After sacrificing Parker's SX, the sled dogs kept their promise and obediently came out of their cages, and the people in the camp quickly put all the sled dogs on and prepared to go.

With the help of the sled dogs, the speed of the rescue team was greatly increased, and the people in the camp were confident in the rescue operation.

Although they have been missing for half a month, the people in the camp believe that the trouble encountered by the exploration team is more likely to be just an ordinary natural disaster.

After all, a week's worth of snowstorms, small avalanches and other things can cause the exploration team to lose contact.

But only Asama stood silently in front of the sleigh, still thinking about what he heard on the radio that day.

What was the reason for the screams in the camp?

And what exactly did the last whisper of the fourth lady Asama mean?

Is this the result of a natural disaster, or is there some mysterious force at work?

Kakashi saw Asama's unusual expression and could only pat him on the shoulder to comfort him.

...

A group of 22 rescue team members headed northwest.

All the sled drivers along the way did not take the initiative to guide the sled dog to where to go, but let the sled dog pull the sled towards the nasty smell on its own.

Although the people on the sleigh also used their noses to sniff the air for any peculiar smell, the smell was certainly not perceptible to the normal human sense of smell.

At least it has to be the sense of smell of the Inuzuka family.

The rescue team advanced northwest for about two hours, and the silhouette of a black group of mountains appeared ahead.

These black mountains stand out against the endless ice field, making it difficult for rescue teams to take their eyes off them.

Ghostly stacks of pinnacles and cones form jagged silhouettes, and eerie peaks are tucked into the boiling clouds like Optimus Prime.

And in that layer of clouds and mist, Hexi's sunlight was sifted into a cold white light and fed back to the craggy and dangerous peaks.

The bare and barren black mountain peaks served as an eerie gate, drawing the rescue team's thoughts from the snow-capped ice fields to the unreachable Lost Land.

Such a scene is a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle for all rescue team members.

No one could have imagined that there was such a strange and magnificent black mountain range hidden in the forbidden area of life in the Snow Country!

But in Kakashi's eyes, the black mountain range wasn't as harmonious as it seemed.

The ninja's instincts tell Kakashi that this mountain range contains a nightmarish existence, the ultimate abyss that has been cursed.

This ineffable, hellish feeling is not the first time Kakashi has experienced.

The last time he almost saw the statue of Cthulhu, Kakashi's mind flashed a picture of an ancient city.

The large, bloated green body of the ancient city gave Kakashi the same feeling as it does now!

This made Kakashi subconsciously associate the black mountain in front of him with the Cthulhu he had met before.

The wolftooth avalanche on the other sleigh also squinted slightly, looking out at the black peaks in the distance.

The wolf's tooth avalanche's inner thoughts were not as complicated as Kakashi's, but he felt that this mountain peak gave him an inexplicable sense of disgust, from mental maladaptation.

I don't know why, but it's just annoying.

...

When the rescue team rushed to the foot of the Black Mountains and saw the tragic situation of the camp at the foot of the mountain, everyone's faces were struck.

After a week-long blizzard, the camp was barely intact, with tents, machinery, sled windbreaks, and so on torn to pieces.

At this time, the camp seemed to have been besieged by some huge crowd of people in the mountains, and all of them had been trampled again, and only the largest tent in the middle was barely standing.

Seeing this, everyone was silent, because the damage caused by the blizzard to the exploration team's camp was many times worse than expected.

Mrs. Asama endured the pain and pathos in his heart, and ordered the rescue team to hurry up and find out if there were any survivors.

Kakashi rummaged around as well, just as he pulled out a steel plate from the broken tent.

There was a huge depression in the middle of the frozen steel plate, which didn't look like it was caused by a storm, but rather like some kind of huge force had smashed into it.

Avalanche was also quite surprised when he saw the steel plate in Kakashi's hand.

Even if this steel plate is a shinobi and has the blessing of chakra armor, he can't smash such a huge depression, and the exploration team composed of ordinary people is even more impossible.

Just as the two ninjas stared at the sunken steel plate and thought, the voice of the rescue team came from the other side.

"The body has been found!"

"Come over here!"

Everyone who heard the sound immediately ran over, but saw a scene that looked like a hell of bones.

These are no longer "corpses" at all, they are all scattered from the original intact human body.

The tent cloth on the snow resembles a picnic cloth at this point, on which the head and limbs separated from the torso can be seen everywhere.

There was barely a trace of muscle on the human skeletons, and the broken skin was occasionally implicated with the body, and Bai Sensen's bones had almost melted into the shallow snow that had fallen on them.

And on the most difficult to eat skulls, the cries of horror before the manipulation of the mangled facial muscles of those men still lingered.

Their frozen faces seemed to tell the rescue team about the horrific scene that had taken place here.

When some of the rescue team members with poor psychological quality around saw this situation, the food in their stomachs suddenly surged, and they vomited out with a vomit.

Asama Santai cheered up, suppressed all kinds of complicated emotions in his heart, and instructed the rescue team members to continue to search other places first.

In the camp, the sound of rescue team members reporting from time to time sounded.

But when they got there, all they saw was wreckage, wreckage whose identity could not be proven.

Kakashi, on the other hand, made a new discovery in the only tent in the camp that was barely standing.

Judging by the dissection tools scattered on the ground, it is believed that biological dissection studies were once carried out here.

It's just that what Kakashi sees now is not a trace of a human being dissecting a certain creature, but a creature trying to dissect a human being.

A human corpse was torn to pieces, and its head hung from a hook on the main beam of the tent, like a skilful butcher handling a lamb to the slaughter.

The man's flesh and entrails were all chopped up, and most of them were gone.

The only remaining pieces of meat were scattered around the white crystals that looked distinctly different from snowflakes.

Kakashi crouched on the ground and dipped his fingers in a little of the white crystal, putting it in his mouth and tasting it.

Salty taste, this is salt.

At this point, Kakashi's mind was almost fixed on a thought.

This camp has been baptized by some monster, and this monster...

They possess great power.

They're studying humans.

They feed on humans!