Chapter 54: root ninja
Chapter 54 Root Ninja
Starting from the entrance of Konoha Village at noon, it will take at least ten hours to travel to the frontline battlefield of the Fire Nation.
In the evening, Shiraishi and his group of six found a piece of terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack and rested overnight, preparing to start again in the early morning of the next day, and then by the evening of the next day, they should be able to reach the front-line Konoha camp.
This time, the ninja war between Sand Hidden and Konoha, its border line is at the border between the Kingdom of Kawa and the Kingdom of Fire.
This is a small country living between the two major kingdoms of the Fire Country and the Wind Country. The north is adjacent to the Rain Country. There are certain ninja forces in the country, but the organized ninja villages are too weak and have no reputation in the ninja world.
Therefore, in this war, the ninja power of Kawa no Nation is almost negligible.
The six people are resting in the open space, but the desire to communicate with each other is not very strong.
After half a day of traveling, everyone was already exhausted, and they all hoped to have a good rest.
Secondly, the two teams are not very familiar with each other.
Maybe Jiraiya and Sakumo have a good relationship, but there is no connection between Shiraishi and Minato.
Even if they know each other, they just hear the other person's name by chance, and they can be regarded as nodding acquaintances, not even ordinary friends.
"His strength is very strong."
Baishi, who was leaning against a big tree, was frowning and meditating on natural energy, when Liuli next to him suddenly said this.
"What?"
Shiraishi stopped thinking, and raised his head subconsciously.
"This guy has no flaws in his whole body. Even when he was resting, he chose a terrain that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. He judged it immediately, which shows that his analytical ability is also top-notch. When facing Teacher Shuo Mao, he did not appear arrogant or impetuous. He was not overwhelmed by Teacher Shuo Mao's aura. He is very confident in his own strength."
Shiraishi understood who Ruri was referring to, Namikaze Minato on the other side.
Regarding Liuli's evaluation, Shiraishi nodded in agreement.
How can a ninja who can be brought by Sannin be so simple?
What's more, when he was in the ninja school, the other party had already emerged, and he was a well-known genius.
According to Shiraishi's estimation, Minato's current strength may have reached the level of a jounin.
"But compared to Liuli, you should be worse."
Ayane said with a smile at this time.
Ruri's strength in Sakumo's team is second only to the captain Sakumo, plus the Uchiha clan's excellent blood-staining ability, it is generally difficult for ninja to get benefits from Ruri.
"You can only know this kind of thing after a fight."
Although Liuli is proud, she feels that Minato, who can follow Sannin, is not comparable to ordinary Jonin.
However, Liuli is also very confident in her own strength, especially after mastering the natural energy, the physical ability alone will make the ninja of the upper ninja feel extremely headache.
What's more, in the battle, you must always pay attention to her Sharingan.
On the whole, if a battle really takes place, Liuli doesn't think it's possible for him to lose.
But it is also true that the opponent is strong.
If the situation permits, I really want to try it out. At this time, in this kind of place, it is better to exercise a little restraint.
"Okay, it's almost time for patrol."
At this moment, Shiraishi stood up and ended the topic of Minato.
Even if the last mission wiped out an elite army of Sha Yin, there has been no news of any damage in the Land of Fire recently, but we cannot relax because of this.
As long as you leave the village to perform tasks, you must pay 200% attention to prevent accidents.
The patrol tasks of the Shuo Mao team have always been in teams of two.
Shiraishi and Ayane are in charge of the first half of the night, and Ruri and Sakumo are in charge of the second half.
Now that the sky is almost dark, Shiraishi and Ayane also started their patrol work in the first half of the night, patrolling around to see if there are any enemies lurking.
Nodding to Liuli, Shiraishi and Ayane disappeared from the spot and started patrol work.
Liuli glanced at the backs of the two of them, but said nothing.
The task of patrolling is relatively simple for Shiraishi's group. After all, with Ayane's white eyes, within a radius of five kilometers, as long as there are enemies approaching here, they will appear in the white eyes without hiding.
Although it can’t compare with the perception ninja in terms of range, perception ninjutsu can only determine the distance, direction and number of targets, while Baiyan’s all-round surveillance ability can know what moves the enemy is using to attack him, and what means he needs to use to control the enemy and quickly suppress the enemy’s morale.
Because of Baiyan’s credit, Konoha can avoid the enemy’s well-designed traps in every battle, making any enemy’s conspiracy ineffective.
"It's almost here."
In another forest, Shiraishi stopped.
Ayane has rolled her eyes, as long as anyone approaches this place, she will be noticed.
Next, they only need to make a regular turn around to complete the patrol mission in the first half of the night.
Shiraishi took out a note from the ninja bag and put it in Ayane's hand.
Ayane tilted her head incomprehensibly, but still held it in her hand, looked left and right, and found nothing unusual before opening the note.
It says—Are there any toads around?
"..."
Toad?
Ayane didn't quite understand why Shiraishi asked such a question, so she just shook her head slightly.
There are quite a few bugs around, but the nearest toad is more than a hundred meters away, and it is still in the river.
"It seems that there are no toads."
"Yes, there are no traces of toads around. But, why does Shiraishi-kun care about toads so much?"
Ayane blinked her eyes and asked the doubt in her heart.
"That's because a lot of toads have suddenly appeared in Muye Village recently. I'm worried that someone is setting eyes and ears."
"Arranging eyes and ears with toads?"
"Well, the one who did this is probably Jiraiya Jōnin, one of the three ninjas. I heard that he signed a psychic contract with the toad on Mt.
This is the reason why Liuli raised cats, and it cannot be ruled out that someone is using toads to gather information.
"Are you looking for something?"
Ayane showed a pensive expression.
"It's not very clear, maybe it's monitoring something. Anyway, the matter of the toad has nothing to do with us. At most, we should pay attention to it when exchanging information in the future."
"I see, indeed."
Ayane nodded understandingly.
There is no abnormal situation happening around them, and there is no secret department to monitor, which means that the secret between them has not been exposed.
Excessive actions will add to the liking and attract unnecessary attention.
Even if something unexpected happens at this time, just keep the usual rhythm.
"By the way, there is one more troublesome thing to explain to you."
Baishi scratched his head, sighed helplessly, and didn't know how to speak for a while.
"trouble?"
"Ah, it has something to do with Liuli."
Shiraishi glanced away unnaturally.
Ayane thought of a possibility.
"Could it be..."
"Just as you think, our affairs have been exposed. So when the three of us act in the future, I don't need to deliberately hide my strength, and I will fight with all my strength."
Baishi continued to scratch his head, feeling that things were getting more and more troublesome.
Because of Liuli's specific attitude towards this matter, he couldn't guess any useful information at all.
But this is also good, when he acts in groups of three in the future, he doesn't need to hide his strength to cover up anything.
This may be able to better complete the task.
In the future, as long as the credit is pushed to Liuli and Ayane, he will continue to be an inconspicuous little transparent.
After all, safety comes first.
"I see."
Ayane lowered her head slightly so that no one could see her expression.
Did not ask why it was exposed, because this kind of question has become meaningless.
So then you just need to relax and get along with each other.
But when I think about it this way, I feel a little bit unwilling.
It should be me who first came into contact with Mr. Baishi's real secret, right? Ayane thought with some distress.
"Well, are you okay?"
Seeing Ayane lowering her head, Shiraishi was a little worried that she would be thinking wildly.
"No, it's nothing. Actually, I also think Shiraishi-kun should confess to Liuli earlier."
Ayane raised her head and smiled, she had packed up her disappointment and didn't show it on her face. As for what was going on in her heart, only she knew.
Can't read anything from Ayane's smiling face, compared to before, she has grown a lot.
So, it is better to end this topic as soon as possible.
I always feel that continuing this kind of topic and talking about another woman in front of one woman will make things extremely scary.
Afterwards, Shiraishi gave Ayane the practice method of natural energy, as well as auxiliary medicines.
Let her also use the natural energy freely as soon as possible.
To be honest, among the three of them, it is very likely that Ayane is the one who receives the most care from natural energy.
Because the main fighting method of the Hyuga Clan is Taijutsu, which is the soft fist method used in conjunction with Baiyan.
Shiraishi couldn't guess to what extent Ayane could increase the power of Soft Fist after mastering the natural energy, but the benefits he received after receiving the natural energy were definitely greater than him and Liuli.
Shiraishi is looking forward to what level Ayane's strength will rise to using natural energy and soft fist.
Ayane got the things, and didn't immediately start practicing here, but started patrolling around with Shiraishi.
No problems were found during the patrol in the first half of the night, but since the Jiraiya team also intervened in the patrol team, the patrol period was divided into three periods at night.
So Shiraishi and Ayane finished their patrol two hours earlier than usual and returned to the camp to rest.
The night passed and nothing happened.
In the early morning of the next day, a group of six people set off again.
He had been on his way during the day, and finally arrived at the border area between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Sichuan until it was almost evening.
The general base of Konoha's anti-sand hidden troops is stationed here.
There are more than 2,000 Konoha ninjas here, and the commander is Orochimaru, who is also a Sannin with Jiraiya, and Tsunade is the deputy commander, assisting Orochimaru in his work.
Even so, the situation on the front line is still not optimistic.
After strict review, Konoha Ninja, who guards the large camp, began to release.
After entering the camp, Shiraishi felt a depressive atmosphere completely different from that of Konoha Village.
Nursing staff carrying the wounded into the tent on a stretcher.
Gathered in twos and threes next to the tent, ninjas holding simple hot food in their hands, with a numb and thin face, ate the food in their hands dryly.
Then I don’t know whether it was because they couldn’t eat it or the food was too unpalatable. Many ninjas vomited directly, beat their chests and began to gulp water.
Passing through the medical area, you can still hear the howls of pain like ghosts coming from the tent.
Everyone's nerves were tense to the extreme, and there was only one detonation device that could detonate the negative emotions that had been suppressed in their hearts for a long time, and they collapsed on the spot.
This is war.
Sakumo and Jiraiya need to meet with Commander Orochimaru, and Shiraishi and Minato need to wait outside the camp.
The waiting time was not long. About a few minutes later, Shuo Mao came out of the tent, holding an extra scroll in his hand, which recorded the tasks that Shuo Mao's team had to complete.
"let's go."
"yes."
Time was running out, Shuo Mao was going to explain the mission content to Baishi and the other three while he was on his way.
"Then, we'll see you next time, Minato."
"Okay, goodbye. Please be careful."
Facing Shiraishi's kind farewell, Minato also smiled slightly, and watched Shuomo's team leave the camp with four people.
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"Next, we will split into two groups. The task is to cut off the supply of Sha Yin."
Wasting no time, about a few kilometers away from Konoha Camp, Shuomo stopped in a river valley area, and briefly described the content of the mission.
"Is it just our team?"
The three of Baishi were slightly taken aback.
"Anbu will assist on the way. Another point is that this mission is of great importance, and no whereabouts can be revealed. Therefore, once you encounter someone who is not your own on the way... kill them all!"
Shuo Mao had a grim face, while Baishi and the other three had awe-inspiring hearts.
It is impossible for the supply line of Hidden Sand Village to be placed within the territory of the Land of Fire. They can only cut off the supply line of Hidden Sand when they enter the Land of Kawa.
That is to say... even if you encounter ordinary people in the country of Sichuan, you must clean up every single one to prevent their whereabouts from being leaked.
"From this direction, about fifteen kilometers away, there will be a team of Anbu to respond."
Shuomo pointed to the southwest direction.
The three of Shiraishi looked in the direction that Sakumo pointed, and further ahead was the land of the river, which was not within the scope of the land of fire.
"If you understand, let's start to act."
After Sakumo finished speaking, he disappeared from another direction.
The three of Baishi looked at each other, and they could see the seriousness in each other's eyes.
Not only issued a cruel order to wipe out all witnesses, but the goal of the mission was to cut off the supplies of Sand Hidden. This is an extremely difficult S-rank mission no matter how you look at it.
Even with Anbu's assistance, this mission is fraught with danger.
Bai Shi breathed out and said, "Don't worry too much. Since the higher-ups have given me such a task, it means that it is possible to complete this task. The most important thing now is to join the Anbu personnel."
Indeed, although Shuo Mao gave the three of them a mission, the specific steps of the mission were not given.
It can be understood that Shuo Mao has his own mission, and he only knows so much.
The three of Shiraishi need to meet up with Anbu personnel to know how to proceed with the next mission and cooperate with Anbu.
Liuli and Ayane had no objection, so they acted immediately.
The distance of 15 kilometers to the southwest took more than ten minutes to arrive.
There, as Sakumo said, Konoha Anbu was dormant here, and there were four people in total.
But there is one thing that is strange, that is, the masks worn by these Anbu's faces are slightly different from the masks worn by Anbu ninjas that Shiraishi has seen before.
The mask patterns on the faces of these Anbu ninjas give people a feeling of depression and coldness.
Especially the eyes behind the mask, cold and heartless, without any emotional fluctuations, just like a group of machines.
"You are…"
"We are the ninjas of Anbu's root, and we will cooperate with you in this task of cutting off the supplies of Sand Hidden."
The leader among them came out and said indifferently to the three of Baishi.
"root?"
Regarding the doubts of the three Shiraishi, the leading ninja did not explain anything, and continued to say in an indifferent tone: "The three of you will be responsible for the feint attack in the subsequent actions to attract the attention of the enemy, and we will be responsible for the destruction."
As he spoke, the leading ninja lifted his shirt, and his body was covered with 'explosive' character paper.
The three ninjas behind him did the same. They lifted their shirts, and their skins were densely covered with detonating symbols.
"..."
"So, once the feint attack plan is successful, you must find a way to get out of the battlefield as soon as possible and escape from it. Because we are all wearing special detonating charms, which are very powerful. Don't blame us for not reminding you if you accidentally die."
"..."
It seems that in this mission, compared with the sand hidden ninja, I should be the one who should be most vigilant.
Normal people, who would plaster themselves with detonating symbols that could detonate at any time?
A group of lunatics! The three of Shiraishi felt pain in their heads.
The three of them suddenly had the urge to pull away from these lunatics immediately, lest one of these people operate improperly, perform an impromptu explosion art, and send them all to heaven.
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