Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 189 Underground Dock
"How do we know if we don't try?" Yano shouted, "Running up is a dead end, but going down may still give us a chance of survival!"

At this moment, Sun Hang suddenly stopped.

He shook his head and said, "No, it's too late to go down."

"What?!" The fisherman was stunned. "Are you sure?"

"The third underground floor of the Nameless Island Research Institute is a huge tunnel network. Even if we can teleport to the entrance of the third underground floor now, it will take more than fifteen minutes to rush to the nearest escape passage from there. According to the design plan of the Nameless Island Research Institute, after the explosives are detonated, the entire underground part of the institute will completely collapse within eight minutes... So, it's too late."

"Then we are doomed, aren't we?" The fisherman's face turned pale. "Damn it, I haven't even held a woman's hand before..."

"But there is another way." Sun Hang said, "A...'hidden passage'."

The three-dimensional image of the institute's underground structure gradually became clear in his mind, and a passage that did not originally exist in the design slowly emerged.

"Follow me." Sun Hang said.

……

Guided by memory, Sun Hang and the other two quickly found an entrance that seemed to be a ventilation duct. The liquid metal blade in the "sharp blade" state cut through the rusty steel cover in no time. A faint smell of sea mixed with the smell of rust immediately wafted out of the duct.

"Where does this pipeline lead to?" Yano couldn't help but ask.

The underground structure of the Nameless Island Research Institute is extremely complex. There are thousands of tunnels of various types for people and goods to pass through, and there are tens of thousands of ventilation ducts and sewage and drainage pipes. Even though Yano Seiichi has an extraordinary memory, it is impossible for him to remember the location and route of every pipe.

"It seems like... it leads to the sea?" The fisherman leaned over the well mouth and sniffed hard, hesitantly said.

"Go in!" Sun Hang took a look at the load-bearing steel structure on the top that had begun to deform, and kicked the fisherman on the butt, kicking him into the pipe.

"Hurry up, this place is about to collapse!" said Sun Hang.

"Don't kick me, I'll go in by myself." Yano said hurriedly, walked to the wellhead, made up his mind, and jumped in directly.

Sun Hang was the last one to enter the pipeline.

The inner wall of this pipe is different from those used for ventilation or drainage. Its interior seems to be covered with a special coating, making it extremely smooth. After the fisherman was kicked into the pipe by Sun Hang, he began to slide down. In a blink of an eye, he had moved nearly a hundred meters inside the pipe.

For some reason, the fisherman suddenly remembered the tube slide his father took him to the Southern Amusement Park when he was a child... The fisherman remembered very clearly that he was frightened by the dark and narrow tube and burst into tears. When he slid out of the tube exit, he fell into the water, with a belly full of dirty water. He had diarrhea for two days and two nights.

The childhood memories that came to his mind made the fisherman a little nervous, but his father's expression of wanting to laugh but being anxious after he choked on water made him feel nostalgic.

Damn it, am I going to die? The fisherman's heart tightened. Why did those scenes that he couldn't even think of on weekdays start to pop up like a revolving lantern?
He simply closed his eyes.

This time, it seems that I really have to go down there to accompany my father.

I just wonder if he has finished eating all the sausages that were baked for Dad on Radonitsa Festival... He won't be able to eat them anymore in the future...

Before his father died, he asked me to find a wife quickly, but I didn’t complete the task. I also didn’t complete the hunter upgrade trial... I have failed in many ways in this life... If a hunter dies during a mission, the federal government should give a generous pension... Unfortunately, I don’t seem to have any direct relatives who can receive this pension...

I should have signed a donation agreement earlier... What do the people in Xiazhou call this? Oh, yes, it's called "accumulating hidden virtues"... I heard that it can help you suffer less in hell.

That’s not right… Someone like me, who hasn’t done anything bad, shouldn’t I go to heaven?
Oh, I'm not religious...that's ok...

Just as the fisherman was daydreaming, the pipe suddenly began to become winding and the speed of his body sliding down gradually began to slow down.

"Speed ​​bump?" The fisherman's heart trembled, and those strange thoughts were instantly thrown out of his mind. He pressed his elbows against the inner wall of the pipe and turned over with some difficulty.

He had just finished changing his posture when the inner wall of the pipe suddenly disappeared. Accompanied by a huge impact force, the fisherman felt as if he had fallen heavily onto a sponge cushion.

He shook his dazed head vigorously. Just as he stood up from the mat, another person fell from above and stepped on the fisherman firmly, knocking him down on the mat.

"Oh shit!"

The person who fell on the fisherman was Yano, the second person who jumped into the pipe.

In comparison, Sun Hang's way of landing was much more elegant - the liquid metal turned into a flexible steel wire mesh that covered the outlet of the pipe. After offsetting most of the inertia, the metal mesh was retracted, and Sun Hang landed lightly on the mat, and picked up the other two people with one hand each.

"Damn... I... my ribs seem to be broken..." the fisherman muttered.

Sun Hang reached out and patted him on the back.

"Okay, I've got it."

"Hiss..." The fisherman gasped in pain, "It's not a big deal if I break a bone, but you almost killed me with that blow."

On the other side, Yano's injuries were much lighter, just a few scrapes and soft tissue contusions - when he slid out of the pipe, he stepped directly on the fisherman's back, causing the latter to become Yano's human cushion...

"Sorry... I really can't control myself..." Yano apologized quickly.

"It's okay, I'm thick-skinned." The fisherman waved his hand. "This is just a minor injury, it will heal in a few minutes... So, where is this place?"

The three of them looked around - the outlet of the pipe was a small single room shaped like a prison cell. It was not large, only about a dozen square meters at most. Except for the extremely worn sponge mat right below the outlet of the pipe, there was nothing else in the room.

The air in the room was very humid, with the salty smell of sea water and the smell of mold intertwined. The mottled walls were covered with mold spots. A rusty iron door stood at the end of the room, not locked.

"Underground dock." Sun Hang said.

"Underground dock?" Yano raised his eyebrows. "There is no such place on the design drawings of the Nameless Island Research Institute!"

(End of this chapter)