Infrastructure Building and Housing Upgrades 基建，升级房屋

1. 1 末 Apocalypse Game: Buying the Whole World from a Subway Station 末日游戏：从地铁站购买全世界 The Chasm of Desire欲望鸿沟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsCompleted [Apocalyptic survival + cities + upgrading hideouts + no female lead + decisive and ruthless + disaster survival] The apocalyptic game has arrived. Disasters are striking all over the world. Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, extreme heat, viruses, bitter cold… In just six months, Blue Star's population has fallen by 80 percent, and civilization has nearly collapsed. With no other choice, humanity must enter the apocalyptic game and take on survival challenges in the hope of staying alive. Fortunat 22.3kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves

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   I highly recommend the first book. It has a few minor flaws, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a book that perfectly matches everyone's expectations. The others each have their own highlights. I've only used this account for a little over a year and have read over a thousand hours. This is a recommendation from a ten-year veteran bookworm.

2. 2 地 Foundation Survival: I Start by Picking Up a Succubus Loli 地基求生：开始捡漏一只魅魔萝莉 Under the Frog Pond蛙鱼塘下Sports596k WordsOngoing [Mobile Base Survival, Monster Pursuit, Talents, Safe-Zone Exploration...] In the blink of an eye, nearly ten billion people around the world find themselves in a mobile-base survival world, forced to fight for their lives! Here, every survivor receives an initial mobile base from the start, and the base keeps moving forward at a slow pace. Survivors must not only gather resources and upgrade their bases to keep monsters from catching up and breaking in, they must also clear the various obstacle 127Reads6.2Score—Shelves

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   It's good-looking, please don't criticize if you don't like it!

3. 3 宇 Cosmic Lord Selection: I Can See Through Lottery Chests 宇宙领主选拔：我能透视抽奖宝箱 Bookworm for Ten Years十年书虫Urban2.2M WordsCompleted The myriad races of the universe wage endless wars. To govern and develop their territories, humanity establishes a feudal system, giving rise to one of the universe’s five greatest powers: the Cosmic Lord Academy. The Cosmic Lord Academy, a cradle for training humanity’s Star Lords, suddenly arrives on Blue Star to hold a recruitment trial, upending the planet’s established order and ushering it into a new era. Everyone: A life-or-death trial? Every wild civilization in the Primordial Star Doma 50.7kReads7.6Score7.2kShelves
4. 4 谁 Who Says a Shoddy Token Can't Open Up the Primordial Mythical World? 谁说劣质令牌，不能开拓神话洪荒 Nonhuman Spark星火非人Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing This is the best of times. Everyone cultivates immortality, and even those without a spiritual root can claim a free, low-grade artificial one and set foot on the path to immortality. It is also the cruelest of times. Transcendent lords explore the myriad worlds, where life and death hang in the balance. The higher the world's level, the greater the chance that one careless mistake will leave you shattered beyond repair. Even so, countless people still dream of becoming lords and opening up new 19.6kReads6.4Score2kShelves
5. 5 没 Are You Sick? Why Talk About Kindness with a Man-Eating Demon? 没病吧？你和食人魔谈什么善良？ Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + invincible hero + food + farming + keeps his distance from humans + no do-gooder heroine + survival + everyone] How does an ogre usually eat? Step one: Find a desert monster. Step two: Hit it. Step three: Beat it up. Step four: Throw it into a pot. Step five: Simmer it over low heat for two hours. Gorkin had transmigrated to this endless desert world twenty years ago, but he was an ogre with a huge, burly build. He had finally become a chief, and now all the people of Blue Star 31.7kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
6. 6 巨 Surviving as a Giant Crab: My Molting Speed Is Just a Little Too Fast 巨蟹求生，我的蜕壳速度有亿点快 Zuo Lingxiao左凌霄Sci-Fi & Apocalypse203k WordsOngoing [Stockpiling Supplies] + [Giant Crab Evolution] + [No Female Lead] + [Unique Talent] + [Survival] + [Doomsday] One chance in a hundred thousand, and Zuo Yi gets picked to survive in another world. Here, plants and flowers can easily grow forty or fifty meters tall. Here, even baby sea fish weigh more than three hundred jin. Even an ordinary ant could kill a survivor. Fortunately, the survivors brought a biological weapon with them: giant crabs. Zuo Yi’s obsession with survival in another world a 45Reads8.2Score—Shelves
7. 7 废EN Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers 废土藏身处，从下水道开始升级 The Chasm of Desire欲望鸿沟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted [‘Wasteland: Fortress of Civilization’ loading complete! Survivor status activated.] [Survivor Yu Yuan, starting area selection complete! Selection result: Riot District] After accidentally entering a wasteland world, Yu Yuan was forced to begin a hardcore struggle for survival. Threatened by urban thugs, extreme disasters, player raids, and invasions of civilization, he had only one choice: do everything in his power to build and fortify his shelter. Fortunately, Yu Yuan obtained fate cards and 89.3kReads8.4Score8.8kShelves

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   In my opinion, this is the best book of its kind.

8. 8 占 Conquering an Alien Planet Through Mining 占领异星从挖矿开始 Meat-Eating Panda吃肉的熊猫Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.5M WordsCompleted On a desolate planet, Jiang Ye opened the chat channel for the "Interstellar Colony." His fellow colonists were chatting away: "We all arrived empty-handed, so why is Jiang Ye so rich now?" "What I want to know is, how does Jiang Ye upgrade his base so fast? I’ve reached level ten, while he’s at level forty. That makes no sense!" "He sells a ton of gold every day! Does his family own a gold mine?" "They must have a mine at home. How about we..." Jiang Ye gave a cold laugh and posted in the cha 7.7kReads8.8Score641Shelves

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   🔥🔥🔥Build your base, gather resources, upgrade! Grab all the useful and high-end items! 🤓 The protagonist has all the good stuff, so get ahead of everyone else in upgrading your base—it's so awesome! [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration]

9. 9 移 Mobile City: The Divine Resource Wholesaler 移动城市，神级资源批发商 Parentheses Laughing括弧笑笑Urban1.7M WordsOngoing [Raved about by ten thousand readers | One million following the updates | Ten million currently reading!] [Lord-Building] [Overwhelming Power] [The stats are still professional] [From Chapter 78 onward, the protagonist can print unlimited money] [A beacon-of-civilization story! (Elementary schoolers who want to see the protagonist act like a ruthless doomsday human trafficker, stay away)] (The novel's theme song, “Alliance of the Singularity,” is now available on all platforms.) All of humanit 163.5kReads9.2Score13.2kShelves
10. 10 全EN Surviving the Misty Apocalypse, I Build a Home with Eldritch Flesh 全民迷雾求生，我用邪神血肉建家 Half an Acre of Sunshine半顷阳光Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.1M WordsOngoing [Flesh and Bone + Apocalypse + Lovecraftian Survival + Civilization Graveyard + Mass Transmigration + No Romance] When mist shrouded the world and monsters howled outside their windows, all the players huddled and trembled inside their dilapidated shelters. But Bai Yi was teleported onto the face of the Great Being known as the “Lord of Flesh,” where he witnessed a horrific feast as an even more terrifying being devoured a planet of flesh. The fragments of flesh and bone that splattered from th 138kReads9.1Score11.8kShelves

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    The first three books are about upgrading houses, while the last two have a more novel theme, which is what I like more.

11. 11 弃EN Surviving on a Forsaken Star: Combine Identical Junk into Brand-New Gear 弃星生存：相同垃圾合成全新装备 Wang Zilü王自律Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.1M WordsCompleted After the Second Era, Earth became the largest technological junkyard in the Milky Way. A scavenger's cloak billows in the wind as Cheng Qi stands atop a mountain of trash. [Similar technological object detected] [Beginning synthesis] [Damaged Nanny Bot], [Safety-Guard Nanny Bot], [Environment-Adaptive Nanny Bot]! [Mechanical Exploration Shoes], [Mechanical Exploration Leggings], [Jet-Powered Turbine Boots]! [Surgical Assistant Gloves], [Intelligent Assistant Gloves], [Gravity-Field Adjustment G 302.8kReads9.1Score46.3kShelves
12. 12 对 Sorry, My Interstellar Fleet Only Recruits Female Soldiers 对不起，我的星际舰队只招女兵 Seven Pounds of Time七斤流年Sci-Fi & Apocalypse6.5M WordsOngoing He transmigrated into the body of a down-and-out noble young lord in an interstellar age. His territory was barren, resources scarce, and starships in ruins. The whole mess was dumped in front of Zhao Chen. No star gates in the territory? Then we'll build our own! No starships in the territory? Interstellar destroyers, frigates, cruisers: whatever you want, we'll build it. An aircraft-carrier starship leading swarms of drones, descending like a hive, announced its dominance over the battlefield. 42.5kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
13. 13 地 Earth's Space Force 地球天军 Sharp Edge Hidden in Night Eyes夜眸藏锋Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.8M WordsCompleted Earth’s military forces wipe out the Zerg beyond the Milky Way and establish a new calendar. As technology advances and the population booms, major corporate conglomerates aggressively expand their off-world businesses, extracting resources from planets across the galaxy. Humanity officially enters a great new era of interstellar civilization. But in the end, they open Pandora’s box... The Zerg return! Star beasts descend! Tian Xiao dies on the battlefield, then is reborn three years in the past 24.7kReads9.3Score2kShelves
14. 14 我EN I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧 Chen Erlan陈二懒Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.0M WordsCompleted [Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity 90.1kReads9.6Score7.9kShelves
15. 15 末EN The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临？我先降临！ Noodle King Zai板面王仔Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.8M WordsCompleted [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 405.1kReads9.2Score33.9kShelves
16. 16 大 Great Tang: Li Shimin Begs Me to Start a Rebellion 大唐：李世民求我造反 Joy Throughout the Land天下乐Historical3.1M WordsCompleted Li Ke transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty. He plans to use his skills as a motivational speaker to brainwash a loyal crew and keep his head down as an unremarkable prince. But eight years after transmigrating, he discovers that he brought along an entire national strategic reserve warehouse. So Li Ke throws caution to the wind. If he’s going to be a prince, he might as well be one who fears nothing and lives as freely as he pleases! First, he starts a newspaper to build his rep 156.4kReads9.5Score16.9kShelves
17. 17 万 Surviving Across the Myriad Worlds, I Can Bestow Power Upon Worlds 万界求生，我能赋予世界之力 Won't Fade into the Ordinary不会湮于平凡Sports196k WordsOngoing [Farming + Growth + the Myriad Worlds + Survival for All + Not a Saint, but Has a Conscience] [The protagonist may not be the strongest, but is definitely among the very best] Zhao Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated into a game fraught with danger. At regular intervals, everyone was sent to different worlds, where they faced different disasters. Blood mist blanketed the land, a domain of mutated corpses, frozen soil beneath an endless night, the eerie resurgence, a barren was 13.2kReads—Score2kShelves

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    I wrote it myself, it's good.

18. 18 末 Doomsday Game: I Get Stronger Just by Staying Home! 末日游戏：我宅在家里就变强！ It's Adam是亚当呀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Shelter] [Management and Construction] [Rotating Apocalypses] [Cautious Male Lead] An apocalyptic game descends, and people across the globe are randomly assigned shelters. The disasters rotate every month! Extreme heat! Absolute cold! Falling meteorites! Plant mutations! Monsters on the rampage! Extreme disasters sweep the globe. People have to keep venturing out to explore and gather resources, frantically upgrading their shelters just to cling to life amid countless catastrophes. Su Yi is ju 28.6kReads7.9Score2kShelves

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    [Admiration] ① Stay-at-home talent: Get stronger by staying at home. Upgrading the shelter through the cool is enough. [Shy] ② Items from the apocalypse are unusable, but the protagonist can repair them and use them with a buff. Protagonist: Objective: Repair the nuclear power plant!!!

19. 19 人 Surviving the Apocalypse: My Revolver Can Slay Gods! 人在末世：我的左轮能斩神！ Jing Yu Baba惊羽粑粑Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.2M WordsOngoing [Empowerment System + supernatural ability evolution + stockpiling supplies + building a faction + farming and constructing factories + lots of beautiful women later on + partly game-like + not a zombie story] After transmigrating to a post-apocalyptic world full of mutated creatures, Yu Yang discovers that he can repair anything in existence and grant it abilities! He can empower objects, beautiful women, mutated creatures, and even himself! [Ding! Effect added to revolver: Perfect accuracy! Bu 488Reads7.8Score134Shelves
20. 20 恐 The Age of Terror: I Begin as a Gravekeeper 恐怖时代，从成为守墓人开始 Ghost God Yama鬼神阎罗Mystery3.3M WordsOngoing [Reborn] + [Eerie] + [Underworld Official Ranks] + [Ghost Control] + [A Little Farming] + [Tomb Construction] An era of terror descended, and a death game began. This was a world where ghost controllers and the eerie coexisted. In his previous life, Chu Qing had been on the verge of becoming the First-Rank Underworld Official, King Chujiang. He was reborn in the future, back to the very beginning of the eerie era. The old rules were on the verge of collapse. Who would rule the dark dawn? Chu Qin 89.2kReads8.9Score7.9kShelves

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    It's not a traditional upgrade system, but it's very good.

21. 21 求 Survival Game: I Grind My Way to Greatness in Another World 求生游戏，我在异世卷成大佬 047 Is 47047是47Sports3.5M WordsOngoing (The novel is complete) (No romance, infrastructure, survival, strong female lead) Wu Jinyue had just returned from studying abroad and hadn’t even started her wonderful vacation yet. Blue Star underwent a cataclysm, and all of humanity was sent to another world to explore and survive. Monstrous beasts invaded, supplies were hard to find, disasters struck one after another, and no one knew if they would make it through the day. Humanity was swallowed up like dust in the wind. From the start, pen 20.3kReads8.7Score2.3kShelves

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    Infrastructure building, TunTun rat, a big shot with both good luck and strength.

22. 22 序EN Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路：不要掉队！ Roaring Mountains and Seas山海呼啸Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing [Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e 624.8kReads8.5Score42.5kShelves

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    Upgrading to a motorhome is feasible.

23. 23 求 Survival: Starting from a Thatched Hut to Fight the Flood 求生：从茅草屋开始对抗洪水 Gong Shiye弓石叶Sports2.1M WordsOngoing [Disaster Survival] [Shelter] [Farming and Development] [Golden Finger] [Stockpiling Supplies] [No Saintly Hero] Everyone transmigrates to a world shrouded in mist. Zhang Chi wakes up to find himself in a thatched hut leaking from all sides, and learns that a flood will strike soon. The rain outside keeps falling, growing heavier and heavier. Everyone can only struggle to survive amid the threats of torrential rain, floods, wild beasts, and monsters... 22.1kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
24. 24 求EN Survival Game: My Pets Really Are Adorable! 求生游戏：我家宠物真的是萌系 Flying Snow Meow飞雪喵Sports1.5M WordsCompleted [Survival game] [Farming] [Everyday life] [Pets] [Adorable pets] [No romance] [No heroine] [Infrastructure building] After transmigrating to another world where everyone has to fight to survive, Ye Fei is a little panicked. That is, until he finds a little white fluffball. A little fox, a kitten, a little spotted deer, a puppy, a chick, and more... He finds all kinds of adorable little animals and raises them. While everyone else is still struggling to survive, he's already settling into retirem 11.4kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves

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    All of them are completed novels with over a million words that I've read, and they're pretty good.

25. 25 在 Surviving the Nightmare World 在恶梦世界惊悚求生 Lu Jianyi路剑一Mystery4.2M WordsCompleted In the Nightmare World, chosen candidates arrive to face a brutal elimination game where the last one standing wins. Here, you'll encounter all kinds of monsters and demons, strange and beautiful scenery, and heartwarming little stories. You'll walk on the edge of life and death. You'll face all sorts of trials and tribulations, but also gain talents, skills, equipment, bloodlines, pets, fortuitous encounters, legacies, and more... You'll even have a little wooden cabin. Develop it carefully, an 29.4kReads8.7Score2.5kShelves
26. 26 震 Shocking! I Started with a Patch of Land and Struck It Rich with Critical Hits 震惊！开局一片地，暴击出奇迹 Feng Qingyang风轻阳Sports6.6M WordsCompleted As eras turn and the Heavenly Dao creates a new world, every race across the Myriad Worlds transmigrates into it. From the start, each person gets a plot of land and nothing else. They must build houses, farm, tame beasts, mine, and defend against attacks... Every living being must work hard to build a base of their own and stay alive. Luo Yu obtains the divine skill [Primordial Critical Hit], which can trigger a critical hit on anything in the world! [Gather ordinary strawberries and trigger a 30.9kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves

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    The best of the best in Survival for All

27. 27 电EN Elevator Survival, I Can Foresee Floor Information! 电梯求生，我能预知楼层信息！ North City One Mao北城一毛Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [System, Survival, Unconventional Infinite-World Novel, Power Fantasy] [No do-gooder heroine!] When Lin Feng woke up, humanity had entered a world where people had to survive in elevators. Each day, an elevator randomly arrived at a floor. People could choose to explore it or stay inside the elevator and wait for the next day. Lin Feng unexpectedly awakened a precognition System that could warn him about the dangers and treasures on each floor. [The floor you are about to enter contains 20 ordin 37.8kReads8.9Score3.3kShelves
28. 28 求 Survival: Defending My Cabin Against the Cold Wave 求生：从小木屋开始抵御寒流 Shan Xun山寻Sports3.5M WordsCompleted [Survival] [Shelter Building] [Disasters] [Stockpiling Supplies] Everyone transmigrates. When Qi Yuan wakes up, he finds himself in a fog-shrouded world full of danger. Cold, hunger, wild beasts, and torrential rain become the daily lot of everyone. Rising with the sun and resting at its setting become the way of life for all! 119.2kReads8.2Score8.4kShelves
29. 29 全 Global Lord: Invincibility Begins with Summoning the Female Emperor 全民领主：无敌从召唤女帝开始 Jiang Dabai江大白Sports2.4M WordsCompleted [System-focused progression, breakneck pacing, no angst throughout, the Dragon Kingdom rises, all races vie for supremacy.] Jiang Chen transmigrates to Blue Star, a world where everyone can become a lord, and from the start acquires the Stone of Creation, which can upgrade anything. [Common Hero Token] → [Legendary Hero Token]: Summon an Empress from the start (not from One Piece). [Common Troop Token] → [Legendary Troop Token]: A dragon emerges, able to fight ten thousand alone. [Swimming Pool] 92.8kReads9.0Score9.2kShelves
30. 30 全EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 Newly Bought Peaches新买的桃子Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 272.1kReads9.4Score27.8kShelves
31. 31 公 Highway Survival: Why Is the Boss Inspecting Monster Supplies? 公路求生：大佬咋在验收怪物物资 Icebreaking Sledgehammer破冰大锤子Sports1.6M WordsCompleted [Road Survival raft + Infinite Dungeon Progression + Stockpiling] [Not an ensemble story, with a lone-wolf focus. Team battles only begin much later, after around chapter 450. Not a war-between-nations story, and not a rebirth story.] The early chapters borrow general elements from road-survival stories, such as vehicles, professions, and service stations. The story gradually opens up around chapter 100, combining an infinite-dungeon format with a road-survival setting. Current dungeons include 87.4kReads9.2Score8.4kShelves
32. 32 全 Global Apocalypse Competition: I'm the Lord Who Leads My Country to Victory 全球末世竞赛，我即领主带飞国家 IzayoiR十六夜RMystery3.3M WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow] [Original Scenarios] [Fresh Setting] [No System] [No Cliches] [No Angst] [Multiple Heroines] In 2030, a group of mysterious people calling themselves the Keepers of Order appeared on Blue Star. They unleashed a global apocalypse, but at the same time gave humanity a sliver of "hope." They selected 1,200 lords worldwide and granted them territories. To develop their lands and build humanity's final refuge, the lords had to keep clearing dungeons. [When Ling Jue opened his eyes aga 16.4kReads8.6Score1.9kShelves
33. 33 伪 Impostors in the Apocalypse: From the Start, I Led the Campus Belle's Dorm in a Fight for Survival! 伪人末世，开局带校花宿舍求生！ Ultimate Banana Peel Monster究极香蕉皮怪Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsOngoing [Impostor apocalypse + dorm survival + upgrading + Sigma male protagonist + rules + ruthless] The sun has mutated, impostors are everywhere, and Lin Chuan's college dorm has become a safe house. [Rule One: Do not leave the building during the day. Sunlight will burn you.] [Rule Two: At night, you must shelter at least one human, or impostors will break in.] [Rule Three: The number of impostors in your room must not be two or more, or else...] To survive, Lin Chuan must figure out the true identi 4.2kReads7.7Score348Shelves

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    This is supposed to be a dorm room survival story, but it's a pseudo-apocalyptic one. You won't regret reading it; the author even has experience completing a million-word novel. Check it out! [Cool][Cool]

34. 34 重 Reborn with a Stockpile: The Beloved Toxic Girl Sweeps Through the Apocalypse 重生囤货：团宠小毒女横扫末世 The Sheep That Ran Away from Home离家出走的羊Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Post-Apocalypse + System Pocket Dimension + Stockpiling + Infrastructure Building + Strong Heroine + Everyone's Favorite + No Saintly Heroine] Who says a five-year-old can only be a burden? Yun Xiaoxiao is a tough survivor of the apocalypse. Reborn six days before it breaks out, she finds herself with a father who doesn't care for her and a mother who doesn't love her. Even after their divorce, neither wants her. So the five-year-old finally snaps. She clears out all the supermarkets and ca 15.2kReads9.3Score2kShelves

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    This is all about infrastructure; the tag is "infrastructure." You've come to the right person. This was originally about building a super fortress, gradually upgrading it to an invincible, safe fortress, where living in it would be just as safe as living in the real world.

35. 35 黑 Black Fog Apocalypse: Tormenting My Cruel Mother-in-Law and Crushing My Sister-in-Law 黑雾末世之虐恶婆婆，吊打小姑子 Qian Yun茜韵Sci-Fi & Apocalypse376k WordsCompleted [Invincible] + [Ensemble cast] + [Apocalypse] + [Cultivation] + [Farming space] + [Stockpiling supplies] + [Magical treasures] A black fog descended, contaminating everything. Plants mutated, and food, water, and clothing were all contaminated. The sunlight vanished, and temperatures plummeted. Everyone was starving, thirsty, and freezing like dogs, while mutant plants hunted them down. Lu Yun returned from a nightmare and kicked her in-laws to the curb. With a spatial dimension in hand, she sto 21Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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    From splitting up the family, making money, building a safe house, and stockpiling supplies, to fighting enemies, killing mutated plants, acquiring rare treasures, and leveling up in cultivation. The male and female protagonists have some minor flaws in the early stages, but they become increasingly powerful later on. They have sound moral values, are neither overly compassionate nor indiscriminately kill innocents.

36. 36 开EN I Start by Handing Over a Cultivation World, and the Nation Wants Me to Become an Immortal First 开局上交修仙界，国家让我先成仙 Beautiful Onion美丽的洋葱Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsOngoing “Chief, I request permission to hand over an unclaimed cultivation world.” “This world is rich in resources and abundant in spiritual energy. I recommend taking it over as soon as possible.” Lu Li transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a low-ranking mine slave in a demonic sect. Without an old master or a System to guide him, he thinks he'll have to cultivate the hard way. But by chance, he awakens a twin-fish jade pendant that can contact Huaxia. The news shocks the entire country, an 258.9kReads9.2Score31.4kShelves

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    A breath of fresh air in the post-apocalyptic infrastructure-building genre! No system, no cheat codes; the protagonist relies entirely on his intelligence to overcome challenges. The suspense is intricately woven, the foreshadowing is deeply woven, and the portrayal of human nature is incredibly realistic. The grand scale makes it increasingly captivating, the writing is excellent, the story is fresh, and it's definitely not formulaic.

37. 37 末 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Mighty Cockroach伟岸蟑螂Sci-Fi & Apocalypse6.3M WordsCompleted Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 27kReads8.9Score2.3kShelves
38. 38 第 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 Wei Jie伪戒Urban6.1M WordsCompleted 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... 210.5kReads9.6Score22.9kShelves
39. 39 末 Apocalypse RV: While Others Struggle to Survive, I Enjoy Life 末日房车：别人求生，我享受人生 Dawn Mist and Dew晨曦雾露Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.8M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse Survival + Stockpiling Supplies + Storage Space + Multiple Heroines + No Do-Gooder + Zombies + Leveling Up + Cunning Protagonist] The apocalypse arrives. Extreme weather rages, zombies run rampant, and the social order on Blue Star collapses. Su Chen dies in the apocalypse, then is reborn one month before doomsday. He originally plans to buy a luxurious Noma camper van to turn into his own apocalypse shelter, but accidentally activates the camper's Doomsday Fortress System! While oth 24.1kReads6.8Score2kShelves

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    Upgrade your RV and enjoy a diverse life – don't miss out!

40. 40 荒 Desert Island Survival: I Build a Civilization from Scratch with the Goddess 荒岛求生：我带女神手搓文明 Arctic Roasted Sweet Potato北极烤地瓜Urban4.9M WordsOngoing [Desert Island Survival · Technical Expertise · Minor System · Farming and Construction · Multiple Heroines] A plane crashes, leaving six survivors stranded on an uninhabited desert island. There’s no rescue, only a perilous primeval rainforest. Li Yunfan, a former project manager, is bound to the Survival Encyclopedia System. There’s no spiritual qi revival, just practical skills like making fire with a drill, firing bricks, smelting iron, taming animals, and farming. In this desperate situatio 14.4kReads7.2Score1.5kShelves

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    From survival to construction, it's hardcore. A different kind of hardcore island survival + harem story. I heard the author devoured (and probably forgot) *The Green Hell*, *Wilderness Survival*, *The US Army Survival Handbook*, *Encyclopedia of Wild Plants*, *Hardcore Manufacturing*, *Complete Guide to Woodworking*, *Principles of Machinery*, *Fundamentals of Architecture*, *Teen Radio*, *Handicrafts*, and *Elementary Agronomy*. Are you scared yet? [Hardcore survival + technical skill + micro-systems + decisive action + farming and construction + multiple heroines + daily romance]

41. 41 奇 Strange Soil 奇壤 Little Little Yimu Zhi小小亦木之Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing Don't worry, this is absolutely a farming novel. A construction worker's journey of development in another world. Infrastructure, farming, culture... Think that's all there is? A whole world of possibilities! Countless races, an enormous world, hardcore development, and mysteries aplenty. A sea of stars? Just stars and the universe, or perhaps multidimensional space, or advanced civilizations? A sea of stars like that would be far too boring, wouldn't it? Could there be something more varied, gr 25.9kReads8.7Score2.5kShelves

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    The "Tomato-Based Infrastructure Masterbook"—Don't be fooled by the title!

42. 42 天 Natural Disaster Strikes: I Can Strengthen Everything 天灾降临：我可以强化万物 Autumn Has Come to the Mountains and Rivers山河已是秋Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted Natural disasters strike and monsters run rampant, plunging the world into famine and catastrophe. Humans assign them ranks and risk their lives to learn the rules for killing them. They, meanwhile, lick their scarlet lips and stare with glowing red eyes, wanting nothing more than to devour every human. The outside world is dangerous. I just want to hide in a safe house. Lin Yu is determined to build himself an absolutely secure domain. Until one day, when Lin Yu decides to go out for a stroll, 32.4kReads8.2Score2.3kShelves
43. 43 全 Global Survival: The Outlaw of a Magic Wasteland 全民求生：魔法废土世界的暴徒 The Wooden Cabin Keyboard Warrior木屋键盘侠Sports3.3M WordsOngoing [Signed for print publication, new setting, no golden finger, no heroine, pets, expansive worldbuilding, disasters, construction, transmigration, game, apocalypse] Everyone transmigrates to a magical wasteland. At the start, all they have is a drafty magic tent. Chopping wood at sunrise and building walls at sunset becomes the fate of billions of survivors. Tent → wooden cabin → stone fortress... Jiang Xun thinks that’s all there is to a shelter. Until he discovers another way to upgrade: powerf 65.9kReads8.4Score5.7kShelves
44. 44 冰 The Ice-Cold Giant Fish 冰冰巨鱼 Uncontrollable Cloud失控云Sports3.2M WordsCompleted [No System + no heroine + a touch of golden finger + farming + raising and developing + slow-burn survival + not a saint, but still compassionate] All of humanity transmigrates to a strange ocean world, where they must survive inside the stomach of a giant fish called the Illusory Leviathan. Humans must help the Illusory Leviathan clear harmful creatures from its stomach. In return, the Illusory Leviathan finds supply crates for them and helps them develop. The creatures in this ocean world are 44.9kReads8.9Score3.7kShelves
45. 45 海 Island Survival: Why Does the Real Heiress Always Top the Leaderboard? 海岛求生：真千金她为何总是霸榜 New Snow on Cangshan苍山新雪Sports1.0M WordsCompleted [Everyone for themselves + natural disasters + infrastructure building + dungeon realms + magic elements + fake and real heiresses + no saintly heroine + no romance] After cutting ties with the wealthy parents who had only just acknowledged her, Qin Zhen is pulled into an island survival game. When the System asks if she wants to be matched with her parents, Qin Zhen says, “Of course not! I just made a clean break with them!” When Qin Zhen first enters the game, all she has is a spatial backpack 15kReads8.4Score2kShelves

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    The infrastructure powerhouse is here! [Winking face] It includes land, islands, clouds, and air/sea! [Kissing face] Interested friends can check it out! [Explore]

46. 46 云 Survival in the Clouds: An S-Rank Talent from the Start 云上求生：开局获得s级天赋 Worry-Free Blossoms花开无忧Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Infrastructure building + daily life + battles + female lead + no romance + dungeons + steady progression) An Ran is thrown into a survival game and gains heightened senses from the start, as if she’s got a cheat code for life. While everyone else scavenges for supplies during the day and gets hunted by all kinds of monsters hiding in the clouds, her keen senses help her avoid danger, and she still manages to haul in a fortune at night. Later, her abilities evolve into precognition. With her pe 2.8kReads8.0Score382Shelves
47. 47 无 Infinite Apocalypse: From the Start, I Have a Basement Safe House 无限末世：开局一座地窖安全屋 A Carrot一颗萝卜Sci-Fi & Apocalypse505k WordsCompleted [Sci-fi Mystery + Apocalypse Game + Gods Reborn + Ensemble Cast + No Romance] (Contracted for print publication) Synopsis: The end arrives, and humanity officially enters the apocalyptic era. Thirty million safe houses appear around the world, offering people shelter. Binding yourself to a safe house is the only way to have a chance at survival. Humanity struggles to survive in the cracks, waiting for the “gods” to save them. * Su Xiao binds herself to three safe houses on the very first day, an 58.3kReads8.6Score8kShelves

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    🍀The apocalypse has arrived, and there are only 30 million safe houses left in the world. The female protagonist starts by being bound to three of them, and she also receives double the bonus rewards from three different treasure chests.🌸

48. 48 被 After the Cultivation World Downsized Me, I Upgraded My Courtyard and Lie Flat 被修仙界优化后，我升级小院躺平 The Wind That Steals Time偷时间的风Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [Immortal Cultivation + Farming + Building Upgrades + Cautious Progress + Immortal Dynasty] In the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty, everyone has a spiritual root, but without a “Certified Immortal Permit,” you aren't even allowed to cultivate! Lu Xian transmigrates into this world and works for two years, yet remains a mortal rogue cultivator. All he has to show for it is a dilapidated little courtyard. Just when he has nowhere left to turn, he obtains the Building Upgrade System! Dilapidated caves, a 10kReads7.1Score999Shelves

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    The male protagonist transmigrates to a world of cultivation, gaining the ability to upgrade buildings. He starts with his own cave dwelling, spiritual fields, chicken coop, and more. Each upgrade grants him special abilities to assist him or provide resources. [Laughs][laughs][laughs]

49. 49 暴 Blizzard Apocalypse: Surviving in a Wasteland Shelter 暴雪末日：废土避难所求生 Shan Xun山寻Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.3M WordsCompleted [Blizzard Apocalypse] [Survival] [Shelter] [Stockpiling Supplies] [Farming and Construction] [Resource Scarcity] Overnight, Lu Shen finds himself in a blizzard apocalypse. Extreme cold, hunger, radiation, mutated creatures... It is a dark, post-apocalyptic world where society has collapsed, laws have crumbled, the climate has gone haywire, and resources are scarce. The only way to survive is to build a life around a shelter: gather supplies, create a safe haven, grow crops, withstand extreme wea 53.3kReads7.1Score3.7kShelves

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    The same author, the first book was very good at the beginning, but a little worse towards the end, the second book is still being updated, both are very good books.

50. 50 激 I Activated the Doomsday Homestead Upgrade System, and My Best Friend Is Waiting for Me 激活末日家园升级系统，闺蜜等我 Shuyao Qingqing书瑶卿卿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse167k WordsOngoing The day Lin Wan was four months pregnant, her mother said through tearful eyes, “Get rid of it. Let's pretend none of this ever happened.” Her uncle went even further, shoving her into the back of a car and saying that an underground clinic would take care of it quickly and cleanly, and no one would find out. Halfway there, she pounded on the window and screamed. Her best friend A Qiao happened to be passing by. She rushed over, yanked the car door open, and pointed at my uncle, shouting, “Tha —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist is reborn in a post-apocalyptic world, activates a home upgrade system, and helps her best friend survive and stockpile supplies. [Sparrow's Masterpiece][Sparrow's Masterpiece][Sparrow's Masterpiece]

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