Chapter 1040: Unexpected Person

Su Xiao's goal this time was to rescue Deidara, and his enemies from beginning to end were the Rock Shinobi, which had nothing to do with the civilians.

Su Xiao lifted his feet and walked toward the stone house; this stone house was the only entrance to the underground prison.

The internal structure of the stone house was very simple. On the inner side, there was a stone statue, and in front of the stone statue were offerings carved out of rock. According to the information provided by Bai Jue, the entrance to the underground prison was right in front of the stone statue, and one needed to trigger a certain mechanism to open the entrance.

Su Xiao, of course, wouldn't go looking for that so-called mechanism. The Zhan Long Shan in his hand slashed forward in the air, blade flashes flew out, dust and stone chips splashed, and four deep slash marks were cut into the ground.

Su Xiao lifted one foot and stomped hard on the ground.

Rumble!

The entire stone house shook, spiderweb-shaped cracks appeared on the stone slabs of the ground, and a pitch-black large pit collapsed downward.

Footsteps came from behind Su Xiao. Su Xiao didn't look back and walked straight toward the large pit on the ground.

Inside the pit, there was a stone staircase leading diagonally to the underground, and the stone staircase was covered with broken stones and dust.

Su Xiao followed the stone staircase to the underground prison. A moment later, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran into the stone house; the footsteps just now were made by it.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang first observed the situation inside the stone house. After seeing the stone statue that was over a person's height, its eyes lit up, and it quickly ran to the side of the stone statue.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang squatted motionless beside the stone statue, activating its self-comprehended divine skill "You Can't See Me," successfully blending into the environment and disguising itself as a sculpture, with no sense of incongruity.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was doing this to guard the exit for Su Xiao. If the situation wasn't right, it would immediately notify Su Xiao underground.

Shouts of killing and explosions erupted within Shuoyan Village. The one with the biggest commotion was Amu. At this time, Amu was holding two Chunin and was charging and killing among a group of ninja. Various ninjutsu hit Amu from time to time, but Amu didn't care at all. As for ninja tools like shuriken or kunai, Amu directly ignored them.

In the passage leading to the underground prison, Su Xiao held a bundle of military glow sticks and threw one forward from time to time.

After going deep underground for about ten meters, an iron door appeared in front. A small white spider crawled out from Su Xiao's sleeve, crawled along the wall, and onto the iron door.

Su Xiao stopped in place, forming an energy shield with 50 points of strength in front of him. In this semi-enclosed terrain, an explosion could easily affect him.

Boom!

A hole was blown into the iron door, and the area around the hole was covered with bent iron bars. Su Xiao walked up to observe the situation inside the underground prison.

The underground prison was pitch black. Su Xiao threw a military glow stick inside.

Whoosh~

A black shadow flew toward him head-on. Su Xiao tilted his head, and the black shadow flew past his cheek; it was a kunai.

Su Xiao kicked the iron door. With a clang, the iron door flew into the underground prison.

Firelight suddenly appeared, and the underground prison was illuminated with a somewhat dim yellow light. Su Xiao at the entrance saw the situation inside the prison clearly.

The underground prison was not large, about two hundred square meters. On one side were four prison cells. The first three cells were empty. Due to the angle, Su Xiao couldn't see the situation in the fourth cell clearly, only seeing a human figure illuminated by the firelight. The prisoner in the cell should have been tied up by their hands and hung up.

In front of the four cells was an open space. The wall on one side of the open space was covered with various torture instruments, and dried black bloodstains could still be seen on the torture instruments.

"Waited for you for a long time."

A figure stood in the dark corner. Hearing this voice, Su Xiao was stunned.

"As expected of an old fox."

Su Xiao threw down the glow stick in his hand and moved his neck. He had originally thought that the one guarding the prison was Huangtu; the information provided by Bai Jue was exactly that.

In fact, Huangtu was not in Shuoyan Village at all; he was guarding the Rock Shinobi Village, and the person in the underground prison... was the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki of the Two Scales!

No need to think to know that Bai Jue had been calculated by Onoki. Dealing with such an old fox was just like this; one might fall into the other's trap if not careful, not to mention that Bai Jue's IQ wasn't that great either.

Now that he thought about it, the calmness of those civilians and ninja before was because Onoki was sitting in Shuoyan Village. Their Tsuchikage was here, which gave them plenty of confidence.

Obito had noticed something wrong before. At that time, he was at a high place and just happened to see those civilians retreating in an orderly manner, while Su Xiao hadn't seen this scene.

"Deidara, someone has come to keep you company."

Onoki slowly floated up. Although he was only 1.3 meters tall, his aura was by no means weaker than the 2-meter-tall Raikage A.

"Hmm?"

A slightly confused voice came from the cell; it was Deidara in the cell.

At this time, Deidara was sporting a pair of "panda eyes," his eyes full of bloodshot, his hands hung up, and his whole person was drowsy, as if he hadn't understood what Onoki said.

Was Deidara tortured to the point of losing his ability to think? Not at all. In the few days he was captured, Onoki hadn't sent anyone to torture him at all, and his three meals a day were very punctual, with excellent food.

Was Onoki shielding Deidara? Of course not. Regardless of his relationship with Deidara, as Tsuchikage, he certainly couldn't shield Deidara, a member of the Akatsuki organization.

The reason Deidara was like this was because from the time he was captured until now, he hadn't slept for a quarter of an hour.

Before Su Xiao and the others attacked Shuoyan Village, there were three ninja guarding Deidara around the clock. Their task wasn't to interrogate Deidara, but to not let Deidara sleep.

As long as Deidara wanted to sleep, whether it was a big slap or using needles to prick him, as long as Deidara was kept awake, it was fine.

At first, Deidara didn't take this to heart, but after a few days, Deidara was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected that not being able to sleep would be so painful.

In the last few days, Deidara was so sleepy that even if someone slapped him, he could fall asleep. The Tsuchikage immediately ordered to prepare ice water, and once Deidara wanted to sleep, he would immediately splash ice water on him.

This really tossed Deidara around quite a bit. He would rather have the Rock Shinobi torture him severely than endure this kind of pain, because he felt that due to the long-term inability to sleep, his brain was becoming more and more sluggish. Sometimes, in a daze, he would hear people talking to him, and several times he almost spoke out because he mistook those people for Su Xiao or Obito and others.

At that time, Deidara knew clearly that he couldn't hold on for long. In a state where his brain was extremely sluggish and dazed, he was very likely to let something slip.

Su Xiao didn't pay attention to Deidara for the time being. If Huangtu was guarding the underground prison, he had a 60% chance of rescuing Deidara. As for Onoki guarding it personally, the result wasn't certain. The destructive power of Dust Release was really too strong, and even the Counter Shield couldn't hold it.

Undoubtedly, Onoki was a ninjutsu-type ninja. Because of his older age and back injury, his taijutsu might not even be as good as a Chunin's.

Of course, this didn't mean Onoki's speed was slow; this old man could fly.

The area of the underground prison wasn't large. Excluding the cells, it was only about a hundred square meters. This kind of terrain clearly had an advantage for Su Xiao.

This advantage made Su Xiao very suspicious. Would an old fox like Onoki not know that this terrain was disadvantageous to himself, and still wait for Su Xiao here? Absolutely impossible.

Just considering for a moment, Su Xiao stepped on the ground and rushed toward Onoki. ===== CHAPTER 1041 =====