Zhang Ze looked at the three swords in the Box.
He closed his Eyes and shut the Box.
Then he opened it again.
Then he shut the Box once more.
After Repeatedly doing this several times, he still opened the Box.
He felt that his thought Just Now had been complete bullshit.
It was willfulness and prejudice, subjective self-awareness and personal inclination, an optimistic will built upon a foolish mind.
The great deity was right.
Zhang Ze now understood why That great deity had not opened the Box.
Indeed, an unopened Box was the best Box.
With many things, the reason you become obsessed with them is because they harbor secrets from you, while all you can see is the unknown within them.
Once you Tear Open layer after layer of Onion skin,
the whole thing becomes boring, even if her insides are snow-white.
It was just like how only a virgin could write the sweetest romance.
Things you have never seen are the perfect ones.
So now Zhang Ze deeply Regretted it.
He Regretted it immensely.
He Regretted not choosing the stat-reset ball, and not choosing that enormous sum of 8,000 Exchange Points.
“Is there a seven-day no-questions-asked return policy?”
“If that really won’t work, you could at least give me the stat-reset ball and Exchange Points instead.”
“Dear, are you there?”
Zhang Ze harassed the System for a while.
But no one paid him any attention.
Since there was no seven-day no-questions-asked return policy, he could only make do with them.
Zhang Ze sat cross-legged on the ground, propping up his Chin.
He Thought for A Long Time, yet still could not figure out why his Art Style was so fresh and unconventional.
Since he could not figure it out, he stopped thinking about it.
Zhang Ze began hypnotizing himself.
“The swords of our Sword Sect are just like this.”
“Only Ordinary Disciples carry Ordinary swords.”
“Master, an Iron Rod.”
“Grandpa Wang, lightning as a sword.”
“Senior Sister Qiao, carrying a Door Panel.”
“Senior Sword Spirit, he is a sword.”
“Pavilion Master, he does not even have a sword.”
“Reasonable. Very reasonable. The swords of the experts in our Sword Sect are just like this.”
Inside the Box.
The first sword was a
Buttocks.
Zhang Ze did not know how to describe the thing before him.
But aside from the color being wrong, even if Laozi himself came, this was still a Buttocks.
A dark-black, yet very glossy Buttocks.
A Buttocks with everything that should be on its backside.
When he shook the Box, the Buttocks shook as well.
It was very springy.
The second sword was a fish.
A fish that was still alive.
A fish with a blue-black sheen, a long, narrow Body, a broad mouth, and a narrow tail.
A fish that still twitched from time to time.
Zhang Ze did not recognize what breed this thing was.
All Zhang Ze knew was that the fish was Staring at him with its Eyes open.
Staring at him without blinking.
The third sword was a Steel Bar.
This Steel Bar was very thin, but not long.
It bore a complex double-helix Pattern, profound and archaic, subtly corresponding with the vast Sword Intent.
At a glance, it seemed Somewhat similar to the double-helix Structure at the beginning of the birth of life.
It carried the vigorous Vitality of Heaven and Earth at their birth.
But if you looked at it a little longer, you would remember its other name.
Rebar.
Buttocks, fish, and rebar—these were the three swords the System had made him choose from.
Although he had accepted Reality, he still did not know which one to choose.
To be honest, Zhang Ze now really wanted his Master to help him judge them.
But he was also afraid that his Master would see the Buttocks and expel him from the Sect.
The fish and the rebar were still acceptable.
He Really had no way to explain that Buttocks to his Master.
What if his Master happened to be in an excellent Mood today and decided to have the thirty-odd people outside come admire his good Disciple?
“Come, come, everyone, take a look at my good Disciple.”
“Eradicating this Demonic Path stronghold was all thanks to my Disciple’s resourcefulness.”
Then Everyone would see Zhang Ze sitting before a Box, with a black Buttocks inside it.
If that really happened, he might as well die on the spot.
At least he could preserve his innocence.
“Well, it could be worse. At least there isn’t a 《Bright Sword》 in the Box to entertain me.”
“In any case, they are all things that can be held in one’s hand.”
“According to the nine-grid pattern, since they can be held in one’s hand, they are swords.”
Zhang Ze began hypnotizing himself again.
Zhang Ze Thought for A Long Time and decided he should still take the ‘rebar,’ because this ‘rebar’ was definitely the most normal-feeling thing among the three ‘swords.’
Even if it Really was a piece of rebar, at least he could throw this thing into the Sword Furnace after returning to the Sect and forge an iron bracelet from it.
However, Curiosity killed the cat.
The System’s Prompt still said 【Choose one】, rather than explaining what these three things were.
After Zhang Ze had looked at them for so long, his Curiosity had already been Piqued.
Zhang Ze really wanted to know what those two bizarre things actually were.
He felt as though he had been manipulated.
Although he had opened the Box, there were actually three more boxes inside it.
Zhang Ze had no idea why the System called these three things swords.
So once his Curiosity had been Piqued,
these three things were essentially three grotesquely shaped boxes.
Therefore, Zhang Ze decided to try to Exploit a bug.
Anything with a collision volume should be able to exploit a bug.
Ideally, he would crash the System completely, so it would replace them with three normal swords.
Something like Sun and Moon in Hand.
Something like Shattered Plum and Broken Snow.
Something like Viewing the Sea, Heaven’s Balance.
Divine Artifacts that obviously belonged in the hands of the Protagonist.
Not a fish, a Steel Bar, and a Buttocks.
Zhang Ze reached out and pinched the Steel Bar.
Because this was the Guaranteed Minimum—even if the bug exploit failed, he could still pull out the most normal thing.
His small hand pinched it. Its texture was cool and very hard, with the feel of metal.
Fortunately, it was not soft.
The Box did not disappear, nor did the Buttocks or the fish.
The fish was still looking at Zhang Ze.
“Hmm, these things can be touched.”
Zhang Ze gently pinched up the Steel Bar again and lifted it away from the Box Bottom.
He Discovered that whenever the Steel Bar approached the mouth of the Box, the Box and the other two things would become Transparent.
“Good. They can be moved while inside the Box, as long as they do not leave it.”
Zhang Ze extended both hands, attempting to take the fish and the Steel Bar out of the Box at the same time.
He failed.
“What a pity.”
Zhang Ze picked up the Steel Bar and poked the fish.
The fish moved, but Zhang Ze held it down.
Yet the fish was still looking at Zhang Ze.
“Good. They can affect each other.”
Zhang Ze thrust the Steel Bar in through the fish’s rear.
The fish was still looking at him.
Zhang Ze picked up the grilled-fish sword, closed his Eyes, and made up his mind.
He thrust it to the side.
Squish.
The fish finally stopped looking at him.
Holding the Steel Bar,
he took a deep breath.
With the speed of thunder before one could cover one’s ears—or a bell could ring—Zhang Ze pulled all three ‘swords’ out at once.
The instant the three swords left the Box, Zhang Ze felt a force pulling them back, and the several ‘swords’ simultaneously began turning Transparent.
Squish, pop.
Finally, after a strange sound from who-knew-where,
the Box disappeared.
Zhang Ze had successfully bugged all three swords out.
But the fish began looking at Zhang Ze again.
Zhang Ze really wanted to raise his hand and close the fish’s Eyes.
But he suddenly remembered that fish had no eyelids, and also remembered that it had just gone somewhere it should not have gone.
Forget it. Let it look.
Looking once would not make him pregnant.
At this point, Zhang Ze finally saw the specific Information on these three ‘swords.’
“...”
Zhang Ze felt that he should be happy, but he also felt that he Really could not be happy.
“Why did I waste my time here?”
The fish was still looking at Zhang Ze.