Escaping the Age of Declining Dharma Begins with Moving Bricks

[Ding-dong! Mission issued. Mission: Move 1,000,000 bricks over a distance of at least 99,999 meters. Reward: Increase the Qi limit by fifty points. Failure penalty: An unpredictable number of electric shocks.]

Yue Xin, a construction-site scaffold manager who was both a rich second-generation heir and a poor first-generation striver, would dash excitedly toward his pile of bricks every time he heard this sound, eager to complete the brick-moving mission he'd been looking forward to for ages.

Until one day...

[Ding-dong! Mission issued. Mission: Destroy this System. Reward: This System will shut down permanently. Failure penalty: The proxy is forbidden from viewing this information.]

Yue Xin: I refuse.

[Ding-dong! Don't be unreasonable! I have no reason to exist anymore. Do you have some kind of hobby of collecting corpses?]

Yue Xin (pouting): It'd be better if you had a corpse. At least I'd have something to remember you by.

[Hey! Can you try being reasonable?]

Yue Xin: No!

With tears streaming down his face, he stated the facts: If I reason with you now, I'll truly lose you forever...

[You have been through so many hardships. Could you try acting a little more mature...?]

That day, Yue Xin sat motionless, staring at the sky, his heart torn apart and blood running from his eyes.