He ​​stood on a high cliff, with a vast expanse of extremely desolate mountain forest in front of him. The trees and vines that blocked the sky could not hide the traces of the ruins and remains of the village.

There are exposed rocks everywhere on the sunny slopes, and low shrubs spread and grow unbridled. The dead trees form a strong contrast with the nearby green vegetation, like a Mediterranean Sea.

The sound of waves came to his ears, and beyond his sight was a pool of stagnant water. Naruto nodded and turned his head, and saw white smoke floating on the other side of the island, which was the direction where the three women were waiting.

Withdrawing his gaze, Naruto pulled away and left. When he met the three girls, Anko had already prepared food. Naruto walked over and sat down, eating and talking.

"There are several ruins here, and they should be uninhabited."

"I really admire you. You didn't have any excitement when you came ashore." Anko glanced at Naruto and sighed, "Sometimes I really wonder if this Jonin of mine has done his job."

"Special jounin." He reiterated coquettishly.

"What's so strange about getting ashore?" Naruto said indifferently, "We've been floating on the sea for almost a month and it's okay. It's impossible that we can't touch a piece of land."

"Okay." Hong Dou said sincerely. She had been drifting for a month, and she had become unconfident as a Jonin.

None of her ninjutsu has anything to do with water. Facing the endless sea is like looking at an endless huge blue coffin.

This new Sannin team has obtained the inheritance of the Sannin one by one, but it is still not enough in front of the sea. For a moment, Naruto even regretted not signing a contract with the Myoboku Mountain Toad.

At least the toads in Mt. Myoboku can transmit messages in both directions, but the slugs cannot. When the clone returns to the main body, Tsunade still has to channel the slug before she can get the message.

"This may be the ruins of the Kingdom of Whirlpool." Naruto suddenly said.

"The ruins of the Kingdom of Whirlpool?" Anko stared at Naruto for a long time, showing an extremely disgusted look, "Isn't that a country that was destroyed in the war long ago?"

Naruto: "Xiaosuo."

"I heard that it is a country famous for its sealing techniques. When the village of Konoha was founded, the first Hokage had a good personal relationship with the village chief of the Country of Uzumaki, and the two villages also established a cooperative relationship."

"But the sealing technique of the Kingdom of Whirlpool was too strong, and the country was destroyed under the siege of several parties." Hongdou said, "I don't know the rest, I only read it in books."

Naruto shook his head and said: "We are not sure yet whether it is the ruins of the Kingdom of Whirlpool. We will find out if we have a chance to take a look in the next two days."

"Okay, I'll go take a look with you, so I can take care of you." Hongdou responded.

"Yeah." Naruto asked, just waiting for her words.

Two days later, there was finally news from Konoha. Tsunade learned of the situation of Team Anko and immediately suspended Kakashi's mission and asked him to lead the Anbu team to respond.

In terms of experience in overseas missions, no one can match the Konoha socialite Kazuko. Tsunade appointed him to lead the team because the rescue location was in the Country of Whirlpool.

Kakashi often runs around outside. Although he has never been to the Country of Whirlpool, he knows how to deal with incidents between big countries.

The Kingdom of Whirlpool.

It's sunny.

Naruto and Anko wandered around the hillside several times, and found a circular pit at the ruins of the Country of Whirlpool, with obscure words tattooed around the entrance.

"Do you understand?" Hongdou asked as she probed her head.

"I'm not a local, how can I understand it?" Naruto said angrily, "Just because my last name is Uzumaki, you don't mean that I can understand it. I haven't even left Konoha a few times."

"Besides, as a Jonin, shouldn't you be well-informed?"

"You are prejudiced!" Anko seemed to have been stabbed in a painful spot, her face turned red, and she said angrily, "Who said a Jonin must be well-informed? You think everyone is Kakashi."

"Kakashi-sensei, do you understand?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Maybe, he has been to many places, and maybe he knows a little more." Anko said, glanced at Naruto again, and muttered.

"I'm going to say something that I shouldn't have said. Now that Konoha has sent people to rescue them, they might arrive tomorrow. Why not wait any longer? We finally survived. If we take risks now, we might lose something."< /p>

"Yeah, I finally survived." Naruto pulled out his knife, glanced at Anko, then jumped into the pit, stuck his knife on the rock wall and slowly slid down.

He raised his head, looked at the red bean that the defense line at the entrance of the cave was getting smaller and smaller, and said.

"There is a saying that everything comes when it comes."

Inside the ruins, there are portraits of the God of Death everywhere, and various sacrificial activities are carved on the rock walls. Those thick and colorful paintings almost cover the collapsed wall.

Naruto stayed at the bottom of the pit for a while, and there was a scream behind him. He subconsciously turned around. With a thud, he was hit hard by Anko who fell down.

"Sorry." Hongdou said a little guiltily, "I didn't catch it halfway up and fell straight down."

"Are you a Jonin?" Naruto's face turned dark.

"Special jounin." Anko reiterated.

"You are quite vindictive." He complained, "Damn it, get up from me first! If you don't get up, my bones will almost break!"

"How can I be so heavy?" Hongdou stood up.

"When you go up, you'd better not ask me!" Naruto sneered, "You're a half-hearted Jonin, and you still have to come down if I tell you not to come down."

"If you die, I, the leader of the team, will also be responsible." Hongdou said indifferently, "If I can't get up, I will seduce you with my beauty."

"Do you think I will pay attention to you? It's not like I haven't seen it before. There is a small mole under your chest." Naruto chuckled.

"What can I do if I've seen you?" Hongdou also sneered, "Anyway, I have to watch you no matter what you say. If you die here, Tsunade-sama can tear me alive."

"Trash Jonin."

"Sentimental Genin."

The two of them taunted each other while walking deeper into the ruins. Down below was a building similar to a sacrificial palace, most of which had collapsed and dilapidated.

"Why is the sacrificial place built underground? Is it to save space?" Hongdou turned around and asked with some confusion, "The land above the Kingdom of Whirlpool is scarce, so the sacrificial platform can only be moved underground?"
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"The Country of Whirlpool is not big, but most of the land has no traces of cultivation, which proves that there are not many people." Naruto said, "It cannot be to save space."

"These statues here are ferocious and terrifying. They should all be gods enshrined in the Kingdom of Whirlpool. But it's a bit strange, why are the gods enshrined moved to this dark underground place?"

"Who knows." Hongdou said, holding her hands, "Maybe the gods like this dungeon-like sacrificial altar. After all, who knows what the gods think."

Naruto stopped. He looked at the statue with a ferocious expression, and Anko's words echoed in his mind.

Dungeon?

Compared to the sacrificial altar, this place is indeed more like a dungeon.

The sealing technique of the Lord of the Whirlpool Kingdom has been suppressing all kinds of tailed beasts and various spiritual beasts that have malicious intentions towards humans.

The existing psychic beasts left behind are basically the recruitment teams that have put up signs on the human side. Although there are some wild psychic beasts, they don't like to come into contact with people.

Generally speaking, people in the Kingdom of Whirlpool seal whatever they see. Whoever doesn’t like it will be sealed by the barking wild dogs on the roadside.

Logically speaking, if I have such incredible sealing skills, how can I worship hundreds of gods? Shouldn’t it be that the sky is big and the earth is big, am I the biggest?

Is there a possibility that this is not the altar of the gods, but the prison of the gods?

Naruto's mind was in chaos. He glanced at the bottomless crack in front of him and gave up the idea of ​​going down to explore immediately.

"It's better to go out first." He suggested.

It took some effort for the two of them to climb out of the pit ruins. The sunlight hit his body without any warmth. Naruto looked back and saw Anko stretching in the sunlight.

With a slender waist and tall dumplings, you are in your prime, at the peak of your figure and appearance.

"You should eat less sweets in the future." Naruto said solemnly.

"Why?" Hongdou was a little dissatisfied, "You care about me? If you can't eat sweets, what's the point of living?"

"It's up to you. I'll just say it casually. It's up to you whether you want to or not. Anyway, I won't be the one who becomes a bucket in the future. It's up to you to decide."

"You just turned into a bucket!" Hongdou felt guilty.

In the next few days, Naruto has explored half of the Whirlpool Island. Except for some places that are inaccessible, he has been to all the surface places and found almost nothing.

About eight days later, Kakashi finally arrived.

When he saw his two disciples standing there with their hands and feet intact, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then Kakashi drooped an exposed dead fish eye and asked lazily with one hand half raised.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Naruto scratched his face and said, "There's nothing wrong with them either."

"Kakashi-sensei." Sakura also waved.

"It's fine." Kakashi squinted his eyes and smiled, "But it's not easy for you to float from the route of the Snow Country to the west of the Whirlpool Country."

Anko stood there slightly embarrassed. She, a special jounin, was unlucky for eight lifetimes when she encountered such an accident. Although she survived with her goals and subordinates, her face was still a little uneasy.

Kakashi did not bring the topic to Anko, but simply explained the matter to Anko and then used his authority to change the nature of the mission.

"After weighing the goals of the fifth generation, the Jonin Hatake Kakashi announced the termination of the Snow Country mission, and the Anko team returned to Konoha with the protection goal."

"At this point, the order takes effect."

Kakashi stamped the Godaime's seal and his personal seal on the new mission book. Anko confirmed that the order took effect and signed and fingerprinted it.

At this point, the Snow Country mission is temporarily suspended.

Team Anko and Koyuki Fenghua returned to Konoha safely under the escort of Kakashi and others, and were all admitted to Konoha Hospital for observation.
Chapter completed!