Meeting a Fellow Professional
Thump... thump...
The stone that Yemo transformed into fell into the carriage covered by a black cloth. With a thud, Yemo deactivated the Transformation Technique and returned to normal.
"This meal really shook me!"
Yemo muttered, rubbing his slightly dizzy head. "After rolling around like this, it's no wonder I'm dizzy."
Shaking his head to clear his mind, Yemo bent down and walked slowly to the edge of the black cloth, gently pulling open a hole to look outside.
The carriage creaked and groaned. Through the small gap, Yemo could only barely make out the few guards with swords around him. The entire group was traveling along a side road known only to these people.
After looking outside for a while and confirming that there was no danger, Yemo carefully closed the black cloth, turned around and looked behind him, wanting to see what this guy was going to such lengths to transport.
With a gentle flick of his fingers, a tiny flame appeared in Yemo's palm. To protect the contents of the carriage, the people had covered it with an extremely tight black cloth, making it impossible for anyone outside to see the Kakkō inside. Otherwise, how could Yemo have been so confident in lighting the flame? Although the flame was small, the light it emitted was enough to illuminate the entire carriage.
The entire carriage was piled high with long boxes, taking up about two-thirds of the space. Yemo looked at the boxes carefully with curious eyes, but found nothing.
Yemo considered opening the box to take a look, but then thought better of it. Opening the box would make quite a commotion, and if it alerted the people outside, wouldn't that be just asking for trouble?
After abandoning the idea of exploring what was inside, Yemo hid in the middle carriage and observed the outside through the gaps in the black cloth.
The group had been walking in the forest for a short while when they came to a cliff. The two Chunin leading the group did not stop but walked directly toward the cliff as if it did not exist.
Just when Yemo thought the two were about to crash into the cliff, their figures flashed and disappeared into the cliff. Only then did Yemo realize that the cliff in front of him was actually just a decoy barrier.
The people behind them followed the two leading ninjas, entering the barrier one by one. Before long, everyone had entered the barrier, and the forest outside the barrier returned to its deathly silence.
There was nothing more to see. Yemo lowered the black cloth and entered a meditative state in the swaying carriage. The carriage continued to sway, with faint footsteps heard on both sides. He didn't know how much time had passed or how far they had traveled.
Finally, the carriage came to a stop, and the footsteps around it also ceased. Yemo seemed to be asleep while being rocked, suddenly opened his eyes, tilted his body slightly, and carefully lifted the black cloth covering him to look outside.
The sky was no longer so dark; a faint light shone on the distant horizon. The guards on both sides tied up the horses, and after a guard was dropped off at each carriage, the rest of the people huddled together in an open space less than ten meters away from the carriages, took out water and dry rations, and began to eat. Some people didn't even eat anything, but simply hugged their chests and curled up under the trees to doze off. After traveling all night, they were hungry, sleepy, and exhausted, but they had finally entered the Land of Land of Lightning. It was a pity they could only rest for a while.
Yemo hadn't made a move yet. He was waiting for the others to finish eating. This was when people were most tired. After a long night of hard work, a short rest would not only fail to energize them, but would actually make them even more exhausted. It's like running a race. You can keep running even if you're tired, but once you stop to rest, it's hard to get back up.
More than ten minutes passed, and just as Yemo had predicted, more and more people fell asleep. In the end, everyone except the dozen or so guards was asleep, and even those guards were very sleepy, slapping their mouths and yawning from time to time.
Only those two Chunin were able to remain conscious. As ninjas, their willpower was far stronger than that of ordinary people. They could endure not sleeping for several nights, let alone one.
Feeling the time was right, Yemo was preparing to leave without alerting anyone when he suddenly sensed a fluctuation of Chakra that did not belong to the two missing-nin. Although it was very slight, he still felt it.
Yemo, who was about to take action, suddenly stopped. There was actually a third ninja in the crowd, which Yemo had not noticed.
He must have some way of hiding his Chakra fluctuations to escape my detection. I didn't find him all night yesterday. I wouldn't have been able to detect him if he hadn't just manipulated the Kra Yemo.
However, Yemo couldn't understand why, as a ninja, he had to hide his identity, and why he had to hide his Chakra and make himself look like an ordinary person. Moreover, he hadn't revealed his Chakra last night, so why was he doing this inappropriate thing now?
Just then, a dark shadow flashed past Yemo's eyes. Before Yemo could see what it was, he heard a bang. When he looked closely, he saw that the dark shadow that had just flashed past him was actually a guard. The guard's eyes were white, he was foaming at the mouth, and he was not breathing. He was obviously dead, and he had died of poisoning.
The sudden commotion startled the other guards, and their gazes turned to him simultaneously. The two missing-nin also changed their expressions and stood up abruptly. Logically speaking, the sound of someone falling to the ground is not small, but none of the sleeping guards woke up.
The fall of this guard seemed to be a signal; before the other guards could do or say anything, they all fell one by one, with the same characteristics: their eyes rolled back, they foamed at the mouth, and they stopped breathing, having been poisoned to death.
At this moment, Yemo discovered that the sleeping guards also exhibited the same characteristics. In an instant, dozens of guards were poisoned to death without any warning, which was extremely bizarre.
The two missing-nin had already realized they had been ambushed; if they hadn't, they would truly be fools.
Two missing-nin, each wielding Kunai, stared intently at the sole guard standing before the carriage. All the other guards were dead, and this was the only survivor. Needless to say, the culprit had been revealed.
"Who are you!" one of the missing-nin shouted angrily.
The guard gave a wicked smile, said nothing, picked up a ninja Forehead Protector and put it on his forehead. The mark on the Forehead Protector was clearly that of Kumo Ninja.
"You're Kumo Ninja!" Another missing-nin exclaimed incredulously. Their entire group had been traveling for a whole day without ever noticing that a Kumo Ninja was hiding among them.
"Interesting!" Yemo muttered to himself, watching the Kumo Ninja who had concealed his identity with great interest. A Kumo Ninja hiding his identity and infiltrating among these underworld people, coming from the Land of Fire to the Land of Lightning —could it be that he had encountered a fellow Cloud Ninja?
The previous missing-nin, his face contorted with murderous intent, said, "Whether you're Kumo Ninja or not, daring to ruin our plans, you'll be meeting your maker today!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the missing-nin ninja waved his hand and shot out several Kunai, aiming straight for the face of the Kumo Ninja.
"You two Chunin think you can send me to meet the King of Hell?" Kumo Ninja sneered, his right hand reaching out, and a Kunai his sleeve. Kumo Ninja grabbed the Kunai backhand and easily knocked away all the attacking Kunai.
The two missing-nin were already terrified when they heard the Kumo Ninja's words. This Cloud Kumo Ninja was actually Jonin. The two exchanged a glance, and without saying a word, they turned around and ran off in two different directions.
If it were a Chunin, the two of them would be confident of defeating the opponent, but they didn't have that ability against a Jonin. A Jonin is not someone that two Chunin can handle.
Seeing the two missing-nin escape, the Kumo Ninja curled his lip and said disdainfully, "Trying to escape? Have you ever seen Chunin escape from Jonin?"
Lightning crackled around the Kumo Ninja, and in the next second, amidst a thunderous roar, the Cloud Kumo Ninja vanished in a flash of lightning, only to reappear behind one of the missing-nin.
Lightning Body Flicker Technique, a special Body Flicker Technique that can only be used by ninjas of the Kumogakure, with a speed far exceeding that of ordinary Body Flicker Technique.