Red sand dust

Tens of meters deep underground, in the dark and lightless realm, a faint fluctuation of chakra suddenly flashed.

Immediately afterwards, the lights hanging on the surrounding walls suddenly lit up. After the barrier was retracted, the exposed five humanoid figures wearing animal masks cast long shadows.

The figure sitting in the center is covered in black robes, hiding his body features.

The other people all look similar, with slight differences in height, shortness, fatness and thinness.

"Very good, the cover-up is over!"

Several people followed the direction of the light and came to a towering stone door. After pushing it open together, they saw a large number of wooden boxes inside. After opening, they were all filled with detonating charms, kunai, shurikens and other military supplies.

The sealed porcelain bottle in the corner is even filled with consumables that are indispensable in the great ninja war, such as military food pills and golden sore medicine.

The leader waved his hand, and his subordinates stepped forward and loaded it into the time and space warehouse.

"Check carefully and remove all traces that may be exposed!"

The subordinates scattered in all directions, while the leader looked around slightly absentmindedly, as if he was reminiscing about the past stories.

The place now known as Naruto Village has undoubtedly been a desolate place for many years, sparsely populated, full of smog, and frequent floods. It is a natural refuge for various beasts, but it is not suitable for human habitation.

Under the current conditions, development is difficult and the economic value is not obvious, but this does not mean that this place is useless.

Ninjas who are good at fighting may not be as good at managing goods and farming, but at least they still have strategic vision.

This is the key place for Sunagakure Village to break the situation. In turn, it is also the barrier for Konoha Ninja to block the surprise attack of the Mist Ninja Division. It is also another optional route for the Fire Country to attack the Wind Country, besides Kikyo Mountain Castle.

The bandits can go, and so can I!

Sunagakure Village and Daimaru can see the strategic value of this golden triangle, and the top management of Konoha Village will probably not turn a blind eye.

It's just that in the past few decades, this ultimate move of detouring through the southern Greater Bay Area, bypassing the Kingdom of Sichuan, and taking the Sand Ninja's retreat has never been used.

Because just the Kikyo Mountain Castle defense line on the northern line between the Rain Country and the Grass Country is enough to suppress the Sand Ninja and Iwa Ninja from going deep into the interior of the Fire Country.

Since the formation of "Root", it has been part of the Fire Defense Line that has been expanded. It can even be said to be the winner and loser of Sunagakure Village at critical moments. It is not a decoration.

Although it has not been officially unveiled for decades, in the last Ninja War, the half-human and half-fish "Kraen" water warfare weapon research and development plan in the southeastern Sea Kingdom was actually put into use. Pass.

After all, the Kingdom of the Sea is too far away from Konoha Village. It is in the depths of the ocean and faces threats from the Mist Ninja at any time. If it cannot provide timely support, it will be too dangerous.

"Orochimaru, another trace of your past will disappear forever!"

As a senior senior of "Gen", he once partnered with a genius of one of the "Three Ninjas" to protect Danzo Shimura and made great contributions to the village. They have joined hands countless times to go through life and death, including the poisonous smoke and smoke of the Suna Ninja puppet master, and the continuous efforts of the Iwa Ninja. The traps and the giant waves of the Mist Ninja's attacks were all resolved one by one. Unfortunately, the former comrades had become traitorous Ninjas, and he himself was getting older and was no longer at his peak.

"Aburame Ryoma, the Konoha ninjas have almost forgotten this name!"

As the strategic reserve and shelter of Konoha Village, it once cost Konoha Village a lot of money to reach its current scale.

However, with the end of the Third Ninja War, the "Siren" biological weapon development plan led by Orochimaru fell far short of expectations, and the base once guarded by the "Root" ninjas was sealed again.

In the post-war records handed over to the village by Danzo Shimura, an important part of the southern defense line was abandoned because it had lost its value, so that Tsunade, who took over the position of Hokage, had no idea that there were still a number of priceless plans here. Foreign war preparation materials.

Even though it was delayed for a while due to the New Year, the speed at which the Suna ninjas took over was still too fast. Even before the Konoha ninjas could withdraw, the air combat troops of Sunagakure Village had already patrolled this place as their own private land, making Shimura Danzo simply couldn't find a chance to retrieve the sealed materials and erase the traces.

Fortunately, this underground base is not far from the sea. It took the "Root" ninjas several days and took advantage of the heavy rain to dig an underground channel close to the sea level and enter this place.

What's even more troublesome is that the sand ninjas who are working in the rain above have moved too much and are almost approaching an external exit of the underground palace.

As a last resort, Ryoma Aburame used the power of nature to erase the traces and cover the exit under sand and stones.

As long as a period of time passes, rainwater erodes and the ground collapses, and no trace of the former exit can be seen anymore.

Soon after, the subordinates followed the underground passages and cleaned up all the underground palaces strung together like pearls from the northeast to the southwest. Then they quickly gathered and left the place along the incoming tide.

Before leaving, the "root" ninjas had destroyed the support of the underground palace, and soon it would collapse due to gravity.

Not only that, but the formation of detonating talismans buried underground that no one noticed would give a heavy blow to the Sand Ninja who were building construction above when needed.

Even if he left here due to some accidents, as the leader of the "root" ninja, Danzo Shimura wanted to retain the ability to come back at any time.

Although Sunagakure Village and Konoha Village are now allies, no one knows how long this alliance, which neither side has much confidence in, can last.

…

On the seaside filled with rain and fog, a ninja wearing a dark burqa, forming a seal with one hand, covering his right eye with the other hand, and wearing a fog ninja forehead protector, saw something sneaky with his superhuman chakra vision. The group of "Gen" ninjas who were leaving also saw the waterway covered by the tide.

"The so-called covenant is nothing more than that. No matter how close the cooperation is, they are plotting against each other! But..."

The old-fashioned Mist Ninja had a sarcastic smile on his face. He was thinking about whether to keep the secret or sell the information at a good price. However, he did not notice that a group of tiger sharks swimming underwater were looking at the Mist Ninja above and separated at the same time. I picked up a few and followed the "root" ninja who left.

Deeper in the dark realm, there were several puppets made of metal and biological materials, which looked like tuna fish magnified many times. After seeing the strange movements of the tame beasts acting as warnings above, they had some reaction.

The ninja who was passing the time through the one-way transparent material, observing the halo caused by the water splash caused by the fish swimming from time to time above, suddenly became vigilant.

"There's a situation up there!"

Diving in the deep sea is actually a rather boring experience...