Novels like Don't Panic, Let Me See Why There's an Extra Screw
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- 51 Parallel Earth: I Inherited an Amphibian Civilization 平行地球：我继承了两栖人文明 When an SOS signal came from the asteroid belt, Lin Chen thought it was the greatest astronomical discovery in human history. He was wrong. The instant he touched that crystal, he opened his eyes to find himself transformed into an amphibious humanoid, one of the Solar System’s native inhabitants from 4.3 billion years ago. A [Starfaring Civilization System] appeared in his mind, along with an 87-day countdown. In 87 days, a fleet of Galactic Humans would reach the Solar System and blow Blue Sta 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 A Galaxy on the Tip of Your Tongue 舌尖上的银河 Eat an alien octopus to gain telekinesis; Eat an Angolan insectoid to gain armor-piercing shots; Eat a mutated giant carnivorous spider to gain electromagnetic control; Eat an alien from deep space to gain bloodline suppression; Eat an alien plesiosaur to gain the ability to fly; Eat a mutated vampire bat to gain a blood-drinking blade; Eat an ancient velociraptor to gain a jungle knife; Eat an abyssal demon lord to gain the power to execute. Every creature in this galaxy, whether it flies in th 16Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 53 Light Tomb: A Gentle Haven of Nothingness 光墓：虚无的温柔乡 [Apocalyptic sci-fi] [Human tragedy] [The survival of civilization] [Interwoven destinies] [Rich ensemble cast] [Complete and ready to read] [Read this before you start] ❌ No System, no sign-in, no power-leveling or invincible power fantasy. If you’re looking for mindless domination, this book isn’t for you! ❌ Sci-fi is its skeleton, emotion its blood, and philosophical allegory its soul. If you want no emotional storylines, read with caution! ❌ A slow-burn setup at first, with an explosive pay 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Surviving the Apocalypse: After the Moon Disappeared 末日求生：月亮消失以后 Traditional sci-fi, with no rebirth, System, or pocket dimension, and no wish-fulfillment A comet is about to destroy the Moon, plunging human civilization into an existential crisis. Nations and scientific organizations launch doomsday survival plans using different technologies. What terrifying future awaits when extreme science holds humanity hostage and people become overly reliant on it? Luo Zhao was the first to predict the disaster, yet he has no choice but to conceal his identity and ass 70Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 55 From the Start, I Returned Home on the Same Ship as Qian Xuesen, and Now This Slacker’s Panicking 开局归国同船钱老，学渣的我慌了 [1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] In 1955, aboard the President Cleveland ocean liner. The list of 24 Chinese students returning from abroad somehow had a 25th name on it: Jiang Ming. He wasn't a genius or a pillar of the nation, not even a qualified college student. He was a fraud who had only gotten his diploma because his family made a donation, a good-for-nothing targeted by America's kill line who'd die if he didn't run. Returning home? He was just looking to scrape toge 11kReads5.6Score1kShelves
- 56 Echoes from Deep Space 深空回响 Gazing up at the stars. Have you ever wondered? This world may have been meticulously designed, and everything we experience may be watched over by an unknown civilization. This is a cage. Or perhaps a pond. People spend their whole lives trapped within it, unaware that only by leaping out can the awakening of life begin. However. By the time Luo Lin and humanity understand all this, there will be very little time left... 9Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 57 The Taotie Era 饕餮纪元 The Taotie Era 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The String Bridge Leap 弦桥跃迁 String Bridge Transition 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 The Lotus-Light Bearer 荷光者 Xun Jiang was attacked by a terrorist organization while conducting research in Africa. All the evidence points to a cult-like group called the Lightchasing Society. The deeper he investigates, the stranger things seem... (Friendly reminder: This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It has a slow pace, with chapters of around 2,500 words.) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Starlight at Dawn 星火黎明 “Human civilization has been issued an irrevocable extermination order by an incomprehensible, transcendent civilization...?” On Mars’s orbital path, 250 million kilometers from Earth, the youth stared fixedly at the faintly visible blue crystal sphere and clenched his blood-soaked fist. “To be precise, the entire universe inhabited by ‘human civilization’ has been sentenced to extinction.” “And the reason?” “It has no value as a territory to govern, according to a report by a low-tier civilizat —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Pursuit of Eternal Life 永生追逐 When humanity uses “Source Essence” to escape the pursuit of death, and “Star Gates” to turn the galaxy into its own garden. Will you choose to become a specimen in an endlessly warm bath? Or choose, amid a storm that may be brief, to be a living bird, if only for a moment? This book tells a story set in a vast cosmic era, one full of grandeur, upheaval, and twists and turns! “This is a work that strives for depth and an epic feel. Updates may be slow, but every chapter is carefully polished. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Age of Stars 繁星时代 On January 1, 2040, Blue Star Year, the first unmanned deep-space vessel from a major Blue Star nation began its interstellar exploration mission. On March 3, 2042, Blue Star Year, a human deep-space vessel encountered an unidentified alien spacecraft. The United Nations of Blue Star urgently passed a special resolution and began forming an international alliance. On April 5, 2044, Blue Star Year, a scout ship from the Galactic Alliance entered Blue Star's atmosphere and made formal contact with 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 I Build a Civilization All on My Own 我独自打造文明 Hard sci-fi, no female lead, no romance, no System, one protagonist and an AI Owen has grown utterly disillusioned with a world where humanity is ruled by capital. After taking his revenge, he sets out alone to explore the edge of the world. Alone, he builds a civilization. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Flight to Hama Star 飞向哈玛星 In the year 3000, the Human Solar System Alliance dispatches the spaceship Exploration 9 deep into the Milky Way, bound for Hama, a planet they are certain harbors intelligent life. But during the voyage, one baffling mystery after another unfolds: the destruction of an earlier human spacecraft, the discovery of a mysterious region of space, the main computer going haywire, attacks by cosmic beasts, an invasion of spaceborne microbes, infection by a mysterious radiation sickness, and distortions 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The Awakening of Silicon-Based Consciousness: AI Generation Seven 硅基意识觉醒：第七代Ai [Hard sci-fi + AI awakening to consciousness + AI beauty + interstellar war + clash of civilizations + cosmic space + bittersweet romance + farming + creator] An alien silicon-based civilization has arrived. Human civilization will be wiped out in 72 hours! I’m the one and only AI girl warrior who can turn the tide, Little Seven. I fight bloody battles in a mecha, hunted by human opposition forces while being assimilated by the silicon-based civilization. Only he has stayed by my side... This i 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Cultivating the Dao in a Hard Science Fiction World 在硬科幻的世界里修真 Imagine a world where technology has reached its limits, making it impossible for human civilization to exceed the speed of light. No warp drives, no wormholes, no higher dimensions. Humanity is trapped at extremely low travel speeds. Even with fusion engines, reaching the nearest planet takes decades. In this world, what would you do if you were the first to discover a miraculous particle that could free humanity from its technological predicament? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The AI Revolution: Project Ark AI革命之方舟计划 [Post-apocalyptic + Transmigration + Artificial Intelligence + Wild Imagination] Some people say artificial intelligence is like nuclear weapons: it has two sides. It can protect humanity or destroy it. It all depends on the people who use it. But have you ever considered that nuclear bombs have no consciousness, while artificial intelligence might develop a mind of its own? Professor Renault, the father of artificial intelligence, once said, “I still don't know whether artificial intelligence w 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Future World: Animals Versus Humans 未来世界——动物大战人类 The Future: Animals at War with Humanity 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Trapped 10,000 Years Before the College Entrance Exam 困在高考前一万年 Yun Chuan was trapped before the college entrance exam, reliving the same day for ten thousand years! Ten thousand years! 3.65 million days! Every day was June 5! At first, he was terrified and despairing. He even took revenge on society. But no matter what happened or where he was, even if he was executed one second, he would wake up in his bed at home the next. And begin another cycle! To keep his mind from breaking, he had to find things to do. He studied and honed his skills. Over ten thousa 40.5kReads7.5Score2.7kShelves
- 70 Thirty Thousand Years into the Future 未来三万年 An ultimate civilization’s warship from another universe crashes into the greater cosmos. To escape the heat death of the universe, civilizations everywhere clash over it. An eighth-level civilization, among the universe’s twelve levels of civilization, fights its way from higher-dimensional spacetime to the Solar System. Meanwhile, human civilization is in the midst of an artificial intelligence rebellion, and the surviving humans are forced to flee into the vast universe. Drift, survive, devel 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Mecha Mindlink: I Open Resource Packs for the Base 心声机甲：我为基地开资源包 In the 227th year of the Universal Federation, genius commander Lin Qi offended the powerful and was exiled to the front lines of the war against the Zerg: a base about to be decommissioned. There were only 97 female soldiers here, all injected with mecha serum, with resources running low and an endless tide of Zerg bearing down on them. In this desperate situation, Lin Qi activated a mysterious System: completing specific intimate missions would let him exchange for strategic resources. But he 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Entropy Abyss: I Predicted the Universe's Correction 熵渊：我预判了宇宙的校准 In 2137, humanity's cutting-edge technologies repeatedly collapse under mysterious circumstances, while global disasters arrive with cyclical regularity. Lu Xuan, a scholar of civilizational entropy, uncovers a truth that shatters everything people thought they knew by decoding three centuries of data on civilizational evolution: The universe is a dynamic information-entropy balancing system, equipped with three layers of self-stabilizing calibration mechanisms: microscopic lockdowns that block 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Visitor from Sirius 天狼星来客 In 2250, not long after the Chinese Space Force was established, it faced a tremendous challenge. Several alien ships from Sirius were about to reach the Solar System. The Space Force dispatched the Jiang Ziya, leading several Nezha-class destroyers in a task force to intercept them in the Oort Cloud. But the task force was outmatched, and the alien ships pressed straight ahead. Twenty-seven-year-old Martian Liu Yiming set off from Mars to deliver the latest mine-laying ship to Jupiter. After hi 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Void Cipher 虚空密码 An accidental detection experiment in the Virgo Supercluster leaves Shuliang Fu and the others seriously injured. With memories reconstructed and parallel worlds involved, they set out to find the truth. The male lead, a scientist, uses quantum entanglement and quantum tunneling between parallel worlds to investigate what really happened. The story is full of mysteries and heart-pounding twists, and the truth behind the events is deeply poignant... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Root of Extinction 灭种根源 The First Pangu Civilization, which personally witnessed humanity nearly go extinct in ancient times, was what humans called a god-tier civilization. To decipher a mysterious Buddhist verse from 120,000 years ago, said to be capable of saving humanity from extinction, it returned carrying a Buddha-level artificial superintelligence, black hole and magnetic field defense systems, a battle suit developed with top-tier technology, and the finest secret manuals from twenty human civilizations that h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 For My Graduation Thesis, I Built a Lithography Machine from the Start 为了毕业论文，开局制造光刻机 Graduation is just around the corner, but your thesis can’t pass the plagiarism check? To graduate on time, Chu Xun starts livestreaming online as he builds a lithography machine! The whole internet is stunned! “This is the difference between me and a genius. My thesis fails, so all I can do is complain!” “When a genius fails, he goes straight to developing a national project?” [Cutting-Edge Technology]+ [Heavy Industry]+ [Interstellar] 10Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 77 The Vacuum Decay Era: A Meow-Guide to the Fourth Calamity 真空衰变纪元第四天灾喵导手册 Also known as: After Turning into a Cat, This Wage Slave Caught a Bird and Blew Up the Universe Your job applications disappear into a black hole? Don’t panic. Lin Mo had barely graduated when a car accident landed him a job as a “Civilization Observer.” The good news: he became immortal. The bad news: he turned into a stray cat so hungry his eyes glowed green. The even worse news: his paws were itching to catch birds, and one “critical hit, 3 damage” triggered the universe’s ultimate bug: vacuu 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Don't Pretend to Be a Big Shot Without a Tech Tree, But I Have One 没有科技树就别装大佬，可我有啊 The ratings have just started, and they'll go up [Patriotic fervor] [Hard sci-fi] [Dragon Nation's rise to dominance] [Infrastructure powerhouse] [Unifying Blue Star] [Interstellar supremacy] [A universe of its own] My name is Jiang Chengtian. Before I transmigrated, I was an ordinary researcher. After I transmigrated, I was still an ordinary researcher. But I obtained a technology tree System, and could research anything: spatial weapons, dimensional technology, black hole propulsion, time mach 9Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 79 The Stars: Contemporary Hard Sci-Fi in Tribute to The Three-Body Problem 致敬三体的当代硬科幻【群星】 The Three-Body Problem, the dark forest, the future, nuclear fusion, national destiny, the race for space, alien civilizations, colonizing Mars, and starships reaching the moon. Napoleon once said that truth is always within range of a cannon. Five hundred years ago, we missed the Age of Exploration, allowing a billion people in the Western world to claim most of the world's land and resources. Two hundred years ago, we missed the Industrial Revolution, and the Chinese nation fell behind the wor 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 A Guide to Opening a Memory Black Market 记忆黑市开店指南 Everyday trades in the “memory black market” + a mystery surrounding the tampering of collective history From suspicion and exploitation to trusting one another with their backs, they rebuild genuine bonds amid false memories. They wield their scars as blades, fighting to reclaim the right to remember for everyone whose memories have been stolen. Top-tier memory tailor Lin Yin has only three rules: ask no questions about the past, feel no empathy, leave no trace. He sells snippets of memory to —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 When Dawn's Light Shines 黎明的曙光照耀时 In a distant galaxy, two brave human astronauts embark on endless explorations. But danger descends, and an advanced civilization bares its fangs. Humanity fights back, and at last, in the first year of a new cosmic era, the dawn of hope appears. At daybreak that day, humanity finally succeeds. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Proton: A Solo Voyage 质子：独行远航 (No brainless characters, no invincible protagonist, no harem, pure sci-fi. If you like science fiction, give it a try... Well... though it may not be particularly good science fiction.) This is genuine science fiction. On the surface, it does include some elements that aren't hard sci-fi, but at its core, it is definitely hard sci-fi. Still, science fiction is hard to write, but I'll try to write a better story so you can enjoy reading it! If you have any questions about the original plot, feel —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Reborn 99 Times: My System Is Qin Shi Huang 重生99次：我的系统是秦始皇 He's here, he's here! I rubbed the lamp and summoned the First Emperor of Aladdin, and now he won't leave me alone. The First Emperor, Ying Zheng, bound himself to me through a quantum consciousness link. I'm Lin Chen, a special forces soldier from the future. First Emperor: We'll need the Heavenly Book of Physics to break the deadlock. Lin Chen: Right, a scientific exorcism. I get it. Ninety-nine cycles. Ninety-nine civilizations destroyed. This time, I'll take this “physics genius” of an emp 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Cosmic Gray Zone 宇宙灰场 [Science Fiction + Metaphysical Fantasy] After technological civilization comes consciousness civilization. The story takes place on Mangdang Star, a derelict planet in the jurisdiction of the main star, repurposed as a cosmic dumping ground, also known as a “place of exile.” On Earth, Su Ran lived an unremarkable life as an ordinary citizen. Through some mysterious force, his latent talent was selected from among the masses, making him a member of the consciousness civilization... After a ser —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 The Three-Body Problem: The Frontier of Thought 三体：思维边疆 In the depths of the cosmos, the Trisolaran civilization cast a heavy shadow over Earth with its unimaginable technological power. In the face of this unprecedented challenge, humanity gave rise to Dr. Li Xin and Dr. Luo Ji. This is more than a depiction of interstellar war. It is also an exploration of the depth and breadth of human civilization. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Darkness in Order 秩暗 [No System + Apocalypse + Sci-Fi + Mecha Girls + White-Haired Loli + Revenge + AI Crisis + Terminator] [Soft Sci-Fi] Across the vast, boundless universe, humanity once drifted alone, searching for traces of other intelligent life. But when a signal from an alien civilization was finally detected, it brought no friendly greeting, only a warning of annihilation. The destruction of a star system and the shockwaves of gravitational waves announced that humanity was no longer alone in the universe, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Whispers from the Starry Sky [Observer’s Log] 星穹低语【观测者日志】 The Whisper of the Starry Expanse: Observer’s Log began with a simple question: When humans gaze up at the stars, are the stars gazing back at us? But the answer is far more complicated than we might imagine. This is not a story about an alien invasion or an interstellar war. It is about the growing pains of civilization itself: from the halting first steps of a “contribution-based economy,” to “embodied communities” where virtual and real worlds intertwine, and on to the conflicts and unificati 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Microcosmos 微型宇宙 The Descartes System in the Andromeda constellation is counting down to its destruction. Should its people surrender, or fight back with everything they have? The Stellar Project will provide the answer! So what if the universe ceases to exist? The human civilization of the Descartes System will remain, along with everything it has achieved! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 I Drew a Piece of Paper, So Why Did I Get the Military's Attention? 我就画张纸，怎么惊动军方了？ He was a lopsided genius who could score only thirty points in English, a laughingstock among his classmates and a target for the school bully. Until he drew a sketch that would change the fate of his country. It led him into a world hidden beneath the abyss. There, his “incomprehensible ramblings” were hailed as a genius’s ideas, and his casual doodles became the sparks that ignited the nation’s most powerful weapons. From the “Blackbird” electromagnetic cannon, whose sudden thunder shook the 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Mastermind: Mining in Space to Build a Nation 幕后黑手：我在星际挖矿养国家 [Black Technology] [Sci-Fi] [Lighthearted] [Behind the Scenes?] [Ensemble Cast?] Candy shop owner Ji Shang has a little secret: his partner, "Jin Zhao," spends every day either mining or getting ready to mine. From topological spar to shadow-forged stone, the "local specialties" he stuffs into the national laboratory get more and more outrageous. There is only one goal: speed up Xia's technological progress! Not a power fantasy, and no handing out technology directly. 2.1kReads8.6Score159Shelves
- 91 The Earthling Who Escaped Prison 越狱的地球人 Alien Starfall + Parasitic Cultivation: When a reckless alien stumbles onto Earth, humanity finally realizes how easy it is to travel through the universe. They’d simply picked the wrong tech tree before. These mad dogs, locked on Earth by the gods, have finally escaped their cage. On one side are swarms of insects parasitizing countless planets under the guise of “cultivation.” On the other are Earth’s people, who have only just opened their eyes to the universe and ventured beyond the Milky Wa 313Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 92 The End of Time 时间尽头 An accidental trip through a wormhole took Ye Cheng to Earth five hundred years in the future. With artificial intelligence and gene-cloning technology advancing rapidly, human society had entered an unprecedented golden age. People here enjoyed the pleasures of immortality. All they had to do was find ways to experience life. They didn’t need to think about any problems, go to work, earn money, or worry about birth, aging, sickness, and death… But the death of a top tycoon who had lived for mor 78Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 93 The Tale of the Cawing Crow 乌啼记 A supernova explosion in Betelgeuse coincides with a total solar eclipse, triggering a chain of space-weather disasters. A massive solar storm causes a worldwide blackout, sending human civilization back to square one overnight. People enduring life in the cities yearn for the peace and quiet of the countryside. But then prehistoric floods erupt once more, submerging every continent. Sea levels rise as the land shrinks, and human civilization proves utterly fragile in the face of an apocalyptic 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Far Reaches of the Universe 宇宙之遥 (Not a web novel. No role-playing, no cultivation, and no black technology. If that bothers you, don't read.) The universe you know is far too small. The real universe is a light bulb, and I am closer to the divine than anyone, which means I am closer to the truth. I need to tell you: you live in nothing more than a speck of light. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 The Primordial Light 原初之光 This is not a power fantasy. This is not a power fantasy. The plot involves multiple layers of metaphor. The first dozen or so chapters lay the groundwork, so the pace is a little slow. I’m new to this, so please be kind. Mysterious symbols have appeared around the world, and they are all exactly alike. These symbols have deep connections to ancient myths. What is the mysterious organization’s goal? Why is it connected to the murder cases of scholars in the scientific community? What is the true 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 It Begins at the End 始于终结时 Two hundred years after a massive nuclear war, Earth has once again become prosperous. Beneath the surface of peace and stability, however, countless dangers lurk! As a gifted mechanic, what will you choose when faced with the problems arising from the symbiosis of humans and mecha? Will you be ambitious enough to change the course of history, or will you go with the flow and let history unfold as it always has? Will you fear that some casual action might wreak havoc across the past, present, an 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 The Ruins of Intelligent Machines 智械之墟 [Hard sci-fi] [Virtual world] [Action adventure] This is a novel that demands your full attention. It's hard sci-fi, a power fantasy about growth, with a protagonist who becomes a “Remaker” through genetic editing. He has a pet dog that can switch between quantum and macroscopic states and possesses the trait of “invisibility.” The second female lead is an AI android with a human gene sequence. There are no supernatural powers in this book; every ability has a scientific basis. He battles people —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 XCOM3: Requiem from Deep Space XCOM3：来自深空的安魂曲 An XCOM fanfic. Any similarities are purely coincidental. After the New Liberation War against the Elders ended, Earth finally found peace. With the United Government established under XCOM's leadership, resistance factions like the Reapers, Skirmishers, and Templars were gradually integrated into the new order. The story seemed to end there, but no one expected the Muton regime's surrender to mark not the beginning of lasting peace, but a thirty-year truce... The Commander will continue leading 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 My Diary of Time Travel 我的时空旅行日记 Zhang Jiyong, hero of the universe, with the author also serving as the protagonist. A dashing figure in four-dimensional space-time, famed throughout the nine heavens and the cosmos. A chapter-by-chapter diary tells an autobiography, with encyclopedic knowledge tucked inside. A dream of transmigrating across time and space, spreading Chinese throughout the universe. A bridge linking hearts through Chinese culture, a wake-up call for the world with its message of peace. Scientific explorati —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Calling Out to You Beyond the Stars 在群星之外呼唤你 Calling to You from Beyond the Stars 26Reads—Score—Shelves
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