Travel through Konoha and open treasure chests

♂nbsp; Soon after Bai Mingyu and others left.

There was another strange movement in the woods.

Soon, five or six figures appeared in the open space, most of them wearing different animal masks on their faces and uniform uniforms and vests. They were clearly members of Konoha ANBU. There were two other people who were not wearing masks, but the forehead protectors they wore on their heads or elsewhere were also the Uzumaki symbol representing Konoha.

"This is where the aura appeared just now. Sure enough...

Already gone? "

The leading ANBU took off the mask on her face, revealing a delicate face. A pair of pure white eyes clearly marked her identity as a member of the Hyuga clan. She was none other than Hyuga Asuka, the captain of Konoha ANBU's sixth team.

More than a year has passed since the last time he led Uzuki Xiyan and others into the Hidden Rain Village to investigate Jiraiya's intelligence. Now Hyuga Asuka is already an experienced Konoha Jonin, looking at him with a white eye. After looking around carefully, he roughly judged the current situation. "You guys, with our current location as the center, spread out to survey the situation and see if you can find any useful clues...

The tailed beast went berserk for less than an hour, and the opponent shouldn't have been gone for a long time. If you catch up as soon as possible, you still have a chance to catch them. "

Thinking about it according to conventional ideas,

Tailed beasts like Shukaku are already the top beings in the ninja world. Even if a Kage-level expert takes action, it is impossible to resolve the battle in two or three moves. Therefore, Shukaku's aura suddenly disappeared a few minutes after it appeared. The most reasonable explanation is that someone used some kind of sealing technique or other ninjutsu to isolate its aura, and then subdued Shukaku in some way and knocked out the human pillar. Take away force.

If this is the case, the other party must not have been away for a long time, or he may have just left a few minutes ago.

of course,

Even if this judgment is wrong, some clues can be captured through the traces of the battle left at the scene.

"clear."

Upon hearing Hinata Asuka's order, several ANBU dispersed.

Only one remains.

"Anko, what's wrong? Your state hasn't been right since just now?"

Hinata Asuka turned around and glanced at the female ninja next to her. The latter was wearing a large windbreaker. Under the windbreaker, she was wearing black fishnet-like underwear. She had light black hair tied into a bun and was slim. His figure looked quite impressive, but at this moment he was pressing his shoulder with one hand and clenching his teeth, as if he was feeling very uncomfortable.

"I'm fine, just a little uncomfortable..."

Anko forced a smile and cheered up, "Captain Asuka, before the start of this Chunin Exam, were there any suspicious characters found in the village?"

Hinata Asuka was slightly startled, a little confused as to what Anko meant by asking, "What do you mean?"

"Forehead……"

The look on Anko's face was a little tangled, and she was hesitant to tell about Orochimaru.

From the moment she entered the Death Forest, Hong Dou felt a dull pain from the Heavenly Curse Seal on her neck, and as she went deeper into the Death Forest, she felt an uneasy feeling that became more and more intense. This feeling did not appear to her many times. The few times it appeared in the past, it only became so obvious when she was close to Orochimaru, the master of the curse seal. But news of Orochimaru's "death" reached Konoha a few years ago, and in the past few years, the latter had never caused any commotion, so Anko felt increasingly uneasy and was preparing to send her As soon as I made my guess, I heard footsteps approaching quickly.

"team leader!"

"what happened?"

Hinata Asuka turned his head and glanced.

The ANBU who spoke wore a mask with a rabbit pattern on his face, and his long purple hair was spread around his waist. His voice sounded very clear, and he was obviously a woman. "We found traces of the battle there, including a large number of There are ice and snow residues, and there are traces of using ice escape ninjutsu. It is speculated that among the people who were here just now, there are ninjas who can use ice escape..."

"Ice Escape?"

Hinata Asuka frowned and looked at Uzuki Xiyan who was wearing a rabbit mask. He already thought of a name in his mind, "Could it be..."

Since the annihilation of Kirigakure's Minazuki clan, there have been only a handful of ninjas who can use ice escape, and as far as Hinata Asuka and Uzuki Yugao know, there is only one person——

"That's what I thought at first, but..."

Uzuki Xiyan hesitated for a moment and said, "Based on the signs left at the scene, there is probably more than one ninja who has mastered the ice escape ninjutsu, and the two sides have fought here before, leaving obvious traces of the battle. In addition...before... The rampaging tailed beast that appeared in this forest area should be the Ichibi Shukaku of Sand Hidden Village, because there was a lot of sand nearby that had been disturbed, and there were still many remnants of wind release ninjutsu. If it weren't for the tailed beast, I am afraid that only a strong man of the level of the Fourth Kazekage can continuously use so many Wind Release and Earth Release Ninjutsu of this scale in a short period of time."

"I understand, have you discovered where those people are?"

"No." Mao Yue Xiyan shook her head and said, "The other party deliberately cleaned up the footprints and smells along the way when they left. The technique is very sophisticated. We can only chase them one to two hundred meters away, and the clues will be cut off if we go further. The ninja dogs of the Inuzuka clan are no longer able to accurately identify the direction, and Aburame Muta just used the secret technique of destroying insects to explore the way forward, but the results have not been obtained yet, so we need to wait and see."

"learn."

Hinata Asuka nodded.

The mission of the ANBU team she led was not to subdue the tailed beast, but to find the whereabouts of the tailed beast that had just rampaged in the forest of death. Therefore, in addition to the combatants, the team also had several additional reconnaissance ninjas. , including Hyuga Asuka herself, is also a reconnaissance type ninja, but when the opponent is prepared, the abilities of Byakugan and Ninja Dog are severely restricted. Only the secret insect technique of the Aburame clan can still play some role. .

But it's still fine for detecting enemy situations.

Hinata Asuka suddenly turned around, glanced in the direction of the outskirts of the Death Forest with his white eyes, and said solemnly, "To the northeast, about four kilometers away from where we are now, there are four ninjas from Sunagakure Village approaching here. ...Xi Yan, notify others and prepare to fight!"

……

At this moment.

Thousands of miles away from Konoha Village, in the Kingdom of Thunder, is the Cloud Thunder Gorge.

On the towering hills, six figures wearing black and red cloud robes appeared. The six people stood side by side, looking at the basin below the canyon. On a huge rock there, a figure was vaguely visible.

"The Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki, Kirabi..."

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