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.
- 51 Reborn as a Supernatural Tycoon, I Transmigrate into a Zombie-Infested Apocalypse 重生之异能诡豪穿越末世丧尸横行 Against a backdrop of horror and the supernatural, I transmigrate to an apocalypse overrun by zombies. I can be reborn countless times and awaken supernatural abilities, just as the apocalypse arrives and strange phenomena return! A fortune worth hundreds of billions means nothing now, but I can still live like a tycoon! I’ve got tens of millions of zombie soldiers at my command. Who should I be afraid of? From an urban tycoon to an apocalypse tycoon! 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Gazing Across the Four Seas 观四海 This isn't a conventional web novel. It features multidimensional space, rotating and traversing time sequences, and a diverse world of mutated races (beastfolk, insect races, marine life, and more), with varied narrative styles, interlocking plotlines, major foreshadowing, and tightly closed logical loops. The male lead, Qin Wei, can communicate with marine life and is also the chosen one most trusted by the Insect Queen. He seems to keep awakening as time turns, yet fails again and again. He m 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 A Cannon Fodder from the Start? But I'm Forced to Marry an Ice-Cold Goddess 开局炮灰？却被强制婚配冰山女神 Alien exploration + interstellar war + high technology + the rise of humanity + a civilizational epic + a Warhammer-inspired universe + the Emperor has risen Also known as Deep Space Throne: I, the Architect of Humanity's Myth; The Rise of the Universe: An Epic of Humanity; and After Transmigrating, Did I Become Another Lord of Humanity? Blue Star is destroyed. The scattered remnants of humanity's nations flee aboard an ancient, unpowered alien spacecraft equipped with internal spatial folding t 31.7kReads7.9Score3.1kShelves
- 54 The Tycoon Game: The Beautiful CEO Chose Me 富豪游戏：美女总裁选中我 Yang Li was chosen by a beautiful CEO, given ten million, and invited to take part in a life-or-death game. Six players, each with ten million. After one year, whoever has the most assets gets to live. 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Scum of the Apocalypse 末世渣滓 [Rebirth in the apocalypse + alternate world + ruthless, not a saint + evolving zombies + special powers + self-interest] Whether stars fell or a virus broke out, no one knew. Zombies and a world-ending nuclear weapons system brought about the world’s destruction all the same. Sunlight streamed in through the window, seeming to shine into the dumplings in his memory. “Little sister, is it snowing?” The man looked up at the window. The cold seeped into his bones. This winter seemed a little c 5.6kReads8.5Score413Shelves
- 56 Global Awakening: I Started Searching, Fighting, and Extracting with Special Operations 全民：从觉醒特勤处开始搜打撤 [The rating has only just opened and will rise later] [Illustrations included, so enjoy] From the start, he transmigrates to Blue Star, which is undergoing a cataclysm in an age when everyone is a pioneer. The initial skill everyone else sees as having no rank awakens a golden finger, [Special Operations Division], thanks to Chu Hong's arrival. All he has to do is register real-world secret realms, and he can run them endlessly in the Special Operations Division. While everyone else is terrified 135.1kReads8.8Score17.3kShelves
- 57 A Lovebird in Captivity, a Prison of Desire 爱之囚鸟，欲之樊笼 [The rating will go up] [A realistic story] [If you still believe in love] Xu Lin suddenly remembers that today is the anniversary of his wife Zhao Siyan's death. A year ago, his wife Zhao Siyan and his mother-in-law Feng Bailu were in a car accident. Zhao Siyan died mysteriously, while Feng Bailu was left paralyzed in bed. 22.5kReads6.6Score1kShelves
- 58 My Parents Transferred Me Ninety Thousand Yuan, and the Zombie Horde Broke Out the Next Day 父母给我转了九万块，第二天丧尸潮爆发 My Parents Transferred 90,000 Yuan to Me, and the Zombie Horde Broke Out the Next Day 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 One Meal Kit a Day in a Chaotic World 人在乱世，一天一份拼好饭 [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Everyone stays smart throughout] [The new story doesn't recycle the same plot] [Tomato's fastest updater] [No emperor worship] [Contains personal takes, enter at your own discretion] [Alternate history mash-up] Lin Yuan wakes up after a nap and finds himself transmigrated back to a chaotic age. Just as he's about to starve to death, he suddenly discovers that he can order one combo meal every day. From that moment on, what path will a soul that can never return ho 320.5kReads8.1Score32.1kShelves
- 60 Dead City: Seventy-Seven Days 死城，七十七天 A quiet life is shattered by an unknown virus. The living are turning into infected who eat people. Trapped in a high-rise with no power, no internet, and barely any food, how can you rely on the courage to risk your life and the clearheaded resolve to survive against all odds to save yourself and others from the infected surrounding you...? 1.1kReads8.3Score123Shelves
- 61 Two Years as a Doormat, Then One Heavy Rain Woke Me Up 舔狗两年，一场大雨浇醒了我 After Two Years of Chasing Him, a Downpour Woke Me Up 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Shallow and Scummy, I Take the Entertainment Industry by Storm and Win Over Every Star 主打一个肤浅渣穿娱乐圈通杀明星 My new work is out! You can read it 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! 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 My Uncle Dies from the Start, and I Get This Great Deal? 开局死大爷，还有这好事 On the surface, he is the young owner of a traditional Chinese medicine therapy clinic. In truth, he is a cultivator who has chosen to live in obscurity among ordinary people. If a hospital can treat it, I can treat it. If a hospital can’t, I can still treat it. As long as you aren’t meant to die, I can keep you alive. If you’ve found your way to me, it means you can still be saved. So tell me, what did you do this time? Feng shui can help someone rise to great heights, or leave them plagued by 241Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 A Good-for-Nothing with No Soul, I Am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years 废柴无魂，我是狼族万年圣女 A good-for-nothing with no soul: I am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 My Heaven-Defying Kidney-Tonifying System 我的逆天补肾系统 Han Gao's life hit rock bottom. His marriage was over, and so was his dignity. Just then, a mysterious delivery arrived at his door: an unremarkable thermos. From that moment on, he began quietly growing stronger... 1.7kReads6.3Score103Shelves
- 66 Returning to the Ten Thousand Paths of Guizang 归藏万途 When he crawled out of a pile of corpses, he was clutching a piece of jade. Ten years later, every faction in the Western Continent would kill for it. The day his master faked his death, he told him to deliver a hard, unyielding fruit to Lingxu Palace within two years. And never take off the jade he had worn since childhood. He thought that was all there was to it. No one told him what the jade was. He thought it was a treasure that could suppress the Ruins, a key to seize power, or a life-savin 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Striving in 1998: Grabbing Success and Beautiful Women with Both Hands 奋斗九八：事业美女两手抓 Li Jianming, who had spent his life as a workhorse, is reborn. The first thing he does is save his father from an imminent mine disaster, completely changing his family’s fate. But this also entangles him in the fate of the young widow living upstairs. Then he discovers that his body and brain have been enhanced. He has an extraordinary memory and can effortlessly connect the dots. From then on, his studies progress by leaps and bounds, and he astonishes everyone. Beautiful campus queens keep ap 12.7kReads8.1Score1.4kShelves
- 68 You Silly Boy, You're Home! 傻小子，回家了！ Qingshui Village, by the Qingshui River Sizhu became mentally disabled after an accident. One day, while sleeping by the river, he stumbled upon the village bully picking on his neighbor, Shao Tingting. That was the beginning of a wonderful and extraordinary life. 308Reads8.9Score174Shelves
- 69 I’m a Lame Beggar, and She’s a Mute Princess 我是瘸腿乞丐，她是哑巴公主 [Beggar + Transmigration + System + Immortality + One Female Lead + Lame] Hey, beggar, want to come back to the imperial palace with me? “If I go to the palace, will you take care of me?” “I will.” I'm a beggar, an utterly unknown beggar. Three months ago, Liu Qing transmigrated to this world, only to have his leg broken for stealing a bun. Breaking his leg turned out to be a big deal. The broken leg brought him a System. As long as he begged every day, he could grow stronger, and any harm h 483Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 70 After Turning Into Zombies, We Started Living Our Best Lives 变成丧尸后，我们开启了真正的快乐人生 After Turning into Zombies, We Started Living Our Truly Happy Lives 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 My Junior Sister Has Quit Being Love-Struck, and the Whole Sect Can't Adjust 师妹不再恋爱脑，全宗竟不太适应 [Transmigration] + [System] + [Strong Female Lead] + [Xuanhuan] + [Romance] If you’re tired of female leads who are always out to conquer the world or save all its people, you have to read this book! The heroine just wants to lie flat and be a carefree slacker, but the System insists on giving her a golden finger. The more she lies flat, the stronger she gets, and the stronger she gets, the more miserable she becomes, because everyone comes knocking to force her to “get to work.” It’s packed wi 544Reads—Score112Shelves
- 72 Core Earth Survival: I Write Guides for the Entire Server 地心求生：我给全服写攻略 [Survival game] [Mining and crafting] [Journey to the earth's core] [Terraria] [Minecart upgrades] Everyone on Blue Star is pulled into a survival game. Each person gets a crude minecart and must keep exploring deeper into the earth's core. They might dig up useful ore, or run into dangerous monsters... Fortunately, Lin You awakens a god-tier walkthrough System. All he has to do is write guides and earn positive reviews to receive super rewards! And so Lin You sets off on a cheat-fueled journey 171.8kReads8.3Score29.4kShelves
- 73 Ultraman: The Ultimate Creditor! Borrow Money and Get Ten Times Back! 奥特：最强债主！借债十倍返还！ The ratings have just been released, so they will rise later. Ultraman spirit + pseudo-invincible style + supreme presence After transmigrating into the Ultraman Universe, he actually becomes the exiled prince of an Ultraman planet? Having barely escaped death, he is trapped in a temporal rift with no way out. Fortunately, the strongest debt-collection System awakens. You want me to lend people money? If I lend out power, it can be repaid tenfold? Where are all those debt-king New Generati 88.8kReads9.4Score7.1kShelves
- 74 Global Blackout: Back to the Age of Cold Weapons 全球断电：重返冷兵器时代 [No System, no rebirth, no showing off and humiliating others, not a power fantasy. The story of an ordinary person surviving in a time of chaos.] When electricity vanished worldwide and gunpowder and fuel stopped working, Xia Zhi carved out a kingdom in the midst of chaos with nothing but a bow. With transportation and communications cut off, humanity's ambitions began to grow. Everyone wanted to be emperor; even a village chief dared to call himself king. Xia Zhi had wanted to stay home in the 6.3kReads8.2Score470Shelves
- 75 The System Bound the Wrong Person, Forcing a Side Character to Follow the Protagonist's Script 系统绑错人，龙套被迫走主角剧本 After transmigrating to the world of cultivation for eighteen years, Long Tao had accepted his fate and was ready to lie flat. Then, at long last, a System suddenly appeared! But instead of getting the treatment reserved for a protagonist, he got… “Binding error. Host is not the chosen one. Your luck is too low to unlock the shop.” “Unbinding is impossible. Host must complete System missions in place of the chosen one, then hand over any opportunities and rewards obtained along the way. Mission 109.3kReads8.7Score8.6kShelves
- 76 You Want Me to Turn Over a New Leaf? Just You Wait! 让我浪子回头？你给我等着！ Original title: Auntie, Don't Be Afraid Before taking his own life, Su Yang swore that if he got another chance at life... He would find someone who truly understood him! A woman who truly loved him! When he suddenly woke up, he found an older woman kneeling beside him. She was wearing a tattered pair of pajamas and trembling as she looked at him. “Please don't hit me, okay? I have to attend my child's parent-teacher meeting tomorrow...” 334Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 77 Zootopia: From Zero to Black-and-White Gang Superstar 动物城：从零开始成为黑白帮巨星 [Beastars + Zootopia + multiple heroines + furry + superhuman strength] The moment he opened his eyes, Seth found himself surrounded by several tigers. He thought he'd gotten a speedrun scenario, but then he suddenly noticed that all four of his limbs were covered in orange-and-black fur. Oh my god! I've become a little tiger! Just as Seth was reeling from the shock of his new identity, the tigers beside him started talking! “Oh, look! What an adorable little darling, with those big eyes...” Tha 25.8kReads7.2Score3.6kShelves
- 78 A Pastry Chef Slacking Off in the Siheyuan 四合院里摸鱼的糕点师傅 A food blogger transmigrates to 1948. Does mentoring apprentices bring triple returns? “No Qin family, no Lou family, no hostility.” While everyone else who transmigrates into a siheyuan is busy fighting scoundrels and seizing opportunities, Shen Yan just wants to live like a lazy salted fish: as a pastry chef at a grocery store, he has little work and few worries. After work, he takes the homemade pastries from his pocket dimension, sits by the courtyard gate, cracks sunflower seeds, and watche 74.7kReads7.7Score4.3kShelves
- 79 EN When Orochimaru Becomes Hokage, Konoha Already Has Mobile Games 让蛇叔当火影，木叶早玩上手游了 Original title: Let Uncle Orochimaru Become Hokage, and Konoha Would Have Been Playing Mobile Games Ages Ago. The good news: He transmigrated into the Naruto world. The bad news: He's an ordinary nobody, his teacher is Orochimaru, and he chose the wrong side. Surrendering would only mean losing halfway, so he has no choice but to lead his teacher in a fierce charge against Konoha's rotten ninja clans. But did he somehow get the wrong script? Shoichi gazes seriously at the water in his cup 100.8kReads8.4Score10.2kShelves
- 80 Rising to Greatness: Starting with the Recruit 从士兵突击开始崛起 A new work is out! You can find my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 16Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 81 The Last Martial Hero 最后一个武侠 [No System + Not Mindless + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Slow-Burn + Genius Protagonist + Strategy and Management] The rise of an ordinary man: the legendary tale of a low-ranking jianghu thug who transforms into a figure renowned throughout both the imperial court and the jianghu. So what if he has no cheat? So what if he has no power, wealth, or connections? Even if he starts with nothing but a basic Iron Claw technique, training it to the utmost can give him the power to split mountains and 3.7kReads8.2Score195Shelves
- 82 The Funeral Parlor Owner's Son Becomes a Forensic Doctor Just to Lie Flat 冥店之子当法医，只为躺平 You can talk to ghosts about human relationships and social niceties, but you can't reason with people, because people are often scarier than ghosts. When dealing with conflicts between ghosts and people, you don't always have to side with the living. Those who have done wrong don't deserve help. The so-called Five Disadvantages and Three Deficiencies aren't a fate that comes with being a cultivator. They only befall cultivators who help people do evil. Some jobs aren't hard because of the work 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Zombie Apocalypse: Before the Dawn 末日丧尸传之黎明之前 Complete, currently revising the entire novel. Volume Four focuses on the military, so you can start there. Slow-paced, ensemble cast, zombie novel, military-focused. Not a power fantasy. No supernatural powers, transmigration, rebirth, or golden fingers! Read at your own risk!! One virus, one disaster. The story of a group of ordinary people, told from the perspective of one ordinary person. As they change and grow, with their homeland at stake and their people in peril, it is also an age that 9.1kReads9.2Score755Shelves
- 84 I Started with Two Invincible Talents, Yet Somehow They Called Me a Nobody 开局双无敌天赋，竟然被称为废物 Anyone who’s ever been a superhero knows that whether it’s One-Punch Man or the Son of Krypton, they’re both ridiculously powerful. One gets stronger just by working out, and the other becomes invincible just by soaking up sunlight. But when Jiang Lan gained both powers, his classmates went wild mocking him as a loser. That was because people in this world had to call out a hero’s name to awaken their abilities. They called Teacher Saitama a bald guy in a yellow suit, and Superman an exhibitioni —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 After Wandering into a Village of Women, I Became the Hope of the Whole Village 误入女村后，我成了全村的希望 During a hiking trip, Han Hao fell into an underground village of women cut off from the outside world. A group of women who had never left the mountains clung to Han Hao as their only hope, doing everything they could to make him stay. At first, he thought he had simply stumbled into a dead end. But the longer he stayed, the more he realized something was wrong with the village. If he wanted to survive, he had to escape... 1.8kReads—Score179Shelves
- 86 The Nonexistent Teacher Xu and Auntie Wu 不存在的徐老师和吴阿姨 The Nonexistent Teacher Xu and Auntie Wu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 The Older Sister Who Exists Only in My Mind 只存在我脑海中的姐姐 The Older Sister Who Exists Only in My Mind 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Reborn in 1990: From Having a Baby to Making My Way in the World 重生九零，从生娃开始闯荡江湖 [No goody-two-shoes] [Period] [Underworld] [Passionate] [Decisive and ruthless] [Multiple heroines + wish fulfillment] Xu Lin is reborn in the 1990s and activates the More Children, More Blessings System. 11.2kReads6.9Score822Shelves
- 89 To Hell With Your Family Tree, We're All Outstanding Volunteers 去你的族谱，我们全家都是优秀志愿者 Forget Your Family Tree, Our Whole Family Are Outstanding Volunteers —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Across the Misty Myriad Worlds 缥缈万界 The ages roll on, and the seas change into mulberry fields. After Pangu split the heavens and earth and the primordial age dawned, the primordial world eventually shattered and heaven and earth were overturned. The ancient Heavenly Dao, which had once ruled over all things, collapsed and scattered with them. After endless ages of settling and transformation, the scattered fragments of the Heavenly Dao’s origin finally evolved into the universe’s laws of origin and the countless laws derived fr 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 With a Dual-World Travel System, I'm Invincible in the Real World 手握双穿系统，现实世界我无敌 Lin Hao, an overworked office drone stuck in a far-off posting, is exploited by his supervisor. By chance, he activates a System that lets him travel freely between a world of immortals and martial arts and the real world. He can earn money, buy gold, and use it to top up the System, which offers all kinds of heaven-defying pills. While everyone else works hard at cultivation, Lin Hao levels up by making money. Though lowly as an ant, he bears humiliation and bides his time. With the power to mo 2.6kReads8.0Score180Shelves
- 92 Reborn in the Apocalypse, I Become an Unlimited Power Source for a Nuclear Plant 末世重生，成为核电站供能无限 (The overall style leans toward technology-themed farming. The protagonist disguises himself as an AI to interact with people. There is a System and some supernatural elements, but this is not a hard-science-tech novel.) After the zombie crisis broke out, Ling Yu died trying to save someone, only to find himself reborn as one of the city's nuclear power plants. With nearly three hundred zombies in the facility, the reactor core on the verge of melting down, and only six cleaning robots and a you 132.2kReads8.9Score19kShelves
- 93 That Summer, I Was Reborn 那个夏天，我重生了 That Summer, I Was Reborn 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 There Is No Door to the Moon Palace 月宫没有门 The Moon Palace Has No Doors 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Apocalypse Evolution: Don't Mess with Mosquitoes 末日进化：蚊子不好惹 A mosquito's end-of-the-world party, all for its own amusement! The reckless young Hu Xiaowen gets a fresh start in the apocalypse, only to find himself turned into a mosquito. Watch him let loose and take the apocalypse by storm! When the end comes, who will rule the world? You are a mosquito with a mind of your own. If Heaven had never given us Hu Xiaowen, The mosquito clan would have languished in eternal darkness. You believe that one day, You will become the mightiest mosquito in th 162Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 96 Number 1500: Space Visitor 编号1500：空间访客 (Not nonsensical, not a wish-fulfillment story. Both leads are strong, devoted to each other, and cunning.) There are 10,000 spaces in the world. Each space has seven transmigrators and one space administrator. The story unfolds in Space 1500. Explaining the world is too boring. Let's jump straight into exploring and scheming in Space 1500. Good luck, transmigrator! 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Wandering the Wasteland: Trait Bonuses from the Start, a Daily Prophet 流浪废土，词条开局，每日预言家 (The rating just came out, so it’ll rise later.) In the 350th year of the wasteland era, the sky is forever leaden gray, like a rusted iron sheet pressing down overhead. The air of the wasteland era is forever tinged with the sweet, metallic stench of rust, decay, and radioactive dust. Every breath is like swallowing shards of glass. The protagonist, Qin Lang, awakens a Trait System and risks his life to secure the daily prophecy from the start. Watch as Qin Lang, alongside his honest and valian 3.8kReads6.3Score224Shelves
- 98 I Strike It Rich Scavenging the Wasteland, but the Apocalypse Is So Insane I'm Stunned 废土拾荒我暴富，末世太癫我傻眼 [Comedy, Goofiness, Wild Imagination, Growth, Undercover Intrigue, Core Crystals, Romance] Main plot (heroine): Solo scavenging at first, then a team-based upgrade journey Subplot (male lead): Mystery and deduction, undercover intrigue (backstabbing + setting traps + dismantling traps + countering the countermeasures) * Amid piles of corpses in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, a survivor miraculously appears! The moment Xu Sansan opens her eyes, everything is pitch-black. No memories, no System. 10.5kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 99 The Keeper of Ink: The Unburned Book 守墨人：未烬书 Heir to the Mo family, guardian of ancient scrolls and their teachings. A fragmentary Western Xia scroll reveals the secret origins shared by Xia and Han civilization; A perilous journey of deadly pursuit leads across seven regions in search of proof that civilizations can coexist. Su Qiao carries on her ancestors' legacy, disarming ancient tomb traps and fighting off evil spirits and pursuers. What she guards is not merely a forgotten history, but the ultimate belief that all under heaven can u 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Apocalypse Descends: Bound to a God-Tier Space from the Start 末世降临：开局绑定神级空间 [Apocalypse + Reborn + God-Tier Pocket Dimension + Stockpiling Supplies + Keeping a Low Profile + Dark Turn and Revenge + Superpowers + Ruthless + No Saintly Hero] Typhoons, acid rain, torrential storms, extreme cold, mutant beasts... When the apocalypse struck, 98% of the planet's population perished in a series of natural disasters! In his previous life, Zhang Sen struggled to survive for eight years. To protect his only family member, he risked his life countless times. In the end, he was bet 13.1kReads7.9Score984Shelves
