[Hokage] Terukawa

"There is a well in the house and courtyard on the south side, you destroy one and use the other."

I don't doubt the information Yang Yi gave.If it is said that bringing down Danzo is the common goal of me and the digital team, then the current action to annihilate the forces of the masked woman to compete for the first city is the unilateral appeal of the digital team, and they cannot have any objection to me in this matter. Concealed—Only from the perspective of both partners, it is normal for them to doubt me.

Therefore, it is true to be unhappy, and it is also true to be not angry.I'm just fighting back appropriately, taking chances by the way... and taking a test as well.

My probing was successful—I already had a definite answer as to whether there was any means of communication between them other than speech and sign language.

When the cooperation was reached earlier, Yang Yi asked the other three people "Do you agree?" in front of my face, and gave me an affirmative answer with a smile after a moment of silence-this is simply expressing.Although I didn't say much at the time, I couldn't help but think for a while—this is a secret that can change the situation of the battle in a sense. Will someone blew their cards at the moment the cooperation is reached?

Now it seems that the conclusion alone is not false, as for other details... I don't know.

I didn't notice this trial until Yang Yi came up with a plan that was obviously questionable.This is undoubtedly the result of their cooperation with each other, but before that, I didn't find any behavior similar to "communication" between them, so——

Even without speech and sign language, the communication between them can be unimpeded.So far, the "method" can basically be determined to be in the category of ninjutsu or secret art.

I'm rather curious about this approach.

What are the conditions of use?What is the delivery form?To what extent can the transmission of information be specific?And most importantly... what is the effective range?

Breathing lightly, after I borrowed an ancient pine tree to hide my figure, I poked my head out slightly to observe the small slope in front of me.

The south side faces the sun, so the vegetation growing on this small slope is taller than the same kind on other slopes, and the stronghold established by the masked girl here obviously took full advantage of the environment—there are almost no trees here. After being logged, the tall and sloping dead trees formed a forest far and near, covering a slightly old traditional Japanese-style two-story house in it.This place is completely on the other side of Xingshou Mountain. The cold fog in the mountains or the snow dust dancing with the white snow all disappeared under the clear sky.

Before falling from a high place, I turned my head slightly, and saw the silhouette of the city wall of Xingshou City in the distance, which was covered with soft white snow.

There are mountains, rivers and passes.The city wall is tall, easy to defend but difficult to attack.Pretty standard fortress.Xingshou City was definitely an important military town in ancient times. As for the present... It seems that the name of the country of the river is incompetent and untimely.

...and that stronghold, that second-floor dwelling.

It's too ordinary to be here.

I stared at it for a while, only to feel that the sense of déjà vu was ridiculously strong, and a place buried in my heart became more and more vivid.

... Very similar, very much like my home located in an unknown hill somewhere in the land of water.

Forget it, don't watch it.

Although surrounded by trees, there was still a small open space before the main entrance of the house.A few shabby and crumbling "stables", a few fat and strong horses that do not match the "stables", a few wooden stakes, a few bundles of firewood, a few fences, and a well. , like an ordinary house—it would be fine if the surrounding treetops were not covered with thin ropes that were densely packed like spider webs.

Even the sunlight is cut into cold fragments by the strings.These things nearly snagged my pants as I descended the rock face.

I retracted my gaze and looked at the few people who were pacing and patrolling the open space.There are men and women, they stand scattered, and their actions are full of flaws. At this time, you are chatting nonsense loudly. It can be seen that they have never received systematic training related to combat. Those half-ass fools who caught me up the mountain rashly are like... idlers and so on.

Quick fight.

Then try something fresh - show them the snow.

……

The commotion spread quickly and naturally.

"It's snowing again?" A young man scratched the back of his head and complained, "It's snowing on cloudy days, and it's also snowing on sunny days. This country of rivers should be renamed Xuewozi country!"

"The less you know, the more you like to bark," another person said with a smile, "The country bumpkins from the country of birds are really pitiful. Doesn't it disappoint you that the country of rivers is snowing instead of bird droppings?"

"You!" Although the young man was in a hurry, his mind turned quickly, and he immediately retorted, "The people of the river country are almost dead, and if you can't see human feces, wouldn't bird feces be a luxury? Or are you more pitiful...ah !"

The boy couldn't finish the words in his stomach, and the faster than his words were the fists of the opposite person.The fist that went straight to the door was clenched so that the veins on the back of the hand would burst out, and the young man flew upside down for a few meters with just one blow, and then lay on the ground dazed with stars staring at him.He was dazed and dazed, unable to react at all, until he subconsciously spat out the painful foreign object in his mouth.

"This is, Ya...?" Responding now, he rolled up from the ground, "I'm so stupid, you're courting death!"

The other person waited for him for a long time, waiting for this moment, and immediately grinned and said: "Good boy, brother, I will send you back to the mother bird's belly today!"

Such hysterical fight scenes are rare, but on this slope... it seems that there are too many.

The sounds of breathing, yelling, howling, screaming, crying, and collisions, these are in my senses...

It's just that it's a little noisy.

As I listened to their scolding, I was amazed, and thought that my quality was still in the middle and upper reaches, and I had not succeeded in polishing my language weapons. As a beginner, I still needed to work hard——while walking out of the shadow of my hiding place, I glanced at those people from a distance. Lying on the ground, punching and kicking against the air, the body convulsed and convulsed.

Because there is no need to hurt the killer, the current situation is not bad, but as an illusion, it is a bit too forceful, which makes the scene a bit ugly.

A few flakes of thin snow brushed past my ears, I raised my hand to catch it in my palm, and raised it up again.

The slowly spreading snow wetted the criss-crossed palm prints, and the hundreds of strings above the head cut the sunlight finely into more than a thousand sharp points of cold light, and the thousand cold light covered all the falling fine snow, All the way to one on the retina - which is the real reason "Snowing" goes unnoticed.

These people can't wake up in a short time, if Yang Yi's progress is okay, then the time is enough anyway.

As for the two wells inside and outside the house...they are the correct way without accident, but the purpose is different.

Yang Yi said that the bandits in Xingshou Mountain have only a masked woman and a naked leader. The formation is chaotic and there are no cadres.

- is the "leader".

At least the bandits believe that the person who lives in this house is the "leader", and that's enough.

I walked back and forth a few steps, finalizing a specific action plan.

If I expected it to be correct, the well inside the house should be a passage leading directly to the leader's stronghold in the cave, while the well outside the house should lead to underground water veins extending in all directions.In order to be able to go back and forth between the strongholds quickly and secretly, the former must be flat and convenient, as for the latter... it is probably an unpretentious waterway.

Water Escape·Moisture/Body Art.

In short, make two water/body first, and send one on each side to explore the road.One-half of the main body's strength is basically enough just to inquire about information.

Ontology?Forget it, I'm completely unfamiliar with both the passage and the water veins - I can't face the enemy's lair, can I?Be careful sailing for thousands of years.

Throw the first water/body directly into the well to release the animals, and then control the second water/body to go straight to the main entrance of the house, while the body hides in the shadow of another tree.

I pinched my fingerprints, tried the two water/body perspectives respectively, and after confirming that they were correct, I immediately started to execute the battle plan.

Master the second moisture/body first.

This moisture/body has two tasks.One is to find the well, and the other is to find out whether there is anyone here, lest I just raise my front foot to go to the masked woman's back, and the back foot will be copied by an enemy who doesn't know where.

This is an opportunity for me to do something I've always wanted to do but never had the chance to do.

I was a little eager to try, and after confirming the safety of the surrounding environment for the last time, I closed my eyes tightly, and the vision of the second body/body unfolded in front of my eyes.

Facing the main entrance.

Moisture/body raised its hand to open the door in mid-air, and I manipulated it to withdraw its movement, hesitated for a second between walking the window and walking the door, and took a step back.

then……

Swing your arms, step forward, and push forward!

FBI OPENT HE DOOR! ! !

I roared the dubbing in my heart.

"boom!"

Of course, the old wooden door couldn't stop the enthusiastic visitors like me, so I screamed and opened a hole with my foot.

I thought I could kick the whole door off... But my explosive power was too strong, and the quality of the door was not good.

However, innocuous.

I glanced at the hole, patched the broken door a few more times, and then looked at the completely opened door, feeling inexplicably excited.

...Probably because I have wanted to do such immoral things for a long time, since my last life.

I thought for a while.

The only pity is that the battle cry that can be called the essence can't be uttered, but it's a bit embarrassing to shout the classic battle cry of the B set in the first scene, so let's forget it, and there are such a group of half-baked ninjas behind him Daydreaming, it's not good to be disturbed.

I waited outside the open door for 1 minute, waiting for anyone who might be in the room to make any kind of condemnation and counterattack for my immoral behavior-if there were actually people in the room, then 1 minute would be enough time for the other party Come out of the door or window...and bump into my illusion circle.

I didn't wait for anything.

Withdrawing the consciousness from the water/body, I put it directly into the house to find out the location of the well, and the main body exerted force on its feet, and climbed up to the highest branch with two ups and downs.

No one in the room is the best, but if someone... Since no one showed up to meet the enemy when he kicked the door, it is only possible to set an ambush in the room and wait for me to take the bait.

I want to use the water/body that penetrates from the front to attract the attention of possible enemies, and then the main body sneaks in directly from the window in the attic, and sends the enemy directly to the sky with a single blow.

It doesn't matter if there are really no enemies, just a battle of wits and courage with the air.

The more incomplete the information, the more we must be mentally prepared to "see everything is the enemy, and the location is the enemy's camp".

Dogs are not ashamed, they are only ashamed when they die.

The attic... was empty.

After confirming that it was safe for the time being, I bypassed many sundries and went straight to the stairway. My demeanor and movements were very cautious, but extremely neat.

There is no other reason—Water/Shen has found a well in the courtyard, and is bending over to investigate possible clues around him at the moment.

If there is a position where you can use the terrain to cover your body, so that the water/body cannot detect the enemy's attack at the first time, and you can have a panoramic view of the well in the courtyard and its surroundings, and then launch an attack unscrupulously first, then that The location is -

On the stairs between the first and second floors!

Just keep an eye on the state of that water/body...

I looked down from the stairway between the attic and the second floor, taking in the entire corridor on the second floor.

nobody.

I jumped from the attic again and landed lightly on the floor.

At the stairway... there was no one there either.

Then let the moisture/body go down first.

So the water/body fell straight from the mouth of the well, which was a little scary from a distance, and then I refocused on the house in front of me.

The doors of the three rooms on the second floor are all closed, and the traditional Japanese-style sliding doors are elegant and clean-this configuration is like anyone's home, but it is not like a stronghold established by a bandit leader.

...What the hell is that masked woman doing?

However, I didn't plan to open the rooms one by one like unwrapping presents. Instead, I formed a water trap with one hand and slightly guided it with my fingers, and three icy and turbulent torrents immediately flew out of the air!

The loud sound of "bang" resounded throughout the old house, and the thin sliding doors could not hold on for even a second under the impact of the torrent. They exploded together in the next moment when the water blasted, as if they were turned into powder by the torrent. of all kinds of earth and rocks.

At the same time, inside, outside, on the ground, on the roof...the water bodies were broken, and a thin layer of water suddenly wetted the entire second floor. After a while, the sound of dripping water gradually sounded, and I knew it was water seepage The old wooden planks were dropped from a height onto the ground of the first floor.

With my feet still on the spot, I glanced at the first floor, and after making sure that there were no signs of people, I set my sights on the three rooms on the second floor.

The three rooms were artificially opened up. There was no one there, but there were several bookshelves and cardboard boxes.Countless books and documents are displayed among them, and they seem to be organized quite neatly, while others seem to be unlucky and were washed away by the current just now, and are now scattered wet on the ground, in a mess like It was a pot of porridge mixed with broken glass.

The entire second floor should be used as an archive room, and these archives... If the digital team succeeds in capturing the city, it will be an extremely rich legacy—or a gift.

I pass judgment.

Although I am curious, the archives will not grow legs and run away, so I can come anytime.

Without stopping too much, I turned around and walked into the first floor.

The floor of the first floor is older than that of the second floor, and the edges of quite a few wooden boards have been worn to the point of being smooth, but...

The water flowing down from above wets the old and fragile sliding door, and the wet paper gradually reveals a hazy light under the light.

My eyes followed the brand-new but extremely messy scratches on the floor, and slowly moved to the closed sliding door.There were a few oddly shaped blotches there that were gradually becoming clear.

It was blood, dried blood.

In more detail, it is the blood splashed on the inside of the sliding door when the people in the house were killed.

I yanked the sliding door open, but I couldn't hold back the strength in my hand for a moment.The wooden door frame hit the end of the frame rail, making a muffled "boom".

The moment I opened the door, I seemed to be looking directly at the blood-red sunlight in a room.

It took about two seconds to regain my breath from the blood that almost blinded my eyes. I reached into my arms and quietly held the wakizashi that I had hidden in my arms before going up the mountain. There is a fine layer of sweat... one, two, three, four, five, six... six people, and judging from their posture and equipment, they seem to be the same intruders as me... When were they killed dead?

Seeing this kind of scene at this juncture is really unlucky, but the arrow is on the string, and I have to do it. Even if there is not enough time for the autopsy, I will never allow myself to ignore any potentially useful details.

I tightened the vigilance string in my head to the limit, and stepped forward.

The soles of the feet are not sticky to the touch... The blood has dried up, and the climate here is so humid, the death time of these people may be longer than I thought, but the corpses are still hard, which proves that the death time has not exceeded two days .

The first person lay on the ground with his throat cut, but his expression was not in pain.

I judged his posture by his clothes, and touched his pockets without hope. After finding nothing, I even broke the man's stiff fingers. It's so miserable that I didn't have time to leave a message...?

……what is this?

I pulled out Wakizawa and quickly dug through the corpse's knuckles, and it didn't take long to extract a crumpled note from my clenched fist.

"Go forward!!!" the note said crookedly.

A chill suddenly rushed to my heart, and at the same time, my mind began to run spontaneously and quickly——

Could this be the message left by the corpse?

--How can it be!This is clearly the message left by the person who killed him!

Who is this message for?

Who is leaving this message for...?

I tensed my jaw and hurried to the second body.The man was lying on his back with his throat cut, and his expression was a little shocked.

I didn't pay attention to this person's death situation any more, I directly pulled Wakizawa to pry open the hand that was as stiff as a stone.

"Go forward!!!"

I crumpled up the note and stuffed it in my pocket.

The third leaned against the wall, head bowed.

"Go forward!!!"

fourth person.

"Go forward!!!"

the fifth.

"Go forward!!!"

sixth.

After the numbness passed, I flattened the note in my palm expressionlessly.

If the first five notes were foreshadowing, then the murderer was undoubtedly pointing at the last note.

The sun was high outside the window, but the coldness lingering around me was still lingering, and it was only a quarter of an hour before I was separated from the digital team.In this quarter of an hour, my mood went from calm to tense to numb, and finally returned to calm again, so that I still have the time to think about it now——This kind of terrible and weird feeling is the most important thing in a person's life. How many times can you experience it?

I sighed lightly.

Come on, sixth note.

tell me the answer.

—— "'Witch'."

Different from the crooked and distorted handwriting on the first five notes, the handwriting on the sixth note is neat and graceful, as if it was written by a woman.

I was lost in thought.

"Witch"..."Witch"...Have I heard of it somewhere?

xx witch?wrong.Miko xx?Not right either.

Witch's xx?Just outrageous.

Wait, could it be... the witch of xx?

It seems to pinch the tail of the clue.

I suddenly opened my eyes wide, as if a spiritual light landed on the top of my skull in a trance——

——"Walking Priestess"!

Known as the "Walking Priestess", Konoha Genbu's well-known trump card spy agent, she travels around the world, circling among various forces, arriving without a trace like a ghost, and silently like a ghost recede.

I seem to have heard her real name too.

A few days ago, when the third Hokage was struggling to clean up the mess left by Shimura Danzo's blind work in the office, he said in a tone of relief and a little regret, "Nanou chose to retire? It's okay, okay... It's a pity that we don't have a second "priestess"."

I didn't pay much attention at first, but a few days later, a letter from the war orphans I saved on the sand ninja front was delivered to me.

"...

...The big brother who wears a mask (but he must be very handsome), you must pay attention to safety when fighting, it would be great if you could come and see us more!

By the way, the new head pharmacist at the orphanage is a beautiful and gentle woman, she can always guess our inner thoughts, we doubt she can do magic! "

The only code name I left for the orphanage was "Coyote," and "Coyote" was dead.

Although it is a great thing that the children's mental state is much healthier-but why can this letter be sent to the "Black Fox"'s residence without any mistakes?

All these doubts disappeared when he noticed the "new dean of pharmacist".

It turned out that the ace spy would choose the position of director of the orphanage after leaving office?This is really... unexpected.

Then it seems that this letter can be delivered to the "black fox" is not inconceivable.

So the full name of the masked girl, that is, the "princess" is——Pharmacist, Nonoyu.

Pharmacist No Naiyu.

I rubbed the six slips of paper in my pocket and walked out of the disgustingly smelling room with a frown.

The mystery of the identity of the masked woman has been solved, but my doubts have not diminished but increased.

For example... Hasn't she already resigned?Why did you run out to work again?And it's the kind of assignment where you can't see the children in the orphanage for a long time at first glance.

... always feel strange.

Forget it, don't think about it so much, the digital team should already be in place, I have to hurry...

"..."

wait wait wait……

My body froze, and my footsteps stopped suddenly.The next moment, there was already a small explosion of air exploding at the bottom of my feet.

That's enough speed to put a burden on my body - and it's the fastest speed I can come up with right now!

I fell vertically to the bottom of the well. Moisture/Body No. [-] has already detected everything in the first half of the underground space, but... I have to go faster!

Since... since she can find out that "Black Fox" is "Coyote"...

Then getting along for so long... No, after observing it, why can't she see through the disguise of the number team and find out the truth of the number team? !

The six corpses in the room were not simple intruders at all!

They are the remaining six SS members! ! !