Was it deliberate? Why had the intruders intentionally destroyed the faces of these stone statues? It couldn't have been for fun, could it? Were they afraid of something?
The group continued farther in. The statues inside were still all destroyed, but this time, instead of sitting where they belonged, they lay scattered across the ground. It was as though they had risen up to resist, only to be smashed to pieces on the floor.
Li shook his head with a bitter smile. How could stone statues fight? Eventually, the group arrived outside a grand hall. From the outside, it appeared to span nearly three to four hundred meters on each side and stood over ten meters tall. Even outside, it would have been considered an exceptionally spacious place. Shikamaru stood at the entrance. "You're here. This place seems a little unusual."
Hearing Shikamaru say that, Li frowned as well. Ever since arriving here, he had felt as though his chakra had become somewhat unsettled. He tried gathering some chakra and found that it did not seem to affect his use of Ninjutsu. So what exactly was strange about this place?
The hall's doors were not open; they were tightly shut. Li glanced over. "Hinata, can you see anything?"
Hinata immediately activated her Byakugan, but then she slowly shook her head. Damn it, was this another place that blocked the Byakugan? Everything here seemed to be specifically targeting the Byakugan... Why target the Byakugan? Was there something inside that could not be allowed to be seen by it...?
Right, if this was not Earth, then where was it? Li looked up at the sky. "Shikamaru, where do you think we are now?"
Shikamaru frowned at Li's words. "Underground? Where else could we be?"
"You remember, right? Those pools of water we