Hearing about these abundant rewards, Shu let out a long breath.
“Sure enough, compared to having to painstakingly seal and rescue people… combat and slaughter like this is what suits me best!”
Shu glanced at the pile of burnt ashes.
“However, these ashes… ah, forget it, with the current concentration of the curse, these ashes no longer have any meaning.”
At this moment, Tsunade—who had been cowering behind a load-bearing wall in the corner of the room—finally managed to recover from her panic.
She panted deeply, and a flush of color began to return to her previously pale face.
She closed her eyes tightly, forcing herself not to recall the scene on the floor earlier, then slowly rose to her feet while holding onto the wall.
“Hey, brat…” Tsunade’s voice still sounded somewhat weak; she looked at Shu’s back with a complicated gaze, “Just now… thank you.”
Shu didn’t even look back, flicking away the bloodstains on his kunai: “Tsunade, you really must avoid dying just like that at the hands of scum like that! If you die here, what about the seal for tomorrow?”
“You…” Hearing those words, Tsunade’s emotions—which had momentarily felt a touch moved—were instantly swept away by rising anger in a split second.
“You, the only thing inside that head of yours is just that seal!!”
Shu replied calmly: “You suffer from a severe blood phobia, right? The moment you see a large amount of blood, your entire body goes limp, your mentality collapses, and even processing chakra becomes impossible.”
Tsunade was stunned, her expression turning somewhat grim, yet strangely she didn’t deny it.
“Listen, no matter what you’ve been through in the past, and no matter how you contracted this illness.”
“After this mission ends and we return to the Main God Space, I beg you to address it immediately! Even if you have to pay a hefty price to have the Main God Space help you fix it, that’s fine!”
Shu stepped forward two steps: “Otherwise, in a mission world far more dangerous in the future, you won’t be as lucky as today, where someone is always around to save you in the nick of time. Furthermore, the next time, you won’t just die, you’ll also drag your teammates down with you!”
“You…!” Tsunade was left speechless by the sharp remark.
Yet she also knew that what Shu said was the truth.
Thinking about that, she took a deep breath, suppressing the anger inside her heart: “Anyway… this time I owe you one, I’ll remember this favor.”
“As long as Tsunade cancels the punishment of the punch I owe, that’s already good enough.”
Shu waved his hand, turned around, and walked toward the inner depths of the corridor, “Alright! Let’s go, let’s take another stroll around here to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.”
Tsunade sighed resignedly, then forced her spirits to follow from behind.
Though reluctant to admit it, through these few collaborations, she realized this brat was indeed reliable at crucial moments.
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Unfortunately, the curse throughout the entirety of Kurozu Town had permeated far too deeply by now, and the minds of most residents in the town had suffered severe distortion and influence.
There was absolutely no one who cared about what happened inside the hospital.
“Hm?”
Walking to a secluded stair corner, Shu’s footsteps suddenly stopped, and his brows tightened slightly.
He approached utilizing the dim light, and discovered two dried-up corpses lying carelessly in the corner.
Although the faces of those two corpses were withered beyond recognition and their skin clung tightly to their bones, Shu still recognized the ninja attire they wore.
“Aren’t these the two rogue ninjas?” Shu raised an eyebrow.
Hearing that, Tsunade also stepped closer.
Fortunately, those two dry corpses didn’t possess a single drop of blood, so it didn’t trigger a relapse of her blood phobia.
Tsunade squatted down and carefully examined the wound marks on the dry corpses.
“They died because their blood and body fluids were sucked completely dry.” Tsunade concluded, “And looking at the surrounding conditions, there are zero traces of a struggle or a fight. Even though these two people aren’t top-tier ninjas, at least they are still ninjas, they shouldn’t have perished without putting up the slightest fight. What kind of thing affected them?”
Shu stared at those two cannon-fodder ninjas with their tragic fate, then shook his head.
“These two people were really sucked into dry skeletons, quite a miserable way to die.”
Seeing the Main God Space watches on the wrists of those two people, Shu thought for a moment, then took them off; who knew, those items might come in handy later.
Afterward, he recalled something.
“Even two rogue ninjas with a bit of capability ended up with this kind of fate, then Miyuki whom we left at the inn… she’s just an ordinary civilian, how is her condition?” Shu turned his head to look toward Tsunade.
Tsunade shook her head.
“Tomorrow is the final day, and it also coincides with the day when the concentration of the curse reaches its peak.” She said.
“Even though I used a sealing technique earlier to help her strip away the curse energy inside her body, the radiation under that kind of environment is a devastating torment to the mentality and physique of an ordinary person. In a small town where even the air is filled with malicious intent…”
Tsunade paused for a moment: “It all depends on her own fate, whether she can survive through tonight or not.”
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Shu and Tsunade returned to the inn.
The moment they stepped through the front door of the inn.
The two people exchanged a glance, then sprinted straight up to the second floor and kicked the room door wide open.
The sight inside the room confirmed their worst suspicion.
Moonlight pierced through the window and illuminated the wall, casting light upon a creature in the corner of the room.
Miyuki had now completely lost her human form.
Her limbs had severely degenerated, clinging tightly to her torso, while her back protruded high up, growing a hard spiral-shaped shell.
“Still couldn’t hold on, huh?” Shu stared at the scene before him while shaking his head.
Tsunade stepped forward quickly, suppressing her discomfort, and attempted to sense her condition.
A moment later, she shook her head helplessly.
“Beyond saving.”
Shu fell silent.
Apparently, the difficulty level of the Main God Space genuinely fell into an extremely harsh category.
An ordinary novice survival mission, featuring five Reincarnators, had surprisingly dwindled down to just two people by this point.
Miyuki in the corner of the room suddenly moved.
She slowly turned her head, like a snail, and began to crawl upward slowly along the wall.
*Sslitch—Sslitch—!*
A teeth-grating scraping sound echoed inside the room.
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The fifth day, the final day of the Main God Space mission time limit.
Just as the weather forecast predicted, the typhoon arrived right on schedule.
Beneath the rampage of this super typhoon touted as a once-in-a-century disaster, the entirety of Kurozu Town completely transformed into a living hell.
High winds mixed with torrential rainstorms; buildings along the streets emitted grating distortion sounds pulled by the gale’s drag, wall paint peeled off, glass shattered to pieces, as if even the sturdiest reinforced concrete had to bow to that nameless force.
Amidst this apocalyptic scene, the most hair-raising sight was the town residents who had been heavily eroded by the curse.
They had now completely lost their rational human senses.
They didn’t seek shelter from the storm; instead, they swarmed out voluntarily in groups onto the main streets.