Around the bonfire that burned in the middle of the night, Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Talina took the sky as their quilt and the earth as their seat.

After a day's journey and encounters in the village, Naruto and the others quickly fell asleep.

Only Kakashi didn't fall asleep looking up at the starry summer night with his arms as a pillow.

Kakashi was still thinking about the corpse he had just seen, the corpse of Nao Asano.

The cause of death of the corpse was the removal of bodily fluids, and Kakashi had seen numerous wounds on the skin of the deceased's arm.

These minimally wounds are a circle of burn-like circular marks with a punctate wound that resembles a pinhole at the center.

This bizarre wound should be the reason why Nao Asano's body was sucked dry.

So when Talina proposed that the people from the neighboring village were killing people and taking the treasure, Kakashi immediately denied it.

Because ordinary people certainly can't do this, and there's no reason to do it on purpose.

But what exactly could have caused such a wound, Kakashi didn't know.

And the earthquake that occurred last night in the mouths of the villagers is also worth thinking about.

According to Kakashi's experience, if it is an earthquake of this magnitude that is enough to collapse a house, a slight tremor of the ground should be felt dozens of kilometers away.

But in fact, before coming to this village, Kakashi didn't feel any of this in the slightest.

Why is it that an earthquake that is enough to collapse an entire village of houses has such a small impact?

Forget it, let's go urinate first, and then I'll sleep too.

Kakashi got up and walked to the bushes not far from the campsite, unbuttoning his pants with his back to the campfire.

The sound of rushing water crashing against the dirt on the ground relieved the pressure on a certain part of Kakashi's body.

But just as Kakashi finished draining the water and was about to put on his pants, he found that his hands couldn't move.

At this moment, Kakashi felt as if his hands were out of the control of his brain, and he wanted to lift them but only his thumb could move slightly.

A second passes...

Thirty seconds passed...

A minute passes...

In this stagnation, which did not know when it would end, Kakashi's sense of time was infinitely extended, and he could only stand by the bushes in an unsightly posture like a figurine.

And during this time when his body was unable to move, Kakashi also seemed to hear a chanting sound in his ears.

This inhuman chant is dreamlike, sometimes emitting the rustic sounds of the human world heard by an ignorant child, or the crisp whisper of a babbling stream jumping in a mountain stream.

What's even more striking is that Kakashi can clearly feel that this chant is not the sound of the flat environment in which he lives

These chants come from underground!

Kakashi knew that his brain was absolutely awake at the moment, and these chanting sounds were definitely not auditory hallucinations in his brain's imagination, but absolutely real existence.

There's something underground!

What is making this noise!

Kakashi's sensory system was heightened by the horror of facing the unknown at this moment, and even in the midst of this gradually clarifying chant, Kakashi heard a faint chirp.

The sound of the ground was filled with the sound of rocks churning, grinding, and shaking, as if something was digging underground.

Something is coming up!

Kakashi didn't know exactly what it was, but the rock-churning chimes were indeed getting closer to the surface.

And what scared Kakashi even more was why his body still couldn't move.

At this time, Kakashi clearly felt that something was coming, and danger was coming, but his body always maintained a posture of urinating and could not move.

Am I, Kakashi, going to die in this ugly position?

In the strange chant that came from the ground, Kakashi didn't feel anything good, but an indescribable sense of danger.

This dangerous aura is absolutely deadly.

Damn it!

Get me moving!

Eight doors Dunjia, the first door, open the door, open!

In the long-term battle with Akai, Kakashi used the Sharingan to copy the mystery of the Eight Gates of Dunjia, so he was able to reach the level of opening the first gate.

The main function of opening the door is to forcibly unblock the limitations of the brain and allow the body to exert 100% strength and speed.

Kakashi believed that he was completely conscious, but his body was unable to move, and that he must have been attacked by some kind of illusion.

But just now Kakashi quietly used the usual solution of illusion, but it didn't work, which means that his chakra was not affected.

Then in addition to the illusion chakra, the only thing that can affect the body's mobility is the brain.

So at this moment, Kakashi chose to use the method of the Eight Gate Dunjia to forcibly unlock the brain's restrictions on the body's mobility.

As the door opened, Kakashi immediately felt some kind of restriction that bound his brain be opened, and his body could move.

Kakashi quickly lifted his pants as the sound of the ground cracking came from behind him.

Not good!

That thing is coming up!

With the door open, Kakashi quickly rushed to the campsite where the campfire was held, and at this moment, the form that had been lurking underground also broke the seal of the earth and emerged above the surface.

The creature resembled a giant squid living in the dirt, with a surging tentacles, all of which grew on a soft, slime-covered gray-black sack-like body.

But apart from the outstretched tentacles groping for air, it has no particularly distinctive features.

No, there is!

At the front of the body of this thing there is a sick organ that resembles a tumor mass.

Judging by conventional biological common sense, Kakashi had every reason to think that it was a brain, or a godly center, or some other organ that dominated this horrible, disgusting creature.

And at this moment, Kakashi's brain seemed to receive some kind of signal and got the name of this strange creature.

Drill the Demon Worm!

Ketonians!

While the Ktonians are the official name for this creature, this alien creature is far from human, far less apt than the Driller.

The Driller is a species of burrower that inhabits the depths of the earth, and its soft torso is usually worm-shaped, with slight differences in color depending on the individual, but most of them are grayish-black.

At the top of their bodies are squid-like streamlined tentacles, which they don't need to see or breathe after a long period of underground life, and those squid-around tentacles are their means of sensing the outside world.

As its name suggests, the Driller is best at burrowing.

The rock-solid underground world is as soft as cream to them, and even the hardest basalt can easily drill through.

...

Some basic information about the Driller Worm poured into Kakashi's brain, and with the Driller Worm in front of him with its front half hovering slightly, Kakashi felt a very strange but not unprecedented sense of fear.

This fear of the unspeakable unknown was something Kakashi had experienced in the cities of the Old Ones in the Black Mountains many years ago.

When facing the ancients, Suggoth, and Mi Go, the suffocating and creepy feeling is still fresh in my memory.

And at this moment, this feeling...

It's exactly the same as it was back then!