No matter how fierce the battle was outside, Naruto couldn't be known, because the moment Naruto entered the cone-shaped building, the arch behind him closed automatically.

Naruto immediately turned around and pounded the arch, but the solid arch didn't move.

There was no way, and now Naruto could only move on.

The narrow passage is opaque but not dark, and on the ceiling of the gallery, a long strip of greenish-fluorescent substance is embedded in gray minerals.

With the help of these green fluorescences, Naruto noticed the reliefs on the gray walls on either side of the promenade.

These reliefs are full of whimsy and unnatural phenomena that are difficult for the human brain to accept, and Naruto's wisdom is not enough to understand the mysteries of these reliefs.

However, Naruto still guessed the imagery that the relief author wanted to convey through some slightly simpler shapes in the relief.

"This... Isn't it just those gray trees outside? ”

In one part of the relief, Naruto saw some images that were very similar to those gray trees outside.

It's just that the carvings are more concise, omitting the hooks and crosses of the branches, making the gray trees look more like a cylindrical shapeless creature with an oval sarcoma.

Above these cylindrical shapeless creatures, a bird or insect-like creature manipulates a strange cylindrical device that emits a slender ray.

There are also insects surrounding a box that emits petal-like ripples that envelop all the shapeless creatures in it.

These carvings of unknown meaning made Naruto look in a fog, so Naruto didn't stop much and continued to move forward.

Going deeper, Naruto couldn't help but be drawn to the relief again, and stopped in front of the wall.

Because on this wall, Naruto saw a huge cone-shaped structure that took up almost the entire wall, and on this shocking relief, there were all kinds of insects of all kinds.

The types of these insects were all in Naruto's impression, and they were the insects in the Forest of Micro Incense Insects, and the huge pseudo-Micro Incense Worm was particularly eye-catching.

The left part of the cone-shaped building on the relief is made of stones, and at the bottom you can see some disfigured creatures carrying some huge rectangular stones to pile up on the cone-shaped building.

At the edge of the wall, Naruto also saw a large amount of gray powder, which had apparently been chiseled from the relief of the wall.

This shows that the relief in front of you was carved recently.

The content of this recently completed relief should also be something that happened recently, combined with the fact that the cone-shaped building he is in now is a pile of stones on one side and relatively flat on the other, Naruto guessed something.

That is, the original appearance of this cone building should be all gray, but the metallic gray trees outside spread the stones on it, as if to hide the existence of this cone building.

But why do you do it?

Naruto couldn't figure out why, and he didn't want to think about it anymore, and secretly decided that he would no longer be attracted by the content of the mural, and now saving Hinata was the most important thing.

Continuing on, Naruto came to a fork in the road.

There are four paths, an upward circular passage leading to the upper level, and a downward circular trapdoor leading to the lower level, both of which have no ladders or anything like that.

On both sides of this upper and lower passage, there is also a passage on the left and a passage on the right.

The structure here is extremely complicated, and Naruto now regrets not coming in with Inuzuka and the others.

But just as Naruto was in trouble, he suddenly heard a scream.

Hinata!

This is Hinata's voice! Coming from below.

Naruto determined the direction of the sound and jumped into the downward circular passage.

...

In a huge square hall, the three members of the Shangshui Clan were performing a strange ritual.

The three of them bowed to a fifteen-meter-tall short, stocky statue in the center of the hall, and each time they knelt, they would look up at the statue for a short time.

Hinata, who was tied to the ground, laboriously looked up at the statue and saw most of the statue.

It was an extremely detailed, completely inhuman gray statue, with an image that was barely recognizable to Hinata's perception, whether it was two shells spliced together on top and bottom, or some kind of flat, fat beetle.

But the moment Hinata saw the statue, her brain immediately got a message.

Azathoth!

It was the gesture of Azathoth before he was banished into outer space, so profane and indescribable, the gray surface revealing a distortion of a haphazard pouring of metallic liquid.

But even so, the statue's sculptor showed this gesture of Azathoth in the most understandable way for humans and other races.

Unfortunately, this statue still can't show the 1/10,000th charm of the god of blind foolishness.

The name was completely unfamiliar to Hinata, but even so, Hinata couldn't help but feel an indescribable fear in her heart.

[Get 1600 shiver points from Hinata Hinata!] 】

As she knelt down, the female ninja held a gray metal pole in both hands and chanted three strangely sounding unfamiliar words in her mouth.

After chanting and kneeling for about five minutes, the three of them finally slowly stood up, and the female ninja was holding a metal pointed pole, and the two male ninjas next to him helped Hinata to her feet so that she could stand on the ground by herself.

"Let's go."

The female ninja drove Hinata and told her to move forward on her own.

And Hinata looked at the male ninjas on the left and right who were vigilant at all times, and knew that she still couldn't escape at this time.

I don't know why, last night these ninjas looked like they were in pain, crazy masochism, but by daytime, they became as calm as usual.

It's just that these strange actions they made made Hinata couldn't understand.

Driven by the metal spikes, Hinata slowly walked to the wall behind the chunky statue, and on the gray wall was a triangular metal door.

This metal door is thick and solemn, and the two doors are inlaid with two symmetrical insect carvings.

The dim light made it impossible for Hinata to see what the insects looked like, but as Hinata approached the metal door, the two insect carvings flapped their wings slightly.

With the flap of the insect's wings, the metal triangular door slowly opened a small slit to the sides, revealing a gap for only one person to pass through.

At this moment, the sound of liquid tumbling, the rattling of the metal door shaft as it turned, and the dull metal sound of hinges snapping were mixed together.

But in the midst of this, Hinata also heard a fourth voice.