Trickster Hunter

Chapter 147 Torment

Hearing what Sun Hang said, the expressions of other hunters suddenly changed.

"Indeed...it's a bit strange..." The fisherman nodded.

"Why do I feel that Yamata no Orochi drove us into this forest on purpose?" A hunter who was leaning on a tree trunk immediately stood up and distanced himself from the surrounding trees, "Hey... I don't know. Why, looking at these trees now, I suddenly have a creepy feeling... Could it be a psychological effect? ​​"

"I think there are only two possibilities. One is as you said, the Yamata no Orochi drove us into this forest for some unknown purpose." Sun Hang analyzed, "The other possibility is, It’s this forest that belongs to another, more powerful monster, one that can’t even offend the Yamata no Orochi.”

"A more powerful monster? Could it be referring to the Nameless Island itself?" the fisherman asked.

"If the Yamata no Orochi is afraid of Wuming Island, it won't go near the beach at all, right?" Another hunter immediately retorted.

"Then there's something wrong with this forest," said the fisherman.

"It shouldn't be... Hasn't the other group of hunters passed through the woods safely?" The female hunter crossed her arms across her chest and rubbed the goose bumps on her arms with her palms, feeling a little unsure. He said, "Here...it should be safe here, right?"

"How can you guarantee that the signal bomb was definitely launched by a 'human'?" Sun Hang said quietly.

The huntress's face suddenly turned pale.

Sun Hang suddenly felt that if he wrote thriller novels, he might become a best-selling author.

"That's not true...if something unexpected happened to them, they would have fired off a red flare as soon as possible." Another hunter said.

"When we were attacked by the Yamata-no-Orochi, we also immediately fired a red flare, but they didn't even respond. This speaks volumes." Yano thought, "I also think this matter is not serious. Satisfied."

"Then you have to look at what kind of person it is." said the hunter who had a different opinion before. "With the selfish character of the Angsa people, even if we are in desperate situation in front of them, they may not necessarily reach out to us. A helping hand, let alone turning back to save people.”

"That's right." The fisherman also agreed, "They want us all to die. If you fall into the pit in front of them, they might even throw rocks into the pit!"

"Yano." Sun Hang looked at the hunter with Fuso blood, "How long does it take for the drone to make a round trip from us to the destroyer anchored at sea?"

"A conservative estimate...about an hour." Yano replied.

"Okay, let's wait here for two hours." Sun Hang said, "If the drone doesn't come back after two hours..."

"Just go find another group of hunters?"

"No, just go around the coastline to the other side of the island, cut down trees and build a canoe to leave here." Sun Hang said.

"Yama no Orochi won't let us leave so easily, right?"

"Then let's take it one step at a time... Anyway, in my opinion, if you go deep into the woods, it's better to rush into the sea and fight with Yamata no Orochi." Sun Hang glanced at everyone, "Do you have any objections?"

"No one refutes, then I'll take it as your acquiescence." Sun Hang said.

"Ha, I might as well try to see if this thing is edible." The fisherman took out the short knife from his waist, peeled off a piece of bark, put it into the corner of his mouth and chewed it twice - the next second, his expression changed. It was so ugly that he immediately spat out the bark in his mouth.

"Bah, bah, bah! This thing... is salty and astringent, and has a smell like burning plastic. It goes straight into my nose... It's even worse than canned herring!"

Sun Hang was immediately amused by him: "Things that grow on saline-alkali land would be weird if they weren't salty."

Several other hunters laughed in agreement, and soon silence returned to the forest.

Two hours is not a long time, but for this group of hunters who are trapped in prison, every second seems so difficult.

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Just when Sun Hang was so bored that he began to study whether the bark of the tree that had just been rejected by the fishermen could be used to make salt, a green flare shot up into the sky in the distance and exploded.

"It's green again." A hunter murmured, looking at the sky in the distance.

The other hunters looked at each other, a few of them hesitated to speak, but were frightened by Sun Hang's actions just now, and finally did not speak.

"The location where the signal bomb was launched should be here." Yano took out a paper map and pointed at one of the places. According to the information collected by the fourth batch of hunters who landed on the island, in the past hundred years, no one has visited the island. The topography of the human island has undergone considerable changes, and the map originally stored in the archives of Tianshu Tower has long been outdated.

The map in Yano's hand was redrawn by the fourth batch of hunters who landed on the island, and was modified and corrected many times with the addition of subsequent photos taken by drones.

But even so, the entire map is not brand new - only the outer areas of the island are newly drawn. As for the ruins of the research institute in the center of the island, it is still the same old map.

The hunters did not go deep into the ruins, and none of the drones that flew to the center of the island were able to return.

Sun Hang leaned over to take a look at the map. If the location pointed by Yano was correct, the group of hunters had already passed through the valley at the end of the forest and were close to the ruins of the institute.

"No hurry, let's continue waiting." Sun Hang found a rock to sit down, took out an energy bar from his backpack, tore open the wrapping paper, broke it into two pieces, and threw one of the pieces to the fisherman.

The fisherman's backpack had been thrown into the camp before, and had long been swept into the sea by the big wave. The only supplies he had left were the short knife on his waist and a palm-sized military first aid kit.

"Thanks, buddy." The fisherman caught half of the energy bar and threw it directly into his mouth.

Sun Hang chewed the remaining half of the energy bar, licked the chocolate stuck on his teeth with his tongue, and looked up at the completely dissipated flares in the air... To be honest, he was not worried about the problem of supplies at all - with his ability, even if there was no food, he would not starve to death.

Those hunters who died near the woods could provide him with calories for several days.

From a human perspective, cannibalism is a choice that is made only when absolutely necessary, but for the Tai Sui in Sun Hang's body, this kind of thing used to be commonplace.

Mycelium can decompose the corpses into the most basic nutrients, and even the toxins contained in the corpses can be perfectly resolved... The reason why Sun Hang is still chewing energy bars here is simply because he doesn't want to scare these colleagues who are already on the verge of collapse.