Chapter 124: Persistence in a Desperate Situation
Konoha seized the opportunity and won a decisive victory in the battle of Kikyo Mountain very beautifully, and Sakaki was not to be outdone and seized the opportunity given by Madara, which was very beautiful... Dig the tunnels hard. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, a month had passed since the Sakaki tree first fell into Madara's hands.
During this month, Sakaki dug the tunnel that seemed to have no end in sight day and night, with the tenacious spirit of never admitting defeat, and with the strength of both hands.
Sakaki began digging down from the underground space, in front of the boulder blocking the road.
According to Bai Jue, behind this boulder is the way out, and since Sakaki does not have the strength to come to this boulder, it is natural to take a detour from under the boulder.
Sakaki wanted to dig a 'U' shaped tunnel, bypass the boulders, and get out of the original way, which in his estimation shouldn't take too long, it would be easy.
Well, in fact, the so-called easy is purely an illusion.
I don't know if it's because Sakaki is not familiar with underground work and digs in the wrong direction, or because Madara Uchiha played a trick, when he finally dug out a 'U'-shaped tunnel, and continued to dig up, the so-called way out has not appeared, and it is still dark in front of him.
Based on Sakaki's malicious speculation, he believes that this is definitely Madara's ghost, and Madara must want to torture him in this way, make him despair, break the backbone of his resistance, and eventually make him a puppet of Madara's plan to realize the Eye of the Moon.
But because of this, Sakaki has no reason to give up, and his digging of tunnels is no longer just about his own self-survival, but a real duel.
It's not a fist-to-flesh duel, it's a duel between the two sides in will, and the defeat in will is far more serious than the defeat in the body, so Sakaki can't lose.
- Meow, let's fight, keep digging up, even if it is 20,000 meters underground, as long as you persevere and work hard, one day you can see the free sky above your head, you will definitely be able to!
After digging out the 'U' shaped tunnel that he was a little disappointed by, Sakaki didn't hesitate too much and continued to dig up.
Of course, even if you don't have relevant experience, as long as you imagine it in your mind, you can understand that digging tunnels vertically and horizontally is not the same concept at all, especially for an unlucky person like Sakaki who doesn't have any digging tools to assist.
For this reason, Sakaki had to give up a 'big' thing that would have been very meaningful to him.
When digging a tunnel, how much space is dug out of the tunnel, then it means how much space of soil will be dug out, and these excess soils are transported to the underground space and stacked up.
Then, as long as he keeps repeating and repeating, one day, the entire underground space will be buried with earth, and by the way, Madara will be buried, and the scene must be very interesting.
Sakaki really wanted to keep doing this, but unfortunately he didn't expect that when more tunnels were dug up, the soil that was dug out would no longer be redundant.
To put it simply, it is suppose a person who is one meter or six tall digs a tunnel two meters high, and then wants to dig higher, the question is whether his hands can reach it?
Sakaki trees don't have any support frames as a foothold, so they need to use soil.
Sakaki digs up the tunnel, and he lets the soil that has been dug up here fall to his feet, so that as the tunnel digs upwards, the ground under his feet will continue to rise because it is replenished by the soil that falls from above.
The sakaki tree dug and dug like this, and a month passed, and there was still no end in sight.
"Damn, this soil is so hard... No, it's not dirt anymore, it looks like it's dug into a layer of rock underground! ”
Sakaki clenched his fists and pounded the rock layer, but fortunately, although the rock layer was much harder than the previous soil, it also had a weakness, that is, brittleness.
Therefore, this is not a desperate situation, as long as it takes a lot more time than before, it is still possible to overcome the difficulties and continue to dig upwards.
Woohoo, more time... It means that there is more time than there was previously far from the end in sight, this Nima ......
"Ah!!h
Sakaki tree looks up to the sky... No, he was screaming at the deep darkness that had been pressing on top of his head, this was his way of venting.
The long howl echoed through the small space of the tunnel, and the echo in turn shook Sakaki's ears, and dust and gravel fell in a platter, some of which fell into his gaping mouth, but he didn't care about it.
"The damn two Bai Jue, haven't they been chasing after me before, and the two mouths are very powerful? Why hasn't it been since then, so I came over to talk to him for a few words, I'm very interested in your 'cross talk'......"
Sakaki shouted, hoping that the next second those two would definitely appear in front of him, if nothing else, as long as he could say a few words.
However, all that Sakaki could get was this deep darkness.
Actually, you can't blame Sakaki for being like this, it's not that his psychological quality is not hard enough, it's that the external environment is too bad!
Close your eyes and imagine what kind of space Sakaki would have been in if he had been digging a tunnel upwards like Sakaki.
It is said that if a person is locked in a small box, the most space is for one to stand up straight and turn around, and then there is darkness inside and no other sound outside, and it will not be long before the person will go crazy.
This kind of thing, just thinking about it may make people's scalp tingle, this is simply the harshest punishment, extremely cruel!
Ever since Sakaki dug up the tunnel, it has been in this kind of torture-like environment.
At the foot of the sakaki tree was the rising earth, and above his head was the earth that seemed to never end, and the space around him was not even enough for him to turn around, and what enveloped him was an almost eternal darkness, and there was hardly any external sound around him except for the sound of his hands digging in the earth.
Any normal person in this environment, I'm afraid that if I can't hold on for a week, I'll have to go crazy, that is, Sakaki, and still hold on.
After all, Sakaki is a man who has spent thousands of years in the kernel space, and it's just ... Well, some of the experiences in this that he hadn't experienced in the core space before, so that now he tasted another kind of torment.
Don't look at the small core, but the core space is extremely vast for the soul of Sakaki, and the biggest torment in it comes from the stagnation of time, as if everything bad has become eternal and will not change.
But it was different, he could feel the passage of time here, but he almost despaired of the space.
Fortunately, he didn't have claustrophobia, otherwise he would have gone crazy, but Sakaki felt that he had to suffocate this disease sooner or later if he was in this forever small tunnel space and didn't have claustrophobia!
For the first time in his life, Sakaki felt regretful, and although there was only a hint of it, it was still incredible.
I knew that I shouldn't have gambled to dig tunnels in one go, and of course it was absolutely right not to succumb to Madara, and it was just as right to save myself and survive, but it shouldn't be in the 'terrible' way of digging tunnels that I didn't expect at all.
For a moment, Sakaki really thought about going back, after all, this terrible environment was indeed too uncomfortable, but fortunately, the thick earth under his feet stopped him silently but resolutely.
- He meows, instead of digging back so funny, and will inevitably be 'ridiculed' by Madara in the end, it is better to put his mind sideways and continue to dig up. If you keep your original intention, you don't believe that there is no end to it.
Then, the sakaki tree meowed again, and dug it day and night for more than a month.
……
Kikyo Mountain.
At this moment, it is Konoha who has won the decisive battle to occupy this place.
The faces of each Konoha ninja have the joy of defeating a strong enemy, but at the same time, they are also indispensable to the pain that the cruel war will inevitably bring to them.
Almost every Konoha ninja participated in the work of collecting the corpses of their companions, while silently mourning their loss in their hearts.
In a group of blue-green figures, there are also a small number of dark gray figures that are particularly abrupt.
They are sand ninjas, but they are not the fish that slipped through the net on the battlefield, nor have they come to participate in the battle, they have come to collect the corpses of their dead comrades.
Many Konoha ninjas were immersed in the death of their companions, and as soon as they saw the living Sand Hidden Ninja appear, they couldn't help but want to kill each other.
And those sand hidden ninjas were in the vast army of Konoha and did not show weakness at all, and they were ready to fight to the death at any time with kunai.
But in the end, the two sides did not fight again, but only looked at each other with hatred, but it did not interfere with the other party to restrain the corpses of their companions.
This is a respect that Konoha gives to Shayin, and if this respect is not willing to give Shayin, then the two sides will only have to die.
And fighting with Shayin is by no means a situation that any senior Konoha executive who still maintains his sanity wants to see.
It is true that in the decisive battle of Kikyo Mountain, Konoha won a complete victory, and Sand Hide was indeed undoubtedly defeated.
But for this, Konoha also paid a very heavy price, almost twenty percent of the combat strength was killed or wounded, even if those wounded were all treated and could survive in the end, but at least for a short time, these people could not rejoin the battle.
If it weren't for this level of loss, with Tuanzang's extremely aggressive hawkish character, how could he not take advantage of this big victory and chase after Sha Yin fiercely, it would be best to go all the way into Sha Yin Village and directly annex Sha Yin.
The incomparably strong will to fight of the Sand Hidden Ninja gave a deep shock to the high-level people in Konoha Heights, and everyone didn't dare to think about the question of how much it would cost to destroy the Sand Hide.
For Konoha, the most practical significance is how to force Shagakure to sue for peace, and at least let Shagakure withdraw from the war, and how much will it cost to do it.
Next, Konoha still has a long way to go before the final victory!
……
In the Land of Winds, in an oasis town some distance from Mt. Kikyo.
At this moment, this oasis town has become a large barracks, and countless sand ninjas who have fled from the front line of Kikyo Mountain have been gathered by the high-level of Sand Hide, and they are gathered here in panic, and the whole camp is a sound of frustration.
Even Konoha who won a big victory suffered heavy losses, so how miserable should it be to reap a fiasco of Sand Hide?
Sha Yin preliminarily counted the losses, and found that the entire Sha Yin attacked with seventy percent of the combat power before, but at this moment, there were only forty percent of the combat power left, which means that there was a permanent loss of thirty percent of the entire Sha Yin's combat power in this fiasco.
If you convert thirty percent of the combat power into a specific number of losses, it is an astonishing figure that is unacceptable to the entire Sha Yin.
Harvested a fiasco of this magnitude, even with the strength of Sha Yin, it was almost broken in the backbone.
The specific manifestation is that the issue that the top leaders of Shayin are most concerned about at the moment is not how to deal with the bad situation that emerged after this fiasco, but to find out who should be responsible for this defeat first.
At this time, Luo Sha hurriedly took over as Fengying, and the evil consequences of his unattained prestige were completely revealed, and there was no more suitable back-erer than him.
The former doves will naturally jump out and blame Raksha, and the neutrals also believe that Raksha is very responsible for this defeat, even some people who are also hawks have doubts about Raksha's ability because of this fiasco, thinking that he may no longer be suitable to serve as the Wind Shadow.
Seeing that the sand hidden that Konoha was looking forward to was about to become a reality due to the internal changes due to the fiasco.
It can be at a high-level plenary meeting.
Many people in the high-level of Shayin still blame Luo Sha, and even involved the issue of Fengying's status, and Luo Sha has no room for refutation of this, and it seems that he should be the one who should be the backstabber.
"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”
Chiyo's mother-in-law slapped the table several times with her hand, you must know that a pair of sensitive and skillful hands are extremely important for a puppeteer, and it is usually too late to take care of her hands carefully, how can she do something like slapping the table with her hands that will cause damage to her hand, which can only say that she has been angry to the extreme.
"You people, one by one, only know how to hold accountable, what's the point? The most important question now is, how to deal with this current bad situation?! ”
Seeing that Chiyo's mother-in-law was angry, those high-ranking officials could only stop the siege of Rasha, but no one could put forward useful constructive suggestions.
"Raksha, you're the Wind Shadow, what do you say about it?"
Facing Chiyo's mother-in-law's direct questioning, Raksha raised his head to look at her, opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything, and instantly lowered his head again, his face full of pain, as if he was still immersed in the previous fiasco and couldn't extricate himself.
Granny Chiyo was even angrier, but in the end she sighed deeply, shook her head in disappointment, and left the conference room, leaving only one sentence.
"If all of you can no longer bear the glorious responsibility of keeping the great village of Shayin going, then let me, the old woman, carry it, and the old woman will not hesitate......