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- 1 Doomsday Rebirth: Island Survival 末日重生：海岛生存 After being reborn in the Doomsday, I build a small island, stockpile supplies, and fend off zombies, cold waves, and raiders from the sea. I’m the caretaker of a private island. In my previous life, I was trapped on the island with its owner until our supplies and food ran out. The cruel couple who owned the island killed me. Now that I’m alive again, I can’t just sit around and wait to die 85Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Peerless Esper King: Beneath the Extraordinary 傲世异能王之异人之下 Which of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits’ divine skills would you want to gain? A secret buried for a hundred years. What happened to a mysterious girl, and what made her lose her memories? How did she gain such powerful abilities? The story’s prologue reveals the heroine’s difficult birth, and how, through a twist of fate, she gained powerful abilities. The later story explores school conflicts before the apocalypse, then reveals the darkness of human nature after it begins. This novel follows 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Reborn in the Doomsday 末日再世 Le Ning was reborn in the apocalypse and received a golden finger. She thought the apocalypse would be just like the ones in novels, but she found herself in a very different kind of apocalypse. Follow her as she tries to survive this unusual new world with her younger sister. This is a fictional fantasy novel. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Feel free to read without overthinking it, and just enjoy the story! 205Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 4 The Bloodbound Path of the Otherworldly Demon 异魔血途 [Not Reborn, No System, Apocalypse, Superpower Battles, Evolution, One Female Lead, Neither Lead Is a Saint, No Grudges Left Unsettled] Zombies erupt, the apocalypse arrives, and humanity faces annihilation. People fight over supplies, women, and crystals; betrayal and slaughter unfold in turn. This is the end of the old era and the beginning of a new one. Healing, physical, psychic, and nature-type superpowered users wage war in the apocalypse. Mutant zombies of different ranks and types roam t 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Building Mechs in the Apocalypse 在默示录里攒机甲 [Apocalypse + System Space + Superpower Awakening + Multiple Heroines + Farming and Survival] After the zombie virus broke out, the world became hell. Tian Yuyun unexpectedly awakened the “Synthesis System,” which could combine anything into something new: Weapons, armor, even... a Gundam! While other survivors struggled among the ruins, Tian Yuyun had already built an apocalyptic fortress. And a team of female companions, all beautiful and formidable, had gathered behind him. [Cool, aloof s 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Before the Apocalypse, I Scoured the World for Supplies! 末世降临前，我满世界的抢物资！ [Pocket dimension + stockpiling + new kinds of zombies + harem + special abilities + decisive and ruthless, no saintly self-sacrifice + invincible aura] Qin Feng is deceived by his cousin and fiancée and sold as a mine slave in Black Africa. By chance, he’s forced to swallow a strange crystal ball, and his life changes completely. In a dream, he sees a glimpse of the future: debris from a celestial body beyond the stars crashes into Blue Star, triggering natural disasters and spreading an unknow 16.5kReads8.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 7 Dust and Smoke in the Apocalypse 末世微尘烟雾之徒 The protagonist is a smoke-wielding ability user. Before the apocalypse, he was a gloomy, insecure boy. By a stroke of luck, he fulfilled a smoke spirit's dying wish and gained its power. He can control a domain that takes shape as smoke, and uses various smoke bombs and concussion grenades to boost his abilities. This book tells the story of a war between three sides: the anomalies of the Old World, the rebels of the New World, and humanity. The anomalies of the Old World are called impostors. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Apocalypse Arrives, and I Awaken Ultimate Torment from the Start 末世降临，开局觉醒终极折磨 [Apocalypse + Multiple Female Leads + System + Invincible] Also known as: The Apocalypse Arrives, and They All Come for Me. A toxic snowstorm descends upon the world. Stockpiling supplies? Impossible, because I have an infinite supply. But the System is way too twisted. I can only fill the energy gauge by putting myself through torment! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Infinite Water: Stockpiling a Billion Goddesses at the End of the World 无限水资源，在末日囤积亿万女神 [Apocalypse + power fantasy + school beauty + goddess + unlimited resources + global evolution + supernatural powers] When the red sun appeared, plants and animals began to mutate: teddy bears that ate people, spider plants that strangled their victims, and death tomatoes that opened their mouths. The whole world descended into madness, and humanity teetered on the brink of disaster. Only Qin Yang had an advantage. [Congratulations, you have awakened the Apocalypse Overlord System] [Unlimited wa 1.2kReads—Score10114d adds
- 10 Is Surviving the Apocalypse Really That Hard? 末世生存很难吗？ After being reborn into the apocalypse, Yuan Yuan gains a pocket dimension and struggles to survive alongside her younger brother, younger sister, and teammates. People are kind by nature, but she isn’t a bleeding heart. She finds true love, and they depend on each other! 343Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 11 The Apocalypse Is Here! I Use My Spatial Realm to Empty the World's Granaries 末世降临！我用空间搬空全球粮仓 [Natural disasters and the apocalypse + super spatial dimension + global shopping spree + ruthless heroine] Xu Sichen struggled to survive for eight years in the apocalypse, only to die at the hands of her scumbag father and stepsister. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to one month before the apocalypse! Her scumbag father pressured her to sell off the shares her mother left her for next to nothing. In her previous life, she had clung to her mother’s dying wish and refused at all 4.8kReads8.2Score57114d adds
- 12 Apocalypse: I Own an Invincible Micro-World and Reap the Entire Globe 末世：坐拥无敌小世界收割全球 Can a man really be like a god? Reborn into the apocalypse, who's the undisputed king of stockpiling supplies and looting everything for free? He seizes a trillion-yuan arms depot, empties Europe's granaries, and sweeps through seven major American ports. And he doesn't just collect supplies. He takes every valuable landscape, too: Did Lake Baikal really vanish overnight, all at once? How could vast stretches of African grassland and their animals disappear without a trace? Did the vegetation of 2.8kReads8.4Score17114d adds
- 13 Reborn in an Apocalypse Novel, I Even Dare to Kill the Canon Couple 重生在末世小说，我连官配都敢杀 Things to be aware of: When I started writing, I wanted to show the brutality of a realistic apocalypse. I also didn't understand what people meant by a story that celebrates women. I only came to understand and improve the content through the comments, so the early plot has some realism, but please feel free to skip it. No male lead + ruthless heroine + natural-disaster apocalypse + zombie game + quick transmigration + strong, capable supporting female characters who don't compete with one anot 931Reads8.9Score26014d adds
- 14 I Collect Female Celebrities in the Apocalypse 我在末世收女明星 [Apocalypse]+ [Natural Disasters]+ [Zombies]+ [Superpowers]+ [Eerie]+ [Beautiful Neighbor]+ [Female Celebrity] A meteor strikes Blue Star, bringing extreme heat, torrential rain, dense fog, evil spirits, zombies, evolved beasts, and even mutated plants… At the dawn of the apocalypse, the protagonist finds a meteorite and gradually grows stronger. Along the way, he also saves many beautiful women: the goddess next door, a female celebrity, a business tycoon, a beautiful policewoman, a pure-h 71.2kReads7.2Score6.6k14d adds
- 15 Global Cataclysm: Building an Underground City from the Start 全球灾变：开局建设地下城 [Apocalypse vacation + lighthearted + funny + humblebragging] The apocalypse has begun. Ye Liangren uses his System to upgrade every part of his shelter. The faucet can automatically switch to cold water, hot water, soft drinks, coffee, milk, or even 1982 Château Lafite, depending on the Host’s needs! The clothes it makes are fireproof and can withstand temperatures below minus 150 degrees! The upgraded internet boasts ten-gigabit fiber speeds! He has also built an ecological ranch and a large-s 509Reads7.9Score10014d adds
- 16 Global Cataclysm: Building Noah's Ark from the Start 全球灾变：开局建造诺亚方舟 Qin Bin is reborn and awakens a God-Tier Apocalypse Survival System. The apocalypse is just three months away! Three months from now, disasters will strike one after another: an asteroid impact, global mega-tsunamis, frequent earthquakes, an ice age, mutated life forms, a biological crisis, and more! Faced with catastrophe, he buys a beat-up cargo ship from the start and sets out to upgrade it into an apocalypse survival vessel, Noah’s Ark! Diesel engine to nuclear engine, then a fusion engine, 3.8kReads8.6Score26114d adds
- 17 Apocalypse: Mythology Awakens, and I Capture the Great Calamity Qiongqi from the Start 末世：神话复苏，开局收大凶穷奇 [Apocalypse + Reborn + Invincible + Ruthless + No Stockpiling + Lone Wolf + No Tired Cliches or Melodrama + Slays His Enemy from the Start] When apocalyptic disasters strike, the mythical gods and ferocious beasts from memory mutate and awaken. Chen Mo is reborn three days before the apocalypse. He uses that time to find his enemy from his previous life and slays him before the apocalypse even begins! After subduing Qiongqi, the apocalypse’s overlord, he awakens two SSS-rank abilities: [Tianquan 32kReads8.1Score3k14d adds
- 18 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
- 19 Apocalypse Villain: Starting by Stealing the School Beauty from the Female Lead 末世反派：从截胡校花女主开始 [Apocalypse + Villain + System + Special Abilities] (If you only want mindless killing and can't accept the protagonist doing bad things, don't read this!) Lu Yu transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a rich second-generation heir. What? The apocalypse is coming in a week, and all of humanity will start evolving? And he's actually the villain of the apocalypse? When he learns that the protagonist, Chu Feng, will be reborn before the apocalypse arrives, he immediately starts laying his pla 30kReads8.8Score2.1k14d adds
- 20 Apocalypse: More Children, More Blessings, Starting with the Aloof Class Belle 末世：多子多福，从高冷班花开始 [Invincible + zombie apocalypse + more children, more blessings + tons of female characters + ruthless and decisive + profits above all] When the apocalypse arrived and zombies broke out, Liu Yang and the aloof class beauty were trapped in a room together. The girl who used to barely give Liu Yang the time of day could now only kneel and beg to cling to him! That's when Liu Yang awakened the more children, more blessings System and gained powerful abilities. From then on, he rose to the top of t 52.9kReads8.5Score4.6k14d adds
- 21 From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世 The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li 66.3kReads8.7Score5.3k14d adds
- 22 Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世 [Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a 144.5kReads9.0Score12.6k14d adds
- 23 EN The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临？我先降临！ [The print edition of I'm a Supplier of Survival Plans for the End Times is now available on major platforms] [Character growth · Multi-theme stages · Ensemble cast · Occasional brutal takedowns · No cookie-cutter plot · No mindless wish fulfillment] After facing repeated layoffs and betrayals, Su Jin was at the lowest point of his life when he was accidentally hired by a mysterious company. Countless worlds are on the brink of destruction. Only by saving their clients can the sparks of civiliza 401.1kReads9.2Score33.6k14d adds
- 24 EN Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世：开局先囤十亿物资 [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left 117.9kReads9.3Score9.4k14d adds
- 25 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
- 26 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 359.7kReads8.7Score17.9k14d adds
- 27 Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生：大佬从百万囤货开始 [Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot 97.4kReads9.4Score8.6k14d adds
- 28 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
- 29 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
- 30 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
