Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 179 Tumi
As soon as the airtight door revealed a crack, a strange fragrance so strong that it was almost suffocating wafted out from inside the door.

Sun Hang and the other two's faces changed and they immediately took out their gas masks and put them on their faces.

"Oh my god, is this smell poisonous?" The fisherman's voice came from under the gas mask, sounding a little dull.

"Not sure..." Yano's face looked a little ugly. The smell came too suddenly, and the three of them inhaled a little more or less.

"Do you feel anything wrong with your body?" the fisherman asked again, "I don't know why, but I have a very strange feeling."

"What strange feeling?" Yano asked.

"It's an indescribable feeling... It's very comfortable and pleasant... I always have the urge to take off the gas mask and take a few more sniffs." said the fisherman.

"I feel the same way." Yano nodded, "This smell is very tempting and addictive... Fortunately, we didn't inhale a lot."

After the three of them put on the gas masks that were temporarily fastened on their faces, Sun Hang once again walked to the airtight door and pushed the heavy airtight door to one side little by little.

The fisherman and Yano Seiichi both subconsciously tensed their bodies and stared at the tunnel behind the door that was gradually revealed.

With the faint light coming in from outside, I could vaguely see a huge irregular shadow lurking in the tunnel...

"It's really big...it almost blocks the entire tunnel." The fisherman frowned, "How can we get through..."

Finally, the airtight door was completely pushed aside, and the three of them could see clearly that there were countless vines entwined inside the tunnel. The thinnest of these vines was twice thicker than Sun Hang's arm, and there were cracked lines like scales on the surface. Through these cracked lines, they could vaguely see a substance emitting dark red fluorescence flowing inside the vines.

Under the protection of layers of vines, a fist-sized flower bud stands there prettily.

This flower bud has extremely gorgeous bright red petals. From a distance, it seems not to be a flower bud, but a ball of flame burning at the end of the vine.

The bud was beating slightly, like the heart of some living creature.

Those vines are its "blood vessels", and the dark red substance flowing in them is its "blood".

"I... I know this thing..." Yano said in astonishment, "Number Ding 15, 'Tumi'... But, according to the records of the Tianshu Tower, 'Tumi' should be in the dense forest of an island in Indonesia, not here."

"This is a replica made by researchers on the nameless island using the meme of 'Tumi'," said Sun Hang.

However, this replica also seemed to be "contaminated", but unlike Xin Jiuwu, this "contamination" gave Tumi extremely powerful energy. It was hard to imagine what the scene would be like when the flower bud bloomed. "Should we put the replica aside first? Yano, is the 'Tumi' you mentioned... poisonous?" the fisherman asked hurriedly.

"As for poison... theoretically speaking, a small amount of the smell released by the peony will not have any effect on the body. On the contrary, it will make people feel happy... Actually, when you told me that you also had this reaction, I thought of this thing for a moment, but because the geographical span is too large..."

"What are the characteristics of this strange creature? Tell me about it." Sun Hang asked.

Although he knew that the thing blocking the tunnel was a replica of Tumi, he knew nothing about Tumi's specific characteristics.

"The first time the Tumi was discovered was probably in the year 4587... or 4578 of the lunar calendar, on a small island called 'Pratangbak' in Indonesia. After receiving reports of strange creatures on the island, the local government's army sent a battalion of troops to the island for reconnaissance, and they happened to run into the 'Joy Festival' held by the indigenous tribes on the island every four years..."

"Joyful festival? Could this festival be...the festival for Tumei?" Sun Hang asked, reaching out to adjust the headband of the gas mask behind his head.

"Well, in the mouths of the indigenous tribes on the island, the tea rose is called the 'flower of joy'. They squeeze juice from the rhizomes of the tea rose, mix it with sawdust and soil, and then dry it to make incense. In their words, this incense can cure all diseases and make people forget all pain and troubles, but in fact..."

"It's actually a high-strength hallucinogen, right?"

"That's right." Yano nodded.

There are similar examples of this kind of thing in the Xiazhou continent. Sun Hang remembered that he had read in a document introducing the primitive tribes in the Yunnan and Yunnan regions that the natives living in the rainforest would specifically look for a kind of brightly colored mushroom to eat. After eating that kind of mushroom, they would have a feeling of floating in the air, as if they were in a fairyland... Although many people could never return to the human world after "ascending to the fairyland", this did not stop others from continuing to search for and eat this kind of mushroom.

Because that feeling is addictive. Its effect is actually similar to the hallucinogenic or sedative drugs that are strictly controlled by the Xiazhou Federation. It is easy for people to become dependent on it... Driven by curiosity, after trying it once, they will want to try it a second time, a third time...

Until you are completely addicted and can never wake up again.

But if that's the case, then the harmfulness of this tea rose is actually about the same as the poisonous mushrooms that can be found everywhere in the rain forest?
Moreover, since the "Joy Festival" is held every four years, does it mean that the indigenous tribe on the island has been living in peace with this strange creature called "Tumi" for many years?
"What happened next?" the fisherman asked hurriedly. "According to people's attitude towards strange things at that time, whether this strange thing was a threat or not, completely destroying it was the top priority, right?"

"After listening to the description of the natives, the soldiers who landed on the island immediately determined that the 'Flower of Joy' was a Type D monster. The officer in charge immediately decided to burn it, but was met with strong resistance from the natives on the island."

"Resist? Don't tell me...those fully armed regular army soldiers can't defeat a group of tribal natives with bows and arrows and spears?" the fisherman said in astonishment.

"Under normal circumstances, they would definitely be defeated... It was indeed a massacre. After getting permission to open fire, the soldiers slaughtered almost all of the tribe. Just as they forced the last few captives to lead the way to where Tumi was, the natives who were shot dead by bullets behind them crawled out of the pool of blood one by one."

(End of this chapter)