For a moment, the field fell quiet.
Inside the earthen walls, Uchiha Shisui and the others who had yet to make a move formed a circle, each holding their ninja tools as they warily watched their surroundings, even though they could not see anything.
Tick-tock, tick-tock—
A sound like the hands of a clock moving echoed in everyone's hearts.
Time flowed by, second by second.
Several breaths later, with a boom, an explosion suddenly came from outside the earthen walls Yamato had formed.
Everyone present was an elite, so they naturally identified the source of the sound at once. It was unmistakably the noise of a large number of Exploding Tags detonating together.
And that explosion was like a fuse. Almost in the very next instant, even more explosions rang out from every direction.
Everyone felt the sand beneath their feet tremble, and then the four earthen walls formed by Qian's Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall were blasted open with huge holes one after another.
Through those holes, they could vaguely see the shattered corpses of snakes.
That was right. Beneath those bulges just now had been nothing else, but sand snakes burrowing through the ground one after another.
And at this point in time, in this place, the only person they could think of who had any connection to snakes was none other than Orochimaru.
Clearly, Orochimaru had hidden Exploding Tags inside those sand snakes, attempting to launch a sneak attack while surrounding and attacking them.
Unfortunately, this scheme had been dissolved by the Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall used by Qian and Yamato respectively.
Even so, it still made everyone realize how dangerous this mission was.
Involuntarily, everyone tightened their grips on the ninja tools in their hands once more.
Time continued to pass.
Soon, the sand and