2024-11-23 - Reading List

让你荒野求生，你手搓基础工业？ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(You are suppose to survive in the wilderness, Instead you built basic industries by hand ?)
no system, slice of life, modern world, survival, slow pace, no harem, no romance

MC has a simple gold finger that allows him to identify and analyze things that he touches.
Like if he touches a rock, it'll tell him its mineral composition, weight, size, that's it. He owed a lot of debt to a loan shark company to pay for cancer for his now passed away grandmother. So they got him a spot in a wilderness survival show where the five million dollar top prize is enough to repay the debt. The show is live streamed to audiences and there are many participants from all walks of life. MC has a major in manufacturing engineering and lived in a rural farm most of his childhood. So he is well versed in surviving in nature and started to use his skills to start a fire, fish, build shelter, smelt iron, etc. etc. There are also many other interesting characters in the book that's also part of the show. It is slow paced and you can learn a lot about wilderness survival skills. Read if you like that kind of slow paced nature novel.

领主又红名了 (The lord has been marked as Hostile again) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
medieval, Video Game, fourth apocalypse, farming, soul-like, no harem

MC transgressed into a game world where he is the commander of a small outpost in a dark soul like world where the humans are barely surviving. players from earth thinks they are playing a full immersive VR game and are recruited by unknown system. MC is acting like a NPC and guide the players to his advantage. So he can powered up with the resources gathered by the players as part of his "quests". I've just finished about 90 chapters and it is an OK read.

 给，主说这个好使 (Here, The LORD says this will come in handy) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cthulhu, steam punk, no harem, modern weapons

 
"Father, my wife has been acting weird lately. She keeps saying someone is calling her." "Here, "Here, The LORD says this will come in handy"
"What's this?"
"This is a divine engravings M1911 pistol. Hold it like this, aim at your wife and then pull the trigger."
...... Serious Intro:
The whispers of the ancient gods can't drown out the sound of a crisply loaded bullet.
The roar of the magical gods can't cover the thunder of a warship's cannon.
The howl of the evil gods is far from being as pleasant as the sound of a laser cannon charging.

A mercenary who was summoned and reborn in a different world by the Fire Strike Buddha (author), takes on the identity of a priest to receive contracts from the gods,
bringing a small shock of firepower to those defiled creatures that have lingered in the material world for too long!
"Here, The LORD says this will come in handy" (Pulls out a gun/rocket launcher/sniper cannon/metal storm system/satellite cannon)
(the weapons by blessed by the Gods, so they can do damage and cleanse the evil creatures)

 不会魔法的土木工程师不是好领主 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(a civil engineer who does know magic is not a good lord)

 
I just like the title. the story is ok so far, MC transgressed into a medieval world with magic and is the son of a lord with a large area. He'll be using his civil engineer degree in the new world to build roads, smelt irons and bring peace to everyone..........

 仙瘾犯了？电电就好！ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Addicted to Cultivation ? Some Electrical Shocks will fix it !)
again, lured in by the interesting title. MC has no Spirit Essence and can't cultivate. But he discovered an ancient Cultivation Technique that doesn't need the Spirit Essence but uses electrical energy to start the Qi Refinement level. So he made a cruel acid battery to start cultivation. Just another using modern technique in ancient world to cultivate story.

 修仙：我在现代留过学 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Cultivation: I studied in the modern world)
no harem, cultivation, modern.
MC is in a cultivation world, but he has a talisman in his mind that allow him to travel to the modern world as a senior in high school. so he uses the knowledge he learned in the modern world to further his cultivation in the original world. Time stops in the other world when he transgresses. So he has extra time to cultivate. This is a bit different from other novels where he also brings cultivation to the modern world by using electricity as the energy source. I might stop reading this one soon as its pacing is a bit too fast. It is kind of depressing, there is always a crisis that the MC needs to solve, kind of like many American TV shows. I read books to relax and enjoy.