April 1, 32 years of the Konoha calendar.

It was midday.

On the southeastern border of the Land of Fire, deep in a forest.

The battle took place quietly here, and then quickly ended.

Trees were broken, dirt pits were pitted, and unburned flames brought up puffs of smoke.

Several corpses were either beheaded or pierced back and forth with sharp knives, lying quietly on the ground.

These corpses were once Konoha ninjas, who were ordered to investigate the traces of the Mist Ninja before they died, but they were confronted with an opponent they couldn't handle.

After a short fight, there is no life left.

It's sad, it's cruel, but it's also ...... Normal.

For the entire ninja world, this is just a small microcosm.

Second Shinobi World War - At the same time, I don't know how many people lost their lives because of this war.

The destruction of this ninja squad is just another addition to the rising casualty figures.

In this day and age, death is the most common, and no one cares about the cold numbers because they mean nothing.

But...... Not really, perhaps in the eyes of Konoha higher-ups, their deaths still have some meaning.

After all, even if no information is passed back, the act itself ...... It is also an important piece of intelligence, at least in terms of the nature of their mission.

Through their sudden disappearance, the top management should be able to judge something, draw some conclusions, and finally help in decision-making.

In terms of results, it's not good, but it's acceptable. After all, no one would expect much from a bunch of cannon fodder.

From another point of view, they can be regarded as successfully realizing the value of their lives - making a small contribution to Konoha winning this war.

Even if they don't necessarily want to accept the outcome.

But again, who cares? A bunch of civilian ninjas.

The plot after that - recorded, archived, and given out bereavement benefits, just like a thousand times and ten thousand times before.

After all, this is the fate of ninjas.

Originally, this was supposed to be the end of the matter, and the world continued to go on as usual.

But an accident happened and everything changed......

In the quiet forest, the fingers of a corpse trembled slightly.

……

Lei Luo lay flat on the cold dirt floor, his sleeping consciousness gradually awakening.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and was about to make a move, but he only felt dizzy, his limbs weak, and a tingling pain in his chest.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Lei Luo did not dare to act rashly.

He pulled his eyelids down again, his eyes rolling slightly to look around, and his hands slowly reaching for his waist.

Glock Type 18 fully automatic pistol, 17 rounds of 9mm Parabellum pistol rounds. In the face of unknown conditions, this personal weapon that he wears all year round is his only reliance at this time.

Clinker, touched empty.

"Disarmed?"

Lei Luo frowned, and before he could think about it, he turned his attention to the surrounding scene.

"Hmm...... It seems like there was just a war here? Seeing that there was no one nearby, Lei Luo sat up slowly with his hands on the ground. At the same time, doubts arose in his mind.

At the last moment in his memory, he was obviously lying in a dormitory at a military base in Africa preparing to sleep.

It's heavily guarded, and the teammates patrolling around you can be trusted. The main thing is that it is located in the depths of the Sahara Desert.

How did you wake up and come to such a ghost place?

From the desert to the rainforest, how many miles is the journey?

"Even if it's a plane, it takes days, is there someone who has been giving me numbing along the way?" Lei Luo guessed this, and suddenly felt a little inexplicable.

Someone snatched him out without knowing it, huh...... Next question, what does the other person want to do?

Against yourself? Bad intentions? Torture information?

And what about the other side? Just leave yourself alone here?

Or is it ...... What went wrong?

Coming back to his senses and staring at the battlefield in front of him, Lei Luo only felt extremely strange for a while.

There was no familiar smell of gunpowder here, no scattered shells and grenade fragments, not even bullet holes were visible in the surrounding trees and rocks.

And most of the traces on the battlefield seem to be caused by cold weapons?

Temporarily suppressing the doubts in his mind, Lei Luo tried to stand up. Unexpectedly, he easily did what he thought would be a laborious action.

At the same time, when I first woke up, all kinds of physical discomfort were also rapidly decreasing. After a while, he felt like he was back to normal.

The moment he got up, the changes that occurred in his body gave him a feeling of unreality.

"What's going on?"

Rolling his eyes in confusion, Lei Luo subconsciously looked at his chest.

A huge gap stretched across the clothes, about 20 centimeters long, and looked like it was caused by a cold weapon such as a machete. Maybe it's because too much time has passed, and the blood stuck to it has coagulated into a gelatinous form.

"The injury looks really scary." Lei Luo gritted his teeth, tentatively reached out his hand, and slightly opened the hole in his clothes. I didn't see the blood scab there, and after wiping off the blood, the skin was smooth and smooth, and there was no scar.

It is worth noting that during the examination, he did not feel pain from touching the skin.

Could it be that the pain when you wake up is an illusion?

After all, if you look at the gaps in your clothes, a wound of this magnitude will not heal in a while, and it is not certain whether you can survive or not.

Didn't get hurt at all?

So what's the deal with this blood-soaked garment?

With doubts in mind, he subconsciously touched the rest of his body to see if something else was wrong.

Unexpectedly, the feedback that came back surprised him.

The thighs have become thinner, the hair has become longer, and the original scars are gone...... His body had undergone a lot of changes.

What's going on? Someone did something to his body? In a way he doesn't know?

With a gloomy face, Lei Luo looked at his hands.

A few calluses have disappeared, the knuckles have shrunk a lot, and the skin is a little whiter than before.

Touched the lower body...... Good thing it's still there.

As questions grew and he couldn't figure out what was going on, he decided to turn his attention elsewhere for the time being.

Lei Luo walked quickly to the "corpses" lying on the ground, and when he pulled the first guy, his face couldn't help but change slightly.

This person's face was blue and black, his facial features were hideous, and his face was covered with blood, and he was no longer alive. He hurriedly reached out to probe the man's snort and pulse, and listened to the heartbeat.

"Dead?"

Realizing that the situation was not as simple as he imagined, he took the next inspection seriously. After probing the breath of the rest of the people one by one, he finally sensed that something was wrong.

All of them died, and one guy didn't even have a head left.

Rich experience told him that these corpses were not dummies, props, they were all real people.

And looking at the wounds, they should have been caused by a madman with a machete.

In a trance, Lei Luo had a realization that he should have been lying with these people.

If not some kind of accident happened.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Lei Luo observed these unlucky people for a while.

There were three corpses in total, and the clothes on their bodies were very similar to his, wearing green vests, blue trousers, and an iron forehead guard on their heads.

Wait, forehead protection?

Picking up the forehead guards scattered on the ground and carefully studying the leaf symbols on them, Lei Luo only felt dizzy for a while.

Ninja, Nakashinobi, Konoha Emblem...... Is this Naruto?

I...... Crossed?

At the same time, Lei Luo's sudden awakening seemed to have suddenly triggered some body mechanism, and a hidden spiritual fluctuation suddenly surged out of his body, rushing into his mind, and merging with his soul.

……

This is a memory that tells the story of the short and ordinary life of a shinobi who had just turned seventeen years old and was named Nakazu Leiluo.

And enough Lei Luo, he is neither one of those bloodstained ninjas with the support of his family's power, nor a genius with a background, he is a civilian ninja.

He is like a screw embedded in a huge machine called Konoha Ninja Village, and in order to maintain the operation of the village, he silently sacrifices everything along with thousands of other ninjas.

And his life experience is similar to that of other civilian ninjas.

The longing for the Hokage when he was in ninja school, the hardships of taking on his first mission after graduation, the envy of witnessing those powerful ninjas, and the expectations of his younger brother when he heard the pain of his parents dying on the battlefield......

Life has gradually smoothed out the edges and corners of this man, and now he just wants to live well, watch his younger brother grow up, and find a more beautiful wife to start a family, so that it is enough to live his life.

It's a pity that the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes, and the tide of the times does not shift by the will of individuals.

"There is intelligence that a small batch of fog is enduring our border activities."

"They have to figure out how many they are and what they are for."

"The day is on the front line, and I can't come back in a short time, so Wuyin has picked a good time."

"Are these bastards trying to go to war?"

The Ninja War has just begun, and most of the ninjas in Konoha follow the Hokage to fight in the Land of Rain, and the internal defenses of the Land of Fire are empty.

During this special period, the small movements of the mist ninja successfully stimulated the nerves of the Konoha higher-ups.

The task was quickly handed over to him.

"With the Lei Luo team, the reconnaissance of the southeast defense line will be handed over to you."

Without any hesitation, he took on the task. Not only because he was willing to give for his village, but also because it was wartime and the ninja had no right to refuse to be drafted.

He thought that this time it would be the same as usual, just a simple patrol, and the mist shinobi should not make any big moves at this time. After all, now the eyes of the entire ninja world are turned to the battlefield of the Land of Rain.

But I never expected that death would come inadvertently.

They happened to meet the vanguard of the foggy hide, and he didn't know the guy in the lead.

But the knife, he'd heard of it.

He soon realizes that he is no match and that even the hope of escaping for his life is slim.

And then...... He said he wanted to die.

The other party fulfilled his hopes, first boasted about himself and introduced himself, and then didn't care about the risk of information leakage, and lazily told him the purpose of the Kiri Shinobi's actions.

Arrogant and arrogant, this is his first impression of the man Loquat Shizang. He knew that the other party didn't take them seriously at all, and he wasn't afraid that they would leak the information.

After all, dead people can't speak.

Nervousness, anger, despair, and other emotions flashed through his heart, but he remained silent.

Then, he was attracted by the information from the other party.

Wuyin Village, the country of water, which has always pursued a policy of seclusion and seclusion, took the lead in losing the resource reserve in the tug-of-war with Iwayin Village, the country of earth.

The daimyo were limited in material assistance, and they couldn't exhaust Iwakure.

It won't be long before the fog is sure to be defeated.

However, the three generations of Mizukage who are now in power are war maniacs, and he doesn't want to just admit defeat.

Don't have resources? Just grab it.

Where are the most resources? Of course, it's the land of fire.

It just so happened that Konoha's main force was involved in the Land of Rain, and the internal defense of the Land of Fire was empty, and the domestic combat power was insufficient. If you don't take advantage of the fire to rob at this time, wouldn't you have wasted this God-given opportunity?

So, the Mist Ninja came.

This is the end of the story, and the rest of the battle is lackluster, just a one-sided crush. After all, they are just a combination of middle ninjas and three lower ninjas, and the enemy is an elite squad led by one of the seven ninja swords.

The huge gap in strength made it impossible for them to even escape.

When the decapitating knife slaughtered all his teammates one after another and slashed in front of his eyes, he had some reaction, and his life was almost over.

"It's a pity that the information was not passed back." When I was dying, what reverberated in my heart was regret, reluctance, and nostalgia.

Perhaps, there is also the resentment buried deep in my heart towards this war-torn world.

At this moment, the soul that has not completely returned to the Pure Land, with the last vestige of obsession, chooses to merge with the visitor from the other world who suddenly appears.

……

Absorbing Lei Luo's memory, Lei Luo gently rubbed his temples, only to feel that the headache that had just been alleviated was about to worsen.

The crossing happened so suddenly.

The memories that lingered in his mind, the strange and familiar scenes, reminded him all the time that all this was real.

The instinct that comes from his body allows him to clearly perceive the energy called chakra that is floating in his body.

Height, arm length, shoulder width, waist circumference......

The data that can be measured has also been verified one by one, and the fact is that this is not my original body.

Touched his chest, so that this strange wound also has an explanation - crossing welfare. For example, crossing successfully resurrected with full blood or something?

Taking a deep breath, Lei Luo was a little stunned and a little dazed.

He didn't know why his name coincided with this junzi Leiluo, or if there was some kind of connection between him and the other party.

Was this time-traveling scene arranged by some unknowable god? Or is it a wonderful phenomenon that arises from some objective law that is not understood by human beings?

Although there are many questions, they are not destined to be able to be understood by him now, and he does not plan to think about them anymore.

Now, the only thing that is certain is that this place doesn't seem to be safe, and he, Lei Luo, doesn't want to die as soon as he crosses over.

"There are a lot of corpses here, so we can't rule out the possibility that the fog shinobi will go and return." Lei Luo simply sorted out the weapons and supplies obtained from the corpse search, and secretly pondered.

The corpse of a ninja is very valuable, whether it is to dig up information from the brain or to engage in ninjutsu research, it is "promising".

Lei Luo didn't think that those misty ninjas would leave these corpses alone, and just leave.

The other party should have been busy sweeping up the other Konoha squads before, so he didn't care about this. After a while, when the dust settles on the big picture, someone will definitely come over and finish it.

If you get caught up in a battle and drag it until a master like the Ninja Seven arrives, you will definitely die.

"The Misty Ninja Elite is exhausted, and with my current strength, it is estimated that I am only a high-level cannon fodder on this battlefield."

"It just so happens that I know the purpose of the fog ninja invasion, and I got the information, it should be enough to go back and make a mission, so let's withdraw quickly."

Having made up his mind, Relo no longer procrastinated.

The way Chakra was used flashed in his mind, and Lei Luo tentatively covered Chakra on the soles of his feet, and with a slight leap, he stepped over a height of two feet and jumped onto the branch of a large tree on the side.

"Chakra, it's really magical."

The complete fusion of memories and the instinct of immersion in the body allowed him to make this movement with ease.

Standing on a high place, the field of vision immediately widens a lot.

Lei Luo took one last look at the place and chose a route to evacuate as far as possible from the battlefield.

The route from the border of the Fire Country to Konoha is well remembered by the predecessor, and although it will be a bit detouring this way, it is better to be safe.

Shuttling through the dense woods, relying on his physical instinct, Lei Luo flexibly jumped to the heights, and the trunks, branches, and branches of the trees all became the footholds where he could stand.

Enjoying the novel experience of coming and going, at the same time, he is constantly perceiving the energy contained in his body that can be manipulated - chakra.

In his memory, the various ninjutsu mastered by his predecessor were further sorted out and summarized by him, understood and absorbed, and included in his own combat system.

"The predecessor is the three attributes of thunder, fire and earth, and the talent in this world can be said to be quite good. However, this guy doesn't seem to have seriously developed his physical potential, and he hasn't even mastered a ninjutsu that involves changes in nature. ”

"It may be that the family background is average, and I have to take care of my relatives, and I don't have the extra resources to learn this."

Thinking of this, Lei Luo's heart crossed a strange look.

Three attributes...... It's a terrible thing.

At the same time, his hands kept moving, and twelve seals continued to form one after another. First the knot from beginning to end, then shuffling the order knot, and finally knotting according to the order of the ninjutsu he mastered.

He didn't mobilize Chakra to release the ninjutsu, and his current actions were just to master the process of sealing to ensure that he wouldn't make a mistake in this link during the battle.

Before the crossing, Lei Luo was a mercenary, or a warrior.

To measure the strength of a warrior, he believes that there are two main points: his own quality and external equipment.

The technology of the ninja world during the Second Ninja War was not developed, which can be seen from the equipment he carried.

Except for the detonation charm, which is a bit technical, kunai and shuriken are just cold weapons.

Therefore, the ninja duel mainly depends on its own quality.

The mastery and strength of special abilities such as ninjutsu, physical arts, illusions, and blood stains are the criteria for measuring a ninja's hard power.

Without familiar external equipment such as guns and grenades, Lei Luo could only look at himself.

Ninjutsu is a gun.

Chakra - that's ammunition.

And make sure that every bullet is loaded in the chamber, the safety is drawn, the trigger is pulled, and it is ready to fire at any time...... These are his professional habits.

With a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, he demanded that he must master the new weapon of ninjutsu perfectly - in the shortest possible time.

Mobilize the chakra, make a hand seal, and release the ninjutsu...... There is no room for error in every step.

"The seal of the basic three-body technique is very simple, and the way the chakra works is also very clear, so it shouldn't be a problem to use it normally."

"Earth Dun, Lei Dun each master a ninjutsu, and Huo Dun ninjutsu can't do one."

"The attribute escape technique is a bit more complicated than the three-body technique, and the number of seals has also increased. In this way, the timing of casting must be grasped well. ”

There were no big twists and turns in the practice of sealing, thanks to the solid foundation of the original owner of the body, Lei Luo was able to do 4 seals in 1 second without making mistakes.

It is worth noting that this stamping speed is faster than that of its predecessor.

"Maybe it's because the two souls are fused, and the spiritual power is greatly enhanced, and the speed of the connection seal is also affected?" Lei Luo guessed.

……

In the shade of the trees, he sometimes turned to a sharp stop, sometimes accelerated suddenly, and sometimes ran at a constant speed.

Speed cap, joint flexibility, body flexibility...... Relo was getting used to the sensations of his new body as fast as he could.

Adequate preparation and a cautious attitude were the criteria for him to survive from the battlefield again and again in his previous life.

Relo believes that this will also be the basis for whether he can continue to live in this life.

With a whoosh, miss a few fallen leaves floating in mid-air. Lei Luo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he made a sharp stop, squatting in the shade of an inconspicuous tree.

He pricked up his ears and listened to the faint sound of weapons clashing ahead. The sound of ding-dong-dong was endless, and you didn't need to look to know that the battle was fierce.

Listening to the intensity of the fight, the strength of both sides should be about the same.

So, do you want to get around?

No, it might be an opportunity.

Lei Luo stroked his chin lightly, thinking to himself.

South-East Border ...... At this point in time, the only people who can fight here are the two sides of Mist Shinobi and Konoha .

He stealth in the shadows to take the initiative, and if he suddenly strikes when the two sides are in a scorching state, he may be able to help Konoha ninjas establish a victory.

When he killed the misty ninja, he would smoothly merge with the other Konoha ninjas, and if there was one more person and more strength, his life should be a little more secure at that time.