"Hiruzen, I'll leave it to you."
The ninja Danzo is going to send to the Land of Rain this time is the former Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
From Danzo's point of view, this is a matter of course.
When Hiruzen Sarutobi was the Hokage, Danzo, as the Hokage's advisor, fought a lot of life-and-death battles and even lost one eye.
Now it was his turn to be Hokage, Shimura Danzo.
Isn't it normal for Sarutobi Hiruzen, an old friend, to take action several times?
In order to take care of this old friend, he specially selected several elites to cooperate with him. His treatment of this old friend was much better than the treatment Hiruzen Sarutobi treated him back then.
The border between Konoha and the Land of Grass.
"Sarutobi-sensei, I feel that the path you have chosen is unnecessary." Orochimaru said listlessly.
When Danzo Shimura pulled him out of the dark laboratory, he knew that this mission would be quite difficult. The old guy had been waiting for him to create a more powerful eye for him.
After learning that the location of the mission was the Kingdom of Rain, his ominous thoughts became more serious.
There is the so-called demigod Sanshouyu Hanzo!
He suffered so much from that old guy back then, and he teamed up with Jiraiya and Tsunade to barely get a tie with that guy... Now he is stronger, but he probably doesn't have much chance of winning against that old guy.
He guessed that in this mission, he would either face Hanzo.
Or... face an enemy more powerful than Hanzo.
To be honest, if it weren't for the leading ninja, it would be his teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi.
He even thought of defecting halfway.
"The other party is so tightly guarded on the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Fire. Even if we take a detour, we won't be able to easily find any omissions."
They set out from Konoha.
I originally wanted to cross the border directly from the Land of Fire into the Land of Rain.
But not long after entering the Kingdom of Rain, they found a village that was emitting a sensory barrier, and they were likely to be discovered if they entered it.
Therefore, the leader of the group, Sarutobi Hiruzen, suggested taking a detour.
"Impossible, their kind of defense consumes too much manpower!" Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a frown.
Orochimaru chuckled inwardly, "After all, he is a rotten old guy... He has no idea how drastic the changes that happened in the Land of Rain are..."
As a person under surveillance.
He couldn't say much, the worst he could do was defect to Konoha.
The seal that Danzo set on him is better for other people...for him, Orochimaru?
He had long planned to give himself a stronger body.
During the time he was imprisoned in the root by Danzo, he gained a lot with Danzo's cooperation.
Unfortunately, he couldn't beat the Third Hokage.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who is only in his fifties, is second to none in terms of strength in the current ninja world.
He is extremely good at all seven attribute ninjutsu of Yin Yang and Five Elements.
Master thousands of ninjutsu.
Physical fitness has not declined much.
At this stage in the original work, Hiruzen Sarutobi was able to push the nine-tailed demon fox dozens of meters tall out of Konoha with a stick, which is enough to show his strength, which is completely different from the old age and physical decline more than ten years later.
In Orochimaru's view, at least now he can only escape when facing this teacher, and the chance of successful escape is not too great.
"Hizashi, is there a barrier at the border of the Land of Grass?"
Among the teams performing this mission, in addition to the powerful masters and apprentices of the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru, there was also a special investigation team, which gave the former Hokage enough face, so the Hyuga clan sent them out to separate the family. The strongest white eye, Hinata Hizashi.
More than a year ago, after a member of the Hyuga family was captured by the enemy,
After a pair of white eyes were taken away by an unknown strong person.
The Hyuga clan no longer dares to let the clan members leave Konoha anymore.
"Open your eyes!"
Hyuga Hizashi formed the seal, and a large number of blood vessels bulged at the corners of his eyes. Suddenly, the field of vision in his eyes became 359 degrees, and the observation range also expanded to nearly two kilometers.
After observing carefully for a while, he frowned and said, "Sandaime, the situation is very bad. There is also a barrier in the direction ahead!"
"Is that so? No wonder so many ANBU have lost contact in the Land of Rain."
Sarutobi Hiruzen was a little surprised by the situation inside the Rain Country.
But it didn’t take long to accept the situation.
"Orochimaru, what do you think?" Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at his disciple.
He knew that his disciple had always been resourceful.
"hehe……"
Orochimaru said with a smile: "The situation in the Kingdom of Rain may be beyond our imagination... It may involve information we don't know. If we don't enter, we will never be able to get any information, and we don't know how to deal with it."
"After all, the barrier of the Rain Country only detects whether the people entering the Rain Country are ninjas... The coverage of our Konoha barrier is less than one ten thousandth of this huge barrier, but if we want to process that information, we still need to We need a lot of ninjas to cooperate."
Orochimaru licked his lips: "I guess the effect of this barrier may not be very useful. At least we can collect enough intelligence before the enemy reacts."
Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned after hearing Orochimaru's suggestion.
A very direct way to break the situation.
But this quiet, rough approach... can also cause a lot of trouble.
After thinking for a while, Sarutobi Hiruzen gave the order again.
"Continue to take a detour... I remember that at the junction of the Kingdom of Rain and the Kingdom of Earth, there is a mountainous area with extremely dangerous terrain. I don't believe there is a barrier there!"
Then……
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the lake like pearls on a string with his mouth wide open.
"Isn't this... originally a mountain range?"
"It seems that someone used a large-scale earth escape to change the terrain." After some investigation, Orochimaru said in confusion: "To reach this scale, I am afraid it would take several shadow-level experts to lead ten thousand people. Ninjas above the rank join forces to take action!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep breath, "Only Iwagakure can do this, but our intelligence personnel in Iwagakure Village did not say that Iwagakure has done anything like this recently!"
There are only more than 10,000 regular ninjas in the Five Hidden Villages. Konoha and Kumogakure have slightly more, but it is difficult to reach 20,000.
Mobilize 10,000 ninjas at once.
Except for the Five Hidden Villages, there really is no other force that can do it!
"Exclude all possibilities... No matter how absurd the final result is, it may be the right answer!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi clenched his fists and said, "Perhaps a large-scale ninja really appeared in the Land of Rain!"
"What the hell is that old guy Sanshouyu Hanzo doing?!"
Akatsuki Organization Base.
Nagato, who had become slightly stronger, suddenly opened his eyes.
"There is an intruder in area 996!"
"The Ninth Canal of the Ninth Road? It seems to be bordering the Earth Kingdom. Are they ninjas from the Earth Kingdom?" Yahiko couldn't help shouting in distress when he heard Nagato's message: "We are going to fight Hanzo soon. The war has begun, are the ninjas of Iwagakure so idle?"
Nagato shook his head and said with a heavy face: "I sensed a familiar chakra among that group of people. They are not Iwagakure... but Konoha ninjas!"
