At this time, due to various delays, more than half a day had passed since the start of the second game, and the sky gradually began to darken.
The forest becomes more dangerous at night than during the day.
At this time, a girl with red hair and black-rimmed glasses hugged the scroll of the Book of Earth tightly and huddled next to the trunk of a giant tree.
In front of her was a huge brown bear that was several people tall.
She was separated from her companions. With her special physique, she served as the team's support staff and had little combat power to defend against the enemy head-on.
This beast was lying on its back. As the overlord of the forest, it had just encountered a giant python that it had never seen before, several times larger than it. It invaded its territory, but it did not dare to take any action.
It's like the giant python has disappeared, but the shadow and shame it brought to it are still remembered by it.
Now it needs to find a prey to vent its anger and at the same time once again prove its status in the forest.
And the human being in front of me is a very good choice.
It roared low and approached, opening its huge mouth, ready to bite the prey in front of it. The girl could almost smell the fishy smell emanating from its mouth.
don't want!
She used her last bit of strength to avoid the brown bear's attack, causing the beast to hit the tree trunk, and she quickly got up and ran in the other direction.
Unfortunately, the terrain of the forest was too complex. She panicked and ran a few steps before tripping over a raised tree trunk and falling heavily to the ground, causing her glasses to fly out.
Her knees were scratched due to contact with the ground, and the burning pain stimulated her last psychological defense line.
Are you going to die here? In the forest of a foreign country.
The tense spirit collapsed at this moment.
Why is she so unfortunate? Just because of her special physique, she has to be like her mother, like a tool, used when useful and discarded like garbage when not?
Forget it, it would be nice to die here.
Even if you are eaten by a bear, the pain will only be momentary.
She gave up her resistance and fell to the ground.
"Boom..."
Boom, boom, boom!
First there were a few muffled sounds, then the brown bear's scream of pain, then the crash of the tree after its huge body was knocked over, and the vibrations from the ground.
Sasuke vented all his frustration on the huge brown bear he saw.
Fetching water is not his main purpose, but finding something to vent his anger is.
He didn't use any ninjutsu, he simply used taijutsu to vigorously hit the beast in front of him.
The brown bear was enraged and wanted to fight back, but faced with Sasuke's violent beatings, it had no room to fight back.
With the last kick hitting the back of its head, it completely lost consciousness and passed out.
After venting his anger, Sasuke noticed the red-haired girl not far from the brown bear and the Book of Earth scroll that fell in front of her.
The girl also noticed that someone had defeated the brown bear and she was rescued!
With renewed hope of living, she tried her best to look in the direction of the sound, but everything was blurry.
Glasses...my glasses.
She groped with her hands in front of her face, but she could never find her glasses.
A warm hand lifted her up and placed her lost glasses in her palm.
"Take it."
The voice is cold, but it doesn't make people feel indifferent.
She put on her glasses and her vision became clear again.
It looked like a beautiful young man walking out of a picture scroll, looking at her.
The heart beats violently.
Have you already died and are you in the Pure Land now?
But the stimulation from her knees brought her back to reality.
"Thank you... thank you. My name is Xianglin, what is your name?"
She asked with some stuttering, her heart beating so fast as if it was about to rush out of her chest, making her speech difficult.
"Sasuke Uchiha."
He took out a piece of food from the folding bag and handed it to the red-haired girl named Xianglin along with the art of earth.
Xiang Rin mechanically took the food and scroll, somewhat confused by Sasuke's actions.
In other words, this was the first time she felt warmth from a stranger.
"Why……"
"You are as much a Book of Earth as we are."
After returning the scroll, Sasuke turned around.
"goodbye."
After saying that, he left without looking back.
Xiang Lin was left staring blankly at the food and the Book of Earth in his hands, lost in thought.
It turns out that the plots in the storybooks really appear in reality.
Sasuke had no other motives for helping Kaoru. He simply felt that after hearing the Sandaime's words, they, the ninjas struggling at the bottom, were all unfortunate.
Their life-and-death struggle is to show the face of their village.
That's ridiculous.
After leaving Xianglin, Sasuke fetched some water, and then killed a group of Amegakure Village ninjas who wanted to sneak attack him. He also found the Book of Heaven scrolls on their bodies and brought them back to the camp.
At this stage, Sasuke can be said to be crushing those stinky ninjas, and after gaining air superiority, he can control them at will.
After holding the scroll of heaven and earth, he took Naruto and Sakura who were lying down to the high tower in the center of the forest.
Anko Tetsute Izumo was not surprised at all by Sasuke's team returning so soon.
A guy who could be attacked by Orochimaru and still remain almost unscathed would be unfair to the other participating ninjas by coming to take the Chunin Exam.
However, there is no such thing as fairness in the battle between ninjas. Moreover, the stronger the newcomers in Konoha are, this is a good thing for them.
…
Since they passed the test on the first day, they only need to recharge their batteries and wait for other teams to complete the competition.
Naruto, who left the tower, complained somewhat like Versailles:
"Ah, Sasuke, you stole all the limelight. I feel like you advanced without doing anything."
He shook his fist.
"It feels unreal."
"Isn't this a good thing, idiot Naruto, do you have to be covered in injuries and work your butt off to get through the exam and make it to the next level to satisfy you?"
Sakura is quite satisfied with the current situation.
Sasuke also nodded.
"Completing the game early will give us more time to train, which is a good thing. The next game will become more and more difficult, because the weak ones have been eliminated."
"Naruto, I will go to your house to find you tomorrow morning."
"Okay, that makes sense."
Naruto thought about it and it seemed that this was indeed the case.
"But do you know where my home is?"
"..."
A little embarrassed, Sasuke thought for a while and it seemed that he really didn't know where Naruto lived.
"I'll ask Kakashi."
"Oh, don't bother Kakashi-sensei with this kind of thing. Come on, let me take you there directly?"
Naruto invited with a smile.
"Sakura, do you want to come with us?"
"okay."
The three of them walked towards Naruto's home together.
When she opened the door, there was no peculiar smell, but the slightly messy layout and the clothes scattered everywhere made Sakura a little disgusted.
"Naruto, you don't do housework at all."
Naruto's face turned red, and he started to tidy up the room in embarrassment.
"Ah...hahaha, I didn't expect someone to come suddenly, I'm sorry."
As for Sasuke, he started to frown after seeing where Naruto lived.