Border of the Land of Lightning.
"Pfft... pfft... What kind of hellhole is this?"
Kanroi and his partner, Tanti'i, fell into a deep pit during today's surveying mission.
The two were members of the Cloud Village exploration team. It went without saying what their usual work involved.
The Land of Lightning was vast, with countless unexplored areas.
The Land of Lightning was not poor either, but with limited manpower, exploration had always progressed slowly.
After all, they had so few people that they could spend their entire lives and still not cover all the remaining territory.
So the exploration team slacked off whenever they could.
But after the Cloud Village suffered defeat on the Land of Water battlefield...
Everything changed. After the Cloud Village paid out an enormous amount in compensation,
every project that could potentially benefit the Cloud Village was assigned additional tasks.
The exploration team was no exception.
In fact, the exploration team was one of the departments the Raikage paid close attention to.
So their daily exploration quotas were tripled.
Today, Kanroi and Tanti'i were exploring a cave when a cave-in occurred.
The two fell directly into a deep pit.
Kanroi woke up first and spat out the dirt in his mouth.
He switched on the lamp on his head
and began checking on Tanti'i. Fortunately, Tanti'i had only been knocked unconscious by the impact.
After Kanroi treated him, Tanti'i quickly woke up as well.
"Did we... fall down here?"
Kanroi nodded calmly.
"Since we're already down here, let's see whether there's a mineral vein nearby."
Tanti'i took out his canteen and drank a mouthful.
"Fine. Let's go together."
Neither of them was worried about being trapped underground, because they were both ninja.
And they knew Earth Release. Given the quality of the surrounding soil, getting out