Another noon a month later.

In the ninja school, the future Konoha powerhouses sat around and ate lunch together.

"Alas. What has Brother Tam been doing every day this month? They won't come to class with us anymore," Naruto said with a sudden sigh of relief, "It's been a month since I've eaten Boss Tam's food." ”

"Oh? Do you feel wronged by eating the bento I made these days? Sakura on the side said in a dangerous tone.

"No, of course I can eat the bento that Sakura made for me," Naruto hurriedly remedied, "It's much better than the instant noodles I used to eat." ”

On the contrary, this had the opposite effect, making Sakura's face darker and arrogantly said, "Stupid Naruto! I won't bring you food in the future, let's eat your instant noodles! ”

Naruto suddenly apologized again, making everyone smile heartily. Ino covered his mouth with a smile and said, "Naruto-kun is very romantic at the critical moment, but he is usually not a gentleman at all. Naruto blushed a little.

"But... Tam cuisine is truly a work of art on another level. I haven't eaten it in a month! Foodie Ding Ji made a sincere evaluation, and used chopsticks to flick the lunch box he brought from home without interest, looking loveless.

Hinata was also a little disappointed when she heard this, and said, "Tamu said that he was going to do a special practice during the day, which is a very important thing. ”

"Practice? It's really troublesome..."Salted fish Shikamaru said.

"Woohoo!" Akamaru barked softly, and Inuzuka immediately translated for him: "Akamaru said that he misses Tam too." "Well, it's actually missing Tamu's secret braised pork bones.

Although he was accompanied by these good friends and understood that Tamu had important things to do, Hinata was still a little unreasonable and angry in his heart: he said that he wanted to accompany me, but he left me alone every day and disappeared.

Looking up at the sky outside the window, Hinata couldn't help but think, "What are you doing now, Tam?" ”

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At this time, in the Forest of Death, Shinobu Shimada-kun is scouting the environment by himself.

Originally, it was just a simple task to check the examination room in advance for this year's Zhongnin exam. This is the equivalent of a routine annual inspection to see how the beasts in the Forest of Death are doing and whether they can support the needs of the trial candidates.

After receiving this task, Shimada-kun just took a weekend off to relax. But when Shimada-kun probed deeply for a long time, a senior shinobi told him that there was something wrong with this forest!

First of all, after walking for so long, he had never encountered a large beast, which was already extremely abnormal. You must know that the Forest of Death is a place where Konoha specializes in raising fierce beasts, and there are so many fierce beasts in it that there are enough to make every ordinary person who accidentally breaks in have no bones.

And then, casually, he found a few traces of fierce battles. Life-and-death struggles between beasts are not uncommon, but in the scene left behind, Shimada-kun can always see a complete beast corpse.

Wrong! If you die at the hands of a wild beast, it is impossible to leave a complete corpse. What's even more bizarre is that some of the beast carcasses are a few days old, but there are no other beasts to eat the meat.

This shows that in this forest, there is a more terrifying creature, or a guy who has the wisdom to kill deliberately.

Is it the traitor who has wandered here, or are spies from other villages doing something unspeakable here? Shimada-kun's nerves tightened, and he couldn't help but pull out his family heirloom sword, vigilantly observing the wind and grass around him.

Observing the traces in the forest, he suddenly found some strange large footprints on several trees, which did not look like human footprints, and were still fresh.

This is the trace of using chakra to climb, and sure enough, there are unknown intelligent beings here. But it's not supposed to be a professional ninja, so there's no intention of covering up traces at all. With his combat experience, Shimada accurately made a mental sketch of an opponent he had never met, picked up his knife and followed the footprints.

After chasing the footprints for a while, Shimada heard a loud crack of rocks, and the smoke and dust cleared, and he saw a large toad-like creature standing on the corpse of a giant tiger in front of him, and his long and terrible tongue sticking out of the bloody mouth and dangling in midair.

It's so strong! Shimada suddenly judged the strength of the unknown creature in front of him, and thought to himself: I have to strike first.

Shimada's right hand quickly spread, and three delicate shuriken flew over. Immediately afterwards, I heard an angry roar: "Nima! Which grandson pierced me? ”

Unbeknownst to Shimada, his opponent had just finished killing the monsters and exited the battle mode, de-digitized, and was still immersed in the small world of his game store, otherwise it would be impossible to beat him at all. By chance, Shimada became the only ninja in the world who had ever hurt this toad.

Hum! And that's not all! Shimada sneered, how could an ordinary shuriken be useful against such a large ninja beast?

I heard a loud bang on the ground, and the shuriken embedded in the toad's body exploded suddenly, and the thick smoke and fire instantly enveloped a small forest.

After eating this, even the middle ninja with extremely high physical fitness has to lie down. Shimada Kimikatsu approached the ground in his grip, only to see a tongue slamming out of the smoke. Shimada quickly used his teleportation technique to dodge, but the tongue went straight to the landing point of his teleportation technique at a strange speed, hitting him mercilessly.

What a force! Shimada only felt a sharp pain and wanted to raise his knife to resist, but the next tongue hit him without giving him time to breathe.

In just a few breaths, no matter how much he tossed and turned, he had already been hit in three places on his body, and although he could still move, his speed inevitably became sluggish. And the monster, but standing in front of him intact, obviously faced the meaning that the explosion was completely unharmed, and cursed: "Bastard, I'm in a daze, you actually blew me?" ”

With all his last strength, Shimada tried to throw a smoke bomb on the ground and find a chance to escape. But his actions attracted the attention of the blame me, and I only heard a loud shout: "[Giant tongue whipping]! A tongue struck straight at him. This attack didn't have the weird feeling of being undodgable like before, but he was already injured and had no time to dodge the blow.

The moment his tongue touched him, he immediately had the feeling of being hit by a powerful illusion, and his mind instantly felt dizzy, and vaguely, he felt as if he was caught by something and thrown out.

Shimada finally recovered from the dizziness, and the powerful stunning effect made him have no idea how much time had passed, only to find that he had hung upside down on a large tree, sore all over. What's even more terrifying is that his pants have been scratched at some point, leaving only his bare thighs hanging in the air and fluttering, and the monster below is still looking at him with terrible eyes.

Don't!? Shimada suddenly remembered a terrifying possibility, could it be that this monster still has a habit in that aspect? He's not going to do anything to me, is he? Or was it that when I just fainted, it was....

Shimada couldn't help but hold the family heirloom knife that was still in his hand, and shouted in horror, "Help! There's a to open my pants chain! ”