20 Chapter Nineteen

The Yu You Lei who was grinning from ear to ear was stunned, and her face fell immediately. Before she could even begin getting revenge, she was already met with another challenge? Her body would explode because her mental power was too strong? What kind of logic was this?

She didn't expect all her thoughts to be projected across her entire mental storage.

The white snake answered all her questions, saying, "Keepersss each have unique requirementssss to come out, and sssince the mental power from before wassss too low, we only observed the body'sss owner. . . But sssuddenly, the body'ssss mental power increasssed by quite a lot, and the ssstorage in thissss body can't handle it. . ."

Yu You Lei simplified all the snake said in her mind. So, apparently, her mental power was transfered with her to her new body. However, every brain had different mental capacities, and the mental capacity of this body was too small for her mental power.

The black snake nodded. "Yess, that'sss pretty much it. . . Fortunately, our exissstence meanssss your mental capacity can grow. You only need to come and train your control over your mind every night, and you'll be ssafe."

Sighing, Yu You Lei smacked her head lightly. It seemed that, with these two snakes, her mental capacity could grow as long as she trained every night. There was no need to worry about exploding, she just needed to come and train!

Why did she attract all these challenges? What syndrome did she have? Sighing once more at her 'misfortune', Yu You Lei decided to know these snakes better before beginning her training.

"You can name usss." The two snakes said in unison, already having heard her thoughts.

Yu You Lei suddenly began smiling again, rubbing her chin as she thought of a good name for the snakes.

"Okay, I'll name you two the Yin Yang Danger Noodles!" She grinned, very proud of herself for thinking up such a good name. Yu You Lei remembered seeing a 'meme' where snakes were referred to as danger noodles, and she found it very creative.

The two snakes didn't seem to approve of the name, though, and that caused Yu You Lei to come up with a series of even worse names for them.

"Black White Scary Ropes."

"Hot and Cold Snakes."

"Salty and Spicy Noodles."

"Chess Snakes."

"I think we will stick to Yin Yang Danger Noodles.", the black snake finally gave in, its voice no longer coming out as a hiss.

"Okay, now for your individual names!" Yu You Lei cackled. See, she just knew it was a good name!

"I'll call you Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei." Yu You Lei decided almost immediately, letting the Yin Yang Danger Noodles breath out in relief.

(Xiao Hei = Little Black Xiao Bai = Little White)

"Okay, okay, I'll be Xiao Hei, she'll be Xiao Bai." The black snake nodded furiously, wanting to settle that before Yu You Lei changed her mind.

Yu You Lei gave him a strange look, saying, "Eh? You got the names wrong, you're Xiao Bai, she's Xiao Hei. That way, if you manage to physically come out, then we can confuse the enemy!"

Xiao Bai wanted to die.

He truly wanted to die.

Having heard enough of Yu You Lei's nonsense, Xiao Hei urged her to simply start training instead of continuing to drag and laze about.

"Okay, okay, I'll be Xiao Hei. Let's just start the training. It is very simple, you just need to sit in a Lotus Pose, and then close your eyes. We'll just. . ." Xiao Hei spoke quickly, and then motioned for Xiao Bai to slither over to Yu You Lei's left with her tail.

Yu You Lei suddenly felt some changes happening to her body, and as abruptly as it came, it stopped.

Xiao Bai told her it was okay to open her eyes, and she did so eagerly, wanting to see what her 'training' actually was.

Blinking a few times to get used to the sudden brightness, Yu You Lei looked around in wonder. The dark void she was in previously wasn't as big as she thought it was, because right now, it was simply the size of her fist!

Looking around, Yu You Lei saw what could only be described as some form of transparent liquid. It seemed like water, yet she could still breath normally. There was seemingly no end to this 'pool' of water, and in the pool were thousands and thousands of what seemed to be strings.

Yu You Lei leaned forward slightly to observe the strings, curiously poking one of them. To her surprise, it hit another string, and the two seemed to merge into a slightly thicker string.

She did this a few more times, and the strings seemed to keep on merging into a thicker and thicker one. However, she could only merge two strings of the same size. It reminded her of that game she used to play, 2048, was it?

While Yu You Lei was doing this, something was happening to the miniture black void on her right. Turning her head to look at the void, she noticed that there seemed to be some kind of 'bubble' around it. This bubble was shaped like a brain, and as she merged the strings, it was slowly becoming bigger and bigger.

The bubble looked like it was about to pop any moment, though, causing Yu You Lei to break out into a cold sweat.

"I see you've gotten the hang of it. You basically need to merge all these strings until they become one. Don't look down on these strings, though, because as you merge them, it will become more and more difficult. However, the more you merge them, the bigger your mental capacity will be, so you must persist." Xiao Bai's voice echoed from inside the bubble, and it was soon followed by Xiao Hei's voice.

"Your mental capacity is basically that bubble over there. You see, right now your mental power is too much, and that bubble might pop any moment. That's why you must quickly train and make the bubble bigger, or you'll explode!" Xiao Hei said emotionlessly, seemingly not caring about the wellbeing of Yu You Lei.

"I've figured out about as much, thank you for your helpful advice! Yu You Lei shouted sarcastically at the bubble, and in return was met with silence. Were they really there to guide her? She could've figured it out on her own!

Sighing, Yu You Lei straightened her back and stretched like a cat. Cracking her knuckles, she narrowed her eyes in determination as she stared at the strings arounf her with a burning gaze. Time to start work!

She went on to merge all the strings one by one for almost the whole night. By the time morning came, most of the strings had already been merged once, with only the strings she had tried at the start having been merged twice.

Yu You Lei was only aware of the time because Xiao Hei kept on reminding her of it, since there was no clock inside her mental storage or the pool.

Counting the number of strings while merging them helped her to relieve some of the boredom of repeating the same action over and over again.

Therefore, when Yu You Lei was kicked out of the pool and the void by the Yin Yang Danger Noodles, she knew that there were 2048 strings at first. After a whole night's work, there were 1022 strings left.

Strangely enough, when Yu You Lei got up, she didn't feel tired at all. Instead, she felt relaxed and completely at ease, as if she'd slept to her heart's desire for a whole day.

Satisfied with this result, she quickly called for You Ping and freshened herself up. As You Ping helped her do her hair, the corner of her lip curled up.

Today, she was going to earn money!