In the middle of the night, Bai Yu took Ino to sleep and came outside the flower shop alone. He took a casual look and saw Hidan, who was sitting on a tree not far away and fell asleep.
"Keep an eye on the area near the Yamanaka Flower Shop. Tell me directly if there is any situation. There is no need to hide it."
Bai Yu appeared next to Hidan silently.
Hidan, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, suddenly jumped up from the branch. After seeing Bai Yu, he nodded in a daze and jumped down from the tree.
Hidan was about to say something to Bai Yu.
When he wakes up.
Bai Yu's figure disappeared on the street of Shanzhong Flower Shop as if he had never appeared before.
Hidan muttered to himself:
"There's no movement at all. It's as scary as a ghost. Well, but in my current state, it seems like I'm a ghost."
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The living area of Ninja School teachers.
After Jiraiya sent Bai Yu away, he handed Naruto over to Shikaku and the ANBU for protection. He followed the ANBU sent out before and personally came to capture the ninjas replaced by Bai Zetsu.
"Didn't you find any?"
Jiraiya stood in the dark shadows at the corner of the street, asking an ANBU ninja who came to report.
The ANBU ninja sighed:
"I'm sorry, Jiraiya-sama. The scene was cleaned up very cleanly. It seems that the other party had a premeditated plan."
Jiraiya continued to ask: "Have you asked the ninja dogs of the Inuzuka clan to track you?"
The ANBU ninja nodded and said: "Yes, but the ninja dogs did not smell any scent. In addition, the parasites of the female clan were not caught and could be used to track chakra. The other party seems to know our Konoha very well."
After listening to the report, Jiraiya suddenly fell into deep thought.
at this time.
Another ANBU team searching for White Zetsu all returned empty-handed, and their reports were exactly the same as what Jiraiya had just asked.
"It seems that the other party doesn't want to leave any harvest to us."
Jiraiya said, and muttered to the ANBU captain beside him: "Since we can't find these people, let's first find the families of these missing people and look for clues from their families."
"yes!"
After the ANBU leader nodded in reply, he was about to leave, but found Bai Yu coming to them at some point.
At the corner of the dark night street, the three of them looked at each other. The ANBU captain nodded to Bai Yu and took the initiative to retreat.
"how is the progress?"
Bai Yu asked curiously.
Jiraiya said in surprise: "Master Baiyu, you have worked hard all day, don't you need to go back and rest?"
Bai Yu looked at the teacher's living area, shook his head and said, "I have rested in the evening and am not sleepy at night. Since I still have energy, I might as well help you solve this matter. After all, Naruto is also a good friend of mine."
"Well, the situation is beyond our expectations. These guys are very sharp. They escaped tonight without leaving any traces. So, let's return to the Hokage Building first and talk as we go."
Jiraiya then told Bai Yu all the information the ANBU had just collected, and immediately led Bai Yu towards the Hokage Building.
There are more than 20 positions vacant in Ninja Village for no reason.
Jiraiya needs to arrange for new ninjas to fill them, otherwise there will be a certain degree of task stagnation at various positions in the ninja village the next day.
Bai Yu analyzed this seemingly meager information and said helplessly:
"There is no need to look for the families of those missing ninjas. I estimate that most of these guys are single. They are the kind of existence that no one will pay attention to even if they occasionally disappear for a day or two."
Jiraiya was startled.
He once again took out the list of ninjas that Bai Yu had given him before, analyzed it carefully, and then sighed: "Sure enough, most of them are alone."
These ninjas are similar in age to Iruka.
They experienced the Third Ninja War and the Nine-tailed Demon Fox Rebellion, and there were not many family members left.
That's it
This is a tragedy in the ninja world. Even in a ninja village as strong as Konoha, this situation will inevitably happen.
"I suggest expanding the search scope. Ninjas have very strong survivability. If these 20 or so Konoha ninjas were not killed by the White Zetsu and were trapped for only a week, they would definitely survive."
Bai Yu said firmly.
certainly.
It is not ruled out that the White Zetsus would kill all the more than 20 Konoha ninjas out of boredom, but as long as there is hope, they can try to find them, and it is best to find all the more than 20 White Zetsus.
However, this group of people includes the first villain in Naruto, Mr. Mizuki. I have to say that this Mr. Mizuki is really an old unlucky guy.
This guy also has a beautiful girlfriend.
But because I was too greedy.
As a result, Mizuki was too obsessed with his pursuit of power. His short life did not lead to much happiness, and he finally volunteered to become a test subject for Orochimaru's potion.
Without anyone's intervention.
Mizuki took the initiative to drink a drug developed by Orochimaru that could temporarily gain strength, but exponentially consume his life force, and finally fell into the hands of Iruka and Naruto.
"I can only wish them good luck."
Jiraiya let out a long sigh. After all, it was his Konoha ninjas who lost, including several chuunin who were expected to be promoted to jounin in the future. This loss was not a small one.
Is this the Akatsuki organization's revenge for its convening?
Jiraiya was not afraid of this threat.
But he knew that once this kind of thing fermented in the Ninja Village, things would become very bad, which would greatly affect the unity within Konoha.
The Akatsuki organization is really the biggest cancer in the ninja world!
Cancer that had to be cleaned up.
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Within the Land of Fire.
In a certain steep mountain forest, Obito, wearing a tiger-striped mask, stood on the branches of a tall tree, looking at the more than 20 White Zetsu who had transformed into Konoha ninjas below.
"Sorry, sir, our identities have been exposed..."
The one who transformed into Mizuki, Bai Zetsu, responded helplessly.
Obito sneered and said, "Now that Bai Yu has returned to Konoha Ninja Village, it will be a matter of time before you are exposed. Are you ready with the plans I asked you to prepare?"
Mizuki nodded respectfully and said, "Of course, sir!"
"Then go and execute it!" Obito said coldly.
"yes!"
More than 20 White Zetsu quickly left the area.
"Would targeting Konoha now make them more vigilant?"
Black Zetsu's deep voice suddenly came from the ground. As the voice became clearer and clearer, it appeared behind Obito with the other half of his body, White Zetsu.
Obito glanced at Black Zetsu and sneered:
"Those who should be wary should have been wary a long time ago. I have plenty of time. As long as I can keep harassing Konoha like this, sooner or later Konoha will not be able to hold on, and will get into chaos and expose its flaws."
Black Zetsu silently praised Obito's positive actions in his heart, and he continued:
"Penn has begun to search for the whereabouts of the Six-Tails Jinchuuriki. I wish you good luck. If we can capture both the Nine-Tails and the Six-Tails at the same time, we will only have the last three-tails, seven-tails, and eight-tails. The door to the new world is away. We are getting closer!"
Obito nodded slowly.
Black Zetsu retreated into the darkness and escaped underground, with a smile on his face that Obito couldn't detect.
Before it was laid to rest, it was full of thoughts. Although the process of capturing the tailed beast was extremely complicated, the results were all developing in a direction that was beneficial to the Akatsuki organization... no, to itself.
As long as all the tailed beasts can be collected.
hehe……
Where is the door to a new world, that is one step closer to him rescuing his mother!
Mother!
wait for me!
"Why don't you leave?"
Obito looked at the man standing in the dirt with only one head smiling evilly.
Hei Zetsu said coldly: "Penn cannot do without your intelligence gathering ability."
Hei Jue suppressed his evil smile in embarrassment, and disappeared with his head into the ground.
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In the mountain forest behind the Shadow Rock of Konoha Ninja Village, many ninja teams spread out to the entire outside area of the Ninja Village.
Countless torches moved in the darkness.
Bai Yu and Jiraiya stood above the shadow rock, watching Jiraiya arrange the search tasks.
He looked at the Konoha ninjas who were still lighting up with torches in the dark night, and suddenly sighed to himself.
If only I could invent the flashlight.
Then you can make a lot of money again.
But if you want to make a simple flashlight, the biggest difficulty is the battery.
All kinds of difficulties made Bai Yu temporarily give up the idea of developing technology.
After he completely reconciles with Yunyin this time, he will go to Yunyin Village to visit.
Kumogakure's technological level can be said to be the best in the ninja world, and he might be able to find a way to make batteries in Kumogakure.
"Bai Yu, why don't you go back and rest." Jiraiya sighed softly: "After all, this is an internal matter within Konoha. I feel embarrassed to trouble you too much."
Bai Yu smiled and waved his hand: "No, I said, my purpose is to protect the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki. Once all the tailed beasts fall into the hands of the Akatsuki organization, although I don't know what will happen for the time being, I will definitely not Something good will happen."
In fact, he knew it very well, but he couldn't say it.
Jiraiya nodded, and immediately stopped trying to persuade him, so he took off his coat, put on the heavy mesh chain mail, then put on his coat again, and said with a smile:
"Okay, if you don't mind, we can follow a team to search for those missing ninjas."
"Well, that's exactly what I thought."
Bai Yu did not refuse Jiraiya's invitation. As he spoke, he opened Kagura's Heart Eye, and the majestic Yang Release Chakra was released, and the entire Shadow Rock area entered his perception.
Konoha is destined to have no sleep tonight.
Time passes quickly.
Early morning.
In the mountains and forests 100 kilometers away from the Konoha Ninja Village, the ninja team followed by Jiraiya and Bai Yu was not very lucky. They did not find any traces of Bai Zetsu or even the captured ninjas.
"There is no way to continue searching like this." Bai Yu looked around at the dense woods and sighed softly: "Jiraiya-sama, please wait for me here for a while."
Without waiting for Jiraiya to speak.
Bai Yu released Susanoo and leaped high into the sky. The golden light instantly illuminated the surrounding forest area.
Bai Yu was like a little sun about to fall to the ground. The area covered by golden light was his perception area.
"That area..."
After Bai Yu released Kagura's Heart Eye through Susanoo's fusion, his perception expanded hundreds of times and he soon discovered anomalies in the clearing of the woods to the west of Konoha.
in his perception.
The Konoha ninjas represented by Mizuki were planted in the ground like radishes one by one, with only one head exposed. The scene was very strange.
Bai Yu did not act alone, but returned to the area where he separated from Jiraiya, used Susanoo to lift them all up, and after flying again, for a moment, he landed firmly in the area where Mizuki and others were buried.
After landing.
Bai Yu turned away from Susanoo. He didn't care about the ninjas around him who were amazed by Susanoo. Instead, he took Jiraiya and others and quickly approached the destination.
At this moment, the nearest ninja team also arrived in the area, and the chuunin captain leading the team exclaimed loudly: "Jiraiya-sama, we found our missing companions, they are here!"
When Jiraiya saw that the team running out of the side forest was about to arrive at their destination, he frowned slightly, but Bai Yu spoke loudly while running wildly:
"Stay away from that area!"
The words fell.
Boom—
—
Countless detonating symbols suddenly exploded, sending dirt flying across the ground. All the members of the Konoha ninja team opposite were affected, fell to the ground, and rolled outwards, screaming in agony.
"Damn it!" Jiraiya gritted his teeth and cursed fiercely, leading the team to stop more than 20 meters away from the explosion area.
Bai Yu didn't care about the Konoha ninjas who were blown up, nor the group of ninjas buried underground.
He slowly squatted down, waited until the smoke cleared, and reached out to a Konoha ninja holding a torch on the side.
The ninja was stunned for a moment, and it wasn't until Bai Yu looked at his torch that he handed it over.
Bai Yu took the torch and threw it directly next to Shuimu's head. With the blessing of the throwing technique, the torch was firmly inserted into the soil and illuminated the surrounding area.
A big crater had been created in the area where the ninja team that had been blown over had passed.
With the help of the flickering torch light, Bai Yu looked at the soil next to Shuimu, who had a dirty face and disheveled hair, and fell into thoughts.
"Sir, I'm here to investigate the detonating talisman trap... You find a chance to rescue them." The chuunin captain who had been following Jiraiya and Bai Yu looked at the miserable situation of the previous team, swallowed his saliva, and immediately volunteered.
Jiraiya nodded and acquiesced to the other party's actions.
This chuunin captain is a member of the Inuzuka family and is an expert in eliminating detonating charm traps.
Just as the chunin captain left the team, his sleeve was pulled by Bai Yu. The chunin captain felt puzzled and looked back at Bai Yu who was squatting on the ground.
"There is no need to go. These guys are not the people we are looking for. This is a trap from the inside out. Lord Jiraiya, please stop the search operations of all Konoha ninjas."
Bai Yu shook his head helplessly.
"What happened?"
Jiraiya asked.
The chuunin captain and the other two ninjas were also confused.
Bai Yu pointed to the dirt area next to Shuimu and said:
"The soil in this area has not been disturbed at all. It can be seen that these guys are hostages disguised as Bai Zetsu escaped into the land. In addition, after I arrived in this area, I found that it spread outwards with Konoha Village as the center. The area has the same hostage gathering area every 50 kilometers."
Jiraiya suddenly came to his senses and mused: "So, this is a multiple trap from beginning to end... in order to cause our man-made injuries like just now."
"yes."
Bai Yuyan answered briefly and comprehensively.
"Go down and tell everyone to stop moving!" Jiraiya immediately gave the order to a chuunin of the Yamanaka clan who was responsible for liaison in the team.
