Novels like Apocalypse: Starting With an Escape From Campus
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- 1 One Breath from Death 一息丧存 A high-energy apocalypse novel: no System, no saintly heroine, zombie virus, superpowers, and multiple heroines. The apocalypse has arrived, and I, Tang Xiaojing, am the one true savior. The Pantheon calls me Satan. I kill all that is impossible; beneath me, all are mere ants. Huh~ what's that? That's my handsome, dashing face. Comments and favorites Funny and fun~(￣▽￣~) Small love is great love, and great love is no love. The lesser way is the Heavenly Way, and the Heavenly Way is bound to Cha 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Apocalypse: I'm Really Just a Damn Food Delivery Guy! 末世：我真特么只是个送外卖的！ [Multiple Apocalyptic Worlds + Transmigration + Zombies + Delivery Backpack + Scooter + Budget Travel + Multiple Heroines + Comedy + Slow Burn] I’m just a delivery guy! System boss, cut me some slack! Riding a busted scooter through hordes of zombies to deliver food every day is seriously more than I can handle! Wait, what? My original world is about to face the same apocalypse? Notify Officer Wang at the local police station right away. Tell the higher-ups to get ready: the apocalypse is coming 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Escape from the Zombie Horde on Campus 尸潮校园逃生路 When the zombie outbreak hits, He An and his roommate are trapped in their dorm with no water, power, or food. They have no choice but to venture out in search of supplies. After finally reaching a convenience store, they find it has already been raided, so they have to leave and keep going. They reach a shopping mall, thinking they can wait there safely for rescue, only to discover that zombies are intelligent too. Their safe haven is breached. Will they keep fighting to survive, or become one 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Traversing with Talisman Arrays 符阵穿梭 I woke from a nightmare to find the world overrun by zombies. But I can still go back. Traveling back and forth between two timelines, I set out to prevent the apocalypse, save my wife, daughter, and brothers, and, while I’m at it, save the world. A cerebral story told across two timelines: forget simplistic power fantasies and dive into a true apocalyptic time-travel mystery. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Apocalypse: I Never Make Losing Deals 末世：我从不做亏本买卖 The day the blood moon hung in the sky, a zombie horde tore away civilization's thin veneer. Order collapsed, and human life became the cheapest thing of all. Chen Mo hid in his fortified rental apartment, chewing the last half of a compressed ration bar as he calmly watched people outside being torn apart. He wasn't some bleeding-heart saint. Before the disaster, he'd already earned his first fortune selling information, and stashed enough supplies to last three months, along with a modified cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 My Worldbuilding Draft Is Like Raising a World 我的养成似世界大纲 Heng Gouyi unexpectedly transmigrated to another world, only to find it overrun with zombies. Fortunately, he could choose an identity from the start, deciding the circumstances of his birth. “A rich second-generation heir with a luxurious underground shelter, stocked with everything and overflowing with supplies?” “An ordinary civilian born on a seaside cliff, so steep that regular zombies can barely reach it, but with enough supplies to last only a few days?” “A homeless man born in a mobile d —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Zombie Game: The Protagonist of Class 3-6 Arrives 丧尸游戏：三年六班主人公降临 [Apocalypse + Zombies + Rebirth + Strong Female Lead + Redemption] My writing isn't very good, but I'll do my best to bring the characters and setting to life. Please feel free to point out any mistakes, cuties. Thank you for being so kind and handsome, and for leaving a trace behind. ( ﹡ˆoˆ﹡ ) After the National Day holiday, Ji Menluo, a student in Senior Class Six who had always studied hard, somehow gets caught up in a game. Zombies are everywhere, and the world has become a living hell. Ji —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Under Negative Pressure 负压之下 In 2038, the ice covering North America’s Lake Michigan melted completely in April, a full forty days earlier than usual. Mercury compounds that had settled on the lakebed rose with the evaporating water vapor into the stratosphere. Detroit’s air purifiers had long since become nothing more than ornaments. Mutated fungal spores drifted through the gray-green smog, slipping underground through subway vents and merging in a bizarre way with genetically modified bacteria leaking from a wastewater t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Plague-Ridden High School 丧病高中 (Post-apocalypse + Zombies + Mutations + Ensemble Cast) At first, people thought it was just an ordinary news story, just a police investigation into an illegal drug case… until… During a senior-year mock math exam at Qingteng High School, a student in Exam Room 404 suddenly convulsed and bit someone. Everyone thought he'd just lost it over the math test. Then he tore a chunk of flesh off the proctor, spraying blood everywhere. Suddenly, someone slammed their hands on the desk and shouted, “Holy 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Apocalypse Campus: Realm of the Dead 末日校园：尸界 [No System, all zombie-chasing, bleak, fast-paced, first-person POV] The story of a student who suffers bullying at school and goes through revenge, awakening, and corruption during a zombie apocalypse. He witnesses firsthand the distortion and loss of humanity. This disaster has changed us all. How do we accept who we’ve become, and how do we face who we used to be? There’s no turning back… 558Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Eternal Will: The Immortal Guard 永恒意志：不朽近卫军 A zombie story set during the Battle of Moscow. Amid the raging fires in the ruins of Moscow, he thought the zombies were his enemies, until one of them dragged him out of a pile of corpses without biting him. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Zombies on Campus 校园丧尸 Campus Zombies 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 It’s Almost Vacation, and Now There Are Zombies? 要放假了，丧尸来了？ [Apocalypse + hellish start + no System + no superpowers + team survival + ensemble cast + moral choices] No cheat System, no special abilities, just a bunch of shut-ins forced to fight tooth and nail to survive Playing co-op against zombies during advanced math class? The next second, the game becomes reality! Who would have thought that Zhou Gong, Fatty, and Old Liu, kicked out of the classroom for gaming, would become the first “survivors” at their school to realize the apocalypse had begun? 73Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 14 Escape from Zombie School 逃出僵尸校园 Patient Zero escaped from the laboratory and used his teeth to plant the virus in the first victim's shoulder. The bitten school nurse rose with her neck twisted, then lunged at her next target. The cafeteria's glass curtain wall shattered beneath a barrage of impacts. Between the library shelves, the sound of a bone saw scraping over metal echoed. On the rooftop, a helicopter ignored the cries for help. The quarantine order had been issued. They had been abandoned on this isolated island, left 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 What Do I Do If I Turn Into a Zombie? Help, This Is Urgent! 变成丧尸怎么办？在线等非常急！ After hiding and scraping by for over a decade in an apocalypse where everyone could awaken and evolve, Li Yannian faced the tenth zombie horde. With his poor talent, he died in bitterness as a cannon fodder... In a single moment, he was reborn and discovered that he had become a zombie, while still retaining his memories and intelligence as a human! Relying on his human intelligence, he embarked on a path to prove the Dao as an invincible zombie! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Doomsday Survival: It Begins with Senior Class 3, Class 1 末日求生：从高三1班开始 The horns announcing the final push for the college entrance exams were still echoing when the iron curtain of pandemic lockdown came crashing down. Thousands of students and teachers at a prestigious high school became prisoners in a besieged fortress. But the true apocalypse did not begin with the lockdown. It began with a supposedly “safe” delivery of supplies, when a virus called “Manic Fever” underwent a terrifying mutation inside the sealed campus. The zombies came. They had no superpowers 300Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Doomsday Ruffian 末日丧彪 This is a novel about surviving the apocalypse. It tells the story of Zhang Biao, an ordinary man who gradually leads humanity in its fight against the zombies. There is no spatial system; the story aims to portray a realistic apocalypse as closely as possible. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Beneath the Zombies 丧尸之下 Also known as: In the Apocalypse, Fighting Zombies with My Friends [No supernatural abilities + 1v1 romance] An escape room turns into a zombie crisis! With no food, water, or toilet, the group works together and struggles to survive while trapped. Wait... Wasn't this supposed to be an extreme survival challenge? A wooden stick and a scalpel are one thing, but what's with this whole row of hooked spears? As a successor of socialism, I say: “Sure enough, only by following the Party can we greet t 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Apocalypse Rebirth: Escape from the Dormitory 末世重生：从寝室开始逃离 (Early stockpiling + pocket dimension + zombies + natural disasters + no CP + escaping from school) In her previous life, pollution caused by Country J turned humans into zombies, bringing about the apocalypse. Reborn, Su Ci'an takes her two roommates and friends and begins their escape from the dormitory. Together, they flee the campus and face the apocalypse. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Apocalypse: From Fighting My Way Through the School Building to Rebuilding Home 末世：从杀穿教学楼到重建家园 [No supernatural powers + realistic survival + one heroine + a small ensemble cast] The zombie outbreak began thirteen days before the college entrance exams. Lin Mubai, a high school student, had just finished his cleaning duty when he heard the first scream. Then the whole world began to plunge into the abyss, and he led the surviving students to the rooftop. With no way out, he took up a weapon and fought his way through the entire school building. Lin Mubai always thought this was just an or 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Nightmare Campus: The School Belle’s Best Friend Is Infected with the Zombie Virus 噩梦校园，校花的闺蜜感染丧尸病毒。 Nightmare Campus: The School Beauty's Best Friend Is Infected with a Zombie Virus. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Apocalypse Arrives, Part One 末世来临一 A virus strikes, panic spreads, and society gradually spirals out of control. This ultra-realistic zombie novel has no special effects, no boosts, and nothing fantastical. After the zombie virus breaks out, the protagonist, an ordinary nobody, struggles to survive. The story documents in detail the crisis before the outbreak, the panic as it unfolds, and the chaos after everything completely falls apart. From a society governed by law to the law of the jungle, from an ordinary young man to a har —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Global Doomsday: When the Stars Shine 全球末日：群星闪耀时 A casual spark of inspiration, a casual beginning, without much thought, no outline, no reason for anything. Just something I wrote for fun. Don't read it. (Tosses it aside) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Divine Edict of Fate 命运神旨 A pair of eyes appeared on the distant horizon. The clouds shifted in an instant, and the sky turned strange. Then the world met its destruction. In just one day, human society collapsed completely. A man wielding the Thousand-Extinction Blade rose amid the apocalypse, slaughtering countless zombies and monsters in search of the legendary crystal. What will he face in this world overrun by zombies and monsters? My name is Lin Mu. Are you ready to meet your death? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 From the Start, I'm a Murder Suspect: With a Life as Tough as Mine, Nothing Scares Me 开局成了杀人嫌疑犯：命硬全不怕 At the kindergarten in Pearl Garden, the children were happily playing on the playground. Suddenly, countless stones the size of quail eggs rained down from the sky, pelting the children. Tragedy struck. Three children fell into pools of blood and never got back up. Eighteen-year-old Xia Yiran came to Pearl Garden to deliver food, only to be mistakenly detained as a murderer. Then a sudden downpour triggered a landslide, leaving the police unable to reach the area. Facing parents desperate for r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Academy Is Dead: I Should Have Fed That Goody-Two-Shoes to the Zombies 学院已死：果然应该把圣母喂丧尸 [Scheming male lead + saintly second male lead + adorably clueless heroine + no System + team survival in the apocalypse + divided into chapters] A zombie crisis suddenly breaks out in N Province. Everyone infected turns into a terrifying, bloodthirsty monster. Yun Zhitong and her fellow students at N Province Institute of Technology begin their struggle to survive the apocalypse. What sparks will fly when this group of people, each with a very different personality, bands together to survive? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Dark Light: Origin 暗光：起源 My new work is out! Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novels. I hope you will enjoy it. Your support is my motivation for writing, and I will strive to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Zombie Outbreak: My Brothers and I Escape Alive 丧尸爆发，我和兄弟们逃出生天 [Apocalypse] + [Zombies] + [Unhinged Hero and Heroine] + [Strong Hero and Strong Heroine] A campus, meant to be a place of learning, was suddenly overrun by zombies on an ordinary midday. As the school, and then the entire city, fell, the survivors felt powerless to stay alive, yet had no choice but to try to escape... After countless breakouts, painful separations, and losses, they continued to grow, hoping the chaos would eventually end... But when everything seemed to herald a bright future r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Apocalypse: The Last Pure Land 末世：最后一片净土 The flu unleashes catastrophe! Shifting tectonic plates trigger volcanic eruptions! Human genes mutate, turning people into zombies! The sixth mass extinction is upon us! Cities become ruins, and people fight to the death over supplies! Mistrust among people is deadlier than zombies! On this road through the apocalypse, there is only forward. There is no way back! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Doomsday Battle Royale: Starting with the Fall of the Entire School 末日大逃杀：从全校沦陷开始 [Growth-oriented heroine + ensemble cast + romance + school zombie apocalypse + no special powers + pure love] The apocalypse arrives, and the whole school falls. Faced with hordes of zombies, Lin Jiao has just one word: “Run!” 124Reads—Score104Shelves
- 31 Zombie Apocalypse Survival, Starting in an Apartment Building 从居民楼开始的丧尸末日求生 [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no brainless readers + Zombie Apocalypse + No Mutations + Building a Faction + Relationships + Rebuilding Civilization] I’m a struggling web novelist, and I did a lot of research to write this book. But before I even started, I knew the book was finished. Just as I got everything ready and planned to write in earnest, the truth from inside the book came to pass: the zombie apocalypse began. 188Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 32 Three Hundred Tang Corpse Strikes 唐尸三百手 Li Qing opened his eyes to find himself transmigrated to the height of the Kaiyuan era, in the body of Li Qing, the Tang Emperor Xuanzong's eighteenth son. He thought he was about to start an overpowered life in the Tang dynasty, but then a secret letter suddenly arrived from beyond the frontier: people at the border were devouring one another like beasts, and blood had flowed for three thousand miles. The Tang dynasty... was in danger! 41Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 33 Apocalypse: I Lead My Classmates in a Desperate Fight for Survival 末世：我带同学极限求生 [Intelligent zombies + no rebirth + no supernatural abilities + no System + no female lead] Lu Tianyi wakes up one day to find that the world is about to change! “Ahhh!” A piercing scream rings out. Zombies begin spreading across the campus. With so many different sources of information, there’s no way to tell what’s true and what isn’t… Fear, darkness, and uncertainty fill people’s hearts. Where can they go from here? Sometimes kindness gives others the weapon they need to kill you. Pain a 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 After the Apocalypse, I Fight My Way Out with My Roommates 末世后跟舍友杀出重围 (Apocalypse + Teamwork + Strong Female Leads + Multiple Couples + Romantic Tension + Fighting Monsters and Leveling Up) [Before you read: This story is aimed at female readers. The main cast is a group of girls sharing a dorm, and none of them are scheming types. It focuses on friendship, solidarity, and getting along peacefully. There is no fixed male lead, but each girl will have a soulmate or love interest, or someone she has romantic tension with. They won't lose their heads over men or be w 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Help! The School Is Full of Zombies! 救命！学校里全是丧尸！ After an explosion during chemistry lab, students and staff across the school began biting each other like maniacs. Just as school bully Wu Xu blocked the stairs to seize supplies, the dean of discipline suddenly mutated into a special zombie that could open doors… The characters and names in this novel are all taken from another of the author's works, Help! The School Is Full of Impostors. You can think of this as an Easter egg or a story about the main cast in a parallel universe. Hope yo 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Zombies 丧尸 The apocalypse has arrived, and zombies are everywhere! This apocalyptic disaster will reveal another side of human nature: redemption, justice, and struggle! The most terrifying thing isn't the zombies, but the human heart. Humanity is confined within shelter bases, and a new order is about to be established! This is a world where the strong prey on the weak. Will you settle for a quiet, safe life, or risk everything to fight for what you want? … When you gaze into the depths of space, every u 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Zombie Horde Breaks Out, and I Start Reclaiming the Wasteland 丧尸潮暴发，我在末世开荒 Zombies erupted without warning, and the apocalypse threw the world into chaos. The long-awaited weekend of Su Hang, an ordinary office worker, was ruined by the hordes of zombies, forcing him to struggle for survival. He and his companions fought their way out of the city, overcame countless dangers, and rebuilt their home. No supernatural abilities, no golden finger, no System, no spatial storage, no saintly protagonist, and no massive stockpiling. This story is all about realism. P.S. The mai 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 After the Zombie Outbreak, I Can See Plant Status Panels! 丧尸爆发后，我能看到植物面板！ (Not Reborn + No Romance + Growing Lead + Special Abilities + No System) When everyone else awakens their abilities and slaughters their way through the apocalypse, Lin Sang can only stare at the energy in her palm and cry... What?! A spider plant that can shield people from zombies? A sunflower that heals and fires seeds like bullets? When the apocalypse came, even plants underwent amazing changes. A huge piece of news has recently rocked the base: a plant has been robbing passersby of their cr 124Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 39 Zombies: Breaking Through the Encirclement 丧尸：突出重围 Synopsis They say there are too many people, so the population needs to be controlled. So someone pretended to be God and began to punish humanity. But do they have the right to do that? 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Campus Zombie Apocalypse 校园丧尸末日 On the eighth day of the viral outbreak, a secluded boarding high school in southern China has become a living hell. Eighteen-year-old Lin Nana, a senior, teams up with her four roommates: athlete Xu Shiyu, classmate Sun Qian, and repeat student Wang Yali. Together, they struggle to survive in a campus strewn with corpses... 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Apocalypse: I'm to Be Executed Tomorrow, but the Dead Rise Worldwide Tonight 末世：明天枪毙我，今晚全球尸变 He was a special forces soldier sentenced to death. In court, someone spat on him. He didn't wipe it away. The prosecutor recommended immediate execution. He didn't argue. The judge asked him for his final words. He said, “Let it all burn.” That night, the world really did end. The prisoners turned into zombies, and the corridors became slaughterhouses. Ling Han broke his handcuffs, picked up a knife, and fought his way alone through the entire death-row block. He saved someone. That person turn 1.4kReads5.3Score102Shelves
- 42 Surrounded by Zombies: I Am a Survivor 丧尸围城之我是幸存者 When the zombie virus really breaks out, what are we supposed to do? Slowly get used to it and accept it, or take a chance for ourselves and fight for what seems like a better future? What will you choose: live for yourself, or protect others? My name is Ling Chen. This is my story. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Apocalypse: It Started When I Rescued a Beautiful Coworker 末世，从救下美女同事开始 (No superpowers + no System + not reborn + one female lead) (This story aims to portray an ordinary person's realistic struggle to survive) Zhang Hong, a corporate wage slave who graduated from college not long ago, works endless overtime every day and can never pay off his debts. The pressure from his boss and the stress of the job have taught him what it means to get chewed up by society. Then one day, a mysterious virus strikes, and zombies overrun the globe. All those problems disappear, rep 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Doomsday Descends: The Campus Survival Route 末日降临：校园求生路 My name is Lin Mo. I'm a third-year student at a mediocre second-tier college in Nancheng. In a crowd, I'm the kind of ordinary guy you glance at once and never remember… 175Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 From the Start, I Stockpile Supplies: The Apocalypse Won't Get the Better of Me! 开局屯物资：末世休想难住我！ [Apocalypse + zombies + superpowers + powerful heroine and hero] A mysterious phone call tells Jiang Ning that the world will end in a month. The caller turns out to be her own self from ten years in the future! Zombies overrunning the city? A raging plague? The end of the world? Jiang Ning thinks it sounds a little far-fetched, but she also kind of believes it's true, leading to a scene like this: “Ms. Jiang, here's the 500 tons of rice you ordered!” “Ms. Jiang, here's the 500 boxes of instant 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Cold of the Apocalypse 末日之寒 A zombie-apocalypse survival story about teamwork. No rebirth, no special powers, no evolution, no cheats, no harem, no self-sacrificing saint. Everyone is smart and capable. Pure-love warriors! A sweet romance and realistic survival. My name is Han Feng, and I'm a third-year college student. One ordinary day, a terrifying zombie crisis erupted all around me. My teammates and I fought on, for survival and for the light of humanity! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 So This Is What an Apocalypse That Follows the Laws of Science Looks Like 原来符合科学知识的末世是这样的 I strive for realism above all! No protagonist plot armor, no data System, no superhuman intelligence, no supplies on hand, no harem collecting, no evolution or mutation. At the heart of this book is an exploration of human reason and bonds, and the conflict between emotion and reality in extreme circumstances. There is no saintly savior who compassionately rescues the world, nor any selfish person who claims to be “decisive and ruthless” out of mere reckless bravery. People struggling through t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 My Doomsday Dorm: My Stockpile Became a Survival Bible 末日宿舍我的囤货成了生存圣经 In a tiny campus where order has collapsed, a mocked “fat nerd” uses reason, carefully hoarded supplies, spatial memory, and hard-won knowledge bought with blood and tears to turn a dormitory into a fortress and forge a team into a family. Real survival isn’t about killing the most. It’s about calculating accurately, holding out, and remembering every face that disappears. When zombies evolve intelligence, the survivors’ only weapon is to be more “human” than they are, while understanding more c 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Second Chance: A Guide to Raising Zombies in the Apocalypse 第二次机会：末日丧尸饲养指南 Apocalyptic natural disasters / Multiple types of mutated zombies / Strong female and male leads / A safe house built around a wish / Pets / Character growth Survive and thrive in an apocalyptic zombie-raising game! Lin Mo has struggled to make a life for herself, only to be betrayed and killed by a scumbag man and woman in the apocalypse. Given another chance, she unlocks an infinite supply of resources across space and time! She gets revenge and slaughters her way through the apocalypse! Afte —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 How Did New Student Military Training Turn Us into Zombies? 新生军训怎么训成丧尸了？ [Apocalypse] [No supernatural powers] [School] [No female lead] [No saintly do-gooders] Chen Wang, a high school sophomore just starting the new school year, was still congratulating himself on making it to his second year without having to endure military training when he realized something even more terrifying might be about to happen. This is a story about a bunch of ordinary, goofy high school students. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
