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- 1 Mechanical Wasteland Hunters 机械猎荒团 [No female lead] [Slow burn, not for everyone] [Character growth] Since ancient times, the human heart has been the hardest thing to fathom. You never know whether a teammate who stood by your side just a moment ago will point their gun at you the next. When supplies are scarce, water is hard to come by, and survival seems all but impossible, no one can be an absolutely good person. Machines are different. They don't need supplies or water, nor do they need emotional comfort or physical intimacy 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 This Mecha Salvager Is a Little Unhinged 这个机甲垃圾佬有点抽象 [Mecha]+ [Livestream]+ [Absurd] “Do you think you’re a mecha engineer?” Gu Xia, confidently: “I think I am!” “Then why did you put together this heap of scrap metal?” Gu Xia: “What are you talking about!? They’re just old. That doesn’t mean they don’t perform well!” In an era when everyone pursues luxurious mecha, Gu Xia carries on the spirit of a junkyard tinkerer, bringing piles of scrap metal back to life. Along the way, he also sparks a quiet revolution, giving countless ordinary people the 150Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 3 Mechanical Frenzy: The Age of Mecha for All 机械狂潮：全民机甲时代 [Fierce Mecha Battles] [War Between Races] [Interstellar Conquest] [No Harem] [Descent into Darkness] [Reborn] This is a feast of mecha battles. That day, the angel with white wings became a demon, wantonly destroying humanity’s warplanes. At that moment, countless bugs burst out of the ground, devouring humans like ants. In that second, humanity’s last remaining warriors piloted their mechs in a final charge. Blood rained from the sky. Who could have imagined that the proud divine race would be 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Star Core in Motion: The Battle for Luota 斗转星核：罗塔争锋 [Tragic Hero] [Powerful from the Start] [Thrilling Battles] [Interstellar Conquest] [Mecha Showdowns] [Interplanetary War] [Starships] [Original Coming-of-Age Story] What? I’ve been stripped of my clan membership? What kind of joke is this? You want to play dirty tricks with me? Fine, then we’re done playing! … A long-planned conspiracy changed my world. My loved ones fell, my mentor was brutally killed, and my family cast me out, making me a hunted target. The brother I once trusted most becam 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Gundam: Stardust Rhapsody 高达，星尘叙事曲 There have always been two schools of thought in human history: truth is greater than life, and life is greater than truth. When people want to start a war, they loudly proclaim the former. When they want to end one, they bring out the latter. Who will live and who will die cannot be known until the war is over. The only certainty is that whenever a beautiful flash lights up, several people, or several hundred, have already become dust in the universe. In this vast cosmos, humanity continues to 842Reads8.0Score111Shelves
- 6 Mecha in the Apocalypse: State Your Name, Challenger 末世机甲：来将可通姓名 What kind of sparks will fly when mecha meet mechanical puppet arts? If humanity exists to keep the numbers of alien beasts in check, what path should it take? If every line can be moved, should humanity even be allowed to live? When an army of mechanical puppets surrounds the city, state your name, general! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I Use the Titanfall System to Become a Warlord 我用铁驭系统当霸主 In 2077, Earth was invaded and humanity teetered on the brink of extinction. By chance, Ye Yun was reborn seven years in the past and awakened the Titan Pilot System. He became a Titan pilot, led the team of pilots he had assembled, destroyed the Apostles, took down warships, wiped out the AI civilization, and broke through the universe to embark on a journey toward even more distant civilizations... 227Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 8 Divine Mecha Master 神迹机甲师 Mecha upgrades + insectoid invasion + interstellar warfare + warrior evolution + a rise from the bottom (This book is a slow burn, but it gets more exciting as it goes on.) This is a mecha world of interstellar warfare, where countless civilizations climb the tree of technology and embark on the path of genetic evolution in the face of insectoid invasion. There are mechas larger than planets, warriors who can shatter a planet with one punch, and those who use mental power to control everything 4.3kReads8.8Score366Shelves
- 9 Daily Life Aboard the Rongtian 容天号上的日常 A slice-of-life companion to the main story, Guifu Laisheng. It focuses on the protagonists' lives aboard the Rongtian outside the main mecha battles. Since most of these events have little to do with the main plot, weaving them into it would slow the story down, so they have been collected in a separate volume centered on everyday life. Although the stories are episodic, most chapters note at the beginning which part of the main story they take place before or after. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Mecha Are Outdated? From the Start, I Build Crimson Typhoon! 机甲过时？开局打造暴风赤红！ Qin Feng transmigrates into an extraordinary world where games have merged with reality, and successfully awakens the Mecha Master class! He thinks he’s set, but to his surprise, mechs have become obsolete in this era, and his class is even branded an Old-Era class! Fortunately, Qin Feng awakens the Mechanical Deity System and builds one mech after another, each imbued with extraordinary power. Crimson Typhoon, the Transformers, Unit-01, King of Beasts, Freedom Gundam, Zeorymer of the Heavens, a 1.2kReads8.2Score127Shelves
- 11 The Legend of Lianya 涟亚传 A personal story of Captain Ma Lianya from Guifu Laisheng. It tells the first half of Ma Lianya's life, including how she was modified ten years ago, the torment of missing her son throughout those ten years, and how she became captain of the Rongtian. The ending leads right into the opening of the main Guifu Laisheng story. 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Return to This Life II: The Zhuang Zhou Project 归复来生贰之庄周计划 After bringing the last war to an end, Ma Lianya, captain of the Rongtian, a dual-soul, joint-alliance aerospace carrier, returned to the Guilling Temple on Mount Jufeng in Laoshan to report to her master. There she met her new junior sister, Meng Die. But while she was still recuperating at the temple, a new war broke out. The Federation's Jupiter Expeditionary Force, which had traveled to Jupiter to gather resources twenty years earlier, had returned. Ma Lianya had no choice but to pilot the X 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Back to a New Life 归复来生 [Please read the manga version with the same title, where the characters and setting are more fully developed. This book was rushed and ended up poorly written, with incomplete characters and plot.] Ma Lianya, captain of the Union Alliance's space carrier Rongtian, carries the powerful psychic abilities of her late husband, Chen Tianxing, within her womb. Their son, Chen Jie, is a technical officer, and their daughter-in-law, Xia Xiaoyu, is a mecha pilot. Shen Molan is a ruthless, cold-hearted f 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Global Class Change: They Call Me the Intelligent Machine Calamity 全民转职：他们叫我智械天灾 In an era when everyone can change classes, ability users, martial artists, and mages are the three major professions shaping humanity's future. Now, one person's appearance will bring a fourth major profession: the mechanic. As the psionic shield glows blue and cold streams of data flicker in crimson electronic eyes, countless emotionless metal war machines rampage across the battlefield. Dark energy weapons bring death and destruction, and every enemy loses the will to fight. You want to know 27.3kReads7.9Score2kShelves
- 15 Mech Engineer: Interstellar Hunter 机械师：星际猎人 [Mecha + no System + sound logic + a slow burn + no overpowered protagonist (readers who like mindless domination from beginning to end, beware), a mortal body standing shoulder to shoulder with the gods] [Brought to you by Tong Qian, dedicated to quality fiction!] The Ninth Prison is the largest and most secure prison in the Kingdom of Karl. Since it was built over six hundred years ago, no one has ever escaped. Its fairly good benefits have made it the dream workplace of every prison guard in 1.3kReads8.7Score124Shelves
- 16 Power Armor: I'm the Great Demon King of the Galaxy! 战甲，我就是银河大魔王！ Tens of billions of years later, the Milky Way and Andromeda collided in a cataclysm. All civilizations were wiped out. A new galaxy formed, and civilizations sprang up like shoots after rain, taking root and flourishing in this new galaxy. The clashes of powered armor, mechs, and starships ushered in a new era! Xia Mu was born in the remote and terrifying Asura Domain, a chaotic, lawless place where danger and opportunity went hand in hand. Its outlaws faced the harshest environments with the w 2.9kReads8.9Score212Shelves
- 17 You All Spend Money in the Game, So I'll Just Spend My Lifespan 你们都氪金，那我只好氪命了 [Mecha + Rebellious Male Lead + Physical Body-Snatching + Comedy + Passionate Battles + Slow Burn, Not an Invincible Hero from the Start] After transmigrating to a mecha world, Wang Dang spent eighteen years scavenging garbage before suddenly binding himself to an utterly unreliable System that promised to help him show off and take flight. He thought he was about to rely on the System to reach the peak of his life, but it turned out he awakened his Star Energy Master talent on his own. His extr 15.3kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves
- 18 The Mechanic Who Started in the Wilderness! 从荒野开始的机械师！ Lin Feng was reborn in the wilderness. After thirty days of sign-in, he would receive a cosmic treasure. These treasures were said to be capable of changing the balance of power across an entire universe! But who could have guessed that the treasures had to be picked up in person, with no delivery included… 8.4kReads9.0Score584Shelves
- 19 Blood and Blades: Star Wars Storm 血与刀：星战风暴 [Mecha] [Farming] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Female Lead] [Everyday Life]“The warfront doesn’t need heroes. It only needs beasts that survive until tomorrow.” But you’re determined to smash that bullshit rule! When your mecha burns, your flesh and blood become your blade. When the world turns its back on you, your lone courage becomes your banner! Amid this raging tide of steel and corpses, only the fire in your bones can rekindle the embers of civilization! Face the apocalypse with nothing but bl 21kReads8.1Score2.4kShelves
- 20 Apocalypse: The Holy Armored Soldier, Definitely Not EVA! 末世之圣装机兵，真不是EVA！ [Apocalypse + hard sci-fi + no System, no golden finger + Lovecraftian horror + interstellar war + invincible] As the shadow of destruction blots out the sky, humanity's civilization has only seven days left. That day, a god descended without warning over Tokyo. With absolute power, it declared the end of the old era, turning a prosperous world into scorched earth and wasteland in just one week... The survivors cling to life in despair. To reclaim their lost home, they pour every resource the 578Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Apocalypse Mecha: I Sign In from the Start and Accidentally Pick a Power Bank 末世机甲：开局签到错选充电宝 He transmigrated to a post-apocalyptic future. With the ecosystem destroyed, a thousand fortresses rose from the ground as humanity's last habitable refuge. But Xin Feng was thrown outside from the start. Radiation and toxic gas made it impossible for Xin Feng, an ordinary person, to survive in that environment. Luckily, the cheat he got from the sign-in choice arrived just as he was about to die. Choose one of two: a potion that improves your constitution so you can survive, or an incredibly po 1.9kReads8.9Score169Shelves
- 22 Throne of the Mecha King 机甲王座 In the world of the future, impoverished boy Xia Xingchen is caught in a cave-in while mining. Trapped underground, he stumbles upon an ancient laboratory and discovers a crystal pyramid and the history of the ancient ape people's wars. He learns that gods truly exist in this world, and from then on, this ordinary boy sets out on the path to the pinnacle of power. 5.6kReads8.5Score598Shelves
- 23 EN Awakening Forty-Two Thousand Years Later 苏醒于四十二个千年之后 Forty-two millennia later, the entire empire was engulfed in endless war. The Human Imperium struggled to maintain its rule, while facing savage assaults from alien species, covert sabotage by Chaos cults, and corruption and power struggles within its own ranks. The AI forces, the Iron Men, had been all but wiped out in the wars of the past. But Ax, an intelligent Iron Man commander accidentally brought back online, was inevitably drawn into the tangled conflicts among all sides. 9kReads9.2Score743Shelves
- 24 Mechanical Ascension in the Apocalypse 末世里的机械飞升 [Apocalypse + No heroine + Ruthless and decisive + Mecha + Warships + Pure technology] I transmigrated and lost my physical body, becoming... a machine... This is a world plagued by disasters, a world invaded by alien beasts... It's filled with darkness and slaughter... Powered by technology, an army of machines descends upon the apocalypse. Legendary mecha, warships, and all kinds of sci-fi weapons burst onto the scene, crushing everything in their path... (Starts out half mechanical, but soon 2.6kReads9.2Score220Shelves
- 25 High Martial Recovery Clinic: I Help Patients Ascend Through Machinery! 高武疗养店：我助患者机械飞升！ [High-martial arts + mechanical ascension] Lu Qing transmigrates as a martial arts physician. He expects to spend his whole life keeping his head down at the base, but then he activates the [Divine Mechanic Physician System]! “Ding! Flesh is weak. Host, lead the whole world toward mechanical ascension!” From the start, he upgrades mechanical limbs! Disabled martial artists everywhere get a new lease on life! Insufficient vital energy and heart failure? Build a mechanical heart, the perfect solut 7.3kReads8.8Score641Shelves
- 26 EN Starry Sky Martial Venerable: My Mech Era 星空武尊：我的机甲时代 Mecha are a man's romance, and conquering the stars with mecha is an even greater romance! A vast universe, five great empires, subdimensional lifeforms, cosmic oddities, living planets, wars across dimensions, and atomic calamities! How can you conquer the universe if you're too weak? This is the story of a mecha-obsessed boy who grows stronger and stronger as he conquers the universe. 6.5kReads9.0Score523Shelves
- 27 Necromancer in a World of Warcraft 异世魔兽之死灵法师 [Warhammer universe + necromancer + apocalyptic disaster + World of Warcraft + mecha space battles] A young man transmigrates to an alien planet. This is a World of Warcraft where spirit and flesh, virtual and real, blend together: a living hell where artillery, machines, armored vehicles, and Warcraft tribes wage a bloody struggle against one another. The planet is ruled by a group of Warcraft lords, and humans are nothing more than “ants” at the bottom of the food chain! Want to avoid becoming —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 EN Pacific Rim: The Great Wall's Vigil 环太平洋-长城守望 Luo Sen looked up at the steel giant. This thing had only ever appeared in movies and comics. It wasn’t until the “Seagull Project” was launched that men’s dreams finally became reality. To fight monsters, we created monsters. (Hong Kong Shatterdome Base:) 1.1kReads9.3Score137Shelves
- 29 Mecha: Can Your Beast Tamer Beat a Gundam? 机甲：你的御兽能打过高达吗 [Mecha + Beast Taming + Light Comedy + A power fantasy, but not a pure power fantasy (the protagonist isn't invincible from birth, so readers who want him to mindlessly slaughter his way through the story should steer clear) + Relatively rigorous plot logic (note: the plot logic is rigorous, not the setting. A fantasy setting can't be made to conform entirely to reality).] [A Tongqian production: only the best!] Beast Tamer: “My spirit beast is a fire-type Earthflame Jiao. It's a hundred meters 1.4kReads9.1Score606Shelves
- 30 EN The Third Era of the Astral Realm 星界第三纪元 [Three avatars] + [Alchemist] + [Esper] + [Giant beasts] + [Epic worldbuilding] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [Invincible protagonist] After Blue Star explodes, Luo Ge transmigrates through time and space carrying the [Miracle Artifact: Eye of Insight]. His soul is digitized and split into three, each part becoming an independent personality and setting off on a different path to transcendence. The alchemist Luo Ge pursues truth and the path to omniscience and omnipotence. “See Through Truth” “Alc 29.3kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
- 31 You Asked Me to Open a Repair Shop, So Why Am I Starting a Mecha War? 让你开维修店，你掀起机战风暴？ "Sonny! Mom and Dad are leaving. Don't miss us!" The young man stands at home, staring at the letter in his hands, completely frozen. "Sonny! Mom and Dad aren't that heartless. We got you a little repair shop. You'd better work hard!" Young man: ... "You call this rundown warehouse a repair shop?" Just then, the System awakens, and the dilapidated warehouse before him transforms into the best mech repair shop on the planet. "Boss... isn't your price for repairing mechs a little too high? It's ju 70.7kReads8.9Score8.1kShelves
- 32 From Mecha Pilot to Starfleet Commander: I Rule the Stars 从开机甲到星海舰队，我统御群星 (Modern warfare + mechs + starships + galactic scale + farming on a colonized planet + decisive combat + exhilarating battles. The author has a highly rated previous novel with 2.4 million words. Read with confidence.) Standard version: Li Xin wakes up on the colonized planet Guansuo IV. Guns, cannons, tanks, fighter aircraft, mechs, starships. Together, they forge a future of blood and fire. Tens of thousands of interstellar warships stand ready, along with countless void mechs. Dense beams fro 38.7kReads9.1Score4kShelves
- 33 A Magic Mecha War? No, an Iron Tide! 魔法机甲战争？不，钢铁洪流！ In a world of magic and battle auras, the goblin race rises to power with colossal combat mechs! Every race rushes to follow suit, and war rages without end! But the natives of this otherworld have been blinded by the aesthetics of violence! Now and in the future, let me teach you what kind of mecha embodies a man's romance! Let me teach you what kind of propulsion brings a flood of steel! Let me teach you what kind of weapon delivers the deterrence of nuclear peace! Let me teach you what a full 17.5kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 34 The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌 (This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles 238Reads9.0Score161Shelves
- 35 The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车 Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记：星尘之战 Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候 Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 Across the Ocean 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 EN Surviving on a Forsaken Star: Combine Identical Junk into Brand-New Gear 弃星生存：相同垃圾合成全新装备 After the Second Era, Earth became the largest technological junkyard in the Milky Way. A scavenger's cloak billows in the wind as Cheng Qi stands atop a mountain of trash. [Similar technological object detected] [Beginning synthesis] [Damaged Nanny Bot], [Safety-Guard Nanny Bot], [Environment-Adaptive Nanny Bot]! [Mechanical Exploration Shoes], [Mechanical Exploration Leggings], [Jet-Powered Turbine Boots]! [Surgical Assistant Gloves], [Intelligent Assistant Gloves], [Gravity-Field Adjustment G 302.8kReads9.1Score46.3kShelves
- 42 The Full-Time Sword Cultivator 全职剑修 [Qingjiu's New Novel] Lin Jichen was a master at the Dao Enlightenment Realm in Eight Wastelands, the strongest spell cultivator under heaven. He should have had countless admirers, the power to command the winds and rain, and an boundless path to immortality. But after his lover and sworn brother both betrayed him, he was tricked into entering the lair of Zhulong, a Level-to-Immortality Realm boss. In the end, he died in the jaws of a beast, his body and soul destroyed. Unexpectedly, fate gave 28.8kReads9.1Score919Shelves
- 43 Rebirth as a Demonic Cultivator: Starting with a Zombie Planet 重生魔修，开局捡到一颗丧尸星球 This novel has been adapted into a comic. Chu Xuan transmigrates to the Cangxuan World and becomes a demonic cultivator in the Wuji Sect. To cultivate the demonic path is to seize the essence of heaven and earth and take the finest of all things. Slaughter countless millions, and you can become a supreme Demon Venerable. But killing is forbidden by the Heavenly Dao of the human race. The righteous sects also wiped out the Wuji Sect. Just when all seemed lost, Chu Xuan happens upon a blood mirror 15.6kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
- 44 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
- 45 EN City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 475.8kReads9.7Score67.4kShelves
