"Follow closely, it's easy to get lost in this forest... There is a tree hole in front of you. Do you two little kids want to go in and have a rest?" Maruhoshi Kosuke stood on a stone, looking back at the back of a tree that looked exactly like Zhu Bajie. The wife's two children noticed Yu Ling's pace gradually slowing down.
"Yakumo, do you want to rest? Let me change your medicine..." Yu Ling turned his head carefully, looked at the side face lying on his shoulder, and subconsciously hid to the other side.
"Okay, where are we now?" Yakumo, whose subconscious was in a dormant state, was awakened by Yu Ling and whispered very quietly.
"Senior? Where are we in the whole forest now?" Yu Ling's Sharingan is not enough to cover the entire examination room, so naturally he has no way to recognize where he is, and he doesn't know where he will go later. Walk.
"Well... that tree hole is only five kilometers away from the central tower. I rested there during the previous assessment!" Kosuke Maruhoshi raised his head slightly, narrowed his eyes together, and inadvertently raised the corners of his mouth. A look of nostalgia and longing.
"There must have been many stories about that tree hole..." Yu Ling looked at the senior and also laughed. He carried Yakumo on his back and stepped a little faster.
"It's getting late, so let's spend the night here today. I'll find a team tomorrow. Do you want to try it out for you?" Maruhoshi Kosuke first surrounded a dry, bare ground inside the tree hole, and lined up the people on the side. Withered leaves found a lot of branches and set up their own cauldron.
"Okay, the goal is..." Yu Ling couldn't think of a soft persimmon that was particularly easy to deal with, so he didn't express his thoughts.
He subconsciously believed that the Sunagakure team was the best to deal with, but due to the reputation of the Fourth Kazekage, Konoha was not suitable for starting a war with Sunagakure's genin. At least...you can't initiate a fight.
"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own arrangements! You and the little girl should work well together, but I can't get in..." Kosuke Maruhoshi laughed at himself, stood up and walked out of the tree hole.
"Senior, where are you going?" Yakumo climbed up with difficulty and moved to the edge of the tree hole. When he opened his eyes, he saw Maruboshi-senpai with his back hunched and about to walk out.
"Haha, don't worry about me. You guys watch the fire for me, I'll go find some dinner and come back."
"Yes, senior." Yu Ling glared at Yakumo who wanted to chase him out, and rushed to speak out.
"Why don't you let me go out with you..."
"Shh, let me change your dressing first. The wound is not red or swollen... there are no unnecessary tears. There is no infection, no secondary tearing. It's fine." Yu Ling did not answer her. , just took out a new piece of gauze, applied ointment, and after taking a good look at the wound, put on a new gauze, and then crawled back to his original position.
He didn't notice at all that in the darkness, Yakumo's cheeks were already so red that he could bleed... "
You... what were you doing so close to me just now..."
"I'll change your dressing and check the wound for any abnormalities. "I packed my medical bag without raising my head, and answered truthfully without thinking too much.
"...Wait a minute, why don't you let me follow you out?" Yakumo was silent for a while, then remembered his unanswered question at the beginning, and kicked Yu Ling.
"Well... I feel that senior is a little worried, and he probably doesn't want us to go with him. Besides, senior is the strongest among us, and we won't be able to help him if we go there. Your illusions are useless against wild animals. It's a bit of a fuss, so just wait here for seniors. Hey, fire!" Yu Ling explained this seriously, but suddenly found that the light dimmed a lot in an instant... The
flames had already reached the ground, and there was not enough dry wood. .
"Fire... fire... it wasn't me, eh Yu Ling! It wasn't me, it wasn't me!" "
What?" Just as he was about to go out of the hole to collect dry firewood, Yakumo grabbed his trouser leg tightly. The eyes staring at him were full of disbelief and sadness... "Yakumo, what's wrong with you?"
Two deep tears ran across the entire face, slowly hanging down his neck, soaking the gauze.
"It wasn't me...it really wasn't me."
"What are you talking about? The fire was put out just because there was no more firewood. I'll pick up some. I'll leave this to you." Yu Ling still didn't know why, quietly He opened Yakumo's hand and continued walking towards the entrance of the cave.
"I said it wasn't me!" Yakumo suddenly threw away his hand, his voice suddenly changed, and he roared.
The sound waves echoed in the tree hole, causing some small animals to run out and scurry around in a panic.
"I said it wasn't me, don't you understand?"
Yu Ling was stunned, his hands shook uncontrollably, and his hidden sword was unsheathed. "I know it wasn't you, but we are not safe in the dark. I need to add new fire. I don't blame you?" I
tried to use my brain, but I could only find a blank in my mind. There is no countermeasure at all.
"It's not me...well...it's not me!" The hatred in his voice became stronger and stronger, his eyes gradually darkened, and the fluctuations of chakra tended to be abnormal.
Yakumo himself doesn't have that much chakra.
"This is..." Yu Ling subconsciously opened his Sharingan, hoping to find some clues. This state looks somewhat similar to the rampage of Jugo and others, so there should be something strange in the body.
Wherever he looked, the refreshing light orange illusion energy had been completely covered. The whole body was filled with black material, and the Dantian was a turbid black mass, like a bottomless pit, circulating the energy in the body.
"Did you really go crazy..."
"You can't control your words, and you can't control your body. What you see, what you hear, what you hear, what you taste, what you touch, what you know Everything I want you to know." Yakumo muttered in a low voice, his face getting paler and paler, black matter slowly appeared on the surface of his body, and a bunch of violent illusion energy sprayed out uncontrollably not far away Yu Ling enveloped his entire body before he had time to react.
"Become my puppet..."
"It's so hot! What kind of ability is this... There is obviously no flame, but the heat energy is released crazily around me... There is also vision, can't I see through it with the Sharingan... ..." Yu Ling's five senses were suddenly blocked, leaving only the heat coming from the touch and the illusory brilliance visually.
My mouth was open, but no sound came out.
"Come with me... and kill them together..." A low moan sounded from beside Kurama Yakumo, and only these words could be clearly transmitted to Yu Ling's mind.
Qiang opened his eyes and vaguely saw Yakumo's body lying on the ground. He tried to twist it but it had no effect. "What on earth is going on... She ran away, then collapsed... and..." I just thought of that strange voice, a monster with long horns on its head, fangs exposed, and long black hair hanging behind its back. Floating in front of Yu Ling, the low moan sounded again.
"Finally summoned... I can't take advantage of those bastards this time... They want to kill me, haha, it depends on whether they have the ability! Follow me..."
Then, Yu Ling followed obediently When he went up, his whole body was still wrapped in illusion energy, and his sober mind could not control this body.
"What should I do...why didn't the mysterious man come out this time..." The man in white who would run out whenever something happened to him miraculously did not appear this time, and did not even leave him any hints.
"Does...does he think this is a problem that I can solve by myself?" Yu Ling was stunned for a moment, and then raised a confident smile. Even if he was under the control of an unknown force, his strong strength was still his most powerful support. .
In the tree hole, the flames were getting weaker and weaker, and so was Kurama Yakumo. Lying on the ground, his eyes were closed tightly, his biting lips were trembling, and beads of sweat were falling down, as if he had a nightmare.
...
"Why is this forest so deserted now... There were a lot of wild rabbits and birds back then, and after walking so far, I didn't even come across one. Is there something wrong?" The experience of ten thousand years of genin is now This shows that places and environments that are too peaceful often mean more dangerous existences...
The atmosphere in the forest slowly changed...
"Something came out, oh... it feels quite dangerous." "Maruhoshi Kosuke was hiding in the canopy of the tree, looking up, his eyes following a large cloud of black air moving through the forest. There seems to be a dim orange human figure visible behind, following the black energy. The direction they came from was exactly the tree hole where Yu Ling and the others were living.
"It can't be the two of them... I've never felt such violent chakra from the two of them." Maruhoshi Kosuke said to himself, held his breath, quietly fell to the ground, and circled around I looked for an opportunity and rushed back to the tree hole.
All he could see was pitch black and a fire with faint white smoke.
"There are two people..."
...
"Ah...! Third Hokage, don't you really want to see what the forest looks like? It's night... Haha, the changes are really quite big..." "Fourth Hokage" "Shadow" opened his eyes that had been covered, looked at the Third Hokage teasingly, and moved his gold-colored eyes in that direction.
"No, thank you to the Fourth Kazekage for your kindness. But I can still see the scene in the forest." Hiruzen didn't understand the Fourth Kazekage's intention, but he declined naturally and subconsciously gathered his perception. I detected Yu Ling's direction...
but the chakra reaction there was terrifyingly strong.
Moreover, the feeling of chakra that does not belong to Yu Ling is still somewhat familiar, but I can't remember it for a while.
"Lujiu, please send someone in to check. Yu Ling's chakra reaction is a little abnormal. If it is a candidate, if necessary, knock him out and take him away." This kind of situation is relatively rare. For the sake of other candidates Concerned about his safety, Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to participate in this assessment.
"Is the Third Hokage ready to go into battle personally... Haha, who said before not to influence those children?" Orochimaru grinned involuntarily. At least in this way, he would have a reason to be alone with the Third Hokage... ...Then I looked for an opportunity to start my own plan. "But since you want to go in, please allow me to go with you..."