Highway Survival: After Awakening as an Alchemist, I Transmuted My Roommate from the Start

Infrastructure building + stockpiling + survival + farming + teamwork + savior One morning, students from every school in City C were forcibly pulled into a game called Road Survival. The 517 men's dormitory, where Li Xiangyu lived, was among them. In the distance stretched endless white fog and a long highway. The roars of monsters surrounded them. [Welcome, players, to Road Survival. You have a three-month newbie protection period.] [Some players among you may awaken a survival profession.] [Only the highway is a safe zone. Each fixed team will be bound to an initial vehicle at the start. Do your best to survive.] The dorm next door got a freight truck, and even the worst-off got a sedan. But the initial vehicle given to the men of Dorm 517 was a foot-powered tricycle. Everyone in Dorm 517: If you want us worked to death, just say so! Luckily, Li Xiangyu, with his wicked hoarding habit, awakened the one and only god-tier profession! [Illusionary Alchemist: You secretly went out to pick up trash in your spare time. In this world, there's a chance you can turn trash and junk into survival supplies.] His secret trash-picking habit was exposed. Li Xiangyu looked at his trembling roommates and grinned wickedly. "Fellow dormmates, care to have a chat in my alchemy furnace?" He swung into action and refined his useless roommates right from the start! His roommates, remodeled and brought back, also awakened professions: [Master Cutter: You're good at cutting ties with your idiot roommate. You've cut out a five-square-meter foldable space that can store non-living things.] [Visionary: Your chuunibyo let you make your dream of cultivating immortality come true. You can cast the five-element spells of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.] [Muscular Cutie: You look rough and tough, but you have the heart of a saint who heals all things.] After Li Xiangyu remodeled everyone in Dorm 517 and they all gained advanced professions, the whole vibe went completely off the rails. Other players fought over half a bottle of water and fled in disarray from monsters, while the entire 517 men's dormitory went into "junk scavenging" mode. Li Xiangyu led his roommates in scavenging junk and turning trash into treasure. Polluted water became refreshing cola, roadside weeds became fresh vegetables, and monster bones were converted into tricycle upgrade parts! The little pedal-powered tricycle they started with was upgraded into an electric tricycle, then a sedan, then a train. In the end, it was painstakingly assembled into a mobile castle in the sky! Other people's vehicles were shabby, patched-up wrecks. Their mobile fortress wasn't just fireproof, waterproof, and burglar-proof: its interior was invincible, too. The first floor had all the amenities, including air conditioning, a fridge, and a sofa. The roof had a farm and an automatic animal farm, making them completely self-sufficient in food! * Once the newbie protection period ended, natural disasters struck: storms and torrential rain, extreme cold, and waves of monsters all came at once. In temperatures of minus fifty degrees, countless players shivered in their broken-down vehicles and desperately begged for help on the forums. Meanwhile, everyone in Dorm 517 sat on the sofa with the heating on full blast. They wore nothing but shorts, munched on watermelon, ate hot pot, and then relaxed by playing online games together. With nothing better to do, Li Xiangyu sold off useless low-level supplies and traded them for higher-level junk to refine. As he kept selling things, he somehow became the undisputed number one on all kinds of in-game leaderboards. Faced with the admiration of countless players, Li Xiangyu smiled faintly. "To be honest, all I wanted at the start was to pick up some trash." CP: Chuunibyo puppy gong Shen Changyin x team leader shou Li Xiangyu Theme: Self-reliance and resilience