When the candidates here heard that the Prince of Fire Country came to cheer in person, they immediately set their sights on Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke.
"Brother Chuan, we will definitely win!"
Seeing Li Chuan coming here to cheer them on, Naruto immediately jumped up full of energy.
Growing up, when everyone went to school, after school and took exams, their parents and family accompanied them to encourage and cheer them on, but he didn't, so of course he was very happy that Li Chuan came over to cheer them on.
Sakura, on the other hand, blushed and felt like she was looking for a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Her reaction is also very normal. Most children born in relatively happy families will have similar reactions when encountering this kind of thing.
As for Sasuke, he turned his head a little arrogantly, but it was obvious that there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, but after a while, it immediately turned into murderous intent.
He is similar to Naruto. He has been alone and become an orphan since his clan was exterminated. Naruto has always been lonely and hated, but he has enjoyed the happiest family he has ever had, and then he became an avenger carrying a blood feud.
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So at first he was as happy as Naruto, but suddenly he thought of his brother Itachi because of Li Chuan, a warm older brother.
Hearing that Li Chuan was here to cheer Naruto and the others, Anko nodded, and then continued to explain the rules of the Chunin Exam.
She knew that Li Chuan and Naruto had a good relationship, which was reasonable.
After all the rules were explained, teams from each Ninja Village began to send people to extract scrolls, and then chose to enter from different entrances No. 1 to 20.
"It seems nothing has changed."
Not long after Naruto and the others rushed into an entrance, Li Chuan saw the three people from the Grass Ninja Village with his peripheral vision and quickly followed them.
"Your Highness, the candidates have all entered the hall. Would you like to go to the tower with me to wait for the results, or should you go back and wait until the preliminary examination starts in five days?"
Seeing that the last candidate also entered the forest, Hongdou turned around and asked Li Chuan.
Li Chuan smiled:
"Let's go over now. I also want to see which group arrives first, but before that, can we buy some glutinous rice balls and red bean soup?"
"Of course, I'm sorry, I mean glutinous rice balls with red bean soup is the best food."
Hearing about her favorite glutinous rice balls and red bean soup, Hongdou got so excited that she almost exposed her true nature in front of Prince Li Chuan.
"It's my treat, and I'll bring some to Hokage-sama and Kakashi. They should be over there in the tower now."
About half an hour later, Tianzang and Hongdou, carrying a large bag of packed glutinous rice balls and red bean soup, followed Li Chuan back to the entrance of Forest No. 44.
I deliberately delayed half an hour to buy glutinous rice balls and red bean soup, mainly to save time.
Otherwise, if he had just chosen to go to the tower directly, Orochimaru might have reached the tower before Orochimaru had time to attack Sasuke and the other three, which would not be in line with his plan.
By now, it should be almost done.
Choosing the entrance where Naruto and the others had just entered, Li Chuan and the others jumped on the trees and ran toward the tower.
"Let's go slower and don't spill the red bean soup."
After entering the forest of death, Li Chuan deliberately slowed down his progress.
Anko, who had already stuffed a bunch of glutinous rice balls in her mouth with a happy face, and Tianzang, who was a little helpless, nodded quickly.
Although it was Li Chuan who was treating the guests, since Li Chuan is the prince, he would definitely not let Li Chuan do this kind of work of carrying things.
So now Anko is carrying more than two hundred skewers of glutinous rice balls and eating them while jumping, while Tianzang is carefully carrying more than a hundred cups of packaged red bean soup, trying to maintain his body's stability while jumping.
"Hiss~~"
Not long after entering the Forest of Death, Hongdou, who was jumping and eating glutinous rice balls, suddenly shrank his pupils and stopped moving forward instantly, and the large bag of glutinous rice balls in his hand suddenly fell to the bottom of the tree.
Li Chuan, who had been paying attention to the movements around him, noticed something strange behind him. He turned around and caught the glutinous rice balls. He looked at Hongdou pretending to be surprised and asked:
"Anko Jounin, what's wrong?"
Tianzang also stopped vigilantly and quickly protected Li Chuan.
Hong Dou touched the faintly stinging curse mark on her neck with her hand, and murmured:
"I can feel that it's him. He's coming. He seems to be nearby, not too far from here!"
"who is it?"
Li Chuan's eyes lit up.
Hongdou's eyes narrowed, with an extremely serious expression on his face, and then he said to Li Chuan and Tianzang:
"Konoha's S-class traitor Orochimaru is in this forest. He is an extremely dangerous person. I can sense his approximate location and intercept him first. You should go to the tower immediately to inform Lord Hokage and ask him to send reinforcements.
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After speaking, he quickly rushed in one direction without waiting for a reply from the two of them.
"Tenzo, go and notify the Hokage-sama quickly, and I'll see if I can help."
Li Chuan threw the glutinous rice balls in his hand to Tianzang who had not yet reacted. He left a word and chased in the direction Hongdou left.
Tianzang was holding more than a hundred cups of red bean soup in one hand and less than two hundred bunches of glutinous rice balls in the other hand. He was stunned on the spot for a moment.
How dangerous Orochimaru is, of course he knows as he has been in the Roots and Anbu for so many years. You must know that he was one of the experimental subjects that Orochimaru and Danzo wanted to reproduce the Wood Release, and he was also the only one who survived.
For the sake of Konoha's safety, he should indeed follow Anko's suggestion and immediately go to the tower to inform the Hokage, and then send a large number of masters to capture Orochimaru.
In order to prevent Orochimaru from attacking the candidates in the examination room, or simply wanting to assassinate the Third Generation.
However, according to the mission given to him by the Third Generation, what he should do most now is to follow up and protect Li Chuan's safety, because as the prince of the Fire Country, if Li Chuan dies here, it will be very detrimental to Konoha.
So he is really in a dilemma now.
In the end, he gritted his teeth and chose to go to the tower to tell the third generation about Orochimaru in advance.
Because he had seen Li Chuan's intelligence, during the battle in the Land of Waves, Li Chuan showed special Jonin-level strength, and Anko was also a special Jonin.
Even if the two of them couldn't defeat Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas, they could still delay and escape without any problem.
Therefore, the safety of all candidates in the entire examination room and the safety of the three generations must still be prioritized.
Thinking of this, he jumped down from the tree, placed all the red bean soup and meatballs under the tree, and ran towards the tower with all his strength.
Not long after he left, a girl with red hair and dressed as a servant of the Grass Ninja Village happened to walk near the big tree with a sad face because she was lost with her teammates.
When she saw the red bean soup and glutinous rice balls under the tree, she suddenly showed an incredible look.