“Deal!” Tsunade agreed without hesitation, “Information itself is priceless, splitting half of it with you is completely reasonable.”
“So decisive!” Shu snapped his fingers, “In that case, let’s do something big! First, let’s try sending Saito Shuichi and the others out of Kurozu Town!”
“If we manage to send them out, the Reward Points obtained should not be a small amount!”
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A few hours later.
A black sedan slowly stopped on the highway at the outskirts of Kurozu Town.
Shu sat in the front passenger seat, staring at the road sign reading Kurozu Town outside the window, then rubbed his temples helplessly.
“This is already the third time we’ve passed this broken road sign.”
“It seems my guess was right, the space throughout the entire Kurozu Town has completely closed off.”
“No matter how far we drive down the highway, in the end we will always loop back into the town for no clear reason, just like being hit by a ghost wall curse.”
Tsunade sitting in the back seat had an equally displeased expression.
She opened the car door and stepped out, standing on the highway, and began to carefully sense the surrounding environment.
“It’s not just a spatial distortion as simple as that.” Tsunade’s tone was serious, “In the air here, that grayish-black curse energy seems slightly denser than when we first entered the town! The spreading speed of this curse is a bit too fast!”
“Then… then what should we do?”
Shuichi who was tasked with driving gripped the steering wheel tightly.
“Even the way out is already gone… are we just going to wait to die in this town?”
Kirie sitting beside him had a pale face, not saying a single word.
She only hugged Shuichi’s arm tightly while trembling.
Tsunade looked at Shu sitting in the front passenger seat: “Hey, brat. Since we can’t send them away, what is your next plan? Just waste time waiting for time to pass by like this?”
Since the escape route was completely sealed off, the only way was to face the core problem head-on.
“Let’s go, let’s head to Tonba Lake first.” Shu made a decision.
“Tonba Lake? Where is that?” Tsunade looked somewhat puzzled.
“A very important place for us.” Shu didn’t explain too much, he turned toward Shuichi, “Don’t daydream, you know where Tonba Lake is, right? Drive us there!”
Shuichi gritted his teeth and started the car engine.
Half an hour later, the sedan sped into the center of the town and finally stopped in front of a pond.
Stepping out of the car and staring at the dead-silent pond water right before their eyes, Tsunade’s brows furrowed deeply.
“This is…”
She realized something was wrong.
The air here was almost frozen, and the concentration of the curse energy that made people deeply uncomfortable was so high it was completely outrageous.
Shu walked to the edge of the pond: “This place is the source of the curse for the entire Kurozu Town.”
“To be precise, the source is located deep underground right beneath this lake. There lies an ancient spiral ruin that has existed for who knows how many years. All the anomalies happening in Kurozu Town are caused by the energy radiation emitted by those ruins.”
Tsunade walked to his side, staring at the black lake water: “So you mean, you want to deal with the ruins down below and cut off the curse directly from the source?”
Without waiting for Shu to answer, Tsunade shook her head without hesitation: “Brat, I suggest you get rid of that suicidal thought immediately.”
“After approaching here, I just realized that the concentration of curse energy here is dozens of times higher than the one on that corpse earlier! I just tried releasing a bit of chakra into it, and in an instant, that chakra was directly assimilated by the distorted energy in the lake water, leaving not even a gap to fight back the slightest bit.”
Tsunade warned: “The lake water on the upper layer alone is already this difficult to handle, let alone sneaking hundreds of meters underground to destroy those ruins. With our current strength, going down there recklessly is no different from seeking death!”
Shu shrugged: “Of course I know that, attacking frontally definitely won’t work. But, what if we use a Sealing Technique instead of physical destruction?”
“As far as I know, Konoha has a large barrier sealing technique called the Four Purple Flames Formation that can perform large-scale spatial blockade. Although setting up this formation requires four people to perform the technique simultaneously at four corner points, Tsunade-sama, your chakra amount far exceeds an ordinary person’s.” This story is hosted at NovelPing.
Shu stared at the diamond-shaped seal on Tsunade’s forehead and continued: “If you use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, coupled with you releasing the Yin Seal to unleash a massive amount of chakra usually stored away, that should be enough to sustain this barrier and temporarily seal the curse energy emitted by these ruins!”
“Four Purple Flames Formation?”
Tsunade stared at him deeply: “You… really know a lot. Forget about the Four Purple Flames Formation, even my secret technique is something you know clearly.”
Shu pointed at his Sharingan and flashed a meaningful smile.
At this moment, he couldn’t help praising himself inwardly.
(I am truly very wise!)
The excuse that the Sharingan could predict the future was truly versatile, no matter what classified information he knew, everything could be attributed to it!
Tsunade fell silent for a moment.
“I’m guessing the scope of these ruins covers the entire Kurozu Town, if so, the Four Purple Flames Formation won’t work, its range is not large enough and it cannot seal underground ruins that vast.”
Tsunade shook her head, then changed the subject: “At the very least, it requires using the higher-level Four Violet Flames Formation. But the threshold for that technique is extremely high, requiring at least four people possessing a Jonin’s level of chakra to perform it simultaneously.”
Tsunade rubbed the seal on her forehead: “If I release the Yin Seal, and output chakra regardless of the cost… that can indeed be tried by force.”
At this point, Tsunade suddenly snorted coldly and stared sharply at Shu: “However, the feeling that you have already calculated all the trump cards so clearly really makes me annoyed!”
“Never mind those details, Tsunade-sama, surviving and getting rewards is what matters most.” Shu smiled reassuringly.
He turned toward Shuichi and Kirie behind him: “As long as we can successfully seal these ruins, even temporarily, the space at the outskirts of the town that was forcibly distorted by the curse energy should return to normal. At that time, it should become your opportunity to escape!”
“Really?!” Shuichi trembled with joy, “That’s amazing! We are finally saved!”
The joy of surviving a desperate condition made Shuichi hug Kirie tightly, the two of them crying happily.
“Since it’s like this, let’s schedule the sealing operation for the last day!” Shu suggested.
Tsunade thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
After all, those were mysterious ruins deep underground, they didn’t know the specific situation inside, and no one could be sure what other bizarre things were hidden down there.