Kakashi also came over. He looked at his three students, with a trace of relief and pride in his eyes that were always lazy. He walked to the place where the "weasel" container had been placed before. There was nothing there now, not even a trace of Chakra was left.
"It's all over." He said softly, as if he was announcing to everyone, and also as if he was convincing himself.
On the battlefield, belated and deafening cheers finally broke out. The ninjas hugged each other and cried with joy. The war that almost destroyed the entire world finally came to an end in a way they could not imagine.
Gaara stood not far away, looking at Naruto who was laughing and joking with his companions. A soft smile also appeared on his tense face.
Uncle Killer B directly started his impromptu rap. "Oh yeah! The final BOSS has been defeated! Naruto and Sasuke are the most promising! World peace has arrived! Let's have a party together! Idiots! Bastards!"
The atmosphere was peaceful.
However, only a few people noticed a slight sense of inconsistency.
"Shikamaru," Temari walked to his man and frowned, "Do you feel... a little strange?"
"Hmm." Shikamaru looked up at the sky with solemn eyes, "It's too quiet. It's also... too "clean"."
Jhin disappeared, and the Ten-Tails clones he brought also turned into data streams and disappeared. Except for them and the traces of damage caused by the battle, the entire battlefield was as clean as a formatted white paper.
"Although the troublesome guy has been solved, I still feel that a more troublesome mess has been left behind." Shikamaru sighed, "I hope I am overthinking."
At this moment, a Hyuga tribesman in charge of the investigation suddenly let out a cry of terror.
"Then... what is that?!"
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger.
On the very distant horizon, a majestic sand dune suddenly "flickered" like an image with poor signal. It disappeared out of thin air for a few tenths of a second, and then suddenly reappeared, as if nothing had happened.
If thousands of pairs of eyes hadn't seen it at the same time, everyone would have thought they were dazzled.
"Space is unstable?" A perceptive ninja said in surprise.
Before he finished speaking, something even weirder happened.
"My Water Release!" A Kirigakure Ninja screamed. He just wanted to use the Water Release·Water Formation Wall technique to clean up the sand and soil on his body, but what spurted out from his mouth was not water, but a lot of colorful... butterflies?
Those butterflies flapped their wings, flew all over the sky, and then turned into meaningless data streams in mid-air and disappeared.
"What's going on?"
"My Earth Release can't be used anymore! Hand Seals is right, but Chakra cannot be transformed in the body!"
"Sky! Look at the sky!"
Everyone looked up in shock.
I saw a crack in the blue sky without warning. It was not a physical crack, but more like a picture being torn open, revealing the colorful and rolling code behind it. The crack only appeared for a moment, and was forcibly "glued" back by some invisible force, but everyone could see it clearly.
Panic began to spread like a plague.
"What... what is going on? I asked!" Naruto was also confused.
Sasuke's Rinnegan stared at the sky, his pupils shrinking to the size of a pinhead. His expression was even more solemn than when he faced Jhin just now.
"It's not that space is unstable." His voice was dry, "It's that the "world" itself is unstable."
Kakashi understood something instantly, and his face became extremely ugly. "That guy named Jhin... he is not just an intruder. In the process of analyzing and trying to modify this world, he has turned himself into a part of this world... just like a system patch. And we... have just forcibly deleted this patch, along with the virus that came with it."
"What will happen?" Sakura asked nervously.
Shikamaru took over, his voice full of bitterness. "What will happen to a system that has been patched with a bunch of messy patches, injected with viruses, and finally had its core programs forcibly uninstalled? The answer is like this. It crashed."
The world is collapsing.
It is not destroyed by external forces, but starting from the lowest rules, disorderly and randomly, towards disintegration.
"The worst thing is not this." Sasuke's gaze turned to the place directly above the battlefield.
The space there began to twist violently, like water where stones were thrown into it. A huge, familiar vortex was emerging from nothingness.
That is the space vortex of Kamui.
But it was larger and more violent than anything Obito or Jhin had ever used. Countless black lightnings jumped around the edge of the vortex, and every flash was accompanied by the cry of space being torn apart.
"Obito's Kamui Dimension..." Kakashi murmured to himself, "Jin is dead, his transplanted eyes have also lost their source of power, and that space... will also collapse!"
"Then what?" Naruto had an ominous premonition.
"Then," Sa-suke said word by word, "The new Ten-Tails he locked inside will be spit out. It will bring the entire collapsed alien space and crash into our... also in the collapsed world."
Two worlds on the verge of collapse are about to collide.
That wouldn't be one plus one equaling two.
But one plus one equals zero.
It is complete, irreparable, and reduced to nothingness.
Panic, like cold sea water, drowned everyone.
Having just survived a doomsday catastrophe, I thought we had the dawn of peace, but in the blink of an eye I was faced with an even more desperate and unsolvable situation.
The rules of the world are disintegrating, the ground under your feet may turn into butterflies at any time, and there is a "dimensional bomb" hanging in the sky that may explode at any time. With this kind of enemy, you don't even know where to swing your fist.
"What should we do? What should we do?" A young ninja held his head and was on the verge of mental collapse.
"Don't panic! Stay in formation!" the senior beside him shouted sternly, but his trembling hands revealed the fear in his heart.
"It's useless." Shikamaru closed his eyes, and the computing power of his brain seemed so pale at this moment. Any strategy is based on the stability of the world's rules. When "one plus one" may equal "Apple", all tactics lose meaning. "We are like a character in a game, but we have to face the reality that the game itself is deleting the library and running away. We can't do anything."
The atmosphere of despair was even stronger than when facing Jhin.