As night fell, Haruno's carriage was quietly parked beside the forest road, and a bonfire flickered to dispel the darkness near the carriage.

Both Haruno Bubuki and Haruno Sakura slept in the carriage, and only Haruno Zhao sat in the coachman's seat, leaning against the wooden beams of the carriage, but did not sleep.

The dark night brings infinite imagination, and the forest in the dark is more likely to cause some very bad imagination.

Looking at the woods on both sides of the road, the flickering firelight reflected the dark shadows of the trees, and it looked like people standing in the dark, quietly staring at the side of the carriage.

The sleepless Haruno, still thinking about the trees that stood in the way ahead.

According to Haruno Zhao's knowledge, this place is close to the Hell Canyon, which is full of deadly poisonous gas, and although the poisonous gas will not spill here, no one wants to live so close to danger for a long time, so there is no possibility of a village nearby.

So what exactly are the people who cut down the trees and leave them in the middle of the road, and what is the purpose of these people?

But in any case, the ninjas sent by Konoha Village should arrive tomorrow morning, and when the time comes, they can help clear the trees, and they can also look nearby to find out who has set up such a sinister barricade in such a remote place.

Gradually, Haruno Zhao couldn't withstand the fatigue of driving the carriage for a long time, and his consciousness gradually became dizzy, and his eyelids slowly closed.

Woo~

Woo~

Woo~

Half-asleep, Haruno heard a painful whimper.

The sound was eerily dissonant in the silence of the forest, the slight chirping of insects, and the occasional burst of fire.

Haruno Zhao sensed this dissonance and immediately regained consciousness, straightening his body to look at the darkness around him.

This whimpering of pain was indeed a real sound, and it came from the dark bushes beside the road.

Woo~

Woo~

The whimpering sound is somewhat similar to the moaning sound of a human after being injured, and the sound of three points resembling a human but seven points more like a ghost is stretched out very long, and the tone is somewhat sharp and even harsh.

Realizing that this was indeed the sound of reality, Haruno immediately jumped out of the carriage, walked to the fire, picked up a burning stick, and stretched it out towards the bushes next to the road, hoping to see farther away.

But the source of the sound was more distant than expected, and the light of the fire on the burning sticks was far enough to reach the location where the sound came from.

Woo~Woo~

Suddenly, the whimper became rapid, as if the person making the sound was in an unstable mood.

Now Haruno Zhao is faced with a choice.

One option is that there may be injured people in the woods who need to be treated.

The other option is to do nothing.

Under the two choices, Haruno Zhao decisively chose the former, after all, there was a living human being on the other side, and it was impossible for him to let a living life fade away in his ears.

Determined to make up his mind, Haruno Zhao found a stick in the fire that could burn for a long time, and headed for the bushes.

...

The woods at night are always difficult to walk in, especially in this kind of woods full of low shrubs, and the sticks that can't burn efficiently can't illuminate the places that are too dark under your feet, so Haruno Zhao's speed is not very fast.

But it didn't take long for Haruno to notice that the light of the burning fire in the carriage behind him was no longer visible, and he was still a long way away from the person in front of him who was still whimpering.

Although Haruno Zhao was determined to save people, he didn't want to leave the carriage too far, so he stopped where he was and shouted into the darkness of the woods in the distance, "Where are you?" ”

Woo~

The sobbing sound was a little sharper, as if the injured person was working harder, and the injury seemed to be so severe that he could not utter normal human words, so he could only respond with this vague voice.

There was no way, Haruno Zhao could only follow the sound and continue to go deeper into the forest.

...

In the quiet carriage, Bud Blowing slowly opened his eyes.

Glancing at the sleeping Sakura Haruno next to her, Mei Fuki smiled slightly, covered it with the blanket that had been kicked off, and then stepped out of the carriage.

Mei Buki knew that her husband must be tired, so she wanted to change with her husband and let herself keep vigil instead of Haruno.

Originally, Mei Buki felt that there was no need for a vigil, but Haruno insisted that someone keep vigil.

But when Bud blew away from the carriage, he found that there was no one next to the carriage, only a fire that was getting smaller and smaller.

"Husband?"

"Husband?"

Afraid of waking up her sleeping daughter, the sound of the buds blowing and shouting was not too loud, and the sound could only spread to the bushes on both sides of the road at most.

But in the dark bushes, no one answered her.

For a while, Bud Blowing was a little panicked, after all, it was the middle of the night, where could Haruno Zhao go?

Bud Buck began to look in the bushes around the carriage, and although he left the carriage, Bud Buki was always within the light of the fire and did not go far.

"Husband?"

"Where are you?"

Shouting back and forth in the bushes next to him, suddenly a child's cry came from behind.

Sakura!

As soon as the buds blew, they heard the cry of their daughter, and rushed back to the carriage in three steps and two steps.

When I opened the curtain of the carriage, I saw that the carriage was empty, and the Sakura Haruno was gone.

Before Bud could shout Sakura's name around, he saw a dark figure standing on the side of the road beyond the limit of what the fire's light could reach.

This dark figure was very short, more than two ends shorter than Mei Fuki, who was a woman, and looked like a slightly older child.

Although the face could not be seen from this distance, Bud Fuki saw the pink hair that was holding a smaller object in his arms, the occasional throbbing of the firelight that shone farther away.

"Sakura-chan!"

Mei Buki immediately recognized that the figure was holding Sakura in his arms, and shouted in the direction where the figure was.

And the thing in the figure's arms immediately let out a whimper, although it was not clear, but Bud Blowing could also hear that it was his daughter's voice.

"Hmm..."

Mei Buki immediately determined that the figure was holding Sakura, and began to nervously negotiate with the figure in the dark.

"What do you want?"

"Money?"

"I'll give it to you."

"Let my child go, let her go."

Bud Bud said as she slowly approached the figure, trying to get as close as possible to him before snatching Sakura from her hand.

But in the face of the conditions of the buds blowing, the short figure stood in place, without any answer.

Just as Bud Buki was less than ten paces away from the figure, the short figure suddenly turned around and ran towards the woods behind him.

"No!"

"Sakura-chan!"

Watching the figure quickly jump over the bushes and burrow into the darker dense forest, the mother's instinct made the bud blow not hesitate, and followed directly into the dense forest.

For a moment, only a lone carriage was left parked on the side of the road.