In the drizzling light rain, the dense forest was completely quiet.
Uchiha Jin and the others focused their vigilance, completely converging their chakra. Soon after, a squad of Sunagakure ninja appeared, and not far from where Uchiha Jin and the others were hiding, they directly and face-to-face encountered the ninja from the Land of Rain.
"The intelligence is not quite right!"
"These are all Land of Rain ninja, not ninja from Konoha. This doesn't match our mission."
"Captain, what do we do?"
The Suna squad spoke one after another.
Their expressions were all somewhat abnormal, and finally they looked toward the squad leader at the lead.
Yet, unfortunately.
Before the Suna squad leader could even speak, the Land of Rain ninja on the other side could no longer endure.
"Damn it, stop looking down on people!"
"Since you Sunagakure invaders entered our Land of Rain, you should have prepared yourselves to die."
"Attack!"
The leading Rain Ninja had an ugly expression, and then directly pulled out a round sphere, hurling it straight toward the Suna side.
Seeing this, the other Rain Ninja naturally also made their moves.
Seeing this, the Suna ninja were filled with disdain on their faces.
If they were replaced by Konoha Ninja, that would be one thing, but mere ninja from the Land of Rain dared to make a move?
Simply—courting death!
"Attack!"
The leading Suna squad leader directly drew his katana and slashed open the thrown sphere with a single sword stroke.
Almost, in an instant.
Purple poison mist instantly permeated. Seeing this scene, the Suna ninja's expressions instantly began to turn completely pale.
"Damn it, Salamander Poison Mist!"
"Do not destroy those ninja tools; these fellows are Amegakure elites."
"Run!"
The leading Suna squad leader immediately let out a loud shout.
Yet, it was too late!
The Rain Ninja controlled the ninja tools to detonate, and a hazy sheet of purple poison mist permeated, completely enveloping the entire Suna squad.
The Suna ninja's objective was primarily to hunt down Konoha Ninja, and they had never thought about making an enemy of Amegakure. Therefore, this time they hadn't even equipped gas masks, so almost in an instant, they were all poisoned.
Although this poison was not personally cast by Hanzo of the Salamander, it still made them feel their bodies go numb, with their skin showing slight signs of corrosion.
They began to cough, and their chakra circulation experienced some stagnation.
After seeing this scene, the Amegakure ninja burst into loud laughter.
Countless shuriken and kunai were thrown over. If it were under normal circumstances, these petty tricks certainly wouldn't be able to hurt them, but at this moment, because of the poison, even though they had avoided them as much as possible, they were still injured by these ninja tools.
Immediately following.
The Rain Ninja grasped kunai and charged straight over just like that.
After a bout of slaughter, Suna still won!
Although the Rain Ninja utilized the Salamander Poison Mist, after all, it was not Hanzo of the Salamander personally making a move. Moreover, no matter how battered Suna was, it was still one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and the level of elite status among its subordinate ninja was naturally not something Rain Ninja could compare to.
However.
They still suffered heavy losses, leaving behind a full five corpses, and the remaining Suna members also sustained injuries on their bodies, with the more important thing being their poisoned state.
"Quick, return to the base camp!"
"Grandma Chiyo just arrived at the camp today, and that old woman will definitely be able to help us detoxify."
The leading Suna squad leader directly issued this command.
Naturally, the others had no objections to this!
After all, their mission this time was not mandatory. Whether or not they could run into that squad of Konoha Ninja in the mission was almost entirely a matter of relying on luck, so right now they naturally felt zero pressure.
However, right at this moment.
"Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"
Uchiha Jin rushed over and directly unleashed the fire-style technique.
Almost, in an instant.
A torrent of flames billowed out from his mouth, and then directly transformed into a monstrous sea of fire, directly annihilating the remaining Suna squad.
More importantly...
At this moment, the color of the flames in Uchiha Jin's mouth was not the orange-yellow of normal fire-style techniques, but an overwhelming and profound deep purple.
Ah!
The remaining Suna members screamed in succession without stop.
Takada Fujiwara: "..."
Kakashi: "..."
Nara Shikaichi: "..."
Looking at the all-inclusive sea of fire before their eyes, their gazes were extremely vacant.
Too exaggerated!
They had never imagined that a mere B-Rank fire-style technique would directly erupt into such an exaggerated spectacle.
Even Uchiha Jin had flickering eyes, his face filled with excitement.
Although it still couldn't compare to Madara during the Fourth Shinobi World War, it was still more than enough to deal with ordinary ninja!
A moment later.
After the sea of fire passed, utter devastation remained.
Even though a light drizzle was still falling from the sky, it evaporated before it could even land on the ground.
Uchiha Jin spoke: "There is still one chakra fluctuation. Captain Takada, sorry for the trouble to interrogate them; I want to know whether their squad's mission is connected to our squad."
Takada Fujiwara nodded, and then directly dragged over a Suna ninja.
At this time, his entire body was already burned over a large area, but he could still be barely recognized as none other than the Suna squad leader.
"Konoha Ninja?"
"One Jonin, three newly graduated Genin."
"It seems the village's intelligence is correct; you fellows really are in the Land of Rain."
"What a, pity!"
At this moment, the Suna squad leader's mouth revealed a trace of bitterness.
And, in response to this.
Hearing these words, the expressions of everyone present instantly turned ugly.
Looking at it this way, interrogating them was unnecessary after all.
This group of Suna ninja's goal was indeed their squad, and they had even obtained intelligence regarding their current location.
Takada Fujiwara glanced at Uchiha Jin, and Uchiha Jin instantly understood his meaning in a second.
After simply nodding, Takada Fujiwara snapped his neck!
"The situation is very wrong!"
"Although through our mission scroll, we can roughly know that we are in the Land of Rain, the exact spot where we are right now at this moment was something we randomly chose these past few days."
"Even if Danzo wanted to use Suna to get rid of us, how on earth did Root know our current location?"
Nara Shikaichi was unable to understand.
The others also wore looks of full bewilderment, finding it somewhat hard to make sense of the logic behind it.
Kakashi spoke coldly: "Although we don't know how the opponent managed it, Root's desire to have us perish has never ceased; this point can be directly affirmed."
Takada Fujiwara's expression was ugly.
He even somewhat regretted taking on this squad and participating in the splitting of the money last time.
This, damn it!
If he hadn't failed to control his hands last time, he wouldn't have fallen into this kind of major trouble today.
Of course.
He also knew there was no medicine of regret for this kind of matter. Even if he went back now and turned in the money, Danzo would not possibly let off a small fry like him. Therefore, all he could do right now was cling tightly to Uchiha Jin's thigh, silently expecting him to quickly grow into a powerhouse.
This point, there was no help for it.
Who told him to have thoroughly boarded the pirate ship; everyone was grasshoppers tied to the same rope.
Want to jump ship now?
Too late!
On the contrary, Uchiha Jin, who had read the original work, thought about it for a while and seemed to figure it out somewhat.
"Spies, probably!"
"The significance of Root's existence is to secretly disrupt other countries."
"One can imagine that they certainly have a large number of spies in other countries. Every time we go to towns to purchase supplies, we must have been seen by spies who had seen our portraits."
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