Ze Shou, now sitting down in the desert, wasteland chewed on the disgusting bugs, but with a bit of the water, they ingested the taste was alleviated from throwing up to gaging. Ze Shou looked around the area looking to see the water tunnel he came out of, but all he saw was a flat plain of sand. After eating his water bugs, Ze Shou switched his vision to the code again. The rows of text all had the same characters running across.
With no feeling of death and no highlighted target, Ze Shou switched his vision back to normal as he looked for a way to go. So he gave up closed his eyes, turned in a circle a few times before stopping opened his eyes, and followed the direction his body landed on. Meanwhile, in a room with a chair centered around revolving screens sat ADA, who had a baffled look on her face before letting out a hearty laugh.
"Really? Ha, that's what how you chose which way to go I can't believe it. hahaha!" ADA said before falling off her chair and rolling on the floor a few times before getting up and straightening her clothes and sitting back in the chair. Tapping her clipboard a few times, all the screens condensed into a blue orb. ADA pulled the orb with a motion of her finger, before grabbing it and eating it. Her eyes flashed with a blue light before swaying her clipboard in the air as new screens appeared and started to float around in a clockwise motion.
ADA sat up before selecting a screen and started to write arithmetic data followed by charts after one screen was full, she flicked it away before the data disappeared and turned into a live view of Ze Shou fighting the gourd plants. It was a video that repeated but with highlighting points of his body with either red, yellow, or green, followed by a text point. Soon Ze Shous every action was on a board constantly changing with highlighted points.
After finishing her final board, ADA tucked her clipboard to her armpit before clapping her hands. All the boards collided into one before turning into a piece of paper that ADA attached to the clipboard. Looking through the piece of paper, ADA smiled before tapping the board a few times and waited as new screens of Ze Shou appeared.
Ze Shou, covered in the sand now wandering through the barren desert, just starred ahead with the occasional look around for something. After whats feels like walking for a day, Ze Shou took a break and sat down, taking a sip of water from one of his gourds and waited ten minutes before getting up. He continued to walk in a straight line until the sunset on the horizon.
Thinking that it might be night soon, he dug a little bit in the sand and laid in it for a few hours before finding out the sun didn't go below sunset and started to rise higher in the sky. Ze Shou feeling the temperature of the dessert start to rise started to consume more water and take breaks more often. This pattern continued for three sunsets until he was out of the water, his body aching. Ze Shou got up and moving staggered like when he saw the sun change positions. Once in awhile, Ze Shou would use 'The Code' for any direction as he was not use to the change of pace.
Ze Shou stumbling dehydrated hungry as his feet left bloody footprints in the scorching sand as he made his way forward. Ze Shou knew he wouldn't last long like this, but this place was baren. He even tried to write the formula for water in the line of code, but nothing happened, so he could only continue to push on. The fifth sun rise Ze Shou looked like a bum his lips were cracked patches of skin were sunburnt to the extreme and leaf coverings were starting to crumble away with every step. His gourds lost their moisture and soon began to collapse on themselves and turn into mold.
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His vision hazy as his legs stumbled over his feet and his body fell into the sand after a few minutes, he'd get back up, walk a couple steps and soon fall again. Lifting his head through his hazy vision, he saw a shimmering light. Ze Shou slowly rose to his feet and started towards the shining light. A few hundred meters away, the ground began to shake as a pillar of sand began to rise. Its hight beginning at 5 meters.. then rose to10 meters...30 meters...50 meters...
Ze Shou, a giant spike, comes from the sand. Layered with pointed spiked with dark brown skin, this thing was humongous. Ze Shou knowing nothing was easy, tried to run only to fall and watch as the giant Euphorbia like thing open its mouth, splitting like a blooming flower and start to fall towards Ze Shou. Ze Shou can only look at the massive tower fall jaws wide open ready to eat him.
"I give... I give up... I can't...." as Ze Shou muttered this sentence, time froze, and the area started to crumble around him slowly before it turned into a white space. Ze Shou now wearing a bodysuit and laying on the floor in perfect condition as if he never went through that hell. ADA appearing next to him wearing her secretary outfit with a clipboard in hand. "something to drink?" ADA said, peering over Ze Shous face. after staring at ADA with dull eyes for a good minute, he hoarsely said, "whiskey on the rocks..." ADA let out a slight smile before waving her clipboard and changing the scenery to the study room with a bottle of Glenavon Special Liqueur.
Both sat down one, looking like a dead fish while one had a smile of happiness and prestige. ADA poured two glasses and waited while Ze Shou took a sip breathed deeply and laughed "still better than bugs." ADA smiled, " you actually lasted longer than estimated. The prediction model showed you giving up after your first encounter with Prominence. you did really well." Ze Shou finished his glass of whiskey before pouring another one. "can you explain the point of all that?" Ze Shou asked while sipping his glass. ADA simply smiled and said, " No, not until you finished the whole sixty days you getting to twelve days is already good and ill show you why."
ADA tapped on her clipboard, and the room darkened then one after the other screens appeared of Ze Shou every move with highlighted points with massive text scrolling on each point. " I got a good idea of where you at so it helps me more than you once you're finished with your drink were going to start for real this time," ADA said before disappearing. Ze Shous glass fell spilling the liquor. His face ashen as he looked at where ADA disappeared, he went for the bottle before chugging the whole thing and waited.
Soon the space warped, and he was now seated in a classroom with ADA standing at a podium. "Scare you?" ADA asked while letting out a chuckle. "Now, since you seem to have a good understanding of combative and survival were going to start with strategy, the total time of this course is 312 years 6 months and 25 days. This is going to start from the beginning of time to the current time. So let's get started, shall we? Ze Shou began to see stars at the time needed for him to understand the whole thing thinking how twelve days felt like months years will be a lifetime.
Seeing his unwillingness, ADA simply said, " though, of course, if you want to delay the lesson, we can throw you back to SERE training. Prominence is asking about you. He was quite upset about the rock-throwing." Ze Shou quickly shook his head as he sat up straight, ready to listen. Seeing this, ADA couldn't help but chuckle a little at his behavior before turning to the board. "well first stat with hunting, hunting is a natural instinct developed over time that allows animals to follow a set of actions to take down prey many times larger than itself. well, go back to the prehistoric era where we'll see a group of predators takes down larger prey than itself."
As ADA finished this, she tapped on the podium, causing the soundings to change into a jungle environment while Ze Shou still at his desk while ADAs podium disappeared. Up above an aurora swaying in the sky with a conflux of yellow and red.