A/N:
OK, so I was curious about using an AI-detector for this chapter, not that my story is entirely AI or anything, again, just curious, so I put it through the detector, and it came out to be 54% purely AI with 15% Paraphrased AI, which came to a total of 69% AI, and honestly I don't know how to process this feeling.
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I was thankful that I had the normal Night Fury's sense kit, I'll check more about my status screen later but for now, I have more pressing matters to attend to and that is making a rudimentary plan on: Ways to Survive in this Kaiju infested world.
The first thing that I must do is to recall my Survival Skills that I gained from watching multiple Survival Videos I had seen on YouTube at 3 AM.
I vaguely recalled some stuff, but the main thing I remembered was: Contrary to popular belief, if you are to survive in the Jungle, all in your lonesome, the first thing you look for isn't food or water.
"It is shelter, but this cave will suffice for now" hopefully there wasn't any current owners to this place.
"Then food is the next problem I think" I began cooking up a plan, however, something interrupts me once again.
"Hmm?" My ears started to pick up something, but I couldn't tell what it was but I do know that it wasn't coming from outside that much was certain, slowly turning my head, my ears adjusting in every direction like a radio antenna looking for just a smidge of a signal.
In order to help my ears point towards where the sounds were coming from, I drowned out the sounds coming from outside of the cave, and focused all my senses inside.
The interior of the cave was a lot like the inside of what you would imagine when you drew an Igloo, a half spherical shape, of course it's not a perfect half-sphere either, it just follows the general shape of one, another thing to note was that the cave was pretty moderate in size, not big but I could definitely see myself being satisfied with this If I were still a human.
I could see a huge elongated "pyramid" shaped boulder, although a crooked looking pyramid, from the right side of the cave and I could faintly hear that the sounds were coming from there, and so I slowly made my way to it, with each step i got closer and closer to the crooked looking pyramid boulder and then finally my eyes saw it.
'Another path? And it goes on more inside', I didn't see it the first time I re-entered the cave, probably because it's behind the boulder effectively covering it, but there was another pathway, deep inside the cave, so I focused some more, the sounds were getting a little bit clearer now but I couldn't make out what it was or what it came from.
*Ding
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[{Hunter's Ear} (Tier II)
Proficiency: 2%
Sharply enhances the ability to detect and discern sounds, even faint ones, within the surrounding environment. It allows the user to pinpoint nearby movements, footsteps, and pick up subtle noises within a (100 upgraded to>>>) 200-meter radius, even through foliage or thin walls but effectiveness reduces with more obstacles.
Special Effect:
Lifepulse Perception: When focusing, faint sound waves created by living things (Breathing, Heart rate, Locomotion, Speech, etc.) become visual outlines within the mind's eye, forming a mental sonar of all nearby life.]
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As soon as that happened, my hearing finally made sense of the faint sounds I had been picking up earlier. I closed my eyes to isolate the target noise, which helped shut out any distractions from the outside.
*Tch-ktch-tch-ktch-tch-ktch*
I could hear something clacking and scraping, it was as if certain parts of its own body were forcefully grinding against each other.
*Tch-ktch-tch-ktch-tch-ktch*
*Tch-ktch-tch-ktch-tch-ktch*
Almost rocky, armor-like in nature, huh, it must be these that were grinding.
*Tch-ktch-tch-ktch-tch-ktch*
*chik-chik-chik-chik-chik-chik*
And a long body from the many legs I hear striking the floor, like rocks striking each other in quick succession.
*chik-chik-chik-chik-chik-chik*
*chik-chik-chik-chik-chik-chik*
I finally opened my eyes.
'yup there's no mistake, It's probably a giant centipede of some kind' the steps grew louder and clearer
'Shit! I forgot that it's coming this way!, what the heck do I do? Can I use a plasma blast if I'm still a kid?' I panic in my mind.
'System! Show me my offensive skills!' I quickly commanded in my head
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'System?' No response still
'She can't hear my thoughts?' The realization crept in.
Wait a minute, it makes sense, she said that my memories are mine so she doesn't know of my past life, proof being that she didn't even know about the "Pause" thingie from before, so it might've naturally also extended to mind reading as well, fuck.
I whispered "System, Show me all my offensive skills, I gotta find a way to deal with the oncoming threat" I commanded the System, panicking slightly in my mind
[Enemy approaching? Very well host, here is the status screen of all the offensive skills you currently possess, can you tell what the enemy is? I'm quite curious]
"It's a Giant Centipede" The blue hologram showed up in front of me, my eyes quickly darted up and down, reading the status screen with urgency.