After clearing two enemies in a row, Ning Xue used Byakugan to scan the surroundings again.
Seeing that no enemy had noticed the attrition, he set his sights in the direction of Kusuna and others.
Seeing that he was explaining something and pointing in a certain direction to his subordinates, the subordinate stood there, bowed, and then headed in the direction pointed to.
It's him.
Ning Xue looks like a ghost, quietly avoiding the sight of all enemies.
Just when the enemy came to a blind spot blocked by a boulder,
"Pfft!" The sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh.
Like the person in front of him, his mouth and nose were covered, his body went limp, and he fell into eternal darkness.
The third one.
However, this time Ning Xue did not lay it flat on the ground, but took the body and sneaked into the nearest trap.
Seeing that no one was watching nearby, he slightly modified the trap and placed the body in front of the trap.
A few seconds later...
"Huh? What's going on over there?" An enemy close to the area seemed to hear some unusual friction sounds.
He frowned, held the Kunai in his hand tightly, and walked warily towards the direction from which the abnormal noise came.
When he saw his colleague with his back turned to him, leaning on the edge of the trap, seemingly unconscious, he called out in a low voice.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" He called in a low voice, but cautiously stopped a few steps away.
At the moment when his attention was completely attracted by the corpse,
"Click!"
An extremely slight sound came from his left side.
That was another trip wire trap fine-tuned by Ning Xue, which was accurately triggered by a deliberately kicked pebble.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Several short arrows coated with venom shot out from the hidden holes, not in the direction of the corpse, but in a fan-shaped range.
The enemy's pupils shrank suddenly and he subconsciously hid behind the nearest tree. But this played into Ning Xue's plan.
"Boom--!"
The Explosive Tag hidden behind the fallen leaves was instantly stepped on by the enemy. "Ah!!" The enemy only had time to let out a short scream before being swallowed up by the explosion.
This sudden explosion was like a boulder thrown into calm water.
"What's going on?!"
"Over there! There's a situation!"
"Enemy attack! Prepare to fight!"
The enemies who were originally immersed in the ambush circle were instantly ignited. They drew their weapons one by one and rushed to the explosion point in groups.
And this is exactly what Ning Xue is waiting for.
He headed in the opposite direction to the explosion point, randomly used Transformation Technique, and became the person who was originally killed to blend in.
"What happened?" The first few people who arrived murmured to themselves, then drew out their weapons and looked around the explosion point, especially behind the boulder.
The companion transformed by Ning Xue has turned back and looked at the people around him who were also rushing to this place.
He deliberately made his movements appear hasty and slightly panicked, just like other people's reactions.
But his eyes were looking through the cracks in the crowd, firmly fixed on the other side of the explosion point, where the three figures were quickly converging and trying to stabilize their position.
Kusuna, Shizuku, and Setsuna.
"What's going on?!" Kusuna asked sharply, scanning the source of the commotion with sharp eyes, leaning forward slightly, and entering a battle-ready state.
Shizuku and Setsuna were guarding him on the left and right, both looking solemn.
"No, I don't know! It seems that the trap on the Central Guard's side has been triggered!"
An enemy running closer gasped and shouted.
"Idiot! How could you trigger it by yourself?"
Setsuna cursed angrily, but his eyes were more wary of the unknown situation.
Kusuna frowned, looking at the explosion point hidden by the boulder, and felt something was wrong.
"Shizuku, take three people and go around from the left to check.
Setsuna, hold on to the people on the right, don't let them mess up!"
After thinking for a moment, he quickly ordered, while he stood there and took control of the overall situation.
After Shizuku heard this, she was ready to pick two people to check.
He turned to look behind him, at the ones closest to him, and tapped them casually with his fingers.
"You, you, and you! Come with me to check." His tone was slightly casual.
The few people who were called had no choice but to step forward to check.
"Shizuku, be careful." Kusuna saw Shizuku preparing to check and asked with concern.
And just when Shizuku had turned around, ready to reply.
Among the three people who were called, a ninja with his head lowered silently stepped forward and stood behind him.
Kusuna, whose attention was entirely focused on Shizuku, did not pay attention to his subordinates.
But just at this moment.
"Ice Burst!"
There is no Hand Seals, no stored energy, not even a hint of murderous intent.
Shizuku turned around to talk, but was stabbed in the chest unprepared.
Shizuku's body stiffened suddenly, and she looked down at her chest in disbelief.
A sharp blood crystal emerged from the chest.
He didn't even turn around completely to see the attacker's face clearly. He only had time to catch the companion behind him raising his head and his unruffled eyes.
"You..."
Before he finished speaking, his body suddenly expanded and exploded!
"Bang!"
A dull explosion sounded from his body, and countless sharp ice spikes penetrated from his body, instantly pricking him with holes.
It all happened too fast and too abruptly.
From Ning Xue stepping forward silently, to Ice Cone's body being penetrated and bursting, it only took two blinks of an eye.
The caring expression on Kusuna's face didn't even have time to completely subside.
He watched helplessly as his younger brother Setsuna turned around and was killed by another subordinate, without even being able to make any effective response or warning.
When he came to his senses, looking at Shizuku who was riddled with holes and her eyes were dark, his mind went blank for a moment.
"Shizuku--!!!"
Setsuna on the side let out a heart-piercing roar, and his eyes were about to burst.
He reacted faster than Kusuna, and had already drawn his knife and lunged forward almost as soon as Ice Cone was revealed.
(Refer to Kakashi penetrates Lin's chest)