However, just as there was a noisy scene taking place at the illusion meeting on the "shell" side, at the border of the Fire Country, with a strange spatial twist, a slender figure appeared here.

"Ah, I found it."

When the figure landed, the white eye of its left eye, which could only observe everything within a radius of tens of miles, flashed, and it immediately found the destination of this mission from this lush forest, the giant airship that had fallen in the forest.

This woman, who suddenly appeared at the border of the Fire Country, naturally took over the mission from Konoha and came to rescue Konoha Maru, who had lost contact for a long time, Konoha ordinary Shinobi, Hinata Hinata.

Through the methods of "space warping" and "space folding", Hinata can complete the journey that ordinary people would have to walk for hours in a matter of minutes, including finding the crashed airship, and it was only eight or nine minutes after she left the Hokage's office, which is simply amazingly fast.

"But the speed of technological development in recent years is so fast, it is impossible to make such a big airship...... And what's going on around that? ”

After casually landing in the open space in front of the airship, Hinata slowly walked inside while observing the behemoth.

Before Hinata could get close to the airship, she had already seen a lot of strange things wearing black cloaks that looked like puppets lying around the airship.

Is it a little trick that those puppeteers in Sand Hidden Village like to play? Not really, these guys seem to have their own energy cores, not so much puppets of the puppeteer, but more like the battle puppets left behind by the Moon Relic on the moon, right?

After walking around and inside the airship like a walk, Hinata noticed that there didn't seem to be anything particularly noteworthy except for a black coffin-like box, so she casually walked out.

Crunch....... But just as Hinata was about to leave here and go to Konohamaru's side, those strange puppets that were originally scattered all over the place made a strange movement, and then slowly stood up.

“....... I advise you to continue lying down. ”

Whew, ha! Before Hinata could finish her words with a smile, the dozen or so puppet puppets had already opened their mechanical mouths, which were almost the size of their entire faces, and spewed out a fireball about the size of their mouths in this direction!

If you were an ordinary person, you would definitely have to be in a hurry in the face of the sudden attack of these dozen fireballs at the same time, but the question is, for the current Hinata......

It's a hassle. When those fireballs shot out, I saw the woman casually throw a black gravitational core into the sky, and then a powerful gravitational force actually sucked those fireballs into the air along with the puppet dolls!

Click! Rumble!

As soon as a bunch of puppets and the fireballs they spewed out were squeezed together, the high heat attached to more than a dozen fireballs immediately ignited this "mechanical ball", and then it made a crisp sound and fell to the ground, turning into a pair of black unidentified pieces.......

A puppet puppet that acts automatically, Konohamaru and his team members are actually dragged by these guys? Really.

This year's Shangnin has become more and more unreliable, but fortunately, I didn't take the exam, and I can't afford to lose this person.

With a sigh, Hinata's figure disappeared in an instant, and then flew towards the area of the forest in the distance.

At the same time, in a huge cave only a few miles away from where the airship fell, Konohamaru was taking out a water bottle from behind him to replenish the water for his companion.

"Cheer up....... You didn't hurt your guts, just hold on until reinforcements came. ”

Looking at Mai Ye, his companion who came to investigate the fall of the airship with him, but was injured by those puppet dolls, a trace of anxiety appeared in Konohamaru's eyes.

Although Mai Ye's injuries are not fatal, if they drag on any longer, the risk of death will increase, but Konohamaru also clearly knows that judging from the distance from here to Konoha Village, the reinforcements he is talking about will not come so soon.

But just when Konohamaru thought about holding on for a few more hours, a voice that sounded as crisp as a silver bell suddenly came from behind him.

"Konohamaru and his companions, found it."

What people! The moment that voice sounded, Konohamaru only felt a chill rush into his heart, after all, Konohamaru, who is now twenty-eight years old, is already a mature shinobi, how could he be so easily approached behind him silently!

For a ninja, being approached like this is equivalent to being a dead person, so Konohamaru reflexively and quickly pulled out the kunai, and waved his head behind him without looking back!

However, before he could swing his kunai halfway, a slender palm deftly snatched kunai from his hand, and grabbed Konohamaru's wrist, which had become very powerful.

It's over. When his wrist was grabbed, Konohamaru only felt as if he was being clamped by iron tongs, and there was no room for struggle, so his heart immediately remembered his grandfather, who had been dead for many years.......

Just as Konohamaru was about to close his eyes and wait for death, Mai Ye, who was lying next to the wall, couldn't help but shout loudly: "Ah, this is not ...... Isn't this Hinata-sama! ”

Ay? Wait, Hina ....... Hinata?

It was only then that Konohamaru hurriedly turned his head to look behind him, only to find that the woman who seemed to have the aura of heaven and earth was looking at him with a crying and laughing expression.

For this hero of Konoha and even the world, Konohamaru naturally knew it, although the two sides were just nodding friends, so he immediately realized that he seemed to have done something stupid.

"The reaction is quite fast, but why wasn't it so heroic when fighting those puppets."

A minute later, Hinata laughed and teased Konohamaru while treating Maino's injuries.

"It's ....... Have you taken out all those mechanical golems? They can absorb ninjutsu and release it again, which is very tricky. When he mentioned this, Konohamaru remembered the scene when he fought those strange things before.

Although the mechanical puppets themselves are not very strong in combat, they have the characteristics of being able to absorb ninjutsu, and they can also quickly release ninjutsu-like chakra bullets without sealing, if one or two of these things are okay, and if a dozen of them come out at once, it's no wonder that Konohamaru can't cope with this ninja.

Can you actually absorb ninjutsu? Because when they fought with the mechanical puppets before, Hinata gave them seconds with a Vientiane Heavenly Lead, so they didn't notice this situation.

"By the way, what the hell is going on with that airship? Did you just go to see it? At this time, Konohamaru suddenly remembered the airship he had been to before, but before he could seriously investigate, he was chased and beaten all the way by the mechanical puppet.

"The airship is quite normal, the problem is the black box inside...... There are traces of human beings. ”

Although Konohamaru didn't see it for a while, Hinata saw human tissues such as hair and sweat stains from the box with his amazing insight, and he was sure who was inside.

Judging from the glossiness of the hair, the person in the box should not be very old, and it will be packed and transported like this, probably not with the owner of the airship, is it a kidnapping? Hinata secretly felt in her heart.

At this moment, Mai Ye, who had been lying on the ground and looking about to die, suddenly stood up and said in a surprised tone, "I...... Am I already? ”

The body is so light, compared to the previous feeling, it is simply a world of difference! From Mai Ye's point of view, when the young Hinata-sama put her hand on her shoulder, it didn't take a few minutes for her symptoms to be ninety percent better! This is such a terrifying healing ability, and it can even be said that it almost subverts the concept of healing ninjutsu.

"Okay, let's go, I think I've found the guy who escaped after the airship crash."

After curing Mai Ye in a few words, Hinata's gaze swept to the other side of the forest, some distance from the cave, and just beyond the ultra-distant sight of her white eyes, a young figure was lying in the midst of a mess of mechanical golem remains.......