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 isn't there a single dog in the hall?"

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

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, revealing quite a few items. This was a Sealing Scroll, which Ren used to store his belongings.

Ren stared at one of the monster eggs. "A monster egg from the Swallowed 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 bottle contained Foundation-Building Spirit Liquid, something Ren treasured immensely. Keeping it at home was too dangerous, and he did not have a storage ring yet, so he kept it on Beast King Mountain instead. After all, Beast King Mountain was now Ren's private territory, and the entire Dog Clan was loyal to him.

With these treasures stored here, they were naturally incomparably safe.

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

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

Roar...

The roar swept forth, stirring up a fierce gale.

Ren stared in shock. "What... That's the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King? How did it become so huge?!"

The Ghost-Faced Mastiff King he had seen yesterday had only been one meter tall. Now, it was dozens of meters tall, just like Bunta would be in the future. Even if Summoning Beasts grew quickly, what was going on here? Had it taken steroids?

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

Ren spoke in shock, only to see the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King staring at him from afar. Its once-black pupils had turned blood-red.

"Master!"

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

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

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

As soon as it said that, several enormous heads appeared.

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

Eight enormous canines stood before him, each one roughly the size of Bunta. The Bully Dog in particular was even a full size larger than Bunta in the original story.

Ren was shocked and completely unable to understand what was happening. He had already gotten information about Sealing Jutsu from Mikoto. As long as Mikoto brought it over tomorrow, he could figure out how to lift the Dog Clan's seal. But what was this now? All of them had already broken free of the seal.

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

At this point, Ren's expression turned strange. "A 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. Then he stared at the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King. "Could it be... could it be... could it be that you were infected by the RR Virus, the RR Virus from the Swallowed Star world, and evolved together? But that's not right. Countless animals died during the evolution of animals in the Swallowed Star world!"

Shock filled Ren's heart. He felt that the Dog Clan's evolution was entirely due to the rampant spread of the RR Virus, which had allowed the entire Dog Clan to evolve.

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

Ren leaped into the air and landed atop the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King. "Take me to where I threw the trash yesterday!"

A Strange Evolution

Woof! Woof... Woof! Woof...

Within Beast King Mountain, canine howls 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 as he felt the howling wind blow past him.

Ren was somewhat alarmed. In just one day, the entire Dog Clan had broken through the seal and evolved. No matter how he thought about it, he suspected that 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 dumped.

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

The barren land had become a lush grassland, with several saplings growing vigorously.

The Husky said, "Master... we don't know what happened here either. But the strange energy came from this place, 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 on the matter. After all, the Dog Clan had been restricted by the seal yesterday, yet today they had broken free from it 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 here after I left yesterday?"

The Ghost-Faced Mastiff King fell into thought before saying, "Master... I don't know either. I only felt a special energy slowly emanating 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 very strange. It was slowly decomposing, and as it decomposed, that strange energy became even more abundant. I evolved under that energy and eventually became like this. But when I tried to find that corpse again, it was gone. Not just that corpse—Master's trash had all vanished as well. Only this steel remained!"

Though confused, the Ghost-Faced Mastiff King did not know what had happened either.

Ren looked toward a pile of steel in the distance, along with a Lamborghini that was still eighty percent new. Those were the only things left. Everything else had disappeared.

Ren rubbed 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 Swallowed Star world had originally been an apocalypse on Earth. The reason it had become an apocalypse was the rampant spread of the RR Virus. The RR Virus had killed two billion people on Earth, but those who survived had their physical constitutions strengthened several times over. It did not affect humans alone; birds and beasts evolved as well. Compared to humans, birds and beasts underwent even more astonishing improvements.

Although humans still reigned supreme in the Swallowed Star world, the monsters on early Earth had been even more terrifying. Having evolved amid the ravages of the RR Virus, those wild beasts had far surpassed imagination and become horrifying monsters.

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

Ren shook his head. "No one in the Dog Clan died, right?"

In the Swallowed Star world, the ravages of the RR Virus had killed countless animals. Only those that survived could evolve. Ren was now worried that the Dog Clan might have suffered casualties.

The Husky shook his head. "Master... when that energy transformed our bodies, it caused a painful sensation. But the seal offset it, allowing us to evolve. Therefore, no members of the Dog Clan died."

Hearing that, Ren let go of 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 the RR Virus mainly came from the trash from Swallowed Star. But why did all that trash disappear? Even the trash from the Battle Through the Heavens World disappeared. This was originally barren land, yet it has now become like this!"