Tsunade's calm words made Airo's eyebrows tremble slightly, and even the word "愛" tattooed on his forehead was slightly distorted.

"Hokage-sama, what do you mean?"

Although I'm Airo and Tsunade are both shadow-level in the village, I'm still more self-aware, and Tsunade is a long-established predecessor in the ninja world, so I use honorifics.

Tsunade coughed lightly in the face of my Airo's doubts, and then the projection screen on the side of the conference room slowly unfolded.

In the mechanical sound of the projection screen slowly falling, Tsunade said in a deep voice: "Actually, we humans have always inhabited an ignorant island that is not alarmed, on a dark and vast unknown ocean. ”

"Maybe we don't want to sail away, but occasionally the tide rises and some small gadgets and discoveries like shells, crabs, and small octopuses will surprise us."

"Because even these gadgets come from the dark realm in the depths of the ocean that humans have never set foot in, and they are terrifying beings that are completely beyond human cognition and common sense."

"Like the ghouls found in your Wind Country, this scavenging monster is just one of many unknowns that humans have not discovered before..."

"It can even be said to be the more mediocre kind."

Tsunade's words made Kazekage and Airo hear it in a fog, but Airo also roughly understood what Tsunade wanted to say.

"What does Hokage-sama mean that there are a lot of monsters like ghouls? There is even no shortage of ghouls more powerful than ghouls? ”

Tsunade crossed his hands in front of him and nodded heavily.

This made the face of my Airo on the other side even more solemn.

On the one hand, Iara wasn't sure if what Tsunade said was true, and on the other hand, even as Kazekage, I Airo didn't think that monsters like ghouls were weak.

Ghouls, despite their scavenging habits, are also adept at hiding in the shadows to hunt humans.

Compared to ordinary humans, ghouls possess speed and strength that are not inferior to those of ordinary shinobi.

Compared to the fierce beasts in the forest, the ghouls have a little more wisdom, and I have sent Sand Shinobi to encircle and suppress the ghouls several times, but they have not completely cleaned up all the ghouls.

Sha Yin's research suggests that ghouls possess the ability to assimilate humans into their own kind.

Although this probability of assimilation decreases to a very low probability as humans reach adulthood, ghouls will also go to human gathering places to steal human children and raise them as ghouls, so the probability of assimilation is almost 100%.

In fact, the first thing that Shayin Village noticed was the frequent loss of children in various places, and it was only later that Shun Teng discovered the existence of ghouls.

This ghoul has already caused a lot of panic in the country of wind, and these pervasive scavengers have spent a lot of manpower and material resources to deal with even the Sand Hidden Village, one of the five great ninja villages.

But Tsunade said at this time that ghouls are still a relatively mediocre existence among many unknown and strange creatures?

If that's the case, why haven't you found out about it yourself for so many years, and haven't heard about it from other older generation of sand ninjas?

This made my Airo's brain not accept this terrible fact for a while.

And Tsunade on the other side carefully observed the expression on my Airo's face, knowing that Airo still didn't believe what he said.

That being the case, facts speak louder than words, and I can only look at the evidence.

"In fact, regarding those magical creatures, we in Konoha Village have made relevant discoveries and corresponding real events for a long time, but at that time, almost no one connected these events and looked at them as a single terrifying event."

"I believe that the first time such an incident has been exposed to everyone's eyes should be the discovery of the ruins of the Ancient City in the far north of the Snow Country."

"At that time, this incident caused a stir among the common people, and almost became the talk of most people after dinner at that time... How? Hasn't Lord Kazekage heard of this? ”

Tsunade asked when he saw that Airo's face was still blank.

And Temari glanced at Airo, who had a confused expression, and quickly took over the conversation and said, "That... Actually, at that time, I was still young, I couldn't read all the words, and I couldn't read the newspaper, so he was..."

"But I remember this, it is said that the remains of a billion-year-old civilization were discovered, right?"

Temari's revelations made Airo blush, but in fact, it was the darkest moment for my Airo, and my father came to test his son's "measurement" almost every day, and he didn't have time to pay attention to newspapers and other things.

However, Tsunade understood my Airo's ignorance and said, "No wonder, that incident was indeed a long time ago. ”

"At that time, one of the discoverers of the Ancient City was our ninja from Konoha Village, and that incident was far more brutal than what was reported in the newspapers."

"In fact, the people who died in the exploration of the City of the Old did not die from avalanches and cold, but from the magical creatures of the City of the Old One."

As he spoke, Tsunade flicked the PPT on the projection screen, which showed a photo of the ancient

In the past, Aira and Kankuro didn't read the newspaper because they were too young, and Temari read the newspaper occasionally, but he also swallowed the dates, and he didn't look at this fear carefully.

But now that this ancient picture was presented to the three of them again, this belated shiver descended on the three of them.

The body of the spindle is topped by a five-pointed star that opens like a mouth, with wings on its back and starfish-like appendages at the bottom.

If you look at it cursory, the creature resembles a starfish, a bat, and a squid.

But if you look closely, you will find that this creature is completely different from any of the above species, it is completely beyond the weirdness of the vast majority of human reality cognition and biological common sense, and it is a weirdness that should not belong to this world.

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"It is the specimens of this monster that have been brought out of the City of the Ancients, they are called the Ancients, and they possess wisdom and civilization that are no less than or even higher than our humans, and the ruins of the city that existed a billion years ago are what they built."

"However, a billion years have passed, and the ancients in the city of the ancients have not completely died, and it is those who are still alive who have caused the mass deaths of the members of the Snow Country expedition at that time."

"At that time, our ninjas in Konoha Village had seen murals painted by this ancient race in the center of the City of the Ancients, on which the historical events of a billion years ago to tens of millions of years were written."

"Actually, there was more than one person who saw the mural at the time, but the other person died in the subsequent escape, so now there is only one person in the world who sees the mural with his own eyes."

"And your Sand Hidden Village is an ally of Konoha Village, and now our Konoha Village is willing to share this secret with you Sand Hidden Village."

"Next, no matter how shocking or unbelievable what he said, please listen to him quietly."

"Because even if it's such an absurd 'historical story', we in Konoha Village have never told it to anyone in the other ninja villages."

"Come in."

Tsunade gave an order, and a white-haired, masked ninja walked in through the door.

"It's been a long time, Lord Kazekage."