Tsunade endured the discomfort, put on gloves, and then stepped closer to examine it.
Shuichi stood on the side, watching in shock as Tsunade’s two hands slowly emitted a green glow filled with vitality.
“T-this is what?
Magic?
Spirit exorcism technique?” Shuichi widened his eyes, “Are these people really powerful spirit exorcism masters?
Thank goodness, then we have hope!”
At the same time, Shu secretly activated the Sharingan.
“This is… an energy?”
In the perspective of the Sharingan, on the surface of that twisted lump of flesh, there was a layer of grayish-black aura.
That aura flowed slowly like a living creature, making anyone who looked at it feel a chill.
“That’s right, this is an energy.”
Tsunade pulled her hand back and dissipated the chakra in her hand.
She frowned while taking off her gloves and said: “Inside the body of this thing, there is indeed residual strange energy. This energy possesses extremely strong corrosive and assimilative properties, my chakra cannot penetrate deep inside at all, and furthermore…”
Tsunade paused for a moment: “I can sense that this energy seems to carry a sort of consciousness, it is actually trying to follow the path of my chakra and carry out a counterattack to erode the mind!”
Shu frowned deeply: “So that’s how it is, it turns out it’s difficult for chakra to resist this kind of curse. If so, the situation is even more troublesome than I imagined.”
Tsunade glanced at him, then added: “Although it cannot be completely eradicated, chakra still possesses a certain resilience. As long as we don’t deliberately look for trouble by touching that pollution source, and use chakra to protect the mind, I think there won’t be any problem if it’s just for surviving five days.”
Shu nodded.
Looking at the first mission arranged by the Main God Space, the difficulty level for survival was indeed not high.
As long as they acted cautiously, they could survive, but in return, the reward obtained was still only a pathetic 1,000 points.
Shuichi stood on the side.
Although he didn’t understand what chakra was, from their conversation, he could hear that the situation was very bad.
He urgently stepped closer and asked: “Two investigators! Since you are people who truly possess capabilities, you must have a way to deal with this thing, right? This town currently feels wrong everywhere, I feel… I feel something terrifying is happening! What should we do?”
Tsunade didn’t speak, she only turned her head to look at Shu. New chapters come out on g.com first.
She currently knew absolutely nothing.
Facing this curse that could not be destroyed with a punch, she could only rely on this mysterious Uchiha brat.
Shu responded to Shuichi’s hopeful gaze by sighing deeply in his heart.
Dealing with something like this?
Theoretically speaking, there was indeed a way.
For example, directly going deep underground beneath Kurozu Town, and then blowing up the ancient spiral ruins that served as the source of that curse until they were smashed into smithereens.
However, unfortunately, that was merely a theory.
Even if there was currently a Kage-class fighter like Tsunade who could destroy a small mountain with a single punch, with her conventional destructive power, it was impossible for her to destroy that giant ruin buried deep underground.
Not to mention, it had now been confirmed that the destructive effect of chakra against the curse energy was very limited.
Even taking a step back, using modern heavy weapons like bombarding it with missiles wouldn’t work either.
That ruin was buried extremely deep underground, ordinary conventional missiles would not be able to reach that depth.
Even if they managed to successfully blast a hole, if they couldn’t completely destroy it, it would instead cause the curse energy accumulated over many years inside the ruins to leak out instantly.
The consequence would definitely directly kill all the town residents in a split second, not a single one would survive.
Unless…
using a high-yield nuclear bomb to clean up everything.
But where to get a nuclear bomb?
In a remote and enclosed small town like this, how could it be possible to get a nuclear bomb?
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Shu could truly get a single nuclear bomb, could the high temperature and shockwave from that nuclear bomb really completely clean up this curse energy?
The answer was most likely no.
Perhaps the radiation after the nuclear explosion would instead produce a sort of mutation fusion even more twisted with the curse energy.
In the end, the two of them along with the entire town would still die without anything left!
Thinking about this, all frontal attack routes were completely sealed shut.
Shu sighed, shaking his head resignedly: “Sorry, for this large-scale curse enveloping the entire town, with our current abilities, there is no way to completely resolve it.” This chapter is updated first at novelping.com.
Shuichi’s eyes dimmed.
“However, I can offer one suggestion for you… the best way is to leave this place immediately.”
Shu continued: “This is a curse bound to Kurozu Town. As long as you are still within the area of Kurozu Town, you will continue to be affected, until eventually you yourselves will turn like your father, or even worse!”
“Take advantage of the time available, pack up your things immediately, and leave this place right now!”
Shuichi gave a bitter laugh, shaking his head: “Leave? So it is… but, I think it’s already too late.”
He pointed to the sky outside the window: “That everywhere-present gaze… I can feel it, we actually can’t leave this place anymore.”
Shu fell silent.
(Can’t leave this place anymore huh…) Shu calculated rapidly in his heart, (Has the intensity of the curse currently reached the point of affecting the space around the town or altering the cognition of the town’s residents?)
While Shu was thinking, Tsunade suddenly snorted coldly.
“Stop pitying yourself!”
Tsunade stared at Shuichi who looked desperate: “No matter what, you must try, even if there is only a glimmer of hope! Do you intend to sit here as a family, waiting to turn into a disgusting thing like this?”
Shuichi was stunned after being scolded by Tsunade, a glimmer of struggle appeared in his eyes.
“That’s true…” He muttered to himself, “Whether we can escape or not, we can’t just sit idly by waiting for doom.”
“Not only that, there is still one more important matter to handle right now.” Shu suddenly said, “This thing is currently full of curses. According to the customs in your place, you should be planning to take it for cremation, right?”
“Y-yes.” Shuichi nodded stiffly, “The crematorium has already been contacted.”
“You had better stop that cremation plan immediately!” Shu advised, “Directly change it to burial underground! And it must be poured with thick cement outside the coffin, seal it until it’s completely covered!”
Shu remembered the plot very well; Shuichi’s father was sent to the crematorium to be burned, and the result from the crematorium chimney emerged billows of thick smoke in the shape of a spiral.
That thick smoke immediately spread across the sky of Kurozu Town, even transforming into the appearance of Shuichi’s father, forming a black curse cloud.
Ever since that moment, the curse throughout the entire town deepened, and the mutation speed increased exponentially.
“Cremation will cause the curse energy contained in this corpse to be completely scattered into the air of the entire town along with smoke and dust!” Shu warned, “That will accelerate the spreading speed of the curse many times over!”
Shuichi’s face changed drastically, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem: “I understand! Lord Investigator, I will immediately persuade my mother to change the burial method! After burying my father properly, I will try to leave this place.”
Just as Shuichi turned around to prepare for the funeral, a clear voice suddenly rang in Shu’s mind.
[Ding! Detected Reincarnator successfully prevented the small-scale spread of the curse, slightly slowing down the town’s mutation speed.]
[Reward: 500 Reward Points.]