On the rocking carriage, Heiji Abe once again introduced his identity.

He was a minister in the Daimyo Mansion of the Land of Fire, and this bhikshu village was his hometown.

There are two main reasons for returning to his hometown this time, one is to visit his sick father, and the other is to deal with the aftermath of the flash flood here on behalf of the Daimyo's house.

"Mountain?" Mute asked.

"Yes." Abu Pingci nodded, then lifted the curtain of the carriage and pointed to the two mountains not far away.

"The two mountains are called Hikchu, and the Abe Lumber Yard that runs them is the property of our Abe family, and most of the villagers in Bhikshu Village are employees there."

"By the way, the Abe lumber yard provides one-third of the wood in the land of fire."

Shizun nodded and understood, the person in front of him was a big man.

His family business controls one-third of the wood in the Land of Fire, and he is also the minister of the Daimyo Mansion of the Land of Fire, so such a prominent status is a guest worthy of the Hokage's personal reception even among the mission trustees of Konoha Village.

"A month ago, it rained in this area for several days, causing flash floods on Bhichu Mountain."

"However, when the Abe Lumber Yard was built 40 years ago, my father had already taken into account the flash floods, and the location of the lumber yard avoided the river course of the flash floods, so the flash floods did not cause casualties or damage to the factory."

"But after the flash flood ended, the loggers at the Abe lumber yard noticed something unusual when they went up the mountain to cut wood."

As he spoke, Abe Heiji took out a small stack of photos from his briefcase and handed them to Tsunade.

"These photos are some strange phenomena discovered by lumberjacks on the bhikshu mountain, and my father personally went up the mountain to take pictures for evidence."

Tsunade began to look down at the photo, and Shizune and Azuki next to him also leaned their heads over to look at it together.

First of all, the first photo is on the wet mud floor in the sun, with a clear "footprint".

Although it is said to be "footprints", its practical "paw prints" is more appropriate.

It was a strange mark that is difficult to describe accurately with human language and cognition, the outline of the mark was somewhat crab-like, but one of the jagged claws extended in the opposite direction.

The strange outline makes it difficult to distinguish the forward and backward direction of this footprint, and it can only be judged that this footprint is very fresh, and the weight on it is heavy enough.

And Ishitaro Abe, who took this photo, also carefully placed a leather shoe next to the footprint, which is almost the same size as the sole of a human foot according to the size of the leather shoe.

Tsunade didn't comment on the photo, instead flipping through the next one.

The next photo is of a mountain stream, which at first glance does not look unusual, but if you look closely, you can see that there is something in the flowing water of the mountain stream.

In what should have been crystal clear after the flash flood subsided, there was a layer of flocculent that looked very thick, transparent overall, but occasionally had pale green spots.

These flocculents build up in the gutter, and the mucus-like filaments inside look a little disgusting.

At this time, Abe Heiji explained, "At first, it was a lumberjack from the lumberyard who came to report to my father that some unusual drifting objects had been found in the mountain stream and river, and it seemed to be some kind of animal carcass that had never been seen before. ”

"But by the time my father went up to the mountain with his camera, all he could find was these flocs."

"Now I can't even find the floc there, I think it's been washed away along the river."

Regarding Abe Heiji's explanation, Tsunade still did not respond.

But in Tsunade's opinion, since these flocculents were not washed away by the gentle current before Abe Shitaro arrived, it was impossible for them to be washed away later.

Looking at the next photo, it is a large black stone with an irregular shape.

The black stone lies silently in the middle of the clearing, its slightly curved surface showing obvious signs of artificial cutting.

These strange facets shape the black boulder into a strange geometry, and there are some strange symbols on several of the pesteomorphic facets on the surface of the boulder.

Ishitaro Abe's camera took a close-up of these quirky symbols.

These symbols are distorted and irregular, and the current human knowledge system is completely unable to understand the meaning of these symbols.

The only thing that is certain is that these crude and primitive symbols must have originated from an era that is much older than human history.

"This black boulder was suddenly found by a lumberjack in the forest after a flash flood."

"According to the loggers, before the flash flood, there was absolutely no black boulder in that dense forest, and this boulder appeared out of nowhere."

"So now the lumbercutters at the lumber yard are rumored to have a certain god living in the bhikshu mountain, and the logging work that is gradually advancing deep into the mountains has disturbed the gods living in the deep mountains, so the gods have sent down torrents and black boulders as a warning."

"This incident caused a lot of panic, and all the lumberjacks were afraid to go to the mountains, and the lumberyards could not produce wood."

"His Majesty the Daimyo attaches great importance to this matter now, so he has appointed me to deal with this matter, hoping to resume timber production as soon as possible."

Abe's words were hurried, and he was about to shift the topic from the weird content of the photo to some real issues, but in fact, Tsunade had not finished reading the photo in his hand.

The next few photos are the weirdest of them all, because they all have one thing in common, which is that they all have a fairly large blurred area in the photos.

In a personal photograph of Ishitaro Abe, Ishitaro Abe is on one knee on one side of the photo, and Ishitaro looks a little happy with a bow in one hand and a quiver behind him.

Ishitaro's other hand rests on an unknown object.

It's not that Tsunade can't describe the image of the object, but in the photograph, the object itself is a blurry, fog-shrouded invisible area.

This is true for the next few photographs, which are close-ups of the unknown object in Ishitaro's hand.

But I don't know for what reason, this object is blurry in the photo, obviously the surrounding scenery is very clear, except for a blurred area in the middle.

Abe Heiji saw that Tsunade was very concerned about the photos, so he said, "I also asked my father about these photos, but my father said that he doesn't remember what happened at that time. ”

"So I'm guessing it's a problem with the camera, or something else."

"Also, my father's personal health has been going on with some problems lately."

"After the flash floods, my father worked day and night for the lumber yard, so much so that he was very debilitating, asthmatic, and possibly mild dementia."

"Please ask Tsunade-sama to help heal me."

"Please."

As he spoke, Abe bowed solemnly to Tsunade.