He knew the creatures in the forest would easily tear him limb from limb so he decided he would need to find a cave or something to hole up in.
He took one last look at the house where he had been confined to. As the flames burned brightly a single tear dropped from his eye, but there was no time for that, he'd cried enough already that time was over for Zhou.
He knew the whole situation looked bad for him (the whole fire only made things worse). He wasn't planning on staying in the wilderness for long. Just enough time for it to blow over, for people to forget, then he would head for the nearest town.
In his mind it sounded easy but he knew it would not be. He walked up the dirt road and then to his left into the woods. After about ten minutes of waking he stumbled upon a small hole not like a cave, more like a small space carved into the side of the hill by the natural elements. It was roughly 120 spare feet. But the roof curved towards the back of the room making it look and feel much smaller.
He reached it in about 2 minutes, This should do, but the front it mostly open. It looks like someone had already made shelter there, the sides had sticks stacked up and glued together with some kind of sticky mud. I could try to make some kind of door using the previous owners technique.
The ground was littered with rotting bark from trees. He was a bright boy and knew he could do something with the trees surrounding. He spent a while pulling branches off of the trees or picking them up off the ground. He knew the weaker twigs wouldn't do him any good so he focused on finding large, straight, sturdy sticks.
After he had a pile of a considerable size he decided to begin making things. By his estimate he had roughly 6-8 hours until his disease would begin debilitating him again. In this time he decided to try making a door.
He picked up a stick with a considerable size and was mostly straight. It was about as long as his arm, not much bigger. There were a couple others about the same length and were straight enough. He decided those would do.
Zhou layed them down in a line. He decided to put the shorter ones in the middle and the longer ones on the outside to ensure a stable connection to the existing wall.
I understand where the sticks came from but where did they get the mud. He sat for a second and looked around for somekind of waterway. Zhou couldn't see but he heard the sound of rushing water after a minute or so. It was coming from close by up on the right.
He walked for about 30 seconds before he saw it. A small brook with brown rushing water. It was at the bottom of a muddy hill. The lack of grass or flowers made the ground slipper and hard to stand on, much less walk down.
He took a couple steps and felt his pant leg slip under his shoe. He immediately fell to the ground with a slam. Immediately he knew something was wrong, he felt something out of place in his leg. His knee cap had slipped out of place and over onto the side.
It's not just that though. There's something else. His leg felt numb along with his whole body. He looked up and saw some kind of creature emerge from behind a tree. A strange gas or mist floating around it.
It's body closely resembled a human skeleton but much, much larger. It was almost as tall as the tree it was hiding behind. It's body is surrounded by something, is that gas, could it be poison, is that why I'm nunb.
It took a giant step forward, coming out from behind the tree, its bones jangling as it moved. Wait that's not gas, I can see now it's some kind of swarm, is it bugs? Could this be what's wrong with me.
He looked down at his body and immediately he saw the reason for him not being able to move, bugs?, are they eating me, yes there eating me from my skin all the way down to the bone.
He tried to scream, nothing. He tried to move, nothing. In a matter of seconds all that was left was his bones.
I'm dead. am I really. I should be dead but I can still see, I can even move. A bit stiffly Zhou got to his feet, there was no sign of the "yokai" creature. He looked down at his body "I'm a skeleton, am I a ghost". "I've failed, I've already failed my whole bloodline in less then a few hours".
Suddenly he felt himself in the terminal again. The whimsical tree in the middle with the pedestal was still there. He walked up to the paper yet again and began reading. It read the same until he got to the bottom. Bellow his effect was a new statement, race: Yokai-Gashadokuro. "Yokai, I am a yokai. There's no way." Under it it explained further
You are a yokai by night and a human by day. Wait does that mean, "medically during the day I was considered dead, but if I'm a human by day that means I'm alive meaning. I can move during the day."
During the night you will turn into the yokai Gashadokuro. When taking the form of Gashadokuro your height will increase, your strength will decrease but speed and stealth will be on your side, you will be virtually undetectable by anyone (unless they have a special ability contradicting yours)