Sarutobi Shinosuke truly felt a chill of horror. All the secrets hidden deep within his heart felt as if they were laid bare before Uchiha Chisen, like a naked man with no cover whatsoever.
It was as if, whenever he did those things, Uchiha Chisen had been secretly observing him from the shadows!
He even felt that this scenario had a very high probability of being true.
Otherwise, how could he explain how Uchiha Chisen knew so much?
After all…
The "secrets" Uchiha Chisen spoke of were things Sarutobi Shinosuke had never told anyone, not even his wife, his old man, or some of his own subordinates.
"Uchiha Chisen! You..."
But before Sarutobi Shinosuke could utter a single word, an intense feeling of suffocating death surged into his heart.
This was because a lava projectile the size of a human head suddenly shot towards him!
He decisively shut his mouth, gripping the hilt of his ninja sword with both hands. A layer of azure chakra adhered to the blade of the sword.
"Hah!!!"
Sarutobi Shinosuke slashed down, and the rapidly approaching lava projectile was split in two.
Just as he was about to swing his sword again, he suddenly felt that the grip was wrong.
He glanced over, his pupils contracting slightly.
The ninja sword…
It had broken!
Even with chakra adhering to the ninja sword, it couldn't withstand the terrifying heat of Uchiha Chisen's Lava Release lava?
He immediately looked forward, only to find that Uchiha Chisen hadn't charged forward. Instead, he was half-crouched on the ground, one hand slightly lowered, his fingertips lightly touching the ground—it seemed that in that brief moment, he had already formed a hand seal.
"Lava Release…"
"Lava Swamp."
An eerie "gurgling" sound reached his ears. Under the horrified gazes of Sarutobi Shinosuke and a group of Anbu ninjas, the ground centered around Uchiha Chisen's feet began to rapidly melt from an unknown source of heat, turning into lava!
In almost the blink of an eye, even though Sarutobi Shinosuke and Uchiha Chisen were a full twenty meters apart, he found that the ground beneath his feet had already begun to emit a faint crimson glow.
"This is bad! Retreat!!!"
The moment Sarutobi Shinosuke decisively gave the order, he and the Anbu ninjas beside him rapidly retreated.
However, one Anbu ninja was half a step too late.
He retreated, but as his feet landed on the ground, this Anbu ninja suddenly lost his balance, his expression changing drastically.
"Ah! Hiss!!!"
Unspeakable pain shot from his ankles, causing him to hastily support himself against the wall and look down in a panic.
"My feet... they're gone..."
In his line of sight, both of his feet had vanished at some point! Faint smoke was rising from the broken ends of his ankles, carrying a pungent smell of scorched meat!
"Captain Shinosuke! I..."
This Anbu ninja panicked.
However.
Sarutobi Shinosuke could no longer worry about his subordinate's injuries, because he realized that Uchiha Chisen's terrifying Lava Release power was rapidly destroying this secret research base!
The terrifying temperature of the lava was not only melting the ground beneath their feet but also the surrounding walls.
The walls on both sides of the passage had already melted into astonishingly large holes.
Even the metal on the walls was burning with fierce flames.
Even from a distance, it made Sarutobi Shinosuke and the others sweat profusely.
The temperature here was too high!!!
"Captain Shinosuke! The lava is acting strangely!" an Anbu ninja keenly noticed the anomaly—the lava, which was continuously bubbling in front of them, seemed to be surging upwards, as if something terrifying was about to emerge.
He guessed correctly.
The next second.
—Boom!!!
A terrifying torrent of lava erupted upwards like a volcanic eruption, instantly melting everything above their heads.
Under the horrified gaze of the Anbu ninjas, the secret research base was violently blasted with a huge hole by the lava!
From an outside perspective of the base, a beam of crimson lava could be seen suddenly erupting from the ground in the dense forest and shooting straight up into the sky!
It wasn't until it reached an altitude of one hundred meters that the lava transformed into a sky full of "raining streams," scattering and falling in various directions below.
But the falling lava projectiles were not like harmless raindrops!
When a fist-sized piece of lava fell.
The indescribable impact force instantly exploded like an explosive tag, blasting a large hole above the secret research base! It blasted open the rocks and soil above the base, revealing the surface of the building.
And these Lava Bullets with considerable power...
Looking out.
Over hundreds!
...
It was past 8 PM, the very beginning of the nightlife.
Many Konoha villagers had just finished dinner and wanted to take a stroll to digest their food.
But they suddenly saw...
A very conspicuous crimson light shooting up into the sky from outside the village.
Then, the beam of light scattered like fireworks.
It seemed to illuminate half of Konoha Village, making it faintly glow.
"What is that?" a civilian wondered, gazing into the distance. "Is someone setting off fireworks outside the village? What huge fireworks..."
Someone nearby offered a different opinion: "Do fireworks look like that? It looks more like a volcanic eruption."
"Don't be ridiculous! Where would there be a volcano near Konoha?"
"It has to be fireworks! But, is there some kind of celebration recently? I haven't heard anything about it. If there's no special occasion, there's no need to set off such big fireworks, right? And why are they setting them off outside the village? What's going on?!"
"..."
...
Besides these civilians who couldn't use ninjutsu, many ninjas in the village also noticed the unusual sight in the distance.
Within the Uchiha Clan compound.
A hint of surprise flashed in Uchiha Mikoto's beautiful eyes as she said to her husband beside her, "Fugaku, that looks like... lava, doesn't it? It's just like a suddenly erupting volcano."
"...Mm."
Fugaku gazed at the distant night sky, his expression slightly grim as he nodded. "If I'm not mistaken, it should be Chisen. Knowing Chisen's personality, he wouldn't cause such a huge commotion for no reason. Him being outside the village, he might have encountered a strong enemy."
"Hmph, I need to go out. You stay home and take care of Sasuke."
Fugaku had already turned back towards their house, preparing to put on his Konoha Military Police Force combat uniform.
He explained as he went, "Although Chisen and I don't always see eye to eye, there's one thing I respect about him. He can always see through the 'evil' deeds a person has committed, and he's never once been wrong or accused anyone unjustly."
"Over the years, neither the Fourth Hokage nor the Third Hokage could do anything about him, precisely because they couldn't find any excuse to target Uchiha Chisen."
"After Chisen kills someone, he'll hand the body over to us, and we'll then pass it to the Yamanaka Clan. The Yamanaka Clan can always discover some horrifying criminal secrets from the bodies."
Uchiha Mikoto hesitated upon hearing this. "So, you're saying he might be fighting against someone who has done evil right now?"
"Mm."
Fugaku had already changed into his Konoha Military Police Force attire, his expression calm. "Regardless, he is still a member of the Konoha Military Police Force. As the Captain of the Konoha Military Police Force, I must lead my men to support him."
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