Figures are moving in the forest under the night, and countless ninjas gather in the forest, quickly running through the snow, concentrating on a certain point.

Among them are not only the ninjas of the patrol force, but also the dark department from Konoha Village, who finally rushed to the front line.

Because he was trapped by Asami Masumi with the Four Purple Flame Array in Konoha Village, he lost the best time to pursue, so it was only at this time that the dark people were late.

But for the next search and arrest operation, whether it is the dark department or the ninjas of the patrol force, they are full of confidence.

From the previous pursuit, it is known that the target's situation at this time is quite bad, although the strength of the forbidden drug has been temporarily improved, but the time of this drug strengthening will inevitably not last, and after the drug strengthening time expires, it will usher in a period of weakness.

This kind of forbidden drug also has many similar existences in Konoha.

For example, the three-color pills used by the Autumn Daoist family.

In short, the situation is moving in Konoha's favor.

For this matter, both the Hokage and the rest of the high-ranking elders of Konoha expressed great importance.

So far, they have little understanding of the situation inside the Oni Country, and it is precisely because of this lack of understanding that this ill-prepared war will end in failure.

They desperately need a 'goal' to break this dilemma.

In the goal of Asami Masumi, there must be intelligence information that Konoha desperately wants to obtain to create new and powerful conditions for Konoha.

Because of this, the dark department in charge of the pursuit, and the ninjas of the patrol force, all used enough strength to pursue, and they bit behind the target.

“……”

The mouth kept spitting out white gas, although because of the secret medicine, he forcibly restored his physical strength and chakra, and even relieved his mental fatigue. However, due to the amplification effect brought by the secret medicine, it is impossible to maintain this state for a long time.

Once entangled, it will still make itself very dangerous.

For the Konoha ninja who was clenching behind him, Asami Masumi's mood couldn't help but become irritable.

Even if you know that the place not far ahead is the destination that you can't forget, you still can't be too arrogant about completely getting rid of the Konoha ninja.

After all, it was not one or two ninjas who were chasing him, but a pursuing force composed of at least hundreds of ninjas.

As far as the above ninja is concerned, this configuration is already quite a luxurious lineup.

As you run forward quickly, the trees on both sides begin to dwindle.

As if entering a new environment, the temperature around me seems to drop further.

The white gas that comes out of the mouth is also more and more colorful.

Subconsciously, Asami Masumi slowed down the pace of progress.

Whoosh!

Two ninjas suddenly jumped out from the side, one on the left and one on the right, and carried out extremely tacit cooperation, and flanked the slow speed of Asami Masumi.

Asami Masumi had expected this, and waved the chakra scalpel in her hand unhurriedly, only to hear the sound of steel colliding, and the chakra scalpel and kunai collided together, and sparks ejected, and the two Konoha ninjas who attacked her were successfully repelled.

The sneak attack failed, and the two Konoha ninjas were not surprised, their figures merged with the night, and quickly disappeared from Asami Masumi's field of vision, as if they had never existed.

If it weren't for the possession of perceptual ninjutsu, in the face of such an assassination combination, even if he could save his life, it would be impossible to be unscathed under such a sudden attack.

After a failed blow, he decisively hid himself and waited for the next sneak attack. These two assassination ninjas are very calm and not reckless.

If you want to deliberately expose your flaws and lure them into being fooled, it is probably not realistic.

What's more, the large group of Konoha ninjas behind him were getting closer and closer to here, and the two assassins were obviously here to delay time.

After repelling them, Asami Masumi continued to move forward at a low speed.

The breath ahead was silent and terrifying, the trees were becoming fewer and fewer, and a cliff lay across the ground in front of them without warning.

Masumi Asami, who kept moving at a low speed, saw this, slowed down further, stopped running, and took a few quick steps forward in a way that changed to walking, and walked to the edge of the cliff.

I saw that the surface of the cliff was filled with cold mist, and the bottom was pitch black, and there was no bottom, like an ancient murderer tearing open the huge mouth of the devouring people, which made people shudder.

The distance between the two sides of the cliff is at least hundreds of meters, and there is no communication tool such as a bridge, even if the ninja has an amazing jumping power, but ...... A distance of one hundred meters is also an almost impossible task for the upper ninja.

However, Asami Masumi's purpose was not to pass through this cliff, she deliberately chose this direction in order to come to the famous 'Great Rift Valley' in the Land of Fire.

There were too many Konoha ninjas chasing her, and it was impossible to escape from the encirclement and suppression of the Konoha pursuing forces in a normal way of escaping.

The final result will only be to be captured by Konoha and after the interrogation, Konoha will obtain information.

Therefore, in this case, it is necessary to take advantage of a complex enough environment to escape the pursuit of the Konoha ninja.

The complex terrain of the Great Rift Valley in the Land of Fire can be used to the advantage.

On top of that, there is an abandoned stronghold.

Or rather, the experimental base.

It was left here by Shiraishi when it was still in the Konoha period.

In view of the fact that some experiments will be relatively large, it is not convenient to study in Konoha Village, so it is necessary to choose a place in the outside world and build a research base.

She had been here a few times in the past, under the leadership of Shiraishi.

It's just that I didn't expect to use this long-abandoned stronghold at such a time.

Approaching the edge of the cliff, the sound of approaching footsteps from behind became clearer.

Without hesitation, Asami Masumi jumped forward, her figure wrapped in a thick cold mist, and lost her traces in the blink of an eye.

A few seconds after she jumped off the cliff, figures quickly flashed to the front of the cliff and stopped.

The leader is Tsunade, the Hokage, who is followed by ninjas from the shadows and patrols.

"Hokage-sama, the other party has already jumped off the cliff, do you want to continue the pursuit?"

Although this Great Rift Valley is the territory of the Fire Nation, no one usually deliberately passes through such a dangerous place.

Therefore, even Konoha ninja are mostly unfamiliar with the terrain of this place.

Pursuing in such a complex environment is inherently risky.

"Of course, they have already pursued to this kind of place, how can they give up easily? Come down with me. ”

"Yes!"

With Tsunade's order, all the Konoha ninjas who followed Tsunade and jumped down towards the Great Rift Valley in front of him, following the trail of Asami Masumi.

- Asami Masumi gasped, her body feeling weaker and stronger, and her intuition told her that things couldn't be delayed any longer.

Konoha's pursuers must be thrown off as soon as possible.

She groped her way in the darkness with great ease, this road was carved out by hand, and although she had only been here a few times, Asami Masumi was extremely familiar with the terrain here, so she made her way very fast.

In this familiar and complex terrain, her speed of movement is obviously higher than that of Konoha Ninja.

I don't know how long it has been, but I almost reached the end of the road.

The winding terrain can only see the extremely dark cliffs of the Mohu Lake around when you open your eyes.

At the end of the road, in front of a huge rock block that was ordinary and level, it seemed like a dead end, and Asami Masumi didn't care about this, but began to seal.

"Solution!"

After speaking, there was the rumbling sound of stones moving in the darkness, and the flat stones shifted to the side, opening a faint and glowing cavern opening.

Bright yellow lights shone out of the cave, and even a section of the road outside was illuminating.

But the bright yellow light was extremely dim.

Sensors were still used, and the deeper part of the cavern was still pitch black.

Looking at the junction of bright and yellow lights and darkness, light and shadow merge into one, if you are not familiar with this place, you will think it is a haunted house.

Asami Masumi stepped in.

The rumbling sound of the stone shifting behind it sounded again, blocking the entrance behind it, and it looked like an unremarkable stone to hide from people's eyes.

As we went deeper, the sensor lights also lit up one by one, but the lights were still dim, and the power was insufficient.

Asami Masumi didn't care about any of this, she walked quickly around the labyrinth-like experimental base with great familiarity, and in front of a secret room, she kicked open the stone door and walked into the secret room.

It is a storage room.

She took some medical bandages from inside, and other than that, none of the rest moved.

When she walked out of the storage room, she wrapped a medical bandage around the more seriously injured part of her body to relieve pain.

While wrapping a medical bandage, he moved on.

On the other side, Tsunade and the others, who came to the end of the crooked road, frowned and looked at their surroundings.

The flashlight illuminates the surroundings as if it were daylight, and all the terrain is in full view, and there is no trace of retention.

"Hokage-sama, the other party's chakra disappeared from here."

A shadow ninja in charge of perception said.

Tsunade touched his chin and began to ponder.

"Hokage-sama, do you need to find the mechanism here?"

The Shadow Ninja continued to ask.

"No need, you stand back, I'll do it myself."

Tsunade told the rest of the Konoha ninjas to step back.

After retreating a certain distance, Tsunade blew into his fist, and then without hesitation, he aimed at the wall next to him and struck it hard.

The seemingly random knock caused the surrounding cliffs to be hit like an earthquake.

The originally hard cliff wall was destroyed by Tsunade's violence, and cracks appeared visible to the naked eye, and even the road carved out by the population under his feet had exaggerated cracks.

The movement of the earthquake disappeared, and the surrounding cliffs cracked, except for a boulder in front of it, which survived without a single crack.

"Is it here?"

Tsunade walked in front of the rock, raised his arm, and struck hard at the rock.

Bang!

The impact shook the surrounding cliffs even stronger, causing the cracks in the cliffs to widen, and several boulders even fell from above.

Looking at the stones that only cracked, but were not immediately destroyed, Tsunade smiled with interest, and for a while he was a little happy.

As a result, the fist gathered the visible entity Chakra, like a cloud of mist, wrapped around her fist.

Rumble!

The ferocious impact finally made this rock unable to withstand the pressure, and directly collapsed a hole, revealing a road shrouded in bright yellow lights.

The rest of the Konoha ninjas surrounded and poured into the passage and began to explore the path ahead with Tsunade.

The Asami Masumi Chakra, who had lost her senses, reappeared in the perception range of the dark ninja.

"Where is Asami?"

After turning a few corners, Tsunade knew that the terrain was complicated, so he asked the sentient ninja who was accompanying him.

"In this direction."

The dark part replied, pointing to a wall.

"Get out of the way."

The Konoha ninja who followed this time became obedient and immediately scattered around, leaving Tsunade alone.

Tsunade unleashed his fist mercilessly, smashing the wall that the shadows were pointing at, revealing the passage across the wall.

Bang!

Bang!

The sound continued to reverberate in various parts of the base, causing the ground and walls to tremble, and the lights seemed to have a negative contact reaction under such an impact, flickering and flickering, which was very frightening.

"This Hokage-sama is really messing around. However, it is too late to catch up now. ”

Coming to the area deep in the stronghold, Asami Masumi also felt an extremely large chakra, which was violently agitating, and being able to use such a huge chakra also caused such a huge shock, except for Tsunade, there was no second suspect candidate.

The place where she was at this time was the rest area of this stronghold.

Most of the items in the test area and warehouse area were moved, leaving behind some sundries of low value.

The rest area is too.

However, when Shiraishi built this stronghold, just in case, and also with this stronghold in mind, what should I do if someone finds out?

Therefore, when this stronghold was built, Shiraishi reserved a passage for himself to escape in an emergency, so that he could use this place to escape when his life was in danger.

"Found it."

At the door of the bedroom in the deepest part of the rest area, next to the door, there is a door sign that says 'Shiraishi', and Asami Masumi pushes open the door and enters the bedroom.

Except for a lone double bed in the corner, everything else was swept away.

Asami Masumi walked straight to the corner of the wall where the double bed was, gently raised her leg and kicked hard at the double bed, and with the sound of vibration, the double bed stood up from the ground, shook for a while, and then stabilized, sticking to the wall without falling.

In the original position of the double bed, a black iron door was fixed to the floor, which looked extremely heavy.

Asami Masumi squatted down, pressed her palm against the doorknob of the iron door, and dragged it upwards with force, and the heavy door made a tooth-aching grinding sound, clang, slammed on the floor, and kicked up flying dust.

A staircase that slopes down appears in front of you, and the bright yellow sensor light automatically turns on, illuminating the stairs below.

Asami Masumi took a breath and walked quickly on the stairs of the walkway that was sloping down, leaving along the slope.

When her body was completely engulfed by the parallel lines of the floor, the iron door closed with force without warning in a clang, sealing the secret passage.

Buzz –

Obviously not the loud thud of a fist smashing against a wall.

After smashing a wall with a strange force, Tsunade and the accompanying Konoha ninja invariably stopped their movements and listened to the eight directions.

A slight shaking sensation rose from the ground, causing the Konoha ninjas who were standing in the passage to feel their bodies shake slightly.

"Be careful, unfold the barrier!"

Tsunade seemed to suddenly understand something, and shouted a command to a group of shadows.

"Yes!"

The group of four people immediately laid out a scroll and began to seal, and the transparent wall like a white glass cover quickly expanded out, enveloping Tsunade and the surrounding Konoha ninjas.

And the enchantment they generated immediately came into play—

Rumble!

The slight tremor disappeared, and with it came a tremor that was a hundred times more terrifying than before.

A loud roar erupted from the ground, shattering the surrounding walls and ceilings in an unsettling cracking sound.

The bright yellow pillar of light hanging from the ceiling was also shaking and cracking.

For a moment, the ceiling began to crumble, and countless large pieces of rubble fell from above, smashing against the white glass-like barrier, trying to bury these dozens of Konoha ninjas alive in the ground.

Bang!

Bang!

The sound of the earthquake was incessant, and the sound of the building cracking continued to echo in the space, as if it would not stop until all the living people here were buried.

Finally, after a minute, the sound of the earthquake stopped.

Under the protection of the enchantment, the Konoha ninja in the enchantment did not suffer any losses, although their faces were panicked.

But...... Tsunade looked at the countless rocks around him, and his head ached for a while.

Although she can dig up these boulders with strange powers, by the time she digs a passage, Asami Masumi, who is the target, may have gone far.

She didn't think that Asami Masumi would destroy this secret stronghold without a way out, and she was also in the trap with herself.

"The communications team keeps in touch with the people outside, so that they can continue the search, and the other party is likely to run outside. The rest of us dug up the passage with me and continued the pursuit through the hidden passage. ”

Tsunade simply assigned the order, and asked some of them to contact the patrol force outside, ordering them to continue their mission of pursuing Asami Masumi, while the other part dug a passage with himself to find a hidden passage buried under the rubble.

As long as Asami Masumi hasn't left the Fire Country, there is still a chance to capture her.

……

Tsunade, who was waiting for the Konoha ninja's chakra, stopped moving.

Sensing this, Asami Masumi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the hunt lasted only a few hours, Asami Masumi felt like centuries had passed.

She sat on the floor gasping for breath, and the side effects of the secret medicine began to take effect, making her brain groggy and less awake.

However, it is not time to breathe, and the danger is only temporarily gone.

Keep staying here, and danger will still come.

Holding on to the wall, he walked forward slowly.

Although the artificially dug secret passage is neat and stable, the air is also extremely humid, and because it has not been cleaned for a long time, the air is not only damp and cold, but also has a pungent odor.

Trying to slow down her breathing and not smelling the smell in the air, Asami Masumi kept a slow pace and walked forward step by step.

Ten minutes, half an hour, an hour, I don't know how long I walked, Asami Masumi slowly raised her head, and an upward ramp staircase walkway appeared in front of her.

This upward passage leads to the Northern Forest of the Great Rift Valley in the Fire Country.

For a short time, her life was safe.

But as long as you don't leave the Fire Country, the crisis will still come sooner or later.

While thinking in distress, Asami Masumi walked up the slope.

Knowing this, she directly used Haruno Zhao's group of people as bait at that time, and gave up directly.

What a thankless job.

Being able to see the platform at the top of the stairs, the sound of Asami Masumi's gasping was even more difficult.

It is as if the consciousness is about to fall into a deep sleep, and with every step, it has to exert the strength to feed.

Footsteps sounded.

Let her body stiffen.

She looked up.

The exit door to the top platform was opened.

The white moonlight shone in, and a figure stood there, staring at it with smiling eyes.

"It's really embarrassing, Aami-san, it seems that Konoha's pursuit has made you suffer a lot, and even the stronghold I abandoned at the beginning has been used."

"Who do you think made like this?"

The voice of resentment came out of the mouth of Asami Masumi.

She glared fiercely at the white stone on the platform.

Bai Shi just smiled and said, "You should be glad that this stronghold is not a face-saving project, and after more than ten years, the self-destruction mechanism here can still be activated." Otherwise, I'm going to go to Konoha's prison and get you out. ”

"That's a nice ......" Asami Masumi walked to the platform, her body seemed to have reached her limit, her breathing movement became smaller and smaller, her eyes opened sourly, and she sneered at Shiraishi and asked, "So, are you here to complete the transaction as agreed...... Or did you come here to kill people on purpose? After all, I'm no longer useful to you without Konoha, and I won't work for you anymore, so I'm not interested in your ambitions. ”

She looked directly at Shiraishi without fear.

"Konoha ...... It's not destroyed yet, are you sure you want to quit? ”

Shiraishi asked.

Asami smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I've been trapped in hatred and revenge all these years, however, no matter what I do, what I lose is lost, and it doesn't make sense to destroy Konoha a hundred times...... Kakashina kid was right, after revenge, all he got was something boring. ”

"Really? I didn't expect you to have such a feeling, obviously the hatred of Konoha and the three generations in the past......"

"To return to the topic just now, are you here to close the deal, or are you here to kill people? Say it in advance, even if the opponent is you, I won't sit still. ”

Asami Masumi condensed the chakra scalpel with one hand, and with the other hand, she quickly took out an emerald green pill from the ninja bag, put it in her mouth, and stared at Shiraishi with vigilant eyes.

Obviously, at this time, she and Shiraishi are no longer collaborators.

The so-called agreement is used to tear up, and it is not binding at all.

Especially for such those in power.

Chiba Shiraishi in the Konoha period and Chiba Shiraishi, who holds the military and political power of a country at the moment, are not the same person at all, and the two cannot be confused.

He is now both a ninja and the politician he hates the most, just like the dead Miyome Hokage!

Hypocrisy and deception are words that are tailor-made for people like them.

Shiraishi didn't speak, just continued to look at Asami Masumi with smiling eyes.

A wordless silence surrounded the two.