Konoha: I Spread Fake News in the Ninja World
Chapter 608

The Seal Was Broken

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["Ah!" Jade subconsciously wanted to let go, but then, a golden beam of light, as solid as a beam of light, suddenly shot out from the top of the complete Millennium Puzzle!]

[The beam of light ignores physical obstacles and penetrates straight through the closed window glass. It instantly disappears into the dark night outside and disappears into the distant sky so fast that the naked eye cannot track its whereabouts!]

[The golden light in the room quickly dimmed and converged, returning to the dim halo of the desk lamp. Millennium Puzzle lay quietly in her hands, still cold.]

[Jade maintained the posture of holding the building blocks and froze in place for several seconds.]

[She blinked, looked at the intact window, then at the seemingly unchanged building blocks in her hand, and finally looked at Tailmon, who was also confused.]

["Did I get into trouble?" Jade's voice was trembling, and the excitement and curiosity just now were replaced by huge uneasiness.]

["Tailmon! Hurry! Put it back intact before anyone notices it!" She almost hurriedly stuffed Millennium Puzzle back in front of Tailmon, her voice full of anxiety.]

[Tailmon also realized that something might be wrong, and without any hesitation, he picked up Chain in his mouth again, walked out of the room faster than when he went down, went downstairs quietly, accurately placed Millennium Puzzle on the cushion on the counter with memory, and then quickly returned to Jade's room.]

[Jade has quickly cleared the table, turned off the desk lamp, got into bed, closed his eyes tightly, and tried hard to make his breathing sound steady and long, as if he had never woken up.]

[Tailmon also curled up next to her pillow, and Samehada seemed to have turned into a weapon again.]

[Everything seems to have returned to its original state. Only Jade's pounding heart and the golden beam of light coming out of the broken window that kept replaying in her mind reminded her that what just happened was by no means an illusion.]

[Downstairs, Antique Shop is still immersed in a peaceful sleep.]

[Uncle's slight snoring, and Jackie Chan's slight sound of the bed board when he occasionally turned over, were all the same as a normal night. They were not aware of the accident upstairs or the mysterious beam of light that shot into an unknown distance.]

[However, far away from Kirigakure, in the deepest part of the unfathomable ocean, a pair of Fish-Man vertical pupils slowly opened without warning in absolute darkness and dead silence.]

[It looked quietly above the sea, in the direction where the light beam disappeared, and stared for what seemed like an instant, and what seemed like a thousand years.]

[Then, it slowly closed again, as if the brief opening and closing just now was just an insignificant ripple in the eternal time.]

[In the early morning of the next day, Jade was awakened by a startled "Oh!!!" from Uncle downstairs.]

[Jade felt a thump in his heart. The golden beam of light last night and an inexplicable feeling of guilt suddenly came to his mind.]

[She quickly got up, put on her coat, and leaned against the crack of the door to eavesdrop.]

[The sound of Jackie Chan's hurried footsteps and the question: "What's wrong, Uncle? What happened?"]

[Jade quietly opened the door a crack, held his breath and looked down.]

[I saw Uncle standing in front of the desk, pointing at Millennium Puzzle with slightly trembling fingers: "Tohru! Something is wrong! Something is very wrong! The power of the seal above has dissipated! I can't feel it anymore!"]

["What? Disappeared?" Jackie Chan also came closer to take a look. Although he is not as proficient in antiquities and energy perception as Uncle, he can still vaguely feel that the vaguely disturbing aura lingering around the blocks yesterday has indeed become almost non-existent at this moment.]

[The building blocks themselves look unchanged, but something "something" inside seems to be missing.]

["Uncle, what's going on? How could the seal disappear on its own? Is it inherently unstable?" Jackie Chan asked hurriedly, frowning.]

[Uncle shook his head repeatedly, his gray eyebrows almost knitting together: "Impossible! I checked carefully yesterday. Although the seal is ancient, its structure is extremely stable, and the energy cycle is self-contained. Without strong external interference or a specific 'key', it is impossible to dissipate or release it naturally!"]

[He paced back and forth anxiously, picking up the blocks and putting them down again, and looked closely at each texture in front of his eyes, "Unless it resonates with a certain antique in Antique Shop, or with the special environment of Kirigakure, we don't know about it."]

[Uncle was puzzled and finally put down the blocks dejectedly, took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes: "Now we are in big trouble."]

["If the seal is really lifted, then the 'existence' that was originally sealed here may have escaped!"]

["Run out?!" Jackie Chan took a breath, immediately looked around alertly, and rushed to the window and door to check, but everything was calm as usual, nothing unusual.]

["Uncle, can you trace where it went? Or do you know what it is?" Jackie Chan asked eagerly.]

[Uncle shook his head helplessly: "It's too late. The seal is completely lifted. The remaining breath is too weak and dissipates quickly, making it impossible to trace."]

["As for what it is, this Uncle doesn't know either."]

[Jade upstairs heard his heart beating wildly and his palms became sweaty.]

[Could it be that the golden light last night was what was sealed by that building block?]

[At this moment, she heard that the discussion between Uncle and Jackie Chan downstairs had temporarily come to an end. It seemed that she planned to put away the building blocks first and then find a way to investigate.]

[Jade didn't dare to listen anymore. She took a few deep breaths and tried to look normal, then ran downstairs, pretending to have just woken up and rubbing her eyes, and shouted to the two people with sad faces: "Uncle, Uncle Long! I'm going to school!"]

[After saying that, she didn't wait for the two to respond, grabbed her schoolbag and rushed out of Antique Shop's Gate, as if Monster was chasing her.]

[Uncle and Jackie Chan were upset about the seal. They thought Jade was in a hurry to go to school and didn't pay much attention to her behavior. They just casually said "be careful on the road" and then immersed themselves in studying the Millennium Puzzle that seemed to have lost its soul, trying to find even a clue from it.]

[In Kirigakure Ninja Academy's class, Jade was unusually absent-minded.]

[She held her chin and looked out the window at the rebuilt village, but her mind kept replaying the golden light last night, Uncle's shocked expression in the morning, and the sentence "The being inside ran out."]

[The heavy feeling of having caused a big disaster but no one knew about it made her feel uncomfortable.]

["Forget it, forget it, it's useless to think about it. Uncle Long and Uncle will find a way to solve it." She shook her head, trying to bring her attention back, and began to think about other things, "Speaking of which, I am about to graduate and be assigned to classes. I wonder who I will be assigned to a team with?"]

["I hope my teammates can be more interesting and not boring or annoying."]

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