Konoha: Be cautious from Hinata

Chapter 473
The conspiracy hidden at the root of the group is unknown to the outside world. At this time, Itachi had just completed the patrol of the guard team and found an excuse to come to the corner of the village.

In a remote alley, Itachi put on root costume and saw Danzo wrapped in bandages.

After being glanced at by Danzo's sharp eyes for a few times, Itachi bent down and said, "Master Danzo!"

In order to win Danzo's trust, Itachi's attitude is extremely respectful, and his eyes are full of yearning and enthusiasm for Danzo, just like other root members.

Leaning on crutches, Danzo said in a low voice, "Itachi, are you still used to the feeling in the dark?"

Itachi nodded lightly and said, "Master Danzo, my subordinates are adapting well."

Itachi didn't deceive Danzo at this point, he really adapted to the root environment, even though he only had the experience of performing missions a few times, he still felt that he was more adaptable to staying in the dark than his idle life in the security force.

After these days of work, he also understood the responsibilities of the roots.

The roots are a group of anonymous people who destroy anything that threatens Ninja Village in the dark. They are the roots that are buried in the ground and nourish the leaves.

Itachi agrees with the concept of the root, but does not agree with Danzo's practices and methods.

Dealing with the enemy can be insidious, but it is too much to use these methods on one's own hands.

According to his understanding, Konoha Baiya's suicide had a lot to do with Danzo, and during the night of Nine Tails, Danzo also tried to send root ninjas to prevent the security team from rescuing the villagers.

If the security team had really stood by at that time, the Uchiha today would probably have encountered unimaginable criticism.

"Very good..." Seeing Itachi's reaction, Danzo threw out a scroll, and then said: "This mission is a group mission. You have to go with other members to search the base of Orochimaru outside the village."

"The base of Orochimaru?" Itachi looked at Danzo with a confused look on his face.

After a pause, Danzo explained: "There are Orochimaru's spies in the village, and they will go out recently. You have to take this opportunity to destroy Orochimaru's base near the village."

"Yes, Danzo-sama." Itachi seemed to understand something, turned and disappeared at the end of the alley.

Watching Itachi's departure, a bright light flashed in Danzo's eyes. He would not attack Uchiha Itachi in the village, but he would not foolishly go outside the village to attack Itachi.

After Itachi's figure completely disappeared, Danzo also gradually disappeared into the darkness, and he was going to monitor Uchiha's movements.

Without returning to the clan, Uchiha Itachi arrived at the root leader immediately and saw the root team.

The root team glanced at Itachi's mask, and after Itachi announced his alias, he hummed softly and said, "I've heard of you, the kid who became a full member the fastest, but the water in the roots is deeper than you imagined."

Itachi glanced at the root team leader and did not refute, which made the latter give Itachi a high look.

In the fog hidden training method carried out by the root, when the full-fledged members are selected, they often have to kill their companions with their own hands. In this case, the root hierarchy is even more severe.

After explaining the objectives of the mission, several people disappeared in place and galloped in the woods outside the village.

In less than half a day, Itachi followed the team to the mission location, a dilapidated village. According to the situation, these are the bases of Orochimaru.

After looking around, Itachi opened Sharingan and found that these seemingly ordinary villagers were actually ninjas in disguise.

Glancing at each other, the root team disappeared in place, and immediately dealt with the ninja pretending to be a villager.

These ninjas with the most chuunin were not opponents at all. A few dazzling white lights flashed, and the ninjas fell to the ground in response. Even the chunin who seemed to be the leader did not last long.

Grasping Chunin's collar, Itachi opened Sharingan, cast an illusion and asked, "Who are you? What is this place? Orochimaru's purpose for letting you stay here."

Under the control of the illusion, the Chunin told a lot of things, and then his face changed, and his whole body was bitten by the phantom of the poisonous snake that came out of his body.

Itachi cut off the phantom of the poisonous snake with a sword, and looked at the Chunin who died of poisoning with a serious face.

According to the available information, Danzo did not lie. This is indeed the base of Orochimaru, and these ninjas are also under Orochimaru, but when asked about the purpose of Orochimaru, they were all bitten to death by the poisonous snake phantom.

Those venomous snake phantoms are the curse marks left by Orochimaru.

At this time, Captain Genbu came to Itachi and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Itachi informed the situation one by one, and the captain of Genbu nodded and said, "It seems that Orochimaru has been coveting the village..."

Itachi didn't answer, and followed the team to the interior of the village to collect more information about Orochimaru.

Although Orochimaru's subordinates were destroying the documents when they found their traces, they still left a lot of useful information.

Suddenly, a member of the team found a deep well, and there seemed to be another world inside.

Seeing the team member's greeting, Itachi and Genbu team leader rushed over one after another, looking at the deep and dark bottom of the well, hesitating whether to go in and find out.

After a moment of silence, Captain Genbu lit a torch and threw it into the well.

The moment the flame touched the well, a dazzling white light flashed in front of Itachi and the others, and a sense of acute crisis flashed in their hearts, and they quickly distanced themselves.

But time was running out.

Accompanied by the flames soaring into the sky, a terrifying explosion came from the well, and the flames all over the sky quickly ignited everything around them. Several people who were affected by the shock wave fell to the roots of the ground, and were climbed up by the flames and became Burning Men.

The root team leader frowned, and said in a low voice: "Water escape, water formation wall!"

In an instant, the several-meter-high water wall immediately blocked the spread of the flame, but was quickly evaporated by the flame, and the high-temperature steam formed gave a fatal blow to the root ninja on the ground.

A captured ninja, looking at Itachi and Nebu's squad leader, mocked: "That deep well is where Oshemaru-sama stores natural gas, how dare you use fire escape!"

"Natural gas?" Itachi and Captain Genbu heard this term for the first time, but it did not prevent them from understanding the meaning of the captured ninja. They encountered the trap of this base.

Another burst of fire struck, and the flames directly engulfed the captives.

Itachi and the team leader fled towards the outskirts of the village without suspecting him. They couldn't extinguish the flames here.

Looking at the soaring flames and billowing smoke in the distance, Itachi stared at the team leader beside him, full of doubts in his heart.

He thought it was Danzo's conspiracy this time, and there were root ninjas following him who were ready to strike at any time, but he didn't expect that this was really a base of Orochimaru.

Even the root members died a few.

The flames burned for several hours, but still did not stop. The two had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​rescuing their companions and head back towards the village.

At this time, in the thick smoke of the village, an inconspicuous little snake watched their backs.

(End of this chapter)