“Ugh…” Hearing this, Miyuki was already so terrified that she tightly covered her mouth with both hands, her entire body trembling violently.
Shu didn’t stop: “The most disgusting thing is, even the body hair will be infected by the curse and turn into small spirals with their own consciousness. They will grow wildly out of control, not only wrapping tightly around the host, but also continuously sucking away the host’s vitality!”
Shu concluded: “In short, in this Kurozu Town, everything will eventually be assimilated by the spiral. And this curse is completely indiscriminate; as long as you are still in this town, you can be affected at any time.”
After hearing Shu’s explanation, Tsunade’s face turned completely gloomy.
She now finally understood why the mission given by that mysterious Main God Space only asked them to survive for 5 days.
In this bizarre small town where everything mutated toward indescribable directions, pure physical strength had very limited uses!
“What kind of disgusting thing is this!” Tsunade gritted her teeth, her face filled with disgust.
As a top-tier medical ninja in the ninja world, Tsunade had seen countless horrifying wounds on the battlefield and had also studied various cunning poisons.
However, a curse that could make the human body distort in such a manner as Shu described had completely overturned her decades of knowledge.
“Since it’s a curse, there must be a way to break it, right?” Tsunade thought for a moment and asked, “What if we use chakra to forcibly dispel it? Is medical ninjutsu of any use?”
Shu shook his head: “From the information I gathered, probably not! As for chakra…”
“I don’t know that. After all, this world is the world of ordinary people, there is no energy system like chakra. Whether chakra can resist this kind of curse is something we still need to test ourselves. There might be a chance…”
Shu pondered inwardly.
The constitution of the human body in the ninja world was unusual, possessing one hundred and thirty trillion cells within the body.
In a sense, ninjas were actually high-energy plants.
Whether an extraordinary constitution like this could withstand the erosion of the spiral curse was an unanswered question.
However, judging from the temperament of this Main God Space, Shu felt that this should be given a huge question mark.
Besides, apart from testing the resistance of chakra, Shu also wanted to test whether in the Main God Space, one could obtain extra Reward Points by actively interfering in the plot and changing the direction of the original story!
“If we can…” Shu’s eyes narrowed slightly.
He was well aware that the true source of the curse in this Kurozu Town was located in an ancient ruin deep underground beneath the town.
That ruin was like a giant signal transmission tower constantly broadcasting curses to the surface.
Causing Kurozu Town to experience reincarnation after reincarnation.
When reading the manga in his previous life, Shu knew that the true spiral was a metaphor by the author.
Many plots, if scrutinized seriously, actually could not withstand testing.
For example, so many strange and disgusting things happened in the town, the ways of death one after another were more absurd than the last, yet the townspeople did not quickly pack up and flee, instead continuing to live their lives in the town.
If this happened in the real world, it would simply make no sense.
Of course, toward the end of the plot, the entire town was completely sealed off, and they couldn’t escape even if they wanted to.
But now it was different.
Since this place had become a truly existing world, then all plots that initially couldn’t withstand testing would definitely be rationalized under the correction of a certain force.
For example, why didn’t the townspeople run?
Had the curse already affected their cognition?
Or, was there an invisible barrier on the outskirts of the town?
Making them unable to run even if they wanted to?
Shu took a deep breath and suppressed those chaotic thoughts.
Thinking about so many things was useless.
The top priority right now was to figure out where the current plot story had reached.
“Tsunade-sama, regardless of whether chakra is useful or not, we had better not linger here right now.” Shu glanced at the overcast sky, “We should enter the town first and gather information.”
Tsunade nodded, then walked forward.
After the three of them left…
A gentle breeze blew.
A blade of wild grass by the roadside swayed in the wind, its blade suddenly twisting strangely, curling into a perfect spiral shape.
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The three of them walked slowly along the highway toward the interior of Kurozu Town.
At this moment the sky was still overcast, and the town appeared rather desolate.
The buildings on both sides of the street were mostly small two- or three-story buildings, some of their walls already peeling off, exuding an aged aura.
However, occasionally a few cars parked on the roadside could be seen, along with street lamps on utility poles and televisions displayed in shop windows, all of which made Tsunade frown.
“The architectural style of this place… is really strange.” Tsunade observed her surroundings with curiosity as she walked.
Miyuki followed behind, also unable to resist the curiosity to look around here and there.
“After all, this is another world, Tsunade-sama.” Shu explained casually, “Even though ordinary people here don’t have chakra, they pour all their energy into developing technology, and can do many things without using ninjutsu.”
“Technology, huh?” Tsunade looked thoughtful.
The three of them continued walking along the main road.
Not far away, Shu suddenly stopped in his tracks.
In front of a Japanese-style house ahead, white lanterns were hung, and the faint sound of mourning music could be heard.
On the nameplate in front of the door were written two characters: Saito.
Clearly, this family was holding a funeral.
As soon as Shu saw that family name, his brain felt as if it had been struck by lightning.
(Saito? I remember the male protagonist in Uzumaki, seems his name is Saito Shuichi!)
Shu calculated rapidly in his heart.
If it was the Saito family holding a funeral, then the deceased should be Shuichi’s father who was obsessed with spirals.
According to the plot, Shuichi’s father was infected by the curse, squeezed himself into a round wooden barrel, and died by twisting into a spiral meat lump alive.
If right now was his father’s funeral, that meant the plot had developed to the early stage, in other words, the curse had already begun affecting people on a small scale.
Seeing Shu standing frozen in place, Tsunade looked in the direction of his gaze: “What’s wrong, brat? Is there a problem with the family holding this funeral?”
“There is a problem, and a big one.” Shu said, “If my guess is right, we will soon see for ourselves what people look like after being infected by the spiral curse.”
After finishing his speech, Shu directly stepped forward toward the mourning hall of the Saito family.
“Hey! Where are you going?” Tsunade was stunned, but she could only follow along with Miyuki.
The mourning hall was arranged rather eerie, and the scent of incense filled the air.
A teenage boy who looked seventeen or eighteen years old with a haggard face was kneeling in front of the mourning hall.
His face was terribly pale, the dark circles under his eyes extremely heavy.
This was the male protagonist, Saito Shuichi.