Chapter 40: The Snake Trail

The four of them are elite ninjas specially selected by Orochimaru from countless people, each with strange abilities, good at escaping and can eat away at the enemy's chakra's Jirofang, who let his brother sleep in his body on weekdays, and when it comes to fighting, he wakes up to resist the enemy's left near, the grumpy Tayuya, and the most playful and powerful Oni Boy Maru.

As Orochimaru's elite guards, they were also dispatched this time, which also shows the importance they attach to Sasuke.

Yao Yao followed far away, and Ning Ci's vision was firmly fixed on the five of them.

Although it was a bit troublesome, it was undoubtedly worth it to find the snake's lair by following Sasuke and his party, after all, the mission promised to Payne should be completed.

As dawn fell, and as the first rays of the morning sun fell on Sakura's face as she slept on the bench, the girl who had always cared about Sasuke finally woke up.

Raising her head and looking at the white belly of the fish floating in the sky, the girl's face instantly turned pale.

"Sasuke-kun!"

Under the whisper, two lines of tears slowly slipped down his face.

In the Hokage's office, Izumo and Zitetsu, who were in charge of assisting the five generations of Tsunade in getting acquainted with the daily affairs of the village, appeared there with a serious face.

"Tsunade-sama, I think there's something I have to report to you."

Tsunade, who had just woken up a little from his nap, looked dazed, wiped the saliva from his mouth, and then nodded in realization.

What happened next was almost no different from Ninji's memory, because most of the village's upper shinobi were sent out to carry out the commission, as the village's fifth generation Hokage, Tsunade naturally couldn't be indifferent to Sasuke's departure, so Tsunade sent a team of five people, led by Shikamaru, who had just been promoted to the middle ninja, Naruto Uzumaki, Inuzuka Ya, Shino Oil, and Akido Dingji, to carry out the mission of recovering Sasuke.

Although Shikamaru's speed is already very fast, after a night of delay, the distance between them and Sasuke is actually quite large.

But fortunately, the Oni Boy Maru and his party, who evacuated Konoha with Sasuke, still met Shizun and Rakami, who were returning to the village after completing the commission, and a special shinobi team composed of several people from Shiranui Genma.

Under the entanglement, although they defeated them when they opened the second state, they were still invisibly slowed down, allowing the team led by Shikamaru to catch up.

Almost the memory of the original, Akido Dingji used the devouring secret medicine to defeat the Jirobo who was left behind.

It's just that the only difference in it is that the oil girl Shino is against the ghost boy pill, and the embarrassed Ning Ci is different from the original, the oil girl Shino, who is also thoughtful, let the ghost boy pill who is light on the enemy have to turn on the state two to deal with it, unlike Ning Ci who can only attack in close quarters at the beginning, the secret technique of the oil girl clan allows Shino to face the ghost boy pill and even have the upper hand, but after wasting some time, he used the principle that female insects will attract male insects to surround a large number of parasitic worms around Ghost Child Pill.

In the face of the parasite in close proximity, even if the Oni Boy Pill turned on the state of the curse seal, it was just a dessert to the parasite that could devour the enemy chakra, and he was defeated without any decent resistance.

Even though he wasn't too badly injured, Shino still had to rest due to Chakra's expense.

On the other side, Shikamaru confronted Tayuya, who could perform sound illusions, Inuzuka encountered Zukyu, and the seal container carrying Sasuke was taken away by Junmaro, leaving Naruto alone to track down the target.

There is a slight flaw in the development of things. Since Akai's third class left the village together to carry out the entrusted mission, naturally there was no Xiao Li to assist, and Naruto, who was helpless, could only watch Sasuke's figure get farther and farther away.

Even Naruto, who leaked a large number of Nine-Tails Chakra because of his mood changes, was unilaterally suppressed when he met Junmaro, who was suffering from a serious illness.

After a little glance at Jun Malu, who had amazed him, Ning Ci's white eyes had already told everything.

This guy doesn't have long to live, no matter how strong his strength is, his meridian system has been disordered, and now he can maintain the battle to the limit.

Knowing the end of that guy, Ning Ci shook his head and left.

That kind of blood succession combined with his own strong physical skills, even if he wanted to solve him, it would take a long time, but encountering that kind of sad fate had already doomed his end.

Even if he didn't understand why this guy dragged his sick body to fight, it didn't prevent Ning Ci from remembering this man's heroic posture in battle.

"Jun Maro, what a pity!"

Standing on top of Zhongbing Maru's head, Ning Ci's expression was slightly emotional.

The Valley of the End, the place where the original Hokage, who created Konoha, and his friend, Madara Uchiha, fought each other.

Sasuke, who had already made his way here, suddenly stopped.

After glancing back in Konoha's direction, he stopped looking, and as he jumped over the Valley of the End, Sasuke walked into a dense jungle.

"Oh, I didn't expect it, Itachi's brother still came this far, do you want to stop him, Hei Jue?"

The ground squirmed and a pitcher plant man in a dawn robe came out, and looking at the figure of Sasuke who had already passed away, Bai Jue spoke.

"No, you don't."

Also looking at Sasuke's distant figure, Kuro Jue gave a different opinion.

It wasn't until Sasuke's figure gradually disappeared from his eyes that the pitcher-like man finally reached the ground.

In the gloomy woods, the rain suddenly poured down.

Walking in the rain, Sasuke's figure looks a little thin.

However, as Sasuke moved forward, the rain above his head suddenly stopped, and even the surrounding environment changed.

"What is this?"

At this time, Sasuke finally sensed that something was wrong, and watched vigilantly as the trees around him had turned into red wriggling walls of flesh.

"It's finally been you, Sasuke!"

A familiar voice suddenly sounded from the front, Sasuke subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see a man in a red floating cloud robe, with a hat tied with wind chimes on his head, standing quietly not far away, this familiar outfit made Sasuke's eyes tighten instantly.

"A member of Akatsuki?"

Seeing this scene, Sasuke's face was distorted, and a thousand doriges' beating electric light instantly appeared in his hand.

"I advise you to calm down, you are no match for me at all, Sasuke!"

Ninji, who was dressed in a dawn robe, couldn't help but frown as he watched Sasuke's unwise move.

"Answer me, information about that man, or I'll kill you!"

Speaking of this, the electric light in Sa's assistant flashed an astonishing arc of electricity, and traces of the curse mark appeared on his cheeks and neck, and the evil chakra from Orochimaru instantly filled the entire space, and even Chidori's light became a little dim.

"Answer me!"

Sasuke's mood was unusually high, and his face was distorted, and he had already rushed in front of Ninji with electric light.

However, that's all, the tentacles that appeared with the surrounding wriggling slowed down Sasuke's movements, and the tentacles continued to surge and appear one after another, constantly consuming the electric light in Sasuke's assistant, even with the blessing of Orochimaru's curse seal.

Sasuke couldn't help but panting, and the light of Chidori in his left hand had dimmed a lot.

Suddenly, there was a whooshing sound of the wind, and Sasuke was swept up in mid-air by a transparent object, and the thousand birds in his hand, which were about to be exhausted, did not play any role at all, and were controlled.

"Ahh

Sasuke struggled unwillingly, and the curse mark from Orochimaru on his body began to change again, and it seemed that he would soon be able to enter the state of curse mark two.

"Don't do any more fearless struggles, no matter what power you get from Orochimaru, but in the mouth and body of this Qi lizard, you alone can't escape!"

Appeared behind Sasuke, a soft fist hit Sasuke's curse mark, temporarily cutting off the meridian connection between it and Sasuke, and the black spell mark that instantly spread on Sasuke's upper body also began to fade rapidly, and after a while, Sasuke returned to normal.

"It's you, Hinata Ninji!"

Turning his head to look at the figure who had already removed his hat, Sasuke was suddenly a little surprised.

Although he had already learned the news of Ninji's defection from Kakashi, Sasuke would never have thought that he would also join the same organization as Itachi.

"Damn!"

Thinking of the difference in strength with him, Sasuke clenched his hands unwillingly.

"Have you finally calmed down, Sasuke?"

Looking at Sasuke, who had completely woken up, there was a hint of playfulness in Ninji's tone.

"You definitely didn't appear in front of me just to tease me, did you?"

With the awakening from hatred, Sasuke also understood the current situation, and no longer made useless moves, just being controlled in mid-air like that, quietly looking at Ninji below.

"That's a good guess, my purpose is Orochimaru, it has nothing to do with it, as long as you tell me his stronghold, how about I let you go?"

When Ning Ci said this, his tone was extremely flat.

"Why are you asking me, if it were you, you would definitely be able to follow me without being noticed."

At this moment, Sasuke's expression was very complicated, and his eyes looking at Ning Ji were also full of doubts, and he didn't understand why he did this at all.

"Do you notice, Sasuke, if you have to give a reason, because you are an avenger walking in the dark, and I am a caged bird trying to break free from the shackles of fate, no matter what the purpose, you and I are on the same point at a certain point, so I want to talk to you."

Frankly stated his purpose, Ning Ci did not hide anything.

"And what about your choice, Sasuke Uchiha?"

Speaking of which, Tadahemaru's tongue finally relaxed, and Sasuke, who was caught in mid-air, was finally freed, but he was still a little hesitant about Ningji's deal.

However, all this did not last long, and Sasuke, who had been silent for a long time, finally moved his lips and spoke slowly.

"Come with me!"