"Then let's go first! Grandpa Jiraiya! See you tomorrow! ”

"See you tomorrow? Hey, spare me this old bone, I want to rest for a few more days and relax. ”

Looking at the two little guys in front of him who were smiling and waving goodbye to him, after pretending to have a headache and teasing, he also raised his hand and waved it.

"Be careful and stay safe on the road...... In the past few days, don't think about cultivation for the time being, just relax and rest at home for a while, and remember the principle of combining work and rest. ”

"Okay - we got it! Goodbye to Grandpa! ”

“…… Got it? Haha, Naruto, this kid, should be reconciled quite quickly, but he will definitely not listen obediently, and most likely tomorrow he will be unable to help but arrange his own practice schedule...... At this age, other children only think about how to have fun, but this child is not noisy or noisy, and just thinks about cultivation all day long...... Judging from the relationship over the past year, the essential character is obviously not the type of bully, I really don't know why I attach so much importance to strength at a young age, and I am not afraid of exhausting myself. ”

After standing in place and waving his hand to watch the figures of Naruto and Sasuke fade away and disappear into the night, Jiraiya slowly lowered his palm, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he muttered to himself, but his eyes were full of pampering and pride for Naruto, and after a pause, he turned around and quickly walked away in the opposite direction, while retracting his smile and turning his face into a complex appearance of mixed joy and sorrow.

"Okay, the two little ones have gone home obediently, it's time to deal with the sudden information from the teacher......"

One of the reasons why Jiraiya suddenly decided to let Naruto and Sasuke go home from their special training at night was because the time was indeed about the same as the deadline for the special training plan that was formulated, and even because of the excellent potential shown by Naruto and Sasuke, they exceeded their goals, and the other and most important reason was the urgent order that the third Hokage passed to Jiraiya through the shadow clone technique.

Ever since Naruto fully demonstrated the significant advantages of the special use of shadow clones for real-time dialogue in terms of intelligence transmission during the eradication of Danzo operation, this scheme has quietly spread among the upper echelons of the Konoha Ninja Village - in terms of chakra alone, there may not be many people in the Konoha Ninja Village who can compare to Naruto, who is a nine-tailed pillar force, but if only two or three shadow clones are reserved in the intelligence room specially opened up in the Hokage's office building as an emergency means of communication, although it is necessary to divert chakra all day to maintain the shadow clone, more or less has an impact on strength, but it is naturally effortless for the strong who can enter the upper class...... And as one of the three generations of Hokage's cronies, Jiraiya is of course one of the members who volunteered to participate in this plan.

Because of this, Jiraiya, who originally wanted Naruto Sasuke to rest for one night first and then continue his cultivation the next day, suddenly took effect because the memory transmission that had been silent between the shadow clone and the main body that had been reserved in the Hokage office building a year ago suddenly took effect, and he accidentally received an urgent order from the three generations of Hokage, so he changed his tune and ended the special training ahead of schedule and let Naruto and Sasuke return home first.

"Are the guards on the border suddenly losing contact en masse...... If I'm not mistaken, ninjas who are qualified to guard the frontier must at least have a special level of ninja, and it's okay to say one or two, but now they are collectively lost...... Either someone plotted a rebellion, or it was ...... Encountered by a strong enemy, he has already died on the frontier. “

After more than a year of special training, Jiraiya can be said to know the No. 3 wilderness survival training ground well, and he is familiar with finding the nearest route to the place of the incident, and while quickly shuttling between the branches like a ghost, he mutters to himself and analyzes the information that the three generations of Hokage conveyed to him through the shadow clone in a hurry, and his face becomes more and more serious because of this.

"I see, no wonder the teacher did not hesitate to disturb the special training arrangements for Naruto...... This is indeed a problem that should not be underestimated, if it is the former, it is better to say, as long as the boss is solved, it will be basically solved...... But now there are basically not many villains in the village now, and the probability of this happening is not very large, that is to say, the reason for the current change is more likely to be the latter. ”

"And to be able to easily deal with so many elite troops, except for the large-scale invasion of hostile forces, then there is only one possibility that the ill-intentioned shadow-level powerhouse was discovered by the guards when they tried to infiltrate the village......

Of these two possibilities, no matter which one of them is, it is not an existence that ordinary support forces can deal with, and Jiraiya, who happened to lead Naruto and Sasuke to conduct special training in the No. 3 Field Survival Training Ground, was extremely close to the location of the incident, and the special event related to the safety of the village made the three generations of Hokage look for support in advance when the special training was not completely over. It is precisely because the enemy situation is unknown and worried that he will not be able to be distracted to take care of the safety of these two children, so he will choose to end the special training early and arrange for the two to go home instead of waiting in place, so that he can relax and concentrate on the action to solve this accident.

"Tsk, after receiving this message, I always feel a sense of foreboding in my heart...... I hope I've thought about it a lot, and according to the location of the incident given by the teacher, the distance should not be far away, and I have to speed up a little faster, and solve it as soon as possible. ”

After a pause, while slightly identifying and correcting the direction of progress, he secretly accelerated the pace of action, and it didn't take long for him to fall lightly from the towering branches of the big tree to the ground, and slowly walked forward with the help of the increasingly diffuse smell of blood in the air, and finally found a corpse wearing a Konoha Ninja Village ninja vest with a tragic death.

"Sure enough, is it still a step too late...... This must be one of the missing guards. Looking at the corpse that was still slumped face down in front of him, Jiraiya frowned and squatted down and reached out to slowly flip it over, the smell of blood became more and more intense due to the loss of dirt at the same time, the expression on Jiraiya's face became more and more gloomy and iron, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth and shout angrily, "Damn! It's so ruthless! Who the hell did this! ”

After turning over the corpse, which had obviously just died, not only did he expose the wounds left by the inhuman torture of the deceased before his death, but he also appallingly peeled off his entire face, leaving only a terrible face covered with dirt and flesh that was blurry and unrecognizable!

“…… These are all traumatic injuries on the body, and the fatal injuries are...... I found it, because of the toxins injected into the body from the neck, and the skin near the wound began to swell and rot. ”

After carefully identifying the corpse of the person in front of him, he quickly found the cause of the poor deceased's death from the small purple ulceration bag that bulged up between his neck, but then he remembered something and squinted his eyes and carefully examined the wound.

"Apart from these two small holes in the artery, there were no wounds of any other kind in the vicinity of the fatal wounds of the deceased...... Well? Wait a minute, the two small holes are not very far apart, and they look like ...... Hit by a snake's fangs? Could it be ......! ”

Thinking of this, Jiraiya's mind suddenly recalled the face of a former best friend, and he stood up and planned to report the information and his own conjectures to the three generations of Hokage through the shadow clone, but he was slightly stunned by the familiar chakra riot atmosphere faintly coming from afar.

"It's ...... Chakra of the Nine-Tails? Not good! Naruto: They're in danger! ”

The sudden activation of the Nine-Tails Chakra obviously means that Naruto's current situation is so dangerous that he has to use the Tailed Beast to fight! It also proved the worst conjecture in Zilai's heart!

"The quickest way to get there from here is ...... Damn, it's too late! ”

While his mood became restless again, Jiraiya didn't care about continuing to explore more information, and while using the shadow clone to send information to the three generations of Hokage to request support, he suddenly ejected from the spot faster than when he came, and roared with his fists clenched and his eyes cracked.

"Bastard! Orochimaru, I don't know what you want to do when you go back to the village, but if you dare to hurt that kid in the slightest, I will never give you a chance to leave the village alive! ”