Early the next morning, Kakashi, Wolftooth Avalanche, Asama Santaio, and three of their retinue set off for the northern camp in Snow Country.

The area north of the Snow King's Palace is rarely inhabited, and the tracks of the train do not go north, so the group of six can only ride in a sled dog pull.

Twenty-four sled dogs led three sleds galloped across the snowy fields, surrounded by desolate mountain tops and glaciers that had frozen for an unknown number of years.

Speechless all the way.

It wasn't until almost noon that Santa Asama, who was riding the same sled as Kakashi, pointed to a snow-covered ridge in front of him and said, "Go over there and you'll reach the forbidden area of Snow Country, where there's a permanent camp." ”

Snow Country is a small country, but it has a very wide area, but due to the temperature, most of the land is inhabitable.

And this permanent camp is to draw a dividing line between the habitable land and the forbidden area of life in the Snow Country.

Across the ridge, Kakashi's party finally saw the permanent camp.

It's a huge camp, with two rows of side-by-side wooden houses that can accommodate almost a hundred people.

Not only that, but the warehouses here have enough supplies, and they only need to receive supplies from the outside world once a month.

According to Asama, this permanent camp was built under the command of his younger brother Asama Shitaifu, and he also proposed that the area to the north of this camp be listed as a forbidden area in the Snow Country.

"Hurry up and set off to the rescue, if you don't set off, your brother will probably starve to death." Avalanche said from the side.

At this time, a sturdy young man came out of the camp.

"Mr. Sitaifu's exploration team has brought enough food for more than a month, and now it has only been half a month, and I won't worry about food for the time being."

"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm the vice captain of this camp, Beihe, Long Island."

In response to Long Island Beihe's rebuttal, Wolf Tooth Avalanche smacked his tongue, and his face was slightly unhappy.

"Before the rescue team sets off, it's better for you to understand the specific situation, come with me."

Led by Nagashima Kitagawa, Kakashi and the others entered the wooden board room of the camp and met one of the members of the exploration team.

"Shiraishi-kun is also one of the members of the exploration team, but for some reason, he turned back halfway, so let him and the two ninjas talk about the situation again."

Shiraishi in front of him trembled slightly, and began to tell about what he had encountered after setting off with the exploration team.

"The exploration team that day was originally a total of seventeen people plus me, and the direction of progress was due north."

"We were riding a sled pulled by dozens of sled dogs and reaching about 30 kilometers from the camp at a very fast speed."

"But at that moment, all the sled dogs suddenly stopped leaving."

"The sled dog, which used to be docile, suddenly became extremely irritable and barked incessantly at the northern sky."

"We tried our best to appease the sled dogs, but to no avail, the sled dogs just insisted on not going north."

"Unable to rely on the sled dogs to move on, the captain of the fourth wife can only decide to send one person to send these dozens of sled dogs back to the camp, and this person is me.

"But before leaving, the captain has to take some rock samples in situ and bring them back for research."

"We drilled through the ice with a drill and got samples of the rock from under the ice."

"I'll explain it to both of you."

Nagashima Kitagawa took the conversation and brought Kakashi and Wolf Tooth Avalanche to the long wooden table next to him.

"Look, these are rock samples taken thirty kilometers north of the camp."

Kakashi looked up closer, at the slightly reddish, striated rocks, knowing that they were common sedimentary rocks, and couldn't see anything worth saying about it.

But Beihe on Long Island solemnly picked up one of the striped rocks and said, "Don't you see the wave patterns on this rock?" ”

"Although it looks like a wave pattern of rock formed by ordinary extrusion, according to the analysis of the biologists in our camp, this is not a rock, but a fossil of some kind of organic life with muscle textures."

"This rock was once a piece of flesh from some kind of organism!"

"Or to put it another way, all the 'rocks' on the table are a piece of flesh from some kind of creature that has evolved to be quite large!"

As soon as these words came out, Kakashi and Wolf Fang Avalanche immediately showed very shocked expressions.

A random rock drilled out of the ice field is a piece of flesh from a certain creature, so how large is the body of this creature?

Thinking in a more striking direction, is it possible that the entire ice field is made up of the body of an organism?

And they are stepping on this organism now!

The biggest behemoth Kakashi has ever seen is undoubtedly the Nine-Tails who attacked Konoha Village last year, but Nine-Tails' body is barely enough to occupy half of Konoha Village.

And the Nine-Tails is not a living thing, it is a chakra aggregate.

And this is a living organic life, but the body has evolved to the size of a vast ice field, and the range that stretches for hundreds or thousands of kilometers may be its body.

No matter how large the creature was, it had become a fossil to be cut and an ice field to be trampled underfoot, but the shock to Kakashi was large enough.

And this incident reminded Kakashi of the previous Cthulhu, which also came from a long river of time that was immeasurable in human history, could these two unknown beings intersect sometime in the past?

Kakashi had no way of knowing, but the wolf tooth avalanche next to him showed disdain.

"Even if it is?"

"My mission is to rescue, not to study some huge creature, not to mention that this creature has now become a fossil, so there is no need to waste time explaining things that have nothing to do with the mission."

"What do you say, Kakashi Hachiki from Konoha Village?"

Kakashi neither affirmed nor denied, seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Beihe Nagashima next to him hurriedly took over the words.

"In that case, let's talk to the two of you about the difficulties of this rescue."

"We don't know the exact location of the expedition team at the moment, but we only learned from the last radio that the expedition team is 45 kilometers northwest of the camp, where they found a cave."

"Knowing this, it is still too broad to find a sixteen-person exploration team on this ice field."

Nagashima pointed to the area drawn with a pen on the map, and although the reliable transmission distance of the radio and the last description of Shitsuo Asama still planned a relatively small rescue area, this was only the "small" reflected on the map.

On such a large ice field, the slightest difference is a thousand miles away.

"We thought about using the sled dogs' sense of smell to find the exploration team, but all the sled dogs in the camp refused to go north, as Shiraishi-kun said just now."

"And there had been a week of snowstorms before, and now there is no way to leave the smell of the exploration team on the ice sheet."

Nagashima Beihe told the difficulties of this rescue, and everyone bowed their heads gloomily, especially Asama Santai.

But Kakashi said, "Where are those sled dogs in the camp?" ”

"Take me to see it."