Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 147 Torment
After hearing what Sun Hang said, the expressions of the other hunters suddenly changed.

“Indeed…it’s a bit strange…” The fisherman nodded.

"Why do I feel like the Yamata no Orochi seems to have deliberately driven us into this forest?" A hunter who was originally leaning against a tree trunk suddenly stood up and distanced himself from the surrounding trees. "Hiss... I don't know why, but now when I look at these trees, I suddenly feel creepy... Is it a psychological effect?"

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

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

"If the Yamata-no-Orochi was afraid of the Nameless Island, it wouldn't even come close to the beach, right?" another hunter immediately retorted.

“Then there’s something wrong with this forest,” said the fisherman.

"It shouldn't be that bad... Didn't the other group of hunters pass through the woods safely?" The female hunter crossed her arms over her chest, rubbed the goose bumps on her arms with her palms, and said uncertainly, "Here... This place should be safe, right?"

"How can you guarantee that the flare was fired by a 'human'?" Sun Hang said dimly.

The huntress's face suddenly turned pale.

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

"Not really... If they encountered any mishap, they would have fired the red flare immediately." said another hunter.

"When we were attacked by the Yamata no Orochi, we fired red flares immediately, but they didn't even respond. This is very telling." Yano pondered, "I also think something is wrong."

"That depends on what kind of people they are," said the hunter who had disagreed earlier. "Given the selfish character of the Anglo-Saxons, they may not lend us a helping hand even if we are in dire straits before their eyes, let alone return to save us."

"That's right," the fisherman echoed. "They hope we're all dead. 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 Japanese ancestry, "How long does it take for the drone to make a round trip from here to the destroyer anchored at sea?"

"If I were to make 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, we go along the coastline to the other side of the island, cut down trees and build canoes to leave here," said Sun Hang.

"Yamata no Orochi won't let us go so easily, right?"

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

"Since no one objects, I'll take it as you all agree." Sun Hang said.

"Ha, I might as well try to see if this thing is edible." The fisherman pulled out the short knife from his waist, cut off a piece of bark, put it in the corner of his mouth and chewed it twice - the next second, his face became extremely ugly, and he immediately spat out the bark in his mouth. "Pah! This thing... is salty and bitter, and has a stench like burning plastic, which goes straight into my nose... It's even worse than canned herrings!"

Sun Hang was immediately amused by him: "It would be strange if things grown on saline-alkali land were not salty."

The other hunters joined in with a few dry laughs, and soon the forest returned to silence.

Two hours is not a long time, but for these hunters who are like being trapped in a prison, every second seems so unbearable.

……

Just when Sun Hang was so bored that he started to study whether the tree bark 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 with a loud bang.

"Green again." A hunter muttered as he looked at the sky in the distance.

The other hunters looked at each other, some of them wanted to say something but hesitated, but intimidated by Sun Hang's actions just now, they finally did not speak.

"The location where the flare was launched should be here." Yano took out a paper map, pointed to one of the places and said - according to the information collected by the fourth batch of hunters who landed on the island, the topography of the uninhabited island has undergone significant changes in the past hundred years. The map originally stored in the Tianshu Tower archives has long been outdated.

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

But even so, the entire map is not brand new - only the outer areas of the island are newly drawn, and as for the ruins of the research institute in the center of the island, they are still based on the 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 very close to the ruins of the research institute.

"No rush, let's keep waiting." Sun Hang found a rock to sit on, 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 earlier and had long been swept into the sea by the huge waves. 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 the half energy bar and threw it directly into his mouth.

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

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

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

The mycelium can decompose the corpses into the most basic nutrients, and even the toxins contained in the corpses can be perfectly eliminated... The reason why Sun Hang was still chewing energy bars here was simply because he didn't want to scare these colleagues who were already on the brink of collapse.

(End of this chapter)