Novels like The Eighteenth Level of Despair
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- 51 Hell Station 地狱车站 [Horror Infinite-Loop + Hell Apartment Style + Supernatural + Deduction + Bizarre + No Couple + No Female Lead + Ensemble Cast] There is a Hell Station in this world. They say every train departing from it leads to Hell, and the only way to truly leave is to complete mission after mission. Ye Luo, who suffers from a mental illness, stumbles into it by accident. “Welcome to Hell Station.” “Who am I? I’m just a servant of Hell.” First Train: Jigsaw [Completed] Second Train: Plague [Completed] 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Quick Transmigration: A Meteorite Fell, and We Switched Fates 快穿：陨石降临，我们交换了命运 [Soft Sci-Fi + Parallel Worlds + Quick Transmigration + Mystery and Wild Speculation + Ensemble Cast] A meteorite crashed into Earth, disrupting the magnetic field and cutting off communications. A small town more than eight hundred kilometers away seemed untouched, but an invisible crack quietly appeared. Step through a door and you transmigrate; cross a threshold and your fate changes. The living dead, long-buried unsolved cases, and forbidden secrets reappear again and again in the gaps betwe 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Fragments of Divine Miracles 神迹残章 The altar has collapsed, and the believers are lost. He was going to make a run for it, but tens of thousands knelt before him on the spot. "That thing you said last night... Those were God's words!" I was just passing by and said it offhand. How did it come true? That day, Shi Su became a false god. He had no divinity and no magic, only one "doctrine misunderstood by his believers" after another, yet they brought him step by step closer to the throne of a true god. "If the gods won't speak, the 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Don’t Call My Book Trash, There Are Real Ghosts in My Game 劝你别说我书烂，我游戏里真有鬼 [Just opened with a score of 6.6, and it’s still rising. I’ve put my heart into crafting this, so read with confidence.] [Infinite Flow] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Thriller Game] [Daily Card Draws] [One Heroine] [Smart Protagonist] I’m Chen Qing, a struggling writer nicknamed the “Eunuch-in-Chief.” I’m so stuck on my new novel that I want to bang my head against the wall. To find inspiration, I gritted my teeth and bought an “Absurd World” game pod on installments. But as soon as I entered the game, 5Reads6.6Score12214d adds
- 55 The Demon Gate Puppet 诡门人偶 [Infinite-dungeon horror + dark humor + outrageous antics + daily life + absurdity = the author's a total menace] Xu Zhifan and Chen Yu are just two ordinary office workers. Nine to nine, six days a week; meager pay, endless overtime. Until one day, the two of them are apparently “kidnapped” and taken to an unfamiliar villa. In the villa's courtyard stands a door, silent and still. Beyond it lies a resort where a considerate butler “sees the guests out”; an unsolved case in which they have —Reads—Score114d adds
- 56 Infinite Horror Instances 无限惊悚副本 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] [Not a Power Fantasy] [Not Invincible] Players tackle horror instances to gain power and wealth. No one who enters this place is kind. Each is the embodiment of one of the Ten Deadly Sins, with unfathomable darkness hidden in their hearts. But what awaits them at the end? What kind of ending could be worthy of all the turmoil and suffering they’ve endured along the way? I don’t know either. Perhaps the answer lies at the end of the book. 117Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Infinite Train: The Trackwalker 无限列车：巡轨者号 [Infinite-Flow + Ensemble Cast + Light Romance. Combat-Focused Female Lead + Strategist Male Lead.] No overpowered path to godhood. Just ordinary people struggling to survive. In the void, a train with no final destination rolls onward. Here, survival is the only rule. Players awaken supernatural abilities based on their traits, then struggle through instances involving apocalypse, horror, puzzles, survival, and even killing one another, all to earn the “credits” that keep them alive. Some lose 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 I Transmigrated into a Cultivation World, Then Entered an Infinite Space 穿越仙侠的我又进入无限空间 After transmigrating to a world of immortal cultivation, Li Hongsheng assumed his next chapter would be about relying on his golden finger to attain immortality. But on the day he came of age, he received an invitation from Blue Star that opened up an infinite number of worlds. 1.4kReads8.0Score10214d adds
- 59 Death Rewind: Struggling to Survive in a Death Game 死亡回档：我在死亡游戏艰难求生 (Original dungeons) (No mindless characters) (No invincible protagonist) (No female lead) A playground for gods, a cradle for desperate souls. After dying, nineteen-year-old Song Ming transmigrated into the body of a boy with the same name. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was thrown into a death game. The [Death Rewind] talent he gained seemed like the perfect way to stay alive, but every mission pushed survival to its limits. His very first mission almost became his last. 445Reads8.1Score11314d adds
- 60 A Dreamlike Scene of Nanke 南柯幻景 [Chinese-Style Infinite Flow + Strange Tales from Ancient Books + Rule-Based Suspense + Six-Person Ensemble] If you discovered that every classical poem you memorized as a child concealed a loophole from which a living person could never escape, would you dare turn to the next page? While restoring a damaged page from a Song-era printed volume, ancient book restorer Qu Youyang was dragged into the Nanke realm behind the lines of poetry. "At Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou," why does the temple bel 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Research Report on Abnormal Deities 非正常神明研究报告 When mythology invades reality, indescribable ancient gods lurk beneath neon lights. Everyone else kneels in terror and prays, but he’s wondering where to make the first incision. The morgue beneath City Third Hospital: freezer 444 is suddenly kicked open. Xiao Xiao, whose cause of death is listed as “heart failure,” sits up inside his body bag. Looking at the Night Watch squad arriving to contain the reanimated corpse, he calmly pushes up his nonexistent glasses. “Don’t panic. I just died in a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 A Guest Without a Home: From the Start, I Went on a Rampage in a Psychiatric Hospital 无寄之客：开局在精神病院杀疯了 Also known as: Transmigrating into an Asylum, Taking the Blame First and Becoming a Sage Later Shen Mo never imagined he would be killed by his own hand. He thought the knife wound he gave himself in the psychiatric hospital wasn’t too deep: enough to frame his enemy, but not so bad that he couldn’t make it out alive. But when he collapsed beside the police car, he realized the truth: the human body is incredibly fragile. After transmigrating into another body, he hadn’t even opened his eyes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Source of Reincarnation 轮回源地 An accident sends Wang Ran into a zombie world ahead of schedule. In this world where people devour one another, the only way to survive is to keep getting stronger. [Ding! The Reincarnation Mark has been generated. The summoner will soon be sent to the next world.] [Complete the mission to live. Fail, and you die.] From then on, Wang Ran carries a demonic sword and travels through one world after another. In a dense forest, Wang looks at the hideous monster before him and asks curiously, “So th 287Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 64 Infinite: I'm Deaf, Cut Me Some Slack 无限：我一个聋子你让让我 (The issue with forms of address and references will improve from Chapter 54 onward. It’s a personal writing habit, and I’m sorry for the confusion. The earlier chapters have currently been revised through Chapter 11. The rating just came out, so there aren’t many votes and the score is low.) [Fairly traditional Infinite Flow + team + ensemble cast + a little livestreaming + no System, no romance + summoning] When the renowned ace investigator Gu Zhixi was asked whether anyone on his team was no 130Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 65 National Destiny Instance: I Manifested Fengdu and Scared the Whole World 国运副本，我具现酆都吓哭全球 The nation-fortune supernatural instances descend, and the world has lost its history. Only I, Su He, remember China’s five thousand years! [Ding! The National Fortune Rescue Device has been bound. China’s Underworld completeness detected at 0%.] [Loading Host’s core memory template: Emperor Fengdu!] [Fear points spent: 0. Successfully manifested: Beginner-level Weasel’s Enfeoffment Request] [Congratulations, Host. The Weasel’s Enfeoffment Request instance has earned 100,000 fear points. A speci 628Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 66 Dreaming Through Empathy 共感入梦 [Reborn + mystery + wild imagination + redemption + 1v1] She spends the entire night having nightmares. In her dreams, her mother dies in a sea of flames. When she wakes, her whole body burns with pain. Then she hears the devastating news: her mother has died. She goes from grief-stricken and dazed to unable to believe it. Could everything her mother said in the dream really be true? Later, someone approaches her, claiming to know the mystery of her birth and offering sincere help. She clings to 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Infinite Nightmares: Where's My Golden Finger in This Paranormal World? 无限噩梦：我在诡异里的金手指呢 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Plot-Driven + Mild Horror + Mystery] Lin Jiu is a struggling paranormal livestreamer. That is, until he enters an old apartment building where an elderly woman is laid out for her wake. The person in the coffin counts heads. The mandarin ducks on the red wedding dress have no eyes. In every mirror, another you is standing there. This is a Chinese-style infinite-flow horror scenario. There is only one way to survive: Don't break any taboos. Not even one. 32Reads—Score10114d adds
- 68 Mirror City Loop 镜城循环 If you were trapped in the same day, would you go crazy, or turn it into a game you could beat? College student Lin Che chose the latter. By the 37th time he woke up on July 15, he couldn’t even be bothered to panic. Confessing to the principal in front of everyone, jumping from the fourth floor of an academic building to test the limits of physics, trying every flavor of instant noodles sold in every convenience store in town: he had turned the time loop into a massive open-world game. Then h 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 In the Reincarnation Game, I'm Not the Patient 轮回游戏我不是病人 (Infinite Survival + Instance Worlds + Suspense + High Intelligence + Decisive and Ruthless) Settle in and enjoy the ride. The pace is lightning-fast. The Survival Game of the Myriad Heavens descends, and Lu Chen is swept into the Black Mist Hospital, where the death rate is as high as ninety percent. Monsters roam here, and the rules determine life and death. But Lu Chen awakens the S-rank talent “Precise Analysis,” which lets him see through monsters' weaknesses and loopholes in the rules. Whi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Overtime Is Miserable Enough, and Now I've Been Thrown into a Reincarnation Dungeon! 加班够惨了，还被丢进轮回副本！ I accidentally entered a dungeon. One wrong move, and I could be facing the risk of instant death, but the rewards are incredibly generous. Whatever, this has to be better than going to work! 122Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人，惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Collapse Warning! How Does This Boss Get Stronger the More Hated He Is? 塌房警告！这老板怎么越黑越强啊 In a parallel world, bizarre rules run rampant through the entertainment industry! “Never sing love songs at midnight,” “The top trending topic means certain death”... Lin Yuan, an entertainment company boss who transmigrated into this world, is faced from the start with the impending doom of his girl group, which is about to break a taboo and be wiped out! Fortunately, he awakens the [Scumbag Self-Destruct System]. As long as he has enough haters across the internet, their negative emotions can 5Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 73 The Logic of Sin 犯心罪理 He had no grand finale, no tears. He was just an ordinary man standing on the edge of life and death, struggling through the darkness. “Red” was a scar he refused to uncover; resentment was the foundation he stood on. Perhaps everything had brought this calamity upon him because of that one incident. He was only searching, after all. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31kReads8.0Score4k14d adds
- 75 From Naruto to Ruling the Entire Void 从火影君临整个虚空 Infinite Space is a place full of endless possibilities. If you’re brave enough to fight for it, endless possibilities await. Wang Lin had been an ordinary nobody all his life. He thought he would simply live out his days that way. Then he died unexpectedly and entered Infinite Space. And so, Wang began plotting to seize everything. In the Naruto world: the Scroll of Seals, Sharingan, Wood Release, and tailed beasts. He wanted them all. In the One Piece world: famous swords, Devil Fruits, and al 691Reads7.3Score10114d adds
- 76 The Time-Traveling Crime Casebook 超时空罪案事件簿 To save my critically ill girlfriend, I accidentally activated a mission System. Every time I travel to a crime scene, I take on a completely new identity at random. A female corpse case from the Tang dynasty, a locked-room mystery from the Republican era, an AI murder case... I can trade points for wishes. The stranger the case, the greater the reward. I thought I was a crime-solving genius, until the System’s final message appeared: “Your girlfriend’s illness is actually connected to you...” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Above the Ninth Floor, Starting with a Skinning Game! 九层之上，从剥皮游戏开始！ Infinite Flow + Gu Cultivation + Horror + Mind Games + Combat + Cool-Headedness + Unhinged Male Lead He thought he was a gaming expert. Only after dying did he realize this wasn't a game at all, but an ancient god's furnace for cultivating Gu. You call yourself a god, and we desperately climb the tower, hoping to use your power to bring our loved ones back to life. Little did we know you were the one who set a trap that destroyed my family, using my gaming talent to nourish your soul with Gu. I 33Reads—Score10114d adds
- 78 Becoming a God, Starting by Killing Goblins 成神，从击杀哥布林开始 (No harem, no overpowered protagonist. The female lead is his adoptive sister, with no blood relation, and she won't hold him back. Read with caution if this bothers you.) “A demon rift suddenly appeared in neighboring Qingshui City yesterday. More than a hundred thousand people died. If the nearby army hadn't arrived in time, probably no one in the whole city would have survived. Terrifying!” “Have you heard? A sixth-tier powerhouse from Sakura Nation died in a game world. I think it was the on 2.7kReads8.1Score22214d adds
- 79 Tomb Raiding: Bound to the Daoist System, I Make Huo Xiangu Furious 盗墓：绑定道门系统，气哭霍仙姑 [Tomb-Raiding Nine Gates + System Cultivation + Mystic Eye Appraisal + One Heroine, Huo Xiangu + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] Dong Ye transmigrates into the world of tomb raiding and becomes a fallen young master, only to be taken in as a live-in son-in-law by Huo Xiangu, the new head of the Huo family. He thinks he’s destined to live quietly until he dies. After all, his System panel plainly says he has only thirty days left to live! At the crucial moment, the [Daoist Cultivation System] awak 55.9kReads—Score6.7k14d adds
- 80 Venom from the Start: I Become a God by Devouring 开局毒液，靠吞噬成神 My new work is here! You’re welcome to 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! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 I’m the Protagonist, So How Could I Lose? 我都是主角了还怎么输 Fu Ci's biggest regret was choosing to save money instead of spending it. If he'd paid for a taxi, he wouldn't have gotten on the bus and ended up inside a supernatural instance. At least this trip hadn't been a complete loss. [Ding-dong~ Your System is now online! From now on, every time you spend a set amount of currency, you'll receive an exclusive skill~] Fu Ci's eyes lit up. From then on, he began spending freely, without a care in the world. While others saved, he spent. Seeing the confusi 158Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 82 Rule Horror: Shh, Don't Speak. The Goddess Is Listening 规则怪谈：嘘，别说话，女神在听 Rule Horror: Shh, Don't Speak. The Goddess Is Listening 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Rule Horror: I'm the Food Safety Inspector. You're All Coming with Me! 规则怪谈：我，食安员，收你们来了！ Rule Horror: I’m a food safety inspector. I’m here to take you all in! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Rule Horror: Please Settle the Tutoring Fee for the Haunted Building's Cram School 规则怪谈：麻烦结一下鬼楼补习班补课费 Rule Horror: Please settle the tutoring fees for the haunted building cram school —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Infinite Survival Game 无限生存游戏 This is a game with no end in sight. The only thing you can do is keep surviving! 599Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 86 You Say This Is a Game, So Restarting Is Only Natural, Right? 你说这是游戏，那我重开很正常吧 [Plot-driven] [Fresh worldbuilding] [Slow burn early on] [An outstanding ensemble cast] I am a pawn, a player, and the substance of this final game. We build city walls with flesh and blood, protecting the people within these narrow confines. Cut through every illusion and purge all evil. Let this body be a spear, piercing straight into the abyss of eternal night! This is the City Guards. Wielding holy blades in the wilderness, they suppress false gods beyond the bounds of chaos. With blood offe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Do Not Sink 莫沉沦 (The cover isn't AI-generated. The author commissioned it, so please don't use it without permission.) (By two authors) Also known as "Abyssal Fate Game: I Ignore All the Rules" Note: The Sinking Into Darkness has many instances. This is the first one ↓ (Original folk-culture rules horror + Kind male lead, but not a self-sacrificing saint + Protagonist and supporting characters are nonhuman NPCs + Near-invincible protagonist + Not mindless + No romance, ship whoever you like) (The protagonist do 85Reads—Score35214d adds
- 88 Escape from the Cube World 逃离魔方世界 An otherworldly tale, a transmigration story, an imaginative adventure, a Backrooms story, and a fantasy epic, with an enormous setting and a sweeping world. The author promises to flesh out every detail and fill in every plot hole. The male lead is neither a self-sacrificing saint nor cold-blooded. He’s an ordinary person who can tell right from wrong and good from evil, but he’s also steadfast and strong-willed. His golden finger is hardly overpowered; in fact, for much of the early story, he 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 EN You Slaughter Wraiths by the Dozen? But I'm a Save-Scumming Wraith! 你杀诡如麻？可我是回档诡异！ [Infinite flow + game + mild horror + no heroine + turn-based resets + instances + protagonist is a monster] Readers have left plenty of positive reviews. No undercover troublemakers, so give it a try. Beneath the veil of the “city,” Xu Kai stood amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. His enemies fell one after another, their eyes filled with confusion as they died. His opponents weren’t especially strong. They were more like machines. Every turn, every gesture, was perfectly timed to de 2.2kReads6.5Score25514d adds
- 90 Infinite: These Troublemakers Are Up to Their Tricks Again 无限：这群刁民又整活了 [Infinite tabletop RPG + outrageous plays + Lovecraftian horror + unhinged heroine + a cast full of wisecrackers] On the first day of her vacation, Mu Xiebai is forced into a real-life tabletop role-playing game. In a mall restroom, she finds a corpse with its abdomen split open and two ten-sided dice that appeared out of thin air. Everyone else turns and runs in terror, but Mu Xiebai remains perfectly calm. A paranormal incident? Oh, then there's no problem. The insane belong in psychiatry 1.6kReads—Score20.5k14d adds
- 91 Falling Homework 坠落作业 [Campus horror + coming-of-age + no saintly heroine + one heroine + combat + heartbreaking] One day, a mysterious assignment appeared on the blackboard. As a high school student, I felt a terror unlike anything I’d ever known. All kinds of ghosts appeared in the world, coming to take human lives. From that day on, my life changed completely. I was forced to fight for my life through the assignments, but that was far from all. A slew of conspiracies began to close in around me. Worse still, a mas 1.8kReads8.2Score15314d adds
- 92 Infinite Farewells to Terror 无限再见恐怖 The story slowly unfolds. First, I’ll latch onto a powerful backer, then my golden finger will arrive. I’m the protagonist, so I’m coming clean. For now, I’ll keep a low profile. Staying alive is the right answer. Other people unlock the first tier of the genetic lock, but I’m genetically first-tier. That’s what makes me, Zhang Qiang, different. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Rule Horror: Buried Alive as a Sacrifice from the Start 规则怪谈：开局被当祭品活埋 [Mystery] [Horror] [Deduction] [Infinite Flow] After failing a job interview, Chen Lingyun was heading home when an out-of-control semi-truck unexpectedly struck her, sending her transmigrating into a coffin that was about to be buried. “Drive faster, or we’ll miss the hour. Those things can’t wait much longer.” 169Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Who Can Understand Xi Shi's Regret? 西施的悔恨谁能懂 Who Can Understand Xi Shi's Regret? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 King of the Strange Realm 诡界之王 [Top recommendation: The King of Mystery-Filled Realm Detective Fiction, Tomato’s Number One “Master of Deception”] Zhao Luo thought this was just a murder-mystery game arranged by the God of Fun. He never expected to be trapped in an endless spiral of wits and survival. A one-eyed monster cat fed with sacrifices, over a thousand bizarre artifacts that defy description, eerie monsters that drain your Sanity, player companions dying one after another, and sudden flashes of forgotten memories... O 48Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 96 Controlling the Dice, I Become a God on the Horror Game Board! 操控骰子，我在惊悚棋盘封神！ [Infinite horror, Monopoly-style gameplay, dungeon tycoon, urban legend collector, ruthless protagonist, no mindless plot] A horror game board descends upon Blue Star, and Quan Ye, a top gambler, is chosen to take part in a grand game of "Real-Life Horror Monopoly." [Space One]: A trap square. Touch it and you die. A ghost woman who lost her child lurks here, and she’ll turn you into her "stinky treasure." [Space Two]: A game square. Hide-and-seek, played alone. [Space Three]: A dungeon square. 130Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 97 The Ultimate Spoiled Brat 终极纨绔 When Lin Lang woke up, he had transmigrated to a parallel world, where his family was the most terrifying force in the underworld. As the only son, he was doted on by his entire family and had been at the top of the world since birth. “Hey, hey, hey! You’re all so twisted. Is causing trouble and squandering money all I’m good for? Fine. Even if I’m a spoiled rich kid, I’m going to be the most debauched one in the world!” Lin Lang: male, likes women, and is a scheming young playboy who does whate 70Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 98 Testimony of Memory 记忆证言 Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin 4Reads—Score214d adds
- 99 Flower in the Bone: The Legend of Jiang Yanbai 骨中花之江砚白传 Jiang Yanbai, an official of the Ministry of Justice, investigates cases with a coffin in tow and becomes entangled in a cycle of obsession spanning three hundred years. Waiting for someone for three years, then three hundred; waiting until the heart becomes a flower and the bones turn into a tree. The most insidious curse in this world is nothing more than the words, “I’ll wait for you.” —Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 100 Time-Space Investigation Bureau: This Kryptonian Isn’t Quite Respectable 时空调查局：这个氪星人不太正经 These days, even transmigrators have to work for a living. When the Space-Time Investigation Bureau came recruiting, wage slave Lin Dun promptly signed away his freedom. The Myriad Worlds are full of danger, so of course he needs to cling to someone powerful~ And so, a troublemaking fun-lover starts causing chaos for a paycheck in world after world. (A lighthearted comedy. Those looking for an overpowered big shot who mindlessly slaughters everyone and dominates heaven and earth should proceed w 4.5kReads7.4Score29214d adds
