Ze Shou began moving down random tunnels going deeper and deeper until he reached a ridge. The ridge was surrounded by what seemed like an endless sea of stalactites and stalagmites. Between the rows near the crest, there appears to be a small circular hole just big enough for his body to crawl through. Providing that familiar feeling, the hair on Ze Shous body couldn't help but raise his face turning pale as the blood drained from his face.
His chest rose rapidly as his breathing quicked to the point that he kneeled over puking dark water with chunks of bugs from his nose and mouth. After vomiting for a good minute, Ze Shou shakily rose to his feet and trudged forward. He stumbled after every few steeps as his body shook with every step closer to that hole.
Reaching the hole, Ze Shous body looked like that of a recovering heroin addict. Body shaking puke leaking out of the nostril, with dry stains of black liquid running down his mouth and onto his chest. Ze Shou started at that dark hole for a while, forcing back down the vomit that seemed to have received an eviction notice and was forced off the property.
Ze Shou shakily got on the ground and slowly started crawling through the small entrance. Halfway through the sand began to move, pulling Ze Shou down the slope, his face could only pale as he let out a scream as the rest of his body followed him on the rockslide. Body tumbling as he rolled down the hillside deeper into the cave. His body slammed into a stalagmite smashing the rock spike to pieces creating more debris rolling down the slope.
Ze Shou forced his arms around his head while tucking his knees. His body accelerated down the slope smashing into the spiked pillars of hardened crystals before finally sliding across the bottom of the slope to a stop. Ze Shou still curled up like a ball soon felt the impacts of falling rocks strike his back and legs. He was letting out pained hisses after so many impacts.
After a minute of not feeling any more impacts, Ze Shou uncurled his body. Shakily getting to his feet, he did a body check moving his torso side to side, breathing in and out deeply, doing circles with his arms, and kicking his legs out. Only finding pain from the impact point and no other wounds, his body was in good condition. Next, he checked his items gourds were fine and still corked. He lost his carving rock and pieces of the red hyena, which were a shame but nothing he could do about it.
Looking at the ground in the cave that was illuminated by a swirling nebula Ze Shou found a pointed stalactite that was broken when he slid down the slope. About the size of his arm with a pointed tip, it would do for a self-defense weapon. Ze Shou, now with a weapon, slowly started moving through the cave system, no longer keeping track of where he was going. Wandering aimlessly until he reached a room with an oppressive humidity.
Hearing drips of water Ze Shou realized this must be where he found the hallucinogenic water. Finding a pool of water about the size of his palm Ze Shou set up his first gourd in the center of the puddle and looked for another spot. A little ways away, Ze Shou, found another puddle with a huge stalactite collum handing over it. Setting down his other gourd Ze Shou moved to the middle of the two and sat down and closed his eyes.
Ze Shou focused his mind on seeing the 'The Code' and slowly felt fluctuations of wind surround him his vision that was surrounded by darkness slowly shone flashes of red light before condensing into spherical balls that rotated around the cave. Ze Shou slowly reached out to the nearest ball that hovered near his body, feeling his fingers brush past something that felt like a gelatin substance.
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Ze Shou circled his hand around the red sphere grasping it. The small orb now in his hand felt like a ball of puddy as it shaped to his hand. Ze Shou released the orb and moved his hand away a few centimeters before looking at the orb that stayed in the shape of his grip before moving slowly away.
Ze Shou opened his eyes to see if the puddy orb was there, but all he saw was lines of code running against the walls and floor. Ze Shous curiosity spiked as he ran his finger against one line of code. What surprised him was that the line he touched stopped with a highlighted symbol of 'H.' Ze Shou thought of the chemical formula for water being 'H2O1'. A light flashed as the letter 'H' Changed to that formula.
Ze Shou suddenly felt something watery at his finger he returned his vision to normal to find a dark patch of crystals slowly start melt and change into a puddle of water. Ze Shou got up and checked on his gourds, finding them full he took a couple of sips before capping them with the crystal spikes. Ze Shou sat down and waited for the water to kick in his hands and back felt excruciatingly hot before turning into a numbing cold, and that was it. After waiting for what seemed like a minute, Ze Shou opened his eyes to discover a fountain pumping water out.
Ze Shou focused on seeing 'The Code' again, and what he saw was rather shocking. The compound of water he wrote into the red line was multiplying by absorbing the characters next to it; then, it spread to the next line. Ze Shou returned his vision to see multiple sprouts of water flowing from the ground filling the cavern. Soon from one of the caves, Ze Shou could hear a rumbling, followed by the cave shaking. Not even enough time to go back to 'The Code,' a geyser of water flooded into the cave filling it up. Ze Shou knocked off his feet by the rushing water was thrown to the wall as the water quickly filled up the small cave.
Ze Shou taking a deep breath before he was submerged and closed his eyes, waiting for the water to fill the cave. After the pressure lessened, Ze Shou opened his eyes to see bubbles from the geysers pushing in more water while the stalagmites seem to give off a fluorescent landscape, lighting the bottom of the cave. It would be a magical moment if Ze Shou wasn't trapped and had access to air. Ze Shou pushed off the wall of the cave and started to swim towards one of the cave routes only to get his body pulled in a current pushing him the opposite way.
Helpless Ze Shou floundered in the water before giving up and letting the current take him. As his body was pulled along, the current sped up, slamming Ze Shou into a wall at every turn before taking his body. Ze Shou, after being hit for the twentieth some odd time, saw a light at the end of the current. The current sped up, flinging his body closer to the light before the light blinded him, followed by a sense of weightlessness. Ze Shous eyes adjusting before he could see that he was flying before losing momentum and falling straight down into a layer of white.
Expecting a soft landing, Ze Shou relaxed his body and braced himself by wrapping his arms around his head. Seeing the layer of white get closer, he closed his eyes and waited for impact. What was supposed to be a soft impact turned into smacking a slab as his body skidded across loose grains of sand and tumbling a couple of times before coming to a complete stop. Ze Shou wide eyes let out a breathless scream from the impact that knocked the wind out of him followed by gasping and rugged pants as he tried to recover. his mind shifting from pain to suffocation, took a long time for him to settle.
After finally recovering his breath Ze Shou did another body check because of the sand clinging to his jade white skin. He couldn't see any real damage, but everything else was fine. His gourds have done their jobs and kept his water sealed, but for his bug gourd, the bugs were all dead due to drowning so he could only eat them now and not let them spoil.