Chapter 42: A Mission Without Progress
The fifth class left the land country for the first time to do a mission, and understood the cruelty of the ninja world, and the three little ones were more nervous than novel.
After leaving the border of the Fire Country and entering the Land of Taki, the fifth class became speechless. Without the need for loess to explain, the three of them unconsciously began to communicate with gestures.
When traveling in Taki's country, he was also cautious and resolutely did not go out at night. They don't live in hotels, let alone towns, and only purchase supplies in some relatively remote villages.
This monotonous and tense rush lasted until near the underground black market that entered the land of sound. According to the records of the intelligence officers in the mission, several people found the information left by each other in a tree hole.
After the four of them took turns to read the intelligence, Loess motioned to Yichen to conduct intelligence analysis.
After not speaking for many days, Yichen was a little uncomfortable, coughed lightly, and said: "So far, the intelligence officers have not updated the information, if you don't consider the accident of the intelligence personnel, it means that Qingyan has not returned to this underground bounty." Then there are two possibilities, one is that the mission chosen by Qingyan is not limited to the mission within the country of sound, but a transnational mission, and he does not need to come back to deliver the task. The second is that he has not yet completed the task. ”
After glancing at the three of them, Yichen continued: "If it is the first case, we will have no choice. In the second case, we'll need to wait around here, but it's too close to the underground bounty and there will be a lot of wandering ninjas coming and going. ”
"If we check the ninjas passing by here, we will inevitably clash with them. Regardless of the outcome of the conflict, our mission will certainly fail. ”
"So for the sake of safety, we can only choose a route that Qingyan may pass through for ambush. However, if you do so, the success rate of the task will be very low. ”
After speaking, Yichen looked at the other three.
There is no good way for the three people of Loess.
Tian Nai comforted: "Qingyan is just a mid-level ninja, and it is unlikely that he will take on large-scale transnational tasks. We still have a good chance of holding on to him. ”
Both Yichen and Shinohara nodded in agreement.
Yichen continued: "When Qing Yan left the underground bounty office, he walked to the northeast, let's first reconnoiter the terrain in the northeast. The ambush site is then decided on the basis of the terrain. ”
The three nodded, then stopped talking, and after resting in place for a while, the four formed a search formation and headed northeast.
Because they didn't dare to be too ostentatious, the fourth squad of four people was relatively slow to investigate, and it took half a day to complete the reconnaissance of a large area northeast of the black market.
In the end, the four members of the fifth group chose a small hill for ambush. In this location, Yichen's perceptual ninjutsu was able to detect pedestrians several kilometers away. And to the northeast of this hillside is a flat field, and the four of them can see the pedestrians leading to the black market in the distance.
After choosing a location, Loess, Tianna, and Shinohara took turns on duty and began to observe the movement in the distance. Whenever the person on duty sees movement in the distance, he will notify Yichen, and then when the other party passes by on the road a few kilometers away from the hillside, Yichen will perform perceptual ninjutsu to determine whether the other party has been shinobi, if not, the four of them will get closer to observe.
In this way, the fifth class waited on this hillside for five days in a row. In the past five days, the four of them have encountered three or four hundred teams of pedestrians, and the number of pedestrians varies from one or two to hundreds of people.
In Yichen's exploration, at least twelve ninjas had appeared among these people, and the chakra amount had reached the upper ninja level, and the fifth class would avoid it far away every time.
The number of ninjas at the middle ninja level is as high as hundreds, but the lower ninja is even less. This completely subverted Yichen's perception of a small country. It turns out that there are so many ninjas operating in these small countries, and the ninja world is really dangerous.
In five days, hundreds of perceptual ninjutsu performances made Yichen a little tired, but fortunately, it could be over with only a little perception each time, so the consumption of chakra was not much. It's just that a lot of mental power is consumed, but fortunately, this aspect is Yichen's specialty, and it didn't cause any harm to Yichen.
According to the plan, Yichen and the others will continue to wait like this for ten days, and if no trace of Qingyan is found within ten days, the fifth class will choose to abandon the task and return.
But while waiting today, Tana spotted a group of three people coming from the northeast. As usual, Yichen, who was notified, performed the perceptual ninjutsu after the three of them entered the perception range.
After these days of perception, Yichen has developed a good ability to distinguish between ninja chakras. Ninjas who have not practiced chakra nature change have a gentle feeling for Yichen.
As for the other ninjas who have learned various attribute changes, their chakra gives Yichen a different feeling.
After summarizing, Yichen came to the conclusion that the water attribute has a soft feeling, the fire attribute appears warm, the earth attribute makes people feel heavy, the thunder attribute makes people slightly numb, and the wind attribute is a little stinging.
If you learn to change multiple properties like loess, there are many different sensations in perception.
But in Yichen's perception this time, a ninja who is obviously at the upper ninja level is with dual attributes of water and wind, and a ninja at the middle and lower ninja level is attributeless, but the chakra of the remaining ninja gives Yichen a very cold feeling.
This made Yichen couldn't help but investigate a few more times. But at this moment, there was an accident, and the ninja who was walking suddenly stopped, and the chakra, as if sensing something, began to mobilize.
Yichen was startled, knowing that he was in trouble, Yichen, who came back to his senses, was very sober, and immediately beckoned the three people of Loess and said: "I was discovered, retreat to the trap area, and talk while walking." ”
The other three did not hesitate and immediately got up and rushed to the trap area prepared in advance.
On the way, Yichen reported the situation: "Three ninjas, one upper ninja with dual attributes of water and wind, mainly with water attributes. A mid-to-lower ninja level physical ninja. A mid-to-lower ninja level ...... Ice Escape Blood Relay Ninja. ”
Yichen made a judgment on that cold chakra, and he escaped.
The three of them all looked solemn when they heard this, one ninja is enough trouble, plus a blood ninja, the strength of the other party is already above their side.
Now the fifth squad takes the initiative to scout the other party, which can already be counted as a provocation. If the other party is not very cautious and tracks it down, then it will not be easy to pass this level today.
Afraid of something, Loess said: "The other party has followed." ”
Yichen's hearts sank, and they all accelerated their speed, and in the blink of an eye, the four of them entered the pre-set ambush circle, hid their bodies as planned, and then prepared to fight.
There is no reason between ninjas, and when there is a conflict, there is a fight. Ninjas generally have high offense and low defense, and if one side keeps their hands and wants to be reasonable, while the other side is making a dead hand, then the result is not difficult to predict.
So gradually, ninjas have formed a special way of getting along, trying not to make contact after meeting, and once they make contact, it is basically a battle to the death.
Therefore, although the three of Yichen belonged to the party that took the initiative to cause trouble, they did not explain reasonably.
After ambushing at their respective locations as planned, the dense forest where the fifth class was located was unusually quiet.
The three people who chased after them were also very experienced, and after standing still outside the trap area, the three of them hesitated a little and did not venture in.
The leader of the upper ninja said to the Ice Escape Ninja who had discovered Yichen's perception: "Shui Wuyue Mirror, what is the approximate level of the ninja you sensed, can you make an accurate judgment?" ”
Shui Wuyue Mirror was a little uncertain, and said hesitantly: "Captain Xiaosu, the other party should be a middle ninja or a special ninja, the other party gives me a very special feeling, but it doesn't feel very strong." ”
Imamura asked the remaining female ninja, "Oda, what do you think?" ”
Kono Oda thought for a moment and said, "I can't confirm the composition of the other party's personnel, but judging from the footprints, it should be four people, an adult ninja with three children, and the three children should be one or two years younger than me and Kagami." The other party should have stayed here for a short time, and should be on a mission. I guess it was because of an accident that we ran into us. ”
"If that perceptual ninja is a strong middle ninja, then the other party is likely to be a middle ninja with three lower ninjas. But Kagami said that the other party didn't feel very strong, so I doubt that the other party will have a captain of the upper ninja. ”
Imamura Xiaosu was a little dignified, and he didn't want to face a shinobi who didn't know the details. After a pause, he asked Shui Wuyue Mirror: "Has your identity as a blood ninja been revealed?" ”
Shui Wuyue Mirror thought about it, nodded and said, "It should be exposed." The other party had obvious hesitation after sensing my chakra, and I must have been exposed. ”
"Let's fight, then." Imamura Xiaosu made up his mind, this mission hasn't started yet, if you don't care about Yichen and his party, once the identity of the blood ninja is passed out, then the next will be dangerous. But if he just gave up the task, Imamura Xiaosu was a little unwilling.
After struggling for a while, Imamura Xiaosu still decided to fight, and he regretted it a little, knowing that he should make up for the missing team members before the mission.
However, Imamura Xiaosu is a ninja after all, and after making up his mind, he did not hesitate at all, and directly sealed his hands, and quickly cast a B-level large-scale water escape ninjutsu towards the trap area.
A water dragon with a length of more than 30 meters rushed into the trap area and raged everywhere irregularly.
Looking at the traps that were triggered everywhere after the water dragon, but until the water dragon dissipated, no enemy appeared, and the three of them looked a little dignified.
Their squad performed a lot more missions than the fifth squad, and there were casualties among their companions, so they had more experience than Yichen. Seeing that Imamura Kosu's ninjutsu did not force the enemy out, Mizuki Tsuki and Kono Oda did not relax in the slightest, but raised their vigilance.
When the fifth class set up the trap, they considered that the other party might use ninjutsu to wash the ground, so the trap was divided into two parts, one part was on the surface and the other part was underground, so that all the traps could be destroyed by avoiding a large range of ninjutsu.
The four members of the fifth squad all hid in the holes dug in advance and successfully avoided the attack of the water dragon.
At this time, Yichen had already cast a perceptual ninjutsu, and began to lock on to the other three with perceptual ninjutsu.
At the same time, Shui Wuyue Mirror immediately warned again: "Be careful, the other party's perceptual ninja is perceiving us again, and our every move should be under the other party's perception." ”
Imamura Kosu looked ahead with his eyes and said, "Can you confirm the location of the other party?" ”
Shui Wuyue Mirror shook his head and said, "There is no way, the other party's spiritual power seems to be very strong, if it weren't for my blood inheritance limit and improved my perception of Chakra, I wouldn't have been able to detect the other party." ”