- That's also an option, - Hoshi had to agree, - somehow I had overlooked it, why not combine approaches, - she asked, looking around at her partners, - we move to the tower, but not directly, but through the expected trajectories of the nearest team?
- And on the way to the places where the idiots could be eaten, - Surizawa suggested, - the bracelets are not edible and we will only have to pick them up and wash them.
- We won't go into the habitats of the big snakes," Asani said with a wince, 'I've had enough of the usual ones,' she nodded in agreement.
The encounter with the twenty-meter long creeping creatures that could easily swallow a grown man, having previously crushed his bones to dust, brought the young kunoichi a lot of impressions and a desire to stay even further away from bears.
- Let's go to the shooters' clearing first, since we're on our way," Hoshi said to her partners, looking around for a landmark to determine which way to go, "maybe some idiots have gotten their hands on the berries.
- You think so? - Asani hesitated, following her commander up the nearest tree, "There's a lot of bones on the ground, and only a blind man would miss them.
- They might not see it in the tall grass," Hoshi shrugged, "We almost got caught the first time ourselves just because of Ryo-sensei's hint.
It was a miscarriage of the first Hokage's experiments with Mokuton, and there were plenty of them in the Forest of Death that didn't have a name, but the dense bushes with bright red berries didn't stop them from shooting poisoned thorns at anyone in range.
The teacher had said that creepy plants mostly attack reflexively at any movement, but a stone and a stick thrown for the sake of experimentation fell to the ground unharmed. Or does that only apply to living targets?
The poison on the thorns was paralyzing and in small quantities not dangerous for life, but the victims were usually stuffed with a dozen of these shells and every time they moved they got more.
The team of seventeen reached the desired clearing almost without problems and only half an hour, if not to count the predatory vines, quickly shredded by kunoichi blades and a flock of obscene-sized mosquitoes, burned by the fire technique. And still on their approach, the kunoichi heard the guys arguing loudly.
Cautiously approaching and peering through the foliage, they saw someone's blonde body on the ground about seven meters away from the bushes below and two genin arguing at the edge of the clearing, who appeared to be Inuzuka with a small dog by his feet and Yurin, judging by the clan patches.
Mentally running through the exam list, Hoshi identified them as team number twenty-four, having graduated a year earlier. Not to say they were weak, but they weren't competitors. Especially since the two of them didn't know how to get their third partner out of the kill zone and were arguing over who should do it.
The sticks lying nearby showed that attempts had already been made but didn't help much, and Jurin even got hurt and ended up with a paralyzed arm. Neither of them clearly had any fire skills. Idiots.
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