Hiding in the sand, splitting into many places, starting with Arkham

This should be a puppet material production base for the Sand Village.

An hour is more than enough time.

The real test should be the subsequent puppet making.

Two hours of puppet making time is quite tight. Although many of the materials here are of good quality, most need to be processed for a long time before they can be used.

In other words, I have to find materials that are easy to process, or even better, can be used directly, and I have to consider the quality.

The best choice is definitely those animals with chakra, because these animals have chakra flowing in their bodies, and the conductivity of chakra is definitely the best.

Just like the powerful puppets of the Sand Village are all human puppets, all of which are made from powerful ninjas before their death.

But it's troublesome to deal with. Dissection, drug soaking, pickling, these processes take time, and you have to have enough understanding of the body of this kind of creature, so it's not the best option for Shimizu.

"But... it doesn't mean I won't use it."

Waving his hand, he shot out a kunai, accurately hitting the seven inches of a poisonous snake hiding its body in the bushes.

I only need to take the parts that I can use from these creatures.

Shimizu stepped forward, broke off a branch, and poked it into the snake's mouth.

Sure enough, it wasn't completely dead. Although the brain was dead, the nerves were still active.

Making sure that this dead snake would not attack him again, Shimizu deftly pulled out the fangs and cut off the venom sac, then turned and left.

Other things are not without value, but the weight I can take is limited, so I can only choose the most valuable parts.

At the same time, Shimizu also collected the seeds of this tree and planted them around.

The people of the Sand Village all have this awareness of cutting down trees and planting trees.

This kind of tree is called White Ironwood. The wood is hard and thick, like iron, light in weight and good in toughness. It is often used to make the handle and other parts of weapons, and it can also be used to make puppets. It is also the main material that Shimizu has chosen to make puppets.

Opening the back compartment of the Fatty puppet, Shimizu put the collected wood into it.

Fatty was originally transformed from a teaching tool for carrying, so it naturally has the ability to store and carry things, but usually it contains life-saving materials such as gauze bandages and anti-inflammatory drugs.

There is also a sub-compartment connected to the hand ejection device, which is used to place poison needles and kunai.

"Next, it is to find items that can be used as the skeleton of the puppet."

Shimizu moved his feet and walked along the low-lying area.

If there is water, it should be there.

Animals that are slightly larger in size must not be able to survive without a stable and sufficient water source.

And those who can dominate a water source must be relatively powerful animals, and most of them also have chakra.

Other Sand Village puppeteers also thought of it, and when Shimizu walked to the river, he had already found traces of puppeteers passing by.

Fortunately, the area of the Emerald of Wind oasis is very large. Its status in the Sand Village is almost comparable to the Death Forest of Konoha. If you detour a little, it is completely enough for seventy-nine puppeteers to collect materials. There is no need to compete and conflict.

After all, this is likely to be an important puppet material production base in the Sand Village.

"There are no traces of large animals living nearby. They are basically small animals such as otter rabbits and sand foxes. It should be the territory of a powerful creature."

Walking along the upstream direction of the river, Shimizu quickly found the traces.

Feces.

And there is a smell of urine under the nearby trees.

This must be a territory marker made by some kind of animal.

This also gave Shimizu a clue to track.

The difficulty of tracking animals is much simpler than tracking ninjas, because every qualified ninja will have anti-reconnaissance awareness, deliberately erasing their tracks, and even giving the tracker misleading clues, but animals will not.

"So... is it that cat?"

Shimizu stood on a tree trunk, looking at the big cat crouching on the stone in the distance.

It was a lynx, with black hairs standing upright on the tips of its ears, looking like a pair of horns. Its fur was brownish-yellow, interspersed with some white, and its body was larger than a normal lynx, with a body length of nearly one and a half meters.

"That's it."

Shimizu lowered his eyes, stretched his hand to his waist, took out kunai, shuriken, and steel wire, simply set up a few traps, then opened his ten fingers, shot out chakra lines, accurately connected to the limbs and torso of the puppet Fatty, and under Shimizu's drive, slowly sneaked towards the lynx.

Facts have proved that the difficulty of manipulating a puppet to sneak is much greater than sneaking by oneself.

When it was still more than twenty meters away from the lynx, the lynx vigilantly stood up, lowered its body, and made a unique low purring sound of a feline animal towards Fatty.

This is not a comfortable cry made by a kitten when being stroked, but represents a warning.

"Sand Secret Technique · Poison Needle Thousand Needles."

The face of the Fatty puppet opened, revealing a launching surface covered with black holes, shooting towards the lynx in rows, while the gear knife on the left arm popped out, and strode towards the lynx.

"Aww——!"

The lynx howled, its body rushed out quickly, dodging the poison needles, and tried to detour from the side, avoiding the claws of this strange creature, and attacking its weak points such as the neck.

Shimizu twitched the corner of his mouth.

The lynx's cry was very unique, reminding him of a certain blue cat.

The thought flashed by, and the lynx's body had already pounced on Fatty's body.

Although the frontal combat ability is not bad, Fatty's speed is a shortcoming.

Fortunately, it is a puppet, and the neck is not its weakness, and Shimizu also designed control tools to deal with this agile enemy.

"Sand Secret Technique · Machine Play!"

The arms of the Fatty puppet separated instantly, and several thick hemp ropes popped out from them to wrap around the lynx.

"Aww——! Aww——! Aww——!"

The bound lynx howled in horror, its body constantly struggling.

Footsteps sounded, Shimizu walked out of the grass, took out several senbon treated with the sap of desert poisonous cacti from the ninja tool bag, and threw them at the lynx.

That is a nerve toxin that can have an anesthetic effect.

As the toxin volatilized, the lynx's voice gradually weakened and stopped struggling.