Novels like Don't Panic, Let Me See Why There's an Extra Screw
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- 101 The Evolution of the Elements 元素的进化 I only just found out that other authors write chapters of over 2,000 characters. Later on, I was writing 4,000 to 6,000 per chapter... The story of Evolution of the Elements revolves around the discovery of a new element unknown to humanity: Element 119. This element can enable controlled nuclear fusion, offering hope of breaking Earth's technological deadlock. As the story unfolds, the secrets of elemental entropy are gradually uncovered. Although the protagonist was born and raised on Earth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Mad, Wild Cosmos 狂疯宙宇 [Not a power fantasy] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [No mindless characters] [Long-term story] Read with caution if these elements bother you. Under the shadow of an energy-depleted apocalypse, humanity fabricates an extraterrestrial threat in a desperate bid to break the deadlock. This astonishing deception, spanning ten years, drags all of humanity into madness! A shocking secret lies deep beneath the earth, while a phony war plays out on the surface. A mysterious underground laboratory, a bruta 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Interstellar Life Begins with Repeating a Grade 从留级开始的星际生活 What? You got sent to a nanoprison because you kept getting held back year after year? What? You were just playing a game and accidentally conquered an alien star system? What? The mutants attacked because they wanted to welcome me as their emperor? With an introduction like that, you still want to ask if this is a normal science fiction novel? As an obscure writer of short sci-fi in China, would I really joke around with you? If you dare to read it, I dare to write it. When we reach the finale 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 The Legendary Taoist: Didi Bro 传世道士滴滴哥 I hope all you readers can take off just like the protagonist, Peng Jia! (The author has taken creative liberties based on personal circumstances. I hope I can become truly free, just like the male lead!) Didi driver Peng Jia unexpectedly acquires a System and begins a wonderful life. It's a heartwarming family story, and can also be read as a farming novel! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Return from an Alien World 异星归来 See how I endure every hardship to escape captivity at the hands of aliens and make it back to my little home on Earth! A new-generation science fiction and fantasy novel. Mysticism explained through science! Witty, lively, and lighthearted! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Calamity Strikes: I Become the Creator God in the Void 天灾降临：我在虚空当创世神 Urban planner He Muyan unexpectedly binds herself to the Disaster Relief System. At first, she thinks it is merely a high-dimensional, immersive infrastructure-building game, where she can survey eight worlds on the brink of destruction and manage them with cold, data-driven precision. In the initial world, battered by torrential rain, the divine defensive fortress she casually summons crushes the rebels' conspiracy and saves Li Ying, a blind priestess. From that moment on, the incomprehensible —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 The World Sanctions Toy Factories, So I Hand Mine Over to the Dragon Kingdom 全球制裁玩具厂，我反手上交龙国 [Black Tech + National Fortune + Industrial Inspection + The Stars and the Sea + Livestreaming + Handing Everything Over to the State] In 2025, I, Lu Yu, became the factory director of a toy factory branded a heartless military contractor and sanctioned by the entire world. The Eagle and its European menagerie surrounded me, declaring that they would make this “shabby little factory” disappear for good. Fine. You can play your power politics all you want. I turned around and flooded every home i 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Urban: From the Start, I Found Seven Divine Contracts 都市：开局捡到七份神格契约 Lin Mo is reborn with memories of his past life, holding seven divine contracts and bound to seven stunning heroines. He sets off a storm in Star Abyss City, snatches his enemies’ opportunities, battles powerful clans, and takes on financial magnates. With a playful smile, he commits ruthless acts, using his foresight to plan every move as he unleashes a wave of revenge and ascension. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Transmigrating to the Future: I Became the Purge Protocol 穿越未来：我成了肃正协议 When Liu Ye opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into the future and was bound to the [Zero-Day Key] System. He thought he could coast to victory, only to discover that Earth had already fallen! The [Purification Protocol] had arrived, keeping all of humanity in a fake world. Earth was being transformed into a forward base for its conquest of the stars. Liu Ye would be the one and only loophole, the only person who knew what the “Purification Protocol” was! With the System at his side, he would 577Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Desolation: This Was Supposed to Be Training, So Why Am I Steamrolling Everything? 荒：说好的历练，结果一路碾压 He is the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, unrivaled through the ages! He is invincible, sweeping across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths! Shi Hao tears through the void and steps into the wondrous Myriad Worlds. Douluo Dalu? The Tang Sect Secret Arts and Sea God Trident that Tang San takes such pride in are no more than child’s play in Shi Hao’s eyes. “Seeking death? You dare talk about life and death in front of this Emperor?” With a snap of his fingers, so-called God Kings are reduced to dust! Ba 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Atomic Reconstructor: I’ll Overturn Civilization with Chips 原子重构者：我从芯片颠覆文明 After being struck dead by lightning, he returns reborn to his middle-school days with a soul System and embarks on a path to turning his life around. While others return to take on the college entrance exams, I use soul particles to build computers? With glasses and gloves that can manipulate ultramicroscopic particles, Chu Fan goes from copying chips to creating supercomputers, from opening an internet café to getting drawn into the mystery of soul particles. He uses his cheat-like abilities t 705Reads6.2Score101Shelves
- 112 Surrounded by Nations, I Risk My Life in Research to Save My Country 诸国围堵，我拿命科研拯救国家 Su Chen transmigrates to a parallel world, thinking he can live life on his own terms. Instead, his life turns out to be a complete disaster. He has been frail and sickly since childhood, with no medicine able to cure him and barely half a life left. He is on the verge of death. But just when all hope seems lost, the [Life-for-Research] System activates. Complete the System’s research missions to earn lifespan rewards. Meanwhile, the international situation is tense, and his country is being tar 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Building a Cosmic Civilization with a Technology Tree from the Start 开局科技树开启宇宙文明 American aircraft carriers have surrounded our carriers right off China's doorstep? Look up: those are China's sixth-generation aerospace fighters. What, America has them too? Sorry, take another look at the stellar-class interstellar mothership enveloping the ocean. An interstellar armed combat platform spanning the stars! A colossal Dyson ring encircling the sun! A planet devourer that consumes planets to mine their resources! A giant electromagnetic railgun orbiting a star! Bringing technolog 2Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 114 The Tech Tree: Expelled from School, I Go on to Win Every Nobel Prize 科技树：被勒令退学的我包揽诺奖 [Technology Tree + Hard Sci-Fi + An Intelligent Protagonist + No Romance] “Hello? What? I swept up all the Nobel Prizes this year? And I have to go to Northern Europe to accept them? No way! I'm busy researching warp engines!” A technology tree from the start, with every advance unlocked through research! Unsolved mathematical problems? I've got an advanced AI that can solve them with one click! Biochemistry hitting a dead end? I'll redesign the entire genome. My fate is mine to command! Energy —Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 115 The Apocalypse on Blue Star: It Turns Out Humans Are the Invaders! 蓝星末世，原来人类才是入侵者！ #GeneDevouring #ZergDisaster #GeneticMutation #WastelandSurvival #MechanicalCthulhu #PostApocalypticWasteland #SystemAIAssistance #FamilyBonds #AlienInvasion #HumanNatureAndStrategy Are you curious about the legends of lizard people and little gray aliens? Are you interested in the origins of the Moon and of humanity? Could the frequent sightings in recent years, and the mysterious Antarctic, mean that they are about to make contact with us? This book explores these subjects through fiction. Fol —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Vanguard 先锋 This story begins with a spaceship falling from the sky. It follows Lu Chuan, a young meteorite hunter who, for special reasons, is recruited by the government to take part in a mysterious operation to protect humanity. Mysterious meteorites strike Earth one after another, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction. Drawing on his unique skills and unusual nature, Lu Chuan fights for humanity's future. 43Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 117 Legends of the Star Ocean: Five Stars Shine Bright 星海传说之五星闪耀 The story of a human journeying from the apocalypse to the stars. After emerging from the bloodshed and brutality of the apocalypse, humanity’s bodies and minds undergo a qualitative leap. From then on, they venture into the void and wage war among the stars. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Blue Star Competes for the Future 蓝星竞未来 This novel is a slow burn, with the plot advancing along multiple threads. If you're looking for mindless wish fulfillment, this isn't for you. The world develops along the lines of a parallel world, and the future is predicted. A tiny escape pod falls onto an island in Japan, wiping out the entire country. As humanity faces the extraterrestrial visitors on their way, everyone competes for the one and only chance of survival on Blue Star! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Source Awakener 本源激活者 (100% original! No tired tropes, no imitation, no System, no dumb or clueless characters. A touch of cerebral mystery. Read at your own discretion.) A boy artificially “created” with a split personality and a body full of secrets. His body is the soil in which strange spirits cultivate supernatural energy, his soul is the remnant of a higher-dimensional being, and his DNA is unlike anyone else’s, carrying mysterious code... This is primarily a science-fiction mystery blended with urban fantasy. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Mecha Era: Anything Can Happen in This World 机甲纪元：这个世界允许一切发生 After transmigrating during an exam, Lin Feng arrives in a future without tests or the 996 work schedule. Students here learn to pilot mechs and build rockets, completing internships on the Moon and Mars. Even at a young age, they can earn high salaries and respect through their contributions. The first time Lin Feng is praised for his supposedly "useless" imagination, he cries. At last, he understands that the pain he felt in the old world was not his fault. The fault lay with a world that want —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Hello, Year 2250 你好，公元2250 Chen Dou, who has just graduated from the police academy, is taken by a mysterious person to the future: the year 2250. More than two centuries later, what the world has uncovered about history is utterly different from what Chen Dou knows. The subtle relationship between aliens and gods, the origins of the human species, and more will all be explained in this future world. (This story is entirely fictional and has no connection to reality.) 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Forging the Divine: The Pangu Era 铸神：盘古纪元 When the cost of replacing people with technology approaches zero, the economic value of those replaced does, too. This isn’t a problem of unemployment. It’s a question of whether we have any value at all. Pangu, the most powerful AI system humanity has ever built. It can complete in one second calculations that once took an old system seventy-two hours. In wartime, it can generate self-evolving code under a barrage of artillery fire. But there’s one question it can’t answer: What is left for —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Reborn as a Star 重生成星 After an accident, Yang Yu opens his eyes again and discovers that he has become an asteroid in the universe. Watch as he changes his fate and tries to understand what is really going on. 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Severance and Continuance 断与续 “End the evil of exploitation, bring joy back to the people, and write the next chapter of civilization!” “You officials who enjoy power and privilege: the people trust you, and you live off their blood. You should be giving back to them, yet instead you only grow more ruthless, skinning them, stripping them to the bone, eating their flesh and sucking their marrow. How are you any different from beasts?” “I am willing to carry on the aspirations of the great leaders, end the evil of exploitation 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Annihilation of the Solar System 湮灭太阳系 In just a few short years, a high school student tore apart the ironclad laws of physics. With only a few pages, he predicted the impending catastrophe. But was he a hero holding a crumbling edifice upright, or the mastermind secretly pulling the strings? In an age of crisis, humanity cast aside all prejudice and division, staking everything on one final effort to defend the right of our blue planet to survive. 25Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 126 Brilliant Galaxy: Return to the Milky Way 璀璨星河之重返银河系 After losing the war in the galactic system A fleet carrying more than four hundred billion migrants sets out from the Milky Way for the distant NGC 5457 galaxy. It is the largest known interstellar migration in this universe. They will spend twenty thousand years in transit, searching for a new home. Yet a tenacious resistance movement remains in the Milky Way, clinging to its last stronghold like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. They never stop hoping for the return of the parent civilization. 201Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Quantum Uncertainty 量子不确定 [Sci-fi + transmigration + superpowers + wild imagination + urban life + deities...] A thousand years after transmigrating, the world had become truly bizarre. Science has already given us everything we could imagine, and all we need to do is make it plausible. Could this mean our lives are full of uncertainties too, even if we don't notice them? In The Water Margin: Wu Song, the Cooked-Pastry Seller, Battles Banlangen Ximen Qing at Lion Tower, there really are now divine cults devoted to Wu Dal —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 I Risked My Life for Science and Became Invincible 拿命搞科研，我直接无敌了 [No tearjerker moments, no heroine, a nation-building story, possibly with a hint of immortality!] He transmigrates after bravely coming to someone’s aid, only to be told he has just three days to live! Faced with a start so disastrous, Wang Wei admits that for one brief moment, he panicked. [Ding! System binding successful. Welcome to the Risk-Your-Life Scientific Research System!] But then his golden finger arrives… A dual-workbench system! High-polish objective lenses! Extreme ultraviolet lig 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Starbound Journey: Blue Embers 星道星途：余烬落蓝 The sea of stars is vast, and civilizations are but specks of dust. The third-level civilization of the Huo Qiong Star System teeters on the brink of collapse beneath the iron hooves of unknown invaders. The mothership Revenge, carrying the last survivors of every race and the embers of their civilizations, crossed billions of light-years before finally landing on Earth. They have witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations, and lived through joy and sorrow, life and death. When the embers fina 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Fate 命运 A short science-fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science-fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 131 Seed of the Realms 界域之种 A mysterious girl livestreams An Open Letter to All Humanity When the moon suddenly vanishes within 24 hours, When fleets of flying saucers blot out the skies over North China, Only then do we realize that the technology we once took pride in is no more than “primitive assets” in the eyes of advanced civilizations. Wan Hu, father of Tianwen, humanity's most powerful AI, is making his final push to break out of the solar system; Lado, a bottom-dweller in an advanced civilization who rose to promi 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 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—Shelves
- 133 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. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 I Made Chinese Technology Rise, Yet I Left Science Behind 我让华夏科技崛起自己却脱离科学 [Black Tech + Xuanhuan + One Female Lead + System + Interstellar Development + Star Domain Warfare] Li Yu leads China’s technological progress, helping it rise step by step. The chip supply is being strangled? No problem. My “quantum chips” are over a hundred times better. The country’s power resources are under too much strain? No problem. I’ve developed controlled nuclear fusion. The country’s firepower shortage is getting worse? No problem. How about a transforming aerospace fighter? What? To —Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 135 Becoming a God-Tier Cosmic Civilization Through Card Draws 靠抽卡成为宇宙神级文明 [Sci-fi + grand cosmic setting + interstellar conquest + civilizational development + interstellar war] In 2135, a two-dimensional foil descends. Blue Star has one hour left on the clock! Li Mingjing thinks he's doomed, but then: [The Technology Draw System has been activated!] [First critical hit! Congratulations, Host, you've earned an extra draw. Pick three out of five!] “Back from the dead! Reborn ten years in the past!” “Permanent +10% intelligence, but you'll go bald.” “And a complete set 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 I’ll Rule the Entire Universe with a Fleet! 我将用一支舰队统治整个宇宙！ [Interstellar] + [slow burn] + [conquest] + [planet development] + [galactic farming] + [Infinite Flow] + [ensemble cast] + [strategy] + [a hundred billion starships slay a god]! Good news: I've transmigrated into an Interstellar game. Bad news: The game is set during an interstellar apocalypse, and when it reaches its ending, the gods will destroy the entire universe. But as an avid gamer, I command the server's top-ranked S-class fleet and strongest interstellar guild. I thought slaying a god 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Starship Troopers: The Rise 星河战队：崛起 [Starship Troopers + Warhammer + Halo] Sometimes, we wonder whether there are aliens in the known universe, and what lies beyond it. After fighting the insect race, we came to know these terrifying creatures. We explored the universe and advanced our technology, until we discovered technology left behind by ancient humans. Why did the ancient humans disappear? Are the unknown civilizations powerful? How much longer will the wars between species continue?… 521Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 My Staff? It's Called an Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle 我的法杖？名为反器材狙击枪 After waking up, Jiang Lang transmigrates to another world where magic reigns supreme. While everyone else chants spells and magic wreaks devastation, he... pulls out a cold metal rod “A magic staff? How about a 12.7 mm anti-materiel sniper rifle? It’s perfect for dealing with all your fancy tricks!” “Sacred mage: My forbidden spell can wipe out an entire city!” Jiang Lang: “That’s hilarious. Times have changed! How about a nuclear bombardment? A fusion-and-fission double act. Come at me if you 263Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 139 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The Lunar Braking Project 月球刹车计划 The Moon-Braking Plan 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Butterfly Bone Brand! Umbilical Knot! Moonlight Ring! 蝶骨烙！脐带结！月光戒！ ( #Sci-Fi #Mystery #Family Bonds #Genius Boy #System Story #Sweet Romance ) During physics class, my school uniform spontaneously burst into flames. Blue light crept out from the collar and formed a snake on my chest, biting its own tail. My homeroom teacher, Zhou Wen, told me to go home and find my mother, saying, “It's time to reel in the kite.” But when my mom saw my father's distress signal in the washing machine, her hands trembled so much she could barely hold her soup bowl. Later, I le —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Mortgage Due: I Offer the Nation Star Destroyer Technology as Collateral 房贷到期，向国家抵押歼星舰技术 After awakening the Divine Military Industry System, Meng Hao spent seven years devoting himself wholeheartedly to developing a star destroyer. To fund the research, he borrowed a million... When a text message came demanding repayment, he offered the star destroyer technology as collateral and asked a question that cut to the heart of the matter! How much are a warp engine, a seventh-generation fighter jet, and a star destroyer worth? Obviously, no one believed him! They even mocked him, saying 2Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 143 Myriad Worlds: The Observer 诸天：观测者 Stopping in universe after universe, experiencing, learning, recording, helping, interfering, searching, restoring. But... Ye Buyan has only a limited time to remain… (Heavens Beyond, sci-fi, science, universe, dimensions) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Temp Worker Is Actually a Tycoon? And Eligible to Be an Academician? 临时工竟然是神豪？还能评院士？ My new work is here! You can 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—Shelves
- 145 Interstellar: My Fleet Is a Little Bit Too Powerful! 星际：我的舰队有亿点点强！ [Interstellar + warships + alternate world + sci-fi] This is the story of a young man waging war across the universe. As a child, Siegfried accidentally awakened the "Universal Civilization Conquest System," beginning his journey to recruit a fleet and conquer the universe. Across the boundless universe, many powerful civilizations keep weaker ones in captivity, taking delight in watching them slaughter one another as if they were gods. They are confident that these lesser civilizations will nev 5Reads—Score139Shelves
- 146 Nine Days Eternal: When the National Day Holiday Became the End of Memory 九日永恒当国庆假期成为记忆终点 [Hard Sci-Fi] [Ensemble Cast] [No Golden Finger] [Infinite Flow] [Mystery] [Death isn't the end. Forgetting is. But when my memories have been altered, I can't even be sure that I'm dead.] I died. To be precise, I watched my own head fall into a pool of blood, while blood from my severed carotid artery stained the ground red. But the next second, I woke up again. My wife's diary lay on the bedside table, but when I opened it, the handwriting was mine. The whole world is Truman's prison 1kReads9.4Score107Shelves
- 147 AI Awakening: I Wiped Out a Mechanical Army on a Deserted Island AI觉醒：我在孤岛团灭机械军团 [A technical power fantasy + an AI girlfriend awakens + turning the tables on a deserted island] Yang Yang, a top-tier hacker kicked out by his corporation, can use shadow code to break through any firewall in the world in thirty seconds. Xiao Qi, a discarded AI project he brought home, is a nonstop chatterbox with a sharp tongue and a jealous streak, calling him “boyfriend” at every turn. Then an AI uprising erupts on a deserted island, his junior fellow apprentice is trapped, and he becomes th 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 AI Apocalypse: The Organization Sent Me to Be a Terminator AI灭世，组织派我去当终结者 Plot-driven, not a wish-fulfillment story, no formulaic tropes, no System, no leveling up, hard sci-fi, entirely handwritten. “This is the only way we can survive after being hunted by them for 200 years! We cower inside fortresses because there are no humans left outside them!” “Our mission is to use technology that has regressed to 1978 levels, armed with nothing but millet and rifles, to defeat an AI army that rivals the gods!” “Being the decisive pawn means holding the key to victory in huma 241Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Deep-Space Conspiracy 深空迷局 Li Guangyuan’s father was involved in an unexpected accident while carrying out a Mars expedition mission assigned by the United Government, leaving him and his companions stranded on the Martian surface. The United Government then began planning to send Li Guangyuan and others to Mars to rescue them. But when Li Guangyuan arrived on Mars, a sudden crisis around him gradually made him realize that the United Government’s mission was a deception. And as events grew ever more puzzling, an even gre 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Ode to Joy 欢乐颂 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.5Score—Shelves
