Konoha's Peerless Peerless

Chapter 54 Quicksand Gobi
After a three-day journey, Lan crossed the Bear Country and reached the northern part of the Wind Country.

The Kingdom of the Winds, a country made up of deserts, is the most common desert desert. In the northern part of the Kingdom of the Winds, there is the most extensive Gobi desert in the Kingdom of the Winds—the Quicksand Gobi.

The Gobi Desert, which occupies most of the northern part of the Kingdom of the Wind, is a strong barrier for the Kingdom of the Wind. After the first generation of Wind Shadow and the daimyo of the Kingdom of the Wind unified the southern desert, the Quicksand Gobi formed a natural barrier to block the northern countries.

In the Gobi Desert, there are some densely packed sand ninja patrols. These patrols are usually composed of four-member squads led by zhongnin. While patrolling the border, they also cultivate the ability of ninja.

In order to deal with special circumstances, Sand Ninja also specially set up a special operations team led by Jonin.

Lan walks carefully in the desert, because there are not many plants in the desert, and Lan's perception range has been greatly reduced. If it weren't for the two-tailed fox who can remind him at any time, Lan might have met Sand Ninja long ago.

The sun at noon was very hot, and the dazzling sun scorched the stone sand. Wearing a khaki cloak, Lan moved quickly on the Gobi Desert.

On the sand and rocks, a small lizard that blended with the desert was turning its eyes and looking around. When Lan appeared in the lizard's eyes, the lizard stepped on the sand and ran to Lan's body quickly.

Lan, who was running on the sand, saw the lizard when he was tens of meters away from the lizard. Before he could react, the lizard turned into smoke and disappeared.

Seeing this, Lan murmured inwardly that something was wrong, and then speeded up while running and said to the two-tailed fox lying leisurely in the Rashomon: "Help me keep an eye on it, I should be spotted by Sand Ninja."

"It's not supposed to be, it's for sure." Shuangweihu complained, and then fell silent.

Lan saw that the two-tailed fox was not talking, so she tightened her hat and started to run fast.

At the same time, in a sand ninja outpost on the Gobi.

Sand ninja, painted with paint and wearing a headscarf, is carrying the lizard that found Arashi to report to the sand ninja Kanoda Makoto who is opposite him.

"Master Cheng, I found the ninja Tsukagelan, who protects the kingdom of ghosts, in the northern part of the Quicksand Gobi."

Hearing Yueyinglan's name, Kakuda Makoto sat up from the simple wooden chair and asked, "Are you sure that it was Yueyinglan who broke into the Quicksand Gobi?"

"That's right." Hooded Sand Shinobi nodded heavily, and replied affirmatively, "It's him, and his appearance is exactly the same as the pictures circulated in the village, unless someone deliberately pretended to be him to cause trouble."

Hearing this, the stubble-faced Makoto Kakuda frowned, stretched out his hand to pick up the kettle on the side and poured saliva into his mouth, and then told the turban Sand Shinobi: "Go and use Ninja Pigeon to pass this news back to the village. Go to the Quicksand Gobi to control him, no matter who he is, he can't enter the Land of Wind without notice."

After finishing speaking, Kakuda Makoto put down a multi-handed puppet with four hands on the back of the kettle and jumped off the Gobi. After landing, he told his three sand ninja chunin: "Follow me to the quicksand Gobi, someone broke in."

"Yes." The three Sand Ninja Chunin responded in unison, then got up and followed Makoto Tsunoda to the north.

At this time, Lan had already crossed the sandy area and turned into the desert area of ​​the Quicksand Gobi.

The hot wind blows sand and stones and flies around, and the Gobi, which was originally very tall, is mostly covered by yellow sand.

Looking around, the flat yellow desert is full of brown Gobi that has not been completely buried.

Arriving here, shady places are rare. Standing on a raised Gobi, Lan saw a camel carcass that had been turned into white bones. Next to the camel skeleton was a skeleton with a few pieces of rags. palm.

Lan glanced at the thing, then jumped from the Gobi to the sand and continued to run.

After running for about 3000 meters, Lan felt a slight change in the sand under his feet. It felt like something was pulling you down.

Lifting his feet and jumping back from the sand, before landing, the desert below Lan suddenly swirled like a sea whirlpool.

The sand poured into the vortex quickly, and a few unlucky black scorpions were swallowed by the desert before they could struggle.

Seeing that it was about to fall, Lan hurriedly sealed and cast the big fireball technique, and a big fireball the size of a millstone spit out from Lan's mouth and hit the sand whirlpool.

Lan, on the other hand, took advantage of Hao's fireball's recoil and jumped back a bit.

After rolling in the air and landing half-kneeling, Lan felt pain in his left hand touching the sand, as if he had put it on a frying pan. He hurriedly raised his hand, only to see that the white hand was hot and red. .

He raised his left hand and shook it vigorously in the air. It didn't take long for Lan's own recovery power to clear away the injury on his hand.

Although the injury was healed, Lan exchanged a pair of Sand Ninja Special Operations Squad Gloves from the system in order not to be injured again, put the yellow gloves on his hands, and Lan continued to run.

The sun was moving slowly to the west, and when the sun was still 45 degrees from the horizon, the strong wind started.

At first, the wind was not too strong, until the hot wind disappeared and the moment the cold wind rose, the yellow sand was swept into the sky by the strong wind.

Running in the desert, the dark yellow sand swept across the entire Quicksand Gobi.

The yellow sand covering the sky made Lan's visibility extremely low, and Lan's hair, with his head bowed down, was full of fine grains of sand.

In this extremely bad weather, Lan raised his right wrist against the wind to block his eyes, barely raised his head and quickly looked forward to confirm the direction, then Lan picked up the chakra coat to try to get out of this area.

After running less than 100 meters in this way, Lan gave up this unrealistic plan. In this short hundred meters, he used the Chakra that Lan can run for thousands of meters under normal circumstances. , even if Lan Chakra recovers extremely quickly, it is impossible to run out of this Gobi area before the Chakra is exhausted.

Running against the wind to the bottom of a three-meter-high sloping Gobi, Lan covered herself with a bamboo hat and squatted down to resist the sandstorm.

Wait here first, wait for the sandstorm to disappear before continuing on your way.

It was not only Lan who was infested by the sandstorm, but also Kakuda Makoto and others who came to look for Lan. Kadota Makoto and his men, who were carrying puppets on their backs, stood on a Gobi plain with a height of more than [-] meters and looked at the area one kilometer ahead. Sandstorm, looking at the spreading sandstorm, Kadota Makoto gritted his teeth unwillingly, opened his mouth and said: "The mission is cancelled, everyone stay away from the wind place with me."

"Yes." The three young Chunin agreed, and then followed Kakuda Makoto and turned around to return the same way.

Not long after the three of them left, the raging sandstorm covered the Gobi with shouts.

The grains of sand are hitting the dead grass and gravel on the Gobi.

Over a green space in the south of the Quicksand Gobi, two Sand Ninja carrier pigeons with intelligence were flapping their wings desperately. Just as they spread their wings and flew high, a Qianben with the sound of breaking through the air went straight through one of them for comparison. The fat homing pigeon neck shot it off.

The homing pigeon that lost its life was powerlessly falling down, and when it was about to fall to the ground, a sand ninja rebellious ninja dressed in a black ninja outfit with a slashed sand ninja forehead came out from the grass .

He pulled off the stem of the pigeon's neck on the ground and licked the blood on it with his tongue, then picked up the pigeon and tore off the letter box from its foot.

Opening the letterbox and shaking out the letter in the letterbox, the young Sand Ninja Renren opened the letter and read it. After seeing the news of Tsukikage Lan, he was instantly pleasantly surprised.

He is also a chunin, and he is temporarily unable to assassinate a ninja like Lan who is of the same level as him. Even so, Lan's information is still useful. Now the entire black market is offering a reward for Lan's specific location, as long as he passes this information to the black market , you can make a lot of money.

Excitedly licking his lips, Sand Shinobu Ren Ren put away the letter and left the carrier pigeon and disappeared in place.

Time is passing, and in a blink of an eye, the moon hangs in the sky.

The sandstorm, which was extremely violent before, gradually disappeared the moment the moon rose.

When the sandstorm stopped, Lan lifted the sand piled beside him and walked out from under the Gobi that was buried as completely as possible.

Standing on the sand, Lan looked at the moonlit desert in front of him.

The desert under the moonlight is as white as a plain covered with a layer of snow.

The desert at night is more alive than the desert during the day.

Not far from Lan's feet, a palm-sized black scorpion was eating a finger-length white worm with its tail.

The wind at night is much cooler than the wind during the day, and the night wind blows on Lan's face, bringing a long-lost coolness to Lan.

Squinting her eyes to feel the coolness of the night wind, Lan untied her cloak and shook off all the grains of sand in the seams of her clothes. After the grains of sand were shaken off, Lan raised her hand to sweep the sand from her hair, After feeling that the sand was swept down, Lan put on the bamboo hat again and moved forward with chakra.

As Lan moved forward, Makoto Kakuda, who was hiding in the hollowed out Gobi, came out with his subordinates. Makoto Kakuda frowned, swept the sand off his body, took out a firework tube and jumped into the Gobi above.

He wanted to notify the nearby sand ninja patrols and let them cooperate with him in the search.

Stepping on the yellow weeds, Makoto Kakuda lit the fuse, and with a whoosh sound, the fireworks wrapped in gunpowder flew high into the air.

When flying to a height of 200 meters, the firework bomb exploded, and then a purple flower-shaped firework appeared.

After the fireworks were in full bloom, the dozen or so sand ninja teams who had come out of the shelter before they had time to tidy up put on their ninja gear and scattered towards the north.

After the fireworks were set off, Makoto Kakuta put away the fireworks and jumped off the Gobi. After landing, he said to the three Chunin who were ready: "Let's go now, and we must find Tsukagelan before dawn."

"Yes."

Afterwards, Makoto Kakuda led his men and other patrols to sprint in the moonlight.

(End of this chapter)