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- 101 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
- 102 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. 253Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Anomalies Emerge, and I Will Rebuild the Foundation 异常现世，我将重建基金会 [Mystery / Supernatural Horror / Unrestricted Rules of the Strange / No Formulaic Plot / Original Anomalies / Hesitate and You Lose / ████[Data Expunged]] An interview about a psychiatric patient’s murder draws Li Chengfeng into a bizarre incident for no apparent reason. A mysterious mercenary corps, strange creatures, superpowered organizations, cultivators… Things that once existed only in fantasy keep appearing, one after another, each trying to bring him under its control. The good news 41Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 104 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 220Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 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 514Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Foundation: The Ultimate Containment Specialist 基金会：最强收容专家 [Foundation + Anomaly Containment + Transmigration + Not Overpowered + Not Foolish] Do you know what an anomaly is? If not, allow me to explain. A statue that can twist its own neck, a plague doctor who hates disease, an immortal lizard, a computer with a mind of its own... These anomalies are extremely dangerous and pose a grave threat to humanity and the world. And so the Foundation makes its dazzling entrance, dedicated to containing these anomalies. Among its ranks are containment specialis 4.4kReads6.5Score745Shelves
- 107 Foundation Exposed: The Ones We Contain Are the True Gods 基金会曝光：我们收容的才是真神 In a parallel world, technologies like virtual reality have advanced tremendously, but games based on them are extremely scarce! Chen Yuan, who transmigrated from another world, binds to a game System and promptly launches a containment game set against the backdrop of the Foundation. 479Reads5.8Score101Shelves
- 108 The Facility Director in Zenless Zone Zero 在绝区零里的设施主管 [Zenless Zone Zero] + [Foundation] + [No idea] + [No idea] + [No idea] #@Lu█@#Nan%#%, a researcher at a containment facility, accidentally transmigrates to the world of Zenless Zone Zero after an experiment goes wrong. With the O5 Council's approval, he is promoted to the head of a special ш station, where he contains anomalies in this mysterious world. “114514” “114514” 139Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 I’m a Harmless Containment Object, Why Are You Keeping Your Distance? 我一无害收容物，离那么远干嘛 [Foundation] + [Mythology] + [Cthulhu] Klein awoke in an unfamiliar room. Apart from his own name, he knew nothing about his past. By a twist of fate, he joined the Foundation and traveled around the world in the hope of finding places from his memories. He visited Northern Europe, India, Japan, China, Egypt, Greece... As he recovered his memories, danger began to stir in the shadows of the world. A gaze from a higher dimension was watching this world... (The protagonist may not be very strong a 285Reads—Score106Shelves
- 110 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
- 111 The Foundation: I'm Just an Unkillable Class D 基金会：我只是杀不死的D级人员 [Plot twists + No romantic tension + A little mind-bending + A touch of Lovecraftian horror + Foundation + Not a bleeding heart + A little dark + A touch of ensemble cast + No female lead + Just here for fun.] “My name is Wang Dachui. As you can see, I'm the protagonist of this book. Don't be surprised that I can break the fourth wall. That's my golden finger. Help me out here, friends!!” For reasons unknown, Wang Dachui transmigrated to a parallel world. Its technology and development were iden —Reads—Score646Shelves
- 112 Are You Crazy? You're Using Pi to Fight the Gods? 疯了吧！你用圆周率对抗神明？ [Urban] [Mind games] [SCP-inspired] [Anomaly containment] When an uncanny “smile” meme contaminates a convenience store, driving infected victims to mutilate themselves in a frenzy, and the agents are at a loss, Mo Fan, a science graduate student, grabs a microphone and plays pi as humanity's battle hymn of reason! Armed with knowledge and shielded by logic, he awakens the [Paradox Compendium] and steps into the mad world of anomaly containment! This is a mad world being eaten away by “anomali 6Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 113 Reborn in Los Santos: I Get the Foundation System from the Start 重生洛圣都：开局获得基金会系统 (So far: Grand Theft Auto V + Foundation + JoJo's Bizarre Adventure + Genshin Impact + The Backrooms + Baki...) Ye Chen is a shut-in. One day, he accidentally transmigrates and gains a Foundation System. From then on, he begins making waves in Los Santos. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Containing Anomalies: From the Start, I Reset the World! 收容异常：开局我将世界重置！ [Containment] [Ensemble cast] [No System] [Golden Club Foundation] [No dumbing down] [True to the original] [Author takes feedback] [Recommended for readers who want 8,000+ words a day. The author will keep writing until they drop, with quality and quantity guaranteed] The world has been reset. Everyone is gone except us. swallowed the anomaly-██, and erased humanity’s memories of the organization from ██ years ago. GOC, CI, SH... These annoying factions have finally vanished from reality a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Case Files on Anomalous Containment Objects 诡异收容物档案 [A Man Courting Death]: The ability to heal yourself and repel things? [Incredible Secret Arts]: Invisibility, becoming unnoticeable, and stopping time are all possible? Entirely made up, with no precise writing format. For entertainment only. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Superpowers: Ascending to Godhood Through a Long Dream 异能：长梦登神 (No System, supernatural abilities, an overpowered protagonist with a plot) (Plot-driven, a little slow to warm up, entirely handwritten with no AI) The author has completed Star Slayer, a 1.85-million-character novel. This book has a complete outline, so you can read with confidence. Some people in the world fall into a terrifying dream. Those lucky enough to wake up begin to develop supernatural abilities. In that dream, which is filled with monsters, surviving even an hour is extraordinar 157Reads6.8Score154Shelves
- 117 SARF Foundation Records SARF基金会记录 Humanity has never truly understood the nature of the universe. Ever since the first Homo sapiens gazed up at the stars and tried to drive back the darkness with firelight, we have felt an almost instinctive mix of fear and longing toward the unknown. This contradiction gave rise to religion, science, and every attempt to explain “the inexplicable.” Yet the true answers remained hidden in the shadows of our understanding, until the moment we realized that the universe was not alone. In the early 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Living in an Anime Crossover: Playing the Foundation’s Leader 人在综漫：扮演基金会之主 Mo Yu is a student at Shuchiin Academy, a transmigrator from China, the young master of the Mo family, and a transfer student from China. An outstanding student in the eyes of his teachers. But he has another side that no one knows about. In secret, he is also the chairman of the SCP Foundation, with a security clearance of Twin Gods, an S-class combatant, a captor of anomalies, and an immortal with the power of death rewind who has gone through 36 loops. After 36 loops, Mo Yu’s abilities fi 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Back in Marvel, I Founded an Occult Containment Bureau 重回漫威，创办诡异关押局 Lin Li is reborn in the Marvel Universe once again, but this universe is a little different. It's being invaded by something else. Fortunately, he has a System: successfully capturing or exposing an anomaly earns him research points, and the System can even be upgraded. Now the Marvel Universe is in chaos. Moon Knight: They can imitate voices. Red Skull: What the hell is with these damn cockroaches? Hawkeye: I just went to browse an IKEA, and I run into an anomaly? Captain America: Honor those w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 (SCP-002: Web of Consciousness) （SCP-002意识之网） (SCP-002: Web of Consciousness) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 My Years as an Archivist 我当档案管理员的那些年 Behind the seemingly ordinary day-to-day work of an archivist lie countless bizarre and unbelievable experiences. Follow the author’s narration as it gradually leads you into a singular world filled with mystery and fantasy. Experience those unimaginable stories firsthand, and search between the lines for hidden secrets and astonishing twists, embarking on a gripping and one-of-a-kind reading journey. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Little Vegetable Basket's Fifth Book 小小菜篮子的第5本书 My new story is out! You can read my work 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! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 I Loaded the SCP Cultivation System 我加载了SCP修仙系统 In an apocalyptic world, acid rain poured down in torrents, carrying scraps of data with it, while neon lights reflected the blood-red patterns of the Luo Shu. Tang Miao, a remnant of the Tang Sect, was on the brink of death after his quantum golden core shattered. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Anomaly Containment Center: Torture Anomalies, Earn Boundless Merit 异常收容所：折磨异常，功德无量 Also known as From the Start, I Got a Cheap Main God Dad and Beat the Abnormalities to a Pulp [SCP-like + Project Moon-like + New Weird Tales + Containment Breach + Comedy + Invincible Protagonist + Fate/Type-Moon + Holy Grail War + Romance and Character-Raising (?) + Human-Beast Romance (?)] [Decisive and ruthless] [The protagonist isn't normal, and neither am I] "So is my dad Zeus or Hades?" Just graduated from college and worrying about finding a job, young Soder got a Cybertron reincarnation —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Apocalypse: I Founded a Foundation! 末世丨我建立了基金会！ [Apocalypse]+ [Invincible]+ [Multiple Heroines] Blue Star was struck by a torrential downpour greater than any in recorded history. At first, people thought nothing of it. But after the rain stopped, all living creatures began reverting to their ancestral forms! Some humans successfully underwent the transformation and gained tremendous power, while those who failed lost their minds and became zombies. For some reason, humanity’s firearms and other weapons no longer worked. Humans were driven ba —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Records of Anomalous Incidents 异常项目事件记录 [No Clichés]+ [No System]+ [Cthulhu]+ [SCP] A short story that I think stays fairly close to the original setting, told from the perspective of Researcher Taroland (3999) and blending familiar events and objects. To make the story flow, I’ve added a few ideas and details of my own. I hope you won’t give me too much grief, haha. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Foundation: This Administrator Is a Billion Points Strong 基金会：这个管理员有一亿点强 Zhang Jue, a weirdo who claims to be from a parallel universe, has been classified by the SCP Foundation as S-X (Top Secret), Grade Three. Not because he’s particularly dangerous, but because the Foundation simply can’t do anything about him! “Contain me? Sure, just get me a whole villa first!” So, against its will, the Foundation built him a luxurious mansion measuring 50 by 50 by 20 meters, complete with a rooftop garden and a 200-square-meter swimming pool in the courtyard. They even assign 331Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Beyond the Final Domain 终局域外 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 King of Containment 收容之王 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 A World of the Paranormal: I Founded a Foundation to Contain Myself 全球诡异，我缔造基金会收容自己 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Arknights: A Beacon of Hope? 明日方舟：希冀之光？ [Arknights Fanfiction] [SCP Foundation] [GOC Frozen Meat] [Maintaining Peace] [This! Great! Land!] "Our cause is so righteous that we are not afraid to become the most conspicuous presence on the battlefield. This! Great! Land! is ravaged by war without end. Is war a necessity? Is evil unavoidable? If peace demands sacrifice, then I would rather die! "I don't know where we are, but we're still the UN." The white UN and the white Reunion, which side is right and which is wrong? Can this land trul 1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 132 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
- 133 The Foundation: A Squad Wanders into Blue Archive by Mistake 基金会：小队误入蔚蓝档案 [Trying to make the characters use their brains] [Foundation] [Not invincible] [No System] Note: I’m not aiming for strict consistency with the setting, so lore experts, enter at your own risk! Anything you haven’t seen before is my own invention! I wrote this book for fun because I was bored, so don’t take it too seriously! I’m a new writer, and my writing is terrible. If you don’t like it, please don’t flame me. The summary isn’t doing it justice, so read a few chapters before you go! (⋟﹏⋞) Wh 1.4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 134 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
- 135 The Task Force Leader’s Journey Through the Myriad Worlds 特遣队长的万界之旅 What kind of story would unfold if a seasoned veteran of the highest combat class from a Foundation Mobile Task Force were swept into another world by a narrative-layer turbulence, carrying a silent System with him? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 American Comics: Exposing the Foundation from the Start and Scaring the Avengers to Tears 美漫：开局曝光基金会，吓哭复联 [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Invincible Hero + Shocking the Avengers] Lin Feng transmigrates into the Marvel universe. … I’m not good at writing introductions, so just read the story! 104Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 137 Zenless Zone Zero: The Foundation’s Last Member 绝区零，基金会最后一人 I'm going to rewrite this book's plot, so please don't worry about using it. Just don't think too hard about it. You all know what the author's writing is like. I'm never signing a contract again. Uh, my dears, please give me your support. I can only repost this book now. As I said, the author is still half a beginner. Everything from the previous version of this book will be reposted, so don't worry. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 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. 374Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 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 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 American Comics: I Am the Foundation's Supreme Director 美漫：我，基金会最高执政官 Li Wei transmigrates into Marvel, where containing anomalies is all it takes to grow stronger! Is this world too dangerous? Hydra is up to no good? Aliens are invading? The purple potato-faced freak wants to snap his fingers? Li Wei looks at the list of things to contain in his hands and smiles. “It’s time to show this world’s natives what true terror looks like.” Black Widow turns pale. “I’ve infiltrated countless organizations, but only that place... made me afraid to even breathe too loud 5kReads7.0Score473Shelves
- 142 Dongqi Yinggao’s 15th Book 东齐英高第15本书 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! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 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
- 144 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
- 145 A Foundation Researcher's Life in Honkai: Star Rail 论基金会研究员在崩铁的生活 [Original Foundation characters; male lead has no romantic pairing. Some original anomalies appear for the sake of the plot, so please keep that in mind.] A researcher transmigrates after an experimental mishap, with anomalies from different worlds coming along for the ride. Can he restore the Foundation to its former glory? 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Honkai: Star Rail Containment Showcase: Come If You Dare 崩铁收容物大舞台有命你就来 I don't know what to put in the blurb. Basically, it's Honkai: Star Rail meets the Foundation. My previous book died halfway through for reasons I don't know. I'm writing this just to hit the 50-character minimum for a blurb. 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 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
- 148 Xuanyuan: Forbidden Sequence Zone 轩辕，序列禁域 When the world becomes a prison, everything is nothing but a script written by fate. And like entropy, it all moves toward chaos. The base's encrypted files contain every piece of information about me. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Old World Lament: The Hanged King's Elegy 旧日哀火：缢王悲歌 [From the perspective of a supreme divinity] [The First Supernatural War] [The life of the Hanged King] [No female lead] The Hanged King’s lament… sounds the tyranny of antiquity. The Hanged King’s lament… foretells the terror of the Crimson. The Hanged King’s lament… sings of betrayal by his subjects. At this moment The Hanged King sits enthroned above the new dynasty, prepared to guard his empire forever and yield no more. The dead jester dons his broken mask once more, presenting the king wit 436Reads6.5Score101Shelves
- 150 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
