Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Amid bursts of rushing wind, an Anbu squad darted through the forest, moving as swiftly as a pack of phantoms beneath the night sky.
A moment later, the Anbu squad stopped in a clearing within the woods.
As the captain observed their surroundings, he silently made a hand signal. The members who understood nodded in tacit agreement, then quickly spread out and cautiously began investigating the area.
After a long while, the scattered members regrouped and reported to the captain one after another, "Nothing found!"
The Anbu captain's expression immediately darkened. He asked a communications ninja beside him, "Are you sure this is the place? Don't tell me you got the location wrong."
The communications ninja shook his head repeatedly. "It can't be wrong. I just confirmed it with headquarters again. It's here, and the margin of error won't exceed fifty meters!"
The captain's expression grew grave as he murmured, "Then this is strange."
"Yes, it's far too strange!"
The other squad members nodded in agreement as well.
Their mission was simple: follow the chakra signatures of Nagato and Orochimaru detected by the central command headquarters and track down the two men.
According to headquarters' intelligence, Nagato and Orochimaru's last chakra signatures had been right here!
Moreover, the sensing water sphere at headquarters had detected an unfamiliar chakra signature nearby, one that had never been sensed before. What was even more baffling was that the peak of this unfamiliar chakra fluctuation had briefly reached Six Paths level.
This discovery had initially led headquarters to believe that Hyuga Kagami, Obito Uchiha, or Madara Uchiha had appeared there, since there were only a handful of Six Paths-level sages in the Ninja World.
However, after Kakashi brought Madara Uchiha's corpse back to Konoha and informed everyone that Hyuga Kagami had