"Could they really be sending them to their deaths as cannon fodder?"
The thought flashed through Qian's mind.
But no village would use elite ninja like Anbu as cannon fodder unless...
Suddenly, Qian thought of a possibility.
So he focused his attention again and swept his gaze over each of them.
Very quickly, he discovered something wrong with one of them.
Under the vision of the Byakugan, the flow of Chakra inside this person's body was abnormal. A foreign Chakra occupied his eyes and the area of his brain.
This was an extremely obvious sign of being controlled by genjutsu.
"There really is a problem!"
Just now, he had been thinking that unless these people were not actually Anbu ninja from Kirigakure, that would be the only reason they would be used as probing cannon fodder.
Now it seemed it was not that these people were not Mist Anbu, but that they, as Mist Anbu, had been controlled by someone, which was why they had done something completely contrary to Kirigakure's interests.
Then...
"Who was controlling them?"
Thinking of the reactions Konoha and Kumogakure would have after something went wrong with this withdrawing force, Qian already had an answer in his heart.
"Obito Uchiha..."
Qian softly uttered those words.
That was right. He felt that the person controlling these Mist Anbu was Obito Uchiha.
This was not some baseless association. Rather, the other party had ample motive to sabotage the peace talks between Konoha and Kumogakure.
After all, for rats in the gutter like them, the more chaotic the Ninja World was, the safer they were, and the more they could fish in troubled waters.
Of course, that was only one factor.
Besides that, he also had clearer evidence pointing to the other party.
First was the genjutsu on this