Xiang Lu swallowed her saliva. She had never seen dead people before, but the scene in front of her made her heart suddenly twitch.
It feels like a bunch of chickens being crushed.
The sound was like a string of firecrackers exploding in my ears, and then a bloody mist exploded on the river bank.
The pungent smell of blood filled the air.
Blood slowly flowed and infected along the ravines between the cobblestones.
The blood stimulates the visual nerves, the smell of blood stimulates the olfactory nerves, and the sound of firecrackers that crush brittle bones stimulates the auditory nerves.
The scene in front of me is far scarier than any horror movie.
If Xiang Ling wasn't already an experienced ninja, the shock to her soul just now would have been enough to make her vomit out her last night's meal!
Blood stains mixed with minced meat, red, yellow and white internal organs all mixed together and exploded.
It's as disgusting as you want it to be.
Not to mention Gaara's fighting prowess, what is truly terrifying is his eyes that disregard life!
There was no difference between the living and the dead in his eyes, as if they were just looking at a big tree or a stone.
"Has this guy been completely corrupted by the killing?"
Xiang Ling's little face is a little pale. If she were in full condition, she might not be so panicked, but now she is half-disabled.
However, Xiang Phosphorus can hide her own chakra and conceal her body's aura, so most people can basically not detect her.
The only thing she was worried about now was that Naruto and Sasuke were discovered.
Naruto and Sasuke are in a coma, and their chakra activity is very low. Unless they encounter someone with particularly strong perception or a perceptive ninja, it would be difficult to detect them in their current state.
This is the truth, but Xiang Lu is still worried.
Xiang Lian held a kunai in her hand, ready to attack Gaara at any time. Did she want to kill Gaara or something?
She just planned to attack Gaara and others to attract their attention when they noticed the hidden cave.
Unknowingly, a handful of cold sweat broke out in Xiang Lu's hands.
Greasy and slippery.
Gaara stood on the bank of the river, greedily breathing in the strong smell of blood.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that his expression no longer looked so ferocious.
Maybe it was because he felt good enough after killing a bunch of people, or maybe he was tired of smelling the blood, but in short Gaara's demeanor gradually calmed down and returned to normal.
"What are you doing standing still? Why don't you find the scroll you need quickly?"
Gaara's tone was still cold, but at this moment there was less murderous intent.
Temari and Kankuro, who were hiding behind, heard this and quickly ducked into the blood mist.
The ground by the river bank was stained with blood, and the air was sticky and smelly, but the two of them did not dare to complain at all.
Instead of complaining, it's better to follow that monster and get it over with and get out of here.
Only when they return to the hotel and are watched by jounin will the two of them feel more at ease.
Of course, it's just a little bit more reassuring.
"Found it, the Scroll of Heaven."
Not long after, Temari picked a Heaven Scroll that looked relatively clean and paired it with the Earth Scroll in their hands.
"Okay, let's go directly to the central tower next?!"
Kankuro asked uncertainly.
Kankuro and Temari just wanted to avoid getting into trouble. With their strength, they could easily get the scroll and go to the central tower.
After all, he still has a secret mission, and too much fighting and killing might make Gaara go berserk. This is not what they want to see.
Gaara faintly glanced at the cave where Naruto and Sasuke were unconscious.
As if he had found someone of the same kind in his cold eyes, he felt the Nine-Tails aura still remaining on Naruto's body.
The camouflage of Xiang Lian was very good, and an ordinary ninja team would definitely not be able to detect Naruto and Sasuke.
But Gaara is the one-tailed jinchuriki, and Naruto is the nine-tailed jinchuriki. Even if they meet for the first time, they can still smell each other's scent.
What's surprising is that Gaara only glanced at it lightly, but didn't lift his foot to walk that way, but turned around and left.
Seeing this scene, Xiang Ling, who was already preparing to take action while hiding in the dark, breathed a sigh of relief.
She really doesn't want to face that psychopath right now.
Temari and Kankuro didn't notice anything strange about Gaara at all. They picked up the Blood Sky Scroll stained by blood and followed Gaara.
After ten minutes have passed...
Xiang Phosphorus kept locking the auras of the three of them until she confirmed that the three of them had really left, and then she completely relaxed.
After relaxing, she realized that her legs were numb from squatting.
"The killing intent in that guy is not much weaker than Zabuza's? At such a young age...how many people did he kill?"
He stood up holding on to the stone and limped towards the cave.
There was something that Xiang Ling couldn't figure out. She had been paying attention to Gaara. Just now, Gaara had clearly looked towards Naruto and Sasuke's hiding spot.
Why did you leave directly?
Have you discovered it?
"Forget it, I don't think about it anymore, let's wait for a day until those two guys wake up."
Karin sensed that Naruto's chakra had recovered a lot. It had to be said that as a Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki and having the physique of the Uzumaki clan, Naruto's recovery power was abnormal.
Xiang Lian's chakra has only recovered a small part now, almost to the level of a genin.
And Naruto has at least recovered to the chakra level of a chuunin.
As for Sasuke's body, although he is stronger than ordinary people, he is definitely not as good as a loser like Naruto, and Sasuke's Sharingan has just evolved and needs enough rest to adapt to the second Magatama Sharingan.
After briefly checking the status of Naruto and Sasuke, Kosovo returned to the river bank again.
She remembered that a total of four teams were wiped out, and the Sand Ninja team only took away one scroll, which meant that there were still three scrolls left there.
As long as you are not extremely lucky, you should be able to collect the scrolls of heaven and earth.
In addition, Xiang Phosphorus also needs to erase the traces here, otherwise it will easily attract other teams or beasts.
When I came to the river bank again, I stepped on the ground mixed with mud, sand, broken flesh and blood stains.
Every step made a strange crunching sound.
Xiang Ling frowned slightly, and an unnatural look flashed through his eyes, "It's best not to have duplicate scrolls, otherwise you'll lose a lot of money this time!"
Soon, Xiang Phosphorus dug out two scrolls of heaven and one scroll of earth from a pile of rotten meat.
Only now did her face look a little better.
Then with the help of the power of the river not far away, Xiang Lu launched a water escape ninjutsu to wash away the traces on the river bank.
After doing all this, she returned to the cave.
…
The second round of the Chunin Exams is in progress.
In Konoha Village, Gang Zitie and Kamizuki Izumo discovered traces of a battle. The blood spattered on the Buddha statue had begun to turn dark brown, but it was not completely black yet.
Judging from the degree of stiffness of the corpse and the condition of the corpse spots.
The fighting here has happened not long ago.
"Three people died, three ninjas."
Gang Zitie inspected the marks on the ground and analyzed in a deep voice, "The attack was really ruthless. It was completely torn into pieces."
"Can you tell what ninjutsu caused this?"
Kamizuki Izumo asked.
Gang Zhitie scratched the hedgehog's hair with an ugly expression and shook his head gently. He couldn't see what kind of person could be so cruel.
"Something happened so soon. Sure enough, the Chuunin Exams are really worrying."
Especially when the bodies of ninjas from other countries appeared in Konoha Village, which was the organizer.
Although all candidates taking the Chunin Exam have signed an agreement, Konoha will not be held responsible if they die in the exam hall.
But since someone was obviously killed outside the examination room, Konoha must find the murderer.
Otherwise, which ninja village would dare to send ninjas to Konoha to take the exam?
"Inform Hongdou, the examiner in the second examination room!"
After all, the examinee had an accident, and now it was the second Chunin exam, and all the candidates were in the forest of death.
After Gang Zi Tie finished speaking, Shenyue Izuyun immediately disappeared from the spot.
At this time, Hongdou was sitting on the roof, holding dumplings in one hand and red bean soup in the other, looking very happy.
But the next second...
A cloud of smoke exploded, and the divine moon Izumo appeared.
He said quickly like pouring beans, "I found the corpses of three grass ninjas. They looked very strange, as if they had been skinned."
"You'd better go over and take a look."
The smile on Anko's lips froze and she narrowed her eyes slightly.
Peeling? If she understood correctly.
That means the human skin has been peeled off?!
A figure flashed subconsciously in Anko's mind. Such a cruel method...could it be that guy who came to Konoha Village?
No! You have to go and see it as soon as possible!
The wind blew by, picking up leaves and spinning them in the air.
Not long after...
Anko followed Izumo Kamizuki to the scene of the crime, where three corpses with their faces peeled off were lying on the ground in horror.
There was no resistance at all, they were all killed in one move.
"Judging from the belongings and identity certificates, this team should be a grass ninja team participating in the Chunin Examination."
"As you can see, all these people's faces have been peeled off."
Gang Zitie briefly described what he discovered.
The face is gone...
To be precise, my entire face was peeled off.
Anko gritted her teeth and clenched her fists hanging by her sides tightly. She could only think of one ninjutsu that required shameless use!
The art of erasing facial expressions!
That man’s art of erasing facial expressions!
B-level ninjutsu is different from entry-level transformation techniques, this is a more advanced camouflage technique.
The cold-blooded ninjutsu of directly taking someone else's appearance as your own, since it is a real human face, there is no flaw.
Orochimaru used this ninjutsu to pretend to be a grass ninja and sneak into the chunin exams. When the victim was found, he had turned into a faceless corpse.
As a disciple of Orochimaru, Anko is very familiar with some of Orochimaru's techniques.
She knew this trick but she didn't learn it.
Because she felt it was too cruel.
"Their faces seemed to have been dissolved and became bare. I don't know what kind of ninjutsu caused it."
Kamizuki Izumo on the side murmured.
Anko subconsciously raised her hand and pressed it on her neck. There were three magatama black dot marks there, which were the curse marks placed under Orochimaru!
That's right, this ninjutsu belongs to that man!
Why did he return to Konoha?
Hongdou's eyes flickered as he thought...
Tsunade and the Third Generation knew about Orochimaru's infiltration into Konoha, but in order to avoid causing panic and affecting the Chunin Exams, they temporarily concealed the news.
Except for Kakashi's ANBU who received the order, only a few core high-level officials knew about it, and the other ordinary Konoha ninjas did not know.
That's why Hongdou reacted like this.
"Where are their photos? They must be on the application form."
Hong Dou turned to look at the assistant beside him with a solemn expression and asked in a deep voice.
If it is that guy, you must treat it with caution!
"Yes! This is the application form for the three of them!"
The Konoha chuunin responded, and immediately pulled out three application forms and handed them to Anko. Among the photos on the application forms of the three grass ninjas, there was a familiar face.
He was clearly the Kusanagi who had appeared in the Death Forest before and fought with Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin!
Hongdou snatched the application form and bit it with a look of resentment on his face.
This is the face that was taken away from him.
Blended into the forest of death?
There should be a group of Genin taking the Chunin Exam in the Death Forest. What is his purpose?
Suddenly! Hongdou's expression suddenly changed.
Because she remembered the person on the application in her hand, and she had a little unpleasant experience with that guy!
"Could it be that at that time..."
"Damn it! Why didn't you find out earlier!"
Hong Dou secretly spat and ordered quickly.
"The matter is very serious. You should immediately notify Mr. Hokage and apply to send two or more ANBU teams into the Death Forest."
"I'm going to chase them now!"
Hongdou's tone was serious, and the solemn expression on his face made Gangzitie and Shenyue Izumo have to pay attention.
It must not be an easy task for a special jounin to be so solemn and request to send out more than two ANBU teams.
Swish swish swish!!
Everyone present quickly left using the teleportation technique.
Anko rushed towards the forest of death at a fast speed, "That guy has returned to Konoha again, it's time to understand everything!"
However, what Anko didn't know was that at this time Orochimaru had already joined two other Sound Ninja subordinates who were disguised as Grass Ninjas and passed the second exam.
Because Xili and Izumi broke into the Death Forest, Orochimaru didn't want to be hammered by the Bull Demon King again, so he couldn't fight back.
So he simply gave up this opportunity to get close to Sasuke.
It is impossible for Anko to kill Orochimaru with her own strength, even if she is determined to die together.
And this time, entering the Death Forest to pursue Orochimaru was destined to fail.
Because Orochimaru is no longer in the Death Forest.
…
In the Death Forest, except for Orochimaru and Gaara, no one else poses a threat to Team Seven.
Both teams, Orochimaru and Gaara, have arrived at the central tower and passed the second exam.
The rest is just spicy chicken, nothing to worry about!
Time passed like this little by little.
After resting for two full days, Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin were fully replenished before they decided to head to the central tower.