It's twenty-three days, and it's been twenty-three days since Uehara and they went headlong into the forest, and they are still wandering in the woods, far from seeing the boundary of the forest, although they have long known that it will take a lot of time to cross the jungle, but the journey that can be driven back by water in ten days is now so long, which Uehara did not expect. Now, Uehara finally understands what the danger in the unexplored jungle is.

Some bushes with thorns, if they cut through the skin, the whole wound will be extremely itchy and then fester; There is a natural trap formed for unknown reasons, which seems to be the ground covered by dead branches, and if you step on it by surprise, you will keep sinking, and you will fall into the mud without having anywhere to extricate yourself; There are colorful spiders, colorful snakes, and colorful poisonous insects, which are the most threatening existences for everyone. A day ago, everyone buried a companion who died of poisoning due to untimely poisoning, and the culprit was nothing more than a small spider the size of a fly. Everyone was not in a good mood, having fought for so long, this was the first casualty of non-combat attrition.

There was no inscription or mark in the burial place, and everyone found the most conspicuous of the countless trees with scorch marks from lightning strikes, buried their companions under the tree, and continued to hurry without looking back.

Every time he left a companion, it was the most uncomfortable time for Uehara, when he picked up the paintbrush and asked the sacrificial companion what he liked before his death, and what kind of painting he wanted to leave him, he asked many people, only to find that the boy named Ando Uehara was not very familiar with, and he was the last person in their class.

The way everyone fights has changed, and Uehara and they don't insist on ensuring the integrity of each squad, and Ando goes it alone and doesn't team up with anyone. It's just that he is silent, and he has to rush to do every reconnaissance mission, and he has replaced a sick companion three times in a row, and finally the chakra is exhausted, causing a tragedy. For this reason, Uehara had to add Article 195 to the code of conduct - no one may take over the reconnaissance and vigilance task of another companion, and even if both parties agree.

The existence of chakra has a certain resistance to various toxins, and if Ando hadn't completely exhausted the chakra because he had just finished the reconnaissance mission, he probably wouldn't have sacrificed like this joking. So, although the speed of the shuttle through the forest was slow enough, Uehara had to reduce the speed again to ensure that everyone kept at least a small amount of chakra at all times.

"Shrine Ben, why is it a stream again, are we lost?" Uehara walked back with a long knife to wipe the sweat on his head, the vegetation became more and more luxuriant, and now one or two people in charge of opening the road were no longer enough, in addition to the alert squad reconnaissance squad, there were now three shifts in charge of opening the road, which was barely enough.

"Didn't get lost." Shumoto sorted out the leggings that had spread out while following Uehara explained, "It's normal for there to be a stream in the forest. ”

Uehara stuck the long knife in the scabbard, sat down next to the shrine, took the warm water with honey handed over by the shrine, and drank it in one gulp.

"Uehara." Seeing that there was no one around, he said cautiously, "Ando, there are ghost heads, and other companions, many classes have been reduced, but our classes are ......."

Before he finished speaking, Uehara understood what he meant, the three people of the spider class, Spider Pill, Yukino and Rhino, the worship of the main class, Fengjia and Yu, and the Uehara, Sycamore and Xuelesa of the Uehara class, none of them were reduced.

"You say, Uehara, are we leaders subconsciously paying more attention to the people in their own class, and they will also protect the people in their own class as much as possible, and the dangers will be handed over to other companions, isn't it unfair to the companions of other classes......" Shuben said, and the Feng Jia next to him and the still very weak and lazy Yu all looked over, with an inexplicable expression.

"This question ......," Uehara stopped with an abrupt question, "As for what you said, whether you will subconsciously protect the people in your class, I don't know." "But our squads are the strongest, and it's normal for us to have fewer casualties, and besides, who said we are safer than others." Uehara looked at the three of them, "Don't talk about you, you are also very weak, and Fengjia is in good condition, other classes, Sasaki's class has attrition, you may not know very well, Sasaki's Cang'er, we are very familiar with it, and Sasaki and Xia Sheng even lost their arms." Spider Maru still has problems with his waist, Rhino's legs are broken, and Yukino's face is disfigured. As for our class, if I hadn't been treated by that Iwagawa with medical ninjutsu and was in good condition, I would definitely have been more seriously injured in the battle with the Konoha ninja. ”

The more Uehara said, the clearer his thinking became, "If we calculate according to this proportion of wounded, our casualties are more than those of ordinary squads." When I encountered difficult dangers, the first thing that came to my mind was definitely to take the sherrens and fat men I knew best, with me, even though they were dangerous. Worship, I guess, you too, right? ”

Seeing the shrine nodded, looking relieved, Uehara patted him on the shoulder, "So, the shrine, there is no need to dwell on these things, we who have paid the most do not owe any companions!" ”

Uehara drank the rest of the tea and left, opened the way with a knife, and cut the bushes that had been going on all morning, and Uehara's knife was already a little curled. Sharpening knives also requires skill, and the one-armed Sasaki sharpens knives much faster than Uehara, so it's perfect to go to Sasaki with a knife.

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In the evening, Tuya, who had been away for four days, came back, and as soon as he came back, he asked the fat man for a bunch of food, and devoured it.

"...... Tsuchiya," Uehara was about to ask something, but Tsuchiya waved his hand to stop him.

"I'll talk about it after eating." Tuya took the time to say a word, and then ignored Uehara on the side.

Looking at him like this, he must not have eaten much in the past few days.

When Tuya finally finished eating, without waiting for Uehara to ask, Tuya had already spoken: "Konoha's guy is really still chasing after him, but it's just a group of little ghosts." ”

Looking at Uehara's obviously relaxed expression, Tuya had the intention to knock Uehara, "There must be ninjas at the enemy level of the upper ninja, but I didn't find it, and if you get too close, it's easy to be detected." Looking at Uehara's look of concern, Tuya nodded, "Although it is a group of imps, there are a lot of them, I roughly calculated, there are at least two hundred people, and I don't know if there are follow-up troops behind." ”

Taking the tea handed over by Uehara, Tuya drank it all, "I've already disposed of their reconnaissance team......"

"They haven't found out about us yet, will this expose us?" Uehara frowned and voiced his doubts.

"Well, a big snake came out of the jungle, and then Hinata's imp was ...... by the snake"

"That's ......," Uehara nodded, "In that case, you can hide from the enemy in a short time." ”

"I can't hide it from Uehara for too long, but according to my estimate, even if the enemy finds out that we will chase with all their strength in the future, it will take at least three days, but if it is Shangnin, it will be much faster, so ......" Tuya yawned and prepared to get up and leave, "I followed you to help you cover up the traces of your passing, and in the future, the ninjutsu training will stop, and the movement is too big." Moreover, you must learn to deal with the flaws left in the march that could leave clues for the enemy. ”

"It's simple, it's good to hand it over to Yamashima, he's the best at tracking, and we're going to reverse his experience in tracking prey." Looking at the sleepy Tuya, Uehara persuaded again, "Tuya, you can rest as soon as possible, and leave it to me." ”