The Butterfly Dilemma

You must have wondered about the end of the world. Have you ever wondered what life after the apocalypse might be like?

If humanity survives the crisis, does that really mean the apocalypse is over?

The Butterfly has never had a definite answer.

"Mind your own business and lose less money. Make more money and earn more cash. Get into the System as soon as possible and enjoy the good life. On the wasteland, survival comes first, and the System is the only way out."

On the eve of the apocalypse, humanity uploaded their consciousness into the Dream Arc System and placed their bodies in underground bunkers. This shelter system was called Dream Arc: Oasis.

Several eras later, the days and nights had stabilized and the land had solidified. Humanity returned to the surface, where three major infrastructure zones for agriculture, fishing, and animal husbandry came into being. The wealthy, military, and political districts were divided into numerous factions.

The six districts worked together under the coordination of Academy 921 to maintain humanity's current order. The Special Zone X, a legacy of the three Main Gods, kept the System at arm's length.

Resources on the new surface were scarce, energy was in short supply, and unknown mutations plagued the interior. Humanity firmly believed the System was the only way out.

Born from games, the Dream Arc System was dazzling and dazzlingly diverse. It fulfilled every dream and realized every fantasy, making it the accepted final destination for modern humanity.

Humanity has settled in the Oasis. Could a new dawn still rise over the wasteland?

Executive Officer 002, who holds the System's highest authorization, meets a college student who raises chickens in the farming district on the lower deck of a luxury cruise ship. A high-stakes wager is about to begin. The last Butterfly appears, and the three Main Gods return to the System users' field of vision.

The Red Queen cruise ship sets sail. The hidden instances left behind by the three Main Gods reveal their deadly side. What mission has the Butterfly been given?

1. Lin Qiushen, Executive Officer with the System's highest authorization x Li Muli, a college student in the farming district who smuggles goods across the border

2. An elegant, sharp-tongued wage slave x a gorgeous chicken-raising college student who's always ready to put on a show

3. A vast worldbuilding setting, a feast for fans of all genres. Many elements and wild flights of imagination, unrelated to reality.

Dear System user, welcome to Dream Arc: Oasis. Please confirm your ID, then repeat the oath: Revere the Main Gods! Revere the game!

> A preview of an upcoming book

"No, I Just Want to Pick Up Some Trash"

Also known as "A Guide to Elegant Madness"

An elegant, suit-wearing thug who picks through garbage x a seemingly airheaded young police officer who plays the pig to eat the tiger

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The world is sick, yet it expects us to smile and accept it. So people fight back, not necessarily through madness, but through elegant rage.

> It all falls apart from the start!

When Qiao Yuwen, young master of the Qiao family, was born, the sky had already fallen. Before he was born, his parents adopted seven older siblings. His parents placed great hopes on him, expecting him to awaken an invincible System.

After a year, his parents could still keep smiling.

After two or three years, his parents only took his older siblings when they went out. Six years later, the Qiao family's real young master had vanished without a trace.

When he was seven, he opened the bathroom door. His eldest brother had gone to the toilet without locking it. Qiao Yuwen heard him say, "Come out on your own." When the other party didn't respond, he said, "I'll give you 1,000,000 to get off my ass."

Qiao Yuwen quietly closed the door. This was the domineering CEO's constipation System.

His second brother adjusted his glasses, blushing with delight. "It's been ages since Big Brother took a dump with this much effort. A high-level diamond must be coming!" This was the refined villainous merchant System.

His third brother crawled out of a tent, dark circles under his eyes. "Seven enemy attacks in one night, and I held them all off!"

His fourth brother, dressed in white and holding a compass, said coldly, "That was Big Brother taking seven dumps in one night, keeping my Sadako stuck in the toilet the whole time."

These were the Living God of War and Ghost-Hunting Cultivator Systems.

> His fifth brother stuck a claw through a wormhole. "Have you seen my golden Christmas beetle girl? She's dangerous and alluring!" This was the Interstellar Heartthrob System.

Qiao Yuwen tried to work hard and stand up to all the System Hosts despite being a good-for-nothing. But his sixth sister had already read his thoughts, finished his homework ahead of time, and slammed it down in front of him. "Even if you got another chance, you'd still be useless." This was the reborn mind-reading System.

Qiao Yuwen could only run to his seventh sister's hospital room in humiliation and cry. He accidentally pulled out her IV, and all six of his siblings came rushing over to throw him out of the Qiao family. This was the Sickly Darling System.

Qiao Yuwen: "Everyone has a golden finger except me! What's wrong with giving me one?"

Twenty years later, Qiao Yuwen was picking through garbage in Antarctica when he dug up a junk man. "Do you want this golden System, this silver System, or this ordinary appraisal System?"

Qiao Yuwen wept as he took the appraisal System and, following its prompts, dug up five corpses.

"System, are you sure?"

[System notification: Mission complete. Reward: one pair of silver handcuffs.]

"Environmental safety enforcement. You're under arrest." The supposedly unremarkable Zhu Wuyu ended up making a first-class merit award arrest just like that.

> Help, how do I explain to an ordinary police officer which end of a mermaid is a fish?

Qiao Yuwen landed in prison. Nobody believed him when he told the truth, but luckily, a beauty came to his rescue. The beauty even wants to be my boyfriend!!! Is the beauty my true love??? Or is this just a final fantasy before I starve to death while picking through garbage...

> How do you reunite with your crush without revealing your secret identity?

As an avid fisherman, Zhu Wuyu can go without catching fish, but he can't go without catching Qiao Yuwen. He can fail to make it to shore, but he can't fail to get Qiao Yuwen ashore. He can go without eating fish, but he can't waste a single bite of Qiao Yuwen.

> The Pisces couple: The world is absurd, but I love you normally, openly, and by the book.

Zhu Wuyu: "I've been fishing for you for so long. You finally like me."

Qiao Yuwen: "I like you, openly and honestly. I won't love you in circles. I don't need the world's twisted rules to prove it."

> Both reveal their secret identities

Only after meeting each other do they realize how precious their wretched lives are.

No matter who you are, no matter how insignificant others say you are, I only know that you're my treasure.

1. A wasteland world filled with anomalies

2. Gods and humans coexist, and everyone awakens a System

3. A world of free love, with no objectification based on gender

4. The protagonists are all human, and one life is all you get

5. A vast worldbuilding setting, with mountains of original lore

Theme: Turn waste into treasure

Theme: Don't let this world's problems defeat you