Zero-Tails!
It doesn't belong to the Nine Tailed Beasts. It was born from humanity's dark beliefs, and served as the Land of Sky's dark weapon for world conquest, although it ultimately failed.
Shinno, Amal's father, attempted to use the corpses of these mutated creatures to create a mask capable of controlling the Zero-Tails. Every day within this dark passage, Amal was capturing mutated creatures to help her father!
"Have you never thought about leaving this place?"
Ye Liang followed behind Amal, unconsciously pulling out a box of matches from his System Space. His System Space was filled with daily necessities, including even a tube of 999 Skin Relief!
Perhaps these were things left over from before he lost his memory.
Amal was taken aback.
Ye Liang's words touched her soul.
She had grown up here and never once thought of leaving, like a girl who'd been played by a toxic guy so many times that one more wouldn't even register.
"I don't know! I just want to help Father collect materials." Ye Liang shook his head, feeling sympathy for the girl for the first time.
Before long, he followed Amal to a hidden room. Probably to prevent invasion by mutated creatures, the entrance was blocked by a giant rock.
"Let me do it."
Ye Liang watched Amal struggle to move the boulder. He simply stepped forward without hesitation.
"You? Seriously? You think you can move it?" Amal cast a doubtful glance.
There was no way she could trust a man who'd just been chased by a mutated toad.
"Heh, don't underestimate me! I'm the Chosen One—how would an NPC like you ever get it?" After speaking, he directly activated the jutsu rewarded by the System.
[Merman Jutsu!]
It allows the user to transform their appearance, gaining shark-like strength and dramatically enhancing physical abilities!
This technique originally required Kisame to fuse with Samehada, but Ye Liang obtained it directly from the System, so he didn't need to merge with Samehada to transform.
As soon as he activated it, his face transformed into a shark's visage, his clothes tore apart at the back, and a shark fin protruded. In the next instant, he threw a punch at the massive boulder.
The rock shattered on impact.
"No wonder it's an S-rank Ninjutsu! Even with my weak body, it feels effortless!"
Amal was stunned!
"You couldn't even beat a toad earlier! How are you now... how are you like this?!"
"Just humbling myself a bit earlier."
Ye Liang flipped his hair and walked in first.
The room was brightly lit, with various fluorescent lamps around. Inside were two beds, a desk, and seemingly another room deeper within.
Clearly!
The inhabitant here was definitely not someone completely cut off from the outside world.
"Father sometimes goes outside to purchase supplies. All these things were bought by him from the outside." Seeing Ye Liang's puzzled look, Amal immediately explained.
"Mm."
Ye Liang nodded.
At that moment, he noticed a half-finished white mask on the desk at the center of the room. As he reached out to touch it, Amal grabbed his hand.
"You can't touch it! The mask will **control** you!"
"She shouted frantically, 'This mask is still a prototype. I touched it once before, and I was immediately controlled by the Zero-Tailed Beast!
Shinno said that only because I have no desires could I break free from the Zero-Tailed Beast's whispers, but humans from outside absolutely cannot escape its control!'
Ye Liang immediately stopped his hand.
What Amal said was correct.
The Zero-Tailed Beast could indeed control those with weak convictions.
He had just obtained an S-ranked ninjutsu and didn't know his current physical condition. Touching it recklessly might cause danger.
Just at this moment, the door deep inside suddenly opened.
'Who are you! How could you be here!' A middle-aged man in his thirties looked at Ye Liang suspiciously, but he didn't attack. Ye Liang was still in his merman state, and this obviously powerful ninjutsu wasn't something the middle-aged man could ignore.
'Are you Shinno?'
Ye Liang stared blankly at the middle-aged man before him. As the main antagonist in the Bondage Movie: The Hidden Sand Village, Shinno wasn't a good person by any means. He wanted to control the Zero-Tailed Beast so badly that he ultimately had it attached to Amal—definitely a despicable, backstabbing bastard!
'Do you know me?'
The middle-aged man became even more suspicious when Ye Liang addressed him by name.
At this moment, Amal quickly stepped forward.
'Father! This person's name is Ye Liang. He accidentally got lost in our Land of Sky. He wants to leave; could you please help him?'
'Lost?'
Shinno shot a skeptical glance at Ye Liang.
This place was underground. Getting lost here was even more improbable than wandering from one continent to another! Such a flimsy excuse—only Amal, this naive girl, would believe it.
'I see!'
Shinno had Amal put some materials away, then took Ye Liang outside the house.
'Young man! You're here for the Zero-Tailed Beast?'
'Uh, I just got lost...'
Ye Liang knew Shinno wouldn't believe him, but there was nothing he could do about it. 'Seriously, I was just lost. Not only did I get lost, I got lost all the way down here, a hundred meters underground...'
'Do you expect me to believe that?'
'No, really!'
Ye Liang shrugged.
Seeing Ye Liang revert from his Merman Transformation, Shinno breathed a bit easier. However, whether Ye Liang was lying or not, he had no intention of making a move against him.
The Merman Transformation was clearly an S-ranked ninjutsu. He wasn't foolish enough to provoke Ye Liang.
Seeing that Shinno still doubted him, Ye Liang asked, 'Then, what do you want me to do to convince you?'
Shinno was silent.
After a while, hearing that Amal seemed about to come out, he immediately spoke up: 'Just help me find the final artifact to control the Zero-Tailed Beast, and I'll take you out of here.'
'Ah! So I still have to do a task?' Ye Liang complained.
At that moment, suddenly, a voice echoed in his mind.
Ding dong!
[Notification!]
'Congratulations, Master! You've triggered a hidden mission—Finding the Artifact.
Mission: Help Shinno find the final artifact to control the Zero-Tailed Beast.
[Reward] Randomly receive an S-ranked technique.
P.S.: This is a hidden mission. There's a chance to obtain a Kekkei Genkai. We encourage the Master to keep striving!'
'A Kekkei Genkai?'
Ye Liang immediately became excited: 'Sure thing! Leave it to me! No problem at all!'
"We Communist successors will always be helpful young people!"
Ye Liang glanced at Shinno and gave a slight smile.
At the same time.
Amal had finished organizing her things and walked out. Seeing Ye Liang chatting happily with her father, she couldn't help blushing.
"Why does this feel like a boyfriend meeting the girlfriend's father?"
If Ye Liang knew what she was thinking, he'd probably applaud her for it!
In the evening.
Ye Liang and Amal found themselves sharing the same bed. Originally, he had intended to sleep on the floor, but Amal, worried he might catch a chill, had convinced him repeatedly until he finally agreed to sleep on the bed.
This upset Shinno quite a bit. He tried to persuade his daughter to send Ye Liang to the floor, but Amal firmly rejected the idea.
Ye Liang himself was also confused.
This time sharing a bed with a girl, he didn't even flinch. He didn't feel any excitement like it was his first time sleeping with a girl. He even reached out and touched the sleeping Amal—her softness felt pleasant, yet it didn't excite him at all, as if he had done it many times before.
"What's wrong with me?! Could it be I'm a born womanizer?"
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