Before setting off, that official rather tactfully exhorted Shinji and his group, hoping that they could be low-key, restrain their tempers, and not cause trouble everywhere, saying that the people of the Land of Water were all their good friends, and so on.
Shinji thought to himself, "I'm not taking the blame for this."
Hidan and Tobi directly looked up at the sky and whistled, not taking it seriously at all.
Departure, on the road.
This time Shinji learned to be good and specifically chose to walk on small paths with few people, and if he encountered a forest, he would drill into it.
Without people staging the 'What are you looking at!' 'What about looking at you!' 'Try looking at me again!' 'Try it and you'll die!' drama, it was finally much quieter, and they smoothly arrived at the village where the task was located.
After some conversation, the village chief took them to the 'haunted' cave.
With great skill comes great boldness, Shinji and his group of three didn't hesitate, and picked up torches and walked in.
However, just like what was said, there was nothing in the cave at all, and there was no secret passage.
So was someone pretending to be a ghost, or was there really something here originally, but it had left later?
"Senior Hidan, here, here! Come here quickly, there's a discovery!"
Tobi suddenly waved his hands and feet, beckoning Hidan to come over.
Hidan didn't think much, and even prepared to give Tobi a lesson, and let him see what it meant to be a senior with style.
"Hmm? What is it?"
"It's right there, right there!"
"There's nothing there, are you kidding me again, kid?"
"How could that be, I respect Senior Hidan the most! You'll definitely see it if you get closer."
Respect me the most?
"Tch!"
Hearing this, Hidan's heart blossomed, and he felt that Tobi had good eyes, and knew that he was stronger than that bastard Shinji.
"Alright, let me take a closer look..."
Hidan took two more steps forward, his face almost touching the cave wall, but he still didn't find anything.
Just then, Tobi suddenly jumped back, pointing at Hidan's feet, "Ugh! What a big pile of shit!"
"Senior Hidan stepped in dog poop, Senior Hidan stepped in dog poop!"
Hidan looked down, and his face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
"You! Are! Looking! For! Death!"
Hidan suddenly drew his Bloody Three-Section Scythe and began to chase Tobi, and another round of jumping up and down began.
Shinji didn't pay attention to those two guys at this time, but instead looked at the pile of feces that Hidan had stepped on.
Tobi's words reminded him that such a big pile should be the feces of some animal, and couldn't be human or canine.
So he carefully searched again, and after changing his target, his perspective also broadened.
He found many claw marks on the walls of the cave, and the height was all above two meters.
In the corner on the ground there was black hair blown in by the wind, very thick and hard.
So he roughly deduced that the cave was originally inhabited by a large creature with dense black hair and claws, at least two meters tall.
Following this direction, it was very likely to be a black bear or something.
Then the question came, how could a black bear clean the cave so cleanly?
That pile of feces was still there because it was hidden in the corner and covered up.
After asking the village chief, the village chief repeatedly assured that no one had cleaned here. No one lived here, so who would be crazy enough to do such a thankless thing.
"Live? That's right, only someone who wants to live here would think of cleaning."
Shinji could now roughly determine that someone or a Cursed Spirit must have stayed here for a while before. And it was more likely to be a person, because very few Cursed Spirits would hide in a cave and clean it!
And the original black bear or some other animal was very likely to have been driven away, or simply killed and eaten.
After learning that there were usually very few people who came here, Shinji slapped the two guys who were wrestling together on the back of the head.
"So that's what it feels like to pat Obito's head."
Seeing that Tobi didn't turn his face, Shinji was secretly happy.
But similarly, these days had passed, and his bond value with Tobi had been stuck at the 20 points given by the mission, without moving at all.
It could be seen just how difficult it was to brush Tobi's, or rather Obito's, bond value!
Saying goodbye to the village chief, Shinji led the people to continue deeper.
He made an assumption that if he was staying near here for some purpose, and then his hiding place was discovered by ordinary people, he would very likely choose a place that these ordinary people could never break into, and continue to hide.
Of course, it was also possible that he had left directly after completing his purpose.
In addition, he suspected that Tobi had discovered those clues long ago, but was embarrassed to say it directly because of his persona, so he used the excuse of teasing Hidan to remind him.
They investigated all the way, but found nothing.
Just when Shinji was suspecting that his thinking was wrong, the corpse of a black bear that had been dead for several days appeared in front of them.
Now he was sure, someone must have casually killed this black bear, and then followed it to find the black bear's cave, and then occupied it for a period of time.
Because this area was the black bear's territory, they didn't see any other beasts, so the corpse was preserved.
"One person, one direction, investigate separately. Meet back here in one hour."
After almost confirming that it wasn't a Cursed Spirit causing trouble, Shinji actually wanted to give up on this task.
But since they had come, he might as well look for it again.
If he couldn't find it in an hour, he would retreat.
He chose the most unlikely direction and went west.
He moved quickly, only observing those places that seemed like they could be hidden.
About 20 minutes later, he successively discovered multiple corpses of beasts lying on the ground.
They were killed but not eaten, which proved that the other party wasn't looking for food.
Shinji carefully searched around for a while, and finally found another cave by the stream.
After cautiously walking in, it was empty.
"Could it be that this isn't the place?"
Shinji suspected that he had found the wrong place.
But just as he was preparing to turn around and leave, his peripheral vision suddenly swept over something placed in the corner.
Because the color was dark and overlapped with the shadows, he didn't notice it at first.
When he walked over to take a look, there was a wine jar placed there.
Shinji was very disappointed, but he still picked up the wine jar and carefully observed it.
Just then, a strange thing happened.
A voice suddenly came from the wine jar: "Let me out! Damn it, let me out quickly!"
Shinji's hand shook, and he almost threw this broken thing out.
"Are you inside? What are you?"
Shinji suddenly seemed to know why the task description said that someone had seen a ghost.
This wine jar was inconspicuous, and it was difficult to see if it was placed in the shadows of the corner. If you suddenly heard someone speaking and asking for help, wouldn't you be afraid!
He had been startled just now!
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