Uchiha Madara slowly walked forward alone. The farther he went, the more he felt that something was off.
It was completely different from what he had imagined. If most of Pine Blossom Town's people had already been demonized, then Uchiha Madara felt that this evil aura should have spread throughout the entire town.
But apart from its deathly stillness, the town before him gave Uchiha Madara no sense of anything evil.
Uchiha Madara glanced behind him. He had already walked some distance away from the encirclement.
He remembered the soldier telling him that the corpse would be just two steps ahead.
But he had already come this far. Pine Blossom Town was right ahead of him, yet he still had not found that corpse.
Uchiha Madara was a little puzzled. Could that soldier have lied to him?
But that did not seem to make sense. After all, he had given the man so many gold coins, and the soldier truly did not seem like someone who would deceive him.
If the soldier had not lied, then could that corpse have run away on its own?
Lost in thought as he walked, Uchiha Madara had now arrived at the town gate.
Looking at this lifeless Pine Blossom Town, even its gates had fallen into disrepair.
Above the gate, Uchiha Madara saw an extremely sharp mark, as though it had been raked by the claws of some beast.
The mark was very deep. Uchiha Madara wondered why something like that would be here. Could there be magical beasts inside Pine Blossom Town?
The gate stood half-open, half-closed. Through the gaps between its broken pieces, he could vaguely make out some of the ground inside, but his field of view was extremely limited.
Uchiha Madara was starting to feel a little concerned. Should