Preliminaries

"Ha...hahahaha..."

At this moment, Onogi's unscrupulous laughter resounded in the monitoring room, the louder his laughter, the uglier Sandai Raikage's face became.

"Your Excellency Lei Ying, thank you so much, you are good people, good people, hahaha..."

Onogi looked like a villain, and at the same time he didn't forget to send Lei Ying a good person card.

"Hmph! Onoki, don't be too happy. Your people are seriously injured now. If you meet other teams at this time, hum."

The third generation of Raikage snorted coldly, "And don't forget, the scrolls on them have been taken away. This exam may be difficult for them."

"Tsk tsk, Tangtang Yanyin, it turned out that he couldn't even pass the second exam, what a shame."

At this moment, the third generation of Raikage directly turned on the cynicism mode, making Yan Yin's words worthless.

On the opposite side, Onogi's smile instantly froze on his face, and he performed the "smile disappearing technique" in front of everyone.

The others present grinned and laughed.

Onogi and the third Raikage are like a pair of enemies now, and they seem to feel uncomfortable if they don't say a few words to each other.

In this situation, no one stood up and said anything, anyway, just watch it for fun.

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time flies.

In a blink of an eye, it was the next day.

Last night, a few more teams were eliminated, and now there are less than twenty teams left in the Death Forest, and this is only the second day.

Among them, three Konoha teams were also eliminated, and there are only nine teams left, with a total of twenty-six people.

There is an average of one team left in other villages, but Yunyin and Wuyin have two teams left.

Yan Yin was lucky, he didn't meet anyone else last night, otherwise, given their state, they wouldn't let others slaughter them, but they wouldn't have much room to fight back.

In addition, judging from their appearance, there is no way to heal within a few days.

There are still four days before the end of the exam, which means that they not only need to heal their injuries within four days, but also find a way to collect all the scrolls, and then rush to the central tower.

It can be said that the time is tight and the tasks are heavy, and they are likely to be eliminated in the second round.

Thinking of this, several people on the mountain looked at each other and smiled wryly.

"Sorry, it's all my fault." Shan Shang lowered his head and took the initiative to accept the mistake.

In fact, this incident was indeed his fault. If he hadn't insisted on taking Monka with him, they wouldn't have been caught up at all, and there would be no trouble now.

Yui shook his head, and said while healing them: "It's not your fault, Shan Shang, we didn't consider this situation, if there is a mistake, we are all wrong, you don't have to feel guilty, we don't blame you."

Shou Shu put his hand on Shan Shang's shoulder and didn't say anything, but the latter understood exactly what he meant.

However, it was this attitude that made Shan Shang blame himself even more.

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the other side.

"Mute, how far are we from the central tower?"

Uchiha Hideo looked at Shizune Hinata, they had been traveling for a day since yesterday, and most of the people were left behind by them.

Hinata Shizune stopped, observed for a while, and replied, "It should be here soon."

"Since that's the case, are we waiting for others?"

Hinata Shizune thought for a while, then shook her head, "Don't wait, let's take a step first."

"That's fine."

The short exchange between the two ended, and they continued to run deep into the forest. According to their speed, they would most likely be the first team to reach the tower.

In the monitoring room, everyone watched this scene. Except for Konoha, the faces of the people in other villages were not particularly good-looking, and they were going to lose.

"I said, Your Excellency Yanmen, you will not secretly inform them, right?"

Yanmen saw that Ohnoki seemed to be looking for trouble again.

"Onoki, did I inform you secretly, can't you see it? It's not that there is no monitoring, if you don't use your eyes, throw them away as soon as possible."

Yanmen snapped back unceremoniously.

"Who knows what method you used to hide from the surveillance." Onoki whispered.

Yanmen didn't bother to talk to him, the others didn't speak, and you were the one who had the most to do.

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In the afternoon.

Uchiha Shuichi and Hinata Shizune were really the first to arrive at the tower. After Enmon settled them down, he returned to the monitoring room and looked at everyone with a smile on his face.

"Everyone, I'm very sorry, it seems that we won."

At this moment, the others remained silent, secretly saying in their hearts, what a pity.

It's really a pity that they had already thought about what questions to ask, but they didn't win.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Yanmen didn't talk too much, and sat back in their seats silently.

Time passed, and as time passed, other teams also arrived at the tower one after another. On the fourth day, ten teams had arrived, and there were only a few teams left in the forest.

Of the remaining teams, some had their scrolls taken away, some hadn't collected all the scrolls, and some had already gathered them and were on their way.

"There are quite a lot of people left. It seems that we need to add another qualifier, and try to keep the number of people under ten or twelve."

Yanmen looked around and said calmly: "Everyone, what do you think?"

"Whatever, the qualifiers are the qualifiers, and it won't affect Ai anyway." The third generation of Raikage said confidently with his arms around his arms.

As he spoke, he still didn't forget to glance at Onogi, "Unfortunately, some people didn't even pass the second round, it's really shameful, you say yes, Onoki."

Yes, Iwahime's only team was really eliminated, and they haven't grabbed the scroll until now, and at this time there is less than a day left before the end of the game.

If there is no accident, they should be out of action, so the third Raikage is here to ridicule Ohnoki.

Onoki's face was very ugly, and his whole body exuded an aura of keeping strangers away, as if everyone present owed him millions.

"Your Excellency Lei Ying, don't be too happy, the exam is not over yet!" Onoki said stubbornly.

"Hehe." The Third Raikage sneered, he was too lazy to argue with Ohnoki, the facts speak louder than words, tomorrow you can expect to be slapped in the face!

Another day passed, and the Yanyin team finally reached the tower, but they didn't have scrolls on them, which meant they were eliminated.

Several people on the mountain came behind Onomu, lowered their heads, shy away, not daring to look at him.

"snort!"

Onogi snorted coldly, expressing his dissatisfaction.

There were so many people present, he didn't bother to reprimand anything, and we'll talk about everything when we get back, now we can't make people laugh.

Onogi turned his head, not to look at Sandai Raikage's complacent look, he was afraid that he couldn't help but make a move.

Damn Raikage, you wait for me, let you be arrogant this time first!

"Tsk tsk tsk, pitiful." Third Raikage obviously didn't intend to let Onoki go, and came up with a strange air.

"Ai, do you have any extra scrolls on you? Hurry up and give Tuying a copy, hahaha."

"Get out! We don't need your charity!" Onoki said angrily.

The third Raikage smiled and said: "Don't be angry, I was just joking, and I didn't really want to give it to you, really."

Ohnoki: "..."

The old man knew he was not that kind, fortunately I didn't agree!

Otherwise, he will be played by him!

Onoki was extremely annoyed in his heart, seeing the playful expression of the third generation of Raikage, he wished to give him a blow on the spot.

"Stop arguing, both of you, since all the contestants have arrived, let's move to the lobby."

"Determine the roster for the finals early, take a day off tomorrow, and start the finals directly the day after tomorrow."

Yanmen stood up and looked at the crowd.

Tsunade nodded, "Let's go."

Crash.

The next moment, a group of people came from the monitoring room to the outer hall. They stood on the second floor, looking down at the contestants below.

Yanmen nodded to Tsunade, then jumped down from the second floor, landed in front of everyone, and said, "Congratulations to everyone who successfully passed the second round."

Everyone looked happy.

Immediately after Yanmen's conversation changed, "But you don't have to be too happy, because you have too many people, so we discussed it and decided to hold a qualifier. Only half of you present can advance to the final."

"What? There is still a qualifier?" Some teams that were lucky enough to pass the second round looked at Yanmen in disbelief and asked.

"It's hard to come here, and we still have to eliminate half of the people!"

Everyone kept exclaiming, and the hall suddenly became extremely noisy, like a vegetable market.

"Quiet!"

Yanmen let out a loud shout, releasing a powerful aura that shocked everyone.

"Everyone, I am notifying you now, not asking for your opinions. If you are dissatisfied or have other reasons, you can withdraw from this exam."

Yanmen looked around for a week, and said in a deep voice: "Now, I will give you three minutes to think about it, and the qualifiers will officially start in three minutes!"

After finishing speaking, Yanmen jumped lightly and returned to the second floor.

Below, everyone exploded, and discussions continued. Some people were ready to quit, some were still struggling, and some were determined and full of confidence in themselves.

It's just a mere qualifier, isn't it easy to grab?

Uchiha Shuichi and Hinata Shizune glanced at each other, then looked at the other contestants for observation.

"Xiuyi, are you sure?"

"Of course! Unless I meet the two of them, I have confidence in other people."

While speaking, Uchiha Shuichi kept his eyes on Minato and Ai.

Hinata Shizune also nodded in agreement: "Yes, the two of them are not at the same level as us."

"However, did you forget me? What if we meet?" Hinata Shizune groaned with a smile.

Uchiha Xiu was taken aback for a moment, "Us? Impossible?"

Hinata Shizune shook her head and said, "If you draw lots, everything is possible."

Uchiha Shuichi smiled wryly and said, "If it's really that bad luck, then I'll just admit defeat."

It stands to reason that the strength of the two should be between the two, but Uchiha Shuichi didn't want to fight with Shizune Hinata, not because of anything else, but since Shizune Hyuga combined the soft fist and the chakra scalpel, the lethality is straight soaring.

Not to mention whether he can defeat Shizune Hinata, even if he wins by chance in the end, he will probably have to go to the hospital and lie down for a few days.

Cutting off your meridians and directly attacking your internal organs is not a joke. You can tell from the sand ninja who was seriously injured by Shizune Hinata a few days ago that he is still lying on the ground. He is out of this qualifier.

Hinata Shizune twirled her hair that was naturally hanging by her ears, looked at Uchiha Shuichi with a bright smile: "Are you sure?"

Uchiha Hideo spread his hands and said helplessly, "I'm sure."

"Are you willing?"

"I'm not reconciled, but so what, I don't want to go to the hospital and lie down for a few days."

"It won't take that long, right? Let the captain treat you, and you should be fine in a day or two."

When Uchiha Shu thought about his experience some time ago, he quickly shook his head, "Farewell, farewell, I'd better admit defeat."

"whee."

Hinata Shizune smiled and said nothing.

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In the blink of an eye, three minutes passed quickly.

"Okay, the time is up, does anyone want to quit?" Yanmen looked at the crowd and asked.

"I quit."

"I quit too."

As soon as Yanmen's words fell, several people chose to quit. Most of them were of mediocre strength, or suffered serious injuries, so they had no choice but to choose to quit.

After a while, there were only 24 players left out of the 36 players on the field, and 12 of them withdrew directly.

Of the remaining twenty-four people, half were eliminated, leaving only twelve people.

In this way, only six games need to be arranged for the finals, and it should be able to end in one morning.

"Is there anyone else who wants to quit?" Yanmen asked again.

After waiting for a while, seeing that no one spoke, Yanmen nodded, "Okay, let's start."

"Everyone, please look at the big screen."

The screen hanging on the second floor suddenly lit up, and then the names and avatars of the twenty-four contestants appeared on it. As the screen scrolled, the names of the twenty-four people were scrambled and combined in pairs.

The grouping was done in the blink of an eye.

"The grouping has been completed, now the members of the first group are asked to stay, and the others go to the second floor to watch the battle."

Wow!

The next moment, everyone else ran up to the second floor, and only Yanmen, Uchiha Shuichi, and a Kirin were left in the lobby on the first floor.

Looking at Kirinin on the opposite side, Uchiha Shuichi's eyes lit up, and it seemed that his luck was pretty good.

When he was grouped just now, he was really worried that he would be matched with Shizune Hinata. To be honest, he would rather meet Minato or Ai than face Shizune Hyuga.

Some time ago, they practiced together and fought each other. He and Shizune Hinata each had a victory or defeat, but whether he won or lost, he would not feel good.

But don't worry now, the opponent he matched is Mist Ninja.

"Well, are you ready?"

Yanmen stood in the middle, looking at the two of them.

Uchiha Hideichi made an ok gesture, and Kirinin nodded. Seeing this, Enmon directly announced: "The match begins!"

After speaking, his body jumped up and quickly left the lobby on the first floor. His figure flickered and appeared on the second floor, stepping on a railing.

Down below, Uchiha Shuichi and the Mist Shinobi retreated immediately, widening the distance between each other.

"Art fire escape ho fireball!"

"Water Escape·Mist Concealment Technique!"

The moment the two opened the distance, their hands quickly formed seals, and they used their signature ninjutsu one after another.