"Unbelievable..." Gozu uttered and froze on his place unable to comprehend what happened, "Is he teasing them a while ago so that they will lower their guard on him? Master is amazing! To think a strategy like that works!"

Gozu's emotions flipped by the sudden turn of event. 'I thought were going to die. But Master did something....' Gozu's view on Zheng grew wider due to this!

He rushed toward Zheng and said, "Master, you're unbelievable! You even think of that strategy!"

'Huh?' Question marked appeared above Zheng's head. 'What strategy?'

Zheng ignored Gozu's unusual behavior and only replied with a smile. He bent down on one knee and examined the wolf's body.

Zheng noticed a streamed of blood flowing on the small hole in the wolfs body. 'Why am I not disturbed seeing this? Well, it appears I was used to it since coming into this world.'

Zheng sighted in relief and thought to himself, 'To think I've gained this sort of strength when I leveled up. I need to gain more.'

He stood up and faced Gozu. He said while pointing his head to the corpsed, "Pick them up. Prepare something using their body."

"Prepare? What do you want me to do with those?"

"Of course we're going to eat them. I'm hungry." Zheng replied and walked away without looking back. He went inside the straw hut and laid on the ground, 'That skill sucks my stamina like crazy! I need to rest.'

A few hours after...

Zheng woke up and felt his stamina was full again. He went out of the straw hut and met Gozu who was already finished preparing the wolf's meat.

"How's the preparation?"

"Everything is good, Master Zheng. This time, I've found out that the meats where good quality. Here take a bite." Gozu handed out a lump of fried wolf's meat to Zheng. The meat emits a strong but quite good fragrance.

"This looks delicious." Zheng's eyes glittered as he looked at the meat in front of him. He promptly ate it without delay.

'Not bad. The way he cooked this is exceptional!' Zheng was astonished by Gozu's cooking skill. 'I need to bring more ingredient to him to increase his cooking skill.'

Zheng looked at Gozu and said, "I'm planning to continue exploring the forest after this. I need to find the other one."

"Understood, Master." Gozu agreed immediately and he added, "I'll take care of the village while your away."

Gozu knew that his Master needs to kill the last one. Gozu was aware of this.

"Thank you, and thank you for the meal. It was delicious." Zheng confessed with a huge smile on his face.

After his preparation, Zheng bid his farewell to Gozu and went off.

[" Character Information

Name: Zheng

Level: 4 (0/4000) (4000 experience points to Lvl. 5)*

Experience points: 3400

Grade: 0

Power Stone Points: 975

Skills:

Swift (Passive) (Lvl. 1)(0/400) (400 experience points to Lvl. 2)*

Hundred Steps (Active) (Lvl. 4)(0/4300) (4300 experience points to Lvl. 2)*

Strength: 25

Stamina: 28

Intelligence: 25

Endurance: 16

Agility: 65 "]

'I need more strength. Though I don't know where am I headed, I need to survive.'

Zheng ventured through the forest carefully. Suddenly, Zheng sniffed something in the area.

'This?' Zheng sniffed once more and he stated, "Burnt?"

Zheng squinted his eyes on this matter. He ran and checked what lies ahead.

Zheng stopped moving as he witnessed some part of the forest burnt.

'What the heck happened here?'

He roamed around the area and felt the aftermath.

'....'

Suddenly Zheng gulped a mouthful of saliva as he saw traces of burned people.

'A fight broke out not too long ago.' Zheng concluded on his heart. He gulped again and felt that every strand of hair on his body stood up.

He looked around and saw traces of blood. A lifeless body without its head. It was terrible.

Zheng vomited in horror, 'Who did this kind of thing?' They are cruel.'

No matter where he looked at, the place was turned to hell.

Zheng was frightened did not approached the corpses. He was not used to it. His stomach can't handle it. 'This is way too different than seeing the dead body of a wolf.'

He walked and went further and further as he felt his head spinning. Then he saw a huge crater.

'Another fight here?' Zheng was disturbed upon seeing the huge crater.

Restless, he approached the crater slowly and looked below.

'!!'

Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his back. He saw another figure of a person below.

'A dead one?' Zheng murmured to himself. 'Why did I go in this cruel place. I have to go.'

He gazed at the corpse with sadness on his face and uttered, 'I'm sorry. Whoever you are.'

Then he left the place and walked further away.

Unknown to him, someone was observing him hiding in the distance.

Mighty Guy arrived safely in the outskirt of Guranda Forest. He was a Chunin-rank shinobi of the Konoha Village. The Hokage assigned him on a mission to investigate disturbances around the Guranda Forest.

Guy stood firmly at the entrance of the forest where huge trees planted. He looked up and said, "This is the place where the incident happened. I, Guy will surely finish this mission."

Guy stretched out his legs, arms and ran through the forest. In a blink of an eye, Guy's figure vanished like a cloud of smoke.

Guy wandered around the forest while maintaining his vigilance. Ahead of him, he spotted a big crater. 'What is that? Is that perhaps the one that they discovered?' Guy silently approached the hole.

But before he can move, Guy sensed that something was amiss. 'Someone is approaching.' He backed off and hid in the bush.

He waited patiently and seconds later, he saw a figure. 'What?' Mighty Guy was left speechless as he stared at the figure approaching.

'A kid? What is he doing here?' A kid in the middle of the forest was unheard of. 'Is he the one who caused this? No, no that's not right. A kid like that can't do this. But what if he was the one?' Guy scratched his head in confusion.

'I don't know what is going on, but I believe that I should wait a little bit more.'

Guy observed the kid's movement. Then he saw the kid looked below the crater. Seconds later, the kid went off and resumed walking.

'What was that? Who the hell is that kid?' Gozu fell silent. Confusion rosed on his mind. He couldn't understand the situation.

'Fortunately, that kid went on a different path.' Guy was happy. He doesn't want to create trouble.

Sensing that the kid was far away, Guy went on the crater. He looked down found a burnt person. 'So this is the leader of the Phantom Society.'

'Based on the report that they gave me, a fight broke out in this place. The fight was so intense that large areas of the forest were destroyed. Notably, the whole members of Phantom Society were all killed.'

Guy did not believe it at first, but after witnessing it in his own eyes... he felt a chill run down his back.

'Well, I need to finish this mission. Genma Shiranui and Ebisu were not around this time. It's all about me. I need to prove myself. I need to show it using this body of mine. I need to show that I'm qualified!'

"I need to know who is that kid. Maybe he knows something.