Trickster Hunter

Chapter 156 Ruins of the Research Institute

"Ah?" Yano was stunned, "Could it be that the reason why we got lost is because this forest will visually mislead us? Then why were the first two groups of hunters not affected?"

"Perhaps some of them have the ability to get rid of this misleading." Sun Hang followed his train of thought - he couldn't tell the two of them that the culprit that caused them to circle in the woods was actually not the woods themselves, but Three damn monkeys, right?

Yano and the huntress didn't ask any more questions, and obediently closed their eyes and grabbed the knot on the rope, while Sun Hang wrapped the front end of the rope in his palm and walked towards the direction he had just chosen.

He not only closed his eyes, but also blocked his ears and walked without saying a word... As for detecting obstacles, he relied on a few tentacle-like hyphae that stretched forward.

In order to ensure that he always walks in a straight line, even if there are trees blocking the road ahead, Sun Hang will never go around it. Instead, he directly cuts off the tree trunk at the root and steps over the broken root that is flush with the ground.

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More than ten minutes later, Sun Hang felt a sudden sense of enlightenment coming towards him. He opened his eyes and suddenly found that he had walked out of the woods and was in a valley filled with rocks.

Sun Hang looked back and saw that the strange forest was less than ten meters behind them.

"We have come out and can open our eyes." Sun Hang said.

"Huh..." Yano let out a long breath and said, "Just now, I could actually feel that the fear that had been surging deep in my heart suddenly disappeared. I guessed that we had probably walked out of the woods... But You didn’t speak, and I didn’t dare to make a sound.”

"I couldn't hear what you just said because I blocked my ears - in order not to be disturbed by any outside world." Sun Hang put down the fisherman he was carrying and waved to the female hunter. "Please wake this guy up. I don't want to carry a man of nearly 200 kilograms and a pile of equipment weighing more than 200 kilograms for the rest of the journey."

"This should be the quarry on the island." Yano took two steps forward and looked at the valley. "The stones needed to build the research institute were all mined here. As long as you pass through this valley , we can see the ruins of the institute.”

"The fourth batch of hunters who landed on the island didn't come here, right?" Sun Hang asked.

"Hmm...it wasn't mentioned in the mission report." Yano nodded, walked forward, and picked up a plastic bottle scattered among the rocks.

The plastic bottle was very new, with a little unfinished pure water still inside. The outside of the bottle had the emblem of the Federal Navy affixed to it.

"They were left behind by the first two groups." Yano looked toward the exit of the valley. "They did come out of the woods and passed through this valley."

Sun Hang also bent down and picked up the shell of a flare and said, "This should be the first green flare we saw on the beach, when they just walked out of the woods."

"Immediately afterwards, we were attacked by the Yamata-no Orochi." Yano whispered, "I even had some doubts that the Yamata-no Orochi might have been attracted by this signal bomb..."

"Will Yamata no Orochi be attracted by the signal flare?" Sun Hang asked.

He didn't know much about this unexpected creature.

"I don't know, there is no record of this." Yano shook his head, "But it's too coincidental. This flare is like an attack signal sent to Yamata-no-Orochi... If Yamata-no-Orochi has always been on Wuming Island, "So why didn't it attack when the warships were approaching? It didn't attack when we landed on the island or when we started setting up camp, but why did it suddenly attack after the signal flare was launched?"

"Hiss... after you said that, those Ansa people are indeed suspicious!" The fisherman who woke up said, "Damn, this forest is really weird. Thinking back to the state I was in just now, I feel so weird. A little scared."

"Does your neck still hurt? I think you are more resistant to beatings. I'm afraid I won't be able to knock you out if I strike lightly." Sun Hang asked.

"Okay, okay." The fisherman moved his head and neck, "Don't forget that my recovery ability is very strong... In fact, I was thinking at that time, it would be great if you could knock me out, but it's a pity. At that time, I seemed to have lost the ability to organize words, and my whole person was controlled by anger. "

"As long as everything is fine, just check the equipment and continue on your way." Sun Hang said, "We wasted so much time in the woods, and the second group of hunters should have entered the ruins of the research institute."

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The area of ​​the valley is not large. It took the four of them less than twenty minutes to reach the exit. Directly in front of them was a sunken basin with a diameter of about three kilometers. Groups of building ruins occupied the area. covering at least two-thirds of the basin area.

"Hey, this research institute is really big!" the fisherman exclaimed, "The research institute in our Siberian Autonomous State covers an area not as big as this one."

Although Sun Hang had seen old photos of the Wuming Island Research Institute, those photos did not include such a panoramic view from a high place.

The structure diagram of the institute does show the area of ​​the entire institute, but there is still a big sensory gap between the line drawings marked with numbers and the actual objects seen with one's own eyes.

It is no exaggeration to say that this institute is a small town.

"When the Wuming Island Research Institute was designed, it was originally intended to build a city." Yano said, "The Xiazhou Federation and the Siberian Federation agreed that the study of strange things is a long project that requires more than ten years or even decades. Those who work in the institute may live on the island for their entire lives or even generations. Therefore, the various supporting facilities here are designed and built according to the standards of a city, and it is expected to accommodate a population of between 50,000 and 80,000 people."

Yano took a breath and continued, "The first phase of the institute began construction in 4599 of the lunar calendar, was completed in 4602 of the lunar calendar, and was put into use in the same year. In February of the following year, the second and third phases of the expansion project were launched simultaneously... Unfortunately, the accident occurred in December of that year, resulting in the abandonment of the entire institute and the sealing of all the archives of Wuming Island."

"December of the following year, which is 4603 of the lunar calendar?" Sun Hang suddenly remembered the "Original Primary Weird Direct Contact Experiment Report" that he had seen in his dream. The year marked at the beginning of the document was 4603 of the lunar calendar.