"Yeah, I understand."
Ino took out a kunai from his ninja bag, mustered up his courage, and prepared to find an opportunity to take the initiative to deal with the four bound pirates.
Bai Yu's coming here this time is already considered a foul act, if he helps Ino solve this crisis.
Then this experience is for her.
It might also turn into a trip.
"Ino, there's no need to come here!"
Shikamaru squatted half-crouched, turned around and glanced at Ino, who was moving, with his peripheral vision, and said in a deep voice.
"good!"
Ino nodded, wondering what Shikamaru was thinking.
moment.
Under the illumination of high-altitude flares, Shikamaru could see the seals on his hands changing quietly, and he muttered in a low voice: "Shadow Head Neck Binding Technique!!!"
This is a branch of the advanced ability of Shadow Binding. It uses the shadow attached to others to grab the enemy's neck, thereby strangling the enemy to death.
After Shikamaru finished speaking, the black shadows on the four pirates turned into palms and wrapped around their necks. In their frightened eyes, they suddenly tightened their strength and tightened, and the sound of cracking throats continued to sound. .
Four pirates died at Shikamaru's hands.
It was only at this moment that Shikamaru's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he did not dare to look at the four pirates he had killed with his own hands.
snap——
After confirming that all the pirates were dead, he withdrew the shadow binding technique, and suddenly all kinds of emotions rushed out of his mind.
"Shikamaru……"
Ino sensed Shikamaru's struggle, walked to his companion, reached out and patted Shikamaru on the shoulder.
She knew very well that this was Shikamaru's first time killing someone, and he didn't have a particularly violent reaction, which was considered very good.
Shikamaru shook his head and said in a deep voice: "It's okay. I won't let you take action because I'm afraid they might have a way to break free from the shadow restraint technique."
Now was not the time for him to calm down.
Shikamaru forced himself to forget what had just happened, stood up slowly, looked at Choji who was still washing his face with sea water, and said loudly:
"Chouji, there is no need to maintain the doubling technique anymore!"
When Choji heard that it was Shikamaru's voice, he didn't think much about it. In the case of blindness, he directly lost the doubling technique.
boom--
In an instant, smoke exploded.
Choji returned to his original appearance, and Shikamaru and Ino grabbed the old captain and fell into the sea from a high altitude.
Shikamaru scanned the nearby sea area with the help of high-altitude flares that had not yet been extinguished, but found no trace of the Umibozu that swallowed Asuma.
Ino was not idle. During Shikamaru's inspection, Ino took out the medical ninjutsu scroll from another scroll bag and used it on Choji's eyes.
Sizzling——
After being treated with a strong medical ninjutsu scroll, Choji gradually recovered his eyesight. Only then did his panic calm down.
"Shikamaru, what should we do now?"
Ino looked around the rippling sea, but couldn't find the teacher, so she asked hurriedly.
Shikamaru thought about it seriously, looked at Choji, and asked, "Choji, can you still use the doubling technique?"
Choji did not answer directly, but looked down at himself, felt the chakra condition of his body and his tiredness, shook his head and said:
"The chakra consumption is too great and the body's cells are too exhausted. It is impossible to make the whole body bigger, but you can try to make only your hands bigger."
"That's enough!" Shikamaru immediately looked at Ino and said solemnly: "Ino, calm down first, empty your mind, use perception ninjutsu, sense the sea area around us, and find the location of Asuma-sensei."
"Okay, I don't guarantee that my perception ninjutsu can be successful in a place like this."
Ino replied worriedly, and then she prepared to gather her mental perception to sense the area.
"Believe in yourself, you can do it."
Bai Yu said with a smile.
If Ino had locked on Asuma when he was just taken away by Lord Umibo, he would have been able to capture Asma's location immediately.
But by the time they finished dealing with the pirates, some time had passed since Umibozu took Asuma away.
If Asuma and the four of Ino Shikacho's team were the only ones, Ino's perception would not be able to play any role in the sea.
The never-ending tidal waves and the endless humid sea breeze will have an impact on people's perception.
But now, in their team, there is a secretly observing person like Bai Yu, who is playing support.
After Ino took a deep breath, she closed her eyes and used her strong mental power to release her perception.
The next moment.
Ino was stunned. The perception of a large sea area suddenly appeared in her mind very clearly.
The sea area extends from the shore where they set out before to the shore of the Country of Waves.
It seemed that as long as Ino wanted to, she could expand her range of perception.
"Oh My God!!!"
Ino exclaimed in her mind. She had never thought that her perception could become so terrifying one day.
"Surprise!" Bai Yu said cheerfully: "We have a spiritual connection, and you can share a little bit of my spiritual power. You should understand."
Ino said in disbelief: "Just a little bit?"
"Hey, let's find Asuma first."
Bai Yu smiled.
It's too late.
He was afraid that this elite jounin of Konoha would drown in the sea water. Of course, Bai Yu knew the ability of ninjas to hold their breath underwater, so he was not too worried.
Ino came back to his senses, and just casually scanned the perception screen, and immediately discovered Asuma's location.
Umibozu did not take Asuma to the bottom of the sea, but took this guy to wander toward the southwest.
Ino was able to confirm through perception that Asuma was still alive and fighting against the pressure brought about by Umibozu in his belly.
"follow me!!!"
Ino didn't say anything more and immediately sped away towards the southwest.
Shikamaru glanced at Lao Deng who was being held by him, and without saying a word, he took off Lao Deng's clothes and pants, leaving him with only a pair of cloth pants that could not hide any weapons, and then said coldly:
"Chouji, carry him on your back!"
Choji nodded heavily and carried the old captain on his back who was extremely frightened and shivered by the night sea breeze.
Shikamaru looked around and couldn't find the passenger ship they had taken before. He frowned slightly, but still led Choji to follow Ino's pace.
In this vast sea area, their chakra is not enough to support them from the water to the country of waves.
But in order to save Asuma, Shikamaru had no way to save chakra for the team members.
While on the road.
Shikamaru looked coldly at Lao Teng behind Choji and said harshly: "If we were ordinary guests, we would have been killed by those pirates just now!!!"
Captain Lao Deng shuddered and hesitated: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, there is nothing we can do. Before you came here, the pirates had already come and captured a large number of relatives of us boatmen and threatened us. This must be the case. Do."
"sorry……"
"But we really have no choice."
Shikamaru asked hurriedly: "All the passenger ships in this area have been controlled by pirates???"
This is important information.
The speed of the pirates' movements seemed to be much faster than what the top brass of the Ninja Alliance had predicted.
Captain Laodeng said helplessly:
"Absolutely. Those captains who didn't want to help the pirates either abandoned their ships and ran away, or they were killed by the pirates and robbed their women and property. Even their children and grandchildren were kidnapped. I’m going to be a reserve force for pirates.”
After hearing Lao Den's answer, Shikamaru stopped talking. This kind of thing needs to be investigated. Based on their current experience, they can only scold this old guy a few times.
Dingci suddenly said harshly: "Damn it, these people are really bad!"
Shikamaru was helpless
road:
"There were not a few cruel bandits who roamed the ninja world in the past, but the structure of the ninja world has changed a lot with the rise of the Uchiha clan. I believe in the decision of the ninja coalition, the sea will eventually usher in peace."
ten minutes later.
Zhu Lu Die and others were running on the sea at full speed to catch up with Shanghai Boss on the sea.
"The teacher is down there." Ino reminded, "But he is in the belly of that monster."
"Ino, please predict the path this monster will take. Choji uses the doubling technique to enlarge his hands and rescue the teacher. There may only be one chance!"
Shikamaru immediately grabbed the old captain from Choji's back and commanded.
"good!"
Ino gritted his teeth again and quickened his pace to increase the speed of his teleportation.
Been running for so long.
Her physical strength was not consumed much, but just releasing a wide range of mental perception was still a bit too much for her, even with Bai Yu's additional mental power.
moment.
Ino and Choji rushed ahead of Umibozu and arrived at the area where Umibozu was wandering.
"Wait here!"
Ino stopped.
After Choji nodded, he released the doubling technique again, and his hands extended from the palms to the arms, becoming slender and huge.
"Now, let's explore forward!"
Ino acted as Choji's eyes, pointing to the area where Asuma was in the main body of Umibo, and issued direct instructions.
"Okay!" Choji inserted his extremely long hands into the area pointed by Ino, used all his strength to control his hands, and began to explore.
Wow——
Choji's huge hands passed through the fragile body of Umibozu easily and neatly, and accurately caught Asuma who was swallowed into Umibozu's body.
"Caught! Caught!" Choji shouted excitedly, then raised his hands and fished Asuma out from under the sea.
"Come on, get out of here."
Ino suddenly felt a slight dizziness in her head, and her perception had reached its limit.
also.
Before she turned off her perception, there were many pirates rushing towards their direction in the perception screen.
"Roar--"
Under the sea, Lord Umbo repaired his body, and then he popped his head out to take a look at the Inoraka Butterfly team and the rescued Asuma on the sea.
It didn't stop, dived into the sea again, and ran away.
After Asuma landed ashore, blessed by the cold sea breeze and icy water, he couldn't help but shudder. He looked at Choji, Ino, and Shikamaru who came from behind, and said tremblingly: "Listen to Ino, first Let’s talk before we leave here.”
The words are not finished yet.
There was a buzzing sound.
Several speedboats have appeared on the sea. One by one, the pirates are sitting on the speedboats, waving their swords and making strange and excited monkey-like noises.
"Stand behind me and I'll deal with them!"
Asuma took the initiative to come to Ino and the others, and immediately took out the short chakra blade that he had retrieved from his ninja bag. After calming his breathing, he spoke in a deep voice.
After this battle, Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino had very little chakra left in their bodies, and the number of pirates who reappeared in front of them was about fifty, which was far beyond what they could handle.
If this battle took place on land.
Shikamaru was confident that he could lead Ino and Choji to deal with the pirates who had doubled in number in front of them without Asuma.
But now this is on the sea.
They don't have speedboats.
Every second you stand on the sea is a waste of your chakra and energy.
Shikamaru thought of this and suddenly had a plan in mind. After Asma blocked the front, he took the initiative to speak:
"Asuma-sensei, I'll leave the front to you, and please don't worry. Don't worry, leave your back to us!"
When Asma heard this, she was startled, then she smiled happily and said
: "I am very happy that you can shoulder the responsibilities you can bear. Of course, I have always believed in you. Don't worry, I will definitely take you back. We will inevitably encounter setbacks in the ninja world, but not today." Night!"
Finished.
Asuma took the lead in charging into the battle. He knew that if he did not destroy the speedboat formation of this group of pirates, they would most likely be surrounded and die on the sea.
This is the usual way of playing pirates.
When they encounter a strong enemy, they will use the human sea tactic they are best at to consume the enemy.
Then, like sharks that persist in smelling the fishy smell, they consume their targeted prey to death in the sea.
When Shikamaru saw Asuma launching an attack, he immediately called Choji and Ino to his side and said in a deep voice:
"Ino, use the flares and Choji will find the right moment. Let's grab a speedboat and escape from here with the teacher."
It is naturally impossible to fight at the moment. From Shikamaru's point of view, there is no need to fight with these pirates. They only need to steal a speedboat and they can leave this sea area.
But at this moment.
But Bai Yu's voice suddenly sounded in Ino's mind: "No need to fight, just pack up and prepare to go to the Country of Waves to rest for a night."
"Huh?" Ino replied in surprise.
Bai Yu smiled and said, "Put out a few flares to look at the sea in the distance. Of course, you can put out all the flares and go to the Country of Waves to resupply."
Ino didn't think much and immediately followed the instructions, taking out all three flares left in the ninja bag and lighting them one by one.
call out--
Snapped!
Three illumination bombs shot up into the sky, which stunned Shikamaru. Shikamaru asked hurriedly:
"this?"
After the maximum light energy of the flare was released, Ino looked at the sea in the distance, Shikamaru, and Choji looked up together.
I saw a large number of speedboats appearing behind the pirates' speedboats, and the flags of the Uchiha Ninja Village were erected behind these speedboats.
The maritime ninja team from the Kingdom of Waves came, and the leader of the ship at the front was Deidara, who had been captured several times by Bai Yu and had now changed his ways.
"Captain Deidara, there is definitely a pirate speedboat ahead."
On the speedboat at the front of the Ninja Team in the Land of Waves, a Jonin using binoculars asked respectfully.
Most of the ninjas in the Uchiha branch of the Land of Waves are Sunagakure ninjas who joined Uchiha later, Takigakure village ninjas, and ninjas from the Uzumaki survivors. Naturally, their strength and quality are beyond words.
After hearing this, Deidara nodded immediately and said, "You guys just sit down on the speedboat. Next, let you appreciate what art is!"
