Sakura's body snuggled weakly against Sasuke, and despite his clothes, Sasuke could still feel Sakura's body temperature as a living person gradually fading.

Gracchi's spike injection is neither to resurrect the dead nor to make the living immortal, but to make people put to death and come back to life, to become a "living dead".

If you are injured and die during the process of being injected into Graki's body fluids by spikes, it goes without saying that you will directly become a living dead who are afraid of sunlight like those villagers in Konoha Village.

If injected while alive, the human body will slowly die and eventually transform into the living dead.

Therefore, if you have received Graki's injection, you will definitely "die", and even the best medical ninjutsu cannot reverse this death.

At this time, Sakura's arm was pierced by the spikes, and Sasuke had bandaged it, but Sakura's body was still very weak and needed to be supported to move with difficulty.

"Sasuke-kun..."

"Why don't you go find your way first, you're too slow to move with me."

Sakura's words were weak, but since they were said very close to Sasuke's ears, it was impossible for Sasuke not to hear them.

But Sasuke pretended not to hear and looked firmly ahead.

Sasuke...

Sakura looked at Sasuke's face, a smile rising into her mouth.

Suddenly, Sasuke spoke, "There was a sound of the ground collapsing in front of me just now, and it is likely that the other two made the sound. ”

"Hurry up now, maybe we'll find them."

As he spoke, Sasuke bent down and wrapped one hand around Sakura's leg and picked Sakura up in a princess position.

"Hey..."

Sakura's voice of protest was extremely subtle, and a faint flush appeared on her pale face.

Sasuke didn't care so much, so he put Sakura on his back and said, "Grab me, I'm going to sprint." ”

"Huh? Oh..."

As Sakura grabbed the placket of Sasuke's chest, Sasuke rushed out with a single lunge in a ninja running stance.

...

In the dark tunnel, Sakura grabbed Sasuke's clothes as best she could with one hand, and raised the lit bamboo tube with the other to light the path ahead.

Although the two had been walking in the direction they had heard for some time, so far they had not found any place where the ground had collapsed.

This is due to the intricacy of the labyrinth, and even if you hear the general direction in which the sound is coming from, you have to choose several forks in the middle.

As long as you choose the wrong fork in the road, the whole direction is completely wrong.

But in the process, Sasuke and Sakura arrive at a place they've never seen before.

This is at the end of the tunnel where Sasuke and Sakura are located, because from here, the relatively narrow stone walls on both sides of the tunnel suddenly open up and form a place that resembles a temple.

Sakura's faint light from the fire wasn't enough to illuminate the place in one go, but judging by the stone walls that spread out on either side, it was a hemispherical grotto.

On the stone walls of the grotto, there are many other tunnel openings.

Obviously, this is something like a concentration point, and many of the tunnel entrances eventually lead to this, or from here, many other tunnels can be entered.

In the circular clearing under the grotto, a black bulge catches Sakura's eye.

"Sasuke-kun, what's that?"

Sasuke leaned in with Sakura on his back, and as the black bulge entered the range of the firelight, both of them could see what it was.

It was a well made of black stones, and the darkness below it was as dark as an abyss.

Well?

Why is there a well here?

Just as Sasuke was stunned, Sakura's bamboo tube that poked forward became fragile due to being burned and carbonized, and suddenly broke open and fell to the bottom of the well.

The half-burning bamboo tube swirled into the abyss that fell into the well, and the flames were completely engulfed at an unknown depth, even with the sound of the impact that should have been generated when it fell to the ground.

After a few seconds of silence in the air, there was a sudden noise from the darkness below.

The sound is somewhat complicated, one is the sound of a small animal's thin feet moving against the ground.

The other is a heavy, sluggish sound, which is not very fast, but it is still audible as some kind of large object moving.

And both sounds move in the same direction...

It's all moving up!

There's something down the well!

Sasuke immediately jumped back a distance alertly, and Sakura was so shocked by the sudden movement that she almost fell, but Sasuke immediately grabbed Sakura's hand so that Sakura didn't fall.

The two stared nervously at the deep well that was the only sound coming from the clearing.

Time passed minute by minute, until from the edge of the well, an incredible bulge suddenly appeared, and then slowly magnified.

It was an indescribable being.

A pale creature climbed up from the edge of the well, and more and more parts of its body were displayed in front of Sasuke and Sakura, until the whole form emerged from the darkness below.

It was a large, pale oval creature, impossibly pale and sticky, like some kind of gel...

It may be this gelatinous substance that allows oval fleshy eggs, several times larger than the wellhead, to be drilled out of the narrow wellhead.

And on this pale "flesh egg", covered with countless twisted and changing eyes, these eyes were round, all staring at the two small humans in front of them.

Underneath the body of the "fleshy egg" are countless legs that are as scrawny as wood and like insects.

With such a form, it stands to reason that it would be very difficult for the creature in front of him to even move.

But this creature is able to ignore the most basic laws of physics, and walk on legs that seem to be hundreds of times weaker than the body of the "meat egg", and even climb the vertical wall of the well.

In addition to this terrifying creature, there were many more dwarf creatures that crawled out of the well, and then burrowed between the supported feet under the "fleshy eggs" and crawled towards the fire not far away.

As the dwarf creatures got closer to Sasuke and Sakura, the firelight was able to see the "little things" clearly.

It's a bunch of small, spherical creatures that look like maggots or spiders, or a combination of both...

It's their legs rubbing against the ground that make those rustling sounds.

Looking at these incomprehensible creatures at the bottom of the well, Sasuke and Sakura's eyes widened, and a variety of negative emotions such as incredulity and panic gathered in their narrow pupils.

[Get 4800 trembling points from Sasuke Uchiha!] 】

[Get 5100 Shiver Points from Sakura Haruno!] 】

And at this moment, there seemed to be a deep voice rumbling in the space.