation organization on his own and finally managed to contain an endless staircase, a freak who would chase you to the ends of the earth if he saw your face, a child who could make people want to destroy themselves, monsters that could alter people's perception, and even... an omnipotent God. He locked away these monsters, each powerful 124.3kReads—Score22.1kShelves
- 97 Summoning Foundation Members in Arknights 明日方舟召唤基金会成员 [Foundation] After an unfortunate car accident, the protagonist arrives on Terra and unlocks the Anomaly System. He contains anomalies from Terra and other worlds, as well as anomalies native to Terra, to ensure the world's safety. 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Containment Breach! Everyone Evacuate! 收容失效！全员撤出！ This story is entirely fictional. Ye Qi excelled in school and got into Hengxia University. Though he was a university student at a prestigious school, his mind was already in turmoil. Things he shouldn’t have heard or seen kept appearing right before him. After graduation, he was invited to join a company called New World, not for his talent, but because of his short story, World. His story described many strange creatures, including beings like gods. “You mean… you’ve seen all the things I wro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 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
- 100 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? 409Reads6.3Score—Shelves
