Chen Fan walked at the front, with the Mizukage and Chiyo behind him.
Suddenly, Chen Fan stepped on the ground. He heard a faint sound, like a branch snapping beneath his foot, but he knew there were no branches underfoot.
"Don't come over!" Chen Fan shouted at the Mizukage and Chiyo.
But just as he finished shouting, "Boom! Boom! Boom..." The explosion triggered a chain reaction. More than a dozen bombs had actually been buried around Chen Fan. The blast wave blew Mei Terumi and Chiyo backward, and both their expressions changed drastically.
The enormous explosion shattered every tree within several hundred meters. Its power was so immense that a small mushroom cloud rose into the air, and a massive crater spanning several hundred meters appeared in the ground.
"Bang, bang, bang!!" Deidara mimicked the sounds with his opening and closing palms. After the explosions ended, a mocking smile appeared on his face. "What powerful strength? Before my art, it's so pitifully fragile. You stepped into the trap so easily. There's nothing impressive about you at all. Art... is an explosion! Bang!"
"Don't celebrate too soon. That guy isn't dead yet," Hoshigaki Kisame said.
"Of course he isn't dead," Deidara said. "I held back. But he must be seriously injured. I'll kill him little by little."
"Chen Fan!" Mei Terumi shouted toward the center of the explosion.
"Cough, cough! I'm fine, but I hate all this dust. It seems the enemy knew we were coming." Chen Fan's voice came from the center of the blast, and Mei Terumi relaxed slightly upon hearing it.
Then, with a stern expression, she looked in a certain direction and shouted, "Who's there? Sneaking around over there!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Several people surrounded Chen Fan. Mei Terumi was about to attack when Chen Fan's voice