The Seemingly Mad Kirigakure Shinobi

"An Aburame Clan secret technique! Damn it, did that brat from the Uchiha Clan risk his life to kill Honda just to create an opening for your sneak attack?" the Kirigakure captain said, looking at the Lightning Release ninja being devoured by the kikaichū.

Shibi Aburame said nothing. He raised both hands, and countless kikaichū flew out from his sleeves, rushing toward the Kirigakure captain.

Seeing this, the Kirigakure captain formed hand seals. A waterfall-like volume of water sprayed from his mouth, forming a wall of water that rotated in a circular motion. The water wall spun around him in a ring, creating a defense with no blind spots, and the swarm of insects could not break through for the moment.

"Asana, use your Byakugan to help find a weak point in the Water Formation Wall," Shibi Aburame shouted to Hyuga Asana, turning his head.

Hearing this, Hyuga Asana immediately activated her Byakugan, and quickly found the place in the Water Formation Wall where the Chakra was weakest.

"Teacher Shibui, the Chakra is thinnest at the very top of his Water Formation Wall."

"Got it. Kikaichū: Hail!"

At Shibi Aburame's command, some of the kikaichū circling in the air formed a small, high-speed ball of insects and dropped straight down from above, smashing through the Water Formation Wall's defense.

Immediately afterward, a massive ball formed from a large number of kikaichū pressed down toward the Kirigakure captain.

The Kirigakure captain's expression changed drastically. In his haste, he had no time to care about anything else and could only form hand seals quickly. A water dragon rose up and bit at the giant sphere made of kikaichū.

The water dragon opened its jaws wide and bit the kikaichū sphere to pieces in one mouthful.

But before the Kirigakure captain could breathe a sigh of relief, he realized that countless kikaichū had passed through the Water Dragon Bullet and touched his body.

Then, under Shibi Aburame's command, the kikaichū began frantically absorbing the Kirigakure captain's Chakra.

A few minutes later, the Kirigakure captain's Chakra had been completely devoured. Shibi Aburame waved his hand and recalled the swarm.

This was a Kirigakure Jonin. He should have some useful intelligence on him.

"Thinking of taking me alive?" the Kirigakure captain asked, looking at Shibi Aburame.

Shibi Aburame did not hide it and answered directly, "That's right. If you want to die, you can kill yourself. I'll give you the chance. If you don't want to die, then obediently come with us."

"Heh! You really look down on people!" After saying that, the Kirigakure captain directly took out a Kunai and stabbed it through his own heart.

"Teacher Shibui, this..."

Shibi Aburame was also stunned for a moment. He scratched his head and said, "I didn't expect him to actually kill himself."

Hyuga Asana rolled her eyes when she heard that. What were these two thinking?!

The Kirigakure shinobi were all madmen. How could they possibly cooperate obediently?!

As if seeing through Hyuga Asana's thoughts, Shibi Aburame said expressionlessly, "People who seem crazy are actually the most afraid of death, especially when all their companions are dead. The probability of a Kirigakure shinobi surrendering is very high."

"They'll surrender if all their companions are dead? What kind of logic is that?" Hyuga Asana asked, utterly confused.

"Because the companions of Kirigakure shinobi mostly serve to supervise one another. Kirigakure has never shown mercy to traitors. Once even one companion is still alive and manages to escape, after Kirigakure receives the news, they will spare no effort to eliminate the traitor.

If no one is alive, then naturally there's no need to fear Kirigakure's retaliation or pursuit, and some people will choose to surrender."

"So that's how it is. Then why did this guy..."

"Maybe he truly loved Kirigakure! There are quite a few Kirigakure shinobi like that too," Shibi Aburame said.

Hyuga Asana nodded and did not ask any more. She did not concern herself with handling the bodies or cleaning up the battlefield either, instead running back to Uchiha Yuan's side to check on his condition.

"Yuan, how are you?" Hyuga Asana asked.

"I'm all right. Kirigakure shinobi aren't Sunagakure Shinobi, so they don't have the habit of coating their Kunai with poison. Once we reach the camp and find a Medical Ninja to treat it, it should be fine."

Hearing this, Hyuga Asana slowly raised her hand. A soft green glow appeared in her palm, and Uchiha Yuan felt a tingling numbness on his shoulder. Soon, it stopped bleeding.

"Why look for a Medical Ninja? If there's no poison on the Kunai, I can handle a small wound like this." After saying that, Hyuga Asana took out some bandages and medicine from a Sealing Scroll and gave Uchiha Yuan a simple bandage.

"That should do it."

Uchiha Yuan tried moving his arm, then smiled and said, "Feels pretty good. Thanks, Asana."

After Hyuga Asana finished treating Uchiha Yuan's wound, the two of them returned together to the place where they had just fought the Kirigakure shinobi.

In just a short while, the Kirigakure corpses had already been dealt with by Shibi Aburame.

"Teacher Shibui, are we going to keep traveling?" Yamanaka Kizuki asked after glancing at the bandage on Uchiha Yuan's shoulder.

"We're still about a day away from the camp. We won't be able to get there in a short time anyway, so let's go a little farther, then find a place to rest for the night!" Shibi Aburame said.

"It's still that far? Then why did we run into Kirigakure shinobi here?" Hyuga Asana asked.

"They must have used some method to get past the front-line defenses and specifically came to intercept and kill the reconnaissance teams sent by the village," Shibi Aburame answered.

"Intercept and kill reconnaissance teams?"

"That's right. On the frontal battlefield right now, the situation is very unfavorable for us. Kirigakure knows how great an impact reconnaissance teams have on the battlefield situation.

So they sent out a group of ninja from Kekkei Genkai clans, and even the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, deliberately targeting our reconnaissance teams.

The Kirigakure shinobi who crossed the front line and infiltrated into the Land of Fire are most likely here for the same purpose. I just don't know what method they used to cross the front line, which is why I wanted to keep this Kirigakure Jonin alive and see if we could get some intelligence. I didn't expect him to actually kill himself."

After listening to Shibi Aburame, Uchiha Yuan and the other two all fell silent.

The mission of a reconnaissance team was even more dangerous than they had imagined!

At dusk, Uchiha Yuan and the others found a cave. Everyone gave the cave a simple cleanup and rested there.

Uchiha Yuan was wounded, so cleaning the cave, gathering firewood, preparing food, and the like were all handled by the other three.

After dinner, Uchiha Yuan leaned against the rock wall and slowly closed his eyes.

Before they knew it, they had already been on the battlefield for two days. They had spent both days traveling, and the time they spent training each day had far exceeded three hours.

Unfortunately, no matter how much extra time he spent training, he did not get any additional Roulette spins.

Including the three days he had spent in the village learning Shadow Clone and preparing to set out, Uchiha Yuan had spun the Roulette a total of five times. On all five days, he had only received 1 Stat Point.

By now, Uchiha Yuan had basically figured out the Roulette's pattern. Out of seven days in a week, five days gave the guaranteed minimum of 1 point, then there would definitely be one big result, and the remaining one might be 2 Stat Points, or it might be a major reward.

Uchiha Yuan had originally planned to play today's Text Game as well, but just as he was about to spin the Roulette, he suddenly discovered that the Stat Points in his attribute panel actually totaled 6.

That's not right! Shouldn't I only have 5 Stat Points? Why are there 6 here? Uchiha Yuan thought.