After taking over the snake uncle's foundation, Sasuke came to surrender on his own initiative.

The purple-haired woman seemed to be a ninja with a bold personality.

When he appeared, he waved his hand and shouted, "I am the examiner of the second exam, Mitarashi Anko! Everyone follow me!"

In the examination room, the remaining candidates looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces.

Seeing this scene from the corner of his eye, Ningci showed a hint of contempt, "Is this the fellow disciple of Master Yinzhu? He doesn't look that good..."

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Hongdou's face. It was Ibiki who rescued him and asked the candidates to follow the next examiner and leave.

When Ibiki was the only one left in the examination room, he personally collected every test paper on the table.

However, after quickly collecting the test papers, his expression changed subtly.

He stood in the aisle blankly, looking a little dazed.

Among the thick stack of test papers in my hand, there were a total of fifteen blank test papers!

"Uzumaki Naruto... Kimimaro... Jūgo... Otoneji... Otono..."

As Ibiki's eyes swept over the names on the blank test paper in his hand, a dangerous light gradually appeared in his eyes, "Among those who passed, except for that guy Uzumaki Naruto... who might really be a bit of an idiot... the other Oto-nin also handed in blank papers!"

A gloom flashed across Ibiki's face, and he murmured coldly, "This can't be a coincidence, but..."

Those Sound Ninjas all saw through the true intention of this first exam that he led!

"How...is this...possible?"

His whole face was wrinkled in disbelief, and the old scars were turned outward, revealing the bright red tender flesh in the grooves.

Ibiki's first reaction was that it was absurd. How could the difficult problem he had carefully designed be solved by a group of children, and all fourteen Sound Ninjas at that!

But with fourteen blank test papers in front of him, all the impossibilities were reduced to only one answer!

That is......

The test questions that Ibiki had carefully designed had already been seen through by a certain Sound Ninja in advance!

"There's something fishy going on in Otogakure!"

Ibiki's face was as cold as ice, with only this thought in his mind. "No, this matter must be reported to the Third-sama! Something is wrong with this village! We need to let the Anbu pay more attention..."

......

Forest of death.

At Entrance No. 1, a rectangular wooden shed was temporarily built, and behind the shed was a nearly ten-meter-high fence surrounded by barbed wire.

Hongdou led a team of nearly a hundred candidates to the foot of the fence, which was opposite the wooden shed.

All the candidates raised their heads high, looking at the field in front of them which looked like a primeval forest. They seemed to sense danger and their faces became stern unconsciously.

“It feels so scary here…”

"Gulu..."

"I feel like I'm suffocating just by looking at it! Even from such a distance, the dark and damp smell is too strong..."

"Wow! There are actually trees this thick!"

Looking at the giant banyan trees in front of them, which were dozens of meters in diameter, towering into the clouds and even the tops could not be seen, even the Sound Ninjas like Neji and Kimimaro had a slight change of expression.

"I can only say... As expected of Konoha, the number one ninja village in the ninja world... It's Wood Release, right?"

Ningci glanced around and soon found that the entrance door was locked with a chain. On the iron net next to it, there was a warning sign that read "No Entry". Ningci's eyes flickered slightly, "This place is quite interesting..."

At this time, Hongdou, who was in the front wearing a brown coat, turned around. Although she had a pretty face, she showed a strange and evil smile to the candidates, "This is the examination room for the second exam, Konoha's 44th training ground... also known as the Death Forest!"

Hongdou raised her hand and pressed it down, signaling the candidates to look at her.

"Now let's talk about the rules of the second test. It's actually very simple. It's just an extreme survival challenge with an old mobile phone."

"Survival..." In the crowd, Nara Shikamaru curled his lips, "It sounds very troublesome..."

"Apart from survival, the most important thing is the battle for the scrolls!" Hongdou flipped his hand and took out two scrolls, each with two different characters "Heaven" and "Earth" printed on them respectively.

She explained in a cold voice, "Each of your teams will have one of the two scrolls in my hand at the beginning. And to pass this second test, each team must collect both scrolls, the Book of Heaven and the Book of Earth, and appear in the tower in the center of the Death Forest with them at the same time."

"The total duration of the exam..." Hongdou slowly stretched out a hand and spread out her five fingers facing the group of candidates opposite her, almost shocking many people.

"Five days!??" Many people screamed, their faces filled with horror.

"Yes, that's five days." Hongdou nodded indifferently, "There are a lot of wild animals in here, you can take care of the food by yourselves. Of course, there are also many beasts and even ninja beasts that even ninjas find difficult to deal with!"

"Finally!" Hongdou raised a finger in front of everyone's horrified gazes, with a cold arc at the corner of her mouth, "I want to make one thing clear here. Before reaching the tower, no one is allowed to open the scroll and peek! Otherwise, you will bear the consequences at your own risk!"

"..."

Seeing the examinees with sullen faces, Hongdou snorted inwardly, but a smug smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "I finally succeeded in scaring off these unruly little ghosts..."

She waved her hand, "From now on, the team will send a representative to receive the scroll!"

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