Saving Uchiha starts from being the patriarch

Chapter 224
"Very strange smell."

"strangeness?"

"...It's hard to say, well, how should I describe it..." Parker squatted on Kakashi's shoulders, stretched out his paws and rubbed his head, with a face full of embarrassment and entanglement, "I never I have never smelled such a strange smell, how do I feel? The human smell is very light!"

This weird description stunned Kakashi as well.

What does it mean to have a very weak smell?

This kind of strange statement... is very interesting!

"Could it be that the young man is not human?"

The monitor of the corpse disposal squad standing next to him looked shocked.

"No, it's hard to say, the human smell is very light, but it doesn't mean that there is no human smell at all, it's just very light, like that..." Parker was very uncomfortable, why is today's work so difficult? ah!It’s okay to endure the strong body odor for the autonomy of choosing shampoo, and the smell that was asked to identify is also strange, so it doesn’t know how to describe it, it has never encountered such a strange smell before.

"In addition to the very light smell of people, there is also a smell of metal and wood. These smells are mixed together...Always feel a little familiar?"

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, metal?wood?

There is a faint touch in my mind, but there is too little information, and it is still impossible to determine who this scorpion is. We still have to wait for the investigation results of Uchiha Itachi and Junmaro. There is no evidence that it was really his doing.

"Squad Leader Gao Ye, where do you store the corpse? Please take me to see it."

Kakashi asked.

"This way!"

Under the guidance of Squad Leader Gao Ye, they came to the library of the temple. Such a large temple cannot build a pavilion dedicated to storing scriptures, and there is no place for such a collection of books to be stored. In fact, this small library is also There is quite a lot of empty space.

"This is the library of the temple. All the scrolls that have sealed the corpse are here."

On the left side of the bookshelf are scriptures, and on the right side are a large pile of scrolls, there are hundreds of them. Don't think that the storage capacity of the scrolls is unlimited. Most scrolls can actually seal the stored things The number is quite limited, like corpses, generally speaking, one seal scroll can hold about ten corpses.

Thousands of Konoha ninjas were sacrificed in this war, and naturally hundreds of scrolls were needed.

As for the scrolls with huge reserves, one is that they are scarce in number, and the production of scrolls has similar conditions to that of detonating talismans. The production of detonating talismans requires the creator to master the fire escape technique, and scrolls need to be mastered by the creator. Sealing.

Compared with the fire escape technique,

Obviously, the practice of sealing technique is more difficult.

This leads to the high labor cost of the scrolls, that is, secondly, the scrolls are not cheap, especially those scrolls with huge reserves are even more expensive. If the family is not very rich, for example, a certain Konoha in the future will be the largest She is the daughter of a ninja tool shop, a legendary female ninja who once summoned the sea and giant ships and is known as the "legendary portable warehouse".

Without such a deep family background, ordinary people can't use that kind of scroll at all, and to be honest, there are no scrolls with exaggerated storage capacity on the market. If all these large-capacity scrolls are not made by themselves, then they will be customized with money.

"So many scrolls...how many scrolls are lost?"

Kakashi asked while looking at the scrolls stacked on the bookshelf.

"There are twelve lost scrolls, and a total of 110 seven corpses are stored in them, including 43 Jonin corpses, and 74 Jonin corpses in particular."

"Twelve scrolls."

Kakashi looked at these scrolls which were obviously of the same size, thought for a few seconds, and had a guess in his heart. The person who stole the scrolls should be acting alone, because the scrolls cannot be overlapped and sealed into the scrolls. , can only be carried on the body, and a person can only hold more than ten scrolls at most, and there will be no place to put them on the body.

Because there is no way to take all of them away, I picked the most valuable part.

"Kakashi."

At this time, Parker, who was squatting on Kakashi's shoulder, raised his paw and patted it, "It has the same smell here!"

"... the same smell as the document signature?"

"Yes."

Kakashi immediately turned around and looked at Takano, "Squad Leader Takano, has that guy named Scorpion been here?"

"No, this is the place where the scrolls are stored, and it's not open to the public. Unless there is an order from Hokage Assistant, no outsiders are allowed to enter except for members of our corpse disposal team." Squad leader Takano shook his head repeatedly.

Immediately,

The honest squad leader also recalled it.

There was an outsider's smell in the library, which only members of the corpse disposal team could access.

"And the smell here is clearer than the smell on that piece of paper... The source of the smell should be no more than twelve hours away from here." Parker continued.

Twelve hours?
This time is not important. According to Squad Leader Takano, yesterday he counted all the scrolls at [-] o'clock in the evening, and went to rest after confirming that there were a lot of scrolls. But when he came here this morning, he found that the scrolls were missing. The time was on my wrist yesterday, but now it is past twelve noon.

In other words, things were lost in the middle of the night, and the information about time was of little value.

What Kakashi valued was another sentence Parker said, the smell in the library is clearer than the document, "Parker, can you try to track it?" Since the smell here is clearer, then Parker may be able to use this to track down the gone intruders.

"I'm not sure, but...it didn't rain yesterday, I'll try."

Parker jumped off Kakashi's shoulder, sniffed the smell that was still in the air carefully again, and then rushed out like a rabbit shot by an arrow, Kakashi also quickly followed after seeing the situation. Going up, the honest squad leader, who was a beat slower, was stunned for two seconds before chasing him out, only to see Kakashi's back crossing the west wall.

Takano stood there and hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should follow, but soon he didn't have to worry about this problem anymore, because when he jumped onto the wall, he found that he couldn't see Kakashi's back at all. .

"Squad leader Takano?"

The voice came from below.

Takano, who came back to his senses, looked back and saw the two little radish heads before, Uchiha Itachi and Kaguya-kun Maro.

"It's Itachi-kun, you came back so fast!"

"Squad Leader Takano, where did Senior Kakashi go?" Uchiha Itachi didn't see Kakashi.

"How to say that? It's a bit complicated..." Takano explained the situation with a prophecy that was not concise, and could even be said to be a bit long-winded. Fortunately, Itachi Uchiha was very patient, and neither was Junmaro. Impulsive character, the two patiently listened to Gao Ye's explanation, and quickly sorted it out.

"That is to say, Kakashi-senpai discovered the whereabouts of that guy named Scorpion, and has already tried to track the target, right?"

"That's right."

Takano nodded.

He looked down at the two little radish heads in front of him, who both had a slightly paralyzed posture, and asked hesitantly: "Well, Mr. Weasel, have you found the whereabouts of this scorpion?"

"There is no such person in the army."

Uchiha Itachi jumped up when he was talking, stood on the top of the wall and looked up, and didn't see Kakashi's whereabouts at all, but this difficulty was not enough to stop him from catching up. He bit his thumb and formed a seal. Using psychic techniques, the crows raised by Shishui were summoned.

These crows can't speak, but they are full of spirituality. They can even be used to entrust their pupil power and serve as a bridge to perform illusions. After receiving the order, the crows spread their wings and fly high into the sky. A man with hair, a mask, and presumably a puppy by his side.

"no such person?"

Hearing Uchiha Itachi's answer, Takano was stunned for a few seconds before he understood what he meant. There is no such person in the army, which means that the young man who claims to be a scorpion is most likely not a Konoha ninja .

"So, I was tricked?"

Takano murmured, with an extremely guilty expression on his face, recalling that when he was in contact with that young man that day, he seemed to be tricked out of many things foolishly.

"Wow-wow-"

The crow made a hoarse cry in the air.

Standing on the wall, Uchiha Itachi looked solemn, and shouted: "Senior Kakashi has been found, Kimaro, let's go."

Before leaving, Itachi Uchiha glanced back at Takano, who was caught in guilt, "Squad leader Takano, don't feel too guilty, judging from the current situation, the other party deliberately did this kind of thing, and changed without knowing it. It is difficult for anyone to be on guard in advance."

I left this sentence,

Uchiha Itachi began to gallop towards the west, Junma Lu followed closely, and the crow in the sky was also flying quickly, leading the way for the two people below. Under the guidance of the crow, Uchiha Itachi and the two of them did not spend too much time. It took a long time to find Kakashi.

Unlike Uchiha Itachi and Junma Lu who concentrate on their journey,

Kakashi and Parker's tracking trip was a stop-and-go process. Although it didn't rain last night and the smell in the air hadn't been washed away, Parker still needed to stop and confirm the direction of travel.

"Senior Kakashi, we are back."

"Any results from the investigation?"

Kakashi looked back at the two of them.

"There is no such person."

"Is there no such person?"

"Yes, the name Scorpion is not on the roster, including the list of the dead. I have also asked, and there is no such person. I suspected that this was a fake name, but when the patriarch heard the name Scorpion, he said that if this is not If the name is false, it is very likely that the perpetrator is a traitor from Sand Hidden Village."

"Ah! The talented stylist of the puppet army in Hidden Sand Village, the Red Sand Scorpion."

Kakashi remembered.

This is a very famous guy. He was originally a rising star of Sand Hidden Village. The red sand scorpion, a sharp knife in the village, was declared by the sand ninja to be a traitor.

At that time, many people on Konoha's side were still excited because of the news. It is naturally a good thing to lose a difficult enemy.

"The Scorpion of Red Sand... Is it a puppet master? No wonder I smell metal and wood, it's a puppet!" Parker also suddenly realized that despite its small size, it was not young at all. , before Hatake Sakumo committed suicide, he followed Konoha Hakuga on several missions in place of his injured and retired parents, and dealt with the sand ninja puppet masters. Those two sand ninja puppet masters were quite powerful!It's a pity that he is not Konoha Baiya's opponent after all.

"However, why would a puppeteer steal a corpse?"

After figuring out the truth about the smell mixed with metal, wood and human breath, more confusion emerged in Parker's mind. According to his understanding, the puppeteer played with puppets, puppets made of wood and steel , What do you want to do by stealing the corpse?Are you short of money and plan to exchange the corpse for money?It just doesn't feel right!

The same doubts are not limited to Parker, Kakashi is also at a loss.

After figuring out the true identity of the thief, not only did he not suddenly realize it, but he became even more puzzled. He couldn't figure out why the Red Sand Scorpion would do such a sneaky thing. It's simply...inexplicable!
"The patriarch said the reason."

Uchiha Itachi's sudden answer made Kakashi stop, Parker also stopped, and looked back at Uchiha Itachi.

"Before I left, the patriarch told me that if the thief is really the red sand scorpion, then be careful of the red sand scorpion's puppets. The red sand scorpion uses puppets other than the conventional steel we know. It's as crooked as a puppet made of wood, and it also holds a kind of human puppet." Before Kakashi could ask, Uchiha Itachi relayed what Zongxian said in one breath.

"Human puppet?"

When this special word was combined with the stolen corpse, a terrifying thought suddenly emerged in Kakashi's mind, "Could it be said that this so-called human puppet is made of ninja corpses as raw materials?"

"The patriarch said so, the puppet of the Red Sand Scorpion can retain the chakra meridian of the ninja, and can use the ninjutsu and blood succession limit that it mastered in life, and said..." said the words At this point, Uchiha Itachi swallowed, no matter how genius he was, such an astonishing news still made it difficult for him to maintain his composure.

"It also said that the Third Kazekage was probably made into a human puppet by the Red Sand Scorpion. If we really encounter the Red Sand Scorpion, we must be careful about the Sand and Iron Art of the Third Kazekage. At the same time, let me tell Kakashi Senior, said that there is no need to fight to the death with the Scarlet Sand Scorpion, and if we lose, we are allowed to retreat at any time."

Kakashi was dumbfounded.

The Third Kazekage...was made into a human puppet?
What kind of shocking news is this?Because of the disappearance of the Third Kazekage, the sand ninjas suspected that it was Konohashita's hand, and thus launched a war, which opened the curtain of the third ninja world war... Regardless of the underlying reasons for the outbreak of the war, at least the bright side It is well known that the disappearance of the third Kazekage was the fuse of the Third Ninja World War.

It is a pity that until the end of the third Ninja World War, the missing Sandaime Kazekage was not found, and it became a famous unsolved case in the ninja world. It is said that Sand Ninja has never given up on searching for this so-called strongest Kazekage in the past. Three generations.

If Hokage Assistant-sama's information is correct,
Was the disappearance of the co-author Sandaime Kazekage caused by Sand Shinobi himself?In the end, he put the shit pot on Konoha's forehead, and set off a war that lasted for several years. During this period, countless Konoha ninjas died, including his two teammates, Obito Uchiha and Rin Nohara.

(End of this chapter)