Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 158 “Geng ” does not exist?

The four of them climbed down along the edge of the basin little by little - the slope was nearly sixty degrees, and there were a lot of juicy weeds growing on the slope. If they stepped a few more times, the soles of their boots would be covered with slippery juice... Although the fisherman had specifically reminded him, Yano still missed several times. Fortunately, he was tied with a safety rope, otherwise he would have been the first of the four to reach the bottom of the slope.

Sun Hang never revealed the ability of Mycelium. He still remained a little wary of these three teammates whom he had only known for less than a day.

"Huh, I'm finally down." The fisherman wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Now I feel how good it feels to have my feet on the flat and solid ground."

"It's OK. The Guards Corps will have such cross-country training every once in a while." Huangfu Sha said, "Such as climbing steep slopes in heavy rain, swimming across swamps at night... I think this difficulty is already low."

Sun Hang glanced at the two guys who were too lazy to even tie the safety rope, then turned to look at Yano - he was the one carrying the lightest weight among the four, but his condition was the worst. He had no time to talk at this time. He could only hunch over, support his knees with both hands, and breathe heavily.

Compared to the fisherman and Huangfusha who only sweated a little, Yano's clothes were completely soaked with sweat. The moisture-soaked fabric stuck tightly to his skin and trembled along with his muscles.

"Drink some." The fisherman threw a bottle of sports drink over, "Be careful not to faint."

"Thank...thank you." Yano said thank you with some difficulty, unscrewed the bottle cap, and gulped down half of the bottle in one breath.

"Don't drink it all in one go. We don't have much drinking water left." The fisherman said, "To be honest, I don't dare to drink the water on this island, even if it has been distilled."

"Speaking of water sources, I remember the information provided to us by the Tianshu Tower said that the entire Wuming Island has been transformed into an environmental weirdness. So we should be in it now, right?" Sun Hang said as he took off the monitoring equipment on his body, "Yano, check the degree of weirdness nearby."

"Okay." After catching his breath, Yano stuffed the remaining half bottle of drink into his bag, walked to the equipment, and plugged in the unplugged cables one by one.

"I'm actually quite puzzled. Since the first four groups of people who landed on the island didn't reach this place, how did Tianshu Tower come to the conclusion that the entire island was transformed?" The fisherman muttered, "Even the fourth group of hunters who landed on the island and brought back some information only walked to the woods and then retreated."

"That forest is obviously an environmental weirdness, there is no doubt about that." Huangfu Sha said, "Perhaps from the perspective of Tianshu Tower, the forest is weird because of the influence of the ruins of the research institute in the center of the island. As the source of the weirdness, the weirdness on the ruins must be more serious."

"I should have tested this machine in the woods earlier. I was so busy on my way that I forgot about it," said the fisherman.

"It's good enough to walk out of the woods alive." Yano said with lingering fear, "Okay, the equipment has started to operate. It will probably take five or six minutes to get the results."

"How big is the scope of the test?" Sun Hang suddenly asked.

"I've turned the power to maximum. The detection range is within a one-kilometer radius centered on our current location," Yano replied.

Sun Hang looked at the ruins not far away. With a radius of one kilometer, almost half of the ruins could be included.

"Speaking of which, have you discovered something?" the fisherman suddenly said.

"What?" "There's not a single drone flying over the basin..." The fisherman frowned. "The hunters were planning to borrow drones from the Anglo-Saxons to pass on messages, but from this situation, it seems they've also lost all their drones."

The drones prepared by Tianshu Tower for this operation are divided into three batches. The first batch of drones will patrol along the periphery of the island, the second batch of drones will serve as an advance team to the center of the island, and the third batch of drones will follow the hunters who land on the island as a means of fire support and contact with the outside world.

Most of the drones following Sun Hang were knocked down by the huge waves caused by the Yamata no Orochi, and the remaining ones were used by Yano to spread the news of the appearance of the Yamata no Orochi. But the drones following the Anglo-Saxons and Indian hunters should not have been lost, so why couldn't any be seen over the basin?

"Did they crash? Or were they taken to the basement of the institute?" Huangfu Sha was also confused. "In a narrow underground passage, a flying drone should be useless, right?"

"I would leave the drones out," the fisherman said.

In addition to these drones flying in the sky, hunters also carry some "land drones". These drones are made into the shape of small cars or mechanical snakes, and are used to help hunters explore hidden corners that humans cannot enter.

"The results are out." Yano suddenly said. Sun Hang looked in the direction of the voice and saw that his eyebrows were twisted together and his face was full of disbelief.

"What's wrong? Judging from your condition, is there something wrong with the test results?" The fisherman walked over quickly and asked.

"No memetic fluctuations were detected." Yano shook his head repeatedly, "This shouldn't be the case... There is not even the slightest fluctuation. Doesn't this mean that this basin has not been weirded at all..."

"Aren't there four curves?" the fisherman asked, pointing at the screen of the device. "Aren't these curves considered fluctuations?"

"These four lines are the memes we carry... The three thick, completely straight lines at the bottom are the results of environmental detection." Yano explained, "It's strange. The forest we just passed through was obviously a G-type monster, but when we got here, everything returned to normal."

"Don't jump to conclusions," the fisherman said sternly, "There's a saying that goes, when everything is normal, it's actually the most abnormal thing."

"I also know this is not normal. At first I thought the equipment was malfunctioning. But after I tested the memetic frequencies of the four of us, I found that there was nothing wrong with the equipment. Look, this is the record from the previous measurement on the beach, and this is the current record. If you put these two graphs together, you will find that any two of the eight curves can overlap."

"Hiss, it's true." The fisherman tilted his head and looked at the screen of the monitoring device. "Since there is no problem with the equipment, then the problem must be here... Hey, I suddenly have an idea, do you want to listen to it?"

"You say." Sun Hang said.

"Could it be that the so-called 'Geng 19' doesn't exist at all, and that the forest isn't some kind of environmental weirdness... it's only the trees that have been weirded, not this place? In this case, it makes sense that no memetic fluctuations can be detected in the basin," said the fisherman.

"That makes sense." Yano nodded in agreement. "Most of the information that Tianshu Tower has about the Nameless Island comes from the fourth batch of hunters who landed on the island. But the location we have reached now is already deeper than the fourth batch of hunters who landed on the island... In other words, their information is no longer meaningful to us."

(End of this chapter)