Chapter Forty-Six: Swimming Against the Current
"Everyone organizes things, takes as many things as possible, and collects those who can't take them away, and we store them in a centralized manner." Early the next morning, after a hurried breakfast, one hundred and nine people, the newly named Iwano's hundred people in Uehara, packed their bags and prepared to leave.
Originally, there was so much that almost everyone could carry a large bag of kunai, but after the consumption of successive fierce battles and the increase in numbers, the rest was divided equally again, and it was only basically enough. As for food, there is no shortage for the time being.
Before leaving the camp, Uehara looked back again, and the stone tablet was engraved with a new name, and when fighting more than a dozen ninjas, the other party had as many as four shinobi presence. The battle was short-lived, but there were still as many as nine casualties, and if it weren't for these accidents, one hundred and eighteen companions would have left, not one hundred and nine.
The number of people increased, the team became more bloated, and the task of the reconnaissance squad and the alert squad became more onerous. In addition to the reconnaissance and alert squad, from time to time, there are people who keep shuttling in front and back of the team, reporting various situations to Uehara, so that Uehara can grasp the status of all his companions at every moment. He can't be careless, Konoha ninjas may come at any time, and after witnessing countless sacrifices, Uehara no longer thinks that the Konoha ninja he has a good impression of will be a good man and a woman.
Originally, the direction Uehara was going to be the station of the 15th detachment, and the reason was to rescue the comrades of the 15th detachment who might survive, although this possibility was very small. But Dongchuan Yan Yan refused, and after everything was settled, they went to the jungle to collect the bodies of their companions, and the remains plus the surviving Dongchuan group of people, exactly sixty-three people......
Without a survivor, Uehara would no longer waste time doing meaningless actions, and now, he could only rely on this knowledgeable fellow, hoping that he could quickly find a way back to the land of the earth.
Uehara's high hopes are currently in a hurry, "Sasaki, this river, I'm not sure if it's a tributary of the Shinnon River......" The shrine book took a separate page of the map and discussed it with Sasaki. Yes, this page of the map is the one that Sasaki secretly tore off from the ritual book at that time.
Because of the "missing" of this map, Sasaki and the others finally retreated, and as a result, they sacrificed nine more companions, but they rescued Uehara, and there were as many as forty more detonation charms for war materials, and more importantly, they got a piece of information related to everyone's life and death, and learned that Konoha was coming, so several main people in charge unanimously decided to evacuate as soon as possible. No one is judging whether the shrine is right or wrong, and no one has mentioned this matter because of the tacit understanding between the shrine and Sasaki.
After studying for a long time, I didn't come up with the reason, and I blamed the vegetation of the ninja world to the extreme, and everywhere I went, it was like being in a primeval forest, which made it extremely difficult to identify the location.
Unable to make up their minds, the two informed Uehara of the situation, and not long after the march, several captains were together again for a regular meeting.
"The most important problem is that I don't have time to waste anymore." Uehara kept rubbing his temples, he hadn't had a good rest for a long time, and his head hurt terribly.
"So, Worship Ben, since I gave you the task, it is because you are better than everyone else in this regard, and all of us believe in you." With a smile that he thought was sunnier than Akai, Uehara continued, "Even if you really accidentally bump into a Konoha ninja head-on, that's okay, everyone won't blame you." Moreover, as long as it is not those legendary guys, ordinary shinobi, one or two of us as many as a hundred or more companions, it is enough to deal with them. ”
"That's good!" Uehara's act of complete trust gave him great courage, "My decision was that we would go upstream, and when we reached the main stream of the Shinano River, I would be able to determine everyone's location based on specific hydrological information, and then everyone would leave by boat." The Shinano River is the only river that passes through the land of the earth, and if nothing else, it will only take about ten days for us to return to the land of the earth. ”
Watching the shrine leave, Uehara also has his own thoughts, going upstream, if you use a safer method, hide during the day and travel at night, it is estimated that it will take more time.
The small river where Uehara caught their fish was said to be a branch of the Shinano River, but when everyone walked for a morning and finally came to the end, they found that this branch was just a secondary branch of another branch.
According to the Shinomoto River, the source of the Shinano River is in the land of thunder, which is very high, and after passing through the mountains of the land country, it suddenly becomes the country of the river of the flat river, so the water flow is very fast.
How turbulent the water was, Uehara had seen it, and it was such a small stream that almost drowned him who couldn't tread water at the beginning. When the water is fast, the boat will not work, and if you encounter a whirlpool of water, the whole boat will capsize, and the speed of the boat against the current is slower than walking.
He had his own plans, and he knew that there was a shipyard up the main stream, and that the small town that prospered on the shipyards, although trade was still abundant during the war, and it was a good choice to stay in that town and wait for reinforcements from the village, or to buy (or rob a ship) and leave.
"Fatty, give me the rhino." Rhino's legs were broken, and he couldn't handle it well, and now he kept having a high fever and was unconscious, which made Uehara very worried, and he asked him, who was trying his best to use the herbs he had picked to make a potion, and the other medical team village got off work, and the plan they gave was to amputate the limb immediately, otherwise the whole leg would die. Looking at the pale rhino, Uehara, who has the common sense of modern medicine, is actually more inclined to the second approach......
It's just that this kind of thing, Spider Pill's brainless won't agree, and Xue Nai, who seems to be easy to talk but is actually very rude, probably won't agree. Uehara decided to wait for two more days, and if he had no choice, he could only use the method of getting off work in the village.
Uehara asked the fat man to hand over the rhino to him to carry, but the fat man ignored him, and still gritted his teeth and insisted on it. Uehara was upset, and he slapped the fat man hard, "Remember what I said when we first investigated?" Don't force yourself to do what you can't do, you've been carrying it all morning, it's good enough, now you need to take a break and recover your strength. Uehara said, taking out a small bag of nuts from his backpack and handing it to the fat man, "Can you fight in this state?" If you encounter an enemy, I will score at least two men to take care of you, which will affect our combat effectiveness very much. ”
took the rhino's back on his back, no wonder the rhino guy is not good at physical skills, his weight is so light, and he doesn't feel much weight on his back.
"By the way, fatty, give me that spiraled mug in my backpack." Uehara felt that he had a perverted hands-on ability, and after carving a dozen cylindrical wooden blocks, he actually carved out a rough cup with a lid.
The cup is filled with honey water, and the honeycomb is what the spider pill is looking for from tree to tree regardless of fatigue, there are not many beehives, and there is naturally not much honey.
The fat man handed the cup to Uehara, who lay down the rhino against the trunk of the tree and fed him honey with a spoon little by little, but fortunately, despite the coma, the rhino was able to swallow the water little by little unconsciously, and according to Uehara's feeling, he was about to wake up.
"Fatty, take it, you can drink some and recover some strength." Uehara handed the cup over.
"No, I'm not thirsty." The fat man took one look at it, then shook his head and refused.
Looking at the fat man's chapped lips, Uehara pursed his lips and handed him his cup of cold water, this time he didn't refuse, less than five counts, and drank Uehara's water in one go.