Escape From Konoha

Starting from the entrance of Konoha Village at noon, if you want to reach the frontline battlefield of the Land of Fire, you will need to travel for at least ten hours.

In the evening, Shiraishi and his team of six found a piece of terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack to rest for the night, preparing to set out again early the next morning. Then, by the evening of the next day, they should be able to reach the Konoha camp on the front line.

This time the ninja war between Sunagakure and Konoha is located at the border between the Land of Kawa and the Land of Fire.

This is a small country that exists between the two major countries, the Country of Fire and the Country of Wind. The north is adjacent to the Country of Rain. There is a certain amount of ninja power in the country, but the organized ninja villages are too weak. In the ninja world, And no reputation at all.

Therefore, in this war, the ninja power of Kawa no Kuni was almost negligible.

Six people were resting in the open space, but their desire to communicate with each other was not very strong.

After traveling for most of the day, everyone was already tired and wanted to take 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 the Shiraishi trio and Minato.

Even if they knew each other, they only heard each other's name by chance and were considered acquaintances, not even ordinary friends.

"He's very strong."

Bai Shi was leaning against a big tree, frowning and meditating on the natural energy. Liu Li next to him suddenly said this.

"What?"

Shiraishi finished his thinking and subconsciously raised his head.

"There is no flaw in this guy's body. Even when he was resting, he chose terrain that was easy to defend but difficult to attack. He also judged it at the first time, which shows that his analytical ability is also top-notch. Facing Mr. Sakumo When he was there, he seemed neither arrogant nor impetuous, and was not intimidated by Teacher Sakumo's aura. He was very confident in his own strength."

Shiraishi understood who Ruri was talking about, it was Minato Namikaze on the other side.

Regarding Liuli's evaluation, Shiraishi nodded in agreement.

How could a ninja who could be taken by the Sannin be so simple?

What's more, when he was in the ninja school, the other party had already emerged and was a well-known genius.

According to Shiraishi's estimation, Minato's current strength has probably reached the jounin level.

"But compared to you, Liuli, I should be a little worse."

Ayane said with a smile at this time.

Ruri's strength in Sakumo's team is second only to that of captain Sakumo. Coupled with the excellent blood stain ability of the Uchiha clan, it is difficult for ordinary jounin to get benefits from Ruri.

"You only know this kind of thing after a fight."

Although Ruri was proud of herself, she felt that Minato who could follow the Sannin was not comparable to the average jounin.

However, Liuli is also very confident in his own strength, especially after mastering natural energy. His physical ability alone must give a jounin-level ninja a huge headache.

What's more, in the battle, you must always pay attention to her Sharingan.

On the whole, if a battle really happens, Liuli doesn't think she has the possibility of losing.

But it is also true that the other party is quite powerful.

If the situation permits, I really want to test 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 though the last mission wiped out an elite army of Sand Hidden, 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 from happening.

Shuo Mao's patrol missions 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 was almost dark, Shiraishi and Ayane also started their patrol work in the first half of the night, patrolling around to see if there were 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 patrol mission is relatively simple for Shiraishi's group. After all, Ayane's Byakugan is there. Within a radius of five kilometers, as long as there are enemies approaching here, they will appear in the Byakugan's vision without hiding.

Although it cannot be compared with the perceptual ninjutsu in terms of range, the perceptual ninjutsu can only determine the distance, direction and number of targets, while the Byakugan's all-round surveillance ability can know what moves the enemy uses to attack, and what means one needs to use to attack them. Take the initiative to suppress the enemy's morale quickly.

Because of Baiyan's contribution, 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 turn around regularly 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, found nothing unusual, and opened the note.

It says - Are there toads around?

"..."

Toad?

Ayane didn't quite understand why Shiraishi asked such a question, so she just shook her head slightly.

There are a lot of bugs around, but the closest toad is more than a hundred meters away, still in the river.

"It seems there are no toads."

"Yes, there are no traces of toads around. But why does Mr. Shiraishi care so much about toads?"

Ayane blinked and asked her doubts.

"That's because there have been a lot of toads in Konoha Village recently. I'm worried that someone is setting up eyes and ears."

"Use toads to arrange ears and eyes?"

"Well, the person who did this was probably Jiraiya Jonin, one of the three ninjas. I heard that he signed a psychic contract with the toad in Mt. Myoboku. And an inconspicuous creature like a toad can easily... Being ignored by others is convenient for gathering information, isn't it?"

This is the reason for the cats cultivated by Liuli. It cannot be ruled out that someone is using toads to collect intelligence.

"Are you looking for something?"

Ayane looked thoughtful.

"I'm not sure. Maybe I'm monitoring something. Anyway, the toad thing has nothing to do with us. At most, we can just pay attention when exchanging information in the future."

"I see, indeed."

Ayane nodded in understanding.

There were no abnormal situations happening around them, and there were no dark units monitoring them, which meant that the secrets between them had not been exposed.

Excessive actions will add to the problem and attract unnecessary attention.

Even if something unexpected happens at this time, just keep the normal rhythm.

"By the way, there is another troublesome matter that I want to explain to you."

Shiraishi scratched his head and sighed helplessly, not knowing 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 hide my strength deliberately. I will fight with all my strength."

Shiraishi 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 that's fine. In the future, when working in groups of three, he won't need to hide his strength to cover up anything.

This may help complete the task better.

From now on, he just needs to give the credit to Ruri and Ayane and continue to be an inconspicuous little transparent person.

After all, safety comes first.

"That's it."

Ayane lowered her head slightly so that no one could see her expression.

I didn't 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 the movement of Ayane lowering her head, Shiraishi was a little worried that she would be thinking wildly.

"No, it's nothing. Actually, I also think Baishi-kun should confess to Liuli earlier."

Ayane raised her head and smiled. She had put away her disappointed mood and did not show it on her face. As for what she was thinking in her heart, only she knew.

I couldn't read anything from Ayane's smiling face. Compared with before, she had grown a lot.

Therefore, it is better to end this topic as soon as possible.

I always feel that if we continue this kind of topic and talk about another woman in front of one woman, things will become extremely scary.

Afterwards, Shiraishi handed over the natural energy cultivation methods and auxiliary medicines to Ayane.

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 the 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 Rou Fist after mastering natural energy, but the benefits received from receiving natural energy were definitely greater than those of him and Ruri.

Shiraishi is looking forward to what level Ayane's strength will rise to using natural energy and soft fist.

When Ayane got the things, she didn't immediately practice here, but patrolled the surroundings with Shiraishi.

No problems were found during the patrol in the first half of the night, but since members of Jiraiya's team were also involved in the patrol, 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 out again.

They kept rushing during the day, and it was almost evening before they finally arrived at the border area between the Fire Country and the Sichuan Country.

The main base for Konoha's attack on Sunagakure's troops is stationed here.

There are more than two thousand Konoha ninjas here, and the commander is Orochimaru, who is also a Sannin with Jiraiya. Tsunade serves as the deputy commander, assisting Orochimaru in his work.

Even so, the situation on the front line is still not optimistic.

After strict review, the Konoha ninjas guarding the large camp began to let them go.

After entering the camp, Shiraishi felt a depressing atmosphere completely different from that of Konoha Village.

Paramedics carry the wounded into the camp on a stretcher.

Ninjas gathered in twos and threes next to the camp, holding simple hot food in their hands. They ate the food dryly with numb faces.

Then, not knowing whether it was because they couldn't eat or the food was too unpalatable, many ninjas vomited directly, beat their chests and started gulping down water.

When passing by the medical area, you can still hear the ghost-like howls of pain coming from the camp.

Everyone's nerves were tense to the extreme, and there was only one detonator left to explode the negative emotions they had suppressed for a long time, causing them to collapse on the spot.

This is war.

Sakumo and Jiraiya needed to meet with Commander Orochimaru, and the three of Shiraishi and Minato had to wait outside the camp.

The waiting time was not long. After about a few minutes, Sakumo walked out of the camp with an extra scroll in his hand, which recorded the tasks that Sakumo's team was to complete.

"let's go."

"yes."

Time is running out, and Sakumo is ready to explain the mission content to Shiraishi and the other two people on the way.

"Well, I'll see you next time, Minato."

"Okay, bye. Please be careful."

Facing Shiraishi's kind farewell, Minato also smiled slightly and watched the four members of Sakumo's team leaving the camp.

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"Next, our troops will be divided into two groups, and our mission is to cut off Sunagakure's supplies."

Without wasting time, Sakumo stopped in a river valley area about a few kilometers away from the Konoha camp and briefly described the contents of the mission.

"Are we just a team?"

Baishi and the other three were slightly startled.

"There will be ANBU to assist along the way. Another thing is that this mission is of great importance and no traces can be revealed. Therefore, if you encounter someone who is not one of your own on the way... kill them all!"

Sakumo's face was cold, and Shiraishi's three people were awe-inspiring.

The supply line of Sunagakure Village cannot be placed in the Country of Fire. They can only cut off Sunagakure's supply line by entering the Kawano Country area.

In other words... even if you encounter ordinary people from the Kingdom of Sichuan, they must be cleared away one by one to prevent their whereabouts from being leaked.

"Starting from this direction, about fifteen kilometers away, there will be a team of ANBU to respond."

Sakumo pointed in the southwest direction.

Shiraishi and the others looked in the direction Sakumo pointed. Further ahead was the Kawa Country area, which was not within the scope of the Fire Country.

"If you understand, let's take action."

After Sakumo finished speaking, he disappeared from another direction.

The three people in Shiraishi looked at each other, and each of them could see the solemn look in each other's eyes.

Not only was a cruel order issued to eliminate all witnesses, the goal of the mission was to cut off Sunagakure's supplies. This was an extremely difficult S-class mission no matter how you looked at it.

Even with ANBU assistance, the mission was fraught with danger.

Shiraishi breathed out and said, "Don't worry too much. Since the above has given me such a task, it means that it is possible to complete this task. The most important thing now is to meet up with 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 Shiraishi need to meet with the Anbu staff to know how to proceed with the next mission and cooperate with the Anbu.

Liuli and Ayane had no objection, so they acted immediately.

Fifteen kilometers to the southwest, it took more than ten minutes to arrive.

Sure enough, as Sakumo said, there was Konoha's Anbu dormant here, and there were four people in total.

But one thing is strange, that is, the masks worn on the faces of these Anbu 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 the 'root' of Anbu, 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 Baishi and the others.

"root?"

Regarding the doubts of Shiraishi and the others, 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 enemy's attention, 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 same was true for the three ninjas behind him. 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 leave the battlefield as soon as possible and escape from it. Because the special detonating symbols on our bodies are very powerful. If you die accidentally, don't blame us for not warning us. "

"..."

It seems that in this mission, compared with the sand hidden ninja, I should be the one who should be most vigilant.

A normal person would plaster himself with detonating symbols that could detonate at any time.

A bunch of lunatics! The heads of Shiraishi and the other two people felt pain.

The three of them suddenly felt the urge to run away from these lunatics, lest these people make a mistake and perform an impromptu explosive art, sending all of them to the sky.