"Rumble~~~"
Not long after Rin Nohara replaced Kakashi and Obito's eyes, the already-collapsed rocky ground caved in again. Kakashi could not move the boulder, so he had no choice but to leave with Rin Nohara. Beneath the rumbling boulder, Obito Uchiha was buried completely.
"Hmm! It disappeared. This fluctuation..."
Gu Sheng had been watching the collapsed area the entire time. Not long after Kakashi and Rin Nohara left, he suddenly sprang to his feet and rushed over. With a wave of his hand, the earth and rocks shattered, and all the stones were reduced to fragments. However, Obito Uchiha's figure was already nowhere to be seen.
"Black Zetsu, is it? I'll remember this fluctuation."
Gu Sheng's gaze was deep as he stared at the wisps of black traces beneath the human-shaped depression. A trace of anger stirred in his heart.
"This is... Someone came here?"
Liu Daimei also arrived beside Gu Sheng. She looked at him doubtfully. Gu Sheng had seemed to know something when he was investigating earlier, and now her doubts had only deepened.
"Let's go~"
Gu Sheng offered no further explanation and calmly left the area with Liu Daimei.
Not long after they departed, a pitch-black half-human figure emerged from the ground. It looked in the direction they had gone with confusion. "Am I being overly sensitive?"
At Kannabi Camp, Minato Namikaze received a hero's welcome after successfully destroying Kannabi Bridge and completing the mission, but his expression was not pleasant.
The three students he had left behind had failed to arrive on time. When he finally received definite news and saw them, there were only two of them. The one he considered the most important—Obito Uchiha—was missing.
Minato Namikaze had been a trusted student whom Gu Sheng had personally promoted, and he respected Gu Sheng