The examinees here, upon hearing that Prince of Land of Fire had personally come to cheer them on, immediately focused their attention on Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke.
"Brother Chuan, we will definitely win!"
Seeing Li Chuan specifically come to cheer them on, Naruto immediately jumped up and down with energy.
From childhood to adulthood, everyone had their parents and family accompanying, encouraging, and cheering them on when going to school, leaving school, and taking exams, except for him. Therefore, he was naturally very happy about Li Chuan specifically running over to cheer them on.
Sakura's face turned red, and she felt like finding a crack in the ground to hide in.
Her reaction was also normal. Most children born into relatively happy families would have similar reactions when encountering such a situation.
As for Sasuke, he turned his head away somewhat tsundere, but it was obvious that a hint of a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but it quickly turned into murderous intent.
He was similar to Naruto. Since being massacred, he had been alone and become an orphan. Naruto had always been alone and hated, while he had enjoyed the happiest and most fulfilling family before becoming an Avengers burdened with a sea of blood and deep hatred.
So, in the beginning, he was happy in his heart, just like Naruto, but suddenly, because of this warm big brother Li Chuan, he thought of his brother Itachi.
Hearing that Li Chuan had come to cheer on Naruto and the others, Red Bean nodded and continued to explain the rules of the Chunin Exams.
She knew that Li Chuan had a good relationship with Naruto and the others, which was reasonable.
After all the rules were explained, the teams from each ninja village began to send people to draw scrolls, and then chose to enter one after another from different entrances numbered one to twenty.
"It seems there are no changes."
Not long after Naruto and his team rushed into an entrance, Li Chuan saw out of the corner of his eye that the three from Grass Ninja Village also quickly followed.
"Your Highness, now that all the examinees have entered the arena, are you going to the tower with me to await the results, or are you going back first and waiting until the preliminary test begins in five days?"
Seeing that the last examinee had also entered the forest, Red Bean turned around and asked Li Chuan.
Li Chuan smiled:
"Let's go over now. I also want to see which group arrives first. But before that, can we buy some glutinous rice balls and red bean soup?"
"Of course, this old lady cough, I mean glutinous rice balls with red bean soup are the best food."
Hearing about her favorite glutinous rice balls and red bean soup, Red Bean was so excited that she almost exposed her true nature in front of Prince Li Chuan.
"It's my treat. Let's also bring some to Hokage and Kakashi. They should all be at the tower now."
About half an hour later, Tenzō and Red Bean, carrying a large bag of packaged glutinous rice balls and red bean soup, followed Li Chuan back to the entrance of the forty-fourth forest.
Deliberately delaying half an hour to buy glutinous rice balls and red bean soup was mainly to time it right.
Otherwise, if they had directly chosen to go to the tower just now, Orochimaru might not have had time to attack Sasuke and the others, and they would have already arrived at the tower, which would not have conformed to his plan.
Now, it should be about right.
Choosing the entrance that Naruto and the others had just entered, the three of Li Chuan jumped on the trees and ran towards the tower.
"Let's slow down a bit, don't spill the red bean soup."
After entering the Forest of Death, Li Chuan deliberately slowed down his pace.
Red Bean, who already had a skewer of glutinous rice balls in her mouth and a happy face, and the somewhat helpless Tenzō nodded quickly.
Although Li Chuan was treating, Li Chuan, as a prince, would definitely not be allowed to do the work of carrying things.
So now Red Bean was carrying more than two hundred skewers of glutinous rice balls, jumping and eating, while Tenzō carefully carried more than a hundred cups of packaged red bean soup, trying to maintain the stability of his body while jumping.
"Hiss ~ ~"
Not long after entering the Forest of Death, Red Bean, who was jumping and eating glutinous rice balls, suddenly S-Rank her pupils and stopped moving instantly. The large bag of glutinous rice balls in her hand also crashed down towards the tree.
Li Chuan, who had been paying attention to the movements around him, noticed the abnormality behind him, and with a backhand grab caught the glutinous rice balls, pretending to be a little surprised and asked Red Bean:
"Jonin Red Bean, what's wrong?"
Tenzō also stopped vigilantly and quickly protected Li Chuan.
Red Bean touched the curse mark on her neck, which was faintly emerging with a slight stinging pain, and muttered:
"I can feel it, it's him, he's here, he seems to be nearby, not too far from here!"
"Who is it?"
Li Chuan's eyes lit up.
Red Bean's eyes narrowed, and an extremely serious look appeared on her face. Then she said to Li Chuan and Tenzō:
"Konoha S-Rank rogue ninja Orochimaru is in this forest. He is an extremely dangerous person. I can sense his approximate location. Go intercept him first. You immediately go to the tower to notify Hokage and ask him to send people to reinforce!"
After speaking, without waiting for the two to reply, she quickly rushed in one direction.
"Tenzō, you go and notify Hokage quickly. I'll go see if I can help."
Li Chuan threw the glutinous rice balls in his hand to Tenzō, who hadn't reacted yet, and left a sentence before chasing in the direction Red Bean had left.
Tenzō was holding more than a hundred cups of red bean soup in one hand and less than two hundred skewers of glutinous rice balls in the other. For a while, he was stunned on the spot.
He, of course, knew how dangerous Orochimaru was, having spent so many years in Root and the Anbu. He was one of the experimental subjects that Orochimaru and Danzo had wanted to reproduce Wood Release with, and also the only one who survived.
For the safety of Konoha, he should now follow Red Bean's advice and immediately go to the tower to tell Hokage about Orochimaru, and then send a large number of experts to capture Orochimaru.
In order to prevent Orochimaru from attacking the examinees in the examination hall, or simply wanting to assassinate Third Hokage.
However, according to the mission that Third Hokage gave him, what he should do now is to follow and protect Li Chuan's safety, because if Li Chuan, as Prince of Land of Fire, died here, it would also be very detrimental to Konoha.
So he was really in a dilemma now.
Finally, gritting his teeth, he chose to go to the tower first to tell Third Hokage about Orochimaru.
Because he had read Li Chuan's intelligence, in the battle of Land of Waves, Li Chuan showed the strength of a special Jonin level, plus Red Bean also had the strength of a special Jonin.
Even if the two of them couldn't beat one of the three ninja, Orochimaru, it would still be no problem to barely delay and escape.
So now, the safety of all the examinees in the entire examination hall and the safety of Third Hokage are still the most important.
Thinking this, he jumped off the tree and put all the red bean soup and balls under the tree, and ran towards the tower with all his strength.
Not long after he left, a girl with red hair, wearing Grass Ninja Village clothes, happened to walk to this big tree with a sad face after getting lost with her teammates.
When she saw the red bean soup and glutinous rice balls under the tree, she suddenly showed an unbelievable expression.
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