"I used it once yesterday." Kiyomi replied.
"No wonder." Amado pushed up his glasses, "Your eyes are connected to that beacon. Every time you use Dojutsu, the assimilation rate of the beacon will be accelerated. Simply put, you are overdrawing your "human" part."
"So what?" Kawaki leaned against the door, "As long as you can fight."
"Short-sighted." Amado snorted coldly, "If the human part is exhausted, she will become a pure container, and even her self-consciousness will disappear. She will become a puppet that only obeys instructions. Do you still expect her to help you?"
Laboratory fell into silence.
"Is there any way?" Boruto asked.
"Use your eyes less, eat more, and stay Emotionally Stable." Amado typed a few times on the keyboard, "Also, don't leave the village recently. I have detected several strange signal sources operating on the Land of Fire border, and the frequency is very similar to the beacon in Kiyomi's body."
"Kara Organization's remnants?"
"Maybe it's worse." Amado turned around and looked at Kiyomi, "Maybe it's the legacy of the madmen who originally made Zero-Tails. Their obsession with the "perfect container" is even more fanatical than Jigen."
After the inspection, the three people walked out of the building. It was already noon.
"I'm starving!" Boruto touched his belly, "Go and eat Thunder Burger! This time I'll treat you!"
Kawaki was about to refuse, but Kiyomi suddenly said, "I want to eat."
Both boys were stunned.
"I want to eat... those potato chips." Kiyomi pointed to the GG brand in the convenience store on the roadside, "The ones with seaweed flavor."
Kawaki stared at her for a while and suddenly sneered.
"What's so delicious about that kind of garbage?" he said, but he was already walking towards the convenience store, "Boruto, go buy a hamburger, and I'll buy water. Kiyomi, just wait here, don't go anywhere."
"Yes." Kiyomi whispered.
Looking at the backs of the two people running away, Kiyomi took out the candy given by Himawari from his pocket. He peeled off the candy wrapper and put it in his mouth.
It's very sweet and strawberry flavored.
At this moment, a black Ninja Hawk suddenly cut through the sky and landed on the Hokage Building window sill not far away. Kiyomi squinted her eyes, and she felt that the flow of Chakra in the air suddenly became rapid.
That's the signal for an urgent mission.
Before Kawaki came back with the potato chips, a Anbu Body Flicker Technique appeared in front of Kiyomi.
"Uchiha Kiyomi, Lord Hokage is calling urgently." Anbu's voice did not fluctuate, "There are also Uzumaki Boruto, Kawaki, go to Hokage's Office immediately."
Kiyomi looked at the unopened bag of seaweed-flavored potato chips being held in Kawaki's hand, and the plastic bag made a harsh sound.
It seems that we can't have lunch.
The atmosphere at Hokage's Office was more solemn than usual. Shikamaru stood in front of the map, holding a red pen in his hand and drew a circle on the eastern border of Land of Fire.
"Just two hours ago, we lost contact with an outpost in the eastern forest." Shikamaru Gate of Opening said, "That outpost is responsible for monitoring illegal Chakra weapons leaked from the old Amegakure. The last signal returned contained a very special audio."
He pressed play.
A piercing scream, like metal rubbing against glass, filled the entire office.
Boruto covered his ears. "What is this sound? It makes me have a headache."
Kiyomi turned pale. She held her chest firmly, and the "beacon" inside seemed to have heard the call and began to hit her ribs crazily.
"It's the guidance band." Kiyomi gritted his teeth and said, "This is used to... activate the puppet."
Naruto glanced at her, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by Hokage's majesty. "Because of this, we need you to go. Kiyomi, you are the only one who can sense the source. Of course, this is dangerous."
"I'll go." Kiyomi didn't hesitate.
"I'll go too." Kawaki threw the bag of potato chips on the table, "I have nothing to do anyway."
"All members of Team 7 are dispatched." Naruto nodded, "Sarada and Mitsuki are already waiting at Village Entrance. This mission is level B, but if special circumstances are encountered, it is allowed to be upgraded to level A. Boruto, you are the captain."
"Understood!"
Half an hour later, a group of five people were walking through the dense jungle.
The closer you get to the eastern border, the thicker the fog becomes. This fog is not naturally formed and contains trace amounts of Chakra, which can interfere with Perception Ninja's exploration.
"Be careful." Sarada opened Sharingan, "There is something in this fog."
Mitsuki's snake-like reconnaissance clone swam back from the front and turned into a cloud of smoke. "Two kilometers ahead, the outpost has been destroyed. There is no sign of life."
"Speed up." Boruto ordered.
When they arrived at the outpost, the sight before them took everyone's breath away.
The originally sturdy wooden sentry tower had been razed to the ground, and the ground was covered with charred potholes. But the most bizarre thing was that there were no bodies at the scene. Only a few broken Leaf vests were thrown on the ground, stained with blood.
"Arrest again?" Kawaki squatted down and inspected the marks on the ground, "The footprints are deep and the load is heavy. They are mechanical troops."
Buzz--
At this moment, the piercing scream sounded again. This time it was not recorded, but came from all directions.
"Ah!" Kiyomi screamed and fell to her knees. She felt as if countless needles were pricking her brain, and the Chakra inside her body was boiling completely uncontrollably.
"Kiyomi!" Sarada wanted to help her, but was bounced away by the red Chakra that erupted from Kiyomi's body.
"Don't... don't come here!" Kiyomi shouted with difficulty, "They... are forcibly connecting to me!"
In the fog, black shadows slowly emerged.
They were not ordinary ninjas, not even the rough puppets from before. They were a group of humanoid weapons wearing dark gray armor. Their heads had no facial features, only a huge, constantly rotating metal disc, and it was that disc that emitted this weird frequency.
"It's this kind of junk again." Kawaki spat, and his right arm instantly hardened, "Boruto, the left side belongs to you!"
"Understood!"
The battle broke out instantly.
Kawaki rushed into the enemy formation, used the power of the wedge to resist a heavy blow, and smashed an enemy's breastplate with a backhand punch. But this did not make the opponent stop moving, and the rotating disc was still screaming.
"Physical attacks are not effective!" The kunai thrown by Sarada was bounced away, "They have Chakra Shield on them!"
"Lightning Release·Snake Thunder!" Mitsuki Hand Seals used both hands to hit an enemy with yellow lightning, slowing its movements for a moment.
"The key point is that disc!" Boruto saw the clues, "That is the sound generator and also the control center!"
However, there were too many enemies. There were more than twenty, and they seemed to be in no rush to attack. Instead, they formed a circle and constantly adjusted the rotation speed of the disc.
As the frequencies were superimposed, Kiyomi's pain increased exponentially. Her eyes began to become congested with blood, and black lines appeared vaguely under her skin, which were signs of physical collapse.