Dozens of Ice Swallow struck like raindrops at the Sky Ninja who tried to sound the alarm.
"Uh-huh!"
Ice Swallow hit everyone accurately, and when it came into contact with Setsuna, it turned them into ice sculptures and stood in place.
Ning Xue took back his hand and walked past them without even looking at them. He just continued walking deeper.
Soon after, he came to the end of the corridor.
At the end is the staircase leading to the cellar, which emits a dazzling blue light.
Below are the imprisoned villagers.
Ning Xue took back Byakugan, stepped on the stairs, and walked down slowly.
In the cell on the right, the imprisoned villagers were sitting on the ground with dull eyes and chapped lips, looking very weak.
Some people were huddled in the corner and shivering, some were leaning against the wall and falling asleep, and there were several children lying in the arms of adults who didn't even have the strength to cry.
Ning Xue's brows wrinkled slightly.
He walked to the cell door and raised his hand to hold the thick metal railing.
"Zi la!"
A purple arc of electricity suddenly shot up from the railing and hit his palm directly.
Ning Xue quickly let go of his hand, took a step back, and looked at his slightly numb palm.
There is current.
He knelt down and looked carefully at the cell door frame.
I saw that the surface of the metal railings was engraved with dense purple runes. Those runes were wrapped around each railing like vines, and they were faintly emitting a faint light at the moment.
"Sealing Jutsu?" Ning Xue whispered to himself, then shook his head, "No... it's absorption."
He turned on Byakugan and observed the inside of the cell at close range.
And under this close observation, he discovered that the Chakra of those villagers were flowing out at a slow but steady rate.
The lost Chakra gathered along the runes on the wall and eventually flowed deep underground.
He looked at the strange runes carved on the wall again.
Those runes seemed to echo each other, forming a huge absorption loop.
Ning Xue's brows furrowed even deeper.
This kind of cell... should be specially designed to hold ninjas.
Ninja's Chakra is powerful and can bear some loss, but at best it is weak.
But ordinary people Chakra themselves are extremely weak. Once they are continuously absorbed, they will soon be exhausted until they die.
He looked at the pale villagers and understood.
At this rate, at most one day, the elderly and the youngest children will die, starting with them.
He stood up and looked at the cell door again.
Brute force cracking will trigger an electric current, but if it is not cracked, the villagers inside will not last long.
Ning Xue was silent for a moment, then raised his hand.
"Since conventional methods cannot dismantle..."
White streaks appeared on his fingertips.
"Then use something more violent."
He covered his hands with Mōryō Chakra, condensing a layer of faint purple light, and then held the metal railing.
"Zila--!"
The arc sprang up again, but this time, the purple-black Chakra isolated the current like armor.
Ning Xue Used both arms violently.
"Crunch... crunch..."
The metal railing began to bend, the purple runes quickly dimmed and disintegrated under the erosion of Mōryō Chakra, and cracks spread on the surface of the railing.
"Bang!"
The two railings snapped, revealing a gap large enough for one person to pass through.
Ning Xue let go of his hand, and the purple Chakra slowly dissipated.
He glanced at his palm, which was burnt black.
Not bad.
He bent down and slipped through the gap, stepping into the cell.
The villagers raised their heads and looked at the mysterious white-haired man wearing a mask in horror.
Some people shrank back, some hugged their children tightly, and some people's lips trembled and wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Ning Xue didn't say much, just squatted down and checked the condition of the nearest old man.
The pulse is weak, the breathing is shallow and short, and the Chakra in the body is almost bottomed out.
"Can I leave?" he asked.
The old man looked at him, his cloudy eyes full of confusion.
"You are..."
"Coming to pick you up."
Ning Xue stood up and glanced around the cell. There were dozens of villagers, most of whom were in a weak state, but could barely move.
Several children were unconscious and needed to be carried.
He was silent for a second, then turned and walked towards the gap in the cell.
"Follow me."
The villagers looked at each other with hesitation and fear in their eyes.
"But... those who can fly..."
"It's been solved."
Ning Xue's tone was very calm, but with a kind of certainty that no one could question.
Finally, a young man stood up, supported the wall, and staggered towards the gap.
"I... I'll go with you."
Someone took the lead, and others stood up one after another, supporting each other, and followed behind Ning Xue.
Ning Xue stood in the corridor, watching these weak people come out of the gap one after another, silently counting the number of people in his heart.
Forty-three.
Pretty much what he expected.
But just at this moment.
"Boom--!!!"
A loud noise came from above the head, making the entire ruins tremble.
Ning Xue raised his head and turned on Byakugan.
His vision penetrated the layers of metal plates and looked straight to the top layer of the ruins.
There, there was a demolition master with yellow hair, smashing through the wall at an extremely fast speed and rushing in this direction.
"What the hell..."