Red sand dust

Opening the scroll that Kankuro brought over, the content inside was nothing special, just some expected information.

Not much of value was found in covert investigations of certain individuals.

However, after sorting out the experiences of some people in the past ten years or so, the originally unobtrusive behavior has become suspicious.

There is currently no specialized science of data statistics and analysis in the ninja world, and the Suna Ninja have no research in this area.

However, ninjas who pay attention to intelligence have their own set of effective methods for filtering information based on experience.

Every recorded act in these people's resumes will be scrutinized.

Ebizo, who has been in charge of the intelligence work of Sunagakure Village for decades, easily picked out some of the people to be suspected, but because there was no evidence, he stayed put for the time being.

According to the degree of suspicion, it is roughly divided into five levels.

Yura, who worries Daimaru the most, is actually at a lower-middle level, and he doesn't notice much abnormal behavior at all. The areas being focused on are completely worthy of his status as a cadre of Sunagakure Village; even if there are some specious and malicious speculations, he is only implicated because he is in a key position.

"This is an excellent spy who is very good at lurking. If you give him a little more time, his future will be limitless!" 』

Daimaru sighed sincerely, it was such a pity that such a talent was actually a subordinate of the Red Sand Scorpion.

In addition, among the suspicious people closely related to Daimaru, Jounin Centipede is naturally the one who is least trusted.

A few months ago, Daimaru was assassinated by a bounty hunter who sneaked into the village. Centipede's actions, which led the regional patrol mission, seemed to be flawless, but caused a series of accidents, briefly exposing the originally airtight defense network. He found a flaw and allowed villains with evil intentions to seize the opportunity.

Such a coincidence is really suspicious.

There are also two sand ninjas who secretly sneaked into the air combat unit base and tried to steal the wing armor to please the Red Sand Scorpion, but were killed by Daimaru and destroyed their bodies. At first, they were regarded as the Kazekage Five because they could not see their bodies alive or dead. Ignore it as cannon fodder for competition.

Looking back now, although these two people were nominally under Fu Yi's command, they were also former subordinates of Jounin Centipede, and they had close contacts.

One such coincidence is too many, let alone five or six accidents related to the Jounin Centipede.

It is obvious that the subordinates of Red Sand Scorpion are responsible for different areas according to their importance.

Yura is the one in charge behind the scenes, and Centipede is the actual executive. On the surface, the relationship between the two is quite ordinary, and they don't have much friendship.

After browsing through the information in the scroll, Daimaru almost understood how well the village mastered the whole matter.

Centipede, who is very enthusiastic about helping Daimaru, may have been awakened and is planning to lure Daimaru out and fall into a trap to capture or kill him.

When Daimaru went to see Chiyo and Ebizo, although he was very careful to hide his traces, there was no guarantee that anyone would notice him.

Eliminating internal spies is very important, but it is not as important as the threat posed by the Red Sand Scorpion and Deidara.

According to Chiyo, he definitely hopes that Daimaru will cooperate with Centipede and use a trick to lure out the Red Sand Scorpion.

Although it is dangerous, it is deeply related to Daimaru, so there is nothing wrong with participating in it.

However, this matter is too dangerous. If you want to achieve as good a result as possible, your own strength is very important. You must be well prepared for the difficulties you may face next.

Today's Haruno Sakura has just been led on the road by Tsunade. She is too weak and has no strength to participate in an event of this level. It is impossible to recreate the combination of Haruno Sakura and Chiyo to defeat the Red Sand Scorpion.

Deidara's side is even more troublesome. He doesn't have the divine power of Hatake Kakashi, nor does he have Uzumaki Naruto who has greatly improved in strength, nor does he have a capable thunder ninja. How to deal with him, he has to find a way.

The Red Sand Scorpion and Deidara are not dungeon wild monsters waiting for the Sand Ninja to gain experience. The human sea tactic may not be effective. If you can't defeat them, you can still run away. The only Sand Ninja who can catch up with them is probably Daimaru, who has taken initial shape. The air combat troops may be able to play a little harassing role, but if their frontal confrontation capabilities are too poor and they impose too many demands, they will only become cannon fodder that is meaninglessly lost.

Hundreds of machine drills, scroll secrets, poison, sealed regeneration cores, magnetic escape, and nanoscale clay puppets are all enemy attack methods that can cause a lot of damage.

There are too few ninjas who can use "strange power" to confront the magnetic escape head-on, and there are even fewer medical ninjas who have superb medical and detoxification skills that can alleviate the poison of the red sand scorpion.

If he didn't get the poisonous sample of the Red Sand Scorpion, even Tsunade wouldn't be able to prepare an antidote for a while.

"From this point of view, everything is basically a dead end. The only hope may be Gaara... No, Ichibi Shukaku!" 』

Whether it's poison or nanoscale clay puppets, ninjutsu that targets humans will be greatly ineffective against tailed beasts. Shukaku's own strength cannot be ignored. As long as a tailed beast jade hits directly, whether it is the Red Sand Scorpion or Deidara, he will be seriously injured even if he is not dead.

The key is that it is difficult to hit. The tailed beast is too clumsy and is no match for the powerful secret techniques and various tricks of the ninja.

"So, if a conflict breaks out, Gaara will be the main force, followed by Chiyo, and me again, and everyone else can only play the role..."

There are still a few jounin in Maki who are barely strong enough, but they are not as flexible and flexible as Daimaru, so they can actually play a very small role.

In this case, the available tactics are actually very limited. Daimaru must contain Deidara, and then Gaara and Chiyo will lead the Sand Ninja to quickly defeat the Red Sand Scorpion, and then return to support and force Deidara back.

The reason is very simple, except for Daimaru, no one else can catch up with Deidara flying in the sky; without the "weird power" Haruno Sakura, Gaara's Sand Ninjutsu must be used to deal with the Kazekage Sandaime's human puppet.

…

It was late at night, and Maki and Gaara were discussing important matters in secret.

Gaara, who stayed in the Northern Fortress for a long time, had a clear change in his temperament after returning.

Strength and self-confidence complement each other. The boy who had a hard battle with Daimaru and almost exhausted all his cards to win, once had some doubts about whether his strength accumulation was enough.

After seeing the strength level of other ninjas, I felt relieved.

"It's not that I'm too bad, it's that Daimaru is really strong! 』

Due to his lack of qualifications and shallow record, Daimaru, who has no experience of defeating a famous Jonin, few people think that he will be very powerful now. Potential and strength are not the same thing after all.

Now, the opportunity for Gaara to become the Fifth Kazekage has come...