Chapter 379: Gelel Ore Vein
"That should be it!"
Having locked onto the location of the ruins, Tamura Hiroshi had Little Black ascend and search the surrounding area with this place as the center, discovering several villages.
Finally, in the most secluded village, he found a number of large wooden carts and rhinoceros-like beasts, which made him certain this should be the village of that fallen merchant caravan.
Good thing we're currently in a period of war, otherwise I'd have to go down and check them one by one.
Looking at that mountain village, Tamura Hiroshi marveled at how well these people knew how to pick a spot; if he hadn't ridden a ninja hawk to patrol from high altitude, it really would have been difficult to discover that village.
Having confirmed this, Tamura Hiroshi signaled the ninja hawk to let him down, sneaked around the village to observe, and only infiltrated after nightfall.
Although he excelled more at frontal combat, infiltration was a basic ninja academy course after all, so he naturally mastered it.
Trying to infiltrate those ninja organizations would certainly not work, but slipping into an ordinary person's village was not difficult.
He quickly arrived at the house where the village elder lived, first grabbing the ermine that wanted to make a noise upon hearing movement, and then clamping a prepared medicinal cloth over the old man's nose and mouth.
The old man quickly regained consciousness, but the inhalation of the drug left his mind groggy.
This type of medicine was specially used by the Yamanaka clan to assist in executing secret techniques.
Confirming the drug had taken effect, Tamura Hiroshi raised his hand to press against the elder's forehead, executing the Yamanaka clan's mental secret technique to read the opponent's memories while speaking to guide him