Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 164 Entering the Underground
"Damn it?! Who launched this flare?! Are you trying to kill yourself?!" the fisherman immediately cursed.

Yang Qi and Sun Hang said that with the firepower of the "Mermaid-class" missile destroyer, it would be easy to flatten the ground part of the ruins of the research institute.

The place where the flares were launched was less than one kilometer away from them. According to the bombing range agreed upon before the operation began, where Sun Hang and his team were now was also within the bombing area.

"Now that the Yamata-no-Orochi has appeared, the destroyers probably won't carry out the bombing order as usual... right?" Yano also came out and said while looking at the red flames still burning in the sky.

"Do you dare to bet? I don't dare to bet!" said the fisherman. "It will be too late to run when the shells fall! We have to leave this place quickly!"

"Then what about her?" Yano said, pointing at Huangfu Sha in the room.

"I'll carry her! Other than that, throw away all unimportant equipment and gear, and run towards the edge of the basin at full speed. We should be able to escape the bombing range in time!"

"It's too late." Sun Hang shook his head.

At the same location, three more red flares were launched into the air.

Once means "request bombing", then twice means "the situation is very urgent, please bomb immediately" - the delay time of bombing will be shortened from five minutes after the original flare launch to one minute.

One minute wasn't even enough to run out of the block.

"Are you crazy? Who is that over there? Are you in a fucking hurry to reincarnate?" the fisherman cursed again.

"The only place to avoid bombing now is underground." Sun Hang said, "The curse will not kill people immediately, but the bombing will."

"The nearest underground entrance is in Area C. Go past the intersection in front, turn left, and walk another 100 meters. There is an entrance to the underground passage!" Yano said, "I just don't know if it has been blocked."

"Take Huangfu Sha with you and go!" Sun Hang picked up the box containing the weapons, picked up the monitoring equipment with his other hand, and ran directly to the intersection.

The fisherman did not stand there in a daze. He turned around and went back to the house, carried Huangfu Sha on his back, and followed in two steps at a time.

Instead, Yano, who was lightly dressed, fell behind.

After turning the corner, a building that looked like a subway station came into Sun Hang's sight. The entrance was originally blocked by iron fences, but the chains used to bind the iron fences had been cut open, and the two rows of iron fences on the far left had been lifted aside.

It was obvious that the previous two groups of hunters entered the underground of the research institute from here.

There were only a dozen seconds left before the bombing. The three of them had no time to care about anything else. They quickly rushed down the stairs and entered a horizontal underground tunnel.

Immediately afterwards, a deafening explosion accompanied by violent shaking came, broken rocks continued to fall from the top of the head, and visible cracks quickly spread on the walls of the corridor.

"No! This place is going to collapse! Get inside quickly!" Yano shouted.

The three of them continued to run forward with the unconscious Huangfu Sha. At the end of the corridor, there was a wider and more solid tunnel. The ground of the tunnel was paved with railroad tracks, and there were more than a dozen truck beds used to transport construction materials neatly stacked next to them. Hundreds of bags of cement were piled against the wall all the way to the top of the tunnel.

The bombing lasted for a full 120 seconds. When the continuous explosions stopped, the passageway that Sun Hang and his team had come in through had completely disappeared. "How could such a clichéd plot from a soap opera happen to me?" Sun Hang patted the collapsed earth and rocks that blocked the passageway and couldn't help but sigh.

The collapsed tunnel was blocked very tightly. Even with Sun Hang's ability to manipulate soil and rocks, it was extremely difficult to dig a passage back to the ground.

If the passage is forcibly opened, it will most likely cause a secondary landslide.

"Damn it, I clearly didn't want to come in underground, but I ended up coming in anyway. I'm really screwed!" The fisherman punched the wall angrily, and a muffled thud echoed far away along the tunnel.

"If the other exits are not blocked, we still have a chance to get out." Yano said, "This is Station C of the Wuming Island Underground Railway. According to the original construction plan, this underground railway was built earlier than the second and third phase expansion projects on the ground. Its early function was to transport construction materials."

"In that era, there were no subways in ordinary cities, right?" Sun Hang approached the railroad tracks and looked at them carefully. "It seems that the Xiazhou Federation really attached great importance to this place back then."

"It's called a subway, but it's actually more like a track laid in a mine to transport ore," said Yano.

"So what should we do now?" asked the fisherman.

"There are quite a few trucks for transporting things, but unfortunately there is no traction locomotive." Yano added, "Otherwise, we could use this railway to quickly move to another exit."

"I just noticed that the person who sent the signal flare to request the bombing is right in the center of the basin." Sun Hang said, "That means the entire ruins of the research institute should be within the bombing range. The situation of other exits is probably not optimistic."

"I just hope that man wasn't killed by the explosion," the fisherman gritted his teeth and said, "If I run into him, I will beat him to death."

"Sun Hang, what are your plans?" Yano looked at Sun Hang, a trace of worry flashing in his eyes, "If the curse here is really as those Ansa hunters said... to use an old saying from your Xiazhou, it's 'not suitable to stay here for long'."

"Go forward along the railroad tracks and check whether all exits along the way are blocked." Sun Hang said, "Also, I'm a little curious about where the two waves of hunters who entered the underground earlier went..."

"The truck bed has been moved." The fisherman regained his composure. "The footprints disappeared when they reached the track. In addition, there are new friction marks on the rails... I guess there should have been a tractor here before, and they left with the help of the rails."

"What about the direction?" Sun Hang asked again.

"From left to right." The fisherman said, rubbing his fingers over the friction marks on the track.

"That's the direction to the second underground floor." Yano, who had memorized the entire structural map of the Nameless Island Research Institute, said immediately.

"Did the second group of hunters also go in this direction?" Sun Hang continued to ask.

"The second group... This is strange." The fisherman muttered, "There is only one group of footprints here... The second group of hunters, they have either joined those Ansa hunters, or they didn't go underground at all... Wait!"

The fisherman looked up as if he remembered something. "Damn it, that flare just now, could it be that they fired it?"

(End of this chapter)