Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 22: Ideas

Ning slowly came back to consciousness as he heard the back half of the systemʼs response. A second ago, he had gone to sleep while there were still two of them, yet now, that should have changed.

ʼYou there?ʼ he asked knowing there would be no one, yet when an answer didnʼt arrive, he felt kinda melancholic about it.

ʼWho am I?ʼ he thought. ʼAm I Ning A or Ning B?ʼ he tried to think. It didnʼt take him very long to come up with the answer. He was neither, and he was both.

The two halves were originally he himself, so when returned back, it would still just be him. Thanks to his brain multitasking, it didnʼt take him very long to realize that.

ʼSo I got Simultaneous Thinking?ʼ he wondered. While he could tell he was thinking fast, he still wanted visual proof. ʼStatusʼ.

[Status

Name: Ning Ruogong

Energy: 468

Skills: Simultaneous Thinking

]

It was there. ʼSo, itʼs considered a skill as well, huh?ʼ he thought. He looked around the fish to see if it was still going. The fish hadnʼt stopped at all. ʼHey, System. How long was I asleep this time around?ʼ he asked.

ʼOh! Thatʼs not as long as I thought it would be. Alright then, time to do the thing I merged back together for. Let me come up with some things to buy from the shop.ʼ

ʼHmm… I certainly want to fly and do the various things a cultivator does, but I need to think of escaping from here first. Letʼs see what ways are there to get out of the sea…ʼ

Ning started to brainstorm things he could buy from the shop to escape from the deep trenches of the ocean.

ʼHmm… how about controlling the fish? That could certainly workʼ he thought. ʼAh, but there is that same problem of what to do once I control it. I canʼt go back to the land this way. Still, letʼs see how much it costs.ʼ

ʼHey, system. What is the cost of controlling this fish?ʼ he asked.

ʼHuh? Per-minute? You sell in minutes too? Do I get a wholesale discount then?ʼ he asked jokingly.

ʼWhat? Why so expensive?ʼ he was stunned. That was about 13,000 minutes worth of controlling the fish. He didnʼt need that many minutes to reach the land and leave.

ʼWhy is it so expensive? Is it because itʼs permanent?ʼ he asked.

ʼOh. Thatʼs quite a good ability then. Should I use the temporary version?ʼ he started wondering. However, instead of thinking about what the temporary version did, he started thinking about what he would do once he had it.

ʼWhere would I even go? I donʼt know the map or the directions of the sea. Controlling the fish is not a very good idea then,ʼ he thought.

ʼHmm… map… Hey, system. Can I get a map of the planet?ʼ he asked.

ʼWoah! Thatʼs a lot. Why are they in 5 different types?ʼ asked Ning.

ʼI see. Oh god, even intermediate costs more than I have ever made. I think I will have to start with the basic map. Add the basic map to the Auto Buy List,ʼ he ordered the system.

ʼAsk me that only when there is more than a single item on that list,ʼ Ning said as he got a little annoyed.

ʼLetʼs see what else can I use to get out of here… hmmʼ he thought for a few moments. Controlling the fish was now out of question. Jumping from one fish to another was a very nonefficient method as well.

ʼCan I make a human body? Can I get away with that? No right? It would be destroyed in the water. I should keep that idea for once I get off of here.ʼ He thought.

ʼFlying… is a bad idea,ʼ he felt like he was in a slump. He wasnʼt the most creative with skills and abilities. Little of what he knew was from the random shows that they would show in the orphanage. He didnʼt get to read that many books or watch the different movies and cartoons like the non-orphan kids did.

ʼWell, if I wasnʼt an orphan, then many things wouldʼve been different. I wouldʼve had parents for one. I wouldnʼt have to have such a mediocre childhood. Maybe I would have had a group of friends that never left me. Maybe I wouldnʼt have to work in that stupid zoo just to live at 18 years of age. If that never happened, I wouldʼve probably never died and would never have been teleported he— ʼ he suddenly stopped.

ʼTeleport. Thatʼs it!! Teleport. I should teleport out of here. That way I wonʼt have to think about how to get there and can just go there,ʼ he thought.

ʼHey, system. How much does it cost me to teleport to a land,ʼ he asked.

ʼUhh… I should probably just teleport to the shortest distance where there is a land. Where is the shortest distance?ʼ

ʼMoving? Ah, thatʼs right. The fish is moving. Will be hard to guess depending on that. How much will it cost to teleport 1500 km away?ʼ

ʼWhat do you mean, for the fish?ʼ he asked.

ʼUrghh… I will have to come up with something then, this fish might take too much energy to teleport.ʼ