Zhang Ze looked at the three swords in the box.
He closed his eyes and shut the box.
Then opened it again.
And then shut the box again.
After repeating this a few times, he still opened the box.
He felt his previous thoughts were nonsense.
They were whims and biases, stemming from subjective consciousness and personal inclination, an optimistic will built on a foolish mind.
The great master was right.
Zhang Ze understood why that great master didn't open the box.
Indeed, an unopened box is the best box.
Many things, the reason you are obsessed with her is because she holds secrets from you, and you can only see her mystery.
Once you peel away those layers like onion skins.
The whole thing becomes pointless, even if her insides are pure white.
Just like how only love stories written by virgins are the sweetest.
Things unseen are perfect.
So now Zhang Ze regrets deeply.
Very deeply regrets.
Regrets why he didn't choose the Washing Points Ball, why he didn't choose that 8000 Exchange Points fortune.
"Is there a seven-day return policy?"
"If not, just give me one of the Washing Points Ball or the Exchange Points."
"Hey, are you there?"
Zhang Ze harassed the system for a while.
But no one responded to him.
If there's no seven-day return policy, he'll have to make do with it.
Zhang Ze sat cross-legged on the ground, holding his chin.
He thought for a long time and still couldn't figure out why his style was so unique and avant-garde.
If he couldn't figure it out, then he stopped thinking about it.
Zhang Ze began to hypnotize himself.
"The swords of our Sword Sect are just like that."
"Only ordinary disciples wield ordinary swords."
"Master, with an iron club."
"Grandpa Wang, uses thunder as a sword."
"Senior Sister Qiao, carries a door plank."
"Sword Spirit Senior, he himself is a sword."
"Pavilion Master, doesn't even have a sword."
"Reasonable, very reasonable. The swords of our Sword Sect's experts are just like that."
Inside the box.
The first sword is a...
Buttocks.
Zhang Ze didn't know how to describe this thing in front of him.
But besides the color, even if the King of Heaven came, it's still a buttocks.
A vividly black but shiny buttocks.
A buttocks with everything it should have in the back.
Shake the box, and it wobbled too.
Very springy.
The second sword is a fish.
A still-alive fish.
A greenish-black, slender-bodied fish with a wide-open mouth and a narrow tail.
It twitches occasionally.
Zhang Ze didn't know what species this was.
He just knew the fish was staring at him.
Staring at him without blinking.
The third sword is a piece of iron.
This piece of iron is very thin, but not long.
With a complex double-helix pattern, mysterious and ancient, subtly aligning with profound sword intent.
Looking at it, it seems somewhat similar to the double-helix structure from the beginning of life.
Carrying the original vitality of the world.
But after a while, you'll remember its another name.
Rebar.
Buttocks, Fish, Rebar, these are the three swords the system offered him to choose from.
Though he accepted reality, he still didn't know which one to choose.
To be honest, Zhang Ze wished his master could help him make the decision.
But he feared his master would expel him from the sect if he saw that buttocks.
The fish and rebar were still okay.
But he really couldn't explain the buttocks to his master.
If his master was in a particularly good mood today, and decided to show his thirty-something disciples his brilliant apprentice.
"Come, come, everyone, look at my excellent disciple."
"This time, eliminating this Demon Path is all thanks to my disciple's ingenuity."
Then everyone would look at Zhang Ze sitting in front of a box, with a black buttocks inside the box.
If such a situation really occurred, he might as well be dead.
At least he could preserve his clean reputation.
"At least, I didn't find a copy of 'Bright Sword' in the box to entertain me."
"After all, they are things you can hold in your hand."
"According to the nine-square grid logic, as long as they can be held, they are swords."
Zhang Ze began to hypnotize himself once again.
After much contemplation, Zhang Ze thought he should pick the 'rebar', because it definitely felt the most normal out of the three 'swords'.
Even if it really was a piece of rebar, at least he could take it back to the sect and throw it into the Sword Furnace to forge an iron bracelet.
However, curiosity killed the cat.
The system's prompt was still [Choose one], instead of explaining what these three things were.
Zhang Ze, having looked at them for so long, found his curiosity thoroughly piqued.
Zhang Ze was dying to know what those two bizarre objects were.
He felt as though he had been gaslit.
Though he opened the box, inside the box were still three boxes.
Zhang Ze had no idea why these three things were called swords by the system.
So when curiosity took hold.
These three things became equivalent to three strangely shaped boxes.
So Zhang Ze decided to try glitching it.
Things with collision volume should be able to glitch.
Best case scenario, the system crashes, and he gets three normal swords in exchange.
Like something with the sun and moon in hand.
Or Remnant Plum Broken Snow.
Or View of the Sea's Scales.
Things that clearly are divine artifacts meant for protagonists.
Not a fish, a rebar, and a buttocks.
Zhang Ze reached out and pinched the rebar.
Because it's the safest choice; even if the glitch fails, he can at least pull out this most normal 'sword'.
His small hand pinched it, the texture was cool and hard, a metallic feel.
Thankfully, not soft.
The box didn't disappear, the buttocks and the fish didn't disappear either.
The fish was still looking at Zhang Ze.
"Hmm, these things can be touched."
Zhang Ze gently pinched the rebar, lifting it from the bottom of the box.
He discovered that as long as the rebar approached the box's edge, the box and the other two things would become transparent.
"Good, as long as they can move inside the box without leaving it."
Zhang Ze extended both hands, trying to simultaneously take out the fish and the rebar from the box.
He failed.
"What a pity."
Zhang Ze picked up the rebar and poked the fish.
The fish moved, but Zhang Ze pinned it down.
Yet the fish continued to stare at Zhang Ze.
"Great, they can influence each other."
Zhang Ze inserted the rebar through the back of the fish.
The fish was still looking at him.
Zhang Ze picked up the grilled fish sword, closed his eyes, and steeled himself.
He jabbed it to the side.
Poof.
The fish finally stopped looking at him.
He gripped the rebar.
Took a deep breath.
Zhang Ze, with a swiftness beyond compare, snatched all three 'swords' out.
In the instant the three swords left the box, Zhang Ze felt a pulling force, and at the same time, those 'swords' began to turn transparent.
Poof, pop
After some strange sound from who knows where.
The box vanished.
All three swords had been glitched out by Zhang Ze.
But the fish started to look at Zhang Ze again.
Zhang Ze very much wanted to close the fish's eyes with his hand.
But then he suddenly remembered that the fish has no eyelids, and also remembered where the fish had just been.
Forget it, let it look.
Looking won't make anyone pregnant.
At that moment, Zhang Ze finally saw the detailed information of the three 'swords'.
"..."
Zhang Ze felt he should be happy, but he really couldn't feel happy.
"Why am I wasting time on this?"
The fish kept staring at Zhang Ze.