I had 2 choices to make in the short moment I had - go into the forest or find shelter near the nearby buildings. I don't have much time to decide. But for lack of choice, I realized that searching among the buildings was dangerous if he couldn't find a good place in time. I quickly took the equipment and went deep into the cactus forest.

I quickly moved through all the huge thorns that were sprouting from the trunks. The way I walked reminded me of the bamboo-like forest, although yes, it is much much more prickly. Fortunately, Rosalina confirmed the lack of danger in the case and I eat them, but moving through them is even tougher and more complicated because of all the weight. I took my knives and started trying to cut them to get through even more.

The map showed the red dot moving straight in my direction approaching so fast that I should have heard its heavy but quick steps. I was already going deeper and deeper into the forest and the point came to where I was standing a few moments ago and stopped there as I pushed myself deeper and deeper into this complex. My eyes were focused on the map and I came across one of the cacti and its stingers. The damage thanks to the suit was minimal before I turned around and saw nothing and whoever it was that was chasing me, admittedly, it was close enough for Rosalina to scan the thing's physiological data before it retreated and slowly moved in another direction, the bug from the forest I entered. I assumed a feeling of a burden coming off before I looked around and at the map and the point had moved away to outside the visual map.

"Rosalina, this one has… is it the same one I saw yesterday?"

"Possible. His physiological data matches, although it's difficult because the genetic scanner is easily blocked by obstacles compared to the physiological scanner, to say if it's the same one. And according to them, matches someone chasing prey"

So now I found myself being chased by a great predator! How and why? This is no longer the time to ask, I don't think I have much time to deal with it. I have to push forward. I continued to move between the tall and thick cacti, while I should carefully look between the things and try to move carefully. Luckily the thickness of the forest was not great compared to the first one and soon I reached a wall almost as tall as the cacti. After all this journey, I think I have reached my goal! I looked around to try to see if there was any hole or exit in the area, but the wall just remained sealed.

The inability to move through the thorn forest, especially with the heavy load I carry with me and if a large and fast predator is in the area, the best consideration is to climb over it if possible, or try to break through it by force.

"I understand" she immediately responded before she began to direct her lasers that came out of the suit to several points and began to display a hologram of the wall on the wall:

"These are the places where you can take down the wall" she replied

"Take him down? I thought I would be able to catch him" I said sarcastically, but she didn't seem to understand that:

"Climb it" she began to explain when I started looking in the equipment for the tool that could drill into this wall: "It will burden you with all the equipment if you don't want to give it up, that's what I'm thinking. Breaking through the wall was more efficient and safer than climbing it."

"Got it" I replied as I took out the mechanical tool I had collected and put it on drill mode. He quickly shaped himself into the shape of a drill and I started trying to drill through him. The drilling was particularly difficult as this wall was designed to stand against a stray spacecraft. After long moments of drilling, I was able to feel relief in the resistance and saw the light emanating from the other side and decided to take a look at it. I took off my helmet and my eyes started trying to see what was waiting for me there.

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Through it, I could only see something that resembled a large surface covered with grass, but this is only one point in the full picture, but I decided to try to continue drilling into other points that were shown to me. One by one I continued to drill and another hole and another hole was created. Suddenly Rosalina stopped me from drilling:

"That's enough, according to new data, the area of the wall is unstable. The way I proposed is not feasible, very dangerous, and may result in the creation of a sinkhole"

"A sinkhole?!" I immediately stopped drilling and retreated to the equipment I had put aside.

"Positive. The reason for the environmental deviation of the area is because of unstable soil and a high chance of creating a sinkhole. In the area of the wall, it has the highest risk"

"Why didn't you tell me about it before?"

"There wasn't enough information to confirm it and also because going back could have led to a greater obvious danger" she noted

"Good point. So what should I do instead?"

"Break the wall" she said as if frivolously. I was surprised at first, why break the wall on unstable ground?

"Breaking the wall will take less time compared to what I suggested before. Until a sinkhole is formed, I suggest that you take the equipment and use the mechanical tool and break the wall as quickly as possible" She finished her sentence and I immediately started collecting the equipment and put the tool into excitation mode (this was how written there) and it changed into the form of a shock wave generator. I pushed it against the wall and turned it on. It charged for a few seconds before it released a powerful shockwave that shook the wall and my hand. The power of this tool was felt quickly and hurt terribly, but the wall didn't feel it, so I turned the tool on again and it hit even harder and the wall started making cracking noises. I started trying to push him, but he was stubborn.

For the third time ice cream, I held the tool and increased the power. The resulting shock wave was even stronger and it threw me slightly and hit the suit. I felt the resulting push and the resulting pain and the wall began to disintegrate and collapse. I quickly moved away and all the dust that was scattered and the fragments of the wall were scattered everywhere. I cleaned the helmet before I saw that I managed to collapse the wall, but I started to hear something else and I realized one thing - move forward! I ran straight toward the hole I had made and felt the ground begin to sink rapidly. I felt that I was losing my grip on the ground and decided to jump forward and I heard more sounds of a crash coming from below. The ground began to loosen and all the things that were in the area began to fall into the created abyss, along with some huge cacti. I crawled quickly and luckily managed to get away from the sinkhole that had just opened. If I hadn't jumped, I probably would have fallen into the big chasm there.

After looking for a few moments, I stood up heavily and turned back to face the target – a large patch of grass and plates washed over my field of vision while the sun was just beginning to set and the sky was turning a beautiful orange-red. I moved forward and suddenly I heard the sound of a partition and I looked down. There in front of me stood a broken brown-green egg that had already hatched. Only after that, I looked around deeply and I see myself that I am in a field of someone's nests.

It's bad if there is someone else, but these nests seem to be abandoned. I'm not ready to take any risks and must continue to advance towards the building that stood on my left in front - a tall building where the tall facility stood. I started to move forward cautiously, but all my fear disappeared as I advanced more and more toward the structure and only the darkness came to embrace me again when I reached the structure without problems. I was excited that I managed to reach the structure and now I have one thing left to do - try to make contact.