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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.In less than an instant the world as we knew it was at its end.
That’s right. The Apocalypse. In a single blink Zombies appeared and mutated monsters began to rampage all throughout the world. Now it was the human species turn to fight for survival and planetary dominance!
On the same day that the world descends into chaos we meet Yue Zhong. Initially only hoping to get to his friends and escape to a refugee camp our protagonist sets out, inadvertently building a team along the way. After a series of fortuitous events and a few serious hunches our hero decides it’s time to do more than just survive!
Yue Zhong begins to form the foundations of an enormous survival plan… before he suddenly discovers that he has only gotten over the first hurdle…. Unbeknownst to Yue Zhong and company, the world outside of China is mostly a wasteland! Country sized swathes of nuclear radiation and an extreme shortage of supplies in the world after the nuclear explosions was quickly becoming the “norm”. Mutants, Evolved animals and what’s worse, intelligent out of control dinosaurs had quickly appeared and claimed their own sections of the planet. There were several innately powerful Evolved races which appeared that were more than 10 times stronger than humans, nearly all of them possessing bodies impenetrable by normal bullets. The fabled orcs’ were another of these Evolved races, the leader of which had in fact ens*aved many of the remaining human beings.
Unceremoniously exposed to such a cold and heartless new world, Yue Zhong is faced with a choice: Find a deep dark hole and hope it goes back to “normal”? Or overcome all obstacles and struggle towards Evolution!!!
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One entry per lineShen Mo Xi Tong
Thần Ma Hệ Thống
神魔系统
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12/04/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c192 |
12/03/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c191 |
12/02/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c190 |
12/02/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c189 |
12/01/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c188 |
11/30/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c187 |
11/30/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c186 |
11/29/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c185 |
11/29/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c184 |
11/27/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c183 |
11/26/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c182 |
11/25/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c181 |
11/25/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c180 |
11/24/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c179 |
11/24/15 | Youjinsite Translations | c178 |
>“Truly evil. These Japanese come and harm women. F*ck, does the government take care of anything?” The first racist comments began at chapter 144 in case you're wondering and yes the Japanese are portrayed as evil rapist monsters (but the Chinese government aren't described as saints either). And now on to the main review: Original review: Having read the reviews I did not have high expectations for this novel at all. However after actually reading it I found that it is much better than what I expected. New review: Now that I have actually read past the first 50 chapters I have a different opinion again. It is actually just as bad as the low raters say. Read this note by legendofthesunknight. He summarizes the novel (past the first 138 chapters) in words much better than I could:
I mean this is a basic power fulfillment fantasy. The point of it is that he was able to get beautiful women despite his rough personality because of his power. If he was able to seduce beautiful women with his charm and have deep fulfilling relationships, then there would be no point in having an apocalypse for him to exhibit his power in. If you want a deep introspection on human relationships after the world has ended, maybe try The Stand?
First of all it's not a harem (at least not in the first 50 chapters) like the low raters say. In line with the situation the girls have to rely on the MC because he's the only one who can protect them from the monsters and so some of them come up with schemes to make him fall in love with them and so on, and a few other girls decide to go with another guy because that guy was smoother and more handsome and so on, so it's not a vanilla harem, so idk why people are saying like it's some s*upid harem where every girl instantly falls in love with the MC - it's not, at least some thought has gone into it to make the relationships reasonable.
The main focus is on the action and plot development and it reads like a typical zombie/monster + game-elements novel, where suddenly the world becomes dangerous and people have to fight to get stronger - actually very similar to Reincarnator except not quite as well developed (Reincarnator is way better than this btw in case you're wondering). So the main thing that happens is the MC drives around a bunch of his friends and random people that he saves and fights monsters and gets stronger. It is that kind of braindead novel (though if I have to say it's braindead, it also appears to try to maintain internal consistency i.e if the MC promised to save someone, the author won't just forget about it. I mean, that's kind of the baseline of what counts as competent storytelling but yeah, what I'm saying is that it's not that level of bad).
Some of the characters are not totally flat and one dimensional, quite a few are multifaceted and have somewhat nuanced personalities. On the other hand you get people like the bandits from the first few chapters who are literally just stereotypical zombie/post-apoc motorcycle villains so I can't say all of the characters are well written. The large number of characters makes it hard for the author to flesh out any one, so he relies quite a lot on tropes such as the childhood friend to kind of implicitly impart some personality/background to the characters even though most of them have barely more than a few sentences describing their history and character.
One thing I find questionable in the story is that the guy uses physical punishment towards women. For example he once slapped a woman for complaining. He also beats a girl for not obeying his orders. I guess a beating might be better than being starved or abandoned to die, though sometimes I wonder if punishment is strictly necessary (e.g he threatened to spank a girl because she didn't want to take useless classes and wanted to train in firearms instead. Why would he do that? Firearms training was clearly more valuable than whatever "education" the girl would have gotten from the college students who were supposed to be the new teachers).
Urgh. In chapter 139 he has s*x with some random s*ave woman who went into his bathroom to have s*x with him. Idk why this pisses me off so much. One of his subordinates selected a few survivors and presented them to him, then he said "let them be my maids" without really giving them any say in the matter. I think implicitly he would have allowed them to just be normal people but still, he should have made it explicit that they had a choice. And allowing women to have s*x with him in exchange for better treatment - if he has the resources to spare surely he should spend it on better things than basically buying sex? It just smacks of poor decisionmaking - actually just poorly disguised wish fulfillment.
Most of the women's thoughts and conversations (over 90% at a rough estimate) are about how to win over MC's heart and gain better treatment. It does get tiring to read the same few lines (e.g "X was jealous that Y received more attention from MC") over and over after a hundred chapters of the same. The women don't really think of anything other than how to receive better treatment and competing with each other for the MC's attention.
>[Translator Note: The smallest artillery caliber is 20mm, so 17.5mm is pretty powerful for a pistol. I doubt normal people can handle the recoil. It would break your arm.]
>There were Chateau Lafite and Flying Maotai, they were precious alcohol worth several millions as well as ordinary alcohol, but here it was only $1 Survival Coin for a large glass. [Translator Note: No idea what he is talking about, they are expensive wine and liquor, but definitely not worth several millions. Not the one he listed anyway.]
The Rising Dragons TL notes and translation quality are excellent as compared to the Chinanovel. Net translations which literally translate most of the Chinese idioms and you wouldn't have an inkling of what they meant if you didn't know Chinese.
And I can understand Rising Dragons dropping the novel because the MC becomes a totally unlikeable douchebag later on. If you're really curious then I'd recommend you just read the Rising Dragons translations up to whereever they stopped (think it was chapter 63) and just stop reading there. Pre-chapter 50 I'd rate it 4 stars, after chapter 139 I'd rate it 1 or 2 stars. Well, I'm still reading it because I'm curious about how the story will go plot-wise (most of it is still about trying to feed and defend the people), but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone at this point. The youjinsite's translation is higher quality than the Chinanovel. Net translation but it takes a lot of liberties and adds sentences which weren't there in the original.
I know a lot of ppl like this novel, I also used to like it. Especially the first several tens of chapters is very good. Lots of potential, new (at least among the translated works) when I started reading it, interesting stuff.
I liked it to the point that, for the first time ever, I read the raws using systranet (mtl).
And this is when I stopped liking it...
Generally, the farther it gets, the worse it gets. I'd like to mention that I had access to bad raws, so I missed out on reading over 100 chapters (in random places, and one whole arc). Please bear that in mind, as well as the fact that I read it a while ago, so I may not be specific about details... however, there's still enough crap there that at least 3 out of 4 things I wrote below are true.
First, list of what I find bad:
-side characters
-place of action
-racism and ultranationalism
-repeating patterns
-gore stuff (or rather, lack of "pure" stuff)
-ending
-male chauvinism (sexism)
-harem
-conquest
-zombies (later on)
WATCH OUT FOR SMALL SPOILERS
The reasoning:
Sorry, the spoiler thing stopped working after editing... Anyway, Ill try to rewrite it concisely (which so far isn't going well for me...) without spoiling much.
-side characters lack depth and are often forgotten, while new are introduced (probably only bcoz the MC has to have some harem members in new areas where he can't have s*x coz he's away from home (And his harem)... Actually, there are some characters, but reading the story I very often got the feeling that the author forgot to give them the opportunity to reappear...
-the place of action changes frequently (side characters also do at the same time) ; there's a shitload of plot holes of which 1/10 gets taken care of at best; also, the author kinda forgets about the game system later on (it's still there, but not as important) later on
-racism and stuff are logical in this setting, but I think the author just uses the opportunity to diss everyone else (including those who weren't the ones who began their conflicts with China), which is simply annoying. I wonder if the author knows the Chinese legend about the origin of the Japanese people (Japanese were the first ones hated, after all) ? A certain Chinese princess had an interc**rse with an ape, thus Japanese were born, is the gist of it. Also, racism doesn't prevent the author from making MC pick a new harem member in almost every foreign country he went to.
-repeating patterns... this speaks for itself. Don't expect much innovation, especially later on
-gore/+18 stuff - it's not that I dislike it, just the opposite. However, I don't like that it's all there is. Like, c'mon, not all people are bad, even after apocalypse, right? There should be several characters who act in a humane way...
-since I can't use spoiler thingy here once I started editing, I'll just mention that once I read the last chapter I... actually went looking for other raws, thinking they're incomplete... it's logical, but that's it.
-women in the story are sexdolls. There are very few of them MC didn't "taste", one of them being his mother (obvious thing), and another didn't have a body (probably the only reason he didn't). Absolutely no substance to the female characters except for the first arcs; the only female faction in the story is defeated rather easily and even more easily forgotten, along with its ideals (which are of course made by author to be unreasonable and s*upid).
-Not much to add about harem. Just that one of the reasons for writing this novel appears to be so that the author can identify with his MC for the sake of his s*xual fantasies (imaginary fapmaterial?). And, lolicon stuff is simply sick (I get liking cute lolis coz they're cute; the problems start once it gets sexual...)
-Ill just say here that no complex strategy or tactics... also, once the strongest powerhouse of a faction is defeated, everyone below him magically surrended without resistance... seems legit
-zombies are okay... to not spoil much, I'll just say that after several hundred chapters the author apparently got bored of them, so he started tinkering with the novel...
Summary:
It's okay if you don't want to think, and just want to relax/kill boredom by reading something. The fights aren't bad, so the action is somewhat okay, but that's about all this novel has to offer. If you expect something deeper from it... read something else and don't waste time on it.
This novel started out great then it just turned into a cycle of MC finds people he doesn't like or strong communities that are stable and destroys them half the time using shitty reasons so that he has a bigger army. Then after he stabilizes a little a random monster will swoop in usually of a high lvl that has not been seen before that he ends up killing but not before transporting him very far away, two were by birds, one by a boar, once by a nether beast that teleported him, even the weather will pick him up with a random wind gust.
The author is beyond reason racist to the point he just looks for an excuse for the MC to destroy all other countries and turn the people of those countries into s*aves. For some reason the other races are just as racist and super vile it does not make sense. Heck he thinks all white people are blond white supremacists, he even went so far as call all gypsies prostit**es.
This was mentioned in a few other posts but all women are prostit**es in this novel even little girls.
Yes society would deteriorate in such a world but not to that degree because human nature prefers structure and those that are against structure in any society will naturally be expelled.