Chapter X: Intelligence
About an hour later, the two men found the beggar who was sleeping on a pile of thatch. The guy looked to be about forty or fifty years old, and he slept soundly with a pile of hay in his arms, and his saliva was dripping.
Luckily, as a ninja, I basically have a good memory. Although the silverfish didn't pay much attention to the beggar's appearance, he was able to find the face from the cluttered memory of the previous night with a little recollection.
Still dressed as a beggar, the silverfish lifted the sleeping beggar up and disappeared into place with the rain. It's better not to attract attention to this kind of thing, and it's about Orochimaru, and the two of them are even more cautious.
The beggar had not yet come to his senses, but felt that his body was suddenly pulled by a great force, and then seemed to float up and down, and the whistling wind blew on his face, making him hardly able to breathe normally, and he woke up immediately. When he opened his eyes, he saw a scene below him that he didn't know how high he was from the ground, and he didn't feel any reliance, so he subconsciously wanted to scream out, but he was punched in the back of the neck by a silverfish, unconscious.
How to make people unconscious without hurting them in the slightest is a piece of cake for a dark ninja.
They didn't go back to the garbage dump where they had been staying for the past two days, and went directly to the secret stronghold outside the town and found Ze, who had been guarding there. These days, Ze has been staying here except for the first day, using his perception ability from time to time to detect whether there are any suspicious characters, but he has also found nothing.
The two of them thought about it for a while, and it was better to find Ze, who would control people's consciousness, to use illusions to ask. People's subjective memory is often unreliable, relatively speaking, the use of illusion to dig deep into the subconscious to obtain information will remove many people's subjective consciousness changes to memory, although this will destroy the beggar's brain, making him an idiot, but the rain that has already killed people does not hesitate much. The danger of the mission he faced this time had already washed away his feelings about this kind of thing.
Ze, who is a perceptual ninja and knows medical ninjutsu, as well as this kind of targeted illusion method, can be said to be a very perfect and excellent squad support character.
After briefly listening to Yuzang's narration, Ze had some surprise in his tone: "Is this kind of thing true?" I'm not talking about the Uzumakis, I know their characteristics. The beggar could indeed be a survivor of the whirlpool. But is Orochimaru really here for a survivor of the Vortex? ”
"It's just possible, but it's better than waiting aimlessly around town, isn't it?" Yuzo said: "And the beggar is not a guy who attracts much attention here, even if he disappears or even suddenly becomes a corpse, it doesn't necessarily really startle the snake..."
Whether there are snakes or not, it is still unknown.
Ze was a little hesitant, in fact, she still had some expectations in her heart, such as even if there was really a big snake pill, it would have long been gone. This is just an investigation task, if Orochimaru is still in this country of grass that is not too big at this time, what did they investigate, didn't they rush to find Orochimaru?
It's just that this kind of selfishness is impossible to say, and it is even impossible to really retreat like this. The vast majority of ninjas have dreamed of becoming ninjas since they were children, and in the process of growing up, they have been constantly instilled with everything for the village, the ninja creed code and other things, and the psychological barrier will not let her do this.
Yuzo naturally has this kind of thought, but to be honest, there are some things that don't know the truth, and waiting in fear is the time when it's really uncomfortable.
The unconscious beggar was carried to the ground by the silverfish, and Yuzo tied him directly to his whole body with a thread to prevent possible struggles during the release process.
Ze began to seal it, and it took more than twenty seals before the ninjutsu was completed. She placed her hand on the beggar's forehead, and a faint greenish chakra glow appeared, which faded after a few seconds until it disappeared.
"How, did it work?" The silverfish was a little anxious, and when he saw the light of the chakra disappearing, the illusion was over, and he immediately asked. However, Ze didn't answer him, just raised his hand and made a silent gesture, and looked at the beggar intently.
Suddenly, the beggar blinked and woke up. However, when he opened his eyes, he didn't move, and looked straight at the ceiling of the small stronghold without moving, because it was underground, so this ceiling was a black dirt.
"It worked!" Ze whispered to the two people, and then began to ask for information: "You answer my question now, have you ever seen a girl with red hair and red eyes and glasses, she is still a ninja?"
The beggar's eyes are very hollow, and he does not react to his surroundings or the state he is in. When Ze's voice sounded and asked him a question, his eyelids moved and he began to speak, his tone calm and lifeless.
"Yes, I've seen such a girl."
"What about time? What was the situation like back then? Who is around her? What are the characteristics of those people? Think about it! Ze then asked.
"Hmm... It was a week ago, when I was begging on the street. The red-haired female ninja walked down the street with a few people, and I didn't know why I was so bold and ran up to beg for money. There was a very kind person who gave me a big ticket, and I was very happy, but then I squandered it for two days. ”
Ze didn't say anything, although he began to say something that was not very useful, but if he rashly interrupted his train of thought, it was very likely that the consciousness that had been forcibly controlled would not be able to hold on and become an idiot directly, so don't think about follow-up information. After all, she is not from the Yamanaka family, and this illusion of hand control and consciousness invading the human brain is still much worse than Ino and her family's ability to directly read and even swap bodies.
So, inheritance is a really good thing.
"After squandering, I was looking forward to whether I could have such luck again, but unfortunately those rich people were more slamming the door than the other, and they were not willing to give anything at all... And that little girl is very beautiful, if you can sleep with her for one night, it must be a fairy-like enjoyment..."The beggar said something a little unbearable to himself, but his tone did not have that sense of obscenity, it was very bland, and then finally he began to get to the point: "By the way, those people are actually quite strange, the ninja should wear the same forehead guard, that is a village." But except for the little girl, who is the forehead protector of our national ninja village, the others are forehead guards that they have never seen. The one who gave me the money seemed to be the leader of those people, and he wore glasses and smiled very gently. ”
Wearing glasses and smiling gently? Is this the guy in the pharmacist's pocket? In this way, the information that Orochimaru has appeared here is true? What now? Have they already left? Yuzo pondered, then gestured to Sawa and asked her to ask what the forehead protection patterns of those people looked like. If it's confirmed that it's Otoshinobi, the leader is probably really the guy in the Yakushidou, so that everything can basically be confirmed. Of course, this is only for Yuzo himself. Ze, Silverfish and Crow should not know the true identity of those people, the sound ninja village is a village established by Orochimaru, how many people in the whole ninja world know?
"What's the pattern of their forehead?" Seeing that the beggar was quiet, Ze then asked.
"Hmm," the beggar frowned, and thought for a moment before replying, "That pattern seems to be a pattern of musical notes." I didn't actually know it, but then I was curious and wrote it down, and I drew it for others to see, and someone told me it was a musical note. ”
"Notes?" Ze muttered, "Sound Ninja Village?"
The sound ninja village has only appeared in recent years, and they are not famous, and there are not many masters who can handle it, at most, they have been noticed by the major ninja villages because of the different means of attack, and they no longer pay attention to it when they find that it is actually meaningless. Ze naturally knew about this ninja village, and she wondered, did the sound ninja village have anything to do with Orochimaru? Actually, it's not right, they don't know if Orochimaru's information is true or false until now, or maybe it's just that Otoshinobi found out about the Uzumaki people and "took them away".
He asked a few more questions, and only stopped when the beggar had completely turned into a sluggish and drooling fool.
Judging from the information from this guy's mouth, there are only two points that are useful, one is that the Uzumaki clan has another person besides Konoha who has died for four generations, and he is still alive. The other is that the ninjas of the sound ninja village seem to have snatched this whirlpool clansman, and I don't know if there is any direct conflict with the grass ninja village. There shouldn't be, if there is, then it can't escape Konoha's intelligence network.
I'm a little disappointed, whether it's for Ze, Silverfish or Yuzo, if they directly get the information that Orochimaru did appear here, then they can basically go back and hand it over, and now they still need to continue to do the work of collecting intelligence.
Yuzo can only comfort himself at this time, it was already a week ago, and even if Orochimaru really came to this place, he should have already left. It's just a medicine man, because of his good fighting style, even Yuzo feels that he can fight him, of course, it's only a long-distance fight, and the scalpel in close combat is relatively difficult to resist before he learns to stitch it with his own thread. However, the crows and their teammates are not vegetarians, as long as it is not Orochimaru, there is no special fear in the sound ninja.
It's the fourth day, and I don't know when this mission will be done, so I'm worried all day.
When Whitebait dealt with the beggar who had become an idiot, Yuzo still felt a little sorry and guilty, but not too strongly.
Maybe it won't be long before he will become a murderous executioner, who can kill people at will without blinking his eyes. But that's all for later, not what he should be worried about now. Orochimaru doesn't know what he's doing now, if he knows how many people have a headache because of the authenticity of his haunt information, I don't know if he will let out an indifferent sneer, or mock an ant?