Konoha Ninja Samurai

Chapter 49 Probing
Sasaki, the leader of the hunting team, spoke very little, and after hearing Tokugawa Yukimura's request, he briefly told him the information he had learned.

"The livestock in the village began to disappear about three months ago. We didn't care about it before. Every year there are very hungry beasts to poach livestock. We thought it was the same this time." Sasaki's tone was a little angry, "Who knows After two months, the number of missing reindeer has greatly increased, and from the original predation to fill their stomachs, they simply killed the livestock and left them alone."

Sasaki's fist hit the table heavily, startling a little guy who was eavesdropping.

"Three months." Tokugawa Yukimura thought. "During this period, have any of you seen its true face? I heard from the village chief that you caught a few."

"No, the few wild wolves I caught were all wandering around the village and were driven out of the group. As for the cunning guy who entered the village, we have never seen him before." Sasaki shook his head, "I arranged more than a dozen traps according to the habits of wild wolves, but none of them were triggered."

"Oh? So, its intelligence is really not low." Tokugawa Yukimura thought.

"Then what is the regularity of its committing time? Were any villagers injured?"

"It's mostly in the middle of the night. Although none of the villagers were harmed, people were still panicked." Sasaki said, with a sad expression on his resolute face. "If the herds of livestock die like this, several households of villagers will not be able to survive."

"Definitely not!" Xiao Budian, who was eavesdropping inside, ran over with short legs, hugged her father's calf thicker than her waist, raised her head and said, "Daddy will definitely catch that nasty guy!" !” She said, waving her pink fists to cheer her father up.

"Okay, Dad will definitely do it." Sasaki was also amused by the little guy, and pricked the other's little face with his beard, and she giggled when it was itchy.

"Okay, take care of the house. Dad took this brother to work." After teasing for a while, Sasaki put his daughter down and turned to Tokugawa Yukimura to say sorry.

"No, after all, I also like lively children." Tokugawa Yukimura smiled.

After going out, Sasaki returned to his majestic and stern look. He was tall and led the way. It was strange to say that he felt a little cold even with Chakra, but the other party was only wearing a light-weight outfit. Are all hunters who hunt in the snow so hardy?
Along the way, Tokugawa Yukimura finally saw what majesty is. Although Sasaki is only the leader of a hunting team and not the village head, he has a prestige in the village comparable to that of the village head. The villagers greeted him in awe along the way. , Sasaki just nodded and scolded those idlers from time to time, and the people he criticized all ran like frightened quails.

"I'm laughing at you," Sasaki said to Tokugawa Yukimura. "This family was the first to discover the loss of livestock."

Under the leadership of Sasaki, Tokugawa Yukimura came to the livestock shed. In the fence with a height of more than three meters, the reindeer who were grazing found a stranger and made anxious calls, even the owner of the breeding could not appease them.

"That's it. Ever since the wild beast killed a companion, the deer herd has been in a state of fear, and any disturbance will alarm them." Sasaki explained.

"Huh? This fence was replaced not long ago?" Tokugawa Yukimura asked unexpectedly when he found that the fences in the barn were all fresh wood.

"Yes, according to subsequent investigations, the beast broke through the fence and rushed in." Sasaki nodded.

"Crash into it?" Tokugawa Yukimura looked at the fence thicker than his own arm, wondering if he had made a mistake?Ordinarily, if it is a ninja beast, it shouldn't be so reckless.

Tokugawa Yukimura took this question to heart, and then followed Sasaki to investigate several other crime scenes. After comparing them in this way, he made an astonishing discovery.

From the beginning of violently destroying the fence to enter, to gradually using obstacles to jump into the deer pen, and finally, facing the fence raised by the herders to three meters, it actually learned to enter from the ground through the fence. Everything shows that its wisdom has evolved by leaps and bounds in just one or two months!
It's just that in the recent attacks, how did it leave no trace?

Tokugawa Yukimura searched for clues around the deer enclosure of the breeder's house that was attacked a few days ago, but found nothing.You must know that after successive attacks, in order to prevent their homes from being attacked, the herdsmen have used methods such as laying sinks, strengthening fences, and raising hounds. Some people even guarded the deer enclosure all night, but even so, it still caught people. Take the opportunity to enter when you are slack, and sometimes you can complete an attack in just one or two minutes!
Rubbing his sore neck, Tokugawa Yukimura inadvertently looked up and saw the eaves covered with snow, "Is that so?" With a flash of inspiration, Tokugawa Yukimura immediately gathered the chakra under his feet, stepped on the wall and climbed up to the roof. And the following group of villagers who had never seen ninja warriors were shocked.

"Sure enough." Tokugawa Yukimura looked, and there was a huge footprint on the soft snow. After a simple comparison, it turned out to be much bigger than his own palm.

However, the appearance of this footprint supports the speculation that the attacker is a ninja beast. Only ninja beasts using Chakra can walk on the roof so lightly with such a huge body, and the noise does not even disturb the people below. Guardian villagers.

But even so, there are many doubts. Generally, the growth of the wisdom of the chakra-awakened beasts is gradual, rather than rapid progress in such a short period of time. Without human training, it is impossible to learn to use Chakra to climb such a high eaves.Also, why did this ninja beast only attack livestock, but not humans?

The preoccupied Tokugawa Yukimura smoothed out the footprints, then turned over and jumped off the roof.Seeing his expression, the owner of the house cautiously stepped forward and asked, "This lord warrior, have you found any clues?"

Tokugawa Yukimura looked at him, shook his head, and said, "I just want to stand up high and see if I can find anything."

The owner walked away disappointed.Tokugawa Yukimura concealed his discovery, and people were already in panic. If they knew that the beast would fly over the walls, it might really cause panic.

Tokugawa Yukimura called Sasaki to go aside and told him what he had found. After hearing this, Sasaki also looked heavy.

"Be prepared, our opponent is not that simple." Looking at the rolling hills not far away, Tokugawa Yukimura said.

(End of this chapter)