Ze Shou panicked at the wide maw of the Cobra; he tried to force what was left of his body to dodge or at least give him the advantage to get out of the way. The Cobra slid forward slowly as if teasing his prey, letting him know that he cant live no matter what he did. The Cobra's mouth started to leak acidic saliva that seemed to hiss after each drop hits the ground, its verticle pupils seemed to constrict as if it can't contain its excitement anymore that it had enough smelled the delicious prey in front of it.
Ze Shou slowed his painful breaths, stared at the Cobra's body, blood dyed his vision, his thoughts swirled, shouting in his head saying anything from run, flee, give up, you can't win, you'll revive anyway. Through all the chaos, he tried to remember what he saw when he was getting thrashed about by ADA the slowness that surrounded her, the intricate figures of characters and numbers. That seemed to take over his vision the parts that seem to change, letting him prevail, allowing him to avoid pain and take a step forward to understanding himself.
Ze Shou's vision fluctuated from being dyed red from his blood to the red and black view of 'The Code.' It flashed rapidly as his conscious blurred from his head trauma. Through the darkness that was enclosing in on his vision, a path lit in green characters shown on his left. Though before he could confirm what he saw through his hazy conscious. His left eye exploded to strain and returned to his bloody vision, pain ran throughout his left side of his body, making him call out in a high pitch squeal.
The Cobra, although confused as to why the prey hurt itself it seemed to become more excited by the high pitch scream and started to move closer at a faster pace. Its tail slapped the ground in excitement, sending powerful shocks through the field, Ze Shou body rolled with pain every time the tail struck the ground.
As the snake was less than a meter away, maw wide open ready to swallow Ze Shou. Ze Shou dashed in a half run, half limp. Trailing blood behind him as he moved to the left as the Cobra leaped at where Ze Shou was bitting the tree, that he was leaning on crushing what remained of it to mulch. Ze Shou trailing blood panting as the snake recovered from eating a tree involuntarily got more excited as its prey struggled but displeased at the same time that its target was leaking its precious, tasty blood.
Ze Shou was moving to his fallback point as fast as he could looking over his shoulder every few steps to make sure the Cobra like creature wasn't directly on him. Not in his best state, he couldn't use his sense accurately enough to guess the location and speed of the Cobra chasing him so he could only move as fast as his body would allow.
While going to the path, he set up in his mind that was full of plants that won't slow him down or disable him. His breathing got more labored as his mind turned fuzzy each step was excruciating as he had to use his broken leg to propel himself forward, just to get the tiniest advantage of distance from the hunter. He kept telling himself forward, forward one more step, only one more step, keep moving, duck low, move left, move through the bush.
A list of commands like a robot the simplest things to keep his mind off the impending suffering that is to come if he gets caught. Soon he could see the clearing leading to the lake and the large waterfall that sunlight that was left giving him the sight needed to his one eye that was practically blinded by the blood or the encircling darkness caused by a multitude of things that causes one to just stop and say "hey just kill me this is bullshit."
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Ze Shou heard trees breaking behind him that got louder and louder, overcoming the ringing that was plaguing his ears. He put everything into his legs, what was left of his vision going black as he ran towards the little cave that he set as his fall back point, climbing jagged rocks cutting open his hand and scrapping his arms from forcing them to hold his body in between rocks so he could rise to the entrance.
As he was rising higher and higher, he felt his climbing leg being flicked like a whip by the tongue of the Cobra, melting his skin, causing blisters and pus to exfoliate before turning black and falling off in clops of decayed skin. His voice turned hoarse as he let out probably the loudest yell of pain in his life, tears flowed from his eyes, but they seemed to be red instead of crystal clear.
His mind was slowly turning blank from the pain his limbs turning limp he only could helplessly crawl forward sobbing and yelping as each movement ahead just caused heart-wrenching pain he crawled and crawled, teras of blood rained down his face before hitting a wall and passing out, easing him from the torture momentarily. Darkness enveloped his mind as what seemed like forever until a force woke him up making him scream again in pain, he banged his head against the wall creating another concussion promptly knocking him out again before a pressing force was put on his melted leg jolting his body making him look like he was having a seizure from the pain.
"WAKE UP!" "you still have 58 days to go before you can move on! What's the point of this training if you spent it sleeping? HUH?!" as a familiar voice that caused one to shiver when hearing it rang in Ze Shou's buzzing ears. He struggled to open his remaining eye only to see ADA looking down on him in her camouflage suit with a glowstick in her hand illuminating the surroundings. "wa-" "wa-... wa-" Ze Shou tried to sound out weakly through his tore vocal cords.
"Water? Is that what you want?" ADA said while moving to a kneeling position, leaning her head closer to Ze Shou's face. Ze Shou could only nod the tiniest of movement that was barely noticeable; ADA sat up, took out what looked like a military-style canteen, popped open the top, and dumped the contents on the floor in front of Ze Shou's face. All with a smile as she said, "get it your damn self; if you're stuck in a situation like this again, do you think your enemies are going to be merciful and help you out? No! They're going to fucking play with your body till you want to drink fucking acid so you can end your shitty, miserable life! But even then, they still won't give you the fucking time of day! "
The torrent of abuses hurled at Ze Shou's ears would make anyone ears bleed, but later, Ze Shou would understand this as her way of showing that she cares and just wants him to be prepared in every scenario. "In any case, your body won't revive anymore until your heart or brain is smashed into pieces, also to prevent cheating. I made it impossible to off yourself like a fucking loser! So get your shit together and survive, see you in a while!" ADA finished her abuse before extinguishing her glowstick and fading into the darkness.
Plunging Ze Shou back in the dark, all he could do is wallow in pain and hope his body recovers naturally. The occasional drops of liquids stirred Ze Shou from his half-unconscious state as his body was still a mess and missing essential pieces. He could barely move his eye that was no longer entirely dyed in blood but just had dry patches in certain areas of his vision.
Ze Shou scanned the floor that seemed to be littered with a dark type of grainy rock; the texture looked like sand but more crystallized and with fewer impurities that are usually seen with sand. Up above up, he saw stalactites that seemed to be made of the same dark crystal from the ground, except they seem to carry some hints of illumination.
Condensation seems to soak up all the light before dropping onto the ground spreading an out a circular ripple of light before dissipating genuinely marvelous, but for Ze Shou who was dying of thirst it was torture