Chapter 23: Tracking
In the 48th year of Konoha , the Third Ninja War kicked off, the Land of Wind took the lead in declaring war on the Land of Fire, the two countries are facing off in the country of Kawano, and at the same time, the other three countries are also beginning to show signs of turmoil, and our protagonist Amber is at this time on the battlefield on the border of the country of Kawano.
After ten days of traveling at full speed, the four of them arrived at the camp on the border of Huochuan and met Tsunade-sama, one of the legendary three ninjas.
"Alas, it doesn't seem to be as big as I imagined!" Amber looked at the bulge on Tsunade's chest at the first glance when she saw Tsunade, who let Amber have an adult soul, although the body is not angry, but the focus of attention is no different from that of an adult, although Tsunade is almost forty years old at this time, but because of the effect of Baihao's technique, she still looks like a little girl in her early twenties.
"Well, I guess there should be a C, it's not too small. Amber nodded to herself.
Tsunade sat at the desk, scanning the three little ghosts in front of him back and forth with his arms inserted, especially the youngest, the eyes never left her chest, which made Tsunade very unhappy, but the secret letter of the three generations of old men explained that they had to exercise these three little guys well, and there were broken clansmen among them, which made Tsunade very embarrassed, war is not a joke, everyone has what if, the rope tree was also the object of cultivation back then, isn't it the same......
A touch of sadness flashed away, and Tsunade said solemnly: "War is not child's play, do you have the consciousness to die in battle?"
"Nope. Amber replied with a shake of her head.
As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere in the tent immediately cooled down, Teita and Sissi were not very old, and they didn't have much consciousness, but they didn't expect Amber to be so direct, while Inoue was embarrassed, this was just a slap in the face.
"yes, then you can go back to Konoha and find your mother to drink milk. Tsunade said unceremoniously with a gloomy face, and his fierce temperament immediately came to his face.
Amber was not angry at Tsunade's unkindness, and took a step forward, Amber stared into Tsunade's eyes and said: "I have never had the consciousness of death, even if I still have a breath, I firmly believe that I will live, and then protect everything I care about, protect my dreams and future, and also, my parents are dead, and there is no place to drink milk." ”
"Oh?" Tsunade raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, is it true that only living is worthy of talking about ideals and protection, but this obsession is not suitable for a qualified ninja, sometimes a ninja has to face death, maybe the death of his parents affected him.
"Funny little ghost. The corners of Tsunade's mouth curled slightly, and he glanced at everyone and said: "I have read your information, although you have good potential, but as a commander, I will not treat you specially, you will rest for one night first, and you will start to be integrated into the tactical team tomorrow, and directly obey my orders." ”
"Yes!" the four of them immediately took the order.
After resting for one night, the four of them went to the tactical team early the next morning to report, and what Amber didn't expect was that the captain of the tactical team was actually the Uchiha tree he had seen, who was a well-known assassination master, and he could sit in the position of tactical unit commander at the age of nineteen, which was also a genius.
Without much nonsense, Captain Uchiha learned a little about the abilities of the three Amber Trees, and after allocating the tents for accommodation, he ordered the three Amber to start helping the vigilance squad patrol the area around the camp.
In fact, as long as Amber opens the perception ability of the immortal mode, he can definitely complete the task of the entire alert class alone, but the immortal mode is Amber's hole card, as a ninja, you must always keep a hand, and the ninja who has been figured out means that the weakness is exposed, and it is very easy to be calculated by the enemy, just like the flying section, after being analyzed by Shikamaru and playing between applause.
The conflict in the country of Kawanoki is quietly happening, and there are battles all the time, and thousands of ninjas resolutely raise their weapons and fight hard. Hatred, madness, and grief are imprinted on everyone's heart. Every day, the three of Amber can see the wounded ninjas who have retreated from the front line, the makeshift medical tents are no longer enough, the less injured ninjas can only sleep outside the tents, many of the ninjas who died of their injuries were sealed in scrolls, and escorted back to Konoha Village together with the injured who had been crippled and ended their ninja careers, and the elite among them might be able to stay in Konoha Village and find stable jobs, and most of the peripheral ninjas could only return to their hometowns after receiving a small amount of subsidies to tell the children about their heroic deeds.
"Inoue-sensei, why do you say there is a war?" Sissi sat on the wooden plank, quietly looking at the medical tent in the distance, outside the tent, a young man who seemed to be his brother was lying on his brother's body and crying in pain, tears wetting a white cloth stained with blood.
In her mind, the experience of this time made Sissi begin to be dazed, unprepared, in the past half a month, Sissi has killed two young ninjas from Shayin Village on the battlefield with her own hands, it was an extermination mission, Sissi didn't want to kill them, they were only eleven or twelve years old, but they rushed towards Sissi with weapons and fearless death, only madness and hatred in their eyes, Sissi didn't understand what was wrong with the world?
"Everyone understands war differently. Mr. Inoue shook his head and said with some distraction: "In my opinion, everyone has something in their hearts that they want to protect, even if they die for it, people have taken up arms, fought desperately for protection, and hated for the loss of what they guarded, so war was born, but ......" Inoue Sensei didn't say any more, and the original sunny appearance seemed to be covered with an invisible shadow.
"But ......" Sissi wanted to say something, but the words came to her lips and could not be spoken, the cause of the war was too complicated, the more Sissi thought about it, the more she didn't understand, and the more she didn't understand, the more she hesitated.
Suddenly, a ninja wearing a mask appears in front of Inoue-sensei.
"Captain Uchiha Shu asked all the Upper Shinobi of the tactical unit to go to the emergency combat meeting immediately. The masked ninja said.
"Yes, I see. Inoue-sensei nodded and said to Sissi, "You go and get Teita and Amber back, hurry up and eat dinner and prepare your equipment just in case." With that, Inoue-sensei followed the masked ninja away.
Sissi put aside her worries and hurried to the medical department to find the two Amber, these days Amber and Hui Tai often go to the medical department to help, by the way, from the injured ninja mouth to get some information, most of the ninjas in Shayin Village are good at using wind ninjutsu and poisons, if you don't understand clearly, you will be in danger of dying if you are not careful in the battle.
"Teita, Amber. Sissi walks into a medical tent, where Amber and Teita are helping to sort out various medical supplies.
"What's wrong?" Amber asked, confused.
"Mr. Inoue asked us to prepare for the war. ”
"Are you finally going to make us fight?!! Great!" Teita clenched his fists, his face full of excitement.
"I'm sorry, Huhe senior, we can only help here. Amber turned his head to Huhe, who was busy behind him, and said, Huhe is a medical ninja in the medical department, and the uncle in his thirties is more talkative, and Amber has learned a lot of information from him.
"It's okay, it's okay, you've helped a lot, so let's go if you have something. Huhe waved his hand and said with a smile.
The three Amber men left the medical department, had a hurried dinner, and sat in the team's tent checking various equipment.
It wasn't until it was dark that Mr. Inoue returned to the tent, still holding a wooden box in his hand.
"Inoue-sensei, what's wrong?" Amber asked.
"An elite squad of Sa Shinobi attacked two of our strongholds on the front line, and all of them died before they even had time to call for help. Mr. Inoue said with some heaviness.
"How is it possible?!There are at least hundreds of ninjas in each stronghold on the front line, right?How can a sand ninja team kill the light?" Amber frowned and couldn't believe it, there were all kinds of ways for ninjas to escape for their lives, even if Amber turned on the immortal mode by himself and used hypersensory, he didn't dare to say that he wouldn't miss a person.
"I don't know the specifics. Mr. Inoue shook his head, put the box on the ground and said, "Here is the ninja equipment sent by the equipment part, and the command ordered us to track down the elite team, and we will set off in a while." ”
"Yes. The three of them answered, opened the box and distributed the forbearance, three hundred detonation charms, one hundred kunai, a number of steel wires, and twenty smoke bombs, all of which were standing forbearances.
Soon, the four of them came to the gate of the camp to gather, in addition to the amber team, there were two other shinobi, one of them was riding on a brown wolf dog, obviously from the Inuzuka clan, while the other was wearing a gray trench coat and sunglasses, which should be the insect envoy of the oil girl clan.
"I'm the captain of this mission, Kamitsuki Inoue, and since we're all here, let's go. Inoue gave the order, and the six disappeared in the blink of an eye.
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In the darkness, six black shadows quietly sneaked into a small town close to the border of Huochuan, and the empty town was pitch black, like a ghost town.
"Inoue-sensei, there is no chakra reaction around. Sissi opened her eyes and said.
"Well, take care of the cover, keep going, and Sissi, please call me captain during the mission. Inoue said with a smile.
"Oh, got it. Sissi stuck out her little tongue.
The six of them groped along the alley that could not be illuminated by the moonlight, and soon came to a large area of ruins, where the heavy smell of blood came to their faces, and many mutilated corpses and internal organs could be seen in the cracks of the ruins, and the coagulated black blood was particularly dazzling under the moonlight.
"Gross!" Sissi and Hui vomited, where had the two of them seen such a hellish scene of broken corpses, coupled with the bloody breath in the air, they couldn't help it immediately.
In comparison, Amber is much calmer, and although her face is pale, she can at least overcome it.
"I said, Captain Inoue. Inuzuka glanced at the two who were spitting, frowned, and said, "These are your subordinates? It's a bit inappropriate to let them perform this kind of task, right? We're not nannies." ”
"Everyone has a first time, I'm sure they can overcome it, and my subordinates are all very good ninjas, don't underestimate them. Inoue patted Sissi on the back and looked back.
Inuzuka was about to say something, but the crow's cry suddenly came from around.
Inoue signaled for silence, listened carefully, and then replied twice, and soon a middle-aged ninja came over.
"Excuse me, are you a tracking team sent by the Tactics Department?" asked the middle-aged ninja.
"Yes, I'm Captain Kamizuki Inoue. ”
"Huh, you're finally here, I'm the captain of the 13th Combat Squadron, we've made a preliminary survey, the temporary stronghold is over there, please come with me." After the middle-aged ninja finished speaking, he led the three of them to a private house, where more than a dozen middle ninjas were sitting on the ground.
"Time is pressing, so let's talk about the specifics first. Inoue sat down and said.
"That's right. The middle-aged ninja took out a small notebook and looked at it and said: "We arrived here yesterday afternoon, after a preliminary judgment that the enemy used a poison that has never been seen before, colorless and odorless, relying on the air to spread, the poisoned ninja will be paralyzed and unable to extract chakra, judging from the wounds of the corpse, there are puppet ninjas who are good at large-scale powerful wind ninjutsu and firing quenching poison thousand books, and the scene was also cleaned very clean after the battle, and we searched for a long time before we found a thousand copies left by the enemy." ”
After the middle-aged ninja finished speaking, he took out a box containing a thousand copies from the ninja bag and handed it to Inoue.
"I see, thank you for your hard work. Inoue handed the box to Inuzuka Mao, and the means of tracking the smell were still the best of the Inuzuka family's wolf dogs.
The six people of Inoue did not stay long, and immediately followed Inuzuka Mao, who was looking for the smell of the enemy, out of the temporary stronghold.
Inuzuka's ninja dogs sniffed around the ruins, and soon found the scent of the enemy, and the six began to track it overnight.
Throughout the night, the six of them kept tracking, and it was only in the early morning that Inoue ordered a two-hour rest, and the three of Amber, who had not slept for a day and a night, had been on the road all night, and they were already close to the limit, and they had eaten a little and fell asleep.
After resting for more than an hour, Inoue's three upper shinobi were stronger and had almost recovered.
"Inuzuka Mao, Mai Oilgirl, you guys take a look at the tracking route map. Inoue spread out a map, and on the map was a red line drawn in a zigzag, which was the trace of the enemy that the six men had tracked down in one night.
"These guys are really cautious, they specialize in picking up the windy valley, and if it weren't for the help of Mai, the oil girl, I wouldn't be able to follow them. Inuzuka said.
"That's not the point, if you look closely, they're constantly changing direction, if it's just a cover-up that doesn't seem to make sense, I think they're ......" Inoue looked up at the two of them.
"Are they disguising their destination?" said Mai, the oil girl who had few words, suddenly.
"That's right!" Inoue nodded, measured it with his pen, drew a fan-shaped area and said, "I analyzed that their destination should be in this fan-shaped direction, but there is no stronghold in this direction, and there is no stronghold of Sha Shinobi, where do they want to go?"
All three were silent, and there was no point in making unfounded speculations.
"Is there a river or anything like that in the fan-shaped area?" Amber, who was sleeping next to her, suddenly asked.
"You're awake, Amber, river...... There was one, but we had already walked through it two hours ago. "Inoue searched and found an inconspicuous river on the border of the fan-shaped area.
"Walked through?" Amber asked, frowning, "And does the river pass through our stronghold?"
"Yes, there are our strongholds in the lower reaches of the river, and there are two, Amber, what do you mean......" Inoue was stunned, and suddenly thought of something.