[Comprehensive master Naruto] The daimyo of the country of fire is in a panic

Limited by the productivity and population of this era, the forest in the north of Qingxi Village has not been developed or destroyed on a large scale, and a considerable part of the original forest has been preserved. The vines are intertwined, the roars of apes and deer can be heard, the green trees are deep, and the streams are Gurgling, the shadows of trees break through the clouds, and the morning mist dissolves.

At the edge of the forest, Madara and Hinata Masanori clung to the top of the tree, using the morning breeze to wash away the fatigue of a hard night's trek, and opened their respective blood inheritance limits.

Under the light of the morning star, a mountain village surrounded by mountains and rivers loomed in their field of vision.It is built against a section of cliff. There is a small fortress attached to the cliff like a snake. A running water runs through the village from west to east, which not only provides a water source, but also separates the low thatched cottages from the fortress. The wooden village wall It was as tall as two people. There were deer and trenches outside the wall, and lookout posts inside the wall. Several clusters of almost extinguished torches flickered on and off, seemingly arranged in a very orderly manner.

"...What's going on with that fortress?" Hyuga Masanori carefully counted the figures hidden in the darkness, his eyes unblinking, and his brows getting closer and closer.

After the two men completed their reconnaissance, they landed and reported: "The enemies are mainly concentrated in the houses, and it is impossible to determine their specific number. There are currently no moving guards."

The ninjas discussed in low voices.If they followed the previous ideas of attacking bandits, they would seize the early morning to surround the village with Earth Escape, leaving only a gap. Then they would use Fire Escape and Wind Escape to set the house on fire. Finally, they would just wait in the gap.However, this mission has an additional requirement of "trying to keep as many people alive as possible", so the past tricks can no longer be used.

"Most of the bandits are sleeping now, right? We can use illusions to directly invade their minds and keep them in a comatose state." Shanzhong Shuangye is very confident in his own secret skills.

A Yamanaka with blond hair mixed with a few red hairs said expressionlessly: "It's a good idea, Shuangye, but there is a simple math question for you to do the math: It is known that your Uncle Qiu is guarding the two we caught." Team bandit sentry, so there are three people from the Yamanaka family here, and we two incompetent adults can use that technique up to five times in an hour on average, how about you take care of the rest of the bandits?"

"You look down on me too much!" Shuang Ye collapsed and pulled her cheek down.

Another short-haired Yamanaka finished the attack without mercy: "You work hard, if one day you can use an illusion to make a group of people unconscious, we will definitely enshrine you as a great god in our Yamanaka family shrine. It will be delicious every day." Good fruits await you.”

Qianju Guangzhi stretched out his hand to stir the stream, pulled the Qianju brothers and whispered: "Master, the enemy is downstream of us. We have brought a sufficient dose of medicine from the tribe, but you two also know that our medicine is slow to take effect. It’s very toxic, do you want to use it?”

"No," Hashirama glanced at the silent forest, "Your Highness needs to live. One less person means one less labor force."

Tobirama stared at the other ninjas who came over intentionally or unintentionally: "If the medicine kills someone, it is all our responsibility, and there is no guarantee when the bandit will wake up or whether there will be other sequelae. In this way, the mission will be delayed. our responsibility."

"By the way," Hashirama twirled his fingers, "there is a smell nearby that is not too unfamiliar... but also unfamiliar. It has followed from the village to here - have you felt it?"

Senju Hiroshi said casually: "Maybe it's the village's earthbound spirit."

"Hey, hey, hey, don't talk nonsense!" Hashirama's hair exploded and he jumped on Tobirama.

The three of them turned around tacitly, and Hashirama put forward his plan: "Why don't we go directly to discuss terms with them..."

"Wait a minute, brother!" This was not the first time Tobirama heard Hashirama's whimsical thoughts, and he quickly spoke to stop this wild horse from running away, "We are the one with the upper hand now, there is no need to waste it with them. What a good time!"

"Let's talk about it first. Your Highness's factory has high wages, no corporal punishment, and subsidies. What if they are interested in working in the factory? It would be great if everyone is happy." Hashirama blinked his eyes sincerely.

Madara originally decided to stand by with Hyuga Masanori and listen to the decisions made by the large number of people in the mountains and the Senju. At this time, he couldn't bear it anymore: "Hashirama, please stop it! Those people are bandits, do you understand? If they If you can work down-to-earth, will you still do this job of licking blood from knife edges?"

A plate of loose sand rushed around, some said to smoke it, some said to roast it with fire, and some said to flood it with water. Finally someone raised his voice a little: "Everyone, everyone, I have thought of a compromise."

The ninjas looked at Nara Shikaji, who looked calm: "We divided our troops into two groups. We erected an earthen barrier outside to prevent the bandits from escaping. We pretended to be sentries for the bandits and went in to capture their leaders. Capture him, then Hashirama, if you want to be responsible for negotiating terms with the leader, feel free to do so. If we can't agree, we can stabilize the other bandits."

Including several adult ninjas, everyone showed admiration. Nara Shikaji smiled humbly and saluted slightly: "I am just a person who comes up with ideas. I have to leave it to you to actually implement it."

The short-haired Shanzhong looked at the sky and said, "It's probably the ugly moment now, when people sleep the most deeply. Please try your best to seize the opportunity. Don't seek speed, just stability."

The silent horn sounded, and two adult Senju who were good at earth escape took the initiative to assume the important task of reinforcing the encirclement. The remaining people formed a team of three or three, their colorful expressions were quickly erased by the ninjas, and phosphorus fire ignited in their eyes. , one after another flashed into darkness.

Tobirama followed Hashirama and was alert to the situation on the left rear. In order to form the seal, he only held the kunai and the linen belt in his hands, ordering himself to familiarize himself with the current bandits of his teammates as soon as possible.Probably because he was craving for the slightest cool breeze in the summer night, the doors of the simple firewood huts in the village were wide open, which made it easier for him, Hashirama and Senju Hiroshi to quickly get out of the crowd of bandits who were knocked unconscious before they could wake up. Get out.

For infiltrators, the absence of any abnormality is the best news.Everything went smoothly. The three Senju people in the east wing were like ghosts. The three people responsible for sweeping the west wing were silent. Even the group in the mountain who was responsible for "attacking" from the gate didn't make any sound. Any sound.

Tobirama's technique improved after he stupefied ten people in a row, and by the time he reached No. 11, he was already very proficient. He stretched the band tightly to count his pulse while listening to the heavy breathing of the flopping and tumbling fish in his hand.

"Yujiro, is that you?" A strange male voice suddenly came from the door.

Tobirama's hand tightened, and Dayu rolled his eyes.

Fortunately, the bandit was so poor that he put out the lights early and the room was completely dark.Tobirama responded gruffly: "It's me."

The man seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief. He bent down and rummaged through the pile of debris beside the wall, and murmured: "I was shocked. I went to the back of the house to put some water in. When I came back, I saw you looking like a mess." You're stuck here like you're hiding a stone - why did you come back so early? Didn't the boss ask you to keep up with the new ones?"

The bandit on the tatami no longer had the strength to kick, his limbs were limp and he could only breathe in but not out.Tobirama held his neck tightly while searching for an escape route: "How can I continue to follow him after being discovered? I can only come back and report to the boss first."

"Oh." The man carried something and swayed for a few times. Tobirama heard him start to walk towards her, "What are you doing in Taro's bunk?"

"He seems to be having a nightmare. Let me come over and have a look." Tobirama stood up and looked up at the man's blurry face.He was so tall that his head touched the beam of the house, and his thick body like a wooden pier completely blocked the door. Even Tobirama's current young bandit's body could only reach his shoulders.

It’s hard to break through from the front, unless…

Soon after, three kinds of sounds broke through the air almost at the same time.Tobirama's kunai pierced straight into the man's chest, allowing the iron rod he just raised to swing only half a circle before it hit him heavily along with his body. A powerful force descended from mid-air, just in time to lay down. The bandit smashed his head.

Tobirama ducked away, smelling the smell of blood that filled the room and said helplessly: "Brother, it's better now, both of them are useless."

It turned out that the blood was not only coming from the unlucky guy with a blooming head on the ground. There was a deep wound on the back of the neck of the man holding the iron rod. The edge was smooth and blood foam was gushing out.Hashirama stood at the door and Xue Zhen put away the knife: "I am in a hurry, so I can't stop it."

He dragged Tobirama out of the scene of the murder and whispered to him: "I'm right next door. Why didn't you call me for help when you were in danger?"

"A mere bandit cannot be called dangerous." Tobirama suddenly moved his ears.

A spooky sound was carried into the eaves by the breeze. It seemed like someone was screaming heartbreakingly from a high place. It was like the howl of a lost wolf or the mournful cry of a widowed crane. It sounded like thousands of hairs. The silk wound along the ear canal and into the chest, tightly wrapping around the heart and liver, making people more and more breathless.

Hashirama was trembling and forced a smile: "Yes, I heard it wrong, right? How could someone be crying in the mountains in the middle of the night?"

"Could it be the mountain grandmother from the legendary Zhiyi?" Tobirama thought seriously.

"No," Senju Hiroshi appeared out of nowhere, holding a half-dead bandit in his hand and said heavily, "The people here have made something more terrifying with their own hands."

"Chi-chi-" Madara climbed up to the roof to signal.

But there was no response from the east.

A group of low thatched houses stood silently, and Madara hesitated a little.Could it be that the Thousand Hands couldn't hear the signal? Haven't they cleared the target yet?It shouldn't be, it took a long time on my side, even the mountain squadron with the most difficult task has arrived to join them.

"We have to take the next step." The golden-red haired adult Yamanaka raised his hand and waved, signaling Madara to quickly follow the team.

Regardless, with Hashirama's strength it was impossible to be brought down silently. It must have been a special situation.Madara rolled his eyes and warned his teammates: "There is someone moving at the second intersection to the northwest."

Three black shadows shot out from the wall like clusters of arrows, and a heavy object fell to the ground not far away: "Ahhh——"

A "white bird" flew past Madara's eyes. Hyuga Masanori opened his pace like plucking onions on dry land and quickly approached the enemy. In the blink of an eye, he pushed three palms toward the big hole in his chest: "Bang bang bang—"

"On the right!" Madara used the momentum to jump and roll down the eaves, knocking down the bandit who was staggering up, and punched him until his face was red.

Shuangye in the mountains formed seals with his hands, so fast that only a shadow could be seen, but he was dodged by his target time and time again.The little bandit dodged around, pulling the other man and running around the corner towards the fortress, taking out his bone whistle and blowing it sharply.

Nara Shikaji cooperated with the two adults Yamanaka to quickly dispose of the prisoners of war, and then he used the secret technique and his nose trembled slightly: "No! They have-"

“Bang——” There was a loud noise, and the familiar yet unfamiliar gunpowder smoke dispersed.

"They have firearms!" Nara Shikaji was hit by the dust and couldn't help but choke.

worse.

A thunder shook countless birds, and groups of bandits armed with various "weapons" howled and rushed out from the low house doors or cave doors dotted all over the village.Most of them only wore a piece of crotch cloth, and their heads were covered with tangled hairs like chicken nests. Their bodies had grown grotesquely due to long-term malnutrition. They raised their weapons along with the smoke. They looked like a group of people who had just escaped from the gate of hell. The devil came out.

"boom--"

Madara gave the bandit a hard knee bump and narrowed his eyes at the fortress window where sparks were coming out.This time he saw clearly the number of enemies in the fort: "They only have two iron cannons in total!"

"Hinata! Uchiha! You two come with me!" The blond and red-haired Yamazaka roared, pulling out a thigh-thick wooden beam from the ground, swinging it like a tiger, and rushed towards the group of bandits in front of the fortress.

"Okay!" Hyuga Masanori slid forward with his feet close to the ground. He extended his left arm along the shoulder and shook his wrist. Using the forward force of his body, he flicked his back arm forward with force reaching the back of his fist. He twisted his waist, shoulder, and Send your elbows and shake your wrists in one go.Every bandit he came into contact with was knocked to the ground in the first round, and a path quickly opened up in front of him.

What a skill!Madara deliberately imitated his steps, stepped over the shoulders of bandits with strong steps, and landed firmly beside the ninja in the mountain.

There were fewer and fewer bandits who dared to rush to stop them. No one wanted to step out of the group. They bared their fangs like wild dogs and screamed and threatened, but no one dared to test the sharpness of ninja weapons first.The three of them looked at each other and rushed into the crowd. They stepped into the gate of the fortress step by step. They gradually heard the angry roars of the people in the fort: "Take out all the iron cannons in the library! Beat him!"

The so-called fortress is just a pile of simple stone buildings leaning against the rock wall. It has neither the sophistication nor the advantages of a mountain castle. The only difficulty the ninjas have to face is that the inside of the fortress is pitch black. It is difficult for ordinary people to see things.

Madara took the lead in squeezing up the narrow stairs in the wall due to his immature stature, and immediately locked eyes with the large evil spirit in golden clothes who was jumping around: "Bandit Tetsunosuke! I advise you to arrest him immediately without any help!"

Tetsunosuke and him looked at each other in confusion, his eyes widened, his cheeks trembling, and he suddenly stretched out his hand to press the armrest of his seat: "Wow, yeah, yeah—"

"What!" Madara watched helplessly as the seat flipped backwards, and he quickly sank into the hole under the seat with his shuriken and the bandit leader.It turned out that there was a mechanism there, and there was a long tunnel hidden under the seat, and I didn’t know where it led.

Madara was stunned for a moment, and was about to jump down to chase him. Yamazaka reached out to hold him, lit a small piece of wood and threw it down.

The glimmer of light did not disappear immediately. It illuminated a little bit of the uneven stone wall, and was quickly swallowed by the shadow.

Claustrophobic, dark, and full of unknown dangers... No one likes to live in such an environment, but ninjas must adapt to such a life from the day they pick up the sword.

The tunnel is extremely narrow. Even if you stand straight and kowtow, or stand at attention with your shoulders stuck, even Madara has to bend down and walk half sideways.The bandit leader's wheezing voice came near and far away, and the ninjas were forced to give up the idea of ​​lighting, hold their breath, and move forward quickly despite the turbid air.

"Click-"

Hyuga Masanori and Madara reached out their hands at the same time to overwhelm each other, narrowly avoiding the spiked raft that grazed their scalps.

The passages in the mountain wall have nine twists and turns. The bandit leader knows the structure of this maze by heart, and gradually distances himself from the ninjas.But long-term training has made the ninjas extremely sensitive to the sounds of footsteps and breathing, and the maze cannot prevent them from following suit.

There were echoes in the footsteps, proving that the place they came to was becoming increasingly empty.Some negligible light was cast from the top of the head, vaguely illuminating some food and bedding scattered in the corner of the grotto, as well as a chain broken into two sections.

Hyuga Masanori touched the chisel marks on the stone wall: "Crane hoe... This is originally a mine?"

Yamanaka clarified his thoughts: "There must be an exit above! He wants to escape!"

After being forced by the daimyo to eat bird eggs, apricots and tangerines for more than half a year, Madara found that his night vision seemed to have improved, because he was the first to discover the bandit leader's trick to escape: "There is a rope ladder ahead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a piece of rope dropped from mid-air.The bandit leader was afraid that the ninja would catch up, so he simply cut off all the rope ladders under him.

"You two go ahead, I'll be guarding below." The Yamanaka ninja patted Hyuga Masanori and Madara on the shoulders.

The two teenagers stood up, clasping their fingers tightly on the crisp stone wall, releasing chakra like geckos and easily crossing the height of the bandit leader. They stood upside down on the dome, walked to the rope ladder, folded their arms and looked down at him. .

The bandit leader's whole body was shaking like chaff, and his climbing speed was getting slower and slower. This rope was no longer the spider silk that saved him from hell, but a copper pillar for inflicting torture.

Madara was the first to feel impatient, so he kicked open the small door at the top of the cave and jumped out to breathe fresh air.

He only had time to identify two men and two women on the ground before he was pinned to the spot by at least two water escapers, one wood escaper, and three feather arrows.

The Senju brothers shouted in unison: "You bastard - Madara from the Uchiha family?"

"Of course it's me," Madara held the arrow shaft in his mouth and spoke slurredly, "Why are you here?"

Hashirama hurriedly untied the wooden cage: "Brother Guangzhi asked from a bandit that there is a secret room on the back mountain. We thought that if there is a secret room, there must be a secret passage. If you advance from the front, the leader will definitely come out here if he wants to escape. So I just come here and wait for the big fish to bite.”

"In the end, I caught you first." Tobirama raised his eyebrows.

Madara pointed to the two people not far away: "What about them?"

No one answered him.The two women were sitting on the edge of the cliff, leaning against each other, looking down at the chaotic mountain fortress.One of the girls was carrying a long bow on her back, her scrolls were hanging casually, and she was wearing jewelry made of animal teeth. She turned around when she heard the sound and made two vicious gestures at Madara.

"That's Waka, that maid, do you remember? She asked you to hunt her a mountain whale, two seals, and three seabirds to make amends." Hashirama translated seriously.

Madara pretended to stab him in the face with three feather arrows: "She told us to be quiet, please shut up."

While they were talking, another woman suddenly stood up, pointed at the burning house in the cottage and laughed.She laughed so hard that her weak body swayed on the edge of the cliff like a withered yellow blade of grass, making people worry that she would fall down at any time.

Seeing the remaining iron rings on her wrists and ankles, as well as the bruises and dirt on her slender legs, Madara vaguely understood something. A fire burned from his eyes to the bottom of his heart, urging him to go down and deal with that beast. .

Hashirama held him down and shook his head seriously.

Waka also stood up, stretched out his arms, and spoke loudly with a thick accent.The woman was stunned for a moment, then slowly covered her chest, and the heart-rending wail sounded again.This time the ninjas finally heard clearly that she was actually calling many people's names.

"...Father...Mother...Brother...Brother..."

The open fire at the foot of the mountain has been extinguished, and the woman is kneeling on the edge of the cliff, looking up at the stars in the sky.

"Then -" Madara handed the three feather arrows back to Waka.

Waka nodded, took the kunai in Madara's other hand, and solemnly handed it to the woman's hand.

The woman's eyes widened. She carefully looked around at the ninjas and Waka, and slowly moved to the entrance of the cave uncertainly and limping.

The bandit leader in the cave was hanging dangling on the rope ladder, already three feet away from reaching the top. When he heard the sound and looked up, his eyes suddenly became frightened.

The woman cut the rope decisively.

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