Burn Along the Network Cable, the Rich Lady's Absolute Crushing Victory!
"The network... the Mark Network is connected..." Karin knelt on the ground, gripping Naruto's arm tightly, pointing northwest, "In the resonance of the mark feedback... underground in that direction... there's a terrifying chunk of flesh ten times larger than Tailed Beast, devouring our life force! It... is alive!"
Just as the Allied Shinobi Forces ninjas in the camp breathed a sigh of relief, dozens of them suddenly collapsed, clutching their chests. The "Life Mark" affixed to their chests began to flash red, and their Chakra was being uncontrollably drawn outwards along the invisible network of the marks.
"Trying to absorb my Chakra through the internet cable?" Naruto's eyes instantly turned cold. "Obito, your appetite is way too big!"
Without uttering a single wasted word, Naruto shoved aside the nearby Water Mirror and slammed his right palm into the ground.
"Immortal Technique: Yang Release - Reverse Flow!"
Boom!
The violent Pure Yang Chakra slammed into the Leyline through his palm. The absorption channels that had been forcibly established by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path instantly became a fuse. The golden Yang Release surged forward like a high-voltage current along the invisible network, directly flowing back into the depths of the earth thousands of miles away.
A few seconds later, a muffled roar came from the far northwest horizon. The earth trembled, and a thick plume of blackish-red smoke, accompanied by a mournful, inhuman roar, shot straight into the sky.
The fallen ninjas in the camp gasped for breath, the marks on their chests regaining their steady golden light. The suction force had disappeared.
"Trying to play games with me?" Naruto stood up, dusted his hands off, and sneered, "You'll get burned."
Shikamaru strode over, his face so grave it could drip water. "The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path? Obito activated it, definitely not to absorb these few breaths of Chakra. This is a global broadcast signal!"
"That's right." Naruto's gaze swept across the entire area. "The medical camp is just a cover. Obito used the Golem to resonate, intending to forcibly awaken the White Zetsu lurking in every corner behind the Allied Shinobi Forces' lines! He's going to launch a full-scale attack."
Naruto turned to Karin: "Connect to command immediately! Notify all logistics outposts, armories, and granaries to immediately enter Level 1 combat readiness! If you see anyone who looks familiar but is behaving suspiciously, just kill them!"
Shikamaru gritted his teeth. "That's exactly what I fear. No matter how fierce the fighting is at the front, if the supply lines are cut off, an army of 100,000 will mutini in three days."
At the same time that Naruto issued the warning.
Allied Shinobi Forces' northern supply depot.
In the afternoon, the sky was somewhat overcast. The air here was perpetually filled with the smell of engine oil and gunpowder. As the largest ninja tool transfer station of the Allied Shinobi Forces, the Explosive Tag alone piled up to half a mountain.
Tenten, dressed in a smart combat uniform and carrying a long list of supplies, he led two Hidden Sand Chunin as they moved among rows of wooden crates.
"Warehouse number seven, Kunai 20,000 units, that's right."
"Warehouse number nine, fifty boxes of Military Ration Pill, that's right."
She stopped in front of Warehouse Number Twelve. This was where high-level Explosive Tag were stored. Tenten reached out and touched the seal on the outermost wooden crate.
The seal was intact. But having handled ninja tools every Tenten, she had an ingrained sensitivity to the weight of supplies. She merely kicked the edge of the box lightly with her toe, and her expression changed.
It's lighter now.
It wasn't just a little lighter; it was three vehicles lighter! Three vehicles Explosive Tag would have been enough to blow this supply line, which stretched for over ten kilometers, to smithereens.
"Captain Tenten, is there a problem?" Hidden Sand Chunin leaned over and asked. His tone was normal, and the face paint on his face showed no sign of anything unusual.
Tenten, she turned her head and looked into the other person's calm eyes.
"No problem." Tenten Tian casually ticked a box on the list, her tone as relaxed as if they were discussing what to have for dinner. "I just think the moisture-proof cloth for this batch of Explosive Tag wasn't covered properly. You guys continue with the inventory in the next area; I'll lock this one up myself."
"Okay." The two Chunin turned and left.
Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Tenten's hand stealthily reached for the scroll at her waist. The footsteps of that Hidden Sand Chunin just now were off. Logistics personnel who carry heavy loads year-round usually land with heavy footsteps, but that person just now walked as if a leaf were floating.
This is an exceptional stealth skill, something an ordinary logistics worker could never possess.
Night falls.
The entire northern supply depot was deathly silent. Only a few pale searchlights swept across the open ground.
A white shadow, resembling mud, silently slid in through the ventilation vent of Warehouse Number Twelve. It materialized into a human form in the darkness, just like the Hidden Sand Chunin from the daytime.
He walked to the corner and lifted the tarpaulin. Inside wasn't Explosive Tag at all, but a pile of scrap metal coated with igniter. He had already moved the Explosive Tag under the load-bearing pillar beforehand; once detonated here, the entire warehouse area would be set off in a chain reaction of explosions.
He grinned, smiled silently, and pulled out a tinderbox.
Snap!
As soon as the Mars lit up, a very faint whooshing sound suddenly came from mid-air.
"What is that?" As soon as White Zetsu looked up, several Chakra Threads, almost invisible in the darkness, instantly wrapped around his wrists, neck, and ankles. The threads tightened abruptly, binding him tightly like a dumpling and suspending him in mid-air.
"Even the Chakra fluctuations are perfectly imitated, truly impressive." Tenten leaped down from the high shelf, landing steadily in front of White Zetsu, hands in her pockets. "Unfortunately, you overlooked one thing. In this warehouse, I don't recognize Chakra, I only recognize weight. I can detect if a weapon I've touched is missing even a gram."
"Women of Hidden Leaf, you have a really good nose." The Hidden Sand Chunin's skin began to peel away like melting wax, revealing his pale, deformed true form. Hanging in mid-air, he wasn't panicked at all; instead, he let out a piercing, maniacal laugh. "But you've realized it too late! Did you think I was alone?"
As soon as he finished speaking, White Zetsu's body suddenly swelled up like an inflating balloon, and then exploded with a "bang"!
Instead of flying blood and flesh, he split into more than a dozen identical White Zetsu Clone. The Chakra Threads were broken, and the dozen or so White Zetsu pounced on the pile of Explosive Tag under the supporting pillar from all directions like mad dogs.
"If we blow this place up, all of you on the front lines will starve!" the leader, White Zetsu, roared.
The distance was too close, and the numbers were too great. For an ordinary ninja, facing such a suicidal human wave tactic, the only option was to run.
But Tenten didn't back down an inch.
"Compare numbers?" Tenten's lips curled into a mocking sneer. "You've chosen the wrong opponent."
She ripped the huge scroll off her back and pulled it off with both hands.
"Splash--"
A five-meter-long sealing scroll unfurled in the air. The scroll was densely covered with black "blade" characters.
Tenten, he would bite his thumb until it bled, then vigorously smear the blood onto the scroll.
"Ninja Art: Twin Rising Dragons - Chaotic Rain!"
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
With a series of deafening explosions, the entire warehouse seemed to be hit by a storm of steel. Thousands upon thousands of Kunai, Senbon, Shuriken, and iron nails with sealing runes poured out of the scrolls like a flood bursting its banks!
There were no Hand Seals, no probing, just pure and brutal firepower!
The White Zetsu Clone that rushed towards the Explosive Tag didn't even have time to scream before they were engulfed by the steel storm. Dense armor-piercing senbon Senbon instantly pierced their limbs, and iron nails with sealing runes were precisely driven into their joints.
It took less than three seconds.
The dozen or so White Zetsu Clone were all firmly pinned to the walls, floors, and load-bearing pillars, looking like a group of pale, specimen-like worms. All movement routes were completely blocked, and not a single hand could reach the detonating device on the ground.
The warehouse was so quiet that only the clinking of metal ninja tools falling to the ground could be heard.
"I don't have any other skills." Tenten stepped forward, stomping her foot on the leader of the White Zetsu's face, looking down at him condescendingly. "I just have a lot of money and a lot of ninja tools. You want to use sheer numbers to blow up my warehouse? You'd better have more hands in your next life."
White Zetsu's Chakra was firmly locked by iron nails, and his life force was rapidly draining away. He stared intently at Tenten, spitting out green viscous fluid, and letting out a final, vicious mockery:
"Don't be so smug... Women of Hidden Leaf... You think you've won just because you've defended a few warehouses? We've seen right through your rear... Open your eyes and watch... The real despair... has only just begun..."
Before he could finish speaking, White Zetsu's body rapidly withered, turning into a pile of lifeless rotten wood.
Tenten frowned, kicking away the wreckage on the ground. She keenly sensed that these words were not a dying boast.
Just then, an extremely piercing air raid siren suddenly sounded outside the warehouse!
Tenten suddenly pushed open the warehouse door and rushed outside.
In the distance, in the direction of the Allied Shinobi Forces' central defense line, a huge, dark red gash was torn open in the night sky. A suffocating aura of death, like a tangible tsunami, sent chills down one's spine even from tens of kilometers away.
The camera cuts back to the Allied Shinobi Forces Central Medical Camp.
Naruto stood on the open ground, suddenly raised his head, and stared intently at the dark red crack that had torn the sky apart.
In his eyes, now covered in golden Chakra, he clearly saw an enormous phantom of Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, with many strange bone spurs growing from its back, forcefully breaking through the boundaries of space.
Standing atop the Golem's head was a man wearing a shattered mask— Obito Uchiha.
Even more deadly, behind Obito were three Edo Impure World Reincarnation coffins emanating terrifying death energy!
"Naruto." Obito's deep voice boomed across the entire camp through some kind of Space-Time Ninjutsu, "Don't you like setting rules? I've brought hell to your backyard. This time, let's see how you handle it."
The first coffin exploded with a "bang," and a figure that terrified all the older generation of ninjas slowly walked out.
"Hidden Leaf takes this job." Naruto's body erupted with golden light, his Pure Yang Chakra soaring into the sky, instantly evaporating the surrounding rain into nothingness. "No matter what old monster you bring out, tonight, I'll take care of killing and burying him!"