Uchiha's Counterattack

Chapter 217 The Trace of Orochimaru
"Stay here and don't make a sound..."

The old man was sweating nervously, and forced an ugly smile on his old face full of weather marks.

The old man slowly let go of his grandson's mouth, and slowly approached the wall, wanting to observe the situation outside through the gap in the wall.

The old man pressed his face against the wall, with a tense expression and heavy breathing, and he mustered up the courage to stare out.

"--Eh!?"

Just in time, I met Xia Nan who was also leaning against the wall, staring inside with wide-eyed eyes.

The two faces were separated by a wall, and they stared at each other for a few seconds, before the old man let out a strange cry!Xia Nan was startled by the ghostly howl, but then realized that it was indeed an ordinary person, and it seemed that he should be a villager from the village, otherwise he wouldn't be hiding here.

Thinking of this, Xia Nan took back the bone spurs that had been exposed, and he almost killed someone directly through the wall just now.But it's also thanks to him keeping an eye out for not being too murderous and directly attacking, otherwise he wouldn't be able to get the following information.

"Sanlang run!!"

It is said that the old man in the wall pushed his grandson forward with tears in his eyes, but he turned around and rushed to the wall, trying to block the dark wall with his body, preventing the terrible enemies outside from rushing in and killing his grandson.

"grandfather!"

The grandson made a cry.

"—Go away! Leave me alone!"

Instead, the old man reprimanded and urged.

Here, the grandpa and grandson performed a touching and affectionate performance, but Xia Nan directly "Boom!" smashed the wall with his body, and stepped into the secret passage inside the wall.Don't blame him for being rude because his voice was too sharp and piercing. If Xia Nan hadn't put down his murderous heart and just punched out, the people inside the wall would have been killed on the spot.

"Eh? It turned out to be an old man and a child?"

Xia Nan smashed the solid wall with his body easily, and at the same time glanced coldly at the little ghost standing beside him with a shocked expression on his face.

Xia Nan was taken aback for a moment, apparently he didn't expect that there would be a child and an old man hiding inside. At that moment, he subconsciously put away the murderous aura on his body, but his eyes remained fixed on the two of them.And in the next second, Xia Nan grabbed the kid by the collar and lifted him up with one hand.

"Interesting, the two of you are still alive when the whole village is dead. It just so happens that I still have a lot of questions I want to ask you."

The old man became impatient when he saw that his precious grandson had been arrested.

"The old man is fighting with you!!" The old man rushed over while screaming. He forgot to pick up a stone from the ground when he rushed over.

Aiming at Xia Nan's head, the old man slapped it with a brick!

………………

A few minutes later, the ruins of Kelan Village.

"So, you two are not local villagers? You escaped from the country of Tian two years ago?"

Looking at the grandpa and grandson who were tied together by him, Xia Nan pulled a chair and sat down immediately, asking with a scrutinizing expression.

Xia Nan didn't hurt the somewhat funny grandpa and grandson. Although the old man's courage to rush over and try to give himself a brick is commendable, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Xia Nan decisively subdued the two of them by the way Tie them up for questioning.

Through inquiry, I learned that the old man's name is Tian Cunjian, and the child next to him is the grandson of the fourth generation of his family.The ancestors have been genuine Tianzhi Country farmers for generations, and have lived in Tianzhi Country for nearly a hundred years.According to common sense, for people like this who have lived on the same land for generations, it is impossible to go all the way to the Land of Fire to survive for no reason.

The old man Tian Cun explained to Xia Nan that they didn't want to come, but something happened to Tian Zhiguo, and their family had to leave their hometown because they had nothing to do.

And we have to start talking about this matter from about two years ago...

Tianzhiguo was originally a small, rich and peaceful country. Although the country is not big, it is rich in crops. In peacetime without wars, it can also get enough food and clothing. In this chaotic ninja era, it is good to have something to eat every day, especially This is especially true for the older generation like Tamura Ken.

In fact, if it wasn't for what happened later, Ken Tamura probably would never have left Tianzhi Country in this life, and would never even leave the village where their ancestors lived for generations.

But there’s no other way. If you don’t leave, you won’t be able to. If you don’t leave, you’ll be gone.

I remember that it was summer, Tian Cunjian was carrying a hoe to the field and on the way back, he suddenly heard someone in the village say that a man from a certain family had disappeared. This was already the second case of disappearance in the village at that time, but It caused quite a stir.

That day, people in the whole village searched everywhere. At that time, Tian Cunjian's eldest son and youngest son also went with him.But I don't know what happened. The people who went out that day didn't come back from morning until late at night. By the time other people in the village realized that something was wrong, it was too late.

The more than 20 young and middle-aged men who went out all disappeared inexplicably, and none of them could come back.At that time, there were rumors in the village that the villagers' stupidity angered the mountain god, so they were taken away by the mountain god and became slaves.But Tian Cunjian didn't believe this. He had lived here for so long and had never heard of such a thing.

So one day Tamura Ken decided to go out to find his son, but for some unknown reason, he took his little grandson along with him.The grandfather and grandson went up the mountain together to find someone, but they found nothing after searching for a day, so they returned to the village helplessly.

But how can I expect that when I return to the village...

The village is gone.

"The village is gone?"

Xia Nan frowned, and continued, "Do you mean the village was destroyed, or did you mean that the village and its land disappeared together?"

"Destroyed, destroyed by a talking monster!"

Tian Cunjian went on to say that when he took his grandson back that night, he heard a burst of shouting in front of him, and then the ground began to shake non-stop.At first, Tian Cunjian thought it was an earthquake, so he quickly took his grandson to hide in the open space away from the mountain wall.

And it was at this time that Tian Cunjian saw the direction of the village, and suddenly raised a huge purple tail from the flat ground. A flick of that tail could bring about a howling hurricane, and there was a "sacrifice" in the whistling wind. "Not enough to eat" and other words came, and there was strong dissatisfaction and killing intent in the dull tone.

The monster didn't stay there for a long time, but this was the longest 20 minutes that Tamura Ken felt in his life.When the monster left, the place it ravaged had been razed to the ground, and none of the hundreds of villagers inside survived, probably all of them were swallowed alive by the monster just now.

"This old man can't forget even now, when the monster was devouring human beings, the screams from my fellow villagers were almost inhuman. Those who were lucky enough to be swept to death by their tails would be regarded as a whole corpse , The worst thing is those who are swallowed alive... I really don't even have a thought. Their screams are now lingering in my ears day and night, tormenting my heart."

"But I don't regret it or be afraid. I can't help them and I can't save them. It's a great luck for me to escape with my grandson. How can I still have the strength to take care of those people?"

Tian Cunjian wiped away his tears and hugged the grandson in his arms tightly.

Now his only thought is such a child, and he doesn't think about anything else.

(End of this chapter)