Hanyu stood in an empty and pitch-black underground space, even if it was the underground base of the shadow stream, he would not have this sense of loneliness here.

The devil knows how an underground project of this magnitude was built.

However, in addition to the emptiness, it is also a familiar place for Hanyu. He had been here not long after coming to Konoha, when the Uchiha in the village were not very honest, so he returned to Konoha from the front line, joined the Shadow Department as a Shadow Ninja, got a Shadow Mask here, and then carried out the mission of spying on the Uchiha.

It's just that...... Whether this familiarity aggravated Hanyu's loneliness or alleviated his loneliness, even he couldn't tell.

Things are not people.

So Hanyu was so immersed in his emotions that he completely ignored the four dark ninjas around him.

After the two sides stood like this for a while, the ninja of the shadows finally couldn't help but speak, "Is it Hanyu-sama from the shadow stream, I don't know why Hanyu-sama came to the shadows?" ”

"Ahh

Hanyu reacted at this time, he scratched his head, realizing that now was not the time to express his feelings, so he took out the order of the three generations of Hokage and handed it to the dark ninja who had just spoken.

The other party took the handwritten order, confirmed the content of it very rigorously, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong with it, he put it away.

"Hanyu-sama, please come with me." He went on to say this.

Hanyu nodded, and followed behind the dark team.

After twisting and turning around in this underground space for a long time, the Shadow Ninja took Hanyu to a secret dungeon - both above and below ground, there are many strongholds in the Shadows, but this is probably the most important one.

Hanyu came here to take away seven felons who were "unforgivable", and they had to be the kind of felons who were strong, had chakra qualities beyond the average level, and had a strong physical endurance.

He needed such a ninja, whether the other party was a spy from another village before, or Konoha's own guilty ninja.

In front of the dungeon, Hanyu looked at the narrow doorway in front of him, and after stretching out his hands for a moment, he finally decided to untie the shark muscle behind him and hold it in his hand......

"Use weapons" not because Hanyu wanted to do any damage, but because the door in front of him was too narrow. And just now, Hanyu had put the shark muscle completely behind him, but the length of this thing was at least two meters, and it couldn't get in horizontally anyway.

So a bit of a strange scene happened, Hanyu dragged a machete into the dungeon of the shadows, and he had the momentum to cut whoever he didn't accept......

As soon as he entered the dungeon, Hanyu noticed the shark muscle in his hand squirming, but this reaction was not incomprehensible, because there was a rotten bloody aura in the air.

Even if you enter the dungeon, it is impossible for the other party to let Hanyu choose the people to take away, such a job can only be operated by the dark department, anyway, as long as the candidate given by the dark department can meet the requirements put forward by Hanyu.

So Hanyu could only "visit" here, but after he had taken a few steps, he stopped abruptly and turned his gaze to a cell on the right...... There was a man tied to the cross.

The opponent's hands, feet, and neck were firmly fastened, and a sealing technique that Hanyu couldn't understand was engraved on the door of his head. One of the man's eyes was closed, but his eyelids had sunken, and half of his face was covered in dried blood, and it was evident that one of his eyes had been removed.

But that's not the point, the point is that Hanyu saw the last eye left of the other party...... The iris is as rich red as blood jade, and there are three hooks scattered around the pupil.

It's the Uchiha clan, but it's really a place in life where we don't meet.

"Hanyu-sama, this person can't bring out the shadows."

The shadow ninja reminded Hanyu when he saw Hanyu stop and follow his gaze to see someone he had already noticed.

"I don't want to get involved in this kind of troublesome thing, I don't want this person to give it to me."

Hanyu said that he would want to have nothing to do with a bloody Uchiha, what's the use of this? Left at home?

Probably not wanting Hanyu to see more of the secrets of the Shadows, the Shadows Ninja moved quickly, and it didn't take long to pick out seven prisoners.

Then they took advantage of the darkness to help Hanyu send the seven people to the underground base of the Shadow Stream.

The seven of them were temporarily detained by Shadowstream, and as for what to do with them next, this is not something that the Shadow Ninja can know...... In fact, they are not interested in such a thing.

Many prisoners who have been fully tortured and squeezed out of the last shred of value will be taken away by various departments of Konoha, and some of them will be brought to Konoha Hospital to "assist" in medical research; Worse ones are taken to the roots or other institutions that don't have a name at all, and they are subjected to various human experiments.

So in the face of "common things", the dark ninja is naturally accustomed to it.

The seven prisoners were taken to a secret room at the bottom of the Shadow Stream, where they were guarded by a team of Uzumaki ninjas.

The prisoners were covered with various seals, so it was impossible for them to break free and escape, and the main task of the team guarding them was not to prevent anyone from escaping, but to prevent someone from committing suicide in a way that was beyond imagination and convention.

Wanting to die was a perfectly normal operation for this group, and the devil knows what they had been through in the dungeons of the shadows.

I just don't know if being able to become a sacrifice for rebirth in the filthy earth is a relief for them.

…………

One night passes, and the next day comes.

Although they don't know what the organization is busy with, many of the ninjas in the shadow stream have personally felt a certain tense and slightly oppressive atmosphere, and under the influence of this atmosphere, all ninjas have begun to be cautious, and every work and task has become meticulous.

After all, this is the purpose of the establishment of the Shadow Stream, and the next is the most critical period of the Shadow Stream.

In three days, it will be the time when the plan will be implemented, because it is worried that the movement caused by the Nine-Tails will be too big and the whole plan will lose its secretiveness, so it will be carried out in a secret and unknown place.

And only now, Hanyu has met with eight other Uzumaki ninjas who are preparing to participate in the operation in addition to Uzumaki Mito - in order to ensure the independence of the severed Nine-Tails Chakra, the plan tends to be conservative, so although it is feasible to cast the ghoul seal as a clone, this method will bring uncertainty to the division and subsequent summoning, so it is ruled out.

Each tailed beast that is divided will be sealed on the body of a single person, so eight people are already the smallest number of participants - seven people are responsible for casting the ghoul seal and the four elephant seals, and one person is responsible for unlocking the ghoul seal.

It was a plan that had been laid down a long time ago, but there were some things that Hanyu had not known beforehand - he had seen the old matriarch of the whirlpool among the eight.

"Patriarch, you ......"

"Haha, Hanyu, what's so surprising about this, am I not old enough?"

Hanyu didn't know what to say at this time, the patriarch was indeed old, but he was the patriarch of the Uzumaki after all, and no one could ask him to participate in such a plan...... Unless he is actively involved.

Perhaps, this is the only "responsible act" that he, as the patriarch, can do in this matter...... It's not just about asking others to sacrifice, it's about sacrificing yourself.

Such an action would ensure that there was nothing wrong with his position as patriarch, and it would also prove that the plan was all out of public interest.

Being a patriarch is not greedy for life, which is the best explanation for the other Uzumaki ninjas involved in the operation - maybe others don't need such an explanation at all, but the old patriarch thinks that he should give such an explanation.

"Young man, a new era is about to begin, and we haven't done anything before, but after this incident, we can barely say that we are the ones who bring a new era to the Vortex clan - isn't this a rare opportunity for us old bones who are about to go to the ground?

We're finally late, but it seems too late. ”

An old man said this, and when he said this, the others laughed as well. Then, the seven people except the patriarch stepped forward one by one, and each of them handed Hanyu a piece of blood in a glass bottle.

Hanyu wasn't sure what percentage of the idea of opening the way for a new era for the Uzumaki clan was, but judging by their open-mindedness, he felt that the old men were more like they were being buried for the old Uzumaki.

Ninjas die, but because ninjas die, the way they die is especially important to them.

Open-mindedness and sadness, sadness and contentment, satisfaction and hope, all in their wrinkled and blinded smiles.

So, from the standpoint of a bystander like Hanyu, what could he say at this time, he couldn't say anything, just silently put away those blood vials.