Three days later.

late at night.

Outside an abandoned village, a figure stumbled through the rain and ran towards the village.

Before he could get closer, several figures rushed out of the village.

Seeing the people running towards him, Miki relaxed and stumbled suddenly, about to fall to the ground.

Suddenly, a person flashed and appeared in front of Miki, holding him up.

Then, while holding him up and running towards the village, he asked eagerly: "Miki, what's going on? Where are the others?"

After getting no response for a long time, he looked sideways and found that Miki's eyes were closed tightly, and he had obviously fallen into a coma.

Involuntarily, he quickened his pace again.

Soon, a sharp whistle broke the silence of the village.

Suddenly, dozens of ninjas appeared in various places in the village, alerting them to any unusual movements around them.

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in the village.

In a house, Jingguchi looked at the unconscious Miki and asked: "Shi Yi, how are you doing?"

Shi Yi, a medical ninja in white uniform, replied: "Captain, the thing that scratched Miki's back had a strange toxin on its claws, which is why Miki was unconscious."

"Can you solve it?" Jingguchi asked immediately.

He didn't care about anything unusual about the toxin. This was what Shi Yi should worry about. He wanted to know what happened now?

If you don't understand this, whatever you do now may be a waste of energy. The importance of intelligence is self-evident at this time.

Although Shi Yi is a medical ninja, he also knows this. Unfortunately, he still shook his head and said: "Not for the time being."

Hearing this, Jingguchi said with some disappointment: "In other words, he can't wake up now?"

Shi nodded, confirming his idea.

The situation was urgent, and Jingguchi could no longer take into account too many taboos. After thinking for a moment, he formed seals with his hands, performed a secret mind-reading technique, and began to forcibly peek into Miki's memory to obtain information.

Doing so would only hurt Miki's spirit. What's more important is that forcibly peeking into other people's memories is a taboo thing, especially if it's used on one's own people.

After all, everyone has their own secrets, and no one wants their secrets to be made public.

However, Iguchi had no choice. He had to figure out what happened as soon as possible. Why was only Miki from the Miki team back?

Moreover, he was still seriously injured.

For the safety of the dozens of people in the stronghold, and for the benefit of the village, Jingguchi decisively sacrificed Miki's own interests.

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in view.

It rained continuously at night.

The Miki team acted as a secret sentinel outside the stronghold, and a group of four people were carefully patrolling the surrounding area.

Everything was normal until they walked to the east side of the village, in a forest extending from the dark mountains, when something abnormal appeared.

A sound of "ka ka ka" appeared in everyone's ears from far to near.

"What is this sound?" one person asked.

"It seems like something is rubbing against each other." Another person replied hesitantly.

Then, all three of them looked at the squad leader, Miki.

Miki thought for a moment, then took the three genin and rushed towards the direction where the sound came from.

Soon, they discovered the source, which were walking skeletons. The "click-click" sound was made when their joints rubbed or collided with each other.

"What the hell are these?" A genin muttered to himself unconsciously.

Suddenly, the skeletons seemed to have discovered them, and they all looked at where they were hiding, staring with empty eyes that made everyone's scalp numb.

The three genin had never seen such a scene before, and their legs and feet became weak with fear.

Miki was naturally surprised, but he was a chuunin after all and had much more experience than his genin, so he quickly suppressed the fear in his heart.

Just when he was about to say something, he saw a group of skeletons suddenly speeding up and heading towards them.

Seeing this, Miki condensed everything he wanted to say into one word, "Run!"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a strange low roar suddenly came from one side, and then, more fear unconsciously arose in everyone's hearts.

"Pfft~"

The death claw pierced the heart of a genin, and warm blood splashed on the faces of the others, waking them up.

Miki turned around and ran without any hesitation, and the others did the same.

However, before they could leave the forest, only Miki was left dead in the team.

The strong wind hit from behind, and Miki had no way to avoid it. He could only jump forward suddenly, and with a "stab", the claws of death left four deep claw marks on his back, and the corpse poison followed. Invaded his body.

Miki was furious, and regardless of his injuries, he used teleportation techniques one after another. After consuming a lot of chakra, he actually escaped from the forest.

After he was some distance away from the forest, he dared to look back, only to find that everything he could see was filled with white bones.

Instinctively, he felt that these skeletons were coming for the stronghold, so regardless of the consumption of chakra and the worsening of injuries, he rushed to the stronghold as quickly as possible in an attempt to pass the information back.

Jingguchi knew everything that happened after that.

He slowly retracted his palm, glanced at Miki, who was even paler, and said to Shi Yi beside him: "Take care of him."

After that, he walked out of the room.

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"Looking at the behavior of those skeletons, someone should be controlling them," Jingguchi wondered, "Is it the puppetry technique of Sunagakure Village?"

Luo Lin's existence, whether in Sand Hidden Village or Iwagakure Village, has a certain level of confidentiality. Most ninjas don't even know that there is someone like him in the ninja world.

Therefore, it is understandable for Iguchi to think of the puppet technique. After all, in this war, the puppet technique of Sunagakure Village also shined. Not only can puppets be controlled, but even the corpses of dead ninjas can be controlled.

And skeletons and dead people don't seem to be much different.

"However, I don't think I've ever heard of a puppet master controlling bones!"

After thinking for a while and still having no clue, Jingguchi sighed: "Forget it, let's not think about these things for now. Judging from Miki's vision, there should be a thousand skeletons. There are plenty of various materials in the warehouse. Hold on. It won’t be a problem for reinforcements to arrive, but as for that rickety monster..."

Jingguchi recalled the speed and power of the Death Claw, as well as the weird roar, and said to himself: "It shouldn't be a problem for me to deal with it."

This stronghold is just a relatively hidden material supply point in Yanyin Village. It has average strategic value, so the troops stationed there are not very strong.

As the supreme commander, Iguchi is only a special Jonin who is good at illusions.

As for his subordinates, there are twelve teams. Except for the team leader who is a chuunin, the rest are all genin, plus a medical chuunin. There are exactly fifty ninjas in the entire stronghold.

Jingguchi thought everything well, but he seriously underestimated Luo Lin's strength. A mere thousand bones and skeletons were just the vanguard, with the undead army following behind.

During this trip, his target was the stronghold where Jingguchi was stationed.

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