The sea-interception monsters were deployed along the shipping route between the Crescent Archipelago and the main island of the Land of Water.
The Jinchuriki were deployed outside the pass between the Southern Mountain Region and the Otogakure Ruins.
He hadn't stationed combat troops inside his laboratory. He had set up blocking positions along the routes anyone would have to take to reach it.
That meant Kabuto's research facility was undefended on the inside.
It wasn't that he didn't want defenses-he had no personnel to spare."
"He's right." After the fire went out, Neji leaned his back against the rock wall and rested with his eyes closed. Chakra recovered far faster at rest than during movement.
His eyes still closed, he picked up where Chisen had left off. "The Three-Level Facility in the Southern Mountain Region only had logistics and research staff. No combat units at all.
Those ten Jinchuriki outside the forked ravine are all the combat forces Kabuto has left in the Land of Rice Fields.
He's staked all his defenses on the route from south to north—the Otogakure Ruins, where he is now, might not have even a single guard holding a kunai."
"Because he doesn't need one.
If he gets the six glands from the Immune Integration specimen as planned, he'll leave the Land of Rice Fields immediately.
The Jinchuriki are just speed bumps to hold off his pursuers. He doesn't need to beat us. He only needs to stall until he finishes transplanting the glands and disappears." Chisen drew a winding line in the muddy ground with his walking stick, marking the route from the Southern Mountain Region to the Otogakure Ruins. Then he poked three holes along it with the tip—the pass, the forked ravine, and Otogakure.
He measured the distances between the three holes