"Hey... yes." Naruto grinned, although the smile was uglier than crying, "My Himawari's birthday is coming soon... I also promised to buy her the limited edition Kurama doll..."
When Kurama was mentioned, Naruto's eyes dimmed for a moment, but then they lit up again.
"I am Uzumaki Naruto! How could I die in the hands of a pile of waste oil!"
He roared, and with strength that came from nowhere, he pushed the winch violently.
Click!
Perhaps it was due to excessive force, or perhaps it was in disrepair, but the handle of the winch actually broke!
The platform shook violently and stopped in mid-air.
The Black Oil below has overflowed and is about to swallow up the entire platform.
"It's over." Naruto held the half-broken handle in his hand with a dull look on his face.
Sasuke looked at the black waves rolling under his feet, his eyes turned cold.
"It's not over yet."
He suddenly let go of his hand and turned to face the wall of the well. There was an extremely thick, frost-covered pipe there, which seemed to be an exhaust pipe leading to the surface.
"Naruto, hold me tight."
"Huh? What did you say..."
Before Naruto could react, Sasuke grabbed his collar, pulled out Kusanagi Sword with the other hand, and the lightning exploded.
"Chidori!"
But instead of attacking the enemy, he stabbed Chidori into the exhaust pipe.
Boom!
A big hole was opened in the wall of the pipe. Sasuke took Naruto and jumped into the unknown black hole.
Behind him, the black wave instantly swallowed up the platform, letting out an unwilling roar.
The exhaust pipe is not empty, but a slide that slopes upward.
The two of them slid down at high speed in the dark like they were on a slide, and the iron sheets under their buttocks were friction-hot. The pipes were filled with old dust and ice, and they were so choked that Naruto couldn't even cough.
"This... where does this lead to?" Naruto's voice made a long echo in the pipe.
"I don't know! But if there is wind, there is an exit!" Sasuke is in front, and Kusanagi Sword is inserted into the pipe wall to control the speed, sparks flying all the way.
After sliding for about a few minutes, a faint light finally appeared in front of me.
"Exit!"
The two rushed out of the pipe and fell hard on the snow.
This fall was even harder than before, burying the two of them directly into half a meter of snow.
Naruto pulled his head out of the snow and breathed in the cold but fresh air.
"Alive... alive..."
They were currently on a mountainside in Land of Snow. In the distance, black smoke was still rising from the entrance to the underground ruins, but the violent shaking had stopped.
"It seems that the underground pressure has almost been released." Sasuke patted the snow off his body and looked to the east.
There, a touch of fish belly white appeared on the horizon. The long polar night was finally over, and dawn was about to come.
But the crisis has not been resolved.
A black fountain suddenly erupted from the hole. Those Black Oil did not die due to the loss of geothermal heat, but became more violent because they came into contact with the outside air. They spread on the snow, and wherever they passed, the white snow instantly turned into a black quagmire.
"Why are you still chasing this thing?" Naruto looked at the black tide desperately, "Is it a dog-skin plaster?"
"It's looking for a host." Sasuke analyzed calmly, "Without the heat energy underground, it needs a new energy source. And we are the only living creatures within a few dozen miles."
"What should we do? Run?"
"We can't outrun it." Sasuke looked around. This was an open snowfield without any obstructions. "And our physical strength has reached its limit."
The black tide began to gather and slowly swelled, forming the shape of a giant tens of meters high. It had no facial features, only a huge mouth that was split to the base of the ears, and made waves of disgusting gurgling sounds.
"Naruto." Sasuke suddenly said, "Do you still remember what the director said when we were filming a movie here?"
"That old man with glasses? He said so much nonsense, I can't remember it." Naruto put on a fighting posture, although his calf muscles were twisting.
"He said, Land of Snow's rainbow is the light of miracles." Sasuke pointed to the sky.
As the sun rises, the sunlight shines on the surrounding huge glacier mirrors. The unique geographical environment of Land of Snow has formed countless natural reflectors here.
The beams of light refracted between the glaciers and finally converged on the area where they were located.
The originally pale snowfield was suddenly dyed with a colorful halo.
"This is..." Naruto's eyes widened, "Rainbow Ice Wall?"
"Although the generator is broken, the structure of the earth is still there." Sasuke raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Since this thing survives by absorbing Chakra and heat energy, then give it something "excessive"."
"You mean..."
"Use a mirror." Sasuke pointed at a huge smooth ice wall behind him, "That's a natural gathering Light Spot. Just focus the sunlight on that monster."
"But the angle is wrong!" Naruto gestured, "The sun is over there, the mirror is over here, the monster is in the middle..."
"So someone needs to adjust the angle." Sasuke looked at Naruto, "I'll divert it away, and you use Wind Release to cut the ice wall and adjust the reflective surface."
"No! It's too dangerous for you to lure it away! It's better for me to go..."
"Are you worthy?" Sasuke snorted coldly, "Your Wind Release cuts ice faster than mine. Stop talking nonsense and move!"
After saying that, Sasuke no longer gave Naruto a chance to refute, and rushed towards the black giant with his sword in hand.
"Hey! Big guy! Look here!"
Sasuke rarely shouted, and the shurikens hit the giant like raindrops. Although the damage was not great, it was extremely insulting.
The black giant was indeed enraged, waving his huge arms and smashing at Sasuke.
Naruto gritted his teeth, turned around and rushed towards the ice wall.
"We must catch up!"
He condensed the last Chakra in his hands, and the wind-attributed blade rotated in his palms.
"Wind Release·Vacuum Sphere!"
Naruto was like a sculptor, frantically chipping away at the edge of the ice wall. Ice fragments flew everywhere, and he was completely unaware of the bloody cuts on his face.
On the other side, Sasuke is surrounded by dangers.
He didn't have Chakra or Susanoo, so he could only rely on Taijutsu and Body Flicker Technique to dodge. Every time he dodged, he was dancing on the tip of the knife. The black slime brushed against the corner of his clothes several times, immediately corroding it into a charred black mess.
"Still not feeling well? It's the one at the end of the crane!" Sasuke gasped, his left leg already starting to feel numb.
"Okay! Let me... light it up!"
Naruto roared, and Wind Blade cut it off with the last stroke.
The huge ice wall suddenly tilted, aiming right at the rising sun.
At that moment, the sunlight, which was so strong that it was impossible to see directly, was captured by the ice wall and converged into a beam of light with a diameter of tens of meters. It struck the black giant directly like a divine punishment.