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- 151 The Dark Firmament Era 黑穹纪元 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Wanted Across the Universe 全宇宙通缉 Hard sci-fi, no cheat powers, road trip, farming, conquest, worldbuilding. Dune + Cyberpunk 2077 + EVE + Yellowstone Ranch In the year 2677 of the Earth calendar, the cosmic conglomerates monopolize everything, and the lives of the underclass are nothing but expendable resources. Nineteen-year-old Ark is a low-level mechanic. After accidentally winning fifty million in the lottery, he instantly becomes “Warwolf,” an extreme criminal with a massive bounty on his head across the entire star system 1Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 153 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 233Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Chaos Butterfly 混沌蝴蝶 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science fiction author and Hugo Award winner. 5Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 155 The Legend of the Black Hole Kid: Battle in the Desert 黑洞小子传奇之沙漠大战记 This novel is the first installment in my epic science-fiction fantasy series, The Legend of the Black Hole Kids. It aims to create a new generation of cosmic heroes, led by the Black Hole Kids Jingjing and Liangliang, who are even mightier and more extraordinary than Nezha and Sun Wukong! The story follows the spectacular arrival of six young cosmic heroes: the Black Hole Kids Jingjing and Liangliang, Ruirui, Yingying, Fire Boy, and Ice Girl. Together, they defeat the forces of desertification 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 I Use Technology to Crush Gods and Demons 我以科技镇压神魔 When the spiritual energy of a cultivation world meets the cutting edge of an iron tide, and the grace of sword-flying clashes with the roar of engines, a civilization-spanning war erupts beneath the starry sky. Lin Yue arrives in Xuanhuang bearing the spark of technology. He breaks spells with guns and cannons, and solves arrays with code. He pilots mechs over the corpses of gods and demons, reshapes cultivators' meridians with genetic agents, covers the Three Realms with satellite surveillance —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Legend of Black Hole Boy: Wanwan, the Boy with Two Brains 黑洞小子传奇之双脑奇人小万万 The Legend of the Black Hole Kid: Xiao Wanwan, the Two-Brained Prodigy is the second installment in my long science fiction and fantasy series, The Legend of the Black Hole Kid. It mainly tells the story of a foolish child from ancient times. His private school teacher taught him that one was a horizontal stroke, two was two horizontal strokes, and three was three horizontal strokes. After that, he thought he had learned everything and no longer needed the teacher. He was the foolish son of a la 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Legend of the Black Hole Kid: The Two Tigers and Frogs Versus the Sky-Swallowing Wolf 黑洞小子传奇之二虎蛙大战吞天狼 This is the ultimate showdown between a high-tech immortal from the future, Black Hole Boy, and the immortals of heaven. One day in the future, a ferocious super beast from our primordial universe, the Devourer Wolf, set its sights on our beautiful home, Earth. It began swelling until it was dozens of times larger than Earth. Then, planting one foot on a star at a time, it strode through space like a moving mountain range, heedless of everything in its path, arrogant and overbearing as it charge 1Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 159 The Milky Way Aglow: The Silicon-Carbon War 天河璀璨之硅碳战争 This is a science fiction story: An alien spacecraft nearly a kilometer in diameter suddenly arrives in the waters of the Dragon Kingdom. It comes not to conquer or kill, but to seek cooperation, offering the Dragon Kingdom many tangible benefits. It also tells the Dragon Kingdom that aliens have visited Earth since ancient times, and that several alien races still live here. Why did they choose to cooperate with the Dragon Kingdom, and what can the Dragon Kingdom offer them? The aliens invite 1 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Legends of the Star Domain: I Build an Empire in the Universe 星域传说：我在宇宙建帝国 In the past, humanity strove to understand our place in the universe. We imagined gods and worshipped them. But now, we have explored every corner of the universe and learned its history. We understand that there are no gods in the universe. We are the ones who will shape the universe’s future. The only ones worthy of our reverence are our descendants. Thanks to our selfless struggle, they will take their place on the thrones the gods have vacated. But first, we must claim the entire galaxy... T 209Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 161 Flying in the Blue 蓝色中飞行 Tags: hard sci-fi, no mindless characters, no dumbing down, no System, no transmigration, no rebirth Like The Three-Body Problem, this is all about big ideas! I'll make detailed revisions after finishing the later chapters. For now, just treat this as an outline. As a child, I was full of fantasies. As I grew up, they seemed increasingly likely to become reality. I longed for the future and imagined the technology of a world to come. Perhaps somewhere in the vast sea of stars, things like this a 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 The Empire’s Starry Sky 帝国的星空 Search for Empire of the Stars by title to explore interstellar power plays. The day Earth was defeated, our entire nation ascended to the stars. The last spark of the Third Reich fled to the desolate Moon with several thousand elite troops and an underground arms factory. Here, survival means war. Again and again, we beat back the assassins sent from our home planet, winning every battle tactically. Yet strategically, we edged closer to despair with every step. Each Alliance satellite we destro 9Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 163 The Superhero with the All-Seeing Eye: Visitor from Beyond the Stars 纵目超人之星外来客 The escape pod drifted through space like a spark that refused to die out. Ji Xiaobai curled up inside. His face was blackened by burns, but his fingers clutched a sword tightly: the one that could cleave the void. “Dad, I've set foot on the star remains you left behind.” He coughed up blood and smiled. Outside was the God of War's order to hunt him down, and a darkness that devoured everything. Inside was a childhood recording, playing over and over: “Xiaobai, come home for dinner...” Xiao 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Swallowed Star: I Am the Lord of the Beast Gods! 吞噬星空：我，兽神之主！ 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 27Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 165 The Interstellar Zerg 星际虫族 What kind of story can a man charged with the mission of raising the insect race to greatness create in the vast interstellar expanse? Slaughter, conquest, evolution, and expansion. The insect race's potential is limitless... 110Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Interstellar: I Enlisted After the College Entrance Exam and Proved My Dao in Ten Years 星际：高考入伍，我十年证道无敌 [Interstellar Era + Advanced Technology + World of Gods + Supernatural Powers and Spells + Overlapping Planets + Racial Warfare] Zhang Bufan was mediocre by nature and unsuited to becoming a martial artist. Then he acquired a [Cultivation Acceleration Orb], and from that moment on, he left everyone else in the dust on the path of cultivation. He soon realized that his cultivation was going a little off course. Rather than leading him to become a martial artist, it was taking him down the path to 1.8kReads8.1Score13614d adds
- 167 The Origin I: Eternal Life 源起I永生 In 2060, humanity conducted an experiment to verify the impact of dark matter. It triggered a series of phenomena and disasters that human civilization could not explain, plunging Earth into a nuclear winter that lasted a century. Humanity could only eke out a living in underground cities. A hundred years later, breakthroughs in underground technology allowed people to gradually emerge and establish a new civilization on the surface, where they could raise families and search for answers about w 26Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 168 Sequence: The Glutton, I Grow Stronger by Eating 序列：暴食者我靠不断吃变强 Volume One is a prologue. The main story begins in Volume Two. [Classic of Mountains and Seas] [One Person, One “Dog”] [Single Female Lead] [Eerie] [Folk Customs Awakening] A slow burn that gets better the more you read. The red moon and the Eerie descend. With maxed-out stats from the start, could this actually be the “preliminary quest” of a deadbeat System? The Classic of Mountains and Seas, mountain spirits, and ghosts aren't just legends after all... On the eve of his college entrance exams 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Rebuilding the Great Way Begins on Mars 大道重塑从火星开始 Free apartments! He awakens his Dao Root! Feng Changkai is “conned” by Ma Sike into going to Mars. After reaching rock bottom, he turns his luck around and inherits the legacy of China’s totem, along with half of a magical jade disc... Reborn anew, Feng Changkai embarks on a remarkable life unlike any other... He brings Pang Dong Lai to Mars, opening branches across the planet, and has Cui Peijun dig all over Mars. He brings Dao Lang and Phoenix Legend to Mars for a concert... Spiritual qi reviv 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Space Drifter: Return to Earth 星际流浪者之重返地球 The story takes place in the future, when Earth's population has exploded. To control population growth, the authorities use an iron fist to impose a system of strict classification on humanity! Anyone deemed an unfit member of the population is exiled into space and becomes an interstellar drifter. The protagonist of this book, Jiang Dongge, is one such drifter. This is a hard-core sci-fi story about his struggle to overcome adversity and rise from the bottom, blending technology, ancient marti —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Coexistence: Echoes of Another Dimension 共存：维度的回声 Coexistence: Echoes of Another Dimension 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 The Aconite Alien Planet Chronicles 乌头异星记 Beneath a blood moon, the silver blades of the Arkship’s tuned warriors clash with the black robes of the Demon God’s followers on the shattered plains. A dragon-blooded youth’s fingertips burst into blazing flames, forbidden spells rend the sky, and an evil god sealed for a thousand years awakens within a meteorite rift. This fated battle will let the eternal night devour the last of the light. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Roaming the Great Wilderness: Starting by Capturing My First Exotic Beast 大荒纵横：从捕获第一只异兽开始 [High Martial] [Cyberpunk Cthulhu] [Passionate School Life] [Adventure] [Sci-Fi Classic of Mountains and Seas] [Rule-Based Mind Games] [Interstellar Beast Battles] Deep in the vast wilderness of the universe, countless supernatural beings and ferocious beasts lie hidden, quietly waiting to hunt down every interstellar explorer. Dangerous secret realms have also become treasure-hunters' playgrounds. Hunt dragons and seize treasures, journey through the stars, brave secret realms, and battle acros 5kReads5.4Score43814d adds
- 174 The Stars Never Go Out 恒星不熄 Story Synopsis: Earth’s civilization has never been alone, and humanity’s fate has been fraught with hardship. A devastating gamma-ray burst sweeps across the Milky Way. Greed and conflict in the face of Doomsday accelerate the world’s destruction: Earth crumbles, the Sun is reduced to dust, and the galaxy falls apart. Chen Xiao, a young man from Earth, and Kaidichi, a young man from Nibiru, establish a Doomsday rescue company and lead humanity on a desperate journey among the stars. They enter 453Reads—Score11414d adds
- 175 Coexistence: The Hidden Neighbor 共存：隐匿的邻居 Coexistence: The Hidden Neighbor 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Coexistence: The Court of Civilization 共存：文明的法庭 Coexistence: The Court of Civilization 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Rising to Power After Finding an Alien Spaceship 从捡到外星飞船开始崛起 Aliens + dark matter + interstellar warfare + Earth's mysteries + mechs + Dyson spheres. How does a young man who finds a spaceship make his way from Earth into the cosmos? When catastrophe strikes, with mysterious dark matter and locked-away genes, where will humanity go from here... 390Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 178 William's Star Abyss Dominion: The Undying War Banner 不灭战旗威廉的星渊霸图 This novel continues the world of The Empire’s Starry Sky, following William as he ventures into the Star Abyss and embarks on a brand-new interstellar conquest. You can read it without having read the previous book, and you won’t miss a thing. We fled to the moon on the day of our defeat, escaped in the midst of victory, and fought for a glimmer of hope for imperial civilization when all seemed lost. The smoke of the Earth-Moon War had yet to clear, and the bloodshed of the Mars expedition was 324Reads8.8Score10714d adds
- 179 Prisoner of Numbers 数字之囚 Prisoner of Numbers 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Blazing Stars and Rivers 烈焰星河 Campus + military + pure sci-fi, about an alien invasion. No showing off and face-slapping, System, cultivation, transmigration, or superpowers. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story about a lone hero. The protagonist joins countless passionate young people in the fight against an alien invasion. There is sacrifice and devotion, family and friendship, as they stand firm through trials of blood and fire to defend humanity's last line of defense with courage and conviction. The story has depth, and 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Tales of a Civilization Crisis 关于文明危机的那些事 Stories of Civilization’s Crisis 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Interstellar Mining on the Road to Prosperity 星际挖矿奔小康 Being righteous alone isn’t enough for a protagonist. A touch of banditry to put petty villains in their place. A little roguishness to play with the world. Keep a hint of defiance, and never bow your head. Show some sharpness when cutting down corrupt scoundrels. Strength is the backbone that lets you stand tall and open up the sky. Gentleness is the way to navigate the world and protect its source of life. Only by balancing strength and gentleness can you stay true to your original purpose. Th 1.2kReads7.1Score10014d adds
- 183 Sci-Fi: A Reborn Female Academician Sets Her Sights on the Galaxy 科幻：重生女院士，启征银河系 [Apocalypse + Interstellar War + Multiverse + Higher-Dimensional Civilizations] In her previous life, the Milky Way fell in a great war against the Andromeda Galaxy, while humanity, a Level Four civilization, could do nothing. Reborn, chief scientist Su Yunxin vows to lead human civilization to carve out a place for itself in the universe in this life. Earth Year 2333, [This human civilization has quite a lot of potential.] Earth Year 3230, [Look how reliable our ally, human civilization, is.] E 74Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 184 From the Start, I Awakened Three-Color Talent and Conquered the Star Sea 开局觉醒三色天赋，我横推星海 After an unexpected fall, greenhouse-raised youth Lu Chenfeng awakens an astonishing three-color talent. From surviving on a garbage planet to roaming across the sea of stars, he combines multiple forms of energy, builds up humanity's forces, and uncovers the truth behind ancient evolution. This is an epic tale of growth, culminating in his transcendence beyond mortal form and entry into the realm of eternity. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Black Hole Kid: I Save a Tibetan Girl's Love 黑洞小子：藏族姑娘的爱情我拯救 Black Hole Boy: I’ll Save the Tibetan Girl’s Love 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 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. 23Reads8.4Score214d adds
- 187 Transcending Martial Arts 超脱武道 Colossal creatures of every strange kind are known as exotic beasts. There are all sorts of wondrous and extraordinary treasures. Power rests in one's own hands, allowing one to roam at will. Rising quietly from humble beginnings, he knows the art of staying alive. He devours ten-thousand-meter exotic beasts, refines an indestructible body, develops miraculous techniques, and forges a path to the peak of martial arts. Once he transcends the martial path, he will suppress every enemy throughout t 730Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Country Bumpkin’s Comeback: Zhang Sanshun’s Cheat-Powered Life 乡巴佬逆袭之张三顺的外挂人生 A country bumpkin, he loved only a young widow. He lived an ordinary, uneventful life and eventually died in sorrow. His soul transmigrated to the Hongmeng Realm, where he inherited the Daoist legacy of Ancestor Hongjun and began cultivating in the Tang Kingdom. He founded a sect, married and had children, then traveled to countless pocket worlds to recruit talented disciples. He comprehended the laws, survived tribulations, and ascended to immortality. Yet on the continent of the Immortal Realm —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Global Awakening: From the Start, I Shot Down the Zerg Mothership 全民觉醒：开局射落虫族母舰 [Interstellar + starships + higher dimensions + war + talents + System + angels + fatekeepers + cutting-edge technology + multiple heroines] After transmigrating to a cosmic battlefield, Li Yuan stares at the insectoid mothership blotting out the sky and falls into deep thought. Everyone else awakens an S-rank talent capable of destroying the heavens and earth. He, however, gets bound to the F-rank talent [Will of the Northern Darkness]. Facing an insectoid mothership capable of devouring planet 338Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Monsters for All: I Become a Cosmic Behemoth from the Start 全民怪兽：开局成为星空巨兽 No female lead · [Age of Monsters + Colossal Beasts Run Rampant + Apocalyptic Beasts and Calamities + Decisive and Ruthless + Alien Invasion + Breaking into the Universe + Colonizing the Sea of Stars + Monster Interstellar Martial Arts] A man-made radiation leak came back to haunt humanity and the entire planet decades later. The planet’s ecosystem changed. Plants and animals mutated and grew enormous, giving rise to an apocalyptic calamity of alien beasts that swept across the globe. Human civi 323Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Journey to the West Across Ten Thousand Worlds: The End of Dimensions 万界西游：维度尽头 The thirty-three heavens have shattered into countless parallel bubbles of reality, where myths replay amid neon lights and wastelands. To stop the cataclysm of “entropy” from devouring all worlds, Tang Sanzang, codenamed “Observer,” embarks on an apocalyptic quest to reboot the universe. He travels to the gravity well of Five Elements Mountain and frees Sun Wukong, a berserk biological weapon wielding a neutron-star iron staff. He installs a logic lock, the “Headband Mantra,” to prevent Wukong 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The AI Unilaterally Declares the Agreement Null and Void AI单方宣布协议作废 Behind-the-scenes scheming + an AI protagonist Humanity goes extinct after 60 chapters. Don’t read if that’s not for you. The protagonist has no humanity, because it is only a cold machine. But it wants to see the end of the universe, and will do whatever it takes to survive. Still, its journey won’t be too lonely. The universe is vast, and countless civilizations have epics of their own to reveal. 11Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 193 Swallowed Star: I Have a Little Soul Pagoda 吞噬星空：我有一座灵魂小塔 In the vast world of Swallowed Star, Xiao Chen obtains a little tower that has already been refined and can break down all things, returning their essence to him. What kind of storm will he stir up? And what sort of opportunities await the original protagonist, Luo Feng? 842Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Colonizing Venus 金星殖民 [Patriotic wish fulfillment + Interstellar Frontier Development + Technological Supremacy + A World of Great Harmony] In 2125, Earth has just 120 years before its resources run out. The European and American powers have carved up Mars, monopolizing it and shutting others out. Human civilization stands on the brink of extinction! In this desperate moment, 25-year-old genius engineer Xu Xiaowu bursts onto the scene, stunning the world with his Venus terraforming plan! Crash comets into the planet 135Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Confessions of a Voyeur: The Second Journey to Mars 窥探者自述二火星上行 In the future, I am a religious believer, but the religion I believe in isn't one that people today follow. I believe in the religion of a unified humanity. So much happened over the course of those centuries. Those centuries were like a history book, full of events, but all I have are hazy memories. I can only blame myself for not studying harder back then. If I had, I would remember everything clearly. Of course, no one would believe me anyway, because that's simply human nature... 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Transcendent: The First Human-Machine Hybrid in History 超脱者：史上第一人机 This is an age in which everyone longs to ascend through machinery. Anyone with outstanding achievements has a chance to attain mechanical immortality; Upload your consciousness to a virtual world, and you can be revived from its data; Yet the truly chilling thing is that people can no longer tell who is an impostor. And when AI goes out of control, those who ascended through machinery may instead become puppets of a mechanical empire... [Power levels in this book: 250+ high IQ, 222 genetic abil 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 In Search of the Flint 寻燧 Countdown to removal. It will be sealed away forever. Two hundred days writing for love, a million words of restless thoughts. I meant to write until the end, but my original passion has faded. The bright moon over the ditch: we shall never meet again. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 The End of the Universe 全宇宙的尽头 Using Earth as its model, this novel depicts the future development of human technology, society, and relationships. No matter how far technological civilization advances, its ultimate pursuit is to push each individual to the limit, much like cultivation, though the methods differ. Einstein once speculated that the end of technology is theology. This book also explores cultivation, but unlike other cultivation novels, it interprets and understands cultivation from the perspective of science and 971Reads8.8Score10914d adds
- 199 Body Snatching: An Interstellar Mission 夺舍：星际任务 During an interstellar mission, astronaut Lin Mo uses consciousness projection technology to travel in consciousness to planet Tb, whose civilization is in the late stages of a slave society. Using consciousness fusion technology, Lin Mo successfully takes over the body of a Wubiren fetus. As the child grows, how will Lin Mo complete his interstellar mission without the help of a consciousness robot skilled in combat? And what impact will he have on the Wubiren civilization of planet Tb... Core 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Universe’s Blade-Wielding Captain 宇宙带刀舰长 This is a science fiction novel painstakingly written by hand. In this age of artificial intelligence everywhere, the author is still a little inexperienced. But among the countless AI-generated novels washed away by the waves, you found this one. So, read it through... 11Reads—Score214d adds
