"What way?!"
At Chiba's cry, Yu Ze and the other two abruptly turned around. Three pairs of eyes locked tightly onto him, their faces filled with surprise and excitement.
Yu Ze especially—amid his surprise and excitement, the somewhat scattered confidence in his eyes seemed to gather again.
Chiba... really can solve this problem! I wasn't wrong!
I didn't make a mistake! I really found everyone a path forward!
Chiba really is the key!
His excitement and surprise were even greater than what showed on his face.
At that moment, he could not help recalling how he had spent nearly a whole day trudging through the wilderness in search of food. When he reached that new battlefield, a place like the hell of Asura, he had found the ninja before him in the very center of the battlefield, surrounded by severed limbs and withered corpses.
At the time, he could barely believe his eyes. There was actually a child among the ninja, one even younger than himself, and he was on such a cruel battlefield, one like the hell of Asura. This battlefield was undoubtedly the most brutal one he had ever seen, without exception.
Those severed limbs and corpses, the ground stained black by blood and giving off a sickening stench of blood—it was impossible for him to imagine what kind of horrific battle had taken place there. He had seen hundreds of corpses alone. Some were buried in the dark, foul-smelling earth, with only a hand or foot exposed. Others had half their bodies buried underground, with the other half laid bare in the open. The sight was unbearable. He had never seen hell, but those two words rose unbidden in his mind at the sight before him.
He had even realized, judging by the state of those corpses,