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- 51 Star Remnants: The Dawn Era 星骸：启元 Tomato's most nail-biting post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel. The protagonist loses his father and mother from the start. Watch him turn the tables! [Mechs] + [Mutant Beasts] + [Superpowers] + [Conquering the Stars] No golden finger, no System, no cheats, no harem. Readers, charge your phones and bundle up in your blankets as you watch the protagonist, Lin Lan, conquer all sides. In the parallel world of 2218, a disaster led by intelligent AI destroys high-tech cities en masse. Countless living crea 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Strange Machines Besiege the City: A Wage Worker's Survival Log 异械围城：打工人自救录 [Apocalypse + comedy + office worker + sharp-tongued AI] The apocalypse strikes without warning. Alien machines lay siege to the city, and humanity plunges into hell overnight. I, Ji Wuming, am a bank employee who does nothing but slack off, lie flat, and leave work on time. Yet a sharp-tongued AI claiming I created it forcibly binds itself to me. AI: Welcome back to the post-apocalyptic world. Go save the world. Me: ??? I just want to clock out. Leave me out of it. AI: If you don't save them, y —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Apocalypse Is Here? I Was Just About to Become an Immortal! 末世降临？老子刚要成仙！ I created a female character specifically to attract bad reviews... I started writing this in high school and finished it on and off during college. It was a writing exercise. Thank you all for your support. I'm truly grateful. After a thousand years of secluded cultivation atop Kunlun Peak, Lu Bafang is about to survive the ninth heavenly tribulation and become an immortal. Yet at the very moment the heavenly lightning strikes, he senses the entire world let out a mournful cry. The spiritual en 63Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 54 Prisoner of the Otherworld 里世界囚徒 [Not a power fantasy] [Not AI-generated] Have you ever wondered why, even though the human brain is an extraordinarily complex organ with hundreds of billions of neurons, reading a book still requires us to scan it one character at a time, and expressing our thoughts still depends on such primitive methods as sound, text, and images? Things were never meant to be this way! You must stay here and let the Creator remake you. The world will be updated into something entirely different, a thousand t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Genetic Key and the Doomsday Oracle 基因密钥与末日神谕 Su Wan was an ordinary woman living a quiet life, until the police found her DNA at the scene of a string of murders. The chilling truth was that she was the fiancée of Chen Yuan, her fiancé who had vanished ten years ago. A forensic pathologist told her in a trembling voice, "Your bones... are inside the killer's body." As the investigation deepens, Su Wan is drawn into a technological conspiracy beyond anything she could have imagined. She discovers that Origin Point Biotech, where her fiancé —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Mark of the Universe 宇宙印记 A wildly imaginative story, a world of truth and illusion, superpowers, and an expansive setting. I was living in a tiny rental when I happened to discover just how unreal this world was. It wasn’t until I became him that I realized everything was fake. Have you ever doubted that this world is real? Are you filled with uncertainty about the world and the future, and with speculation and doubt about time and everything in the universe? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland: The Empress Begs Me to Come Down from the Mountain 末世废土：女帝求我出山 (Apocalypse, matriarchal society + multiple heroines + lighthearted comedy) A century ago, an ancient virus swept across the world. The Y chromosome mutated, completely upending the order of society! Men were expected to be “pretty as flowers,” while women went out to fight. Qin Chuan unexpectedly finds himself in this Wasteland kingdom of women. Zombie fangs are easy enough to dodge, but how is he supposed to guard against all those women with murderous looks in their eyes? He must struggle to —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Apocalypse Arrives: A Mortal’s Road to Survival 末日降临凡人求生路 A zombie outbreak, a two-person team, no harem, no supernatural powers, no System. The early story focuses on survival, while the later parts are more fast-paced and satisfying. Ma Lu owns a martial arts school, and Wang Feng is its instructor. How will the two survive in a world crawling with zombies? After nearly being killed by a deranged neighbor, almost dying in a zombie siege after being framed by a stranger, and witnessing foreign armed groups commit every kind of atrocity, Ma Liang resol —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Shackles of Civilization 文明枷锁 In 1979, humanity's first space probe, Voyager 1, was launched. After a 32-year journey, it reached the edge of the solar system, exposing humanity's cosmic coordinates! In 2135, humanity successfully awakened artificial intelligence consciousness, and computing power made a breakthrough. After NASA's Apollo 11 crewed spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon in 1969, humanity returned to space 169 years later, heading for Jupiter and Saturn on a mission to intercept asteroids! In 2036, the y 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 The Death Knell of the Star Path 星道丧钟 If the cold light of the plutocrats can’t reach the depths of space, then let the fury of the natives tear these stars apart!···································· —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 The Primordial Firmament 基质苍穹 When the research station on Europa began to experience “glass rain,” Lin Qi knew humanity’s age of solitude had come to an end. Pale crystals blossomed in a vacuum, transforming life into eternal geometric sculptures. This was not an invasion, but a merciless “remodeling.” The universe had never been silent; it simply spoke in languages humanity could not understand: the order of silicon, the fury of sulfur, the stillness of ammonia, the will of energy... Every civilization was the embodiment o 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Deep Space Cipher 深空密码 Deep Space Code —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Silicon Core 硅芯 Russian scientists discovered a chip dating back 250 million years, and the story began. Using Einstein's theory of relativity, they invented a time machine and transmigrated into the past to uncover the truth. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Memoirs of the Apocalypse 回忆录一末世 “Chixin, what are you thinking about?” Yu walks over and gently leans against Chixin. “Now that you’ve made it this far, don’t you want to go back to Pluto?” “Of course I want to go back.” Chixin gently strokes Yu’s long hair. “But now that the ‘disaster’ has been dealt with, it’s time to take care of the ‘human-caused disaster’ behind it.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 I’m a Strategist in the Apocalypse 我在末世当参谋 [Apocalyptic Mind Games] + [God-Tier Brain Powers] + [play the pig to eat the tiger] + [Strong Allies] + [Survival and Base-Building] When the apocalypse hits, ordinary office worker Li Rui awakens what seems like a useless power: his head grows a size larger. But he unexpectedly unlocks an extraordinary brain, with a photographic memory, millisecond-fast analysis, and telescopic vision and super-hearing! From the start, he takes refuge in a library, devouring books on medicine, mechanics, and s 1Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 66 The Abandoned 弃民 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 I Have My Own Rules for the Apocalypse 我有我自己的末日规则 In Doomsday, I have my own code of conduct. That means always sticking to my principles, but having no principles when it comes to my enemies! Even in Doomsday, I have to live like a human being!! 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The Age of Dimensions 维度时代 [Sci-Fi + Interstellar + Alien Civilizations + Warships + Mecha] “Compared to the vast universe, we aren’t even dust.” Li Wei, a patrol officer with the United Nations Earth Defense Department, accidentally fell into a black hole at the center of the Milky Way during a mission and transmigrated to a parallel world in the future. There, he met friends such as Aili and faced trials and hardships across the universe, ultimately becoming a god. And in this world, there are intelligent life forms fro 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Abyssal Mirror: The World Grows More Complicated 深渊镜像：世界变得复杂起来 When reality cracks, the abyss opens its eyes. The awakening of the "Abyssal Core" is not the end of the world, but the remaking of civilization. Chen Yuan wants to become a new god. Through the "Ark Project," he would forge a cage of absolute order and upload human consciousness into an eternal virtual paradise. The Pavilion of the Hourglass, cold-hearted cleaners, believes that only by thoroughly "silencing" anomalies can the old world's stability be preserved. And in the gaps between these cl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Dark Firmament Era 黑穹纪元 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
- 71 Black Moon Technology 黑月科技 The protagonist happens to rescue a cat from an ancient building. After that, it sticks to him and refuses to leave. He drives it away again and again, but it shows up the next day all the same. One day, as he ponders a problem in front of his computer, the cat takes a look and suddenly speaks: “You got this problem wrong!” Earth was visited by an unknown civilization as early as 3.47 billion years ago. They reshaped Earth’s ecology, created the Moon, and single-celled organisms came into being. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 I Have Powerful Connections? How Come I Don’t Know? 我有背景？我怎么不知道？ For some unknown reason, the protagonist, Gong Yangjiao, arrives in this world with an encyclopedia of the cultivation world in his mind... Looking at the enormous chasm stretching across this otherworld, its length impossible to fathom and its depths unfathomable, he falls into deep thought. Why has he come here, and where should he go from here...? 184Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 73 Civilization Is Innocent, but Must the Empress Die? 文明无罪，但女帝必须死？ As a prince of the Galactic Empire, he was killed by the same woman ninety-nine times. Across ninety-nine lives, ninety-nine weddings, and ninety-nine ascents to the throne, he always died in her arms. She rescued him from the ruins, took a blade for him, fought beside him as they razed cities, and whispered words of love. Yet the moment he handed her the whole world, she slit his throat. Only after his ninety-ninth death did he learn the truth. She was an avatar of the Dark Empress of Eternal N 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Dawn of the Living Dead: The Road Home at the End of the World 活死人黎明之末日归途 [End of the world + zombies + no System + no saintly protagonist] This is the collapse of civilization, and a crucible for humanity. Trapped with no way out and surrounded by zombies, Lin Ye must carve a path to survival with blood and wit. He must either sink into the darkness or become the blade of dawn that pierces the apocalypse! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Awakened Superpowers: Invincible from the Start 异能觉醒：开局即无敌 The blood moon hangs in the sky, and the city falls... Order collapses, supernatural powers awaken, and martial arts rise again. Lu Yao, an ordinary young man from the city, glimpses the truth of evolution on a night of despair and gains the terrifying power to devour all things and evolve without limit. From then on, corpse puppets become his food, and powerful enemies become stepping stones. Supernatural powers, ancient martial arts, sects, associations... The giants of the old world tremble b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 I Became a Golden Eagle and Rose to Become the Divine Beast Protecting the Nation 变成金雕，我终成护国神兽 I Became a Golden Eagle and Eventually Turned into the Divine Beast That Protects the Nation —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Apocalypse: The World Is Infertile, and I’m the Only One Who Can Cure It 末世：全球不孕不育只有我能治 A realistic zombie survival novel, written entirely by hand. No reborn protagonist, no pocket dimension, no System, no neighborhood war god, and no womanizing hero or goody-two-shoes saint. Everything is grounded in science. It begins with ordinary people surviving and scavenging in a world like "The Walking Dead", then gathering companions, building a base, bringing the warlords under control, conquering the world, and ultimately achieving world peace. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Lord of the Apocalypse: From Death Row Inmate to King of the Planned Zone 末日之主：从死囚到待规划区之王 Xiao Ke, a special forces instructor, wakes up in the body of a death-row prisoner with only half a month left before his execution. After awakening the Collection System, he makes his “first fortune” and stages a breathtaking escape from death row. The price, however, is that he cannot enter a safe zone for three years. In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, the unplanned zones are ruled by the law of the jungle, but he's like a dragon released into the sea. Standing on the barren land of an unplan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Apocalypse Thunder Lord 末世雷霆君主 Because of internal strife in the Tianheng Great World, other worlds seized the opportunity to invade. At the heart of the civil war was the Tianlei Sect, while the Tianheng Loose Immortal Alliance led the resistance against the invaders. In the end, they defended the Tianheng Great World, but it was on the brink of collapse. The remaining major powers sealed themselves away with divine origin, waiting for the world to recover. Yet millions of years passed, and the world became even more ruined. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Green Star: The Dawn of Civilization 绿星：文明破晓 Lu Xiao, a food delivery rider, transmigrates to Green Star and unexpectedly acquires a spaceship from a lost civilization. Using technology generations ahead of its time, he establishes the Spei Legion in the open waters of the Cangming Ocean. His formidable strength intimidates all factions, but he has no idea that a powerful interstellar fleet is quietly closing in on Green Star. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 If You Vanish, the Universe Becomes Nothing 你若消逝宇宙为零 I haven't looked at the table of contents, and everything feels kind of all over the place. I'm new, nobody's reading this, and no one's given me any advice, so I'm pretty lost. Please give me some suggestions... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Demon Codex of the Age of Declining Magic: I Mastered a God-Slaying Art by Petting Cats 末法妖典：我靠撸猫修成弑神技 [No Idiot Plotting + No Heroine + Mystery + Post-Apocalyptic Survival] “Other people’s cats eat cat food. Mine eats talismans I draw, and the damn thing is picky: it only eats ancient forbidden spells!” On the second day of the ghost outbreak, Chen Chen, a member of the Tomato Orphanage, finds a Persian cat that can talk on the stairs of a library. The cat flicks its tail and zombies immediately keep their distance. It dips a paw in water and draws on the ground, and there’s half a copy of "He 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Doomsday: The Most Hardcore Facts Yet Untold! 末日：最硬核事实的未曰！ 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Void Colossus 虚空巨灵 Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs. What is Heaven and Earth? If you want to live, you must remake the world. The Void Realm is boundless, endlessly cycling back on itself. Within it, a giant spirit formed from consciousness began in an undeveloped state. After a long time, its consciousness gradually awakened. The awakened giant spirit knew joy and anger, but not good and evil. The joyful part of it took shape as the universe. From its barren beginnings to —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Supreme Lord of the Apocalypse 末世至高之主 For a hundred million years, the Asura waged endless wars of conquest throughout the Eternal War Era, and their technology advanced steadily through clashes with humanity. A hundred million years later, the eternal war had decimated the population, and vast numbers of clones were born. They were hybrids of humans and Asura. Guided by the Eternal War Era, Li Ming wages war across worlds and brings the apocalypse to an end. [First world: Free City, an unknown universe being corrupted by Tzeentch.] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The World Is Frozen, and the System Wants Me to Be Its Savior 全球冰封，系统让我当救世主 The apocalypse has arrived. The whole world is frozen. And I’ve been chosen by the System. Lin Ye receives a message from his younger sister: “Bro, I’ve mutated.” He’s just about to reply, “Drink more hot water,” when the classroom explodes. A three-meter-long monster crashes through the wall and bites the homeroom teacher’s head off. Then the teacher turns into a monster. The whole class turns into monsters. The entire city becomes hell. "Congratulations, Host. You have been chosen." "Chosen? T 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 I Am the World's Bug 我是世界的bug A dazzling, surreal science-fiction world, The hustle and bustle of urban life, Which is real, and which is an illusion? I am the bug who stands above the world! Hard sci-fi, boundless imagination, twist after twist 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Heat Death of the Universe: From the Start, I Find an Alien Mecha Girl 宇宙热寂，开局捡到外星机甲娘 When all of humanity chooses to ascend through consciousness, the Ark rushes toward the mysterious Titan Star, which devours suns. This is no new world, but the death site of a higher-dimensional being. To survive, they must decipher the rules governing its collapse. Yet along the way, they discover a question: do human emotions and sacrifice still mean anything in the face of the cold laws of the universe? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 The Red Chamber Son-in-Law: A Legendary Journey from Marriage to Love 红楼赘婿：先婚后爱的传奇之旅 Dream of the Red Chamber: A legendary journey from marriage to love —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Zheng He and the Sea of Stars 郑和与星辰大海 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Beneath the Lunar Soil: Echoes of the Solar System 月壤之下：太阳系回响 The story begins in 2030, when China’s Guanghan Palace Program successfully lands on the moon and establishes a permanent research base. But humanity’s exploration of the moon uncovers a secret far beyond anyone’s imagination: the moon is not a natural celestial body, but a “living spaceship” meticulously transformed by an ancient supercivilization that is now extinct. Inside lie complex megastructures, the remnants of a warp engine, and a vast database containing profound knowledge of the unive 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Apocalypse Insect Virus: The Terror of a New Era 末日虫病毒：新纪元的恐怖降临 The world has changed. If a bug bites you, you'll be infected with a terrifying insect virus. Some people have human upper bodies and spider lower bodies. Others grow centipede-like limbs along both sides of their bodies. Some develop skin like leeches. They see ordinary people as food. Human civilization collapses in a matter of moments, the old order vanishes, and a new civilization rises from the ruins. Chen Xing is infected with the strongest insect virus and becomes immortal. In this bizarr 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Chronicles Beneath the Iron Dome 钢铁穹顶行纪 [Road Survival] [System] [Post-Apocalyptic] [Sci-Fi] [Mecha] When 4.3 billion people are thrown into a brutal road survival game, Fang Chao, an ordinary auto mechanic instructor, becomes humanity's last wild card on the brink of life and death. Carrying the seed of human civilization, the System, he starts out in a battered Santana and forges it into a mobile fortress of war. He pushes the limits of human life with his mortal body, facing mutated beasts, swarms of insects, and the abyss on the d —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 I Thought I Had Transmigrated, but It Turned Out I'd Become Immortal 我以为穿越了原来是永生了 Also known as The Immortal Human Project. [Sci-fi mystery] In 2096, Lin Shu unknowingly became an [Immortal Human] and lost all his memories. He was also implanted with the complete memories of neuroscientist Gu Zhixing from 2046. After regaining consciousness, he briefly believed he was Gu Zhixing, who had transmigrated from the past. With memories from fifty years ago and the subconscious mind of a modern person, Lin Shu is both a vessel for a “new human” of 2096 and the bearer of a backup of 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Apocalypse: I Can Summon Stalkers 末世：我能召唤潜行者 [Just started receiving ratings, please be kind] [Doomsday] [System-Based] [No Mass Troops] [Hardcore] The virus shreds civilization; steel crushes humanity. An unknown virus erupts, turning the entire Federation into a hunting ground of flesh and blood. Mutants' bone blades tear through soldiers' body armor, corrosives' acid melts tank plating, and the Hive Mind's psychic pulses plunge entire cities into silence. Meanwhile, Liu Rui accidentally picks up a PDA and activates the Stalker System. W 265Reads6.4Score12014d adds
- 96 Apocalypse: I Get Stronger Every Second 末世：我每秒都在变强 [Invincible hero, bright and uplifting] Lin Tian sometimes wonders: Is getting stronger really that hard? Faced with terrifying zombie tides, mountain-sized beasts, and battleships of flesh and blood, Lin Tian parts the despairing crowd. “Watch me throw a serious punch!” Then he gives Earth a middle parting with one punch. See? It’s not that hard! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Antarctica 南极 [A balance of warmth and intensity + sweeping worldbuilding + interstellar travel + The Three-Body Problem and The Wandering Earth] In 2173, an asteroid struck Earth, forcing humanity to take refuge in Antarctica. After a century and a half of development, humanity rose again in Antarctica. Yet a hundred years later, humans once more face the threat of an asteroid striking Earth. Can they escape this disaster? Is Earth a laboratory where aliens conduct experiments? Was the asteroid impact caused 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Highway Survival: I Awakened a Daily Sign-In System 公路求生：我觉醒每日签到系统 [No Power Scaling Restrictions + Supernatural Horror + Special Abilities + No Saintly Protagonist + Road Survival + Leveling Up + Sign-in System + Not Mindless Power Fantasy + Apocalypse] The red moon hangs overhead, and the supernatural descends. The homes humanity once depended on become dead zones, turned into a paradise for the supernatural. The survivors have no choice but to embark on a journey of migration in search of a new home. Along the way, Xu Zhuo awakens a daily sign-in System. All —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Overgrown Annihilation 蔓生湮灭 The Spreading Annihilation is a science fiction novel featuring cyberpunk, a nanotech crisis, transmigration into a school, consciousness uploads, human modification, cybernetic implants, virtual worlds, and the reshaping of time and space. In this age of consciousness uploads, humanity has not left reality. Instead, people live in the gap between reality and brain-computer-generated illusions. But out-of-control nanotechnology and intelligent technology have brought humanity to the brink of ex 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Last Person in the Supermarket 超市里的最后一人 In late autumn of 20XX, a mysterious plague broke out without warning. Within three days, the city lost power and internet access, then fell deathly silent. The infected lost their minds, their skin turned ashen, and hoarse growls rose from their throats as they chased the scent of the living. Chen Mo, an ordinary night-shift stock clerk at a supermarket, was locked inside the Huimin Supermarket where he worked in the early hours of the morning the plague began. The supermarket became his island 32Reads6.8Score—14d adds
