Sniping 3

"I never thought the Sand Shinobi wouldn't even dare come out of their wooden houses." On the mountain to the right of the valley, Mitarashi Shika observed the Sand Shinobi Stronghold below through binoculars and spoke with feeling.

"If it were me, I wouldn't come out easily either! That would be no different from courting death." Beside Mitarashi Shika, Kurama Watanabe spoke sourly. After speaking, he glanced at Yueguang Han, who was hiding atop a tall pine tree some distance away, his hand transformed into a Barrett aimed at the Sand Shinobi Stronghold below. It couldn't be helped. The new Bloodline Limit awakened by this kid from the Hayate Clan was simply too enviable.

"The Hayate Clan has produced an extraordinary kid." Looking at Yueguang Han in the pine tree, Yueguang Xingye, who was wrapped entirely in bandages yet still insisted on guarding Yueguang Han beneath the tree, and several members of the Hayate Clan, Mitarashi Shika spoke enviously.

To be honest, Mitarashi Shika felt a little sour himself. Yueguang Han's Bloodline Limit seemed as if it had been awakened specifically for assassination. If his own clan could awaken such a Bloodline Limit, they would definitely become a prestigious clan in the Ninja World, perhaps even rivaling the Senju and Uchiha in fame. No wonder Yueguang Xingye treasured the boy so dearly.

Bang! Orange-red flames burst from the muzzle. The wind pressure stirred the leaves and sent dust flying, while the echoing gunshot rang through the forest. A crimson bullet shot from the barrel at extreme speed and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Upon hearing the gunshot, everyone glanced at Yueguang Han in the pine tree, then went back to their own tasks. None of the Konoha Ninja said anything about Yueguang Han exposing his position by firing. Since they did not need to charge into battle, everyone was naturally happy to take it easy without any danger.

"At that speed, it must travel seven or eight hundred meters per second!" Kurama Watanabe watched Yueguang Han fire and the fleeting red flash visible only from afar. After a moment of silence, he quietly discussed it with Mitarashi Shika.

"At least seven or eight hundred meters. It might even exceed one kilometer per second." Mitarashi Shika added, "At that speed, within thirty meters, even I couldn't dodge it unless I anticipated his attack and moved in advance."

"Same here." Kurama Watanabe said with a bitter smile, "And that's assuming he isn't ambushing us. If it were an ambush, forget predicting it—you'd be dead before even hearing the sound. Even at three hundred meters, you wouldn't be able to dodge it."

(Neural reaction speed is 0.03 to 0.05 seconds. Even if a ninja's reaction speed is much faster, from seeing the bullet, to the nerves relaying the command to the body, to the body beginning to evade, at a distance of thirty meters, the bullet would basically already be in front of them. Ordinary Jonin could not dodge at thirty meters, except for certain instinct-driven beasts and the protagonist.)

It was not just them. The other Konoha Ninja were also discussing it quietly, but no one believed they could evade Yueguang Han's hidden attacks. Otherwise, the Sand Shinobi would not be hiding in their houses, too afraid to come out.

Bang! The gunshot rang out again, then fell silent. Yueguang Han shook his head and jumped down from the pine tree. However, he did not change his right hand back. Transforming it back and forth wasted too many Energy Points.

"Another Sand Shinobi probably died."

"I wonder what he looked like after getting hit."

Seeing this, the Konoha Ninja began whispering again. However, no one wanted to test it themselves.

"Young Han, have some water!" The moment Yueguang Han jumped down from the pine tree, a female ninja from the Gekko Clan immediately handed him a waterskin.

"Thank you, Sister Naizi." Yueguang Han thanked her, took the waterskin, and drank two mouthfuls before saying to Yueguang Xingye, "Uncle Xingye, get ready to change positions."

"Change positions? Why? Even if a few Sand Shinobi using Earth Style sneak over, there's no need to worry!" Yueguang Xingye asked in confusion.

"The Sand Shinobi are digging tunnels with Earth Style," Yueguang Han said.

"Young Han, there's no need to worry about that. Even if the Sand Shinobi dare to tunnel over, we have Sensory Ninja and Earth Style ninja. We'll definitely make them die horribly." Yueguang Xingye smiled. If tunnel warfare were so easy to pull off, it would have been used on the battlefield long ago.

"That's not the issue. The Sand Shinobi are on guard now, so it'll be hard for me to find another chance to attack," Yueguang Han said.

"Alright! I'll tell everyone!" Yueguang Xingye nodded, then rose and walked toward Mitarashi Shika and Kurama Watanabe.

--------Half a Minute Earlier--------

Inside the Sand Shinobi Stronghold, unable to leave cover, the Sand Shinobi quickly came up with a solution: using Earth Style to dig tunnels between the wooden houses.

"Ichiro... catch!"

Inside the Sand Shinobi Stronghold, a young Sand Shinobi Genin carefully moved to the door of a wooden house. He called out to the Sand Shinobi youth Ichiro in another wooden house. When the door across from him opened and he saw Ichiro behind it, the youth immediately threw the scroll in his hand over.

The thrown scroll traced an arc through the air. The Sand Shinobi youth named Ichiro calmly reached out and caught it.

"Ichiro, tha—" Seeing this, the youth who had thrown the scroll was about to offer a few words of thanks. Then a bullet came hurtling in, piercing through the wooden wall and drilling into both his feet.

Pfft!

Wood splinters flew, and blood sprayed. The youth who had thrown the scroll had both legs blown apart instantly, and his slightly forward-leaning body toppled out the door as well.

"Ah!" A heart-rending scream rang out.

Bang! The gunshot came from the mountain on the right, and the Sand Shinobi in both wooden houses looked in that direction at once.

"Damn it!"

Seeing the Sand Shinobi youth with severed legs collapse outside the door, the Sand Shinobi in both houses immediately changed expression. A young Sand Shinobi rushed over at once, intending to drag the fallen youth back inside.

"Don't go over there!" Another middle-aged Sand Shinobi shouted to stop him, but it was already too late. The young Sand Shinobi had already reached outside, grabbing the wound where the youth's legs had been severed and preparing to pull the screaming youth into the wooden house.

Pfft! The bullet pierced through the wooden wall again, striking at just the right angle to blow apart the young Sand Shinobi's head.

Thud! The headless corpse of the young Sand Shinobi collapsed at the doorway.

Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall! An Earth Wall rose on the right side of the wooden house, shielding its right flank and blocking the Sand Shinobi youth screaming on the ground.

"Save him quickly! Take him to the Medical Ninja!" the middle-aged Sand Shinobi said. Looking at the two holes in the wooden wall, he added, "The enemy shot through the house. The thrown scroll exposed his position, and the enemy predicted where they were inside."

"Everyone, we can't throw things between the wooden houses anymore. All supplies must be passed through the tunnels." Hearing this, one Sand Shinobi immediately shouted inside the wooden house. As he shouted, the other wooden houses began shouting as well, relaying the message to one another.

One Sand Shinobi hurriedly picked up the youth with severed legs and headed through the tunnel toward the wooden house where the Medical Ninja was stationed.