Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 188 Collapse
"Is this the name of the girl just now?" the fisherman couldn't help asking.

"Girl? Where is the girl?" Yano was stunned and his eyes subconsciously swept towards the group of distracted hunters.

There are indeed women among this group of hunters, but they are all around 30 or 40 years old. Women in this age range should not be referred to as "girls"...

"Look, there it is." The fisherman pointed to the mummy lying on the pile of bones.

"Ah... this person should have been dead for a long time, right?" Yano asked in confusion, "Strange, why are the other corpses only bones left, but the body tissues of this corpse have been dried and preserved? Is there something special about it?"

"Just three minutes ago, this mummy was a beautiful girl." The fisherman pointed to the broken jar in the air. "She was immersed in that jar, but then I don't know what happened. The jar suddenly cracked and she fell down. In a few seconds, she became like this."

"This can... is a CL-08 life support device!" Yano narrowed his eyes, "No, it's a CL-06... The CL-08 was still in the trial stage back then. By the time it was put into mass production, the Nameless Island had already been abandoned... Her sudden death might have been due to the damage to the life support device..."

"It's not possible that a lively person would turn into a mummy in just one second, right?" The fisherman exclaimed. "Besides, this life support device seemed to be broken when we came in. The cables and pipes underneath were already cut off."

"In fact, even if the life support device is intact, it would have been unusable after more than a hundred years." Yano walked to the pile of bones and looked at the mummy solemnly. "This antique life support device does not have the function of self-filtration and self-purification. The filling fluid inside is a substance called 'artificial serum'. This substance must be replaced once a week to ensure the normal operation of the device... For more than a hundred years..."

"Will this 'artificial serum' evaporate immediately when it comes into contact with the air?" the fisherman asked again.

"Of course not. Will the blood in your body evaporate immediately after it flows out?" Yano asked back.

"Then you might be wrong. The jar probably doesn't contain artificial serum, because the jar was broken just now, and the liquid evaporated in just a few seconds after it spilled. There is no trace left."

"Well...it's also possible that the artificial serum has undergone unknown mutations due to its age...It's also possible that it was affected by a strange object. By the way, since this 'girl' was previously immersed in a life support device, she should be an experimental subject, right?"

"That's right. Since she's infected... then all the unreasonable things become reasonable." The fisherman muttered, "This girl is probably over a hundred years old. Judging by her age, it's not too much to call her our grandmother..."

Hearing the fisherman say this, Sun Hang couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "You call her great-grandmother... then you must call me great-great-grandmother...ah...great-grandfather?"

Although they felt a blood connection, Sun Hang did not have much affection for his fleeting adopted daughter. The only thing he regretted was that he had finally gotten to know the truth about her life, but in the end, it was ruined by those damn three monkeys.

"It's not time yet... Then when will it be time?"

"Speaking of which, what should we do with these people? Just leave them here?" The fisherman walked over and patted Sun Hang's arm, looking at the distracted monster hunters, "I don't know what the situation is like at sea. If the Yamata no Orochi is still near the island..."

Before he could finish his words, a mountain of bones suddenly shook twice, and half of a broken skull rolled down from the top of the mountain with a crisp bumping sound, and rolled to Sun Hang's feet.

"Is it my illusion? Why do I feel like the ground shook just now?" The fisherman looked up and saw the only remaining metal cover of the glass jar shaking back and forth under the beams. "It's not an illusion, I felt it too!" Yano had just finished speaking when a more violent shaking came from above, and several bone mountains collapsed in an instant, with countless broken bones scattered everywhere!
"Earthquake?!" The fisherman's eyes widened. "This place shouldn't be in an earthquake zone, right?!"

"It's not an earthquake!" Yano's face tightened. "It's... it's the institute's self-destruct device! In order to maintain absolute confidentiality, a large amount of explosives were pre-buried in the institute's various load-bearing structures. Once an external enemy invaded and could not be resisted, the institute's garrison troops would immediately detonate these explosives... While destroying themselves and the enemy together, the confidential documents would be completely buried... According to the records of the Tianshu Tower, the institute's self-destruct device was activated once that year, but the explosives did not detonate successfully..."

"It seems like the explosion was delayed for more than a hundred years, waiting for us?!" The fisherman turned and ran towards the door, "What are you still standing there for? Run! Run out before this place collapses completely, maybe you can still survive!"

Yano looked at the dazed monster hunters with some pity, and without saying anything, he ran out with them.

Sun Hang followed closely behind.

"We can't run up!" Yano shouted loudly, "It's too late to run up. We will be buried alive by the landslide before we reach the ground!"

"Where to run then?"

"Go to the third underground floor!" Yano said, "There is an escape passage leading to the outside world there!"

"Leading to the outside world? Where?" the fisherman asked hurriedly.

"Hai Li!"

"Can you dive?" The fisherman turned and looked at him. "That's no problem for me, but what are you two going to do?"

The third underground floor of the Nameless Island Research Institute is 300 meters below sea level, and the exit of the underwater escape passage is located about 270 meters below sea level - and the record for humans' unequipped diving limit is only a little over 100 meters.

The sea area where the Nameless Island is located used to have an average depth of only about 20 meters. However, in a battle against strange sea beasts more than a hundred years ago, the seabed in this area collapsed severely, causing this near-shore area only a few hundred kilometers away from the mainland to become a deep sea with a depth of more than 500 meters.

It is for this reason that a behemoth like the Yamata no Orochi can sneak into this sea area without being noticed.

"The escape passage should be equipped with diving suits!" said Yano.

"That thing has been there for over a hundred years, are you sure it still works?!"

(End of this chapter)