#58 - Chapter 58: Hot Eyes Encounter with Karin
After Ino and the others left,
Naruto and Hinata also headed towards the central tower.
However, their progress wasn't fast. After walking for two hours, they were still a third of the distance away from the central tower!
"Let's take a break first."
It was approaching noon, and they happened to arrive at a stream.
Considering Sakura's stamina, Naruto decided to rest here.
Along the way, they hadn't encountered any ninja teams, only occasional wild animals.
The number of ninjas eliminated in the first exam did have a certain impact on the second exam.
So much so that after Naruto and the others dealt with a batch of people, the entire exam venue became much quieter.
"Sakura, Hinata, you go gather some firewood."
"Kiba and Sasuke, see if you can catch any fish in the river."
"Shino... do you have a way to get some containers for boiling water?"
"I'll try," Shino said after a second of silence.
They hadn't had any water since yesterday afternoon, so now that they finally encountered a river, they naturally hoped to boil some water to drink.
"Okay, I'll take a walk around the area and see if I can get some wild rabbits or something."
After dividing the work, Naruto headed towards the unknown forest.
He had the most reconnaissance methods and the fastest return speed, so it was naturally most suitable for him to do the hunting.
Moreover, he had developed a new reconnaissance skill last night - Heat Eye!
The so-called Heat Eye is Naruto using his eyes to receive infrared light emitted by other objects, and then processing the information of these infrared light, distinguishing the temperature difference of objects, and forming a thermal induction image of the surrounding environment in his eyes!
That is, thermal imaging!
This was the inspiration Naruto got from the snake after his battle with Orochimaru yesterday.
Snakes have hearing, smell, vision, and thermal sensing abilities!
Unlike thermal imaging instruments that need to receive infrared radiation to work, snakes' thermal sensing is through the heat-sensing organ 'pit viper' to sense infrared radiation, thereby judging the temperature of surrounding objects and locking on to prey!
Naruto learned about these things through the system's search ability after a flash of inspiration.
And in order to develop this ability, Naruto specifically searched for a lot of information about infrared light and so on... and finally determined that infrared light is an electromagnetic wave, and electromagnetic waves are light!
Or rather, light is an electromagnetic wave of a specific wavelength and frequency!
It was also because he determined this that Naruto pondered for a whole night, and finally successfully developed the 'Heat Eye' skill!
Although Naruto was at full-level awakening state as soon as he ate the Glimmer Fruit, what kind of moves he can develop depends on Naruto's own understanding of light!
It's like at the beginning he would only develop a few moves of Kizaru based on his impression of Kizaru.
Later, he developed Light Shuriken, Light Kunai, Light Pistol, Space Mirror, Time Stop Mode, Virtual Imaging, and now Heat Eye and other skills based on some of his whimsical ideas.
It can be seen from these skills developed by Naruto that the Devil Fruit does have unlimited possibilities...
Heat Eye activated!
The membrane of Naruto's eyes instantly turned red, and the area he looked at also changed from 3D to a 2D image stacked with various colors!
And through this sensing method, he quickly discovered some objects with higher temperatures.
From the thermal contours emitted by these objects, he could roughly guess what these objects were.
For example, the black stripes and patches were grass,
The small ones composed of red and yellow were rabbits.
Naruto casually pierced a rabbit with a Light Kunai. Losing its life, its body temperature began to drop after a while and turned into a cold corpse!
"If I use this ability to deal with Orochimaru next time, he shouldn't be able to escape, right?"
Naruto carried the wild rabbit and continued to walk towards the depths of the forest, thinking in his heart, but his eyes suddenly sensed human-shaped thermal imaging objects!
There were three people hiding sneakily behind a tree, spying on him!
Naruto's eyes returned to their normal state, and then turned into light and disappeared on the spot.
"Where's the person?"
The three people saw Naruto disappear and hurriedly drilled out from behind the tree.
But the next moment Naruto appeared in front of them, startling them!
"Whoa!"
"Kill him!"
The three were Grass Village ninjas. Seeing Naruto, two of them attacked Naruto with kunai.
Naruto kicked the two of them away with one kick each, and looked at the third person who hadn't moved.
"Karin?"
"You know me?"
Karin, who was originally waiting to die, was a little surprised to hear Naruto call out her name.
"I don't know you."
Naruto said lightly, "But I know you, you're from the Uzumaki clan, right?"
Karin's expression darkened, and she said, "Yes, how did you know?"
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto said.
Karin knew Uzumaki Naruto. When she took the scroll before, Naruto was in the limelight, so she naturally paid attention to him, "But why isn't your hair red?"
Naruto was silent for a second, then said, "Who knows."
Naruto was also puzzled about this.
When the Uzumaki clan intermarries with other people, the children born are all red-haired,
But the children born from intermarriage with yellow-haired people are all yellow-haired!
That's right, this yellow-haired Uzumaki clan descendant is not just Uzumaki Naruto himself... but also Tsunade!
The difference is that Naruto's hair is golden yellow, while Tsunade's hair is light yellow!
"Then who are your mom and dad?" Karin asked again.
Naruto was silent for another second, did not answer, and turned to leave.
He had no intention of killing Karin, because the other party had not attacked him just now, and also because of Karin's miserable experience.
From childhood, the mother and daughter were treated as wet nurses, and when the mother was bitten to death, it was her turn to be bitten.
This bite has continued until now...
"The two Grass Village ninjas were killed by me. If you go back to Grass Village, you will definitely be blamed. Don't go back."
Naruto's back disappeared in front of Karin. His kind reminder and handsome face echoed in her mind.
A few minutes later,
Naruto returned to the stream with his prey.
Sakura and Hinata had already started the fire. Sasuke and Kiba were grilling fish. Shino had built a separate fire pit and was using wooden cups placed on the stone slab above to boil water!
I don't know when this water will boil... but having hot water is better than drinking cold water. Just wait a little longer,
Anyway, there's no rush!
"Naruto, you're back!"
"Wow, is this a rabbit?"
"I'll skin it, I'll skin it!"
Seeing Naruto come back, everyone immediately enthusiastically took the wild rabbit from Naruto's hand and began to seriously skin and grill it.
Before long, the grilled fish and grilled rabbit were black on the outside and black on the inside!
Naruto looked at the grilled fish and grilled rabbit they made, smelled the smell, and silently took out a soldier pill from his ninja pouch and ate it.
It's still safer to eat this...
