After discovering that even Jonin could be poisoned without a sound, Yichen's group did not dare linger in the area and quickly withdrew.
The eight of them returned to the outpost and told Miyake what they had learned.
Hearing that a Jonin had been poisoned, Miyake was greatly alarmed. "I'll gather everyone here and have this Anbu check whether anyone else has been poisoned."
Yichen agreed. It was hard to say whether the people currently inside the outpost were still safe.
Sure enough, no ninja capable of standing on their own could be underestimated. Miyake might not have been especially powerful, but his immediate concern for his subordinates made him a good superior.
Miyake gathered the remaining forty-plus people from the outpost in the main hall, and Yichen began using Sensory Ninjutsu.
With a clear target, Yichen found it easy to sense them. But the result of his sensing directly shocked him.
He immediately cried out, "There are poisoned people! At least twenty people have been poisoned!"
Everyone exploded at Yichen's words. Not only was this poison extremely difficult to detect, it could even be deployed over a wide area.
That was far too terrifying. Yichen pointed out the twenty-some people he had sensed, and a Medical Chunin began examining them.
The examination revealed that three among those twenty-some people were already showing symptoms. Various bodily functions had become abnormal.
The three said that they had merely felt something strange about their bodies and had never considered the possibility of poisoning.
The Medical Chunin's skills were limited, and he could not detoxify them. However, after taking out some Antidote Pills made by the village and having them consume them, Yichen sensed that the toxin's activity had decreased considerably.
There was no way to cure it completely, but at least it