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- 51 Thanks for the Invite: My Deadbeat System Drops Me Straight into a Middle Eastern Battlefield 谢邀，坑爹系统开局落地中东战场 Firearms + hard-core military fiction + mercenaries + a screwed-up System + comedy + everyday life He is a ghost haunting the battlefields of the Middle East. He is also the White Reaper of the Nordic snows. And he is the tiger of the Southeast Asian jungles. An ordinary office worker, he was forced to transmigrate to a Middle Eastern battlefield because of a mistake made by the intern System. Starting as an ordinary man who had never even touched a gun, he gradually grows into a capable sol 3.1kReads6.9Score17514d adds
- 52 Code Name: Phantom 代号幽灵 This is the author’s first novel, so don’t expect it to be especially well written. Hopefully, it’ll be fun to read. Right now, the author can’t think about anything except, “How should I write this?” [Note: This is a modern warfare series. It does not include the Cold War, advanced warfare, or futuristic warfare. Please also note that it contains a lot of original plot written by the author.] This is a turbulent era. Long years of peace have bred even more conspiracies. The discovery of a new e 100Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 53 Ace Mercenary 王牌雇佣兵 Just twelve hours pass between being kidnapped and getting married: a super-soldier king and a beautiful special agent tie the knot in a flash. Wang Dan, the world's top mercenary king, returns to the city and inexplicably ends up with a beautiful special agent for a wife. Protecting her is only natural… 51Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 54 Mercenary: I’m in Eastern Europe’s Meat Grinder 雇佣兵：我在东欧绞肉机 Lin Yuan, codename “Raven,” is a down-and-out former soldier saddled with massive debts. Cold and ruthlessly self-serving, but with a line he won’t cross, he is an expert in CQB (close-quarters battle) and wilderness survival. The modern battlefield is a nightmare of “drone terror,” “artillery wiping the ground clean,” and lives treated as expendable. Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East: come along for a tour through one war after another. The fighting never lets up. What you think is exagge 893Reads7.6Score6014d adds
- 55 I Transmigrated and Summoned Mercenaries, Now I'm Emperor of Northern Myanmar 穿越召唤雇佣兵，我在缅北当皇帝 (Fast-paced) (A power fantasy) Lin Feng transmigrates into the body of a university graduate in Huaxia who shares his name. Not long after arriving, he learns that his younger sister has been tricked into going to northern Myanmar. Then Lin Feng awakens a System and heads there to rescue her. After bringing her back home, he begins summoning mercenaries in northern Myanmar to build a power of his own! Later, he will fight an alien civilization. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 King of Mercenaries 佣兵王中王 This is the number one man in China, and one of its youngest major generals. He joined the military as a child. One mission turned him into a mercenary, and from then on, the name Black Death spread everywhere. In just four years, he became the King of Mercenaries. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Livestreaming as a Mercenary on My Period, Yet I'm Invincible 直播雇佣兵大姨夫，我却无敌了 Winter, 2019. Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, Longguo’s economy is going through a difficult period, making life even harder for Cao Xiaoqi, who was already struggling to make ends meet. Determined to find enough to eat and save up to marry a wife someday, Cao Xiaoqi decides to take a chance. But no matter how carefully he plans, he never expects to be scammed. The shady employment agency takes the little money he has left and sells him off. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Three Seconds In, I Was Forced Back Into Uniform 开局三秒，我被迫重披战衣 Three seconds from the start, I was forced to don my battle gear again —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Mercenary: From the Start, I Had a Jammed AK 雇佣兵：开局一把炸膛AK Liu Zhen runs a travel channel, but his videos are so poor that he has been mercilessly mocked by his haters. With no other choice, he decides to travel alone to Country A and film truly breathtaking footage to shut them up. But things don't go according to plan: he finds himself caught in a war. As a weapons novice who has only ever handled guns in video games, how can he turn the tide with nothing but an AK? And how will he embark on a career as a mercenary? Let's wait and see... —Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 60 A College Girl Trapped in a Myanmar Scam Compound Fights for Survival 困于缅北园区的女大学生绝地求生 A vibrant young college student looks to the future with eager anticipation, only to stumble into the terrifying abyss of a scam compound in northern Myanmar. In this sunless place, she is isolated and helpless, surrounded by greed and evil. Beatings and enslavement come one after another, and her hopes of survival are all but extinguished. How can she escape this desperate predicament? Will she rely on her wits to find a chance of survival amid one peril after another, or will an unexpected tur 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Reborn as a Mercenary 重生做佣兵 In his previous life, he was a good-for-nothing burdened with enormous debts, weighed down by worry every day. Then he was reborn on the 2015 battlefield. This life is much the same as the last, but the thirteen-year-old protagonist has no memory of the moments when he could have made a fortune. He remembers only the YQ outbreak and the World Cup upsets just before he transmigrated, but both are still four or five years away. Reborn on the battlefield, he decides to create value there and build 128Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 62 Kill Them Fast: A Michelin Assassin’s Record for the High Table 疾速追杀，高桌会米其林杀手实录 When the Boogeyman, John Wick, returns to the underworld over a dog, Chen Fan also happens to land a job at the Continental Hotel. In this mysterious world of gold coins, blood oaths, assassins, and the lofty High Table, all Chen Fan wants at first is to survive. While John Wick fights his way through a hail of bullets, Chen Fan carves out a different path with his cooking. But what lies behind the High Table? 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Iron Curtain Fusion 铁幕聚变 After unrestricted nuclear and biological warfare erupted, the world collapsed and order vanished. There was only one goal: survive, survive. Survive!!! (I’m a newcomer, currently in my final year of high school in Canada. Updates will come whenever I can manage them. This is my first time writing a book. I started purely as a hobby and never thought I’d stick with it. Feel free to share any feedback, and I’ll do my best to revise.) 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 A Young Girl’s Frontline Diary: Notes from a Losing War 少女填线：烂仗记录 Also known as: “How We Kept Coming Back to Life in Grozny, Yet Had to Endure the Pain of Dying” “The System gave us flawless bodies, but refused to erase our pain.” January 1995, Grozny. Snow, black mud, jammed rifles, and tons of “Cargo 200” (the war dead). For the seven undead members of the ragtag squad, this was their entire daily life. As a doomed unit forced to sign the “Ashen Contract,” they had a cheat no regular soldier could help envying: resurrection. But there was a price. Every time 174Reads—Score2314d adds
- 65 The Mercenary Empire 佣兵帝国 The English word “mercenary” is synonymous with “a person who acts solely for gain”! “Whoever pays gets your loyalty.” This is the basic principle shared by all mercenaries. When dreams of wealth collide with lives cut short, how will Zhang Siyu, a Chinese veteran who enters the mercenary empire, break through barrier after barrier in this world of money and death, self-interest and bloodshed, conspiracy and passion, and build a mercenary empire of his own? 1.7kReads8.8Score15814d adds
- 66 When I Brought Video Game Guns into the Real World 当我把游戏枪械带入现实时 [Gunfights] [Wasteland] [Shelters] [Natural Disasters] [Loot, Fight, Extract] [Decisive and Ruthless] Li Yang has just quit his job when he happens upon a game called City Ruins. He gets his hands on the beta version, and after completing the tutorial, discovers that the equipment he gets in the game can be brought into the real world. From then on, his life is all guns and bloodshed. 6.5kReads7.3Score35114d adds
- 67 PMC: Armed Nation PMC：武装国度 (The rating was just released, and it'll rise later!) (No brainless plot, just hard-core tactics!) A game causes Zhang Sheng to transmigrate and embark on the path of a mercenary. Starting with a million dollars from the start, he builds a private military company from scratch. As modern private military forces take the world stage, capital, warfare, and intelligence intertwine. He recruits all kinds of talent and builds a complete, high-end military contracting system from the ground up: sp 15.7kReads8.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 68 Fifteen Years Adrift: A Mercenary's Memoir 漂泊十五载：一个佣兵的回忆录 [No System]+ [Not a wish-fulfillment novel]+ [Realistic style]+ [No heroine] There is a group of people in this world whom the regular army despises, dismissing them as bastards who work only for money... Ordinary people fear them, believing they are cold-blooded killers who would do anything for money… But in truth, they are a band of lone wolves who brave the edge of danger. Though they don't fit conventional definitions, they have their own code of conduct. They move through storms of bu 2kReads8.2Score29514d adds
- 69 Mercenary: Fires of the Night 雇佣兵：夜的烽火 [Parallel World + Military Fantasy + Mercenaries + No System + Realistic Details + Cinematic Feel] In a world of guns and artillery, nobody is invincible. Those who survive have more than just basic skills: they have luck. Don’t say mercenaries fight only for money. They have bonds forged in battle, families, and faith in their hearts that can never be extinguished... 606Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 70 Mercenary in the Dark 黑暗中的佣兵 Who wouldn’t want a free and carefree soul, and an ordinary, peaceful life? A person who walks through the darkness of nations strives to dispel the endless gloom, longing for clouds of red. 125Reads—Score414d adds
- 71 Ultimate Agent: Counterterrorism, Strike Back! 终极特工：反恐，反击！ Guns, guns, and more guns! Li Sen, a retired Chinese special forces soldier, unexpectedly becomes an international counterterrorism agent! Hostage rescue, special operations, infiltration and reconnaissance, evacuation, armed assaults, crisis response! He activates the Ultimate Agent System! S-Rank Talent, from the start: Sudden Emergence: Increases all physical attributes by 30%! Increases proficiency with all firearms by 30%! S-Rank Talent: Regenerative Warrior: Increases the body’s natural he 493Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 72 Yes, Yes, That's Right, I'm a Security Guard 对对对，我就是保安 Shanmao, a soldier medically discharged due to injury, had planned to graduate from engineering college and settle into an ordinary life as a construction worker. But a phone call from a former comrade-in-arms draws him to a chaotic region of Africa, where he becomes a bona fide PMC employee and embarks on a thrilling life unlike any other! 2.2kReads8.2Score18114d adds
- 73 After Getting a System, This Guy Went to Make It in the Middle East 这人得到系统后竟然跑去中东混 [Urban + System + livestreaming + dad life + mercenaries + war + faction-building] The protagonist has two Systems: the [War System] and the [Livestream System]. Main System, the [War System]: Exchange War Points for military weapons and equipment to strengthen the faction’s military might. Secondary System, the [Livestream System]: Exchange Popularity Points for daily necessities and money, used to recruit subordinates, pay salaries, and build the economy. The two Systems work together to produ 75Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 74 The Iron Coffin 钢铁棺材 [World War II + military + German perspective + tank crewman + anti-war + tragedy + humanity] Klaus Schumann once dreamed of becoming an armored knight charging across the battlefield, serving his homeland and its Führer. In 1939, his dream came true: he became one of the Third Reich's armored legions. His vehicles, from the nimble Panzer III to the fearsome Panther, were both mobile fortresses they depended on for survival and steel coffins that could reduce the crew to ashes at any moment. Ins 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Marauders: We Are the Strongest Mercenaries 掠夺者：我们是最强佣兵 After losing his memory, 19-year-old Xu Jinhuan unexpectedly becomes a mercenary. He shows off his extraordinary abilities in an elite mercenary group, stunning everyone. The veterans in the group look down on him? He won’t stand for it. He challenges them on the spot and beats them soundly. A rival mercenary group mocks him? What a joke. He turns around and wipes out their entire team. Xu Jinhuan grows bolder with every battle and repeatedly earns major credit. But just as he reaches the peak, 33Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 76 The Exchange Student in Our Class Is Actually a Valkyrie? 我们班的交换生，竟然是女武神？ [Daily Life + School Life + Supernatural + Gunfights + Two Heroines + Urban Counterterrorism + Light Tactical Action] A monster has arrived in Class Two of the Art Department at Tianqi City High School. With a white ponytail and a height of 175 centimeters, she towers over every boy in class. Her art skills amaze the whole school, but she coolly turns away every admirer. No one knows that Liliya gave up a recommendation to a top art academy to attend this ordinary school for one reason: to find 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Land of Disorder 失序之地 [Inspired by Delta Force: Hawk Ops and Escape from Tarkov. You can enjoy this even if you haven't played the games.] After waking up, Li Yang finds himself in a parallel world, where he has become a lowly scavenger on a treasure-hunting battlefield. He also gets a golden finger: every time he picks up a fragment, he gains a skill. Before long, a bug-like player has appeared on the battlefield. “Weren't you a newbie? How did you kill me instead?!” “My God, your sniping skills are insane! You can 42Reads7.2Score914d adds
- 78 Trapped in a Ruined Building for 72 Hours, I Fought My Way Out of Hell in the Middle East 《被围残楼72小时，我杀出中东地狱》 Trapped in a Crumbling Building for 72 Hours, I Fought My Way Out of Middle Eastern Hell 24Reads—Score114d adds
- 79 404 Squad: American Civil War 404小队：美国内战 Rising flames + American superheroes + Girls' Frontline's 404 Squad + the omniscient route What happens when a squad of tactical dolls missing from all records arrives in this world? When the incident that Congress refuses to intervene in comes to light, what choice will a group of dolls who look like nothing but girls, yet possess bodies comparable to superheroes, make? (I really don't know how to write a synopsis.) 262Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Mercenary Livestream: Wielding an AK One-Handed on a Real Battlefield 直播雇佣兵：真实战场单手压AK Man loses his life to greed, while bird dies young for food. Cao Shiqi’s fate was rather pitiful. He got up early to look for food and had himself some breakfast. “Th-this… I just died?” Could he have choked to death on a meatball in his spicy soup? Or maybe the pan-fried bun was too hot and burned him to death? Anyway, none of that mattered now. Cao Shiqi had transmigrated, and become a mercenary with a System. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Iron Rain: 2027 《铁雨：2027》 Iron Rain: 2027 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 The Mercenary: Rise of the Yellow Turbans 雇佣兵之黄巾崛起 Unable to accept that the Yellow Turban Rebellion had failed, Zhang Jiao is reborn in the modern era, just in time to witness countries clashing with one another before the S3 season. Zhang Jiao immediately rides this wave, raising the Yellow Turban Army once more and forging his own path toward world peace. “Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In this Jiazi year, may all under Heaven prosper! God of Thunder, Mother of Lightning, heed my command! I am Zhang Jiao. Prepare to die!” But o 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The System Sent Me to Become a Mercenary 系统让我去做雇佣兵 [College student + System + mercenaries + Northern Myanmar + general + aircraft carriers and warships + war + hard-core] After an ordinary college student is betrayed by the campus belle, his fate takes a dramatic turn. He unexpectedly acquires a mysterious System and embarks on a path filled with challenges and legend. Resolutely heading for the perilous region of Northern Myanmar, he sets out to destroy its criminal scam compounds. Along the way, he engages in fierce battles with warlords and 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 I'm a Patrol Officer, So How Did I Become an Arms Dealer? 我是一名巡警，怎么变成军火商了 In 1990, on the West Coast of the parallel-world Blue Star’s Star Banner Federation, rookie Asian American cop Lin Rui is left near death during a street assault on a police officer. He unexpectedly awakens the “Mercenary Umbrella System.” As long as he has the money, he can recruit special forces from countries around the world and legendary mercenaries, buy any kind of weaponry and heavy equipment, and even establish transnational bases with a single click. He builds his first base in Aden Har 2.1kReads—Score19714d adds
- 85 The Dark Zone Impostor 暗区伪装者 Gaming? I’ll lead a player army and sweep through everything! Reality? I’ll lead Ajax to victory after victory! A young Chinese man stranded in America accidentally forms a mysterious link with a newly released game. His life abroad is turned upside down, and a whole new world opens up before him. As the boundary between the game and reality begins to blur, should he be a hero or a villain, a good guy or a bad guy? Just like the line of welcome that left such a deep impression on Vincent: “Welco 50Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 86 Mercenary Over the Summer, Campus Belle Conquered When School Starts 暑假当雇佣兵，开学扑倒校花 [Summer job + mercenary returns from summer vacation + heart-pounding action] During summer vacation, Su Zhe activates a System and gets tossed onto the battlefield between Big Mao and Second Mao as a mercenary for two months. He narrowly survives and earns tens of millions of dollars. On the first day of school, his roommates question him, and Su Zhe comes clean: “Didn't do much. Just went to fight in a war.” His roommates think he's lost his mind, until their counselor checks the dorm and find 21.5kReads6.9Score2.3k14d adds
- 87 You Reap What You Sow, and Heaven Is Watching 人在做！天在看！ A lone hero who crawled out of a mountain of corpses washed away the violence in his heart and returned to a city that was both strange and familiar. At his parents’ urging, he took the civil service exam and became a young police officer in the prime of his life. He thought he would simply live off the government and wait for retirement, but an accident plunged him into danger once more. This time, though, things were different. Behind him stood the powerful machinery of the state, a band of co 1.2kReads7.0Score10614d adds
- 88 You Call Me a Recruit After I Took on an S-Rank Mercenary Group Alone? 单挑S级佣兵团，你管这叫新兵？ With a System at his side, he can charge into battle without a care. The enemy has a sniper rifle? He tweaks the scope, and his Type 95 is more accurate than a sniper rifle. He modifies his combat boots with a powered-assist mechanism, letting him run faster than a horse on two legs. Rookie Qin Feng shows off his skills on a mission, and every big shot wants to recruit him! The researchers are left gaping in disbelief: How was this component designed? The captain proudly thumps his chest. “That' 21Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 89 The Ultimate Soldier 最强单兵 After a mission goes wrong, Xiao Xiao, hailed as the strongest soldier of the 21st century, returns to the city with his adopted daughter. 85Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 90 King of Mercenaries in the City 都市之佣兵之王 A fateful accident drove Lin Yuze away from the capital! But eight years of struggle made him an unrivaled king of the world! Yet when the secrets of that year came to light, it seemed nothing was as simple as it appeared! 23Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 91 The Mercenary’s Guide: General, Please Calm Down 雇佣兵之军爷请息怒 Thrown into the air by a shock wave amid the bombardment. Letting loose in a frenzy under a hail of bullets. In his coma, Chen Mo faintly heard the mechanical voice of a System. “Host Chen Mo has awakened the God-Tier Mercenary Combat System.” “Newbie gift pack awarded: Basic Danger Sense and Basic Capture and Combat Skills.” “That’s it?” Chen Mo scoffed. System: “...” “Upgrading to the God-Tier Mercenary Combat Livestream Exchange System.” “Bonus reward: one bottle of ordinary stimulant.” “That 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 A Crumbling Empire 摇摇欲坠的帝国 This story is very close to reality, portraying the brutal and merciless nature of war. Soldiers struggle along muddy roads, while both sides' war machines slaughter the enemy swiftly and without mercy. Millions clash in a single battle, and the events throughout are grounded firmly in the realities of combat. If you want to get straight to the fighting, you can start at Chapter 4 without missing anything. 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The Strongest Mercenary: Hunted by Dogs from the Start 最强雇佣兵：开局被狗追 While traveling abroad with his family, a high school student is caught in a bandit kidnapping. Under his parents’ protection, he escapes with his younger sister, only to end up surrounded by spotted hyenas. After surviving against all odds, the siblings are captured and taken to an assassin training camp. They work together to endure its brutal conditions, and when the older brother is gravely wounded and near death, a passing mercenary group rescues him. He willingly becomes a mercenary, and f 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Day We Ran Aground 搁浅之日 [Rebirth | Battles | High-Octane Fight Scenes | Tactical Girls | Power Fantasy | Romance] Gu Ming never imagined that Demeng, the organization he belonged to, was bent on destroying humanity. After dying in battle, he was reborn. He joined Clovis's organization. This organization was the enemy of the Demeng Group, but every one of its key members was a tactical girl! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Special Forces: Picking Up Attributes, I Change Shi Jin's Fate 特种兵：捡属性的我改变史今命运 [Special Forces]+ [Soldiers Sortie]+ [Wolf Warrior]+ [No Babysitting Xu Sanduo, Everything Goes My Way] In his previous life, Yang Qi grew up under the red flag. He died while trying to help someone in danger, then arrived in the world of Soldiers Sortie! But Yang Qi soon discovers that this world isn't just Soldiers Sortie. It's also a mash-up of films and TV dramas like Wolf Warrior, I Am a Special Forces Soldier, and Operation Red Sea. After an unexpected meeting with An Ran, their feelings g 879Reads5.5Score10614d adds
- 96 Global Mercenary: Tricking Leng Feng into Robbing a Vault from the Start 全球佣兵：开局忽悠冷锋抢金库 After three years since transmigrating, Lin Lang finally activates the Super God System, and the first person he sets his sights on is Leng Feng, the Wolf Warrior powerhouse! Beneath his silver mask, he is the “Demon King,” whose name strikes fear into mercenaries around the globe. The island nation’s treasury? He storms in head-on, hauls away the gold with magnetic gear, and tears through the streets in a car chase while making a fool of the entire army. A prison in Sunsetland? He releases Gleb 733Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 97 The Strongest King of Mercenaries 最强雇佣兵王 He operates in the gray areas, assembling his own mercenary force to handle covert missions for various countries. Then one day, he is framed, and he is the only one to survive. As the king of the mercenaries, he swears to find the mastermind and make them pay the ultimate price. “Not even the president can protect you.” When he rises from the darkness, the entire mercenary world trembles. —Reads—Score114d adds
- 98 The Special Forces King in the City 特种兵王在都市 After waking up from a drunken stupor, he finds his beautiful boss’s twin sister lying beside him... The king of soldiers Liao Fei is torn: one woman is cool and elegant, the other spoiled and adorable. Which one should he choose? This book is now available for sale under the title The Strongest Agent: Shadow of the Spy, at JD.com, Dangdang, and other retailers. 7Reads7.7Score114d adds
- 99 History Begins in 1979 历史从1979开始 A flight of fancy + traveling between worlds + realistic style. No mindless protagonist or convoluted scheming. It’s probably a story about an ordinary person who keeps growing after gaining a golden finger. First instance: China and the Soviet Union, 1979: Dragon and Bear (short arc) Second instance: Strange Tales of the Republican Era, a great tide begins to rise. The urban main storyline continues to unfold. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 We Came from Hell to Shout “Ura!” Three Times 我们自地狱来，只为高喊三声乌拉 [Mercenary] + [Sniper] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Russia-Ukraine War] + [Hardcore Action] [Adapted from my real experiences serving in an international security force.] Wei Zhen is the finest student in the VIP Protection Program at the International Defense Academy. After going to prison for avenging his mother, he thinks he's as good as dead. But then he crosses paths with a group of guards eager to make a quick buck, just as the Wagner mercenaries arrive to recruit from the death row block. Survi 620Reads—Score10214d adds
