Her face was full of tears, mixed with dust, and looked particularly miserable under the reflection of Kakkō.
Ning Xue stood there, looking at the woman kneeling on the ground, reaching for the sky in vain, and was silent for a few seconds.
Then he walked over.
"Get up."
His voice was calm, with no emotion audible.
The woman raised her head and looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"Please... please..." She grabbed his trouser legs, her voice hoarse and almost inaudible, "Please save my child... She is only eight months old... She doesn't know anything... Please..."
Ning Xue looked down at her and didn't answer immediately.
The ruins behind him are still burning and crackling.
The cries in the distance gradually subsided, replaced by the suppressed sobs of the survivors.
"I will go."
His voice still softened.
"But not now."
The woman was stunned.
"Why... why..."
"I need information." Ning Xue turned around and looked at Sky Ninja who was knocked unconscious by him.
"How many people are there, where are their bases, and where are the arrested people imprisoned? I don't know at all. If you go there, it will be in vain."
What he said was true, but there was no comfort in his tone.
The woman knelt on the ground and opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
Ning Xue stopped looking at her and walked straight towards the unconscious Sky Ninja.
Half an hour later.
Ning Xue squatted next to Sky Ninja, frowning.
He tried various methods.
Cold water was poured on the wound, the wound was stimulated, Tenketsu Striking was pricked with needles, burned, and even the irritating powder brought from Land of Demons was used.
But these people either refuse to speak, or the preface and the follower of what they say do not match up, making it useless at all.
Illusion.
He needs illusion.
It's a pity that he doesn't know how.
He can kill people, save people, and fight all kinds of monsters, but when faced with a situation where his mouth needs to be pried open, the methods he can use are no different from ordinary people.
"Tsk. I should have learned from Teacher Kagami."
He spat and stood up, glanced at the Sky Ninja who were tortured to the point of dying, and gave up.
Let's talk until dawn.
He walked towards the surviving villagers.
The fire has gradually subsided, but white smoke is still rising from the ruins.
The survivors gathered together, some sitting blankly, some sobbing softly, and some rummaging through the ruins for something that could still be used.
He glanced around and saw that there were about twenty people.
Most of them are old people, women and children.
Young and middle-aged men were either killed when they resisted or were captured.
But the young mother still sat there blankly,
Motionless.
Ning Xue didn't bother her.
He walked to several seriously injured villagers, squatted down, and began to treat the wounds.
An old man's arm was burned to a large extent, and the flesh was rolled up, looking very scary.
Ning Xue Take out the ointment from your bag, apply it evenly on the wound, and then wrap it carefully with a bandage.
"Ninja... Ninja-sama..." The old man gasped in pain, but he still managed to speak.
"Who are those... those people?"
"I don't know." Ning Xue didn't even raise his head, but concentrated on bandaging them.
When the old man saw that this ninja-sama didn't even know what he was doing, his cloudy eyes were filled with confusion, and he murmured in a low voice.
"We... we have never offended anyone... why... why does this happen to our village?"
Ning Xue said nothing.
He couldn't answer this kind of question.
It was not his place to answer.
It is the careerists who should answer the old man.
He ignored the old man and continued to deal with the next wounded person.
A middle-aged woman was hit in the head by a gravel, with a gash on her forehead and blood all over her face.
Ning Xue First rinse the wound with clean water, then apply hemostatic powder, and finally wrap it with a bandage.
The woman gritted her teeth the entire time and remained silent, but kept shedding tears.
Because her husband and children were also taken away.
One after another.
By the time he had finished treating the injuries of all the wounded, the sky was already turning white.
Ning Xue stood up, stretched his somewhat stiff shoulders, and looked at the eastern sky.
It's time to go.
The direction he walked towards was the direction where Sky Ninja disappeared last night.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and looked back at the young mother who was still kneeling there.
She didn't move, just like a statue.
Ning Xue was silent for a few seconds, then reached out and touched the pocket watch given by Shion on his neck.
Finally, he took it off and put it in his backpack, took out a similar pocket watch, and walked to the mother.
"This is a gift from someone important to me."
His voice was calm, but with a strange solemnity.
"I deposit it with you.
Wait until I bring your child back and then take it back."
The woman raised her head, looked at the pocket watch with blurred eyes, and then looked at him.
"You..."
"Take it."
Ning Xue put the pocket watch into her hand and stood up.
"I'll come back and get it."
He turned around, stopped staying, and walked in the direction where Sky Ninja disappeared last night.
Behind him, the woman held the pocket watch tightly, tears falling silently.
"Thank you..."
After dawn.
Ning Xue has been walking through this mountain forest for two hours.
He followed the traces left by Sky Ninja.
Broken branches, broken rope fragments, and items dropped by villagers.
But the traces are getting fainter.
Those Sky Ninja are obviously very good at hiding. After entering the mountainous area, there are almost no clues.
He stood on the edge of a cliff, overlooking the mountains below.
It was cloudy and foggy, making it difficult to see the depth.
"It's quite hidden."
He whispered to himself, and was about to continue searching when he suddenly noticed something and turned to look in the direction he came from.
There, there is Chakra fluctuation.
More than one.
And it's getting closer.
Ning Xue frowned slightly, swayed, and disappeared into the woods nearby.