Novels like Wasteland: One Survival Gadget a Day
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Wasteland: One Survival Gadget a Day, best match first.
- 1 Apocalypse Weather Forecast: Tomorrow, It’ll Rain People 末世天气预报：明天会下人 [Apocalyptic Disasters + Anomalous Arrivals + Growing Abilities + Weak System + Team Survival + The Truth About the World] In the third year after the black rain began, a human-shaped figure suddenly appeared in the sea of clouds. The Meteorological Bureau issued an Arrival-Level warning: Tomorrow, an anomalous entity will descend to the ground. While everyone else awaited disaster, Fu Sheng received a memory from the future. That Fu Sheng, who had guarded the broken bridge and watched the city —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Dimensional Ascension from Wasteland Cultivation to the Interstellar Fengdu 从废土修行到星际酆都的升维之路 There was once a world where even breathing could kill you. More than a thousand years later, I became the last cultivator in the wasteland. I set up a Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Array in the radiation zone and raised mutated beasts into spirit beasts to guard the mountain. At last, the stone stele of the Five Spirits Immortal Sect stood tall upon the earth. Everyone thought this was the end of the apocalypse, unaware that sleeping beneath our feet was a Heaven-Stealing Array laid out among 563Reads7.2Score103Shelves
- 3 Zombies? Can You Even Bite Through My Eight-Wheeled Truck? 丧尸？咬得动我的大八轮嘛？ The apocalypse arrives, a blood moon hangs in the sky, and billions of people around the world are reduced to a ferocious tide of corpses! While everyone else is barely clinging to life in basements over a bite of moldy bread, Chen Fan, a retired field reconnaissance platoon leader, binds himself to the [Apocalypse Legion System]! From the start, he drives fourteen fully armored ZBL-08 eight-wheeled infantry fighting vehicles out of an underground parking garage! The roar of their 30mm fully aut 1.8kReads—Score175Shelves
- 4 His Heart Is Like the Moon, Hers Like the Stars 郎心似月妾如星 His Heart Is Like the Moon, Hers Like a Star 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Autumn for a Server Girl 服务器女孩的秋天 Autumn for a Server Girl 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Apocalypse Planning Team 末日策划组 [Doomsday] [Superpowers] [Twin Stars] [No Stockpiling] [Brothers] [Ensemble Cast] [Team Survival] [Ding! Abnormal energy detected in the world. Doomsday version rollout complete!] Lu Ang accidentally bound himself to the Doomsday Planning System. After spending 53 days without food or water reviewing every Doomsday plan, he returned to the real world. [Planning mission complete. Doomsday countdown: seven days] [Chief Planner, Level 1 Authority: Card Sense] [Chief Planner, Level 2 Authority: Bond 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Apocalypse Beast Taming: From the Start, My Husky Becomes a Hellhound 末世御兽：开局二哈变成地狱犬 [Apocalypse]+ [Beast Taming]+ [Leveling Up]+ [System]+ [Power Fantasy] After transmigrating to the wasteland, Lin An is nearly dying of thirst from the start, with nothing but a husky as skinny as a strip of jerky by his side. While everyone else awakens supernatural abilities, he awakens the Infinite Evolution System! As long as he binds the required items to animals, they can evolve without limit! [Ding! The Host's husky has been detected. Bond established successfully. You have received 20% o 95Reads—Score114Shelves
- 8 After Livestreaming the Transfer of My Cheating Ex’s Assets, I Regretted It! 直播转移渣男资产后，我后悔了！ The day she declared war on him in a livestream, she told the entire internet: “Within six months, I’ll legally take every last cent he owns.” Everyone laughed and called her crazy. Only she knew just how rotten, cruel, and heartless that man was. Then the truth came crashing down. He had never betrayed her, never lied to her, never hurt her. He had traded his life for her peace and safety. Through her tears, she opened the law books: “As a master of law, I’ll clear your name and destroy everyon 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Spent My Entire Fortune on a Gift for My Brother, and You Say I'm Not Qualified to Sit at the Table? 为兄弟随礼全部身家，你却说我没资格上桌？ I spent my entire fortune on a gift for my brother, and you say I'm not worthy of a seat at the table? 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn in My Senior Year of High School, I Settle Accounts With Every Close Friend Who Betrayed Me 重生高三，背刺我的至亲好友我全部清算 Reborn in my senior year of high school, I settle the score with every close friend and family member who betrayed me 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Abandoned by My Mother, I Discovered I Was Stronger Than Anyone Could Imagine 被阿娘抛弃，发现自己强出天际 You stepped on my roses. From now on, I’ll call you Little Flower-Stepping Thief, okay? Okay. I heard you’re a demon. From now on, I’ll call you Little Demon Lord, okay? Okay. You carry a five-foot silver staff. From now on, I’ll call you Little Silver-Staff Thief, okay? Okay. You eat while studying but never remember a thing. From now on, I’ll call you Little Freeloader, okay? Okay. You have green dragon aura. From now on, I’ll call you Little Green Dragon, okay? Okay. Your true form —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Apocalypse Survival: The Big Villain Is Hiding Right Beside Me 末世求生：大反派隐藏在身边 [Coming-of-Age Female Lead + Plot-Driven + Not a Power Fantasy + Not a Romance + Species Mutations + Natural Disasters + Decisive and Ruthless + Team Survival] Red light bathed the world, blood rain fell, and a fever sent every living thing into a deep sleep… Gu Li woke to find she had been lucky enough to awaken two rare abilities, and had also latched onto a powerful ally: a mutated rose. After the apocalypse, she filled her storage space with supplies, and her abilities let her grow crops. On 649Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 13 Duo Tang: Lord of Machines 铎唐：机械之主 [Eastern Fantasy + Cyberpunk + Weird Games + Dystopia] Zhou Xingze wakes up aboard a strange bronze subway train and is ordered to take part in a horror game. Blood, wind, air, water, flesh: once the five rounds are complete, the game will end, and the final gate of fate will open... Three hundred years after human civilization was wiped out, a mysterious federation called Duotang rises to power in the East, reshaping the order of the world. Bones surround the bronze train. Gods linger by his ea 23Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 14 Doomsday: Surviving in an RV, Starting in the No-Man's-Land 末日：房车求生，从无人区开始 [Apocalyptic RV] + [Unlimited upgrades] + [Awakened supernatural abilities] + [One heroine] + [Slow burn] + [Cozy] + [The world gradually unfolds] After his father mysteriously disappeared in the no-man's-land, RV blogger Li Che ventured alone into the Chijin Gobi. But when he left the wasteland, he discovered that the entire world had changed. Communications were down, cities had fallen, and countless people had turned into bloodthirsty zombies. The mysterious black stone his father had left 2.1kReads—Score150Shelves
- 15 Wasteland Survival: Just a Little Scavenging, No Problem! 废土求生：小小拾荒，拿捏！ [Apocalypse] [Wasteland] [Scavenging] [Foraging] [Farming] [Superpowers] [System] [Spatial Storage] Jiang Nian somehow transmigrates to Blue Star 600 years in the future, a world reduced to a Wasteland! History has been lost, civilization has collapsed, life is hard at every turn, and danger lurks everywhere! Food is scarce, plants and animals have mutated, and radiation levels are extreme! Humanity has fallen from the top of the food chain to the very bottom! Oilseed lettuce more than two meter 3.4kReads7.3Score292Shelves
- 16 The Police Officer Who Always Gets Off Work on Time 准点下班小警察 Chen, who had died suddenly from overwork, was reborn. This time, he wanted nothing more than to be a lazy slacker, clock out on time, and enjoy life. But life always has a way of surprising you: his boss kept picking on him, one drudge in particular. A new book begins. Old and new readers alike are welcome to enjoy it. 78.5kReads8.5Score6.4kShelves
- 17 I'm a Male Foot Massage Therapist 我是足疗男技师 The person who brought me into the business said, “There isn’t a single decent person in this line of work. They’re all losers who couldn’t make it in any other profession, so they came here to pretend to be respectable.” My name is Zhu Ran. Let me show you the real world of foot massage therapists. 16.3kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves
- 18 Reborn: In This Life, I Protected the Town First 重生：这一世，我先守住了镇子 In his previous life, Bai Yi had lived a peaceful and uneventful life, but the entire town was massacred. Reborn one hour before the crisis erupted, he awakened the Rebirth System. This time, he would face an army of a thousand with fewer than two hundred village militiamen. When the enemy commander saw the hills outside the town covered in military banners, he was utterly dumbfounded. Standing on the low wall, Bai Yi tightened his grip on his sword. “This time, it’s your turn.” He entered a wor 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 My Card-Girl Wife Fears I’m Too Weak, So She Trains Me Into a Powerhouse 卡牌老婆怕我菜，自我养成数值怪 [Cards + Character Growth + Simulator + Virtual Girlfriends + Behind-the-Scenes] After transmigrating to a world where everyone used cards, anyone could summon followers or cast spells with them. But Jiang Chen had only one low-quality card from the start: [Wandering Girl] Aside from being pretty, she was the lowest quality, and her level cap was locked. Just as he was preparing to lie flat and use the card as a maid, a Simulator System descended, and even brought the card to life! [Sending card 30.4kReads7.1Score6.2kShelves
- 20 Wasteland Era: Foraging and Farming 废土纪年，拾荒种田 I just want to ask: is this the first native post-apocalyptic scavenging story, with no transmigration and no rebirth? A poor little soul in the wasteland, constantly struggling tooth and nail for a full meal. There are opportunities and dangers, and she knows when to play it safe and when to go all in. She has just a tiny bit of luck, and a little bit of determination. Of course, she has to have superpowers. Otherwise, how could she carve out a life unlike any other? 105Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 21 Nuclear War Apocalypse: A New Dawn in the Wasteland 核战末世：废土新曙光 [Post-apocalypse + Communism + Radiation + Metro + Mechs + Shelters + War + Mutated Animals] [No supernatural powers, no System, one female lead] A purely science-fiction apocalypse novel, and a quality read. The main plot follows the development of different shelters in the wasteland. At its heart are a red sci-fi world, a realistic portrait of post-apocalyptic society, and the ideological currents that surge after order collapses. It depicts a nation and its people working together, still sear 30Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 22 Shadow Ghoul: I Go on a Killing Spree in the Wasteland 影子食尸，我在废土嘎嘎乱杀 Apocalypse + shadow ability evolution + light comedy + monster-slaying and leveling up The wasteland has arrived, and all things lie silent in the darkness. Zombies, monsters, and natural disasters relentlessly threaten humanity’s survival. Zhang Ming awakens a shadow ability in his prison cell, constantly devouring shadows to grow stronger. From an ordinary man struggling to stay alive, he rises step by step to become the master of shadows. 7.7kReads8.6Score646Shelves
- 23 Chronicles of the Abyss 踏渊录 Ning Nian is a poor boy who lost both his parents at a young age. Fortunately, he later inherits his father's post as a patrol officer in the capital, giving him a meager livelihood. All he wants is to live out the rest of his life in peace. But an accident draws him into a shocking conspiracy. The young man struggles to survive in the cracks, and to seize that sliver of hope, he has no choice but to raise the narrow blade in his hand... 17Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 24 Hehe, I’m Going to Survive! 嘻嘻，我一定要活下去呀！ “Only death and taxes are unavoidable. Just kidding, death can actually be avoided, as long as you can afford the taxes.” If someone had said that to Jiang Feng in the past, he would have thought they were crazy. But now, looking at the cyberpsychos, corporations, idealist martial artists, curse witches, blood demons, demon cultivators, evil monks, cults, magical girls, calamities, eerie spirits, artist gangs, gangs, lunatics who simply enjoyed killing, the bookmakers running the Dead Man’s Lott 37.7kReads8.1Score4.4kShelves
- 25 Wasteland: Even Scavenging Is Hard 废土，拾荒也很难 What happens when humans are no longer the masters of this planet, but its lowest-ranking inhabitants? When they have to scrape together everything they need to live in the cracks, and on the wasteland plants and animals evolve while even the air and sunlight they depend on become deadly, how are humans supposed to survive? 2.9kReads—Score173Shelves
- 26 I Transmigrated into a Book as the Villain: How Did the Gloomy Heroine Become Yandere? 穿书反派，阴郁女主怎么成病娇了 Good news: Lin Zhi died suddenly and was reborn. Bad news: He transmigrated into a book as a minor villain. In the original story, Lin Zhi relentlessly bullied the heroine, Wen Zhiyu. But it turned out she was the long-lost daughter of the most powerful family in the capital. The first thing she did after being found was tear Lin Zhi limb from limb! Luckily, Lin Zhi was bound to a Favorability System. If he raised Wen Zhiyu’s favorability to 100, he could return to the real world with a fortune. 26.3kReads7.8Score1.5kShelves
- 27 Key of the Stars: Above the Void 星之匙：虚空之上 [The story starts slowly, but gets more and more exciting as it goes!] [No System, no invincibility, no harem] The sea of stars is vast and boundless, filled with countless mysteries and unknowns lurking in the shadows of deep space. Mu Xingchen was once an ordinary boy from Yunjing Star. At the Awakening Ceremony, he unleashed an S-rank talent and awakened the Origin of Space sleeping within him. Cultist factions stir, and evil gods whisper as the storm of fate sweeps in. The path of cultivatio 428Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Project Zomboid: Apocalypse 僵尸毁灭工程：启示录 Project Zomboid, a zombie survival game set during the apocalypse. How do you survive in Kentucky, USA? That's the question. How will Lin Xin struggle to survive in the world of Project Zomboid? 3.4kReads9.0Score329Shelves
- 29 The Return of the Condor Heroes: Inheriting the Three Stages of Rebirth from the Start 神雕：开局传承逆生三重 [Transmigration fan fiction + cautious growth + pursuit of immortality + slow-burn but satisfying] In his eleventh year after transmigrating into The Return of the Condor Heroes, Shen Zhibai found a wall covered in writing in a cave in the Qinling Mountains. He copied all three thousand characters without missing a single one. Only after finishing did he notice the final line: “Three stages mark the limit of reverse life. At the limit, progress ends. Stop here, and you cannot reach heaven.” 580Reads—Score115Shelves
- 30 Peach Blossoms in Full Bloom: I'm Actually the Lord of Peach Blossom City 桃花艳，其实我是一个桃花城主 Zhang Dafei meets several beautiful women, and that night he transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. With these women by his side, he fights a few minor monsters, battles over magical treasures, takes in the scenery, and falls in love along the way. The people of the martial world call Zhang Dafei the Peach Blossom City Lord. 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 God-Tier Mechanic: From Auto Repairman to Automotive Legend 神级技师：从汽修工到车圈神话 Feel-good story + skill upgrades + no female lead + fast pace + getting rich + friends everywhere + low-key flexing!!!!! Zhang Xiaonian awakens a god-tier vehicle modification System. The harder the vehicle is to work on, the stronger the skills he receives. The rich line up to throw money at him, while his competitors kneel and call him Master. 15.9kReads6.9Score949Shelves
- 32 Reborn in the Apocalypse: My Pocket Dimension Is Packed with Food 末世重生之我的空间粮满仓 This book is also known as My Father- and Mother-in-Law Are So Impressed with Me After I Am Reborn in the Apocalypse. In his previous life, Ji Shi was a scumbag who only wanted to climb the social ladder by using women. After betraying his wife and child, he ended up being devoured by zombies. Reborn, Ji Shi changed his ways completely, doting on his wife and protecting his family. He also used an opportunity from his previous life to unlock a spatial dimension, then stocked up on supplies in bu 3.4kReads8.8Score330Shelves
- 33 The Double Pupils Reappear 重瞳再现 For eight hundred years, the throne of the Xuantong Kingdom has passed not through bloodlines, but through a pair of eyes. Anyone born with double pupils is named heir to the throne: the left eye creates, the right eye destroys the world. The current ruler, Xuan Jun, is the most powerful in eight hundred years. He saved the people and subdued an evil flood dragon, but on a night when he lay unconscious from exhaustion, his most trusted Daoist priest, Xu Ziji, gouged out both his eyes. The left 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Game Is Only Half Finished, and the Entire Internet Is Begging for an Update! 游戏只做一半，全网跪求更新！ [Game Development]+ [Original Games]+ [Lighthearted Comedy]+ [Subverting Expectations] Jiang Bo transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the owner of a game company on the verge of bankruptcy. He awakens the [Anticipation System]. As long as he keeps players on tenterhooks and gets them excited, he'll earn even more rewards! From then on, Jiang Bo takes a one-way road: he makes games, but only makes half of each one! But do you think he makes shoddy, unfinished games? No! Everything he rele 82.2kReads8.4Score8.6kShelves
- 35 I'm a Villain, and All I Have Left Is Money 反派的我，只剩钞能力了 [Villain + multiple female leads + maximum satisfaction + CS male lead + unscrupulous tactics + tycoon + money talks] “I love the way you can't stand me, but can't do a thing about it.” Think this is a modern-day tycoon novel? No, it's a slaughterhouse for the chosen ones of fortune. Wang Hao just has a little money, a little free time, and a few... little hobbies. But those reborn, those who transmigrate into books, and those who transmigrate from other worlds all insist on making trouble for h 206Reads6.5Score835Shelves
- 36 Reborn in 1996: Back in My First Year of High School, No System, Still Rewriting My Life 重生96，回到高一，没有系统，照样改写人生剧本 Reborn in 1996, back in his first year of high school. No System, but he can still rewrite the script of his life. 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 You Say the End Is Here in This Prosperous Age? Are You Crazy? 繁华盛世你说末日来了？神经病啊 [Not a power fantasy: doomsday survival + apocalyptic disasters + fantastical imagination + invasion from another world + global evolution + smart characters] The Fourth Calamity's game mission fails, and a boss from another world crosses over. The apocalypse begins! A rare subject matter across all platforms, with a unique perspective that will show you a different kind of apocalypse! Plenty to read, and more than enough to keep you satisfied! Qin Yang had been a corporate drone for years, but 14.1kReads7.9Score978Shelves
- 38 The European Phoenix's Cultivation Saga: A Long Road to Immortality, Time for a Shock 欧凰修仙传：仙途漫漫，来点震撼 Ou Huang transmigrates to a cultivation universe and unexpectedly merges with an Immortal Emperor’s mortal Dao Fruit. After a thousand years, he has become a mighty Nascent Soul cultivator. Along the way, he casually whipped up a few technological gadgets. To deal with the risk of his spirit becoming unstable, he hides his cultivation and slips into the Tianxuan Sect as an ordinary outer disciple. My name is Ou Huang. I’m the Emperor of Luck, and you’re all ants. No System, invincible protagonis 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 I Can Decipher All Things After I Die 我死后破解万物 In his third year of the apocalypse, Chen Bugu finally used his myth-class ability, [Resurrection], for the first time. Yes, he died. But something went wrong. Instead of coming back to life, he was reborn before it all began. When he awakened the [Resurrection] ability again, he was forbidden from using it to resurrect himself repeatedly. This time, the ability he awakened was the unheard-of virus-class ability, [Crack]. “A thief stole a divine power and secretly forged it into the seed of a vi 5.9kReads8.3Score567Shelves
- 40 You Told Me to Be a Tyrant, So Why Am I the Greatest Emperor of All Time? 让你荒淫无道，千古一帝什么鬼？ The rating just came out, so it’ll probably drop later~ [Reborn in the Womb] [A Foolish Emperor Revives the Nation] [Unorthodox Power Plays] [Reverse Tropes] [Rich Cast] [Heaven-Approved] After spending eighteen years reborn from the womb, Chen Feng only wanted to live a peaceful, carefree life as a low-profile prince. But then the former emperor unexpectedly died, and the throne fell into his lap. At court, ministers schemed for power, while barbarian tribes ringed the borders. Everyone thought 170.6kReads8.2Score25.8kShelves
- 41 Surviving Across the Myriad Worlds, I Can Bestow Power Upon Worlds 万界求生，我能赋予世界之力 [Farming + Growth + the Myriad Worlds + Survival for All + Not a Saint, but Has a Conscience] [The protagonist may not be the strongest, but is definitely among the very best] Zhao Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated into a game fraught with danger. At regular intervals, everyone was sent to different worlds, where they faced different disasters. Blood mist blanketed the land, a domain of mutated corpses, frozen soil beneath an endless night, the eerie resurgence, a barren was 13.2kReads—Score2kShelves
- 42 This Golden Crow Is Too Overpowered Across the Heavens 诸天这只金乌太阴了 (Why did the rating come out so early? It'll go up once more chapters are out, so don't worry.) He fuses with the bloodline of the Great Sun Golden Crow. From then on, true flames that can burn the heavens blaze all around him. His divine bird bloodline awakens, and he shatters the barriers between worlds, roaming freely across the Myriad Worlds. He slays immortals and Buddhas, exterminates gods and demons, subdues myriad realms, and suppresses countless paths. With the Golden Crow as his form, 51kReads8.1Score3.8kShelves
- 43 A New Myth of the Universe 宇宙新神话 The dazzling stars are the stage of the gods. When supernatural powers intertwine with interstellar technology across the boundless cosmos, how many wondrous legends will be born to capture our imaginations? What do they love? What do they hate? What do they fear? What do they seek? Perhaps in the endless universe, so-called gods and aliens are no different from us, ordinary people fumbling our way forward. We are all creatures struggling to survive, fighters who refuse to yield, and, above all, 4.4kReads9.2Score432Shelves
- 44 Black Sun Cataclysm: Reversing Time and Space 黑日灾变：逆转时空 (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no stupidity, not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy. The timeline has been revised, so read with caution if that bothers you.) I thought it was just an ordinary dream. In the dream, a black sun hung in the sky, and monsters a hundred meters tall roamed the wasteland. Humanity hid underground, barely clinging to life. Fewer than one in a hundred survived, and people struggled against desperation for survival, desire, and hope. Yet everyt 7.5kReads9.1Score643Shelves
- 45 My Classmates and I Were Transported to a Cultivation World, but I Was Sent to One Extra Immortal Realm 同学群穿修仙界，我多穿一个仙界 The young Qi Fan suffered from a strange hunger disorder. With no other choice, he dropped out of high school and became a livestreamed eating host. He unexpectedly discovered that his strength was increasing day by day. He had originally planned to muddle through as a professional boxer and live a wealthy life of fame and glory, but then he received an invitation to a graduation gathering from his high school homeroom teacher, Song Chengmin. That invitation changed his life forever. The mysteri 72.3kReads8.2Score9.1kShelves
- 46 A Heartbeat That Ends With Youth 心动止于少年 A Crush That Ends in Youth 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Year One of the Zombie Apocalypse: The Gray Mist Laws 丧尸元年：灰雾法则 Deep down, everyone longs for the end of the world. A zombie apocalypse story that explores our own lives as the walking dead. To our bodies, destined to rot, and our immortal souls. The first book in the Year of the Zombie trilogy. 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Back in My Wife’s High School Days, I Cut Our Ties with My Own Hands 重回妻子高中，我亲手斩断我们的姻缘 Back in My Wife's High School Years, I Cut Our Fated Ties with My Own Hands 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Passing as a Langya Native: I Read 165 Chapters, Then Transmigrated 冒姓琅琊：读了165章我穿越了 He was reading Chapter 165 of The Usurper of Langya when he transmigrated. The trouble was, he had only read as far as Chapter 165. The peach blossoms of the Southern Dynasties had come and gone, and he knew nothing of them. The blizzards of the Northern Dynasties were sweeping down, and he had stepped right into them. In Jiangnan, there was Wang Yang, dressed in white, holding a folding fan, passing himself off as a member of the Langya Wang clan and disrupting a game of strategy in Jiangling. 114Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of Three Clans' Massacre 旧金山血牢：我丈夫藏着三族灭门证据 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of the Massacre of Three Clans —Reads—Score—Shelves
