The Sand Ninja Commander, who maintains the art of stealth in the soil, has a cloudy and uncertain face. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, he soon had no need to hesitate. Because the Konoha side, which was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, actually rushed over.

They can hide in the dirt by relying on the distance between friend and foe to exceed the attack range of most ninjutsu, but once the enemy is close, continuing to hide in the dirt does not guarantee their safety. However, this is exactly what they desire.

The unpleasant "crunching" sound of wooden joints moving, and the helpless puppeteer who was smashed by one cannonball after another can finally let the puppet show its existence with various actions unscrupulously.

In the endless "crunching" sound, at least a dozen large puppets rose from all directions, but they did not attack for a while, but cruised in the air, their figures intertwined, their deliberately designed hideous and terrifying faces, as if they were laughing silently, and their wooden eyes were even more hollow to make people feel cold.

…… Then it was hit by the electromagnetic cannon with a bang, and the key parts were smashed and smashed without being penetrated.

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"Boom", another shell whistled. The huge wooden golem in front of the puppeteer turned into shards as if it were devastated, and a shadow ninja slashed diagonally with a long knife, and the unavoidable puppeteer let out a shout that streaked across the gray sky before coming to an abrupt halt......

A sand ninja elite swayed the little finger of his left hand, and the chakra line that was originally hidden in the shadows suddenly straightened, lifting, and on the ground within two meters of him, sand and dust were raised, and a row of snow-shiny blades turned out of the soil, neatly standing in the path that a dark ninja must pass.

Unfortunately, his puppets have all been destroyed, even with this last mechanism protection, but when a puppeteer has to use a makeshift mechanism to protect himself, it also means that he has exhausted his skills.

The Shadow Ninja leaps effortlessly over the wall of swords, then kills the desperate puppeteer before he can deliver his last resort......

Rumble! A puppeteer was hit by a roaring cannonball, leaving a terrible bloody hole in his body. The other one finally collapsed, detonated all his puppets, and turned to flee in the sudden appearance of a large amount of toxic smoke.

But this just made Zhao Kun's kill easier, the pure white eyes hanging around his neck made Zhao Kun easily lock his trajectory, the chakra flickered, the cone-shaped ninja came first, and he caught up from behind in an instant, and the sand ninja didn't have any chance to react, and was pierced through the heart from behind by a sharp steel cone......

Soon, the preset position of the sand shinobi became a mess, and there were no more ninjas alive except for the shadows of Konoha. As far as the eye could see, the surrounding area was littered with broken parts, mechanisms, joints, blades, and a few puddles of blood splashed on the earthy rocks, all of which of course came from the ninjas of the sand ninja puppet army strewn across the ground.

For a long time, Zhao Kun, who continued to maintain his white eyes and suppressed the enemy with long-range firepower with electromagnetic cannon ninjutsu, also came to this land. The excessive consumption of chakra made him a little soft-hearted, after all, the body modification of the Nara red deer was not the kind of person who blindly piled up the heart in order to achieve the infinite blue bar effect.

Stepping over those corpses, the ninja in the cat-faced mask approached, and the big explosion of the puppet just now made him look a little embarrassed, "Captain, I didn't find any information about the seniors of the same time. ”

The Faceless One didn't speak, just nodded slowly, "It's okay, let's cut it all the way back, and we'll find some clues." ”

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"It's ...... What is the first wave? Under the successive battles, it was difficult for Zhao Kun to maintain his appearance.

As for the ninja behind him, the ninja uniform on his body has long since ceased to be neat. Dust, blood, and the marks of sharp blades were everywhere. But fortunately, except for the two injuries, most people just have a bit of a consumption of chakra. Overall, the team is in good shape.

This is thanks to the powerful antidote that was distributed uniformly before the war, otherwise, without the support of this potion that can temporarily and forcefully suppress common toxins, half of the people here would have been killed by the sand ninja who is good at using poison.

"It's the fourth wave, my lord." Hinata Hisakami on the side replied breathlessly.

In order to rescue his team, Zhao Kun led the people into the search area and encirclement network of the sand ninja. Assault along the way, especially with the help of Secret Notes and White Eyes, they preemptively joined up with the Sand Ninja before they eliminated the three ninjas. However, although the merging was successful, it was a big trouble to be surrounded by the follow-up forces of the Sand Shinobi.

They can concentrate on breaking through the sparse blockade, but once the blockade is breached, the commander of the sand ninja will not notice it, let alone do nothing. During the time that Zhao Kun found Hinata Hisakami, the area of activity of the sand shinobi was also shrinking. Even if the breakthrough operation he commanded was vigorous, he still failed to shake off the sand ninja pursuit force like an appendage.

And as they advanced towards the inner area of the Wind Country, the commander of the Sand Shinobi had apparently adjusted their formation on the spot—there were now quite a few elite ninjas following them. At the same time, although it is gradually approaching the weak hinterland of the Land of Wind, there is no standing military force, but it is not uncommon to see Sand Shinobi who are entrusted with tasks here.

-- In any case, it's a problem. Especially when you go deep into the enemy country, there are informants everywhere, and there are chasing soldiers behind, these sand ninjas who don't fight head-on most of the time pop up from time to time are really annoying.

Zhao Kun sighed and glanced at his teammates.

Cannon fodder ninjas are just cannon fodder ninjas.

The ninja of the Hyuga family was lying on his back, the battle just now really consumed his last bit of strength, and the number of enemies originally had a great advantage, and it was the elite pursuit force of the sand ninja that he encountered. Even if the white-eyed observation ability is strong and the consumption is small, but this successive battles are not a small burden.

But compared to the sand ninja, they survived in the end.

The crow man next to him looked better than the cat-faced man who collapsed on his side, at least he could barely support his upper body.

Farther away, the uninjured shadows were either lying on their stomachs or lying down, and it was difficult to find someone to sit on. In fact, they are all fine, but in fact, after the continuous war of attrition, because of the chakra, there is no strength to fight again for the time being.

As the only Konoha ninja standing present, Zhao Kun shook his head and said: "Let's move for the time being, there should be no enemies within a few miles nearby, however, the enemies farther away will gather at any time, you first use the Bing Food Pill to replenish the state, crow, after you open the way, I will find a place to repair it." ”

The man in the crow mask nodded in agreement, took out a soldier food pill and swallowed it, and then took the lead in the lead.

Zhao Kun glanced up at the sky.

The dim light of the sky has already signaled the arrival of dusk. If this situation continues, we will soon usher in a dark night where we can't see our fingers.

That means, a good time to kill.

The pure white pupils on his neck turned, and Zhao Kun smiled and felt the two completely different sensations coming back from the ground resentment and his eyes.

Clear and bleak.

Even a ninja can't see anything without any light. But for the white eye, it's a different story. It's about the only night battle type pupil technique - if you study it well.

The usual pupil technique is often a special, vision-like sense developed by the induction of chakra. But the whites of the eyes are different.

The reason why the eye can see various objects around it is that there must be light, and second, the structure in the eyeball that can be imaged. When the eyes are opened, the light emitted or reflected from the surrounding objects, passing through the pupil and lens, gathers on the retina behind the eye, forming an image of these objects. The optic nerve, which connects the retina, immediately transmits this information to the brain, so people can see these objects.

In terms of observation, the usual pupil surgery is nothing more than the addition of chakra-related content in the spectrum that the retina can distinguish through chakra sensing, so that a chakra field of view can be obtained. For example, this is how the ability to observe chakra comes from the writing wheel.

As a pupil technique with fluoroscopy/visual function, the white eye will naturally not be so simple. There is no doubt that the retina of the white eye also has the ability to recognize the chakra-related spectrum.

But the ability to see-through is undoubtedly the ability to emit some kind of light with a special ability to penetrate - similar to some kind of perspective device. That is, the white eye actually has the ability to emit light, although this light is invisible to the naked eye. Whatever the object is, it can only partially reflect this light and then be penetrated by the remainder...... Theoretically, this is similar to the principle of an infrared fluoroscopy.

As for how this light came out, Zhao Kun didn't have a clue yet. After all, there is chakra in this world, an energy that can not only generate matter, but also change the nature of temporary or permanent matter.

It's just that just because he didn't understand the principle of light doesn't mean he can't use this ability. Originally, I set my first goal on the white eye, and naturally I have been persevering in developing this kind of eye. And not only has it been developed to a certain point, but it is also constantly involved in new fields and has done relevant targeted training. So even at night when there is little light, he is still able to see with his white eyes - as long as he has enough energy.

Looking up at the sunset, the light was still strong but with a considerable taste of the last splendour. The Faceless One couldn't help but squint, slightly covering the blood from his eyelids.

"Let's go."

Everyone used the ration pills one after another, and they didn't even have time to dispose of the enemy's corpses, so they just took off and collected the enemy's forehead guards, and set out on the road of advancement.

Zhao Kun also took out a soldier food pill from the ninja bag and stuffed it into his mouth, keeping up with the large army that was slowly advancing.

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Most of the land in the Land of the Winds is desert. In this kind of terrain, whether it is camping or seclusion, it is a problem.

Konoha ninjas are not made of iron, and they don't need dormant robots, so no matter how difficult it is, they have to rise to the occasion. On the one hand, it is necessary to clean up the traces, and on the other hand, it is necessary to deviate as much as possible from the small settlements that have been built around the water source and the oasis. Not to mention cities that are far above these villages and small towns. They can't even stay in areas where there might be travelers passing through.

"That's it." On the back of a huge sand dune, the group stopped. Two ninjas who were good at earth escape slowly stepped forward and launched ninjutsu. A small pit began to appear, and gradually grew in size until it formed a cave that could only be passed through by one person - they did not dare to sleep on the dunes in a big way for the sake of concealment in the wartime.

Unable to see from the outside, he jumped into the hole, and the inside gradually sloped downward from narrow to wide, and finally formed a small hole. Follow the downward slope of the hole and you'll soon be able to reach the deepest point. And when everyone except the two Earth Ninjas entered, the two of them unhurriedly covered the entrance to the cave before entering the rest area from the other direction - leaving two other exits.

The narrow openings and confined environment made it impossible for Konoha ninjas to use bonfires for warmth, but fortunately, even in the Gobi region, where the temperature difference between day and night is huge, the physically strong ninjas did not need this small means.

"I'm going to set a trap." Hinata Hisakami said very positively, eating some of the military food pills for recovery, and he was no longer in any serious trouble because he had not been injured.

"I'll help you." A dark man wearing a dog-faced mask carefully put his things away and followed him out.

The three narrow openings have been obscured, leaving only a dozen ventilation holes. The already dim sunlight couldn't shine at all, and the cave was pitch black, and after the two subordinates ran out, the remaining ninjas were so quiet that they could hear each other's breathing.

However, in this small dark hole, the exhausted ones have no experience to do anything else, and resting as soon as possible and recovering their strength is the king.

Even Zhao Kun, who had retained a lot of physical strength, was exhausted by the chakra consumption caused by the battle and the energy consumption of Baiyan's continuous reconnaissance. Moreover, he felt more and more small when he was exposed to large-scale ninja battles again.

A scuffle of this scale can give him a sense of powerlessness. How long will it take to wait for the Second Ninja World War? Thousands of people are fighting, staying in a corner of the battlefield, knowing that they are in it, but they clearly know that they can't do anything. He could die at any time in the melee, and killing a few dozen opponents could not change the general trend, so he could only passively wait for the ending......

Damn it!

That feeling, when you think about it, feels really terrible, and it makes people understand that they are not really great.

If you are a hot-blooded teenager who is proficient in mouth escape, you must think that it is not a big deal, but you will be full of fighting spirit. In their view, there is actually nothing in this world that cannot be changed - only the difference between ability and inadequacy.

However, the Faceless One is well aware and convinced that manpower is sometimes poor - unless it is opened. Unless he really has the chakra of those humanoid tailed beasts to support the mass destruction ninjutsu he has been researching so far. Therefore, it is necessary to put the development of ninjutsu as the core of special theories that have not yet been thoroughly tested in this world as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )