Boom!
The large stone hit the ground, and a large amount of black hair spewed out again.
Hidan, who lost the first opportunity as soon as he came up, could only run for his life and barely parry!
If he hadn't made a decisive decision and wasn't afraid of accidentally injuring himself, and directly slashed at his ankle, it was estimated that he would have already entered that ghost thing's 'stomach'.
But even so, being so close to the wellhead, his situation was very dangerous.
And his most powerful cursed technique, [Death Possession Blood], was completely ineffective against this ghost thing.
This undoubtedly made Hidan extremely depressed!
After noticing with the corner of his eye that Shinji had solved the surrounding villagers, Hidan immediately couldn't help but shout loudly: "How the hell do you deal with this ghost thing? It's endless!"
At this moment, Shinji wasn't in a hurry to support Hidan, but began to observe and recall carefully.
"From opening the treasure chest to suddenly being attacked, to escaping from the dry well... the strange fragrance that makes living beings unable to resist... eating..."
"There can't be anything unsolvable, something must have been missed... what exactly is it..."
"Hey! What the hell are you spacing out for? Why don't you come over and help, I can't hold on!" Hidan's urgent voice immediately came.
In just a moment, he only had one kunai left in his hand, and he didn't know where the other one had been knocked off.
If that ghost thing only had the instinct to attack and its attack pattern was relatively rigid, then Hidan might have been submerged by the dense black hair long ago.
But even though Hidan had begun to fight desperately, it seemed that defeat was only a matter of time.
Because Hidan couldn't cause effective damage to the ghost thing's body, and just cutting off the black hairs used for attack was useless at all.
Faced with Hidan's help, Shinji didn't pay any attention, but shouted: "Hold on a little longer, I'm observing this ghost thing's weakness."
"Akagi Shinji! You bastard! I'll remember you!" Hidan cursed loudly. Seeing that the other party really didn't mean to come over to help, he could only cheer up again and slash frantically.
And Shinji, because his train of thought had just been interrupted by Hidan, began to reorganize.
"According to previous observations, this strange thing doesn't seem to have real intelligence, it's just acting on instinct..."
"And there's a very important point, we didn't smell any fragrance when that thing was attacking. Instead, it only emitted an alluring fragrance after shrinking back into the well."
"If it could be used at any time, then there's no reason for it to be like this. Even if that thing released the fragrance from the beginning and then launched an attack on us, Shinji and I might have been tricked at that time."
"So according to reasonable calculations, that ghost thing should have two behavior patterns, one is the lure mode, which emits fragrance to attract prey to its hunting range. The other is the predation mode, which uses black hair to capture prey. From the current point of view, the two forms don't seem to be able to appear at the same time."
"But... not enough! Just knowing this can't completely solve this ghost thing, so what exactly is its weakness?"
Shinji took several deep breaths, letting himself calm down, not thinking about anything else. Anyway, even if Hidan lost and was caught, he wouldn't die for a while, which gave him more opportunities to observe.
So he gave up racking his brains, chose to forget the previous deductions, and began to reorganize again.
"Go down... open the box... get attacked..."
"Wait!"
"Why did I get attacked?"
Shinji recalled the situation when he opened the box and was attacked, and suddenly realized a detail that he had been ignoring.
That was that the initial target of those black hairs was actually not him, but the torch in his hand!
That's right, that's right!
Because he was so startled, he only thought about getting out of the well first, so he ignored this point.
If the first attack target was him at that time, he would definitely have been caught off guard, and it wouldn't have been easy to escape.
Thinking back now, that ghost thing turned around and chased after him after extinguishing the torch, which allowed him to run out with only a slight embarrassment.
After excluding the nonsensical assumption that the ghost thing had a grudge against the torch, the biggest possibility was...
"Shinji, you bastard! If you don't come over to help..."
"It's fire!"
"Ah? What?"
"This ghost thing's weakness is likely to be fire!"
"Are you sure?"
"Trust me! Quickly use Fire Release to burn it!"
"Okay! I'll burn... I'll burn your whole family! I don't even know how to use Fire Release!!!"
Hidan's roar made Shinji feel embarrassed for a while.
"Damn it, I was too excited for a moment and forgot about this."
Not to mention Fire Release, the two of them were just useless trash who didn't know how to use any ninjutsu!
Thinking of this, Shinji turned around and ran!
"Bastard! You're running away now? You... you should take me with you! Damn it!"
Hidan first showed an unbelievable expression, and then began to curse!
Although I'm not human, you're really a dog!
I'm not playing anymore!
I'm going back to the Jashin Sect!
Hidan, thinking that he had been abandoned, suddenly had the intention to retreat, and no longer fought to the death, and immediately wanted to withdraw from the ghost thing's attack range and then run away.
It was easy to get in, but difficult to get out.
How could the black hair, which hadn't eaten enough, allow the only food 'in front of it' to escape?
So Hidan was numb!
He found that he seemed to be trapped here.
The last time he was able to retreat was because the two of them joined forces, and they were relatively far away.
But now there was only him left, and he had run to the side of the other party's lair, so how could he run?
With this heart in a mess, the movements on his hands also became chaotic.
Hidan, who was barely able to resist, suddenly made a big mistake. When he came back to his senses, his legs had been entangled by black hair.
When he still wanted to cut it off as before, the surrounding black hair didn't give him this chance, and rushed up instantly!
Even though Hidan tried his best to wave the kunai in his hand, the kunai's attack range was still too small, and he was eventually caught.
A large amount of black hair wrapped around him, quickly wrapping Hidan into a cocoon.
Hidan could feel that those ghost things were trying to drill into his mouth, nose, and ears.
He seemed to suddenly understand why those livestock had died in that way in the end.
At this moment, even Hidan wasn't confident whether his [Immortality] could withstand it.
"It's all because of that bastard Shinji! He actually ran away at a critical moment! If I can survive, I must kill him!"
Just as Hidan closed his eyes and cursed someone a thousand times, ten thousand times in his heart, he suddenly felt a heat, as if it was going to ignite his skin!
Shinji, who had rushed back, was holding two wooden buckets, pouring the liquid inside on the black hair, and then took out a fire starter from his waist and threw it out directly!
Boom! A raging fire instantly soared into the sky!
His departure just now wasn't really abandoning Hidan and running away, but after realizing that neither of them knew Fire Release, he ran to the village to collect fuel.
This thing was really hard to find, so it also caused his actions to be a little slow.
But fortunately, he still rushed back with all the fuel he could find before Hidan was eaten!
"Damn it, let's see if you don't die this time?"
Looking at the large amount of black hair twisting and struggling in the raging flames, and then burning to a crisp, Shinji immediately decisively poured all the remaining fuel into the dry well, and then threw out the last fire starter in his hand!
In the soaring flames, he seemed to hear the wailing of some ghost thing, which was so pleasant to hear!
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