At his feet stretched a slender shadow, and at the other end of it was Nara Luyuan.
Nara Luyuan had been working when he heard the distant explosion. He assumed enemy shinobi had clashed with the patrol, and since the camp's jonin had all been sent out to search for the jinchuriki, he was the first to arrive at the scene.
Seeing the gruesome scene, as well as a black snake coiled in the center, Nara Luyuan immediately leaped over.
Uchiha Yū was actually burning Shi Hebei?
What was going on? One of their own was attacking one of their own?
"Uchiha Yū, I need an explanation!"
Faced with Nara Luyuan's immediate questioning, Uchiha Yū did not panic and explained how everything had happened.
Nara Luyuan's expression shifted from initial shock to numbness, before finally turning into terror!
"You're saying Root shinobi came to assassinate you, and Shi Hebei was a Root shinobi? Wait! Let me process this!"
Of course, he knew about Root, which Danzo had created. As the Nara clan head, he had arranged for some clansmen to join Root as required by those above. He had also found Shi Hebei strange lately, but had not thought much of it at first, because everyone Shi Hebei interacted with was from Konoha's ANBU. He never expected him to turn out to be from Konoha's Root!
Nara Luyuan felt as though the sky had collapsed!
A genius of the Uchiha Clan had been assassinated in Konoha's camp, and the assassins were from Root! Root was the Hokage's power—did that not mean the Hokage wanted to snuff out the Uchiha Clan's hope of rising again?!
If the Uchiha powerhouses learned of this, Kumogakure would not even need to attack the front lines. The Uchiha Clan's powerhouses alone would be enough to