Looking at the passage, Danzo felt numb all over.
Wasn't this Orochimaru's secret research base?
"Go in and investigate!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi led the way and entered first.
Danzo could only follow with a stiff upper lip.
As Orochimaru's collaborator, Danzo knew very well that this explosion had nothing to do with Orochimaru.
But the problem was that the secret laboratory had been exposed.
The two men in power entered the passage, followed by the ninjas from the other clans.
After passing through the long passage, the group stopped in front of a stone door.
Bang!
The stone door exploded, revealing a spacious cavern.
"What is this?"
"The corpse of a Uchiha ninja?"
"There are babies too?"
"There are even members of the Senju clan..."
Everyone was stunned.
The cavern contained more than a dozen corpses, including the bodies of Uchiha and Senju clan ninjas.
Thud!
Fugaku Uchiha stepped forward and rushed to the corpse of a member of his clan.
"It's Uchiha Aki!"
"He disappeared a long time ago. He was actually killed by someone from the village? They even gouged out his eyes..."
As he muttered furiously, Fugaku Uchiha noticed a notebook on the platform.
Whoosh!
Almost at the same time, he and an ANBU member grabbed the notebook.
"Get lost!"
Fugaku Uchiha shouted angrily, and his eyes manifested the Sharingan.
"Fugaku, don't be rash." Hiruzen Sarutobi warned him.
"How dare you use genjutsu on an ANBU member?" Danzo shouted.
Unfortunately.
They were too late.
The ANBU member's body had already gone rigid, and he stood there in a daze.
Ignoring the others, Fugaku Uchiha opened the notebook and saw the familiar handwriting inside.
"Orochimaru!!!"
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Orochimaru Has Fled! The Glorious Undercover Mission!
In the courtyard.
Hankuang lay on a wooden chair and turned over.
Then he saw Obito and Kakashi squatting in front of him, staring straight at him.
"Holy crap!"
Startled, Hankuang nearly couldn't resist slapping them.
"Are you two ghosts?"
Sitting up irritably, Hankuang yawned.
"You can still sleep?" Obito clicked his tongue in amazement.
"There was an earthquake just now. You didn't feel it?" Kakashi was speechless too.
Such an intense white light had radiated from the rear mountain, and the ground had shaken, yet Hankuang had still been sleeping?
"Say what you need to say. If there's nothing, get lost!"
Didn't they see that the sky was about to turn dark?
"White light appeared in the rear mountain just now, like a sun. Let's go take a look." Obito rubbed his hands.
"And there were intense explosions too." Kakashi added.
"That's it?"
Hankuang curled his lips and lay back down.
"Hey! Why are you lying down again?"
"As the captain of Team 9, I authorize you two to go." Hankuang waved his hand.
They wanted him to go? No chance.
Had they ever seen a criminal return to the scene of the crime without getting caught?
Seeing that Hankuang remained unmoved, Kakashi and Obito left and slipped off to the rear mountain to investigate.
The next day.
Under the scorching sunlight, Hankuang stretched lazily.
He had slept straight through until noon.
Spirit: 640 (320*2) [Ultimate Immunity]
After glancing at today's doubled attribute, Hankuang's heart remained unruffled.
"From Primary Immunity to Intermediate, Advanced, Super, and now Ultimate!"
To be honest, he had no idea how high his resistance to genjutsu was anymore.
After all, he had never tested it.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Minato Namikaze appeared in the courtyard, his expression grave.
"Go to Training Ground No. 4 immediately."
After dropping those words, Minato Namikaze vanished with a Body Flicker.
Training Ground No. 4.
Chewing on a rice ball, Hankuang was unsurprisingly late again.
Minato Namikaze didn't say anything. Instead, he tossed over a scroll.
"Another mission?"
Hankuang looked depressed as he opened the scroll.
Kakashi and the others quietly gathered around to read it together.
"Holy crap!"
That was Obito's voice.
"No way?" Kakashi said incredulously.
"How could this happen?" Rin covered her mouth and exclaimed.
"He defected? The line was breached?" Hankuang stared wide-eyed.
The scroll contained news that Orochimaru had defected that morning. More importantly, after learning of it, the Sand Ninja frontline forces had crossed the border and broken through Konoha's border defenses.
"Wait, this happened this morning. How did you hear about it so quickly, Sensei?" Hankuang asked, puzzled.
Wasn't this news received a little too quickly?
"This isn't news I received. The frontline ninjas sent it back using a Summoning Beast from the Forest of Death." Minato Namikaze explained.
A Summoning Beast from the Forest of Death?
"I see!"
After all, once the Summoning Jutsu was released, the Summoning Beast would return directly to the Forest of Death.
That was equivalent to crossing through space and returning to Konoha.
"Sensei, wasn't Orochimaru the overall commander of the frontline? How did he end up defecting?" Hankuang asked again.
Hearing the question, Minato Namikaze shook his head, his expression filled with emotion.
"This is related to the rear mountain."
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