About two kilometers from the Hidden Rock Village army stood an oasis, neither particularly large nor particularly small.
Their original plan had been to advance to this point and use it as their main base.
But now—
It had already been occupied in advance by a large number of Sand Village ninja.
They had built a ring of walls to block the wind and sand, enclosing the entire area.
At the edge of the oasis stood a five-story earthen building with the largest footprint.
Inside the exceptionally spacious fifth floor,
the Fourth Wind Shadow, Rasa, Pakura, and over a dozen Sand Village Jonin stood together, watching a virtual image floating in the air.
The scene in the image was of Hidden Rock Village ninja two kilometers away, furiously clearing up shattered puppet pieces.
"The first batch of puppets is already gone? Adviser Chiyo, you can send out the second puppet unit!"
"Understood."
Rasa suddenly lowered his head and gave instructions to a small creature in his palm that looked like a snail.
The key was that the little creature could even imitate Chiyo's expression as it replied.
A Den Den Mushi!
But the virtual screen in the air was not the Den Den Mushi's doing.
It came from Sabatini, who stood by the window at that moment, gazing into the distance through a strangely shaped monocular telescope.
Sabatini.
A man from the Teigu World, formerly one of the captains of the Empire's reconnaissance forces, and the Teigu user of Thousand-Mile Heavenly Eye: High Insight, Keen Perception.
He was also a current member of CIPHER POL-8, primarily responsible for using his Teigu's beyond-line-of-sight capabilities to gather intelligence.
Thousand-Mile Heavenly Eye: High Insight, Keen Perception could use its lens to see anywhere within a thousand kilometers and manifest the scenes it saw