Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 154: In the Woods
As the four people went deeper, the density of the trees around them began to increase gradually - originally in the outer area, they could see nearly a hundred meters away at a glance, but at this position, the line of sight could only extend thirty meters at most before it was blocked by the layers of tree trunks.

The footprints in the forest became difficult to distinguish. Thanks to the fisherman's expertise in traceology and tracking, the four of them were able to follow the route of the previous two groups of hunters.

"By the way... do you feel an inexplicable sense of irritation?" The fisherman walking in front suddenly stopped and said.

"No." Sun Hang replied immediately.

"My ability can keep my emotions stable." The female hunter also said, "So I don't feel the irritability you describe."

"Wait a moment." Yano walked forward and placed his palm on the fisherman's forehead, "Don't move."

After a few seconds, Yano put down his palm and frowned, "I can indeed feel that your emotions are a little abnormal, but this abnormality is very subtle... How should I put it..."

He seemed hesitant.

"What do you mean?" The fisherman asked impatiently, "Please don't keep me in suspense, okay?"

"This kind of abnormal emotion may not necessarily come from external interference, but may also be caused by one's own reasons." Yano said this, glancing at the female hunter intentionally or unintentionally from the corner of his eye, "For example, women often experience abnormal irritability or depression during menstruation or pregnancy, just like you are now."

"Ah? You mean... am I having my period or am I pregnant?" The fisherman was stunned for a moment, "I'm a real man! If you don't believe me, I'll take off my pants and show you!"

"No, that's not what I meant." Yano said somewhat awkwardly, "Your mood swings are most likely caused by the secretion of hormones in your body... This situation can usually be controlled by medication, but I don't carry that kind of medication with me..."

"Can your ability help him calm down?" Sun Hang looked at the female hunter.

"I... will try." The female hunter took a deep breath and focused her sight on the fisherman.

After a while, the fisherman slowly exhaled and said slowly: "I can indeed feel that my emotions have calmed down a lot, but I can still clearly feel the restlessness that has been forcibly suppressed... It is a very strange desire to destroy. If I have an axe in my hand now, I might chop down all the trees I can see in my field of vision."

"...There is indeed something wrong with this forest." Yano suddenly said, "I didn't feel anything when I was walking just now, but now that I have stopped, I find that my emotions seem to be a little abnormal."

"You want to cut down this forest too?" Sun Hang asked, "How about we just set it on fire? It's much more efficient than cutting down trees one by one... The Forestry Bureau shouldn't be able to control this island, right?"

"No... My abnormal emotion is different from the fisherman's." Yano showed a thoughtful expression, "It's fear, a fear that makes me want to run away and escape from this forest immediately... If I wasn't with you, I think I would have run now."

"One is irritability, the other is fear..." Sun Hang pondered, "Then, is the effect of this forest to amplify the negative emotions that already exist in your hearts?"

As for why I was not affected…is it because I have no negative emotions?

"It's possible." Yano nodded. "The denser the forest, the stronger the effect."

"Give Yano a calming buff," Sun Hang said to the female hunter, "speed up and get out of this forest before her ability ends!"

The other three nodded silently and quickened their pace.

...After walking about three hundred meters forward, a body lying face down on the ground suddenly appeared in the four people's sight.

"Oh shit!" The fisherman immediately straightened up, raised the spear in his hand, and made a gesture ready to throw.

"This guy... is the Indian hunter who followed the group of Anglo-Saxons before!" Yano said.

The exposed skin of the deceased was a dark wheat color. Among the hunters who landed on the island, only the Indian hunters met this characteristic.

"How could he die here?" the fisherman wondered.

Sun Hang walked forward and turned the body over with his toes.

The deceased's eyes were white, his facial expression was distorted, and there were many scratches and blood marks on his face and chest. In the gaps between his ten fingernails, in addition to flesh scraps and coagulated blood, there were also some things that looked like sawdust.

What concerned the four people the most was the deceased's pants that had fallen to his knees and his bloody lower body.

"Hiss..." The fisherman took a look at the "injury" of the Indian hunter and suddenly felt a chill in his crotch, and subconsciously clamped his legs together.

Sun Hang shifted his attention to the tree next to the corpse.

There were many bloody scratches on the tree trunk, and at waist level, there was a shallow hole with irregular edges. The edge of the hole was stained with a lot of meat and blood...

"This... this guy..." The fisherman also noticed the marks on the tree, "Could this guy have been to the Sun Tree? Did the Sun Tree kill itself?"

"It looks like sudden cardiac death." Yano squatted down, used a small wooden stick to open the mouth and nose of the deceased, and gave it a quick examination.

"I have to say, this guy's behavior is indeed consistent with my stereotype of the three brothers." The fisherman said with a complicated expression, "I heard... in their eyes, even female lizards are beautiful..."

Female lizard? Sun Hang was slightly startled, and a face that could definitely be considered a beauty appeared in his mind uncontrollably.

"Ahem..." Sun Hang shook his head, trying to get rid of some strange thoughts in his mind. "I think I know how this guy died?"

"Is it really the day when Hitake died?"

"It's lust." Sun Hang pointed his finger at his head. "Your magnified emotion is anger, Yano's magnified emotion is fear, and this guy's magnified emotion is lust... It's just that he can't find a suitable person to vent his anger on, so he can only vent it on Riki."

“Don’t his companions care about him? Just leave him here...that?” the female hunter muttered.

"The Anglo-Saxons were like this. They were probably also affected by the forest at that time and were anxious to get out. How could they waste time on him?" said the fisherman. "Damn it, these bastards, they knew there was something wrong with this forest, but they still fired green flares. Isn't this obviously a scam?!"

(End of this chapter)