The Land of Rain, in a ruin on the highlands.

The masked man who killed the Uchiha flames is taking advantage of the rare sunset, sitting on the gray city wall, with the abyss at his feet.

The only place on his body that could touch the sun was the right eye that was not covered by the mask. The fiery sunset and the scarlet sharing, these two red beads of similar color are reflecting each other, after all, sinking the world into the night is also their common goal.

"You're so idle."

A shadow appeared on the ground behind the masked man, and a strange man wrapped in green flytraps surfaced, barely making a sound, like a sweet potato growing out of thin air.

This weirdo's body is black and white, and one side is more human-like than the other.

The white face on the left side of his face was quite lively, and he greeted the masked man in a somewhat frivolous tone.

"Do you want to know, who we met in the hideout of Sanshoyu Hanzo? It's an unexpected guy, but it scared me a lot. ”

"Don't be foolish."

The masked man tilted his head and spoke in a cold tone, as if he was resisting an eventful parent.

"Why, couldn't Nagato hold back his hatred before those puppets were finished? If so, then the spotted ...... We thought too highly of him before. ”

"It's not him. He was still busy collecting his own puppets, and the selection process was very picky, as if the corpse had to meet some unique conditions before it could be in his eyes. ”

This time, it was the expressionless black part of the strange man's left face that made the sound.

His voice is more stable and darker, and when it comes to saying something smart, he comes out.

"We're talking about your people, the famous instantaneous water stopper."

Hearing this, the masked man suddenly turned his entire body, and his legs straddling the outer edge of the city wall passed directly through the wall.

"He's searching around outside Hanzo's hideout, as if he were in his own home."

Although he couldn't see his expression, he knew very well that the face under the mask was definitely tightly furrowed.

"When you went to harvest that writing wheel, did you do anything superfluous?"

"Otherwise, according to Konoha's arrangement, he should have been on his way to patrol the Water Country by now, how could he be here?" ”

The masked man was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think of the blood that splashed on the hem of his clothes when the Uchiha died in flames.

After all, it was the first time he had killed a clansman, but afterwards, he had already used his right eye to release air currents to increase the fire (see Fire Escape: Storm Dance), and he should not have left even a little evidence, but he didn't expect to be tracked down.

But on second thought, maybe that wasn't the reason for the Uchiha to stop the water here.

So he simply denied it: "Why didn't you show what you did when you went to deliver something to Shimura Danzo?" ”

"I only gave him another reason to exterminate the Uchiha, not showing up in front of anyone."

He never said what he had sent, and immediately changed the subject: "Forget it, there is no point in talking about this now." Nagato's eyes are not his own after all, and those six puppets, there are still two who have not found a suitable carrier, if the Uchiha stops the water by mistake and discovers where his body is, Nagato may not be his opponent, and he will question his 'god' ability. So, we have to find a way to stop the water from the Uchiha and leave the Land of Rain immediately......"

"Or kill him right here, and you won't have to trouble Konoha and the mediocre old and weak."

The masked man's voice was cold and annoyed, "Anyway, it was within our plans. ”

[Do I depend on you?] 】

Black is speechless. During World War III, he watched the Uchiha stop water open the kaleidoscope with his own eyes.

Although up to now, Uchiha Shisui has not really used those eyes, and has not yet exposed the ability of the kaleidoscope, but thinking about it, he also knows that it should be the illusion he is best at. Even if the masked man has the ability to blur, it is never known whether he will be immune to the kaleidoscope illusion when blurring, so he must not take any chances.

"Is it feasible to let Yuyin find him and get rid of him with the hand of Sanshoyu Hanzo?"

The masked man makes a plausible offer.

"Sanshoyu Hanzo's will is not as good as before, just dealing with the rebellion is already exhausted, and he may not be able to deal with the illusion of writing wheels."

Black Jedi immediately vetoed the masked man's idea.

"Besides, killing the 'ninja demigods' so that Nagato firmly considers himself a 'god' is an important part of the plan. We'd better not sabotage. ”

[This doesn't work, that doesn't work......]

The masked man's tone became more and more irritable, gradually revealing his original age, "Then what do you say?" ”

[It's really impatient......]

The black is secretly slandered, but the idea is also given on the surface.

"As far as I know, Hanzo's son is secretly carrying out experiments on transplanting the poison sac of the black Sansho fish, so he is capturing young people everywhere in the Land of Rain. This matter is not even known to Hanzo himself. ”

"Are they going to create a second demigod?"

The masked man shook his head disdainfully, "It's whimsical. Even if the transplant is successful, it will die in a few years. ”

"It's none of our business, but it's just the right thing to take advantage of......"

Kuro stated his thoughts, "Since it is possible that the Uchiha Shisui came after him for the death of that clan, then we will find a murderer for him." ”

"You mean ......"

The masked man roughly understood what Kuroje meant.

"Give me your clansman, and I'll go to the Land of Rain to find a few ninjas or children with other bloodlines, disguise their corpses as if they had done experiments, and then guide Uchiha Shisui to find them 'smoothly'. In this way, all the suspicion goes to the son of Sanshoyu Hanzo. There's no need for the Uchiha to stop the water and explore around in the Land of Rain. ”

"Will he believe that Rain Shinobi has the power to snatch people from the hinterland of the Fire Nation?"

"That's a naïve man, chasing the murderer is not his real purpose. Maintaining the false peace between Konoha and the Uchiha was what he had always wanted most. ”

Kuro replied confidently, "Since there is ready-made evidence that can prove that Uchiha Yanhuo's death had nothing to do with Konoha and thus alleviate the contradiction between the two, he probably wishes that Rain Shinobi did these things." It's just that in this way, our plan to exterminate the Uchiha by provoking trouble will have to be postponed for a while. ”

"If you don't kill him first, this thing will never be done!"

The masked man's voice was gruff as if it had been squeezed out of his teeth.

Then he threw out a scroll, and Bai Jue took it in his hand steadily.

The corpse of the Uchiha Flame is probably among them.

"Everything else is a long-term perspective. If you want to do it, I don't expect to kill just one Uchiha to bring them to a dead end. ”

"As you wish."

Absolutely re-sink into the ground.

Before disappearing, the white half of his face hooked up a mocking sneer.

Meanwhile.

Northwest ......

After leaving the fifth settlement he could find, he marked an arrow on the map.

That's what he learned from the children, the whereabouts of the so-called "angels".

Before parting with Shisui, he was tasked with finding out the trajectory of the ninja who could fly.

"Although flying cannot avoid white-eye detection, accidents will inevitably occur."

This is the reason given to him by Zhishui, "Since the other party is suspected of going to the country of fire, he also has the ability to take away the Uchiha flames, and there is nothing wrong with investigating it." You don't want to give up any possibility of finding out the whereabouts of the flames, do you? ”

So, in order not to give up "any possibility", Yiyong separated from Zhishui, and went all the way north to find the settlement where the nomads lived in the Land of Rain, and inquired about the whereabouts of the "angel".

But the more he heard about the deeds of the "angel", the more he felt that the other party was not the one who took the Uchiha flame.

First of all, he rarely appears in front of adults, but most of the children have seen him, and they are spreading stories about the imminent arrival of the "Savior of the Land of Rain" among themselves.

According to the children, angels are dressed in black robes and have huge wings that obscure their faces, but they always appear when they need help, and giving food is just one of the ways the other person can help.

There was once a child who fell off a cliff and was carried back to safety by a white paper crane, and the angel happened to be not far away.

The children dismantle the paper crane and the origami paper that delivered the food, and inside is a prophetic story-

The gist of it is: the suffering of the Rain Country is coming to an end, and God will save everything, so don't give up the chance to survive easily, and the future of the Rain Country depends on them.

It sounds like it's the hope of keeping these children alive.

However, the paper melts quickly as soon as it is opened, so the children have no evidence.

Adults have never seen angels, only children are collectively imagining, and over time, the story of angels has become a secret that only children in the Land of Rain understand.

That is, Yi Yong had a childish face, and his hard expression was a little scary, so he successfully inquired about these details.

"It's just a kind ninja who likes to take care of children."

Yi Yong followed the direction of the children, and he did not find the "angel", but found one new settlement after another, usually ranging from twenty to fifty people. These are neither rebels nor ninjas, just ordinary people who survive together at the edge of the rainforest, usually with their families.

[It seems that this "angel" is deliberately looking for the surviving people. 】

Although they haven't met yet, Yiyong doesn't know if the other party has anything to do with Yanhuo's death, but judging from the details that he knows so far, the other party is at least a person who is willing to lend a helping hand to the weak.

[And go on—]

His thoughts were interrupted.

A shadow clone he sent to find other settlements suddenly dissolved on its own.

Just due north, there is a large settlement of more than two hundred people, which is definitely a rarity among the rarities. It's just that this big settlement was surrounded by a twelve-person rain ninja force not long ago. With Yu Shinobi's style of acting, these ordinary people are likely to be in danger.

Yiyong frowned, and immediately dismissed all the shadow clones outside.

He recreated the chakra in his body as he hurried in that direction.

During this time, he didn't even realize that he didn't even ask himself why he wanted to go over, these people obviously had nothing to do with him. It's just that the thought that "someone might die" intrudes into his mind in the form of intuition, and his body has already consciously acted.

Whether this imprinted habit came with the breath, or whether it had already penetrated into the soul, I am afraid that even he could not tell.

……

North.

"As I said, take your children away to train them to become ninjas!"

The rain ninja at the head is a shinobi wearing a miserable white diving suit.

He took off his gas mask and stepped on the back of the strongest man in the settlement, who was on his knees with a swollen nose and a swollen face, his hands trembling to support all his weight, and proclaimed out the reason for taking all the children away.

"This matter, the country of rain and the country of rain, I can't figure it out, what are you embarrassed about!

"Isn't it a great thing that your children have become Yunin, and your status has also risen, and you can all live together in Yuyin Village, and you don't have to worry about the harassment of those rebels?"

Most of the inhabitants of this settlement looked at Rain Shinobi with suspicious eyes, but soon lowered their heads under the cold gaze of the other Rain Ninja.

The man who was trampled under his feet was their titular leader, a former ninja, but he was brought down in almost less than five seconds, and there was no point in them resisting.

However, among these nomads, many of them were still moved by the rain ninja, and their eyes rolled around their bones. They've had enough of picking mushrooms and berries at the edge of the rainforest to eat.

"Let me ask again, where are the other children except these children?"

The eyes of the upper ninja swept over the nomad's face one by one, and suddenly added, "As long as they can become ninjas, in addition to their parents and families, the people who take the initiative to say their location now can also go to live in Yuyin Village!" ”

Hearing this promise, those who do not have children immediately jumped up!

"I know!"

A bearded man was the first to squeeze out of the crowd under the angry eyes of a bunch of companions, "There are also a dozen lids, all playing in the clearing on the other side of the forest, sometimes setting traps to catch some animals back, they won't run too far." ”

"Good."

Shangnin raised his chin, and the four shinobi wearing black oilcloth raincoats immediately disappeared and rushed towards the forest. Less than two minutes later, there was a loud whistle, indicating that someone had indeed been found.

The informant licked his lips and said excitedly, "Ninja-sama, my name is Takeuchi, don't forget me." ”

"Of course."

Before putting on the gas mask, Shangnin squeezed out a cold smile, "Being able to take away the little ghosts here without landing on the ground can save us a lot of effort." Much stronger than the previous settlement. ”

Just when Takeuchi thought that he could leave with this group of ninjas and go to Yuyin Village, Kamishinobi turned around indifferently and ordered to the other ninjas.

"The imp has been captured. In order to prevent these people from holding grudges, join the rebels in the future, disrupt the order of the Land of Rain, and clean them all up! ”

"Yes!"

In the midst of the drastic change in the expressions of a group of people, the four wearing hats and rain ninjas threw the black umbrellas in their hands into the air, surrounding everyone in four corners.

"Ninja is like rain and dew!"

Those canopies opened suddenly, and between the high-speed rotations, a steel needle as thin as a toothpick but as long as an index finger was sprayed, which looked black and pressed, at least tens of thousands, covering all directions without dead ends!

Just as these homeless people who had just lost their children were about to lose their lives, a fierce red light escaped from a distance, and terrifying flame tornadoes appeared from the ground without warning, wrapping around them like long red snakes, and the steel needles that were close to them were swept into them, turning into drops of molten iron that sneered at the ground.

"Breath of Fire: Type 4 ......"

"The Vortex of Flame!"