The next morning.

A small river not far from the meeting place.

"Will you come back to see me?"

Before parting, Hydrangea grabbed Yiyong's sleeve. The grace of saving her life, coupled with the events in the carriage and the death of Sansho Yujiahe, she is very grateful for her bravery.

Xiao Nan also stared at Yi Yong's eyes, wanting to see if the child's thoughts had changed after last night's conversation.

The reason why she wanted to make Yiyong realize the difference between their positions in advance was not to let this future great power ninja draw a line with the seedlings of the rain country in advance. Otherwise, the better the relationship with each other, the more painful it will be when they meet and oppose each other in the future.

She had imagined in her mind that after the establishment of the organization in the future, she and Nagato and Jiraiya would see each other again—things were not people, friends and foes. But just imagining it, Xiao Nan felt a wave of consciousness and heartache, and the new goal that had just been established was difficult to maintain.

She didn't want that to happen to the two kids in front of her.

"No, it won't."

Yi Yong's words made Hydrangea look stunned, and her eyes quickly darkened, and Xiao Nan nodded understandingly, thinking that what she said yesterday had an effect.

Until Yiyong said the next sentence.

"The family is strictly controlled, and I don't think there will be a chance to be so far away from home again."

is so well-behaved, a sentence that is not worthy of the strength he showed at all, almost made Hydrangea and Xiao Nan laugh at the same time.

"Okay, it's not too early, what else do you want to say?"

Xiao Nan's paper clone has a time limit, and it won't be long before the chakra will run out.

"Hmmm......"

Hydrangea pondered for a moment and wished, "Yiyong, I hope you can find your missing friend." ”

"I will." Yi Yong nodded, and said at the same time: "I also hope that you can find a new family." ”

Hydrangea has some redness under her eyes.

Xiao Nan spread his wings, raised his right hand slightly, and hundreds of pieces of paper flew up with hydrangeas, "In that case, let's leave it ...... by"

"Wait."

Yi Yong called Xiao Nan out.

"What else?"

"I need a hair of yours."

Tanjiro mentioned to Yoshiyong that Kasumizu Shitou Muichiro, and his favorite thing to do is origami.

He must have liked the ability to not only deform paper at will, but even dye and color it and turn it into a detonation charm.

In the past, the two of them didn't have much to do with each other, but origami was undoubtedly a very good breakthrough to enhance their relationship.

"What do you want your hair for?"

Xiao Nan's face turned strange.

She had heard the story of the Oni no Kuni Shrine Maiden who could cast a love spell on someone through a single hair. The one who told her this story was also self-serving.

Yi Yong was blunt, "Let another person like me." ”

Xiao Nan's face was full of ancient wells, and his heart was shocked, and then it turned into a joke like an adult looking at Tong Yan Wuji and a child.

With a wave of her hand, a hair fell, but on the way to the ground, it turned into a thin piece of paper.

"It's just my doppelganger, even if you take it, it's useless."

A trace of confusion welled up on Yiyong's face, because Xiao Nan was not an enemy and was not injured, so he had not used the transparent world to investigate. I didn't expect her to be a real person.

"But we can make a pact."

Xiao Nan grew wings and slowly floated into the air, "If the next time we meet, you are not a ninja of a big country, I will give you a hair." ”

[I'm afraid that even if he has this opportunity, he won't ask me again.] 】

Yiyong thought for a moment with his eyes half-open.

The condition for resurrecting Kasumi Zhu Shitou Muichiro is that there are two breathing methods of water and wind, and they reach the level of Changzhong at the same time.

At present, only Itachi can stably brush the resolution of Wind Breath, and although Naruto Vortex can brush it, the chance is not very high, and it will take at least several years to brush it to 100%. It doesn't seem wrong to wait a little longer to get a gene vector.

Thinking of this, he raised his head again and nodded solemnly at Xiao Nan: "Then we'll talk about it." ”

Xiao Nan looked at him with an extremely formal appearance, and couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, but his face was still unwavering, and he didn't even say a word of goodbye, so he flew into the distance with the hydrangea, only the latter kept waving his hand to Yiyong, and Yiyong responded with his eyes.

It's a pity that Xiao Nan can't show a smile on his face, let alone tell others about this matter like some interesting story.

Whether it's Nagato's dream, suspicious Madara or this country, one by one, one by one, she can't breathe.

But there is such a fun thing in my heart, and it is not bad to occasionally make her laugh dumbly when she is alone.

After Xiao Nan waved his wings and the hydrangea completely disappeared into the sky covered by layers, Yi Yong turned his head and walked towards the place where he made an appointment with Zhishui.

When they parted, Shisui sent a raven to follow him.

But then Yiyong plans to venture to Fort 14, so he uses his shadow clone to lure the crow away.

Now, if Zhishui returns to the agreed place first and doesn't see him, and can't find him through the crows, he should be in a hurry.

With this in mind, Yi Yong rode the waves, and finally after fifteen minutes, he came to a place where the treetops were full of crows.

He walked over to a boulder, opened the Sharingan and took a turn, unraveling the illusion attached to the stone (which changes the appearance of an object in the eyes of others) and replaced it with a small wooden house.

"You're back, Brave."

Without waiting for Yiyong to knock on the door, Zhishui had already opened the door first. Uchiha Itachi followed, but his face was a little haggard, as if he had suffered some mental blow.

But when he saw the bandages wrapped around Yiyong's body, he suddenly cheered up, and his eyes became dangerous: "Are you injured?" ”

"It doesn't matter."

Yi Yong interrupted the topic, leaving the two speechless. It doesn't matter, what else can be important!

Especially the water stop that is in charge of taking care of him, I can think of the situation when I went back to Konoha and asked for guilt to the Fuyue couple in the soil.

He originally wanted to find an excuse to prevent Yiyong from entering Yuyin Village, but he didn't expect this guy to get rid of the crow and come back with an injury.

"I found the angel."

After entering the house, Yiyong directly stated his "investigation results", "The matter should have nothing to do with her." It was just a female ninja who took care of her children in the Land of Rain.

As he spoke, he cast an inquiring glance at the water, while Itachi stared at his bandage and scrutinized it, "What about you." ”

"I found the body of the Uchiha Flame in Yuyin Village."

Shisui said as he used the three-hook jade to cast an illusion on Yiyong, and a line of subtitles appeared in Yiyong and Itachi's field of vision.

Don't resist. 】

The two of them were slightly stunned, and the spirit body was pulled into the illusion space, but the physical body outside was still talking with each other, completely manipulated by the illusion of stopping the water.

"What's going on?"

In the illusion space, which was exactly the same as reality, Yiyong frowned slightly, "Why are you here?" ”

"From the moment I stepped into Yuyin Village, I was watched by the enemy. Some of the things I know are what the other party told me to know, and some are things that the other person doesn't know I know, so I can only say it here. ”

With his hands in line, the three of them came to a laboratory with white-walled walls, where four unwielding corpses lay neatly on cold trays. This scene was formed based on the memory of the Uchiha Shisui, and it was restored by a ratio of 1 to 1.

Yoshiyu's breathing stopped for a moment, because one of them was none other than the Uchiha Flame.

The other three are mostly teenagers.

"The process of finding the body of the Uchiha Flame was too smooth, it was like someone had drawn a directional arrow for me along the way."

Zhishui walked to the edge of the safe in the laboratory, "This is the laboratory of the family of the youngest son of Sanshoyu Hanzo, Sanshoyu Jiahe, in addition to Yanhuo, there are three other teenagers with different bloodline limits. According to the documents here, it is said that the Sansho Fish Koga intends to test the compatibility of the Blood Tsuki Ninja and the Sansho Fish Poison Sac, so the Sansho Fish poison sac is implanted in the opening of their abdomen. ”

"According to the records, Uchiha was the first to die without being able to bear the toxin, and the body has been destroyed."

He paid attention to Yi Yong's expression, but the latter's face sank like water, and he was not affected, but retorted: "But the ninja dog named Kuromaru has already given a judgment, saying that judging from the amount of bleeding in Wen, it should be killed on the spot......"

"That's right, that's the first point I had doubts about the documents."

Zhishui nodded and replied, "It seems that Wen's body has been seriously damaged, and it may even leak more information, so he didn't show it here." ”

"Since it's an experiment."

Yoshito walked up to Uchiha Flame's right hand and pointed to the injury that had been pierced to the back of his head, "How do you explain that?" ”

According to the report, it was the Uchiha who woke up before the sac was implanted, and tried to resist when he was still weak, using illusions on the researchers. One of them overreacted and stabbed him through the skull, killing him. ”

Shisui paused and pointed to the remaining three Blood Relay Ninjas, "There are only incisions on the surface of Yanhuo's body, but there are still inactive Sansho fish venom sacs remaining in the bodies of the other three people, which is evidence that they have carried out transplantation experiments before they died. It seems that whoever arranged all this wants me to believe that this thing was done by Sansho Yujiaga. And the corpse of the flame should have moved here after death......"

He glanced at Itachi, "To further verify this, I want to go to Fort Fourteen to see what is going on." But unfortunately, although I found Itachi, I didn't find Sansho Yu Kaga himself, and this matter was interrupted, so I had to find another opportunity in the future. ”

"Sansho fish Koga is dead."

Yi Yong's expression was a little complicated, he didn't expect that he had moved the killer, but the investigation of this matter had reached a dead end.

"I killed it."

"What?!" Shisui and Itachi exclaimed at the same time.

Zhishui looked at the bandages on Yiyong's body, and asked with a solemn expression, "What happened after we separated?" ”

So Yi Yong told the story, explaining that during his journey to find the angel, he encountered the rain and became suspicious, and deliberately "sheep into the tiger's mouth" and sneaked into the fourteenth fortress to tell the story. When the ceiling collapsed, Itachi's face suddenly turned pale, and the water stopped immediately.

"What's wrong......

Yi Yong didn't understand, this was an illusion space, how could the weasel become like this.

Zhishui's gaze went back and forth between the two, but he still didn't speak, and finally it was Itachi who adjusted his breathing and said to Yiyong: "I'm sorry, Yiyong...... The intruder you said caused the explosion and caused the ceiling to collapse, it should be us. ”

“……”

In the illusion space, he suddenly fell into a death-like stasis.

"What are you doing up there?"

After a long time, Yi Yong asked in a cold voice, "The people in the laboratory told me that it is the office of Sansho Yujiahe, and all the materials for the poison sac transplantation experiment are there. ”

"Brave, this confidential mission involving Itachi-"

"Jean—he—said."

A cold drink with clear words, a rare loud voice interrupted the water stop.

A layer of cold, damp water poured out of his body, pushing the cart away from the corpse, and the atmosphere in the room was chilling.

Not to mention stopping the water, even Itachi has never seen his brother angry. But he can understand, after all, Yiyong almost died there, and anyone has the right to be angry.

However, Itachi completely misunderstood the reason for Yiyong's anger.

"Yiyong, I want to answer you too, but the task is the mission......"

"You guys went to destroy the test materials, so you caused the explosion?"

Yi Yong's expression looked the same as just now, but after the events of the past few days, his emotions had already accumulated to a critical point. He remembered Xiao Nan's method of testing whether he was lying or not, and his eyes looked through Itachi's chest, staring at his heart and feeling the change in the rate of his heartbeat.

"Or is your task to take all the experiments with you so that the village can continue their research?"

Itachi's heartbeat paused briefly, revealing the answer and making Yoshiyong understand that even in Konoha Village, there were people exactly like Sansho Yukaga.

"Who gave you the task?"

"Brave!" Zhishui hurriedly pulled Yiyong's clothes.

"He doesn't have to answer, he just listens to me."

Yiyong didn't expect Itachi to give an answer, he was just observing Itachi's heartbeat reaction after each word.

"Hokage? Shinobi? Shadows? Clan? Advisor Elders—"

Again, the ferret's heartbeat changed.

Yoshito said the name of the only Konoha advisor elder he knew, and it was the guy in the Uchiha Flame Mouth who prevented him from becoming a shinobi three times and twice.

"Mito Menitis?"

After a brief pause, he whispered, "It seems to be another elder." ”

At this point, Itachi and Zhishui both understood, although they didn't know how Yiyong did it, as long as he wanted to track it down, he would definitely be on the head of that name.

"Itachi, so far, I can only tell him."

Zhishui sighed and persuaded: "Besides, most of the things that Yanhuo and Wen were attacked were dealt with by internal ghosts, and that person was already very suspicious. Coupled with the matter of the two root ninjas before, his suspicion is even greater. ”

"What root ninja?"

Yi Yong heard the word for the first time.

"Konoha Dark Division's detachment root."

Looking at Uchiha Itachi's face like dead ashes, Shisui explained directly to Yoshiyong.

"This time, the Itachi is carrying out the task of the root. It seems that on the surface, it is to steal the materials for the transplantation experiment of the Sansho fish. But after I probed with illusion, the real task they received was to sacrifice themselves in front of Itachi, regardless of whether the mission was successful or not, and preferably, let Itachi kill them with his own hands. ”

Yi Yong frowned, not figuring out the brain circuits of these people.

"When a comrade-in-arms dies, those who survive are responsible for the death of their comrades-in-arms, and feel the need to inherit their will and do it themselves, so that they will have more emotional devotion and guilt."

The water stop explains the logic of the root ninja.

"Itachi is the second time I've experienced this kind of thing, and it is very likely that it will be deeply affected, and it will be more inclined to the roots in the future. It's their old trick. Changing the intention of the Itachi itself is the real purpose of their mission this time, and it can also guide the Weasel's code of conduct in the direction of the root. ”

After finishing speaking, he also specially added: "So Yiyong, those two explosions, including the falling of the ceiling, were caused by the root ninja." You must not blame Itachi for this......"

"I've never blamed him for that."

Yoshi's focus is not on this at all, but with a new understanding of the dark side of ninjas.

"What do you mean by Gen's code of conduct?"

"In short, as long as there is a threat to Konoha by one person, the root can ignore the evidence, spare the rules and regulations of Hokage and Konoha and directly eliminate the other party. This principle also applies to other countries, and all the hidden dangers that may threaten Konoha are eliminated directly when they are still just the beginning, which is the style of the roots. ”

He continued, "The root ninjas don't need to have a will of their own, they just need to follow the judgment of their leader, Shimura Danzo. ”

Yi Yong looked stunned, he had only heard this name from Xiao Nan yesterday.

The naïve and naïve peace organization that Xiao Nan said in his mouth that did not resort to force was destroyed by this person and Sanshoyu Hanzo together.

"This person, what does it have to do with Yanhuo's death?"

"It's just speculation at the moment. All we know is that Yanhuo's route was mostly betrayed, and he has the ability to provide this information; He has a history of human experiments; This incident would lead to a break between Konoha and the Uchiha, and he also had this motive; The reason why he wants to exert influence on Itachi should also be for the purpose of guarding against Uchiha in the future. ”

Zhishui concluded, "So, instead of staying here and continuing to be watched and deliberately misled, it is better to go back first and start from this person in order to find out the truth." ”

Of course, his most important purpose is to give the ready-made answer to the clan as much as possible, and resolve the conflict between Konoha and Uchiha first. Investigate something that can be done slowly and secretly.

It was the first time for Yiyong to encounter such a complicated situation, but now that the body of Yanhuo had been found, the Sansho fish Jiahe, who could be used as a clue, had also been killed, and there was no point in investigating further.

"Let's go back."

He agreed to the proposal to stop the water, and then looked at the weasel and said seriously: "But you have to hand over the report of the pepperfish transplantation experiment to me, I can't let you take that thing back." ”

"I see."