World-Breaking System: Slaying My Way Through a Bizarre World With the System

While out buying cigarettes, Xie Yi is struck by an air-conditioning unit falling from above. On the brink of death, he unexpectedly binds to the Boundary-Breaking System and transmigrates to a low-level anomalous world called "Humus Park."

From the start, it's hell mode: his stamina is down to 17%, a wound on his left wrist, deep enough to expose bone, oozes a black-green liquid, and his corruption level has reached 19%, leaving him just 0.5% away from mutation. The System issues an emergency mission: eliminate three Shadow-Eating Insects within 47 minutes, or suffer initial mutation.

Shadow-Eating Insects feed on shadows and live as parasites within them. Armed with a steel rod and shards of glass, Xie Yi struggles to kill two. Along the way, he encounters a "Faceless Little Girl" who uses nursery rhymes to disrupt his mind. His shadow energy and stamina keep draining away.

The sky screen gradually turns blood red. Sunset is near, and higher-level anomalies are about to spawn. Xie Yi finds half an energy bar that can restore 10% of his stamina but contains a trace of corruption. The patterns on the scab over his wrist point the way. Gripping the steel rod tightly, he heads toward the deepest darkness in the park. That's where the last Shadow-Eating Insect is hiding, and where the only hope of surviving in this world, where even shadows can kill, lies.