Moonlight hung high in the sky, stars filling the heavens.
Jiang Rui looked up at the moon. The campfire crackled before him, while Ito Rei beside him wore an unhappy expression.
"I hate her."
She meant Mizuno Kumo, who had already rotated off duty to rest.
Jiang Rui lowered his head, glanced at Ito Rei, and nodded in agreement. "She really is annoying."
Ito Rei was so dissatisfied because of the suggestion Mizuno Kumo had made today: kill.
With Konoha's south facing simultaneous pressure from the Land of Water and the Land of Wind, while their main army was stalled at the border of the Land of Earth, time constraints forced them to temporarily pull back their lines and wait for reinforcements.
That created a problem: the enemy's three forces had contracted onto the same line. Charging in would be suicide.
It was worth mentioning that the army led by the Kazekage had blocked Orochimaru and Danzo's advance, putting even greater pressure on Tsunade.
That made things extremely difficult for them.
So Mizuno Kumo proposed a plan without hesitation. Jiang Rui called it scorched earth.
Put simply, they would cut the line.
As mentioned before, ninjas could disguise themselves or use sealing scrolls to transport supplies and relay intelligence in small teams.
That made it difficult to tell at a checkpoint who was a ninja and who was merely transporting supplies.
So Mizuno Kumo's meaning was simple. "Kill them all."
Yes, whether civilians or ninjas, merchants or refugees.
Anyone they encountered would be eliminated.
Before this, they had broken through quite a few defensive lines and encountered many scouting teams. Without exception, they only acted after their identities had been discovered, preventing intelligence from being sent back. But this time—
Mizuno Kumo suggested exposing themselves deliberately.
They would give up