"Also, when I came here just now, I saw several skeletons. They had no clothes on, and all of them had fatal wounds in the chest. The chest of the clothes you're wearing is torn too."
After hearing Uchiha Madara's words, the youth's face turned pale, but he said nothing.
"This is why I suspect you. If the monkeys outside the building can look so much like humans, then wouldn't the monkeys inside the building look exactly like humans?" Uchiha Madara said.
"You're right," the youth said as he looked at Uchiha Madara.
"Now I'm going to ask you a question. Answer carefully," Uchiha Madara said, looking at the youth.
"What exactly is this thing up here?" Uchiha Madara asked.
"A heart," the youth answered. "This is the heart of the entire island."
"Alive!?" Uchiha Madara said in shock. "You mean this island is alive?"
"Yes." Seeing Uchiha Madara's astonished expression, the youth seemed quite satisfied. "And this thing is the heart of the entire island."
"How is that possible?" Uchiha Madara said. "How could an island be alive?"
The youth glanced at Uchiha Madara and struck out with his palm at empty air.
A small palm print appeared on the red thing.
Then Uchiha Madara felt as if there had been an earthquake. Everything around him began to tilt, and he barely managed to steady himself.
"See? It felt pain. The whole island is moving," the youth said with a smile.
"You're absorbing this island's life force. It accelerated your evolution, which is why this happened," Uchiha Madara said.
"That's right, but it didn't happen overnight. This process takes many years. Still, compared to our own natural evolution, it's many times faster," the youth said with a smile.
"Then what's with the human corpses?" Uchiha Madara asked.
"For some