Naruto's Trash Station

White smoke appeared, and Ren vanished from the bedroom.

Beast King Mountain, Dog Clan Hall.

Bang...

White smoke appeared within the hall, slowly revealing Ren's figure.

Ren appeared and swept his gaze across the vast hall. "Why is there still not a single dog in the hall?"

He had not encountered a single dog when he came here for the Sharingan this morning, and it was still the same now. Could it be that the Dog Clan was not allowed to enter this hall freely?

Though puzzled, Ren did not leave. He merely took out the scroll he had brought and formed hand seals with both hands. "Release!"

The runes on the scroll vanished, and numerous items appeared. This was a sealing scroll, where Ren stored his belongings.

Ren stared at the monster egg within it. "A monster egg from the Devour Star world... I wonder what it will hatch into."

He picked up the monster egg, then carefully placed a porcelain bottle in one corner of the hall.

The porcelain bottle contained Foundation-Building Spirit Liquid, something Ren treasured immensely. It was too dangerous to keep it at home, and he did not have a spatial ring yet, so he placed it inside Beast King Mountain. After all, Beast King Mountain was now Ren's private territory, and the entire Dog Clan was loyal to him.

Naturally, keeping these treasures here was exceptionally safe.

After putting away each treasure, Ren finally carried the monster egg out of the hall.

The moment he stepped outside, Ren heard a terrifying roar.

Roar...

The roar swept up a violent gale.

Ren stared wide-eyed. "What... Is that the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King? How did it become so huge?!"

The Ghost-Faced Mastiff King he had seen yesterday had only been about a meter tall. Now, it was dozens of meters tall, just like Bunta in the future. Even if summoned beasts grew quickly, what was going on here? Had it been pumped full of steroids?

"That can't be right! The Dog Clan's seal hasn't been lifted yet. How did the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King grow so large? What exactly happened?"

Ren spoke in shock, only to discover that the distant Ghost-Faced Mastiff King was staring at him. Its originally pitch-black pupils had turned blood-red.

"Master!"

The faint voice carried a childish quality, as though it had only just learned how to speak.

Ren was even more shocked. "What happened? How did you become like this?"

The Ghost-Faced Mastiff King also looked confused before saying, "I don't know either, but I'm not the only one who grew larger. The other clansmen did too!"

As soon as those words fell, Ren saw several enormous heads appear.

Ren swallowed. "Husky, Bully Dog, Bulldog, Sled Dog... How did all of you become so huge?"

Eight gigantic dogs stood before him, each of them roughly Bunta's size. The Bully Dog in particular was even a full circle larger than Bunta from the original story.

Ren was stunned, completely unable to understand what was happening. He had already gotten information about sealing techniques from Mikoto. As long as she brought them over tomorrow, he could find a way to lift the Dog Clan's seal. But what was this now? Their seals had all been lifted.

The highly intelligent Husky said, "Master... Our flesh and blood were strengthened by a strange energy, and then we all broke through the seal. The entire Dog Clan has been freed from the seal and has grown!"

At this point, Ren wore a strange expression. "Mysterious energy!"

The Sled Dog said, "That's right... The source of that mysterious energy seems to be the trash Master threw down yesterday!"

"What?!" Ren cried out in shock before staring at the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King. "Could it be... could it be... could it be that you were infected with the RR Virus? The RR Virus from the Devour world, and then you all evolved together? But that can't be right. In the Devour Star world, countless animals died during evolution!"

Shock filled Ren's heart. He felt that the Dog Clan's evolution had been entirely caused by the ravages of the RR Virus, which had made the whole clan evolve.

That was the only explanation. Otherwise, Ren truly could not understand how nearly ten thousand dogs had all evolved.

Ren leaped up and landed on the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King's back. "Take me to where I threw the trash yesterday!"

Chapter 38: Strange Evolution

Woof, woof... Woof, woof...

Within Beast King Mountain, the sounds of barking rang without end. Eight dogs dozens of meters tall raced through Beast King Mountain, charging toward a certain place.

Ren was among them, standing atop the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King's head and feeling the wild wind blow against him.

Ren felt somewhat horrified. In just a single day, the entire Dog Clan had broken through the seal and evolved. No matter how he thought about it, he suspected it was because of the trash he had thrown away yesterday.

In the blink of an eye, the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King arrived at yesterday's location, the place where the trash had been discarded.

Ren stared ahead in shock. "How is this possible... The trash I threw down yesterday has all disappeared today?"

The barren land had turned into a lush green grassland, and several little saplings were even growing vigorously.

The Husky said, "Master... We don't know what happened here either. But the strange energy came from here, and the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King was the first to evolve. Perhaps he knows something!"

As one of the smarter dogs, the Husky had some thoughts at this moment. After all, the Dog Clan had still been restricted by the seal yesterday, yet today the seal had been lifted and every one of them had evolved. No matter how one looked at it, it was strange.

Ren nodded silently and looked at the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King. "What happened? After I left yesterday, what occurred here?"

The Ghost-Faced Mastiff King fell into thought before saying, "Master... I don't know either. I only felt a special energy slowly spreading from yesterday's trash, and then that energy seemed to grow stronger. I couldn't control myself and rushed into the trash, where I found a human corpse. But the corpse was strange—it was slowly decomposing, and as it decomposed, that strange energy became even more abundant. I evolved beneath that energy and eventually became like this. But when I searched for that corpse again, I couldn't find it. It had completely disappeared. Not only that corpse, but all the trash Master threw down had disappeared as well. Only this steel remains!"

Filled with confusion, the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King did not know what had happened either.

Ren looked toward a pile of steel in the distance, along with an eighty-percent-new Lamborghini. Those were the only things left; everything else had vanished.

Ren held his forehead. "That should be it. Although it's strange that the trash disappeared, the Dog Clan's evolution must have been caused by the RR Virus!"

The Devour Star world had originally been an apocalyptic Earth. The reason it became apocalyptic was the rampant spread of the RR Virus. The RR Virus killed two billion people on Earth, but those who survived had their physiques strengthened several times over. It did not affect humans alone; birds and beasts also evolved. Compared to humans, their improvements were even more astonishing.

Although humanity still reigned supreme in the Devour Star world, the monsters on early Earth were even more terrifying. Evolving amid the ravages of the RR Virus, these beasts had surpassed all imagination and become dreadful monsters.

Ren understood that the Dog Clan was the same. Under the influence of the RR Virus, they had not only broken through Madara Uchiha's seal, but also evolved.

Ren shook his head. "There haven't been any deaths in the Dog Clan, have there?"

In the Devour Star world, the ravages of the RR Virus had killed countless animals, and only the survivors evolved. Ren was now worried that the Dog Clan might have suffered casualties as well.

The Husky shook his head. "Master... When that energy transformed our bodies, it caused pain. But the seal offset it, allowing us to evolve. Therefore, there have been no deaths in the Dog Clan."

Hearing that, Ren set aside some of his worry. Every member of the Dog Clan was a loyal subordinate, and losing even one would be an enormous loss to him. Besides, Ren liked dogs, so he naturally did not want them to die like this.

Ren narrowed his eyes. "The RR Virus made you evolve, and it mainly came from the trash from Devour Star. But why did all that trash disappear? And the trash from the Battle Through the Heavens World disappeared too. This barren land has actually become like this!"