{2 days later}

[Charge complete]

Raphael wakes me from my scheduled sleep once my Charge reaches 100%. Being able to turn off until I could recover my capacities was a nice perk. Albeit, I still don't know what exactly happens to me when I turn off my processor.

Since I exist somewhere between my RAM, VRAM, and processor, I wonder if turning off like that partially kills me. If so, can I survive as long as one of those three components remains alive/active? Maybe. There's no way for me to know, but it could prove helpful if, for example, I ever wanted to clone myself.

I could just extract my RAM and stick it inside another body, and I would be able to replicate myself. {Sigh} Alright, enough yaping time to get working. Since I've got a stable electrical generator, albeit inefficient, I can now move into phase two of my base.

I need to go mining for metals and materials now that I can count on a stable charging method that will always give me enough charge to stay alive. Maybe I can even find some coal for a more efficient generator. The flow would be greater if I could get the wheels spinning faster.

And so I get to work on the mining project with the help of simple stone tools and some overpowered Lolita charm. Now you might wonder, how do you know exactly where to go mine stuff? The simple answer is that I don't know where, but I have a feeling I'll eventually find something.

If people have been able to find minerals by randomly mining in some cases, why shouldn't I be able to? Besides, an enormous cave nearby is apparently still uncharted since the tight spaces are too small for humans to go through, but well, I can blow rocks away. I'm sure I can make something work.

I said as I walked right into the cave entrance with a positive attitude, yet the ambiance inside the cave was strange. I could see as clearly as day, but that did not remove the creepy feeling of caves. So, I eventually forced myself to go through the first passages, which are large enough to easily squeeze my body through.

The only things that got a bit in the way were these useless breasts and my butt, but besides those minor inconveniences, I squeezed through the first sections without much further issue. The cave was so unexplored I even saw small traces of gold and silver around the first chambers, but I wanted to keep pushing; maybe I could even find some Thorium.

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Yet, before me was the third wall squeeze, thought to have been impossible for any human to squeeze through, so I carefully began to tear the wall apart with my bare hands, being careful enough to not make too much destruction as I did not want the whole thing to collapse on me.

I'm sure I could survive the cave collapsing, but then I would lose all these minerals, which would become trapped under rocks and rubble. The cave noises now and then also give me the chills as I hear water drops and sometimes even lightweight footsteps? What? Hello?

{Soft Footsteps}

The aura around the cave gives me more chills as I dig deeper into the wall. Eventually, to mask the dark aura around the whole place, I play loud music through my voice speaker to stop hearing those creepy noises.

{Dolphins on Molly - Shadley Peterson}

The music soon calms my nerves as I finish digging a wide hole through the wall, revealing another large chamber behind it, and in this chamber, all there were crystals on end. I eventually skipped the crystals as I would have no use for them, but I found the chamber pretty cool.

Once I reached another possible lead to the next chamber, I got to work again, tearing down the wall with care, but this time, I was much more energized because I was vibing to the future punk music. Man, I was jamming so hard that I forgot about the creepy noises entirely.

{Why isn't she leaving our cave?!} A small pale creature communicated with another demonic-looking creature, probably of its same species.

{Dunno, dude but she is insane. Cave explorers would have been out by now; should we maybe throw stuff at her to scare her?} [GOOD IDEA!}

I feel some small rocks hit the back of my neck as I finish digging the second hole, but I don't give it much thought; I just think it was some loose rock that fell from all the rustle I made. So I keep going in deeper with the creatures making all sorts of mischievous things to try and scare me.

{DUDE!? What the hell is wrong with her?!} {I don't know!} {Should we just show ourselves and scare the crap out of her?} {I can't think of anything else!} {ONE!} {Two!} {THREE!} {WRAAAAHHGG!!} {WRAAAGHH!}

Two strange-looking giant bats jump before me as I try to walk forward, goddamn they are ugly. As I scan them from head to toe, I notice they have humanoid features. The creatures soon stopped screaming when I just stared at them. Now, they were the ones looking scared.

{WHAT THE HELL?!} {SHE AIN'T RUNNING AWAY!} {SHOULD WE RUN AWAY?} {RUN!} The two small creatures try to run away, but I manage to grab them both before they do so. They've caught my attention, so I naturally wanted to look closer at them.

{PUFF!} {UHHG!} The two small creatures actually looked kind of cute once I had them on my hands; they were fluffy and soft, but man, they were ugly. Raphael! {Yeah?} You know what these things are? I swear I can't find them on my animal records.

[Scanning] [Scan complete] [I've got no clue what you caught, possible new species]

So, not even Raphael knew what they were. Well, then, I might as well let them go once I take pictures of them. It'll be nice to have them on record. [Done] Dang Raphael, I swear you're getting extremely witted, and I'm not sure I like that.

[You're too unstrusty]

You can't always be too cautious, right? [Correct]