With the help of the three of Shikamaru, both the unconscious Pleiades and Beidou were sent back to the training ground.

And Natsume begged Shikamaru and the others not to tell him what had happened to him, and Shikamaru agreed.

On the way back to the village, Ino and Akido Dingji ask Shikamaru how to explain to Akashi.

After all, Akashi is the client of this mission, and the iron rule of the ninja is responsible for the mission employer.

And Shikamaru just said lightly: "Akashi didn't directly entrust us to protect the first meteorite of the Satellite Ninja Village, remember what Akashi said to us when we were in the village just now?" ”

At this time, Ino remembered and said in surprise: "That's right! He put us in charge of guarding the second meteorite, and the first meteorite didn't have to worry about us. ”

"But now that the second meteorite has been destroyed, our mission has failed anyway."

Hearing the cold water poured by Akido Dingji on the side, Ino was lost again, because if the mission failed, it would have an impact on the subsequent promotion of the entire group.

"No, the meteorite hasn't gone yet."

"Shikamaru, what are you talking about?"

"Ahh It's nothing, let's go to the mission report first. ”

...

In the village chief's room, Shikamaru began to report to Akashi.

Although Shikamaru promised not to tell Pleiades that the ninja who attacked them was actually his mother Natsume, he did not say that he would not report the sneak attack on the ninja to Akashi.

So Shikamaru reported the situation of the star thief from the perspective of an outsider who was completely unaware of the inside story.

For example, the person who steals the stars is strong and proficient in the peacock magic method of the Star Ninja Village.

This made Akaxing's face suddenly change, and his yin-like face quickly sank.

Shikamaru knew that Akashi should have guessed the identity of the person who stole the stars, but Shikamaru thought that it was appropriate for him to do so, neither violating the iron rules of ninjas, nor getting too involved in the internal battles of Star Ninja Village.

What worries Shikamaru even more now is the meteorite that disappeared on its own.

Of course, in order not to reveal that he had learned the identity of the ninja was Natsume's thing, Shikamaru did not tell Akashi the reasoning that the meteorite disappeared by himself.

After leaving the village chief's office, Shikamaru asked Ino and Akido Dingji to go back to the guest house first, and he wanted to investigate some things nearby.

"Shikamaru, where are you going?" Akido Dingji asked uneasily.

"You don't care, anyway, I'll just move around the village, and I won't go far."

"But..."

"Don't worry, I'll be back before it gets dark."

As soon as Shikamaru waved his hand, he immediately jumped on the beam of the house and disappeared, leaving Ino and Akido Dingji in place with a confused expression.

After acting alone, Shikamaru first came to the crater where the meteorite fell.

The meteorites in the crater have completely disappeared, and there are no ninjas from the Star Ninja Village to guard it here.

Shikamaru jumps into the pit, searching for useful clues in the scorched gravel of the pit.

After flipping through it a few times, Shikamaru found something strange.

It's something like broken porcelain pieces, which have a slightly curved surface and obvious oblique vertical stripes on them.

Shikamaru picked up a piece of broken porcelain, and with just a slight force, the entire piece of porcelain made a slight popping sound, and then turned into dust and scattered in the air.

And at the moment when the broken porcelain piece exploded into powder, Shikamaru clearly saw a trace of pink-purple strange phosphorescence burst out from the broken porcelain piece, and then quickly disappeared into the air.

Shikamaru picked up some other "broken porcelain pieces", but in the same way, just a slight pinch with external force instantly turned into powder, and at the same time emitted some pink-purple phosphorescence into the air.

It is clear that these are not ordinary broken porcelain pieces, but fragments of meteorites that disappeared for no apparent reason.

According to Shikamaru's inference, this meteorite should have been filled with some kind of energy, and the broken porcelain piece in his hand should be the body of the meteorite, or a carrier that carries some kind of energy.

Originally, these curved pieces of porcelain may have been put together to form something like a sphere, which was filled with that kind of energy.

It's just that this energy is very easy to diffuse in this world, and after the energy in the meteorite is diffused, the meteorite itself becomes very fragile and shatters when touched.

As for the appearance of energy, it should be those strange pink-purple rays.

So far, Shikamaru's guess is this.

It's just that Shikamaru knows that energy doesn't disappear out of thin air, and energy will only transform from one form to another.

The transformation may be to enter the local tomatoes, making the tomatoes look delicious, but in fact they are extremely unpalatable.

If that's all, Shikamaru thinks it's nothing, it's just not to eat.

But I'm afraid that these energies will have a more terrible effect on the rest of the world.

Some irreversible, non-renewable effects...

Shikamaru stopped paying attention to the meteorite fragments in the crater and turned and ran towards the woods behind the farmhouse.

Shortly after entering the woods, Shikamaru noticed something wrong.

A forest like this near a human gathering place doesn't show much animal activity, but it's not like there aren't any animals.

But in reality, the woods are eerily silent, and there is no squirrel activity or insect chirping around.

The whole forest was immersed in a terrible dead silence.

Shikamaru sneaks through a dark forest path and finally finds a pond in the middle of the forest.

There is no trace of human activity around the pond, and it is believed that only animals often drink water here.

But at this time, the pond was eerily silent, and on the surface of the pond, Shikamaru saw something.

These things are not easily seen during the day, but can only be seen at this moment when the sun is going down and the woods are getting darker.

The pink-purple phosphorescent light that appeared on the surface of the water could not help but give people a strange feeling.

It was a feeling of doom that had even surpassed any vision that Shikamaru's consciousness could have conceived.

And these strange colors are no longer just sparkling, but form bursts of gushing from the depths below the surface of the water in the form of Baotu Spring.

It feels like it's overflowing, or the pacing of the human heart, drumming and drumming...

Strangely, however, the colors did not bubble when they erupted from beneath the water's surface, nor did they carry a single drop of water away from the surface with them.

These colors are only self-conscious, erupting and agitating on their own as if they were incorporeal, and the fact that the calm water surface is not stirred up a single wave is the best proof that the colors have no substance.

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These disembodied colors slowly flowed to Shikamaru's feet like a rising tide, like two pairs of tentacles trying to wrap around Shikamaru.

Shikamaru immediately reflexively jumped up and jumped to a place where the color was temporarily out of reach.

And at this time, Shikamaru's ears heard some heavy gasps.

Shikamaru followed the sound and immediately looked over and saw the terrifying things on the side of the pond.

They were some of the animals that Shikamaru couldn't say, but judging from some of the features of some of their parts that were faintly recognizable, they were animals called "wolves".

But at this time these wolves hardly possess any canine characteristics.

They already have a wolf head at the top of their bodies, but as if they were not satisfied, they also have a wolf head on their backs.

These two wolf heads are toothless and toothy, and their appearance is extremely fierce, and the fierceness of their eyes is the most terrifying Shikamaru has ever seen in his life.

And when Shikamaru confronted these different two-headed wolves, the huge and deformed tails of these wolves also split and bloomed like peacocks.

On the inside of the ends of these tails, countless snakeheads as dense as clusters of enoki mushrooms wriggle like maggots.

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