"My squad went to the Konoha Garrison Headquarters."

"My class is going to the Uchiha area."

"Let's go!"

With the order of Shimura Danzou and Sarutobi Hichi, many black shadows set off from the headquarters of the Shadows and Roots and headed in the direction of the Uchiha clan's residence.

Although Shimura Danzou is currently the fifth-generation Hokage in the village, in terms of the jurisdiction of the dark and root divisions, Shimura Danzou and Sarutobi Hizashi are still in charge of their own affairs and perform their own duties.

Because this is a rule that has been handed down since the first Hokage, the dark part and the root cannot be in the hands of the same person, otherwise Konoha Village will become a dictatorship of someone.

Therefore, the current Konoha Village is the Shimura group hiding as the Hokage and holding the roots, and Sarutobi is the Hokage's assistant and Konoha advisor, mastering the dark department, and there is no change in the overall planning of the elite ninjas in Konoha Village.

However, due to Shimura Danzo's Hokage status, Shimura Danzo still has the power to mobilize the shadows during special periods.

Obviously, this incident belongs to a special period.

Under the assignment of Shimura Danzo, Shimura Danzo himself took a large number of root ninjas to the headquarters of the Konoha Garrison, that is, the Konoha Police Building, and Sarutobi took the dark department to the residential area in the Uchiha station.

...

In the Uchiha station, Sarutobi stood in the middle of the street with his hands slashed, and there were corpses that could be surveyed in front of the dark ninjas on both sides of the street.

But even so, the manpower of the dark department is still far from enough, and there are many corpses lying on the side of the street and no one cares.

"It's miserable..."

"What the hell is going on?"

Several ninjas in charge of the guard stood next to Sarutobi Sunslash, and their mouths were still a little free to let out exclamations, but the ninjas in charge of surveying on both sides of the road were already shocked by the scene in front of them.

"This..."

A shadow ninja had just turned over a corpse when he was shocked by the unexpected image in front of him.

I saw that this Uchiha tribesman dressed in Uchiha civilian costumes, his face was blackened by some kind of blazing flame, and most of the flesh on his face was almost roasted, revealing the bones inside as proof of humanity.

Although such a death is very tragic, every one of the ninjas in the shadows has experienced a lot of things, and they are not so frightened by this picture that they are speechless.

The death of this civilian, in the eyes of this dark trainee ninja named Utsuki Xiyan, should have been burned to death, and judging from the precise burning to his face, it should be some kind of fire escape ninjutsu.

But the key is that this is just an Uchiha civilian, what kind of grudge is it, and he will use ninjutsu to deal with this ordinary Uchiha civilian.

And before this Uchiha civilian died, he must have been subjected to very painful torture and violent shock.

Because the face of the other half of the civilian, which has not been completely burned, still has a terrified expression before death.

Half of the boss's lips opened, as if he wanted to tell the world about the terrifying picture he saw before he died, or he couldn't help but scream after death.

On the other side of the street, a white-haired Shadow Ninja with a head was surveying the body in front of him, and the name of the Shadow Ninja was Kakashi.

Kakashi was also an unarmed civilian in front of him, and on the corpse's face, he had the same frightened expression, and the facial muscles were distorted to an extremely exaggerated degree, as if he had seen something terrifying before.

Upon closer examination by Kakashi, it was revealed that there were several bloody streaks on the civilian's scalp on either side, but they had also been scratched by the civilian's stiff but still claw-like hands.

As evidence, the civilian's fingernails were filled with skin flakes and hair on his scalp.

Other than that, Kakashi didn't notice any wounds or signs of poisoning, and the scalp wound couldn't have been fatal.

Therefore, the most likely cause of death of this civilian is cardiac arrest.

There are many causes of cardiac arrest, most of which are sudden death caused by some kind of heart disease.

But in this kind of death, the deceased usually covers his heart in pain, rather than scratching his scalp with great force.

So Kakashi judged that this civilian had seen something unacceptable to him before he died, and then...

Scared to death!

No matter how calm Kakashi was, he couldn't think of what was going to happen for a while, because Kakashi couldn't imagine what kind of existence could scare a person to death.

And this fear is so complete that this civilian even does not hesitate to use his own hands to pick his scalp, trying to use the pain to distract himself.

But even so, he was scared to death.

Is it an illusion?

Kakashi naturally thought of an illusion that would cause great fear in people's hearts.

But Kakashi glanced at the other people on the street, as if it was more than just one civilian.

There are also people whose faces have been burned by the flames.

Illusion and Fire Escape Ninjutsu?

Why go to such great lengths to kill these civilians?

And why use two ninjutsu?

Is it more than one person?

Just as Kakashi was still wondering if there was something hidden in this, Ape Hichi, who was standing in the middle of the street, spoke.

"Don't be aside, we have to get all the bodies back before dawn."

"Remember, it's all the bodies, including those in the house."

"Also, your class is going to search for survivors."

"Yes!"

At the command of Sarutobi, several of Kakashiban's shadow ninjas began to march towards the depths of the Uchiha station.

...

On the streets of the Uchiha station, the people of Kakashiban could see some of the dead from time to time.

However, Sarutobi gave Kakashiban a mission to search for survivors, so Kakashiban would only stop at each place for a short time before continuing deeper.

"But... It's really miserable. Kakashi's side said a ninja named Ko.

Armor formed a friendship with Kakashi during Mi Go's search mission three years ago, and later entered Kakashi's Shadow Division at the behest of Shimura Danzo.

Shimura Danzou originally intended to install his own people in the shadows controlled by Sarutobi Hizashi, but he inadvertently fulfilled the friendship between Kakashi and Ko.

"Yes...", Uyue Xiyan nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, Kakashi, who was the leader of the team, seemed to have noticed something, and immediately jumped off the roof, followed by several other shadow ninjas.

This time, Kakashi was standing in front of an Uchiha ninja who was wearing a ninja combat uniform, so it was eye-catching.

At this time, the Uchiha ninja was already in a state of death, but the expression on his face was strange, making it difficult to imagine what he experienced before he died.

His face was filled with three parts happiness and seven parts horror, and the combination of these two extreme emotions made it difficult to describe his face with an accurate adjective.

Could it be some kind of wry smile?

There was a pitch-black hole in the top of his head, and the brain tissue that was supposed to exist in it was now empty.

Utsuki Xiyan next to him stared at the ninja's face for a long time, and then suddenly said, "By the way, I know who he is." ”

"He was the one who took me to get the combat equipment in the Dark Department when I first entered the Shadow Division."

"The name seems to be called..."

"Uchiha Tenshin!"

When Utsuki Xiyan said this, Kakashi also remembered it a little.

This Uchiha Tenshin was recommended to the Nakashino who was recommended to the dark department by Yusuke Uchiha, the deputy captain of the Konoha Garrison, and finally entered the pending area because of the failure of the comprehensive assessment during the internship period.

The young ninja's death alerted Kakashi, who immediately crouched down to examine the body.

First of all, there are no other wounds on Uchiha Tenshin's body except for the brain hole on the top of his head.

However, when he removed Uchiha Tenshin's ninja suit, Kakashi found that there were several traces of binding on Tenshin's body that resembled thick ropes or tentacles.

These marks not only strangled Tianxin's skin one after another, but also strangled the soft tissues in the body, which shows how hard the binding was at that time.

But what made Kakashi feel the difference the most was that there was no trace of resistance on the bound Tianxin.

There are only two possibilities, one is that Tianxin was immediately captured by the enemy and did not have time to resist.

Or maybe Tianxin didn't want to resist at all, so he was killed by the enemy.

And Kakashi is also a little puzzled about Tianxin's death, the person who killed Tianxin has already broken Tianxin's head, why did he deliberately take away the brain tissue inside.

In order to check more clearly, Kakashi also deliberately picked up Tianxin's head and looked inside, and found that there was indeed nothing left inside, so he could only shake his head in confusion.

However, Kakashi didn't linger much here, but simply searched the surroundings and continued walking.

Soon, Kakashiban made a new discovery.

On a street in front of the place of Uchiha Tenshin's death, the bodies of a dozen Uchiha ninjas lay on the side of the street against the wall.

Mao Yue Xiyan and Jia stepped forward to check, and were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them.

I saw that these Uchiha ninjas had no skin on their bodies, and the bloody musculature rubbed against the wall looked like mashed meat sauce, but this meat sauce was extremely unappetizing for anyone, and people couldn't help but vomit out of dinner.

Fortunately, the psychological quality of the dark ninja is very strong, although the first time I saw this scene, I felt that some organs in my body were a little uncomfortable, but I still couldn't help but vomit.

"It's... What the hell is going on. A was the first to speak.

This is undoubtedly the worst way to die, even if they have seen a lot of dead people in previous missions, these shadow ninjas have never seen such a tragic situation.

The ninjas seemed to have been stripped of their skin by someone, and then rubbed their bodies against the wall.

At this moment, Kakashi stepped forward and crouched down to examine the bodies of these skinless ninjas.

This bold move immediately caused Utsuki Xiyan to exclaim, "Captain! ”

But it was still too late for Yuki's voice, and Kakashi had already groped his hand for the corpse.

However, Kakashi only untied the ninja suit on the corpse, and then opened the ninja suit and lifted the blood-soaked clothes inside, revealing the body inside.

I saw that the body wrapped in clothes was also skinless.

This scene made these ninjas even more incomprehensible, the clothes were still worn, how did the skin inside the clothes disappear?

Could it be that the murderer deliberately stripped off all the skin of these ninjas and then put on their clothes?

But why do you want to do that?

And it doesn't seem like you can complete so many processes in less than one night, right?

An indescribable sense of strangeness haunted the hearts of several of the ninjas of the shadows, but it was Kakashi who remembered his mission first and led the rest of the ninjas on.

...

Crossing the street and into the deep alley, Kakashi saw a collapsed courtyard wall.

Inside the courtyard walls, Kakashiban found the bodies of several more ninjas, also wearing ninja uniforms but without skin, except for the corpse of only one person.

Kakashi knew this person, and this person was Yusuke Uchiha, the deputy captain of the Konoha Garrison, and only his corpse had relatively intact skin.

And after a brief examination of the body, Kakashi found that only his injuries were relatively normal.

One is a slightly shallower wound, in the lower back, which may have been stabbed by a weapon such as kunai, and has been simply bandaged.

The other two were fatal wounds, one was a penetrating wound from a back to the chest, and the other was a stab wound to the heart from the front, and judging by the wounds, these two wounds should have been caused by the same weapon.

This puzzled Kakashi, and that was why a ninja of Uchiha Yusuke's level could be attacked from behind, and twice.

Except for Yusuke Uchiha standing still and being stabbed, the only person who could have attacked him from behind was someone Yusuke Uchiha trusted.

Uchiha Yusuke is a hawk in the Uchiha clan and doesn't have a good impression of the people in Konoha Village, so if he can be trusted by Yusuke, he should at least be a member of the Uchiha clan.

So tonight's murderer is actually a member of the Uchiha clan?

But what about the skinless Uchiha ninja corpses around?

Kakashiban briefly searched the courtyard for no survivors and moved on.

And deeper down this alley, Kakashiban spotted something strange.

It was two piles of black flames on the ground, and this flame looked very strange, although there didn't seem to be much burning inside, but the black flame kept burning steadily.

"It's... What fire? ”

A let out a startled sound, but everyone, including Kakashi, didn't know where the black flame came from, so they couldn't answer.

"Leave it alone for now, and report back to Hokage-sama and Hisaki-sama later, our mission is to search for survivors."

At Kakashi's behest, all the shadow ninjas bypassed the two teams of black flames and continued to march towards the hinterland of the Uchiha.

...

After searching for a long time, Kakashiban stood in front of an imposing house, the doorway and courtyard walls covered with the Uchiha's family crest, a treatment not found anywhere else in the station.

"This must be the Uchiha Patriarch's mansion."

"Let's go inside."

Without opening the wooden door to the door, several ninjas jumped directly onto the roof and entered the courtyard.

The most striking thing on the sand of the courtyard was the charred embers of a burning puddle of flames, and in addition to the marks of a few ninja boots tossing and turning on the sand, it was clear that there had been a battle here.

"Search."

At Kakashi's orders, several Shadow Ninjas immediately entered the mansion and searched the house, and soon there were shouts from one of the rooms.

"Survivor Spotted!"

Kakashi hurriedly ran over from the middle of the courtyard and saw the survivor in the mouth of Utsuki Yuki.

It was a little boy in dark blue short sleeves, and his weeping red eyes looked back at several shadow ninjas standing in front of him.

And in front of the place where the little boy knelt was the corpse of Uchiha Fugaku, the captain of the Konoha Village garrison and the patriarch of the Uchiha clan, and his wife.

"A, you go and report to Lord Hizari."

"Survivors were found, and the body of Uchiha Fugaku-sama was found at the same time!"