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- 1 Zombie Apocalypse: I Use My Powers to Contract Goddesses from Around the World 丧尸末世：我异能契约各国女神 Goddesses from every nation + apocalypse + zombies + special abilities + reborn + multiple female leads + cunning protagonist + schemer + interstellar conquest + alien colonization + war slaves An alien civilization quietly invades Blue Star, releasing a virus to cultivate mutated fruits and people with special abilities, then selecting slaves for colonization. Fifty percent of the global population fail to evolve and become zombies. Meanwhile, those who awaken special abilities keep fighting am 2.7kReads6.0Score36214d adds
- 2 Apocalypse: Beautiful Girls, Beautiful Girls, Beautiful Girls, Beautiful Girls, Beautiful Girls, Beautiful Girls 末世：美女美女美美女美女美女 The rating just came in, so it’s normal for it to be low. It’ll go up. [Decisive and ruthless + System + no saintly savior act + many goddesses + extremely selfish + cold-blooded + scheming + invincible protagonist + living the good life] The apocalypse arrives, plunging the whole world into crisis. Hong Yi binds himself to the Apocalypse Authority System and gets three authorities from the start: Strength, Machinery, and Food. As Hong Yi, a food delivery driver, watches the sudden apocalyptic w 7.6kReads7.0Score1k14d adds
- 3 Doomsday Survival: I Got the Former Soviet Union's Supply Depot 末日求生：我获得了前苏联物资库 [Chinese Walking Dead + Apocalypse Survival + System + Laying Low + Mengde Constitution] “If you can do better, then you do it!” Those were the last words Yang Ming heard before he transmigrated. Every time he read an apocalypse survival web novel, he would complain that “there are no more masterpieces in the apocalypse.” For some inexplicable reason, Yang Ming transmigrated to a parallel world. To his shock, a zombie outbreak began just as he arrived. Looking at the Katyusha rocket launcher beh 1.4kReads7.2Score10214d adds
- 4 Apocalypse Rebirth: My Sins Can Forge a Divine Court 末世重生：我的罪孽可铸神庭 Reborn in the apocalypse / Spiritual qi revival / Invasion of myriad worlds / High-stakes fantasy Reborn three days before the cataclysm, ten years into the apocalypse, Su Yaoyang discovers that all the sins he bore in his past life have become the scarcest cultivation resource in this broken world. When immortals, gods, demons, and monsters see him as a walking treasure trove, he will refine this man-eating apocalypse into his own altar of apotheosis. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Ling Cage: Dust Star Defies Fate 灵笼：尘星逆命 Yu Fan transmigrated into the world of Ling Cage and became an ordinary Dust Dweller, awakening in a post-apocalyptic cage overrun by Devourers. Wielding technology as his blade and cultivation as his flame, he breaks the shackles of the Lighthouse’s three iron laws and joins Mark and Bai Yuekui in uncovering the truth behind the Mana Ecology. From an iron cage to a lunar base, from a starfleet to the Dao Evolution Civilization, humanity achieves collective ascension through technology and culti 1.8kReads8.1Score15014d adds
- 6 Immortality Through Divine Sense 神识长生 Survival in the apocalypse (●, ●) There is a tiny bit of romance, to move the plot along (●, ●) No System (●, ●) No invincible superpowers (●, ●) The spirit rain has come, and civilization has collapsed. Cities have become breeding grounds for bizarre creatures, while the wilderness has become a hunting ground for roaring mutant beasts. Amid this global wave of transformation, Zhong Cen is the “prophet.” His consciousness once reached the future, where he witnessed every possible ending. He help 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 7 The Apocalypse Is Here, So Why Did the Lie Flat System Only Just Arrive? 都末世了，人生躺平系统才来？ [Apocalypse] + [Zombies + Evolved Beasts + Mutated Plants] + [Building a Faction] + [Multiple Heroines] The Apocalypse arrived overnight. Zombies roamed, living things mutated, and the world grew stranger by the day. Giant pythons over a hundred meters long, enormous crocodiles dozens of meters in length... The world seemed to have become an alien planet. Fortunately, Jiang Wu had an unreliable System. Even so unreliable, it gave Jiang Wu genuine, overwhelming power. While everyone else was stil 43kReads7.8Score3.4k14d adds
- 8 No Pure Land in the Apocalypse 末世无净土 [Campus Setting] [Apocalypse Survival] [RV Upgrades] [Multiple Heroines] [Not a Harem Novel] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Smart Protagonist] [Building a Faction] This is a true story recorded by the author, who lives in a parallel world. You can think of it as a survival diary from the apocalypse. The apocalypse is upon us, and zombies run rampant. When the nation collapsed overnight, Yu Yiran took the campus belle by the hand and made his way out of the university, one step at a time. A pure-hearte 183Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Apocalypse: From Heavy-Duty War Trucks to a City in the Sky 末世：从重卡战车到天空之城 [Already adapted into several AI animated dramas... Apocalypse + Massacre + Goddesses + Resources + Hoarding + Campus Beauties + Farming + All of Humanity + Survival] Su Hao wakes from a nap to find the apocalypse upon them. Humans have turned into zombies, and plants and animals have mutated too! Trapped on a rooftop with a goddess, Su Hao first kills the mutated goddess, then triggers an infinite series of god-tier choices! [Choice 1: One ton of gold and ten tons of beef!] [Choice 2: A beautif 65.9kReads7.7Score7.1k14d adds
- 10 The Apocalypse Is Here, and You Have Endless Supplies and a Harem of Maids? 末世降临，你无限物资女仆成群？ [A shocking start + pure indulgence and chaos + plenty of gorgeous artwork + ruthless, decisive heroine who isn't a saint + self-interest above all + lots of beauties + survival + spatial ability + god-tier System + villains + lighthearted stress relief + absurd comedy] When the apocalypse arrives, should I stockpile supplies? Sorry, I have unlimited supplies from the start! Build a safe house? No thanks, my System has fortified my home! As disasters strike, order collapses and humanity clashes 22.5kReads7.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 11 Apocalypse: From the Start, I Arrested the Icy School Beauty 末世：开局逮捕清冷校花 [High-Octane Apocalypse Power Fantasy + Coolheaded + No Saintly Hero + Ruthless and Decisive] Zhu Linyuan was reborn in the apocalypse and bonded with the Prison System. He could earn rewards by arresting his assigned targets. The more obedient a target became, the greater the rewards. He arrested the aloof campus belle Luo Qingying and received an armored off-road vehicle. “Criminal Luo Qingying's submission score has reached 10. She can now earn the Host 1 attribute point per day.” “Criminal L 298Reads8.2Score7914d adds
- 12 The Apocalypse? It’s Really a New Era 末世？应该是新纪元 For humanity, this is the end of the world. Zombies, mutated beasts, and the uncanny lurk everywhere, leaving danger at every turn. But only human civilization has been destroyed. For all things, this is the turning point ushering in a new era. Opportunity waits for no one. Join Lin Yu as he steps into this magnificent new age. 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Apocalypse Rebirth: With Foresight, I Sweep Away Everything 末世重生：我靠先知横扫一切 [Apocalypse Rebirth] [Myriad Star-Race] [High-Martial Universe] [Early: Blue Star Apocalypse] [Mid and Late: Swallowed Star] After Blue Star merged with an alien planet, the laws of the world collapsed. Electricity failed, and all the electrical technology humanity possessed vanished without a trace... But that was far from the only disaster. Billions of alien races from across the stars and colossal sky-piercing beasts descended upon Blue Star. Within just a few years, fewer than one in a hundr 224.3kReads8.3Score34.1k14d adds
- 14 Doomsday: While Everyone Else Goes Hungry, I Pick Up Girls 末日：别人饿肚子，而我捡妹子 The whole world changed overnight, and more than ninety percent of the population became the walking dead! Plants and animals grew in defiance of nature, and all kinds of mutated monsters appeared one after another! This wasn’t just the end of the world. It was a grand feast celebrating the splendor of life! 24.7kReads8.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 15 Apocalypse Survival: A Safehouse from the Start 末日求生：开局一个安全屋 [Tags: Dark Wasteland + Racial War + Careful Step-by-Step Progress + Vast World] The world was torn into isolated islands by gigantic mutated plants, while deadly gray fog loomed like a countdown to death. Humanity thought this was a fight for survival at the end of the world, unaware that to a higher civilization, they were merely lambs waiting for slaughter in a "testing ground." Here, there are lofty enforcers of the Night Demon race, swarms of Blood-Year Spiders that feed on humans, and eve 451Reads6.6Score10214d adds
- 16 Apocalypse Tycoon: The Reborn Female Lead Starts by Showering Me with Gifts 末世财阀：开局被重生女主倒贴 [Apocalyptic Villain] [Top-Tier Elite Clan] [Otherworldly Handsome] [Multiple Heroines] [Goddess Obsession] [Chaotic Neutral] [Regret After Being Reborn] Note: The story is set in an urban world before the apocalypse. In his previous life, when the apocalypse arrived, the ancient imperial-era Shen clan built a mighty city that endured the disaster, preserving civilization and order. Shen Chen, its eldest legitimate son, was ranked among humanity's "Ten Top-Tier Awakened Ones" and revered by coun 27.4kReads8.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 17 Fallen Immortal, Corpsebound Path 仙落尸途 [Cultivation in a Wasteland] [Zombies Prove the Dao] [Highway Survival] [Immortal Soul Reborn] [High-Action Revenge] [Apocalyptic Cultivation] The Heavenly Dao shatters, the Three Realms are destroyed, and Chen Xuanye, a menial disciple of an immortal sect, falls into the apocalypse as a wisp of lingering soul, possessing a zombie’s body. With no spiritual energy or spiritual roots, he forges a Dao Foundation from zombie essence and blood, and cultivates the soul Dao with the remnants of his imm 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Doomsday: The Tycoon's Heir Reaches Villainous Peak from the Start! 末日：财阀太子，开局反派巅峰！ [Doomsday] + [Zombies] + [Superpowers] + [Wealthy Family] + [Invincible] After transmigrating into a world on the brink of Doomsday, Jiang Chen becomes the eldest son of the Jiang family, one of Longguo’s most powerful dynasties. And that’s not all: he also awakens the Doomsday Villain System! The Villain’s Code of Conduct: 1. As a villain, you need a solid background. Help the Jiang family become the number one family of Doomsday! 2. As a villain, you must live better than everyone else! 3. As 14kReads7.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 19 A Century of Upheaval 百年丧乱 [Zombies + no saintly protagonist + decisive and ruthless + multiple narrative threads + ensemble cast + apocalypse fortress + war + survival + slow-paced] No rebirth, no supernatural abilities, no System or pocket dimension, no plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a power fantasy. It focuses more on realistic portrayals, particularly the story of humanity's resistance in an age overrun by zombies, and accounts of people trying to survive the apocalypse from multiple perspectiv 16.2kReads8.8Score1.6k14d adds
- 20 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 3.8kReads6.3Score22914d adds
- 21 A Zombie Apocalypse for Ordinary People 平凡人的丧尸末日 Zombies, the apocalypse, realism, survival. No special powers, no womanizing, no power fantasy, no System. A portrayal of how ordinary people truly fight to survive. This is my first novel, so the early chapters may be a little rough. I hope you’ll give it a chance and keep reading. It gets really exciting later on. Thank you, and please don’t let the rating put you off. If you enjoy realistic stories, give it a try. The protagonist, Lin Chen, is just an ordinary car salesman when the apocalypse 9kReads7.5Score70514d adds
- 22 Land of the Radiant Dead: Earth's Trial Ground 灿烂尸生之地球试炼场 No transmigration, no rebirth: he turns into a zombie from the start. No revenge, no betrayal: he only wants to survive. Go abroad, hold nothing back: kill humans and zombies alike. Superpowers that level up, with no class restrictions. No System, no favoritism toward the protagonist, and keep yourself in check. The apocalypse arrives, and Earth becomes a trial ground for a higher civilization. Wei Xinwu turns into a zombie from the start. Under the human army's purge, ordinary zombies have no h 1.1kReads8.9Score10014d adds
- 23 Ice Age Apocalypse: I Looted a Trillion-Yuan Supermarket 冰河末世：我抢光千亿超市物资 [Apocalypse + rebirth + supernatural powers + spatial storage + ruthless action] Snow falls in August as an ice age suddenly descends. Countless mutated beasts surge out of the sea, and humanity faces an apocalyptic catastrophe. Jiang Zhe is reborn two months before the apocalypse. He has a storage space but no money, so he can only resort to frantically stealing all kinds of survival supplies. He completely ransacks hundreds of supermarkets and factory warehouses. In the end, one small mistake 11.9kReads8.0Score84214d adds
- 24 Reborn to Steal Heaven's Inheritance, I Use Daoist Arts to Conquer the Doomsday 重生窃取天道传承，道法杀穿末世 [A Fresh New Premise] [Apocalyptic Imagination] [An Unmissable Read] [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Invincible + A Huge Harem + 100 Illustrations + Ruthless + Mythology Returns + Taoist Arts + Superpowers + Inheritances from Gods and Demons + Inheritances from the Hundred Schools of Thought] The apocalypse arrives, zombies run rampant, and mutated beasts are everywhere. Jiang Yu, a young Taoist priest, is betrayed and brutally murdered by his brothers. Reborn before the apocalypse, he steals the inheri 13.7kReads7.8Score1k14d adds
- 25 Training the Apocalypse: No Morals, I Do Whatever I Want 调教末世：没有道德，我为所欲为 [Dark Summoning + Decisive Killing + Self-Interest + Absolutely No Saintly Heroics + Pure Darkness + Violent Aesthetics] After enduring countless hardships in the apocalypse, Gu Cheng was reborn. More valuable than his memories of the future and his survival experience was what he had learned about embracing the darkness! “Weakness is a sin. In this world, only killing and strength can rule over everything!” Just as in his previous life, Gu Cheng awakened as a Dark Summoner. With blood sacrifice 2.4kReads7.7Score19514d adds
- 26 Apocalypse Star Crystals: I Have an Army of Contract Beasts 末日星晶：我有一个契约兽军团 [Superpower Evolution] [Egoism] [Reborn] [Dark Humor] [Early Development, Lone Wolf] [Multiple Heroines, Skip if You Mind] A meteor shower descended, and the whole world collapsed into ruin. Most people turned into terrifying monsters, while animals and plants ceased to be resources for the survivors and became hunters instead. The meteor shower also brought star crystals, which could yield extraordinary food, weapons and equipment, evolution potions, and bloodlines with supernatural abilities.. 146.2kReads8.2Score11.4k14d adds
- 27 Doomsday: The Road to Ruin 末日绝途 Blue rain began to fall from the sky. Unknown monsters suddenly descended upon this world. Human society collapsed in an instant. No cheats, no protagonist's halo, no spiritual qi revival! Every step we take leads us closer to despair! To those who died at the very beginning of the apocalypse, I envy you, because you never had to experience a despair more despairing than death. My name is Chen Ge. I will witness the coming of the apocalypse. 60.4kReads8.9Score4k14d adds
- 28 Apocalypse: I Devoured the Sun and Became the Flame Emperor 末世：吞噬太阳的我，成了炎帝 [Apocalypse + Gods + Starry Skies + Ensemble Cast + Powerful Protagonist + Invincible + Decisive and Ruthless + Everyone Says It Gets Better as It Goes] I am the Flame Emperor, standing above the gods. The apocalypse arrives, zombies descend from the skies, and gods walk the earth! Beasts from the sea come ashore and slaughter humanity! Yet all this is just an appetizer. Worse horrors and despair await. Lin Yu is reborn half a day before the apocalypse. Drawing on his experience from his previou 56.3kReads8.8Score4.3k14d adds
- 29 Apocalypse: I Can Hear Other People's Thoughts 末世：我能听到别人心声 [Apocalypse + Reborn + Superpowers] Xiao Jun, who had survived six years of the Apocalypse, was reborn before it began. Can he stockpile supplies, kill zombies, and even hear other people's thoughts? The school belle's top-tier opportunity? Sorry, I'm taking it all! Xiao Jun: One day, I'll figure out the origins of this Apocalypse. 36.2kReads9.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 30 Apocalypse Villain: Reborn, I Infiltrate the Protagonist's Crew 末世反派：重生后，我混入主角团 [Zombies + post-apocalypse + doomsday + self-interest + decisive and ruthless + villain] Important: The protagonist is neutral evil when he’s in a good mood and chaotic evil when he’s not. He has almost no humanity. Don’t read if that’s not your thing. Only after Chi You dies does he learn that the hotheaded boy who’s always going on about love and peace is the chosen protagonist, destined to save the world, while he himself is merely a villain serving as a stepping stone along the protagonist 37.5kReads9.2Score3.5k14d adds
- 31 Others Struggle Through the Apocalypse, but I'm Invincible 别人过末世，我无敌 [Decisive and ruthless + no saintly heroine + plenty of beautiful women + cold and merciless] Stocking up on supplies when the apocalypse hits? No way. I have an unlimited supply of everything. One biscuit makes the campus belle of old bow her proud head; one loaf of bread makes a once-famous star bend the knee. The world's ended. Who's got time for romance, bro? 55.4kReads8.3Score3.9k14d adds
- 32 War System in the Apocalypse 战争系统在末世 I Became the Commander-in-Chief in the Apocalypse Apocalypse + raising a massive army + hard-core stats + characters with brains Just as the apocalypse arrives, Gu Chengyuan obtains the War System and starts raising a massive army, sweeping through the apocalypse with an unstoppable tide of steel! The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story. 80.9kReads9.0Score5.3k14d adds
- 33 Dawn Tower 黎明塔 They're here! They're here! A shocking conspiracy is looming over the entire world! Natural and man-made disasters, with zombies everywhere! Please don't lose yourself in the darkness! May the dawn's light shine forever! 55.8kReads9.3Score4.3k14d adds
- 34 The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏 9.9kReads7.6Score66314d adds
- 35 EN Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路：不要掉队！ [Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e 629.9kReads8.5Score43.3k14d adds
- 36 The Campus Belle Graduated Without a Single Rumor, Until I Went to Prison 校花零绯闻毕业，直到我锒铛入狱 In 2025, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, where I worked, became the largest exchange in the country. I made an indelible contribution to that achievement. I ended up in prison after making the same mistake as my senior schoolmate. Before that happened, I also met the woman who changed my life... Also known as: "Don't Be Afraid, Senior Sister. I'll Protect You." "Don't Fear the Campus Belle's Flirting, Just Beware the Forty-Year-Old Sister" "Campus Belle, Please Guide Me Through the Rest of My Life" 1.5kReads—Score—14d adds
- 37 I Have a Wuling RV for Transporting Supplies in the Apocalypse 我在末日有一辆五菱房车运送物资 After graduating from college, Chen Shu couldn't find a suitable job, so he started delivering food. He began making deliveries in a Wuling Hongguang, and one day, without realizing it, he found himself in a parallel apocalyptic world. Chen Shu was just about to go to the bathroom when a woman began frantically pounding on his window. When he rolled it down, the woman, dressed head to toe in designer labels, climbed straight into the car and urged him to drive. In his panic, Chen Shu floored i 2.9kReads—Score13014d adds
- 38 A Forty-Year-Old Woman Falls for Me and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! 四十阿姨恋上我，让厂长喊叫爹！ Original Title: A Forty-Year-Old Aunt Falls for Me, and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! After graduating from college, Chen Yu went out to gain work experience and found a job as a management trainee at a small factory. He finally made it through the hard years and was preparing for a promotion into management, only to unexpectedly end up living off a woman. Though, on second thought, that made sense. After all, Chen Yu had seen a doctor who told him he could only live off a woman. At th 3.2kReads—Score13414d adds
- 39 EN King of the Apocalypse! 末世之王！ [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Stockpiling Supplies + Evolving Zombies + Violent Aesthetics] Lin Dong is reborn on the eve of a terrifying apocalypse, and gains a storage space. A normal person would stockpile huge amounts of supplies, food, and water. But Lin Dong buys vast quantities of raw meat and fresh blood. Because... he is about to become a zombie! Flesh and blood are the source of a zombie's power. As long as it eats meat, it can keep evolving. A zombie fed on plenty of flesh grows at a terrif 77kReads9.3Score6.4k14d adds
- 40 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 26.8kReads8.9Score2.4k14d adds
- 41 Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾，我靠囤百亿物资躺赢 [Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r 59.5kReads9.3Score5.3k14d adds
- 42 EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 1MReads9.3Score123.9k14d adds
- 43 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.7kReads9.6Score22.6k14d adds
