Faced with Temari's question, the girl in the shrine maiden costume did not give an answer to this question, but raised her arm and pointed her finger forward with a calm face.

The water that had been wrapped around her body with life consciousness flew out in an instant, forming a thin and long whip in the air, and slashed down from the air.

A dangerous aura was approaching, and Temari hurriedly gave up the idea of using the Wind Escape Technique and dodged to the side.

The sandstone on the ground and in the distance, under the attack of the whip of the current, appeared a straight black crack, cut in half from the middle.

At the edge of the crack, there are traces of moisture wetting.

Seeing this, Temari didn't want to turn around and run away, and didn't dare to stay in place.

The technique controlled by this ghost country ninja is too weird.,With her wind escape ninjutsu.,I'm afraid it's hard to get benefits in her hands.。。

It's just that although her idea is good, the witch girl has no intention of letting her go.

At the mention of her footsteps, the maiden dressed girl disappeared directly from the spot, her body turned into an afterimage, and she pursued behind at a speed that cut through the air.

During the chase, her eyes remained closed, but Temari felt as if the other person's eyes were always open, like a thorn in the back.

A scream came from behind, and Temari dodged sideways again.

The rock he had just stepped on was instantly cut off, turning into a sharp blade of water and a long whip, The ability to cut iron like clay made Temari feel trembling in the bottom of his heart.

This kind of long whip made of water, as long as the body is swept once, the end is either dead or maimed.

The chase lasted about a minute, and Temari sensed a terrible truth.

That is, no matter how much she increased her speed, the result did not widen the distance between her and the maiden costume girl, but as time went by, the other party gradually caught up with her.

If this continues, sooner or later it will catch up.

Can you only fight? Temari held the three-star fan tightly in his hand, his brows tightly twisted together, thinking about the question of whether to stay in the fight or continue the tactical evacuation.

However, the shrine maiden didn't intend to give Temari time to think about this kind of question, and the water suspended in the air immediately writhed, and the water in the form of a long whip quickly disintegrated, turning into countless crystal clear water droplets, floating in the air.

In these countless crystal clear droplets, there is a cold and brutal murderous aura.

Not good! When Temari saw the countless droplets of water, he predicted what form the shrine maiden would attack her next.

Suddenly, the chakra in his body began to function, and then he concentrated all this chakra on the three-star fan in his hand in one breath, and waved it forcefully in front of him.

"Wind Escape, Great Scythe!"

The sound of the storm swept in an instant, and a large number of air blades that shimmered with white light left shocking traces of the beast's claws on the sand and sandstone in front of them, and rushed towards the maiden.

At the same time, the water droplets suspended in the air were also poured like a torrential rain, and under the adjustment of the technique, the hardness of the water droplets was not weaker than that of steel, and the moment it came into contact with the air blade, there was a sound that would only be made by the collision of metal weapons, and it was endless.

There was a loud clash, and there were even violent sparks in the air, which continued to sputter out in the field.

"Hmm-"

Temari felt a sudden pain in his right arm and couldn't help but snort.

A drop of water hit her right arm at some point, and a small blood hole appeared in her arm, and through this small blood hole, you could see a drop of water deep into her flesh, emitting a cold cold light.

Before Temari could make his next move, the water droplets in the blood cave suddenly vibrated restlessly.

Poof!

Temari was stunned.

A large amount of blood splattered from the pores of her arm and flew past her eyes.

"Ahh

An irrepressible painful sound, leaking out of his mouth.

Pain! The incomparable pain made the green tendons on Teju's forehead jump violently, gritted his teeth, staggered back a few steps, and the three-star fan also fell off from his hand.

Seeing his bloodied right arm, which was hanging weakly, swinging like a cripple in the wind, Temari's eyes were immediately filled with a trace of fear.

The storm stopped, and the maiden girl in the witch suit was only a little messy with the clothes on her body, but other than that, she didn't suffer any damage on her body.

She held up the bamboo tube in her hand, and the water droplets were summoned by the bamboo tube, quickly merged together, rushed into the bamboo tube at lightning speed, and disappeared.

The maiden dressed in the maiden put away the flow of water, Temari didn't think that the other party was showing kindness, she did this, probably to brew a killing move in the future, and planned to end the battle in one go.

With his movable left hand, Temari picked up the three-star fan that had fallen to the ground, unfolded it, and poured chakra into it.

Even so, Temari didn't have a sense of security in his heart.

But she knew that if she couldn't stop this move, there was only one end - and that was death.

The maiden costume girl was expressionless, as if she was born with a lack of human emotions, and slowly lifted the bamboo tube, bending her arms backwards, from this angle and position, she could use her maximum strength to throw the water in the bamboo tube as hard as steel out, thus killing the enemy in front of her.

Temari's face was covered with layers of cold sweat, and his eyes stared at the bamboo tube in the witch girl's hand without blinking, for fear that if he missed a look, his head would fall to the ground in the next moment, and his death would be unknown.

When the atmosphere reached its most tense, the girl waved her arms violently, and the bamboo tube moved, and in the dark hole, there was a cold cold light, and the terrifying killing intent flowed out of the bamboo tube, making Teju's body immediately stiffen in place, unable to move.

About three seconds passed.

Temari was freed from his stiff state, and when he saw that the witch girl was only halfway through the action of throwing the bamboo tube, she kept this posture still, causing the sharp slash of the water to not come as promised.

"Didn't hit it...... W-What's going on? ”

Temari opened his mouth, completely unaware of what had just happened.

The shrine maiden was keenly aware of something, and when she looked down, her shadow had become darker than usual for some reason, like thick ink, a bottomless darkness.

"Shadow...... Imitation ......"

Intermittent words came out of the mouth of the shrine maiden.

The timbre is transparent and hollow, like a cold machine, running the body functions according to the established program, rigid and rigid.

The witch girl tried hard to control her head, deflected backwards, and in the afterglow of her eyes, she could see a figure crouching in the distance behind her, and it was this person who performed ninjutsu to control her body and interrupt her technique.

Konoha guys? Temari felt unhappy, but he was also relieved that he had been saved.

Before the middle ninja exam, their instructor Shangnin Maki did say that they could try to consider cooperating with Konoha Shinobi in the exam, and eliminate the lower shinobi of the Oni Country as much as possible, so as to achieve the effect of striking at the prestige of the Oni Country.

And I believe that Konoha has also tacitly made the same arrangement. Some individual elite groups must have gotten such hints from the upper echelons of their own villages, more or less.

The Chunin exam is the epitome of war between countries.

To put it simply, this is an international 'war' exercise.

Then, as an alliance, Sand Hide and Konoha are naturally partners on the same front when it comes to facing the country of ghosts.

The purpose of this is also to prevent the elite ninjas of the two villages from competing in advance and being out of the exam.

It's just that Temari is conceited of his own strength, and he doesn't feel that he will be down to the point where he needs to be rescued by the Konoha ninja. So now that he has been rescued by the Konoha ninja, while he is unhappy, he also has the happiness of the rest of his life in his heart.

At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from the sky:

"Ninja Meat Bullet Chariot!"

I saw a huge round ball of flesh spinning in the air at an exaggerated speed, and then carrying a terrifying momentum, it fell from the sky and rushed towards the maiden in the shrine maiden suit.

The maiden in the shrine maiden costume raised her head and looked at the huge spinning ball of flesh, which quickly zoomed in in her field of vision, knowing that if she was hit by this kind of attack, even she would be seriously injured and fall to the ground.

The Akido clan's Yang Escape Secret Technique, in the case of a direct hit on the enemy, caused a terrifying destructive power.

At the moment when the ball of meat was about to descend on her body, the maiden maiden opened her eyes without warning, and a dark light flashed from her eyes.

The next moment, a strange black mist was released from her body, enveloping the petite body of the witch girl, forming an impenetrable black ball.

Rumble!

The meat ball squeezed the black ball, instantly smashing a huge hole in the sand, and the sand and stones flew wildly, raising the wind and sand in the sky.

"W-What?"

Ding Ci, who had transformed into a ball of meat, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe that he looked at the huge black ball that was pressed under him, without the slightest trace on it, and completely withstood the super destructive attack of his multiplication secret technique.

"Dingji, be careful!"

Shikamaru, who performed the shadow imitation technique, suddenly changed his face.

Because his shadow mimicry failed, he had no sense of substance to restrain his enemies at all. Thinking of a possibility, Shikamaru also fidgeted.

However, by the time he said this, it was too late.

The eggshell-like black ball made a clattering sound, and the dazzling dark red light shone out from the cracked crack, which was a cold and dark aura, which made Ding Ci swallow his saliva, and his face showed a frightened and shocked face.

Then, a palm suddenly poked out of the black ball, carrying a violent force to hit Ding Ci's body, like swatting a fly, and knocked Ding Ci out effortlessly.

Ding Ji, who was knocked out, kept rolling on the ground until he hit a huge rock, and then he was forced to stop rolling and spat blood from his mouth.

Bursts of sharp pain came from his chest, making Ding Ci snort softly in pain, and while he was gasping for breath, a pair of eyes were still staring at the front.

The red and white clothes swayed gently in the wind, and his long black hair was also flying in the wind, Shikamaru's expression was slightly silent, and his steps subconsciously began to retreat.

His intuition told him that the witch girl was becoming more dangerous than before.

However, the shrine maiden didn't pay attention to Shikamaru's vigilant movements, but turned her head and glanced at a certain position.

I saw a large amount of sand condensed in the air, turning into finger-sized sand balls, which flew densely like torrential rain without the slightest warning.

Bang bang bang!

Bang bang bang!

The hard sandstone was destroyed by finger-sized balls of sand, and a large number of sandstone fragments were blown up and scattered everywhere.

Countless craters appear in the sand, like beehives.

On the sand that had turned into a beehive, the figure of the maiden in the witch costume had long since disappeared, and she was nowhere to be found, leaving only a few traces of dark mist, which quickly disappeared in the wind.

"I ...... I love Luo!? ”

Temari realized something, and turned to the side in surprise, and sure enough, he saw Iairo, who had an indifferent face, standing there with his hands folded on his chest, his eyes staring coldly at the sand where the maiden costume girl had lost her trace and was beaten into a hive by her own ninjutsu.

And it seemed that because the enemy had fled from his eyes, his expression became even colder.

Beside Iara, Kankuro, who was dressed in black, also came over, and he couldn't help but gloat at the sight of Temari's completely crippled right hand.

"I just came out to find some supplies for the night, but I didn't expect you to do this. If it weren't for me and my Arro arriving in time, you would have been miserable. ”

Hearing Kanjiuro's words, Temari, the good mood of being saved suddenly disappeared, but no matter how unhappy she was, she couldn't find an excuse to refute Kanjiuro.

Thinking of this, Temari's mood became even more depressed.

While Temari and Kankuro were exchanging, I'm Aira's gaze deflected again, and his eyes swept coldly towards Shikamaru and Dingji, and slowly raised his hand, as if he was going to make a move.

I love Luo's actions, so that Shikamaru and Ding Ji are like great enemies, thinking that the other party is going to do something to themselves.

"Wait, I'm Arlo, they're—"

When Temari saw this action of my Airo, his face changed slightly, and he wanted to step forward to stop it.

Before Temari could finish speaking, a large amount of sand rose upward from the sand, and finally ran into the huge gourd behind Iro.

I Airo plugged the gourd with a stopper, and turned around without dragging mud and water.

"Let's go. Too much time is wasted here. ”

"Uh......"

Temari stood a little embarrassed in place, not knowing what to say for a while, and then he knew that he would be wrong.

Kankuro walked over and patted Temaru on the shoulder, then turned his head to look at Shikamaru and said with a smile, "Konoha guy, thank you so much this time." As a gift of thanks, please accept this. ”

As he spoke, Kankuro took out a scroll from his arms and threw it to Shikamaru without hesitation.

Shikamaru caught the scroll with some confusion, it was a scroll of heaven, and it was the other half of the scroll they needed.

"Hmph, even if I don't have to be saved by these guys, I have no problem alone."

Temari said irritably.

"Sister, you're injured like this, don't be reckless here."

Kankuro glanced at Temari and said helplessly.

Temari took a deep breath and said solemnly to Shikamaru, "This favor, I will return it to you soon." ”

Shikamaru scratched his head and said, "That, it's okay if you don't have to, after all, you also gave a thank you gift, didn't you?" ”

As he spoke, Shikamaru raised the scroll of heaven in his hand.

"You mean to say that my life is less important than a scroll?"

Temari's gaze suddenly became dangerous, and he stared at Shikamaru unkindly.

“……”

What a troublesome woman. Shikamaru was in a cold sweat on his face.

This troublesome and calculating character is exactly the same as his mother at home.

With his experience with his mother for so many years, his intuition told her that this question could never be answered positively, and silence was the best way to deal with it.

Because this question, whether it is positive or negative, may make the woman in front of him babble in his ear.

Seeing Shikamaru as a shrunken turtle, Temari was in a worse mood, but in the end he didn't say anything, just cut and caught up with my Airo and left.

"Don't worry, this guy occasionally loses his temper like this, you know, women will always be in a grumpy mood for a few days a month......"

Kankuro said with a smile.

But Shikamaru couldn't laugh at all, because did this guy reveal some very amazing secret?

"Then again, is it really okay to give us the scroll? You know, if you want to pass the exam, the scroll is the key. ”

Shikamaru asked.

Kankuro replied, "It's okay, it's a superfluous scroll in the first place." Well, goodbye, Konoha guy. ”

With that, Kankuro also turned around and left, not planning to waste time here.

Looking at the back of Kankuro and the others leaving, Shikamaru glanced at the scroll of heaven in his hand again, and thought that his luck in coming out this time was not very bad, at least he obtained the scroll of heaven that was urgently needed at the moment.

In other words, now their group only needs to go to the central control tower of the Demon Desert first, hand over the scroll to the person in charge there, and then they can directly clear the second exam and get the ticket to the third exam.

"Anyway, Ding Ci, are you okay? I saw you vomit blood just now. ”

Shikamaru remembered something and asked Ding Ji.

Ding Ci shook his head and said, "Don't worry about me, you also know that I have rough skin and thick meat, just take a break." ”

Shikamaru nodded and didn't ask more. He knew that Ding Ci was not a person who liked to be strong, and since the other party said that it was okay, there was no need to worry too much.

"Then hurry back, if you go back late, that guy from Ino will lose her eldest lady's temper again. I don't want to listen to her rambling all day long. ”

Shikamaru said troublesomely.

"Don't worry, Ino is a sentient ninja, even if something happens to the two of us, she can protect herself."

Ding Ci said.

The Yamanaka clan is not only good at the art of heart turning, but also a ninja who are rich in excellent perception ninjas.

As a ninja of the Yamanaka clan, Ino's talent is not weak, and he has also learned the perceptual ninjutsu inherited by the Yamanaka clan, not only can he use his ninjutsu to perceive the existence of others, but he can also eliminate his chakra aura through ninjutsu and prevent others from perceiving his chakra.

It can be said that as long as Ino does not actively expose his existence, it will be difficult for even a sentient ninja among the enemies to detect her existence.

"I hope so. Anyway, now that the scroll is in hand, then just go straight to the center of the desert to make an errand. As for the action to eliminate the ninjas of the Oni Country, leave it to the other Konoha squads. ”

Shikamaru is optimistic.

He didn't take this matter to heart in the first place, although before the exam, his father did give him a hint that he could properly target the Shinobu of the Oni Country, but Shikamaru felt that this kind of thing was very troublesome.

So he decided that if he could happen to be right on the test, he would do it. If you really can't do it, or if you're unlucky enough to not run into the Shinobi team of the Oni Country, then there's no need to deliberately look for it and waste your time.

After all, there are sixteen groups of the Shinobi team that Konoha participated in the second exam, and this kind of troublesome thing can be done by other groups, and they don't need to wade into this kind of troubled water.

Ding Ji didn't object, Shikamaru was the captain, he just had to follow Shikamaru's instructions to act.

"That being said, let's keep an eye on the other squads. Tell them that if they encounter a shinobi in the oni country wearing a shrine maiden costume, they will run away directly, and don't have any love for war. ”

Thinking of the girl in the witch costume who disappeared before, Shikamaru couldn't help but cast a shadow on his heart.

The battle just now, in Shikamaru's opinion, was too dangerous. If it weren't for the timely arrival of the guy called me Airo, which made the other party feel a strong sense of jealousy, maybe a few of them would have been wiped out directly.

"The one who wears the witch suit, no matter how you look at it, her strength is at least the beginning of the middle ninja. And the last move she cast, she actually broke free from the shackles of my shadow mimicry, I hope I don't encounter her next. ”

Shikamaru prayed silently, praying that after that, he would not run into that strange oni country shrine maiden.

Because being targeted by such a tricky enemy, no matter how you think about it, it is an extremely terrifying thing.

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The sky is dark, the desert is swept by strong winds, the wind and sand are all over the sky, and the visible field of vision is very narrow.

The hot environment during the day is like an illusion, and at this time it disappears without leaving a trace, and the icy air makes the candidates who spend the night in the desert shiver, making them complain about this terrible desert environment with a huge temperature difference between day and night.

Inside a ruin, full of ruins and ruins, a desolate apocalyptic scene, making people feel a trace of desolation brewing around.

The bonfire burned, and the light of the fire illuminated the surroundings, but due to the obstruction of the broken wall, the light of the fire did not shine out, but was confined to a small environment.

In the corner of the broken wall is a water storage tank with a large amount of drinking water.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura sat down around the campfire.

"The water and food problems are almost solved, as long as we save a little bit to cover the next two days. Starting tomorrow morning, we're going to hunt other groups and snatch scrolls from them. ”

Sasuke makes the arrangements.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with attacking at night, I don't want to move at all in the daytime weather."

Naruto eats the scorpion meat of the white flowers, which is a specialty of the desert.

After Sakura's treatment as a medical ninja, it has become very delicious.

Even without condiments, the fleshy aroma of the scorpion is enough to produce a strong appetite.

"No, the desert is more dangerous at night than during the day, and there are many large creatures like this that are difficult to deal with. The risk of operating at night is too high compared to during the day. ”

Sasuke pointed to the behemoth not far away.

It was the corpse of a black scorpion that was larger than several adults.

The barb on the tail, even at night, shimmers with a cold, dark sheen.

The scorpion meat that Naruto ate in his mouth was taken from the other party.

In the absence of adequate food rations, these desert protozoa are the best source of food.

But also be aware that the identities of the prey and the hunter can change at any time.

Especially at night, when desert creatures come out to feed. The slightest mistake could lead to a group of such huge creatures.

"Really? So ......"

Naruto bit the scorpion flesh, and the slurred words came out of his mouth halfway through before he was stunned.

The moonlight overhead was obscured by something, and the huge shadow instantly covered the figures of the three people.

Something fell from above, just enough to land on Naruto's head, wetting his hair and cheeks.

"What is this?"

Naruto touched his face, and when he took it off, he saw that his hands were covered with a slimy and smelly liquid, much like saliva.

"Naruto, be careful!"

Sasuke was the first to sense the danger, his face changed drastically, and Sakura quickly jumped backwards.

When Naruto heard this, it was already too late.

Huge shadows fell as fast as lightning.

Boom.

A large number of rocks fell, and the ground shattered with it, and the entire ruins produced a subversive vibration, rolling up a large amount of sand and stones, and scattering them in all directions.

"Hmm! What's going on!? ”

Naruto screamed in a panic and rolled on the ground in embarrassment, only to stop receding until he hit a wall.

Small stones fell from above and smashed on Naruto's head and body, and Naruto didn't care about the little things, but looked up and looked ahead.

In the rolling up of the dust, a huge black shadow loomed in it.

I saw that the black shadow gently swayed its body in the sand, and the smoke and dust dissipated, revealing its original appearance.

It was a large black and brown python tens of meters long, coiling there, slowly tightening its body.

The huge python's open vertical pupils, larger than a lantern, kept hissing while sticking out its tongue, making a chill in the bottom of the heart.