Hankuang's heart warmed when he heard this.
The bodies were burned.
Obito had spewed out the Fire Release, Anko had gathered the firewood, and Xiao Xi had carried the bodies.
If anything really happened, no one would be able to escape.
"Anko, would you be interested in joining our Team 9?"
"Go away!"
Mitaraishi Anko drove the ox cart away, not wanting to see Hankuang for even a moment.
After Anko left, Hankuang turned to Morino Ibiki.
"Uh~~ I already have teammates, actually. We just haven't formed a team yet."
Morino Ibiki hurriedly refused.
He wasn't stupid. Team 9 was clearly not a place for ordinary ninjas to stay. Something would happen sooner or later.
The No. 9 supply station began reconstruction.
However, there was one thing Morino Ibiki could never figure out.
From beginning to end, the slogans he had nailed up had never served any purpose.
So what was the point of Hankuang making him put up those slogans?
Carrying this question, he found Hankuang slacking off.
"Hankuang, should we take down the slogans around here?"
"Hm? Why take them down?" Hankuang rubbed his eyes, half-asleep and half-awake.
"Because they're useless."
"How could they be useless?" Hankuang waved his hand and went back to his nap.
After all, sleeping in the afternoon counted as a nap too.
Just as the group was noisily rebuilding the supply station, another ox cart carrying supplies appeared.
When the driver saw the slogans around them, he couldn't help laughing. His tired eyes instantly brightened.
"Busy, are you?"
As he passed by, he even greeted the group.
Seeing this, Morino Ibiki felt deeply impressed.
"This guy Hankuang puts profound thought into every step."
Hokage's Office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi stared at the map on the desk, his brows tightly furrowed.
Beside him, Danzo stared at it for a while as well and realized where the problem lay.
"Hiruzen, we currently don't have enough ninjas to defend four directions." Danzo offered a reminder.
"I know that, of course."
Hiruzen Sarutobi replied irritably.
Then he took out a list of Genin and began looking through it.
"You want to hold the Chunin Ninja Exams at a time like this?" Danzo froze, finding it hard to believe.
War could break out at any moment. Looking through the Genin list at a time like this clearly meant he intended to promote these Genin.
"Do you think Sunagakure will send people to participate?"
"How will we know if we don't try? Besides, we can use these Chunin Ninja Exams to observe the reactions of the other ninja villages." Hiruzen Sarutobi spoke in a deep voice.
Danzo approved of Hiruzen's plan.
"We can also use these Chunin Ninja Exams to negotiate privately with the other ninja villages."
"As long as we can stabilize the other ninja villages, a few Sand Ninja alone aren't worth worrying about."
After finalizing some of the details, Danzo left.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, an Anbu appeared.
"Hokage, Minato Namikaze has sent word. The Sand Ninja infiltration team has been captured."
"Hm? Excellent!"
Chapter 36: Hankuang's Weakness Has Been Discovered!
Night fell.
Beside the campfire.
Hankuang woke from a nap feeling refreshed.
But there was one problem: why did the others all look so listless, as if they had been completely drained?
"Did you finish building the warehouse?"
Hankuang asked tentatively.
A group of Byakugan greeted him in response.
"Some people slept from the afternoon until now, shamelessly," Obito lamented.
He had wanted to make the criticism harsher, but he simply didn't have the mood or strength to do so.
After all, he had worked until now and was exhausted.
Hankuang inspected the warehouse, his face filled with disappointment.
An entire afternoon, and these people hadn't even finished one wall?
At this rate, the team would need seven or eight days to rebuild the supply station.
"You split the trees into planks and then nailed them into walls?" Hankuang asked doubtfully when he saw a log that had only been split halfway.
"Yeah. Is there a problem?" Morino Ibiki replied.
"Did you ever consider digging holes and simply standing the logs upright?"
Hankuang asked seriously.
Morino Ibiki fell silent.
Right.
Why hadn't he thought of that?
It was all Kakashi's fault for insisting on splitting the logs into planks.
"No, Hankuang, why didn't you say that sooner?" Obito shot to his feet, furious.
If Hankuang had said it sooner, would they have wasted an entire afternoon?
"I thought you knew," Hankuang said with a shrug.
When building a warehouse, practicality was obviously more important than appearance. So if they stood the logs upright in a row, wouldn't that make a sturdy wall?
Rin nearly burst into tears.
She had spent the entire afternoon gathering planks, and now all that work was wasted.
Perhaps to hide his embarrassment, Kakashi changed the subject.
"By the way, Hankuang! I have something to discuss with you."
"Oh?"
The two of them walked beneath a tree.
The others gathered around as well.
This was a high-level conversation among Team 9's leadership, and they wanted to listen too.
"Hankuang, what I want to discuss concerns your taijutsu." Kakashi organized his thoughts, his tone solemn.
A problem with his taijutsu?
"Go on." Hankuang's expression turned serious.
"When you face an enemy in the future, you'd better not charge in immediately!"
"Tell me why."
"Because your taijutsu has a huge flaw. Once your opponent knows your abilities in advance, you'll definitely die!" Kakashi warned solemnly.
Hearing this, Hankuang rubbed his chin.
He trusted that Kakashi wouldn't make a baseless claim. There had to be a reasonable deduction behind it.
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