The four of them have been running wildly along the border between the country of rivers and the country of rain, and it is still about 2 hours away from the territory of the country of fire. He looked up at the goshawk who had been following in the air, this was Sand Hide's tracking ninjutsu, obviously, they had not escaped Sand Hide's tracking so far, and they were afraid that they would face a fierce battle next.

Starfire was in a very poor state, his abdomen was a penetrating wound caused by the wind blade, even if Lanhu had undergone some healing, but it was only temporary, and now after nearly 20 minutes of wild running, the wound on his abdomen had cracked open again, and the scarlet blood had stained the snow-white bandage. If this continues, he will only affect everyone, and there must be a decision.

Qing Shui raised his hand to signal to stop, "Lanhu, heal Xinghuo first." He then gave the order.

"Yes!" Lanhu's hands moved to Starfire's belly, and pale green light emanated from her palms, softly sprinkling on Starfire's hideous wounds.

"Captain, about 1.6 kilometers behind you, there is a large group of Sand Hidden Ninjas in a formation, but their travel speed is not fast." Gray Eagle rolled his eyes in anger and reported with a serious expression.

"Are there no enemies on the flanks and ahead?" Qing Shui asked, taking advantage of the rest time, he took the first soldier food pill, his physical strength and chakra's recovery were crucial, and the fierce battle before consumed almost two-fifths of his chakra. There was a whole team of 36 ninjas hanging behind them, but they didn't chase quickly, which only showed that they still had a backhand.

Greyhawk observed the meeting and replied, "Not yet!" ”

"Captain, I'm dragging you down......" Starfire's throat was a little hoarse.

"It's not that time yet, don't be discouraged." Qing Shui said calmly.

"Yes!" Starfire nodded heavily.

Xinghuo's injury can't be cured, unless he returns to the village, he can only drag it now, but from here back to the village, even if it is fast, it will take two days to travel, if Xinghuo does not go with Lanhu, I am afraid it will be difficult to stick to the village. In this group, he and Xinghuo are upper ninjas, while Gray Eagle is special ninja, and Lanhu is middle ninja. He had asked Xinghuo to guard the entrance of the cave before, thinking that a shinobi could always guard against the enemy's sneak attack, but he didn't expect that at least 3 Ming Shangnin would come from the other side. He knew that from the fight he had just had. So far, at least two of the remaining people who are difficult to entangle are Shangnin. And he didn't kill any of the 3 shinobi.

This is for sure, it is difficult for the battle between the upper ninja to end in an instant, because being able to become a upper shinobi means that he is already a powerful ninja who has experienced a hundred battles.

But if you give him a little more time...... Just one more minute!

Hey, why don't you say you can't go into that cave?? Apparently, the eight-man ninja squad was luring them into the cave behind the waterfall. But how can you complete the mission without going into the cave?

So, this mission was a dead end from the start. I didn't get any news about this plot in my previous life.,Presumably Konoha also sent a dark team.,Finally disappeared here quietly.,But soon after, the third war in the ninja world broke out.,Who remembers this missing dark group? Who cares about the life and death of these four people?

"That's it!" Lanhu ended his treatment.

"The other party won't let us enter the Fire Country easily, I think the team of ninjas behind us dares to hang behind us unhurriedly, there must be an ambush ahead." Qing Shui calmly analyzed the current situation, "Later, each of your shadow clones will follow me and continue to retreat to the stronghold in the Fire Country. But Starfire's injuries are not enough to support him back in the village, Ranhu must act with him, and the two of you will take the retreat route of the Kawanokuni stronghold together. Gray Hawk, on the other hand, takes a circuitous route to the Rain Country's stronghold. I'll continue to act as a decoy, and I'll do my best to hold them back for you, and how long the shadow clone can hide from the sand shinobi depends on our luck...... Be sure to tell Hokage-sama about everything that's going on here! ”

"Captain!" Arashiko's voice was a little excited, Shimizu meant to face a whole team of ninjas behind him alone, as well as an unknown ambush ahead. No matter how strong the captain is, this is certain death!

"Captain, I think I can ......" Xinghuo wanted to stay and break alone, but he felt that he was already a burden, and the probability of escaping was too small, so it was better to buy time for everyone.

"Needless to say, we've been working together for 2 years, don't you know me?" Qing Shui said softly.

Gray Eagle said solemnly: "Captain, it is also an honor for the Hyuga family to be your subordinate!" ”

"Empty stream! You're sending you to death! Lanhu was a little anxious, and she called Qing Shui's dark code.

"Lanhu, it's still mission time, you should call me captain." Qing Shui's voice was cold.

Lanhu directly took off the fox mask, revealing a beautiful face, her lips were a little pale because of the rapid consumption of chakra, she looked at Qing Shui's eyes and said, "April Qingshui, you are so strong, there must be another way, right?!" You don't have to choose to die yourself! ”

After Gray Eagle and Starfire glanced at each other, they invariably took a few steps back. Now the topic, the two of them have lost the right to speak......

"I think the senior of Hachiki Sakushige must have faced a similar choice to me, except that he chose the latter before any and his companions. I also thought about what I would do if I were faced with such a choice, and I didn't have an answer at that time. Qing Shui paused and continued, "I don't want to follow the path of Shuo Mao's predecessors, I follow my heart's choice. ”

The death of Konoha White Fang that year set off a huge repercussion in the village, and for Konoha , the loss was not just as simple as a shadow-level powerhouse, and the subsequent impact he brought has continued to this day. Including his son, Kakashi, has also been immersed in the mission-oriented world and can't extricate himself. People should have selfish desires, ninjas have strong principles but they are not tools, ninjas also have feelings. Neither a single idea of mission supremacy or a companion being king is in line with his will as a soul from another world.

So he had only one choice.

Thinking of this, Qing Shui smiled again: "You also know that I am very strong, as long as you can go back alive and return to the village as soon as possible to find someone to support, I may not be able to survive until that time." ”

A few tears fell from the corners of Lanhu's eyes, and she put on the fox mask again: "Okay, I promise you, I will definitely return to the village with Starfire, and then come to you - you must not die!" ”

"If they want to kill me, they still have to make some effort...... Go according to the plan! Shimizu re-ordered.

"Yes!"

So ten minutes later, when Qing Shui and the others passed through a dense forest, Gray Eagle, Xinghuo, and Lan Hu each performed their own shadow clone techniques, and then the main body immediately broke away from the forward team. The goshawk in the sky only saw four ninjas running wildly, disappearing into a dense forest for a short moment, and then reappeared in its field of vision, and this similar situation had happened many times before, without any accidents and without arousing any suspicion.

In this way, Qing Shui took the three shadow clones of his subordinates and maintained a certain high speed and continued to advance towards the border of the Fire Country.

"According to previous estimates, the shadow clone's chakra is probably enough to support them to keep moving forward at this speed for 2 hours, if they can disappear under the nose of the sand shinobi for these 2 hours, they should be able to escape the tracking of the sand ninja, right?" Qing Shui can only hope that the other party's backhand can come later.

However, the heavens can always give you enough surprises to disrupt everything you originally planned, and in less than half an hour of separation, the shadow clone of Hawkeye at the front of the team was cut in half by a Wind Escape Ninjutsu.

The sudden attack brought the entire advancing team to a halt.

Sure enough, there was an ambush on their way back to the Fire Country, and it was a powerful ninja!

After seeing the person who came, Qing Shui was shocked in his heart, it was actually the sand hidden dark part.

"One team, two teams, three teams." A total of 12 shadows blocked his path in a fan-shaped pattern. Looking back, the sand ninjas behind them also surrounded them one after another, "one team, two teams, three teams, four teams, five teams, six teams...... "I don't know when, there are three less teams of sand ninjas. Did they see through their plan a long time ago?

So he ordered, "Undo the shadow clone and let the main body know the situation here." ”

"Yes!"

Starfire and Lanhu's shadow clones disappeared with a "bang".

The Shayin Shadow Sect, led by the leader, said loudly: "I'll just say, when you know that we have a backhand, how can you choose to continue to move forward without the slightest movement. ”

Qing Shui didn't speak, at this time he was facing a full team of 9 ninjas, and 3 of them were Sand Hidden Shadows, who were hurrying to recover their strength and chakra.

"I suppose you decided on your plans about 45 minutes ago, during the break, and you're right, Captain Airstream?" The leader is a man wearing an earthy yellow striped mask, and his voice is about 40 years old, probably older.

Qing Shui still kept his mouth shut, he just looked at it coldly.

"As for the places where you separated, there are only two places, one is in the dense forest half an hour ago, and the other is in the river five minutes ago. As soon as I thought that you might have escaped our surveillance, I immediately sent enough men to search for you. ”

Qing Shui was still silent, he knew that the other party wanted to hit his intention to survive, and anything he said now, whether true or false, was just to hit his will to survive. When a person feels that there is no hope of breaking through, then you will naturally die.

"That scout ninja, I haven't found it yet; But the female ninja and the injured shinobi have already been caught by us. ”

Lanhu!

Qing Shui was shocked.

Then they reacted, it was impossible, half an hour had passed, and they must have escaped far enough!

"I don't think you believe me. You see what this is? The Sand Shadow took out a black fragment of his pants, and a white fragment of a blood-stained shirt.

This is the costume of Konoha Dark!

Soon, the Sand Hidden Shadow Department retracted it and continued: "I admire that you value the life and death of your companions and choose to be alone as bait. But that female ninja would have had a chance to escape our tracking, and that upper ninja's injuries were simply not enough to support him back to Konoha, and that female ninja took him with him, which could only be a burden. You have made this decision, it is stupid! ”

Qing Shui's heart sank: he thought he could delay for at least an hour; He thought he could at least let his companion escape from Shinobi's tracking; At least his sacrifice wasn't meaningless, he thought......

"Do you regret it? Angry? Captain Airflow! In front of you, there are 36 Sand Hidden Ninjas, we are your enemies, come, swing your sword at us! ”

For a moment, Shimizu was almost on the verge of rushing towards this Sand Hidden Shadow Ninja. But it suddenly occurred to him that there were 3 sand hidden ninja squads missing behind him, which meant that it should be tracking 3 directions? Maybe this is a bit reluctant logically, but the Konoha dark costume in that person's hand ...... They can use the remains of Xinghuo's clothes left by his first injury as so-called evidence, if they really catch someone, iconic items such as masks or forehead guards, aren't they more obvious?!

"He's lying to me. He wanted to let anger take over my mind and make me lose some of my judgment. Because they're afraid of me! Qing Shui secretly scolded in his heart that this old fox of Shayin actually attacked his heart and almost caught his way.

"This unknown Sand Hidden Ninja." Qing Shui's voice couldn't hear the slightest emotion, "Thanks to you just now, you talked a lot of nonsense, I have recovered a lot of chakra, and I can kill a few more of you sand ninjas." ”

"Don't be too arrogant!" The sand shinobi next to him was enraged by such rampant remarks.

"Captain Airflow, my code name is Dustsand. Naturally, my reputation is far inferior to yours. When you were on a mission in the country of grass in April this year, you performed a magical water escape ninjutsu, which reminded me of the powerful second generation Hokage! ”

What's going on with this guy?! One will attack the heart, and the other will be like this?! Doesn't he know I'm recovering my chakra and strength?!

"Since that time, the Sand Hidden Shadow Department has already recorded you in the Shadow Department Handbook, and I remember that the content is like this'Captain of the Konoha Dark Part, codenamed Kongliu, is good at instantaneous body technique and Konoha Stream swordsmanship, can cast a powerful water escape, danger level A+' can have this kind of achievement at a young age, and those of us who have experienced the second war in the ninja world are really ashamed of ourselves."

Wait, he's dragging his feet too! He wasn't afraid of my chakra and how much physical strength was recovered at all! I should have preempted the attack...... As soon as Qing Shui had this thought, he heard a huge roar of "boom" from the ground!

This is?!

I saw that the forest within a radius of several hundred meters began to collapse, forming an impact crater like a meteorite, and at the same time, countless sandy soil gushed out from the ground, constantly tumbling upward. This large-scale ninjutsu completely changed the entire landscape within a radius of 300 meters in diameter! This makes the terrain a sandy environment similar to that of the Land of Winds!

Qing Shui's face was gloomy to the extreme. This TMD, it turned out that BB for a long time, and the sand ninja was basically to be able to launch this large-scale sand escape ninjutsu that changed the landscape, so he had been dragging his time. The other party is determined to keep him here!

"Captain Kongliu, Konoha's genius Shangnin. I believe that in time, you may not be able to become another second-generation Hokage! But now, please fall here! With a wave of his hand, Dusty Sands gave the order for Sand Shinobi's attack.