People are in Konoha, panicking

Chapter 12 Discovery
"Patriarch!"

The six men in black came to this side and respectfully addressed Uchiha Fugaku.

"Ah."

Uchiha Fugaku responded.

These people are absolutely loyal to their predecessors, and each of them has at least the strength of Jonin.

The two leaders, Uchiha Hoshi and Uchiha Min, the two who besieged Shimura Ryoma before, possess the strength of an elite jonin.

If Sou Shimura hadn't spared his life to help Ryoma Shimura create a chance to escape, he didn't even need to make a move, as these two people alone could surround and kill Ryoma Shimura.

"Fortunately, the patriarch took action, otherwise, I'm afraid Shimura Ryoma will escape this time!"

Seeing Shimura Ryoma's body, Uchiha Min breathed a sigh of relief and said with shame.

"After all, the other party is an elite Jnin, and there are people who help create opportunities to escape."

Uchiha Fugaku shook his head and didn't blame him.

As the strongest ninja below the Kage level, the elite jonin has a very strong life-saving ability.

With the assistance of someone from the side, it is only natural to be able to escape the siege of two ninjas of the same level.

It was precisely in consideration of the possibility of such an accident that he chose to personally lead the team to participate in the ambush.

"There are serious burn marks on the corpse, but there are no burn marks around. Is this the patriarch's kaleidoscope ability?"

Carefully observing Shimura Ryoma's charred corpse, Uchiha Hoshi felt envious.

As a confidant, he knew that the patriarch had awakened Kaleidoscope Sharingan.

However, they don't know what ability resides in the patriarch's eyes.

Judging from this charred corpse, the patriarch's kaleidoscope Sharingan should have the characteristics of not destroying the surroundings, directly acting on the target, and only making the target burn.

Combining these, it is not difficult to deduce that this must be a very mysterious and powerful pupil technique.

This made him envious, longing for himself to awaken the Kaleidoscope Sharingan like the patriarch.

"Clean up the corpses and battle traces, don't leave any traces behind!"

Uchiha Fugaku ordered.

"Yes."

Six people answered.

Some squatted down to clean up the traces around them, while others stepped forward, took out a container containing liquid, and poured the liquid on Shimura Ryoma's body.

chi chi-

As the liquid was poured on Shimura Ryoma's body, Shimura Ryoma's body quickly melted and disappeared like ice and snow in the sun.

In the end, not even the hardest bone remained, only a dark humanoid trace remained.

In a short moment, all traces of the battle were wiped away, and even the residual smell was covered with a special potion.

Even Ninja Dogs couldn't track them by scent.

After confirming that there were no traces left that would expose them, Uchiha Fugaku returned to Konoha with the six of them.

Back to Konoha, it was already evening.

In the early days, the duties of the security department included patrolling outside the village, so they had a way to avoid the village barrier and sneak into the village.

Without alarming anyone, they sneaked into the village, returned to the Uchiha garrison, and replaced it with the shadow clone left behind.

No one knew that they had left the village, let alone that Shimura Ryoma and the other three had died at their hands.

……

In a dark room located underground, a candle was lit, burning with a dim yellow light.

In the room, a thin old man sat cross-legged.

The old man's right hand and right eye were all wrapped in bandages.

There is a cross scar on the chin, and the body has a cold temperament, and the whole person looks very creepy.

He is Shimura Danzo, one of Konoha's three advisers.

In addition to that, he is also the former leader of Roots.

Although the roots have been forcibly disbanded by the third Hokage, in fact, the roots are still under his control.

He firmly binds all the root members with the seal of tongue curse and root, driving them to use for himself.

"Master Danzo, Chief Shimura said he has something important to report!"

A root ninja wearing a leopard mask entered the room and knelt down on one knee.

"Bring him in."

Danzo Shimura ordered.

After a while, a man in his 40s came to this room under the leadership of the ninja at the root of the leopard mask.

The man was wearing clogs and a brown kimono.

He is quite tall, but not burly, and the overall outline is leaning towards thinness.

He is Daisuke Shimura, the contemporary patriarch of the Shimura family.

Entering the room, Daisuke Shimura took off his clogs, knelt down and said.

"Danzo-sama, Shimura Ryoma has been out of touch for a day."

"Lost contact?"

Shimura Danzo frowned slightly.

Shimura Ryo is really an elite jonin, who can make an elite jonin lose contact, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Yes, yesterday he took Ichiro Shimura and Sou Shimura out of the village and headed for Shirakawa Town in the Land of Fire."

"But since then, the three of them have cut off contact, and did not report their whereabouts at regular intervals as scheduled."

Daisuke Shimura said.

"What is the mission for the three of them to go to Baichuan Town?"

"Convince the largest caravan in the Land of Fire located in Baichuan Town to postpone their visit to Konoha until after the village meeting."

Daisuke Shimura replied.

The Shimura family was naturally very greedy for the dividends of the largest caravan in the Fire Country, so after learning that Shimura Ryo really planned, he immediately agreed.

"Leopard."

After listening to Shimura Daisuke's words, Shimura Danzo thought for a while and shouted out of the room.

Soon, the root ninja wearing a leopard mask who had appeared before entered the room and knelt down on one knee.

"Master Danzo."

"Take a team and search for Ryoma Shimura, Ichiro Shimura, and Sou Shimura along the route to Shirakawa Town."

"Yes."

The ninja at the root of the leopard mask responded and left the room.

After a while, he took the three root ninjas, left the root base, and left Konoha Ninja Village.

Not being noticed by the village, as root members, like the Uchiha family, they also mastered the method of avoiding the village's enchantment to enter and exit the village.

A few hours later, they appeared at the place where Uchiha Fugaku and others fought with Shimura Ryoma.

"There was a battle here!"

Reaching out and touching the scratches on a tree, the ninja at the root of the leopard mask judged.

Although the traces of the battle have been erased, it is impossible to completely erase the traces.

For example, the scratches on this tree cannot be erased unless the tree is completely dug away.

But in this way, there will also be abnormal open spaces and traces of overturned soil.

He looked sideways at a root ninja wearing a bug mask.

"Bug, try to see if you can track the smell."

"I've tried it, the smell is mixed, it's impossible to track the smell."

Worm mask root ninja way.

"There are traces of corpse water here."

A female root ninja wearing a butterfly mask dug through the soil and saw traces of a scorched black shape.

She is very familiar with this kind of trace, because when the roots destroy the corpse, there will be such traces left.

"It should have been a battle here, and then he was killed and the body was melted."

The ninja at the root of the leopard mask stepped forward, staring at the scorched black traces.

"Captain, what should we do now?"

asked the worm mask root ninja.

"The three of Shimura Ryoza should be dead, and the enemy can't track them down. Let's go back and report this to Lord Danzo!"

A group of four left quickly.

(End of this chapter)