Tang Qi was immensely curious about what reward the Infinite Secret Box would give after devouring the Fate Thread Ball.
Tang Qi had set conditions for the exchange from the beginning. He had restricted the box to providing an item that could help him rescue Sally while also concealing Fate Bitch from detection.
In other words, the box could not, as it had after swallowing one-tenth of the Furnace Authority, offer two methods first as a perfunctory response.
From the very beginning, the box had to provide an item with miraculous power.
A dozen or so minutes was undoubtedly not a long time.
Tang Qi patiently stood aboard the Ship of Fools, watching the numbers before him tick down.
Since he was still inside the Toy House, many mischievous toys and candies tried to climb aboard the Ship of Fools as though they were playing a game.
But as the number entered the hundreds, both the previously calm Infinite Secret Box and the Ship of Fools began to stir.
"Click-clack... hiss-hiss... drip-drip."
It was still that same commotion: gears, steam, and mysterious liquid.
The Ship of Fools began to rock violently, as if it were caught in a tsunami.
Naturally, this could do nothing to Tang Qi. The poor toys and candies that had painstakingly climbed aboard were flung to the ground one after another.
Soon, the number jumped to ten, and then to "one."
Tang Qi's eyes widened slightly as the familiar Silver-White Metal Note emerged. Strange tadpole-like characters appeared upon it, slowly writhing as they presented Tang Qi with another aphorism.
Tang Qi fixed his gaze on it and read aloud:
"It is nothing, nameless, without fate, without self, without other... It is the nothingness of all things."
It was even more lacking in beginning or end, and