Back on the road, the two of them skirted the group of "crazed" refugees and chose another route back. Like a Möbius loop, even a road leading in the exact opposite direction from the village would eventually bring them back to it.
Uchiha Madara showed little surprise at this bizarre phenomenon. Yuan had already mentioned it earlier, after all.
Under normal circumstances, he should have killed the man calling himself Yuan first. No matter how he looked at it, this illusion had to have something to do with the man. Besides, if Yuan was telling the truth, Uchiha Madara had nothing to lose. The man would come back to life the next day anyway.
Yet at the last moment, just as Uchiha Madara was about to act, he suddenly stopped. His thinking was the same as Hashirama's: if the illusion could be broken that easily, just how stupid would its caster have to be?
Or perhaps this was itself a trap!
Watching Yuan lead the way, Uchiha Madara suddenly asked, "Where are we going?"
During their earlier conversation, Uchiha Madara had learned that Yuan seemed to be looking for someone too. Yuan had even stated outright that this person was most likely with Hashirama right now. But that raised a question: if Yuan could not find that person, how did he know their circumstances?
If all of that was true, Uchiha Madara did have an idea. Since Hashirama was protecting that person, he could simply wipe out the entire village. With Hashirama's protection, that person was bound to remain unharmed, saving him the trouble of searching. As for the "refugees" in the illusion, he did not consider those "things" to be "people" at all.
Of course, the fact that Uchiha Madara was still standing here meant he had ultimately decided